Business Development Manager

Location: All UK Locations

Job ID: 2020-2049 

Type of Contract: Permanent employee

Contracted Hours Per Week: 37.50

Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 47 to 52 (£44585.19 - £49557.27)

Overview

Change Grow Live are looking for Business Development Managers to join our national Business Development Team.

We want experienced business development professionals or individuals with comparable/transferrable experience, who share our passion for supporting people to make positive changes in their lives.

Responsibilities

We are one of the UK’s largest charities, providing a range of services including community and prison substance misuse, criminal justice, adult wellbeing, children and young people’s and housing/homelessness.

We want experienced business development professionals or individuals with comparable/transferrable experience, who share our passion for supporting people to make positive changes in their lives.

Joining us means taking on a key leadership role as part of our successful national team, and the chance to share and further develop your skills, knowledge and experience, whilst working with great people from across our organisation.

Last year we submitted over 40 tenders, winning and retaining contracts with an annual value of almost £50 million but what this really means to us is that we can provide more support to more people across the UK.

The role

Working as part of Change Grow Live’s national Business Development Team, you will lead and manage one of our four regional Business Development Teams.

You will have joint responsibility for retaining existing contracts and winning new business opportunities in your region, including all aspects of the tender process.

You will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders including Executive Directors, Directors, clinicians and departmental leads to develop service delivery models, budgets and partnerships for tenders.

As part of our Business Development Management Team you will lead on improving the quality of our work and developing our team culture, by thinking creatively, sharing your own knowledge and experiences, and challenging existing ways of working.

Ultimately you play a key role in the design, development and delivery of our services and will help us to deliver on our organisational mission, strategy and values.

Check out the job description for more information, and you can call Guy Rainey, Head of Business Development, to discuss this role further.

About you

You’ll be an experienced manager and leader.

You might have a proven track record in business development or have worked in operational management or other comparable leadership/management roles.

You’ll be a highly competent project manager, with proven experience of leading and managing complex tenders or other projects.

You’ll be a confident and highly competent communicator who is able to engage and influence senior stakeholders.

You’ll have excellent IT skills, be highly numerate and be able to analyse and work with complex data and financial information.

You’ll be a team player, who respects the experience and skills of their team, and is able to give and receive challenging feedback.

You’ll share our passion for our values and mission, and you’ll be ready to work hard to achieve these.

Above all, you’ll want to use and share your skills and experience to develop winning tenders for services that help people to make positive changes in their lives.

Why work for Change Grow Live

Change Grow Live believes in people and we’ll support you to develop and grow. You’ll be joining a diverse team which welcomes new ideas and new ways of working.

As well as competitive pay, pension and other benefits (including London weighting if applicable), you’ll benefit from a positive, supportive and flexible working environment which includes:

• Regional offices across the UK, including London, Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds;
• The option to work from home;
• Flexible hours and working patterns including compressed hours and job share options.

We pride ourselves on providing a supportive and inclusive workplace and this is evidenced through our 2019 Stonewall Top 100 Employers Award and Investors in People Silver Award.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Closing Date: 29/5/2020 

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible

Director of Global Procurement: £80,000 - £85,000 + Benefits, Manchester

For a global organisation, we're recruiting a Director of Global Procurement. Reporting to the CFO, the Director of Global Procurement will lead the Global Procurement function by implementing a new structure and ways of working and will drive change and later the perception of Procurement across the organisation to create a professional and consistent commercial approach. The Director of Global Procurement will lead, give strategic direction and guidance for the management of 3^rd party spend whilst leading on cutting edge procurement strategies across supply chain, process and infrastructure improvements.

Main Duties:

• Develop and deliver Global Procurement Strategy, working with stakeholders globally
• Maintain a robust governance framework, ensuring procurement activities are fully integrated into services and business objectives
• Overall responsibility for procurement processes ensuring they are fit for purpose
• Build quality relationships, shape and direct cultural and process changes to achieve new target state for procurement
• Set out priorities for regional and category management teams
• Lead support and manage the Regional Heads of procurement and Global Category Managers
• Influence the agreement of key strategic contracts to deliver value for money
• Galvanise cross functionally to ensure efficiency in all levels in the procurement process
• Inform, advise and influence the Executive and Management Boards, Regional and Country Directors and Regional Finance Directors on strategic and operational procurement matters
• Embed new ways of working with procurement
• Lead, manage and motivate a highly performing team of procurement professionals.

