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Bring joy, comfort and connection to thousands – and help pets change lives.
At Pets As Therapy, we believe in the power of pets to bring moments of magic. Every day, our 5,500+ volunteers and their companion animals visit schools, hospitals, care homes and more – boosting confidence, reducing anxiety and spreading smiles. Now, we’re looking for a passionate Fundraising Officer to help us grow this life-enhancing work.
In this varied and rewarding role, you’ll support and deliver fundraising initiatives across individual giving, community fundraising, trusts and foundations, and corporate partnerships. You’ll help build meaningful supporter relationships, craft compelling communications, and bring our fundraising campaigns to life.
We’re looking for someone who:
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Has a proven track record in charity fundraising
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Communicates with warmth and impact
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Thrives on juggling priorities and driving projects forward
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Shares our love for animals and their ability to connect and comfort
This is a home-based, full-time, permanent role, with occasional travel to our head office and events.
Salary: circa £30,000, depending on experience.
Whether you’re seeking your next challenge or looking to step up in a growing and mission-driven organisation, this could be the perfect opportunity.
Apply now and help us make a difference — one paw at a time.
This role delivers a range of dynamic and engaging financial education programmes to young people, adults, and professionals. As part of our Programmes and Delivery Directorate, our Trainers love working with our participants; they’re the front line of our work, representing Money Ready’s exceptional programme quality in a range of settings.
This role will work with both children and adults across our programme suite and will require significant travel to our delivery locations throughout the area to deliver face-to-face sessions to diverse groups of learners. Occasional virtual sessions will also need to be delivered. All delivery-related travel is covered by a London TfL travel card, provided by Money Ready.
We are proud of the quality of trainers we hire, and we have a good mix of people, including former primary and secondary teachers and youth workers. You will be joining an excellent team in London who know their stuff, so there will be ample opportunity for you to learn and to provide feedback on where our programmes might improve. You do not need to be an existing expert on financial education; we will train you on everything you need to know.
Key responsibilities
Programme Delivery
- Deliver Money Ready’s suite of programmes in a variety of settings to support the delivery of our business plan and the Programme and Delivery Directorate’s Delivery Plan.
- Deliver to the Money Ready education and accreditation framework, ensuring learners have an excellent shot at achieving the programme accreditation.
- Adapting your delivery to meet the needs and learning requirements of diverse participants, often thinking on your feet and adapting to what is happening in the room.
- Completion of all Money Ready processes that surround our delivery work.
- Investing your time in your own development by learning from your colleagues and finessing your delivery craft. This will include participating in our internal training offer.
Programme Development
- Using your insight and experience to help support changes to our current programmes in a structured and thoughtful way, for example, through developing content.
- Support Money Ready in engaging with learners to help develop our programmes as we move the organisation into a co-creation mindset.
- Take ownership of programme adaptation and development, considering the differing needs of delivery across the country and allowing diversity of thought to thrive.
- Support Money Ready in innovating into new programme areas that help deliver our mission.
- Build relationships with delivery partners across your patch.
- Proactively identify new opportunities where we can deliver our programmes or grow our work in a different way. Initial focus on our courses catering to vulnerable young adults.
- Be the best ambassador for our work to all external stakeholders including young people, delivery partners, politicians, funders, the press, the wider education community, local authorities and so on.
External relations
- Build relationships with delivery partners across your patch.
- Proactively identify new opportunities where we can deliver our programmes or grow our work in a different way. Initial focus on our courses catering to vulnerable young adults.
- Be the best ambassador for our work to all external stakeholders, including young people, delivery partners, politicians, funders, the press, the wider education community, local authorities and so on.
Working across Money Ready
- Work with colleagues across the country as we continue to develop and grow the organisation.
- Contribute to areas of the organisation that are ‘outside’ your immediate focus, acting as trusted counsel to those in roles or teams that are different to yours.
- Embed yourself into the organisation, recognising that our strategy and business plan are yours to deliver and that our culture is shaped with you and by you.
Money Ready is committed to equality, effective diversity management, and fostering an inclusive workplace culture.
See the full Programme Trainer job pack for further details. Please ensure your CV is accompanied with a cover letter.
We bring the language of finance to life so that everyone can navigate their money with confidence, no matter where they start.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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- Drive a climate action movement influencing institutional investors
- Support interconnected organisations to create powerful change
- Remote in Europe - United Kingdom, France, Brussels, or Germany preferred
The Sunrise Project
The Sunrise Project is a global network of independent organisations, that has adopted a unique model of combined strategic grant-making and campaigning, with a common mission to scale social movements to drive the energy transition beyond fossil fuels.
