GoodGym is seeking a technical lead/CTO to lead the work on our platform. This is a pivotal role in our central team and your work will have significant social impact on a national scale. 

About GoodGym

GoodGym is a multi-award-winning social enterprise that connects exercise with volunteering. It is powered by a digital volunteering platform that enables runners and walkers to connect with tasks that benefit their communities. Across 58 cities and boroughs GoodGym members run to help isolated older people and community projects. It’s shown to reduce isolation, improve community cohesion and to improve wellbeing for all involved. It is frequently cited as a leading social innovation by the government, mainstream press and leading think tanks. GoodGym’s impact and activity continues to grow and in this role you will play an important part in increasing our impact.

About the Role

GoodGym's digital volunteering platform enables all of our operations including onboarding new members, opportunity listing, communications and managing our work with older people. 

Our central team of 14 people is based in central London and we have a part time employee in each city in which we operate. You will work closely with the senior leadership team on the GoodGym business strategy, including the CEO, the Head of Business Development, the Head of Operations, and the Head of Strategy.

You will manage a team consisting of a web developer and a UX designer. You will be replacing our experienced CTO who has moved back to Portugal and is now seeking to work locally. In this role you will work with other members of the team to develop features and improve the user experience for our users, which include our volunteers, the trainers who run our sessions, our operations team, referral partners that submit tasks, and the older people who we help.

The platform is a Ruby on Rails web application hosted on Heroku, using Postgres and Redis (Sidekiq). Our code is hosted on Github, we use Travis for CI, and tools such as CodeClimate, BugSnag and ScoutApp. 

Responsibilities

• You will own the software development process from start to finish, working closely with the senior leadership team on the GoodGym strategy
• You will be responsible for defining, implementing, documenting, and maintaining features on our platform
• You will line manage the GoodGym technical team, which includes a UX designer and a web developer
• You will be responsible for operating our systems and keeping the platform reliable, up to date and secure
• You will be responsible for managing business processes relevant to the volunteering website, such as privacy and GDPR
• You will help define and monitor KPIs to assess performance across the organisation

Essential skills and experience

• You must have web programming skills, and ideally experience designing, developing and maintaining Ruby on Rails production web applications.
• You have excellent communication skills and are able to work alongside people of all technical abilities
• You believe in using automated tests for maintaining projects, and ideally have experience with test driven development 
• You are self-motivated and have a proactive mindset

Further details

• £50k - £55k depending on experience.
• Office located in Somerset House, Strand, London, but we can be flexible on location within the UK.
• Flexible working hours including working from home.
• Family-friendly policy.
• Big social impact and dedicated team.
• 33 days paid holiday including bank holidays.
• Personal development days to broaden skills and build experience.

Applying for the role

Please send your CV and cover letter by email via the button below.

Schedule: Applications will close midnight Sunday 5th April.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity as an organisation. We particularly welcome applications from women and BAME applicants in order to better represent the communities we operate in. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital or disability status.

The information collected during our recruitment process is only used for monitoring purposes to assist us in analysing the profile and make up of individuals who apply, are shortlisted for and appointed to each vacancy. In this way, we can check we are complying with the Equality Act 2010 and with our own Equality Opportunities and Diversity policy.

Exeter College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment

Programme Leader – IT

Salary: £22,034 – 35,456 per annum plus excellent benefits

Hours: 37 hours per week (1.0FTE)

Contract Type: Permanent

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high performing team within an Outstanding College, in a Faculty with Good and Outstanding Teaching.

The suitable candidate will demonstrate a passion for Teaching and Learning and a commitment to responding to learner feedback and putting the learner at the heart of all decisions. The ideal candidate will have experience of teaching within FE and a proven track record. They will also have had experience of working in partnership with local employers to enrich the curriculum.

The successful candidate will receive the benefit of an experienced mentor and an extensive in-house development programme. We deliver courses from Level 1 up to level 5 and you may have the opportunity to teach across all these levels.  We will also be involved in the delivery of the Government’s new flagship qualifications, T Levels, from 2020, so this is an exciting time to be joining this evolving curriculum area.

