HR Manager
- Part time
- £39,087 – £43,993 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Dunfermline
- Closing 21st September 2024
- Advertised from 28th August 2024
- Permanent, part-time position. 25 - 30 hours per week, over 5 days (Mon- Fri)
Role
Award winning animal charity Pet Blood Bank UK is pleased to be seeking an HR Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping our organisation's human resources landscape. This position holds significant importance in devising and implementing HR strategies that align with our strategic objectives, while also fostering a positive work culture throughout Pet Blood Bank UK. If you're passionate about making a difference and are adept at HR management, we invite you to be part of our dedicated team.
Background
Launched in 2007, Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity that provides a blood bank service for all vets across the UK. As part of our charitable remit, our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood. Every unit of blood helps save up to four other lives, saving thousands of lives every year.
Our values
Caring. Pioneering. Real. These are the values Pet Blood Bank UK is built upon. Our values bind us together as a charity and guide everything we do. We expect every team member to know, understand and embody our values, helping to build our reputation as a pioneering, caring and practical charity.
What you’ll do
- Develop and implement HR strategies aligned with organisational goals, ensuring long-term sustainability and success.
- Conduct regular reviews of HR policies and procedures, making recommendations for improvements.
- Analyse HR metrics to assess program effectiveness and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Implement and execute effective retention strategies to attract and retain top talent within the organisation
- Facilitate onboarding programs to integrate new employees, providing necessary resources for success from day one.
- Foster a positive work environment through open communication and conflict resolution.
- Manage performance, training, compliance, and benefits administration to support staff development and organizational compliance.
What we need
This is a newly created role in Pet Blood Bank UK; our ideal candidate will understand the critical importance of HR in driving organisational success and sustainability. You will possess a proven track record in developing and implementing HR strategies aligned with objectives and demonstrate strong analytical skills.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- Proven track record in HR strategy development and implementation, ideally within the non-profit sector.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior management and across departments.
- Previous experience in fostering positive employee relations, conflict resolution, and conducting employee engagement surveys.
- Strong analytical abilities to review HR policies, assess metrics, and provide actionable insights.
- Comprehensive understanding of performance management, training, compliance, and benefits administration.
- Experience overseeing the full recruitment lifecycle to support attraction and retention.
What’s in it for you
In return, we offer full training, competitive salary with pay progression, contributory pension scheme, lifestyle rewards and 30 days annual holidays (pro rata, including bank holidays).
Further details
This role is part time, working 25 hours per week, ideally Mon – Fri.
**Please note, working hours over 5 days per week is essential for operational reasons, but hours/working from home options can be discussed**
Application notes
To apply, please follow this link to our careers platform:
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Closing date: 21.9.2024
About the role
The role of the Facilities Administrator is to effectively facilitate property maintenance and related services. Maintain vehicle fleet and its administrative systems and support other departmental staff in related administrative tasks as and when required.
The key success areas are:
- Providing a professional, timely and proactive approach to ensure all properties, fleet and any equipment are updated, within lease and/or fit for purpose.
- Providing a diligent, helpful and organised manner when dealing with all Trust Team members
Working within the wider HR & Support Services team in a supportive and flexible environment, this facilities role will require an autonomous approach to working and will provide a real opportunity to make the role your own. The role holder will be required to assist in office based administrative tasks as part of the support services team.
About you
You will bring with you
- Experience of providing administrative support
- Experience of delivering customer service by telephone and email
- Ability to prioritise and ensure tasks are completed efficiently
- Highly Proficient in the use of MS Word, Excel and Outlook
- Knowledge of and experience gained from a Facilities role (desirable)
About us
For 60 years, the Scottish Wildlife Trust has worked with its members, partners and supporters in pursuit of its vision of healthy, resilient ecosystems across Scotland’s land and seas.
The Trust successfully champions the cause of wildlife through policy and campaigning work, demonstrates best practice through practical conservation and innovative partnerships, and inspires people to take positive action through its education and engagement activities. The Trust manages a network of around 120 wildlife reserves across Scotland and is a member of the UK-wide Wildlife Trusts movement.
