Top job! Head of Relationships and Tender Management
- Full time
- £38,266 – £41,946
- Flexible location. National Office is in Edinburgh with home working until restrictions are eased.
- Closing 26th August 2022
- Advertised from 27th July 2022
- Salary Banding: SiMS Level 7. This is a permanent, full-time role, which can be done remotely with flexibility to travel and offers flexible working arrangements.
Role
We are looking for a passionate and committed Head of Relationships and Tender Management who understands that outstanding service provision is derived from forming positive and productive relationships.
We want to work in more communities and deliver more of the high-quality services that people need. We believe that identifying and securing tendering opportunities builds operational capacity, delivers innovative practice, and enables us to invest in incredible services that support thousands of individuals to access the support they need to improve their mental health and wellbeing. That’s why we are looking for a dynamic and experienced Head of Relationships and Tender Management to join our growing Operations Team.
As the Head of Relationships and Tender Management you will be helping to meet ambitious growth targets and write successful bids and manage the tender process. With a focus on transformation, supporting the organisation in the development of new service models internally and identifying new service streams with external commissioners and statutory funding partners.
You will be responsible for ensuring that the organisation is prepared to face the challenges of competitive tendering through being able to demonstrate quality in all aspects of our work. This includes not only successfully submitting quality bids and identifying/preparing for specific future opportunities but also to review our current policies and procedures to ensure we can demonstrate that we are a quality organisation providing high quality services and manage any successful tender contracts accordingly.
The Head of Relationships and Tender Management:
- Achieves outcomes which meet the organisation’s strategic priorities at national level
- Writes and develops successful tenders and will meet growth targets and support operational priorities
- Will lead the National Management Team as appropriate to my expertise and role: primarily leading on tendering, including ensuring that SiMS has ‘tender-ready’ policies and procedures and can demonstrate quality, consistency, and equity across the country
- Manage successful bid contracts with support of Area Managers and build powerful relationships with commissioners to ensure we remain compliant, competitive, and providing excellent services
- Support other leaders on the National Management Team to demonstrate and articulate quality outcomes in their area
- Develop strong working relationships with a number of partners across a wide range of sectors to achieve positive outcomes and protect and improve Support in Mind Scotland’s reputation
Who are we looking for?
Support in Mind Scotland is a leading national mental health charity providing incredible person-centred support. We want to make sure we can offer evidence-based mental health support to all those who need it, and we want to build meaningful partnerships, as an innovative and knowledgeable tender professional you will be supporting us to enable this change.
What I do and what I achieve
We are looking for someone who is ambitious, positive, organised, and experienced in bid writing and tender management. This is a great opportunity to shape competitive tendering and transform services across the organisation.
- You have an extensive track record of securing funding via tendering, including ability to develop a ‘case for support’, experience in grant and trust funding and developing Service Level Agreements is also beneficial
- You have a track record in bid management and of planning and developing compliant and successful proposals/bids, including a proven track record of successfully securing new work or retaining existing contracts
- You have the ability to develop and manage relationships, particularly in dispersed and multi-functional teams and with external stakeholders
- You have experience researching tender opportunities, as well as creating tools and resources to support tenders and grants
- You have experience and confidence in managing multiple projects simultaneously
- You are an impressive self-starter and able to drive through projects.
Could we be a match?
You would be joining Support in Mind Scotland at an exciting stage of growth and development and will be one of the changemakers in that process.
In return for your passion, innovation and dedication, we offer:
- Professional development including funded opportunities
- An excellent leadership opportunity to make a lasting difference and develop your skills
- A generous 37 days’ holiday
- A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan
- A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment
- 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and value the unique experience that each individual brings to our organisation. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion within our workforce, and to building a team made up of diverse skills, experiences and all kinds of life experiences.
Application notes
Please email your CV, Covering letter and completed application form to humanresources.sims@gmail.com as soon as possible with ‘Recruitment – ‘Head of Tendering and Contract Management’ as the title.
The closing date for applications is 5pm on the 26th August 2022.
If you consider yourself to have a disability, please complete the relevant section within the application pack to inform us of any arrangements that we may make to the interview process.
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier or later than stated, so please don’t delay your application to avoid any disappointment.
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Senior Storytelling and PR Officer
- Full time
- £30,311
- Edinburgh, with travel and homeworking as required
- Closing 2nd October 2023
We have an exciting and new opportunity to join the Engagement and Income Generation Team at Health in Mind.
People tell us what we do is special and unique – it’s the Health in Mind way. We’re looking for someone who can share hopeful stories showing how people can benefit from Health in Mind’s range of services and supports, while motivating and engaging people to come to us to receive support, encouraging them to give their support and to fundraise for us.
Within this role you’ll also be the first point of contact for all media enquiries, lead on campaigns, build our case studies and photography banks and oversee our printed publications. You’ll also be an active member of our Leadership and Management Team at Health in Mind.
We look for a range of experience, skills and knowledge. The most important aspect for us is values fit. You can find out more about us and the team in the role profile.
If you feel a connection with our approach and values, we'd love to hear from you even if you don't have all the required experience, skills and knowledge. We can help you develop those.
Top job! Director of Services (Maternity Cover)
- Full time
- £46,759 – £51,552
- Edinburgh (Hybrid)
- Closing 20th October 2023
Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With over 50 years’ experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.
