Job description
Coffee, Cake & Kink is a diversity-focused social enterprise promoting an open-minded world and all-inclusive society. We promote social acceptability of alternative lifestyles and are the only UK social enterprise working in this area.
We offer a small number of focused high-impact placements, unique and unlike any others - both in terms of the organisation, our culture, and our working practice (also remotely from home). Everyone is encouraged to express their personality, interests and quirks.
The internship is expenses-only due to us being a non-profit at this time. What we do offer is a totally unique quality experience and a great working environment.
The internship is 15-30 hrs a week, over 3 or 6 months. It's a completely fexible arrangement, where you will be able to set your own hours, to fit alongside studies or other existing commitments. You will combine days in the office with working from home as suits.
Over the course of your internship you will learn:
- Help manage and develop people throughout the employee lifecycle;
- Help manage HR workflows, systems, processes and communications across the organisation;
- Identify skills gaps and develop relevant training materials, help deliver training;
- Monitor performance and conduct appraisals;
- Work with a variety of people - fellow interns, apprentices, volunteers, management, HR staff and external partners and agencies (JCP, DWP etc).
Key responsibilities:
- Processing applications and assisting with recruitment and induction of new team members;
- Handling basic HR enquiries and requests (assistance available);
- Carrying our background research and producing documents, presentations and training materials;
- Organising, preparing, attending and assisting training sessions and team meetings;
- Designing feedback and review tools and procedures;
- Liaising with all HR stakeholders, internal and external, in a professional and timely manner-.
CRITERIA ESSENTIAL (MUST HAVE) FOR ALL CCK ROLES:
- A mature, open-minded, non-judgmental attitude;
- Self-motivated, reliable, hard-working, able to get along with people;
- Awareness and acceptance of alternative lifestyles, genders and sexualities;
- Comfortable around erotica. Much as we will respect your background, you will come in contact with adult materials and alternative sexual practices when working with us, and may also be actively involved in their promotion (e.g. safe sex).
CRITERIA ROLE-SPECIFIC:
- Excellent multi-tasking and organisational skills and attention to detail, across all areas;
- Excellent communicator, quick to respond to situations and to request assistance;
- Reliable, self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision;
- Inspirational / motivational person, must demonstrate a serious interest in people development;
- Good IT skills (Office Suite), good communications capabilities (Internet, phone).
DESIRABLE (NICE TO HAVE): Relevant team building / leading / volunteer co-ordination experience; A CIPD qualification would be beneficial.
TO APPLY
ANYONE WISHING TO JOIN US MUST DEMONSTRATE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF OUR ETHOS AND ORGANISATION (fair enough, we hope)
YOUR COVERING LETTER MUST INCLUDE:
- WHY YOU WANT AN INTERNSHIP WITH *COFFEE, CAKE & KINK SPECIFICALLY*
- AVAILABILITY FOR A TASTER TASK (which we will set you to see a sample of your work, and to give you an idea of the internship)
- AVAILABILITY FOR THE INTERNSHIP
Extra information
- Status
- Closed
- Location
- London
- Type of Contract
- Internships
- Profession type
- Human Resources, Management
- Full UK/EU driving license preferred
- No
- Car Preferred
- No
- Must be eligible to work in the EU
- Yes
- Cover Letter Required
- Yes
- Languages
- English
