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This is a central role within Mayhew’s Income and Engagement Team and at the heart of any organizations’ fundraising, as the interface with our individual giving donors.

The post holder will be joining Mayhew at an exciting time. Ambitious plans are in development to further grow income to support Mayhew in delivering its corporate ambitions over the coming years. The role is ideal for an individual looking to oversee, support and manage an ambitious programme of work.

The post holder will manage all interactions with existing and prospective donors and supporters via multiple channels ensuring all donors are given an excellent standard of service and individual experience across our individual giving programme.

Main responsibilities of the post include:

• Deliver fulfilment and supporter care via multiple channels with all existing and prospective donors.
• Implementation of the individual giving stewardship programme across Sponsorship, Membership,  Direct Marketing and legacies.
• Lead on delivering and managing all incoming communication by email, phone, letter and other channels and ensure all are addressed in a timely manner.

Good communication is essential, as you will be working with all teams in Mayhew and external stakeholders.

You will be joining fun but hard working and supportive team.

In return, we offer 25 days annual leave, plus 8 days for public holidays.  Day off for your birthday, and a health cashplan membership, after successfully completing your first 6 months.  For more details and to discover more over staff benefits here.

Mayhew works in, and supports a diverse community here in London and internationally, therefore, we welcome applicants from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and the LGBT+ community.

If this sounds of interest to you read the Job Description and Person Specification below and apply.

Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis at Mayhew. Applicants should therefore apply as soon as possible.

Deadline for applications 5 pm on 26th August 2022.

Be there when it matters

Sue Ryder has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Individual Giving Manager to join our dedicated fundraising team. As a Senior Individual Giving Manager you will be responsible for developing and driving the strategy for the Sue Ryder Individual Giving programme across the organisation. This includes coordinating and leading on the key appeals throughout the year; liaising with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver on acquisition and income targets; employing multiple channels with a particular focus on developing our digital offering.

Key duties & responsibilities:

•To lead on the planning, delivery and evaluation of Individual Giving campaigns across the organisation
•To lead on the development and delivery of fundraising products or new opportunities within the Sue Ryder Individual Giving Programme
•Identify and implement initiatives that will enhance the experience of Sue Ryder supporters, encouraging them to maintain and increase their support.
•Create and manage strategies to maximise long and short term income from existing individual supporters
•Liaise with the Supporter Experience and Journeys Manager to create and deliver journeys which increase level of participation, engagement and financial value.
•To keep abreast of industry-wide direct marketing developments and technological innovations and those beyond the charity sector with a view to introducing them to Sue Ryder where this would add future value.
•Ensure that the programmes are operating in accordance with established codes and are compliant with relevant regulations.
•To recruit, lead, inspire, develop and manage the Individual Giving Team to perform at the highest possible level and deliver excellent results
•To make positive contributions to the development of the Fundraising Strategy and take on a leadership role within the fundraising division and the wider organisation.
•Plan, manage and report on budget and investment into the Individual Giving programme taking a lead on creating, monitoring and managing business plans.
•To undertake specific projects as necessary and requested to support the Head of Public Fundraising.

Experience & Skills required:

•Degree level, member of a professional body or recognised graduate status (NVQ5), or relevant experience.
•Member of a professional body or recognised graduate status (NVQ5), or relevant experience.
•Extensive Individual Giving fundraising experience in a role with substantial responsibility for driving growth from cash and, ideally, mid-value programmes.
•Track record delivering innovation in generating income across multiple Individual Giving channels including knowledge of digital fundraising channels and DRTV.
•Experience in planning, implementing and monitoring of strategy and large budgets (£1m+) to agreed deadlines, managing parallel work streams and complex stakeholder relationships.
•Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills
•Strong negotiating and influencing skills
•Project and stakeholder management

Sue Ryder benefits:
• Company pension scheme
• 27 days holiday - rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Paid qualifications
• Corporate discount with hundreds of retailers and services
• Relocation allowance
• Staff discount of 10% on new goods online at shop
• Season ticket loan
• Cash referral bonus scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Online Wellbeing Centre
• Free Will writing service
• Staff finance loans
• Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities

If you want more than just a job, we want you. Join the team and be there when it matters.