We are the services and support we provide. They are the core of everything we do and the thing that we do that often makes the biggest difference to people’s lives. We are looking for a committed and organised leader to join us for the next 12 months as our acting Director of Services.
The Director of Services is both a strategic and operational role in a high growth and high impact organisation. They will line manage our area managers across the country providing them with the support and development they need. They will help lead our ‘improving quality agenda’ by working with teams across the organisation to provide better processes and monitoring them to cohere our services together, better demonstrate our impact and grow our reach.
This is a senior leadership role and you will report directly into the CEO and lead the Services directorate. This is a critical post that will help us to support more people in different and better ways, who can both support service managers operationally where needed but has an eye on the strategic picture and can help turn that into a reality.
Key Responsibilities:
- To line manage and lead our local area and national service managers to deliver brilliant services, generate and take advantage of opportunities and work with other divisions for the benefit of the charity as a whole
- To ensure the delivery of our strategic priorities as directed by the CEO including but not limited to our strategy and the roll out and delivery of our CRM and Quality Assurance Framework
- To develop and work in partnership with a range of different stakeholders in order to increase our impact, generate new opportunities for the organisation and raise awareness. For example, with HSCPs, commissioners and funders alongside the Director of Fundraising and Business Development
- To represent the organisation externally in a professional manner
- Support fundraising in identifying opportunities, writing bids and creating tenders as well as creating engagement opportunities for funders to ensure we have the resources we need to deliver the services that are required
- To ensure that all services maintain compliance with our mission, vision, values, policy and procedures, Care inspectorate, legislative and Government requirements and are sustainable. To make sure our services are safe and act as a designated safeguarding lead
- To contribute as part of the senior leadership of the organisation, lending your support, opinion and knowledge to organisation wide challenges and demonstrating organisation wide leadership
Benefits
- Professional development including funded opportunities.
- A generous 37 days’ holiday.
- Access to travel season ticket loan.
- A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
- 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.
- Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
- Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Blue Light Discount Card
Area Manager: North of Scotland
- Full time
- £40,969 – £43,624
- 34 Tomnahurich St, Inverness IV3 5DS with regular travel
- Closing 11th October 2023
What I do and what I achieve
• Oversee the safe and efficient operational delivery, practice, and development of services in the North of Scotland, including the Highlands and Aberdeenshire
• Lead, support and motivate the team in your specific areas to ensure high quality person-centred service delivery
• Provide strategic leadership for the services in my area and contribute to the strategic development of services nationally as a member of the National Management Team
• Be an active member of the National Management Team and contribute to the implementation of Change Mental Health’s vision, mission, values and strategy
Financial and supervisory responsibility
• Set, manage and oversee local budgets in consultation with the Deputy Director: National Services, Director of Services and the Head of Finance
• Ensure local value for money in the delivery of high-quality services
• Build relationships with key stakeholders to successfully facilitate budget conversations
• Line Manage staff, as required, to ensure the successful delivery of services in specific areas of Scotland
Other key details
• Includes some evening and weekend working where required, time off in lieu will be given in accordance with Change Mental Health’s TOIL policy
• A satisfactory PVG check will be required.
• Being part of an on-call rota to support staff, as and when required
Who I am
1. Hold the appropriate qualifications to be a Registered Manager with the Care Inspectorate, or a willingness to work towards obtaining the appropriate qualifications
2. Passionate about improving the outcomes for people affected by their mental health
3. Demonstratable experience of operationally leading, managing and developing services and line managing staff
4. Evidence of being able to use own initiative and make competent decisions using sound judgement
5. Evidence of problem solving effectively and supporting others to work through complex and difficult situations
6. Experience of successfully leading, managing and supporting a team, keeping them engaged and motivated
7. Ability to innovate, looking to constantly improve what we do and how we can clearly evidence our impact
8. Evidence of being a flexible and strong communicator who builds positive relationships, both internally and externally, and has advanced networking skills
9. Ability to work comfortably with the detail of strong operational service delivery and balancing this with working strategically
10. Evidence of being a reflective practitioner; being comfortable and open to receiving and acting on feedback to improve practice
11. Knowledge and experience of following safeguarding processes and procedures and guiding and supporting others with safeguarding and adult protection concerns
12. IT literate, able to maintain and develop effective administration and information management systems
13. Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to manage a high-volume workload with deadlines and manage conflicting priorities
14. Willingness to travel throughout different parts of Scotland, including national office
15. Commitment
Benefits
Professional development including funded opportunities
A generous 37 days’ holiday
A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan
A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment
24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges
Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
Cycle to Work Scheme
Blue Light Discount Card
Corporate Engagement Officer
- Full time
- £27,610
- Edinburgh, with travel and homeworking as required
- Closing 23rd October 2023
We have a fantastic opportunity to join the Engagement and Income Generation Team at Health in Mind.
People tell us what we do is special and unique – it’s the Health in Mind way. We’re looking for someone who can excite and motivate people about our work in mental health as well as increase participation and corporate engagement in our events, external training, and fundraising activities across Scotland.
If you enjoy building corporate relationships and networks, this could be the role for you!
We look for a range of experience, skills and knowledge. The most important aspect for us is values fit. You can find out more about us and the team in the role profile.
If you feel a connection with our approach and values, we'd love to hear from you even if you don't have all the required experience, skills and knowledge. We can help you develop those.
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