Person Specification:

• Significant similar leadership experience in global procurement; MCIPS
• Highly developed technical procurement knowledge
• Excellent understanding of procurement systems and processes across the public and commercial sector
• Extensive experience of working globally across different cultures
• Leadership experience of a large and diverse procurement function
• Extensive experience of deploying category management processes and methodology
• Proven experience of achieving tangible benefits and cost savings
• Global travel forms part of this role so excellent understanding of complex international structures is essential.

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Well, if you know any tax, legal, finance, HR or marketing candidates looking to move jobs please refer them to us and if we successfully find them a new job in the next 12 months we will send you £500 in high street vouchers of your choice.

As well as this we are looking to grow the Pro-Recruitment Group family and would be interested in any amazing Recruitment Consultants you think might like to work for us. £500 on offer for any referrals we successfully hire.

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We're over the moon to be heading up the search party for Manchester Care and Repair's new Executive Director. Has there ever been a more important time to champion and ensure the independence and safety of older and disabled people in your community?

Manchester Care and Repair's varied portfolio includes practical support with home repairs right through to information and guidance on welfare benefits. After a period of successfully delivering commissioned contracts, the charity is now looking for an Executive Director to lead them towards the next chapter and to retain, sustain and diversity their offering.

We're looking for evolution, not revolution. Manchester Care and Repair is a stable charity with a loyal, committed workforce and low staff turnover, so you'll be an inspiring and collaborative leader who can galvanize an already engaged team. Whilst strategic thinking and planning skills are absolutely essential, there is also an operational element so you'll need to be comfortable rolling your sleeves up and making things happen.

Who are we looking for?
We're happy to explore candidates from a range of charity leadership backgrounds, as long as you can evidence previous happy cultures you've created and nurtured. You'll be able to demonstrate where you've breathed life into vision and mission through staff teams and service delivery.

Relationship management with internal and external stakeholders is crucial; key relationships lie with the local authority and NHS commissioners in particular. You'll know how to navigate the public sector landscape. You're an experienced negotiator and someone who can spot and maximise potential opportunities. Most of all, an empowering leader who brings out the best in others.

Flexible, life and family-friendly organisation. This role is working part time 22.5 hours per week.

Actual salary: £28,316 - £29,511

To apply for this fantastic opportunity, please send a copy of your CV to Charity People's North West consultant, Amelia Lee: [email protected]

Closing date: 9am on Monday 8th June
Interviews to be held w/c 15th June

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity 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 do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

• Director of Finance needed for a Social Enterprise Not for Profit Organisation
• This is a permanent opportunity based in Oldham

About Our Client

Future Directions are a dynamic social enterprise who provide innovative care for people who require social care packages. They are value driven organisation who have a strong presence in the North of England. The company values and ethos are to make a real difference to people lives. Recently achieved outstanding by CQC. Turnover has grown from £9million to £20million, all whilst developing their company values.

Future Directions are constantly finding ways to adapt and grow, all in line with ambitions growth plans. They are now looking for a dynamic Finance Director to support them on this journey.

Alongside all the other achievements, Future Directions have also recently won Skills for Care award for best employer over 250 staff.

Job Description

The key responsibilities required by the Finance Director are:

• You will provide strategic leadership to the Finance function building and developing a robust finance function
• This will be achieved by leading on continuous improvement, addressing systems and delivering insightful reporting to support the growth plans
• This role requires a collaborative approach and a team player, who can work with all departments of the business forming strong internal relationships based on their shared vision to improve people's lives.
• You will be a board member and an integral member of the Senior Management team supporting on providing an excellent service across Future Directions
• Required to be the lead on; Finance, IT and Payroll and helping develop successful teams
• Responsible for implementing the strategic direction and to prioritise the financial sustainability of Future Directions
• Work as an effective member of the board to develop the future strategy, plan, challenge and monitor as required
• Ensure the operational and financial accountability of Future Directions through accounting and financial systems controls

The Successful Applicant

To be successful in applying for the role of Finance Director will be:

