What Is F4S?

F4S opens the eyes of young people the life chances open to them, by connecting them to thousands of professionals with inspirational stories to tell and experience to share.

Teachers and professionals from across the UK have brokered over 1,200,000 student- employer encounters with F4S, inspiring young people, helping them understand what skills are needed to improve their employability.

At our core, we are developing meaningful and direct connections between professionals, teachers, and young people, in particular those from more disadvantaged areas.

Our platform for young people aged 6-18, the Educator Service, provides a GPS system with recommendations to guide educators and young people to search for, and request professionals to offer inspirational engagements, which open the minds of children across the UK. Like amazon and booking com but with people rather than books or hotels.

Evolved with over five years of experience, the platform includes a recommendation engine, which guides the educator and young people to select the most appropriate professional to help them take steps along their journey to fulfilling lives.

Arguably our most powerful services are our deep analytics services, which provide a high and low-level oversight of our engagements to a variety of stakeholders from parent to government.

Life at F4S

We are hugely ambitious for F4S and our strategy is to deepen and broaden the number of young people whose lives he touch across the UK, so it is a strategy for growth.

We are a small home-based team in England and Scotland. Whilst you work from home, regular team meetings will be organized.

We believe that physical, and emotional well-being is directly related to cognitive performance, so we support and encourage planning your work schedule around well-being escapes. When it comes to 'work hours', it is a core belief that putting in a consistent level of effort that you can be proud of is a much better metric than hours logged against the clock. 

You want to work at F4S because you realised how school was so disconnected from the real world. You believe that there is a better way to make students excited about their future and help them enjoy and fulfil productive lives. You believe that schools can use technology to change what they do from the inside-out.

You are an experienced project manager and pride yourself to deliver projects on time and on budget? You are a strong collaborator and an expert in delivering against KPIs and reporting progress to stakeholders? You have outstanding communication skills? 

If you have the skills to effectively help F4S to develop and deliver powerful projects supporting our mission, then I look forward to working with you.

Job Description 

Role purpose – overview

The Business Analyst / Project Manager Lead is a newly recreated role to help deliver the company's projects and the day-to-day management of project teams across England and Scotland.

The Business Analyst / Project Manager Lead will be responsible for their own projects and support others to deliver our projects. We hope you will bring and implement best practices across the organisation and ensure standards relating to project management, planning and execution are maintained, ensuring we continue to deliver projects on-time, within scope and on budget.

Another core responsibility of the BA/PM lead is to ensure the technical delivery and maintenance of our product. We would like you to ensure that processes for technical implementations are established, as well as specifications written so that the development team can implement these.

This role will work closely with the Managing Director to support the achievement of the organisation's operational objectives.

Roles and responsibilities:

Business Analyst (40%) 

Founders4Schools owns, runs, and maintains a SAAS service that is evolving with the needs of our stakeholders. The platform is a web-based educational platform that connects educators, business leaders and pupils. The responsibility of the BA/PM lead is to lead the maintenance of the platform and work with the team so that it evolves to continue to delight our stakeholders:

●   Introducing new features and enhancements to the platform by understanding, capturing and documenting requirements.

●   Creating both short and long term project plans to implement needs.

●   Liaising with developers and testers on the implementation of plans.

●   Managing an agile development process, including daily standup meetings, prioritisation, capacity planning and day to day project management

●   Manage the agile release process, with small incremental changes deployed in short, regular intervals

●   Measure and track performance by leveraging various tools and ticketing systems to maximise the efficiency and responsiveness of the teams, and the ability to respond to change quickly.

●   Manage multiple concurrent features and deployments simultaneously

●   Collaborate with members of the team, to identify bottlenecks and solve problems as and when they arise and leverage various collaborations tools that facilitate communication and multi-contributors. 

●   Communicate to the MD project budget, progress and other issues and needs of the project.

 

Project Manager (60%)

●   Planning and delivering projects undertaken by F4S and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action.

●   Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the Projects - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the Projects, and outwardly on its coherence in line with our mission and purpose.

●   Managing the project budgets, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the projects progress.

●   Facilitating the appointment of individuals to project teams.

●   Ensuring the delivery of new products or services from projects is to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the Project of projects undertaken by Founders4Schools.

●   Ensuring there is an allocation of common resources and skills within the Project's individual projects.

●   Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects.

●   Managing risks to the Project's successful outcome.

●   Initiating extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the Project are identified or issues arise

On large and complex projects it may be appropriate to appoint other individuals to support the Business Analyst / Project Manager Lead for some of the particular responsibilities listed above.

