The Social Interest Group (SIG) is new and innovative and was formed as a charity in 2014. Its sole aim is to be a vehicle to develop and strengthen the charities that are within it, so they in turn thrive and do social good. Currently supporting Penrose Options and Equinox Care. Penrose Options provides person-centred support, health and social care for people with a history of offending and mental ill health. Equinox Care provides personalised support, care and recovery to people with multiple and complex needs. This includes people who experience mental ill health, drug dependence and alcohol dependence.

We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate Bid Manager and Writer to lead the Competitive Tendering and Bidding processes on behalf of SIG with responsibility for:
 

• Management of Marketing and Bid Coordinator

• Writing of high quality Competitive Tenders and Proposals

• Understanding the current market and feeding information to guide strategic planning

• Supporting colleagues within the development team to develop products, funding bids or proposals to grow the works of the SIG

This is a crucial role within the organisation and involves building relationships with commissioners, attending market engagement events, understanding the nature of the work SIG does to support people and getting that across successfully in tenders.

This role will work directly with the Director of Development, Marketing and Communications, the Group CEO and other colleagues, to traverse the commissioning landscape and strategically grow the business geographically and financially.

This role is a key position in the Development, Marketing and Communications team and will feed in to every area of the charity.

What we are looking for in the succssful candidate:

1. Experience of successfully writing tenders that have resulted in significant wins both financially and strategically.
2. Track record in Bid Management and of planning and developing compliant and successful proposals/bids.
3. Sound judgement, good interpersonal and persuasive skills, and the confidence to operate with autonomy
4. able to demonstrate that you are comfortable engaging with, shaping and presenting organisational messages effectively to a variety of difference audiences.

Understanding of the Health and Social care sector including Mental Health, Alcohol and Substance use, Housing and Homelessness

What we offer in return:

• Excellent core and on-going training aligned with personal development plan
• Access to employee assistance programme
• Medi-cash which includes the following:
• Discount gym membership
• Routine eye tests, glasses and contact lenses
• Dental treatment via NHS or Private
• Physiotherapy, Indian Head Massage and a range of other therapies
• 25 days holiday increasing to 26 days after 2 years and increasing 1 day per year up to 30 days annual leave
• Life Assurance

An exciting new opportunity for a Project Administrator to join the International Projects team of a great organisation. This team work directly in the International Development Consulting sector, and deliver projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America. This role would suit a confident self-starter who is keen to learn new skills, and displays great initiative. This role has potential to expand, depending on the experience and interests of the candidate.

The Project Administrator will be responsible for:

• Providing support to Finance Administrators, including fact checking / document compilation / client invoice preparation

• Organising extensive international travel, accommodation, and visas for both staff and contracted consultants.

• Acting as the first point of contact for the team, dealing with correspondence and phone calls, managing group mailboxes, and directing queries and questions to the wider team and third parties

• Team coordination – Organising monthly team meetings, annual events, training and teambuilding days, monitoring timecard entries on a weekly basis

• Maintaining the team calendar – having an overview of team members’ availability and travel and bid-writing deadlines

• Formatting documents using Word and PDF Xchange

• Managing Client-Take-On process and completing and circulating conflict check templates

• Ad hoc administrative support

Additional:

• Project resourcing recruitment searches on LinkedIn based on specified profile

• Proofreading and formatting of proposals/reports before submission

• Knowledge management tasks. E.g. collecting and maintaining project case studies and project references.

Essential:

• Strong knowledge of MS Office software in particular Word & Excel
• Undergraduate or equivalent years of experience
• Problem-solving skills
• Proactive attitude and anticipate support needs, take ownership of tasks
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Task-oriented. Ability to execute requests in a timely and efficient manner
• Fluent English in both spoken and written communication
• Able to prioritise, organise and multi-task
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written
• Able to be a self-starter and work on own initiative
• Strong relationship builder
• Interest in International Development
   

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Sported team as our Marketing Coordinator. Sported passionately believes in the role of sport to transform the lives of young people. Particularly, those living in deprived areas. We have been highly influential in building the credibility and effectiveness of sport for change and have the UK’s largest network of grass roots clubsWe are looking for a highly motivated and self-driven team player with excellent organisational and communications skills, ready to take on this new UK wide role at our London office.

You will be responsible for leading, shaping and delivering Sported’s external communications activities. In this varied role, you will work across the different functions of the organisation and with our UK field team. Your main responsibilities will focus on providing social media, marketing and brand support to promote the charity’s work and to support interactions with members and volunteers.