Head of Learning and Impact

Salary/Rate: £40,000 pa 

Hours: 35hrs

Status: Permanent

Holidays: 25 days + bank holidays (pro rata)

Location: Home-based with access to co-work spaces in Manchester, Reading or London and regular travel to Foyers and events.

Reporting to: Chief Executive

About You

You are someone with a passion for social change and young people, and a fascination for impact measurement, learning and quality development. You are able to evidence this through your writing and professional or voluntary experience. You are intellectually curious, with the energy and determination to deepen our shared understanding of how young people experiencing homelessness can be best supported to realise their power and purpose. 

You have a deep commitment to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion and to understanding the barriers and enablers to participation.

You will thrive in a small, creative and ambitious team working on multiple projects and assignments, and have the flexibility to handle a broad and changeable workload. You’ll be able to jump right in, working closely with the team to deliver at an exciting phase of our strategic development and organisational growth.

We are aware of the ambition and breadth of this role and are interested in hearing from candidates who feel they have the skills to grow into the role but who maybe don’t have all the experience described.

Who We Are

The Foyer Federation is a small, innovative youth charity working to improve the lives of young people who can’t live at home. Since 1992, we have worked with a network of Foyers to inspire, challenge and quality assure approaches to developing the skills and resources young people need to thrive, not just cope.

We believe all young people can shape a successful journey into adulthood if they have access to the right training, contacts and opportunities to invest in their talents. We’re leading a movement of like-minded organisations and individuals who want to improve the prospects of all young people through an asset-based approach, which we call ‘Advantaged Thinking’. We’re committed to working with our network of Foyers and external experts to improve the ‘offer’ for young people.

We are looking for individuals who resonate with our core values: Maverick, Savvy, Authentic, Loving and Brave. 

Role Purpose

As Head of Learning and Impact you will play a crucial role as we establish a more insight led and evidence based approach to our activities. In the role you will lead on shaping how we gather data and insights from our network of youth accommodation projects (Foyers) and the young people they support. 

You will help us develop existing systems (such as the data we gather through our accreditation scheme) and establish new impact measurement tools (through a new development programme to capture and improve learning in Foyers). By tracking and understanding the trends and capturing the learning and evidence at a local level we will improve our programmes and network offering and open up new opportunities for young people who have experienced homelessness.

Objectives

To effectively manage and deliver a national development programme to increase and improve the learning offer in Foyers (and beyond) and capture the insights, impacts and voice of young people directly. 

To oversee and manage our quality development and accreditation offering (FOR Youth); ensuring the quality and impact of Foyers across the country and effectively and efficiently capturing service level data to enable benchmarking, service improvement and evidencing of current impact. 

To support the overall insight gathering, reflective learning and impact measurement of the Foyer Federation across our activities developing our theory of change at a national level and integrating it with the local Foyer theory of change model.

Please note: we envisage that the priorities and time spent on each of these objectives will change over the next few years with a higher priority given to objective 1 in the first two years

Duties & Accountabilities

Project Management:

Lead on the detailed design and implementation of the new Advantaged Thinking Development Framework project (ATDF), funded by the National Lottery, to increase and improve the learning offer in Foyers and enable young people to become Advantaged Thinking leaders.

Build an effective project delivery team alongside the Head of Programmes and Network, young people, Foyers and external specialists to deliver the development programme initially with a pilot group of Foyers and then rolling it out to the wider network. 

Work alongside our Specialist Consultant to collect insights and evidence of the current learning offer in Foyers and map out a learning framework with the project team. 

Work alongside our Head of Programmes and Network to create and implement engaging and effective workshops with the staff and young people in the pilot Foyers for the purpose of establishing the learning framework and ways to endorse existing (or create new) learning content .

