Strategy

In conjunction with key stakeholders, including carers, board members, staff and partners, develop a strategy for the organisation. To effectively implement and deliver on the commitments within the strategy. To ensure that the strategy is embedded culturally within the organisation and that all levels of the organisation can have meaningful impact upon the delivery of the strategy. To monitor and report to the Board on the implementation and delivery of the strategy. To communication externally the organisations vision, mission and aims of the strategy.

Our services team has been reshaped to help meet the increasing demand for our support and has additional casework hours as well as a service advisor who is the first point of contact through our helpline service. The helpline offers support, help, signposting and referral for members of the engineering community, predominantly IET members, past and present and their dependents as well as care and disability support for anyone with an engineering interest. Our caseworkers provide information, advice and ongoing support based on an assessment of individual need and manage a caseload of community members, dealing with applications for financial assistance and support for people with complex needs.

As the service and development manager you would be responsible for bringing this new team together and developing relationships and new services to drive forward our innovative strategy.

Please read the application pack before applying

How to apply

To apply, please send a CV (including current salary level) and a supporting statement of no more than two pages explaining your interest in this post and how you meet the points in the person specification above. Please also give details of two referees who we will contact once a formal offer of employment has been made. Finally, kindly complete the equal opportunities monitoring form attached.

Applications should be submitted by 10am on Wednesday 15 January 2020 

First round interviews will be held on Thursday 24 January 2020 in London.

The London Irish Centre is seeking a Business Development & Data Officer to play a critical role in helping us to prepare for the next stage in our fundraising strategy. It’s a key time for a successful and growing team with ambitious plans for a major capital campaign. We are looking for someone with the relevant skills but above all someone who is committed to the LIC’s mission and values.

The Business Development & Data Officer is a newly created role, which will work closely with the CEO to help achieve and grow our annual fundraising targets, across both the redevelopment project and core charity activity. The role will lead on growing our Friends Scheme and helping LIC to better communicate our impact in the community to our current and potential donors/funders. The Business Development & Data Officer will enable the CEO and Campaign Committee to maintain and grow positive relationships with donors by providing excellent administrative and systems support.

The London Irish Centre

The London Irish Centre is the Irish Heart of London. Our Mission is to empower and enrich lives through Irish community and culture

For over sixty years, we’ve been proud to provide vital frontline welfare services to multi-generational Irish diaspora in London, whilst instilling positive impact within local communities through education, entertainment and cultural awareness; courtesy of our vibrant venue and home: The London Irish Centre. As a charity, we represent all that is celebrated about Ireland: warm, welcoming, inclusive, diverse, unique, and open to every generation. As a venue, we represent heritage and history, but modern innovation. The opportunity to foster friendships for life, advance your business ambitions or be entertained. Our commitment lies in meeting the wants and needs of our shared communities, now and for the future.

Responsibilities/Duties

Redevelopment Project

• Provide administrative support to the capital fundraising campaign and the Campaign Committee
• Provide support where necessary during fundraising events for members, Corporate Partners and Major Donors
• If appropriate, attend meetings with funders and prospects, cultivation events and networking events

Core Charity Income Generation

• Help to maintain and develop various income generation streams e.g. grants, annual fundraising appeals to meet annual financial targets.
• Undertake research and identify additional funding opportunities to support our core work and projects
• Lead on growing members as part of the LIC Friends Scheme, by focusing on engagement & relationship management

Digital, Communications & Impact

• Work with the Marketing & Communications Officer to ensure that fundraising and campaigns are clearly woven into the LIC’s wider communications strategy
• Contribute to the running of the website
• Survey and consult our clients and audiences, and use this information to help inform future activities
• Develop existing systems to update our impact management and measurement
• Liaise between project managers to ensure impact reporting is on track
• Lead on production of the Annual Impact Report

• Support the Director of Operations with implementing the Digital Strategy

• Provide cover for the Marketing & Communications Officer when they are on annual leave

Administration & Finance

• Lead on the implementation and management of the fundraising CRM (Donorfy), including managing donor relationships, producing reports and recommendations for senior management to inform strategy, compiling and analysing fundraising figures, and general Donorfy admin.
• Work with the Finance Manager and CEO to track all fundraised income

• Lead on administration of all Direct Debits, Standing Orders and Gift Aid claims, ensuring customer records are updated accurately and promptly on Donorfy

• Ensure all processes comply with GDPR guidelines and are in line with our administrative processes and best practice, the Fundraising Regulator and any other regulatory bodies

