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Role Description

This role combines expertise in safeguarding with collaboration across communities, clubs, and organisations. Acting as a trusted and proactive safeguarding presence, this role ensures that everyone engaging in physical activity experiences safe, inclusive, and equitable environments. The Safeguarding and Welfare Advisor will play a key role in strengthening existing safeguarding structures while building new opportunities for collaboration and best practice across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

Role Outcomes

• Together Active’s programmes are compliant with the latest safeguarding and welfare standards, particularly in relation to inclusivity.
• Increased trust in safeguarding processes among local clubs and organisations delivering physical activity.
• Tangible improvements in safeguarding and welfare standards across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

What Does This Mean Day to Day?

• Collaborate with local clubs and organisations to strengthen safeguarding and welfare practices.
• Facilitate connections between community safeguarding officers, National Governing Bodies, and statutory services.
• Deliver training and guidance to Club Welfare Officers to ensure they are confident and well-equipped to fulfil their roles.
• Visit local clubs and events to raise safeguarding awareness among participants, parents/carers, and volunteers.
• Support community organisations in developing and implementing safeguarding action plans.
• Collate examples of learning and best practices to share locally and nationally.
• Promote safeguarding campaigns and initiatives to raise awareness of key welfare issues.

How We Value You

• Generous annual leave allowance: 27.5 days upon commencement of employment plus bank holidays, increasing by an additional day per year after two years of continuous employment (up to an additional 5 days).
• Three concessionary days leave over Christmas and New Year (pro rata for part-time staff).
• Death in service scheme up to the value of three times actual salary.
• Wellbeing Grant: £50 voucher per year to spend on health and wellbeing.
• Volunteer day to support an organisation or cause of your choice.
• Up to 8% employer contribution to the pension scheme.
• Reimbursement of the cost of a standard eye test as a user of visual display equipment.
• Access to Cyclescheme.
• Annual CPD courses offered by Staffordshire University.
• Online skills training platform for personal and professional development.
• Access to counselling services.

Our Organisation

You will work a combination of office, client-home, community, and home-based working. Causeway is a 4-day week employer, so you will work 32 hours over 4 days a week. Causeway is a London living wage employer. You will receive a 6% pension contribution, rising to 12% after two years service. We also offer an employee assistance programme that provides free financial, legal, and mental health advice and support to our employees. We provide core training, and continuous learning and development throughout your career with us. Travel schemes such as cycle to work and travelcard loans are also available.

The Role

To provide a high-quality housing management service, ensuring outstanding customer service and service delivery, by a being a primary point of contact for tenants. Manage a patch of approximately100 units. Engage with tenants to provide a responsive efficient housing management service that is consistently excellent for all tenancies. Housing Officers are expected to carry out the vast majority of their duties (70%) at our managed accommodation. 

About SafeLives

We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.    

Last year alone, 14,000 professionals received our training. Over 80,000 adults at risk of serious harm or murder and more than 100,000 children received support through dedicated multi-agency support designed by us and delivered with partners. In the last six years, over 4,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change by interventions we created with partners, and that’s just the start. 

Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone.

About the role

Our influencing work is changing the UK conversation about domestic abuse, with both national and locally based elected representatives and the officials and colleagues who work alongside them. Our PPAC Officer, reporting to the PPAC Manager, will be crucial in helping us to develop our engagement, as well as deepen our policy influencing capacity to support our roll-out of ground-breaking interventions to end domestic abuse and ensure support for the whole family to keep people safe sooner.

You will be joining the organisation at a very busy time as we seek to influence the new Government to improve response to Perpetrators and stick to their commitment of halving VAWG within ten years.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week.

Contract: Fixed term until March 2026, with possibility of extension.

Location: London office and/or hybrid working available, but to note regular meetings in London. Occasional travel to other locations around the UK, including our Bristol office.

Benefits

• 34 days' holiday incl. public holidays
• Flexible working e.g. compressed hours
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
• Childcare vouchers
• Employee assistance programme
• Clinical supervision
• Holiday purchase scheme to buy up to an additional 5 days
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Enhanced sick pay
• Professional development fund
• Individual learning budget
• Restorative practice training
• Time off in lieu 

If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter and CV.

Closing date: 9am on 6th January 2025.

SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all; please see our job description for full details.

No agencies, please.

About us

We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here. 

The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the development and delivery of a 3-year Train the Trainer pilot programme in the chosen pilot locations in England or Scotland.