The ultimate measure of success in this role is supporting key stakeholders produce consistent, effective material which conveys our key messages, plus using social media to increase awareness of our activity and the impact we have.

Research Bid Manager
Salary: £42,746 - £48,109
Slough, Berkshire

Do you have a social research background? Are you looking for a role where you can shape winning bids focused on improving the outcomes for children and young people in education? If so, read on…

As a Research Bid Manager, you will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to co-ordinate the development of high-quality, winning proposals relating to our research work. 

Your role is a supportive role, meaning you will not be the overall lead for the proposals but will carefully manage stakeholders, internal and external, to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality proposal documents.

Typically, you’ll be working on proposals ranging from large international education surveys to complex evaluations of policy interventions to improve teaching and learning.

What does role involve?
- Planning and chairing proposal and pitch development meetings, steering decision-making
- Inputting ideas for our bid winning strategy, ensuring our proposals and pitches are robust, persuasive and cost effective
- Finding solutions to issues as they arise, liaising and negotiating with commissioners, colleagues and partners as needed
- Leading or supporting the project management of proposals
- Writing and editing sections of proposal text to client-ready standards
- Inputting to decisions about what NFER should and shouldn’t bid for

We have a very high bid success rate and once we’ve won a contract, we hand it over to research colleagues. Within this role, however, there will be opportunities to get involved with the bid team’s wider work, including driving forward NFER’s research methods work, building up our library of methods text and good practice examples.

Why is this a great role?
“I have enjoyed my bid management role with NFER and have learned a lot. It is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced social researcher to take on a strategically important, exciting and fast-paced role within the UK’s leading educational research organisation. You will get the opportunity to extend your methodological knowledge; develop your leadership, negotiation, numeracy and writing skills; and engage meaningfully with colleagues at different levels throughout all tranches of the business”. (Recent post holder)

Your background:
To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Extensive experience of leading, managing and writing proposals
- Considerable experience of developing/delivering pitches in competitive tendering situations
- Excellent writing and quality assurance skills
- The ability to challenge and support to ensure that we produce high-quality outputs
- Significant experience in writing winning, highly bespoke proposals to a client-ready standard
- To show you can develop strategies to win highly competitive research and assessment contracts
- To be solution-focused, flexible and collegiate, with excellent communication skills
- Expertise in a range of research methodologies and an interest in social research and/or assessment methods
- To work at pace

We are keen to hear from candidates who have worked in social research and are looking to move into a more strategic, business development-focused role. However, we will also seriously consider candidates from other sectors, who can demonstrate the ability to pick up new areas of expertise very quickly.

Other companies may call this role Bid Manager, Bid Writer, Business Development Bid Manager, Bid Co-ordinator, or Bid Support Co-ordinator.

Why NFER?
NFER has a worldwide reputation as a leading independent provider of education research and analysis. We are a registered charity that has contributed evidence, in-depth knowledge, and research expertise to support the creation of an excellent education for all children and young people for over seventy years. Improving the lives of children and young people is at the heart of everything we do.

- Competitive salary
- Generous pension scheme
- Free parking
- 42 days’ holiday per year (includes Bank Holidays + additional discretionary days)
- Excellent support for professional development
- Great work/life balance (35 hours worked per week)

NFER is a not-for-profit organisation and an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

Application closes on midnight on Sunday 16th February 2020.

So, if you are looking for a fresh, new challenge as a Research Bid Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy has been placed by Webrecruit on behalf of NFER.

We’re seeking a talented, seasoned and proven Grant Coordinator to join our team right now at an exciting time for our business. You’ll be helping to grow our success as an AI-first platform, creating traction in the market and laying the foundations for scale across key sectors and geographies.

From the outset you’ll be working to identify sources of grant revenue from a potential wide array of funding sources, ranging from key multilateral organisations, government agencies, scientific and research councils as well as foundations.

You will report directly to the Chief Policy Officer, Sachin Kapila, and you will play a crucial role in working with grant making bodies and Cervest’s amazing team of scientists, engineers and business

The role offers a unique opportunity to join an early-stage, highly mission-driven team where you’ll have the ability to make a significant impact on our company and our users.

We are a pro-diversity company and passionate about bringing together people of all backgrounds, because we know that a diverse team will help us achieve our mission sooner.

