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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Director of Finance and Operations with a leading health charity, on a full-time, permanent basis. As Director of Finance and Operations, you will be responsible for all financial, human resource and other resourcing aspects of the charity. This includes strategic planning around use of all resources to achieve goals, providing financial control, organisational risk management and regulatory compliance as well as management and leadership of finance and admin teams.
Please note, there is hybrid working in place with this organisation and you would only be required to attend the office 1 day per week.
Additionally, please note, candidates looking for anything between 30-35 hours per week will be considered (the salary shown is the FTE).
As Director of Finance and Operations, you will:
- Be responsible for planning for long term financial sustainability and growth
- Be responsible for budgeting to maximise use of financial resources towards achieving charitable objectives
- Provide financial reports and management accounts to trustees, working closely with the treasurer to ensure that information provided is sufficient and appropriate for strategic oversight
- Be responsible for strategic planning to provide best staff resource possible for delivery of charitable objectives
- Maximise use of automation for efficiency and accuracy across the organisation, ensuring systems are developed accordingly
- Manage and lead the Finance and Operations team
The successful applicant will:
- Have Significant demonstrable experience in finance within the charity sector, in a similar role
- Be a fully qualified accountant
- Have the ability to interpret financial reports and communicate to non-experts in finance
- Have strong IT skills, including knowledge of system integration and automation
- Have solid experience of budgeting and strategic planning
- Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
If this sounds like you and you're keen to hear more, please do get in touch ASAP!
Please note, only successful applicants will be contacted with further information.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
Senior HR Advisor (Operational) – £37,000 - £40,000 per annum
We are working with a respected organisation in the healthcare sector that specialises in complex neuro-disability care. They are currently looking for a Senior HR Advisor to join their team within the Workforce Department.
This role focuses on providing expert HR advisory services across all aspects of employment relations (ER) and case management, including absence and performance management, grievance, and disciplinary cases. You will play a crucial role in supporting the HR Business Partner, managing a range of HR projects, and providing day-to-day guidance to managers on HR best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing the full cycle of employment relations (ER) cases, including performance, absence, grievance, and disciplinary investigations.
- Providing expert advice on HR policies, procedures, and employment legislation.
- Line management of an HR Assistant, ensuring high-quality HR service delivery.
- Collaborating with HR Systems & Compliance to ensure data accuracy and operational efficiency.
- Supporting organisational change and process improvement initiatives.
- Delivering HR projects that align with the organisation's People Strategy.
Key Requirements:
- CIPD qualified (or working towards qualification).
- Extensive experience in managing complex ER cases.
- Strong understanding of HR compliance, employment law, and best practices.
- Proven ability to manage HR projects and deliver process improvements.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and experience in a fast-paced environment.
This role is ideal for an experienced HR professional with a background in employee relations, who is looking to make a real impact in a specialist healthcare setting.
If you're a proactive HR expert with a passion for delivering exceptional service, we want to hear from you!
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
Recruitment Administrator / Coordinator (Temporary Position)
We are currently seeking Recruitment Administrators / Coordinators for a prestigious client in the higher education sector, with immediate start on a temporary basis until the New Year, with potential for permanent positions for top performers.
This role involves high-volume recruitment administration, including generating contracts and offer letters, conducting pre-employment checks, and managing payroll entries. We are looking for detail-oriented candidates with strong customer service skills, and experience in recruitment administration, ideally within higher education or a similar environment.
You will work within a collaborative team, each responsible for different recruitment areas across professional services, academic, clinical, or research roles.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver a seamless recruitment administration service to employees and managers, ensuring all documentation is accurate and professional.
- Respond to queries via internal communication platforms within agreed timeframes.
- Ensure data accuracy on HR systems and employee records platforms.
- Run reports using HR systems and Excel to track and manage workloads.
- Manage large, varied workloads, meeting multiple deadlines.
- Collaborate with HR, Finance, and Corporate Services to provide exceptional service.
- Work flexibly to meet changing department needs.
Hybrid working is available, with a minimum of two days in the office per week.
If you're organised, adaptable, and thrive in a busy environment, we’d love to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a fast-paced, higher education recruitment environment.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a University Access Officer to join a fantastic education charity based in London.
Salary: £26,400
Job Location: 3 days based at a School in Greenwich, 2 days working from home.
