Our partner is a Christian charity, working with local communities to offer children and youth the best opportunity to lead fulfilling lives. They are seeking an experienced financial accountant, for an interim cover for 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the month-end close.
• Review and improve the organisation’s control processes and environment.
• Line management responsibilities for direct and indirect reports

Requirements

• Qualified or part-qualified financial accountant with at least two years of experience coordinating month-end close activities in a large and complex organisation.
• Excellent organisation, time management and prioritisation skills, able to work effectively to tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills, and able to work effectively with finance and non finance saff.
• Experience of line management, and coaching colleagues.
• Passionate about the work of the organisation, and empathy with the Christian ethos of the organisation. For this role, it is a requirement that the candidate is a practising Christian.

At present, due to government restrictions, the role is home-based in the UK. Once restrictions are lifted, the organisation will offer hybrid working with the individual expected to be office based one day a week.

This role is only open to those with the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship. This is a 6 month contract, with an immediate start preferred.

Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity dedicated to diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure. Backed by our passionate scientists and supporters, we’re challenging the way people think about dementia, bringing together the people and organisations who can speed up progress, and investing in research to make life-changing breakthroughs possible.

By working at Alzheimer’s Research UK, you will be part of an organisation that has been recognised nationally as an outstanding place to work. In 2020, we were listed 39th in the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Best Not-for-Profit Organisations to Work for.  We were also awarded a 2-star accreditation by Best Companies, recognising outstanding levels of workplace engagement, and were listed in the 75 Best Companies to Work for in the East of England.

We are looking for a confident and ambitious fundraiser to join our regional community team. The Regional Fundraising Officer role will play a significant part in contributing to a high-performing fundraising team. The role will cover Central Englad including but not limited to, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

This region is full of exciting fundraising events, now all we need is a dedicated fundraiser to seek out further opportunities to engage with and secure income from individuals, groups and corporates across the region.

Main tasks include:

• Provide high-quality account/relationship management to volunteer groups and regional corporate partners.
• Identify and apply for ‘Charity of the Year’ partnerships with corporates in the region, account manage these relationships up to a value of £16,000 per annum and support with partnerships with a value of up to £100,000
• Support existing volunteer fundraisers to encourage continued loyalty to the charity and to maximise funds raised, in accordance with fundraising legislation and good practice.
• Use own initiative to extend volunteer networks, recruit new volunteers, develop new groups and supporters, and respond to fundraising opportunities.
• Ensure that fundraising activity is implemented and managed locally by supporting and facilitating the development of groups and volunteers across the region.
• Liaise with local community organisations to extend income and activity in line with strategy.
• Provide face-to-face talks and presentations to community organisations.
• Arrange appropriate volunteer representation at events in the community, spreading the charity’s reach cost-effectively.

We are looking for:

• Experience in working to ambitious targets.
• Experience in regional corporate acquisition and account management.
• Understanding and practice of recruiting and supporting volunteer Fundraising Groups
• Proven ability of providing excellent stewardship of our supporters
• Experience in partnership fundraising and/or relationship building
• Experience in public-speaking, such as giving presentations and talking at events
• Comfortability in working remotely with a high standard of internal communications.
• Knowledge of recruiting key volunteers and fundraising supporters
• Excellent customer service, communication, verbal and written skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• An ability to manage a busy and varied workload
• Knowledge of Institute of Fundraising Codes of Fundraising Practice and legal framework of event management and fundraising ethics.

Ways of working: As part of our Remote ways of working you will be home based within Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, or Hertfordshire. You will only need to attend the office for specific requirements of the role and the business needs.

Roles that are classed as part of the Remote ways of working are able to claim any costs for Mileage/Travel on Public Transport, Accommodation and/or Meals.  This includes when attending the office for various meetings/events.

Our Office: Our office is at 3 Riverside, Granta Park, Great Abingdon, Cambridge, CB21 6AD. 

Salary: Circa £30,000 per annum, plus benefits, car allowance and associated expenses (if applicable).

Please download the Vacancy Pack for more details.

The closing date for applications is 30 January 2022, with interviews likely to be held week commencing 7 February 2022. We would encourage you to submit your application at the earliest opportunity as the closing date may be brought forward at any time. Please indicate in your covering letter if you are unable to attend an interview on a certain date. Telephone interviews may be conducted prior to the interview dates and will be done so via Microsoft Teams or Skype with interviews to follow. These will be arranged based on availability.

