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About the Angelou Centre 

The Angelou Centre is a Black-led women’s organisation committed to empowering Black and racially minoritised women and children who have experienced domestic abuse. Our refuge provides trauma-informed, culturally appropriate, and holistic support to help survivors heal, recover, and rebuild their lives.

As we grow and expand our refuge provision, we are looking for a dedicated Refuge Manager to oversee our safe accommodation services, including emergency housing, move-on accommodation, and specialist provisions for women with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF).

Role Overview

The Refuge Manager will lead a team of Senior advocates and House Support Workers, ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed support is provided to residents. The post-holder will ensure that the refuge operates in compliance with all statutory requirements, housing regulations, and health & safety standards. They will also be responsible for property management, working closely with landlords, housing associations, and local authorities.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced housing professional with a strong understanding of domestic abuse support services, safeguarding practices, and compliance obligations within the social housing sector.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time if we receive a high volume of applications or if a suitable candidate is found, therefore we suggest submitting your application as soon as you can.

This post is:

• subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure
• subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. It will be necessary for a disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and barring Service for details of any previous criminal convictions.
• Open to women* only (*exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1
• involves some out-of-hours work and travel

The Angelou Centre is aware that women and people of the global majority are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and requirement. So, if you are excited by the role, but your past experience doesn’t quite match every requirement we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the person we are looking for

Director, Home-Start London

Lead. Innovate. Transform Families’ Lives.

Are you a visionary leader with the drive to make a real impact? Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment where collaboration and innovation are at the heart of everything you do? Join us as our next Director!

Home-Start London is seeking a dynamic and strategic Director to lead our charity and drive the growth of our family support network across the capital. This is an opportunity to lead a forward-thinking organisation helping to empower families through vital community support.

Location: Home-based

Salary: £50-55,000

Type: Permanent 

Hours: 4 days per week (28 hours). Hours can be worked flexibly.

About Home-Start London

We have a big ambition: to ensure that no parent in London feels alone and every child has the best start in life. Our network of 16 local Home-Start charities in the capital provides volunteer-led home visiting, group and other support to parents and carers with young children facing challenges such as social isolation, mental health difficulties, and poverty. Our work focuses on building new partnerships and securing funding, facilitating shared learning and more coordinated services, and amplifying the voices of disadvantaged families with young children to drive wider change. We are part of the national Home-Start movement. 

About the role

As Director, you will be the public face of an impactful and dynamic charity. You will ensure successful delivery of our strategy and lead on developing new partnerships that build financial sustainability of the charity and grow support for our wider network. Working with your small but mighty team and Home-Start staff and trustees across London, you will ensure we provide quality support to our network that drives increased impact. Your professional development and growth will be well supported.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and inspire – Be the public face of our impactful charity, shaping strategic direction and acting as a key advocate and spokesperson.
• Drive growth – Identify funding opportunities, promote collaboration, and build new partnerships.
• Oversee strategy and operations – Ensure good governance, robust financial management, and effective implementation of policy and plans.
• Innovate and evolve – Respond to new opportunities and challenges with creativity and resiliance to drive sustainability and impact.

About you

To thrive in this role, you will be a highly collaborative leader with experience in a senior role. You will be a brilliant networker and communicator, able to inspire and build trusted relationships. You will be a strategic thinker who can balance big picture vision with the practicalities of running a small charity. You will be a skilled fundraiser with a track record of securing income from a range of sources and you will be a passionate champion for families with young children in London.

Inclusion matters

At Home-Start London we believe that equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to achieving our purpose. We encourage applications from all parts of the community irrespective of gender, race, colour, age, sexual orientation or disability. Appointments will be based on merit, following an open and fair selection process.

Don't meet every single requirement? Who does! If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly, we'd love you to apply anyway. If you’d like to, then give us a call for a confidential conversation about the role and/or how we can make the recruitment process more accessible for you.

