Poverty Jobs
Reporting to: Area Manager
Location of work: Flexible. This post holder will be based at home but daily travel to schools or other establishments within your allocated local area will be required including some early morning breakfast visits. The role will require irregular travel throughout the UK with minimal overnight stays. A full driver’s licence and use of a vehicle is required.
Contract type: 4 days / 28 hours per week term time only, although flexible hours may be considered. This role will involve early morning breakfast visits to schools or other establishments which you will need to be able to attend. The role may require occasional evening and weekend work
Contract Length: Permanent
Salary: £31,500 (£22,050 pro rata)
BACKGROUND
Magic Breakfast is a registered charity providing healthy breakfasts to children and young people in the UK who arrive at school too hungry to learn, and expert support to their schools. Over 200,000 children and young people are on roll at Primary, Secondary, ASL / Special Educational Needs Schools and Pupil Referral Units that the charity works with, in disadvantaged areas of Scotland and England. Providing breakfast ensures that children start their school day with the energy and nutrition they need to be able to make the most of their morning lessons. Magic Breakfast also undertakes research, and campaigns for long-term solutions to end hunger as a barrier to learning.
This is an exciting time at Magic Breakfast, as we have expanded our team to meet the challenge of ending morning hunger for now, and for good.
JOB PURPOSE
Magic Breakfast’s mission is to end child morning hunger in the UK now and for good. The Service Delivery team is responsible for ensuring the delivery of our breakfast provision. As Engagement Partner, you will work with relevant partners (schools, local authorities, parents, parent councils) to ensure that breakfast provision is optimized, encouraging reach and providing education on relevant topics.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Pipeline development and cultivation:
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To develop a relationship with the supported schools in their respective area, to enable, preserve, embed, enhance and extend stigma and barrier free breakfast pron.
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To educating and engage with the wider school community, including teachers, parents and children and young people on the importance of breakfast and implications of hunger as a barrier learning through various means including assemblies, staff meetings, online events and regional events throughout the academic year.
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To engage with the wider community to advocate for the importance of breakfast, the work that we are doing in existing schools and to support our campaigning and advocacy strategy and plans.
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To develop brand awareness in schools and local communities in line with our marketing strategy
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To support the recruitment of new schools with launching new breakfast provisions, adapting to the requirements of the school and children and young people, and advising on best practise
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To support any media requests as directed through the Policy & Engagement team
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To capture and report on “storytelling” to enable the organisation to utilise qualitative data to support external communication
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To explore, share and deliver on new engagement ideas across the department and organisation
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To enable, support and feedback on new ways of working, trials and innovations
General:
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By contributing to team meetings, sharing best practise and support colleagues and team members where necessary in line with Magic Breakfast’s ways of working.
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By helping to maintaining a positive working environment; keeping the vision of Magic Breakfast at the heart of everything we do.
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By upholding a culture that keeps children and young people at the heart and encourages our values of openness, collaboration, bravery, compassion and a solutions-focussed approach.
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By working collaboratively across the organisation to build good working relations.
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By adhering to all Magic Breakfast policies and procedures.
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By ensuring everything is compliant with current legislation, policies and procedures.
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By undertaking any other duties commensurate with the role.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Skills and abilities
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Possess excellent communication skills, organisational skills and stakeholder management capabilities.
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High level of competency in the use of Microsoft Office packages and Salesforce or a similar CRM
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Demonstrate working knowledge and understanding of the charity and education sector along with a commercial awareness.
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Good use of judgement in terms of when to escalate and when to delegate.
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Confidence in using Microsoft Word IT packages.
Knowledge and experience
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Engagement with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external, delivering presentations, assemblies, engagement events, both in person and online.
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Experience of customer support and an understanding and experience of influencing and making the case for change.
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Experience of working against targets.
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Working remotely with multiple customers and stakeholders.
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The proven ability to communicate messages confidently, engagingly and with impact across a variety of audiences.
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Familiarity with the UK charity market and fundraising trends, techniques and best practice.
Other
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Be a collaborative team player with the confidence to effectively contribute remotely across teams and departments.