The pilot will train and equip local health care professionals, health promotion workers and local community workers with the knowledge and resources to promote breast awareness, breast screening and risk reduction messages in their own communities.

You will support the 2 public health development managers, train the trainer, with the development and delivery of the in-person programme, including, marketing materials, resource packs and ongoing support for trainees. You will also be responsible for the organisation of training delivery within the pilot areas.

About you

We’re looking for someone who has experience of working on public health focused projects, and engagement experience with a range of audiences from health or community-based organisations.

The right candidate will have a good understanding of health inequalities, the challenges they present to health behaviours and outcomes, and be passionate about addressing these challenges.

You’ll have strong communication and engagement skills and enjoy working to develop successful partnerships with a range of organisations, communities and stakeholders.

Job description and benefits

Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.

Primary location of role and hybrid working

These roles involve significant travel across England (Westminster and Leicester) or Scotland (Glasgow and Lanarkshire).

Therefore, these posts can either be home based or office based at our London, or Glasgow offices (if within reasonable commuting distance).

When applying

We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria.

Please confirm which location your are applying for in your application.

If you’ve any immediate questions please contact Breast Cancer Now recruitment (please note our offices will be closed from the 24th December 2024 to January 2nd 2025).

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.

Closing date: 9.00am on 13 January 2025

Interview date: W/C 27 January 2025 via MS Teams

Who we are: Transform Justice is a national charity working for a fair, open and compassionate justice system. We believe that evidence about what works to reduce crime and prevent reoffending should be at the heart of policy decisions and embedded into practice. 

We work to promote change by generating research and evidence to show how the system works and how it could be improved, and by influencing practitioners and politicians to make changes to the justice system. Current projects include our #FairChecks campaign for criminal records reform, our mass court observations programme CourtWatch London, and our work promoting greater use of diversion from court through our crime resolution tracker and policy advocacy.

About the role: Transform Justice is seeking a research and policy officer to play a vital role supporting its work for a better justice system. Working closely with the charity’s director and deputy director (and alongside our communications officer), you will conduct high quality research, draft policy briefings, and organise and participate in meetings and events. This role will support a range of projects including the next round of our innovative courtwatching project, and our research into victims’ experiences of the criminal justice system. You will also work closely with the director on a piece of research and policy work into the single justice procedure. 

We are looking for someone inquisitive, flexible, and organised. The role is home-based using your own equipment, so you will need to be able to work on your own with minimal day-to-day supervision. The team meets regularly online and for in-person meetings in London, with the option to work together for a half day in a cafe on a weekly basis. 

Main responsibilities and duties:

• Undertaking qualitative and quantitative research including phone interviews, survey design, submitting FOI requests and analysing published data

• Reviewing relevant academic evidence and policy documents and identifying what’s important for our advocacy work 

• Writing, editing and proofreading reports, briefings and submissions

• Liaising with policy makers and stakeholders including organising and attending meetings and drafting correspondence

• Organising online and in person events to support Transform Justice’s advocacy work 

• Supporting the CourtWatch London project including engaging with volunteers, organising and supporting the delivery of training, reviewing data collection 

• Support the drafting of funding applications

• Other reasonable duties as required including administrative tasks such as generating invoices 

Skills and experience:

• At least one year of work experience in a research or policy-related role

• Demonstrable qualitative and quantitative research skills, for example using interviews, surveys, or published statistics to produce insights and recommendations 

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing 

• Ability to take ownership of tasks when working remotely with little supervision, seeking advice and support when needed

• Ability to prioritise your workload when working on a range of different projects and tasks 

• Excellent computer skills, with knowledge and practice of Word, Excel and PowerPoint 

• Interest in criminal justice policy issues, and a commitment to help achieve Transform Justice’s vision

Location: Remote working with regular in-person meetings in London

Contract: One year term with the potential to be renewable

Salary: £28,000 - £31,000 pa full time (pro rata if part time). There is also the opportunity for this to be a freelance role if preferred

Hours: Full time (also open to part-time 3 or 4 days a week)

Reporting to: Deputy director

Holiday/pension: 25 days FTE (pro rata if part time)

Probationary period: three months

How to apply: Please submit a CV and answer the screening questions through the CharityJob website by Saturday 4th January 2025. Interviews will take place on Thursday 16th January and Friday 17th January and will be conducted in person in London.

Candidates for interview will be notified by email. We are sorry that due to limited staff capacity we are not able to reply to all applicants.

