Our Vision

A world where all young people flourish, regardless of their background.

Who We Are

LTSB is a social mobility charity that works with bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, ensuring they find meaningful, skilled careers – and that firms get positive, effective employees who can make a difference from their first day.

Our four key responsibilities are:

• Promoting opportunities to those from backgrounds that are not normally reached
• Preparing young people for the workplace, and the workplace for young people
• Providing context for their application, and stewarding the hiring process
• Pastoral care – an additional support network for the first phase of their career

We don’t just get young people jobs. We launch careers. When diverse talent is given preparation and support, they don’t just get by, they thrive – and that means more representative management which can better train and retain a more representative workforce.  For historic information, please see our Impact Report on our website: www.ltsb.charity

Finance Team

The Finance team consists of a Finance Director and a Finance Administrator role.

Finance Director

Reporting to the Chief Executive, the Finance Director is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day financial management of the LTSB, and provides commercial focus, leading on financial compliance and governance and overseeing strong and effective financial administrative functions and reporting. With overall responsibility for the charity’s finance function, you will play a significant role as a senior member of the leadership team to ensure the charity can achieve its mission in the most effective and efficient way possible. The FD manages the Finance Administrator who undertakes the day-to-day financial administration.

Main Responsibilities
 

Day-to-day financial management

• Ensure relevant and accurate records are kept, filings made, and taxes paid as required by HMRC (in respect of Payroll, corporation tax and VAT), pension agencies, Companies’ House and the Charity Commission.
• Develop and enhance the financial and management reporting systems to meet the strategic and operational needs of the Trust including the identification and implementation of suitable software, and upgrades to existing software and office systems to improve processes and systems to bring about efficiencies.
• Ensure compliance with statutory accounting and regulatory requirements of financial and charity governance matters.
• Prepare the annual accounts in accordance with relevant statutory and accounting reporting standards and auditing requirements.
• Liaise with external auditors in relation to the annual audit and any management recommendations raised by the auditors.
• Oversee the management and reporting of all funds received from external funders. Ensure that accurate restricted fund accounts are maintained and that the financial records comply with funder reporting requirements.
• Supervise the Finance Administrator.
• Keep the CEO and Finance Committee informed of material developments on a regular and ad-hoc basis as required.
   

Strategic financial planning and management

• Prepare quarterly and annual management accounts, including income and expenditure accounts, balance sheet, cash flows, financial performance indicators and supporting notes for the Finance Committee and Trustee Board quarterly meetings.
• Be responsible for the budgeting and forecasting process for the organisation and provide appropriate reporting, variance analysis and support for decision making to the CEO, SLT and Board.
• Developing and leading LTSB’s finance strategy, optimising the charity’s financial performance and strategic position.
• Providing strategic leadership in relation to LTSB’s finances, advising on matters of compliance, risk, and contract performance.
   

Governance

• Accountable to the Finance Committee of the Board for all financial, risk and audit matters working closely with the CEO and Board to achieve a high quality of governance for LTSB.
• Ensure LTSB’s legal and governance responsibilities are undertaken and executed in a robust and transparent way, with trustees updated on any relevant legal and/or governance changes.
• Maintain up-to-date corporate documents and ensuring that all required documents are filed at Companies House and Charities Commission within the requisite deadlines.
   

Wider responsibilities

• Undertaking any other duties and projects as may be assigned by the CEO or the Board of Trustees.