The Sunrise Organising Labs (SOL) is Sunrise's movement-building engine, powering all global programs to scale power in service of our goals while also nurturing long-term ecosystem development. SOL equips our teams and partners to map power, recruit influential constituencies, and build organising capability. SOL also informs and strengthens partnerships and grantmaking: analysing ecosystem capacity and designing targeted interventions to strengthen it. By investing in recruitment, leadership, collaboration, and learning, SOL ensures our movement is equipped, connected, and resourced to win systemic reforms.
Benefits & Culture
Sunrise has a dynamic and nimble organizational culture that supports its people to thrive, believing that diversity of experiences and perspectives builds stronger strategies, teams, and movements. The following benefits are in place to help achieve that;
- Generous package in line with experience and with international expectations
- Liberal annual, parental, birthday, solidarity, and cultural leave
- Commitment to professional development planning
- Coaching, performance reviews & management feedback
- Intermittent travel with advance notice may be required
Indicative salary ranges: £79,230 - £82,277 (UK); €92,376 - €97,850 (France); €120,000 - €124,062 (Germany)
The Role
This role serves as the strategic lead of the European ecosystem, including the UK, overseeing strategies to ensure this powerful movement is growing, is supported, and is being nurtured across communities, countries, leveraging and building power with key actors.
This role understands the nuance of targeted campaigns, how to win them, the context of the big picture, and then designs strategies to intersect the short and long term to build actionable plans for maximum impact.
Working collaboratively across Europe and globally, you will lead the development and implementation of Europe's movement strategy – understanding our campaigns, leading power mapping, understanding constituency and context needs, running experiments, and distributing grants. You will create and recruit new partnerships and groups from new and diverse constituencies, growing their skills and capacities.
Skills Required
You don’t need experience in fossil finance or climate – you can be a leader in your own field of environmental or social justice, such as trade unions, faith or youth groups, community organisations, worker bodies, etc. You’re a strategic, experienced, and collaborative campaign leader and relational organiser, with a passion for winning campaigns and growing regional movements. You have a nuanced understanding of how systemic change happens and can take a long-term view of power and power building in order to deliver short term wins. Your career includes creative corporate and political regional and local campaigns, including winning or iterating on campaigns through diverse stakeholder strategies.
You enjoy working across the political spectrum, or different theories of change, and understand what it takes to build trust, nurture creativity and unleash the potential of individuals and groups. You are adaptive, flexible, and respectful and highly self-driven. You definitely have the following:
- Demonstrated experience building a movement or organisation which has influenced systemic change
- Leadership experience in a similar role and an understanding of the European political landscape
- Project management, training, facilitation, and coaching expertise
- Demonstrated experience in organising and developing leaders in constituency-based organisations
- Strong and evidenced relationships with European power building organisations and other influential groups
- Your own working rights for your European location
If you meet all or some of the requirements, or are unsure, please submit an expression of interest as The Sunrise Project values diversity and recognizes lived experience. Your expression of interest should include a cover letter, responding to the skills required above, and a resume. Please quote #1352163. Alternatively, contact Lois Freeke from NGO Recruitment in Melbourne, Australia to request a full information pack at: +61 (0) 3 8080 8978.
We're looking for a kind, compassionate, and resilient Customer Service Manager to join our Customer Service team located at our Head Office in Islington and provide maternity cover.
£40,800.00 per annum, working 35 hours per week.
Our benefits include:
- Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
- Free DBS
- Exclusive discounts and cashback via Reward Gateway® and opportunity to buy a Blue Light Card
- Fully paid induction programme and further training
- ILM courses and Apprenticeship Programmes
- Healthcare Cashplan through our partner Healthshield
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme for 24-7 confidential support
- Online wellbeing resources
- A generous pension - we will contribute up to 4% and life assurance cover up to £10,000 (T&Cs apply)
- Quarterly Staff Awards to reward & recognise our amazing staff's commitment and contribution
Want to feel like you're part of one team? You'll feel at home here.
Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.
This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation.
This is maternity cover from June 2025 for 12 months.
This role involves hybrid working with 1-2 days in our Head Office in Islington.
For a full job description, please visit our website.
About us:
Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 100 services, providing support to thousands of customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness and complex needs, young people and care leavers and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.
We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:
- We focus on Excellence and innovation.
- We are Caring and Compassionate.
- We are Inclusive and Trusted.
- We work in Partnership and are One-Team.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.
A national disability charity is seeking an experienced and creative Supporter Retention Manager to strengthen loyalty and deepen engagement across its warm supporter base.
This is a unique opportunity to lead and grow a multi-channel retention and cross-sell programme that ensures supporters feel connected, inspired and valued — helping to maximise long-term support for a vital cause.
