The University

Our University has a proud history of philanthropy stretching back to its foundation in 1900.  With a clear vision to change the lives of the people of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain raised the funds required to build the University from citizens and corporations based locally and around the globe. Since then philanthropy has continued to play an important role in shaping the University. Having closed the Circles of Influence Campaign in 2015, which raised £193 million, making it the largest HE fundraising campaign outside Oxbridge and London, we have chosen to launch another, Birmingham in Action.  This is the fifth largest fundraising campaign in the modern history of UK Higher Education.

The University has global reach, including several partnerships with other leading universities around the world, and is grounded in its local community, having opened the first fully comprehensive University secondary school in the country in 2015.  It is also an innovative institution, being the first University to incorporate a Medical School, the first to create a students’ union, and the first to offer a women’s hall of residence.  We are an ambitious and successful research-intensive University (one of the top 100 research-led universities globally) and have produced 11 Nobel Prize winners, including three who received their awards in 2016.  

Our student body is one of the largest and most diverse in the UK. Our students come from nearly 150 countries and our flagship outreach programmes mean that almost 25% of our student population come from disadvantaged backgrounds, one of the highest proportions in the UK.  

The Office

The Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) exists to support this academic and student community by engaging, inspiring, and celebrating alumni, individuals, and charitable funders who give their money, time, and networks to support the University’s strategic priorities.  The Office, which comprises nearly 60 staff across four teams, is focused on fundraising and volunteering from alumni and individuals who are passionate about our five current campaign themes: everyone getting an education; treating and preventing cancer; families fleeing war, violence and famine; young people’s mental health; and protecting our planet.

The campaign has been planned, the framework created; it is unique and hugely ambitious, and will see Birmingham become one of the leading fundraising and volunteering universities in the world.  

The Role

We are now looking for an Associate Director of Fundraising to maximise our enormous income generation potential; coach, nurture and challenge the well-established fundraising team; and deliver a bold and innovative strategy to support this exciting campaign, raising significant gifts yourself as you do.

Sector: Strategy

Employment Category: Regular/Permanent

Open to Expatriates: Flexible

Location: 

• New York, NY HQ USA, 
• Athens, Greece, 
• Berlin, Germany, 
• London, United Kingdom, 
• Italy

Job Description

The External Relations (ER) department has been created in February 2020 and is comprised of 3 main but complementary functional areas: Private fundraising, Communications and Advocacy. The ER department is at the beginning stages of creating a new radical and ambitious strategy that will enhance IRC’s ability to ‘punch above its weight’ in private income, advocacy and brand awareness. The main objective of the department is to enable this organization of more than 12,000 staff to have the resources needed to continue serving 18 million people worldwide in places affected by war and disaster, shape the humanitarian sector by influencing key policies and reforms and build and grow IRC’s reputation.

The Associate Director of Business Transformation will support the implementation of the External Relations strategy across all ER functional areas working closely with ER VPs and their teams and will drive strategic projects considered high priority by ER leadership. She/he will be expected to lead a team of 5 people and work closely with senior leadership team as a thought partner to drive performance and progress.

The Associate Director will be expected to find solutions. She/he will persuade and influence, build and innovate, and use structured thinking and evidence to solve problems where there is no pre-defined methodology. Focusing on the highest priority initiatives of the External Relations team, you will build relationships across External Relations, and IRC more broadly to deliver high quality results at a pace a leading private sector organization would be proud of.

This is a demanding role – you will work hard, learn and grow quickly. Ultimately the measure of your success will be your impact - the lasting benefit you bring to the IRC through your contributions.

Major Responsibilities:

The Associate Director acts as a part of the Business Transformation and Analytics Leadership Team, reporting to the Senior Director of Business Transformation and Analytics. She/he will be expected to play a leadership role leading the complex multi-year Transformation efforts for External Relations, overseeing Analysts, Project Managers and Senior Project Managers and providing problem solving leadership, people management and client counselling. This is a challenging position which requires strong leadership, interpersonal, problem solving and a high level of personal initiative and the ability to work well in a distributed, multicultural, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities include:

•Oversee planning, monitoring and delivery of the multi-year ER business transformation, partnering with ER VPs and senior-level staff across the ER department and IRC more broadly to provide problem-solving support, and facilitate decision-making and consensus-building at each stage of the transformation

•Proactively maintain and promote a team problem solving method, seeking ways to improve and refine it as needed, including building in the flexibility needed to respond to different types of problems at different depths of definition

•Direct line management of 5 direct reports at the Analyst, Project Manager and Senior Project manager levels

