Freedom for Animals' campaign, ‘Rudolph’s Christmas Wish’, aims to tackle the growing problem of animals such as reindeer and penguins being exploited in festive events. Freedom for Animals carries out annual monitoring of events and supports the actions of local groups to raise awareness of this widely overlooked area of animal use.

You will help us deliver this campaign over the busiest months - September to January. In this role you will work alongside the Director carrying out research, liaising with event organisers including local authorities and supporting grassroots campaigners, as well as attending and documenting festive events that use animals.

In return you will be given the chance to develop a range of skills in campaigning and lobbying, as well as gaining experience of working in a team for a national, animal rights organisation, in a friendly and supportive environment.

The Campaign and Digital Communications Senior Manager (CDCSM) develops the marketing, communications and digital strategic plan and is responsible for the design and implementation of the operational plans for the global awareness campaign Rare Disease Day. The CDCSM will also drive the decision process for the messaging, co‐created with the 60 national patient organisation partners leveraging the analysis from a recent strategic campaign review. The CDCSM will achieve a more robust outreach and engagement, coupled with new media relation reaching more than 300 million people living with a rare disease globally. Finally, working with the international advocacy team, the CDCSM will produce advocacy toolkits and materials aimed to inform and capacity build patient advocates.
Motivated to work at an NGO and committed to our cause, the CDCSM will also contribute to marketing, international media and digital strategy across the organisations’ websites, events, programs, social media and publications, working closely with the Communications Senior Manager and the Web Technology Manager.
The CDCSM reports to the Strategic Communications and Marketing Director and is part of the larger Awareness, Public Engagement and Events team.
The position is recruited for EURORDIS’ Paris Office (Brussels and Barcelona offices to be considered).

EURORDIS‐Rare Diseases Europe is a unique, non‐profit alliance of over 900 rare disease patient organisations from over 70 countries that work together to improve the lives of the 30 million people living with a rare disease in Europe. By connecting patients, families and patient groups, as well as by bringing together all stakeholders and mobilising the rare disease community, EURORDIS strengthens the patient voice and shapes research, policies and patient services.

Since 2008, EURORDIS has led patients and patient groups globally to raise awareness for people living with a rare disease and their families via the communications campaign for Rare Disease Day (the last day of February each year). Up from 16 countries participating in 2008, 2020’s edition saw thousands of events taking place in over 100 countries. EURORDIS coordinates national partners to determine campaign core messaging, to translate and disseminate the campaign. EURORDIS is responsible for producing adaptable visuals and videos which are freely accessed by thousands of patient groups and other stakeholders interested in improving the lives of people living with a rare disease.

The outreach campaign has the ambition to trigger change for people living with a rare disease and to link to the broader advocacy efforts of rare disease patients emphasising equity in human and social rights alongside healthcare needs for people living with a rare disease and their families.

The campaign benefits from public, patient association and private funding.This position comes at an exciting time with potentially new funding for the program which would enable us to scale up the Rare Disease Day. A key component of this role will be implementing any new grant objectives.

Key tasks and responsibilities

Awareness campaign, social media and digital marketing

Patient advocacy capacity building tools

Campaign outreach and communications​

EURORDIS communications

See the attached job description for full details.

Skills and experience

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree and 6‐8 years’ professional experience in communications and marketing for a global organisation or brand (within the health, public affairs or NGO sector a plus).
• Experience building and executing international or global marketing campaigns, communications plans, measurement tools and digital strategies in a complex ecosystem.
• Experience working with a major international awareness campaign highly desirable
• Experience in community and public engagement, engaging participation of multiple partners and actors
• Experience managing communication or campaign budgets and suppliers including marketing agencies and graphic designers.
• Creative with a passion for creating visual elements. Experience in producing video campaign elements a plus
• Autonomous, proactive and highly driven
• Sensitive to working for a cause and with genuine interest in understanding the challenges of people living with a rare disease and their families.
• Enthusiastic and flexible team player with skills including: managing meetings, presenting, reporting to management, co‐creating with national partners, strategic planning, verbal and written communication, organisational and time management abilities
• Ability to work with several operational team members and patient organisation partners with varying backgrounds and levels of English understanding.
• Proficiency in Microsoft office suite but also well‐trained in photoshop, video software and other graphic design or photo tools.
• Fluent English speaker with excellent written and oral communication skills in English is a must (excelling in persuasive and influential writing)
• Good level in French desirable; other European language(s) a plus

