Work with us
One Small Thing is growing! Join our ground-breaking team committed to redesigning the justice system for women and their children. As vacancies come up they will be posted below.
ROLE: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
HOURS OF WORK: 35 hours per week
SALARY: £80,000 - £90,000 per annum (FTE)
LOCATION: London Office / Hybrid/ Home based
One Small thing is entering an exciting phase as we embark on a new strategic plan this year. With the current political climate, momentum on tackling the challenges within the justice space and a focus on women and children, we are ready to embark on a transformation to maximise our impact and grow our work.
Over the last seven years we have designed and built Hope Street, our residential alternative to custody model, which is now delivering real change for women and their children across Hampshire. We want to see this work scaled and replicated to provide more chances for women to avoid being sentenced into custody unnecessarily, and to prevent more children being separated from their mothers and entering the care system as a result.
We are looking for someone who shares our passion and drive to deliver results. A solution focussed, action orientated individual with excellent commercial acumen, vision, and agility to hold a wide brief; leading complex negotiations and external conversations, alongside overseeing our core functions and strategic business planning.
The new position of Chief Financial Officer, with One Small Thing, will support us to achieve these bold ambitions. We are seeking a visionary leader to drive the strategic financial direction and sustainability of the organisation, ensuring that the charity has the organisational capability, resources and infrastructure it needs to deliver its vision. You will lead the development of our business plan to accompany the charity’s new strategy and work closely with the CEO, Executive Team, and Board of Trustees, providing expert financial leadership and ensuring our financial strategy is aligned with our mission and long-term goals.
This role can be based remotely, hybrid or from our London office. You must be able to travel to our London office in Vauxhall and to Hope Street Hampshire, which is located in Southampton, when required. You will participate in Board and SLT meetings, some in-person induction training and will be open to national travel and attendance at out of hours events as required.
If you have the passion and drive to join us in our journey to change the justice system for women and children please click below to download the full recruitment pack and job description for this role.
Benefits
We offer the following employee benefits:
• We are a Real Living Wage Employer
• 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays – pro rata
• A additional day off on your Birthday
• Long Service Award – extra holiday for 3+ years’ service
• A comprehensive induction and training programme
• An unlimited counselling service through our Employment Assistance Programme “OpenUp”, which you can also extend to 3 members of your family.
• Enhanced sick pay
• Team member of the month awards
• Refer a Friend Recruitment Bonus
• 5% employer contribution to your NEST Pension, increasing after 3+ years’ service (pension offer currently under review)
• Learning & Development opportunities relevant to each role
• Blue Light Discount Scheme
• Team building activities
• Regular collaborative team days
The closing date for applications is 12pm on Tuesday 25th March 2025. We reserve the right to close this advert at any time if we receive a high volume of applications. Interviews will be on Wednesday 2nd April 2025. We will only contact those applicants who have been shortlisted for interview. If you have not been contacted by the interview date, then you have unfortunately not been shortlisted.
ROLE: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND FUNDING OFFICER
HOURS OF WORK: 35 hours per week
SALARY: £30,000 - £35,000
LOCATION: Vauxhall, London. Office based with flexibility of up to 2 days a week remote working.
Do you have experience of identifying and developing opportunities for growing a business or a charity/not-for-profit organisation?
Does developing meaningful relationships and partnerships motivate you?
Can you confidently write funding proposals and reports and work with commissioners?
The Business Development and Funding Officer will work with our Head of Quality, Training and Networks and our Director of Operations to develop our relationships with funders, commissioners and organisations who access our training and consultancy offer. They will play a vital role in our team to ensure we have a programme of work and funding relationships in place to enable us to deliver our mission and support the long-term sustainability of One Small Thing.
You will nurture our existing partnerships and identify and develop relationships that will lead to a stronger client base, for our future trauma-informed training and Quality Mark offering. You will also work closely our Director of Operations, to secure funding opportunities to support our team to deliver our mission.
Ideally, you’ll have previous experience of working within the justice sector and the issues facing justice involved women, however, if you have strong experience of business development, fundraising and partnership building, we’d also love to hear from you. You’ll need to be comfortable with managing your own workload, whilst collaborating with others to make the most of every opportunity to add value. This role will be hybrid, based in London (Vauxhall) and remote.
Benefits
We offer the following employee benefits:
• We are a Real Living Wage Employer
• 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays – pro rata
• A day off on your Birthday
• Long Service Award – extra holiday for 3+ years’ service
• A comprehensive induction and training programme
• An unlimited counselling service through our Employment Assistance Programme “OpenUp”, which you can also extend to 3 members of your family.
• Enhanced Company sick pay scheme
• Team member of the month awards
• Refer a Friend Recruitment Bonus
• 5% employer contribution to your NEST Pension, increasing after 3+ years’ service
• Learning & Development opportunities relevant to each role
• Blue Light Discount Scheme
• Team building activities
• Regular collaborative team days
The closing date for applications is 12pm on Tuesday 22nd April 2025. We reserve the right to close this advert at any time if we receive a high volume of applications. Late applications will not be considered. Interviews will be on Monday 28th April 2025. We will only contact those applicants who have been shortlisted for interview. If you have not been contacted by the interview date, then you have unfortunately not been shortlisted.
SAFER RECRUITMENT
Safer recruitment is central to the safeguarding of adults, children, and young people at risk. One Small Thing is committed to the safeguarding of every individual that we come into contact with through our work and expects all team members to share this commitment.
As part of our recruitment process, a DBS check at the appropriate level for those successful at interview, but this does not necessarily exclude applicants with convictions. For some roles, a vetting and barring check will also be carried out.
Volunteering at Hope Street
We aren’t currently recruiting volunteers for Hope Street at the moment. However, there are some offers of support that will be of help to us. Please feel free to leave your details and offer of support in the form below and we’ll be back in contact with you when we are ready to start our volunteer programme, or if you have a specific skill set we are currently in need of. Thank you for your interest.
The information you provide in this form will be stored securely, and will only be used in relation to your volunteering enquiry.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
At One Small Thing we are committed to tackling injustice and inequality in the justice system and beyond. Understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion is critical to delivering our mission to redesign the justice system for women and their children. Challenging racial injustice is a crucial element of this, and we strive towards anti-racist practice as an organisation and in the services we deliver.
We have been working with Inclusive recruiting to train our Trustees and team, review our policies and lead the recruitment drive for Hope Street. We encourage applications from those who may have had similar experiences to the women and children we support, including those with previous convictions. We are committed to ensuring the voices of those with lived experience are represented across all our work strands.
We know however we need to do much more and want our work towards diversity, equity and inclusion to be measured by our actions. We are currently drafting new EDI and anti-racism action plans, the key commitments of which will be shared shortly.