We are recruiting a Fundraising Manager to identify and secure new funding from charitable trusts and foundations, and help ensure the sustainability of our work.

What you’ll be doing

You will be responsible for building and managing a range of multi-year, five and six-figure grants, working with some of the UK’s leading charitable organisations. You will research and target those whose criteria match our aims and activities, coordinate your pipeline with other members of the trusts and statutory team and ensure our work is sustainable and impactful.

Based in our development department, you will also work closely with programme managers and other members of staff across the organisation, including the senior management team.

What we’re looking for

You will be passionate about our work and support our values and ethos. You will be skilled at building new relationships with charitable trusts, foundations and other institutional funders to secure both single and multi-year grants, and have experience of managing and increasing grant giving among a portfolio of existing funders. You will be used to working to demanding income targets and able to manage multiple projects, identify conflicting demands and establish priorities to meet objectives.

Why our work is so vital

Poor literacy and resulting inequality is not inevitable. The National Literacy Trust improves the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills of those who need it most, giving them the best possible chance of success.

We make society fairer. Poor literacy creates social and economic inequality. The one in six adults in the UK with poor literacy earn less, are less likely to vote and more likely to experience health inequalities.

We enable social mobility. A child without literacy skills can’t succeed at school, and as an adult they will be locked out of the job market. The pattern is intergenerational and starts at birth.

Our work is targeted at communities with the highest levels of disadvantage and the lowest levels of literacy. We support thousands of schools and early years settings, bringing in wonderful partners like the Premier League and the nation’s best publishers who bring literacy alive. We campaign to make literacy a priority for our nation’s leaders. Our research and analysis make us the leading authority on literacy and drive our interventions.

What we offer you

As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.

We support flexible working and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.

While you will be based in our office in London, this role can be peformed primarily from home, and you would only be expected to attend for all staff days (approximately 3 per year), team strategy days (around 2 per year) and any in-person training or induction, and any in person funder meetings as required.

Fundraising and Communications Manager

Magic Me is the UK’s leading provider of intergenerational arts activities, working with care home residents and other people most impacted by covid. We are looking for an experienced, confident, fundraising and communications professional to establish this brand-new role, for an initial 12-month contract, to start as soon as possible.

The arts have a vital role to play in post-pandemic community building, and this is a crucial and exciting time in Magic Me’s development. Join us and lead the creation and delivery of a new fundraising strategy to continue this vital work, including a major bid to Arts Council England for NPO funding in early 2022.

Can you:

• Write, lead and deliver a clear fundraising strategy for Magic Me, in partnership with the Director and Programme Director?
• Conduct prospect research to identify potential new funders, whilst nurturing relationships with existing supporters?
• Develop and write compelling, successful bids with a focus on trusts, foundations and livery companies?
• Lead the writing of bids, including an NPO bid to Arts Council England.
• Review and update Magic Me’s communications, our messages and channels, e.g. social media, newsletters.
• Oversee Magic Me’s website, writing copy and working with colleagues to create new content.

Salary: £28,000 pa, 28 hours per week for a 12-month Fixed Term Contract (pro rata £35,000 Full-time role) Interested in applying for this role as a freelancer? Please contact us.

We welcome and encourage applications from disabled people, Black and Asian candidates, and those from other minoritised ethnic communities. Our board and staff are actively working on a new anti-racism strategy. We believe by improving the diversity within our organisation and our leadership, we will improve the quality of our work.

HOW TO APPLY 

Please read the full Application Pack and complete the Personal Details Cover Sheet and Monitoring information Form.

You are required to send the following: anonymised cover letter, anonymised CV and the accompanying forms (more details of this is found in the application pack) to our email address. Please ensure you follow the directions on the forms carefully, so your application can be processed fairly and anonymously.

NB To ensure the shortlisting process is anonymous and fair, please do not include your name on your CV or covering letter. Instead, please include this information in the Personal Details cover sheet. The selection panel will not see your Personal Details or Applicant Monitoring Information when shortlisting applications.

Deadline for applications: Send your application to us by 9 am on Thursday, 4th November. We will not be able to consider applications received after this deadline.

RECRUITMENT TIMELINE

• MONDAY 11 OCTOBER – Adverts out and recruitment starts.
• THURSDAY 4 NOVEMBER – Deadline for applications.
• FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER – Shortlisting and candidates notified.
• WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER – Interviews. Decision.
• START DATE – As soon as possible.