The charity’s mission is to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access top universities, through a unique combination of tuition and in-school mentoring. The University Access Officer mentors GCSE students, delivering group workshops, mentoring and coaching them on how to access and transition to university.
This is an exciting opportunity to foster mentoring relationships with students who will likely be encountering such support for the first time. This allows for early intervention, guiding the students to make decisions which will lead to successful and fulfilling choices at a top third university. The University Access Officer is in a position to open up a world of opportunities to the students which is extremely rewarding.
Key responsibilities include:
- Engaging with students in school and enrolling them onto the programme
- Matching students with volunteer tutors
- Monitoring student attendance to tutorials and devising innovative solutions to encourage attendance
- Assessing student progress towards being able to make successful university applications
- Uploading information onto the Salesforce database (training is provided)
- Building and managing relationships with volunteer tutors to ensure they have a positive experience of the programme
- Working with school staff to ensure their cooperation and timely completion of activities contributing to the smooth running of the programme
- Chairing and presenting at termly school meetings with Senior Management to report on programme progress.
- Supporting the delivery of tutor training and attend university site visits, approximately 3 times a year including occasional Saturdays and weekday evenings. Paid time off in lieu is provided.
The successful candidate will be able to communicate and influence with impact at all levels, delivering projects and managing administration accurately. You must be skilled in building and maintaining excellent relationships, be resilient and adaptable and have the ability to lead and manage change to embed the programme in schools.
If this sounds like you and you’re keen to hear more, please do get in touch ASAP!
Please note, only successful candidates will be contacted with further information.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
Role: Project Coordinator
Duration: Approx. 3-4 months (September to January)
Hours: 35 per week
Hybrid Working: 2 days a week in the central London office, with more time in the office during training.
Salary: £26K - £30K
Are you highly organised, tech-savvy, and thrive in fast-paced environments? We're looking for a dynamic Project Coordinator to join an education charity on a temporary basis, from late September until January.
About the Role: As the Project Coordinator, you’ll be the driving force behind the smooth operation of the digital education programme. From managing bookings and coordinating logistics to liaising with stakeholders and external suppliers, every day brings variety and responsibility. You’ll track programme expenses, update resources, and ensure seamless communication between educators, suppliers, and the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee programme booking system and process new requests swiftly.
- Maintain close contact with teachers, freelance educators, and colleagues.
- Manage the shared inbox, ensuring prompt and accurate responses.
- Handle logistics, liaising with suppliers and overseeing equipment maintenance.
- Track expenses, update templates, and compile participation statistics.
What We’re Looking For:
- Super organised with excellent multitasking and problem-solving skills.
- A confident communicator on the phone, in person, and via email.
- Comfortable using Outlook, Excel, and eager to learn new tech like VR.
- Understanding of budgets and sticking to them!
- Bonus: Knowledge of the education sector and school environments.
This is a varied role with room for creativity and collaboration. If you’re ready to jump into a dynamic role, working with a passionate team, apply today.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
Role: Finance Officer
Duration: Approx. 3-4 months (September to January)
Hours: 35 per week
Hybrid Working: 2 days a week in the central London office, with more time in the office during training.
Salary: £26K - £30K
Are you passionate about making a difference? We are on the lookout for a detail-oriented and dedicated Finance Officer to join a leading charity that empowers young people and changes lives. In this key role, you will help manage and process their income, working with the CRM database Raiser’s Edge to ensure all donations are handled efficiently and accurately.
As the Finance Officer, you'll be working closely with both the Finance and Fundraising teams, ensuring seamless income reconciliation and supporting the ongoing development of a new CRM system launching in February 2025.
What You’ll Do:
- Administer and process all incoming donations, including from their website, postal, phone, and third-party platforms like JustGiving and Enthuse.
- Collaborate with teams to ensure donations are coded correctly and help prepare Gift Aid claims.
- Provide top-notch supporter care, managing donor correspondence and maintaining donor records.
- Assist with the design and maintenance of the CRM database for effective data selection and reporting.
- Support the Finance Team with income reconciliation and administrative duties.
What We’re Looking For:
- A motivated individual with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to spot inconsistencies.
- A strong team player who can manage their workload efficiently and meet deadlines.
- A passion for working with CRM systems, with experience using Raiser’s Edge being a bonus.
- An enthusiastic communicator who can engage colleagues in the effective use of the database.
If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are committed to delivering high-quality work, we’d love to hear from you.
