application form

Please complete this form and return to The Chairperson at: Law Centre (NI), 124 Donegall St, Belfast BT1 2GY by Friday 17 October 2014 at 1.00 pm.

Interviews for this post will be held on Monday 17 November 2014

All information provided shall be treated as strictly confidential.

Assistant Director (Organisational Services) / Ref: AD-06-14
  1. Post
  1. Personal details

Surnames: Address:

Forenames:

Email:

Telephone:

  1. Education: full-time and part-time

Dates: From/to Specify school, college, Exams passed Subjects taken

(after age 16)university (specify grades)

  1. Professional qualifications

Yes No

4 (a) (i) Are you a solicitor?
If yes,give brief details including date of admission:
4 (a) (ii) Are you a barrister?
If yes, please give details of membership of professional body, including address and date of admission:
4 (b) Other professional qualifications (please provide details, including dates of qualifications)
  1. Training [use a continuation sheet if necessary]

Course title Provider PT / FT Dates Outcome

  1. Employment

Please give present or most recent employer and work backwards in time. Continue on a separate sheet if necessary.

Present employment Name and address of employerPosition held

From / to (month / year)(with brief description of duties and reason for leaving)

Present earnings including, where appropriate, salary scale
Position on scale

Previous employment Name and address of employerPosition held

From / to (month / year) (with brief description of duties and reason for leaving)

7. General

Please state briefly what attracts you to the post.

8. Experience / knowledge/ skills / aptitudes

[Complete this part of the application form as comprehensively as possible with relevant dates in each case - use a continuation sheet if necessary]

8 (a) Please detail your experience (including dates) in a management position involving the management of complex budgets and one or more of the following: human resources and administration. Please also set out your experience of developing organisational resource strategies.


8 (a) continued

8 (b) Please detail your experience of providing expert advice to senior management and, if appropriate, to a Management Committee in relation to finance and one or more of the following functions: human resources and administration.

Please also set out your experience of delivering financial information and reports in an accessible form, including to non-financial managers and your experience of production and presentation of management information reports.

Please further set out your experience of preparing and managing procurement tenders and of negotiation and management of contracts related to organisational services.

8 (b) continued

8 (c) Please detail your knowledge of corporate governance.

8 (d) Please detail any knowledge you have of the voluntary and charity sector and of the legal aid scheme. Please also detail any knowledge you have of methods of measuring organisational performance.

9. Commitment

8 (e) Please provide examples that demonstrate your organisational skills with an ability to prioritise and meet deadlines and your ability to relate to people in various settings.

8 (f)Please provide examples of when you have demonstrated excellent people management skills and your track record of building and maintaining high performing teams.

8 (g)Please provide examples that demonstrate your ability to identify and lead on strategic opportunities for organisational development and to deliver innovative financial, administrative and human resource approaches.


8 (h)Please provide examples that demonstrate your excellent presentation skills, including oral

and written communication.

8 (i) Please set out your IT skills.


8 (j) Please set out examples that demonstrate your commitment to working within a management team to deliver shared organisational goals and your commitment to collaborative and team working and to knowledge sharing.

8 (k) Please provide any additional information you feel is relevant to your application.

9 (a) Are you prepared to travel if required? Yes No

9 (b) Are you willing to work occasionally out of normal hours?Yes No

10. Please tell us about any disabilities you may have in order for us to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Please detail any request for reasonable adjustments in relation to the application process or interview arrangements.

The Law Centre does not discriminate on the grounds of disability.

11. Do you have permission to work in the UK? Yes No

12. Have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence? Yes No

Note: You do not need to disclose any convictions which would be considered spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders (NI) Order 1978

If YES, please give details of offence/s:

13. When would you be available if offered this post?

14. Signature

15.Referees

Names and addresses of two referees. One of your references should be from an employer / someone who is familiar with your work. A reference will only be sought from short-listed candidates.

Name [Employer]:
Position:
Address: / Name [Other]:
Position:
Address:
If you do not want us to contact your employment referee prior to interview, indicate by inserting a ‘X’ in the box

Please make sure you fill in the applicable employee monitoring questionnaire on the next pages.

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This page will be detached as soon as the application is received and will be used for monitoring purposes only

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

Employeemonitoring questionnaire

We are striving to become an Equal Opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on thegrounds of race, disability, religious belief, political opinion, gender, marital or family statusor sexual orientation.

To demonstrate our commitment to equality of opportunity in employment, we need tomonitor the community and ethnic background of our employees as required by EqualOpportunities legislation. We also monitor our volunteers as a matter of good practice.

Religious background

Regardless of whether we practice our religion, most of us in Northern Ireland are seen as either Catholic or

Protestant. We are therefore asking you to indicate your community and ethnic background by marking an ‘X’ in the appropriatebox:

I am a member of the Protestant community

I am a member of the Catholic community

I am a member of neither the Protestant nor Catholic community

Ethnic Background

Please mark an ‘X’ in the appropriate box:

Black African

Indian

White European

Black Caribbean

Pakistani

Chinese

Black Other (please specify)

Bangladeshi

Other (please specify)

Disability

If you consider yourself disabled please mark an ‘X’ in the box:

Gender

Finally, could you please indicate whether you are: Female Male

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