ROLE: HHA Community Fundraising & Communications Manager

HOURS: Full Time 

SALARY: £25k-£30k (depending on experience)

LOCATION: Office and home based (remote working) is acceptable within this role. HHAs office is based at: 25 Coney Hill Road, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 9BU

Hope Health Action (HHA) is a Christian NGO passionate about providing life-saving health and disability care to the world’s most vulnerable without discrimination. We work tirelessly to provide health, disability and emergency relief in Haiti, Uganda and South Sudan; empowering local partners to provide dignified and accessible care to the most vulnerable. 

HHA started in 2007 when we co-founded a hospital in Haiti that has since become one of the leading health facilities in northern Haiti, home to a maternity and neonatal unit which cares for thousands of mothers and babies every year and one of Haiti’s leading spinal cord injury rehabilitation centres. In recent years we’ve also launched in East Africa providing emergency relief to the South Sudan refugee crisis, providing life-saving aid through emergency food rations, maternal health care and disability projects. We will soon open a major new disability centre in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda. We have exciting plans to scale up our work in the coming years and are looking for an ambitious Community Fundraising & Communications Manager to join the team and help us reach these goals.

The role

We are looking for a dynamic, creative and enthusiastic Community Fundraising and Communications Manager to work alongside our Fundraising and Partnerships Manager (FPM) to help develop and manage our fundraising strategy in the coming years, paying particular attention to building our supporter base, developing new partnerships and increasing income.  We are looking for a self-motivated and ambitious individual with a genuine passion for international development. 

You will have a unique and exciting opportunity to help HHA grow and make a real and tangible impact to our beneficiaries. This includes helping to raise important funds to support the development of our partner hospital in Haiti, alongside a growing range of health, disability and emergency programmes in South Sudan and Uganda.  As a small charity, you will have direct links to our field operations, including the opportunity to regularly visit our overseas programmes and have on-going opportunities for cross-departmental learning. We are a small but passionate, friendly and close-knit team where staff are encouraged to execute creative and new ideas, working together to support each other’s efforts.

This is a busy role that will cover a diverse range of our fundraising activities and require someone with the competence and experience to manage multiple aspects of our strategy. It would be desirable for someone to have previous experience working within a small organisation/charity to understand the dynamics between providing strategic development and handling the day-to-day operations. 

The person

HHA is looking for someone with the vision and energy to develop a clear 3 year fundraising & partnership development strategy with our FPM that will build upon existing strengths of HHA and develop new, innovative ideas in a professional and effective manner. This will require someone with adaptability, creativity and strong relationship building skills, working with our Finance Manager, Country Directors, CEO and Board of Trustees to design, implement and effectively monitor a strategy. You need to be comfortable working to clear annual plans, executing these against agreed financial targets set with the CEO and reporting back.

Comms:

We’re looking for someone to bring new, creative ideas around our communications and marketing, taking the lead with our programme team in identifying strong stories, engaging news/content for our digital and print communication, including our website, emails, newsletters and social media channels, our twice annual newsletter and materials to support campaigns and events. In order for HHA to grow and fulfil our ambitious vision, inspiring and creating a strategy to engage new supporters will be a central objective for this role. 

Community Fundraising:

You’ll work with our FPM on planning and managing a range of annual events in the HHA calendar, from challenge events to galas, from concept to delivery with budget management in between. You’ll also get involved in building and empowering a volunteer team who can help implement the fundraising strategy and help oversee the diversity of activities like our schools and church fundraising activities. With support from our FPM, CEO and design agency, you’ll manage a range of dedicated campaigns and appeals with the support of our in-country team members to deliver growth across HHA’s income streams. Alongside this, you’ll manage HHA’s other fundraising platforms including GlobalGiving, JustGiving and CAF, engaging and maximising impact of HHA’s fundraisers. 

If this sounds like you, we’d love you to join our friendly and creative fundraising team to help us to raise the funds needed to continue our life-saving work to those most in need across Haiti and East Africa.