How to apply

See job pack for full details. To apply for this role, please click the "quick apply" button below. You will be asked to provide a CV and cover letter (no more than two pages).

Closing date for applications is Monday 28th April.

First round interviews will be held w/c 5th May.

Second round interviews will be held w/c 12th May.

Join deafPLUS as a Finance Officer!

Salary: £37,000 FTE (£14,800 pro-rata for 2 days per week)
Hours: 2 days per week (15 hours)
Location: Hybrid – 1 day remote, 1 day in London
Reports to: CEO and external business accounting provider

deafPLUS is a dynamic and evolving organisation focused on improving the life chances of deaf and visually impaired individuals in certain regions, including Birmingham and West of England. Through partnerships, we raise awareness of their needs and provide essential information, advocacy, and advice to enable full participation in society. Our commitment extends to offering wellbeing support, and we are currently working on a new strategy taking us to 2027.

Established in 1971, deafPLUS has a rich history in providing exceptional support services to the deaf community. Recently, we unveiled a new logo in collaboration with our staff, service users and supporters.

We maintain a person-centred ethos and prioritise excellent customer service to our stakeholders.

Are you an experienced finance professional looking for a meaningful role in the charity sector? deafPLUS is seeking a Finance Officer to support our mission of empowering deaf people. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading deaf-led organisation and ensure the smooth financial running of our charity.

Are you the person for us?

Your Role:

As our Finance Officer, you’ll play a key role in maintaining accurate financial records, processing transactions, and supporting financial reporting. You’ll work closely with the CEO, external accounting provider, and managers to ensure financial efficiency across the organisation.

What You’ll Do:

✅ Process purchase invoices, staff expenses, and supplier payments
✅ Prepare and send invoices to funders and customers
✅ Manage credit control and track incoming funding
✅ Reconcile bank accounts and petty cash records
✅ Collate payroll information for our external provider
✅ Assist with budget preparation and financial reporting for funders and trustees
✅ Restart and manage the Gift Aid reclaim process
✅ Ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures

What We’re Looking For:

✔️ Experience: 3+ years in finance, accounting, or bookkeeping
✔️ Skills: Proficiency in Xero (or similar), strong numerical and analytical skills
✔️ Knowledge: Understanding of charity finance, financial regulations, and HMRC requirements (incl. Gift Aid)
✔️ Communication: Ability to explain finance matters clearly to non-financial staff
✔️ Work Ethic: Self-motivated, reliable, and detail-oriented

�� Desirable: AAT/part-qualified accountant, charity sector experience, familiarity with payroll & pension administration, and an understanding of deaf culture/BSL.

Why Join Us?

At deafPLUS, 97% of our staff are deaf, ensuring an authentic, empowering environment for the communities we serve. Be part of a team that makes a real difference, with our CEO, Reg Cobb, and the great team within.

�� Apply Now!
To apply, send your expression of interest to Deanna Roberts – [email protected], for us to send an application pack.

The closing date is Tuesday 22nd April.

Help us break language barriers and empower those deprived of a voice!

Hours: Full-Time – 36 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Location: Remote (travel to London, Birmingham and Forests required monthly) 

This is the opportunity to play an influential and impactful role in one of the most important causes of our generation – the climate emergency.  Trees will enable 25% of the UK's 2050 net zero ambition and this role sits at the heart of this, supporting one of the UK’s largest woodland creation partnerships, England’s Community Forests.

The Community Forest Trust (CFT) is a charity that supports, enables and champions England’s Community Forests (ECFs).  Across England there are 15 Community Forests that deliver social, economic, and environmental impact through woodland creation and restoration.  In 2024/2025 they will plant over 2.5 million trees, most of which are funded through Defra’s national tree planting programme, the Nature for Climate Fund Programme.

The Managing Director will have the drive, rigour, and organisational and stakeholder management skills to develop and deliver a new CFT Business Plan.  The current Business Plan was developed in 2022 and runs to March 2025.  It has now been delivered.