Please create an online account using our Online Recruitment System which can be accessed through our Job Vacancies page. You will be able to attach your CV and covering letter to your application and track the status of your application.

We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures. Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either the application or interview stage, please contact us.

To view further details about this role and the benefits of working for us please visit the Alzheimer’s Research UK website.

Salary: circa. £25,000 per annum plus benefits

Location: Northampton with hybrid working

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract 12 months

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association has an exciting opportunity for a Fundraising Engagement Officer to join our Fundraising Team on a Fixed Term contract for 12 months, this role will be based at our national office in Northampton with hybrid working.

We operate a trusting, collaborative, and hybrid working policy which enables the flexibilities of splitting your working time, between the workplace and your home.

About the role

The key responsibility as a Fundraising Engagement Officer will be to assist in the delivery of the Community Fundraising Strategy, with a focus on recruitment and expenditure targets both as an individual, and as a team.

An essential part of this role will involve managing event reception logistics and staying within budget to maximise the return on investment of fundraising activities. You will also be involved in managing some of our innovative fundraising campaigns, through a variety of media, and contributing to their creative development.

Through promoting, recruiting for, and attending fundraising activities, you will ensure a positive supporter experience throughout. You will work collaboratively with the Supporter Care Team, assisting with fundraising activity enquiries and ensuring that supporters are stewarded effectively.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who has experience of working within fundraising or who comes from a sales/account management background. Working to targets is essential.

You will have the ability to work to targets and demonstrate excellent time management and prioritisation skills. The skill to effectively research, analyse and collect data is also an important aspect of this role.

For full role responsibilities please view the job description.

How to apply?

We would love to hear from you and encourage early applications.

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, apply online now and submit a supporting statement and CV.

About Us

The MND Association was founded in 1979. Our mission is to improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We also fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments and brings us closer to a cure for MND. The Association also campaigns and raises awareness so the needs of people with MND, and everyone who cares for them, are recognised and addressed by wider society.

We operate a hybrid working environment within a flexible office space using the latest technology and digital infrastructure. This, together with a high level of trust and performance driven culture, gives staff the freedom and flexibility to work in the best way for them, the Association and, most importantly, people with MND.

We are committed to equality and value diversity. We are working hard to remove perceived and actual barriers to participation for people with and affected by MND, current and future staff, volunteers, and stakeholders.

Important Notices

The MND Association operates a hybrid working culture and therefore we are open to discussing the possibility of variable hours, remote or home working, flexible start and finish times etc.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Our selection process will be multi-stage; this may include video call screening, psychometric assessments, and competency-based interview/s.

We request that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this role. We work hard to fill our roles directly and if assistance is required, we operate a PSL, which currently closed for review. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies/ head-hunters.

Harris Hill are delighted to be supporting a fantastic well known Youth Charity in their search for a Digital Engagement Officer.

Please note, this role is located in Milton Keynes.

In this exciting newly created role you will support the Marketing Manager with the planning and execution of all marketing and internal/external comms activities. This includes coordinating and delivering the charity's digital engagement activities with multiple audience groups via social media channels, the website and other digital platforms.

Key responsibilities include managing digital engagement activity on a day-to-day basis, driving discussion and managing responses across networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and private resident forums. You will support with the Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts for the charity's social enterprise café and will produce relevant and engaging content updates to all digital platforms, informed by the charity's editorial calendar and priority events/activities.

If you're highly creative, skilled in using social media channels to deliver effective and engaging marketing communications, knowledgeable in SEO and passionate to join the charity sector, please do get in touch!

Please note, only successful candidates will be contacted with further information.

Harris Hill Charity Recruitment Specialists operates an equal opportunity policy and commits to treating all of our candidates and jobseekers fairly. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

We are currently looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to join us on a permanent, part-time basis.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, we are looking for someone with strong finance administration processing skills to help to ensure the smooth running of PSPA operations.

You will be a proactive individual with an eye for detail, commitment to achieving deadlines and will have at least three years of experience working in a similar role.

See the full job description for more details.

To apply please send your CV and cover letter illustrating how you meet the requirements of the Job Description.

Deadline: Monday 31st January at midnight.