 

Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours and  Attributes 

 Qualifications 

1. Graduate degree in a relevant field desirable

2. Project Management Qualification (Ideally Prince2)

 

Essential Experience 

1. Profound understanding of software product management

2. 3-4 years experience in software development - working across specification, design, implementation and testing

3. At least 5-7 years of project management using project planning and management methodologies, ensuring projects are managed to time, scope and budget

4. Budgeting, resource allocation and management from bidding to execution 

5. Experience working with small teams

6. Experience of project reporting to different stakeholders and funders 

Desirable Experience 

1. Experience in the charity sector desirable

2. Successfully managing diverse groups of stakeholders

3. Experience in leading, coaching and developing project management teams

 

Skills 

●   Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - with project team members and stakeholders alike

●   Extensive experience with Software Platform products 

●   Outstanding knowledge of platforms for planning, monitoring and controlling projects.

●   Sound business case development and approvals skills.

●   Good knowledge of Project and project management methods both waterfall and agile

●   Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures

●   The ability to identify and mitigate risks

●   Working knowledge of Github, Jira, Confluence would be ideal

 

Behaviours 

1. Communicates clearly and concisely, individually and across a broad scope of stakeholders and communities.

2. Expresses complex ideas and concepts in simple terms; listens to the views of others; changes communication styles to meet individual and audience needs; encourages dialogue and effective communication by others.

3. Builds, maintains and deepens constructive and effective relationships with stakeholders with a specific focus on F4S’s mission; changes approach to achieve desired results if required.

4. Has a customer-focused orientation to others, is flexible and always puts the good of others at the centre of decision making; optimises respect for others and is dedicated to F4S’s purpose and fulfilling the mission.

5. Is a supportive team player, collaborates creating a culture of knowledge sharing and team learning to strengthen high business performance. Is proactive in teamwork, has the capacity for continuous business learning to facilitate F4S’s mission.

6. Enterprising attitude that is quick to search out alternative solutions to needs or problems; demonstrable ability to foster a healthy organisational culture of teamwork and collaboration in problem-solving.

7. Demonstrates equity, transparency and integrity with high personal and organisational ethical standards; is fair, honest and trustworthy with respect for confidentiality; inspires and builds trust and respect from others; promotes credibility and professional reputation.

8. Respectful of diversity; sensitive toward others in their context, situation and challenges; pluralistic, open and understanding toward other people’s cultures, values, autonomy, and faiths; demonstrates compassion and empathy; is courteous to others with respect for their background, religion, gender and age.

Leadership Behaviours and Attributes 

1. Strong sense of accountability, responsibility, meritocracy and professionalism, thorough with a clear focus on governance and excellence. 

2. Forges strong collaborative organisational and multi-agency partnerships, to motivate self and teams to work effectively to deliver programmatic results; interacts and engages with businesses, communities and decision-makers including a variety of internal and external players.

3. Inspires self and others to greater performance, professional standards and results.

4. Leads change and encourages learning; gives and receives timely balanced feedback.

5. Drives commitment to delivering high quality results with cost-effective use of resources; sets appropriate deliverables and uses innovative working methods to develop capacity.

6. Has a clear vision of outcome and communicates this to inspire resources, leads and encourages change and changes approach to achieve results when required.

 

F4S Company Values

Our values govern our culture. It defines who joins the team, how to defend and make arguments, and how to hold each other accountable to what we do. 

 

(S)cale

we build for scale and measure our achievements by the extent they are taken up.

(C)ollaboration 

We achieve greater impact through working with others 

(A)ct with Integrity 

We act responsibly at all times 

(L)eadership 

We lead by example in everything we say and do, particularly with regards to execution

(E)xecution 

We say what we do and we do it on time and on budget

 

We are proud to employ a rich mix of educationalists and other professionals around the world. As well as our teachers and school leaders, all our people are passionate about education – from accountants to researchers and from analysts to project managers. 

Consultants within Education Development Trust fulfil a number of functions. They provide technical expertise for developing our education solutions and methods. They support our engagement with clients, ensuring we are suitably positioned for new opportunities. They take a technical and strategic lead on business development for large-scale opportunities through our Strategic Growth team, and they also deliver commercial work through the Consultancy team. 

We are currently seeking a PRINCIPAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT focused on business development. They will work within our Strategic Growth team to play a leading role securing new, high-value and strategically important opportunities for the Education Services Group within the Trust. This will be achieved through providing oversight and quality assurance across a number of our regions and consultancy function, supporting Senior Consultants and working with Regional Directors/Consultants with the identification, cultivation and winning of new contract opportunities. They will oversee and be accountable for the full opportunity life-cycle for business units they support. 