Closing date for applications is Monday 15th November 2021

We will be hosting interviews in the coming weeks as suitable applicants apply. 

Home -Start is a voluntary organisation committed to working with families to provide a quality service via our volunteers in the St Helens area.

Home-Start St Helens supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children and widen their links in the local community. Our aim is to give children from 0-19 the best possible start in life.

We are looking for a person who has knowledge of the voluntary sector, experience of managing and leading a team, the ability to control budgets and financial systems and the skills to negotiate and secure short and long term funding.

 If you understand the needs of families with young children and appreciate the difference a well-funded and expertly managed scheme can make, we would like to hear from you.

Hours of work: 36 hours a week, office based at Home-Start St Helens, Peter St Centre, Peter St, St Helens. Merseyside.WA10 2EQ

Salary: £30,451 to £33,782 (NJC Scale 26-30) contributory pension available and own car is essential, as the role requires travelling to meetings.

A car allowance of £1,239 per annum is applicable. Mileage expenses are also covered.

Holiday Entitlement is 30 days per year plus Bank Holidays

Closing date:  5pm on Friday October 22nd

Home-Start is committed to Equal Opportunities.

We will let you know if you have been shortlisted for an interview. If you do not hear from us by Friday October 29th, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

Thank you for your interest in joining our team.

Family Support and Community Manager

The workforce at Loughborough Community Centre is growing.

Our current services include: Preschool, Family Support and Holiday Play with Meals Provision.

We work with all members of the community. Parents, children and young people  (0 – 18 years) are our primary beneficiaries.

We have a rapidly developing, small and dynamic team, that deliver a range of innovative early intervention, targeted services and family support provision from our centre at Max Roach in Brixton London.

We seek a self motivated and confident individual that can apply a professional approach and has a solid grounding in Family Support and Community Work. LCC’s applies a collaborative approach to service delivery, we work closely with local partners, stakeholders and local groups in order to provide the services needed in our locality.

You will be skilled at; leading a team, engaging parents, creating links between a range of stakeholders and hands on service delivery, whilst also possessing the administrative and organisational skills to ensure all work is clearly tracked, monitored and evaluated as per our standardised online software and individual funders requirements.

You will understand the wide-ranging challenges facing children, young people, families. Being flexible in adjusting your practice and the practice of colleagues to meet these needs.

Your work within our workforce will contribute to ensuring LCCs meets its aim of providing the highest quality provision and continually strives to improve and expand its services that are vitally needed by the community.

Hours will include some out of hours, evenings and weekends. 

Lee Abbey London is looking for a new Director to manage the business interests of a hall of residence for 160 students and to lead the Christian community who run the residence.

About us

The Lee Abbey London Christian Community seeks to serve students from around the world through hospitality, outreach and service. Students can be of any nationality or faith and they study at many different colleges in London. With over 60 years’ experience of serving students and “communicating Christ through relationships”, Lee Abbey London has a strong history of ministry and service but also faces new challenges as we look to refurbish our building and renew our ministry and effectiveness for years to come, and particularly in light of the ongoing impact of the global Covid19 pandemic.

About the role

The Director should be a committed Christian, secure in and enthused about their faith in Jesus Christ. Together with the other Lee Abbey Communities, Lee Abbey London is an “Acknowledged Community” by the Church of England. While Lee Abbey is Anglican in foundation, its culture and outlook is ecumenical and welcoming.

Supported by the Board of Trustees and working with a core leadership team, the Director has overall responsibility for:

• Commercial management of a successful international student residence
• Leadership of the international and ecumenical Christian Community
• Promoting a culture of hospitality and ministry to both students and Community members.

Lee Abbey London is part of a wider network under the umbrella of the Lee Abbey Movement, sharing Christ through relationships, nationally and globally.

