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We are seeking to appoint a Practice Development Facilitator (Care Trainer) to deliver and facilitate a programme of continuous training and personal development to equip our workforce with the range of skills, knowledge and competencies that enables them to deliver excellent person centred care.
As an embedded practitioner with a focus on work based learning, you will deliver the mandatory training plan and will integrate coaching and role modelling into your practice to inspire learning culture that reflects our values and continuously seeks to improve quality outcomes and experience for our beneficiaries and their families.
You will be an experienced health/care management practitioner with a track record of developing the adult workforce in regulated health and social care. You will hold ILM, D31/32 or A1 qualification or equivalents and are innovative in developing, delivering and evaluating workplace learning interventions using a range of methods. A passionate practitioner and an effective communicator, you will possess strong influencing and relationship building skills and be customer focussed. You will be self motivated, adaptable and responsive in order to achieve success in this dynamic care environment.
In return and in addition to competitive employment T&Cs we will ensure you have all the support and resources you need to meet objectives, and will support you to maintain your own CPD.
Please note that in order to meet the needs of staff working 24 hour shift patterns you will be required to work occasional evenings and weekends.
Galanos House is a CQC Outstanding Care Home, and we continually strive to improve and innovate working alongside the people that live in the home. It’s where our residents can form special bonds and make new like-minded friends. We’re pleased to be able to offer both nursing and residential care in the main home and support for people living with dementia in Poppy Lodge. Adjacent to the main building is the Galanos community hub, which boasts a beautiful light and spacious cafe and a number of multipurpose spaces which host groups, activities & events.
Here at RBL, we aim to support our people and their wellbeing, with a package including generous paid holiday allowance and pension scheme contributions, and a range of optional benefits and discounts.
Based at Galanos House, Banbury Road, Southam, CV47 2BL
For more detailed information about the role, please see our Vacancy Information Pack attached to our direct advert.
RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.
We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role(s). Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
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We are seeking to recruit a Generalist Adviser. This exciting role is perfect for a candidate who wants to deliver an immediate impact in the Kensington and Chelsea community and is excited about exposure to a range of clients and workstreams, through a combination of:
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Delivering a gold-standard of advice to clients across the suite of Citizens Advice’s advice areas by assessing their need for welfare benefits, debt, and housing advice, as well as support across employment, immigration, consumer and family issues.
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Immersing yourself within the whole service: providing your expertise to clients within vibrant community settings and through crucial remote channels such as via telephone and webchat.
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Engaging with your advice work across a range of varied services, with opportunities to work with prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, in-patients with mental health needs at St Charles hospital, as well as work at our innovative Help and Advice Hubs and income maximisation services.
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Showing leadership for our volunteers by supporting their learning and development within the organisation.
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Staying alert to legal and regulatory development and contributing to our research and campaign goals.
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Investing in your own self-development by engaging with sector-leading in-house and external training, gaining exposure to reporting requirements and funder expectations, and developing and supporting volunteers.
We will also consider applications from candidates wanting to train to be a Generalist Adviser on a one year training contract. One previous trainee said of our programme: “Thank you so much for your support with my ongoing professional development... I have really enjoyed my time at Citizens Advice Kensington and Chelsea, and will treasure the memories I have of the staff and clients. I have learnt so much about advisory work and myself in the process and am very grateful for all the opportunities that you have given me.”
Please make it clear on your application whether you are applying for the qualified adviser or trainee adviser role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Role Requirements
- The Data & Impact Administrator will assist the Lead Analyst & Impact Manager and professionals across the organisation regarding:
- Supporting outcomes reporting, research and analysis relating to delivery of our services,
- Monitoring the impact of The Children’s Trust’s work to support our statutory and contractual reporting requirements, and in promoting our work to increase awareness and referrals
- Providing specialist administrative analytical support as directed by the Lead Analyst & Impact Manager.
Interview Date: 24th & 25th October 2024
Terms and Conditions
PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process.
Strictly no agencies, please.
About Us
The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.
Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.
Staff Benefits
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, Zest; our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment.
We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.
Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher’s pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Rehabilitation of Offenders
Many roles at The Children’s Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected. The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children’s Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.
Equal Opportunity Employer
To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.
Online Searches
In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Title: Finance Officer
Reporting to: HQ Finance Manager
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary range: £32k to £35k
Principal Location: London, hybrid with a minimum of 3 and an expectation of 4 days in the office per week.