What you’ll be doing – main responsibilities

Ideally, you have a minimum of 3-5 years of working in the grant coordination and grant writing space. You will have been successful in winning grants and know how to prepare a successful grant bid depending on who the funding source is. Over this period, you will have built some critical insights and relationships within the grant making community. Specifically, you will be expected as part of this role to:

• Identify key grant making bodies (multilaterals, Government agencies, Foundations etc) that are of relevance to Cervest
• prepare an overall strategy and outline of the grant landscape
• prepare a pipeline of opportunities with recommendations for which grants to apply for commensurate with the internal resources capable of a) completing the grant application and b) executing the grant if successful
• put in place a  process for completing each grant with the governance (management, editor, writing team, reviewers etc)
• further build relations with key grant making bodies so that Cervest gets early warning of grant opportunities

You will need to coordinate with Cervest’s team of scientists, engineers, general counsel and the social media coordinator as part of your day to day work. 

Must haves:

• Solid understanding of the policy landscape related to climate within Europe
• Ability to bring together a clear understanding of resources needed and available to support a grant,both internally and externally with Cervest partners
• Demonstrated experience of winning grants from the following types of grant making bodies:
  • UK Government agencies (e.g. DEFRA/DFiD/BEIS)
  • UK scientific and research councils (e.g. NERC and ESRC), UK Innovate, UK Space Agency, 
  • European Commission and grant funding bodies (e.g. European Space Agency and Eureka Eurostars) ,
  • Multilateral institutions (e.g. World Bank and other regional development banks)
  • Foundations (e.g. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Moore Foundation),

This is a full-time role and you will be expected to work 37 hours a week, primarily based in Cervest’s offices at 69 Old Street, London EC1V 9JB.  You will be expected to travel at times to visit grant making bodies to build relationships as is necessary. The salary range for this post is £40-50,000 per annum depending on experience.

The Academic Programmes Coordinator will work as part of the Programme Management Team to ensure a first class participant experience of, and interaction with, the administrative elements of the Frontline programme.

The Coordinator will be required to be flexible and adaptable to respond to diverse requirements throughout the academic year and maintain a high standard of customer service throughout, particularly at peak periods, in order to help facilitate the exceptional Participant experience. They will be required to develop effective working relationships with a variety of teams and departments across the organisation and partner providers.

We are looking for someone who is active and committed to the values of Frontline, has a ‘can do’ attitude; is highly numerate and organised, with excellent attention to detail. Experience of working within a higher education environment is desirable.

We are seeking a passionate and entrepreneurially minded fundraiser with proven ability in the small charity sector to deliver income over a variety of funding streams.Lifting Limits is a charity with a mission to challenge gender stereotyping and promote gender equality, in and through education.You will join us at an exciting time as we build on the success of our pilot year and scale our model for wider roll out.

The role will involve working with the Chief Executive on all aspects of fundraising and development. Key responsibilities include researching and advising on potential sources of funding, fostering relationships with funders, developing diverse income streams and writing funding applications.

You will have experience of fundraising and donor engagement across a number of different funding streams, a proven record of successful funding applications, an understanding of the charitable trust sector and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Part time, 2-2.5 days per week (or equivalent hours)

6 month contract, to become permanent subject to procurement of funding for the post

To apply send your CV and a concise covering letter demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this position and why you want to work for Lifting Limits.

For full details of the role and how to apply please see the job description.

Closing date: noon on 9th March 2020

About the role

Reporting to our Business Development Manager this is an exciting entry level role supporting the Enterprise and Development Team of one of the UK’s leading social investors.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the work we do, is organised and has excellent attention to detail. Someone who is flexible with a “can do” attitude and who has a desire to get involved within a fast-paced team. If that is you and you can also bring in new ideas and are keen to get involved with the wider team projects as well as collaborate across the organisation then this could be a really exciting opportunity to add value and be a part of our values led organisation.

Key responsibilities

1. Collate and manage updates and reporting on the new business pipeline

2. Review and screen new tendering opportunities

3. Support BD Manager to prepare bid responses for invitations to tender from funders, investors and other key client groups

4. Support the BD Manager and wider team where necessary with the preparation of new business presentations

5. Support the delivery of projects to improve the efficiency of the business development team

6. Flexibly support the team on a range of projects and administrative tasks.

7. To work within the organisation's processes and procedures required to contribute to the effectiveness of the quality management system.

