About Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) London

SEO London is a diversity-focused UK-registered charity with 20 years of history and expertise in working with and preparing talented students from ethnic minority or low socioeconomic backgrounds for career success.

We are shifting expectations around what is possible.

We believe everyone needs mentorship, training, and access to networks in order to succeed. When people are disadvantaged because they come from a particular background, those things are harder to reach. We are working to level the playing field so that all young people can compete fairly and make the most of the opportunities that present themselves.

SEO London’s Marketing and Communication Role  

SEO London is seeking an entrepreneurial, creative, social media savvy, communications professional. This brand-new role provides an exciting opportunity to build and shape SEO London's communication functions. The role cuts across all our programmes working with secondary school students to alumni offering them with recruitment, training, and mentoring opportunities. Working as part of an energetic team, the Marketing and Communications Manager will have a passion for developing and delivering proactive communications strategies to promote awareness of SEO London and engage and excite our key audiences – young people, alumni, partner firms and SEO London staff.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a personable candidate who has excellent work ethic, and a genuine passion for diversity and social mobility. The team requires a highly skilled multi-tasker with excellent written skills who can develop engaging content for a range of products such as the website, social media, reports and stakeholder communications. The individual should be enthusiastic and self-motivated and be able to thrive during challenges while always committing themselves to learning. The role requires a creative thinker who can translate ideas, data, and case studies into content and who understands the importance of good design in communications materials.

Essential Skills:

• 3-5 years experience in managing high quality and effective marketing and strategic campaigns across digital and print channels, including media
• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
• Experience implementing organic and paid digital campaigns across paid, owned and earned channels
• An ability to build relationships and manage internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Experience proactively exploring opportunities for media coverage, and establishing effective media links to increase an organisation's profile
• A strong understanding of content in all its forms, including copy, video, photography, graphical
• Exposure to, and a keen interest in cutting edge digital tools
• Experience managing third parties for content creation

Desirable (but not essential):

• Familiarity of working with Google Analytics
• Experience of working within the charity or diversity and inclusion sector

Main Duties & Responsibilities

The Marketing & Communications Manager will work with SEO London’s leadership team as well as all staff members to embed marketing and communications as a strategic function within the organisation. The role includes the following duties and responsibilities:

• Owning and executing the development of proactive marketing and communications tactics, including:
  • content strategy and creation for cross-platform campaigns
  • pitching stories to relevant media about SEO London's work and alumni
  • building relationships with consumer and trade print and broadcast titles and media monitoring
  • advising SEO London teams on all external messaging
• Generating awareness of SEO London's work amongst existing and new customers with a wide range of communications activities, for example social media campaigns, partnering with events and conferences
• Underpinning activities with data gathering and insights to measure the impact of the work

Equal Opportunities Statement

As part of its recruitment policy, SEO London intends to ensure that no prospective or actual employee is discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, employment status, class, disability, age, religious belief or political persuasion or is disadvantaged by any condition or requirement which is not demonstrably justifiable.

This is a brand new position - an exciting opportunity to make your mark on a small dynamic charity with ambitious goals.

This pivotal role will suit an experienced relational fundraiser who excels at inspiring people to catch a vision and contribute through their donations. Read about SEED’s vision, mission, and pilot community resilience model in our strategy in the attachments. As the prime driver of income generation for SEED, you will proactively secure multi-year relationships with individuals, small businesses, trusts and foundations. You will also oversee all SEED’s other fundraising and communications, including fundraising appeals like the Big Give Christmas Challenge, newsletter, social media and website.

Initially the only employee of SEED in the UK, you will report directly to a Trustee, oversee our small group of committed volunteers, and liaise closely with our delivery team in Zimbabwe. Before long, we’re sure your efforts will create the need and funding to grow the UK team. Working in a very small charity, you will enjoy a varied, interesting role with opportunities to get involved in wider organisational priorities and effect change with minimal bureaucracy.

You will work from home, even after lockdown ends (SEED doesn’t have an office), with occasional travel to meet donors or trustees. Trustees are in London / Cambridge, but video calls would be considered if the best candidate was located further away. 