To apply for this post please visit our website, by clicking apply.

The closing date for receipt of completed application is midnight, Sunday 22nd March.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure by the DBS.

We do not accept CVs, no agencies please.

Exeter College is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and access for all, irrespective of age, background, race, gender, religion, ability, disability or sexuality. We welcome applications for employment from the whole community.

Exeter College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment

Programme Leader – IT

Salary: £22,034 – 35,456 per annum plus excellent benefits

Hours: 37 hours per week (1.0FTE)

Contract Type: Permanent

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high performing team within an Outstanding College, in a Faculty with Good and Outstanding Teaching.

The suitable candidate will demonstrate a passion for Teaching and Learning and a commitment to responding to learner feedback and putting the learner at the heart of all decisions. The ideal candidate will have experience of teaching within FE and a proven track record. They will also have had experience of working in partnership with local employers to enrich the curriculum.

The successful candidate will receive the benefit of an experienced mentor and an extensive in-house development programme. We deliver courses from Level 1 up to level 5 and you may have the opportunity to teach across all these levels.  We will also be involved in the delivery of the Government’s new flagship qualifications, T Levels, from 2020, so this is an exciting time to be joining this evolving curriculum area.

To apply for this post please visit our website, by clicking apply.

The closing date for receipt of completed application is midnight, Sunday 22nd March.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure by the DBS.

We do not accept CVs, no agencies please.

Exeter College is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and access for all, irrespective of age, background, race, gender, religion, ability, disability or sexuality. We welcome applications for employment from the whole community.

GoodGym is seeking a technical lead/CTO to lead the work on our platform. This is a pivotal role in our central team and your work will have significant social impact on a national scale. 

About GoodGym

GoodGym is a multi-award-winning social enterprise that connects exercise with volunteering. It is powered by a digital volunteering platform that enables runners and walkers to connect with tasks that benefit their communities. Across 58 cities and boroughs GoodGym members run to help isolated older people and community projects. It’s shown to reduce isolation, improve community cohesion and to improve wellbeing for all involved. It is frequently cited as a leading social innovation by the government, mainstream press and leading think tanks. GoodGym’s impact and activity continues to grow and in this role you will play an important part in increasing our impact.

About the Role

GoodGym's digital volunteering platform enables all of our operations including onboarding new members, opportunity listing, communications and managing our work with older people. 

Our central team of 14 people is based in central London and we have a part time employee in each city in which we operate. You will work closely with the senior leadership team on the GoodGym business strategy, including the CEO, the Head of Business Development, the Head of Operations, and the Head of Strategy.

You will manage a team consisting of a web developer and a UX designer. You will be replacing our experienced CTO who has moved back to Portugal and is now seeking to work locally. In this role you will work with other members of the team to develop features and improve the user experience for our users, which include our volunteers, the trainers who run our sessions, our operations team, referral partners that submit tasks, and the older people who we help.

The platform is a Ruby on Rails web application hosted on Heroku, using Postgres and Redis (Sidekiq). Our code is hosted on Github, we use Travis for CI, and tools such as CodeClimate, BugSnag and ScoutApp. 

Responsibilities

• You will own the software development process from start to finish, working closely with the senior leadership team on the GoodGym strategy
• You will be responsible for defining, implementing, documenting, and maintaining features on our platform
• You will line manage the GoodGym technical team, which includes a UX designer and a web developer
• You will be responsible for operating our systems and keeping the platform reliable, up to date and secure
• You will be responsible for managing business processes relevant to the volunteering website, such as privacy and GDPR
• You will help define and monitor KPIs to assess performance across the organisation

Essential skills and experience

• You must have web programming skills, and ideally experience designing, developing and maintaining Ruby on Rails production web applications.
• You have excellent communication skills and are able to work alongside people of all technical abilities
• You believe in using automated tests for maintaining projects, and ideally have experience with test driven development 
• You are self-motivated and have a proactive mindset

Further details

• £50k - £55k depending on experience.
• Office located in Somerset House, Strand, London, but we can be flexible on location within the UK.
• Flexible working hours including working from home.
• Family-friendly policy.
• Big social impact and dedicated team.
• 33 days paid holiday including bank holidays.
• Personal development days to broaden skills and build experience.