Street Child is one of the world's fastest-growing children's charities. In less than 15 years we have made a material impact on the lives of nearly a million children - but the desire, potential and need to go so much further, and to reach millions more children in need of safety and a quality education, is what motivates us every day. Strong finance functions underpin everything that we want to achieve as an organisation and this role is a vital part of this.
Role Purpose:
This role is a key member of the busy HQ finance function. The role is primarily focused on HQ finances and will also work with the colleagues across our global finance team. The role offers the chance to work across a number of finance functions, including: management accounting, supporting year end audit, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and working on some of the subsidiary charities; and so it provides a great opportunity to experience the full breadth of finance work in a charity across all functions in a varied and interesting role.
It is essential that the applicant can juggle the complexities of a busy role with has varied work priorities. Key stakeholders are the HQ Finance Manager, Finance Director and the HQ based fundraising team. The role works alongside the Finance Assistant and plays a role in oversight and coaching of this role. Street Child is implementing a new CRM system and this role will feed into the development of new processes and procedures and use both the CRM and finance system and ensure full reconciliation and data trail between the two systems.
Key Responsibilities:
1) (40%) Deliver all functions related to Accounts Receivable and CRM:
- Ensure that all income from a variety of different sources is correctly and accurately recorded in the finance system and CRM (which is under development) on a weekly basis.
- Supporting with work on accounts receivable including accessing, downloading and saving in a systematic manner reports from donor portals, bank account and other sources.
- Working with colleagues in Fundraising to analyse and code income reports in Excel and uploading it to the Finance system on a timely basis, at least weekly. Following up on how to code any income which is not allocated to a source.
- Working closely with colleagues in Fundraising to ensure prompt collection of outstanding balances from customers, and sending out monthly debtor balance statements.
- Raising donor invoices and requests for payments, and issuing donor receipts.
- Income and customer account reconciliations and revaluations.
- Any other responsibilities relating to Accounts Receivable.
2) (40%) Month end reporting and reconciliation and subsidiary accounts:
- Complete all balance sheet reconciliations, including bank and petty cash reconciliations and submit for approval by HQ Finance Manager.
- Once CRM system is in place, undertake reconciliation processes between finance data and CRM data.
- Carry out monthly revaluations of bank accounts.
- Ensuring supporting information for transactions is correctly stored in electronic format on Teams such as bank statements, remittance advices, credit statements.
- Assist in preparation of internal reports, including working with Operations Department and Finance department to review their monthly reports.
- Take responsibility to deliver the management accounts of two subsidiary companies: Children in Crisis and HQ transactions of Africa Educational Trust.
- Compile information for Gift Aid returns.
- General support and assistance to the team including administrative duties and managing the office post.
- Other ad hoc support to the wider operations team as may be required.
- Audit: support with the year end audit and provision of supporting information to auditors.
3) (20%) Lead the Accounts Payable process:
- Whilst the Finance Assistant is responsible for all payments, the Finance Officer has a lead role in ensuring that all invoices are paid on time, in an efficient manner and that the finance system reflects the transactions within the correct accounting period and correctly coded in the system – including account code, cost centre, project code and donor code.
- Determine most efficient payment platform to process international payments, and ensure that recorded in the finance system at the correct conversion rate.
- Be a point of contact with the Foreign exchange agents to quickly resolve any questions.
- Work with the Finance Assistant to ensure accurate and timely recording of all approved supplier invoices, requisitions, staff expenses and other expenditure in the accounting system and that all supporting documentation for all transactions are uploaded.
- Ensuring that there are at least two payment runs a week and additional runs as required; overseeing the process to ensure that all invoices for payment are correctly approved by the budget holder, setting up payments on online banking platforms and sending out requests for payment approvals to payment authorisers and verifying that all payments are fully approved in the banking platforms by the deadline set. Providing cover to set up payments when the Finance Assistant is not available.
- Managing monthly staff credit card reconciliations and ensure that these are returned on time with all receipts and invoices and checking and reviewing classifications, with follow up as required.
- Carry out monthly Creditor account reconciliations ensuring that all balances are valid and backed up with appropriate supporting documentation.
- Fully deliver the set up all payroll payments in time for the monthly pay day. This involves ensuring correct amount and currency of payment (which may differ from the salary of the individual’s employment contract) and method of payment across all HQ staff.