We will consider 2-3 days a week, and we support flexible working, so this role could fit around other commitments.

To apply, please prepare a tailored and concise covering letter explaining what attracts you to The SEED Project in general and to this role in particular, how you fit the person specification, and why you are confident you can help us to grow our funding base.Please submit this along with your CV.

Responsible to: CEO

Located: Home based, with occasional travel throughout the UK and the opportunity to travel internationally once a year.

Salary: £22-27k (pro rata and dependent on experience)

Hours: Part Time – 24 hours per week

Flexible Working: Given the nature of the role it is expected that the post-holder will work flexibly. This may include working extended hours, evenings, and weekends.

We’re looking for a highly driven individual, skilled in engagement who can demonstrate a passion for connecting people to a cause and inspiring action. This is an exciting new opportunity to work with a growing international health development charity, to build on and develop our work with volunteers. You will be primarily responsible for cultivating, managing, sustaining, and growing volunteer relationships.

Job Purpose

The post holder will build upon newly established systems and procedures for volunteering and oversee volunteer involvement by recruiting, scheduling, selecting, screening, building relationships and communicating with volunteers, staff, and new networks.

They will collaborate with staff about volunteer needs, volunteer opportunities, and assist in volunteer development in order to further the objectives of the charities volunteering strategy that aims to:

1. Increasing the level and Diversity of Volunteering
2. Improving the Volunteer Experience
3. Recognising the Value of Volunteering
4. Providing Accessible Volunteering

The post holder will also act as secretary to the board, and support other charitable activity as and when needed.

Job Description

1. Lead the implementation of OCAs volunteering strategy action plan, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on the contribution being made through volunteering.
2. Engage with a host of external organisations including NHS Departments, Universities and Medical Groups to develop and grow a sustainable pipeline for volunteer recruitment.
3. Promote volunteering opportunities and encourage involvement through a variety of local marketing and promotion approaches, including social media.
4. Recruit volunteers and ensure they are properly inducted, trained, supported, and equipped to carry out their role, resolve any volunteering related issues as they arise.
5. Ensure all volunteer records are kept up to date, in a GDPR compliant way, using the organisations volunteering database system, Better Impact.
6. Gather volunteer feedback about their experience with the organisation and take appropriate steps for service improvement.
7. Establish a programme of initiatives that celebrate volunteering and give recognition to our volunteers through for example, arranging volunteer awards and thank you events.
8. Support the development of a volunteer alumni network to encourage future engagement in our work, and to encourage donations and fundraising.
9. Manage budgets for the provision of volunteer resources, including PPE, uniform, tools, expenses, support materials and networking/celebration events including the reimbursement of volunteer expenses.
10. Keep up to date with legislation and policy related to volunteering and make any necessary modifications to accommodate changes.
11. To ensure that all activities undertaken on behalf of OCA, externally or internally, are executed in accordance with the overall aims of the organisation and in line with our policies and procedures, including Safeguarding.
12. Act as secretary to the board of trustees, helping to organise meetings, take minutes and manage assigned governance tasks.

Skills and experience

Essential:

• Experience of managing or supporting volunteers.
• Experience of delivering engagement activity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, and able to influence/persuade a wide range of stakeholders and build effective working relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively in a wide range of media and to diverse audiences.
• Ability to solve problems and use a creative approach to overcoming issues and challenges, and able to encourage others to do the same.
• Self-motivated, high-energy, and pro-active with a ‘can-do’ attitude
• Demonstrable commitment to collaborative teamwork.
• Excellent organisational and workload management skills.
• Good IT skills, including the use of Microsoft Office, including collaborative tools and video conferencing and the proven ability to gain competence in new systems and tools.

Desirable:

• At least two years’ experience of working in a role where managing volunteers has been a significant part of the job.
• A qualification in volunteer management.
• Experience of working effectively within a team while working in a largely remote setting.
• Experience of working with people from different cultural backgrounds and or the ability to work and relate to a diverse range of people.
• Previous monitoring and evaluation or research experience.
• An interest in medical or development work in Africa.
• Experience of using Better Impact.
• Governance experience.

