Jobs in Benfleet

Do you have a passion to make a difference to the lives of young people and local communities in the Essex, Kent and London areas? YMCA Thames Gateway Group is seeking a Director of Finance and IT to join our outstanding executive team, and to take a lead in ensuring that our work continues to create supportive and energising communities that are open to all, where people can truly belong, contribute and thrive.

Joining our team is an opportunity to be part of a global movement that is inclusive, diverse and forward-thinking. YMCA is the largest and oldest charity working with young people in the world. We are one of the 97 YMCAs in England and Wales, and we are one of the 10 largest.

We are dedicated to helping people reach their full potential in mind, body and spirit. We provide support to around 10,000 people in our local communities through a diverse range of services including supported and move-on housing; health and wellbeing activities; and childcare, youth and family work.

This is an exciting time to join YMCA Thames Gateway Group. Our turnover has increased from £3.5 million to £10 million over the last few years, and we are two years into a new five-year strategy focused on strengthening our YMCA branches and business streams, whilst continuing to achieve our impact ambitions.

We seek a Director of Finance and IT who shares our values and ethos and brings:

• Strategic financial leadership experience in a similarly complex environment, ideally with relevant experience in charity or housing association contexts
• strong commercial acumen;
• accountancy qualifications and experience of treasury and cash management;
• excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a collegial, engaging approach.

This is a hybrid role which will include some home working and a regular presence at YMCA Thames Gateway Group sites in Essex, London and Kent (in particular the Romford site where many of the Finance and IT team are located).

Our vision is a world in which prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders are able to live in safety, with self-determination and financial independence and to continue to uphold and advance human rights. While other NGOs advocate and campaign for human rights, we focus on meeting the immediate hardship needs of prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders. We believe that it is important to hear their voices directly and that this is only possible if they have the financial security and safe space for self-determination in their work. 

As Communications and Administration Officer, working within a team of three staff and about six volunteers, this role offers a broad range of roles and experience within a dynamic human rights charity.

Position: Communications and Administration Officer

Responsible to: Director and Grants and Engagement Manager

Location: Remote working, with regular in-person meetings

Hours: Three or four days a week, depending on skills and expereince, working from 9am to 5pm 

Salary: £23,000 to £26,000 FTE, depending on skills and experience

Annual leave and benefits: 25 days per year, pro rata, 8% pension employer contribution

How to apply: Click the Quick Apply button below. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and answer a few short screening questions about your relevant skills and motivation. First-round interviews will be arranged as applications are received, with second interviews to be decided.

Closing date:  31 January 2025

Responsibilities:

Communications

- Assisting the director on the major donor programme 

- Drafting and publishing all postal and email communications to donors, including fundraising campaigns and newsletters 

- Working with the director and the grants and engagement manager on fundraising appeals and fundraising opportunities

- Work with the grants and engagement manager on digital onboarding of new supporters

- Coordinating and managing volunteers

- Website updates and uploads 

- MailChimp and social media management and content production

Administration

- Managing and updating our donor database 

- Checking and uploading donations on the donor database

- Running GiftAid 

- Processing outgoing all payments through banks and money transfers

- Liaising with the external accountant to run reconciliations and odd tasks

Requirements:

- IT and digital competence

- Ability to multitask and to learn new and varied skills 

- High standard of English and communications content 

- Desirable: any relevant experience

LOCATION - Remote 

Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding role in 2024? Apply for the HR Manager role at homelessness charity Emmaus UK.

About Emmaus

Emmaus is a secular organisation supporting homeless and socially excluded people by providing a home for as it is needed, meaningful work in a social enterprise and a sense of belonging and community. There are currently 30 Emmaus communities in the UK stretching from Glasgow to Dover and Norfolk to South Wales, collectively supporting more than 850 people. There are also 3 Emmaus groups working towards the development of services in their areas. We understand that a home is more than just a roof over your head; it’s somewhere to belong, where you feel part of a community, and that’s what Emmaus offers.