Person Specification
 

Education/qualifications/experience

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong financial systems and experience working as a finance director.
• Outstanding and influential leader with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.
• Demonstrable commitment to LTSB’s vision and values.
• Experience of financial statement preparation and audit process management.
• Experience of preparing board papers and presenting to boards.
• Experience of managing grant finances and contract compliance.
• Commercially aware.
• Experience of preparing and submitting VAT returns under the partial exemption method.
• Experience of working in the charity sector with good knowledge of charity accounting.
• Experience of overseeing the development of organisational policies, procedures and systems.
• We have recently moved from Quickbooks to Oracle Netsuite accounting software so candidates with a good working knowledge of at least one of these systems would be ideal, although experience of using any similar cloud accounting system would be advantageous for the role
   

Skills and Abilities

• Strong technical financial and management accounting skills.
• Strong IT skills with advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines with good prioritisation and time management skills.
• Proven financial analysis, cashflow management and forecasting ability.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills (verbal and written).
• Proven ability to produce and interpret management accounts
• Proven ability to provide support, and guidance to non-financial managers and colleagues.
• The ability to manage a varied and pressured workload.
• Highly motivated and autonomous.
   

This job description is intended to summarise the main duties and responsibilities of the post and is not intended to be a full and exhaustive list of tasks. All LTSB staff members are expected to demonstrate flexibility and willingness to perform appropriate tasks when the need arises.

This role is ideal for an experienced Finance Director who is seeking flexible hours and home working. Although the FD would need to attend meetings in London they could be based anywhere in the UK. This is a home-based role, and our team works independently with no central office.

To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter in Word format, when prompted to attach documents, explaining how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work at LTSB in this role.

Please note, all candidates will need to have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 29th May 2022. Applications received after this point will not be considered.

First stage interviews will be held by Zoom during w/c 6th June. Second stage interviews will be held in London on Wednesday 15th June.

At Family Action we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869 and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.

The Business Development Team provides a specialist support function to enable the organisation to achieve its growth objectives. We promote the strategic growth of the organisation by supporting the retention of existing work and securing new contracts via competitive tender, trusts, grants and statutory fundraising.

An introduction to the role and key responsibilities:

The Bid Writer holds responsibility for writing applications that fully articulate Family Action’s offer. The post works closely with operational teams to develop service models and content to secure new work and to support the retention of existing contracts.

The Bid Writer holds responsibility for writing applications that fully articulate Family Action’s offer. The post works closely with operational teams to develop service models and content to secure new work and to support the retention of existing contracts.

Person requirements (skills/experience):

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience and evidence of a commitment to continuing learning and professional development
• Strong, proven, successful track record of writing bid proposal or tenders and winning new business
• Knowledge, insight and understanding of the needs of individuals and families, the range of interventions that best meet those needs based on research and evidence of what works would be desirable

Operations Officers (Scotland, London, Southeast, Central, North and UK Education teams).

A starting salary of between £27,000 - £30,438 (UK) £30,508 - £34,389 (London) per annum dependent on region and experience. 

Do you enjoy building relationships?

Do you have experience of working with and influencing external stakeholders?

Are you looking for an opportunity that offers a challenge and variety where no two days are the same?

Thanks to attracting some significant funding streams this has allowed us to expand our operations team across the nation, to allow thousands of young people from marginalised areas to be able to complete the DofE Awards.  Our programmes give them the opportunity to explore different interests, challenge themselves, learn new skills, develop resilience, and build self-belief. 

What is the role?

As an operations officer, your role will involve closely managing the relationships of our partner organisations (known as Licensed Organisations – LOs) and ensuring those within your portfolio offer quality and inclusive DofE programmes to young people. 

While managing these relationships, you will also identify and develop new relationships with appropriate educational and community organisations to widen the access of the DofE to young people, particularly those who experience marginalisation. 

As part of the regional team, you will be working as one to achieve objectives outlined within the regional business plan which support our national strategic goals. Whilst you won’t be working directly with young people, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are having a positive impact on their future opportunities. 

We are currently recruiting for Operations Officers in: Scotland, London, Southeast, North, Central & UK education team. 

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a team player who has a passion for the development of young people with the ability to engage and influence a variety of stakeholders.

Working as an ambassador for the DofE, you will have outstanding communication skills to inspire and influence young people to participate in DofE. You will be organised and comfortable managing your own workload to ensure LOs deliver DofE programmes to the standards expected.

What will you get in return? 

The opportunity to work for a successful and dynamic charity that has the development of young people at its heart and the wellbeing and development of its people constantly in focus. 

