HASU are looking for two externally appointed professionals to join our Trustee Board as External Trustees. As a charity Trustee, you will be a member of the Trustee Board that ensures the Union has necessary financial and structural stability to carry out its aims effectively. On a practical level, this means you need to be able to contribute to major decisions on legal financial issues and ensure that the Union is delivering on that political policy set by the elected representative. 

We hope to strengthen the range of competencies across the Trustee Board in order to support our student leaders. We would be particularly interested to hear from individuals with experience of financial management/audit and/or commercial services management, Charity and Company directorship, Human Resources, strategic and change management. However, these are not essential. 

What We are Expecting

HASU is currently working in partnership with the Harper Adams University following a period of change and is currently progressing with the development of its new strategic plan for 2020 and beyond after securing stability and new management in 2019. 

Attendance to Meetings

The Trustee Board will meet between four and six times a year, with potential involvement with sub-committees. Outside of board meetings, there may be occasions when the Officer Trustees will turn to you for your experience and knowledge.

The post of External Trustee is appointed for a period of four years, which can be extended for a second term. This role is not remunerated; however reasonable expenses will be reimbursed

To apply for the position, please download and read the Adviser Job Pack. Then, download and complete the Application Form that can be found at the bottom of the page and email it to our recruitment email that can be found in the Job Pack.

As an Adviser, you will...

• Provide advice to students regarding university regulations

• Give support to students on related student life issues including sexual harassment, racism and disability discrimination.

• Record advice given using a case management system

• Prepare relevant documentation for academic appeals, complaints and misconduct investigations, attending meetings where appropriate.

• Maintain client records in a confidential manner

• Contribute towards the development of advice policies

• Provide occasional advice and information to students on welfare matters (housing, money, student life).

• Prepare relevant documents for welfare cases as appropriate

• Assist with the development and delivery of relevant training and briefing to staff, officers and volunteers.

• Attend meetings with university staff, students and community stakeholders as requested.

• Produce and update advisory documents and web site content for students on relevant issues

• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of higher education, welfare matters and best practice in advisory services

To apply for the position, please download and read the Adviser Job Pack. Then, download and complete the Application Form that can be found at the bottom of the page and email it to our recruitment email that can be found in the Job Pack.

Roehampton Students' Union is seeking the services of three external Trustees to join the Board at an exciting time for the organisation. Following a period of review, the union is positioned to embark upon a strategic review and consider what direction RSU takes over the next four years. Working in collaboration with other external and student Trustees, the role will help guide and steer the union following a successful period of transition.

The Trustee Board is the governing body of the Charity. The Trustees are responsible for making sure that Roehampton Students’ Union is run effectively, complies with the law, has a strong strategic plan based on members' needs. It is also responsible to making sure the Charity is financially stable.

We would like appointed Trustees to be open to serving a full four-year term. External Trustees can serve for a maximum of two terms. With the term of office much shorter for student and officer trustees, the long-term commitment of external trustees ensures that the union has consistency and stability as it navigates its strategic objectives.

What We Are Looking For

Attendance at Board Meetings

The Trustee Board will meet between four and six times a year. In addition to that it would be valuable if you attended our annual general members meeting where you can meet the part time officers and some students. These meetings can take place in the evening but also all day for more detailed work.

Support Officer Trustees

Outside of board meetings there may be occasions when the Officer Trustees will turn to you for your experience and knowledge.

An involvement with the Union

We would like Trustees to take an active interest in our services, campaigns and events to gain a greater understanding of what we do, how we represent students and celebrate the diversity of our student community.

In your application, it is important to emphasise any knowledge, skills or experience that you may have gained through employment, education or things that you have done in your spare time.

Following a skills audit, we have identified key areas where we would like to strengthen:

Governance

Financial Management and Audit

Charity and Company Directorship

Human Resources

Strategy and Performance

Looking to work in one of the top university communities in the world? Then come join us at a 147-year-old institution working to make sure 30,000 students from around the world have the best experience possible. KCLSU is a £7m student led charity that is here to make sure that every student at King’s has the best student experience possible. This role is to assist the Guys Commercial Manager in the day-to-day management. The post holder is responsible for, but not limited to, ensuring accurate counting and deposit of takings, checking the accuracy of all tills and floats, supervising the work of students staff and shift leaders, aspiring to the highest standards of customer care and ensuring that all venue operations comply with external legislation.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience working within a bar/café environment
• Experience supervising staff, including delegating tasks and rostering
• Knowledge of licensing law
• Operation knowledge of late night venues and/or cafes
• The ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally to internal and external audiences in order to deliver clear and relevant training, presentations and reports

KCLSU is a fun, social and flexible work environment which offers multiple opportunities for development as well as great staff benefits such as weekly yoga and spin classes, free fruit and soft drinks, travel and computer loans and much more.