Oversee the tendering for a creative digital design partner to build a digital interface / platform for the learning framework and content to be hosted on.

Oversee the project development, testing of the platform and roll out of the ATDF across the network, liaising with the Head of Development and Partnerships on any associated licensing or income generation strategies.

Relationship building:

Co-create and co-deliver key elements of the ATDF project with young people where it is appropriate and meaningful to do so, in line with our strategy and policies.

Build positive working relationships with external consultants, the Foyer network and peer organisations who are supporting the ATDF project.

Build and maintain positive relationships with the National Lottery Community Fund grants manager, reporting to them in a timely manner and sharing our learnings openly.

Quality and impact:

Design and develop new effective impact monitoring tools as part of the ATDF project that capture the needs, aspirations, learning and achievements of young people in our network.

Ensure that the ATDF framework includes tools and resources for young people to actively engage with the learning, to track their own progress and knowledge, and to understand the value of engaging with the framework.

Deliver and develop our existing quality development and accreditation scheme (FOR Youth) in partnership with our Specialist Consultant by:

a) ensuring the qualitative and quantitative data collection and presentation is streamlined, accurate, user friendly and embedded in the Advantaged Thinking approach. 

b) developing the accreditation process to be fit for purpose for use beyond the youth supported housing sector.

Ensure and safeguard the longevity of the quality development programme so that it can continue to be used by the network in future years to effectively assess, reflect on and improve the quality of their services.

Work alongside the Specialist Consultant to assess and improve services as part of the quality development programme by: conducting group support sessions, face to face interviews and effectively analysing data in order to identify trends, themes and emerging areas for improvement, then present findings as clear and comprehensive reports. 

Learning and insight

Work with the Head of Programmes and Network to identify opportunities for new programmes in line with the insights gathered from the ATDF and the accreditation data.

To understand and champion the use of data directly from young people and how to get the best from it, making recommendations for future activity based on detailed scrutiny.

To develop a new and improved theory of change for the Foyer Federation that integrates the local Foyer theory of change model developed previously with the University of East Cumbria

To work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to agree data sets and requirements for KPI monitoring and measurement in line with the agreed Foyer Federation theory of change. 

From time to time, attend and support the delivery of network events, training and Foyer visits to deepen your working knowledge and relationships with Foyers and young people across the entirety of our network. 

Influence the organisation’s strategic direction using the learning from day-to-day interactions with our network.

Act as a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) attending SLT and board meetings (when required).

Be a generous leader using your skills, experiences and knowledge to enable other staff members to thrive.

General

To apply the Foyer Federation’s policies and procedures and ensure compliance with relevant obligations, including Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Data Protection and Equal Opportunities.

To ensure your own continuing professional development by undergoing training and other activities.

To undertake any other duties as may be reasonably required.

This job description may be amended from time to time, as the needs of the organisation require.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience and Skills: Essential (E) or Desirable (D)

1. Experience in building, nurturing and managing complex relationships both with youth work and/or housing professionals and young people. (E)

2. Demonstrable expertise in all of the following areas: 

• Project management
• Programme delivery including support and facilitation
• Building positive relationships
• Learning and outcome management.

3. Recent professional experience and knowledge of theory of change / logic models, impact measurement and data collection and analysis. (E)

4. Experience of securing buy-in and engagement in programmes and events involving young people and practitioners. (E)

5. A good understanding of using and developing digital tools and systems. (D)

6. Experience of communicating with and influencing practitioners, managers, commissioners, statutory agencies and other stakeholders involved in developing and delivering young people’s services. (D)

7. Knowledge of online learning platforms and / or virtual learning environments in practice - both their development and implementation. (D)

8. Capable of using various technology platforms (e.g. Microsoft, Apple products,  Zoom, Google suite) and other communications tools and approaches including Social Media platforms. (E)

Attitudes and Behaviours:

8. A proactive and determined team player with a can-do attitude, who has a strong drive to improve the quality of services and opportunities for young people.