The Managing Director will be responsible for providing the overall leadership and management of CFT and ensure effective governance and compliance with all legal requirements. To fulfil this aim, the Managing Director must ensure that robust structures and systems are in place to deliver CFT’s strategic priorities and CFT’s charitable aims and objectives.

A few key responsibilities of the role include:

• Take ownership of delivering the future direction and shape of CFT and deliver the CFT vision
• Provide organisational leadership for CFT, establishing and implementing business objectives through a business plan
• Work closely with the Chair of the Board, Trustees and staff, building positive working relationships in a constructive and consultative environment
• Manage the agreements (service delivery) with the ECFs with who CFT has a specific and formal arrangement
• Deliver the services and outcomes to the ECF Network, the Forests that CFT supports and those Forests that CFT runs
• Support project development work taking place at local level to support the Northern Forest programme
• Develop and lead funding strategies and write or assist with writing funding bids when required

This list is not exhaustive, please access the full job description for this role attached to this advertisment.

To be successful in the role, the postholder must have previous senior management and leadership experience gained at an organisation of comparable scale and complexity. A track record of developing and implementing Business Plans is also a must, along with experience of representing an organisation to external stakeholders and forming effective partnerships, working effectively with a board of trustees or equivalent, and managing contracts and service providers.

The postholder will have outstanding leadership skills with the ability to develop strategic plans and motivate and inspire others, knowledge of financial management, including budgets/cashflow, income generation and writing successful funding applications, and knowledge of community engagement and mobilisation.

In return, you will receive some great benefits which include:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Remote and flexible working
• 25 days annual leave per year, plus bank holidays
• An enhanced pension scheme
• Possible funded training opportunities

We welcome individuals with a general interest in the environment and its preservation.  We are also an equal opportunities employer who consider applications from all communities.

Should you be interested in this role we would be pleased to hear from you via a CV and a covering letter. Please submit this by the closing date of 18th April 2025.

About the role:

We are looking for a talented and ambitious individual to generate income for the Olive Tree Cancer Support Group through the development and implementation of a Trust & Foundations strategy. This will involve the planning and writing of funding bids, reporting on previous and new grants, liaising with funders and researching new funding opportunities to generate a significant level of income to agreed targets.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and skilled Trust and Foundations fundraiser who is confident and capable in taking the lead on this key strand of our fundraising stream. You will be managed by the Centre Manager and supported by the Trustees and will have autonomy on leading trusts and grants applications and related work.

About you:

The ideal candidate will bring experience of successfully submitting and winning bids from Trusts and Foundations and a good understanding of fundraising targets.  You will be results-orientated, managing our Trusts and Statutory fundraising pipeline, and helping to develop our statutory income.

You will build excellent working relationships with staff at both of our centres, and on occasion work from our Horsham Site and attend some fundraising events.

You may also be required to assist in day-to-day operations at the Centre, such as answering the phones, booking appointments and working with vulnerable  service users.  As we are a small team, a team-player attitude is a must, as well as a positive and can-do approach.

The flexibility and willingness to work several evenings and weekend days throughout the year and ability to travel independently is essential for this role.

What we’re looking for and main responsibilities:

· Experience working within a charitable environment.

· Knowledge of fundraising regulations.

· Research, evaluate and lead on preparation of applications for funding opportunities both locally and nationally to help deliver agreed income targets.

· Maintain effective monitoring and reporting of bids, fundraising processes, and performance, including tracking and recording of income for reporting purposes.

· Excellent Microsoft Office knowledge and skills.

· Excellent communication skills required for writing grant applications to a high standard.

· Organisational skills and dedication to completing projects in a timely manner.

· Assist the team with general enquiries and operational matters as required.

· Work onsite as the default mode of work, with a degree of flexibility for the right candidate. Based in our Crawley Centre but occasionally working in our Horsham Centre. 