We are interested in hearing from individuals with strong experience working on business development, technical knowledge of educational systems and with a strong skill-set around design, communication and stakeholder management. Experience of successful contract bidding and the ability to deliver/quality assure high-scoring proposals is essential. 

In return we offer 30 days annual leave, a 6% matched pension scheme, a range of voluntary benefits, excellent training, and family friendly policies to support flexible working. 

Please note, we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and reserve the right to close our vacancies early. 

About the organisation
Education Development Trust is a leading education services charity working in over 80 countries.  We have over 50 years’ experience delivering high impact large-scale education programmes, influential consultancy and running and a global public education research programme. Together, these enable us to help transform school systems worldwide and fulfil Education Development Trust’s mission.

Education Development Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate must be willing to undergo an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Deputy Director (Business Development)

Full Time 37.5 hours per week

Location: Bradford City Centre (Likely to be home based for much of the time during COVID)

Salary: Circa £40,000 p.a.

The Bridge Project is seeking an experienced and motivated leader to develop and implement the organisation’s business development strategy in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of writing and developing winning tenders and experience working in in the substance misuse, criminal justice, health or related sector

In return, you will enjoy a varied, interesting role, working for a well-established local charity, that values its staff and is committed to their well-being and professional development.

Full details of the roles and access to the on-line application form can be found on our website

Please note, CVs will not be accepted.
Latest date for receipt of applications is Friday 4th December

Interviews will be held on 10th or 14th December
 

Are you a successful fundraiser who is ready to inspire and lead an Engagement Team of highly committed individuals and also be part of the Senior Leadership Team?

The Head of Engagement is a new role and will oversee and develop the Engagement Team which is made up of some current staff with some newly formed roles. As the leader you will ensure the team collaborates closely with one another and across the organisation. The objectives of the Team are to recruit students and raise funds, to agreed targets. The Engagement Team will promote, mobilise, motivate as well as partner with churches, mission agencies and networks around the world to inform them of what we offer to support transformative learning and facilitate reflective practice across the All Nations Global Community.

All Nations Christian College is the largest intercultural and cross-cultural mission training college in Europe with our world class staff and a great reputation around the world. So, the question is - are you ready to join our highly-motivated, dynamic and creative team, and play a crucial role in helping All Nations increase its impact, sustainability and reach?

If so, you will be a positive, high energy, proactive and tenacious person with some solid evidence of successful fundraising. You will be a strategic thinker with exceptional written and verbal communication skills and a commitment to collaborative working. This role is very much hands-on, leading by example, and will work with team members to develop asks and look for ways to take opportunities forward.

We are open to the option of the role being filled by two people as a job share.

The role sits on the Senior Leadership Team and there is a genuine occupational requirement for this post to be filled by a Christian who is passionate about cross cultural mission and fully able to articulate the overall purpose as well as the detail of the College’s mission, from a personal faith basis.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Developing a strategy and tactical plans for raising income through trusts, foundations, high value individuals and others, including the generation and promotion of appeals
• Producing stories and creating narratives with compelling visuals which can be used by ambassadors and other members of the Engagement Team
• Supporting the Principal & Chief Executive and the Engagement Team members to cultivate and maintain relationships with funders, including grant givers, churches and individuals
• Ensuring follow up with donors is timely and accurate, developing healthy long term relationships with supporters and partners
• Applying and reporting (as appropriate) to Trusts/funding schemes, working alongside course programme leaders and tutors/administrators when necessary
• Maintaining knowledge of grant giving bodies, the charity sector and any trends to ensure you identify and capitalise on any relevant opportunities for the organisation
• Overseeing Engagement Team members, undertaking regular one to one meetings, appraisals and target setting.

Chief Executive Officer for the South West MS Centre

Salary: £35k to £45k per annum (pro rata for reduced hours), dependant on skills, qualifications and experience.

Location: at our therapy centre in Exeter with some travel in Devon.

Hours: Full time role (4 days considered)

This is a new role and an exciting opportunity for the right candidate. We are looking for someone who is an exceptional and inspirational leader, who has the aspiration, integrity and ability to help us shape the future of our charity.