This position requires full membership of the Christian community at Lee Abbey London on a non-residential basis. The post is:

• Full-time
• For an initial 5-year contract (fixed term)
• With pension & benefits
• With 30 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Based in Kensington, London.

Lee Abbey London is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and adults and expects all who join our team to share this commitment.  A DBS check is required for this appointment.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a visionary leader to build on a strong foundation to expand and grow our services across Kent. 

The Kent MS Therapy Centre Charity (“KMSTC”) aims to radically improve the lives of those with Multiple Sclerosis, their families and those who care for them.

We aim to:

• Provide a range of complementary therapies and specialist clinics
• Give advice, support, and information to those living with MS, their carers and families, in an   environment which encourages mutual support and friendship
• Become a Centre of Excellence which enables self-management of the condition

JOB PURPOSE 

The Chief Executive Officer will enhance the senior leadership team at the charity. The individual will lead the delivery of our objectives for financial sustainability and improved access to services for potential members across Kent.

The existing team is highly effective operationally, and we are looking for a leader who will drive forward the positive culture within KMSTC: which is defined by a passion to support the members and a desire to learn. 

Applicants will need a blend of strategic and commercial experience, as well as the ability to oversee the day-to-day operational challenges of running a busy centre to meet member satisfaction targets. 

The CEO will work closely with the board of trustees to develop and implement the centre’s long-term strategy.

In addition, the CEO will play an important part in income-generation activities, building the centre’s wider public reputation and in forming relationships with key strategic partners.

See attachment for more detail on main duties and responsibilities. 

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE 

• Demonstrable experience of leading a similar service-oriented organisation. 
• Evidence of significant personal success in developing and delivering fundraising initiatives.  
• Ability to think strategically, be flexible and to organise and prioritise a complex workload with tight deadlines and budgets. 
• Ability to identify future strategies and translate into operational plans. 
• Strategic financial knowledge, including budgeting, forecasting and review. 
• Ability to develop a team, drive performance, and improve quality. 
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Excellent communication skills, in writing and in public presentations. 
• The ability to work autonomously within an agreed framework of accountability. 
• Competent IT skills and the ability to complete administrative tasks related to the role. 
• Good employment law knowledge to enable the right people decisions to be made. 
• Understanding of legal requirements and principles of good practice in the management and governance of charities. 
• Experience of stakeholder management. 

You are very welcome to contact the reception team at the Centre to arrange a visit in advance of making your application. 

RECRUITMENT PROCESS 

1. Applications will be longlisted against the best fit to the criteria in the job description.
2. Longlisted candidates will be invited to an informal video interview with the Chair of Trustees.
3. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to meet the existing team, interview in person and prepare a short presentation for a panel of Trustees.
4. Interviews will be held in November (date tbc). 
5. Start date Q1 2022. 

We are looking to add an enthusiastic fundraiser to our Communications and Fundraising Team. Someone who is passionate about raising funds to see the Great Commission fulfilled, and who understands the vital importance of prayer and financial support in mission. This is a new role, building on work that has been already carried out across the staff team since 2019, as we seek to implement our fundraising strategy.

Taking primary responsibility for connecting with existing donors, this person will be a good listener, ready to engage well with our supporters and develop relationships. They will also take an active role in generating ideas to creatively reach new audiences, utilising our active social media platforms and website.

As well as communicating with our supporter database, they will build on existing funding from trusts. As they seek to develop more relationships with trusts and foundations, they will have responsibility for researching appropriate opportunities and completing trust applications.

With scope to develop and shape the role, intially the Fundraising Officer will work alongside the Communications Director to formulate reports for the Leadership Team and the Board of Trustees. Increasingly the Fundraising Officer will take greater responsibility for these reports as well as for coordinating and monitoring fundraising activity across the staff team. As such they will need to be able to encourage and ethuse others about fundraising tasks and communicate financial needs clearly and persuasively.

Do you have experience of working at a senior level in independent and/or boarding schools and share our passion for the role that those schools can play in lifting the life chances of some of the UK’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable children? 