Application Process

If this is you, please download and complete an application form and equal opportunities monitoring form from our website and follow the application isntructions. 

Applications close: 1st March 2020

Interview date: 10th March 2020

Assessment type: Interview

Please do not send CVs as these will not be considered.

Please DO NOT send in PDF applications.

At KCLSU Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are at the heart of everything we do and we endeavour to ensure equal treatment of all candidates. We welcome a diverse range of applicants and are open to discussing flexibility with the right candidate. Reasonable adjustments will be made for candidates with disabilities at all stages of the recruitment and selection process, and to ensure that a successful candidate with a disability can undertake the post.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for this role you must:

• Be eligible to work in the UK, and provide proof of this (i.e. a passport/visa) when asked by KCLSU

• Have a National Insurance number, or be in the process of applying for one

• Not be a trustee of King’s College London Students’ Union

Our Governance Co-ordinator keeps the organisation in check, are responsible for the administration of the governance function of Liverpool Guild of Students, ensuring legal compliance and supporting the senior management team in striving towards and achieving our organisational objectives. 
Working closely with members of the Board of Trustees, Senior Management team and elected officers, you will champion our governance structures helping to ensure its robust and properly informed, by providing excellence administrative support at Board and committee meetings.

Specific Duties

Committee Support

For Trustees meetings, committees, Companies Act meetings, members’ meetings, meetings with the University of Liverpool and other internal and external meetings:

• Formulate with the Chair and Chief Executive the agenda, organise the supporting reports and liaise with those members of staff or trustees who may be required to prepare papers for meetings;
• Schedule meetings, providing proper notice to members, coordinate the compilation and distribution of papers in a timely and accurate manner in advance of the meetings;
• Brief Chairs ahead of meetings
• Attend and take accurate minutes of the meetings and produce action logs, complying with the Companies Act 2006 and best practice for charities;
• Check and confirm the quorum at meetings;
• Ensure the safe custody of the official record of the Board of Trustees’ business, including signed minutes;
• Respond informatively to queries from members of committees and attendees of meetings;
• Make the necessary logistical arrangements for meetings, including room booking, refreshments etc;
• Prepare for approval committee terms of reference and rules relating to the composition, quorum, chairing and frequency of committee meetings in accordance with the Governing Documents;
• Maintain an accurate register of the members and attendees of all committees/meetings and their contact details;
• Prepare induction packs for trustees and members of committees;

• Prepare and update an annual schedule of matters detailing the planned detailed work for each meeting/committee;
• Organise the Annual Members Meeting and provide support to the Chair during the meeting;

• Ensure that best practice and legal compliance is adhered to at the Trustees meetings;
• Undertake an annual effectiveness review of the Board; and
• Attend and organise the Board of Trustees annual Away Day.

Company Secretarial Support

• Advise on, and be responsible for the proper approval of changes to, the Governing Documents;
• Ensure that the Guild’s policies and procedures are up to date, accurate, centrally stored and available, and approved;
• Draft policies or procedures that may be required;
• Maintain a database of policies and procedures and their status;
• File returns, appointments, resignations, accounts and other required information to Companies House and to the Charity Commission within the prescribed deadlines;
• Act as the principal point of contact with the Charity Commission;
• Maintain statutory and other registers including the Register of Directors and Register of Members;
• Project manage the production of the Guild’s Annual Report, liaising with the Director of Finance;
• Maintain a database of other key legislation, linked to the schedule of policies and procedures, and ensure that strategies for compliance are developed and implemented;
• Administer the Guild’s risk management strategy, updating and reporting to the Trustees at least annually;
• To keep informed of governance developments for companies, charities and students’ unions and to disseminate this information for the Guild’s senior managers where relevant;
• Lead the process to appoint and induct new trustees including monitoring upcoming vacancies, checking the eligibility of prospective trustees, ensuring that appointments are validly made in accordance with the Governing Documents and relevant legislation, and preparing letters of appointment;
• Undertake an annual skills survey of the board to guide trustee recruitment;

Executive Assistant

• Support the Senior Management Team;
• Work closely with the Democracy Manager to ensure the effective development and implementation of Guild policy;
• Support the strategic and business planning process as and when required;
• Arranging and booking events;
• Booking travel and accommodation for trustees;
• Managing expenses requests for trustees in line with the Expenses Policy;
• Support the administration of the Guild’s relationship with the University of Liverpool; and
• Assist with the administration of the Guild’s pension and insurance arrangements.