Could you be an active outreach member of staff that is proactive in going out to talk to students about their experiences and views?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate change maker to support our student leaders campaign to have a positive impact for the students that they represent. This role will also support students to engage with  AberSU decision making.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Working for the Head of Research and Communications, you will:

1. Prepare and review operational and financial reports on our research projects
2. Analyse internal grant monitoring and finance processes, recommending change to internal procedures where necessary
3. Set objectives and evaluate performance internally
4. Monitor and evaluate the operational and financial performance of our research portfolio
5. Administer our current research grants and coordinate grant calls
6. Contribute to in-house research projects which will enable us to better support the prostate cancer scientific community
7. Liaise with other senior staff to coordinate the organisation’s resources and activities
8. Other tasks as appropriate to the position and required by the department.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required

• BSc in a biomedical discipline (essential)
• MSc or MRes in a biomedical field
• Significant experience of managing a portfolio of research awards, including performance and financial monitoring and evaluation (essential)
• Experience with data collection, data analysis and dissemination for both qualitative and quantitative research (essential)
• A strong understanding of research impact (essential)
• Experience or qualification in public health (essential)
• Experience of health promotion
• Experience of clinical research or a clinical research environment
• Ability to read, understand, and critically assess peer-reviewed scientific papers, and summarise them for a range of audiences
• Proactive and enthusiastic, with a desire to continually learn
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to prioritise
• Great communications skills
• The ability to adapt to a constantly developing environment
• A strong belief in the work of the Prostate Cancer Research Centre

Duration and working hours

This will be a permanent position.

Your working hours will be 37.5 hours a week.

Salary

The salary will be £33,900. The Organisation is a member of the NEST pension scheme, into which you will automatically be enrolled if you do not opt-out. PCRC contributes 5% of your gross annual earnings that fall between £6,240 and £50,000.

Closing Date

19 July 2020

We regret that we are unable to accept late applications under any circumstances.

Background

Medact supports the health community to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health. We cover some of the most pressing national and global threats to health and wellbeing including climate change; human rights abuses; conflict and violence; and rising inequality. We’re member-led, and our membership spans a range of people who work in health including nurses, doctors, midwives, and clinical researchers.

Climate change is a public health emergency, damaging the health and lives of millions of people around the world.  Many of the communities which are suffering most from the impacts of Covid-19 are also those whose health and wellbeing is hardest hit by environmental damage. 

The Coronavirus pandemic is forcing Governments to rethink national and global economics. As the UK Government moves to develop a recovery package, it’s vital the progressive movement comes together to ensure a socially-just recovery which centres human and planetary health.  Health workers have a uniquely powerful voice, and a strong will to make a difference - there’s an exciting opportunity to bring large numbers of people together to campaign in ways which will have real impact.

Medact believes the health community has a key role to play in driving transformative social change - come work with us to help make that a reality.

About the role

The Climate & Health Campaigner leads Medact’s programme to support health workers to campaign for just and proportionate action on climate change, working closely with our Climate & Health Organiser. In spite of - or perhaps because of - the Coronavirus pandemic, there is huge energy among the health community on climate justice issues. The role includes holding Medact’s key knowledge base on climate justice and health and requires building strong relationships across the health community, from establishment institutions to frontline workers. 

About you

This isn’t an entry-level role, but you don’t need to have had a job in an NGO before or be a professional campaigner to be right for it. You might have worked with your local community or other group to campaign on a climate justice issue you care deeply about.  You’ll be a strategic thinker with a strong understanding of power, and know how to work with others to create pressure for change. You need to be a great communicator, able to build trusting relationships with frontline health workers, academics, partner organisations, and community groups alike - and you’ll have an eye for a good media story and know how to get it out into the world. 