- Any other responsibilities from time to time.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential:
- 5 GCSE at Grade C or above including English and Maths
- Post-GCSE qualification such as A-Level or T-level or equivalent Degree
- A Good understanding of double entry bookkeeping
- Part qualified accountancy qualification
Desirable:
- Full Accountancy qualification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential:
- IT Literate with strong Excel skills
- Familiar with using Teams
- Experience of working in a similar role
- Experience of using a CRM
Desirable:
- Charity or third sector experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential:
- Attention to detail
- Highly organised and self-motivated
- Flexible and able to manage multiple tasks at one time.
- Good written, verbal and presentation skills
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Fast learner whilst not afraid to ask for help!
Desirable:
- Shows initiative in identifying problems and posing solutions
- Persistence and tenacity
Other:
Essential:
- Pro-active communication style including keeping team-members informed and updated as necessary.
- Work co-operatively and collaboratively with colleagues, other departments and other external contacts
- Strong communicator and able to explain work to other team members
Desirable:
- Good Interpersonal skills
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Placement Officer to join our Business development & Commissioning Team. This will include providing clerical support in planning, attending, and minuting meetings, as well as managing and executing processes associated with children’s placements.
Staff benefits include shuttle bus, and more… Read more below
Role Requirements
The role of Placement Officer is to provide high quality support to all placement, admission and discharge processes associated with all children’s placements.
This will include providing clerical support in planning, attending, and minuting meetings, as well as managing and executing processes associated with children’s placements, including managing and updating our children’s records system, supporting on billing processes, in particular debtors’ management, and contracting, whilst also supporting the wider business development and commissioning team on clerical matters, ensuring operations run smoothly.
You will liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including families, referrers, and commissioners, maintaining excellent relationships and delivering exception customer service at all times, acting as an ambassador for The Children’s Trust.
Interview Date: 24th & 25th October 2024
Terms and Conditions
PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process.
Strictly no agencies, please.
About Us
The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.
Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.
Staff Benefits
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, Zest; our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment.
We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.
Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher’s pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Rehabilitation of Offenders
Many roles at The Children’s Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected. The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children’s Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.
Equal Opportunity Employer
To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.
Online Searches
In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Are you a Qualified Accountant looking to use your skills and accounting knowledge to help address the biggest health issue in the UK today? We are looking for a hands on Financial Accountant, to join our busy Finance team on a fixed term contract ( up to 12 months) as we progress our finance transformation journey following the recent implementation of a new ERP finance system, Unit 4.
In this role, you will support the delivery of high quality statutory audit and month end closes along with actively contributing to robust controls and efficient financial processes throughout the organisation. You will work closely with colleagues in the transactional processing and business partnering teams, as well as fellow financial accountants.
This is a homeworking role, but you may be required to travel to attend meetings, events and team-days. You must reside in the UK, have the correct right to work documents to work in the UK and be comfortable/willing to travel to our offices (London or Birmingham) if/when required.
And it’s a brilliant time to be a part of Alzheimer’s Society. Alzheimer's Society was named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023! We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a wonderful achievement and we're incredibly proud, as this is fantastic testament to all the people who make up Alzheimer’s Society.
About you
- Qualified Financial Accountant (ideally ACA).
- Experience working in an organisation of similar size, scale, and complexity.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas clearly both in oral and written form, whilst ensuring close attention to detail, is essential.
- Demonstrate initiative, judgment, and a continuous improvement mentality.
- Being systems-oriented ( e.g experience of finance system changes and/or knowledge of Unit4 ERPx) will be highly beneficial.
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We are seeking an experienced Philanthropy Manager to join our fundraising team. This is a brand-new role for Arthritis Action, key to identifying and nurturing long-term relationships with major donors. This role is vital for the development and delivery of our strategy for engagement with philanthropic organisations and individuals.You’ll be joining a leading national arthritis charity, helping to advance our income generation activity and impact across the UK. We are looking for someone with a track record in major donor fundraising and philanthropy, a passion for healthcare, and the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders to drive growth and success.
About Arthritis Action
Arthritis Action is the UK charity giving hands-on, practical help to improve the quality of life of people affected by arthritis. We offer an integrated self-management approach, which looks at both the physical and mental health impact of living with arthritis. We support people living with musculoskeletal conditions through healthy eating advice, mental health resources, pain management techniques, Online Groups, employment support, and exercise advice and resources.
Key Responsibilities – the role will include but not be limited to:
- Leading the development and delivery of Arthritis Action’s strategy for engagement with philanthropic organisations and individuals.
- Working closely with our services team and healthcare experts to develop pitches that attract funding from philanthropic sources.
