Payroll Officer

About the Finance Department

CAT’s Finance Department performs a vital role. The department ensures that CAT maintains a balance between its charitable missions and its available financial resources. Strong financial procedures and accurate financial reporting are vital not only from a financial management perspective, but for the effective delivery of CAT’s aims and objectives.

Financial management of a diverse organisation, operating a Visitor Centre and a number of additional trading activities, school-age and postgraduate education, research and campaigning, and maintaining a large site with many innovative facilities, can be both complex and challenging.

This role offers an opportunity to contribute to CAT’s mission through a vital role.

About the job

The department has grown in recent years. The need has now been identified for a dedicated Payroll Officer. This reflects CAT’s own growth. The organisation has around 140 employees (FTE 80) across two companies – CAT Charity Limited and CAT plc – and, in addition to CAT’s main site, three locations in Machynlleth. The job entails running the payroll for CAT Charity, as well as for CAT plc.

Full Job description and Person Specification available at www.cat.org.uk/jobs

Application closing date: Jun 11, 2014

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Catering Manager

 Centre for Alternative Technology

Salary/benefits: £17,485 per annum

Application closing date: Jul 11, 2011

Catering Services at CAT
The Catering Manager post is a new role at the Centre for Alternative Technology, created to coincide with the expansion of the catering service provision required to meet the customer needs of CAT’s new education centre, the Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE).  This is an exciting opportunity, and the role will suit an experienced, dedicated and enterprising individual who is interested in taking CAT’s catering services to the next level.  CAT currently operates a vegetarian catering service.  We are seeking a Catering Manager who will strive to make CAT recognised for the quality, sustainability and creativeness of the food it offers.  With WISE we have a new flagship sustainable building, and we need a flagship sustainable catering service to accompany it.

The current annual turnover of CAT Catering Services is £445,000. As an integral part of CAT’s visitor centre experience, the existing site restaurant provides hot and cold counter service to a potential 60,000 paying day visitors throughout the year.  The restaurant caters for participants on over 60 of our residential short courses, plus full board catering for around 200 post graduate students each month, who come to CAT in two blocks of five day residential stays. Visiting school and university groups staying in our Eco Cabins also require food provision.  The areas of operation include the main visitor restaurant, a small seasonal food outlet known as Trading Post and a kitchen and dining area which provides lunch for CAT’s staff (approx 80 covers per day). 

With the new WISE restaurant extension recently opened, the existing cover space has doubled in size with a 170 seats available in one sitting. WISE is available for venue hire, and Catering Services are required to meet the new customer needs which include plated service, buffets for up to 200 people, and a expansion of the type of catering and menus on offer.  In addition WISE has a paying bar, serving organic wines, bottled beers and spirits.  The bar area is also the refreshments station for meetings and conferences during the day.  The Catering Manager will be expected to lead on direction and development of all these catering activities.

About the job
To oversee and develop the catering services including the food delivery and service provision in all of the catering areas. To develop a high quality, efficient and profitable service, which receives excellent customer feedback.  Operating within CAT’s environmental, procurement and food policies the Catering Manager has overall responsibility for all the catering services.
Full Job description and Person Specification available at www.cat.org.uk/jobs

Closing date:  11/7/11

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European Action support Internship

Location: Greater London, UK
Salary/benefits: N/A
Application closing date: Jun 15, 2011
June – September 2011
After organizing some of the largest mobilizations around climate in history, building a support network of over 500,000 supporters and over 1000 partners world-wide 350.org is now ready for the next challenge and wants your help.
Over the next five months, 350.org will help organize a massive worldwide demonstration of people power. On September 24th – the date of our next big climate action day – we will be organizing massive events in key cities all around the world to demonstrate how people are ‘moving away from fossil fuels’. For more information on our “Moving Planet” campaign please visit http://www.moving-planet.org/.
In preparation for Moving Planet mobilizations next September 24, we are looking for an intern to connect and support event organizers and assist 350 partner campaigns in London. We are specifically looking for passionate on the ground organizer who are excited about organizing some of the biggest climate actions their city has ever seen.
Responsibilities will include: outreach to partner organizations and 350 supporters/organizers; planning a massive creative climate mobilization in their city, email and phone communication with September 24th event organizers; research into the political and media climate of individual countries; social networking outreach; materials development and more. An ideal candidate for this position will have a variety of skills, including:
- Excellent communication (both oral and written) and people skills;
- Excellent action organizing skills;
- Experience in campaigning for social change;
- Experience working as part of a team;
- Capacity to multi-task and work nimbly, balancing multiple priorities and interruptions;
- Understanding of, interest in, and experience with projects that have a focus on sustainability, social change, advocacy. A knowledge of climate change activities in the UK is a major plus;
- Experiences in media work and communications (traditional and social media) a definite plus
More than anything, we are looking for enthusiastic candidates who are willing to work hard for a cause they believe in. As a European action support intern, you’ll be joining an international team of young organizers. Whether you are interested in environmental politics, non-profit management or online advocacy, we will be able to help develop your skills over the course of the summer and introduce you to new opportunities in any of the aforementioned fields.
Contact for more details: Diana@350.org
Application process: Please send us your CV and a covering letter stating clearly why you are the right person for this position.
Deadline for Application: 15th June – interviews will be held on a rolling basis – so feel free to send us your application as soon as possible

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Social Accountability Adviser

Help us put social accountability at the heart of the developing world.
£28,400 - £35,500 plus benefits
Milton Keynes or London (at least 3 days in MK) with extensive overseas travel
(Fixed term contract until 30^th June 2014)

World Vision works tirelessly to combat poverty and its causes, particularly affecting children. Whether we're empowering people in developing communities to support one another, linking donors to those in need or creating networks to campaign for justice, we're taking huge steps towards our goal of transforming the lives of eight million children by 2015.
In this vital role, you will ensure the strengthening and effective delivery of programs focused on local level advocacy via our Programme Partnership Arrangement with the Department for International Development. This will involve:

• Overseeing the design, implementation and monitoring of a variety of projects across the globe focused on holding governments accountable for equitable delivery of quality services
• Working with staff both in the UK and across to globe to enhance technical capacity in social accountability programming
• Controlling budgets and ensuring robust financial reporting
• Representing World Vision in a number of NGO networks
• Supporting the development and implementation of local level advocacy initiatives, including through ICT, and in fragile states
• Providing wide-ranging support to our National Offices in the field

To be equal to the challenge, you will require:

• A good first degree in Development Studies or International Relations (Masters preferable)
• Proven experience of local level advocacy and civil society engagement within a developing country
• Demonstrable skills in design, monitoring and evaluation of programmes, including undertaking assessments and training
• Sound ability to draft funding proposals, reports, research papers and case studies
• Enormous passion for reducing poverty and maximising social accountability

To find out how you can start to use your skills and experience to really make a difference, visit our website www.worldvision.org.uk/jobs for a full job description and an online application form.
Closing date: 23^rd June 2011 (11.00 pm)

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