The Chief Executive will be working with the staff and trustees to provide collaborative leadership and be responsible for the management of the charity. Together with the Chair and the Board of Trustees they will create an environment of growth and create and develop opportunities to enhance our services and our charity.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of small charity management and if possible some clinical/medical management experience.
• Experience of working at a strategic level developing and implementing new services and products.
• Rounded management skills to include risk management, HR and Health and Safety and financial planning.
• Proven commercial acumen and business management and income generation.
• Thorough understanding of marketing and fund raising strategy.
• The ability to build strong networks with potential external sponsors.
• The ability to inspire confidence and develop our vision, cultivating valuable internal and external relationships.

To learn more about our charity visit our website.

We are keen to represent the diversity of the people we serve, and welcome applications from communities who may be under-represented in our workforce.

To apply please in the first instance send your CV and a covering letter addressing your suitability for the role.

Closing date: 5 pm on 18th December 2020. Interview date 26th January 2021. Interviews will comply with social distancing protocols.

Senior Youth Understanding Officer needed for the Youth Endowment Fund to lead the commissioning and delivery of national peer research and social action network.

Reports to: Head of Research and Youth Understanding,

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000

Location: Central London

Contract:Full time. The role starts with a two-year contract

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners, the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.

Research and evidence are at the heart of our charity’s mission. We want to be the go-to place for evidence on the lives of children affected by youth crime and violence, its causes, and what works to prevent it. The research and youth understanding team are responsible for commissioning and producing research to inform the YEF’s understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and to help us better understand the lives of young people vulnerable to youth violence, and what this means for the YEF’s work.

About this role

We’re looking for a passionate person who is committed to ensuring that evidence and a deep understanding of young people are central to everything that we do. Your job will be to lead the commissioning and delivery of a national peer research and social action network that the YEF will be establishing. This network will support the YEF’s understanding of youth crime and its drivers and will involve several partners, including:

• a national partner helping support and coordinate overall project delivery,
• a learning partner conducting a developmental evaluation of the project,
• a technology partner developing and supporting the systems to collect and process data across the network, and
• up to ten delivery partners operating in the ten regions of England and Wales, responsible for the recruitment, training, and ongoing support of peer researchers, as well as supporting the delivery of social action projects.

It will also include boosting our understanding of the characteristics, backgrounds and lives of the children and communities affected by youth crime and violence.

You will have knowledge and experience in a relevant sector such as the youth sector, social work, children’s social care or education. You will help identify, assess, fund and support organisations that will be responsible for delivering our national peer research network over the next two years.

Key responsibilities

Working as a senior member of a team, we want a person who can:

• Make sure we choose the best organisations to work with through managing the assessment of funding applications, getting to know potential partners and where possible conducting site visits.
• Build strong relationships with our partners and lead the ongoing oversight of the partners that will assist the YEF in delivering a national peer research and social action network, thinking creatively about how we can work with our partners to achieve our aims
• Oversee the development of materials to support the roll-out and delivery of the peer research and social action network
• Help host project events
• Be responsible for involving YEF’s youth advisory board in the oversight and delivery of the network
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality research across the network, which is designed to answer key questions of relevance to the YEF and the sector
• Help ensure that research and youth understanding informs all of the YEF’s work
• Engage with and understand the experiences and needs of people affected by violent youth crime, including young people and their families, across England and Wales.
• Work collaboratively with a range of external partners, including central government, local bodies and other research organisations, to enhance our understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and in delivering our broader research programme.
• Support the synthesis and dissemination of learnings across the network and external stakeholders in conjunction with a learning partner.

About you

You are this sort of person:

• You are a naturally very curious person that is confident with qualitative research. You have expertise in a range of qualitative research methods. You can provide examples of how you have practically used these skills.
• You are an excellent communicator. You love to communicate research to a diverse range of audiences, many of whom are not experts.
• You’re able to work independently and as part of a team. You get satisfaction from supporting your colleagues and meeting goals together but are self- motivated and can work independently.
• You are a highly effective project manager. You are effective at managing projects from beginning to end, whether they are delivered internally or externally.
• You win people over. You can build great partnerships and are comfortable working with a range of different people, including young people.
• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
  You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values.
• You want to work in a job that makes young people safer. This issue matters to you. You do not need extensive experience in grant making, you can learn that. You will be an incredible member of our team if you are committed to understanding the challenges facing young people and the people and organisations working to support them and are inspired by a mission to find what works to prevent violence.
   