The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) is an educational charity that collaborates with industry and academia to tackle the skills shortage in the UK’s Electronics sector. We are seeking a hands-on Head of Finance and Business Services to lead our financial operations and business services ensuring strong financial management, compliance, and organisational efficiency.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast growing and impactful charity, playing a key role in shaping our financial strategy while ensuring robust financial controls and compliance, and the effectiveness of our business services.

As Head of Finance and Business Services, you will be responsible to the CEO for overseeing all financial aspects at the UKESF, including financial planning, budgeting, reporting, and risk management. A key part of the role is managing grant funding and ensuring compliance with reporting requirements from grantors (e.g. UKRI and Innovate UK). Also, responsible for management of key business services including management information, resources and technology.

This role is ideal for a qualified (or part qualified) ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) with experience in charity finance, grant reporting, and financial project management. You will provide strategic leadership while also being hands-on with day-to-day business and financial operations, including managing budgets, payroll, support services, overseeing AP and AR and financial reporting using Xero.   

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial Strategy & Management

• Contribute to the development of UKESF’s financial strategy, business services and resource strategies.
• Oversee financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, ensuring effective resource allocation and efficient provision of business services.
• Provide financial insights and advice about business services and resources to support strategic decision-making by the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees.
• Prepare accurate financial and management reports including budget and monitoring forecasts for the Board, senior leadership, and funders ensuring timely reporting.
• Ensure compliance with charity financial regulations, including SORP and fund accounting. 
• Lead on government grant reporting, ensuring compliance with UKRI, DSIT, and Crown Commercial Office requirements.
• Track and report on multiple funding streams, ensuring accurate project financial management.
• Oversee statutory accounts preparation and the annual audit process.
• Manage and develop strong financial controls and risk management processes.
• Monitor cashflow and report regularly to CEO any concerns

Grant & Project Finance Management

• Manage delivery contracts and, grant funding, ensuring compliance with financial and reporting conditions are met.
• Develop project budgets and financial models for funding applications.
• Review and monitor ongoing projects cost
• Monitor grant expenditure and prepare financial reports for funders.

Day-to-Day Financial and Business Operations

• Oversee business services contracts, procurement, financial controls, payroll, pensions, VAT, and gift giving processes and liaising with relevant agencies as appropriate.
• Ensure efficient financial administration, including reconciliations and expense management.
• Through Cashflow monitoring manage bank balances utilising investment accounts where appropriate to maximise revenue.Manage financial systems and reporting using Xero accounting software.
• Manage IT support contract ensuring Cyber Essential standard compliance.

Governance & Leadership

• Act as the key financial and business services advisor to the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees.
• Produce reports and financial insights.
• Develop and implement financial and business services policies and procedures.
• Support team on all routine finance and business services tasks.
• Manage external stakeholders and contractors.

ABOUT YOU

Essential

• Qualified or part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA or equivalent).
• Knowledge of charity finance, including SORP, fund accounting, and financial governance. 
• Expertise in financial and management accounting, including reconciliations and cash flow management. 
• Experience in budgeting, financial and resource planning, and project costings for multi-stream funding.
• Proficiency in Xero accounting software, including financial reporting, bank reconciliations, and payroll.
• Strong financial analysis skills, with the ability to present financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
• Experience in preparing statutory accounts and working with auditors.

Desirable

• Experience working in a small charity or organisation with multiple funding streams.
• Experience managing and reporting on grant funding, for instance from UKRI and Innovate UK.
• Experiences of business services e.g. management information, resource management and management of business services contracts.Experience supporting governance processes and working with trustees.
• Experience of Government Contracts through Crown Commercial Service
• Experience of successful implementation and rollout of new CRM systems.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Flexible working hybrid working.
• The opportunity to play a key leadership role in a growing and impactful charity.
• Competitive salary and pension contributions.
• A chance to make a difference in addressing the UK’s Electronics skills shortage.
• Support to complete accountancy qualifications.

To apply, please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role.