How to apply

Please use the application form available on our website to upload a CV and a cover letter of no more than two A4 pages setting out why you are interested in the role, and how you meet the person specification.

Please:

• do not state when or where you were educated on your application. 
• do complete a copy of our monitoring form.

If your application is shortlisted, we will invite you to an interview. Interviews will involve a presentation, for which we will ask you to prepare in advance; a written task; and a conversation with a panel of interviewers.

We are happy to reimburse shortlisted candidates for travel costs; childcare costs; and lost wages incurred as a result of attending an interview.

Help applying

For advice on how to write your application, please see the attached guidance document.

We also have a member of the team on hand to talk to any candidates who would like further advice on whether or how to apply. This team-member won’t be involved in the recruitment process and any chats will be kept completely confidential. If you think this could be helpful for you please email application-advice [at] medact [dot] org

Key dates

Applications close on Monday 20th July @ 9am.

Interviews will be in the week of 27th July.

Our recruitment principles

Medact aims to be an inclusive and supportive employer, and we recognise that recruitment processes don’t work for everyone. We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in the NGO sector, and we’re committed to doing what we can to correct this. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people of colour; people with disabilities; people who identify as being LGTBQIA; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working class or have a working class background. If you have any questions or uncertainties about this position, and whether you are right for it, please do get in touch.

Are you a Researcher hoping to work on topics of social importance? Do you want to help charities through high-quality nationally-recognised research?

Prospectus is thrilled to be supporting Directory of Social Change (DSC) in their search for two Researchers. DSC is a leading national charity which supports the independent voluntary sector through campaigning, research, training and publications. DSC is the largest supplier of information and training to this sector and its work helps tens of thousands of organisations achieve their aims every year.

The overall purpose of this role is to carry out quantitative and qualitative research for DSC's funding guides and online database. You will also support wider evaluation and analytical projects, identifying interesting trends and communicating these through high quality written work. Collecting and curating data to a high standard, contributing to policy and media work and assisting with the design of research projects is a big part of this role.

To be successful as a Researcher, you will have experience in applied social research, database and data entry skills and an understanding of CMS. You will have a passion for the charity sector and able to work on multiple projects with demanding deadlines.

A full job description will be provided to candidates shortlisted by Prospectus.

Please apply with a Word Document copy of your CV. Cover letters are not required at this stage.

Please note that the role may close earlier than the date advertised.

Career Connect is a charity committed to supporting young people and adults to realise their potential. We deliver our mission through high quality and professional career management, employment and training services delivered in schools, in the community and in prisons – predominantly in the Northwest of England at present.

We commission high quality research to help shape our services, contribute to policy debates and share best practice. We are passionate about social mobility and helping the most disadvantaged to create a better future.

Head of Research and Impact

Circa £60,000

Liverpool

Flexible working practices considered, however you will be required to be in the Northwest a minimum of 3 days a week.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a recently appointed Chief Executive and play a key role in enabling more people to create a better future. Improving life chances through access to learning and employment, given the impact of Covid-19, is going to be more critical than ever before.

We are investing in enhancing our approach to Research and Impact to enable us to meet this challenge by ensuring that we can improve our services, influence policy and share best practice.

This newly created role will be part of the senior leadership team reporting to the CEO at Career Connect and will have responsibility for enhancing our research to enable us to grow our organisational voice and ability to influence policy. You will lead on undertaking innovative research and evaluation across the charity and develop collaborations with other research and educational institutions to maximise cross-sector impact.

Our ideal candidate will have expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods, and experience of influencing policy makers at a regional and national level. You will have the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders internally and externally and most importantly, you will have a passion for helping people to realise their potential.

Career Connect is committed to achieve greater diversity in its senior team and welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief or disability.

Closing date: Monday 27th July

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.

Task Description

We’re looking for passionate researchers who are committed to ensuring that evidence and a deep understanding of young people are central to everything that we do. Your job will be to support the commissioning and delivery of a programme of qualitative and quantitative research. This research will support the YEF’s understanding of youth crime and its drivers. It will also include boosting our understanding of the characteristics, backgrounds and lives of the children and communities affected by youth crime and violence.

