CAF overhauls communications function and makes five redundant
Charities Aid Foundation has made five members of its communications team redundant following a review in which six existing roles were scrapped and six new ones created.
The recruitment process involves gathering data on jobs and people and matching the two. The activity includes defining the job role and the type of person needed for it, attracting a pool of qualified applicants to the role, assessing the information about the applicants and selecting the best person for the role. It can involve costs with advertising, administration and loss of time. Charities often use a recruitment consultant to carry out the process on their behalf
Charities Aid Foundation has made five members of its communications team redundant following a review in which six existing roles were scrapped and six new ones created.
Navca’s new CEO-designate Joe Irvin has insisted that his Labour affiliations will not come into play in his new role, and that his career has been much broader than his two jobs in the Labour government.
Charities Aid Foundation has recruited an experienced social enterprise manager to head up CAF Venturesome.
Former Scope chief executive Jon Sparkes is returning to the voluntary sector in the post of chief operating officer at Unicef UK.
CFDG trustees yesterday voted in Ian Theodoreson as the group’s new chair, succeeding Charles Nall who had served in the role for the last four years.
Tendering for public services could get easier
The forthcoming review of the TUPE Regulations may make it more palatable for charities to tender for public sector contracts, says John McMullen.
The average salary of the chief executives of the UK’s top-100 charities is £166,048, exclusive new research by civilsociety.co.uk has shown.
The Fire Fighters Charity has finally appointed a new chief executive to succeed Jan Barlow, the previous incumbent who left without explanation in November last year after just nine months in post.
Charity Finance Function Survey 2011: Turning the corner
The third annual survey of the charity finance function finds grounds for cautious optimism, reports Diane Sim.
Fundraising vacancies are by far the hardest for small charities to fill, according to a survey by the Foundation for Social Improvement.
Jonathan Tross, who stepped down as treasurer on the board of Citizens Advice, has been replaced by former president of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, Mike Weaver.
Charities' persistent tendency to fill up their boards with their mates is holding back the sector's progress in producing more diverse boards, says Richard Williams.
WRVS chief executive Lynne Berry is to leave the charity this summer after four years at the helm.
The number of paid employees in the voluntary sector remained stable at 793,000 in the last quarter of 2010, according to the latest Labour Force Survey.
Ruth Murphy, director of investment management and charities at Newton, will join Brewin Dolphin this summer, as its new head of charity business development.
Movers: May 2010
Charity Bank has appointed investment management expert George Blunden as chairman.
Female interim managers working in charities earned 15 per cent less than their male counterparts during the six months from June to December last year, new research shows.
The Charity Employees Benevolent Fund has appointed former Charities Aid Foundation innovation head Gill Nunn as its new director.
Charles Mesquita has confirmed that he has joined Newton Investment Management as a director.
The Office of the Third Sector has announced that Rolande Anderson is to join as its new director general, succeeding Campbell Robb who leaves at the end of this month to join Shelter as chief executive.
GuideStar International has integrated its free website GuideStar UK and its Data Services trading subsidiary and appointed Les Hems, formerly director of third sector data and analysis at GuideStar Data Services CIC, as director of the combined programme.
The Charity Finance Directors' Group has appointed Angela Haines, a former international development and human rights consultant, as its new policy manager. She returns to the UK having been based in Brussels, where she spent two years working mainly with NGOs on a freelance basis, preceded by an interim role at BOND and two years as EU representative in HelpAge International’s Brussels office.
Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Scope, will stand down at the end of November to take up a new position as director of workforce development for NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly.
International equine welfare charity, the Brooke, has appointed Petra Ingram as its new chief executive. Ingram, who has been promoted from her director of resources role at the charity, replaces Mike Baker who spent eight years at the charity.
Catherine Johnstone, former interim chief executive of Capacitybuilders, has been appointed as chief executive of Samaritans after spending four months as interim chief executive of the charity. Sophie Andrews, chair of Samaritans said: “In Catherine’s capable hands, I know that our new six-year strategy Taking the Lead to Reduce Suicide will have a real impact on the lives of these people in emotional distress that our service aims to help.”
Finance Function Survey 2009
It’s been a tough time for charity finance directors over the last year and the next 12 months show few signs of respite. Against a backdrop of economic recession, charities are suffering from low or no interest on bank deposits, falling yields on investments and downward pressure on funding sources. As income falls, or at least threatens to, cost control is key according to the findings of our inaugural survey of the finance function.
Rules of redundancy
Redundancies are a fact of life and need to be approached in a fair way says Julian Goulding. Let's be clear. Employers can legally make employees redundant but by the same token employees do not have to accept that they are redundant just because their employer says that is the case.
Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten and broadcaster Kim Catcheside have been appointed as trustees to the Charity Finance Directors’ Group (CFDG) for their “media and lobbying” skills.
The RNLI has recruited the Royal Navy’s former chief operating officer as its new chief executive. Paul Boissier (pictured) recently retired from the Royal Navy in which he served for 35 years, reaching the rank of Vice Admiral. In 1999 he attended the London Business School for the Sloan Fellowship Masters Programme, for which he earned his MSc. Over the last two years, he was the Royal Navy’s chief operating officer, integrating the functions of HR, support, training, logistics and procurement to ensure that the Royal Navy could deploy around the world when required.
First-time finance director
Ann Casey's daughter encouraged her to apply for the director of finance and administration role at the National Children's Bureau two years ago. "My daughter has worked here," Casey says, "and said it was an interesting place."