About the role

The principal responsibility will be to support our ambition to become a best practice national body and an employer of choice, responsible for the day-to-day management of the HR function within Emmaus UK, as well as the development of our approach to in-house learning and delivery of our new People & EDI Strategy.

The role will be responsible for all aspects of Human Resources at Emmaus UK, overseeing the whole employee lifecycle, from recruitment and induction processes to offboarding and exit interviews.

The postholder will oversee HR processes, reviewing their effectiveness and identifying and embedding improvements to improve the employee experience.

Working with the Director of Resources, the role will be central to the delivery of the strategic objectives with an HR focus, while taking responsibility for the operational HR function to ensure a positive and supportive working environment for the staff team.

Who are we looking for?

The newly created role of HR Manager will sit within the Resources directorate, to support the delivery of key charity and federation-wide objectives, as part of our mission to empower people affected by homelessness and poverty to change their lives for the better while using our voice to achieve social change.

What we offer

· £46,297 (pro rata)

· Working hours: 3 days per week, Monday to Friday

· Contract: Permanent

· Pension: Stakeholder pension with employer contribution

· Annual leave: 25 days + Bank Holidays + 3 concessionary days leave

· Training & development: Ongoing training and development

· Volunteering: 2 days allowance each year

· Employee assistance: 24/7 employee assistance scheme is available

· Wellbeing: Weekly wellbeing hour to promote personal wellbeing

· Flexible working: Options available, subject to the requirements of the role

· Life assurance: Death in service lump sum of 3 x salary

To apply

To apply for the role, please complete our application form and equal opportunities monitoring form and email us by Sunday 08 December 2024.

Please ensure you download the job pack and refer to the job description and person specification when completing your application form.

Those shortlisted will be invited to an interview conducted via Microsoft Teams week commencing Monday 16 December 2024.

If you would like to arrange an informal discussion about the role, please email us.

Equal Opportunities

Emmaus UK provides equal opportunity for all job applicants and employees and is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination. We are dedicated to an inclusive culture, and we strive to create a workplace where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristic, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together. We welcome applications from all individuals irrespective of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, marital status or parental responsibilities.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for our roles, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.

Our vision is for every child in the UK to feel engaged and empowered to be able to reflect, discuss and choose their own informed path of action in relation to climate change.  Our mission is to advance the climate literacy of all children aged 7-14yrs, in the UK, by providing free resources to all teachers, educators, families and community groups, as well as to inspire a nationwide team of ‘young climate warriors’, who are choosing to practice carbon–cutting actions and make sustainable living choices.

We are a small, professional team managing a growing and ambitious charity.  As Schools Manager you will lead on all communications with teachers/educators, helping build relationships between schools and YCW. You will be responsible for managing our Assembly Programme, and supporting our Climate Change Club in a Box.  You will manage our Teachers Advisory Panel, and feedback mechanisms. You need to be comfortable with editing and adapting content as necessary.  You will support liaison with climate education organisations.

Remote Working Role!

Job Title: Reporting & Management Accountant
18 month Contract
£42,000

Employees based in London will receive £3000 London Weighting Allowance in addition to the advertised salary package

Immediate Start

Not for Profit or Public Sector experience is highly advantageous and

Experience of working on reporting to government or institutional funders.

As Reporting & Management Accountant, you will provide strategic analysis to support and challenge our stakeholders in making the right decisions for our growing organisation. We are a critical friend to the organisation, ensuring that we are maximising the impact of our income and expenditure for our social mission. You'll understand and support the programmes we work with, adding value to decisions. The focus of this role will be budgeting, forecasting and management reporting as well as representing our team in organisation-wide projects and driving consistent improvement in processes.

* Responsible for funder financial reporting, particularly in relation to contracts with governmental bodies.

* Preparing the first draft of financial results for the management accounts for the Executive Committee and Trustees. Final management accounts will be drafted by the Finance Director, with commentary from the Business Partners.

* Supporting on creating financial models to support existing programmes and future business cases.