Transform Justice is committed to fair recruitment and the inclusion of applicants with criminal records. This position is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. For this role, the disclosure of a criminal record is not required. 

To reduce bias in the hiring process, Transform Justice uses CharityJob’s anonymous recruitment process. This automatically replaces personal information (i.e. name and email address) with pseudonyms on CVs until we invite a candidate to interview.

Reporting to: CEO
Key relationships: Grants Manager, Grants Officer, Grants Administrator and Communications Officer
Location: The Rufford Foundation Office, Central London. Staff must work a minimum of 2 days per week from the office. There may be occasional travel overseas.
Benefits: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, attractive employer contribution-only pension, private medical insurance cover, excellent working environment.
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

About The Rufford Foundation

The Rufford Foundation is a grant-making charity that provides funding for nature conservation programmes and projects.

The flagship Rufford Small Grants Programme awards funding to individuals working in developing countries who are starting on the ladder of conservation research and establishing pilot programmes. Since its inception in 1999, the Rufford Small Grants Programme has given over £37 million through more than 6,100 grants to projects in over 150 countries. The programme identifies scientists and practitioners at the early stages of their careers and provides targeted support to enable them to achieve their goal of making a difference in terms of conservation. A searchable database of Rufford Small Grants projects can be found on our website.

In 2023, we started to pilot our Organisational Grants funding stream to provide core, multi-year funding to small local NGOs to help them strengthen their financial and institutional capacity to ensure long-term viability.

This is an exciting time to join The Rufford Foundation, as the postholder will play an essential role in encouraging grantees to apply for further funding. This new role will sit within the conservation team to coordinate the delivery and oversight of Rufford Small Grants.

Rufford Small Grants are renowned for being an important milestone in the careers of conservationists and researchers who may have limited experience in designing and delivering projects. We are very aware that unforeseen issues may arise and are considerate towards requests for project changes. The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer will review all project updates and reports to track project changes and to monitor project delivery against proposed plans.

The Rufford Foundation is involved with other conservation donors and practitioners looking at the evidence of conservation effectiveness and supporting learning from success and failure. We fully understand that conservation projects may not succeed as planned and that evaluating small grant project impacts over short timescales (1-3 years) is problematic. The MEL Officer will take this into account when reviewing project progress and evaluation reports.

The ideal candidate will bring previous experience of reviewing (or drafting) donor reports, have excellent analytical and communications skills and be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of biodiversity conservation, ideally with some practical knowledge of conservation in countries where the foundation funds projects. Experience of coordinating work with grantees, including review of workplans, deliverables and budgets, would be highly desirable.

We are keen for the MEL Officer to use their expertise to design a MEL framework to help our grantees with their project proposals, and The Rufford Foundation to evaluate the impact of work across the Rufford Small Grant and Organisational Grant portfolios. The MEL Officer may also support grantees with their own project evaluations.

Principal Responsibilities

Rufford Small Grants

• Review narrative and financial reports for Rufford Small Grant projects, including comparative analysis of results versus original proposals.
• Draft brief summaries of the results of each project, highlighting project changes and outcomes, sharing these with colleagues in writing and at team meetings.
• Compile key achievements delivered through Rufford Small Grant projects.
• Make recommendations for Rufford staff to follow-up with grantees about further Rufford Small Grant funding.
• Work with colleagues to develop reporting guidelines and update our reporting templates.
• Support grantees with understanding and meeting Rufford reporting requirements – this might be done through online or in-person meetings with individuals or groups.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of grant-related activities specifically related to the review of Rufford Small Grant project reports.
• Using background material drafted as part of a recent consultancy, to develop high-level indicators for conservation and capacity building, lead in formalising an evaluation framework for The Rufford Foundation across all grant-making.
• Develop a systematic process to monitor the careers of previous grantees to measure the impact of our funding.
• Produce graphs, tables and short reports on Rufford Small Grants on a regular basis.

General

• Support with monitoring and evaluation of Organisational Grants including review of annual reports and gauging progress against annual plans.
• Cultivate strong relationships with colleagues, grantees and external contacts.
• Explore opportunities for grantees to draft pieces to promote their work through Rufford communications channels.
• Provide administrative support on grant-making processes as required.
• Represent The Rufford Foundation at events in the UK (online and in-person) and overseas to promote Rufford Small Grants to relevant audiences and ensure the foundation is well connected with conservation and donor communities.
• Ad hoc work in support of the Grants Manager and CEO.
• This job description is not exhaustive, and the role may evolve.