Location: Hybrid – Home-based initially, moving to Central London (once office is secured)
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum
Closing date: 4th July 2025
About the Role:
Reporting to the Head of Individual Giving and Legacies, the Supporter Retention Manager will lead warm supporter campaigns across direct mail, telemarketing, digital, legacy and gaming channels. You’ll craft compelling communications, manage agency partners, and use audience insight to develop impactful supporter journeys.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and deliver retention and cross-sell campaigns across multiple channels
- Lead warm direct marketing and telemarketing campaigns
- Drive supporter journeys and loyalty-building initiatives
- Write persuasive and inspiring fundraising copy
- Use data and insights to refine segmentation and optimise performance
- Manage relationships with external agencies to deliver high-quality campaigns
About You:
- Proven experience in supporter or donor retention across multiple channels
- Strong skills in copywriting, campaign management, and data-led strategy
- Confident in using CRM systems and digital tools to enhance engagement
- Experience with legacy marketing or gaming products is desirable
- A collaborative, proactive, and flexible team player
- Passionate about driving positive change in the disability sector
The role will be home-based initially, with plans to move to a hybrid arrangement once a new Central London office is secured.
Please note: Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis, and the vacancy may close early if sufficient suitable applications are received. Early application is strongly encouraged.
To apply, please submit your CV and a short covering statement outlining your interest in the role and your relevant experience.
For a full job description and details on how to apply, please contact Hannah at Harris Hill on
Please note, due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion
Harris Hill is a certified B Corp™ and a leading charity recruitment agency, committed to equitable and inclusive recruitment practices. Applications from all sections of the community are actively welcomed, regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality, or other protected characteristics.
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The Talent Set are delighted to be partnering with Asthma + Lung UK to recruit an Individual Giving Manager, leading on the retention of existing supporters and working across regular giving, lottery, cash appeals, and the charity’s online shop.
The successful candidate will deliver and grow a multichannel retention programme to improve supporter loyalty and increase lifetime value. With a strong focus on digital, this role will also use direct mail, SMS and telemarketing to deliver insight-led, personalised supporter journeys alongside a skilled and ambitious team.
Key duties include:
- Lead on the planning, delivery and evaluation of retention campaigns across digital, mail, SMS and phone, driving growth in income and engagement
- Deliver a high-performing mid-value donor programme
- Oversee the development of integrated, long-term journeys for new and existing supporters, in partnership with the IG Manager (Acquisition)
- Manage the online shop, including stock control, fulfilment and platform optimisation
- Build strong relationships with external suppliers and internal teams to ensure campaigns are effective, innovative and on-brand
- Report monthly on income and expenditure, finding opportunities to maximise ROI through reinvestment
- Foster a culture of testing, learning and innovation across the programme
- Line manage and develop the Individual Giving Officer
We’re looking for the following skills and experience for this role:
- Experience and confidence in delivering integrated direct marketing campaigns, both digital and offline, and has a strong understanding of data-led supporter engagement.
- Demonstrable experience of delivering retention and stewardship programmes across multiple channels
- Excellent project management skills, with the ability to lead on campaign planning, budgeting and analysis
- Experience in managing external suppliers and creative agencies
- A collaborative approach, with strong communication skills and stakeholder management experience
- Experience in line managing or mentoring junior team members
To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible. Regrettably, please note we may not be able to reply to every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
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We are delighted to be working with a leading youth charity that has been changing the lives and futures of young people for more than 50 years. Their services now allow them to reach over 14,000 young people a year, yet despite this the need for their services continues to grow.
This is a brilliant opportunity for an innovative major donor fundraiser to lead a team of 3 at this incredible youth charity. As Senior Philanthropy Manager, you will be responsible for an income stream of £1.3million with a view to, and the potential to, double income over the next few years. Philanthropy has been identified as a key growth area and is getting the investment and buy-in from senior stakeholders and the wider charity. The team have also recently conducted a wealth screening exercise which has identified numerous opportunities for the team to explore. This is an exciting role for someone who is ambitious, creative and keen to make a significant impact on the shape and growth of a high value programme.
The Role:
- The Senior Philanthropy Manager will lead the philanthropy programme, inspiring and developing a team of 3 to deliver income in excess of £1.3million annually
- Develop and implement a philanthropic giving strategy with a focus on retaining, uplifting and recruiting gifts from high-net-worth donors
- Take responsibility for developing the major donor pipeline and drive forward new business opportunities to achieve sustainable income growth over the next 3 years
- Personally steward a portfolio of donors and prospects at the 6-figure level, with ambitions to build relationships with individuals with capacity to give 7-figure donations
About You:
- Proven experience at managing a philanthropy programme with demonstrable success at growing income
- Significant pipeline development experience and ability to effectively engage with prospects and lapsed donors
- Strong relationship management skills to engage with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels
- Experience managing direct reports to support them in their own development and enabling them to thrive in their roles
Applications are being taken on a rolling basis.