We are appointing two research officers, one who will be predominantly focused on the YEF’s broad programme of research, and one who will be predominantly focused on the YEF’s work to better understand young people who are vulnerable to violent crime.

Key Responsibilities

Working as part of team, we want two people who can:

• Assist in commissioning and producing research to help us better understand what works to reduce violent youth crime.

• 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.

• Help manage the YEF’s comprehensive programme of research and youth understanding activity.

• Help track and maintain relationships with academics, government analysts, researchers and other experts producing work that is relevant to the YEF.

• Help ensure that research and youth understanding informs all of the YEF’s work, including its thematic and place-based grant-making, behaviour change and policy work.

• Help design the very best ways for us to do our research.

• Contribute to a range of published work, including research reports, briefings and regular blog posts, looking at new forms of communicating and visualisation of complex information for a wide range of audiences.

• 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.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You are a naturally very curious person that is confident with quantitative and/or qualitative research. You have expertise in a range of quantitative and/or 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 must be able to demonstrate the following areas of knowledge/experience:

• Research methods: You have good knowledge and practical experience of a range of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods, 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 seeing projects from beginning to end, tracking progress across different workstreams and ensuring delivery keeps to deadlines.
• Collaborative working: You see value in working with others to get the best outcomes on each task and project.
• Job requirements
• An enhanced DBS check will be required for both roles but a criminal record is not a block on performing this role

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

A post-graduate qualification. In a relevant field such as criminology, social policy, youth work, international development or any other relevant field with a significant research methods component

• For the General Research Officer role: Conducting reviews: Experience conducting or contributing to rapid evidence reviews and/or systematic reviews.  
• For the Youth Understanding Research Officer role: Youth work: Experience working with young people, either as a youth worker or in similar child/young person-facing roles.

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.

To Apply

To apply, by midnight, 19 July 2020

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 interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27 July 2020.

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3 August 2020.

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.

About us
We are a charity dedicated to ensuring that people most impacted by injustice are leading campaigns that affect their lives, from better housing to fairer treatment of migrants to LGBTQ+ rights. Our mission is to support people to run effective campaigns that challenge injustice. We do this by running campaign training programmes that help people develop the skills, confidence and community to change things that matter to them. In our trainings, we prioritise people from communities directly impacted by injustice.

Job Purpose:
Meeting income targets
Supporter stewardship
Manage the administration of the Fundraising team
Stakeholder management to further the organisation’s objectives

Job Responsibilities

Meeting income targets:
Researching, writing and submitting applications to new trusts and foundations for four and five-figure bids under £40,000.
Reporting to funders in line with their requirements, including supporting the Fundraising team with narrative and financial updates.
Supporting the Head of Fundraising and Fundraising Manager with diversifying income streams, including through public donations, individual giving and the sale of scholarship places and workshops for NGOs.
Represent the fundraising remit of Campaign Bootcamp at external networking events, sector conferences and funder meetings.

Supporter stewardship:
Managing day-to-day relations with a portfolio of four and five-figure current and prospective foundation donors.
Managing grant awards, including grant agreements, interim reporting, project visits, end of grant reports and budget reconciliations.
Testing and implementing new ways to engage current and new funders as the Fundraising team develops new income streams across trusts, individual giving and online appeals.

Manage the administration of the Fundraising team:
Managing the grant set-up process on Salesforce.
Managing and further developing the relevant administrative infrastructure, including Salesforce.
Ensuring that donations, donor tracking and reporting systems are accurate and that electronic records are up to date.
Contributing to the management of the general fundraising communication channels.

Stakeholder management to further the organisation’s objectives:
Creating content for our public facing channels, e.g. website, newsletters and social media, to raise awareness of Campaign Bootcamp and our funding needs.
Ensuring Salesforce records are accurate and up-to-date so that the Finance and delivery teams have the information they need from the Fundraising team to deliver on grant objectives.
Working with the Training and Programme delivery teams to ensure our applications and reports are as strong as they can be; this includes coordinating and participating in regular catch-ups with delivery teams, project visits and regular communications through in-person/Zoom meetings, emails and via Slack.
Supporting our work to evaluate and improve our programmes.

