Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity dedicated to diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure. Backed by our passionate scientists and supporters, we’re challenging the way people think about dementia, bringing together the people and organisations who can speed up progress, and investing in research to make life-changing breakthroughs possible.

Are you looking for an exciting public affairs role that will see you influencing the political landscape to help drive progress towards life-changing treatments for dementia and make breakthroughs possible?

We have a 12-month fixed term post of Public Affairs Officer to join our policy and public affairs team. The role will help drive to forward our public affairs programme, expanding our capacity to engage and influence key political stakeholders with the mission of bringing about life-changing treatments for dementia by 2025.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic and creative team who are leading engagement, policy and public affairs work in this field. We are thought leaders who are shaping and influencing the future dementia research landscape.

The ideal candidate will have interest in public affairs, understanding of the UK political environment and will be a hard-working team player. We need someone who can form positive relationships both internally and externally and who can help Alzheimer’s Research UK drive real change for people with dementia. 

Main tasks of role: 

• Identify, develop and deliver proactive and reactive parliamentary activity to grow ARUK’s network of engaged, informed and supportive political stakeholders.
• Keep abreast of the dementia research and political environments from national and international perspectives and use intelligence and insight to help inform the team’s work and direction.
• Provide analysis and insight on relevant legislation and policy guidance to help further and inform ARUK’s policy and public affairs work.
• To prepare parliamentary briefs, develop submissions for parliamentary questions and other opportunities presented through the parliamentary system.
• Work with the policy, public affairs, research and communications teams to help deliver public campaigns and campaign messaging focused on ARUK policy objectives and help shape these messages for a political audience.
• Planning and coordinating parliamentary events and conferences focused around ARUK key policy and public affairs objectives, co-ordinating and attend meetings with parliamentarians and stakeholders alongside senior staff.

We are looking for:

• Excellent personal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with people at all levels face to face and on the phone.
• Ability to write professionally, with an ability to adapt communications for different audiences.
• Ability to work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
• Knowledge or interest in public affairs.
• Knowledge of the UK political system.
• Experience of building positive relationships with influencers or supporters.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience.

Location: Granta Park, near Cambridge. A mix of home working / flexible working options considered.

Salary: Circa £28,000 per annum, plus benefits

The closing date for applications is the 7 March 2021, with interviews to be held on the w/c 15 March 2021. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are unable to attend on this date.

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

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

Casework Officer
Reference: FEB20211921
Location: Flexible
Salary: £26,212.00 - £29,321.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days Annual Leave

Do you want to play a crucial role in protecting and enhancing our special places for wildlife?

We are looking for someone passionate about saving nature to join our UK Nature Protection team at a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for environmental protection. You will work on a wide range of cutting-edge cases affecting wildlife sites across the UK, using your skills and knowledge to help the RSPB make a real difference - whether it's new housing, marine renewables or ensuring our protected areas are restored to favourable condition.

We’re offering a permanent post in the RSPB’s UK Nature Protection team and looking for someone who’s passionate and motivated to make the case for nature and help the RSPB hold decision makers to account. This will include helping us harness the power of people to campaign to defend nature.

What is the role about?

The post holder will work on a wide range of cases affecting some of the most important wildlife sites across the UK. You’ll use your skills and knowledge to provide technical support and advice as part of teams aiming to make a real difference to the UK’s special places for wildlife.

Key activities will include:

• Making the case to protect the most important wildlife places in the UK from damaging development and land-use change and using these cases to highlight how local and national policies need to change to ensure the UK’s best wildlife areas are better protected and managed.
• Being a key part of RSPB teams making the case for nature at public examinations and public inquiries. This will include undertaking analysis of development proposals and identifying the RSPB’s key concerns and supporting our expert witnesses in setting out the RSPB’s arguments for protecting nature. On the most high profile cases, this will include working with the RSPB’s campaigns and communications specialists to engage our supporters and the public in our cause.
• Working with other equally committed specialists at HQ and colleagues “on the ground” throughout the UK to help ensure the RSPB's work on key cases has the most strategic impact as part of our wider work to tackle the nature and climate crises and to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity.

Essential skills, knowledge & experience:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, or experience relevant to the role e.g. Environmental or Planning,
• Have knowledge, understanding and relevant experience of planning legislation, policy and practice (or other regulatory systems) in the UK,
• Able to analyse complex issues in a fast-paced environment,
• Good written and verbal communication skills,
• Strong time management and organisational skills,
• Able to negotiate with and influence others, including external stakeholders e.g. professional, persuasive, engaging, and confident,
• Able to contribute to and work within dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams as well as act independently to generate and lead on key areas of work.

Desirable skills, knowledge & experience:

• Knowledge of environmental and nature conservation issues in general,
• Experience of working in the planning system, especially development management and/or public inquiries,
• Experience of project management of cases at public inquiries/public examinations,
• Member or eligible for membership of Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), and/or Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM), and/or Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).

Please note that we are actively recruiting for this role, and reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. 

Expiry date: 23:59, 19 March 2021

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.

No agencies please.

Do you want to advocate for a just and compassionate world where all people can access their rights and achieve their full potential? Are you passionate to help amplify the voice of people with disabilities who live in some of the world’s poorest communities?