To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
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The Childhood Trust is London's child poverty charity. We are dedicated to creating opportunities and brighter futures for the 700,000 children growing up in poverty in London. While we work to alleviate today’s impact of poverty, we support children and families to build pathways to become happier, healthier, safer and more resilient, breaking the cycles of inequity. Listening to and engaging with young people who have experience of living in poverty, is critical to ensuring our efforts truly reflect their needs and aspirations.
As a grant-making charity, we award funding to charities actively supporting children in poverty across the capital. This funding is made possible thanks to the partnerships we build with corporate organisations, other trusts and foundations, philanthropic individuals and families, and public donations.
As Head of Corporate Partnerships, you will be responsible for delivering and growing voluntary income from The Childhood Trust’s Corporate and Commercial partnerships. Directly managing our two Corporate Partnerships Managers, you will develop strategic partnerships, secure funding, and cultivate relationships that fuel our mission.
We are looking for someone with the skills and experience to develop and execute a comprehensive Corporate Partnerships fundraising strategy aimed at driving significant growth in both new and existing partnerships. As well as lead the team in creating and implementing new stewardship initiatives and robust development plans that maximise partnership value and company engagement, aligning with both partner and organisational strategic objectives.
Our organisation takes pride in offering key benefits such as flexible working arrangements, 25 days annual leave per year and enhanced maternity provisions. We are also deeply committed to the development and growth of our staff, providing opportunities to enhance skills and achieve career goals. Plus, you’ll be joining a dedicated and passionate team that truly makes a difference.
We will be holding interviews week commencing 4th August 2025.
Apply by submitting a CV with a cover statement (maximum 2-sides) through the quick apply function on Charity Jobs.
Your application must address the following:
- What motivates you to work at The Childhood Trust, why are you passionate about this role and how your values align with ours.
- How your experience, skills and knowledge demonstrate your ability to succeed in this role. We are looking for specific and succinct examples in line with the job description and person specification.
This role is an Account Management and New Business split and would suit someone with great communications skills, who is bursting with energy and creativity, and unafraid to try new approaches. We foster an environment where it is ok to make mistakes, be creative and try new things so that we can bring our prospects and partners the best opportunities to grow.
In this role you will:
- Build and manage a fast paced and highly effective new business pipeline for opportunities within a 25-150k threshold
- Prospect, engage, pitch and win new business opportunities with high value corporates at a partnership value between 25-150k
- Manage, steward and relationship build with our current partners to ensure partnership uplift
- Work with project teams to collate accurate reporting and impact data for the partnership accounts you manage and look for impact opportunities for your pipeline prospects
- Collaborate with teams across Carers Trust to build pitch decks, proposal toolkits and engagement tools for the corporate team to deliver to partners and prospects
- Work with the Corporate Manager and Head of Corporate to sell and scale our new employability offer to corporate prospects
Our ideal candidate:
- Will have a good track record of securing new business opportunities in a charity or sales role
- Will have experience in account managing relationships
- Strong interpersonal and pitch building skills
- Capacity to take initiative and identify opportunities
- Financial literacy sufficient to present project budgets and corporate partnership costings
- Self-motivation with enthusiasm for working flexibly as part of a team
Download the attached documents to find out more about the role and the perks for working at Carers Trust.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Prospectus is pleased to be partnering with our client to appoint their new Trusts, Foundations Manager. Championing new ideas in contemporary art since 1970, the gallery has presented pioneering exhibitions for half a century from a wide range of emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists of our time.
This is a full-time, permanent role paying a salary of £34,000 - £37,500 per annum and the postholder will be working in a hybrid model from their offices in London.
The Trusts, and Foundations Manager will be responsible for preparing applications to trusts, foundations, statutory funders and cultural institutes in line with agreed priorities and strategy. Reporting to the Head of Trusts, Foundations & Government, you will deliver in collaboration the trust fundraising strategy and identify and research opportunities to build active pipelines of new trust prospects for Serpentine projects.
The selected candidate will have a demonstrable track record of securing grants from trusts, foundations and other grant-making bodies and will have extensive experience of developing grant funding bids, evaluation reports and project budgets. You will have outstanding ability to write compelling and concise grant fundraising materials drawing upon diverse forms of information and data.
If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application then please contact Ariha Semontee at Prospectus.
If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application. In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to speaking with you soon.
Management Accountant
Salary: circa £55,000
Permanent, Hybrid working
Hybrid working 2 days a week in Central London office
Join one of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions as a Management Accountant. This world-renowned arts organisation is at the forefront of the creative and cultural sector championing artistic innovation, collaborating with global talent, and delivering boundary-pushing public programmes.
Reporting to the Head of FP&A, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality management information, budgeting support, and performance analysis that enables senior leaders to make confident, informed decisions.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an astute finance professional to step into a high-impact role, contributing directly to the financial health and sustainability of a globally respected creative organisation.