- Creatively utilising the charity’s resources and networks to maximise major donor income potential.
- Advising other team members about how best to position the Charity for major donor funding through its communications and programme development.
- Researching prospective philanthropic individuals and organisations and building the Charity’s pipeline of potential funders.
- Developing and delivering engaging proposals, presentations and programmes for potential funders.
- Representing the Charity at networking events to promote fundraising and meet contacts, travelling as appropriate within London and the rest of the UK.
Other Activities
- Ensure that the Charity meets its legal obligations with regards to fundraising, adheres to the Code of Fundraising Practice, and maintains its reputation through its fundraising activities.
- Undertake other tasks relevant to the level of this position within the organisation.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
Essential:
- A track record of securing five and six-figure gifts and multi-year pledges.
- Proficient in developing and nurturing relationships with philanthropic organisations, high-net-worth individuals or major donors.
- Excellent English writing skills for developing high quality funding proposals for philanthropic audiences.
- Experience developing a pipeline of prospective major donors.
- Proven track record of converting prospects, managing relationships and meeting/exceeding targets.
- An understanding of, and commitment to, Arthritis Action’s vision, mission, equal opportunities and diversity.
Desirable: Database experience.
ATTRIBUTES
Essential:
- Excellent account management and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
- A self-starter, able to work on own initiative where required.
- Enthusiastic team-player with a can-do attitude.
- Able and willing to travel within the UK.
- Excellent communication, presentation and networking skills.
Staff Benefits
As a valued member of our team, you’ll get:
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after five years, plus Bank Holidays & 3 days for our Christmas closure (pro rata).
- 7.5% employer pension contribution.
- 24-hour, 365-day access to the Employee Assistance Programme.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Annual Eye Tests.
How to apply
Applications should be in the form of a CV with a covering letter explaining your interest in and suitability for the role. Please provide both email and telephone contact information for yourself.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Applications should be received by midday on Monday 14 October 2024 at the latest.
First-round interviews will take place by Zoom on Thursday 17 October. Second-round interviews will take place in the London office on Wednesday 23 October.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert ahead of the deadline should we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Arthritis Action is an equal opportunities employer. We treat employees and job applicants in the same way regardless of age, disability, marital status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
Please email both CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability for the role, by the deadline midday, Monday 14 October.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you a confident business development professional with a successful track-record securing income from bids and tenders in the public sector?
Do you want to use your skills and experience as Business Development Manager (Bids and Tenders) to help an award-winning charity to grow with a clear ambition to support even more people with caring responsibilities and advocacy needs?
Location: Hybrid between home, office and occasion travel across North-West
Hours: Full time 37 hours per week, or 4 days considered
Salary: £38,750 per annum
Benefits: 25 days increasing to 30 with length of service + additional Xmas closure and birthday, 5% employer pension contribution, investment in training and development
About the charity
n-compass wants to improve the lives of vulnerable people across the North of England, by delivering a range of Advocacy, Health and Wellbeing, Carers and Counselling services. Their values inspire them to make a difference and enhance life opportunities for adults and young people across local communities by being:
professional, responsive, innovative, dynamic and empowering.
n-compass is a great place to work, and in 2024 they received recognition as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women, one of the Best Workplaces in the Charity & Not-for-Profit Sector and in the Healthcare Sector. They truly understand and value the importance of employee well-being, strong communication & team work, celebrating success and learning from each other.
About the role
You're already a self-motivated and passionate business development specialist, able to support expansion of the organisation's reach through local authority tenders and grant applications.
You'll play a pivotal role in identifying funding opportunities, developing tender preparation strategies, and overseeing quality tender submissions.
You understand the need for high-quality local intelligence and know how to gather information from academic research, local stakeholder engagement and internal collaboration.
You foster partnerships both inside and outside of the organisation and are committed to co-production.
Reporting to the Business Development Director, you'll play a pivotal role in developing a long-term business development pipeline, identifying areas for development and upgrading systems/processes to enhance the organisation's competitive standing.
About you
You're a highly motivated individual. with a proven track-record in producing high quality tender submissions.
Through the selection process, you'll show us how you manage these important elements of the role:
- Experience in writing tenders, bids and grant applications
- The ability to work under pressure and manage conflicting priorities
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong research skills and the ability to learn/know an organisation, what makes it unique and special, and how to demonstrate this through bid writing
If reading this advert has made you think 'this just has to be my next job', then we'd love you to hear from you.
