Introducing Community Renewal Trust

Community Renewal is a dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland.

Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to unlocking flourishing lives and flourishing neighbourhoods. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.

Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.

This role will take a community development approach to stimulating, supporting and empowering community activities around growing, food and climate action in the Bingham, Magdalene and The Hays neighbourhood of Edinburgh. This includes recruiting and supporting volunteers and building trusted relationships with community activists and wider agencies/partners. Close coordination with a wider team providing community engagement and community casework will be needed including involvement in wider community engagement activities (e.g. events and outreach).

This role is ideal for someone at any stage in their career who wants to make change happen at a local level using a community development approach towards sustainably tackling poverty and embedding climate actions within a deprived neighbourhood.

Additional Benefits include:

• 4.5% employer pension contribution
• 36 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Loyalty scheme with up to 48 additional days leave
• reduction in hours after 5 years - no reduction in pay (ask to see our Welfare Policy)
• Free Access to Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme and online Health Portal

The Recovery and Mental Health services team provides embedded advice within Local Community Mental Health Teams and Recovery Hubs – a multi-agency approach for substance misuse services. We provide an embedded adviser within each of the 4 locality mental health teams and Recovery Services Hub. These services are funded through the Edinburgh Integrated Joint board ( EIJB) and also the UK Prosperity Fund.

The team also manages an outreach post to people at risk of drug death who are not yet engaged with Recovery Services and provides additional welfare rights to ‘The Works’ an employability project with Ballenden House community mental health team.

Background information

CHAI helps and empowers people through the provision of free, confidential, high quality, impartial advice, information and representation on welfare benefits, housing, employability and money issues.

Our aim is to alleviate poverty, prevent homelessness and encourage employability.

Our vision is to ensure that no one in our communities endures hardship. We believe that everyone in our communities should have the opportunity to become the best version of themselves.

We are looking for an experienced Finance/Admin Officer who will have key responsibility for financial administration, including the management of the accounts for the Board of trustees, the finance required for various funding returns, the day-to-day financial management, as well as undertaking general admin tasks under the guidance of the CEO. This post will also provide monthly support and supervision sessions to a team of 3 admin assistants. This post is based within the Charities office in Edinburgh.

We offer the following benefits:

· Flexible working

· Access to Simply Health benefit plan

· 32 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays)

· Enrolment to NOW Pension Scheme

This post is a permanent post.

Main Duties

· Provide day to day support to a team of 3 admin assistants.

· Monthly bank reconciliations of the charity

· Process customer invoices/supplier payments by BACS

· Check, process and record all payments, administer invoices, process expenses claims.

· Process small grant payments

· Produce monthly management reports and cash flow statement

· Maintain proper records on the computer accounts package – Sage & Sage payroll.

· Filing of all relevant paperwork

· Dealing with correspondence and answering calls

· Taking minutes of meetings as required.

· Preparing budget’s for projects with grant and trust applications

· Assist with year-end procedures and the Charities annual audit process.

· Undertake general admin tasks under the direction of the Senior Management Team and CEO.

Experience

You are required to have experience of.

· Sage accounts

· Sage payroll

· Staff support & supervision.

· Administration

· Minute taking

· Data recording systems

· Budget preparation - full cost recovery method.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

· Excellent communication skills – verbal and written.

· Proficiency in working with Microsoft packages, including outlook, word and excel.

· Accuracy in reporting detailed financial information.

· Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.

· Ability to maintain effective office systems.

· Confidence in dealing with external organisations.

· Ability to plan and prioritise own workload, manage tasks and meet deadlines.

Education and Qualifications

· A recognised qualification in financial management or equivalent

Other

· Will be required to obtain a Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme Record Disclosure

CHAI (Community Help & Advice Initiative

28 Westfield Avenue Edinburgh EH11 2QH

Tel: 0131 442 2100

Fax: 0131 443 5891

Email: chai@chaiedinburgh.org.uk

Introducing Community Renewal Trust

Community Renewal is a dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland.

Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to unlocking flourishing lives and flourishing neighbourhoods. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.

Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.

This role will combine providing one-to-one long term holistic casework and supporting community engagement activities across the Bingham, Magdalene and The Hays neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Community engagement includes working with community groups, regular door knocking using our proven approach, and arranging community events. Close coordination with a wider team providing community engagement and community casework is essential. We have some preference for people who could add some specialist knowledge around either mental health or employability (including employer engagement), however, this is desirable rather than essential.

This role is ideal for someone at any stage in their career who can demonstrate their ability to provide whole-person whole-neighbourhood support. We are looking for people who can quickly learn our methodology and who can help build one people’s strengths and foster their resilience/self-care.

Additional Benefits include:

• 4.5% employer pension contribution
• 36 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Loyalty scheme with up to 48 additional days leave
• reduction in hours after 5 years - no reduction in pay (ask to see our Welfare Policy)
• Free Access to Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme and online Health Portal