You will be joining a team of empowered colleagues working together. 

From day one you’ll have access to a generous pension scheme and an employee assistance programme. Through our Flexible Working policy, the DofE provides an opportunity to work flexibly to meet yours and our business needs. 

Please click on ‘Apply’ to view our current Operations Officer opportunities across various locations in the UK.

Note: We are also recruiting for a Business Support Assistant in London and other opportunities within the DofE.

Please visit our career page by clicking on the apply button to know more about our vacancies or to share it within your network.

New Business Executive
 

Contract: Permanent, Full time

Location:                                Home based/ London & South East

Are you looking for a new challenge to be part of an ambitious, creative and forward-thinking team that raises vital funds for our veterans?

We have an exciting opportunity for someone who is tenacious, ambitious, and creative who is willing to seek new opportunities and build relationships in order to raise vital funds for our veterans. You will have the opportunity to join a new team and be part of incredible change for the partnerships team, utilising Help for Heroes remarkable brand and generating income from new commercial and fundraising partnerships.

Your role will be varied, responsible for generating new business leads, managing a pipeline of prospects and engaging with businesses in a creative and impactful way. You will be motivated to pursue new relationships and manage the process of securing new business from initial research right through to contract negotiations. You will also provide excellent support to the New Business Managers, supporting with pitches and proposal writing.

The ideal candidate will be a motivated, strategic thinker with a track record of working in a fast-paced environment and is able to work towards a target.

If this varied and creative role sounds like a good fit for you, we would love to hear from you!

We place the development of transferable life skills for young people at the heart of our products, services training and resources. For over 40 years we have supported young people to realise their potential through leadership qualifications and awards. Our approach engages learners through practically applied learning and encourages volunteering with peers. Learners practice and develop skills and behaviours based on our Skills Framework to improve Communication, Self-Belief, Teamwork, Self-Management and Problem Solving.

Currently we work with approximately 1500 education and community organisations across the UK and internationally who, in turn, deliver thousands of our qualifications and awards to around 100,000 young people each year, incorporating millions of hours of learning and volunteering.

But we want to do more to achieve our vision for Every Young Person to Realise Their Potential.

We are seeking to recruit two Development Executives to support and play a key role in delivering our vision and achieving our strategy. The successful candidates will understand the importance of stakeholder engagement strategies. They will be looking for an opportunity to demonstrate their relationship management mindset within a strong team environment. They will be committed to working within our Team Manifesto whilst affecting external decision-making through a customer engagement approach.

We look forward to receiving your application.

We're looking for someone to help us sell training that reduces gambling related harms. You'll be enthusiastic for the mission, great at building contacts and relationships, and really good at getting them to commit to our offer.

The two offerings you'll be working with, at least initially, are Phase Red and Safer Gambling Training.

Phase Red is a City & Guilds assured training programme developed alongside our expert partner - the National Centre for Suicide Prevention (NCSPET) - to ensure that customer facing operators feel confident in having conversations that can take a person from a place of risk and vulnerability to a place of connection and safety.

Safer Gambling Training is aimed at increasing awareness of customer vulnerability and gambling harms within customer facing roles in the gambling industry. The programme aims to develop skills to interact with customers in a way which will minimise or prevent further gambling harms. The training is delivered in partnership with YGAM and is also City & Guilds Assured.

You'll be taking these training offers, identifying organisations who can benefit from them, working with them from initial contact through to commitment, and following up with them afterwards to build the relationship further. We have a reasonable network already; you will be working with this and engaging in activities to grow it further.

We are seeking someone who will:

• Identify, develop and complete sales opportunities, ensuring the organisation’s sustainability and growth.
• Contribute to strategy and business development – key to this is the management of internal and
external stakeholders, including a key, valued partner organisation.
• Have a strong understanding of gambling harms, associated trends and the wider gambling sector.
• Be committed to developing awareness and understanding of gambling harms.
• Be a proactive ambassador of Safer Gambling Training, Phase Red and BKM Evolve.