Applying for the role

Please send your CV and cover letter by email via the button below.

Schedule: Applications will close midnight Sunday 5th April.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity as an organisation. We particularly welcome applications from women and BAME applicants in order to better represent the communities we operate in. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital or disability status.

The information collected during our recruitment process is only used for monitoring purposes to assist us in analysing the profile and make up of individuals who apply, are shortlisted for and appointed to each vacancy. In this way, we can check we are complying with the Equality Act 2010 and with our own Equality Opportunities and Diversity policy.

Not only has this startup being named one of the fastest growing companies in Europe by The Financial Times, it has also just been included in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50! They are one of the leading home services companies in London, working in a similar way to Uber to connect cleaners with customers.

They are now looking for a dedicated Customer Ops Coordinator to join their team and learn how a startup works from the inside out by working on the frontline of the business, solving problems for customers and helping to deliver an extraordinary service. 
 

?Key responsibilities:

• Bringing in new business by talking to and booking in customers
• Providing excellent customer service to existing customers and cleaners by helping with any onsite issues and handling schedules and holidays
• Helping to attract and recruit new cleaners to the platform
• Generating ideas to make operational processes more efficient and scalable
• Using tech systems and providing feedback to the Tech Team to improve usability for both customers and housekeepers

?Requirements:

• Degree-level education and/or professional working experience
• Ability to think through problems and to offer solutions
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including fluent English
• A real passion for working in a start up environment
• Experience using Zendesk would be a bonus but is not essential.

They’re a fun and very social team, so expect lots of office cake, team drinks and celebrations of their achievements!

?Note: You must be able to work on one day or both days over the weekend. However, this would only be for the first few months and they are fairly flexible about scheduling. 

Not only has this startup being named one of the fastest growing companies in Europe by The Financial Times, it has also just been included in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50! They are one of the leading home services companies in London, working in a similar way to Uber to connect cleaners with customers.

They are now looking for a dedicated Customer Ops Coordinator to join their team and learn how a startup works from the inside out by working on the frontline of the business, solving problems for customers and helping to deliver an extraordinary service. 
 

?Key responsibilities:

• Bringing in new business by talking to and booking in customers
• Providing excellent customer service to existing customers and cleaners by helping with any onsite issues and handling schedules and holidays
• Helping to attract and recruit new cleaners to the platform
• Generating ideas to make operational processes more efficient and scalable
• Using tech systems and providing feedback to the Tech Team to improve usability for both customers and housekeepers

?Requirements:

• Degree-level education and/or professional working experience
• Ability to think through problems and to offer solutions
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including fluent English
• A real passion for working in a start up environment
• Experience using Zendesk would be a bonus but is not essential.

They’re a fun and very social team, so expect lots of office cake, team drinks and celebrations of their achievements!

?Note: You must be able to work on one day or both days over the weekend. However, this would only be for the first few months and they are fairly flexible about scheduling. 

Part-time Digital Copywriter needed to work with Digital Designer in established start up! (Recruiting for both roles)

Freelance Digital Writer - Up to £250 per day PAYE - 3 month contract - London

THE COMPANY
Central London based fintech with entrepreneurial but established business model, and an in house creative team of 4, needs a freelance Digital Writer to support business growth and volume of work.

THE ROLE
You will sit in the team who are responsible for demand generation and this results in digital ad copy and digital ad imagery for online banners, display and LinkedIn ads.
In terms of copy, you will write across landing pages and emails predominantly. The landing pages will be likely be built on instapage. There is also the requirement for some templates to be created for marketing use over the next few months designed with the marketing automation guys there. Yourself and the Designer may produce other marketing collateral, print ads and supporting work for events.

YOU
The two roles we are recruiting for could be a team used to working with each other or two individuals who can collaborate.
Working with the designer you will curate compelling, engaging work resulting in conversion.
We need creatives' who can understand how to convert and drive click through to landing pages.

