Top job! Management Accountant
- Part time
- £39,497 – £44,010 pro-rata
- Edinburgh (currently working remotely)
- Closing 18th July 2021
- Advertised from 23rd June 2021
- 0.6 FTE hours per week. Permanent
Role
Who are we looking for and why work at Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS)?
We’re looking for an experienced management accountant who can support, monitor, and drive our financial processes and procedures. You will be strategically minded and an excellent communicator who can provide professional accountancy support to enable Children’s hearings Scotland to make the most effective use of our resources. You will be an outstanding and engaging team player who can prioritise workload and deliver on the technical detail across multiple fronts.
At CHS we recruit, train and support empathetic and committed volunteers across Scotland. Our volunteer roles are Panel Members and Area Support Team (AST) members.
Our 2,500 volunteer Panel Members take part in children’s hearings in their local areas, making decisions with and for infants, children and young people. Our organisation also supports a network of 22 Area Support Teams made up of 400 volunteers who support Panel Members in their local communities.
CHS has signed-up to deliver The Promise and in that we will work with young people and our partners to redesign Children’s Hearings over the next 5-years. This is possibly the most exciting time to work at CHS as you will play a key role in supporting us to deliver this change.
Our Finance team
We now have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with relevant experience of public sector accountancy to join us as a Management Accountant. Applying your expert professional knowledge and experience, you will play an integral part in the successful management of the of our financial processes. We are looking for someone who can provide excellent advice, guidance, and oversight on all aspects of our Finance and Budget management.
As our Management Accountant, you will develop and maintain effective and proactive working relationships between the Finance Team and our operational teams, working with support services colleagues to source and deliver appropriate solutions to meet our business requirements. You will ensure the implementation of our Finance policies and procedures brings consistency of practice, fairness and equality in relation to budget management.
You will review the effectiveness of our administrative financial policies, systems and procedures to ensure continuous improvement and enable our growth as we move forward.
You will be a key player working with our internal and external auditors to provide relevant information and access and brining their recommendations forward.
Day to day, you will manage our capital/asset accounting including appraisal, post appraisal and asset register maintenance, verification, depreciation and disposal of fixed assets. You will support the payroll function and liaise with our pension providers and HM Revenue and Customs as required.
Life at CHS
As an organisation that works within the children’s hearings system, we are passionate about making a positive contribution to improving outcomes for Scotland’s infants, children and young people. Our values are at the very heart of what we do every day. By working with us, you’ll be joining a diverse community of colleagues and volunteers.
At CHS we are proud to celebrate difference. We all have different skills, experience and backgrounds and we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture where you can be yourself.
We offer an excellent benefits package, from health and wellness to finances and family. including: generous annual leave, flexible working and other leave policies, fantastic pension, Employee Assistance Programme, development opportunities and wider employee wellbeing initiatives.
Diversity and Inclusion
CHS is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during application and assessment process, and upon joining CHS.
Application notes
For more details and to apply, please download the application pack from below or the CHS website which includes information about the organisation, full job description and person specification, as well as the application link and instructions. If you wish to apply for this post, please complete the CHS application form via the link in the application pack. CVs are not accepted.
If you would like to discuss any working differently requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process please contact jobs@CHS.gov.scot
For an informal and confidential discussion on the role, please email jobs@CHS.gov.scot and we will arrange for one of our leadership team to contact you.
Closing Date: Sunday 18th July 2021
Interviews are likely to be held in the weeks beginning w/c 26/07/2021
After the closing date, this role profile won’t be available on our website, so please save a copy when you apply.
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Top job! Senior Service Manager – Health & Wellbeing
- Full time or Part time
- £44,132 – £49,796
- Edinburgh based with travel to other sites (Scottish Borders and West Lothian) (On site)
- Closing 30th April 2024
Are you…
- An experienced manager who can think strategically and lead operationally?
- Passionate about the benefits of positive health and wellbeing
- Keen to use relationship-based ways of working to build resilience and reduce social isolation?
Do you want to play a lead role at the heart of an organisation which makes a real difference to people’s lives?
If you’d love to lead an innovative and varied range of services which all promote health & wellbeing, then this could be the job for you! Our Health & Wellbeing pillar provides Preventative and Early Intervention services which support people to build community connections and promote positive health and wellbeing, thereby reducing the risk of homelessness. We know the power of food and greenspace in bringing people together and building community connections.
