Business Unit: Purpose and Community Team, HR and Communications
Salary range: £28,000 - £35,000  per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location:  UK Remote with occasional travel to hubs and events (Gosforth & Glasgow circa twice per quarter)
Contract type: Fixed term up to circa 12-Months

Our Team

Our Purpose and Community Team is dedicated to creating lasting positive impacts for our colleagues, customers, and communities. We harness collaboration and innovation to drive change, fostering a culture of inclusivity, sustainability, and social responsibility. By implementing and embedding our community strategy and Blueprint, we ensure initiatives align with our purpose, strategic drivers and customer-first behaviours. What sets us apart is our commitment to making a difference, our dynamic problem-solving approach, and our supportive environment that encourages growth and development.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing essential support with day-to-day tasks, project planning, coordination, meeting administration, and any ad hoc tasks as required across the Purpose and Community Team.
• Assisting with programme planning and coordination, including the Make £5 Grow operations, Appreciate colleague recognition programme, charity partnership and volunteering.
• Diving into data to uncover valuable insights, to spot trends and pinpoint areas for improvement, driving our recognition programme and colleague community engagement forward.
• Managing system and colleague queries proactively, providing solutions and escalating issues to key stakeholders when necessary. Regularly connect with key colleagues across the business, championing our customer-first behaviours and driving community and purpose adoption.
• Keeping a close eye on our programme budgets, flagging any concerns and reconciling spend to ensure financial integrity. Raise Purchase Orders as needed, ensuring all transactions are processed smoothly and efficiently.
• Assisting with the planning and execution of off-site events and community activities. Work closely with third-party vendors to resolve any issues, ensuring our key programmes and events run without a hitch.

We need you to have

• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to multitask effectively and work at pace.
• Great judgment and interpersonal skills.
• Brilliant verbal and written communication skills.
• A strong sense of initiative with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• The ability to work effectively through change and integration, supporting the navigation of new processes and adapting to change.
• Experience of office applications i.e. Microsoft Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel etc.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Experience in implementing change to drive the right outcomes.
• Previously managed finances and raised purchase orders.
• Some knowledge of Power BI.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. 

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com 

It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants. 

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.