Job Description
Job Title: Partnerships Manager
Location: Quantum House, 22 – 24 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, EC4A 3AB. Open to flexibility on location provided able to attend offices in London on regular basis.
Purpose: A fantastic opportunity to lead on managing relationships with our major charity partnerships including Bank of America and Health Education England (NHS Ambassadors). The charity aims to ensure that all young people have the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential. The role is a fixed contract up to 12 months for maternity cover.
Reports to: Director of Operations & Programmes
Additional Terms: 30 days paid holiday, exclusive of Statutory Holiday plus competitive pension scheme and a volunteering allowance of up to 5 days – pro rata in accordance with the length of contract. Additional family friendly benefits including enhancements to Statutory Payments.
Remuneration: £32k - £34k per annum (depending upon experience)
Appointment Terms: Fixed Term up to 12 months (Maternity Cover)
The role:
Working closely with the senior management team and colleagues across the organisation, the successful candidate will be leading on the account management of our major employer partnerships. Key partnerships with employers and professional associations from across the world of work are integral to the work we do as an organisation, contributing not only towards our reputation and network but also recruitment of volunteers for our programmes, delivery of campaigns and projects as well as funding.
This role will focus primarily on supporting our programmes aimed at inspiring the next generation through interactions with volunteers from the world of work (Inspiring the Future, Primary Futures) and work collaboratively with colleagues delivering the Inspiring Governance contract. The successful candidate will play a vital role in both account management and business development dedicated to consistently delivering a high level of service to all our partners.
We are looking for an experienced relationship manager to support our partnerships with Bank of America (BofA), lead corporate supporter of Inspiring the Future, Health Education England (HEE) major funder of the NHS Ambassador programme and the Department for Transport (DfT) Aviation campaign. The role focuses on supporting the organisations to ensure effective, successful, well-established partnerships and providing a key point of liaison.
The successful applicant will be expected to develop a strong network of contacts within partner organisations including attending their offices as appropriate. They will also work with colleagues in mobilising partner employees to volunteer their time to support students through Inspiring the Future and related programmes, planning and coordination of bespoke employee engagement sessions with groups of students and developing appropriate projects and resources.
We are looking for someone keen to take on fixed-term contract which is maternity cover for our existing Partnerships Manager. This is a very exciting period to be with the charity which has made a rapid pivot to virtual interactive events and has strong support from existing major partners to continue to innovate and grow the programmes. This role also provides a fantastic opportunity to develop significant skills both within the not-for-profit and corporate sectors through the partnership work.
Key accountabilities
Relationship/Account management (70%)
- Take responsibility for the stewardship of major partners covering any particular projects, initiatives and campaigns as directed, ensuring they receive a positive experience of working with the charity, and have experienced the benefits of a mutually beneficially partnership, all with the aim of extending the relationship including opportunities for fundraising.
- Successfully deliver the high value corporate partnerships with BofA, HEE and DfT. Ensuring that outcomes are appropriately measured and we meet all KPIs agreed.
- Maintain a strong personal network and high personal visibility across partner organisations to promote Inspiring the Future and Inspiring Governance to maximise employee engagement; acting as the principal point of contact for Inspiring the Future and Inspiring Governance enquiries from employees.
- Work with each organisation to engage their employees with Inspiring the Future and other programmes including Inspiring Governance
- Promote the partnership internally within each partner organisation as appropriate, using internal newsletters, video, intranet, direct mailings and case studies to recruit new employee volunteers and celebrate engagement.
- Working with colleagues to plan and deliver volunteering opportunities virtually and as appropriate in sites across the UK, inviting local school groups to meet volunteers to gain career insights; provide creative opportunities for departments and employee networks.
- Produce and disseminate guidance, and provide necessary resources, for employees taking part in Inspiring the Future volunteer events.
Strategic Planning (10%)
- Supporting the development of strategic plans across partnerships, ensuring funding pipelines are as visible as possible to SMT and plans in place to secure funding in the next cycle.
- Reviewing and enhancing resources and materials for employer engagement.
- Liaising with the Inspiring Governance regional managers to ensure that activities are complementary
- Keep up to date with current corporate issues, sector research and fundraising trends.
Developing new employer relationships (20%)
- Developing effective relationships with other key employers and professional associations identifying opportunities for effective promotion of Inspiring the Future volunteering schemes when appropriate
- Supporting the charity to develop employer bids and pitches identifying opportunities for income generation
Other
- Other ad hoc administrative tasks to support the team as needed
We are looking for an agile and enthusiastic individual, capable of absorbing key information quickly, as well as the ability to handle a diverse workload in order to meet the fast pace of the organisation. Education and Employers is a small, ambitious charity working to bring about change. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with strong communication skills and work well with a small team in a dynamic working environment.
Person specification
Skills/ Knowledge/ Expertise
Essential
- Experience in successful relationship management - of managing multi-stakeholder relationships and programme management. Ability to engage confidently, articulately and sensitively with stakeholders and partners at a range of levels of seniority up to and including board level
- Excellent, planning, prioritisation, time management, and organisational skills in order to effectively manage multi-faceted projects to agreed timescales, deadlines and budgets
- Polished presentation skills, adapting to different audiences and opportunities and including the ability to speak to research finding and create effective presentations.