Launch a social startup in a year.

Year Here is an immersive full-time course in social innovation, kicking off on 30th August 2021.

At a time of national crisis, we have an opportunity to reimagine society. Starting a scalable social business could be your best shot at impact – and learning on the frontline is where you need to start.

Over 10 months, you’ll gain deep insight into complex social issues and learn to build entrepreneurial solutions to society’s toughest problems – from the housing crisis to knife crime.

If selected to become a Fellow, you will:

• Get frontline insights. You’ll spend the first 5 months working with the people hit hardest by austerity and gaining deep user insight. To deepen your systemic understanding, you’ll also work on briefs set by clients like Crisis, the NHS and the Greater London Authority.
• Meet your co-founders. Our Fellows have an average of 7 years’ career experience in fields ranging from biochemistry to law, and from journalism to engineering. They will become your support network, your collaborators and, ultimately, your co-founders.
• Build scalable ventures. You’ll test and build your own social business, with the potential to progress to our Incubator and launch it into the world. Venture teams are guided by expert partners like the Boston Consulting Group, ForwardPMX and BNYMellon.
• Learn from expert faculty. You’ll get a personal mentor and receive tonnes of training from a faculty of more than 80 social innovation leaders – from award-winning social designer Lauren Currie OBE to Nishant Lalwani, Managing Director at Luminate.

Beyond Year Here

Finish the programme with a venture and you’ll get seed funding, business support, desk-space and client introductions to launch your business.

Our alumni have launched 39 social ventures including: 

• Chatterbox, an online language tuition platform powered by refugee talent, featured in The Economist, Tech Crunch and The Times. 
• Birdsong the feminist fashion brand selling wardrobe stapes made by women paid a fair wage. Featured in Vogue, Dazed and Vice.
• Appt, a HealthTech business that uses behavioural economics to help patients manage their long-term conditions – with multi-year investment from Innovate UK.

Those that don’t start a venture join other fast-growing social startups like The Difference, Switchback and Beam or lead social innovation at FutureGov, Nesta and Catch 22.

No course fees

Unlike a Master's degree or MBA, we have no tuition fee. This is a reimagination of higher education. Rather than spending a year in a lecture hall and paying £10,000 for the privilege, we challenge you to learn by doing – working on real social impact projects. Our partners pay us to be involved and that covers your tuition costs.

To widen access to the programme we have a small number of means-tested bursaries available and offer additional support through TfL discounts and recommendations for flexible paid work and affordable accommodation.

Selection Process

We’re looking for people with a solid professional skillset and an entrepreneurial track record. This doesn’t mean you have to have started your own business before but you will need to demonstrate that you have a bias towards action. Drive, passion for social justice and strong learning orientation are also essential.

It’s a 3-stage process: a written application, video interview and half-day selection workshop. Typically, 1 in 10 applicants secure a place on the programme.

Apply by midnight Sunday 6th June.

 

Year Here recognises that some communities have been historically excluded from the Social Innovation space. We are committed to playing our part in ensuring talent from within these communities can take part in our programme. We pride ourselves in fostering diverse talent, faculty and curriculum and believe lived experience drives innovation. We actively encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, LGBTQI+, Neurodiverse and Disabled communities to apply for our Programme. Please reach out to find out more about our Black Lives Matter, Anti-Racism and Diversity and Inclusion Commitments or our hiring and selection practices.

Spitalfields Crypt Trust (SCT) is an east London charity providing practical help, support and training to people who have been homeless and suffering from addiction. It runs a homeless drop-in, a Recovery Hub (which includes an abstinence-based residential recovery hostel, counselling and a Training and Development Centre), supported houses, a Housing First project and two social enterprises supporting people in recovery from addictions to put their lives back together. Our integrative approach is based on the ‘Recovery Capital’ methodology and is a whole-person approach, which takes into account physical, cultural, social, human and spiritual factors and assets.