* Working with large sub-contract providers to ensure that they are adhering to the terms of their financial reporting.

You'll take ownership for:

* Preparing financial reports against each of our government contracts in line with the funder requirements.

* Building strong relationships with your stakeholders across the business, such that financial implications are factored into future decisions

* Liaising with teams across the organisation to ensure the data is complete and variances against budget contract performance can be explained.

* Working with the other finance business partners to understand changes in business operation that will inform income forecasts and cost reporting.

Closing Date 18th Nov.

Remote, in the UK (must be available to travel to London team meet-ups once a month)

Who we are

Animal Equality is an international animal protection organisation working with society, governments and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals. Animal Equality has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and India.

Animal Equality releases investigative materials captured from inside factory farms and slaughterhouses, exposing the conditions that farmed animals face around the world. We publish our findings on television, in newspapers and online. We routinely secure mainstream media coverage, including on the BBC, ITV, Sky news, The Times, the Guardian, New York Times and many more.

Animal Equality also advocates for political change. Our current campaigns include a UK ban on foie gras imports, increased enforcement of existing animal protection laws, legal protections for farmed fish, and Government subsidies for transitioning towards a plant-based food system.

We focus on farmed animals because of the scale and severity of the issue. More than a billion animals are confined and killed for human consumption every year in the UK. Farmed animals also often suffer in some of the worst ways: pigs typically endure painful mutilations, many chickens die of heart attacks, fish are confined in underwater cages, and some farmed animals are victims of deliberate abuse and neglect. But the problem is solvable! By utilising effective campaigning strategies, Animal Equality is having an impact for animals around the world and building a future where all animals are respected and protected, and are no longer exploited for human consumption.

About the Role

Animal Equality is seeking an organised individual, with a keen eye for detail and an ability to multitask efficiently. A supportive, approachable person, with a ‘can-do’ attitude, the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the smooth-running of our day-to-day activities.

Expected to assist Animal Equality’s supporters, volunteers, donors, Executive Director and team in the UK, the appointee will be required to handle enquiries, inventory, CRM platforms and more. Completing all tasks to a high standard, the Administrative Officer will be professional, flexible and able to provide the highest standards of stakeholder service.

Salary and Benefits

Salary band £24,000-£26,000, depending on experience. This is a remote working opportunity (UK-based candidates only). The candidate will be expected to attend mandatory monthly team meet-ups one day per month, at their own expense.

• Holiday entitlement equal to 33 days per year (including standard public holidays).
• Personalised Employee Assistance Program (EAP): an Animal Equality-funded benefit that offers employees confidential counselling and advice on a wide range of work and personal issues. The program offers several services, such as a 24/7 confidential helpline and expert Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
• Flexible hours, with the option to start between 8am-10am and finish between 4pm-6pm.
• Able Futures Support: The service is a nine month, practical and confidential support service for employees whose circumstances or mental health may impact their wellbeing or work. Employees can work with a mental health professional to deepen their understanding of how their mental health may impact them and will build coping skills and resilience to thrive at work.
• Yearly stipend to access learning and development resources, to help employees further grow their personal and professional skills.
• A free vegan lunch every month at the Animal Equality monthly meetups.

Apply now

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Closing date: 5pm GMT on 17th January 2025.

The interview process comprises a multiple-stage interview and Skills Test. The appointment process will run throughout February, with Animal Equality UK making an offer to the successful candidate that same month.

Salary up to £43,316 depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Location: Stevenage Office with Hybrid working, Carers in Essex and Peterborough

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our team and a growing fostering service in the Eastern Region where you will be able to contribute to achieving positive results for young people.

About Us

Our vision is for every child and young person to be safe, loved and happy, to achieve their potential and have a bright future.

St Christopher's is a leading charity for children and young people. We are proud of our history of providing fostering, children's homes and innovative leaving care services across the UK & Isle of Man.  We have a passionate commitment to our young people, placing them at the centre of everything we do.  We provide positive life experiences for young people who are unable to sustain a placement in their parental or foster home.