- Excellent written communication skills. Fluency in written and spoken English
- Understanding of the corporate social responsibility landscape and knowledge and interest in the education and / or employment sector
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent knowledge and practical application of Microsoft office tools
Desirable
- A passion for supporting young people in realising their potential
- Knowledge of the education and employment sectors including careers support for young people and corporate social responsibility agendas
- Experience of working in a small team
- Understanding of risk management and data protection
Personal Attributes
- Strong client facing aptitude and communication skills both written and verbal.
- A “can-do” attitude and creative approach to a limited marketing budget.
- Calm and patient when dealing with a range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels
- Demonstrates sensitivity and possesses the ability to manage effectively the organisational tensions that sometimes develop between all stakeholders involved in the organisation and delivery of its work.
- Team Player: works collaboratively and flexibly to achieve outcomes and is keen to add value to the organisation’s culture and ethos
Other
- Able to undertake some occasional work in the evenings and at weekends
- Able to travel in the UK if required
Application process
The Education and Employers charity values having a diverse workforce. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. We offer a range of inclusive employment and family friendly policies as well as flexible working arrangements in order to support staff from different backgrounds.
The closing date for applications is 23:00 (11pm) Sunday 26th July 2020. Successfully shortlisted candidates will be notified no later than Friday 31st July 2020. Interviews will be arranged with successful candidates for the 5th / 6th August 2020 and will take place virtually.
Please your CV and covering letter (no more than 2 pages of A4) setting out your interest in and suitability for the role. Should you have any questions regarding the role please contact the recruiting manager Katy Hampshire.
Please note we will only consider applications with both a CV and covering letter and applications will only be accepted from those with the right to work in the UK with a valid passport/visa.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered under any circumstances.
The Charity is fully committed to safeguarding those in our care. We plan our recruitment processes to ensure effective timelines for any required vetting processes such as enhanced DBS, qualification, reference and identity checks. The Charity also ensures that each staff member is appropriately trained for their duties with a comprehensive induction process on commencement.
About the Education and Employers charity
Education and Employers is an independent UK based charity launched in 2009 with the vision of “providing children and young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential”. It aims to achieve this by working with schools, employers, the national bodies that represent them and a wide range of other partners including the government and third sector organisations. The charity also works with partners internationally – more details here.
The charity runs Inspiring the Future, a free service which uses innovative match-making technology to connect volunteers with state schools and colleges, quickly, simply and at scale. Schools can very easily search a massive database of willing volunteers, filter against a wide range of criteria – e.g. subject, sector, career route and send them a message. It enables young people, wherever they live, whichever school they attend, the opportunity to meet people from a wide range of backgrounds doing jobs from across the whole world of work.
Over 55,000 people have already volunteered in the UK - people from all levels: apprentices to CEOs and all sectors: apps designers to zoologists and over 80% of English secondary schools have registered. People can volunteer from an hour a year in a local primary or secondary school to chat informally about their job and career route, take part in career speed networking session, give careers insights, provide mock interviews or feedback on CVs through to serving as a governor or trustee. There is also the opportunity to link up with schools for workplace visits, job shadowing and mentoring.
Inspiring the Future operates on a technology platform kindly developed in partnership with Deloitte, Salesforce and Ordnance Survey. It allows the charity to run national campaigns such as Inspiring Women and others focused on specific geographic areas or economic sectors such as engineering, science, health and arts and culture. The campaigns have secured high profile support across government, business and teacher associations and ongoing corporate partnerships including our lead corporate partner Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
In partnership with the National Association of Head Teachers the charity has developed a version for primary schools called Primary Futures and over 4,500 primaries have already signed up. To see a short clip on how it works please click here. All campaigns run through Inspiring the Future share a common objective: to broaden young people’s horizons, raise their aspirations and show them the range of opportunities and careers routes e.g. apprenticeships and university open to them. Over 1.8 million interactions between young people and volunteers from the world of work have already taken place.
In partnership with the National Governance Association the charity runs Inspiring Governance the free governor recruitment and support service. This Department for Education funded service aims to get highly skilled volunteers to serve as governors in some of the most disadvantaged schools in England and in so doing help raise educational achievement.
Since the Charity’s launch it has sought to understand what difference employer engagement in education makes to young people and the economy. It works with academics and researchers from around the world and its own research is regularly cited by government and international organisations like the OECD. The research, which has informed and influenced a range of government policies, shows that employer engagement helps improve social mobility, reduces the likelihood of young people becoming NEET (not in education, employment of training), increases the amount they earn in adult life, helps them make better informed career choices and leads to improvements in educational attainment.
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Angel Shed Theatre is an inclusive children’s theatre company based in Islington, North London, with the objective of providing every child and young person, regardless of ability or background, the opportunity to participate in the performing arts. We work with children and young people creating imaginative, inclusive and inspiring workshops and providing performing arts activities for those often excluded from such activities, including those with disabilities, children and young people at risk of social exclusion through their behavioural difficulties and those from disadvantaged backgrounds or living in vulnerable home situations.