•Escalate issues where required and push towards a speedy resolution

•Promote a positive, collaborative, efficient team working environment where team members enjoy working with each other and feel able to do impactful work and grow professionally over time

•Ensure close collaboration across the Business Transformation and Analytics team, and the External Relations team more broadly

•Take personal responsibility for the success of the team’s work over time, promoting and standing behind their successes, and transparently acknowledge and act on areas for improvement. Adopt and demonstrate an ownership mentality

•Provide support to senior stakeholders as needed, as new challenges emerge and priorities shift

Qualifications

Work / Educational Experience:

•Bachelor's degree or equivalent

•6 years of relevant work experience, at least three of which in a strategy or business transformation role, with gradually increasing responsibilities and a track record of high performance.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

•Repeated experience in executing strategic change and organizational change management

•Repeated experience in project managing large-scale, cross-functional projects and project portfolios

•Good knowledge of private fundraising in humanitarian or development settings

•Experience in implementing or adapting project methodologies, templates, tools and processes

•Capability to manage multiple demands and to adapt to new challenges and shifting priorities

•Capability to handle and make progress against multiple simultaneous demands in short time frames, and to adapt to new challenges in a dynamic context with shifting priorities

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as, an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications

•Strong meeting facilitation skills

•Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver on time

•Strong analytic problem solving skills

•Ability to work both independently and in a dynamic, cross-functional global team structure

•Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite

•Demonstrated ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels

•Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner

Preferred experience & skills:

•Experience in a strategy or business transformation role at either a top tier strategy consulting firm, or in the strategy development function of a global organization

•Strong knowledge of private fundraising, communication and advocacy in humanitarian or development context

•An MBA or a Master’s degree in international development, human rights or another field related to the IRC’s work

•Experience leading teams to success

•Experience in a humanitarian or development organization, or similar

•Knowledge of French or Arabic

Working Environment: 

•Standard office working environment

•Some international travel

•This role may require working remotely full or part time and part time remote employees may be required to share workspace.

Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview on a rolling basis.

Candidates must have the right to work in the country for which they are applying.

IRCUK is committed to equality of opportunity and non-discrimination for all applicants and employees. IRC-UK seeks to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious belief, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. IRC-UK welcomes applications from all candidates, including refugees who have the right to work in the UK. IRC UK will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job functions if appointed to a role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments.

Job Title: Head of Business Development (Maternity Cover) – Living Wage Foundation
Hours: 4/5 days flexible
Salary: £49,522 (pro-rata) inc London Weighting
Contract: Maternity Cover, until December 2021
Based: London, currently working remotely

Living Wage Foundation
The Living Wage Foundation was launched in 2011 by Citizens UK to tackle in-work poverty and ensure that workers earn enough to live on and participate in family and community life. Citizens UK is the home of community organising with diverse civil society alliances set up to develop leaders to work on the issues that matter to them, such as the Living Wage. Other projects include PACT (Parents and the Community Together) and Sponsor Refugees to add depth to the impact of Citizens UK’s work.

The Living Wage is a movement of businesses, organisations and people who believe that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay. The real Living Wage is an independently-calculated hourly rate based on the cost of living and announced each November during Living Wage Week, our annual celebration of a growing network of nearly 7,000 Living Wage Employers.

The Living Wage Foundation celebrates employers that voluntarily choose to pay the real Living Wage through an accreditation scheme that recognises a long-term commitment to fair pay and has secured pay rises for 250,000 low paid workers.

The Head of Business Development will drive new business development, generate and implement diversification opportunities to support the future direction of the Living Wage Foundation. You will be responsible for developing and managing new programmes of work exploring wider issues facing low paid workers in the UK and beyond and a new consultancy strand to support more employers to adopt the living wage and other standards of good practice. You will provide leadership and support for a passionate, driven team with a strong commitment to tackling in-work poverty, and be able to build strong relationships internally and externally to further the objectives of the Foundation.

• Develop and deliver strategies, working collaboratively across the organisation.
• Raise funds to realise our ambitions to diversify into new areas.
• Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders, policy makers and employers to support them to tackle in-work poverty in new ways.
• Develop a team-wide strategy and line manage staff and freelancers, supporting them to deliver projects and create the tools and knowledge available to inform and advise employers on going further than the Living Wage.
• Communicate evidence for change to influence key stakeholders to become part of the Living Wage movement, promoting Living Hours and other schemes and initiatives, and to champion the Living Wage and Living Hours to their networks.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of our work to refine our strategy and deliver projects in an efficient way.

For more information on the application process please click on 'Apply' now. 