Person specification

Experience

• At least 5 years’ experience of working within an environmental or biodiversity conservation NGO.
• Grant-making or project reporting, ideally within the conservation sector.
• Reviewing donor reports for conservation projects, including drafting feedback for grantees to address queries raised.
• Excellent planning, organisational and administrative skills.
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluating conservation projects.
• Candidates will ideally have completed an MSc in an environmental/conservation- related discipline.
• Demonstrable understanding of planning and delivering field-based conservation projects, preferably within countries where Rufford funds projects, would be advantageous.

Skills and abilities

Essential:

• Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to build and maintain positive relationships with colleagues, grantees and collaborators.
• Interest in connecting with other conservation donors and others working in conservation and capacity building.
• IT literate with experience of using online application and review systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good research, analytical, and administrative skills.
• Able to manage a consistently busy workload.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise tasks and work to deadlines.
• Good team player who enjoys working within a small, friendly team.
• Capable of working under their own initiative.
• The job holder may be requested to travel overseas as part of their work.
• Must have the right to work in the UK on a full-time basis.

Desirable:

• Ability to communicate in a second language, e.g., French, Spanish or another language.

We regret that we are unable to consider applications from those who have a time-limit on their visas. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship.

About Us

We are National Energy Action (NEA) – and our vision is to end fuel poverty; our work to improve and promote energy efficiency brings social, environmental, housing and employment benefits. We believe everyone should be able to afford to keep their homes warm and safe, however, low incomes, high energy bills and poor energy efficiency currently deny this to millions of households across the UK.Never has this been more important than today. 

NEA’s teams are friendly, knowledgeable and are dedicated to what we do.  We are proud of our expertise and proud of the service we deliver to our clients.

We offer colleagues a friendly, rewarding workplace and the chance to build a worthwhile career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives each and every day.

The Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Energy Adviser, to work on either a full or part time basis. Job share applications are also welcome. This role provides an exciting and rewarding opportunity to help the charity build its profile amongst regional stakeholders whilst delivering projects that seek to bring an end to fuel poverty and to the misery of cold homes that is experienced by over 6.5 million households in the UK.

NEA’s Energy Advisers are empathetic, polite and have good listening skills but are also knowledgeable, assertive, and confident. Their main role is to provide one to one advice to clients referred through the charity’s Warm and Safe Homes helpline and to deliver energy advice presentations to groups.  They also get involved in a range of tasks to support these activities.  Energy Advisers sit within the Communities Directorate and are part of a dynamic and caring team of professionals who go the extra mile to support their clients, some of whom may be in difficult circumstances.

This post is subject to enhanced vetting and barring check.

What you will need to succeed

Working within our Communities Directorate you will have demonstrable experience of delivering Energy Advice and helping others.  Therefore, it is vital that you have empathy, confidence and knowledge of the issues facing vulnerable low-income households.

You will have knowledge and understanding of the environmental, social and economic problems of deprived areas and the roles of the public, private and voluntary sectors in tackling them.

You will also have knowledge of assistance available for energy efficiency improvements to low-income households.

You will be an excellent communicator, with proven experience and understanding of how to effectively address the energy needs of low income, vulnerable or disadvantaged householders – with the desire to make a positive difference to people’s lives.

NEA has several office locations throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and welcomes applicants from all regions, however we would particularly welcome applications from those living in Kent and the South-East.  Home working and office-based locations are available. Preferences will be discussed with candidates at interview. Hybrid working is subject to necessary H&S and GDPR checks. Post holders must be resident within the UK and be able to provide their Right to Work in the UK. 

We are offering:

 £28,163 – £33,205 (FTE) – Scale 5-6, Points 12-22 (plus £3,300 London Weighting if applicable). New appointments are usually made at the starting point of the scale.

• 11½% non-contributory pension.
• 25 days annual leave plus 3 additional days in between Christmas New Year Period when our offices close; plus, all public holidays per annum for full time staff, pro-rata for part time staff.
• Flexible working arrangements including the opportunity for Hybrid working.
• Enhanced family friendly payments.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Employee benefits platform.
• 18-Month Fixed Term Post.

The closing date for all applications is 12:00 noon Monday 13 January 2025. We anticipate interviewing the two weeks commencing Monday 20 January 2025. Full details of the posts and an application form are available on our website.

How to apply:

Apply online by clicking 'apply via website'.