The role will require regular travel, but is otherwise home based. We're a growing organisation, and there will be opportunities to develop your career with the organisation as we grow, and to take on more responsibility as you demonstrate your capabilities.

For more details, please download the full job description and person specification, read it, and if you feel you match what we're looking for, please submit your CV and cover letter! We look forward to hearing from you!

Why work for us?

CARE International UK is developing its new strategic plan and IT plays a major part in this. The new IT Strategy is being developed with focus on supporting other teams to improve efficiency and performance and ensure cross-team coordination on IT.

At CARE International UK we affirm the dignity, potential and contribution of participants, donors, partners and staff. Our actions are consistent with our mission. We are honest and transparent in what we do and say and accept responsibility for our collective and individual actions. We work together effectively to serve the larger community. We constantly challenge ourselves to the highest levels of learning and performance to achieve greater impact.

About you

The post holder is expected to have these skills and experience in the following:

Solutions

• Acting as CARE UK internally/externally hosted database and SharePoint Intranet administrator, meet with business teams to define needs, implementing those needs, and working with the internal IT dept.
• Manage data manipulation by using e.g., stored procedures, transactions, triggers etc. to provide information to help management decision.

Managing implementations

• Implement business need by identifying the correct delivery method.
• Take leadership role in Project Managing the upgrade or implementation of all relevant business solutions, be a focal point for delivery across the organization.

Database Management

• DBA Support - administration, maintenance, and technical support of CIUK’s database systems and BI Tools .
• Technical Application 3rd line support – providing technical expertise to Care’s IT Helpdesk/Support Engineers relating to in-house built applications.
• General administration of CARE databases including but not limited to backups, maintenance, security and necessary upgrades when required or needed.

For more information, please read the Candidate Brief.

About the role

The post holder has responsibility for maintaining the relevant CIUK’s Business Applications and Information Systems and working with different departments in identifying IT issues to support CIUK’s existing business processes and operations.  The post holder also needs to be an expert in this field.

About CARE

CARE International is one of the world’s leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world’s most vulnerable places.  We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

CARE International UK is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to dismantling harmful and oppressive structures of power and accordingly centre gender equity in our work to save lives, fight poverty and achieve social justice. The post holder agrees to promote and uphold these principles.

CARE International UK operates fair, transparent and non-discriminatory recruitment practices and actively encourages applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of skills and experiences. We are particularly interested to hear from candidates from Black and minoritised communities, LGBT+ candidates and disabled candidates.

CARE International UK is a disability confident employer. As part of our commitment to disability inclusion we guarantee interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role. To be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme please complete the relevant section in the online application form. If at any stage of the recruitment process you require reasonable adjustments, including a copy of the recruitment pack in large print or an alternative format, please contact hr team.

Safeguarding

CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or a child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. Recruitment to all jobs in CARE International UK includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.

To Apply:

To apply, please click on the apply button to be redirected to our website for the application form. Also, download and read the Business Systems Administrator Pack,  including the Job Description and Person Specification for more details on the role. Applications are completed online. If you require a copy of the recruitment pack in large print or an alternative format please contact hrteam. Please note, Curriculum Vitae’s (CVs) will not be accepted..

Closing date for applications: 23:59 Wednesday 25th May 2022

Interview date: w/c Monday 6th June 2022

Background

Shared Lives Plus is the UK membership charity for more than 6,000 Shared Lives carers, 150 Shared Lives schemes and a growing network of over 25 local Homeshare organisations. Our vision is a kinder, stronger society built on sharing our lives and our homes. We help build communities where everyone lives a full life, regardless of the support they need. We do this by turning Shared Lives and Homeshare into thriving, mainstream options, with all the right structures in place to support and guide those who want to share their lives and homes.

The purpose of this role is to drive the development of Shared Lives in Scotland. With a focus on growing the numbers of people with a learning disability that are supported you will work with Shared Lives schemes to help them to grow, and you will create, and present a case for new schemes to commissioners across Scotland.