You must be able to demonstrate the following areas of knowledge/experience:

• Delivery experience: You have practical experience of delivering participatory research and managing teams delivering participatory research. You know what it's like to support young people and/or deliver programmes. When a person or organisation we fund is facing challenges, you can relate. You know when to provide challenge and support to ensure quality.
• Research methods: You have good knowledge and practical experience of a range of research methods including participatory research and qualitative approaches, and the ability to both deploy them and critically appraise their use.
• Excellent communicator: You can combine your technical expertise with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible way to non-experts.
• Stakeholder engagement: You are comfortable seeking the views of young people and other stakeholders to help gather experiential insights for our work. This could include facilitating sessions with them.
• Project management: You are comfortable leading projects from beginning to end, tracking progress across different workstreams and ensuring delivery keeps to deadlines. When things might not go to plan, you aren't afraid to speak up about it and work constructively to find solutions.
• Collaborative working: You see value in working with others to get the best outcomes on each task and project.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion: You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, backgrounds and values.

You might have these sorts of qualifications/knowledge/skills/experience:

• Previous experience of grant making, or managing complex programmes with multiple partners
• Post-graduate degree (Masters or PhD) in social science, social policy, public health, health services or other field, with a significant qualitative component, or relevant experience equivalent to a Masters qualification.

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

You will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage.

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 14th December. You must be available for two interviews within this week to proceed.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

Ability to work flexibly this can be a combination of working from home and/or at one of our sites (we are more interested in the right person than where you are based)

Are you motivated by challenging targets, shaping a strategy and leading change whilst still getting hands-on? Do you have a passion for raising money?  Are you interested in exploring our place in the world through our past? Excellent, then we’re the place where you want to work next.

Our mission is to tell the epic story of the Royal Navy and we do this through planes, ships, submarines, people, collections, exhibitions, galleries and new museums. Our vision is to be the most inspiring naval museum in the world. To deliver on both of these we need talented people who understand how culture, heritage and tourist attractions can play a role in regeneration and renewal, both economic and societal.

Key Opportunities

• We’re currently looking to fill two new roles Corporate and New Business Partnership Lead and Data, Insight and Supporter Engagement Lead. We have recently restructured and need to change our fundraising approach to match our ambition.

• Data, Insight and Supporter Engagement Lead: we have over a 1 million visitors a year, we need to turn these visitors into donor, supporters and members. You will intrinsically understand why we regard understanding our data and building on that insight as the only way we will build a sustainable income model.

Knowledge/Experience

• Extensive experience of using a data-informed, insight-led individual giving strategy that draws upon compelling narratives to drive significant income growth

• Expertise in using digital technologies to underpin effective supporter acquisition, retention and engagement.

• Applied experience in supporter engagement, prospect research, legacy management and an understanding of membership programmes.

• Deep knowledge of segmenting and analysing donor, member and customer data in order to drive income.

• Familiar with implementing analytics capability, data modelling and life time value analysis to inform supporter management and engagement.

• A deep understanding and strong track record of personally leading change.

• Excellent written and verbal communication with ability to interpret complex data into actionable insights presented in an accessible format.

Do you want to work for a dynamic, creative, fast-paced charity? 

At Action Together we see the amazing things people achieve when they work together to make the lives of others better. We connect people, charities, public agencies and businesses who want to do good stuff, help them to find the money they need and provide the practical support to get things going and keep them going.

If you share our values; believe it's possible; strengthen others and be true, we’d love you to consider joining our team.

Healthwatch Tameside is one of the teams within Action Together and is the independent champion for people who use health and social care services. We’re here to find out what matters to people and help make sure their views shape the support they need. We have the power to make sure that those in charge of services hear people’s voices. Our sole purpose is to help make care better for people.

We are currently recruiting a Support with Complaints Officer (maternity cover). In this role you will specialise in the coordination and support for local people who wish to complain about care delivered by the NHS or social care providers. You will talk to clients who are unhappy with the NHS care they have received, help them to self-advocate, assist in their communication with NHS organisations and help them to navigate the formal NHS complaints process. You may also work as a member of the Healthwatch Tameside team to contribute to the effective delivery of wider Healthwatch activities.

Support with Complaints Officer (part time maternity cover)

Salary: NJC 19-22  £25,481-£27,041 (pro rata)

(actual £8,494-£9,014)

Contact Length: 12 months maternity cover

Working hours: 12 hours per week (open to discussion about working patterns)

In this role you will work alongside the Senior Officer for Complaints and Engagement, to support and advise people wishing to make a complaint about their NHS or social care experience.This role requires the post holder to undertake a DBS check. Confirmation in post is dependent on return of a satisfactory completed DBS check

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 9 December 2020 11:59pm.

Interviews are planned for the week commencing 14 December 2020.