Flexible location

Closing date: 31 October 2021 at 11.30 pm

Interview dates: 10th & 11th November 2021

Do you have proven experience of supporting the development of volunteering programmes and managing volunteers, plus an excellent understanding of what makes a quality volunteer journey? Then join Shelter as Corporate Volunteering Manager and you could soon be playing a pivotal role at the heart of our Volunteering team.

About Shelter
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.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team

We engage more than 2,500 volunteers in our shops, hubs and local communities around 495 individuals as corporate volunteers each year. Indeed, volunteers are a vital part of our growing movement for change. Our Volunteering Team, which is part of a new Equity, Inclusion & Culture Directorate, supports the mobilisation of volunteers to deliver Shelter’s strategic priorities and provides the infrastructure and insight that enables that mobilisation. We also enable best practice approaches to volunteer management and are delivering an increasingly coordinated, consistent approach to how we engage volunteers across the organisation.

About the role
This particular role involves working closely with our Corporate Partnerships Team – which is part of the High Value Partnerships department. They’re responsible for generating income by securing new corporate partnerships and managing and developing long term partnerships, the success of which is underpinned by volunteering opportunities. Your challenge will be to lead on the co-ordination and development of a meaningful, engaging and impactful corporate volunteering programme that delivers excellent volunteering experiences. We’ll also rely on you to effectively manage volunteering activities across all our corporate partnerships. That will involve proactively leading work programmes and collaborating with colleagues in Corporate Partnerships and across Shelter.

Developing new corporate volunteering opportunities that align with our strategy will be important too, and, because we have a large network of stakeholders, you’ll also need to build a number of effective relationships as you actively seek out opportunities to collaborate in order to ensure success. Establishing robust processes and procedures, seeking to continuously improve them and working towards a consistent approach to volunteering at Shelter based on volunteer management good-practice – all are aspects of this interesting and unique role.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need an innovative approach to setting up new volunteering activities and the processes that will support them. You’ll also need experience of applying best practice principles to volunteer engagement and up-to-date knowledge of additional relevant areas including GDPR, Safeguarding, Equality & Diversity. Comfortable planning and managing multiple projects simultaneously, including identifying conflicting demands and establishing clear priorities to meet agreed objectives, your great communication skills include an innate ability to influence and negotiate with a variety of stakeholders at all levels. What’s more, you’re used to monitoring and evaluating volunteering activity, including collating qualitative and quantitative data from volunteer systems, surveys and stories and adept at interrogating and analysing data on volunteering activity so that innovation and developments can be driven by insight.

Benefits
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 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.

We will be sharing the interview questions with candidates shortlisted for an interview 3 days before the interview.

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

About the Charity

The Anne Robson Trust vision is to ensure every person receives the support, comfort, and companionship they wish for at the end of their life.Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic ART has worked hard to continue to provide support to those at the end of life, and their families by supporting partner hospitals to set up and run teams of ‘end of life’ volunteers, setting up and running the Anne Robson Trust pre bereavement support Helpline, and delivering virtual training sessions and workshops.

Over the next five years we anticipate significant growth in service delivery which will need to be supported by growth in fundraising. An exciting moment to join our team.

Job Purpose

This role presents an opportunity for an ambitious trust fundraising professional. The post-holder will have the opportunity to ‘own’ the trust programme with considerable autonomy. They will continue to develop and maintain relationships with, and secure funds from a portfolio of loyal donors and prospective trusts and foundations.

The charity has a strong track record in trust and foundation fundraising which stands the postholder in good stead for future success in a charity where the cause is very topically relevant. Target for 2022 would be to generate in excess of £250,000. Working alongside the CEO/Founder and our new Operations Director the postholder will work collaboratively with the team to develop strategies and plans for significantly increasing income during the next five years.

Beyond the Streets is a small charity with a big determination to see routes out for women experiencing exploitation within the UK sex industry.  Your role is to lead on the maintenance and development of a strong pipeline of grant funding and relationship development of future and existing funding partners, including major donors.

We are looking for someone with great communication skills, high attention to detail, and a track record in building new partnerships and securing high-level funding from grant making trusts and foundations.