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Share a passion and commitment to Magic Breakfast’s aim of alleviating morning hunger as a barrier to learning for children in the UK.
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Embody the charities values, behaviours and ways of working.
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Demonstrate positive mindset, flexibility and openness to agile working and change.
WHAT WE OFFER
At Magic Breakfast we value our employees and work hard to develop offer a supportive, respectful culture which enables everyone to bring their whole self to work.
Please click below for our job pack
APPLICATION PROCESS
While Magic Breakfast welcomes applications from everyone, to better serve its communities it has identified that we would particularly benefit from: young people earlier in their careers, people who have lived experience of poverty, navigating socio-economic adversity or were eligible for free school meals, and people from a minority ethnic background.
Should you wish to discuss the role before applying please email our People and Culture Team, hr @magicbreakfast. com
Shortlisting - 7th - 9th October
Interviews - 14th October
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.
XLP is a vibrant youth work charity dedicated to shaping bright futures for young people. Leading the charge against poverty and educational failure in inner London, we offer holistic, long-term support to 11 to 25 year olds in both schools and communities.
We work across nine London boroughs, in four quadrant teams. Each borough has a Senior Youth Worker who oversees the work in those communities.
We’re looking for a Senior Youth Worker to join our South team. You’ll coordinate and develop our work across Southwark, with a particular focus on delivering face to face youth work in schools and on community projects.
XLP is a vibrant youth work charity dedicated to shaping bright futures for young people. Leading the charge against poverty and educational failure in inner London, we offer holistic, long-term support to 11 to 25 year olds in both schools and communities.
Over the past eight years XLP has run a nationally recognised mentoring programme which runs in nine London boroughs. These mentoring projects target at risk young people between 11 – 18 who are on the verge of exclusion or excluded from school, at risk of involvement or already involved in crime, and isolated from their communities. The aim is to support these young people and help them see alternatives to what can sometimes seem a hopeless situation.
We’re looking for a Mentoring Manager to join the team to recruit, train, monitor and supervise mentors sourced from the local community in North London. These mentors commit to providing 1-2 hours face to face per week for a minimum of 12 months with their allocated mentee.
This is a hybrid role with approx. 50% of your time being face-to-face. Mondays are based in our central London office.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Do you enjoy project coordination, collaborative work and building partnerships? Do you want to support families and help ensure that every child in London gets the best start in life? Join Home-Start London as Operations Coordinator!
Location: Home-based, with regular travel in London
Salary: £33,800 FTE pro-rata
Type: 6 months fixed term contract, with potential for extension
Hours: P/T 14-21 hours per week, hours can be worked flexibly
About Home-Start
Home-Start is here to ensure that no parent or carer with young children feels alone. Through volunteer-led home visiting support, we provide emotional and practical support to parents and carers with young children facing challenges such as isolation, mental health difficulties and poverty. With our support, families avoid crisis point and children thrive.
Home-Start London is an independent charity that connects and strengthens the 16 local Home-Starts in the capital so that together we can reach more families. Collectively, our network supported over 6,500 families including 9,500 children last year.
About the role
Working closely with the Director and Home-Start staff, volunteers and partners across the capital, you will play a vital role in ensuring the successful delivery of our joint projects and activities from our peer learning groups and network events to our growing portfolio of funded partnerships.
What you'll be working on:
- You’ll take the lead on coordinating our peer learning groups, joint research and volunteer recruitment campaigns
- You’ll support the Director to secure and manage funding partnerships, including monitoring plans and budgets
- You’ll oversee development and monitoring of Home-Start London’s annual operational plan
- You’ll regularly engage with local Home-Starts and partners, ensuring they are shaping our work
- You’ll oversee logistics for network events
- You’ll provide administrative support, from raising invoices to organising/chairing network meetings
- You’ll create content for our website and social media to help promote our work
- You’ll manage office volunteers, ensuring they are happy, effective and well supported
About you
To thrive in this role, you will be highly organised with excellent multi-tasking skills and previous experience of project coordination and/or operational administration. You will be a great relationship builder, able to support people to work together effectively while ensuring agreed targets are met. As much as you enjoy collaborative work, you will also be happy working independently under your own initiative.