Job Objectives

The overarching objectives of this role include:

To support growth, diversification and development in the Shared Lives sector for people with learning disabilities and supporting the formation of local partnerships.

To support our members to maintain the quality and safety of the Shared Lives sector during a period of growth and change.

To raise awareness of the Shared Lives model.

Main duties and responsibilities

1. Developing the Shared Lives sector in Scotland

To support growth, diversification and development in the Shared Lives sector for people with learning disabilities and supporting the formation of local partnerships.

Work with health and social care commissioners to promote the business case for Shared Lives in order to secure commitment to support the development of Shared Lives schemes locally.

Ensure that our own work and our members work engages with and empowers Shared Lives carers, people who use Shared Lives and their families.

2. Day to day

Support members wishing to develop, diversify, and grow existing Shared Lives schemes, ensuring that our support to members is effective and sustainable.

To work with key stakeholders, commissioners, and policy makers to raise awareness of the Shared Lives model.

To support our members, who are Shared Lives scheme managers and individual Shared Lives carers, safeguarding the values, quality and safety of the sector during a period of growth and change.

Develop new resources, training, and guidance for Shared Lives carers and schemes based on needs identified by our members, identifying good practice and sharing learning.

Support members with the recruitment of Shared Lives carers

Support members to implement the Quality Framework, and My Shared Life outcomes measuring tool within their practice.

Support members to develop new local partnerships.

Raise awareness of the value of the Shared Lives model with a range of stakeholders, contributing to the planning and delivery of events, and working with our Communications team.

Support the development of our evidence-based practice and outcome/ impact monitoring approaches, including reporting to external partners.

3. To Identify opportunities to develop a range of income sources.

Contribute to the completion of funding applications and reporting.

4. General

To contribute to the effective administration of Shared Lives Plus.

Engage in continuous self-development and training.

Work in a way which promotes diversity, equality of opportunity, and anti-discriminatory practice.

Operate at all times in a way that is consistent with Shared Lives Plus legal responsibilities including health and safety legislation, and guidance.

Work in accordance with Shared Lives Plus aims and objectives and policies and procedures and to promote a positive image of the organisation and its members.

Undertake such other duties as may reasonably be required, commensurate with the level of the post and the needs of the organisation.

The ideal candidate will will be home based and local to Scotland with the ability to travel around Scotland.

Your purpose

To encourage schools to join Voice 21’s membership programme for schools - Voice 21 Oracy Schools - by responding to new enquiries, generating and following up leads, supporting our outreach efforts and ensuring all information about prospects is stored correctly on our database.

Your responsibilities

Responding to enquiries

• Respond to emails from schools about joining our Voice 21 Oracy Schools membership

• Meet with teachers and senior leaders (usually virtually) to discuss the membership, encouraging them to become Voice 21 Oracy Schools and answering any questions they have

• Create proposal documents for groups of schools interesting in becoming Voice 21 Oracy Schools

• Support schools through the sign-up process and ensure both they and we receive the correct information needed for them to begin their memberships

Lead generation

• Identify potential new business leads from social media, events and marketing campaigns, and add these to Salesforce, our customer relationship management system

• Generate new business leads from the networks or contacts of current member schools, including working with colleagues internally to do so

• Analyse the sources of leads to better inform future marketing strategies

Pipeline management

• Manage the business development pipeline of prospects on Salesforce, ensuring all data is entered correctly and updated as needed

• Run reports identifying prospects to follow-up with and do so in a timely and supportive manner

Event planning and delivery

• Plan and deliver regular webinars about the Voice 21 Oracy Schools membership

• Spot opportunities for Voice 21 and our member schools to showcase our work at events across the education sector

Your progression

Within 1 month, you’ll have:

• A firm understanding of the active ingredients of a high-quality oracy education and how we support schools to implement these through our membership model

• Understood our business development systems, processes and the key language we use in talking about our Voice 21 Oracy Schools membership