This is a full-time job, but with the possibility of a 4 day a week post for the right candidate. We have offices in Southampton and London and are open to flexible arrangements, including home working. We have the experience to invest in people who are interested in this work. 

You will be passionate about supporting women facing multiple disadvantages, as well as being able to support and motivate staff. You will have great communication skills and be able to champion the cause.

Your role will include:

 - leading on the ongoing development of the Beyond the Streets trust fundraising strategy;

 - overseeing the delivery of the Beyond the Streets trust fundraising strategy, ensuring that our relationships with large grant making trusts are well managed;

 - ensuring that all trust fundraising activities are coordinated and delivered to deadline with the Development Officer;

 - leading on the development of a major donor programme

Beyond the Streets is a charity inspired by Christian values. This belief inspires us to work with acceptance, value and mutual respect for all. We promote a healthy work life balance and regularly reflect on our boundaries and our strategy for the year. We genuinely seek to work as a team and ensure that no one is ‘rescuing’ or working outside their allocated hours.

About the role

It's an exciting time here at Sense as we have just released our new strategy. Sense now has an opportunity for someone to join our Business Development team as a Project Manager / Bid Writer, based at our purpose build centre TouchBase Pears, Selly Oak Birmingham. 

Duties include: 

Project managing a range of new business projects across Sense, which will increase business and diversification of opportunities
Ensuring projects are high performing, innovative and provide effective solutions for the Charity within the budgets available.
Providing advice and information and training on project management within the organisation
Support tender/framework/bid writing and processes

Key skills and experience required:

Recognised project management qualification
Proven implementation of recognised project management principles
Proven experience of managing projects and processes within a customer driven environment, with stakeholders 
Experience of good financial management.
Ability to produce effective project communications and management reports

For the full job description and person specification please see below. 

About Sense

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential.

Working at Sense can be incredibly rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment. In addition we have excellent training and development, the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement.

Due to the retirement of a long standing and committed Charity Manager a unique and exciting opportunity has arisen to lead a small but successful mediation service across Hastings and the Rother area.

HRMS has been established in the Hastings area for over twenty five years and provides family, neighbourhood and intergenerational mediation services through both paid and volunteer mediators.  Good partnership relationships have been developed and representatives are well established on the Board of Trustees

The successful applicant will be responsible for overseeing the effective provision of the mediation services and in maintaining financial stability from a diverse range of funding streams. There is an expectation of close working with the Board of Trustees to develop and deliver a strategic plan to promote and expand the services into the future.The role is part-time 25 hours per week and based at the Charity’s offices in St Leonards, Hastings.

The successful applicant will be committed to the ethos and values of the voluntary sector, will ideally have experience of mediation, excellent communication skills and will be experienced in the day-to-day running of the office and managing people.They will also have the skills to fundraise and generate income to ensure the security of the Charity’s future.HRMS strives to be an equal opportunities employer.

Closing date: 3rd November 2021 at 11.30 pm

Do you have excellent leadership skills, working knowledge of homelessness, housing and related issues affecting local communities and experience of managing and delivering contracts, partnerships or services? Then join Shelter as a Service Manager and you could soon be making the most of your expertise at the heart of our Sheffield Hub.

About Shelter
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.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team
Shelter Sheffield has been providing housing advice and support to the city’s residents for over 20 years. Specialising in emergency homelessness work, intensive support to children and families, people experiencing domestic abuse and people with multiple and complex needs, our multi-disciplinary team takes a holistic approach to helping people to alleviate their housing issues. This includes providing high intensity support, legal representation, practical DIY assistance, and specialist housing, employment, training, and welfare benefits advice. Our aim is to help individuals to address a range of inter-connected issues that may be impacting on their ability to sustain accommodation and thrive within the community. We currently provide frontline support to over 5,000 people a year whilst simultaneously working to improve the underlying systems that prevent people from living securely in suitable, safe, affordable accommodation. 

