Context

Christian’s Against Poverty has been active in partnering with churches in the free debt help sector in Scotland for over twenty years as we seek to fulfil our mission to see transformed lives, thriving churches and an end to poverty. We are looking for someone who believes in that mission, with either a background in compliance or a proven ability to learn, to join our Policy and Compliance team to ensure that our professional debt advisors and local church based teams remain current on Scottish debt policy and connected issues, so that our highly regarded service is maintained and further improved.

Please note, the main location of work for this role is the CAP Scotland Office, Edinburgh. This role works in line with the CAP Hybrid working policy.

Purpose

The primary role of the Compliance Manager (Scotland) is to provide support, training and specialist knowledge for debt advisors delivering Scottish-specific solutions and to Debt Centres teams in local Churches who provide in person support to those in debt and on low incomes, ensuring our policies and procedures are both efficient and compliant with current legislation. The role will work to ensure we deliver high quality debt advice and holistic, person centred support to our clients through further developing Debt Operations policy and keeping abreast of government regulations and industry good practice. The role will also work closely with our network of debt centres to explore and develop new initiatives that will help and benefit our clients across Scotland.

Passion

We are passionate about knowledge and innovation, using this to deliver high quality advice and service to all our clients. We are determined to ensure all our debt advice staff and church based teams are adequately equipped to deliver a great service and the support we provide our clients is always improving. We are driven to enable and empower our partner churches to be the answer to some of the biggest problems society faces.

Personality

Enjoys learning and sharing this with others. Intelligent, decisive, self-motivated and a good communicator who loves finding solutions to difficult challenges. Likes exploring the needs of staff and clients, developing policy and bringing positive change. Enjoys making their work fun. We do all our work in a highly relational way; striving to always work with excellence and compassion.

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Are you inspired by the prospect of transforming lives and equipping churches to thrive? Do you want to be part of a team who bring transformative hope to people living in despair and poverty? If you answered yes, you could be the person we are praying for to join the team!

CAP are excited to be recruiting a Scotland Funding Manager on a 12 month fixed term contract.

This is a full time role (37.5 hpw) but a job share will be considered and we offer flexible, hybrid working from our Edinburgh office (40/60 split between office/home).

Are you inspired by the prospect of transforming lives and equipping churches to thrive? Do you want to be part of a team who bring transformative hope to people living in despair and poverty? If you answered yes, you could be the person we are praying for to join the team!

CAP are excited to be recruiting a Scotland Funding Manager on a 12 month fixed term contract.

This is a full time role (37.5 hpw) but a job share will be considered and we offer flexible, hybrid working from our Edinburgh office (40/60 split between office/home).

Key Details

● Location: Edinburgh (with flexible, hybrid working)

● Starting salary: £29,051 - £31,739

● Hours: Full time - 37.5 per week (Job share considered)

● Start date: ASAP

● Closing date: 19th June 2022

This role reports to our Fundraising & Supporter Development department whilst being embedded in our Scotland team. It is a highly collaborative role, working across both teams. We are passionate and determined to strengthen the movement of CAP supporters and churches responding to UK poverty. We are driven to build the relationships and provide the resources needed to see CAP’s vision to see every UK church serving and including the poorest whilst confidently proclaiming Jesus, realised.

The role

This role sits within both our Fundraising and Communications and Church Network directorates. It holds responsibility for ensuring our partner churches in Scotland are supported and empowered to become financially sustainable, whilst also seeking opportunities to develop fundraising and supporter engagement in Scotland for CAP’s UK vision and mission.

Who we're looking for

The church and supporters are crucial partners in bringing transformative hope to people trapped in despair and poverty in Scotland. We are passionate about ensuring they feel connected, engaged, inspired and empowered to tackle poverty in the UK with CAP. We want to give churches and supporters the best experience of Christians Against Poverty.

We are driven, passionate, strategic, fun, adaptable, visionary and professional. We put a high value on building excellent relationships both internally and externally.