Please send a copy of your profile or CV to Amelia Lee at Charity People as the first step.
Deadline: Only because this role has been previously advertised, we will be meeting candidates on a rolling basis. If this disadvantages you in any way at all, please let Amelia know and she'll do her best to make sure that you don't miss out.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
Teenage Cancer Trust – Associate Director of Fundraising
Location: Hybrid (London office, Holborn WC1V) or remote.
Salary: Circa £70K per annum FTE
Contract: Permanent, 30-35 hours per week.
Teenage Cancer Trust, the only UK charity providing cancer care specially designed for young people, is seeking an Associate Director of Fundraising to play a critical role within the charity as the strategic leader of a multi-million pound fundraising portfolio.
Teenage Cancer Trust fund specialist nurses, youth workers and hospital units within the NHS. They're here for anyone diagnosed with cancer aged 13-24, and their loved ones too, to ensure there's someone in their corner right from the start.
The role will be responsible for providing strategic vision, inspiration and direction to the charity’s fundraising directorate and for developing and implementing fundraising strategies, approaches and initiatives that are grounded in a deep understanding of both the organisation and its target audiences’ needs.
The post-holder will be involved in high level and complex internal and external relationship management and influencing, as well as being responsible for identifying both risks and opportunities from the wider environment. As well as developing and delivering cross-cutting and multi-year business plans, budgets and reforecasts, the role also sits on the senior leadership team, collectively holding accountability for the charity’s day to day performance.
The ideal candidate will have broad experience across the fundraising portfolio, with a proven track record of delivering significant income targets and driving cross-portfolio decision making. A skilled communicator, you will have a strong track record of engaging, energising and mobilising large teams through visionary strategic leadership.
You will also have a high degree of self-awareness, emotional intelligence and commitment to personal development, alongside experience in setting vision and strategy, and translating these into business plans, budgets and performance frameworks. Finally you will share the charity’s values and desire for Teenage Cancer Trust’s success and drive to meet the needs of the young people they exist to serve.
Please download our Candidate Pack for further information [PDF], which includes details on how to apply.
CLOSING DATE: Monday 21 October, 9am BST.
We’re here to give every young person facing cancer the best care and support.
Job Title: Volunteer Support Officer
Location: London Area Sea Cadets HMS President 72 St Katherine's Way, London, E1W 1UQ
Salary: £25,750 per annum
Job type: Full time, Permanent - 35 hours per week
Closing Date: Monday 28th October 2024.
Are you passionate about supporting volunteers and looking for a new opportunity?
The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.
About the role:
We are currently looking for a Volunteer Support Officer with proven administrative and IT skills to join our busy Volunteer Support Department at London Area Sea Cadets.
This role involves acting as the first point of contact via email and phone for our volunteers providing warm and friendly assistance. This role provides vital support to volunteers within our enrolment process as well as administrative tasks that aid and celebrate our volunteers. Our successful candidate will be organised, a strong team player and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Responsibilities:
- Support the adult volunteer applications to join the Sea Cadets, ensuring that personnel records are updated accordingly on our database
- Review and approve applications for the Cadet Forces Medal
- Respond to all volunteer enquiries received by MSSC by email, post and phone
- Administer personnel forms associated with volunteer progression
Requirements:
- Computer literacy: strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, email, internet and experience of web-based information systems
- Experience of working in a customer focussed role, including handling a wide range of enquiries by phone and email, and handling challenging phone calls and emails
- Experience of using data protection procedures
Desirable:
- Experience of database inputting and records maintenance and management
- Experience of setting up and using Mail Merge to issue emails or letters
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave per annum increasing with length of service
- Hybrid working for many roles
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- Private medical insurance
- Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
- Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
Additional Information:
MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.
We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.
All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a disclosure check.
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Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Support Officer, Volunteer Support Coordinator, Volunteer Project Administrator, Volunteer Support, may also be considered for this role.
Harris Hill is working with a medical based, membership charity, supporting their search for a Marketing Executive for 6 months, on a full time basis.
This role can be remote or hybrid based however, remote based pay maxes out at £35727.13. To gain the top end of £39199.42, you will need to go in 2 days a week to their London office, with one day being a Wednesday.
This role has come about due to workload, so you will ease this by taking on smaller end to end project campaigns, such as their welcome communications to new members. This will include writing copy, email marketing, content production and management. It will also include, eLearning resources, events, clinical programmes, member initiatives (fellowship, awards and ceremonies).