• Built strong working relationships within the Engagement team, and developed a sound understanding of organisational context and our priorities within this

• Started to respond to enquiries from schools about working with us

Within 3 months, you’ll have: 

• Conducted calls with schools that are interested in working with us

• Taken charge of the administration of our pipeline of schools interested in working with us, ensuring all data is entered correctly on Salesforce and able to report numbers accurately

• Produced a bank of template emails for responding to different types of enquiry

• Met the whole Voice 21 team at our organisation-wide away days

• Experienced Voice 21’s professional development in action

Within 6 months, you’ll have: 

• Helped to design and deliver  a range of Voice 21 events to raise awareness of oracy and encourage schools to work with us

• Generated new leads from schools, local authorities or Multi-Academy Trusts that Voice 21 could work with

From 6 months onwards, we expect for you to be:

• Regularly conducting calls, responding to emails and delivering webinars to schools about becoming Voice 21 Oracy Schools

• Ensuring the constant generation of new leads from a variety of channels, including social media and events

This job is for you if you…

• Are a collaborator with great communication skills (written and verbal) and are comfortable talking with wide range external stakeholders, showing excellent customer service skills

• Have experience working in education or excellent knowledge of the education sector

• Are highly organised - you enjoy making a plan and seeing it through. You might have previous experience organising events, programmes or in an administrative role, and have excellent attention-to-detail

• Have previous experience in working to hit targets, especially in a sales and marketing context

• Have strong IT skills and are competent using MS Office (essential), ideally with some experience with a database or Customer Relationship Management system like Salesforce

• Are proactive in identifying problems with systems and processes and implementing solutions

• Are a self-starter who takes on new opportunities and challenges with positivity and enthusiasm

• Are passionate about Voice 21’s mission and helping us to transform outcomes for students in our target population

Who you’ll work with: 

• Our School Recruitment and Partnerships Lead, to meet our business development targets, including a 30% increase in the number of schools we’re working with each year 

• The Marketing and Communications team, to help generate leads from our events, social media and other platforms, and to ensure our marketing materials are tailored to the enquiries we’re receiving

• You’ll report to the Head of Engagement, part of a team dedicated to growing Voice 21’s reach to achieve our goal of working with 1900 schools by 2025.

Where you’ll work: Remote, with regular travel to our London Office and elsewhere and occasional overnight stays required.

Contract: Permanent, subject to successful probation review at 3 months.

Terms: We would welcome applications on a full-time or 4-day per week basis.

The charity is seeking a Development Manager to take the lead on the charity’s operations in Northern Ireland and Scotland, and deliver the Hourglass model of community-focused support to tackle and prevent the abuse of older people.

This is a dynamic role, presenting a unique opportunity to create a responsive and person-centred support framework.

The Development Manager will play a key role in shaping Hourglass’ response to meeting the needs of vulnerable older people and their communities.

Leading a team of staff and volunteers, the postholder will develop strong partnerships with other agencies and networks, and have operational responsibility for all programmes, services and developments in both Northern Ireland and Scotland.  The Development Manager will also be involved in scoping the pathway for Hourglass to work in the Republic of Ireland.

As part of a UK-wide team, the postholder will work closely with the Management team, providing support relating to programmes, performance, policy, communications, and fundraising. With a passion for supporting and representing older people, the Development Manager will utilise relevant skills, knowledge and experience to develop an end-to-end model of support from prevention right through to recovery.

Cochrane aims to put evidence at the heart of health decision-making globally. They collaborate to produce trusted synthesized evidence, make it accessible to all, and advocate for its use. Cochrane is seeking a Director of Development to work with their global community to grow fundraising income and ensure Cochrane has a sustainable and successful future.

Cochrane is a charity and a global, independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of making vast amounts of research evidence useful for informing decisions about health. They do this by synthesising research findings to produce the best available evidence on what works. Their work has been recognised as the international gold standard for high quality, trusted information.