We are an equal-opportunity employer keen to develop an inclusive workforce where people feel they belong.  We hope to attract applications from under- represented groups, including people from different cultures, nationalities, socioeconomic backgrounds, ages, disabilities, religions, faith, sex, orientation, childcare responsibilities, and gender-diverse identities.

About the Role

As a Supervising Social Worker, you will contribute to the growth and development of St Christopher’s fostering services by playing a key role in the recruitment, training and assessment of foster carers and by building positive relationships with referring authorities and other professionals.

Applicants should have:

• CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work or equivalent professional qualification, and registration with the Health and Care Professions Care Council (HCPC).
• Experience of working in fostering or adoption.
• Knowledge of relevant child care legislation.
• Ability to manage your caseload effectively and to plan and priorities work to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication, motivation and team work skills.
• Ability to travel independently to all areas required by job responsibilities.
• Passion for building brighter futures for vulnerable young people and delivering the highest quality services possible.

What you should expect from us

• Salary up to £43,316 depending on experience.
• Competitive pay and reward structure offering salary progression based on performance.
• A friendly working environment, a fun, open and honest culture.
• 25 days holiday rising to 27 days after 3 years’ service, plus Bank Holidays, pro-rata.
• Industry Leading training programme including access to level 3 qualifications, children’s right and participation, CSE, empowerment, mental health and Social Pedagogy,
• Contributory pension scheme, Enhanced Maternity and Company Sick Scheme.
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme, offering counselling, financial advice and legal support.
• UK Life Assurance (Death in service) to the value of 3 times your annual salary.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Bluelight card; discount shopping scheme at hundreds of retailers across the UK.
• Discretionary Funded Training Programs.
• Employee Awards based on performance and length of service.
• Fantastic opportunities to develop your career within our range of services.

Recruitment Process

At St Christopher’s we are committed to the safeguarding of all children and young people in our care. During the recruitment process you will be expected to complete an online application form to ensure we capture essential information to meet legislation, best practice and vetting requirements.

Applicants will ideally already be on the DBS Update Service; if this is not the case St Christopher's will carry out a DBS (police) check prior to starting.

Your online application must include a supporting statement addressing the criteria stated in the Person Specification.

Closing date: 19th December 2024

We advise to apply as soon as possible as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and this opportunity might be filled before the closing date.

Please note this post has a minimum age restriction of 21 for roles working directly with children and young people in our residential and semi-independent Homes in line with the Equality Act ‘occupational requirement’.

Remote, in the UK (must be available to travel to London team meet-ups once a month)

Who we are

Animal Equality is an international animal protection organisation working with society, governments and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals. Animal Equality has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and India.

Animal Equality releases investigative materials captured from inside factory farms and slaughterhouses, exposing the conditions that farmed animals face around the world. We publish our findings on television, in newspapers and online. We routinely secure mainstream media coverage, including on the BBC, ITV, Sky news, The Times, the Guardian, New York Times and many more.

Animal Equality also advocates for political change. Our current campaigns include a UK ban on foie gras imports, increased enforcement of existing animal protection laws, legal protections for farmed fish, and Government subsidies for transitioning towards a plant-based food system.

We focus on farmed animals because of the scale and severity of the issue. More than a billion animals are confined and killed for human consumption every year in the UK. Farmed animals also often suffer in some of the worst ways: pigs typically endure painful mutilations, many chickens die of heart attacks, fish are confined in underwater cages, and some farmed animals are victims of deliberate abuse and neglect. But the problem is solvable! By utilising effective campaigning strategies, Animal Equality is having an impact for animals around the world and building a future where all animals are respected and protected, and are no longer exploited for human consumption.

About the Role

An experienced advocate with a proven track-record, the Campaigns and Public Affairs Manager will play a vital role in overseeing, delivering and publicly communicating Animal Equality’s life-saving campaigns on behalf of farmed animals.