Please apply if this seems like the right part time role for you! We would love to see a strong portfolio of work.

Freelance Digital Writer - Up to £250 per day PAYE - 3 month contract - London

If this role isn't what you're looking for don't worry. At Stopgap we cover all permanent and freelance marketing positions, with specialist industry sector teams. You can check out all of our roles on our website and sign up for job alerts so you're the first to know about a new opportunity . Marketing Recruitment - The Stopgap Way.

Part-time Digital Copywriter needed to work with Digital Designer in established start up! (Recruiting for both roles)

Freelance Digital Writer - Up to £250 per day PAYE - 3 month contract - London

THE COMPANY
Central London based fintech with entrepreneurial but established business model, and an in house creative team of 4, needs a freelance Digital Writer to support business growth and volume of work.

THE ROLE
You will sit in the team who are responsible for demand generation and this results in digital ad copy and digital ad imagery for online banners, display and LinkedIn ads.
In terms of copy, you will write across landing pages and emails predominantly. The landing pages will be likely be built on instapage. There is also the requirement for some templates to be created for marketing use over the next few months designed with the marketing automation guys there. Yourself and the Designer may produce other marketing collateral, print ads and supporting work for events.

YOU
The two roles we are recruiting for could be a team used to working with each other or two individuals who can collaborate.
Working with the designer you will curate compelling, engaging work resulting in conversion.
We need creatives' who can understand how to convert and drive click through to landing pages.

Please apply if this seems like the right part time role for you! We would love to see a strong portfolio of work.

Freelance Digital Writer - Up to £250 per day PAYE - 3 month contract - London

If this role isn't what you're looking for don't worry. At Stopgap we cover all permanent and freelance marketing positions, with specialist industry sector teams. You can check out all of our roles on our website and sign up for job alerts so you're the first to know about a new opportunity . Marketing Recruitment - The Stopgap Way.

A highly prestigious medical membership organisation is seeking a seasoned Head of IT for a role involving a combination of high level strategic leadership and operational management.

This is a permanent full time role offering a salary of £48,289 per annum.

Scope of the role and responsibilities:

-Leading and motivating the IT team
-Responsibility for hardware and desktops
-Managing software, security, VC facilities and security hardware and systems
-Ad-hoc IT project management & contract negotiation
-Delivering business strategy and budgets to the board

Requirements:

-Experience in implementing and supporting CRM solutions
-Ideally experience in the not for profit or charity sector
-Creating and maintaining high level effective support documentation including business case analysis, project management tools, reports and procedures
- Experience of the design and implementation of data security controls including knowledge of Data Protection legislation


This role is a very important hire for the organisation and would suit a confident, professional and creative individual looking to work for a high-calibre organisation.

This role has a very quick turnaround and will be closing on Friday 13th March 2020.

Candidates shortlisted for this role will be requested to write a supporting statement.

If you are interested in this role, please apply with a copy of your CV.

A highly prestigious medical membership organisation is seeking a seasoned Head of IT for a role involving a combination of high level strategic leadership and operational management.

This is a permanent full time role offering a salary of £48,289 per annum.

Scope of the role and responsibilities:

-Leading and motivating the IT team
-Responsibility for hardware and desktops
-Managing software, security, VC facilities and security hardware and systems
-Ad-hoc IT project management & contract negotiation
-Delivering business strategy and budgets to the board

Requirements:

-Experience in implementing and supporting CRM solutions
-Ideally experience in the not for profit or charity sector
-Creating and maintaining high level effective support documentation including business case analysis, project management tools, reports and procedures
- Experience of the design and implementation of data security controls including knowledge of Data Protection legislation


This role is a very important hire for the organisation and would suit a confident, professional and creative individual looking to work for a high-calibre organisation.

This role has a very quick turnaround and will be closing on Friday 13th March 2020.

Candidates shortlisted for this role will be requested to write a supporting statement.

If you are interested in this role, please apply with a copy of your CV.