General:
Work in a sustainable manner with consideration of the natural environment
External customer service: answer the general Campaign Bootcamp phone via Circleloop and emails relating to fundraising via our shared 'hello' inbox
Any other reasonable tasks as directed by your line manager or Leadership Team
At all times adhere to relevant legislation including GDPR
At all times take personal responsibility for exhibiting behaviours in line with the person specification and the values of Campaign Bootcamp.

Are you a creative all-round researcher with a desire to shape the evidence base that will help St Mungo’s advance its mission to end homelessness and rebuild lives?

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to join our busy Policy, Campaigns and Research team as a Research and Evaluation Officer. In this role, you will work with the Research Manager to design, conduct and report on research projects and support colleagues across the organisation to understand, commission and implement research and evaluation projects.

In this role the successful candidate will, amongst other duties:

• Co-design and conduct research and evaluation projects, including undertaking qualitative and quantitative data collection (such as interviews, focus groups or surveys), data analysis and insights reporting.

• Provide outcomes measurement and evaluation expertise to colleagues, including supporting service managers with the design, commissioning, contract management and quality assurance of externally commissioned evaluation projects

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a creative researcher with experience of both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, and an understanding of the issues faced by people with multiple and complex needs and experience of severe social exclusion.

You will be confident in communicating research and evaluation findings in a clear and compelling way to a wide range of audiences, and have experience of writing research reports to a high standard. You should have excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities to strict deadlines.

What we offer

• Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities

St Mungo’s employees are encouraged to consider opportunities to develop new skills or progress including; secondments, internal transfers, application to new roles in the organisation or just to get involved in various projects happening within the organisation.

As a result last year 35% of our vacancies were filled by promotions. In 2019 we achieved We Invest in People Gold level accreditation and are one of just 3% of housing associations to achieve this standard; 82% of staff who took part in the IIP survey say St Mungo’s is a great place to work.

• A Diverse and Inclusive Work Place

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion and have 8 great Diversity Networks to support clients and staff from different backgrounds so they are able to be their best selves. Our Networks include: BAME, Carer’s and Parent’s, Lived Experience, LGBTQIA+, Disability Awareness, South West, Irish and Women’s Action.

• Flexible Working and Other Benefits

We are committed to maintaining your work/life balance. We offer 25 days annual leave, and operate a very popular Flexi Time scheme, which allows you to supplement your annual leave entitlement. After 5 years, staff annual leave entitlement increases to 28 days.

St Mungo’s contribute 4% of your gross annual salary, and you are able to enrol in the Defined Contribution scheme following a successful probationary period in which the employer contribution is 6%.

What we do

At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, our clients are at the heart of what we do, and in 2019 we supported nearly 30,000 people who were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.

How to apply

To find out more and apply please go to the St Mungo’s careers page on our website.

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the document available tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Closing date: 10am on 14 July 2020

Interview and assessments on: 21 July 2020, via video call

It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check will be undertaken for the successful candidate.

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

Assistant IT Manager

This is a role where you can make your mark. With your experience of leading or managing a technical team coupled with your operational experience of IT infrastructures and networks, you will have the opportunity to be part of shaping technological solutions that manage their service provision today and provide solutions that support our growth in the future.

Assistant IT Manager Responsibilities:

As their Deputy Technology Manager, you will be responsible for managing and developing a small team and report into the Technology Manager. You will manage the day-to-day service delivery in a mixed Windows and Mac environment.

Responsibilities will include; overseeing IT infrastructure and ensure it is fit for purspose, identifying potential issues and possible opportunities. Ensure Help desk runs smoothly and jobs are prioritised to business needs. Responsible for 3rd line trouble shooting. Have the ability to interpret and produce relevant KPIs.
Key systems are VN Ware, CISCO, LAN, WAN, DNS and DHCP

There may be the occasional need to be On Call over weekends and evenings.