We are looking for a self-driven, dynamic, resourceful and committed Executive Director to help shape the next stage of our company. This is an exciting opportunity to have a positive and lasting impact on a growing charity that is making a vital difference for children and young people in Islington.
Duties include managing the charity’s funds, securing the resources (income and staff) and ensuring the operational efficiency to enable the Artistic Team to maintain and grow what we deliver while identifying, developing and maximising opportunities for Angel Shed.
The ideal candidate must have a passion for theatre and its impact with children. They must demonstrate they are flexible and creative to deal with the demands of a small charity and to be able to put the vulnerable children and families we work with at the forefront of the charity. They must possess a strong entrepreneurial drive, outstanding communication skills, strong leadership qualities and excellent planning and organisational skills. The candidate is expected to effectively fundraise, create and manage budgets, and enhance awareness of the charity within the local community.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the Youth Endowment Fund
The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.
Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.
The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.
Making this happen is a massive challenge. We will only succeed if we build a fantastic body of knowledge about youth violence and make it very accessible. This knowledge must be rigorous but also highly relevant to those making decisions about how to support vulnerable young people. We need to be excellent at finding out what works and what doesn’t, at building a deep understanding of the lives of vulnerable young people and at using data and data science to map and predict violent crime.
We are looking for someone to build and lead the team to do this.
Key responsibilities
Most fundamentally, your job is to ensure that the Youth Endowment Fund builds and shares a deep understanding of youth violence. To do this, you will:
- Lead a high-performing team of researchers and building with them a culture of intellectual rigour, compassion for children who feel unsafe, determination to get to the facts, ambition for what can be learnt, humility about what we know and what we don’t, passion for the importance of evidence-based decision-making and very high quality, easy to understand communication.
- Create a single hub of knowledge about youth violence which includes
- A highly accessible, regularly updated ‘toolkit’ which summarises what works to prevent and reduce youth violence
- A clear picture of the lives and experiences of young people and their families who are most vulnerable to youth violence
- An up to date view of levels, trends and spread of youth violence and an understanding of their drivers
- Spread this knowledge far and wide by ensuring that you and your team
- Produce easy to understand but rigorous briefings and reports
- Make the case that evidence must be used when deciding how to support vulnerable young people.
- Build and maintain close relationships with our top priority audiences which include Violence Reduction Units, Local Authorities, Police and Crime Commissioners, Elected Mayors, Local Authorities, Whitehall and Welsh Government Officials and Youth Sector umbrella bodies.
- Maintain regular repeating meetings with Ministers across government
- Ensure that all our work at the Youth Endowment Fund is informed by the cutting-edge knowledge that you are building. Before we launch a new funding round you make sure that we have a very clear understanding of what existing evidence says.
- As a senior leader in the organisation you will also:
- Build and lead your team, providing clear direction, agility, high-quality outputs and a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
- Lead the organisation as a core member of the Leadership Team, setting the strategy, delivering results and building and modelling the culture that we need to succeed.
About You
You are this sort of person:
- You have a good level of knowledge and understanding of crime or serious violence. You know the facts, understand the issues, know the key people, can discuss the theories. You are knowledgeable on this topic, are seen as credible and will be very at ease discussing it with experts.
- You have led teams that produced high quality, accessible research which can drive change. You have led a team that was very well respected for the quality of research that it produced and the impact that that research had. You know how to get evidence used and are familiar with the methods for doing this. The outputs your team produced rarely just sat on a shelf. They were discussed, debated and led to change happening.
- You are a real expert on evidence standards and evaluation. You have a real expertise in the evidence standards that underpin a What Works Centre’s activity. Ideally this would include expertise in the standards used to guide evaluation design and analytical choices in individual evaluations, as well as the standards needed to carry out evidence synthesis.
- You are very at ease with data and have a real interest in data science: You are highly numerate and very comfortable with data. You may not be an expert but you have a real interest in data science and machine learning and how it might be used to help understand, predict and prevent crime.
- You make change happen. You have experience of leading people and teams in delivering results. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work. You care about evidence and information but you are just as passionate about making change happen because of that information.
- You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are comfortable talking to a Secretary of State, a leading professor of criminology, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15-year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
- You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
- You are fascinated and thoughtful on how people engage with information. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make present information so that people find it engaging, use it, recommend it to others and return to it. You are thoughtful and interested on what we can learn from behavioural science on how people make decisions. You understand why people resist making evidence-based decisions and interested in how to disrupt this. You come alive talking about to make information and evidence really accessible so that people change what they do.
- You are an excellent strategic thinker. People say that you are good at seeing the big picture. You have experience of wrestling into place a strategy for a project or organisation. You are good at thinking logically but you are also creative. You have ideas but are happy rejecting a lot of them. You like seeing things from different points of view.
- You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
- You are at ease with policy makers. You are very comfortable and experienced talking to and exploring policies with policy makers whether junior civil servants, senior civil servants, advisers or Ministers. You are very effective in these conversations and good at communicating often complex research evidence very simply.
- You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.
It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
To Apply
Apply by 9am 12th July 2020
You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.
Interview week commencing 20th July
Panel interview week commencing 27th July
Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Organisation
Russam is delighted to be supporting Hestia with the search for their new Regional Director for London.