We secure fully-funded bursaries for children facing complex circumstances and adversity to attend leading schools.  So far our movement incorporates 120 of the UK’s boarding schools – all of whom are now firmly committed to ensuring that their bursary places are targeted at those who most deserve the opportunities. We are looking for a new Director of Schools Engagement to join our senior team and help to expand our network to include independent day, as well as boarding, schools, and help oversee our programmes to identify and match young people to the available bursary placements that best suit their needs and interests. 

Through ‘transformational’ (110%) bursary places (in which the fees and all extras are paid) we work to provide young people from low-income and at-risk families with the opportunities to study in the safe  and supportive environments that boarding and independent day schools offer. Raising aspirations and ambition and in so doing creating a sustained a ripple effect on social mobility in some of the hardest-to-reach communities in the UK.

We are at an important moment in the evolution of the charity: now placing upwards of 110 children and young people in new fully-funded boarding placements each year;  expanding our portfolio of partner schools to include day placements from 2022, and extending our remit to include also supporting partner schools to target outreach and partnerships activities for the benefit of the most vulnerable in society.

You will lead our work to secure greater investment by schools in bursary and outreach provision: growing the network of partner schools deeply committed to prioritising their bursary schemes for the most marginalised and vulnerable young people, ensuring that all SpringBoard bursary placements provide children and young people with the conditions in which they will thrive, using the insights from our work to unlock more places and build support for the role of boarding and independent schools in social mobility and raising attainment of children facing challenging circumstances, and overseeing the expansion of our remit to include support for independent and boarding schools seeking to better target their ‘outreach’ and partnerships work for the benefit of the most vulnerable.

Are you an experienced administrator, who enjoys working as part of a small team, and serving others?  We have the perfect opportunity for you to join our team, to provide administrative support to the Board of Trustees and Senior Leadership Team. 

As a successful applicant, you will provide administration and communication support via telephone, email and in person.  Your responsibilities will include communicating on behalf of team members; diary management; board meeting administration and coordinating travel arrangements, where required. 

To excel, you will need to be confident in building and maintaining relationships with those at all levels and will have a degree of flexibility.  Where required you may be asked to carry out project work or research as agreed with the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Operating Officer.  

You will be joining a registered Christian charity based in Oxford, with a collaborative working culture and welcoming atmosphere. We are a small, dynamic team going through an exciting period of transformation and development.

The key skills, qualifications, and competencies that we are looking for are outlined below (a more detailed list is included in the job description):

• Extensive and proven experience within an administrative role supporting senior staff including diary management, coordinating meetings, and arranging logistics.
• Significant experience in an office environment.
• High standard of literacy and written communication, with a high level of attention to detail.
• Experience of using standard office IT systems (Microsoft Office Suite).
• A team player with the ability to take initiative and work with minimal supervision, both independently and as part of a small team.
• Able to use a proactive, problem-solving approach to resolving issues where they arise.
• Highest levels of discretion, integrity and honesty.
• An active Christian that also identifies with the Charity’s statement of faith and whose conduct is in line with the complete authority of the Word of God.

Please note: as a result of our Christian ethos, this post is covered by a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) under the Equality Act 2010. The successful applicant will be expected to be a practicing Christian with a mature faith and to clearly demonstrate a personal commitment to the statement of faith and values, as well as the mission, principles and practices of the charity.

You will also need to provide proof of your right to work in the UK as part of the application process.

Closing date: 11th November (Please note that we reserve the right to close the advertisement early should sufficient applications of suitable quality be received before this date)

• Lead the strategic development of the Foodbank in association with Board of Trustees
• Inspire, motivate and engage the staff & volunteer team 
• Ensure effective operations and delivery of services to clients 
• Manage and develop stakeholder relationships 
• Identify & secure funding opportunities 
• Develop and assure marketing & communications
• Ensure health & safety, safeguarding and quality assurance throughout operation
• Develop volunteer roles to ensure sustainability
• Lead on developing and ensuring accessibility
• Develop effective partnerships that ensure that clients are referred appropriately and supported out of food poverty
• Support the development of new warehouse provision

Working primarily from home, but with an active presence throughout our operations (warehouse, distribution centres); it is expected you will be located in or near the St Albans District.