As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, this new role will lead the Development Directorate (which includes fundraising, advocacy, communications, partnerships, member and supporter engagement) and will establish a fundraising operation that works collaboratively to deliver significant global income growth. The Director of Development will play a key part in the transformation of the organisation as part of the 2021-2023 Strategy to ensure that Cochrane maintains its relevance and pre-eminence into the future.

Cochrane is seeking an ambitious individual who relishes a challenge, loves collaborative working, delivers results and has extensive experience of successfully delivering strategy. The ideal candidates will possess an understanding and experience of international fundraising, strong relationship management skills, and experience of working at director-level. Finally, you will be enterprising and a strategic thinker with the ability to seek and find creative solutions and foster innovation in your teams.

Barnardo’s is the largest national children’s charity in the UK. We protect, support, and nurture the UK's vulnerable children. We help hundreds of thousands of children, young people, parents, and carers via our 800+ diverse services across the UK. The scale of what we do may be big and complex, but our aim is simple – to provide better outcomes for more children, no matter who they are or what they have been through. We are committed to working in partnership to reach more Children, Young People, and families.

Our current Director of Commercial & Business Development – Children’s Services will be leaving having developed a very successful directorate, and we are now seeking to recruit an exceptional candidate to build on our sector-leading commercial activity. Reporting to our Corporate Director of Development & Innovation, your key responsibilities will include:

• Aligning all areas of the business development and commercial strategy to support Barnardo’s vision, purpose, objectives, identifying opportunities and robust solutions.
• Providing strategic leadership and oversight of our commercial business lines operations, including our Family Placement, Gap Homes, and Employer Training Services businesses, with a combined 600 staff and turnover of £42m
• Developing and identifying new opportunities, markets, and solutions to achieve our organisation strategy and achieve better outcomes for Children and Young People
• Delivering commercial expertise and advice into high value and pan-regional bids and their implementation in partnership with regional and national Children Services operational teams, frontline services, and corporate teams
• Leading improvements to the quality of all tendering activity across Barnardo’s, which will continually increase the positive outcomes achieved through competitive bids
• As a senior leader, working with key stakeholders to develop and innovate our approach to strategic partnerships, system change and operational services to address the needs of Children and young people, commissioners, and funders

This is not a traditional business development role. The focus of your work will be strategic, proactive, market development, working closely with our partners and commissioners to co-design and co-produce interventions that change the system and deliver better outcomes for more children.

The successful candidate will have strong commercial acumen and be adept at identifying opportunities, creating partnerships, and assessing risk/reward. You will ideally have experience of working with children’s services or another setting where services work with high risk, vulnerable groups. You’ll need a good understanding of tendering and contracts in the public sector, and a breadth of operational leadership experience to provide oversight and support to the managers of our commercial businesses.

If you’re driven by a passion to make a difference to young people’s lives, we want to hear from you. Your ability to succeed in this role will have a tangible impact on children and young people both by directly raising income that funds our vital services, and by creating new approaches that can reach more children and young people.

For further a recruitment pack with further information including how to apply, please contact James Stephens at Morgan Law Executive Recruitment. The Closing Date for applications will be 11pm on Wednesday 25th May. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual to join our charity at an exciting time and help achieve our growth ambitions. We are looking for an energetic and inspiring Director of Income Generation and Business Development who will spearhead the growth in income we need to deliver our strategic plan, seeking to exceed targets always.

InFocus Charity is a specialist charity supporting young people with vision impairment and complex needs through a range of education and adult care services.  We have unique expertise in our field, and are passionate about enabling young people facing multiple barriers to live their best lives.