Oxfordshire Youth are looking for an ambitious, talented and bold strategic leader to join us as we fight the good fight for young people. 

Job Purpose

The Youth Engagement and Skills Manager will provide strategic direction for operational excellence that results in high levels of youth engagement and high quality skills and training for young people who have complex needs, under Oxfordshire Youth’s ‘Building Skills for Life’ area of work. The role will focus on building Youth Engagement (ensuring that young people’s views are woven into the very fabric of Oxfordshire Youth) and Youth Skills (overseeing skills development and training for young people, and designing pathways for young people to build life skills).

Our commitment to Inclusion and Diversity

OY is striving to build a team that is truly inclusive. We warmly welcome applications from marginalised groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non-binary people and disabled people. Your potential to learn and grow in the role is important to us, so even if you don’t have 100% of what we are asking for, we want to hear from you. Appointment will be made on merit alone. 

I am working with a leading mental health charity who have a new vacancy for a Senior Major Donor Fundraiser on a permanent basis.

You will be part of a 17 strong Marketing & Income Generation Directorate. You will sit within the Partnerships Team alongside colleagues covering Trust, Corporate and Public Sector Contracting.

You will have a strong working relationship with colleagues, especially those providing the services and campaigns for which they are raising funds and representatives from corporate organisations, public sector bodies and philanthropists.

To be considered for this role, you will need to have experience in securing significant income from Major Donors (5 figure+), proven experience of generating new business, be a natural relationship builder and have a collaborative approach to work.

You will initially be based from home. However, you will eventually need to be in the London office at least twice a week.

The charity is currently conducting a 6 month pilot in which staff work a compressed week (Monday to Thursday) and reduced hours (34 hours per week) with no change to pay and benefits. This will be reviewed in March 2021 and may become permanent.

For more info please contact:

[email protected] or call 0207 820 7336.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

Supporter Giving and Marketing Officer

We are looking for a Supporter Giving and Marketing Officer to develop and implement engaging and innovative supporter marketing communications in line with the Income and Engagement Strategy and in accordance with the vision, promise and values of the organisation.

You will develop a range of communications and donor journeys using all channels to increase income, engagement, loyalty and life-time value, and work with the wider team to implement key areas of strategy and take responsibility for producing plans, budgets and forecasts.

Supporter Giving and Marketing Officer Responsibilities:

- Implement key areas of the Supporter Giving strategy to recruit, retain, develop and engage donors using a range of techniques including mail, venue, door to door, online, email, phone, SMS, DRTV and social channels.
- Ensure that activity works effectively as part of our overall giving and marketing strategy.
- Create and support business cases for new fundraising methods including ROI, supporter acquisition cost and channel payback models.
- Work across the organisation to maximize income by implementing seamless stewardship plans that will deliver an excellent, engaging and targeted supporter experience to individual donors.
- Innovate and make changes to plans throughout the year to ensure annual budgets are achieved.
- Produce quarterly reviews and monthly budget reforecasts of allocated areas of the budget.
- Research the charity market to identify trends, opportunities and threats within the sector and how they could impact CLIC Sargent, including competitor analysis and research.
- Work with agencies and suppliers to deliver agreed plans and campaigns; including creative agencies, printers, media buyers, telemarketing agencies and external agencies used for Payroll Giving, Door to Door and Venue -Fundraising and any other new methods
- Ensure all activities comply with appropriate legal, regulatory and fundraising good practice requirements and with CLIC Sargent policies and standards.

Supporter Giving and Marketing Officer Requirements:

The successful candidate will have experience of implementing successful direct marketing acquisition, retention and engagement campaigns across all channels including digital. They will be skilled in managing budget and external suppliers as well as internal stakeholders. They will be expected to be proactive and work effectively as a team. They will need excellent analytical skills and to have worked with databases before.

We are always looking for talented people from all backgrounds, to join us and help improve the lives of children and young people with cancer and their families. We particularly want to encourage people from under-represented groups to step forward and apply to work or volunteer with CLIC Sargent.

CLIC Sargent is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

About CLIC Sargent:

Today, 12 children and young people in the UK hear the shocking news they have cancer. CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families, and provides them with clinical, practical, emotional and financial support. You can be a part of helping them cope with cancer and get the most out of life.

Location: Flexible

Job type: Full Time, Temporary (10 months)

Hours: 35 per week

Salary: £25,219 to £28,372 (outside London); £26,585 to £29,948 (London)

Benefits: In return for your commitment, we offer a great reward package, which includes generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme.