Working as part of a highly effective team, within a fast-paced environment, the Campaigns and Public Affairs Manager will lead on the media promotion and development of the organisation’s campaign strategies, cultivate relationships with decision-makers and members of the public, and coordinate imaginative and effective campaigns until Animal Equality’s mission becomes a reality: a world in which animals are respected and protected.

Salary and Benefits

Salary band £36,000-£38,000, depending on experience. This is a remote working opportunity (UK-based candidates only). The candidate will be expected to attend mandatory monthly team meet-ups one day per month, at their own expense.

• Holiday entitlement equal to 33 days per year (including standard public holidays).
• Personalised Employee Assistance Program (EAP): an Animal Equality-funded benefit that offers employees confidential counselling and advice on a wide range of work and personal issues. The program offers several services, such as a 24/7 confidential helpline and expert Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
• Flexible hours, with the option to start between 8am-10am and finish between 4pm-6pm.
• Able Futures Support: The service is a nine month, practical and confidential support service for employees whose circumstances or mental health may impact their wellbeing or work. Employees can work with a mental health professional to deepen their understanding of how their mental health may impact them and will build coping skills and resilience to thrive at work.
• Yearly stipend to access learning and development resources, to help employees further grow their personal and professional skills.
• A free vegan lunch every month at the Animal Equality monthly meetups.

Apply now

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Closing date: 5pm GMT on 17th January 2025.

The interview process comprises a multiple-stage interview and Skills Test. The appointment process will run throughout February, with Animal Equality UK making an offer to the successful candidate that same month.

Programme Officer

Level Water is a national charity providing opportunities for young disabled people to learn to swim. Our mission is to work in partnership with national and regional organisations to deliver affordable, adapted, high-quality swimming lessons and start a lifelong love of swimming. We are seeking a passionate and experienced Programme Officer to join our dynamic team and drive the continuous growth of our projects by recruiting more sites & swimmers.

Job Summary: The Programme Officer will be responsible for managing the onboarding process of new sites, ensuring they meet our standards, and coordinating the referral of young people and families into our swimming programme.

This role requires excellent organisational and administration skills, strong communication abilities, and a passion for promoting swimming as a lifelong habit.

Key Responsibilities

1. Site Onboarding:

● Manage the onboarding process for new swimming lesson sites, including liaising with site managers and staff.

● Ensure that new sites meet all necessary standards and requirements for delivering high-quality swimming lessons.

● Work with the Training & Development manager to provide training and support to the new site.

● Manage and maintain the new site pipeline, engaging with new sites as required.

1. Site Management:

● Develop relationships with existing sites to ensure further opportunities & growth

● Ensure all sites are invoicing correctly monthly

● Input all invoices into finance tracker

● Ensure sites meet their partnership obligations to book swimmers

1. Referral Coordination:

● Develop and manage the referral system to identify and refer young people and families to appropriate swimming lessons.

● Work closely with community organisations, schools, and other partners to generate referrals.

● Maintain accurate records of referrals and ensure timely communication with referred families.

● Keep the database updated and accurate with referrals, swimmer and application information.

1. Community Engagement:

● Build and maintain strong relationships with community partners to promote our swimming programs.

1. Administrative Duties:

● Maintain detailed records of site onboarding processes, referrals, and communications.

● Prepare and present reports on onboarding and referral activities to senior management.

● Assist with other administrative tasks as needed to support the smooth operation of the swimming programs.

1. Customer Service:

● Serve as the main point of contact for families and young people referred to our programs, providing them with information and support.

● Address any concerns or issues that arise during the onboarding or referral process in a timely and professional manner.

1. Training and Development coordination and support

● Support the Training & Excellence manager to book training for new and existing sites.

Skills and Experience

● Strong communication skills: Able to respond professionally and empathetically to parent and pool inquiries via phone, email, or in person.

● Exceptional organisational abilities: Capable of managing multiple tasks and prioritising workload effectively.

● Attention to detail: Proven ability to handle data entry, document preparation, and record-keeping with a high degree of accuracy.