This job is for you if you:
- have experience of successfully coordinating projects involving multiple partners
- have experience providing office administrative support and organising events
- have strong written and verbal communication skills
- are able to develop and monitor work plans and budgets
- are able to take initiative and work independently
- are confident in building and maintaining positive working relationships
- are confident in use of MS Office, including Excel
- are flexible and able to manage changing priorities and deadlines
- have a commitment to and an understanding of safeguarding, equal opportunities and maintaining confidentiality
Inclusion matters
Home-Start London is committed to equality of opportunity and diversity. We encourage applications from all parts of the community irrespective of gender, race, colour, age, sexual orientation or disability. Appointments will be based on merit, following an open and fair selection process.
Don't meet every single requirement? Who does! If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly, we'd love you to apply anyway. If you’d like to, then give us a call for a confidential conversation about the role. If this isn’t the right one, we may have other opportunities that could be.
How to apply
See job pack for full details. To apply for this role, please click the "quick apply" button below. You will be asked to provide a CV and cover letter (no more than two pages).
Closing date for applications is 9am on 8th October.
Interviews will be held w/c 14th October.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
XLP is a vibrant youth work charity dedicated to shaping bright futures for young people. Leading the charge against poverty and educational failure in inner London, we offer holistic, long-term support to 11 to 25 year olds in both schools and communities.
Our buses act as Mobile Youth Centres and provide a unique and rare platform to engage with young people on a weekly basis. They enable a team of experienced youth workers to provide a range of services for young people. Whether table tennis or trivial pursuit, cooking or competitions, games consoles or group discussions, FIFA or Forza, we use our buses to help London’s young people create their positive future. We pride ourselves on being able to provide a safe and consistent environment where young people can grow. We use mobile youth centres to offer them further opportunities to gain new experiences and develop their skills, helping them create their positive futures.
We’re looking for a youth worker who’ll also be responsible for driving one of our buses to and from projects. The role reports directly to the Youth Work Manager - Outreach and work closely with the area based Senior Youth Workers.
There are two roles. South East serves Lewisham and Greenwich. East serves Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
Step Up Hub
Established in 1996, Step Up Hub is a grassroots charity in the London Borough of Brent dedicated to addressing the root causes and consequences of poverty and inequality within disadvantaged communities, especially within the global majority. It offers an array of services covering welfare, education, training and skills development, as well as on mental health, cost of living, and physical wellbeing. It adopts a whole village approach in its work and values working together to secure a shared sustainable future for all.
‘I AM Brent’ consortium
Step Up Hub leads a consortium, known as I AM Brent, that consists of six well-respected local charities who are working together to address the root causes and effects of violence affecting young people in the London Borough of Brent.
Programme Description
The programme is part of the Mayor of London’s flagship violence reduction programme, known as MyEnds. It is a place-based violence reduction initiative that adopts a public health approach. The consortium is providing an array of positive opportunities for young people and support for families, including through tailored interventions. The programme also aims to improve statutory and voluntary organisation networks and access to referral, and to ensure the voices of young people and community members are built into provision. The work is focused on the Church Road Estate, Stonebridge Estate, St Raphael’s Estate, Chalkhill Estate and Harlesden Town Centre areas.
The Role of the Programme Manager
The Programme Manager will act as the glue between consortium members and provide a key link with statutory bodies, voluntary organisations, and the community. The Programme Manager will be responsible for supporting consortium members with project deliverables where necessary, optimising the integration of provision, overseeing referrals, and brokering community partnerships. The Programme Manager will also schedule meetings and shared activities, provide secretarial support, and represent Step Up Hub and the consortium at relevant meetings.