Key responsibilities:
- Support the production of monthly management accounts with insightful variance analysis and commentary
- Assist in delivering timely and accurate budgets and reforecasts across a diverse range of departments
- Develop and maintain financial models to support planning and decision-making
- Partner with key budget holders, offering financial insight and challenge to support effective performance management
- Contribute to the evolution of dashboard reporting and the integration of non-financial KPIs
- Play a hands-on role in enhancing reporting processes, controls, and reconciliation of restricted and project-based funds
- Provide ad hoc analysis to support senior stakeholders and strategic initiatives
About you:
- You’re a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- You’ve got solid experience in management accounting and budgeting, ideally in a complex or project-based environment
- You’re analytically strong, systems-savvy, and confident building models and drawing meaningful insight from financial data
- You enjoy business partnering, communicating financial concepts clearly and building trusted relationships across teams
- You’re proactive, adaptable, and driven by purpose you want your work to have a meaningful impact
We welcome applications from all sectors—including industry, charity, and practice. What matters most is your ability to bring financial insight and business acumen.
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Job description – Cara Funding and Communications Manager
This is a critical time to join our dedicated team as we expand our work in response to the growing risk to academics and universities worldwide. Building on our 93 years of experience and partnerships with 135 UK university, this role provides an excellent opportunity for a dynamic fundraiser to grow our support from individual and organisations.
Line Manager: Chief Executive
Objective: The Funding and Communications Manger leads on the delivery of our fundraising strategy to diversify and grow Cara’s income streams.
Hours: Full-time. Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm.
Location: Hybrid working - in London office in Elephant and Castle SE1 (2-3 set days per week) and working from home on the remaining days.
Role purpose - responsible for executing fundraising strategy to generate increased income for Cara’s work - identify and cultivate potential donors, manage fundraising events and campaigns, and ensure compliance with fundraising regulations.
Detailed responsibilities:
· Fundraising Strategy and business plan:
Work closely with the Chief Executive to review and adapt our fundraising strategy and business plan and produce analytics to review performance by income type and to help set stretching and achievable targets and improvement plans for each income stream. Implement and develop fundraising plans, including initiation and management of campaigns. Take responsibility for developing new income streams and products including alumni and legacy giving.
· Relationship Building:
Cultivate and maintain relationships with existing and prospective donors, including individuals, major donors, and foundations. Work with the Cara team to ensure effective relationship management across all donors and lead on donor identification for all income streams. Identify opportunities for pro bono support in support of the Cara strategy.
· Event Management:
Organize and manage fundraising events, ensuring successful execution and high engagement with our target audiences. This includes a schedule of location-based university engagement events (up to twelve per year) to engage existing individual donors, build awareness of Cara’s work, and cultivate new individual donors. Collaborate with contacts at each university to plan, deliver and follow up on each event. Lead on other key Cara events including the annual science and civilisation lecture to ensure that these build the Cara brand.
· Data Management for donor stewardship:
Maintain accurate donor records (on salesforce) and build and maintain fundraising databases for individuals and organisational donors to manage engagement throughout the donor journey. Maintain a view of Cara’s pipeline income to support the work of the Cara management team and reports to support accountability and trustee engagement including return on investment for each income stream.
· Communication:
Prepare and distribute fundraising materials, including appeals, newsletters, social media content, and articles for the website. Develop a range of case-studies profiling the work of Cara (including programmes, university partners, and individual academics). Collaborate closely with the Chief Executive to build the Cara brand through co-ordination of Cara’s presence at events and through priority digital channels.
· Proposal writing
Lead on proposal writing for major donors and philanthropic funding. Collaborate with colleagues on larger grants taking responsibility to overall proposal quality and timely submission. Ensure that the team work to agreed standards on all written reports and proposals to donors.
· Compliance:
Adhering to fundraising regulations, such as those outlined by the Fundraising Regulator, and ensuring that all fundraising activities are ethical and legal. Develop policies and practices to manage risk including appropriate due diligence and gift acceptance policies.
· Trends
Stay up to date on signals and trends in fundraising relevant to Cara’s work and use these to inform our business planning and risk/opportunity management.
Essential Skills and Qualifications:
· Proven success implementing effective strategies to raise income from a range of donors with a focus on major donors.
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: The ability to effectively communicate with donors including senior staff at universities.
· Strong writing and presentation skills: Developing winning proposals and presentations. Experience ranging from individual regular donors to six figure grants.
· Project management and organizational skills: Managing fundraising projects and campaigns effectively.
· Research and analytical skills: Identifying funding opportunities, analysing fundraising performance, and making data-driven decisions.
· Team working skills: ability to collaborate effectively with team without firm levers of management control. Ability to motivate and support non-fundraisers to work to best practice.