30 hrs /wk (with occasional evening & weekend working). Reporting directly to the Board of Trustees. 

Clinical Director – Executive Team

Regional & national role based in Exeter

Permanent, part time (0.5–0.6 FTE)

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about creating a more equitable health and care system? Do you share our belief that innovation has the potential to improve health equity? We’re looking for a clinical leader with experience leading improvement and change to join our Executive Team.

Our appointed Clinical Director will be a member of our Executive Team and report to our Chief Executive Officer. They will be responsible for clinical leadership and oversight across our portfolio of work focused on the adoption and spread of innovation to improve health equity. They will sit on our Board and bring clinical expertise to our Board and Executive Team.

If you are committed to improving health equity, have knowledge of clinical improvements and change methodologies, and are able to build trusted relationships with clinical and operational stakeholders of all levels, please see our website for a full job pack, and details of how to apply.

The organisation:

The South West Academic Health Science Network (South West AHSN) is one of 15 AHSNs in England, established by NHS England in 2013 to identify and spread innovative practice to improve population health and generate economic growth. Based in Exeter and working across Devon, Somerset, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, we support the health and care system to identify and adopt innovation, build the capability to innovate and evaluate the impact of improvements. We focus our efforts on improving health equity – identifying and spreading innovative practice that helps close health equity gaps in access to care, quality of care and individual opportunity for a healthy life.

We are a regional organisation with a national reach. Working in collaboration with the AHSN Network, our work transforms lives through health innovation and plays a critical role in supporting the health and care sector across England. The combined work of the AHSN Network has benefited over 258,000 people and leveraged over £462m of investment into the health and life science sector.

For example, in the last year our work has enabled 100% of Clinical Commissioning Groups in England to launch the national COVID Oximetry @home model of care and helped our partners to support 2,339 children to receive objective ADHD assessments.

Applications

We are working hard to ensure we recruit great people and minimise unconscious bias in our selection process. To support us to do so we use the Applied recruitment platform, which anonymises applicants.

If you’d like to know more about the role or selection process, or to arrange an informal conversation with Jon Siddall (Chief Executive Officer), please contact Sam Horne, HR Advisor.

Please see our website for a full job pack, and details of how to apply.

Closing date for applications is: 9am on 8 November 2021

Help us shape the future of Manchester for children and young people.

We are looking for an ambitious and passionate new member of the team to help Young Manchester grow in the coming months.

You will have a passion for children and young people and will be ambitious, creative and organized, with some experience of administration tasks – but you don’t need to have experience in the charity sector or formal qualifications.

The successful applicant will support a range of activity across the charity, with the opportunity to gain experience in a range of areas and develop and grow with the charity, supported by an experienced team and a range of training and support.

There is ample scope for the right applicant to develop this post and be part of an exciting new chapter for Young Manchester.

The Alternative Provider Federation is seeking an experienced Executive Chairperson who will represent it at the ICB Board and promote the development of social enterprise and charitable providers in Greater Manchester.

This is a critical role, acting both as the ‘glue’ for the partnership but also creating a dialogue between the Alternative Provider Federation and the ICB Board. 

The Alternative Provider Federation is effectively the new provider arm of the Greater Manchester VCSE Leadership Group and has been endorsed by the GM Integrated Care System (ICS) Transition Board.

This role is being funded via the Leadership Group as part of the work to deliver the GM Accord – an agreement between the VCSE sector, GMCA and the HSCP / ICS.

You will be employed by the 10GM partnership of local infrastructure organisations, who are founder members of the GM VCSE Leadership Group.