Further information can be provided upon request but in a nutshell, we are looking for the following skills and experiences.
Experience
Operated at a minimum of Marketing Executive level undertaking tasks as required by this role.
Marketing briefs and planning, with demonstrable success measures achieved.
Project management (ideally Monday. com).
Marketing in the context of professional bodies and/or professional education.
Managing multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously.
Matrix working, maintaining effective working relationships.
Knowledge / Skills / Attributes
Project management i.e. managing multiple activities/task, prioritising.
Communication skills, working with a range of stakeholders.
Outstanding written communication skills - copywriting and proof-reading.
Demonstrate an extremely high level of attention to detail.
Dependable – ability to complete tasks/projects independently to a high standard.
Proactive – ability to set, pursue and complete tasks on time.
Time management skills – ability to work effectively under pressure, to prioritise, and deliver to tight deadlines.
Teamwork – ability to function effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary project team, communicate effectively and provide support for colleagues.
Knowledge of using the Microsoft Office suite.
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We could be the perfect fit for you! The Squad Club is an impactful local charity that supports young people and adults with learning disabilities through our Thursday evening social clubs. And we are now recruiting an Operations Manager to take us to the next level.
Our club nights are fun-packed and educational and our members enjoy socialising with their friends whilst also trying out new experiences.
Our members are the most important part of The Squad. They help to the run the clubs, vote on what we should include in our activity programmes and are involved in decisions about The Squad's future.
This is a new role for our charity, and we are looking for an individual with experience line-managing people and/or operational delivery/service delivery, ideally within a small charity setting, however we would be interested in hearing from experienced professionals with transferable skills.
The successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day operational running of the charity, ensuring Thursday evening Squad sessions are delivered to a consistently high standard and that the charity is compliant with all relevant legislation and internal policies. They will have direct line-management responsibility of our two part-time group leaders who lead our Thursday evening sessions and who liaise directly with our members. The role will also include overseeing and driving forward initiatives around volunteer recruitment and onboarding for The Squad, plus supporting with fundraising opportunities on an ad hoc basis.
Core role responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day operational activities for the charity
- Line manage and support the charity’s two group leaders to fulfil their roles and develop their skills (remotely and in-person at Thursday evening Squad sessions), acting as point of contact/escalation where necessary
- Liaise with the trustee board as the interface between the group leaders and trustees, to escalate any issues and provide regular reports & updates on operational matters relating to the Squad
- Support delivery of Thursday evening club sessions from approx. 6.30pm-9.30pm
- Create and drive forward initiatives to recruit new volunteers to support the charity
- Support onboarding and introduction of new volunteers at Squad Thursday evening sessions
- Support with organising initiatives to engage and develop current volunteers, ensuring they have a great experience as part of volunteering with the Squad
- Oversee DBS checking of staff, trustees and volunteers
- Work with leaders to maintain updated DBS & member records on charity’s database systems.
- Develop, manage and implement processes and procedures to ensure the charity runs efficiently and maximises our impact.
Additional responsibilities:
- Support drafting Risk Assessments where necessary
- Liaise with building management when necessary to request for any maintenance issues to be resolved.
- Support the trustee board to develop fundraising opportunities to generate income for the charity.
- Oversee policy drafting, implementation and updates with the trustee board.
- Collate reports from the charity’s group leaders around Operations and the charity’s services to feed into trustee board meetings as requested.
Experience and Skills Required:
Essential Requirements:
- Experience line-managing people.
- Experience managing operational delivery/service delivery, ideally within a small charity setting, however we would be interested in hearing from experienced professionals with transferable skills.
- An enthusiasm to get stuck-in to all areas of the charity, especially how we deliver our services to our beneficiaries/members
- An individual who is enthusiastic, adaptable, and happy to roll up their sleeves and wade in to help in all areas of the charity when required.
- An organized individual with good time management and prioritization skills
- Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders at various levels of the charity (trustees, group leaders, volunteers, members, members’ families)
- A friendly, outgoing, and open-minded individual
- IT literate, with ability to use MS office programs and be trained to use the charity’s bespoke database systems.
Desirable:
- Experience working with vulnerable individuals e.g., adults or young people with learning disabilities or physical disabilities.
- An understanding of the importance of governance for a charity.
- Safeguarding experience.
- Fundraising experience.
- Policy writing experience.
- Experience working with volunteers.
This is a rewarding role and you’d be joining a friendly, committed team of individuals.