Person Specification

Essential skills and experience

• Basic knowledge of and enthusiasm for charity fundraising
• Excellent statistical, analytical and numeracy skills and a high degree of literacy in databases
• Tech & Digital savvy, including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Excellent written communication skills
• Understanding of data protection legislation and its implications for organisations
• A genuine understanding of and enthusiasm for the London Irish Centre and our work
• Educated to degree level

Desirable skills and experience

• Demonstrable experience of working in a fundraising environment and securing gifts from individual donors and/or trusts by researching, preparing proposals and making approaches
• Experience and understanding of HMRC and Gift Aid regulations
• Knowledge of fundraising trends and good practice
• Knowledge of Donorfy or other similar CRM system
• Knowledge of Adobe InDesign and Mailchimp (or other automated marketing system)

Personal attributes

• A proactive, flexible, enthusiastic and solutions focused attitude to work
• Articulate and persuasive face to face, over the phone and in writing
• Methodical and with a keen eye for detail
• The ability to deal confidently with people at all levels and maintain thriving relationships with supporters
• An ability to stay calm under pressure and work on your own in a busy environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills including tact and diplomacy
• Ability to work collaboratively and take responsibility when required
• Ability to prioritise effectively and show initiative
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of small team and to take a hands-on approach to work

Staff Benefits

• Free tickets to LIC core cultural programmed events (subject to availability and may not apply to fundraising events and partnership events at external venues)
• 50% discount on LIC education courses (subject to availability)
• 20% staff discount at the LIC shop and 10% staff discount at the LIC bar
• Headspace membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme

We are looking to bolster our trusts and foundations team through recruiting a Charitable Funding Manager (CFM) role that will seek to maximise philanthropic funding across the University. With a particular focus on grant writing for our most philanthropic medical research, our established student support programmes and our regular awards and applications to a range of charitable funders. A key member of DARO’s Charitable Funding team, you will work closely with colleagues across the campus, particularly the Business Engagement and Research Support teams, to achieve a financial target by proactively identifying and creating new charitable funding opportunities (with a particular focus on mid-tier Trusts, Foundations and other charities).You will work closely with academics and professional services colleagues primarily to make new applications but also to support with existing relationships and bids where appropriate.

The Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) exists to support the academic and student community by engaging, inspiring, and celebrating alumni, individuals, and charitable funders who give their money, time, and networks to support the University’s strategic priorities.  The Office, which is comprised of 60 staff across five teams, is focused on securing charitable donations and gifts of time from alumni and individuals who are passionate about changing lives, through funding various research trials, supporting student bursaries, mentoring students, and providing internships. We have just launched our new campaign. Birmingham In Action, which aims to change lives locally and globally. It is unique and ambitious and will place Birmingham as one of the leading fundraising and volunteering universities in the world. 

 Job title: Partnership and Business Development Manager for visual arts education training and employment charity Creative Sparkworks

Salary: £35,000 pro rata

Hours: Part-time schedule TBC, 3 - 4 days per week. This is a 3-year appointment.

Creative Sparkworks is an established film, media and design education, training and employment charity based since 2008 in the heart of our community in north Lambeth. Our media workshop is in the famous Lambeth Walk SE11 6EE at Number 157.  Practicing film and design professionals tutor young disadvantaged talented adults from under-represented groups in free workshops for skills and employment training courses relating to their specialisms of film and media, and design. One-to-one mentoring and Personal Development Plans are integral to our programmes; we are proud to support our alumni to succeed in paid work over years not months.

The Partnerships & Business Development Manager post is a new role, created to help Creative Sparkworks achieve our ambition of increasing the impact and scale of our work by diversifying our income streams and extending our reach by creating new partnerships. 

TASKS OVERVIEW

• To increase revenue by selling our vision and mission to corporates using trainees’ films, GIFs, and a new short testimonial film; incorporating trainees’ latest short narrative film describing their journey with us; using our social media platforms and website.
• To increase project funding to scale up our current Film2Learn2£arn projects, and to run three new programmes; for example, ‘Get Set-Ready’ training, ‘Film with Health In MIND’, short courses in Lambeth secondary schools as outreach.
• To strengthen relationships with existing funders.
• To raise project funding and core funding for charity’s running costs.
• To develop the existing Youth Advisory Panel to support all the above.
• To build new partnerships within the film and TV industries for jobs and in-kind opportunities such as premises, equipment, training, paid work.
• To seek and find paid entry level employment opportunities in film and TV for trainees.
• To upgrade current tracking databases of employees, employers, trainers and youth referral agencies.
• To seek and find patrons to showcase and highlight the outcomes of the work of the charity.