Please note CVs will not be accepted as part of the application process.  No recruitment agency or advertising enquiries, please.

Please be aware that National Energy Action is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore, the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.

NEA aims to be an equal opportunities employer.  We welcome applications from all people with the necessary skills and experience for the post.Charity Registration No. 290511.  Company Registration No:  01853927

Our Organisation

You will work a combination of office, client-home, community, and home-based working. Causeway is a 4-day week employer, so you will work 32 hours over 4 days a week. Causeway is a London living wage employer. You will receive a 6% pension contribution, rising to 12% after two years service. We also offer an employee assistance programme that provides free financial, legal, and mental health advice and support to our employees. We provide core training, and continuous learning and development throughout your career with us. Travel schemes such as cycle to work and travelcard loans are also available.

The Role

• Coordinate the efficient day to day management of the organisation’s rental income, for approximately 250 tenants/units. 
• Manage the rent arrears recovery procedure to ensure rent is collected as per Causeway’s rent collection policy.
• Contact tenants to agree repayment plans and advise on income maximisation.

Job Title: Content Officer (9 Month FTC)

Reports to: Digital Lead

Benefits: Nine-day fortnight (with alternate Fridays designated as a day off), pension contributions, 25 days Annual Leave, staff learning fund, enhanced parental benefits package.

Based in: London office. (We are willing to consider remote working within the UK, with monthly in-person meetings in London, for the right candidate.)

Application deadline: 13th January 2025 (9AM)

Why this role is important – and why you’ll make a difference doing it:

HOPE not hate is the UK’s leading anti-fascist organisation. Our mission is simple – to monitor and challenge the far right, to engage in the communities that are susceptible to them and to address the issues and policies which give rise to them.

Our team includes researchers, educators, community activists and policy experts, as well as specialists with inside access to far right groups.

As a Content Officer, you’ll play a critical role in driving our digital engagement. By creating compelling content for our social media, website and email programmes, you’ll help us attract, inspire, and mobilise more people to stand against hate. 

Your role will include:

• Content Creation: Write, design, and produce engaging content, including social media posts, emails, website copy and more. Use tools like Canva, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and CapCut to create graphics and videos from new and existing footage. 

• Digital Campaigns: Work with the Digital Lead to plan and execute creative campaigns that inspire action and raise funds. 

• Audience Engagement: Build and manage our presence on Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, X, and BlueSky, and engage with supporters through other platforms. Act as the first point of contact for supporters, responding to messages and comments and managing replies. 

• Performance Monitoring: Run tests on content across platforms, analyse results, and use insights to refine and improve our engagement strategies. 

What we think you’ll need to be able to do the job:

Essential

• 1+ year of experience in digital work for a campaign, charity, or political organisation. 

• Creativity and strong ideas for engaging content. 

• Experience in copywriting, graphic design, and video production and tools like Canva, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and CapCut. 

• Strong organisational skills, and ability to prioritise effectively. 

Desirable: 

• Knowledge and experience in the areas we work on would be an advantage – tackling the far right; building community resilience against hate, division and oppression; and campaigning against policies that fuel hate. 

• Experience using tools like Engaging Networks or WordPress. 

We are looking for someone with the emotional resilience to work in a field that involves challenging content, good political judgement and awareness and the ability to work under pressure and reduced timescales.

We believe that our work will be at its best if it is created by people with a range of backgrounds and experiences. We are keen to interview people who will add diversity to our team. We are an antifascist organisation, which strives to be an effective ally in the wider fight against racism and inequity.

This is a great opportunity to become part of a team, which makes a real difference.

The post holder will be a source of support and expertise to Helpline Volunteers during a shift, providing emotional support and signposting options to bereaved people in their initial contact with Cruse Bereavement Support, (in call / Email / Casework). Support ongoing growth and development of the helpline through call monitoring, onboarding new volunteers and implementation of the Quality framework. 

Working alongside the Helpline Service Manager, the role will support the development and growth of the helpline.

This role will be working closely with a Project Team in Cruse who are managing our Southern Gas Network (SGN) partnership. We would like this role to participate in the development of the partnership to ensure effective rollout within our National Helpline. This would require you to attend National Energy Action (NEA) Fuel Debt Advice in the Community Training and become the point of contact for the National Helpline staff and volunteers for SGN related queries.

Due to the nature of the role, you would be expected to work flexibly on a shift basis (with availability to work between 9am and 8:15pm), including some Bank Holidays.