In addition, the Programme Manager will:
· be responsible for line management of two other Step Up Hub staff members working on I AM Brent programme deliverables, a Network and Communication Lead and a Community Engagement Lead,
· manage, report on, monitor and evaluate the progress of interventions,
· report to VRU, attend VRU meetings, and cascade relevant information from the VRU to consortium members,
· be responsible for engaging stakeholders and community partners, identifying and leveraging their skills, expertise and assets, and leading on youth and community forums
· help engender an environment of trust and collaboration to support stakeholders and community partners engage positively with Step Up Hub and the consortium,
· manage a grant pot and support the delivery of small projects that are funded from it,
· work to actively promote the consortium and Step Up Hub’s activities, as per the organisational guidelines, through producing publicity materials and written reports for regular newsletters and by keeping the website updated,
· coordinate and monitor project budgets, working alongside the finance officer as required,
· ensure that safeguarding is central to the service delivery and is systemically built into case management processes,
· ensure equality of opportunity is embedded in all service delivery by Step Up Hub and consortium partners,
· provide secretarial services for the project steering group, progress meetings and small grants awarding panel.
The programme manager will be supported by the Step Up Hub senior leadership team and consortium partners on all aspects of programme delivery.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Pure Insight are looking to recruit a Family Support Coordinator.
Location: Stockport
Salary: £25,000 – £27,500 (pro rata)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 25 - 28 hours per week
Annual Leave: 24 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 26 days after 2 years and then up to 27 after 5 years employment
Benefits:
• A friendly fun and supportive working environment.
• Great flexible working options.
• Extensive learning and professional development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 24 days plus bank holidays. Increasing to a max of 27 days after 5 years.
• Chance to earn extra days annual leave based on performance.
We are currently in the process of reviewing our employee pension and seeking to introduce healthcare and insurance benefits for 2024.
Pure Insight support young people leaving children’s homes and foster care (care leavers) between the age of 16 – 28. We provide a wraparound offer supporting young people to take control of their lives, feel connected and develop a sense of belonging in their community. Over the past 10 years we have grown across Greater Manchester delivering services in Stockport, Salford, Cheshire East, and Warrington, in the upcoming year we have plans to extend our services to other local authorities in the surrounding areas. We are really proud to have developed nationally recognised best practice programmes for young care leavers.
To support our continued growth, we have an exciting opportunity for Family Support Coordinator to join our Pure Insight Team.
Young Care leavers are some of the most vulnerable young people in our society; many leave school with few qualifications and a significant number are unemployed, living in inadequate housing, and experience poor health and levels of poverty. Nationally 25% of female care leavers become parents between 16 -18 years of age and 50% by the age of 24.
Adjusting to parenthood must happen simultaneously whilst they are still in the process of transitioning out of care or adapting to independent living. Coping with the stressful demands of learning to take care of themselves and a baby at such a young age, whilst often still struggling to make sense of unstable, often chaotic childhoods, can leave little space for engaging with services in the wider community. Instead, many care leavers struggle with poor self-esteem. Isolated and lonely, they may lack the confidence, social skills and social network to join new parenting groups in their community.
Additionally, time spent in the care system can make care leavers reluctant to ask for and accept support. Becoming a parent can be the most rewarding experience in the world, but all parents need support networks to thrive as a family.
The post of Parent Coordinator is an established role. The role is to take full responsibility for certain aspects of the projects work, as detailed below. All duties are to be carried out in line with current operating policies and procedures and any procedures of the partnership agency. In the first instance the post holder reports to the area manager.
REF-216 925
Full time (flexible working options available)
Edinburgh, Scotland/Home Based
Closing Date: 7 October 2024
Ref 6848
Save the Children UK's Media Lead – Scotland is crucial and fulfilling role.
• Are you an experienced news journalist or a background in media handling?
• Do you have excellent verbal and written communication skills, adapting for different audiences?
• Are you experienced and confident with developing media and communication strategies?
• Do you have line management experience?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive but thrives and can go on to change the world – and of inspiring and leading others to do the same?
If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!
Please note: This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract (until end of January 2026). This role is based in Scotland.
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.
Job Purpose
Save the Children is looking for an ambitious and driven media professional with exceptional project management skills to develop and lead on Save the Children's media activity in Scotland, as well as line managing and supporting the senior media managers in N. Ireland and Wales and supporting them to implement their strategies.
