Overview

We are looking for a highly organised individual to support the growth of our Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) across BirdLife’s Financial, Legal and Administration functions.

Application deadline: Thursday, 10 October 2024 – 23.45h
Location: Hybrid – Office and Home Working
Full time: 35 hours per week
Contract: Open-ended
Salary: 25,000-28,000 per annum
Annual Leave: 25 days pro rata in year 1

BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. Through our unique local-to-global approach, we deliver high-impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.

To aid organisations (business, government and NGOs) to act on biodiversity-related risks and opportunities, BirdLife, in a unique collaboration model with Conservation International, IUCN and UNEP WCMC, created the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT), a platform integrating the world’s most authoritative biodiversity datasets.

IBAT is growing fast and and we are now looking for an IBAT Finance and Administration Assistant to provide support to the IBAT Business and Finance Team. In this role, you will be primarily supporting the Finance administration of IBAT, with particular focus on invoicing and supporting improved efficiency projects. You will also be involved in the legal contracting between BirdLife International’s legal function and IBAT clients, to facilitate swift contracting.

How you will do this:

• Finance – Supporting various aspects of financial operations, including invoicing, debtors and creditors, blue chip payment portals, financial reporting and budget tracking.
• Legal – Supporting the overall flow of contracting between BirdLife’s legal function and clients.  With a drive towards swift completion of contracting to drive a positive customer experience.
• Administration – Assist with the various administrative activities within the IBAT Business and Finance function.  Including, but not limited to, production and maintenance of documentation, event coordination, and efficiency projects.

Ideally you will have:

• Strong administrative and organisational skills, including prioritisation and working to deadlines and meticulous with the detail.
• An excellent level of understanding with Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel (advanced level).
• Experience with invoicing and other finance administrative tasks, as well as reporting and working within projects.
• Experience in managing contract wording negotiations between parties, to reach a signable contract swiftly.
• Self-motivated and work with minimal supervision.
• Experience of working within a charity/NGO setting would be an advantage.

See the full job description on the BirdLife website

Some of our benefits:

• We are able to offer a hybrid model of working on-site and from home/remote for most roles, which helps to ensure a flexible work-life balance.
• A chance to work in the award-winning David Attenborough building, which brings together much of the Cambridge-based conservation community on a ‘conservation campus.’
• A generous pension scheme, up to 12% company contribution.
• Holiday starting at 25 days excluding Bank Holidays and increasing for every year of service up to a maximum of 28 days.
• Full access to LinkedIn Learning with access to more than 13,000 high-quality, on-demand courses.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme, including access to Health Assured online health portal (webinars, nutritional advice, 4-week programmes, financial wellbeing and more).

BirdLife values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Find out more about our Diversity statement.

We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.

We will consider putting into place appropriate reasonable adjustments for candidates who may have a disability.

Interviews: Interviews will be held as suitable candidates are identified