Information Governance

• Act as the Guild’s Data Protection Coordinator and ensure compliance under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the GDPR inter alia;
• Draft and keep up to date key data protection policies;
• Provide induction and ongoing training for staff in the area of Data Protection and Information Security;
• Maintain Statutory Registers, including a Register of Processing Activity and Breach Register;
• Lead on processing Subject Access Requests;
• Co-ordinate the response to, and investigate, breaches in accordance with the Guild’s Data Breach Procedure;
• Provide advice and respond to queries in the area of Data Protection;
• Formulate Privacy Notices and draft statements provided at the point of data collection;
• Formulate Guild policy for the filing and retention of documents;
• Review potential contracts and agreements for Data Protection compliance; and
• Assist with the undertaking of the Data Sharing Agreement with the University of Liverpool.

Other

• Compile reports and manage records as required, including being responsible for the management of relevant Guild databases.
• Be present at, and assist in the running of Welcome Fairs.
• Attend meetings and training events as required.
• Comply with the Guild’s policies and procedures at all times.
• Comply with and promote the environmental and sustainability procedures within the Guild.
• Undertake any other duties that may from time to time be requested.
• Have a flexible approach to duties and work and, in particular, adopt a team work style with departments and activities across the Guild. This may involve undertaking duties in support of the activities and services of other departments.
• Maintain an appropriate standard of confidentiality.

Are you passionate about education? Would you welcome the opportunity to become the next Chair of Governors of a secondary school, at the centre of one of the greatest knowledge clusters anywhere in the world?

If you would, Regent High School would like to hear from you.

Regent High School is a state-maintained, 11-19 co-educational comprehensive school close to King’s Cross in the London Borough of Camden. 

We serve an incredibly diverse community, which is represented in the demographics of our student body.  Students and their parents/carers are highly aspirational, and as a school we work with an extensive range of partner organisations to provide enhanced opportunities for our students, staff and the wider community. 

We are a nationally recognised award-winning school.  We opened our new £26m building in 2015. We have over 1000 students on roll, including c.120 in the Sixth Form. We were judged by Ofsted to be ‘Good’ when they last visited in January 2018 and our Headteacher who joined the school in 2016, is working to ensure the school builds on its recent successes. 

We also benefit from a team of dedicated and experienced governors, including parent and staff governors, representatives from our partner organisations and members of the local community. 

Chair, Regent High School, King’s Cross

Following the recent announcement that our current Chair of Governors, the Chief Executive of The Anne Frank Trust is standing down after serving five years on the Governing Body, we seek to appoint another highly successful and innovative leader, with knowledge and a keen interest in education, learning and empowerment to become our next Chair.

You will be tasked with chairing our half termly meetings of the Full Governing Body, and any necessary ad-hoc sub-group meetings.  You will meet regularly with the Headteacher for 1:1 meetings. You will lead the Headteacher’s appraisal meetings and you will attend Camden Learning’s Secondary Chairs’ Network meeting, and the Chairs and Governors’ Forum meeting on behalf of the Governing Body.  You will also be required to attend school events and champion the school and its causes at external events.

You will be responsible for leading a highly effective, supportive and knowledgeable team of governors.  You will be expected to offer induction support and establish an ongoing programme of learning and development to help all governors maximise their effectiveness, and ensure governors are able to benefit from the specialist training programmes offered.  You will work proactively to ensure that the governing body is adequately skilled and sufficiently well informed to fulfil its role to challenge and support the school leadership to achieve the best outcomes for all our students.

This is a hugely exciting time to be a part of Regent High School, leading and developing our Governing Body and supporting the senior leadership of the school in achieving our key strategic priorities.