· Knowledge of fundraising regulations and best practices: Understanding the ethical and legal aspects of fundraising.
· Experience with fundraising software and databases: to manage donor information and track fundraising activities. Experience and/or willingness to learn to use salesforce.
· Demonstrated interest in and commitment to Cara’s mission and objectives.
Benefits of Role
· Challenging and rewarding work, always life-changing, sometimes lifesaving
· Competitive salary
· Team and individual training opportunities
· Commitment to performance and personal development
· Hybrid working, home and office (minimum 2 days each week in the office)
· Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm
· 25 days plus Bank Holidays annual leave entitlement
· 8% employer pension contribution
· Convenient office location at Elephant and Castle, close to Tube (Bakerloo and Northern lines) and bus routes
To apply
Please send a CV and cover note in response to the following four questions (max 1-page A4 – 11 size font) by 9am (UK time) on 30 June. Applications that do not follow this guidance will not be considered.
1. Summarise your experience and skills most relevant to this role
2. Tell us about a fundraising campaign that you have worked on – explain its success, what you did, and what you learnt from it?
3. Having looked at our website (www.cara.ngo) what steps would you take in this role to make Cara’s brand more attractive to potential donors?
4. Which target audience would you prioritise for fundraising in this role and explain why you have selected them and how you might reach them?
Cara provides help to academics in immediate danger, those forced into exile, and those who remain and work in their home countries despite the risks.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Our client is a user-led pan-disability charity operating primarily in Buckinghamshire. They are a successful, dynamic and influential charity, focused on supporting disabled people by fixing the biggest issues facing them. They aim to build a world which is Fair4All, including disabled people.
Position: Project Operations Manager
Salary Range: £31,000 - £34,000 FTE depending on experience
Hours: 37.5 hrs/week
Location: Remote working
Reporting to: Chair of Trustees
Benefits: Company Pension Scheme, standard holiday entitlement, flexible working
The role:
The primary purpose of the Project Operations Manager role is to provide leadership to ensure that their project work is delivered successfully, to agreed targets, on time and within agreed budgets.
Responsibilities:
• To take charge of and lead their projects, and the staff and volunteers working on them. Ensure project work is delivered successfully, to agreed targets, on time and within agreed budgets. This includes project reporting, overseeing and managing website, media, online and other communications activities related projects, and managing project budgets.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of their Operational Plan.
• With the Trustee Board and grants team, support the revival of appropriate dormant projects and the creation of new projects. Contribute to and endorse grant applications and ensure funder targets and goals are met.
• Establish and maintain collaborative and positive working relationships with their Trustees and key staff.
• With the Support Manager, positively influence the culture within their to ensure it remains an inclusive, diverse and effective working community and continue the charity’s policy of highly supportive and positive management of staff and volunteers, ensuring that their Values are upheld.
• Contribute to ensuring effective welfare and safeguarding policies are in place that are understood and regularly communicated to volunteers and employees.
• Ensure they deliver excellent customer service, so that service users, external organisations and partners receive high-quality service and support; and ensure any complaints or issues are managed promptly and satisfactorily resolved.
• Represent them and their projects internally and externally.
About you:
They are seeking an experienced charity operations and/or projects manager who can bring skills, expertise and knowledge into their rapidly expanding charity.
Essential skills and experience:
• Previous experience of successfully managing UK charity or not-for profit projects and/or services, including financial and budgetary controls.
• A track record of proactive success in achieving project and service goals and outcomes.
• Previous experience of successfully managing staff and, ideally, volunteers.
• A proven ability to effectively plan and manage a mixed portfolio of tasks and activities, including managing your own time effectively.
• A track record of personal learning and development, adapting to changing circumstances, and proactively meeting challenges.
• Strong personal commitment to diversity and inclusion including the social model of disability. Must be able to work effectively with disabled people with all types of impairment.
Desirable skills and experience:
• Understanding impairments including neurodiversity, mental health, sensory loss, long-term conditions and physical disabilities.
• A highly supportive management style which removes barriers for disabled staff and volunteers to allow them to work in ways which are most effective for them.
• Knowledge of project management tools.
About them:
Our client works by permanently removing barriers facing disabled people and finding answers to the big issues facing them, alongside helping individuals. Their projects and partnerships deliver unique and lasting change and effective support that helps nearly all the 41,000 disabled people in Buckinghamshire – plus many beyond their county.
Uniquely, they are mainly voluntary charity. They have over 150 volunteers, mostly disabled people, supported by a small staff team, who themselves run their projects and services. Many of their volunteers are jobseekers or needing help to move forward in their lives and they actively support them by the way we work.
How to apply: Please submit a CV with a covering letter (of no more than 500 words) setting out how you meet the person specification for the role.