The role will involve developing and driving the media and communications strategy in Scotland to support fundraising, policy, public affairs and brand objectives. You will also help create materials and social media content for Scotland's communications channels. The scope will cover Save the Children's Scotland, UK-wide and international work.
The role will also line manage two senior media managers – one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. You will lead and support them to deliver effective media and communications plans, while ensuring strategic co-ordination across the devolved nations and with the Save the Children UK office in England.
You will be highly organised and persuasive, with a good knowledge and understanding of child poverty issues and key political debates. You will have experience as a news journalist or in media handling, and a strong track record of success in obtaining media coverage in a variety of outlets. We are looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a proven ability to manage competing priorities under pressure. You will have demonstrated the ability to manage or support others to achieve results.
As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. You will support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.
Main Accountabilities
The Media Lead – Scotland's key duties will be to:
• Develop and implement a media and communications plan for Scotland that will deliver proactive and reactive coverage in support of Save the Children's influencing and fundraising objectives.
• Lead and manage the Senior Media Managers in Wales and Northern Ireland to develop and implement their own media plans. Provide them with technical and strategic guidance.
• Map, build and maintain relationships with key journalists, editors, commentators, opinion formers, bloggers and documentary makers in your media market.
• Write compelling and hard-hitting media briefings and press releases focussing on Save the Children's work in Scotland, to influence policy makers and key stakeholders.
• Cultivate and harness the skills and expertise of colleagues – especially programmes and policy teams in Scotland - in our media and communications work, including by launching products like reports and coaching media spokespeople.
• Respond quickly to relevant breaking news to achieve cut through for policy calls.
• Identify and support children and families to tell their stories in media and communications, ensuring that ethical standards and best practice are maintained at all times. This includes children and families supported by Save the Children in Scotland and those fundraising or campaigning for our work.
• Protect Save the Children's reputation, developing and implementing crisis management media strategies and rebuttal as required.
Person Profile
• Experience as a news journalist or in media handling, and a strong track record of success in obtaining media coverage in a variety of outlets. Experience should include strong examples of developing strategies and obtaining significant coverage on own initiative.
• Demonstrated the ability to manage or support others to create plans and achieve results.
• Excellent working knowledge of the media environment in Scotland.
• Ability to work fast, effectively and independently – including without immediate media and communications oversight.
• Ability to work at all levels of a large organisation, including with senior managers, children, young people and their families, and volunteers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor to a range of audiences.
• Ability to summarise complex data (scientific, technical, economic) confidently and accessibly.
• A sound grasp of what different media outlets want and an understanding of where to seek out news-worthy stories.
• Good contacts for generating news stories with news journalists and wider media.
Aptitude
• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK's aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity.
Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.
Closing date for applications: midnight Monday 7th October 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 (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). 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.
35 hours per week
£32,880.72 per annum (London) / £29,855.00 per annum (National)
Location: Flexible
The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for children, every step of the way.
This role sits within our Policy, Advocacy and Influencing Knowledge Group, which brings together policy and public affairs, and campaign colleagues to campaign for change for young people across the UK. Your role will support driving forward innovative campaign strategies, ensuring they are youth led, and grounded in policy calls, and evidence from our practice colleagues.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are currently looking for a enthusiastic and dedicated campaigns officer, who is committed to ensuring our campaigning is grounded in the needs and priorities of young people across the UK, to join our dynamic, ambitious team.
A key part of this role will be your ability to support the development of new and innovative campaign strategies across our three main areas of mental health, poverty, and adolescent risk and vulnerability.
KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
In order to be successful in this role, you must have:
-Experience of developing campaigns
-Experience of working with a range of audiences including beneficiaries, volunteers, decision makers, and other stakeholders
-Understanding of how change is made through both digital and other forms of campaigning
-Good written communication skills (to write campaign plans, emails to supporter, blogs)
ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.
Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.
The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.
Therefore, candidates applying for work in our CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.
The closing date for applications is at midnight on Friday 27th September 2024.
Interviews will be held week commencing 7th October.