Closing date: 5pm Friday 11 October 2024
To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter stating why you are a good fit with this role and The Squad Club.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location - Mainly remote, with the ability to travel into London required, and some national and potentially international travel (2-4 weeks per year)
The new role of MEAL Officer will undertake high-quality data management and analysis to produce key learnings on the outcomes of our client’s grantmaking and other programmatic activity, as well as leading system improvements for the evolving monitoring, evaluation and learning framework in collaboration with global colleagues.
Providing support to the emerging global Learning function, the role will support the delivery of learning activities across the network to develop clear briefs, learnings and findings that can be used by other functions, including the Communications and Philanthropic Partnerships teams, to strengthen the organisation’s external and internal engagement and knowledge sharing activities.
This position currently sits within the UK Program Support function, and will integrate closely with the existing global Program function, as well as with the planned Learning function (in development).
Major duties and responsibilities:
- Provide support to the Programmes and Learning functions to ensure high-quality analysis and reporting from grantee data across the growing grantmaking portfolio.
- Analyse grantmaking and other programmatic activity against a pre-defined set of indicators as set out in GGF’s current Monitoring & Evaluation framework, including generating reports for donor-funded grantmaking.
- Use a range of methodologies and tools such as data visualisations, written briefs and summary reports to provide qualitative and quantitative data analysis and insights to colleagues across the organisation, including senior leadership, Programmes, Operations, Communications and Philanthropic Partnerships.
- Contribute to global programme strategy development and support advisory boards with data analysis to assist with advisory board strategy development:
- Making recommendations for the UK and/or global organisation on MEAL infrastructure, ensuring tools are fit for purpose and appropriate to context through review and revision:
- Work with Programmes colleagues to understand barriers to grantee reporting; developing creative solutions to track grantee outcomes and long-term change.
- Data entry of all UK grants made for audited accounts, and annual analysis and data visualizations for audited accounts, and global analyses for the annual report.
Position Specifications:
- Commitment to a value-based intersectional framework and its implications for organizational practices and principles of anti-oppression.
- Significant relevant experience in a similar role undertaking monitoring, evaluation, learning and data analysis in a charitable, environmental, development, social justice, feminist, gender, human rights organisation, and/or grantmaking organisation.
- A strong track record in data collection, monitoring and analysis, with good working knowledge of a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, tools and systems, and in using this information to evaluate and recommend adaptations, and in reporting.
- Higher-level qualifications/certification in a relevant field, post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc, PhD) preferred, particularly in the social sciences and/or use of mixed method approaches
- Author of MEAL-related reports, either organisational reports or academic publications
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate and improve the process of data collection, analysis and reporting.
- Demonstrated experience in managing datasets, databases, programming, and other analysis software.
- Demonstrated capacity to think strategically, innovatively, and analytically, with expertise in complex problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment.
- Strong expertise in the use of various software and a high level of computer literacy (MS Office Suite, Google Apps, instant messaging, and virtual team collaboration software such as Trello, Zoom, Slack, SmartSimple, SalesForce, Raiser’s Edge, and/or other donor and grants management systems).
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.
This is a fast-moving process, and applications will be sent across on a rolling basis, please apply using your CV to avoid disappointment.
The Strategic Partnerships Lead role will lead on the growth of our Multi-Academy Trust and strategic school partnerships, including stewardship of our existing partners and identifying new partners for us to work with. They will be responsible for bringing new schools into The Brilliant Club network and growing our existing partnerships.
About you
The role will best suit someone who:
- is energised by building connections, creating long-term partnerships and growing these relationships over time.
- is an experienced sales professional, motivated by achieving targets and identifying ways to grow our reach.
- understands the school sector – what schools care about, what they are worried about and how they like to work.
- has strong commercial acumen and enjoys finding innovative partnership opportunities that work for schools and the charity.
- has a demonstrable passion for furthering The Brilliant Club’s mission and bringing it to life for others.
- enjoys presenting at and engaging in sector-wide events.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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At an exciting time of growth, AmplifyChange is seeking an enthusiastic and conscientious Grants Compliance Officer.
This role is key to delivering funds to our Grantee Partners and involves working on the financial management of our grants as a member of our Grants Compliance Team. The team is responsible for ensuring that funds under our management reach our Grantee Partners and are used for their intended purpose. In doing this, the team supports with due diligence assessments on all prospective Grantee Partners, analyses the financial reporting and forecasts of Grantee Partners, and works to prevent and investigate fraud across the portfolio. The team also oversees the proper implementation of the recommendations raised at the due diligence stage and contributes to the strengthening of our Grantee Partners’ internal processes and controls.