About the role
The Health & Wellbeing pillar is full of knowledgeable, experienced, dedicated staff, and this role leads them to deliver the following services:
- Reset
- Food Education
- Golden Years
- OPAL (West Lothian and Borders)
You’ll be responsible for leading the pillar’s strategic and operational activities. This includes planning, budgeting, funding, partnerships, quality assurance and risk management.
About you
You will have a knack for translating strategic aims into operational reality. You will be a role model of Cyrenians’ values-led, relationships-based approach, with experience in managing, developing and supporting services and people. You’ll be keen to use your excellent management skills to support your teams, build connections and share learning across the Health & Wellbeing pillar and beyond.
You’ll bring knowledge of health and social inequalities, their impact on people today, alongside excellent partnership-working and contract management skills. You’ll have experience in building, developing and evaluating services. As this is a busy, complex role, you’ll benefit from being organised and skilled in managing expectations and competing priorities.
We welcome applications from people with lived experience of the issues Cyrenians works on.
How we’ll support you
You’ll be supported by an experienced Director of Services, and join a collaborative, knowledgeable senior management team, who will support you to develop and grow in your role. You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians’ support, including our learning programme, and staff wellbeing services.
About Cyrenians
At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services. You can find out more about our organisation and our impact online.
Our values
Compassion | Respect | Integrity | Innovation
Estates and Operations Manager
- Full time
- £50,929 – £54,567
- Any CHAS site, ideally Edinburgh, Balloch or Kinross as the main base, with travel between these required (Hybrid)
- Closing 19th April 2024
Are you an experienced Estates and Operations Manager? We are looking for an experienced individual who understands our goals, to join our dynamic team of professionals.
At CHAS, we provide unwavering care across homes, hospices, and hospitals for children who may die young. We create moments of joy and support families at every step on this hardest of journeys.
The role
Children's Hospices Across Scotland is seeking a dedicated and experienced Estates and Operations Manager to ensure the smooth functioning of our properties and facilities across the organisation. In this critical role, you will oversee a dedicated internal team and external contractors, while ensuring compliance with statutory, legislative and Health and Safety requirements. You will lead a team, coordinating all hard facilities management services, day to day property management, implementing planned and preventative maintenance strategies and maintaining high industry standards for CHAS facilities. You will procure and lead on small projects working closely with our internal teams. Additionally, you will work closely with clinical and non-clinical staff in our hospices to meet the ongoing needs of children, families, staff, volunteers and visitors.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a robust planned and preventative maintenance programme to ensure the safety, operation and compliance of the CHAS estate.
- Manage reactive maintenance activities, effectively prioritising requests and allocating resources.
- Oversee the development and delivery of the Asset Management plan and works programme, including condition surveys, informing budgeting and financial planning processes.
- Plan and execute capital works projects, from tendering to commissioning and overseeing project teams.
- Specify, tender, negotiate, and manage Estate, Hard FM contracts and services.
- Monitor and report on the assigned Estate Management and Hard FM budget, ensuring adherence to financial guidelines and preparing multi-year forecasts.
- Ensure statutory compliance, conducting assessments, audits, and inspections while maintaining relevant records.
- Lead sustainability and energy management efforts, promoting environmental action plans and managing utility contracts.
- Oversee security procedures and systems for all CHAS sites.
- Develop and maintain effective systems for estate data management.
- Manage the Hard FM Team, supporting staff development.
- Communicate effectively with Operations Manager Soft FM and Head of Facilities Management & Projects to address site issues and prioritise actions.
Requirements
- Degree/HNC/HND in a Property or Building Services discipline or five years' relevant experience in a similar role.
- Possess IOSH Managing Safely Qualification.
- Proactive with a positive attitude and excellent planning and prioritisation skills.
- Highly developed communication and collaboration skills with the ability to simplify technical information.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, including the ability to make decisions under pressure.
- Knowledgeable in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
- Wide and detailed knowledge of Hard FM Services, including electrical and mechanical systems.
- Experience in managing multi-site estates with both owned and leased premises.
- Demonstrated team management and organisational skills in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Experience in contract management of outsourced services and suppliers.
- Detailed knowledge of statutory compliance and legislative requirements in property and facilities management.
- Experienced in the use of building management systems and project management.
