Service: School Breakfast Programme

Salary: £28,598 - £31,384 FTE per annum - Additionally, £480 home-based allowance per annum

Location: Homebased

Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week)

We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Contract: Temporary contract until July 25

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

We are delighted to be delivering the National School Breakfast Programme to schools. Family Action is committed to supporting child development, and we believe a healthy school breakfast, without barrier or stigma, can set up children to succeed and give them the very best chance to learn. Working with schools across the country, the post holder will make a vital contribution in ensuring thousands of children in disadvantaged areas have a healthy breakfast at the start of the school day.

Main Responsibilities:
• As a Business, Finance and Data Coordinator (BFDC), you will be required to take the lead role in delivering timely and effective administrative, finance and data support to the Programme Management Team.
• You will lead on collecting and collating data, running reports and carrying out administrative tasks.
• A big part of this role will be to work closely with colleagues and stakeholders, provide information in an efficient and timely manners

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• The role is home based, however will require occasional travel to meetings.
• The successful candidate will have extensive experience of providing administrative support in an education and/or charitable setting and/or a relevant qualification i.e., administration, finance or business.
• Experience of using Salesforce is essential.

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

• Closing Date: Monday 24th February at 23:59

For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: janice.gray@family-action.org.uk

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.