• Qualified Accountant
• Desire to work in the social care sector and share Future Directions shared values and ethos
• To be successful you will live out Future Directions values and by doing so make a real difference to people's lives
• Ability and experience developing finance and other teams
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement across all levels
• In-depth knowledge of financial planning, financial systems
• Ability to work in complex environments whilst driving strategic plans
• Ability to contribute at Director level and present to a Board
• Positive outlook and attitude and desire to constantly make a tangible difference
• Confirmed interview date of April 14th

What's on Offer

£60,000 - £68,500 DOE + Free Parking + Great social enterprise company + Benefits + Social Enterprise / Not for Profit Sector

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

Ref Code: MPCY14088548Z

Brainwave is a long-established national charity and since 1982 has been providing therapy to children predominantly aged between 6 months to 12 years.  The children we work with have a range of conditions and diagnoses including:

• Cerebral Palsy
• Developmental Delay
• Autism
• Brain Injury
• Down’s syndrome
• Other genetic conditions, and children with no formal diagnosis.

We are looking to appoint a Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist with experience of using a range of interventions and strategies to support complex communication needs of children with learning disabilities and profound and multiple learning disabilities.  Formal training or relevant experience of using Parent Child Interaction approaches, Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) methods (Switches, PECS, Eye Gaze, Makaton signing etc.) and knowledge of Dysphagia assessment and treatment and Sensory Integration approach is desirable.

HCPC and RCSLTregistration is essential. 

Part time or Job share will be considered.

MANCHESTER CARERS CONTACT POINT CO-ORDINATOR

Gaddum in partnership with Manchester Carers Forum, LMCP and Wai Yin Society have been successful in obtaining funding to deliver a first point of contact for Manchester carers.

Manchester Carers Contact Point (MCCP) will provide an initial point of contact for advice and support for Manchester Carers.

The service will be able to be accessed via a telephone helpline operating from 8.30am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday and through a dedicated website, e-mail address and social media. The service will be based at Gaddum House and be delivered by a dedicated staff team with added value offered by Volunteers and Student Social Workers.

We are now looking to recruit a Service Co-ordinator to help develop and then manage this new service. We believe the successful candidate will have the following:

• Experience of working within an advice and support service
• Experience of managing staff
• An ability to ensure the service meets clearly defined targets and outcomes
• An understanding of the barriers that carers can face
• A commitment to ensure that the service is delivered in partnership with Manchester Carers

This role would normally operate from Gaddum, 6 Great Jackson Street, Manchester M14 5AX. However, due to the social distancing measures introduced to combat the spread of COVID-19, working from home OR at an alternative location might be required at the contract start date. Additionally, interviews are likely to be held using Zoom video conferencing.

The closing date for receipt of application is 12 noon on Monday 27 May. 

For further details about this post, please contact Glyn Meacher.

Overview

Main Purpose 

To develop and implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall business strategy in ways that nurture a positive working environment and promote the organisation’s values.

Department :Operations 

Location: Head Office, Manchester 

Reporting To: International Operations Director 

Main Duties 

• Develop, implement and monitor overall HR strategies, systems, tactics and procedures across the organisation

• Nurture a positive working environment by promoting  the organisation’s values and shaping a positive culture 

• Manage and support the recruitment and selection process

• Advise managers on the terms and conditions of employment and share best practice 

• Manage new employee onboarding 

• Develop a performance supervision and appraisal process that drives high performance 

• Provide decision support to senior managers through regular reporting and HR metrics

• Provide first line advice on current and existing compensation and benefits for employees 

• Promote a culture of continuous learning through an effective learning and development policy 

• Develop a range of HR related training resources that meets need assessed in line with operational requirements 

• Manage talent and succession planning (incl. discussing employees’ career development paths with managers) 

• Design and implement policies and practices that promote a healthy work environment 

• Ensure legal compliance throughout human resource management 

• Manage complex employee relations issues including dispute resolution, disciplinaries, grievances, absence and redundancy 

• Support change management processes 

Key Result Areas 

• Talent acquisition – attracting and acquiring the right talents on a timely basis 

• Capability building – creating a talent pipeline and a succession planning process to ensure continuity and growth 

