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Hamelin exists to reimagine life for individuals with learning disabilities and autism, enabling limitless possibilities.
Our mission is to build inclusive, caring, and compassionate communities for autistic individuals and those with learning disabilities. By empowering and supporting these individuals, we strive to enable them to live the lives they choose.
Job Title: Business Manager
Location: Home Based (with expected weekly travel within Essex to meet the requirements of the role)
Salary: £36,000
Job Type: Full-Time
Your New Role
Hamelin is seeking a dynamic Business Manager to lead our expanding Employability and Befriending Projects. In this diverse role, you'll play a pivotal part in ensuring our projects meet their goals and create a lasting impact in our communities.
As Business Manager, you will oversee two important initiatives:
- Employability Project: Here, you will empower adults with learning disabilities and/or autism to find and maintain meaningful paid employment. You will line manage Hamelin’s Employability Advisor, providing essential support and guidance to foster growth and success within this project.
- Befriending Project: This initiative focuses on enabling adults with learning disabilities and/or autism to engage in community activities through befriending, mentoring, and peer-led programs, all supported by our dedicated volunteers. As Business Manager, you will orchestrate the essential logistical, analytical, and administrative tasks that keep this project running smoothly.
Initially you will oversee the service delivery of the befriending project, whilst supporting the IGC team to secure additional funding to expand into other geographical areas.
On the achievement of additional areas, regional staff will be supported.
This role is crucial in making sure we deliver exceptional service, stay compliant, and run our projects efficiently— whilst ensuring our mission, vision and values are not compromised. You will also be key in developing the Charity as it seeks to evolve its services and reach.
About you
It’s essential that:
- You have at least two years’ experience managing services for individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism.
- You possess strong business acumen, with experience in budget management and service development.
- You have a proven track record of successful team management
- You hold a valid driver’s license and have access to a vehicle.
- You are able to work flexibly across locations in Essex to fulfil the requirements of the role.
It’s desirable that:
- You have experience working in a charity or non-profit organisation.
- You have links within employability.
- You have experience in mentorship.
- You’re familiar with the local community and relevant stakeholders.
Defining care for a better future
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Assistant Shop Manager, Guildford
Salary: £23,400 per annum
Team: Retail
Hours: 37.5 hours
Location: Guildford
About Shooting Star Children’s Hospices
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Shop Manager to join our team at Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.
Shooting Star Children’s Hospices provides specialist care and support to families who have a baby, child or young person with a life-limiting condition, or who have been bereaved. Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we support families across Surrey, north-west London and south-west London from diagnosis to end of life and throughout bereavement with a range of nursing, practical, emotional and medical care.
At the heart of what we do are our dedicated staff; their exceptional commitment and professionalism means every family has the opportunity to make every moment count.
It’s a great time to join Shooting Star Children’s Hospices as we have exciting plans to expand our retail team.
About the role
Your key purpose will be, in the absence of and alongside the Shop Manager, to manage a team of volunteers to maximise sales, deliver excellent customer service and ensure that the shop premises and assets are maintained to a high standard, according to legal requirements and Shooting Star Children’s Hospices (SSCH) policies and procedures
About you
This role requires experience of assisting in managing a shop including knowledge of retail and health and safety legislation and administrative/cash handling experience.
You will also have an ability to deal with customers and maintaining a high level of customer service, have good verbal, written communication skills, as well as being comfortable using IT and EPOS reporting. You will have an ability to motivate yourself and others, have excellent organisational skills and be comfortable working under pressure and dealing with changing priorities.
The post holder must be able to work their contracted hours across the 7-day working week.
Please see the attached job description for more information about this opportunity at Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.