Citizens UK is committed to being an inclusive employer. We value a diverse workforce and encourage those with an interest in this role to apply, regardless of whether they meet all the required criteria. We invest in our employees and support them to develop the skills and knowledge required to deliver their role. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates to represent the communities we work in. 

The history of CrossReach stretches back 150 years to the formation of the Church of Scotland Committee on Christian Life and Work in 1869. Throughout this time CrossReach and its predecessor bodies have worked in communities all over Scotland and beyond, providing social care for those most in need. Over the years the services provided have been vast and varied, which have been adapted as time moves on to respond to the needs and requirements in current times.

In 2005 the name of the organisation was changed to CrossReach. The name Crossreach was chosen to convey the need and desire to reach out to people across Scotland who require support, all while making it clear that faith is the motivation for their work. As mentioned, CrossReach offer a wide variety of services that are currently broken down into three key areas adults, older people, children and families. Within each key area, there are various different support services available ranging from early years through to care homes, mental health support, creative art groups and everything in between. All services provided are working towards CrossReach’s overall mission which is ‘In Christ’s name we seek to support people to achieve the highest quality of life which they are capable of achieving at any given time’ while keeping in line with their ethos which is ‘We aim to show the practical side of our Christian faith by reflecting Christian love to those we support, through our leadership, management and working relationships’.

As the Head of Fundraising you will take the lead role in writing the fundraising strategy and supporting the team to deliver against all targets. You will also be part of the senior management team so strong strategic as well as operational acumen is required.

CrossReach aspires to grow its fundraised income so you will need to show that you have the skills, experience, tenacity and determination to succeed in this role while proving that you have overseen growth in voluntary income in a previous role. Experience in a similarly sized and complex organisation would be an advantage.

You will be CrossReach’s fundraising expert and will need to have the broad range of skills associated with a Head/Director of Fundraising role. This includes everything from creating the strategy, structure and skilled team required for successful fundraising as well as reaching new audiences, devising creative campaigns and writing compelling Cases for Support that engage and motivate donors. You will also be adept at managing a budget and producing fundraising reports for the CEO and Board.

This is a high profile role for a national charity which is greatly valued by those who benefit from its services. You will have the opportunity to make your mark by taking fundraising from a relatively low level to new heights.

All while demonstrating and sharing Christian love and support including sharing with others the leading of worship in accordance with CrossReach policy and by ensuring all staff meetings are opened with prayer and Bible reading.

It is important to note that as the work CrossReach do and their work in Christ’s name this job requires you to have a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos (this is an ongoing occupational requirement under the Equality Act 2010).

How To Apply

Please contact BTA to request an information pack, full job description and person specification.

You are advised to get in touch well in advance of the closing date to give us time to consider your application and pre-interview the strongest applicants.

Closing Date: Midday, Friday 30th October

Interview Date: Wednesday 11th November

This search is being conducted exclusively for the CrossReach by BTA (Bruce Tait Associates). Our leadership team has all worked in the voluntary sector and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments.

Philanthropy and Legacies Lead

£55,332 - £62,000

London, and currently remote

The Head of Philanthropy will be responsible for developing Comic Relief’s strategy for engaging ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals. This will include developing a legacy strategy.

Key responsibilities:

• To develop, deliver and monitor Comic Relief’s strategy for engagement of ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals in our mission
• To work closely with Talent to identify artists and their ecosystems who have the capacity and propensity to give financially and leverage support through networks
• To develop a robust prospect pipeline, effectively cultivate prospects and manage and steward relationships with existing donors
• To lead on the development and recruitment of a strategic Partnerships & Philanthropy Advisory Group with Corporate Partnerships
• To deliver a series of virtual and face to face thought leadership events for prospects and donors, working with the Founder and Life Presidents to deliver these
• To work closely with Impact & Investment to create propositions for high net worth individuals
• To represent Comic Relief in relevant philanthropic circles, specifically targeting next generation donors, wealth advisers, intermediaries and talent ecosystems
• To creatively develop new ways of reaching and communicating with our target audience of philanthropists, driving income against an agreed target and documenting learning to seek constant improvement
• To manage the Senior Philanthropy Associate, setting clear performance objectives and KPIs including income targets
• To be responsible for reaching the Philanthropy targets
• To work with Head of Public Fundraising and Individual Giving Lead to develop legacy strategy, to enable Comic Relief to talk to philanthropic individuals about gifts in wills.

