Are you passionate about helping people affected by blood cancer?
Bloodwise was founded from grassroots fundraising and it’s because of our volunteers that we have funded over £500million worth of critical research.
We are looking for an engaging and driven Volunteer Experience Manager to join us on a 12-month fixed term contract to implement our new volunteer strategy.
This is a newly created role and forms part of our strategy to increase our reach and to mobilise our army of volunteers.
We want everyone that volunteers at Bloodwise to have the same great experience, have access to the same information, receive the same great level of training and be fully equipped to support our mission. Our Volunteers may be part of a local community group, sitting on a policy panel aiming to influence government or be an ambassador in the public eye – whatever they do they need to experience the same customer journey.
The Volunteer Experience Manager will work collaboratively with the internal stakeholders who own the volunteer relationships to influence the volunteer experience. Providing leadership and guidance whilst acting as an ambassador for volunteering across all Bloodwise volunteer streams, the Volunteer Experience Manager will have overall responsibility for managing the recruitment process and ensuring consistency in the development of our volunteers, as well as lead in increasing the standard of the volunteering experience across the organisation.
The closing date for this exciting opportunity is:
9am on Thursday 5 March 2020
Please note all applications will be reviewed on receipt and we may bring forward the closing date of this role at our discretion.
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Closing date: 23rd February 2020 at 11.30pm
Interviews: 2nd or 3rd March 2020
If the opportunity to lead and grow Shelter Scotland’s Trusts & Foundations programme sounds like the kind of challenge you'd relish, then join us as a Senior Manager. We’ll provide the infrastructure, the strategy and the rewards, including flexible working. All you need to bring is knowledge of fundraising best practice across trusts and lottery disciplines and proven experience of achieving ambitious income generation targets.
Shelter’s Income Generation team is primarily London-based. This challenging role however, will be based in Shelter Scotland’s Edinburgh office, with a reporting line into the Head of Trusts and Foundations, based in London. Collectively, the team will raise close to £40m to support Shelter’s work across a diverse range of income streams, including Retail, Individual Giving, Community & Events and High Value Partnerships, which incorporates Trusts & Foundations.
About the role
Your challenge? To act as an external face for the charity and meet agreed annual and long-term financial targets by cultivating high value partnerships with UK and Scottish grant-makers to fund Shelter’s work in Scotland. You’ll also work closely with our Directorate Leadership Team to develop compelling and strategic funding propositions and ensure the high quality stewardship of all trust and lottery donors. Finding opportunities to deepen partnerships and secure new grants that could transform our income base will be important too. And, as well as line managing a fundraising manager, you’ll need to foster a collaborative and results-focused working ethos by providing effective management and support to the Trusts and Foundations Manager who’s also based in Edinburgh.
About you
You’ll need strong commercial awareness and good knowledge of the Trusts market. You’ll also need the ability to quickly develop an understanding of how to position Shelter as a partner for major grant-makers. Adept at building and managing complex and high-value customer and internal relationships, you have some line management experience too. What’s more, you’re proactive, creative and innovative, with the ability to respond positively to change and a willingness to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas when appropriate.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.
To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter Scotland please visit our website. Apply to be part of our Income Generation team and be the change you want to see in society.
Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
About ELHF:
Everything we do is to improve people’s health and wellbeing. We work in partnership with NHS Lothian and other health-related organisations. Together we enhance the experience of patients, families, carers and staff across Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian.
We award grants to wards and hospitals to help save lives, improve the quality of life, support education, innovation and equipment. We support some of the best researchers in the world who are working hard to fight, treat and cure many health conditions through innovative new ways.
We also have three main programmes throughout all the healthcare settings:
- Tonic arts – We support live music, patient workshops, exhibitions and artworks and therapeutic design throughout all our sites. We know how much our environment and surroundings can have an impact on how we feel but did you know that it can also help patients recover more quickly?
- Green health – Fresh air, open spaces and places to sit and walk help all of us in our emotional and physical wellbeing. We support green health activities including therapeutic gardening, community gardens, public greenspaces and health walks across all sites.
- Volunteering well – We are the main funder of NHS Lothian’s Volunteering Well programme. This supports all the amazing volunteers who give their time, expertise and compassion in many ways including befriending, transport, and giving information and support to patients and their loved ones.
This is an extremely exciting time for The ELHF and this post is a brand new position within the team.
Job Purpose:
- To lead on all aspects of community and events fundraising ensuring a high level of stewardship.
- To work closely with NHS Lothian staff who are engaging in fundraising activities to increase income and awareness and ensure best practice and governance of activities.
- Manage an events portfolio including researching and introducing new in-house and third-party events.
Key Result Areas:
- Work with and support Fund Stewards in raising money and awareness for their funds by supporting fundraising activities through planning, giving advice and support.
- Assisting in marketing fundraising activities including increasing visibility of activities at ward/department/hospital level.