**Exciting Interim Opportunity: Advice Service Manager**
On behalf of our client, a well-established advice and support organisation in East Berkshire, we are seeking an experienced Interim Advice Service Manager for a 6-month contract. This is a unique opportunity to step into a key leadership role, ensuring the effective delivery of essential services to the local community.
About the Role:
As the Interim Advice Service Manager, you will be instrumental in maintaining smooth operations while the organisation undergoes a structural review and recruits a permanent Head of Advice. This role involves managing a dedicated team of staff and volunteers, ensuring the highest quality advice is provided to those in need. With an immediate start required, this role is critical in ensuring continuity and stability in the advice service during this transition period.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage daily operations of the advice service, ensuring staff and volunteers are effectively supported, trained, and supervised.
- Maintain and improve the quality of advice delivered to clients across a range of areas, including housing, debt, employment, and benefits.
- Support the expansion of the volunteer team, particularly in the delivery of services in the Slough area.
- Work closely with the Chief Officer and interim Head of Advice on service planning, ensuring staffing and resources are in place to meet demand.
- Contribute to the organisation’s ongoing review of advice service structure, with a focus on long-term sustainability.
Candidate Profile:
- Proven experience in managing advice services or similar roles, with a track record of delivering high-quality performance.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and develop staff and volunteers.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively at all levels of the organisation.
- Expertise in advice areas such as housing, benefits, debt, and employment, ensuring that staff and volunteers are supported in handling complex cases.
- A proactive problem-solver who thrives in a busy and evolving environment.
What’s On Offer:
- Competitive salary: £40,000 to £45,000 (FT, pro-rata for part-time).
- 6-month interim contract, with the possibility of part-time reduced hours for exceptional candidates (minimum 30 hours per week).
- 5% employer pension contribution.
- 25 days holiday + 8 public holidays.
- Flexible hybrid working, with offices in Bracknell and Maidenhead and outreach services in Slough.
- Free parking and access to an employee perks and assistance programme.
If you are an experienced advice service professional looking for a rewarding interim opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
Are you a Digital Communications expert, who loves to create engaging communications and content and tell captivating stories through digital channels, looking for an opportunity to shape and deliver a new digital strategy? Joining a not-for-profit social enterprise in Exeter, the Digital Communications Officer will enjoy a varied workload, joining a small, supportive, passionate team, where you can work autonomously and with confidence. The role is offered as 21 hours a week and is permanent.
Whether it be capturing content to share via social media feeds, writing blog pieces, updating websites, sending out email communications or going to an event and capturing moments, the Digital Communications Officer will have the opportunity to put communications at the forefront of the growing team, boosting engagement and reaching key audiences. The organisation provides quality day care for socially isolated older people with dementia. They are looking for you to tell their story with empathy. You will see impact quickly and have the opportunity to try new things, using a data-led approach.
- Location- HYBRID. Exeter, minimum twice a month in the office. Part of the role will be travelling to host’s homes so the ability to travel to different locations is key, but you can schedule this to suit you. Ask me for more details!
- Salary £32,000 pro-rata’d. Actual salary for 21 hours a week is £19,200.
- Permanent.
- 21 hours a week, enjoy a flexible working pattern and way of working! Whether it be 3 full days, or 4 shorter days a week.
Please get in touch for more information about this exciting role and not-for-profit. They are open minded on sector background!
Firm closing date: Sunday 29th September.
Interviews: 1st stage, virtual Tuesday 8th October, 2nd stage in person in Exeter Tuesday 15th October.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
A brilliant opportunity for a Marketing Officer with experience in the charity sector, has arisen in Leatherhead, Surrey. Utilising your experience raising income through effective marketing and communication campaigns, you will join an established marcomms team, in a creative, innovative role, delivering a range of on and offline initiatives to raise funds and awareness.
This is a full-time, permanent role based in Leatherhead, and time in the office is key, so you can bounce ideas off the marketing and fundraising teams and join a charity who have built a collaborative, supportive working culture.
As Marketing Officer, you will help raise awareness and receive regular income for the charity through effective marketing and communications campaigns. This role will focus on promoting fundraising campaigns to the horticultural industry, those who love gardens, outdoor spaces and sport.
Your experience and skillset:
- Strong understanding of marketing disciplines, in particular direct marketing, digital marketing and fundraising marketing.
- Skilled in producing creative and project briefs for on and offline marketing campaigns.