Hestia supports adults and children in crisis across London and the surrounding regions. They campaign and advocate nationally on the issues that affect them. This includes victims of modern slavery, women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, young care leavers and older people. From giving someone a home, to helping them to get the right mental health support, they support people at the moment of crisis and enable them to build a life beyond crisis. They are supported by more than 460 volunteers who provide specialist skills such as art therapy yoga, IT, gardening, cooking as well as befriending and fundraising.
They are proud to be the home of UK SAYS NO MORE, bringing together a diverse coalition of individuals, charities, businesses and public-sector organisations to campaign for an end to the domestic abuse and sexual violence.
In everything they do, they seek to be: respectful, genuine, dedicated, collaborative and courageous.
You can find out more about Hestia by visiting their website.
The Role
Like the many people they work with each day, Hestia’s operational services provision is rich and diverse. The Regional Director of Operations shares responsibility for the oversight and delivery of all frontline services with one other Regional Director.
The role is split across several geographical regions under a combination of Heads of Service and Area Managers in: Domestic Abuse, Modern Slavery Response Team, Mental Health, Older People, Ex-offenders, Physical Disabilities, Drugs and Alcohol Support and Young People.
Direct reports to Regional Director Operations
Head of Domestic Abuse & Modern Slavery
Operations Project Lead
Head of Services North London
Head of Volunteering & Corporate Partnerships
Reporting to the CEO, the Regional Director for London will have responsibility for the strategic leadership for operational services.
Other key responsibilities include:
- Provide leadership for allocated operational service delivery
- Collaborate with other Directors
- Collaborate with other Regional Director on pan-operational work
- Contribute to strategy development and lead as appropriate strategy delivery
- Inspire and lead staff to exceptional performance
- Significant financial management
- KPI delivery
- Collaboration with New Business including service retention
- Change management including service restructuring
- Relationship management and external ambassador
- Lead and model Hestia’s values and The Hestia Approach.
- Significant contract management
- Risk management to enable Hestia to deliver safe and effective services.
- Significant safeguarding leadership
- Policy and procedure design, review and implementation
- Governance and external reporting
- Performance management to meet contractual requirements as a minimum
- Lead innovation
The Person
Hestia are looking for an inspiring and highly professional individual to be part of their senior leadership team, to deliver the long-term strategy at an exciting time for the organisation. The focus this year is service transformation, building on the success of services, exploring what more digital technologies can do to help service users in their recovery, investing in staff who are key to service quality and diversifying the funding base to ensure sustainability in the long term.
You will be educated to degree level (or equivalent), have a demonstrable track record of the above and importantly, a commitment to the values of Hestia. Other essential criteria includes:
Knowledge and Experience
- Proven senior strategic and operational leadership experience
- A demonstrable track record of leading, developing and managing multi-disciplinary teams to achieve growth, sustainable improvements in efficiency and effectiveness and to ensure delivery of outstanding results for clients
- Breadth and depth of experience in social care and across a range of service user groups
- Substantial experience of managing the development and delivery of care, domestic abuse, housing, support and/or health services
- Experience of transforming services and consistent excellent service delivery
- A track record of working in and forging successful partnerships with a wide range of internal and external bodies to successfully deliver complex projects
- Demonstrable appreciation of legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements relevant to a service delivery charity
Skills and abilities
- Ability to think and plan operationally and strategically
- Leadership skills and the ability to empower, motivate and develop staff, to create a positive, inclusive team ethos
- Evidence of ability to build and sustain effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including commissioners
- Highly developed networking, advocacy, written, oral and presentation skills to relate effectively to key internal and external stakeholders, and command their respect, trust and confidence
- Substantial skills in financial, budgetary and contract management with the ability to understand, manage and interpret data and other financial information
- Ability to apply innovative thinking and judgement to initiate and support change, to take action, to meet targets and achieve desired outcomes
- Personal resilience and an ability to cope with ambiguity, uncertainty and scrutiny from others
- The ambition and drive to motivate and work with others to create an organisation that becomes the benchmark to which others aspire
- Very strong personal integrity, honesty and openness when dealing with others
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a high-pressure environment
Timetable & How to Apply
To apply for this position please provide the following two pieces of information:
- A comprehensive CV, including details of your achievements in each role and details of two referees.
- A supporting statement, explaining how you believe your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly addressing the criteria as outlined in the person specification above.
Hestia is committed to equality of opportunity and particularly supports and encourages applications from candidates from all under-represented groups and backgrounds.
Hestia also welcomes applications from candidates with lived experience. If you have any convictions/cautions this does not mean you cannot apply, however you will be required to complete a DBS check.
ABOUT US
The Diana Award is proud to be the only charity set up in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales and her belief that young people have the power to change the world. It’s a big mission but there are two things within it that we focus our charity’s efforts on – young people and change.
Throughout all of our programmes and initiatives ‘change’ for and by young people is central. We all play our part to help realise this vision and our team is diverse in its talents and roles. Day-to-day we can be found working out in the community with young people through our anti-bullying and mentoring initiatives, fundraising, managing our valued corporate partners, providing vital HR and communications support, celebrating young people in memory of Princess Diana and plenty more.
