HR resources
HR and employment practice resources:
- Case studies from a wide range of voluntary and community organisations, discussing a variety of employment practice issues so you can learn from the experiences of others.
- Good Guide to Employment Templates and Factsheets: Based on the popular publication, these are intended to help you with the development of policies, job descriptions and good diversity practice - and many more.
- Information on hosting graduate interns and work experience placements in your organisation.
- HRBank: A collection of free sample policies and job descriptions, donated by voluntary and community organisations. These are available for you to download and tailor to your own needs.
- HR 'How to' Guides on a variety of topics, including conducting a 360 degree appraisal and avoiding redundancies in a recession.
- HR links to organisations that can help you with your queries.
- HR resources and services both by topic and region.
- Training Needs Analysis: a complete step by step guide to understanding the training needs of your organisation.
- Voluntary sector workforce: facts and figures.
- Workforce Wheel: This is an outcomes tool which aims to help organisations understand where they want to get to as they grow into their into their full potential.
Job search
- Advertise or browse jobs in the sector: www.charityjob.co.uk/ncvo/jobs
- Advertise or find a trustee vacancies in our Trustee Bank
- Working For A Charity run a series of training courses aimed at those who are either new to the sector or considering a move into it.
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- Governance and leadership
- Compact Advocacy programme
- Campaigning and influencing policy
- Collaborative working
- ICT (information and communication technology)
- Climate change
- Infrastructure
- Innovation
- People, HR and employment
Free HR advice service for NCVO members
All NCVO member organisations can access 30 minutes of free HR advice per month over the telephone through PEACe HR advice service from LVSC, in association with Russell Cooke Solicitors.
This service is available Monday – Thursday 10am to 4pm.
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