Director of Income Generation and Business Development
Location: Exeter. Some degree of hybrid working possible

Salary: £55-£57k  
Contract: Full Time (although 4 days a week might be considered), Permanent

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will be responsible for:

• All aspects of current income generation including retail, catering, commercial partnerships and fundraising
• Diversifying and strengthening fundraising, gaining new supporters and attracting new funding
• Creating and identifying new business opportunities and partnerships
• Marketing and raising brand awareness in order to increase admissions to education and care services

You will:

• Have loads of interest and enthusiasm for what we do, and a commitment to ensuring that the young people we support are empowered to live their best life. 
• Be successfully leading one or more aspects of income generation and/or marketing in a charity and/or have entrepreneurial flair and a track record in business and want to use those skills for a really good cause
• Be able to win people over, influence others, plan big projects and negotiate
• Think creatively and work collaboratively to achieve your goals

Closing date: Monday 30th May at 10.00am

Interviews in Exeter: Wednesday 8th June – allow the whole day.

To apply and for more information please visit our website - InFocus Charity 

For an informal chat with the CEO and/or site visit prior to application please contact Amanda Gorfin, Executive Assistant 

Business Development/Fundraising Manager (Please note this role is known internally as *Relationship Manager - Product Neutral)

Salary: £30,500 - £32,500 (inclusive of car allowance worth £4,500) Car allowances are not viewed as a benefit or as any part of remuneration. Employees who receive a car allowance must provide a suitable car for business purposes, and is based on the criteria of a minimum business mileage of 5,000 per annum.

Contract length: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week

Location: Home Based/Field Based in Northern Ireland (NI has two regions and this is for the East Side of Northern Ireland with the defining line Ballintoy, Lissolman, Ballymoney, Rosnashane, Portglenone, Newferry, Toome, Portadown and including all the towns and cities East of this) candidates must live within 20 miles of patch due to business need.

Please note we will be shortlisting upon application, the role will close once we find a suitable candidate, please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Are you an ambitious, driven people person, passionate about raising money to support Cancer Research UK with its plans to beat cancer sooner?

At Cancer Research UK, our pioneering research has helped double survival rates in the last 40 years but there is much more that we want to do. Our Managers inspire and engage with our communities to enable us to raise the funds we need to continue this life saving research. We now have an amazing opportunity for you to join the UK's leading cancer charity whose science holds the solution.

Why we need you

We're looking for a natural people person, with excellent relationship building skills. You'll be used to managing conflicting priorities and be adaptable in an environment where no two days are the same.

What will I be doing?

Our Managers work within the community to provide individuals, groups and corporate supporters an exceptional level of service across the Cancer Research UK portfolio. They will inspire and motivate supporters to develop long-term relationships and maximising fundraising opportunities. There is also a strong focus on acquisition within the role and we are looking for someone who can maximise opportunities to bring in new fundraising opportunities for Cancer Research UK. Internally this role is known as Relationship Manager, however the role could also suit someone who has worked as a Business Development Manager, Fundraising Manager or Account Manager.

This role Includes evening and weekend work with occasional overnight stays

Make an impact every day by…

• Inspiring, developing and managing supporters to achieve their goals through offering outstanding and tailored stewardship

• Ensuring each supporter has a stewardship plan in place which best fits their motivations

• Planning and delivering effective rewards and recognition to increase loyalty and income

• Building strong working relationships with other divisional team members

• Supporting the development of a prospect pipelines of opportunities and identifying and cultivating leads.

Please see the following link for a full candidate pack:

What skills are you looking for?

You'll be able to bring to the role…

• Excellent networking and relationship manager skills - and the ability to motivate and influence supporters or customers to reach targets

• Experience of working as part of a high performing team, achieving and exceeding KPIs and targets

• Experience of working as a team, and also working unsupervised

• Ability to understand CRUK's vision and purpose, and using this to motivate and inspire supporters

• A strong solutions focused approach to help supporters overcome any challenges and maximise their fundraising efforts

• Great time management, prioritisation and planning skills.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills (face to face, written and phone) to engender the confidence of supporters and build long lasting relationship

What will I gain?

Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So, we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance, gym membership, childcare vouchers and much more. You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately, you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work.

If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.

Application method: In our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, we operate an anonymised shortlisting process. Please therefore ensure that you have completed the work history section of the application form and copied your cover letter into the screening question when requested. CVs are required for all applications; however, they will not be reviewed as part of the shortlisting process