Purchasing Assistant Jobs in Manchester

Age UK Mid Mersey are offering a great opportunity to join our professional, innovative and dedicated team to help launch a new lottery funded Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (MCST) programme in Mid Mersey’s four boroughs: Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington.

Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (MCST) is a weekly group programme for people living with mild to moderate dementia or cognitive impairment. 

Group members take part in meaningful and stimulating activities, proven to help maintain memory and mental functioning. The groups provide a fun, supportive environment where people can build new friendships. 

Activities include: 

• discussions 
• word games 
• quizzes 
• physical activities 
• creative and musical activities. 

Cognitive Stimulation is the only non-drug treatment recommended to improve cognition, independence and well-being by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). 

Alongside the MCST group sessions the programme will also provide advice, information and facilitated peer support for the carers of groups members. 

The MCST Team Leader will lead a small team of MCST group facilitators, Carer Support workers and volunteers.

The Team Leader will plan programmes, provide support and supervision to staff, and ensure compliance with relevant guidelines and standards. They will be responsible for undertaking initial assessment visits with clients in their own homes to ensure the MCST programme is appropriate for them.

Travel across Mid-Mersey is expected so the post holder must have access to their own vehicle and a full clean driving licence. 

Full training in MCST will be provided alongside management training and mentoring.

Full job details are contained within the supporting Job Description and Person Specification.

Actual Salary for 21hrs £16,200 per annum (£26,700 FTE)

Application Process: 

To apply, please visit our website to complete an Age UK Mid Mersey Employee Application form, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria within the Job Description and Person Specification (please do not hesitate to contact us if you have specific requirements and need support to apply in an alternative format). 

To support our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion our hiring managers use anonymous shortlisting. Therefore, your personal details will be excluded prior to shortlisting. 

Age UK Mid Mersey is committed to safeguarding and follows Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding those we work with. We therefore ask that you supply your full work history with explanations for any gaps in the application form, and if offered the post, we will require two employment references including your current or most recent employer. 

The post is also subject to an Enhanced DBS Certificate. 

Closing Date: 23:59 on Sunday 26th January 2025

Interview Dates: Interviews will be held w/c 3rd February 2025

Elrha is a global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation. 

 We are looking to recruit a finance assistant within our Grants Operation and Finance team (GOF). As a central strategic function of Elrha, GOF works closely with all other teams and is responsible for managing Elrha’s financial planning, management, and reporting; and for leading on the operational aspects of grant management. The team has a particular focus on risk management in Elrha’s grant-making, and ensuring appropriate systems and processes are in place to comply with all donor requirements.  

In this role you will have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues across Elrha and in SCUK to coordinate and complete a range of finance and administration tasks to support accurate and timely financial reporting. The Finance Assistant will also have the opportunity to contribute to the continuous development and improvement of the process in order to ensure Elrha is always maintaining best practice. 

Your application will need to demonstrate: 

• Experience of experience of undertaking a range of transactional tasks associated with financial administration. 
• An understanding of basic finance and accounting principles and processes. 
• Excellent attention to detail and a high level of numeracy. 
• Proven ability to work proactively and resourcefully in a constantly changing environment. 
• An interest in the humanitarian or development sectors, ideally demonstrated through academic qualifications and/or paid or voluntary work.

Experience of contributing to the development and implementation of new or updated policies, processes and procedures would also be an advantage. 

If you want to be part of an organisation that creates positive change in the humanitarian sector, then join us and we’ll give you every opportunity to succeed.   

We offer: 

• Remote working as standard – staff can access office bases in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester if required/ appropriate. We expect staff to attend team meetings and away days in person as required. 
• As standard we work 35 hours per week. We are also happy to discuss flexible working patterns and many of our staff work non-standard working hours. 
• Our benefits include minimum 5% employer pension contribution (3% employee contribution), life cover, organisational sick pay, family friendly pay and leave schemes; incremental increase in annual leave (25 day basic entitlement) depending on length of service, opportunities for learning and development, a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and retail discounts platform. 
• Please read through the Information for Candidates document for further information to support your application, including details on Our Values, Strategy, Benefits and Salary. 

Note for applicants: 

• Candidates must have the independent right to work in UK at the time of appointment as we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this role. 
• Please read through the job description for a detailed list of requirements, and ensure you complete the personal statement to explain how you feel you meet the requirements of the role and why you feel this is next career move for you. 
• When applying you will be taken through the Save the Children UK recruitment system. Elrha is an independent subsidiary of SCUK and benefits from some SCUK systems and processes. 