About the role
A new position, but not a new role, as our second Service Manager, you’ll work closely with the current one in a varied and complex role that also involves deputising for the Hub Manager when necessary. Day-to-day, you’ll lead on delivering our services, both Housing Support and Advice, and line-manage Team Leaders and designated functions while ensuring service delivery meets high quality standards and is contract compliant. We’ll also rely on you to oversee the monitoring and reporting of our work, take delegated financial responsibility and work closely with partners, commissioners and other stakeholders to ensure our services are aligned and impactful. In short, it’s a key role in linking up the national campaigning and policy work we undertake with local activity and insight and ensuring we co-produce our activities and involve people with lived experience fully in our work.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you
As well as relevant experience that includes being involved in implementing and reviewing change management, you’ll need a proven ability to lead and support staff and manage budgets and financial reports. You’ll also need the communication skills it takes to proactively develop and maintain key relationships and a flair for taking a strategic approach to developing new ones while ensuring they are aligned with local strategic priorities. A demonstrable ability to understand and apply relevant health and safety, safeguarding and data protection legislation and policy is important too, as are the analytical skills to use insight and evidence to present data, manage performance and improve services.

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

Housing Justice is looking for a talented and ambitious Marketing and Communications Manager to help us make even more of an impact on homelessness in the UK. Could that be you?

Who we are

Housing Justice is an exciting charity to work for. Our vision is of a society where everyone has access to a home that truly meets their needs – and today, the work we do is needed more than ever.

We mobilise church and community groups to take action to address homelessness and housing need, serving some of the most vulnerable people in our society. You could help us do even more.

You’ll be joining Housing Justice at an exciting time. We’re in a period of growth, delivering more projects for people experiencing homelessness and mobilising more churches and communities than ever before. Our expertise and quality services are being increasingly recognised by individual donors and grant givers.

But now, after nearly two years of the pandemic, we need to do even more to tackle homelessness in our society. That’s why we need a talented and dedicated Marketing and Communications Manager to help us articulate what we do and why donors should support us.

Could that be you? Are you the standout candidate we’re looking for?

As Marketing and Communications Manager, you will play an integral role in increasing the reach of our organisation. As the charity’s fundraiser, you will be responsible for growing our unrestricted funding – helping us deliver more life-changing work for people facing homelessness across England and Wales.

The role is predominantly remote, but you can work flexibly between home and our office based between The Oval and Vauxhall, which has reopened. The role is for 21 hours per week, but when these hours are worked is negotiable.

The Whitechapel Centre is a Liverpool based charity which provides support to people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, and / or have support needs. We offer help with building confidence, developing independent living skills and supporting people to address substance use or other health and wellbeing issues. We also help people to access social and community networks, training, education and employment.

We are looking for an exceptional Services Manager with a proven track record as a strategic leader who is able to undertake a key role in creating, building and sustaining our Vision and delivering results by empowering and supporting the people you work with.  As part of our Senior Management Team you will be responsible for the day to day operation of our Rough Sleeper and Street Lifestyle Outreach services and our substantial volunteering programme. You will also be instrumental in the development of new contracts, contract compliance, quality assurance and outcome monitoring.

With a background in a related homelessness, housing or support setting, you will have a proven track record of delivering multifaceted services to service users having a wide range of differing and complex needs.

This is a demanding, fast-paced role which will suit an experienced manager with first class planning and organisational skills, who can provide strong and directed leadership and maintain high levels of personal credibility.

Please note: we do not accept CVs without an accompanying application form.  You can request an application pack via our HumanResources mailbox. Packs can also be downloaded from our website.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm on Wednesday 27th October 2021. 

This post is subject to an Enhanced level check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

The Whitechapel Centre.  Committed to addressing discrimination and promoting equality and diversity in the provision of services and employment.

Registered Charity No 1013060

This is an exciting new role for GWT which will look to generate additional revenue from a variety of sources including grants, trusts, foundations and corporate. The postholder will help to grow and support the charity by identifying future business opportunities.

Responsiblities 

1. Researching, designing, writing and submitting detailed funding applications to support our services.
2. Securing additional income from a variety of corporate bodies including sponsorship.
3. Maintaining and strengthening relationships with existing and potential funders.
4. Contributing to the implementation of organisational and delivery projects, within the context of GWT’s Corporate Plan.

Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer

Benefits

Hybrid working – we currently work flexibly with each member of staff agreeing the best working arrangement to ensure your wellbeing. Options include home, office and remote working. If you would like to discuss further please contact Alison Clyde via our website.

Other benefits:

• 36 days annual leave allowance (includes public holidays)
• 6% employer pension contribution
• Travel expenses covered if travel is required

About us

GWT is recognised as Scotland’s national centre of excellence in the field of intergenerational practice.  Our vision is to live in a country where different generations are more connected and everyone has the opportunity to build relationships that help to create a fairer society. Our mission is to develop, expand and improve intergenerational practice.