What we offer
In return you will receive a competitive salary along with a range of benefits, which include:
Pension scheme
• NHS Pension Scheme (for eligible employees) or our stakeholder pension scheme, with up to 7% employer contributions
Annual leave
• 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising with length of service
• 2 weeks paid sabbatical leave after 5, 10 and 15 years’ service
Contractual benefits
• Generous sick pay scheme
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave pay
• Flexible working arrangements
• Death in service benefits
• Reimbursed professional membership fees
• Eye care
• Employee referral scheme
• Blue Light discount card
Health and wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Occupational Health
• Mindfulness sessions
• Cycle to work scheme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Nutritionally balanced meals at Christopher’s (free for employees) and free fruit at our Hampton site
Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all our staff to share this commitment. Employment is subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Shooting Star Children’s Hospice is committed to inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that getting things right is critical for us to live our organisation’s values: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence.
We are always trying to improve our way of working to be more inclusive and equal. Our vision is for Shooting Star Children’s Hospice to be a place where people of all backgrounds, groups and communities feel welcomed to work and volunteer.
To apply please submit a CV and covering letter outlining how your experience meets the criteria set out in the person specification.
Closing Date: Friday, 15th Novemeber 2024
Interview Date: rolling interviews
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
An exciting opportunity to join the Rank Foundation team in London or Penrith as Alumni Development Officer through the Time to Shine leadership programme. This new post has been created to support the development and implementation of a range of activities to engage and connect with the Rank Fellows to foster long lasting relationships. The postholder will play a pivotal role in strengthening relationships between the Foundation and its alumni community.
The position is offered on a 12-month, full time basis, and the postholder must be able to join early January. The post-holder will be part of the Rank Foundation’s Time to Shine (T2S) leadership programme. As part of the Time to Shine 2025 Cohort, you will be supported through learning conferences, leadership days, action learning and will have access to career relevant training and qualifications.
Please download the Recruitment Pack for the full description of the post and further information on the Time to Shine Programme.
Key accountabilities:
Alumni Programme Research & Development:
- To assist with the identification of and engagement with the wider alumni community
- To implement a range of activities to engage with Rank’s alumni community;
- To design, plan and deliver Fellowship events, webinars, and other programmes that promote networking and professional development opportunities among Fellows/alumni;
- To create and develop relationships with the Fellows/alumni to increase involvement in the Foundation’s activities;
- To administer the mentoring programme connecting older Fellows with younger ones at the beginning of their professional careers;
- To liaise with the Comms team to raise the social media profile of the Rank Fellowship Alumni Network;
- To serve as the primary point of contact for alumni inquiries, communications, and requests;
- To be the secretariat for the Fellows Leadership Team, drafting agendas, minute taking, and following up on actions
- To design, plan and deliver School Leadership events with support from the Finance & Operations Officer
Data & Reporting:
- Manage the Fellowship database, ensuring it is kept up to date
- Send out digital surveys, monitor and track key deliverables;
- Collect achievements and contributions from Fellows to showcase impact;
- Collate and prepare reports based on survey outcomes to assess the effectiveness of the programme.
If you would like to apply, please send your CV together with a supporting statement no longer than 2 sides of A4 that clearly demonstrates how you meet the knowledge, skills, and experience requirements of the role.
Interviews: In-person London, 3rd December 2024 (pm)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This role is part of the Student Activities department working collectively with colleagues delivering the Guild’s student groups, societies, activities and volunteering work as part the Engagement Directorate.
The Student Groups Coordinator roles are to develop the capacity of the student groups within the Guild to enable students to maximise their potential. The support will include the administration of relevant training, tailored support for specific initiatives and assisting groups to plan for their year through attracting membership and delivering their activities.
We are looking for applicants who have experience of dealing with customers both face-to-face and online, over the telephone and via e-mail, with twelve months relevant experience in an administrative role and responsibility for managing and developing administrative systems; along with experience of developing relationships with students and stakeholders to deliver objectives.
The Benefits
We offer great benefits including:
- 5 days close down during Christmas, and 2 during Easter each year, in additional to bank holidays and 21 days annual leave, rising to 26 days after 5 years’ service (meaning you will not work during Christmas, New Year or Easter).
- Full sick pay from the moment you start working for us.