Assistant IT Manager Requirements:

So that you can make your mark as quickly as possible, we will need you to be a true team player, have a proactive and collaborative style and an infectious drive to embed a service and results focused culture throughout your team, as well as a genuine desire to develop your team to release their full potential.
Strong knowledge of VN Ware, Cisco, Lan, Wan, DNS and DHCP is esstiential. Previous experience of Managing a team. The ability to priorites workload and identify security issues. You will ideally be a member of chartered insititute of BCS although this is not essential. Have a minimum of 2 years Managment experience.

About the company:

Their mission, simply put, is to change the lives of disabled children and their families. They provide access to the vital equipment they rely on, offer information and support through their team of dedicated healthcare professionals, sponsor pioneering medical research into the causes of birth defects and offer families a voice through our campaigns for change.

They are not like any other charity. All of the stock in their  stores is new, donated by retailers, allowing them to create a heaven for bargain hunters and savvy fashionista shoppers who want high street products at discount prices.

What they do and how they do it is unique and being part of the family is very special. Their team members are passionate about what they do and the contribution they make in helping the families they work with.

This is a truly great opportunity to make your mark and be part of creating something amazing!

Location: Cannock, WS11 7GF (with occasional travel)

Job type: Full Time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: up to £36,000 per annum depending on experience

Benefits: they can offer you the flexibility you need to help you strike the right balance between home and work. In addition to a competitive salary, you will also receive 31 days holiday (including Bank Holidays), health cash plan membership, team member store discount, company sick pay and pension scheme membership…. and of course the satisfaction of knowing that what you do is making a difference!

You may have experience of the following: IT Manager, Technical Support Manager, IT Support Manager, Infrastructure Manager, Network Manager, Helpdesk Manager, Technical Support Engineer, IT Support Engineer, IT Support Technician, Senior IT Support Engineer, Assistant IT Manager, Assistant Support Manager, etc.

Ref: 93282

The ITF is an international federation of transport workers’ trade unions recognised as the world’s leading transport authority. We fight passionately to improve working lives, connecting trade unions from 150 countries that may otherwise be isolated and helping their members to secure rights, equality and justice. We are the voice for 20 million members working men and women across the world. The ITF Head Office is based in Borough, London. International offices include Amman, Hong Kong, Montreal, Nairobi, New Delhi, Abidjan, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. 

The Dockers’ Senior Section Assistant will support the processes essential for the delivery of the Dockers Section priorities, including responsibility for managing working groups, preparation for meetings and chairing meetings, research and data analysis and deputising for the Dockers’ Coordinator.

The successful applicant will use their proven knowledge of the maritime industry and strong written communication skills to produce in-depth reports and analysis to support the section’s campaigns and projects. You will have responsibility for coordinating communication between many different groups including other ITF Maritime sections and contacts. Key to this role is the ability to produce high-quality written documentation.

The Section Assistant will also be responsible for coordinating solidarity action requests from affiliates and unions. The role deputises for the Dockers’ Coordinator and will be required to make presentations to internal and external audiences.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate strong communication skills across different audiences and an ability and have a flexible approach to differing opinions. You will be able to draw upon your experience in a union or social movement setting to support solidarity actions. You will also have experience with producing persuasive and informative content for social media channels.

Due to the international aspects of the organisation’s work, a good working knowledge of another language would be an advantage.

This role offers a salary of £46,724 per annum, plus a non-performance related guaranteed bonus equating to 1/12th of your annual salary.

The ITF offers a highly competitive final pension salary scheme, flexible working as well as the opportunity to work in a state of the art modern office building in central London. For further information on the staff benefits that we provide please see our website.

If this sounds interesting to you, please apply by sending your CV and covering letter via our website by 26 July 2020.  Interviews will take place, week commencing 10 August.  Please note that due to COVID-19 all interview will take place via video conference.

- You think British criminal justice is broken

- You want to raise the profile of miscarriages of justice

- You love campaigning and persuasively changing minds

- You have a passion for using stories to engage decision-makers and influence better policy

- You understand the complex needs of people with involvement in the criminal justice system

Sound like you?