We’re not your typical organisation. From the moment that you join The Diana Award, you’re part of our family. Together, we are united by our shared belief that young people can change the world, and, by our values: passion, collaboration, integrity, ambition and unity.
THE ROLE
The The Diana Award’s Mentoring Programme works with schools to target young people (aged 11-18yrs) who are at risk of becoming NEET (Not in education or employment) and who may benefit from having a positive role model. We support these young people by collaborating with local partners and businesses who provide mentors to give them life-changing experiences and insights into the world of work.
The programme places a strong emphasis on social action; in addition to career skills training, mentors and mentees work together to develop a campaign around a social issue that affects their community. This two pronged approach prepares young people for their post-secondary future and instils a sense of active citizenship. Your role is key to the success of our Mentoring Programme as you will be working with our inspiring corporate mentors. You will be responsible for facilitating their induction and training, supporting them on their individual journey's through the programme and ensuring relevant feedback is given for them to share with their employer.
In addition to supporting our volunteer mentors, you will also play a vital role in ensuring that all participants involved in the programme are safeguarded effectively, as Mentoring Programme Safeguarding Lead.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Volunteer Coordination
This role will be responsible for supporting mentors across Leeds, Birmingham, London and Jersey. Travel to those regions will be required for meetings and training sessions.
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Coordinate all aspects of the volunteer mentor journey from attracting businesses and individuals, safe recruitment and selection (including DBS checks), training and ongoing support
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Design and facilitate a high quality bespoke training programme designed for Mentors, both online and face to face
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Act as a central point of contact for mentoring enquiries
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Coordinate communications to corporate partners and mentors about the mentoring programme
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Work with the Programme Manager and Communications Team to promote mentor opportunities across owned channels, and more widely
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Work with the Impact and Evaluation Team to deliver an effective evaluation framework which captures the mentor journey/experience and the impact of the programme more widely
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Develop robust volunteer policies and procedures which comply with Diana Award organisational policies, and current legislation (including risk management, health and safety, safeguarding and data protection)
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Coordinate workplace visits, career days and work experience opportunities for mentees (with support from the wider Mentoring Team)
Safeguarding Officer
Act as Safeguarding Lead for the Mentoring Programme, duties and responsibilities as follows.
Mentoring Programme Safeguarding Lead
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Act as the first point of contact for any safeguarding concerns for the Mentoring Programme, and in the absence of other programme leads more organisation wide, as is required
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Lead on the design and review of capturing informed consent from programme participants
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Ensure all safeguarding issues concerning mentees are responded to appropriately
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Ensure that mentors understand our safeguarding policy and procedures and know what to do if they have concerns about a mentee’s welfare, delivered both through the training programme, and on an ongoing basis
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Receive and record information from anyone who has concerns about a mentee taking part in the programme
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Take the lead on responding to information that may constitute a safeguarding concern, including a concern that an adult involved in the programme may present a risk to beneficiaries
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Liaise with/pass on information to and receive information from statutory agencies where required
General Safeguarding Duties
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Work with fellow safeguarding officers in developing and reviewing The Diana Award’s safeguarding policies and procedures
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Store and retain records according to legal requirements and The Diana Award’s safeguarding policy and procedures
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Be familiar with issues relating to child protection, safeguarding and abuse, and keep up to date with new developments in this area
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Attend regular training in issues relevant to safeguarding and share knowledge from that training with everyone who works or volunteers with or for children, young people and adults at risk at The Diana Award
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Attend monthly safeguarding forum meetings, and other meetings as arranged
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Work flexibly as may be required and carry out any other reasonable duties
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Skills
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Excellent interpersonal skills, including verbal and written communication
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Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
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Excellent IT skills, including MS Office Suite
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Excellent public speaking and presentation skills
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Ability to prioritise own workload and deal with competing demands
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Ability to build relationships and work successfully with people at all levels
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Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Experience/Knowledge
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Experience of volunteer management (experience working with corporate volunteers is a bonus)
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Knowledge and experience in safeguarding and child protection (or willingness to undertake training)
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Experience of writing clear, concise and engaging policies and procedures
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A proven track record in designing and delivering effective and engaging training to volunteers
Personal Attributes
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Commitment to and ability to inspire commitment to The Diana Award’s vision, values and mission
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Personal integrity and credibility
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Resilience
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A ‘can do’ attitude
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Commitment to self-development
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Commitment to keeping up to date with key trends/developments in the sector
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Good judgement
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Driven to achieve great results
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Ability to work well under pressure
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Energetic, flexible, willingness to work outside of ‘normal’ office hours
SAFER RECRUITMENT
The Diana Award is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all. This is a responsibility that is shared by all members of staff the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS or equivalent police check.
About Us
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About the Youth Endowment Fund
The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.
In recent years there has been a significant increase in violent crime. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. For children and young people, there have been particularly large increases in those who are both the perpetrators and victims of offences involving knives. We believe it is vital to intervene early in children’s lives to tackle the root causes of crime and violence, and to stem this worrying trend.
The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the best ways to prevent youth violence, funding promising initiatives and working to scale them up.
Some of the most successful work to reduce violent crime has been when local partners work together, share information and coordinate action. We want to establish the very best approaches to doing this, show clearly why they work and then support them being copied elsewhere. We call this our place-based work.
