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I am a Tier 2 skilled worker visa in the UK. My convertible and transferable skills includes starting and running my own charity organisation that support women affected by conflict and trauma. Curre...
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Can you recommend a training provider that will give online training on Health &  Hygine, Safety and other general courses required by staff and volunteers working in a foodbank
Hi, could anyone advise what a typical notice period for a charity CEO is? Many thanks
Tanya Tracey
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: How can we sub-contract work to an employee, which they will complete in their own time, not during their hours of em...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Does anyone have a pay progression mechanism in place to move people up to the scale within their current band? We ha...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am looking for a third sector specific salary surveys and benchmarking data. I'm new to this industry and want to c...
Ocean King
Hi Just looking to do a quick survey to see what others might offer in terms of a working week and general benefits.  We offer a 35 working week and wanted to see what others offered. Our main benefi...
Liz Cussans
Hi, any recommendations for providers of UK online DBS checks please?  The company that the charity I work with had used previously has been taken over by First Advantage, and after an hour of trying...
Kate Scranage
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'd be interested to know if there are any charities that offer counselling for colleagues in addition to their EAP....
Ocean King
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How have charity salaries changed over the past year? And how does yours compare to average salaries across the sector? CharityJob have just published the CharityJob Salary Report 2024! Find out sala...
Does any one have a recruitment policy they would be wiling to share-would be most grateful.  Also if a panel of 2/3 are conducting the interview with score sheets-is it OK to do this collectively wi...
Joe Bailey
Suppose someone made it to the final six applicants for a job with a national charity (and had a first interview) but didn't quite make it to the final two (who had a second interview) so obviously d...
Sue Donym
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our EDI advisory group wanted to check that we were following best practice with the Monitoring Form that we send out...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Can we put the following in our advert for trustees? We are particularly keen to broaden the diversity of our Board M...
Ocean King
I'm hoping that posting this here, as opposed to social media or LinkedIn will prevent a culture war outbreak. For context, I am both a biological male and identify as male. A colleague at senior lev...
Nick Avery
Hi everyone,  I have recently joined a charity who are looking at their offerings/policies on the following:  -  qualifying periods for paying company sick pay  - types of leave and time off availabl...
Clare Walker
Hello everyone, we're about to recruit for a Head of Operations post and I'm researching the best recruitment website to use. We always use CharityJob but I wanted to add more job sites for this role...
Debbie Holden
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our charity's staff work from home full-time. Is it usual for charities to require their staff that work remotely to...
Ocean King
Hi, I work at a small charity offering a 9-12 month employability programme.  We are currently looking for more beneficiaries who would like to take part in the programme. But are struggling to recru...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm facing a very horrible situation in the charity where I have worked for 12 years.  Last year I was bullied by the...
Ocean King
Hi folks,  I'd appreciate recommendations on who best to approach when looking for a group life insurance policy for my charity, please? All best, Robert
Morning everyone, There’s been much talk about redundancies in the UK, with reports on the redundancies experienced in tech now extending to journalism, finance and hospitality sectors. Thankfully, t...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello, does anyone have some advice on changing career path from project management to policy work, within human righ...
Ocean King
Hi I work for a small charity, income c£250k pa. We are looking to implement a new sick pay policy and I would be grateful for examples of the current advice on sick pay entitlement for small chariti...
Sue Cocker
Hi all,  Looking ahead to 2024, we’d love to explore some new avenues for recruitment and are thinking about the option of careers fairs. Does anyone have experience of exhibiting at such events or k...
Amy Odaro
Hi everyone. I've added 7 volunteer roles to our CharityJob account and they are live for applications. I've noticed that these volunteer jobs do not show when you click into our charity profile, it...
Hollie Felton
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: When taking about your achievements in a fundraising CV, do you mention the amounts and the donor?
Ocean King
Does anyone have any advice on transitioning from school education working for a charity.  Are there any courses I need to do, teaching has many transferable skills, but I would like to increase my c...
Runyararo Mudzamiri
Hi there I work with a small charity (I'm a freelance governance consultant but pick up all sorts of non-operational stuff for them) and they are looking for a new CEO who would be contracted as a fr...
Gemma Sykes
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I work for a small charity who only pay SSP to employees. We have pro-ratored an employee part-time, but the employee...
Ocean King
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