GWT provides a range of training opportunities, a yearly programme of meetings and thematic events and a national conference. Our programme of work involves facilitating 18 local networks across Scotland, three thematic networks (Ageism, Intergenerational Housing & Research), pilot projects and active partnerships in academic research. Next year our intergenerational week campaign gets very exciting as we go global. GWT lead the campaign in partnership with country leads from Wales, England & Northern Ireland. Next year we will see another 8 countries getting involved from as close as Ireland and Spain to further afield in America, Mexico and Australia.

The charity has a strong track record in developing intergenerational work across Scotland, we have built trusting partnerships with international experts from across the globe and have recently secured core funding from the Scottish Government for the next three years. We are now in a strong position to grow with the help of a creative, ambitious and proactive Funding Bid Writer who will work alongside the CEO/Board to develop strategies and plans for significantly increasing income during the next five years.

Application notes

Please download the Job Description & Person Specification below to find out more about the role. Applications should be sent by end of day on Wednesday 3rd November 2021.

Applications will be assessed as and when they are received.

Are you an exceptional trust fundraiser with a flair for crafting the highest quality, impact driven content? Do you want to use your creative written and analytical skills to make a difference to the lives of seriously ill children? Then this is the role for you!

As Senior Philanthropy Manager, Trusts and Reporting you will be central to maximising income from charitable trusts, foundations and statutory sources, both in the UK and global markets. You will also lead high-value impact reporting to maximise major donor satisfaction and long-term engagement.

About the Team

The Senior Philanthropy Manager sits within the Philanthropy team – part of the Relationship Fundraising division within the wider Fundraising Directorate. The team focuses on securing gifts from high net-worth individuals and charitable foundations and manages a substantial high value programme. The current team of 13, including a proactive prospect research function, is set to grow to 18+ in order to deliver an ambitious new fundraising strategy. The Senior Philanthropy Manager – Trusts and Reporting will line manage the Philanthropy Manager, Trusts and Reporting.

About You

You are a first class written and verbal communicator with a talent for translating medical and academic information into compelling, donor-appropriate content. You’ll have excellent planning and strategic abilities, an eye for detail and a track record in leading complex 6-7 figure funding bids.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent knowledge of UK and global trusts, foundations and statutory grant giving market and trends.
• Strong relationship building and collaborative skills with the confidence to influence at senior level.
• Demonstrable experience of leading cross-functional project teams to deliver creative and successful proposals and bids.
• An innovative, solution-focussed approach and strong team ethic.

About the Charity

Every day brings new challenges at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Every day, over 600 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children – and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Without donations, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity can’t help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities. Our staff help to raise these vital funds for the hospital. A better future for seriously ill children starts with you.

Recently awarded with a ‘Best Companies 2-star accreditation' and placed number 17 on the 2019 Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit Companies list - we offer a range of attractive benefits including; a flexible approach to working, 30 days holiday, life assurance, enhanced employer pension contributions, and a discounted season ticket loan.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We recognise that people from some backgrounds are under-represented in our workforce and across the wider Charity sector. In April 2021 we launched our ambitious three-year EDI strategy committing to becoming a more inclusive workforce, reflecting the diverse communities that we work with and for and demonstrating this through all our areas of work.

A more diverse workforce will enable us to deliver even more impact and we particularly encourage applications from communities which are under-represented in the charity. This includes people from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority backgrounds, people with a disability, people who are LGBT+ or who are from less advantaged socioeconomic groups.

Further information on our EDI strategy can be found on our website.

Please refer to the full job description below for more information.

How to Apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete. You are encouraged to include a cover letter with your application, and should refer to the 'GOSH Charity Information Pack' on the Careers page of our website before you apply.

Closing date: 2nd November.

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Would you like to be a part of the UK’s leading education and wellbeing charity, and arguably the most recognisable and iconic of all charity brands with almost 200 years of history?

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join our team who is committed to the values of Central YMCA, has pride in their work and believes in the work we do.

Our Values

We are looking for candidates who understand and display our values in the work they do, strengthening our drive towards our purpose:

We are driven by Equity and believe everyone can thrive.

We are Brave, always striving to do the right thing.

We Nurture people to succeed.