● Problem-solving skills: Adept at addressing parent concerns and resolving issues efficiently by sourcing the right information from the right stakeholders.

● Technical proficiency: Familiar with Microsoft Excel, and other administrative tools.

● Team collaboration: Able to work effectively within a team environment while maintaining individual responsibilities

● Self-motivation: Demonstrates a strong personal drive to achieve goals and deliver results independently.

Prospectus is delighted to support a UK charity supporting people in hospitals and care in their search for a Finance Assistant (PT). This is a part-time post (12-15 hours), on a 6-month contract and remote working basis.

Reporting to the Interim Finance Manager, the Finance Assistant (PT) will take on core finance tasks and processes, as well as participate in the development of new procedures where appropriate. The postholder will collaborate with the Finance Assistant on purchase ledger processes, including invoice approval by budget holders, posting to Sage and BACS payments, and with the Fundraising & Comms Assistant on posting and reconciliation of d onations and subscription income. The Finance Assistant (PT) will also deal with staff expenses, credit card administration and provide support with month-end.

To be successful, you will have knowledge and experience of financial and accounting principles, preferably from a small/medium sized organisation. You will be comfortable with computerised accounting systems, such as Sage 50 accounts, Xero, QuickBooks or similar. You will be confident with Excel and able to extract transactional information from database systems. You will be enthusiastic and proactive, open to new ways of working and offer flexibility in an evolving environment. Charity knowledge or experience would be preferable, but not a necessity.  You will identify with Music in Hospitals and Care's public benefit aims & core values.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

The hiring managers are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, please initially submit a CV to learn more, and ensure you don't miss out.

Closing Date: 9 December 2024

Ref 6910

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and engaging individual to join us as our Fundraising Manager, where you will help drive growth in our key income streams while providing exceptional stewardship to our valued supporters. 

In this role you will have the opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in the UK, with occasional on-site presence in London Farringdon approximately once per quarter. 

About Us 

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. 

When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the Role 

As Fundraising Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving income growth across key streams, including regional corporate partnerships and individual fundraisers. You will have the opportunity to build and nurture successful relationships with supporters, offering the highest levels of stewardship while managing multiple priorities. 

Additionally, you will contribute to income reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring that pipelines of prospects and partners are accurately maintained and strategically developed. 

In this role you will: 

• Drive growth in our key income streams of regional corporate partnerships and ‘in aid of' fundraising individuals. 

• Manage multiple priorities simultaneously while providing the highest level of stewardship to all supporters. 

• Contribute to departmental income reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. 

• Ensure the pipeline of prospects and partners is kept up to date across all income streams. 

• Develop and implement safeguarding procedures relevant to the role, ensuring children, community members, staff, and volunteers are protected from harm. 

About You 

To be successful, it is important that you have: 

• Experience in a corporate and community fundraising environment.

• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining the highest level of supporter stewardship. 

• Strong experience of building successful internal and external relationships. 

• Solid organisational skills to ensure fundraising activities are planned, implemented, and completed to the highest standards. 

• Creativity to generate innovative ways to support partners and fundraisers, fostering long-term supporter relationships. 

• Experience of financial budgeting and reporting. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission, and values. 

What We Offer You 

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance. 

We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health, and wellbeing both in and outside of work. 

We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to improve the lives of children every day. 

Closing date: Monday 9th December 2024 

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office.  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

Are you passionate about empowering individuals and creating meaningful change? Do you enjoy developing learning solutions that drive personal and organisational growth? Then join Shelter as a Learning & Development Manager to help us build the skills and capabilities to make an even greater impact.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Learning & Organisational Development, as Learning & Development Manager, you will be responsible leading and managing the L&D team who will be creating and implementing comprehensive learning and development programmes that align with Shelter’s policies, processes, strategies and vision. You will play a key role in ensuring Shelter staff keep up to date with all compliance training, and enhancing employee skills, knowledge and performance.