The main responsibilities of this role are:

• To represent the Alternative Providers at the Integrated Care Board and other meetings as required
• To ensure that social enterprise and charitable providers in GM are supported to develop and grow
• To ensure the flexibility and creativity of members of the Alternative Provider Federation are utilised to maximise their contribution to the ICS in the reduction of health inequalities in GM
• To act as a spokesperson for the Federation
• To work closely with the project manager to support members, facilitate collaborations and ensure shared values and the highest standards of probity
• To report back to the GM VCSE Leadership Group on a quarterly basis

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) provides: leadership and day-to-day operational management; organisational strategic development; builds relationships with key organisatins and delivers accountability to funders. The CEO leads HAD in all operational activity, whilst supporting HAD’s Board of Trustees in all strategic areas, to ensure that HAD’s aims and mission are accomplished.

Main responsibilities

1. To provide overall leadership, management and forward planning for the organisation and make sure it operates in line with the principles of the Social Model of Disability.

2. To ensure that HAD is perceived as a leader in disability equality, with all activity con- ducted with integrity and in line with good equality practice.

3. To employ and manage staff with appropriate skills to enable the charity to develop, meet and represent the needs of Disabled people.

4. To implement and update appropriate policies and procedures relating to human re- sources, health and safety, equal opportunities, financial management and any other related matters.

5. To actively ensure that HAD remains financially sustainable.

6. To monitor the charity’s performance and provide the Board and funders with regular reports and information to enable effective decision making and planning.

7. To ensure that HAD’s operational activity is maintained to a high standard, with all HAD’s current services provide excellent outcomes for clients, and are delivered to high standards.

8. To develop the strategic direction of the charity with the aim of enabling it to exist independently of grant funding by increasing its income from trading activities.

9. To maintain and extend the excellent partnership work for HAD locally, regionally, and where appropriate, nationally.

10. To ensure HAD’s compliance with all relevant quality marks, service standards and other legal or good practice requirements.

11. To ensure that all day to day operations are maintained to a high standard.

12. To enable HAD (members, staff, Trustees, volunteers and other stakeholders) to re- view, own and work towards agreed goals.

13. Work with the Chair to make sure the organisation trades legally and meets all of its statutory obligations.

14. To lead by example in terms of good work ethics, such as reliability, timekeeping, hon- esty etc.

Full or part time; 28–35 hours per week

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as our Governance Coordinator, responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the Board of Trustees’ work.

In this role, you will provide robust and efficient governance support and advice, as well as coordinate and support the formal governance functions of UNICEF UK. These include the Board of Trustees meetings, the Audit & Risk Committee, and the other committee and governance-level working groups in which Trustees are involved. You will help to ensure the highest standards of governance are upheld and that UNICEF UK fulfils its legal and regulatory obligations. In addition, you will work closely with Executive Team to proactively support and coordinate their contributions to governance activities.

Our successful candidate will have experience in supporting the work of Boards of Trustees or governance committees and, preferably, of coordinating the entire governance function. You will have proven experience in planning or project management, as well as an understanding of good governance and best practice in the charity sector.

Closing date: 11:59pm, Sunday 24 October 2021.

Interview date: Thursday 4 November via video conferencing.

We are normally based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London but while our office is closed, this role will work from home or from wherever makes you happy.We are expecting to move to a hybrid approach (part home/part office based) when our office reopens.

We particularly welcome applications from LGBTQ+ candidates, disabled candidates, and from men, because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at this level at Unicef UK. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for children.

UNICEF UK promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

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.

The successful candidate will be required to apply for a criminal records check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.

We only accept online applications as this saves us money, making more funds available for us to help ensure children’s rights.

If you require support in completing the online form or an application form in an alternative format, please contact the Supporter Care line during office hours.

If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates.

Registered Charity Nos. 1072612 (England and Wales) SC043677 (Scotland)