ABOUT US

Our vision at Noisy Cricket is to proliferate reciprocally nurturing systems. This means creating solutions that create mutual benefit for organisations and the people they exist to serve, so that everyone in society can thrive. 

We do this through our mission of bringing together diverse groups – including people from traditionally marginalised & disadvantaged communities plus individuals from cross-sector organisations – to co-create transformative and innovative social possibilities. 

In the coming three years, we’re working to advance our systemic approach, leveraging our expertise in both community engagement and organisational transformation. We’re also looking to scale up our social enterprise, continuing our agency work with clients across funders, charities, government and academia, as well as establishing a product to share our learning around co-creation. 

However, it’s our venture activity around homeless employment and responsible technology that holds the greatest promise for both social impact and commercial sustainability, and our product development activity – sharing our learning around co-creation and transformation – that will help us get there.

Therefore, having support across the team to manage operational and administrative processes will be key to our growth. Fancy playing your part in pioneering human approaches to employment and bringing home the humanity to tech? 

ABOUT YOU

Your Brief

To enable Noisy Cricket to progress its work, we require a virtual assistant or office support to:

• Provide administrative support in processing financial information, data and legal documentation for team members, suppliers, partners and clients to free up team member capacity
• Assist in the day-to-day operations of the organisation, establishing and automating processes in marketing, HR and governance to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of Noisy Cricket’s ways of working
• Bringing a problem-solving and solution-orientated mindset to supporting and organising the Noisy Cricket board of directors and team members in delivering, catering and platforming events, meetings and travel arrangements

OUR NEEDS

Your Roles and Responsibilities

For the virtual assistant / office support role, the role requires:

• A successful track record in providing virtual or personal assistant experience
• Administrative skills, operational strengths and problem-solving attitude
• Self-organising and proactive approach to client support
• Charity, social enterprise or social entrepreneur-aligned clients

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting monthly  financial reconciliation through gathering, recording and reconciling organisation receipts and invoices in Xero
• Recording and checking monthly data capture, usage and management for GDPR and ROPA purposes
• Overseeing the quarterly write-up and editing of board minutes plus uploading and sending minutes for board member review and sig
• Connecting and automating marketing platforms, software and processes ad hoc for ease of use and transfer of data
• Collecting information, setting up and sending team, client and partnership contracts out for ad hoc sign-off
• Supporting the occasional onboarding, set up and support of new employees at Noisy Cricket, including PAYE, pensions and password access
• Sourcing, gathering quotes and agreeing on event spaces, catering and technical support for regular Noisy Cricket events, meetings and activities. 
• Searching, agreeing and booking team travel and accommodation as and when required

OUR OFFER

Your Remuneration

Starting with a six-month contract to determine alignment around collectively agreed outcomes and outputs, with the potential to continue the relationship and build expertise and momentum over time. 

As a result, we’re looking for support for 10 hours per month, dependent on need, at an approximate £30 hourly rate to a maximum of £300 total each month.

We’re open-minded about the nature of the relationship, so this can be a straightforward contract or a retainer relationship. If you have something else in mind, we’d love to hear it. It’s unlikely we’d employ someone in a permanent position until we’ve better evaluated the role’s value to Noisy Cricket’s work.

Our Ways of Working

We work collaboratively at Noisy Cricket – hierarchies aren’t conducive to co-creation – and flexible working is the norm. so you’ll be free to self-organise your work alongside the Noisy Cricket team. We reflect on performance and growth as a team too, so regular reviews and retros will become a regular part of your life. 

We are currently trialling four day weeks and also have long grass Fridays, where we go offline for the day and work on personal learning and professional development and Noisy Cricket projects. That means working days are Tuesday to Thursday online. 

At Noisy Cricket, we’re all about active listening, courageously caring and being ambitiously hopeful, so if you’re curious, willing to challenge the status quo and dream big, you’ll be right at home. 

Given our work to bring together diverse groups of people, making sure we’re inclusive and keeping vulnerable adults safe is essential, so both safeguarding and diversity and inclusion are core to our policies and procedures. 

Our work in these areas is an open conversation and constantly evolving, however, so we’re keen for people who are willing to continuously learn, grow and play a part in how we shape our practices, processes and policies, both internally and externally to the organisation. 

Stage 1: Expressions of Interest

Simply let us know that you’re keen to play a part in Noisy Cricket’s future and why by filling in this expression of interest form here by Friday 19th April 2024.

Stage 2: Pitch & Experience

We’d love you to send across your CV, portfolio or comprehensive LinkedIn profile so we can get an idea of your background, plus a proposed approach for what successful relationship might look like with a small social enterprise.

CV gaps, alternative work experiences or careers changes aren’t an issue here. We just want to get a feel of where you’re coming from. The proposed approach simply needs to demonstrate why you’re a great fit for the position by Friday 26th April 2024.

Stage 3: Informal Conversation

This will be a simple chat to explore a little bit more about who you are, your values and what motivates you by Friday 3rd May 2024.