This is a part-time role, schedule TBC @ £35,000 pro rata. Flexible working hours are available.

Please contact CEO Sylvia Edwards for more info and full JD:

Cause: Education

Role: ?? Business Development Coordinator

Location: South West London

Employment Type: 6 month Contract from January 2020

Salary/rate: £32,000 pro rata

Working hours: 35 Hours a week

Ref: J72776

Closing date: Monday 16^th December 2019

Short description of role:

Our client, an Education Charity are currently recruiting for a Business Development Coordinator on a 6 month contract from January 2020. Our client ensures that the Further Education and Training sector develops leaders, teachers and trainers. They work across the whole sector and are funded by Government grant, commercial contracts, professional membership and a variety of other business activities. They are looking to appoint a Business Development Coordinator supporting the Relationship Manager to maintain relationships with existing corporate partners and develop future relationships with prospective partners.

You will report into the Relationship Manager who will support you to plan and undertake business development activity for the Corporate Partnership Scheme and the promotion of professional status for teachers and trainers.

You will need to generate leads, capturing and prioritising them using the CRM system and other planning tools including preparing and updating the pipeline. You will also provide administrative support to the Relationship

Manager and help organise and deliver particular parts of their overall sales and marketing activity.

Person specification

• Be educated to Level 3 or A-Level equivalent.
• A relevant Sales or Marketing qualification is desirable but not essential
• Have experience of working in an office environment
• Have experience of providing excellent sales support, including ability to generate, manage and qualify leads, make cold calls, organise sales appointments over telephone or e-mail
• Have experience in administering marketing collateral and supporting marketing events such as conferences and exhibitions
• Be highly self-motivated and proactive, with excellent interpersonal skills
• Have the ability to prioritise workload to meet tight deadlines
• Possess excellent oral, written and presentation skills

If you are interested in applying, please email your CV and Cover Letter outlining how you fulfil the requirements of the person specification. .

If you know someone who is interested in this role please ask them to contact me directly. Please make sure they mention your referral, as we reward recommendations with a if we find them a permanent job.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Are you looking for an exciting challenge with a charity on a pedalling revolution?

Cycling UK, the national cycling charity, is aiming to inspire a million more people onto their bikes and needs an enthusiastic and engaging Cycling Development & Training Officer in London  to help us.

You’ll be responsible for delivering the Community Cycle Club programme and Cycling UK training courses across the area, working with community groups, managing key local relationships and robustly monitoring the impact of the programme. You will support a sustainable network and build capacity for cycling, with the development of volunteers and training of leaders a priority for success.

You will be a key local contact across the network of Community Cycle Clubs and stakeholders, enabling opportunities to cycle in an inclusive manner. This will work to increase levels of physical activity, encourage cycling as a mode of transport and present pathways to cycling as a sport.

This is a 12 month fixed term post with potential to extend subject to to funding.

Are you looking for an exciting challenge with a charity on a pedalling revolution?

Cycling UK, the national cycling charity, is aiming to inspire a million more people onto their bikes and needs an enthusiastic and engaging Cycling Development Officer in both West Yorkshire and Liverpool to help us.

You’ll be responsible for delivering the Big Bike Revival and Community Cycle Club programmes across the area, working with community groups, managing key local relationships and robustly monitoring the impact of the programme. You will support a sustainable network and build capacity for cycling, with the development of volunteers and training of leaders a priority for success.

You will be a key local contact across the network of Community Cycle Clubs and stakeholders, enabling opportunities to cycle in an inclusive manner. This will work to increase levels of physical activity, encourage cycling as a mode of transport and present pathways to cycling as a sport.

These two posts 1 x West Yorkshire and 1 x Liverpool are on a 12 month fixed term contract with the potential to extend subject to funding.

There couldn’t be a more exciting time to join Alzheimer’s Research UK and its growing award-winning Corporate Fundraising team. We are the fastest growing medical research charity in the UK, tackling dementia, the world’s greatest medical challenge. Our mission is to help bring about the first life-changing treatment by 2025, with an ultimate vision to end the fear, harm and heartbreak of dementia.

The Corporate Team at Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) is enjoying an exciting phase of growth leading to a need to increase in business development resource.

We are looking for a proactive and driven individual to join the team who can create six figure partnerships with leading UK and International Corporates. You will have strong business development and relationship management skills coupled with experience of approaching and building strategic partnerships from scratch.

You will possess the ability to identify opportunities before converting them into high value partnerships generating the maximum amount of income for our Research.