We’re looking for an exceptional and highly motivated communications and policy professional. If you want to have a direct impact on raising the profile of miscarriages of justice and fixing our broken criminal justice system, then we want to hear from you. In this role you’ll manage strategic communications projects, engaging key audiences and seeking platforms for our staff, our prisoner clients and their families.

We’re looking for someone who’s led impactful communications campaigns aimed at a broad range of audiences. You’ll have proven experience of delivering timely and effective communications and engagement strategies that have enabled organisations to achieve their aims. You’ll have a passion for storytelling and an ability to work alongside those with lived experience of the cirminal justice system. You’ll understand the complex needs of people with involvement in the justice system, and with experiences of trauma or poverty. You’ll have worked in a complex organisation and understand how to deliver excellent content against audience needs. You’ll also demonstrate exceptional judgement and excellent stakeholder management.

Who are we?

APPEAL is a law charity that fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform. Our small team of lawyers, advocates and investigators take on criminal appeals on behalf of prisoners who cannot afford legal representation.

1. We investigate: battling for access to records and exhibits, arranging new forensic testing, conducting street-level investigation, and systematically analysing case documentation, digging deep to find the fresh evidence that proves a conviction is unsafe or a sentence is unfair.
2. We litigate: bringing cases to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal.
3. We advocate: working with former prisoners, campaigners, students, legal professionals, policy makers and other stakeholders to ensure our justice system learns from its mistakes.

We are committed to winning justice for individuals and their families, but also usingcases as impact litigation to push for systemic change to make our criminal justice system more accurate, fair and accountable. This involves not just legal work, but also implementation of a robust communications and policy strategy, as the reforms needed must come from parliamentary and policy interventions as well as from judicial precedent.

Work Specification

• You will lead APPEAL’s justice policy reform efforts and manage the day to day operation of our communications strategy.
• You will leverage APPEAL’s casework, research and campaigning around our Initiative to end the use of imprisonment for debt, that falls under the work of the Women’s Justice Initiative (WJI). The WJI primarily aims to use criminal appeals as impact litigation for imprisoned women who have experienced severe and multiple disadvantage.
• You will lead on policy reform efforts around APPEAL’s Open Justice goals, including advocating for better access to police and prosecution material, reform of the disclosure system, access to trial transcripts and improving the effectiveness of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
• You will manage APPEAL’s external communications, including drafting press releases, liaising with journalists, managing the website and APPEAL’s social media accounts and writing our annual impact report.
• You will also support our Bound by Injustice group, working with the family members of our imprisoned clients and clients themselves to empower them as advocates for reform.
• The job may expand to include managing the day-to-day operation of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice for which APPEAL is currently the secretariat.

Important information

LENGTH OF CONTRACT AND WORKING PATTERNS

Please note that we have 3 years of funding for this project but are only able to guarantee the post holder a 1-year full time role. We are seeking additional funding and, if secured, the contract length may be expanded.

We will also consider candidates who are interested in a part time role, though we require a minimum of 3 days a week commitment (if you prefer to be considered part time, please indicate this on your cover letter).

SALARY

£32,000pa. Additionally, we are Living Wage employers with a very flat salary scheme where all team members are paid within 20% of each other and all salaries are reviewed annually.

ANNUAL LEAVE

Annual leave is 25 days pro rata per annum from 1st January to 31st December, plus public holidays and the days between Christmas and New year. Additionally, staff accrue one additional day of leave per year of service.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

We have a small training budget and encourage staff to commit to their own personal development. We allow flexible working so if staff want to take on additional training or qualifications,they can discuss this with their manager.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

APPEAL particularly encourages applications from people with a BAME background, with disabilities, who identify as LGBTQ+, or who were the first generation to attend university, who are currently underrepresented in leadership in the legal sector. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to promoting principles of inclusion and diversity in our work. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements, particularly to support parents with childcare or those with caring responsibilities. APPEAL's offices in The Green House are wheelchair accessible.

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