In employment we actively seek to recruit people with a good combination of talent, skills and potential, promoting equality for all, and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates.  We select all candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, experience and commitment to the values and purposes of the organisation. (Sources - Equal Opportunities Policy 2.2 (i) and (v)).  SCT is a growing organisation with opportunities for people with compassion and aspiration.

Job Summary

For SCT, progression is about empowering people in recovery to grow in confidence, and to recognise the potential we see in them from the very start. Working collaboratively, we aim to assist and support users of SCT’s Training and Development Centre to explore further, education, training, volunteering and employment opportunities both internal and externally to SCT. Our Progression Worker will manage a caseload of  who want to explore ETE opportunities. The support offered will be individually tailored to help people achieve their potential.

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Identify those who are ready to move on to education, training, volunteering and employment opportunities.

• Liaise with internal tutors, counsellors, key workers and other staff across the organisationto identify those who are ready for progression support.
• Liaise with external services and partners to offer a wide variety of ETE opportunitiesForge strong relationships with SCT’s social enterprises  to establish clear volunteering and trainee pathways .
• Identify individual needs and assets by conducting assessments, setting goals and evaluating progress.
• Ensure individualised progression plans are in place and regularly reviewed. Ensure that participants are supported in moving on from SCT when appropriate. Promote the work of SCT to external partners.

1. Providing information, advice and guidance around ETE opportunities for those accessing services.

• Provide information, initial advice and guidance on opportunities in employment, voluntary work and further education.
• Develop and lead group workshops.
• Refer people to appropriate work placements, volunteering experiences, apprenticeship schemes, colleges and other programmes outside SCT.
• Establish and maintain the above partnerships with all relevant ETE providers to ensure we offer a wide variety of opportunities . Identify external services and referral agencies and pro mote the work of SCT.
• Supportwith referrals and applications to ETE opportunities.
• Maintain excellent records of activities, outcomes and feedback including monitoring outputs.
• Input relevant data onto InForm , to track  progress.
• Identify success stories of tthose who have overcome significant barriers to succeed in learning and work.
• Work with colleagues to celebrate success stories (e.g. via celebration events, publications, etc).
• Participate in quality improvement activities, staff development opportunities, sharing of good practice, and self-evaluation.
• Work alongside our Fundraising Team to prepare funding reports for donors.

1. Providing ongoing support to Progression Alumni

Develop a yearly Progression Alumni event to celebrateachievements

1. General

Ethos

• To ensure compliance with SCT’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
• To ensure compliance with all statutory and legal obligations, such as data protection law.

Environment

• To ensure a safe and secure environment , free, in particular, from alcohol and drugs, and from abusive behaviour and exploitation.
• Finance and Budgeting
• To operate within agreed budgets, and to comply with SCT’s financial control procedures.

Subordinate

• To comply with the Line Manager’s reporting requirements.
• To undertake other tasks as delegated from time to time by your Line Manager in the best interests of the overall work of SCT.

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• A working knowledge of welfare benefits and experience of supporting  users to maximise their income.
• An understanding of addiction and recovery.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to relate to a wide range of people from the long-term unemployed to corporate volunteers.

Experience

Essential

• Good networking skills and the ability to broker new working relationships with ETE providers.
• An ability to work on your own initiative. 
• Proven organisational skills.
• Experience of database maintenance and monitoring and evaluation.

Desirable

• Experience of using InForm

Cultural Indicators

Delivering Results

• Delivers great outcomes through our vision and strategy, effectively planning and meeting targets.
• Makes effective, data-driven decisions.

Role Model / Leading by Example

• Is an inspiring role model for others, building trust and living our Vision / Mission and principles and delivering our services accordingly.

Continual Improvements

• Consistently seeks to improve how we do things to achieve and Embraces change and innovation.

Effective Communication

• Communicates clearly, effectively and honestly. Listens to others and adapts communication to suit them.