You’ll have lots of support from a passionate and successful team – we have a strong culture of support, training, feedback, continuous improvement and celebration.  We use our collective strengths to win partnerships and secure more funding for dementia research.

We are looking for someone with excellent sales skills homed in either a Charity or Corporate role.

Main tasks include:

• Identify and build strategic relationships to generate income from new corporate supporters
• Support the Corporate Partnerships Manager in the development and implementation of the corporate fundraising strategy for ARUK, to increase the team income.
• Represent the charity professionally in a high-level corporate context
• Adopting a focused and strategic approach to identifying, researching, and targeting prospective corporate partners 
• Building and maintaining a pipeline of new business opportunities to include strategic partnerships, charity of the year partnerships, and sponsorship opportunities.
• Undertake any other relevant duties and projects delegated by CPM/ Director of Fundraising in line with the responsibilities of the post. 

What we are looking for:

• A Level or equivalent.
• Confidence working with computers – good knowledge of Word, Excel, outlook and PowerPoint
• Excellent personal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with people at all levels face to face and on the phone
• Ability to write professionally, with an ability to adapt communications for different audiences
• Ability to work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload
• Ability to articulate complex issues to supporters in a compelling manner
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to make financial asks
• Strong business development and relationship management skills, ideally from a charity background
• Evidence of delivering high quality and creative presentations and proposals to help target and engage potential partners
• Experience of conceptualising and building new strategic partnerships from scratch within a fundraising and/or corporate environment
• Experience of engaging and building relationships with key external stakeholders and decision makers to deliver positive outcomes
• Experience of securing new partners within a fundraising and/or corporate environment

Location: Granta Park, near Cambridge.

Salary: Circa £30,000 per annum, plus benefits

Please download the Vacancy Pack for more details.

Please note that the official job title for the successful candidate will be Corporate Partnerships Officer – New Business. When accessing our online recruitment system, the role will be listed as Corporate Partnerships Officer – New Business. 

The closing date for applications is the 1st January 2020, with interviews likely to take place on the 14th January 2020. You may be called for a telephone interview in the interim.

We would encourage applicants to submit their application at the earliest opportunity as the closing date may be brought forward at any time. Should we wish to contact you to arrange an earlier interview this will be arranged based on the availability of the candidate and the panel. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are unable to attend on a certain date.

In order to be considered, please create an online account using our Online Recruitment System which can be accessed through our Job Vacancies Page. You will be able to attach a CV and covering letter to your application, track your application and view other vacancies that may be of interest.

To view further details about this role and the benefits of working for us please visit the Alzheimer’s Research UK website.

The BPNA is the professional organisation for doctors who specialise in the care of children with neurological disorders.  Building on our success to date, we are working jointly with the International League Against Epilepsy to roll-out face-to-face course for high level health workers in LMIC countries to raise the standards of care for children with epilepsy. 

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological, non-communicable disease, affecting 50 million people worldwide.  Of these, 80% are in LMIC. Approximately 75% of epilepsies are treatable, however in LMIC, 50-75% are not properly treated beause there is insufficient recognition of the symptoms of epilepsy.  That's where this project comes in.

You will be:

• identifying and applying for funding to run educational events in LMIC;
• developing the project plan in liaison with the in-country doctors, to ensure it will be successful and sustainable;
• going with the UK team to train doctors in country over 3-days to deliver Paediatric Epilepsy Training.

We are looking for a creative and driven Community Development Worker to support community groups and services in the South East of Lewisham. You will be working closely with a Community Facilitator who supports vulnerable adults to access community groups and services in your area. Your role will be to build the capacity of the community and voluntary sectors to respond effectively to the needs of their local community.

You will be working as an integral part of the multidisciplinary Neighbourhood Health and Social Care Teams, bringing community development expertise to the table and acting as a bridge between statutory services and the local community.

Community Connections strives to create an open and participative working environment. We work to our core values of being supportive, professional and person centred. These are reflected in the way we work with the people we support, with each other and with our partners. Teamwork, collective responsibility, and delegated authority are central to this process. A key element of all roles is to develop and maintain the organisation’s working ethos and culture.

The successful candidate will have experience and a good working knowledge of community development work with a wide range of agencies working across different sectors.You will be diplomatic and approachable with the ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships across a variety of organisations and with highly developed written and verbal communication, presentation and negotiating skills.

If you are a good listener, a positive thinker, strong at multi tasking and passionate about supporting isolated people we want to hear from you.

Please note that this contract is 6 months with possibility of extension.