• People engagement – ensuring employees continue to produce work at a level that contributes to the organisation achieving its goals 

• Compensation & benefits – ensuring the organisation remains competitive with the rewards it offers its employees 

• HR excellence  - ensuring the HR function operates to the highest standards providing an excellent experience for all existing (and prospective) employees 

Soft Skills

• Outstanding communication skills 

• Active listening, negotiation and presentation skills 

• Exceptional organisation/time-management 

• Leadership capabilities

• Proactive team player with strong customer service and problem solving skills 

• Ability to support  line managers through change 

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and act with tact and discretion

• Self-motivated and able to work under own autonomy or as part of a team 

• Ability to foster healthy employee relations

• Competence to build and effectively manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the organisation 

Technical Skills 

• In-depth knowledge of HR best practices 

• Sound knowledge of employment legislation and its application 

• Hands-on experience with HR software systems  (including HRIS, recruitment and ATS) 

• Demonstrable experience with HR metrics 

• IT literate 

Experience & Education 

• Proven HR generalist experience of 3-5 years (essential) 

• BSc degree in Human Resources Management desirable (or degree in other relevant subjects (e.g. Business Studies, Employment Law etc.) or CIPD minimum Level  5 if willing to study to Level 7 

• Experience of charitable sector desirable 

What we can offer you

Hope for Justice is a people first organisation - we recruit talented individuals who can bring hope and freedom to the people we serve and we treat them brilliantly in return. When you join our organisation then in addition to the potential for immense job satisfaction you will enjoy the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Pension scheme, 3% matched
• Generous annual leave arrangements
• Exceptionally positive and supportive work culture
• Flexible working possibilities
• Annual salary reviews
• L&D opportunities

If the above has inspired you and you have the skills and experience we’re looking for then we’d love to hear from you.

To apply:

Please visit our website, and email your covering letter, CV and completed Application Form

Creative Living Centre, based in Prestwich, was established in 1997 and provides holistic support to adults experiencing a range of issues such as low mood, stress and anxiety, social phobia and other mental health conditions. Over the last few years, the organisation has grown considerably, and we have now secured funding allowing us to expand and restructure our staff team, including creating the new post of Centre Manager / Deputy CO

As Centre Manager you will be the ‘go to’ person on a day to day basis both for the service and staff team at CLC, providing initial guidance, decisions and support to enable the service to run smoothly and effectively. You will also work with the Chief Officer and Trustees to contribute to the strategic direction and future plans of the Centre. At times you will deputise for the Chief Officer at internal and external meetings.

We are looking for someone with a great combination of skills. You will need to have proven experience of providing leadership to a team or service, and great people skills with the ability to support and develop your team. Your high level of experience and understanding of community-based mental health needs will enable you to advise and guide the service delivery team. In addition, you will be able to use critical analysis of information and excellent communication skills to clearly articulate ideas and influence others.

Our staff team is friendly, supportive, and committed to our vision of person-centred support available to all. You will play a key part in the continued development of a well-respected and outcome-evidenced mental health charity that makes a real difference to people’s lives.

Are you a dynamic and innovative individual with a strong background in finance, looking for your next challenge?  Do you have commitment and a flair for hands on accounting and wish to work for an ambitious charity?  This could be the role for you.

Justlife work with people who are hidden homeless and living in Temporary Accommodation, with the aim of ensuring their experience is as short, safe and healthy as possible. The work begun in 2008 in East Manchester which continues today, along with a project in Brighton and a Research & Policy team focussed nationally.

1. Job Summary – Finance Manager

Justlife has an average annual turnover of about £900,000 per annum. We are looking for a self-starting proactive individual who is willing to be hands-on and fully committed to the role, and preferably, but not essentially, from a charity or non-profit organisational background.

The role of Finance Manager will handle all aspects of our finance and financial management from book keeping to management accounts including using the Quickbooks accounts package, and working closely with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to help advise and direct regarding financial decisions and planning. The role will also work closely with other stakeholders including the Board of Trustees, staff, volunteers and external organisations.

The successful candidate will have practical experience of accountancy and financial management, ideally in the charity or non-profit sector. They will be an adaptable, team player with excellent communication skills.

Responsible to: General Manager