Provisional date for interviews: Tuesday 8th or Wednesday 9th February

Home based/head office - flexible

Brief Description

The Child Brain Injury Trust is looking to appoint a Commercial Partnerships Manager to manage and develop the trading arm of the charity. Predominantly this will be through further developing stronger relationships with existing legal partners, to ensure they receive a fair return on their investment. To work with the Head of Brain Injury Services who delivers the operational contracts in hospitals and the community.  In addition, the postholder will be responsible for developing and growing the charity’s Case Management joint venture with Bush and Co to ensure that the relationship is strong, that law firms outside of the Legal Support Service introduced to the service to enable it to grow. This will include attending and presenting at Bush & Co training/networking events and to ensure that effective reporting is maintained.  Growth is required over a 3-year period from new areas of trading such as cause related marketing and developing key trading opportunities with new suppliers. Deadlines are a pre-requisite. There will be an expectation that this position will be responsible for an annual income target c £600k from existing contracts and £100k of growth from new opportunities over the next 3 years.

The position holder will have exceptional sales acumen and relationship management skills and experience of working with senior partners and directors. They will be values driven with integrity at their core.

Job Purpose

To develop and manage CBIT’s successful Legal Support Service partnership (currently 17 partners across the UK), Case Management joint venture, CBIT in Hand market place, affiliation partnerships (which are new ventures) and to identify and develop new opportunities within the trading sphere such as cause related’ marketing, social enterprise opportunities for the charity’s products and services. A key purpose of the role is to ensure quality, excellence and to carry out due diligence to ensure all partners align with the charity’s values and purpose. This is an important role within the charity and as such the position holder will need to be resourceful, pragmatic, and creative.

Location

The role is home based although there may be regular travel throughout the UK as part of the role. There may be a need to work occasional evenings and weekends, however these will be agreed in advance. Initial induction training will take place at the Child Brain Injury Trust head office in Oxfordshire

More information about the Child Brain Injury Trust can be found at our website 

Closing date: Wednesday 2nd February 2022 (12pm)

Interview date: Monday 14th February and Tuesday 15th February 2022

To apply for the post, please email a covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) stating why you are interested in this role along with your CV, to our office email address which can be found in the Application Pack.

Legacy Relationship Executive

Salary: £27,152 per annum + good range of benefits

Contract: Fixed term for one year, full time (36.5 hours per week with one evening per week) or part time

Based: Milton Keynes/hybrid

World Vision works with the most vulnerable children, so they’re empowered to overcome poverty and injustice, and experience fullness of life. Inspired by our Christian faith, we serve alongside children –of all faiths and none –through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy in almost 100 countries.

With over 70 years of experience, our work with communities, donors, partners, and governments transforms lives and creates opportunities for better futures for vulnerable children –even in the toughest places.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

Job Purpose

To grow the future legacy income of World Vision through building relationships with some of our longest serving supporters and asking them to consider leaving a gift in their will and following up our supporters who have expressed an interested to convert them to pledgers. You will have a fantastic, warm phone manner and a passion for excellence and making a difference to the lives of the children we serve.

You should be comfortable being on the telephone and have previous telemarketing experience in either sales, account management or customer service, with a good level of written English. Ideally, you are results driven and focused on delivering above and beyond.

World Vision has over 100,000 supporters around the UK and this job is focusing on our supporters who have been supporting us for over 10 years and really love sponsoring a child and helping our cause. You will be mainly thanking our sponsors and ensuring they are getting the best experience, keeping them informed, updated and asking them to consider a gift in their will. It’s a role where you can really build some fantastic relationships and the people you are calling quite often have time to chat and want to talk to you!

As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

Please click the link to view the full job description.

Please upload your CV of full employment history. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.

Closing Date for applications: 16 January 2022

Interview Dates: TBC

**Please note that you must have the Right to work in the UK, and se reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive enough applications.**

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family. As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK - Job Applicant Privacy Notice available on our website.

No agencies please.

Are you a passionate and driven manager working within the care sector or education sector and looking for an exciting opportunity? Our amazing and long serving Head of Learner Services is leaving us and we are now on the lookout for a replacement. MK SNAP is an award-winning charity based in Walnut Tree Milton Keynes and supports people with Learning Disabilities from the region in our state-of-the-art Education & Training Centre. We pride ourselves on being a progressive and professional organisation that values its people and you can be sure that your professional development and leadership skills will be at the forefront of your working experience. This post requires a candidate with a strong professional background in safeguarding and pastoral care. As you would expect we are looking for an exceptional candidate to take on this vital role with the charity and we operate a strict safer recruitment policy.

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £35,837- £40,600 per annum

Benefits: 30 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, company pension scheme.