AmplifyChange is a bi-lingual fund so fluency in French is essential as the postholder will support our grantees, who are based across Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
This is a very rewarding role where the successful candidate will work closely with the grants support team, as well as the Grantee Partners themselves. The role will provide support to the Grants Compliance Manager and will be responsible for leading on the financial management of a portfolio of grants.
You will be well-organised and able to manage your own workload. Your attention to detail will be exceptional, and you will have a strong understanding of the sensitivities necessary in this type of work.
The position includes the opportunity for international travel to visit Grantee Partners.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
You will work closely with the Grants Compliance Manager, the Finance team, the Grant Support Teams, the Operations Team and the Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation Team while completing a broad range of compliance related tasks.
As part of this role, you will:
- Support the Grants Compliance Manager with financial eligibility criteria checks on prospective Grantee Partners.
- Support on due diligence assessments where necessary.
- Review and approve budgets submitted by Grantee Partners.
- Review and approve documentation provided by the Grantee Partner in relation with the recommendations raised at due diligence stage.
- Conduct regular financial management checks on grantee partners including the verification of financial reports submitted by grantee partners every 3 or 6 months against budgeted workplans.
- Carry out quarterly expenditure verification of grants to ensure adherence to agreed standards and identify instances of fraud.
- Carry out reviews of audited financial statements as well as project audit reports submitted by the Grantee Partners.
- Provide technical support for the Grant Support and Operations Teams, acting as the first point of contact for all financial management related issues arising on assigned grants, particularly ensuring budget templates and financial reporting processes are understood and adhered to.
- Provide technical guidance and support to the Grantee Partners directly by acting as the first point of contact for all financial and compliance related issues.
- Where appropriate, conduct on-site monitoring visits with our Grantee Partners or participate in in-country convenings as the AmplifyChange compliance representative.
- Provide support to our online grantee community in the Circle platform.
- Contribute to the further development of our business processes and the grants compliance systems by sharing feedback and suggestions with relevant colleagues.
- Any other duties as reasonably required.
Please be aware that some of the SRHR material you will be required to review as part of your compliance role may be of a distressing and sensitive nature. Relevant support is available in this regard.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
The ideal candidate will be someone who is enthusiastic and conscientious, with excellent attention to detail. A warm and polite approach is important, as the role will involve frequent interaction with various stakeholders including Grantee Partners and colleagues. You will be responsible for the compliance processes for your own grant portfolio and ensuring the smooth running of the grant compliance processes related to this portfolio.
You will bring a calm, confident, capable demeanour to this role, with a clear emphasis on collegiate working. You will successfully engage remotely and in-person with our colleagues, external consultants, Grantee Partners and other stakeholders. You will enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment where everyone wears many hats and will take pride in supporting a purpose driven not-for-profit. Crucially, your positive energy will make you a natural addition to the team.
Essential:
- Sensitivity to, and support for, the values and general aims of AmplifyChange.
- Fluency in written and spoken French language.
- Educated to A-level or equivalent.
- Essential IT skills inclusive of MS Office; advanced Excel and Accounting software.
- Demonstrable interest in international development and SRHR.
- Proven ability to work in a team environment liaising with diverse teams.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, especially dealing with people from multicultural backgrounds.
- Good commercial acumen and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage a varied workload and prioritise tasks, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Ability to use initiative, with a proactive and problem-solving attitude.
- Self-motivated, with proven ability to work autonomously.
- Ability to work flexibly and undertake international travel where necessary.
Desirable:
- Experience working in a finance or risk management role, with proven experience in some aspect of due diligence, risk management or financial reporting.
- Experience of in a charity or non-profit organisation.
- Experience with grants management software, with Fluxx experience an added advantage.
- Experience of working in SRHR or international development.
- Experience of working in Africa, South Asia and/or the MENA region.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Fluency in Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Portuguese, or other language skills relevant to the fund.
WORKING ARRANGEMENTS
This is a full-time position at 37.5 hours per week, reporting to the Grants Compliance Manager.
International travel will be required as part of this role.
AmplifyChange is based in Bath and we operate on a hybrid working model with at least one day per week in the office. Requests for flexible working arrangements will be considered. The successful candidate must have proof of the right to work in the UK by the start of their employment. Please also be aware that the Grants Officer role does not meet the minimum salary requirements for sponsorship.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.