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LCiL are delighted to be recruiting for an experienced Senior HR Administrator. This new role offers a fantastic opportunity for a driven HR professional to thrive in a truly generalist role, within a diverse and dynamic organisation. Reporting to our CEO, you will provide strong generalist support working across all HR work streams.

In this varied and challenging role, you will take responsibility for providing HR support for the organisation and its staff in accordance with the policy objectives of the Board and Employment Law as well as ensuring all administration processes and activities facilitate the smooth running of the office.

With demonstrable experience of working in a HR administration role, you will have pragmatic and highly organised approach. Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential, and you will need great IT skills, including MS Excel and Word. Experience of influencing and positively challenging stakeholders will be key to success in this role, as is the ability to build great relationships. Please see our Job Description for more details.

If you would love to use your skills, talents and experience to be part of a fast paced, diverse and dynamic organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Please apply by downloading our application pack and use the Skills and Experience statement to tell us why you want to work at LCiL and why this role is a great fit for you.

We offer generous pension & death in service schemes, as well as a supportive working environment.

Join Beat as we start a new and exciting area of work to provide efficient and effective administrative and project support to Beats national officers and project team.

This is an exciting new post that will support the officers in the devolved nations as well as project support for a new project in Scotland. The post holder will be expected to work directly with the national officers and in particular the Scotland officer. The post will involve administrative support for national meetings, handle enquiries, promotion of events and project specific work and customer service / stakeholder relationship management. The position will also involve recruiting volunteers for the project and working with them on a daily basis. The role will be varied but have brilliant support from across the organisation.

The Church of Scotland project this post will support is a three-year project. Beat will be working with Guilds across Scotland, delivering presentations on eating disorders and the services Beat provides, as well as supporting fundraising efforts of individual Guilds. As part of the role, this post will be expected to coordinate and liaise with Guilds to arrange the presentations.

Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.

We support and enable hundreds of community and older people’s groups across Scotland. We provide information, friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with our Community Connecting Service and much more.

We work in Scotland with older people’s groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in their local community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.

Our Community Development Team are looking for a full-time Resource and Administration Officer to:

• To support the work of the Community Development team, providing high quality information and administration.
• To be a central source of information and support to Age Scotland members, developing good professional relationships with members and ensuring that they are at the heart of Age Scotland’s work.
• To support the administration of Community Development events and the Community Grants Programme.
• To develop, monitor and review systems and procedures to ensure maximum organisational effectiveness.

The post will be a blend of office based (in Edinburgh) and home-based work.

Due to the Covid outbreak in the UK, we have adapted our way of working to ensure the ongoing delivery of services, while minimising risk to our employees. Depending on guidance from the Scottish Government regarding the lifting of lockdown restrictions, this role may initially be completely home based, incorporating office work and face to face contact when it is safe to do so.

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Background:

Founded in 2012, the ICAS Foundation is a charity registered in Scotland which supports academically talented young people facing economic and social barriers to further education, to gain a degree in accountancy and finance. The students face significant barriers to further education, including low household income, challenging family circumstances, limited awareness of opportunities and living in areas of deprivation.

The current focus of activity is awarding bursaries and grants to young people studying accountancy and/or finance at university together with a mentoring scheme and support in securing internships and graduate roles.

Our objective is to increase the number of students supported by the foundation, increase the number of volunteer mentors, and increase donations.

For more information about the ICAS Foundation – please visit our website: icasfoundation.org.uk

Who do we need?

As this role is largely administration based, we are looking for someone who has exceptional office organisation and administrative skills and the ability to juggle multiple responsibilities, using CRM systems and Microsoft packages.

We need someone who has experience of working in a similar environment or working with university students and/or pupils within secondary schools. Someone with experience of working within mentoring schemes, supporting both Mentor and Mentee relationships.

All bursary applications are contextualised therefore attention to detail and gathering appropriate and accurate information when processing applications is key.

We also need someone with an understanding of widening participation and the social mobility agenda across the UK as well as relevant legislative requirements.

Working with the ICAS Foundation charity, you will have a natural empathy and supportive approach when dealing with all applicants for bursary and grant funding as well as our many volunteers.

Your open and honest style of communication will enable you to build lasting trusted relationships, enabling you to advise and support where necessary. You will be able to work on your own initiative, managing the many facets of this role with accuracy and speed.

The role:

To support the Director and the Operations and Engagement Manager of the ICAS Foundation to achieve the strategic objectives of the ICAS Foundation and associated ICAS charities.

Within this role you will not only be the key administrative support, but you will be involved in fundraising and social media activity to promote the ICAS Foundation and its objectives.

Principal accountabilities:

• Application processing for volunteer mentor applications and quarterly updates.

• Application processing for bursary and grant funding

• Maintenance of all records relevant to ICAS Foundation

• Ensure conditions of funding are being met by all students on the Foundation programme

• Contribute to the effective operation, development of and fundraising for the ICAS Foundation and associated ICAS charities.

The ICAS Foundation places equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of all that we do. We are committed to building a workforce that is beneficial for all, and that enables our staff to learn, grow and advance together.

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