If you have any questions or would like an informal discussion, please contact us.

Robust logistics are core to how we can make best use of our resources and funding when moving books in and out of our HQs and to recipient organisations, and how we can ensure that our actions are as sustainable as possible. Within this role you will be planning daily driver routes to ensure that our trip planning is as efficient as possible so that ultimately, we can reach and support more children and families.

A small but significant percentage of our books are gifted directly to schools or drop points via local families. This direct partnership is made possible through our map of donation points.

Within this role you will liaise with all new and existing registrants to ensure they can get the most out of their participation. You will also liaise with donors that wish to use these drop points or schools to ensure they donate books that match our requirements and receive information and support showing them the value of their donation.

In both aspects of this role you will be working at the heart of what is a family as we scale and deepen our impact.

Harris Hill are delighted to be partnering up with Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. They are looking for a strategic and driven fundraising professional to lead their high-value income generation as Head of Partnerships and Philanthropy. This role is pivotal in securing major gifts, corporate partnerships, and philanthropic funding to support their lifesaving work.

As part of their leadership team, you will be responsible for developing and delivering an innovative income strategy, managing key donor relationships, and driving sustainable income growth. You will work closely with stakeholders, trustees, and ambassadors to build long-term relationships and secure transformational funding.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a major donor and corporate partnerships strategy.

• Lead high-value fundraising initiatives, including capital campaigns.

• Build and maintain relationships with major donors, corporate partners, and key stakeholders.

• Manage a portfolio of major donor and corporate relationships.

• Engage with trustees, ambassadors, and clinical teams to enhance fundraising efforts.

• Line manage and support the Corporate Partnerships Officer.

About You:

• Proven experience in major gifts, corporate partnerships, and philanthropy.

• A successful track record in securing significant funding from high-value donors.

• Exceptional relationship-building and negotiation skills.

• Strong strategic planning and commercial acumen.

• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working model.

• Enhanced pension contributions (8% charity contribution).

• Life cover, income replacement, and healthcare scheme.

• Enhanced sickness and maternity scheme.

• Training and professional development opportunities.

Location: Dorset and Somerset (Hybrid)

Salary: £60,000

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 23rd April

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a crucial role in the future of Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, ensuring we continue to save lives every day.

If you would like to receive a full job pack please email Hannah Laking via the apply button. 

Harris Hill is a certified B Corp™ and a leading charity recruitment agency, committed to equitable and inclusive recruitment practices. Applications from all sections of the community are actively welcomed, regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality, or other protected characteristics.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Trusts and Foundations Manager to manage a portfolio of Trust funders providing excellent stewardship and developing a strategy to grow income.

Whizz Kidz: the facts

Over 75,000 young people aren’t getting the wheelchair or support that fully meets their needs.
Without the ability to be independent young wheelchair users are restricted in their ability to socialise and participate in society.

We’re here to change that

As the UK’s leading charity for young wheelchair users, we empower young people by providing the wheelchairs, equipment, support and confidence-building experiences they need, and campaigning for a more inclusive society.

Our values

We are young people focused, ambitious, collaborative and inclusive.

The Trusts and Foundations Team is part of the Fundraising and Marketing Communications Department and is responsible for delivering over £3m a year for the organisation’s services.

As Senior Trust Fundraising Manager you will be responsible for managing our existing donor relationships, researching new funding opportunities and preparing applications with a focus on 5 and 6 figure funding. This is a well-established income stream for Whizz Kidz with content for proposals readily available and accessible and you will have the opportunity to work with long standing supporters, helping them feel inspired by the impact of their gift. You will use your skills of relationship management to make a real difference to the lives of young wheelchair users. Finally, you will join an ambitious and collaborative fundraising team, keen to share success and support one another.

The ideal candidate will have experience of growing a Trust income stream and of preparing donor reports and providing excellent stewardship to funders and will be an excellent spoken and written communicator with a particular emphasis on funding application writing and reporting. They will have strong prospect research skills with the ability to secure higher value funding partnerships and an understanding of the issues young wheelchair users face.