IN3
The Children's Society (TCS) is at an exciting stage of its journey with a clear organisational goal and renewed commitment to reverse the damaging decline in children's wellbeing. This is no ordinary job, with the scale of the crisis needing strong policy and public affairs advocates. As we move towards addressing the strategic goal of reversing the decline in children's wellbeing, we need to create innovative policies that seek to address the drivers of low wellbeing and the structural inequalities young people experience, including the risks they young people are facing on a daily basis. The Policy and Public Affairs Manager (Adolescent Risk and Vulnerability) is a high-profile role, both internally and externally. This critical role is part of our newly established Policy, Advocacy and Influencing knowledge group, which brings together colleagues across policy, public affairs and campaigning to work together to ensure effective strategic influencing in our three policy areas ( adolescent risk and vulnerability, mental health, poverty). The role sits within our Youth Impact domain, which brings together teams directly supporting young people across the country in practice and our national programmes. What connects us is our desire to be grounded in youth voice and to change the systems that surround young people for the better to ultimately lead to improved outcomes for young people. ROLEWe are looking for a talented and ambitious manager to develop and deliver an ambitious new policy and influencing programme for our risk portfolio. The ideal candidate will have an in-depth understanding of the issues facing children and young people most at risk, as well as prior experience in influencing local and national government to bring about tangible change across systems, services and support. With a new government, there is a renewed momentum and opportunities for change, and we are looking for someone to mobilise and leverage this to deliver real impact for young people most at risk across the UK. A key part of this role will be your ability to understand and react to the current political environment, and to work both internally and externally to ensure that our policy and public affairs engagement is grounded in the insights and experiences from our practitioners and young people we work with. KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIESThe required skills and competencies for this role are:
-Knowledge of social policy issues affecting the most at risk children across the UK: ambitious and optimistic for change in children and young people's lives - with an interest and experience in driving policy change at a strategic/governmental level. Specific knowledge in one or more of the areas within adolescent risk and vulnerability.
-Experience and understanding of UK politics and policy making, including legislative processes (nationally and locally): experience of navigating local and national politics, with a view to influencing the political agenda through policy and campaigning, for the benefit of children and young people.
-Youth voice and influence: a commitment to amplifying young people's voices and the ongoing development of lived experience influencing your work and that of your teams.
-Safeguarding knowledge and experience: experience of working in an environment where the safety and safeguarding of children and young people is an organisational priority; and the ability to apply safeguarding principles and application of safeguarding policies to the work of your teams.
-People management and leadership (leading multi-disciplinary teams): a brilliant people and resource manager - able to work with colleagues in multi disciplinary teams to ensure they prioritise and deliver, as well as work strategically to join people, services, projects, and initiatives together to achieve our organisational objectives.
-Networking and relationship building: ability to work across the organisation, collaborating internally, and within external networks and partnerships to benefit our work, and achieve our goal.
-Critical thinking and data literacy: curious approach - applying critical thinking, able to produce, interpret and report high quality data to showcase your team's impact and performance, and the impact of the organisation. Experience working with practice colleagues/frontline staff to translate evidence to strategic policy is an added value
-Strategic policy skills: Proven ability to strategically influence government policy through targeted policy projects, and through external partnerships with strategic partners.
-Anti-discriminatory practice: A commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion to progress the Youth Impact domains commitments to anti-racism, adopting an intersectional lens to our work.
-Excellent communication skills: Ability to synthesize and communicate complex policy and systemic issues to a rage of audiences. Excellent written and verbal/presentation skills. Media training and experience preferred. Ability to communicate complex topics, simply - internally and externally.
INFO ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.
The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.
Therefore, candidates applying for work in our Youth Impact Domain will be required to complete full employment history as part of the application process.
The closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 13th October.First-round assessment/interviews will be held virtually on Monday 28th October.Final interviews will be held in London on Tuesday 12th November.
About Us
Established in 2002, Greenhouse Sports charity is leading the fight for a future where young people are supported and empowered, whatever their challenges, through sport. We coach and mentor young people from deprived backgrounds because the crisis for children living in deprivation is real and it is urgent. Children from the poorest families are 3 times more likely to not participate in any extra-curricular activities compared to those from wealthier families and they lack many opportunities that are available to their wealthier peers.