- A comprehensive suite of basic training for all employees which includes Equality & Diversity, Mental Health Awareness and Data Protection
- Discounted membership rates at University of Birmingham Sport & Fitness
- The opportunity for new staff to join the NEST pension scheme. The Guild contributes a matched payment of between 4-6% of your salary
- A range of wellbeing benefits
We are a Times 100 Best Companies to Work For employer and in our most recent staff survey (March 2023) 78% of our staff said they would recommend this organisation as a good place to work.
The Guild of Students is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all members of the community.
Interviews are provisionally expected to take place on Monday 18th November and Tuesday 19th November 2024.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £29,291 plus benefits
Mary's Meals International is recruiting for an experienced Personal Assistant to support our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Founder. Reporting directly to our Executive Assistant, in this fast paced and varied role you will provide a variety of support including diary management, attending meetings, taking minutes, managing follow up actions, event coordination, maintaining systems and processes and undertaking specific projects.
Key responsibilities & activities:
· Act as the first point of contact for our CEO, assessing priorities, redirecting calls, enquiries and requests.
· Diary management, including preparation of papers and information in advance.
· Creating letters and other correspondence on behalf of the CEO, proof-reading, and writing reports.
· Liaise with employees, affiliates, partners and donors, as required.
· Maintain online and offline filing systems for CEO.
· Managing emails, phone calls, post, general correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, and forms.
· Carrying out background research and providing reports on various subjects.
· Support with the management of social media platforms.
· Organising internal and external meetings, including booking venues, arranging accommodation, preparing agendas and meeting papers, disseminating meeting papers and liaising with board members.
· Attend MMI office/and or Dalmally office on a regular basis to support with receiving visitors, arranging hospitality, assisting with video recordings and administration of handwritten letters.
· Organising and preparing complex travel itineraries and making all travel and accommodation arrangements necessary.
With fantastic interpersonal skills and robust experience as a Personal Assistant, you will thrive in a varied, fast paced role and will utilise your exceptional organisational skills to manage the balance of scheduled work with provision of unplanned support. With great communication skills, you will work closely with a range of stakeholders across a variety of geographies and cultures. Confident, competent, resilient, with a solution-focussed approach, you will have the ability to take on a variety of projects with a high level of competence and confidentiality.
This is a predominantly remote role however we will require you to attend our Glasgow and/or Dalmally offices as needed, to meet with our CEO.
About us:
Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.4 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals. We are a values driven movement and believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding.
Mary’s Meals is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Mary's Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement.
How to apply:
If you would love to use your skills, talents and experience to be part of positive change in the world, we would love to hear from you. Please click Apply to submit your CV and a short covering note, telling us why you want to work with Mary’s Meals, and why this role is a great fit for you.
Deadline for receipt of applications is Thursday 7th November 2024 at 17:00.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title
Business Support Manager (Maternity Cover)
Job Reports To
Assistant Director of Operations
Business Unit/ Department
Administrative/Operations
Dimensions of Role
Full time – 35 hours per week (Office based with the option of working from home on Fridays)/ Fixed Term 12-month maternity cover
Working Relationships
· With the Executive & Administrative team
· With the Chair and Board of Trustees
· With those we support, within the Rank network
Purpose Statement
The postholder will be a key member of the central administration team of the Rank Foundation.
Key Accountabilities
Secretariat support to governance committees:
- Drafting agendas, production and dissemination of papers for Committees and Board meetings to trustees
- Attendance to governance meetings, minute taking, and following up on actions
- Organising RFL annual governance schedule of meetings
- Liaising and acting as point of contact for trustees
- Arranging meetings for Execs and Trustees
- Drafting and issuing comms as needed by the Chair, Trustees and Execs
- Maintaining governance records and register of trustees’ interests up-to date
- Assisting with audit queries as and when required
- Managing the periodic review of Committees’ Terms of References
- Planning induction programme of new trustees
- Undertaking regular reviews of policies, staff handbook, trustee hanbook and ensuring currency and developing new ones as required
- Supporting with implementation of EDI strategy and the Foundation’s vision
- Occasional out of office hours meeting attendance as/ when required
HR
- Facilitating recruitment activities including posting and monitoring job ads, shortlisting of candidates, recommending list for interview and liaising with candidates
- Onboarding of resources: references, right to work checks, drafting of contracts and offer letters, planning of induction programme, sourcing of IT kit/required equipment, arranging IT induction
- Offboarding of resources: ensuring resources are removed access to SharePoint, emails and laptop wiped. Monitoring of dormant inboxes.