Closing date: Monday 2 March

Preliminary Interviews: Thursday 12 March

Final Panel Interviews: Wednesday 25 or Thursday 26 March

If you are potentially interested and would welcome a confidential conversation, please contact our advising consultant, Philip Nelson at Harris Hill.

Following the successful promotion of our Chaplaincy Development Officer to a national post, we are seeking that special person to come and join our team, based at our offices near London Bridge.

The Chaplaincy Officer is responsible for developing chaplaincy and supporting chaplains within the Diocese of Southwark in Further and Higher Education institutions in line with our current frameworks.

Starting date: 1st April 2020 or soon after

The SDBE is a high-performing Board of Education and you will:

• Be part of a highly professional strong team
• Be well supported in your role
• Have excellent working conditions
• Contribute to the broader work of our Board

UK COP26 Coalition Co-Coordinator (London)

(9-month fixed term contract)

Based in London

£35,061.45 starting salary (pro rata), War on Want also offers a 6% contributory pension scheme

The UN climate talks (COP26) will take place in Glasgow from 9-20 November 2020. The UK COP26 Coalition is a broad UK-wide coalition through which civil society will plan together, share resources and learning, and organise a mass mobilisation and Peoples' counter-summit during the talks. It aims to support the transformation of the climate movement in the UK, to a stronger, more climate-justice centred movement long after COP26 is over.

We are recruiting two Co-Coordinators, one based in Glasgow, one based in London to coordinate a broad, diverse and inclusive coalition of civil society groups, working in a flexible and open way that allows for different levels of access and involvement, engaging established and new actors across the breadth of sectoral, thematic and regional spaces. 

The successful applicants will need to be excellent networkers, highly organised, skilled in facilitation and communication with a wide range of audiences, have a strong track record of working with marginalised groups and an understanding of the wider political context around the climate summit. 

For more information on how to apply for the role, please visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you.

Application deadline: 12 noon Monday 16 March 2020

Date for interviews: Friday 27 March 2020

War on Want welcomes applications from all members of the community. We strive to be an equal opportunities employer.

Please note that we can only accept applications from individuals with the right to work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor working visa applications.

UK COP26 Coalition Equal Opportunities Statement

The UK COP26 Coalition would particularly like to encourage applications from people of colour / black or brown people and people most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice who are currently under-represented in the climate and environmental movements in the UK. The successful candidate will be selected purely on the basis of how well they fit the person specification, as judged by their application and interview. Where two or more candidates are judged to be of equal merit, priority may be given to a BME or migrant candidate as these groups are currently under-represented in the climate and environmental movements in the UK. 

Due to the UK's racist border policies we are unable to arrange work permits for applicants without UK residency.

Oasis Charitable Trust is a multi-national charity supporting young people and their families in 10 countries worldwide. Our vision is for building healthy communities: places where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their full potential.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Lead Youth Worker to work as part of our Oasis Hub South Grimsby team to deliver a programme of activities and opportunities that support the personal and social development of the young people within the local community based in South Grimsby.  This activity takes place over some weekday evenings.

Key responsibilities will be:

• To develop and deliver a youth mentoring programme that is meaningful and positive
• To deliver a successful evening targeted youth provision (e.g. sports, creative arts and drama projects).
• To line manage, youth sessional staff and volunteers
• Support young people to engage in volunteering and leadership opportunities.

The successful post holder must have:

• A relevant professional qualification in Youth & Community work (Level 3 or above).
• Experience working in a youth/community setting alongside other statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Ability to function in diverse settings and with a wide range of professional agencies.
• Be self-motivated, resilient, with excellent organisational/administrative and inter-personal skills.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing national organisation, making a difference to communities on a local level, while individually improving the life chances of young people.  As part of the package, Oasis offers:

• A pension scheme, currently offering 7% employer contribution
• A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays)

If you are interested in this position, please click "Apply" on this page or go to the Oasis UK charity website (CVs alone will not be accepted).

Completed applications should be returned by 9am Wednesday 26th February 2020.

Interviews will take place in South Grimsby on Tuesday 3rd March 2020.

Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos.  We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks. 

PART-TIME, 14 HOURS PER WEEK (0.35 FTE) SOME EVENINGS

ONE YEAR FIXED TERM CONTRACT

SALARY:  £8,107 per annum for 14 hours/week (£23,164 FTE)

Oasis supports Equal Opportunities.  Registered Charity No. 1026487