9. Exceptional planning and organisational skills, able to work under pressure and prioritise competing tasks to meet deadlines, with a flexible approach to meeting the changing demands of project activity.

10. A keen eye for detail and accuracy. Able to distil and communicate the key information and learnings to a wide range of audiences in a concise manner. 

11. Clear and personable communicator and relationship-builder, both orally and written. Empathetic with good listening skills – able to understand the different needs and perspectives of others and to influence a range of audiences. 

12. Applies Advantaged Thinking in practice, communicating it with others and spotting and developing potential Advantaged Thinkers.

13. An individual who lives the values of the organisation personally and has a  strong commitment to the Foyer Federation’s mission and purpose with an active interest in developing innovative solutions and more effective investment in young people.

14. Collaborative and flexible approach, able to listen, engage and demonstrate tact and diplomacy

Competencies:

15. Building and maintaining relationships

16. Programme delivery and project management

17. Detail-driven and organised

18. Creative and savvy thinker

19. Communicating and influencing

20.  Proactive and determined

To Apply

To apply, download and read the full job description, application form and equal opportunities form, and return the completed form and a copy of your CV to our inbox by Friday 19th August. Interviews will be arranged on a bespoke basis between 1st and 19th August as the applications arrive.

We’re looking for someone with a passion for promoting the rights of children in conflict, who can bring creativity and impact to our youth advocacy work. You will have experience of developing policy, as well as advocating for the implementation of these policies by decision-makers, and working with communications colleagues to influence change.

You are highly motivated and proactive, confident at engaging with young people and building relationships with decision-makers and influencers who have the capacity to affect change.

You are a great communicator, confident in speaking to a range of audiences – including the media - unintimidated by advocating towards those in positions of power, and capable of tailoring your style accordingly. 

If you share our values and believe that children’s lives should not be torn apart by war, we want to hear from you.

About us

War Child, the specialist charity for children affected by conflict. For more than two decades we’ve delivering high-impact programmes that are rebuilding lives across Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic and Yemen. We understand children’s needs, respect their rights, and put them at the centre of the solution - from reintegrating children formerly associated with armed groups and armed forces (CAAFAG) in the Central African Republic to reuniting children with their families in Afghanistan. We look forward to a world in which the lives of children are no longer torn apart by war. This is a vision that can only be realised through the collective actions of children themselves, communities and their leaders, organisations like War Child, governments and key decision makers.

Child safeguarding and Adults at Risk

Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm.

Your role

War Child is committed to championing the voices of children and youth affected by armed conflict. As Youth Advocacy and Engagement Adviser you will act as lead in advising and supporting War Child in the engagement and meaningful participation of young people in War Child’s advocacy activities. You will be responsible for advising the organisation on how to best to develop new safe and effective ways to listen and engage with young people in our own programmes and support child and youth-led advocacy. You will ensure War Child is positioned as a sector leader in the meaningful participation of children and youth affected by conflict, so their ideas and actions can meaningfully influence and change understanding of issues and sector responses to them.

Your responsibilities

• Ensure issues identified by VoiceMore groups are effectively carried into local, national and international advocacy efforts to bring about change, by drawing up strategies with Advocacy team, country-teams, seeking opportunities to raise concerns at international level, and identifying networks and contacts that can support awareness raising and policy change.
• Act as lead within War Child for all matters pertaining to youth engagement and participation within advocacy, drawing up cross departmental initiatives to ensure War Child realise its key strategic aim of effectively championing the voice of children and youth we work with.
• Actively engage donors, decision-makers and sector peers the meaningful participation of Children Affected by Armed Conflict (CAAC) and promote the meaningful engagement of children and youth as a sector standard to be realised.
• Advise on issues pertaining to meaningful participation and engagement of children and youth as part of improvements to existing - or new - programmatic or advocacy interventions developed and delivered in collaboration with programme countries.
• Oversee the successful continuation and expansion of War Child’s Young Advocates Development Programme ‘VoiceMore’ in programme countries, advising country-teams on how best to implement and support young people’s engagement and advocacy action.
• Design and develop comprehensive online and in person training programmes, guides, resources and tools on participatory approaches for staff and for use by external partners, including how best to ethically and safely engage young people affected by conflict in advocacy.
• Instigate and manage the launch of the VoiceMore Handbook with key strategic partners.
• In collaboration with Programmes and Communications Teams, devise ways to safely and ethically gather feedback from young people on key advocacy priorities, including media content, for events and campaigning.
• Act as representative for War Child in external meetings, events, conferences, and debates within the sector and within relevant working groups, coalitions and task forces. 
• Contribute to creating a culture committed to the safeguarding of children and adults and compliant to WCUK’s Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk Policies.