Criminal Record Checks

All staff are required to complete a Criminal Record check. Staff working directly with clients will be required to complete an enhanced check. We comply with the relevant codes of practice and they can be viewed online: 

• Applicants in England and Wales: DBS Code of Practice
• Applicants in Northern Ireland: AccessNI Code of Practice

Previous convictions will not prevent full consideration of your application to work with Cruse. Our Recruitment of Ex-offenders' Policy & Handling Criminal Record Check Data Policy are available on request by email.

We comply with all relevant data protection legislation and process your data fairly.

The purpose of your role

We are looking for a personal assistant with some previous experience, who is keen to support Police Now’s mission of community transformation and culture change in policing, and to undertake a meaningful role supporting the executive leadership team in a busy, agile and ambitious organisation. 

Police Now’s executive leadership team currently includes the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Programmes Director. Together, the Executive is responsible for the organisation’s overall health and success and is accountable to the board of trustees. 

This role will work both independently and collaboratively to ensure that the executive team works efficiently and effectively. This will primarily be achieved via swift and thoughtful diary management, meeting support (for example, taking minutes of formal meetings and actions from informal ones), management of email inboxes, drafting and responding to correspondence, and similar administrative and support duties. Over time, there are opportunities to develop and add additional activities and responsibilities to the role. 

Absolute discretion and trust is critical, as is strong and confident communication with a diverse range of people. You will need to be intrinsically motivated, trustworthy and prepared to take on exciting and varied challenges within Police Now.

Key responsibilities

• Board and board committee governance: be a point of contact for trustees, partners and other external stakeholders and plan and coordinate board meetings, sub-committees, and the senior leadership team meetings. This includes ensuring papers are circulated in advance, meeting room bookings, attending meetings and producing timely, concise and accurate minutes and actions. You will work with the Company Secretary to update our records on Companies House and the Charities Commission to ensure that Police Now is always compliant as well as manage and maintain databases and systems relating to governance.
• Executive team diary management: support the executive team with day-to-day diary management to help ensure that they are effectively utilising their time in the most impactful ways. This includes arranging and coordinating meetings, booking rooms in our London office, arranging travel and accommodation when required and in some cases, sourcing an external venue while being cost effective, all while ensuring that digital infrastructure is available to support hybrid working. 
• Financial processing: you will process invoices relating to the executive through our financial system and reconcile the executive teams monthly credit card statements and personal expenses in a timely manner as well as occasionally process expenses for trustees and committee members.
• Project support: assist and support the Executive team and Strategy, Stakeholders and Governance Manager as needed with strategic projects and other ad hoc tasks as required.
• Inbox management: manage the general enquiries inbox and some individual executive inboxes to effectively direct queries and escalate risks as appropriate.

Key Requirements 

• We are looking for someone with a good grounding as a personal assistant or with significant relevant experience within an administrative role. 
• An ability to handle confidential information with absolute discretion; a track record of integrity and good judgement. 
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to work at real pace, manage a varied workload, work to short deadlines and prioritise effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong emotional intelligence and the ability to build positive relationships and trust with stakeholders, including staff and external partners.
• Excellent attention to detail, as well as the ability to select the most important information to note or share during meetings.
• Excellent written communication skills, particularly minute writing, report writing and correspondence.
• Good initiative, able to proactively suggest ways to streamline or improve processes to enhance efficiency.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision; can proactively anticipate, respond and adapt to situations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), particularly report writing and slide packs; experience in Salesforce or CRM systems is an advantage but not essential. 
• A real passion for our mission and values. 
• Ability to attend the office for a minimum of three days per week (this may change depending on business needs) as well as national travel as and when required. 
   

What you'll get from us

• A bright, airy and modern office in Zone 1
• Competitive salary of £36,000 - £43,000, per annum (dependent on experience and inclusive of London weighting)
• Flexible working
• 27 days holiday each year, plus bank holidays 
• A range of hospitality discounts
• Sanctus coaching (private mental health coaching for the workplace)
• Access to the Vitality programme which includes healthcare benefits, an Employee Assistance Programme and discounts
• Training opportunities for personal development
• Participation in a pension scheme (with 6% employer contributions and 2% employee contributions)

Please note the closing date for this role is Thursday 2nd January at 9am.

Applications will be screened as they are received and invited to interview accordingly. Police Now reserves the right to close the advert prior to the advertised date, early applications are therefore encouraged.