- Management and administration of Breathe (HR Platform)
This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of tasks but is intended to reflect a range of duties the post-holder will perform.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Knowledge Qualifications & Experience
· Previous experience in an executive support role and working with Board of Trustees
· Previous experience of minute taking
· Previous experience of HR support
· Proficiency in Microsoft packages (essential)
· Understanding of the charitable and philanthropic sector (desirable)
Skills/ Abilities
· A positive team member
· Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
· Willingness to help colleagues, ‘can-do’ approach
· Adaptable, flexible, and willing to learn/develop skills
· Ability to manage multiple tasks, work to deadlines and prioritise effectively
· Excellent communication skills by phone and email, experience of engaging with stakeholders at all levels
· Ability to organise events and ensuring arrangements are communicated to all stakeholders
· Ability to handle sensitive information and discretion
Confidentiality
· Paramount that the postholder works in a highly confidential way
If you would like to apply, please state the role you are applying for and send your CV together with a supporting statement no longer than 2 sides of A4 that clearly demonstrates how you meet the knowledge, skills, and experience requirements of the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £26,000 FTE (approx £18,571 pro rata)
Hours: Part time - 25 hours per week
Days and times: Preferably worked across 5 days but to be discussed
Contract: Permanent
Responsible to: Business Improvement Manager
Location: 3 Chapel Court, 126 Church Road, Hayes UB3 2LW - Age UK HHB operate a hybrid and flexible working policy on successful completion of induction
Closing Date: 12 noon on Monday 11th November 2024
Interviews: TBC
We are looking for an enthusiastic administrator to support our central Resources team.
You will need to be comfortable talking to suppliers, contractors and customers whilst also enjoying setting up systems and analysing and sharing information. We are a small team that need to work flexibly to deliver the wide remit that we support.
The role is varied, can be demanding and involves some health and safety but it is enjoyable and fulfilling. The team is supportive and committed and work both independently and collaboratively to deliver simultaneous projects.
If you have strong admin skills, good common sense combined with a problem solving approach and are ready to make a difference, please get in touch!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Liberty is seeking an Operations Assistant. The postholder will work closely with the Head of HR & Operations to facilitate the smooth running of Liberty’s office
This is an exciting, broad and varied role with opportunities to gain experience in new areas such as office administration, facilities, IT, health and safety as well as event planning. This role is office based with one day a week working from home.
The successful candidate will be an effective communicator with excellent IT and problem-solving skills and will be self-motivated and able to work well in a team environment.
The successful candidate does not need to demonstrate extensive experience in operations, and we do not require the postholder to have any specific qualifications. We are looking for someone who has great interpersonal skills, is proactive and interested in learning new things, and who is excited to be part of a team in one of the UK’s oldest and most effective human rights campaigning organisations.
To support the postholder’s career development goals, an enhanced training & qualification budget is on offer and appropriate time will be protected for this purpose.
Liberty fully embraces flexible working and is committed to employee development. We aim to encourage people from all backgrounds to work with us and are particularly interested in hearing from people from historically underrepresented groups.
The deadline for applications is 5PM Monday 11 November 2024.
Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
Please be aware that we do not accept CVs for this role. All applicants must complete the application form to apply.
First round interviews will be held on Thursday and Friday 28/29 November 2024
Second round interview will be held on Tuesday 3 December 2024
Unfortunately we will not be able to accommodate requests for interview slots outside of these dates on this occasion.
Apply via the job board on our wesbite.
As Supporter Care Manager you will play a key role in Viva’s Fundraising & Engagement team, building relationships with and providing exceptional supporter care to our donors – including individuals, churches and community groups. Your high level of organisation, strong administrative skills and love of engaging with a variety of people will ensure that Viva’s supporters have an excellent and personalised experience of Viva. Through all this you will play a vital role in making it possible for Viva to achieve its goal of enabling more children to live life in all its fullness.