You may also have experience in the following roles: Operations Manager, Project Manager, Charity Operations Manager, Programme Manager, Service Delivery Manager, Operations Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Charity Project Manager, Non-Profit Operations Manager, Service Operations Manager, etc.
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Our client is the only UK charity dedicated to supporting the health and wellbeing of UK bank workers, past and present, and their families.
We help thousands of people facing financial difficulty, health challenges, caring responsibilities, domestic abuse and more through our 40 strong staff team. We help by investing £5.4m in advice, specialist referrals and financial assistance in addition to offering practical, personalised support to those who need it most.
Demand for services continues to be high and the financial pressures on our organisation have grown. As a result, we have launched a new strategy focused on deepening the organisation’s impact, building long-term resilience, and reaching those most in need.
Project Manager
Contract Duration – 3 to 6 months
Location: Hybrid with typically two or three days a week in the London Office (City) remainder from home.
Salary: £40K to £50K (depending on experience)
It’s an exciting time to join the organisation as we evolve the way we work, grow new income streams, and strengthen our influence across the banking sector. This interim role will be taking on a number of project responsibilities to improve organisational efficiency.
Reporting directly to the CEO, the key priorities will be:
- Governance
- Review work already underway and recently completed to create a comprehensive task list/backlog
- Create phasing of work, to include:
- Quick wins – split into months one, two, three, etc.
- Longer term roadmap
- Highlight interdependencies
- Deliver quick wins
- Complete groundwork for longer term roadmap delivery
- Risk management
- Lead refresh of the organisational risk register to ensure:
- It accurately reflects the current risks the charity faces
- Risks are clearly set out
- That mitigations are appropriate, clearly explained, and implemented
- Consider the content rather than register format
- Lead the review of risk appetite
- Develop a robust but simple methodology to review risk appetite that can be easily repeated annually
- Work with the leadership team, committees and board to understand risk appetite – using whatever tools are appropriate
- Set out risk appetite by risk area Other priorities will be:
- IT, including cybersecurity
- Bring together our outsourced IT and cybersecurity teams to ensure we have appropriate controls/protection from cyber attacks
- IT, including cybersecurity
- HR, including management of the HR administrator
- Work with our HR consultants and HR administrator to review work already underway and recently completed to create a comprehensive task list/backlog
- Create phasing of work, to include:
- Quick wins – split into months one, two, three, etc.
- Longer term roadmap
- Highlight interdependencies
- Deliver quick wins through our HR consultants
You will have a strong background in managing and tracking projects, with prior experience in at least two of charity governance, risk assessment, HR and IT. You will understand the processes of charity governance and you will be able to spot areas where organisational effectiveness can be enhanced. You will have prior experience of working in a charity. An excellent communicator both verbally and in writing, you will be highly organised, able to multi-task effectively and an accomplished project manager. You will possess strong IT skills, an insight into HR practices and great problem-solving skills. You will be able to work collaboratively in addition to being a self-starter. You will be able to process sometimes complex information and deliver it in simple and readable reports and updates for the CEO and senior team.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Digital Fundraising Growth Manager
£39,000 - £40,500pa
City of London E1 8QS and we are a hybrid working organisation
This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home three days a week.
Purpose of Role
The Digital Fundraising Growth Manager will manage our digital paid media planning and delivery, driving audience engagement at all stages of the marketing funnel, specifically with the aim of delivering growth in our supporter base and income.
The post holder will directly oversee all digital paid media activity in line with agreed campaign and year round engagement and fundraising strategies and plans, including but not limited to social media advertising, search marketing, programmatic display, and emerging channels ensuring plans are fully integrated with other engagement and fundraising activity (including owned and earned media across all channels and wider organisational efforts).
Working closely with internal teams and external agencies, you will drive digital fundraising performance across a range of campaign and product offers, optimising media spend; creative and supporter journeys using data-driven insights informed by a rapid and robust test and learn methodology to ensure our investments are optimised for performance.
As the Comic Relief’s paid media champion, the post holder will also play a key role in ensuring alignment of media campaigns with integrated web and CRM journeys to deliver consistent and personalised supporter experiences. Proficiency in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is essential, enabling the role to analyse audience behaviour, measure performance, and continuously refine strategies to improve outcomes across the full supporter lifecycle.
You’ll be the day-to-day contact for any of our paid media agency partners, ensuring Comic Relief builds collaborative and well managed working relationships that facilitate success.
Join us at the heart of Comic Relief's mission to leverage the power of popular culture to enable people help others and create a just world, free from poverty.
Key responsibilities:
Plan and deliver strategically aligned digital fundraising activity, focussed for the relevant target audiences:
· Contribute to the planning and delivery of a comprehensive digital growth strategy, with specific responsibility for Comic Relief’s paid media across platforms such as Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok, and emerging channels.