- Budget management skills and experience.
- Ability to travel to each of our sites across Scotland.
Why CHAS?
At CHAS, we care for dying children and their families. However, we also care about you. Some of the benefits of a career at CHAS include:
- A robust induction programme.
- Development opportunities for your career and leadership progression, and the time to prioritise your personal development.
- A supportive and collaborative work environment.
- Opportunity to make a real impact on the community by delivering best-in-class services.
- Working across different parts of Scotland with diverse stakeholders.
- Flexible and hybrid working available.
- The opportunity to continue paying into existing NHS pension schemes (subject to eligibility), or membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Further Information
CHAS support families across the whole of Scotland. Our Head Office is based in Edinburgh, and we have two hospices: Rachel House in Kinross and Robin House in Balloch. We also have our fundraising office in Glasgow, dedicated bases in Aberdeen and Inverness, and Shops in Dunfermline and Kinross.
As this role will closely support our hospices, we would like to speak to candidates who could base themselves from either Edinburgh, Kinross or Balloch and we do expect regular travel across these sites with predicted 3 days onsite/week, varying as needed. The remaining days can be worked remotely.
As a team we work flexibly and are happy to discuss how we can meet business needs while accommodating individual working patterns and requirements.
We are open to hearing from applicants who feel they could excel in the role but may not have all the skills listed above. If you have a strong core skillset within Estates and Operations Management and are eager to learn, we encourage you to apply
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Scotland check.
Top job! Head of Ceremonies
- Full time or Part time
- £29,393 – £36,742
- Home based role with travel across Scotland (Remote)
- Closing 30th April 2024
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to join Humanist Society Scotland as our Head of Ceremonies.
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be involved in far-reaching wedding, funeral and naming services across the entire country. Over one million people in Scotland attend a humanist ceremony every year and this role holder has a unique opportunity to shape how these services are delivered across a wide range of communities the length and breadth of Scotland.
As the Head of Ceremonies, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing all aspects of our ceremonies department, ensuring seamless operations, maintaining high standards, and fostering relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
We are especially interested in hearing from someone who has experience in strategic development of marketing and promoting services.
As a highly motivated self-directed individual you will manage a network of over 140 celebrants and line manage two support staff. We are seeking someone with considerable people management skills and a strong knowledge of marketing and promotion to direct and ensure delivery of growing the current demand and market share for our services.
In order to avoid conflict of interest and as this role has key management responsibilities in overseeing the delivery of all of our ceremony services this role holder cannot also hold a position as a celebrant. Individuals who are interested in becoming a celebrant can register their interest here instead.
Responsibilities:
• Oversee Day-to-Day Operations:
- Provide guidance and support to the ceremonies support team, including line management of two staff.
- Maintaining strong relationships with key contractors such as our celebrant trainers, emergency out of hours support and celebrant area officers.
• Budget Management:
- Ensure good oversight and planning of related budgets including delegating responsibilities to members of team where appropriate
• Promotional Plan:
- Developing and implementing business plans for sustainable growth, based on sound research and analysis of the competitive markets and future opportunities and then creating and implementing strategies to grow the business.
- Utilise various marketing channels and techniques to reach target audiences effectively.
New Celebrant Recruitment:
- Oversee recruitment and training provision for new celebrants working closely with our trainers.
- Working with our celebrant network to develop meaningful mentoring relationships for new celebrants.
- Ensure feedback from trainees helps further develop and improve our training.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Coordination:
- Coordinate ongoing CPD opportunities for celebrants, including organising gatherings and training sessions to enhance their skills and knowledge.
Reviews Oversight:
- Oversee and coordinate professional reviews of ceremonies.
Complaints Management:
- Address and resolve complaints from clients in a timely and professional manner.
Relationships with External Stakeholders:
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders, including funeral directors, wedding venues and other relevant partners.
- Collaborate with external partners to expand our celebrant network and reach new audiences.
- Sharing best practices and learning from professional networks of other humanist leaders and groups.
Person Specification:
- Proven experience in a leadership role, preferably within service delivery. This could be in the public, private or third sector.
- Previous professional success in creating a meaningful promotional and marketing strategy to help increase market share.
- Ability to proactively anticipate emerging trends and threats and apply business intelligence to react in response.
- Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to multitask and prioritise effectively.