CAP celebrates the value of diversity and our aim is for our workforce to be as inclusive as possible as well as representing the communities we serve. With this in mind, we welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from candidates from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. We are committed to continue building an environment that embraces diversity and includes all.

CAP offer a generous Rewards & Well-being package, including:

- 6.5% employer pension contribution

- 34 days annual holiday (including flexible bank holidays)

- 1 additional days holiday for each full year of service (up to a max of 5 additional days)

- 2 paid Mental Health days and up to 5 days Family Emergency leave per year

- Paid 'Revive' days to take time out with your team during the year

- Enhanced paid sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption leave

- Access to Employer Assistance Programme

- Gym membership discount

- Hybrid working

- Flexitime from day one (start/finish earlier or later in the day, accrue extra time off & achieve that work/life balance)

- plus many more! (see the rewards brochure on our website under 'related documents' for further information and pro-rata details for part time employees)

Please note: You will be based out of our Edinburgh office. We do offer flexible, hybrid working split 40/60 between office/home.

Disclaimer

Flexible, hybrid working available based out our Edinburgh office.

Under the 2010 Equality Act, Schedule 9, we have a genuine occupational requirement for all employees and volunteers to be practising Christians and clearly demonstrate an active faith in Jesus.

For further information, please contact the People & Culture team on 01274 760720 (option 6) or email recruitment@capuk.org.

Information on genuine occupational requirements

CAP has a growing and influential Scottish debt help service. This brings definitive obligations with regards to government regulation and a requirement for good practice. The Policy & Compliance team contains quality assurance and compliance officers, trainers, researchers, project and compliance managers, and data protection officers, and increasingly supports other areas of the charity.

The CAP Scotland team is dedicated to providing our Scottish debt advice service, tailored specifically to the needs of people in Scotland. This team is responsible for managing and developing CAP’s network of centres and the staff that run those centres. It is committed to empowering the local church and therefore invests in the support required for a church to run a CAP service well.

The role

The role of the Debt and Financial Wellbeing Specialist will be two fold. First to provide support, training and specialist knowledge for debt advisors delivering Scottish-specific solutions and to Debt Centres teams in local Churches who provide in person support to those in debt and on low incomes.

The role will work to ensure we deliver high quality debt advice and holistic, person centred support to our clients through further developing Debt Operations policy and keeping abreast of government regulations and industry good practice. The role will also work closely with our network of debt centres to explore and develop new initiatives that will help and benefit our clients across Scotland.

Please see the attached job profile for further details.

Who we're looking for

We're looking for someone who enjoys learning and sharing information with others. Intelligent, decisive, self-motivated and a good communicator who loves finding solutions to difficult challenges. Likes exploring the needs of staff and clients, developing policy and bringing positive change. Enjoys making their work fun. We do all our work in a highly relational way; striving to always work with excellence and compassion.

CAP celebrates the value of diversity and our aim is for our workforce to be as inclusive as possible as well as representing the communities we serve. With this in mind, we welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from candidates from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. We are committed to continue building an environment that embraces diversity and includes all.

CAP offer a generous Rewards & Well-being package, including:

- CAP 6.5% employer pension contribution

- 34 days annual holiday (including flexible bank holidays)

- 1 additional days holiday for each full year of service (up to a max of 5 additional days)

- 2 paid Mental Health (duvet) days and up to 5 days Family Emergency leave per year

- Paid 'Revive' days to take time out with your team during the year

- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave

- Healthcare cover

- Gym membership discount

- Flexitime from day one! (start/finish earlier or later in the day, accrue extra time off & achieve that work/life balance!)

- plus many more! (see rewards brochure below on our website under 'related documents' for further information)

Location

Scotland - working from our Edinburgh office 2 days out of 5

Disclaimer

This role is a 2 year Fixed Term Contract until 31st June 2024.

Please note that to be considered for this role you will be based in Scotland and will be required to work from our Edinburgh office a minimum of 2 days a week.