Please note: This post is subject to an Enhanced level DBS Disclosure, which will be sought prior to the confirmation of a job offer.

A few perks
The wellbeing of our colleagues is of paramount importance to our success as an organisation, and we want to ensure that our benefits package provides something of value for everyone, whether it is our generous holiday entitlement, wellbeing days, Healthcare cash plan, long-service awards. We hope you agree!

Annual leave
25 days of annual leave per annum plus Bank Holiday (pro-rata for part time colleagues).

Christmas closure
In addition to annual leave, employees get three days of paid Christmas leave.

Pension
Automatic enrolment for all colleagues with the option to opt out. Contributions of 5% gross salary made by both Whizz Kidz and employees. We will match higher contributions of up to 6% of gross basic salary.

Simply health
Automatic enrolment in a fully paid for cash plan that assists you with everyday health costs. This scheme is also available to your families for an extra charge.

Season ticket loan
An interest free loan of up to £5,000 following the successful completion of the Probationary Period.

To apply please email your CV and Cover Letter via the apply button. 

Closing date 15 April 2025.  Interviews will be held on a rolling basis. 

Once we have sufficient applicants we withhold the right to close job vacancies early.

Smart Works is a dynamic, high profile and fast-growing UK charity that dresses, coaches and empowers unemployed women for success at their job interview. After visiting Smart Works, 63% of clients secure a job within a month.

The Smart Works service is delivered in London, Manchester, Stockport, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Newcastle, Reading and Leeds. Over the past eleven years, Smart Works has helped over 40,000 women. It is our mission that any woman who needs our service should be able to find her way to a Smart Works centre.

In April 2022, Smart Works launched a Three-Year Plan that saw the charity double the number of women helped annually from 5,000 to 10,000 women a year. We have achieved this by expanding the reach of our existing centres and opening new centres in areas of need including Bristol; set to open in early 2025.

About This Role

Over the next three years, Smart Works Leeds want to expand and embed the service we offer within the Bradford district. Reaching unemployed women in Bradford is integral to our mission of increasing the number of women we support in 2025 and beyond.

Thanks to a successful grant application from Yorkshire Building Society Foundation, we now have the funding to expand the team and enhance our strategy. We are looking for a Partnerships and Engagement Coordinator to join us and support this exciting growth.

The Partnerships and Engagement Coordinator will work closing with our fundraising and outreach teams to cultivate and manage relationships with new and existing stakeholders whose involvement could benefit the objective to reach and support more women in Bradford.

How to Apply

Please read the full job description and then head over to our website where you will be able to submit your CV and cover letter through our recruitment system by 9am on Monday 14th April. Your application should be addressed to Emily Zadok, Centre Manager. 

First round interviews will be held on Tuesday 22nd April. There will be 2nd round in person interviews at the Leeds Centre on a date to be confirmed.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or alterations for the application and recruitment processes, please contact our Recruitment team. 

Smart Works is committed to best practice employment practices, including reducing the burden for those seeking work. Smart Works will therefore reimburse reasonable costs of travel to interviews if required.

Are you looking for your next challenge and want to make a difference? Changeworks is looking for a Business Development Lead to identify and secure opportunities to support our work to decarbonise Scotland’s homes to tackle the climate emergency and end fuel poverty.

Changeworks is a growing social enterprise that has been delivering housing retrofit projects, expert energy advice and community engagement for over three decades. Working with partners across the UK, we deliver impactful decarbonisation solutions and innovative projects to support householders and organisations to improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel poverty. 

You’ll join a positive and proactive team who are committed to increasing Changeworks’ impact. This key role will secure organisational income by writing, coordinating and submitting tenders and funding bids. You will build excellent stakeholder relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including prospective partners and customers. 