Senior Peer Researcher and Involvement Officer

The McPin Foundation

Type: Fixed term for 1 year
Location: Head office (Bethnal Green, London)/Working remotely

Salary: From £33,474 per annum FTE
Hours: 37.5 hours a week

Do you have a passion for mental health research with lived experience at its heart?  Would you like to support people to be involved in a range of mental health research studies?  We are looking for a Senior Peer Researcher and Involvement Officer to join our team and help us transform mental health research.

This post would ideally suit someone with well-developed research skills who is keen to develop further and willing to lead on projects as well as working with others.  The post holder will lead on writing reports, papers and potentially small tenders where needed, as well as and co-developing larger proposals.  They will also support other people with lived experience who work on an ad hoc or volunteer basis as their link contact and will facilitate and lead research involvement groups with adults and young people.  The post holder will work on a wide range of projects including with a neuroscience and biomedical focus.

Our team is committed to transforming mental health research through collaboration, inclusion and a belief in equity and anti-oppressive behaviour.  We strongly encourage applications from Black people, People of Colour, people who are LGBTQIA+, those with a disability and those who identify themselves in marginalised groups, as well as people with lived experience of mental health issues.

We offer benefits including a competitive salary, hybrid/flexible working, a NEST Pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, wellbeing support and mentoring scheme, an individual training budget and access to an Employee Assistance Programme and healthcare cash plan.

Please see the full job description for more information.

The closing date for applications is 14th January 2025 at 9am.

Interviews will be held virtually in the week commencing 20th January 2025.

To apply please visit the McPin website to download an application form.

An exciting opportunity to become part of the Senior Management Team (SMT) at Schoolreaders, a dynamic and fast-growing charity based in Bedford. Schoolreaders is a national charity tackling poor literacy through a network of volunteers who provide one-to-one reading support to children in primary schools across the country. We are the largest national in-school child literacy charity, supporting over 28,000 children in over 1,400 schools every week. We have ambitious plans to grow and support many more children in future, so it’s an exciting time to join us.

We are looking for a committed individual to join Schoolreaders to be part of the SMT and wider charity, delivering this vital support to children. As Head of Business Support, you will be coming on board to develop and manage the structure and team that deliver the support functions for the charity, helping keep everything running smoothly. Your team will consist of employees, contractors and third parties where necessary, and you will co-ordinate them to deliver a seamless set of services. At this time the role will line manage two officer roles within the charity, manager several third parties (including HR and IT) and work alongside the Head of Finance.

The Head of Business Support will oversee compliance, governance, HR, IT, facilities, and administrative functions. We don’t expect you to be an expert across all these areas – you might have a strong background in one or two but have the ability to manage these functions and others in the team and have a meticulous eye for detail. You will be expected to have a good understanding of compliance, IT, health & safety and HR to enable you to lead the day-to-day delivery across these disciplines.

Reporting into the charity’s CEO, you will be part of the Senior Management Team (SMT). As part of this you will directly input into the charity’s strategy and annual planning process.  The Head of Business Support will also manage the delivery of change within the organisation, tracking projects and raising risks and issues to the SMT.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

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1. Day to day oversight of the delivery and development of corporate services functions, to include:

a. Compliance, ensuring that Schoolreaders is compliant with all relevant legislation, data management and safety standards. (H&S, GDPR etc)

b. Risk, ensuring effective systems and processes are in place for managing risk, owning key policies and their review, engaging with staff with information and training, liaising with the Board and with the Director responsible for Safeguarding and being the main point of contact for whistle blowing.

c. Business Support, monitoring and driving forward internal projects, overseeing the review and management of policies, and managing administrative and other support functions.

d. IT, supporting and maintaining systems, hardware and software, ensuring they are secure and up to date, continuing to develop new functionality in partnership with our external IT providers

e. HR (managing both internal and external resources) to support recruitment, starters and leavers, staff welfare, processing payroll, leave and sickness and the training and development of people.

f. Facilities, managing office spaces, supporting home workers and overseeing health and safety.

g. Producing and leading on the annual Culture Review, collating scoring and feeding back to trustees.

h. Finance, assisting the Head of Finance, approving spend where necessary.

2. Line management of two Business Support Officers, covering

a. Compliance

b. HR Support

c. IT Support

d. Finance

3. Development of yearly plans and budgeting for all corporate services.

4. Manage relationships with external suppliers and ensure value for money.

5. Owning the programme of change across all services to ensure we remain on track to deliver our ambitious growth objectives.