Closing Date: 7 December 2020
Interview Date: 14 December 2020

You may have experience of the following: Individual Giving Officer, Individual Giving Executive, Individdual Giving Assistant, Marketing Officer, Marketing Executive, Marketing Assistant, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Executive, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising, Marketing Communications, Marketing Campaigns, Supporter Marketing, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.

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Are you able to listen ? Do you have the experience, maturity and empathy to support people who have concerns about their workplace ? Could you help someone decide their next steps, without stepping over the line ? You will be covering Barking / Essex Area and must be able to drive.

We are looking for an experienced Guardian with excellent communication skills to support contacting employees to find a self-determined resolution to their concerns for independent and confidential staff liaison service.

The Role
Promptly respond to initial telephone or email, contacts providing an empathic and non-judgemental approach.
Arrange as soon as possible to complete conversations with contacting employees at mutually convenient times and venues. Maximise the use of telephone, skype, facetime etc. in order to facilitate speedy resolution.
Escalate (anonymously when necessary) and remain in contact with the contacting employee and those in the escalation path to ensure a satisfactory resolution is agreed.
When required facilitate a meeting between a contacting employee and a colleague, escalating formally their concern (with their permission) in line with the agreed escalation path.
Write and keep accurate records and contribute to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the service as required, ensuring that reports are completed and recorded in a timely and accurate way.

The Candidate
Proven management and organisational skills at a mid-management or higher level.
Demonstrable experience of interaction with mid-level and senior Executives, Directors and Non-Executive Directors in addressing concerns and issues.
Proven experience of dealing sensitively with difficult issues, to act with integrity and maintain confidentiality as appropriate.
Experience in communicating at all levels of staff from all disciplines and/or grades.
Knowledge of HR policy and proven experience of staff management.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Communications & Engagement Manager

Itad is a global organisation. Our strategy, monitoring, evaluation and learning services work to make international development more effective. We generate evidence on important issues – from malnutrition to migration – to support our partners to make informed decisions and improve lives. We work with our partners and a global network of consultants to deliver a complete interdisciplinary service of the very highest standard, anywhere in the world.

Our partners include foundations, public and private sector organisations, governments, corporate clients and non-governmental organisations. We know that no two organisations are alike, and every project brings new challenges, so we take an agile approach, tailoring our services to each context and for every partner.

We specialise in providing high-quality evidence and insights to help our partners make better decisions based on an understanding of what works, how and for whom, anywhere in the world. Our cutting-edge work in monitoring, evaluation and learning – combined with consultancy services in strategy and design – spans topics, countries and regions.

The Team

The Knowledge Hub leads on knowledge management, learning, communications and branding, both within Itad and externally, and plays a key role in maintaining the technical quality of our work. Our growing, multi-disciplinary team includes monitoring and evaluation consultants and learning facilitators, as well as experts on information technology, communications, branding and design. The Knowledge Hub supports staff across Itad to effectively capture and share knowledge, as well as helping staff deliver high quality work through technical support, training and quality assurance.

Externally, the Knowledge Hub leads on communications and sharing high quality, innovative MEL assignments, contributing to building the field around the use of evidence in international development.

The Role

We are recruiting a Communications and Engagement Manager to join our team who has specific experience in international development.  They will be responsible for managing our website, publications and digital media, providing editorial, strategic and creative support across the whole Itad team. They will also identify and optimise public relations opportunities and facilitate positive media engagement across our multiple media platforms. They will work with our Brand Co-ordinator to manage and co-ordinate the Itad brand, and ensure that our products and events are consistent with our brand and values.

Working collaboratively across the whole Itad team, they will support learning through the facilitation of cross-organisational learning workshops; production of knowledge resources and engaging internal sharing events. They will also play an important role in our learning and development programme, leading on training for communications, writing styles and presentation.

For external communications, the Communications and Engagement Manager will collaborate with our business development team to develop marketing materials and events that reflect our experience and values. This will also involve identifying communication priorities across the business and deliver impactful content that effectively share our knowledge and build our reputation.

The candidate

You will be an experienced international development communications professional, comfortable working with the technical content of research and evaluation.  Your track record will demonstrate an ability to translate complex material into engaging and accessible media across a range of  channels, providing the strategic, creative and editorial support necessary for impactful content.

You will have developed and led teams to shape and implement communications strategies and plans and been proactive in identifying and delivering on opportunities that continue building the field around the use of evidence in international development.