One Team

• Works with others as one team, actively collaborating to achieve a shared vision. Building relationships across SCT, sharing information and expertise.

We're looking for a New Business Manager to help our charity expand upon our consultancy and training offer. A newly funded post, the role holder will help us to embed an entrepreneurial approach into our charity, ensuring that we have a brilliant offer that meets the needs of our clients whilst also fulfill in our mission of ensuring that  decision makers listen to and act upon the views of young people.

In this role you will be mapping our audiences and creating a new and improved offer. Through developing this programme of work you will help to bring in much needed funds to the charity, supporting our continuing work to bring young people together to find their voice and use it for social and political change.

If you have experience of sales and marketing, developing a business proposition or a passion for helping charities to develop their entrepreneurial approach then we are want to hear from you.

We are passionate about creating opportunities for care-experienced children/young people to access the great education and pastoral care available through bursary places at the UK's boarding and independent schools; and are looking for a Programme Manager with compassion and experience of working with children and young people who are either in, or on the edge, of children's social care, to organise all aspects of this programme.

You will be highly organised, maintaining excellent communication, empathy and case management skills to ensure quality support to the children, schools, parents/carers and Local Authorities that we work with. Working within our Programmes Team, you will coordinate all aspects of the Looked-After & Vulnerable Children Programme, including:

• Managing the day-to-day operations: developing relationships with children’s social care professionals with regard to selecting, preparing and matching care-experienced children/young people to available bursary places at boarding and independent schools, providing advice and guidance to Local Authority Virtual Schools, social workers, families/ carers, developing all aspects of the application process, assisting in coordination and management of admissions’ procedures, undertaking home visits and accompanying pupils on visits to schools

• Developing and implementing approaches to measuring and monitoring pupils' progress, needs and views including through liaising with parents/carers and schools staff; maintaining oversight of school reports, PEP and child protection information, analysing data on pupil's social and emotional wellbeing, and reflecting on this information to continuously adapt and improve the ‘wrap-around’ care/support provided by the charity for its' looked-after and vulnerable pupils, in order to create the strongest conditions for successful bursary placements

• Working with the Head of Alumni Programme to develop support for how the charity ensures that looked-after- and vulnerable children continue to thrive after they leave their bursary placements

• Participating in the development, implementation and delivery of relevant training courses and information sessions, both for local authorities and staff in schools; and supporting the charity's research partners to build the evidence of positive outcomes and impact of the looked-after and vulnerable children programme to relate trends in outcomes of relevance to a broader audience and  disseminate that learning to key audiences

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to build a programme that is sponsored by the Department for Education and has the potential to have a significant impact on a key social problem. Our current team includes recent graduates and those with experience up to Director level - all of whom share a passion for improving social mobility through harnessting the commitment of the UK's boarding and independent school sector to widen access to their fully-funded bursary places. This opportunity would suit someone skilled in programme delivery and management and with prior experience of working in the children's social care or charities working with vulnerable children/young people. 

Person specification

The ideal candidate will be confident in providing day-to-day operations management/support with a strong emphasis on the quality of relationships with Local Authority personnel and vulnerable children's families/carers. Managing complex cases involving multiple parties, including social workers and supporting multi-agency collaboration you will need to be a clear and confident communicator and know when to draw on the expertise and advice of management.

You will be able to work with uncertainty and ambiguity, demonstrating a determination to find what needs to be done and having it completed, no matter how complex the multiple agencies and adults involved in the care for the child/young person. You will be highly organised, maintaining an overview of multiple case loads, prioritising effectively and overseeing the programme through from identification of potential beneficiaries, to preparation, support and as the young person transitions to become an alumni.

The willingness to build a strong relationship with people face to face, over the telephone and email. Being happy to spend time with people through a variety of interactions. Have a good understanding of team work and will work with the team to create an inclusive team culture. 