We have an exciting opportunity to join a mission driven Sport for Development charity that makes a real difference. We are also a great place to work and are proud to be a winner of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work awards for 2024, in the medium category.
The Person
Are you a skilled Financial Accountant with a passion for driving change and making a difference? Do you have strong technical expertise in charity accounting and want to use your talents to support young people facing inequalities? If so, we want to hear from you!
The Role
We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Financial Accountant to join our finance team on a 12 month fixed-term contract, working 3 days per week. £42,000 - £45,000 FTE, (£25,200 - £27,000 pro rata)
You will be responsible for preparing monthly management accounts, producing statutory financial reports, and supporting a variety of finance projects aimed at improving processes and controls. This is a hands-on role, requiring a strong knowledge of charity accounting standards (SORP, FRS102) and advanced Excel skills.
Key Requirements:
- Professional Qualification: ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
- Charity Accounting Knowledge: Experience with Charity SORP and FRS102 regulations
- Advanced Excel Skills: Expertise in pivot tables, formulas, and financial modelling
- Critical Thinking: Ability to analyse data, solve complex problems, and make informed decisions
- Communication: Strong ability to interact with both financial and non-financial stakeholders
- Teamwork: Energetic, collaborative, and willing to support the broader finance function
Benefits:
- Flexible working arrangements (home/office)
- 20 days’ paid holiday (increasing by 1 day per year) + 7 additional days at Christmas
- Health insurance plan, personal wellbeing budget, and sick pay
- Opportunities for career development and internal promotion
- A diverse and inclusive work culture
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If you’re passionate about using your financial expertise to make a tangible impact on the lives of young people, this is the perfect role for you!
Application Deadline: Friday 4 October at 23:59 hrs.
Greenhouse Sports is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children therefore applicants must be willing to undergo child protection training and screening including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check and obtaining satisfactory references from past employers.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Transforming Lives for Good (TLG) are a national Christian charity working in partnership with local churches to give struggling children hope and a future. Building on the huge success of TLG Early Intervention Coaching, TLG Therapeutic Support will be a new way for TLG, with partner churches, to provide support in school for the increasing number of pupils struggling to cope due to their emotional, relational, and mental health experiences.
In this role we are looking for an individual that thrives working with children and young people in a school context and is passionate about supporting pupils and their families struggling with emotional, relational, and mental health challenges. The ideal candidate will be a qualified counsellor with an aptitude for creativity whether this is music and drama, sport and outdoor recreation or other fields of kinaesthetic development. The TLG Therapeutic Counsellor will be present each week in the school, providing specialist trauma aware care for these children, whilst supporting staff and parents too, so we're looking for an individual who can build and foster strong relationships.
TLG is a Christian charity and, as a team, we want to bring our faith to the work we do; as such, we are recruiting an individual with a strong and vibrant Christian faith. We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.
Closing Date: Rolling Applications
Applications will be reviewed on application prior to the closing date. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date if a suitable applicant applies. The date of interviews is to be confirmed.
Family Rights Group is the leading child welfare charity, and is rolling out its highly successful Lifelong Links programme in London for care experienced young people. As part of that work, we have received funding to create this exciting new post which is ideal for a young people participation expert.
The Young People’s Participation Officer will build on and continue to develop the charity's young people's participation activities so that young people inform, influence and help to deliver the strategic priorities of the charity. Over time, you will be tasked with setting up and supporting groups of care experienced young people who will be integral to the development, influence and promotion of Lifelong Links-related work including the Lifelong Links: London project.
Alongside the Lifelong Links participation work, you'll support other young people who have experience of the child welfare system or were raised in kinship care, to have their voices heard. You will work closely with others within the charity, including members of the Senior Leadership Team, FGC and Lifelong Links Team, Policy Team and with the charity’s Family Participation Officer.
We welcome applicants to this role who have lived experience of being raised in kinship care or the care system.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.