The role is based in our offices in Brighton & Hove (East Sussex) but will largely work remotely for the foreseeable future.  However, you will already have the right to live and work in the UK and be able to occasionally travel to the office when needed

The salary for this role is up to £40K plus generous benefits

Please note the application deadline is December 7th but we will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis and would like the successful candidate to start as soon as possible

We’re looking for a Voluntary & Community Sector (VCS) Integrated Care Business Development Manager who will establish a new business development relationship with public sector partners. This will be done using an ‘invest to save’ service model and on the basis of an equal partner relationship for service delivery, already endorsed by local public sector leaders.

The aim of this post is to improve outcomes for residents of all ages through increased engagement of the Harrow Voluntary & Community Sector (VCS) and the Harrow Integrated Care Partnership (ICP).

The role is for 1 year. You can choose to take this as a salaried post at £30,940 per annum or a self-employed contract for £39,600

Outcome Measures

1. ICP workstreams observe the VCS more effectively embedded into referral pathways via better system collaboration.
2. Public sector partners report benefits of amplified communications with VCS and citizens engaged via VCS organisations.
3. Case examples of VCS addressing barriers to access for most at risk citizens via new engagement strategies
4. Case examples of VCS delivering more early interventions via new integrated working.

Key Responsibilities:

Representation

1. Create and oversee a transparent process to select two VCS representatives to work with the Senior Responsible Officers (SRO’s) for each of the ICP workstreams.
2. Train and mentor VCS representatives as required to be effective in advocating and influencing change.
3. Provide support to the VCS representatives to engage with the wider VCS sector to incorporate their views and expertise in the ICP workstreams.
4. Facilitate ways for VCS organisations to empower Harrow citizens to co-produce service development.

Business Development

1. Collaborate with SRO’s and VCS partners to develop business cases for VCS to contribute both improved patients outcomes but also through an ‘invest to save’ model for system financial sustainability. 
2. Maintain good market intelligence and networks such that VCS partners obtain timely notice of any bidding and tendering opportunities.
3. Collate best practice to evidence how prevention can improve patient outcomes and reduce health & social care costs
4. Work with VCS partners to co-ordinate and support the production of clear impact and cost benefit modelling.
5. Provide management and oversight for the completion of bids in accordance with the governance processes of each partner to ensure submitted to a high standard and to deadlines.
6. Lead and / or support selected bidding opportunities undertaking the research and completion of expressions of interests (EoI), pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ), invitation to tenders (ITT) and proposals as required.
7. Work with VCS organisations to ensure they meet NHS contractual regulatory requirements and are able to collect monitoring data in line with the NHS requirements.  
8. Advocate for co-production and alliance contracting models of VCS commissioning and business development.

Communications & Engagement

1. Create a programme of communication, education and engagement with NHS, Council and VCS colleagues so that there is increased mutual understanding, cooperation and collaboration.
2. Promote existing channels for public sector professionals to access user-friendly information about VCS services and develop new solutions as needed.

Other duties

1. Establish, manage and report to a steering group made up of VCS, NHS and Council staff.
2. Develop an annual workplan and project management tools to track progress for reporting.
3. Develop a monitoring and evaluation system to capture evidence against outcome measures and to enable shared learning.
4. Use the above to create a business case for continuation of this programme.

Personal Specification:

Essential

Experience

• Experience of developing and implementing business cases.
• Experience of working with VCS partnerships to co-ordinate funding applications, contracts or business cases.
• Experience of training or mentoring
• Experience of engagement with senior public sector managers and their governance structures to influence service/policy change
• Experience of working within NHS commissioning and procurement frameworks
• Track record in writing successful EoI, PQQs and ITT’s
• Experience in research and establish evidential links to support proposals, with the ability to quickly sift and analyse data.
• Experience of writing effective marketing communications.

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent computer skills (including Google’s Online Software) and digital working skills (eg Zoom, MS Teams)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with and ability to simplify complex information
• Ability to develop strategic partnerships built on mutual understanding, transparency and trust 
• Analytical skills and attention to detail, producing appropriate, accurate, high quality written work within often challenging word limits and bid deadlines
• Ability to work in partnerships and to extract accurate, high quality information from all partners in order to produce compelling and competitive bid/proposition content
• Excellent project management skills and ability to prioritise competing demands
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Enjoys working with a small team
• Proactive and able to self-manage

This job role can be requested in large print.

Application Process

Please email both:

• a Cover Letter explaining how you meet the Key Responsibilities.
• a CV which outlines your career, ideally related to the role.

If these documents are not received we will not be able to progress with your application.

We will not chase you for any of these documents.