- Have experience of digital campaign support across SEO, social media and advertising.
- Have good organisational and project management skills, and an ability to prioritise work.
- Experience of website CMS, e-mail platform such as Mailchimp or HubSpot, Microsoft Office.
Please get in touch for more information, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
- Location- Leatherhead, Surrey. 10 minute walk from the train station, and/ or parking on site.
- Salary £26,000-£30,000. 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays.
- Full-time hours (9am-5pm), permanent role.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
Role: Trainee Debt Advisor
Duration: 6 months fixed term contract
Salary: £27,000
Hours: 35 per week, 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday
Location: London (Hybrid)
We are delighted to be working with a debt advice and education charity to recruit a Trainee Debt Advisor.
About the role:
As the cost-of-living crisis continues to impact millions of people across the UK, we are recruiting new team members to help meet the growing demand for debt advice and support. You will help prevent homelessness, reduce food and fuel poverty and ensure clients are supported through vulnerable circumstances with empathy and dignity.
Key Responsibilities:
• Deliver a professional, impartial, pragmatic and outcome focused advice service to all clients.
• Give advice on the following areas:
o Income maximisation
o Budgeting
o Priority debts
o Unsecured debts
o Debt solutions
• Identify client vulnerabilities and prioritise household emergencies.
• Provide comprehensive advice, next steps and actions in a way that the client can easily understand.
• Signpost or refer to the appropriate party at the earliest opportunity.
• Maintain punctual, accurate and compliant records using our case management system.
You will be provided with training, which will enable you to meet the needs of the role and progress to accredited advisor standard, Training will be ongoing and by a variety of methods including in-house, courses, webinars and e-learning.
You will have:
• Strong, proven customer service skills
• The proven ability to build rapport and empathise with clients from a variety of circumstances.
• The proven ability to deal calmly and professionally with difficult situations, e.g., Supporting clients at risk of imminent enforcement action, facing emotional distress and or suffering from mental health or physical health challenges
• A positive, resilient and pragmatic attitude
• Consistent attention to detail and ability to adhere to necessary guidance and rules
The above do not need to be gained in a financial advice role, we welcome applications from candidates who have been in client facing roles and have a genuine desire to assist others.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
Role: Debt Advisor
Duration: 6 months fixed term contract
Salary: £30,000 – 33,000
Hours: 35 per week, 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday
Location: London (Hybrid)
We are delighted to be working with a debt advice and education charity to recruit an experienced Debt Advisor.
About the role:
As the cost-of-living crisis continues to impact millions of people across the UK, we are recruiting new team members to help meet the growing demand for debt advice and support. You will help prevent homelessness, reduce food and fuel poverty and ensure clients are supported through vulnerable circumstances with empathy and dignity.
Key Responsibilities:
• Deliver a professional, impartial, pragmatic and outcome focused advice service to all clients.
• Give advice on the following areas:
o Income maximisation
o Budgeting
o Priority debts
o Unsecured debts
o Debt solutions
• Identify client vulnerabilities and prioritise household emergencies.
• Provide comprehensive advice, next steps and actions in a way that the client can easily understand.
• Signpost or refer to the appropriate party at the earliest opportunity.
• Maintain punctual, accurate and compliant records using our case management system.
• Support Senior Advisor/Supervisor with duties and act as a deputy in AM absence
About you:
To be considered for this role you’ll need an Accredited Debt Advice Qualification to Caseworker Level (Institute of Money Advisers Certificate of Money Advice or Community Money Advice Level 3 Award in Debt Advice or similar) with a minimum one-year experience of providing comprehensive Debt Advice in line with Financial Conduct Authority and Debt Advice Quality Framework. Or alternatively an accredited Generalist Adviser with at least one year’s experience and are willing to complete the relevant Debt Adviser training qualification.
You will have:
• A proactive approach, with the ability to manage multiple cases on an ongoing basis,
• Ability to independently manage own workload and delivering on project KPIs
• Support junior and trainee members of the team through coaching and mentorship
• The proven ability to build rapport and empathise with clients from a variety of circumstances.
• The proven ability to deal calmly and professionally with difficult situations, e.g., Supporting clients at risk of imminent enforcement action, facing emotional distress and or suffering from mental health or physical health challenges
• Consistent attention to detail and ability to adhere to necessary guidance and rules such as FCA, GDPR and all other organisational policies and legal obligation to ensure strict compliance
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.