We are Creative, adapting and evolving to tackle today’s challenge.

What we offer

Up to 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).

Flexible working

Free Gym Membership (YMCA Club)

A forward-thinking approach to EDI, built by our employees.

A true employee voice sought through effective forums, participative town halls, and regular surveys.

A real opportunity to impact change in the community.

Our Commitment to Equality

Central YMCA is open to applications from all backgrounds. We are committed to equity, acceptance, and inclusion, and provide everyone who works with us the opportunity to reach their potential.

The more diverse our workforce is, the better we become at serving all areas of society and achieving our purpose.

Our doors are open to all and if you connect with our mission, vision, and values, we welcome you to come and be part of our team.

The Role

The Finance Manager wil be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Finance function and for leading on all financial and management accounting processes. Driving the budgeting and reporting cycle, this role is key in ensuring the integrity and quality of financial performance information to support management decision making and providing the Board, Executive Team and Managers with a thorough understanding of Central YMCA’s financial performance.

The day-to-day duties will include:

1. Leadership: Provide effective leadership to the finance team on all matters relating to solid finance operations and robust future financial planning.
2. Management Accounting: Lead the process of management accounting for the Organisation.
3. Budgeting and Planning: Effective management of the organisation’s budgets and
financial performance, including financial forecast and strategic plans.
4. Treasury: Support the Charity’s cash flow management processes.
5. Statutory Reporting, Audit and Risk: Ensure effective management if statutory reporting, managing a smooth annual audit and supporting on completion of the risk
register.

About you

Wea re looking for people with the  following skills, abilities, and qualifications:

• Business related degree or other post graduate qualifications is desirable but not essencial 
• CIMA/ACCA/ACA with significant post qualification experience
• Solid experience of audit and preparation of annual financial accounts under UK GAAP or IFRS and understanding of the obligations of charity SORP
• Experience of managing the full finance function or a breadth of experience managing teams across finance disciplines
• Experience of preparing and critiquing business cases and modelling financial outcomes
• Experience of developing productive professional partnerships with key customers and stakeholders
• Knowledge and understanding of accounting systems
• Project management experience implementing new finance software solutions and/or financial budgeting and reporting processes
• Significant experience of preparation of monthly management accounts
• Experience of managing ESFA contract obligations and understanding of government funding compliance requirements
• An ability to analyse complex financial information and communicate this in easily understood formats to non-financial managers
• Ambitious, entrepreneurial, and highly professional in areas of expertise
• Have a personal reputation for a positive ‘can do’ approach, delivering results on time and to budget, in a supportive and client focussed manner

This really is a fantastic opportunity to join our team and make a real impact in the community. Interested? Click apply now and register your details.

If you require any support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to assist. 

For any individual who will be working with us, all recruitment and engagement processes will be subject to pre-employment checks (including referencing and an appropriate level of disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service).

We're looking for an experienced Fundraising Manager to generate and grow income from trusts, foundations and individual donors to support IPSEA’s work in ensuring the legal rights and entitlements of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are protected and upheld.

​IPSEA (Independent Provider of Special Education Advice) is the leading organisation providing free legally-based independent information, advice and casework support to ensure that children and young people with SEND get the education, training and support they are legally entitled to and that meets their individual needs.

We deliver our services across England, providing free one-off telephone advice and ongoing casework assistance to parents, carers and young people. 

• Our Advice Line provides legally-based next step advice on any educational issue that relates to a child or young person’s SEND, including exclusion from school, home to school transport, disability discrimination and the process for obtaining additional support. 
• On our Tribunal Helpline we give next step advice on appeals and disability discrimination claims to the SEND Tribunal.
• Through our Tribunal Support Service we provide in-depth casework support to parents, carers and young people appealing to the SEND Tribunal, including assistance with drafting appeal grounds, compiling evidence, assisting with the case management process, negotiating with local authority representatives, helping with paperwork and providing representation at the hearing. 

Our advice and support services, which assist around 5000 families per year, are delivered by a network of volunteers, trained, supervised and supported by IPSEA’s legal and volunteer teams.

As a member of IPSEA’s senior management team, the Fundraising Manager will develop and implement a trusts and foundations and individual giving fundraising strategy in line with IPSEA’s organisational strategic plan. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, creative and enthusiastic, with a minimum of three years experience in a fundraising role and experience of managing a team.