Essential Skills and Competencies:

• Significant experience in effectively leading and managing high performing teams.
• Solid experience of delivering a philanthropy strategy which contributes to the organisations overall strategic aims on income and relationships.
• Solid experience of high-level relationship management and support which enables senior stakeholder to grow income and networks
• Experience of securing 7 figure gifts and working with world leading philanthropist
• Exceptional communication, networking, influencing, negotiating and persuading skills.
• Strategic Thinker – able to evaluate decisions in the short, medium and long term.
• Building and sustaining effective working relationships both internally and externally.

To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online

Role closes - 12:00pm, 21st Oct 2020 BST (Europe/London)

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

• Be valued for being yourself
• Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
• Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
• Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.

Working with partners across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Feba is all about the creative use of radio and other audio media to inspire people to follow Jesus Christ.We have a particular focus on ‘closed countries’ and ‘hard-to-reach’ people groups, including places where Christians face persecution for their faith.

We are looking for an outstanding, experienced and highly motivated individual for this new role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing strong and enduring relationships with current and potential major donors and family trust funds.
• Create compelling, relevant and tailored funding proposals
• Design and develop a targeted contact strategy and bespoke cultivation plan
• Co-create a new major donor development strategy

You will have:

• A clear demonstrable personal Christian faith and a commitment to Feba’s ministry
• A successful track record of securing five or six figure grants from trusts/foundations and/or a major fundraising role
• A strong, engaging presence with individuals and groups
• Ability to negotiate and influence effectively with strong written and verbal skills
• Great networking skills and familiar with the current landscape, approach and technique

The Feba team is small (less than 10 people), all of whom care passionately about what we do.We love to roll up our sleeves, try new ways of doing things and support each other so that we can achieve our goals.If that sounds like you and you share our vision and values, then we’d love to hear from you.

Salary:Circa £21,000 per annum for 21 hours (FTE £35,000 p.a.)

Hours:21 hours per week

Location:Flexible working considered, yet within regular traveling

distance to West Sussex (Worthing - Chichester area).

Closing date:9.00am 2 November 2020

First Interviews:Weeks beginning 9 or 16 November 2020

For more information and application details, please visit the website

This post is subject to an Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a committed evangelical Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

Are you passionate about music?

Music in the Round is seeking an experienced Development Manager who is passionate about what we do, and can develop excellent relationships with a wide range of supporters, donors, participants, staff and organisations. Getting to know existing supporters and Trustees is vital, as is gaining a thorough understanding of our wide range of activity and musicians. This role will include creating a cultivation plan to develop and inspire increased support from existing and new supporters, in collaboration with the Executive Director and Trustees, as well as take the lead on personal approaches to existing supporters and new donors. We are looking for a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion in the way we reach out to people in every aspect of our work.

Music in the Round has supporters who have been involved with us since our earliest beginnings in the 1980s, joined by those who have become Friends very recently to support us in these challenging times. An appeal in early 2020 when lockdown prevented our events from taking place led to a very generous response, and we are looking for someone who can build on this warmth towards us as we plan our activity for the future.

Music in the Round is the leading national promoter of chamber music. Our aim is to bring people and music closer together through performance and participatory activity characterised by passion, excellence and proximity. Founded in Sheffield in 1984 by Peter Cropper, leader of the Lindsay String Quartet, Music in the Round now runs a year-round programme of events in venues across South Yorkshire and the rest of the country, reaching around 30,000 people annually. In 2005 we established a world-class 11-piece group, Ensemble 360, who are our resident musicians and are at the heart of all our events on- and off-stage. A highlight is our annual nine-day Sheffield Chamber Music Festival (SCMF), which takes place in the unique surroundings of the Crucible Studio each May, and we are also known for our extensive Learning & Participation (L&P) programme, which reaches around 10,000 children and young people each year. Music in the Round is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) and is supported in kind by Sheffield City Council.

For more information and to download the Application Pack, please visit our website

Deadline for applications: 9.00am, Monday 26 October

Action Against Hunger has a vision of a world free from hunger. For almost 40 years, across nearly 50 countries, we have led the global fight against hunger. We save the lives of children and work with their communities before and after disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and build prosperous communities. We constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing our knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change. We will never give up. Until the world is free from hunger.

The Business Development Manager is a new role within the MEAL Services Team, a pool of MEAL experts delivering projects for external clients as well as internally within the Action Against Hunger international network. The purpose of this role is to lead on and coordinate business development for Action Against Hunger's MEAL Services portfolio. This will be particularly focused on intelligence about and pursuing business development opportunities related to evaluations, monitoring and research from diverse sources (donors, INGOs, NGOs, UN agencies, Foundations etc.). 

As part of the Action Against Hunger UK Operations Department, the post-holder will contribute to the Department’s development and activities, including bringing fresh perspectives and new ideas.