Essential skills/experience: 

• Ability to prioritise effectively in order to meet short term and long term deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively with multiple agencies and know when to escalate issues, particularly with regards to safeguarding.
• Strong communication skills, both in writing and verbally, transparent record keeping. 
• Caring and empathetic about the education outcomes of children in the care system.
• Advocacy skills to ensure timely delivery of services to the children we work with.
• Good understanding of business processes and strong attention to detail.
• Professional and polite telephone manner; have the ability to speak to individuals from a wide range of backgrounds; from social workers to senior local authority officers be empathetic with parents/carers in difficult situations.
• Proactive in responding to issues and a problem solving mindset.
• Knowledgeable of safeguarding and best practice in handling sensitive data and issues.
• Experience working within the local government/school/charity or social work sectors
• Understanding children’s services and delivery of local services.
• Knowledge of key issues relating to LAC/SEN, including trauma and attachment awareness. 

Desirable:

• An understanding and experience of the boarding school system and wider independent education landscape.
• Experience or knowledge of SEN provision and local offering.
• Experience of working in or with a small charity.

General

Salary of £30,000-£37,000 dependent on experience and location. We are currently working remotely due to the COVID restrictions with access to an office in Central London on a hot-desking basis. The job is subject to having the right to work in the UK and an enhanced DBS check. 

Job Title:  Funded Programmes Coordinator

Basis of Appointment: Fixed Term - Maternity cover replacement (12 months),
 Full Time (38.5 hours) 

Reporting to: Deputy Executive Director of Advancement 

Location: London (UK) 

Starting Date: 28 June 2021  

Salary: £33,360 per annum

Changing the world takes passion and dedication

Isn’t it time that your passion and dedication be channelled towards a career and community that genuinely change lives?

If you...

• want to transform your own life by transforming the lives of others

• crave a career that creates an opportunity for others

• desire to make dreams come true for those who never thought it possible

• know that education is the foundation from which we can change the world

• believe that today’s young people can transform tomorrow

• strive for world peace and global sustainability

• dare to dream

...then a career with UWC could be the change you need. 

UWC is a global family of schools with a powerful difference. With a shared goal of working towards global peace and sustainability, we bring together young people from around the world to study in one of our eighteen schools on four continents. There they don’t just learn how to be great at passing exams. They learn how to communicate across cultural boundaries. They develop the skills to be a changemaker. They design and engage in initiatives that transform their lives and the lives of those around them for the better. And they stay a “UWC-er” for life, becoming part of a global community of almost 60,000 changemakers transforming the lives of others. 

And why does philanthropy matter for us? Because we believe that access to quality education should be independent of socio-economic means, which is why UWC runs the world’s largest scholarship programme in international secondary education, with over 80% of students selected by UWC national committees receiving a scholarship. Do you want to help us make sure many more young people get this life-changing opportunity? 

Working with us will inspire and challenge you

Driving a mission to make the UWC experience available to tomorrow’s changemakers, irrespective of their background, beliefs and economic means demands colleagues with passion and dedication, and a talent for transformation. Our students go on to become leaders in politics, NGOs, social enterprises, community movements, charities, and business. For life, they remain dedicated to the UWC mission and many of them remain in close contact with us, their school, and their peers.

This is what fuels us at the UWC International Office.

We are based in London and Berlin, and we are the executive arm of UWC International, a registered charity in the United Kingdom and Germany. We collaborate closely with all stakeholders from across the UWC movement, including more than 4,000 volunteers and almost 60,000 alumni, and we serve UWC International’s governance bodies. 

Philanthropy is one of the core functions at UWC International and a key contributor to UWC’s growth and financial sustainability. The Philanthropy Team at UWC International is responsible for developing UWC’s fundraising capacity, coordinating UWC movement-wide fundraising activities and bringing in multi-million dollar gifts to support. It also includes the management and running of funded programmes, which entail donor stewardship with a focus on providing regular scholar updates to our funders. 

The Philanthropy Team is part of the larger Advancement Team, which also includes Communications and Community Engagement, and which works closely with colleagues at all eighteen UWC schools, staff members and volunteers at the over 155 UWC national committees, and UWC governance stakeholders. This is why anyone who joins the Philanthropy Team at UWC International will also become part of a much bigger and truly global team. 

