Travel and Security Advisor
- Employer
- Comic Relief
- Location
- London Vauxall
- Salary
- £28000 - £31000
- Closing date
- 10 Jul 2019
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- Function
- Operations & Service Delivery
- Sector
- Social Care & Welfare
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Comic Relief is one of the UK’s best loved brands and organiser of two of the country’s largest fundraising campaigns. Behind all the fun and excitement of Red Nose Day and Sport Relief is a serious business that is working to create a just world free from poverty.
The Travel & Security Advisor will work closely with, and support the Travel & Engagement Team to ensure the successful delivery of, and adherence to Comic Relief’s travel policy and practice. They are responsible for creating responsible travel solutions for CR travellers and guests in compliance with CR policies to ensure safe and productive trips.
Key Accountabilities / Objectives
- Work closely with the Travel & Engagement Coordinator and Travel Risk & Engagement Manager to deliver safe and impactful travel for colleagues, partners and advocates
- Act as the point of contact for staff arranging travel plans to guide and ensure staff are following CR travel procedures at all stages of planning, travel and aftercare
- Sign off low to medium risk Risk Assessments
- Assist with management of the travel booking system
- Assist with development and maintenance of electronic risk assessment process
- Research and develop guidance on working with international partner organisations from a risk perspective
- Assist with development of and maintenance of the CR In-country resource database
- Keep up to date with developments in global security and best practice within the security sector
- Support development and delivery of CR travel policies and internal training as required
- Actively participate in collaborative Cross-functional working both within the Impact and Investment department and across the wider organisation
- Occasionally may be required to monitor 24 hour emergency phone when Travel Risk & Engagement Manager and Travel & Engagement Coordinator are unavailable
- Some travel (including international) may be required within this role
Essential Education and Skills
- Good understanding of risks and safety requirements associated to remote international travel
- Experience using risk assessment tools and techniques
- Experience and understanding of travel processes and practice
- Good understanding of organisational duty of care and sectoral best practice
- Solid IT literacy in MS Windows, MS Office and Outlook
Key Competencies
- A proactive professional able to use their initiative effectively to add value
- Good relationship management skills
- Collaborative, cross-functional approach that engages stakeholders
- Excellent attention to detail, time management and organisation skills
- Good communication skills, written and oral
- A positive and fun individual with a “can do” attitude
If you have the skills and passion necessary please apply online via the link.
Comic Relief positively welcomes, and seeks to ensure we achieve, diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. We encourage applications from disabled people and we will guarantee a first stage interview to all disabled applicants who sufficiently demonstrate in their application how they meet the essential criteria for the job as outlined on the person specification of the job description.
Registered charity 326568
Company
Our mission, thanks to our comedy heritage and the fantastic relationship we enjoy with the BBC, is 'positive change through the power of entertainment'.
And our biggest tool, in trying to achieve these two goals, is the ability to inspire people across the whole country especially those who don’t normally do charity - to do charity.
As the world has changed and become more complex over the last two decades, so Comic Relief has had to adapt and change too but the fundamentals remain the same - a just world free from poverty. In trying to achieve that vision we make this promise to the people who make those efforts possible - our supporters:
"In order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessary costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.
Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity gets directly from the public, a pound goes to help transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice. If Sport Relief raises £20 million, Comic Relief will spend at least £20 million doing just that.
It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from all types of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals and government (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest"
AND IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MINUTES TO SPARE HERE'S THE MORE DETAILED ANSWER:
Comic Relief is obviously a charity - but it's also a business too.
The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.
That money comes in from a number of different sources. Traditional charitable fundraising obviously plays a vital role. The public contribute to Comic Relief's annual campaigns by raising money through sponsorship and by making donations online, by post, by telephone and through major banks and building societies. This support, from almost the very day Comic Relief was formed, has been both humbling and inspirational.
On the business side of things, Comic Relief works with key corporate partners to produce products and promotions that are profitable. The clearest example of this is the Red Nose that is the emblem of Red Nose Day.
Where possible these products tie-in with the charity's commitment to delivering benefits to poor farmers and producers. The Red Nose Day 2007 T-shirt for instance was made with fair trade cotton from Mali, Cameroon and Senegal and there will be a fair trade Maraba Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda, a country to which Comic Relief has had a clear commitment since the appalling genocide of 1994.
Another way Comic Relief raises funds is via the creativity made available to the charity. Comedians from time to time offer access to key brands like Little Britain for commercial exploitation. The charity also develops and owns key sub-brands like Robbie the Reindeer and Monkey, both of which deliver a revenue too.
- Website
- http://www.comicrelief.com/
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