These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the role.

You are

Mandatory criteria

• Commitment to the aims and objectives of War Child
• Educated to at least degree level in relevant subject
• Strong understand of relevant frameworks to CAAC agenda
• Willingness and ability to travel – including to War Child country programmes

Experience and knowledge

• Excellent understanding of key concepts related to child and youth participation and empowerment, particularly in relation to international development and humanitarian field.
• Experience of facilitating child and youth-led advocacy and delivering training programmes for hard to reach and disadvantaged groups.
• Understanding of youth participatory approaches and methodologies, and knowledge and experience of how to apply them.
• Experience of delivering advocacy and campaigning strategies with and on behalf of children and young people, and influencing decision-makers as a result.
• Understanding of how change happens and how to influence decision-makers at country, regional and international levels.
• Understanding of basic research practice with children and youth and how to solicit feedback in a safe and ethical manner.
• Excellent grasp of safeguarding and how to ensure young people’s safety when engaging them in advocacy
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating programmes, including collating, and presenting data to evidence outcomes and impacts to donors and other audiences.
• Knowledge of child rights and other relevant international frameworks for children affected by conflict would be an advantage.
• Experience of promoting child and youth engagement and participation across an organisation.
• Understanding and appreciation of contexts participating children and youth live and survive in, and of how to ensure strong duty of care for participants.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with colleagues across different countries and cultures.
• Ability to engage and interact with children and young people who have experienced conflict in an empowering way.
• Strong project management skills, and ability to deliver a programme across multiple countries to time and to budget.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to capture and communicate programme impact
• Strong facilitation skills and ability to design and deliver interactive programmes to children and youth of varying educational level.
• Strong relationship-building skills with colleagues across functions and countries (media, digital, programmes, in-country).
• Flexibility and capability to change plans at minimal notice, and deliver to tight timeframes
• Strong task management skills – providing clarity and direction to those not directly under your line management.
• Empathy, understanding and sensitivity.

DFN Project SEARCH is the largest transition to work programme for people with learning disabilities and autism in the world! We are a community that gives voice to a social injustice – did you know that only 5.1% of people a learning disability and or autism, known to adult services, are in work in the UK? Yet 70% of those on our programme secure paid work, at above the minimum wage and an incredible 60% are full time roles.
We are really proud to be a social movement for change that makes clear economic sense, is the right thing to do and enables people to be the best that they can be.

We are evidence based, high aiming and everything we do is based on research. We are committed to continuous improvement and are pace setters in this area. Our programme is based on strong partnerships and our role is to provide the model, tools, training, and quality assurance to enable each participant to flourish. This model has been running for 25 years and once a programme is established it is evidently sustainable. 

Overall Responsibility

Establish, Promote, Support & Develop DFN Project SEARCH Programmes.

Job Summary:
You will be required to identify opportunities to develop and grow DFN Project SEARCH programmes across a geographical area with the aim of supporting the organisation to ensure that as many people as need it have access to DFN Project SEARCH programmes. In addition, you will be required to develop strategies to ensure that the operational programmes in your area are achieving at least the average outcomes expected for young people in our programmes and so you must be committed to continuous improvement.
You will be specifically required to develop strong partnerships and train and support colleagues within your area. You may also be required to support colleagues promoting DFN Project SEARCH in other areas, further European projects as required and contribute to the development of relevant new UK focussed materials.