Key Responsibilities
You will lead our place-based work, making sure we do everything possible to find and spread the best ways to help local bodies to work together, sharing information and working in a coordinated way to make change happen. We are excited by the possibilities here, but realistic about the challenges and complexities involved. You will make sure we navigate these challenges, finding the best ways that local partnerships can succeed.
To do this you will:
- Finalise our place-based strategy and put it into action. This means making sure that we have a ready-to-go plan for finding the most effective ways of getting local bodies to share information and coordinate activity so that youth violence falls.
- Build and nurture strong partnerships in places across England and Wales that are ready to share information and work together to reduce crime.
- Find the best way to ensure that partners get the help and support that they need to make our work a success. This could be direct support from you, the wider YEF team / our partners, or by bringing in external help.
- Once we know more about what works in place-based crime reduction, help local partnerships across England and Wales know what works and learn about how to make it happen.
- Ensure that we learn what works really effectively. Working closely with our Knowledge and Evaluation teams you will make sure we learn what, why, how and where things work (and don’t work).
- As a senior staff member, you will also:
- Help build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
- Help to inform the strategy, deliver results and build and model the culture that we need to succeed.
About You
You are this sort of person:
- You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience. You have a good understanding of how the youth sector, public sector and schools operate.
- You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.
- You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are comfortable talking to a Secretary of State, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and an 11 year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
- You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You are a great and supportive team player.
- You believe evidence and research have an important role to play in improving local practice. You are passionate about making sure local planning and change is informed by the best available evidence.
- You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- You make things happen. You have experience of getting to the heart of a strategy and turning it into operational plans. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work. You know attention to detail, clarity of purpose and strong project management matter.
You must have this sort of experience:
You have…
- Built Partnerships: You have significant experience in building strategic, long lasting partnerships. You can show how these have been effective in delivering impact for children and local communities.
- Developed and Delivered Strategy: You have significant experience of developing strategies. You can then translate them into great ideas and actions.
- Managed complex projects: You have significant experience of managing projects with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Managed senior stakeholders: You have experience of working with local leaders, youth practitioners and/or commissioners on strategy development or programme design.
You might have this sort of experience
It’s not necessary but it would be an extra bonus if you have…
- Experience of turning evidence into credible messages, tools and advice relevant to local practice.
While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.
It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
To Apply
To apply, please go through this link by midnight, 12th July, 2020.
You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.
First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27th July
Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3rd August.
Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
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The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) is a young, dynamic and ambitious charity established in 2013 to champion and support the use of effective early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people at risk of experiencing poor outcomes.
We are looking for a passionate and experienced change manager who can influence and advise strategic commissioners across England to use our evidence, processes and resources to create programmes that make a real difference to the outcomes for vulnerable children and young people.
You’ll keep abreast of national and local policy, building strong relationships with Whitehall, sector bodies, national charities and local public services. You’ll collaborate with our researchers and academic experts to identify and communicate the implications of research findings for policy and practice and work closely with local leaders and commissioners on r the best ways to use evidence to guide local decisions.
We are looking for somebody who understands the strategic commissioning process within local authorities, the NHS and other public bodies. The right person will have experience of strategy development in child and family services, as well an understanding of national policy and local public sector strategy and delivery relating to early intervention.
To be successful, you will be a strong communicator with excellent project management skills. You will also have a strong appreciation and understanding of the way evidence can support decision making. Above all, you will be passionate and committed to improving the lives of vulnerable children and families, flexible, and a strong team-player.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at EIF. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of our stakeholders and the wider society in the UK, so we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for our roles.
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Charity Finance Manager in a busy, friendly south London charity based in Lambeth. We work with children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism as well as mainstream young people. You will be part of a small senior management team and provide finance support and management accross seven teams.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) are looking to recruit a Management Accountant to ensure that CACT’s financial records are maintained accurately and kept up to date. The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring financial performance and explaining variances to budget, and together with the Director of Finance, ensuring that statutory reporting requirements are complied with.
Applicants must be part or fully qualified professional accountants and have experience of ledger management and reconciliations, as well as management accounts preparation.
For further information please download an application pack.
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Clinical Risk Manager
Full-time at 35 hours
2 year Fixed term contract
Salary: £35,000 - £42,000
Location: Blend of homeworking, office and travelling to partner networks
GamCare is the leading national provider of information, advice, support and free treatment for the prevention and treatment of problem gambling. Our expert services are confidential and non-judgemental.
GamCare work across England, Scotland and Wales and delivers services regionally in collaboration with local Partners to raise awareness and provide services to those affected by gambling -related harms and their families.
Our treatment services provide face-to-face, online, telephone, individual and group-based treatment within a stepped Model of Care that is strengths based and focused on reducing risks.
GamCare has embarked on a programme of development over the last three years which has expanded the services we offer to women, young people and concerned others. We continue with our ambition to increase awareness of wider professionals in relation to gambling risks and safer gambling standards.
It is therefore an exciting time to join a vibrant and motivated team to continue these developments. GamCare are currently looking for a Clinical Risk Manager to work within our Clinical Directorate. This role will involve leading on developing and implementing the GamCare Suicide Prevention Strategy, as well as establishing, monitoring, and reviewing the GamCare Incident Reporting system, Incident Investigations, and Clinical Auditing processes.