- To identify, establish and manage in-house and third-party fundraising events to attract support and raise money. Responsible for managing all event budgets, project plans and KPIs.
- Working with the Communications and Marketing Manager to market fundraising activities to cold and warm supporters through a range of different channels including social media.
- Motivate, support and develop community fundraisers and volunteer fundraising committees to enable and enhance their fundraising.
- Support fundraisers and donors who are raising money in Tribute of loved ones in providing expert fundraising advice, materials and opportunities to raise money and to recognise their loved ones.
- Deliver a high standard of supporter care to community and events supporters including suitable recognition.
- Work with the Communications and Marketing Manager to maintain the charity’s social media accounts and other marketing methods to raise awareness of ELHF fundraising activities.
- Maintain and update the database of donors and volunteers ensuring information is accurate and up to date. Use the database to produce reports and monitor against KPIs.
- Manage the Community and Events budget including monitoring progress against targets, reforecast income and expenditure as required.
- Provide regular monthly reports about fundraising activity, performance, supporters, volunteers and events.
- Support the fundraising team in delivering appeals, campaigns and key messages to a range of community audiences.
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About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.
This is an exciting time to join Crisis in Scotland. The Scottish Government has taken bold action towards ending homelessness and it is crucial that we all play our part to ensure the ambition is realised. As Senior Policy Officer, you will play a key role in helping to deliver the work of the Scotland Prevention Review Group. Convened by Crisis, the group will identify legal duties needed for local authorities and other public bodies to prevent homelessness in Scotland. You will also work across a range of areas that are integral to ending homelessness, including migrant homelessness, and supporting the development of our wider policy and influencing work.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have solid experience of developing policy positions to support the delivery of policy, research and communications activity. The ideal candidate will have experience in writing policy reports, briefings and consultation responses and able to analyse and deploy statistics. You will also be confident with stakeholder management and able to represent the charity at external meetings.
Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.
How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team, contact details can be found on our website.
Closing date: 9 March 2020 (11.59pm)
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.
For more information about our work and to see our work in action, please visit our website.
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094
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Every week three children die in Scotland from an incurable condition. CHAS intends to be there for every one of those children.
We are looking for a Press Officer to plan and deliver successful PR and marketing campaigns that will raise awareness of our brand, our fundraising strategy and increase our engagement with stakeholders.
Working within the culture, ethos and philosophy of CHAS, you will deliver high quality and engaging content that inspires the public and stakeholders to support our cause.
Key Responsibilities
You will identify varied PR opportunities to support the promotion and awareness of CHAS, raising public awareness and stakeholder interest. To achieve this, you will:
• Work with and support fundraising and retail colleagues to identify varied PR opportunities to support their work.
• Write and produce engaging materials, including press releases, managing interest from the media and where relevant stakeholders
• Provide the first response to media inquiries, ensuring approval procedures are followed and relevant staff and stakeholders are informed.
• Ensure our media database is up-to-date and relationships with key media contacts are maintained.
• Advise and train colleagues of PR and marketing opportunities and developments, including support with media interviews, ensuring that staff are confident in use of brand and toolkits.
• Assist the Communications Manager in the creation and management of a communications strategy, crisis communication and key communications materials.
About You
In order to deliver the culture, ethos and philosophy of CHAS you will have;
• Educated to degree level in Public Relations, Communication, Marketing, Business and Journalism
• A Minimum of 1 years’ experience of working in a Press Officer role
• An ability to develop effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience of implementing and communicating social media best practices organisation-wide
• Experience or knowledge of video production, from planning through to editing and dissemination across channels
About CHAS
At CHAS, our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying, and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. As a Press Officer, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision.
Further Information and How to Apply
Further information can be found in the attached documents
To be part of the future of CHAS, click on the link at the top of this screen and complete our online application form. Please note that we are unable to accept CV’s.
This post is subject to a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.
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Policy Officer, Scotland
(ref: SUS2852)
£24,446 (pro rata) per annum
30-37.5 hours per week over 4 or 5 days - based in Edinburgh
This role will support Sustrans in ensuring our policies are strong, compelling and well-evidenced, working with colleagues to embed travelling actively in national and local policy. The role contributes to a programme of work that ensures Sustrans engages and influences key stakeholders to see the value of making it easy for people to walk and cycle more often for every day journeys.
With a good standard of education and proven experience in a similar role, you will have experience of researching or communicating public policy and of developing productive working relationships with a wide range of individuals and organisations. You will have excellent written and verbal communications skills, the ability to take an analytical approach to complex policy subject matters and to build and maintain effective working relationships. You will also have good organisational skills, be IT literate and have a good understanding of current transport issues and the politics in Scotland. You will also be committed to the promotion of sustainable transport.
Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am Monday 9 March 2020. Interviews will take place in Edinburgh on Thursday 19 March 2020.
Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion.
We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.
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