Locations: Based in our Oxford office with frequent remote working.

At Connection Support our team of staff members and volunteers work alongside people to overcome life’s challenges, with the goals of solving homelessness and achieving independence. We do this through our values of empowerment, collaboration, compassion and taking a personalised approach in all aspects of our work.

Connection Support is expanding its Finance function to meet the demands of its growing number of projects. 

In this exciting new role, you will play a vital part in strengthening the delivery of our projects, working closely with colleagues to bring vital financial advice and budgeting support. Strong communications skills and an enthusiasm for employing your financial skills to strengthen the work of our teams are vital.

You will work closely with the Head of Finance to strengthen best practice in our processes, develop solutions to financial issues as they arise, and contribute towards the development of our financial strategy.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following:

• 3 years’ experience or more in a supervisory Finance role;
• qualified or part-qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) accountant, or qualified by experience (i.e. with a good understanding of double-entry accounting, as minimum);
• the ability to explain financial processes and present financial information to those with little financial knowledge; and
• experience of supervising the work of colleagues and building positive, professional relationships with individuals and teams.

Connection Support is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all our services and workplaces.

The full Job Description and Person specification is available on our website.

This is a chance for you to make a real impact on people’s lives, whilst working with an ambitious fundraising team. Our goal is to create a step-change in fundraising and take PSPA to a new level of income generation. Your area of expertise will be inspiring people, both individuals, organisations, and corporations to raise income for our cause. You will be an excellent communicator, and influencer, organised, passionate and action-focused.

PSPA already have a committed group of supporters and corporates, who you will be expected to take care of, but your main area of interest will be about growth. 

This is is a role where you will have a chance to make a real difference; we want to grow our supporter base, work with them in a more productive way, and make them feel part of our organisation as we grow.

If this is a challenge you want to hear more about do please contact Helen Holman our Head of Fundraising.

To apply please send your CV and cover letter illustrating how you meet the requirements of the Job Description.

Deadline: Tuesday 25th January at midnight.

Provisional date for interviews: 1st February.

“This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults with care and support needs and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment”

Due to an increasing demand for our service, we have several Talkback Equip Project Worker vacancies to deliver a range of services to our students with learning disability and/or autism. Within the Equip Project, you will work closely with local Further Education colleges by supporting young people to meet the outcomes on their Education, Health & Care Plans (EHCP). For some of our learners we provide 1:1 support in college, in order to support them to achieve their course. We also deliver a range of community groups to help learners develop their social skills, confidence, life skills and independence. These include, but are not limited to, Independent Living Groups, Women’s & Men’s Groups, Creative Media Groups, Art Groups & Travel Training Groups. In addition to this, we offer a range of work experience opportunities including horticulture, working with animals, retail & mechanics.

We are currently recruiting for:

Project Workers – Learning Assistants - £18700- £20000 p.a. or pro rata

Both full and part time roles available (a minimum of 3 days a week and must be available to work Thursday)

Full year and term time roles available

No shift work or evening/weekend work

You will work at our High Wycombe and Aylesbury buildings, plus in local colleges and out in the community. You will work alongside people with a learning disability or autism to meet their individual needs also support young people with their families to achieve positive outcomes.

To succeed you will be able to work both as part of a team and independently and have a 'can do' attitude. You will need to have good communication skills and an understanding of both self-advocacy and inclusion. We can teach you all you need to know; you just need to have the passion and care.

You will have the opportunity to help someone develop and grow as a person whilst making a difference that will live with you forever. And, as one of our team said ‘Working with people with a learning disability or autism is the most rewarding and fulfilling role’

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on successful applicants including a Disclosure & Barring Service check (DBS) including checks with past employers (Applicant Declaration must be completed and returned with application).

We are looking for an enthusiastic part-time Communications Assistant to support the Communications Manager in developing and delivering engaging content aimed at growing our reach, aiding awareness raising and supporting fundraising.

In particular, the right candidate will have a passion for everything digital, from social media to e-newsletters, website editing and making the most of Google Grants via analytics too. Skills in SEO or an interest in learning in this area would also be welcomed.

If you have demonstrable experience in creating engaging content, preferably for a not-for-profit organisation, and you are bursting with ideas to help engage our supporters and beyond, this could be the perfect role for you.

To apply, please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter illustrating how you meet the requirements of the job description. 

Applications will close on 10 February and interviews will be held on either 24 or 25 February.