This post holder will be central to supporting service developments, best practice, and training/development initiatives as informed by learning from serious incidents, in conjunction with clinical and partner network teams.
We are looking for a proactive leader, with a strong sense of initiative, an excellent team working approach and an exceptional communicator. You will be able to demonstrate a high level of organisational, analytical and IT skills, and have relevant management experience.
A good understanding of the DATIX system and Serious Incident investigations processes will be an advantage. Knowledge of National guidance is essential.
This post offers an excellent opportunity to work in a forward-thinking team environment and make a difference to the service user experience and recovery.
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
To apply, please complete go onto the GamCare website.
If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:
Job application: <name of vacancy>
Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.
If you require any further information regarding this role, please contact Rachel Hassan, Head of Quality Assurance. Application forms forwarded to this email will not be accepted.
Previous applicants need not apply. Please note we do not accept CVs
GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.
Closing Date: Friday 17th July 2020
Interview Date: Week of 27th July 2020
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the Youth Endowment Fund
The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.
Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.
The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime.
To succeed we must do two things brilliant. Firstly we must: ‘Find what works’. We have a team of expert grant makers and researchers funding and evaluating programmes to find out what works. By itself though this won’t matter. We have to be just as good at: ‘Make change happen’. To make change happen, we will have to take people with us. This is where you come in. We won’t change anything unless we can build a powerful coalition of youth charities and youth workers who want to see knife crime reduced. It is your job to build this coalition and make sure that change happens.
Key responsibilities
Most fundamentally, you lead on ensuring that the Youth Endowment Fund successfully makes change happen in the youth sector. You will do this by:
- Building fantastic external relationships and coalitions: If we are to have a chance at changing practices in the youth sector, we will need to build deep and trusting relationships. Every time we run a themed round of funding (from mentoring to detached youthwork) we will want to build a coalition of engaged supporters in the youth sector who care about this area of focus. It will be your job to build and strengthen these relationships.
- Overseeing the change process when the theme is linked to the youth sector: Twice a year we will launch a change process made up of a number of stages. It is your job to ensure this process is followed and that all parts of the organisation play their part:
- Selecting an area of focus for a grant round, e.g., exclusions, alternative provision, mentoring.
- Preparing for a grant round, which includes building coalitions, engaging young people, summarising the existing evidence, mapping power and influence.
- Delivering the grant round, which includes selecting high quality applications, supporting and improving them and selecting the best.
- Evaluating the outcomes, which includes finding what works and why it works.
- Delivering impact, which includes scaling up great charities, spreading great practice and pushing for system changes.
- Identifying and delivering the best way to achieve change: In each theme-based grant related to the youth sector round it is your job to ensure we find the best way to achieve change. You decide whether there are particular practices we should look to spread or systems that we should look to change. In all of this you will be looking to work with the coalitions that you have built.
- As a senior member of staff in the organisation you also:
- Build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
- Contribute to setting the strategy, delivering results and building and modelling the culture that we need to succeed.
About You
You are this sort of person:
- You make change happen. You have experience of finding ways to make things happen. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work.
- You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are good at chairing meetings, connecting people and having good introductory meetings. You are comfortable talking to a government minister, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15 year old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
- You understand the youth sector and youth workers: You really understand how the youth sector works; you have worked in it or with it. You would ideally have some experience working with young people directly. (It is a huge unexpected bonus if you also understand either policing, the education sector or children’s social care).
- You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
- You write very well: You write clearly without using jargon. You are good at being brief. Your writing is persuasive when you want it to be.
- You are both organised and flexible: You are a very organised person who can juggle multiple things while always being clear what the overall goal is. People comment on how well organised you are. But you are also highly flexible. When the situation changes, you are happy to change your plan.
- You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.
- You are an excellent strategic thinker. People say that you are good at seeing the big picture. You have experience of wrestling into place a strategy for a project or organisation. You are good at thinking logically but you are also creative. You have ideas but are happy rejecting a lot of them. You like seeing things from different points of view.
- You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
- You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience.
- You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
You must have this sort of experience
You have …
- Built Partnerships or Coalitions: You have significant experience in building partnerships or coalitions. You can show how these have been effective in delivering change.
- Worked in or with the youth sector: You have worked in or with the youth sector for a number of years, this might be working directly with young people but doesn’t have to be.
While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.
It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
To Apply
Closing date for applications is 9am 12th July 2020
You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.
Interview week commencing 27th July
Panel interview week commencing 3rd August
Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
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House of Commons (Conservative MP’s Office) and The Joint Public Issues Team
Young Adult Vocations Development Programme
This is a one-year fixed term role aimed at 21-30 year olds
7th September 2020 – 30 August 2021 (Date may be later in September depending on COVID-19 developments)
Salary: circa £22K per annum
Hours of work: 35 hours per week (Not necessarily 9 – 5pm)
Location: London - 2.5 days in Parliament with a Conservative MP, 2.5 days with the Joint Public issues Team
Do you want to gain invaluable experience at the heart of the UK political world?