As a Programme Specialist you will be expected to:
- Demonstrate effective project planning and preparation so that each project delivers achieves the highest quality programme possible and great employment outcomes for the interns.
- Establish effective working relationships with schools, colleges, local authorities, employers and the project professional staff to promote the building of excellent partnerships at each site to ensure the effective running of programmes and promote sustainability in a volatile environment.
- Take an active part in decision making, planning and audit processes of each project.
- Ensure that you implement DFN Project SEARCH policy and have a clear understanding of required quality standards and criteria which constitute effective teaching and learning
- To contribute to the development of a new enhanced UK offer to new and current projects to better prepare our interns for employment.

This is home-based working with travel to sites within a specific region

Are you someone with ideas and creativity to help support a growing and ambitious organisation that punches above its weight in the migration and development sector? Someone who is looking to grow with our organisation, with the positive prospect of increased and wider future opportunities.  

If so you can make a difference working in an organisation like ours, especially if you can demonstrate these additional and critical values in the work-place – integrity, honesty, curiosity, ingenuity, resourcefulness, flexibility and a sense of fun! 

AFFORD is looking for a self-starter, motivated and enthusiastic individual to manage and improve its Financial and Human Resource systems and processes

AFFORD was set up in the UK in 1994 with a mission  “to expand and enhance the contribution of the diaspora to Africa’s development". with AFFORD Europe being set up in 2019 to carry out specific functions of the organisation’s work in Europe.

Head of Fundraising
Salary: £50k- £55k depending on experience and qualifications
Location: Camden, London. Some flexible working considered.
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week, however, willing to consider part time (28 hours per week, pro rata £40-£44k) for the right candidate.

In the UK there are more than 1.3 million children and young people living with a disability and nearly four million children living in poverty. 

We exist to improve the lives of these children and since 1949 Variety in the UK has raised more than £270m in pursuit of this objective. 

Variety provides practical, tangible help that makes an immediate difference, which includes grants for specialist equipment as well as accessible transport used by schools and other non-profit organisations across the UK. Our Great Days Out are legendary.

As with many organisations we are re-calibrating to adjust to the changes that have been brought by the Coronavirus pandemic, which has only increased the demand for what we do.

Variety, the Children’s Charity, seeks an enthusiastic individual, particularly with extensive experience in all areas of charity fundraising to lead our Fundraising Department.

The impact of the Covid pandemic on our event income has highlighted the importance of growing even further our other income streams, and our trustees have approved new investment in fundraising to strengthen the team and its performance.

We aim to double non - event fundraising income over the coming five years, create a sustainable fundraising programme for the long-term and bring about a culture change that sees non - event fundraising income take an equally important role alongside our event fundraising income.

The Head of Fundraising is a pivotal appointment for Variety in achieving that ambition.

The Head of Fundraising will join our leadership team and be responsible for delivering a transformation in our fundraising activity, performance, and positioning.

This is a hands-on role and the Head of Fundraising will lead by example, undertaking as well as directing the fundraising, and managing relationships with a pool of major donors and other key stakeholders. This will also include leadership and management of the fundraising team and its programmes (corporates, trusts and foundations, legacies, community, individual giving, virtual and online fundraising, London special fundraising events) and growth, and development and implementation of a fundraising strategy, and financial management.

Closing date: Thursday 8th September 2022 at 5pm.

Please note: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, therefore, we advise candidates to apply at the earliest convenience and reserve the right to close the vacancy before the stated closing date. 

PLEASE PRESS THE 'HOW TO APPLY' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Equal opportunities 

Variety is committed to equality and diversity. To help us assess the reach of our recruitment practices, we would be grateful if you would complete our attached equal opportunity form.

The information you provide will be treated as strictly confidential.

Unfortunately, we are unable to reply to everyone who applies, so only applicants shortlisted for interview will be contacted.

No agencies please.