Your responsibilities will include:
· Supporter communication: engaging with donors by email, letters, phone or in person.
· Supporter care administration: ensuring accuracy in reporting and recording donations.
· Supporter engagement: coordinating supporter events (e.g. our monthly prayer Zoom meeting), representing Viva at church services and managing our presence at events.
· Fundraising & Engagement team support: supporting team communication and the Director for Fundraising & Engagement in team administration.
Operations and office support: ensuring Viva’s UK office runs smoothly.
This role will suit you if you:
- enjoy engaging with supporters and building relationships
- are highly organised, thrive on accuracy and have a keen eye for detail
- are quick to learn and engage with systems and data
- would love to join a welcoming, creative, supportive and international team
This is a full- or part-time role for Viva, located at our Oxford office in the UK with the option to also work at home. Some working time will be needed in the office on a weekly basis, but the exact split of office/home working time can be decided in conversation between the successful candidate and line manager.
Take a look at the full job description and person specification in the information pack and, if this is you, then apply today to be part of this incredible work, making a real and lasting difference for children.
To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than 2 pages explaining why you are applying for the role and how you are suitable for it. The person specification on pages 5 and 6 in the information pack will help you in this.
Please do let us know if you need any assistance or adjustments made as you apply for this role, and we would be happy to help.
The closing date will be midnight on Sunday 3 November 2024 and interviews will be held in Oxford on Wednesday 13 November 2024.
Life in all its fullness! That's what we want for children everywhere.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Communications Officer
Ref: ARBCO1024
Location: Based in our Central London office; however, ARB supports a flexible approach to hybrid working
Contract: Full Time, permanent
Salary: £27,000 per annum + excellent benefits
About Us:
ARB was established by an Act of Parliament – the Architects Act 1997 (the “Act”) – and is the statutory regulator of architects in the UK.
ARB’s statutory responsibilities are contained in the Act, and cover six main areas:
- Prescribing the qualifications needed to become an architect in the UK
- Keeping the UK Register of Architects
- Ensuring that architects meet our standards for conduct and practice
- Investigating complaints about an architect’s conduct or competence
- Making sure that only people on our register offer their services as an architect
- Acting as the UK’s competent authority for architects
Role Description:
Architects play a crucial role in our society, as they design the buildings and environments where we live and work. The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the professional regulator of architects. We maintain a Register to protect the public, so that anyone using an architect’s services, or a building designed by an architect, can be reassured that the design has been developed by an appropriate expert.
The Policy and Communications Department is excited to welcome a multiskilled Communications Officer. This is a varied role, and the successful candidate will be developing content such as press releases, website text, and reports. You will need to be highly organised and able to coordinate and ensure the success of reports, launches, consultations, events and more.
In this role you will need experience in handling an organisation’s interface with the media, including drafting press releases and proactively securing coverage, monitoring coverage, and responding to press queries.
If you are an excellent communicator, with experience in promoting campaigns and messages to a wide range of audiences and an interest in how architecture shapes lives, then we want to hear from you.
What we offer in return:
- A friendly and supportive company culture
- Generous salary,
- Pension and medical cover
- Great holiday allowance, plus an additional day to be used over the Christmas period.
- And much more……
The closing date is 14th November at 12:00pm, late or incomplete applications will not be considered.
Interview dates – 20th – 21st November.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Here at ARB, we are a small and diverse workforce we want to create a genuinely inclusive workplace, where we embrace the differences of all our colleagues and celebrate diversity. We love to see applications from underrepresented groups and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background.
ARB values diversity and is committed to working within the principles of equal opportunity. We therefore ask applicants to complete our Equalities Monitoring questions as part of the application process via this online portal. This information will not be viewed by those involved in the selection process, and it is not part of the selection criteria.
No agencies please.