Are you our new Funded Programmes Coordinator?

Right now, we are searching for a Funded Programmes Coordinator as a temporary maternity cover. 

In this role, you will coordinate and oversee the planning and management of major gift scholarship programmes within designated countries. This includes donor stewardship as a way to promote long-term engagement and high-value interactions with funders, with a primary focuses on honouring the gift’s intentions - as a matter of fact, good stewardship of existing donors has proven to be the most effective way of ensuring that we receive a gift in the future, making the management of these relationships a crucial part of the job. 

This is a full-time fixed-term position for a duration of twelve months. You will be based out of UWC International’s Office in London, United Kingdom, though some travel abroad might be required from time to time. 

If this sounds like the role to make you leap from bed every day, then read on for further details.

Key responsibilities

• Implement UWC funded major gifts scholarship programmes, including donor reporting, in liaison with UWC schools and/or UWC national committees and support to individual scholars 

• Manage major gifts scholarship budgets

• Recommend solutions to challenges that may arise at UWC national committee and/or UWC school level from the implementation of major gift scholarship programmes 

• Troubleshoot operational problems as they emerge

• Develop processes to monitor and evaluate the overall progress and effectiveness of new and existing major gift programmes

• Collaborate with other members of the Philanthropy Team on the planning, organisation and delivery of any fundraising-related events

• Manage and run the stewardship programmes including follow up with donors

• Ensure that the philanthropy database, relevant website pages and resource pages are updated 

• Manage the Funded Programmes Officer within the Philanthropy Team 

• Support the Philanthropy Team and other Philanthropy working groups and committees across UWC International with their meetings, including minute taking and agenda preparation

Requirements

Essential skills required

• Proven experience coordinating and administering complex major gift programmes 

• Experience implementing and coordinating stewardship programmes for donors 

• Proven experience in budget management and reporting

• Experience and willingness to work on programme management activities in cooperations with other teams and to deliver cross-team objectives 

• Ability to deliver and report upon agreed targets and plans within deadlines

• Values own knowledge but always willing to learn and to remain open to alternative views and perspectives 

• A cooperative attitude and proven ability to work as a member of a team and own initiative

• Flexibility and adaptability to work in changing environments

• A high level of comfort operating in an international and multicultural environment

Desirable

• Experience in donor relations

• Experience in grant management 

It is expected that the job holder will travel to UWC schools. For that reason, a basic DBS check (disclosure barring statement) or international equivalent will be required before any job offer is made.

Visa requirements

Anyone who applies to work at UWC International in London must have a work visa before starting employment, in compliance with the UK Immigration Rules. UWC International might be able to sponsor individuals for work visas.  If you need a work visa please make that clear in your application. 

Diversity Statement

UWC places deliberate diversity at the heart of our educational model because of its critical importance in our mission ‘to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future’.

At the UWC International Office, we believe this commitment to deliberate diversity must be reflected within our team, organisational practices, policies and culture. We recognise people with different backgrounds, skills, attitudes and experiences bring fresh ideas and perceptions, and we encourage and leverage these differences to make our work more relevant and approachable.

We will not discriminate or tolerate discriminatory behaviour on any grounds such as, but not limited to, race, gender, disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age or socioeconomic background. 

We strive to be an inclusive workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging, has a voice, can raise concerns, and feels comfortable and confident. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment and to act accordingly, as we aspire to best serve the UWC mission and our global community. It is an ongoing journey and we welcome all those who are ready to travel with us.

Applications Process and Deadline

Please send your CV and covering letter in English (each of a maximum of 2 pages) that relates your experience to the requirements to the email address stated on our website. Please also indicate how you heard about this role. In your application, please also provide the name, roles and contact details of two referees. We will not contact them without letting you know.

Please note that applications without a cover letter will not be considered. 

Deadline for application: 5pm UK time on 28th of April 2021. The first round of interviews will take place the week beginning 10th May 2021. Starting date: Ideally 28th June 2021.