For full details please download our Recruitment Pack which includes a Job Description and Personal Specification. To apply, please ensure you complete the attached Application Form as well as the Equal Opportunities and Criminal Declaration forms.

Closing date for applications – 9am Thursday 2nd January 2020

Interviews will take place on Friday 10th January 2020

“Every day is different – I come to the office energised knowing that my work makes a difference. It’s extremely rewarding helping young people! – Fundraising Manager, Spark!

The job purpose is to manage delivery of existing and new employability programmes including work experience.

Job purpose

• Manage delivery, including facilitation of existing and new employability programmes to quality specifications. This will include direct delivery such as workshops (with training)
• Coordinating work experience placements with multiple schools including health and safety duties and impact measurement.

We want to hear from all interested candidates. Please submit a short covering letter along with your CV, outlining why you're right for the role.  Please see attached job description / specification)

CV's without a cover letter will not be considered.

Would you like the opportunity to lead a new ground-breaking charity which is furthering medical research into one of the most neglected of common diseases?

The 'NewCo' is an independent charity formed through the merger of Bowel & Cancer Research and the Bowel Disease Research Foundation.  We believe that creating a single organisation provides the opportunity for real additional benefits; to be the leading specialist Bowel Research Charity in the country; to increase understanding while delivering direct and demonstrable improvements in the treatment of and survival rates for people with bowel disease; and to fund the best research and the best researchers in this field. Together the two charities have awarded grants totalling £9 million in the last 10 years and more than £3.5 million in the last five years towards research into bowel cancer and bowel disease. That positions the new organisation as the leading charity dedicated to funding research into both bowel cancer and bowel disease in the UK.

We are looking for a Chief Executive to join us at this exciting time in our development who can lead and inspire our new organisation as we continue to provide an invaluable service in an area where there is potential for significant advance.

The new CEO will be a senior leader of the highest calibre.  The successful applicant will provide strategic and operational leadership and be able to demonstrate outstanding management, communication skills and financial acumen.

Working with the Board of Trustees the Chief Executive will:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership and management
• Lead on the integration of BCR and BDRF to form the NewCo
• Develop the organisation in accordance with its constitutional and statutory obligations, financial framework, code of conduct and best practice
• Report regularly to the Board of Trustees on progress and any other matters relevant to the discharge of the Board’s responsibilities
• Act as an ambassador for the organisation and develop relevant and effective strategic relationships

This role presents an exciting opportunity to work with an organisation at a key point in their development.  We are looking for a CEO who shares our ambition for the new charity to become the go-to organisation in this field.

 “By combining our individual strengths we are confident that we will be able to raise more money and fund more research aimed at ending the scourge of bowel cancer and chronic bowel disorders, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, for which there are currently no cures.” Asha Senapati, Chair of Bowel Disease Research Foundation

If you want to play a leading part in shaping the future of our services across the UK, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

This is a full-time role although we are happy to consider applications on a part-time basis (e.g. 0.8 days). Our offices are based in London.

Eastside Primetimers is supporting us in recruiting for this role. Please download the candidate information pack for further information. Application is by CV and a covering letter which should indicate why you are interested in applying for the role and how you meet the role requirements. If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Paul Venning on +44 (0) 77 71 99 71 24.

The closing date for applications is Saturday 28th December with initial interviews with Eastside Primetimers taking place in week commencing 6th January. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the Board.

The Rainbow Centre is a vibrant Christian Charity that supports individuals and families who are experiencing deprivation and hardship in the Folkestone and Hythe area.  

We operate a range of services including the Homeless Support Service, FoodStop - a mobile soup kitchen, a Winter Shelter for rough sleepers, run the Shepway Foodbank and Family Contact Centre.  Additional revenue is provided through our trading arm, the Rainbow Shop. We have a small staff team which is supported by over 300 volunteers.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to lead and inspire the team of staff and volunteers and move the charity forward as it seeks to develop its services further in the light of changing needs.  The Rainbow Centre is a charity at the heart of the community, so this is your chance to make a real difference at a local level. 

How to apply

If you are interested in applying, your application should comprise:  

• A covering letter outlining your motivation and relevant experience for the role.  Please ensure that you give details about your Christian faith as this is an Occupational Requirement for this position. 
• A full CV, including educational and professional qualifications, a full employment history showing the more significant positions, responsibilities held and relevant achievements. 

The closing date for applications is noon on Tuesday 7th January 2020.  Enquiries about the job role can be made to the email stated in the covering letter. 

Interviews will be held on Friday 17th January and Monday 3rd February 2020