6. Establishing and maintaining office procedures.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Sally Wrampling (CEO)  for an informal conversation.

To apply for the post, please submit your CV with a covering letter outlinging how you meet the job requirements / specification.

Role Title: Proposals and Grants Officer

Salary: £35,236-£36,330 (Pro Rata)

Location: London-Hybrid

Tenure: Part time- Permanent (17.5 Hours per week)

ActionAid UK is a member of the ActionAid Federation, an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. As part of the ActionAid Federation, we work with women and girls, our partners, and dedicated staff in 43 countries to end violence and fight poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.

Are you a keen advocate of women and girls’ rights in emergencies? 

Are you a skilled communicator with a passion for storytelling and an eye for detail?

Can you translate technical programme information into compelling donor communications for different audiences?

Then we'd love to hear from you!

ActionAid UK is seeking a Proposals and Grants Officer to play a critical role in securing vital funding to support women and girls worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity to craft compelling donor communications and manage grants that drive sustainable and meaningful change.

Why This Role is Exciting

• Inspire and Influence: Use your creativity and communication skills to produce impactful materials that inspire donors, secure funding, and champion the rights of women and girls globally.
• Be Part of a Global Movement: Collaborate with a dynamic team and colleagues across the ActionAid Federation in over 45 countries, working towards gender equality and social justice.
• Shape the Future of Funding: Deliver innovative donor communications, manage strategic grants, and drive improvements in how we connect with philanthropic individuals, trusts, and private sector donors.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Engaging Donor Communications: Craft powerful proposals, concept notes, and donor reports that highlight ActionAid’s strategic work. Bring to life the stories of individuals and communities we support, translating technical programme details into compelling narratives.
• Grant Management Excellence: Manage a portfolio of restricted grants, ensuring high standards of reporting, monitoring, and compliance. Collaborate with programme staff globally to provide accurate and inspiring updates to donors.
• Organisation & Strategic Planning: Previous experience of working in a fast-paced environment and of managing and prioritising a varied workload to meet agreed deadlines as well as previous experience of working in a cooperative and flexible way as part of a busy team, with the ability to review existing team systems and processes and innovate to improve team efficiency Proven ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload, taking initiative and meeting deadlines
• Knowledge Sharing: Lead the development of internal resources, including a monthly newsletter that shares updates from across the Federation. Ensure the wider team is informed and equipped to engage donors effectively.

What Makes This Role Innovative

• This role goes beyond traditional fundraising. You’ll have the chance to:
• Drive Creative Storytelling: Use your talent for storytelling to craft human-centred narratives that inspire action.
• Support Transformational Work: Highlight projects that secure unrestricted and co-financing funding, ensuring long-term support for vital programmes.

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be asked to participate in criminal records checks at the point of offer.

Additional Information:

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging:

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging are key to our organisational culture. We are on a journey to become not only an anti-racist organisation but one that proudly

celebrates the diversity of all applicants and employees. We look forward to you bringing your full self to work, proudly sharing your unique perspective and helping us to shape our combined future. We especially welcome applications from those from underrepresented/marginalised communities.

AAUK is a disability Confident Committed organisation and as such any candidate that declares a disability will be shortlisted for interview if they meet the essential criteria for the role.

Referencing and Safeguarding:

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include safeguarding, criminal records and terrorism

finance checks. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

ActionAid UK is committed to preventing any form of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse (including child abuse and adult at-risk abuse) and responding robustly when these harms take place. We expect all ActionAid UK Staff and ActionAid UK Representatives to share this commitment. We will not tolerate our Staff or other representatives carrying out any form of sexual harassment, exploitation or abuse towards anyone we come into contact with through our work.

Working practices:

ActionAid is committed to supporting flexible working. If you would like to discuss flexible working options, including the possibility of a job share for this role, there will be space to do so during the interview process.

ActionAid UK has a hybrid working policy for many of our roles. The requirement will vary from team to team and the responsibilities of individual roles. As a minimum, all colleagues are expected to attend the office 12 days per year, plus additional time for induction, training, and “Company Connection days.” Some roles may require in- office attendance on all days and if so, these will clearly be marked as in-office

roles.

Please note that ActionAid UK does not offer fully remote working

options. We encourage you to discuss hybrid working expectations at interview.

Recruitment Processes:

Please note that ActionAid UK may review, shortlist and interview candidates prior to the closing date so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible.

If we receive a very high response, we may close the vacancy early and will not accept further submissions.