PURPOSE OF ROLE

To ensure that the Students’ Union is empowering students and student representatives to have a strong voice that shapes the Students’ Union, their educational experience, and that is heard locally and nationally. To support and enable student representation, in particular through the course level representation scheme, AberSU democratic channels, upholding principles of democracy. To be an active outreach member of staff that is proactive in going out to talk to students about their experiences and views.

Mencap Liverpool & Sefton are looking for someone experienced in working alongside people who have a learning disability and managing a team

This is a great chance to develop those core skills as well as gaining more strategic and leadership responsibility over time.

Are you?

• A STRONG ENABLER & PROBLEM SOLVER:  You will be the first point of contact for individuals in Sefton who may be lonely and socially isolated.  It will be your role to establish trust and rapport.  You’ll identify if the person would benefit from our involvement, or if they would be best served by a supported referral to a more appropriate agency.  Your interaction will aim to give them the confidence to address the difficulties they may be facing and encourage them to try new things.

• TEAM FOCUSED LEADER:You will provide excellent line management to our member-facing staff team.

• RELATIONSHIP BUILDER & NETWORK GROWER:  You will build relationships with a range of local public and voluntary sector agencies to ensure that people know who we are, what we do and how to refer people to us.

• PERSON CENTRED, motivated by SOCIAL JUSTICE & EQUALTY:You will work closely with your colleagues to ensure that our work is holistic, person-centred and constantly strengthened by the voice of our beneficiaries.

Are you known for your strong organisation skills? Do you enjoy building relationships, working collaboratively and developing an exciting culture in the workplace? Do you pride yourself in your friendly and approachable customer service? Then this might be the role for you!

We're currently looking for an Office Administrator to join the Communications and Marketing team. We're a diverse team with a core central function in the organisation (we know and work with everyone!).

The role focuses on two specific areas:

1. Office Admin
2. Front of House / Customer Service

We're looking for someone with a high level of attention to detail, who enjoys working on varying projects. The role will involve dealing with external teams such as LSE IT and Estates departments, as well as our internal teams. There is also scope to be creative and really take ownership of the office space. If you enjoy developing office environments to look and feel welcoming for staff (or consider yourself a bit of an interior designer) - this is the place to be.

The successful candidate will be required to supervise our Front of House team (3x student staff members that work on a part-time basis) and develop them to provide the best customer service that leaves a positive impression of the Union every time.

This is an exciting role for an energetic, organised candidate with a drive to deliver excellence and build a strong and collaborative culture within the organisation. We've recently gone through a restructure, so we're looking for someone that is happy to get stuck in and improve our internal processes to enable the success of the entire organisation.

LSESU is an equal opportunities employer and particularly welcomes applications from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences. Whilst this role is a full-time position, we would welcome applications from applicants wishing to work on a part-time / flexible basis. Please specify in your application the desired working hours.

The full job description can be found on our website.

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Communications Assistant to join our team based in Falmer. We have a full time, permanent position working 37 hours per week and a part time, permanent position working 25 hours per week. In return, we are offering a competitive salary of £21,000 to £22,000 per annum (pro rata for part time).

Brighton Students’ Union provides representation, support and services to the 22,000 students studying at the University of Brighton, with a mission of Making Student Life Better.

In return for joining us, we will offer an excellent benefits package, including:

- Pension Scheme – minimum of 4% employee and employer contribution

- Excellent training opportunities

- Access to a number of University of Brighton facilities

- Excellent staff support systems

- 20% off in BSU café-bars (not alcohol)

- 20% off clothing in BSU shops (not sale items)

- Travel Loan Scheme for bus or rail travel card

- Cycle-to-Work Loan Scheme

- Child Care Voucher Scheme

About the role:

As our Communications Assistant you will support the Communications Manager in delivering high quality communications and marketing across all physical sites and online channels, to increase student awareness and engagement of Brighton Students’ Union and its activities. This role particularly focuses on content.