· Directly manage and optimise paid media campaigns to drive audience acquisition, engagement, and fundraising income, innovating and testing new approaches alongside tried and tested methods.
· Collaborate with internal teams to align and integrate paid media activity with broader fundraising and engagement objectives and activity.
· Manage; direct and work with media agencies and platform partners to ensure value for money from our paid media investments.
· Use data-driven insights to continuously improve campaign performance, leveraging analytics tools and A/B testing methodologies.
· Monitor industry trends and emerging digital platforms to explore new opportunities for audience growth.
· Own budget planning, forecasting, and reporting for all paid media activities.
· Support in developing attribution models and performance tracking to measure the impact of paid digital activity on overall fundraising and supporter base growth.
Play an active part in the wider success of our fundraising and engagement strategy by:
· Contributing to the development of team wide annual plans and budgets, using learning and insight to make recommendations that facilitate in year and long-term income and supporter base growth.
· Proactively participate in, and as required, lead aspects of wider team planning activities.
· Keep abreast of the fundraising marketplace and wider legislative and regulatory landscape to identify opportunities to enhance Comic Relief’s digital fundraising activities and ensure compliance of our digital paid media activity.
· Play an active role in the Fundraising & PR Team, working collaboratively to enable inclusivity and diversity in order to drive high performance and an action-oriented culture.
· Undertake and manage ad-hoc duties as needed, ensuring alignment with the scope and responsibilities of the role.
· This role may develop to include line management responsibilities and duties as the portfolio expands in the future. Postholders may be expected to take on line management responsibilities when required.
Person specification
Essential criteria
· Proven experience in paid digital media management, ideally in a growth-focused role within a charity, agency, or brand.
· Technical expertise:
- Demonstrable experience using digital advertising platforms, including Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok, YouTube, and programmatic display.
- Experience in audience acquisition and growth strategies, particularly in driving engagement and fundraising through digital channels.
- Excellent data analysis skills with experience using tools like Google Analytics, Meta Business Suite, and campaign performance dashboards.
· Ability to manage multiple campaigns and projects simultaneously, deploying excellent project management, in a fast-paced environment, able to identify risks, issues and dependencies within a project / campaign and to use this information to inform decision making in a timely and accurate way.
· Understanding of and experience of using a CRM system and related analytics or marketing tools.
· Experience of annual planning and year-round budget management, including ability to set detailed budgets and KPIs, reforecast and proactively manage campaign budgets.
· Experience of and capability in briefing and analysing complex data and insight information to produce clear briefs and effective marketing plans.
· Experience of managing marketing planning and tracking, including media planning KPIs and metrics across online and offline channels, and creating campaign alignment and channel integration to optimise campaigns with a focus on income generation.
· Excellent communication skills. Effective relationship builder with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, and the ability to adapt to different styles and ways of working, including:
-Experience of working collaboratively with a range of team members.
-Experience of managing external parties such as creative and media agencies.
-Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and influence stakeholders.
-Strong stakeholder management and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
· Proactive self-starter and opportunity spotter with proven ability to work independently, managing own work plan to deliver against set goals and objectives to agreed timescales. and learn and develop in a fluid, high impact environment.
· Passion for and commitment to Comic Relief’s mission; values, cultural charter and Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity and Belonging principles and a desire to use digital innovation for social impact.
Desirable criteria
· Line management experience
· Experience of fundraising for both international and national charity causes
· Accredited fundraising or digital marketing qualification
· Experience of working with Salesforce Non-profit Cloud and Marketing Cloud
Perks and benefits:
· Flexible working hours
· Work from home option
· Life Insurance
· Wellness programs
· Employee Assistance Programme
· Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
· Paid emergency leave
· Sabbatical Opportunities
· Professional development
· Mentoring/coaching
· Paid volunteer days
· Payroll giving
· Salary sacrifice
· Team social events
· Extracurricular clubs
· Cycle to work scheme
· Free fruit
To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.
Closing: 11:55pm, 13th Jul 2025 BST
Comic Relief reserves the right to close the role early if a large number of applications are received.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Comic Relief we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Why work at Comic Relief
There are lots of good reasons to join us at Comic Relief. You can read more about our employee benefits, such as our commitment to flexible and hybrid working. We ask staff to come to the office twice a week, normally on agreed team days, so that we can do all those things that are difficult to do online. Our office is based in Whitechapel, London,
There are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and experience at Comic Relief, including opportunities to become a Mental Health First Aider or to participate in our Employee Network Groups that focus on making Comic Relief a more inclusive place to work.
Disability Confident Employer
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we take positive action by providing first-round interviews to candidates who have a registered disability, provided they meet the minimum criteria for the role, as demonstrated on their CV and application questions.