The benefits
- Flexi time/Hybrid working
- Salary sacrifice Cycle to Work and pension schemes
- Weekly wellness hour
- Generous Sick pay allowance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- Training and Development focus
This is a fantastic opportunity to become the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive at Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity. The postholder will provide high-level administrative and general support to the Chief Executive, Chair and Council (Board of Trustees), as well as liaising with a wide variety of other stakeholders inside and outside the organisation. This is a rewarding, interesting and fulfilling role for someone who enjoys developing strong relationships, has excellent organisational skills and wants to make a difference to the protection and restoration of nature at a time when it has never been more important.
Main duties include:
- Diary management, including coordinating internal and external meetings, events and travel
- Acting as first point of contact; dealing with correspondence and phone calls and being a representative of the CEO in their absence
- Liaising with Senior Management Team, Management Team, Line Managers and other relevant colleagues as required
- Administrative duties such as processing expense claims and maintaining and managing digital filling systems
- Co-ordinating and providing secretarial support for Council meetings including agendas, action updates, attendance, meeting papers and minute taking
- Providing administrative support to the Trust’s Chair and Committees
The successful candidate will have great people skills, professionalism, initiative and resilience. You’ll have a keen eye for detail and will relish the opportunity to play a part in bringing about nature’s recovery in Scotland, working alongside colleagues who share a common vision.
About us
For nearly 60 years, the Scottish Wildlife Trust has worked with its members, partners and supporters in pursuit of its vision of healthy, resilient ecosystems across Scotland’s land and seas.
The Trust successfully champions the cause of wildlife through policy and campaigning work, demonstrates best practice through practical conservation and innovative partnerships, and inspires people to take positive action through its education and engagement activities. The Trust manages a network of around 120 wildlife reserves across Scotland and is a member of the UK-wide Wildlife Trusts movement.
The benefits
- Flexi time/Hybrid working
- Salary sacrifice Cycle to Work and pension schemes
- Weekly wellness hour
- Generous Sick pay allowance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- Training and Development focus
Beaver Trust are seeking our new voluntary Chair of Trustees!
We’re looking for a passionate and dynamic individual to lead our Board of Trustees. If you have the vision, leadership experience and a passion for landscape restoration, this is a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of Beaver Trust.
As Chair, you’ll work closely with the trustees and executive team, ensuring robust governance, and guiding our strategic direction.
If you’re ready to make a lasting impact for nature and beavers in Britain, learn more about the role:
Top job! Head of Grants
- Full time
- £45,000 – £47,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh. Remote, home-based work and some attendance in offices.
- Closing 17th November 2024
The Veterans’ Foundation (VF) is an independent grant-making charitable foundation. It has established a substantial grants’ programme to support charities and organisations in the UK that provide charitable support to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families. The charity has grown rapidly since inception in July 2016 and has to date (Oct 24) given away more than £25M to good causes and handed out around £1.6M to good causes each quarter for the past year.
Head of Grants will have the following responsibilities:
- Provide the lead for the Grants’ Department in the VF, managing relevant staff to best effect and shaping the Grant-Making Policy to suit the VF’s objects.
- Provide high quality policy, communications and strategic advice to the CEO and Trustees.
- Liaise with other organisations (eg Cobseo, AFCFT, OVA, other charities) to formulate policy and to enable smooth and effective operation of the VF’s Grant-Making Policy.
- Deliver the Grant-Making Policy approved by the Trustees.
- Suggest changes to the Grant-Making Policy to the Trustees when necessary, having identified impact and backed by research where possible.
- Ensure the quarterly and annual grant-making schedules are maintained, including arranging meetings and providing briefing packs for Trustees.
- Manage workloads to match staff employment contracts.
- Provide effective grant-making processes and identify improvements when necessary.
- Oversee the grant management aspects of Salesforce.
- Provide good coordination between the Grants Department and other departments in VF and with contractors.
- Promote the VF culture: cheerful, efficient and engaging effectiveness.
- Lead and manage the grants’ communications strategy.
- Overseeing the measurement of the impact of VF grants.
- Other duties and responsibilities as appropriate to the post and requested by the CEO.
Experience and Qualifications. Candidates should possess the following experiences, qualifications and skills:
Experience
- Proven experience and success in a relevant Third Sector grants’ management role.
- Good understanding and knowledge of the Armed Forces’ elements in the Third Sector.
- Experience of conducting due diligence into grantees.
- Understanding of business functions such as HR, finance and information security.
- Demonstrable competency in planning.
- Working knowledge of IT and comms systems, including Salesforces and MS 365.
- Excellent organisational and leadership abilities.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent (Must)
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