Key duties and responsibilities of our Communications Assistant:

- Maintain up to date knowledge on emerging trends and technologies in communication methods

- Take a lead on day to day management of the Union’s social media platforms

- Respond to student queries via social media channels and communications

- Use scheduling tools to ensure social media activity is consistent across all platforms

- Create shareable social media content in a variety of formats (including imagery and videography) and work with other members of the Communications team to ensure engaging and high quality content is produced

- Create an e-newsletter for members

- Liaise with all BSU departments to assist in marketing their services and activities

- Attend BSU events to provide live and recorded communications as requested

- Support internal teams and departments to develop blog, news and email writing skills that are in line with our tone of voice guidelines

- As directed by your Line Manager, liaise with third party providers to manage the maintenance of the website and content management system

- Train staff and students on how to use the Union’s website effectively

- Prepare analytics reports on communications as requested

- Bring fresh, current and relevant digital thinking to the implementation of the digital approach to communications and service delivery to the student market

Skills and experience required to be our Communications Assistant:

- Experience creating engaging and targeted communications for specific groups

- Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously, often with competing deadlines

- Up to date knowledge on effective communications methods to HE students

- Use of social media channels for proactive and reactive communications

- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

- Excellent organisational and project management skills with the ability to multitask

- The ability to generate positive outcomes through partnership working, including challenging the status quo or poor practice

Desirable:

- Degree in relevant field, or related qualification, or extensive proven experience

- An understanding of Students’ Unions and/or Higher Education sector

- Preparing analytics reports

- Updating website pages, and using associated software packages

- Complying to a branding policy

If you feel that you have the skills and experience required to become our Communications Assistant, please click ‘apply’ today – we would love to hear from you!

Closing Date – Sunday 15 December 2019

Interview Date – Friday 20 December 2019

Talkback has worked for over 20 years in a person-centred way with over 1000 people who have learning needs and/or autism. We provide people with opportunities for education, life and social skills and employment. We enable them to share a voice and be recognised equally in their community.

Talkback is very successful and has achieved significant growth for a number of years. Our continuous growth and expansion means that we are looking for someone to join our Leadership team.

We are looking to recruit:

Head of Finance: full time (or 4 days a week)

Salary: £30,000 - £36,000 per annum

This role will be responsible for safeguarding the financial assets of the charity and support its long term future through effective and responsive controls, reporting and planning. You will support the CEO, Trustees and senior leadership team with timely and insightful forecasting, maintain effective financial control and support the CEO in developing business plans and charitable grant funding requests. 

The role is based in either our Aylesbury or Amersham office but will be expected to travel across the county, visiting our teams in Buckinghamshire.

To succeed you will be able to work both as part of a team and independently, have excellent communication skills, hold a recognised accountancy qualification and have a proven track record.

If you would like an informal discussion about this role please call Jay Hay, CEO, on the number given on the Application Form.

Closing date: Friday 20th December 2019 

About Us

Grapevine is a national award winning charity tackling disadvantage, isolation and poverty in Coventry and Warwickshire.

We are a triple action organisation – strengthening people, sparking community, shifting power. We help individual people get what they need to take control, turn their lives around and realise their potential. Collectively we help them spark movements for change in their communities. But we want to get at the root causes of the most difficult problems – not just treat the symptoms. So we work intensively with systems and services like the NHS and local authorities to understand issues together, shift power and solve the real problem – for good.

Strong local people and communities tackling their challenges, taking opportunities, shaping their lives – that’s our mission.

About the role

Our Warwickshire Empowerment Service aims to ensure that disabled people in the county have the greatest possible opportunity to be involved in the design of services. But it doesn’t stop there. We also look at local issues, trying to change areas for the better to allow people to have safe, healthy and well-connected lives.

The work isn’t as straightforward as running consultations. You could be campaigning with an inflatable zebra crossing one minute and the next running an open mic night to help make night-life safer.

Your base will be our HQ in Coventry and you will be mobile in Warwickshire. 18.5hrs p/w, contract until end of March 2021.

About you

To be successful in this role you will  need to be adaptable and creative, making tough subjects easy to understand. We need people who are outgoing and willing to partner with other organisations, forging connections that can help make change.

Benefits
- 25 days annual leave rising with service to 28 + 12 bank holidays (FTE)
- Flexible working
- Stakeholder pension scheme plus 8% employer contribution
- A friendly workplace with a strong culture of helping people uncover their potential. Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

To apply please download an application pack and application form from this website.