Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Charity (GSTC) and Battersea Power Station Foundation (BPSF) have awarded Oasis Hub Waterloo further funding for an exciting multi-year programme of work to tackle childhood obesity in a neighbourhood within the London Borough of Lambeth and Southwark through the Waterloo Neighbourhood Scheme.
To help us achieve our next set of ambitious goals, we are looking for two skilled, adaptable and committed Project Managers, to work alongside the Project Director and other dedicated Hub staff, who can work with a range of partners and professionals to trail-blaze a community led approach to increase healthy-weight by creating health enhancing, protective or habit disruptive - home, street and school environments.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Planning and delivering interrelated projects that deliver impact within agreed timescales, directed by the evidence base and the local context to create sustainable changes to the local food and physical environments.
- Support the development of a community movement which prioritises children’s health - through improving or creating local spaces children and families spend their time in.
- Working closely with the project evaluation partner provide data when required for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
- Commitment to Oasis’ ethos and joining in with the wider work of the Hub to make a difference to the lives of others.
To be successful you will have:
- Experience of managing competing demands, projects, budgets, evaluation and staff.
- Experience of building relationships with a variety of stakeholders across different organisations/sectors – particularly education professionals, businesses, school communities, especially parents and young people.
- Ability to take the lead and work independently as well as collaborate for success.
- The ability to overcome challenges and be solution focussed.
- Relevant qualifications (e.g. community development, health, education) or are able to demonstrate qualification by experience.
We expect all staff to share our commitment to safeguarding children and young people and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
Interviews will be held on Friday 7th February 2020, in London Waterloo with a potential follow up interview booked during w/c 10th February 2020.
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Mummy’s Star has been providing support to women and their families diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or within a year of a birth since 2013 and operates across the UK and Ireland. To date the charity has supported over 800 families
We are now at the exciting stage where we are looking to recruit a Fundraising Manager to support our work.
For this home-based role, the successful candidate will focus on specific fundraising areas identified in the fundraising strategy. Highly motivated, skilled and resourceful, they will have management skills, influencing abilities and a proven track record of delivery across the fundraising mix including corporate partnerships, trusts and grants and managing high value relationships.
Above all, they will be a creative thinker who can translate ideas into action, whilst demonstrating a strategic and proactive approach to researching, targeting and recruiting donors/supporters.
The post-holder is expected to contribute to Mummy’s Star-wide initiatives and development activities at a senior level. Within the small team all staff are expected to work in a flexible way and tasks that have not been covered in the job description may have to be undertaken. Time off in lieu is given for additional hours worked in line with our staff handbook policies.
Post holder will have good IT skills, including Word, Excel and be confident and competent with the internet, social networking sites and email. Travel will be required, therefore driving and having your own car would be preferential but is not essential.
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