8. Contribute to the knowledge management and learning priorities in SIB’s strategy and support the implementation   and delivery of the strategy.

9. In agreement with manager to undertake other tasks that support Social Investment Business’ objectives as           required.

Core competencies

· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

· Effective time management

· Self-motivated, with high energy and an engaging level of enthusiasm.

· Excellent Microsoft Office Skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

· Excellent customer service skills

Desirable competencies

· Advanced Excel skills

· Understanding of the social investment or grant-making market in the UK

We love music. We love people. We love making a difference. Plymouth Music Zone is a multi-award winning community music charity whose vision is of a world where no one feels left out or lonely. A world where the transforming power of music can play its part in developing kind, happy, supportive and creative communities.

We work with others to reach people of all ages and abilities, using highly skilled Music Leaders who deliver a diverse range of person-centred, creative music-making activities. We aim to inspire and help empower individuals, families and communities to have a voice and develop and grow. We also encourage and train others who share our passion to bring hope and happiness through the life-changing power of music.

We are looking for a dynamic and hard-working fundraising professional to join our committed and creative team.  

Applicants need to demonstrate a proven track record in fundraising and marketing within the creative or charitable sectors. We are looking for a gifted storyteller with expertise in relationship fundraising and attracting voluntary income in addition to proven hands-on success via Trusts and Foundations.  

Developing voluntary income streams is a more recent area for the charity and all the ingredients are there for continued growth and success. PMZ’s Development Director will be part of the organisation’s Leadership Team and the wonderful person who gets the job needs passion, creativity, humour, initiative and tenacity in equal measure.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATION FORMS: 5pm 6th April 2020

INTERVIEWS TO BE HELD AT PLYMOUTH MUSIC ZONE on: Friday 17th April 2020

For full details on how to apply, please see the 'Job Opportunities' page on our website.

Key role supporting the Head of New Business to identify and new opportunities and focus on preparing new bids for a range of income generating activities. 12 month FTC, to start asap.

The Charity an international organisation dedicated to building a better world through higher education.

The Role
Support the Head of New Business to develop a range of plans and partnerships that enable the organisation to achieve its income generation targets.
Strategically identify funding opportunities from government, statutory bodies, trusts, foundations and international bodies.
Cultivate, manage and steward relationships with existing and potential funders and key partners.
Proactively develop and formalise concept notes and full funding applications/bids for both open calls and proactive approaches to potential funders,
Liaise with prospective partners and member universities, facilitating their participation in project design.
Communicate and report the impact of the projects to donors and to the marketing and communications team,
Project manage the proposal development process, ensuring the timely submission of high quality bids.

The Candidate
Proven experience of successful grant and bid writing.
Proven experience of researching, identifying and cultivating funding opportunities.
An understanding of issues in higher education, ideally in a developing country context and of trends in international development funding.
Ability to interpret financial information and develop budgets.
Able to cultivate and manage stakeholder relationships.
Excellent time management, organisational and project management skills and a willingness to be adaptable as required to deliver completed tasks on time.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Closing date: Sunday 8th March 11.30pm

Interviews: 1st interviews – Thursday 19th March, 2nd interviews – Wednesday 25th March

We’re looking for an enthusiastic individual with experience of working on fundraising or events projects, to join us as a Challenge & Bespoke Events Co-ordinator and help us raise income and meet targets on a variety of events.

This is an incredibly exciting time for Shelter as the entire organisation is rallying behind our ambitious strategy to end the housing emergency. To enable this strategy to become a reality, we have developed a new Income Generation plan that will see us significantly increase our annual income over the next three years. The Community & Events team is responsible for innovating, creating and delivering Shelter’s fundraising events and community fundraising programme. This includes a high value challenge and bespoke events portfolio consisting of participation in events such as London Marathon and own flagship events Vertical Rush and Sleep Walk for Shelter, as well as the support, development and promotion of successful community fundraising initiatives and an ambitious special events portfolio of high-profile cultural events and festival partnerships.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve. 

About the role
The Challenge Event team has large teams at all the main running events throughout the year and raise over £1million. Current key events include the London Marathon, Great North Run, Royal Parks Half Marathon, London Landmarks Half Marathon and more. This role will work on our third-party challenge events portfolio, project managing and delivering Shelter’s participation in these events. Not only will you be responsible for marketing and delivering your events, you will also work with your colleagues to deliver a superior supporter experience and maximise growth and engagement potential for your audiences.

