Academic Director Jobs in Leicester, England
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced marketing communications professional to work with our Executive Director and small staff team to help us meet the needs of 1000+ members working on a wide range of policies and programmes in the UK and internationally.. This role will be varied and involve significant elements of the full range of marketing and communications activity, leading on campaigns to increase membership, grow our training and events programme and deepen our influence with government, academic, private and voluntary sector stakeholders.
You can be based anywhere in the UK and we offer up to 10% employer contribution to your pension.
We are particularly seeking someone with experience of working in a social sciences, science or evaluation-focussed organisation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Asylum Justice is a registered charity (1112026), and a company limited by guarantee (5447875), which was set up in 2005 to provide free legal advice, assistance and representation to asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants without access to Legal Aid. We are a small but dynamic charity which is growing to meet demand. We are looking for a funding officer to manage our grant funding and fund raising, and to identify and utilise new funding opportunities.
About the role
Hours:37 hours a week
Salary: £31,500 per annum
Contract terms: Open-ended (on the basis of ongoing continuation of external funding). Probationary period of 12 weeks.
Holiday entitlement: 28 days plus bank holidays
Place of Work: Primarily Home-based with potential for hybrid working if requested
Responsible to: Legal Director
Key responsibilities and duties
The post holder will have the following areas of responsibility: -
1.Fundraising (55%)
a.Research and identify fundraising opportunities;
b.Write and submit grant applications and funding bids;
c.Foster relationships and lead meetings with donors/panels during funding application processes;
d.Promote and coordinate opportunities for individual giving, including online donor platforms, newsletters, regular social media communications, campaigns, and events (with support from trustees);
e.Maintain and set-up new partnerships to increase income generation;
f.Update existing strategies related to:
a.Fundraising
b.Monitoring and evaluation
c.Communications.
2.Project Management (15%)
a.Assist the Legal Director with partner meetings to ensure smooth set-up of projects;
b.Review contracts / agreements and liaise with the Finance Officer / trustees to request amendments where necessary;
c.Update the Client Liaison Officer/s on monitoring and evaluation requirements and make necessary amendments to systems / forms to capture relevant data.
d.Manage project funding through allocations in Quickbooks, with support from Finance Officer where necessary.
3.Monitoring and Evaluation (30%)
a.Regularly update overview of case records and track enquiry numbers, calculating statistics and reporting these to Legal Director, trustees, and external parties where relevant;
b.Prepare and submit monitoring reports to donors with statistics and testimonials gathered by the Client Liaison team;
c.Attend and lead monitoring meetings with donors;
d.Prepare the annual report with support from trustees and Finance Officer;
e.Create internal and external communications to share results, with support from trustees.
4.General
a.To work within Asylum Justice Policies and Procedures at all times