- Sound people management skills including the ability to handle delicate issues such as bereavement, complaints and conflict resolution.
- Strong customer service experience both internal stakeholder facing and external public facing.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport with diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated proficiency in budget management.
- Independent work ethic with ability to self motivate and direct including ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, and an understanding of GDPR principles.
- Has strong experience of ensuring that decisions are data-driven and evidence led.
- Is a committed team player and is used to collaborative working throughout the organisation.
- Good knowledge of humanist principles and practices.
- Professional experience of the wedding or funeral industries would be desirable but not essential.
Join our team and contribute to creating meaningful and memorable ceremonies that celebrate life and humanist values. If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a dynamic environment, we want to hear from you!
Top job! Director of Operations
- Full time
- £40,000 – £45,000
- Edinburgh (On site)
- Closing 30th April 2024
Reporting Relationship
The Director of Operations reports to the CEO, and attends all Board meetings.
Overall Purpose
The Director of Operations is responsible for governance and operations for Edinburgh City Mission. With specific oversight of finance, fundraising, IT, HR, communications, building management and governance; including Data Protection; Safeguarding and Health & Safety. As such, they lead & line manage the Operations team and will regularly report to the Board on all aspects of their role.
Hours of Employment
35 hours a week, worked flexibly with at least 4 days a week in the office. Hours will vary due to occasional staff meetings, training, events, etc.
Occupational requirement
Edinburgh City Mission is committed to sharing the Christian gospel with the people of Edinburgh. It is essential that every member of the team personally own, communicate and implement the aims and objectives of the Mission, sharing the Mission’s core beliefs and values to the public. Therefore there is a requirement for the post-holder to be an evangelical Christian.
Way of working: you are expected to:
- Actively participate in the life of the Edinburgh City Mission team.
- Act in a professional manner at all times.
- Work in accordance with the Aims and Values of Edinburgh City Mission.
Job Details
Operations, IT and Communications:
- Line manage the Operations team (currently 4 FTE)
- Responsible for assessing Edinburgh City Mission’s IT and other technology needs and sourcing these as required.
- Provide ongoing management of technology needs.
- Provide strategic direction of communications channels (content to be shaped by CEO)
Health & safety and building management:
- Manage the office facilities at Washington Lane
- Responsible for negotiating and managing business contracts, services and leases of equipment.
- As Health and Safety Officer, develop, maintain and report on health and safety policies and procedures for both the office and the outreach teams.
- Manage and report any health and safety incidents appropriately.
- Oversee investment property
Fundraising & finance:
- Oversee the day to day finance operation of the charity.
- In liaison with the Finance Trustee, draft and manage the budget and accounts for auditing.
- Oversee the payment of bills, invoices, expense claims, payroll processing etc.
- Oversee the reconciliation of the accounts and tracking of income & expenditure of funds (using Xero)
- Oversee the implementation of the fundraising strategy & manage the fundraising team
- Oversee organisation wide event management
Governance:
- As safeguarding officer, you are responsible for developing, implementing and reviewing the organisation’s safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure they reflect the most recent laws and regulations.
- Respond to safeguarding issues, providing advice and support to staff and liaising where appropriate with the Local Authority and other relevant agencies.
- Named contact for the VSDS Disclosure Scotland scheme, overseeing the PVG scheme for all relevant staff and volunteers involved in regulated work.
- As data protection officer you will ensure all personal data within Edinburgh City Mission is gathered, stored and processed in line with current legislation.
- Manage and report on key risks within the organisation.
- Keep up to date with charitable governance requirements, informing the Board of any changes before they are implemented.
HR
- Oversee the HR function
- Ensure strategic alignment between overall vision, finance and people plans
Changes to the above may be made by the Board, with prior notice, in discussion with the post-holder.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
The successful post holder will have evidence of these characteristics:
Essential:
- Knowledge of Scottish charitable governance
- Experience of working in the charitable sector
- Team management experience
- Able to develop and implement strategic plans but also respond to rapidly changing situations
- Able to work collaboratively, understanding the complex needs of a range of stakeholders
- Experience of reporting to a Board of Trustees
- Evangelical Christian and actively involved in a church
- Enthusiastic about the aims of Edinburgh City Mission
Preferred:
- Professional level qualification in one of Finance, IT, HR or other operational area
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