Westway Trust is looking to appoint a dynamic and proactive Finance Officer who will maintain the sales purchase and cash ledgers (banks and petty cash) of the Westway Trust finance system, working within a friendly, busy finance department.
You will be a motivated individual with a minimum of two years’ experience working in a busy accounts department, with good organisational and administrative skills. You will also have a high standard of numeracy and will be proficient in using MS Office packages, especially Excel.
Key responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
- Receive and record suppliers’ invoices, reconcile suppliers’ statements to the purchase ledger and be the first point of contact with suppliers.
- Setup new Suppliers and Debtors.
- Keep creditor listings up-to-date.
- Sales ledger Credit control and keeping debtors list up to date.
- Raise fortnightly electronic and manual payments to suppliers, including to government institutions such as HMRC.
- Reconcile credit card statements.
- Posting of all bank and investment statements.
- Reconciliation of supplier’s statement and advising of any accruals and prepayments.
- Process staff expenses.
- Maintain invoice filing and archiving.
- Post transactions to the ledgers.
- Raise sundry invoices and collecting payment.
- Maintain electronic banking data and posting income to accounting software.
- Preparing banking for rent and non-rent receipts.
- Advising budget holders on the processes of invoice, purchase order and authorisation on Focal Point.
- Support Senior Finance Officer with month-end postings, reconciliations, year- end schedules and annual budget as required.
Experience, knowledge and skills:
- A minimum of two years’ experience in a busy accounts department.
- A high standard of numeracy.
- Experience of accurate data input or maintaining a computerised accounts system.
- Highly computer literate, with practical experience of using MS Office packages, especially MS Excel. Confident to prepare MS Excel based templates and tools to support the annual budget round and quarterly forecasting.
- Ability to follow agreed financial procedures including credit control, raising invoices, maintenance of nominal ledger, bank reconciliations and electronic banking.
- Good organisational and administrative skills, can demonstrate ability to prioritise work under pressure.
Desirable
- Knowledge of computerised accounting packages, preferably Access Dimensions and Focal Point
- Studying towards AAT qualification.
Benefits of working with us:
- Great location in the heart of Portobello, North Kensington
- Investor in People (IiP) employer
- Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per year + statutory bank holidays
- Free gym membership at health club one minute walk from the office
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Sick pay scheme
- Season ticket / bicycle loan
- Free eye test voucher
We exist to work together with the local community to enable North Kensington to thrive.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is a new role developed to support the CEO, The COO will be a key member of our leadership team The COO will work closely with the CEO and manage the SMT to ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the charity by playing a pivotal role in overseeing various aspects of our operations, including compliance, safeguarding, operations and team management, finance, human resources, IT, and administrative functions.
Please send a CV and a cover letter explaining how you meet the required experience and your knowledge, skills, and ability (no more than 650 words.)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The person we are looking for will be well organised, motivated and aware of the nuanced issues affecting diverse and disadvantaged communities. Their duties include arranging training, workshops and outreach visits to create awareness of human rights legislation and the practical impacts in areas with large, transient communities.
The Outreach Worker will act as primary contact for the project and policy work and ensure good working relationships with a range of key contacts including policy and programmes partners.
This post is funded by The Baring Foundation.
Reports to: SCA Director
Duration: 4 year fixed term contract (with a 3 month probationary period)
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours (3 days) per week
Salary: £22,000 per annum (FTE salary = £36,500)
Location: SCA offices at Southall Town Hall, 1 High Street, Southall, UB1 3HA
Holiday entitlement: 15 days
Duties:
- Developing and delivering Human Rights Act based rights training workshops and support sessions
- Analysing human rights law and development in cases and communicating the practical impact of these through outreach visits to local community sector
- Develop and improve our resources and support sessions on the practical use of UK human rights law
- Plan and develop human rights information resources, including guides, handbooks, factsheets
- Arrange short talks for a range of audiences
- Provide commentary via a range of means including blogs and news pieces (for SCA and for other groups and media), research papers, social media, etc.
- Use initiative to identify and forge relationships with new partners and forums
- Act as primary contact for the programme and policy work and ensure effective relationship management and development.