Closing date: 29 January 2025 

Interview dates: w/c 10 February 

HR Assistant

Location: Stockport, with options for hybrid working
Department: HR
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 20-25 per week, Part Time
Salary: £26,061 FTE (pro rata to hours worked)

Who we are

NUS Charity is an exciting membership organisation developing and championing strong students’ unions. We connect our members and curate services to deliver advice, guidance and crisis support to students’ unions. We do professional differently. We are a progressive charity representing students’ unions across the UK. The sector is inclusive, fun, dynamic and representative and we put students and students’ unions at the heart of everything we do. We are challenging but are committed to creating a supportive and flexible environment which pushes your personal development in your everyday activity.

What we do

Students’ unions can be transformational hubs for students, staff, and wider society. NUS Charity supports our members’ development to enhance their capacity and harness opportunities to maximise their positive impact. We do this in many ways, from managing a purchasing consortium to drive great value for our members, to our development activity, supporting the best potential in students’ unions - we strive to make a difference to our members.

Within our small HR Team we deal with the full range of generalist HR work. We support the organisation’s people-related needs across the full employee life cycle: helping managers with recruitment, onboarding new starters, and general employee relations matters such as sickness absence. The team is responsible for maintaining an accurate and complete HR System to ensure that payroll is accurate.

What we need

As our HR Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting the day-to-day operations of our team. You will be responsible for a wide range of HR administrative tasks, ensuring smooth and efficient HR processes, and providing excellent customer service to our employees. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about HR. You should have experience of working within a generalist HR environment and be comfortable working with HR systems to manage HR and Payroll records, Learning & Development activity and Recruitment & Selection work.

You will be the first point of contact for HR queries and provide general administrative support to the team. You will administer our established HR systems, such as Natural HR/Moorepay for HR records and outsourced payroll – ensuring payroll administration is accurate and colleagues get paid correctly and on time. You will be working with WorkRite (our mandatory training system) and Hireful (our Recruitment & Selection Applicant Tracking System and onboarding).

We want to be as flexible as possible in this role, so we’re open to 20 – 25 hours across ideally 4 or 5 days per week. You can either do this role from our Stockport office or hybrid based partly in Stockport and partly at home.

Why apply?

As well as a great place to work, we offer a range of benefits including:

- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days per year rising with service to 30 days, pro rata for part time)
- Enhanced sick, maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay
- Health Cash Plan
- Pension scheme with employer matched contributions up to 6%
- Employee Assistance Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Childcare Allowance
- Paid volunteering days – three days per year for full time staff
- We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability. You can be yourself here whoever you are, be proud of the work you do and build a career in a place that knows different is good.

We recognise that candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised-Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are under-represented in our organisation, and that there are often additional barriers present for people from these groups when applying for roles in the charity sector and beyond. We are committed to taking positive action to expand the diversity of our staff team, and if you meet the essential criteria for a role and are from a BAME background, you'll be guaranteed a first stage interview. It is important to note that this scheme guarantees an interview for candidates who meet the minimum criteria and tell us that they'd like to be considered under the scheme. The selection decision at interview will be based on the most suitable candidate, regardless of any protected characteristic.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 19th January 2025 (23:59)
If you’re successfully shortlisted, we’ll see you at an interview in Stockport on either Thursday 30th January or Tuesday 4th February 2025.

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RIVET is a new social enterprise bringing together brands, influencers, and NGOs to fund and amplify youth-led social change. With 100+ years of experience elevating young changemakers, RIVET’s founders have seen firsthand that young people don’t lack talent or imagination; they lack access to resources.

In response, we have created the world’s first micro-finance platform focused on young social innovators, funded by youth themselves. This engine will transform young people’s everyday purchases into philanthropic power for their generation’s ideas to change the world. Created by, for, and with young people, RIVET represents the largest investment in youth-led social change. Ever.

As RIVET’s inaugural Director of Donor Engagement, you will help build and then lead the stewardship implementation for our 70+ major donors who serve on our Leadership Council, Youth Impact Council, and Youth Impact Fund, providing them with a meaningful experience that reflects our shared values and desired impact. RIVET’s operating budget is $2.5M, with most of that currently coming from philanthropic support. Our four-year sustainable business model strategy reflects an increasing reliance on brand revenue. The Director of Donor Engagement plays a critical role in helping us secure the capacity building funds needed to help the RIVET rocket get into orbit in the meantime. Your success is largely defined by donors renewing and deepening their support, and increasingly serving as an engine for RIVET’s expanded global impact.