Interested in spending a year on the frontline of political life in Westminster and working as part of a dynamic team making meaningful change?
Are you interested in making links between faith, life and politics?
This post offers joint placements between an MP and a Church-based policy and campaign team.
It is an opportunity to be working alongside a Conservative member of the House of Commons and their staff as they seek to make a difference through the work of UK politics.
It also offers the chance to develop skills in research, campaigning and communication whilst working as part of the Joint Public Issues Team. The Team works as part of the Baptist Union, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Church of Scotland on issues of justice and peace.
Throughout the year, the post holder will be offered the chance to see first-hand the way Church and society interact whilst applying their own faith to the role.
This a full-time post for a year. The post starts in September 2020 and is based across two locations in central London – Westminster and Marylebone.
There will be opportunities for professional, spiritual and personal learning and development to equip the appointed candidate professionally for a wide range of opportunities after their time on the programme.
Closing date for applications: 5pm 9th July 2020
Interview date: 23rd July 2020 via Zoom
WHO CAN APPLY?
You can apply for this role if:
You have completed your full-time university studies (bachelor's degree or equivalent) at a university or equivalent institution prior to commencing the assignment;
You are between 21 -30 years old; and
You can provide a spiritual and character reference from a church or faith community leader within the Christian tradition.
The team is currently missing representation from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups and would particularly welcome these applications.
All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK and must hold a current NI number, UK bank account and valid proof of ID (passport or British birth certificate).
* This post holds an Occupational Requirement for the post holder to be a young person within the age range of 21 - 30 – Standing Order 250 and the Missing Generation Report, Methodist Conference 2009. There is a Genuine Occupational Requirement for the holder of this post to be a Christian.
Interview Date: 23-Jul-2020
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About the Youth Endowment Fund
The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.
Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.
The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime.
To succeed we must do two things brilliant. Firstly we must: ‘Find what works’. We have a team of expert grant makers and researchers funding and evaluating programmes to find out what works. By itself though this won’t matter. We have to be just as good at: ‘Make change happen’. To make change happen, we will have to take people with us. This is where you come in. We won’t change anything unless we can build a powerful coalition of schools, teachers, heads, unions, and more who want to see knife crime reduced. It is your job to build this coalition and make sure that change happens.
Key responsibilities
Most fundamentally, you lead on ensuring that the Youth Endowment Fund successfully makes change happen in the world of education. You will do this by:
- Building fantastic external relationships and coalitions: If we are to have a chance at changing practices in the world of education, we will need to build deep and trusting relationships. Every time we run a themed round of funding (from exclusions to mentoring) we will want to build a coalition of engaged supporters in the education sector who care about our area of focus. It will be your job to build and strengthen these relationships.
- Overseeing the change process when the theme is linked to education: Twice a year we will launch a change process made up of a number of stages. It is your job to ensure this process is followed and that all parts of the organisation play their part:
- Selecting an area of focus for a grant round, e.g., exclusions, alternative provision, mentoring.
- Preparing for a grant round, which includes building coalitions, engaging young people, summarising the existing evidence, mapping power and influence.
- Delivering the grant round, which includes selecting high quality applications, supporting and improving them and selecting the best.
- Evaluating the outcomes, which includes finding what works and why it works.
- Delivering impact, which includes scaling up great charities, spreading great practice and pushing for system changes.
- Identifying and delivering the best way to achieve change: In each theme-based grant round related to education it is your job to ensure we find the best way to achieve change. You decide whether there are particular practices we should look to spread or systems that we should look to change. In all of this you will be looking to work with the coalitions that you have built.
- As a senior member of staff in the organisation you also:
- Build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
- Contribute to setting the strategy, delivering results and building and modelling the culture that we need to succeed.
About You
You are this sort of person:
- You make change happen. You have experience of finding ways to make things happen. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work.
- You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are good at chairing meetings, connecting people and having good introductory meetings. You are comfortable talking to a government minister, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15 year old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
- You understand teachers and the education sector: You really understand how teachers and heads think – perhaps because you were a teacher. You might ideally have some experience working with the teachers’ unions, Ofsted and other key organisations that influence teaching. (It is a huge unexpected bonus if you also understand either policing, the youth sector or children’s social care).
- You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
- You write very well: You write clearly without using jargon. You are good at being brief. Your writing is persuasive when you want it to be.
- You are both organised and flexible: You are a very organised person who can juggle multiple things while always being clear what the overall goal is. People comment on how well organised you are. But you are also highly flexible. When the situation changes, you are happy to change your plan.
- You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.
- You are an excellent strategic thinker. People say that you are good at seeing the big picture. You have experience of wrestling into place a strategy for a project or organisation. You are good at thinking logically but you are also creative. You have ideas but are happy rejecting a lot of them. You like seeing things from different points of view.
- You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
- You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience.
- You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
You must have this sort of experience
You have …
- Built Partnerships or Coalitions: You have significant experience in building partnerships or coalitions. You can show how these have been effective in delivering change.
- Worked in the education sector: You have worked in the education sector, this might be as a teacher but doesn’t have to be.
While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.
It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
To Apply
Apply by 9am 12th July, 2020.
You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.
Interview week commencing 27th July
Panel interview week commencing 3rd August
Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.