About you
Relevant experience, plus a proactive, collaborative and results-driven approach, is essential. We’ll also be looking for a proven ability to monitor and report on income and expenditure budgets and use a CRM system. Commercially aware, creative and innovative, you’ll be experienced in communicating with a range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver results and have a flair for quickly understanding supporter or customer needs and working to meet and exceed their expectations. What’s more, you're willing to contribute to new ideas, methods and processes.

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our Income Generation team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.  In addition to this, we encourage an approach to involving people with personal insight of housing issues and homelessness in our recruitment processes.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Prospectus is pleased to be working with an international membership organisation dedicated to building a better world through higher education. They are currently seeking an Business and Programme Development Officer to play a vital role in supporting their mission to support excellence. This role is being offered on a 12 month fixed term contract.

As the organisation's Business and Programme Development Officer, you will support the Head of New business to identify and pursue new business opportunities that align with the mission and benefit members, with a focus on preparing new bids for a range of income generation activity. A pivotal aspect of this role will be supporting the development of programme activities and creating opportunities to drive this important work forwards. You will also work closely with colleagues across the programmes and external engagement team as well as external stakeholders, taking a lead role in developing new project ideas and attracting funding to turn them into reality.

To be considered for this post, you will have previous experience in a programme development role preferably in a higher education and/or international development setting, along with excellent organisational and communication skills. Experience of successful grant and bid writing together with proven experience of researching, identifying and cultivating funding opportunities, is also essential to this post

If you are interested in finding out more information about this new opportunity, please register your interest below and submit your CV by clicking 'apply now'.

The Programme Development Officer position advertised is a key role in our organisation and provides a rewarding opportunity for someone looking to take on a new challenge.

Cord is an international charity working with people in highly sensitive and oppressive contexts to transform dysfunctional relationships into those that create peaceful and inclusive societies. Our vision, inspired by the Christian faith, is of a world where all people live in the fullness of peace, have the freedom to flourish and live free from fear. We work towards this through employing and working with people of all faiths and none.

Cord is at an exciting crossroads in its organisational history as it has recently launched a new strategy, Promoting the Power of Peaceful Relationships, building on what it has learnt from its recent programme work and adapting to the new challenges and opportunities that are present in the world today.

Cord is looking for someone to support our institutional fundraising and programmes with excellent writing skills, who is passionate about seeing positive change in our world and can bring strong project cycle management skills, including programme design, quality assurance and implementation, and learning and accountability.

The ideal candidate will need to have the following skills/experience:

• Higher degree and advanced understanding of human rights, peacebuilding or international development;
• At least two years’ experience in a comparable role for an international organisation;
• Demonstrated track record of securing funding through writing high quality fundraising proposals and reports;
• Awareness of project cycle management and programme delivery in challenging contexts;
• Experience in writing complex and detailed institutional funding proposals and reports tailored to the language of donors for example the European Union, FCO, NORAD, GIZ and the U.S Bureau for Democracy, Rights and Labor
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• Excellent writer with meticulous attention to detail
• Strong qualitative and quantitative research and analysis skills, with the ability to form convincing conclusions and arguments

If you have a commitment to Cord’s values and ethos, and the drive to help communities live in a more peaceful and inclusive way, then we would like to hear from you. 

 

Senior Business Development Officer

(Ref: SUS2848)

£27,255 per annum

37.5 hours per week – based in either Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle

This is an exciting opportunity to join our England North team, helping to turn Sustrans’ vision for the region into a reality. In this role, you will help to create healthier and happier cities through identifying opportunities and securing funding to increase the impact of our charitable objectives. By managing our business development and developing strategic internal and external client relationships, you will be assisting Sustrans in its vision to allow people to travel in ways that benefit their health and wellbeing.

We are looking for an individual experienced in business development, someone with a passion for making more liveable cities, who is looking to build on their experience or interest in active travel, infrastructure delivery or the public realm. You will work closely with Sustrans’ England North regional team, specifically reporting to Head of Partnerships, England North Director, and the Senior Leadership Team. You will have the opportunity to develop strategies for income generation, coordinate proposals across Sustrans teams and develop our Business to Business (B2B) relationships with clients in the private and public sector that could lead to commissions. Sustrans supports professional development including toward APMP certifications for proposal management.

Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am on Wednesday 11 March 2020. Interviews will take place in Leeds on Friday 20 March 2020.

Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion.  We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.