- Ensure good working relationships with a range of key contacts including policy and programmes partners
- Attend training courses and sessions, as may be required
- To ensure inclusion and diversity in all aspects of SCA's operation and work
- To carry out other duties including outreach work, as may be assigned by the Director, from time to time
Person Specification:
Essential characteristics:
- Have at least two year’s experience of working in the charity sector, voluntary sector, or the public sector in a role with some similar role and functions
- Experience of developing and delivering outreach work to build the capacity of people to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to bring about social change
- Understanding of working in the charity sector, and in particular what it means to work for positive change whilst not being a campaign group
- Understanding of human rights law and practice and implications for diverse communities
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with a wide range of people
- Able to receive visitors and to deal with their queries, signposting to other agencies, where required
- Experienced in dealing with work of a confidential nature, ensuring compliance with GDPR and other regulatory requirements
- Experience of report writing, preparing newsletters, project monitoring reports, publicity and promotional material
- High standard of computer literacy, including experience of Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc
- Able to work with project partners and service users from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds within an equal opportunities’ framework
- Work related experience of conducting research either desk-based/legal research and/or participative research directly with stakeholders
- Excellent self-administration and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously to a high standard
- Gather monitoring data and produce progress reports and work summaries
- Recruit and train volunteers to assist with project delivery
- To attend meetings and prepare agendas, minutes and other relevant materials
Closing date: Tuesday 19th November – ONLY completed application forms will be accepted. CV’s are not accepted
Interview date: w/c 2nd December 2024
This post is subject to a 3 month probation period, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Accessing appropriate support at university will shape a student's experience and it is important that support is available for those who need it. We are pleased to be supporting a prestigious London University in their search for a temporary, full time (35 hours per week) Disability Advisor. The role is running until the 10 th of January 2025 and offers a hybrid working model, with 3 days per week based on-site and the remainder remote.
Key Responsibilities for this role include:
- Managing a large caseload, providing coordinated practical support and advice, assisting students with complex needs and co-occurring conditions, identifying appropriate and individualised support packages, including reasonable adjustments.
- Supporting with the day-to-day administration ensuring student support needs are met, including administrating the dyslexia screening to diagnoses process and processing Disabled Students' Allowance applications.
- Working with students daily to support them, and signposting/referring them to external services, where appropriate, to ensure access to relevant support.
- Maintaining accurate and up-to-date student records.
- Facilitating the provision of appropriate adaptations and support, including the coordination of non-medical support.
- Ensure student enquiries are responded to in a timely manner.
- Supporting the development and maintenance of efficient systems and procedures for students applying for specialist disability related funding.
- Identifying and reporting Safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding Team in a timely manner.
- Reporting concerns of risk to self, where appropriate, to the Mental Health Advisory or Counselling Services.
- Actively participating in and contributing to the development and delivery of workshops, activities, resources and the Wellness Review.
To be considered for this position, you should possess:
- Previous experience in a similar role in higher education or professional disability advice environment.
- Experience handling, prioritising and problem solving a range of enquiries.
- Strong relationship-building skills, and confidence liaising and engaging with a variety of stakeholders, in a fast-paced environment.
- An empathetic understanding of the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
- A commitment to EDI practices.
- Demonstratable ability to manage and maintain professional boundaries.
- Ability to advocate for those with disabilities.
- Knowledge of safeguarding principles.
- Knowledge of GDPR and procedures related to data protection.
- Excellent organisational and IT skills, including usage of Microsoft Office packages.
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The Finance Officer will be involved in all aspects of the charity’s financial operations, this is a very broad role. From handling small donations like a child’s pocket money right up to processing large grants. You will be the first point of call for financial queries and questions arising from our team. You will process purchase and sales invoices, volunteer, and staff expenses. You will support grant and other fundraising applications, process donations from a variety of different platforms, deal with gift aid and banking. You will need to be an analytical problem solver able to work on your own and as part of our team.
To help everyone access food and toiletries while a longer term solution is developed
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.