You will have in-depth fundraising experience with proven expertise securing funding for projects and services. It is essential to have experience in leading competitive tenders and developing winning proposals as well as securing different sources of income.

Apply today to join our mission to make low-carbon life a positive reality for everyone.

Sister Circle are looking for a Finance Manager to join their team.  Effective financial management is essential for our long-term sustainability and our capacity to support underserved women in our communities. 

As our Finance Manager, you will be meticulous with managing the financial operations of our charity; meeting deadlines, ensuring charity governance compliance, and supporting the senior management team with monthly budgeting and forecasting requirements.  You will play a lead role (with the Chief Executive) within our Finance and Governance sub committee as well as preparing reports for the Treasurer and Board of Trustees. You will manage one part-time member of the team (up to 2 days per week) who supports the day-to-day Financial and IT administration.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the process of creating the annual budget, strategic three-to-five-year forecasts, monthly/quarterly management accounts and preparation of budgets for funding bids and reporting
• Prepare and lead the annual audit process, including required governance with relevant bodies.
• Supporting budget holder colleagues to manage individual project finances. 
• Preparing management accounts/finance reports to provide staff, Treasurer and trustees with the financial information they need for good decision making and planning future work

About Sister Circle

Sister Circle are a women-led charity based in London, we work with women from diverse backgrounds, living with complex situations and who at highest risk of poor healthcare.Whatever a woman’s circumstances, we walk alongside her as an individual, building trusting relationships that enable women to thrive mentally, physically and socially. Our support programmes are: Maternity Mates (pregnancy, birth, labour and postnatally), Healing Conversations (Trauma counselling, peer support for baby loss) and Her Health (one-to-one advocacy during gyneacological journeys). 

Application Instructions

We would like you to complete and submit the following:
• CV (Max 2 pages)
• A Covering Letter letting us know why you would like to work with us and in this role, how your work and experience meet the essential and desirable requirements for this role. 

Applications without a covering letter and received after the deadline will not be considered.

Closing date: Friday 14th April 2025 at midday.

This post is open to female applicants only as this is deemed a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) for this role under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

If you thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy building strong relationships with colleagues and key stakeholders, this could be the perfect role for you. As a key part of our Cathedral community, you’ll join a dedicated team focused on securing both local and national funding to secure the future of Hereford Cathedral.

This varied role will include crafting compelling grant applications to heritage funding bodies, sourcing new corporate sponsorship opportunities and fostering relationships with our growing community of donors and business supporters.

The post is permanent and is subject to a six-month probation period. The appointment of the successful candidate is subject to the receipt of two satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK and will also require a satisfactory Basic DBS check.

The working hours are 35 hours per week, generally Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00, and is offered on a hybrid basis, with a suggested minimum of two days per week in the office. Occasional out of hours work may be necessary during evenings or at weekends. Agreed overtime is not payable but time off in lieu will be granted.

The position will command a starting salary of £28,000 per annum, with a non-contributory pension scheme, whereby the employer contributes 8% of salary. The salary is paid in equal instalments over twelve calendar months per annum.

For full details and how to apply, please visit Hereford Cathedral website. Fully completed application forms must be received before midday on the closing date of Monday 14 April 2025. Please note that we do not shortlist from CV-only submissions.

Are you passionate about working with children and young people, supporting them and their families who are victims of, or vulnerable to abuse through exploitation. We are looking for someone who is committed to making a difference to young people's lives, who is approachable, resilient and have the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with young people and their families, enabling them to make positive changes to their situations.
Our exploitation project workers work directly with children and young people who are survivors of abuse/ vulnerable to abuse through sexual and criminal exploitation. We also work with parents/ carers providing bespoke packages of support to help raise their knowledge and understanding of exploitation as well providing strategies which helps them to feel more confident in supporting and protecting their children. 
If you want to join a team who are resolute and inspired to making a difference to the lives of young people, then this role is for you. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual to join our Warwickshire Base Exploitation Service.

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31 March 2026 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 31 March 2026

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.