About you

To succeed, you’ll have experience of working in a learning and development, HR or organisational development role. From this experience we’d like to see you have knowledge and understanding of adult learning principles and be able to show how you have used this to design and implement learning and development solutions. You will also need to have line management experience, you will be managing our L&D team and providing support to their development.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society. 

Benefits 

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme. 

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit

About the team 

We’ve seen some incredibly significant changes in Shelter over the past three years, with a radical shift in our organisational strategy and the consequent need to change our ways of working fundamentally. Our Equity, Inclusion and Culture (EI&C) Directorate was formed to help us actively embrace diversity - in people, ideas and actions, with a focus on changing our internal culture and promoting equity. Our Learning and Organisational Development team sit within the EIC directorate.

About Shelter

Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

Safeguarding statement 

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies. 

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. 

LitterHeroes Programme Manager

Salary: £ 27,665p.a. - £34,581p.a. dependent on hours

We also offer 27 days of annual leave (pro-rated for hours worked) plus bank holidays and a birthday day off, 8% employer pension contributions, a core hours system of working and enhanced family friendly policies

Contract: Permanent

Hours:  30-37.5 hours per week (we are open to discussing how this may work for you)

Location: Home based with some travel across England

Wigan or London (office or hybrid working) is also available

Keep Britain Tidy is one of the UK’s leading environmental charities. At a time when we are living in a world that is facing its greatest environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or more urgent.

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic person to manage our national LitterHeroes programme. 

The successful person will have experience in project management, budgets, managing staff and volunteer engagement skills. 

This role sits within the Volunteering & Community Engagement team who run a range of programmes and activities for volunteers and will be responsible for the development, management and coordination of the Keep Britain Tidy LitterHeroes programme.

The role will engage with our dedicated volunteers in both the LitterHeroes and LitterHeroes Ambassadors networks who are taking action on litter across the country.

The aim of this role is to develop and deliver the programme to increase the impact our volunteers can have. The post holder will expand engagement with Keep Britain Tidy LitterHeroes and LitterHeroes Ambassadors and increase their support, knowledge, and ultimately the action they take, developing the programme so that it has real impact.

The role will manage these two inspiring networks of volunteers, growing the volunteer base; providing advice; supporting them to take action in their local community; supporting them to promote Keep Britain Tidy’s campaigns; developing online support systems; and measuring and communicating the impact of the work they do.

As we’re moving forward, we recognise that a diverse workforce yields the best results.  We embrace all the different identities in the UK, and we want our workforce to reflect that.

Environmental change is affecting us all and we want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution and help us make the changes that cannot wait. It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all our staff and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

All our roles benefit from generous holiday entitlement and pension contributions, including the opportunity to join the UK’s first net carbon pension scheme and to receive extra days leave for using alternatives to flights. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, you just need to let us know.

If you are interested in this job and want to help us, make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description.

After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us, please continue to apply.

As part of the application process, you will need to answer 3 questions, submit a tailored CV and complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population, and we are not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately.

Please ensure that your CV fully demonstrates the essential skills/experience asked for within the Job Description before applying.

Please submit your application before the closing date.

The deadline for applications is 09:00 Monday 16 December 2024

For successful candidates, interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on Thursday 2 January 2025

If you require an in-person interview, please let us know.

Please note - we respectfully ask that previous applicants do not apply.

We have signed the pledge to always #ShowTheSalary for the roles that we advertise.

We are proud winners of the Working Families’ Best Small Employer Award 2021.

No agencies please.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and friendly team in a dynamic regional charity.

The Charity has consistently punched above its weight, achieving an impact beyond its size.  Since 2000, we have invested over £45m in vital research activities in the region’s top hospitals and universities, constantly pushing the boundaries forward in the fight against cancer.  We have also launched influential, region-wide initiatives, including award-winning public health campaigns, a leading-edge annual Regional Report on cancer and creating the innovative Lab-Coat Learning education programme for the region’s schools as well as launching a retail chain.

We are driven by the difference we are making in the fight against cancer.  If this is a fight which excites and inspires you, then step forward: we’d love to hear from you.