CBM UK, part of the CBM Global Disability Inclusion Federation, is looking for two new exciting roles to join our Influencing team as part of a strategy to further increase our impact. The Head of Advocacy and Influencing will drive our advocacy and influencing strategies and build support for our work amongst target stakeholders and decision makers, in support of our commitment to promoting the rights of people with disabilities in the world’s poorest communities. We are seeking a confident and experienced influencer with a track record of impactful advocacy and a keen interest in strategic communications. The Research and Advocacy Senior Officer will support CBM UK’s evidence and learning, advocacy and influencing work. We are seeking an excellent writer with strong research skills and a keen interest in strategic communications, who can work across teams within CBM UK and Global to ensure evidence is captured, learnt from and shared.

CBM UK is actively committed to encouraging and promoting a positive and diverse organisation. We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly encourage people with disabilities to apply.

CBM UK offers competitive salary packaging, flexible working conditions and professional development opportunities. Further information can be obtained from our website.

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s longest established international conservation organisation. Our vision is to create a sustainable future for the planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living closest to it. We aim to do this through the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. We have become a trusted entity in the world of conservation. Today FFI is active in over 40 countries.

The Director Sustainable Agriculture & Enterprise is a new role within FFI, leading a team of five full-time specialists to influence and deliver this area of work across FFI’s global conservation programme, collaborating closely with the other cross-cutting teams and with our four regional programmes to deliver conservation projects in more than forty countries. 

You are a highly motivated, skilled and experienced individual ready to lead FFI’s efforts to build nature-positive agriculture and enterprise opportunities in our global conservation programme.  You have extensive experience of designing and managing nature-positive and collaborative businesses, strengthening sustainable agriculture in conservation programmes, motivating teams to deliver impact on biodiversity objectives and influencing senior policy and corporate decision-makers, and of delivering triple bottom line impact in developing countries. 

You have excellent communication, collaboration, analytical and team management skills, enabling your team to build positive, productive working relationships with colleagues across our global conservation programme.  You are comfortable working in an international NGO and managing in a matrix-like structure.  Your network of agri-business, finance sector and investor contacts will help connect the potential conservation and livelihoods impacts of the team’s work with the investment partners and financial sustainability required at landscape level.   Fluency in spoken and written English is essential and proficiency in a second language relevant to FFI would be an advantage.

In return, the role offers the opportunity to work within an international, impactful and ground-breaking organisation, at the forefront of global conservation.  In addition, FFI offers a generous pension contribution, attractive annual leave allowance and life insurance. Our offices are located in central Cambridge, just a few minutes’ walk from glorious historic buildings and museums, the picturesque River Cam, the central market and shopping centre, and a host of cafés and restaurants. 

For further details and to apply please click here

The closing date for applications is Sunday, 14 March 2021.

It is an exciting time to join the University of Cambridge Development Alumni Relations office where you will be part of a dynamic, innovative and supportive team delivering on some of the University’s most significant fundraising priorities.

The International and Regional Programmes Team is expanding, and the Senior Associate Director, London is a key appointment to the team. You will work to strengthen our alumni and friends networks in London where some of the University’s most important and longstanding supporters are based.  Working collaboratively with colleagues and managing the Associate Director, you will be part of a team that puts donors at the centre of its work, seeking to build long lasting global relationships for the benefit of the Collegiate University. 

As Senior Associate Director, London, you will have the opportunity to work on six and seven figure gifts, securing philanthropic support for priorities such as Widening Participation, a new Children’s Hospital, Food Security, Conservation Solutions, Reproductive Health, Sport and the Performing Arts.

You will be a talented major gifts fundraiser or equivalent who wants to secure gifts at the transformational level.  You will be collaborative, strategic and innovative in approach. Key to your success will be the ability to engage with high net worth individuals, senior level staff across Collegiate Cambridge, academics and with key stakeholders, both internally and externally.

This position is an exciting opportunity to join a team that works at the cutting edge of what we do at an institution where philanthropy has real impact.  We have extraordinary aspirations and know we can make these a reality – come and be a part of our team.

This role is based in central Cambridge, however the successful candidate may need to work remotely in the first instance. An element of remote working long-term will be considered. This can be discussed at interview.

The post holder will need to be able to travel frequently to the London area as well as occasionally travel within the UK.

The closing date for this position is Wednesday 3rd March 2021.

First round interviews for this position are anticipated to take place week commencing 15th March 2021.

Second round interviews for this position anticipated to take place week commencing 22nd March 2021.

The newly appointed Director of Alumni Relations and Development is assembling a team to support the College, in a new phase of its fundraising and alumni development activities. The successful applicant will become part of a friendly, close-knit community of Fellows, students and staff, within a beautiful, small historic College, which dates back to 1352.

Reporting to the Director, the Database and Research Manager at Corpus will be central to the delivery of this transformational task. Responsible for all aspects of the Raiser’s Edge NXT database and the records of five thousand alumni, you will also research and identify major gift opportunities to support our new fundraising projects and campaign. The role requires strong organisational skills and an ability to work on many projects concurrently in a fast-paced environment.

The position will suit anyone who already has a successful history of database and research work, and who now is seeking an opportunity to exercise their skills within a newly established team. Corpus has not had an appointment to this role for some time. While core database activity has been carried out by other personnel, the post holder will need to have the energy, skill and enthusiasm to conduct prospect research, audit the database and any related working practices. You will be responsible for setting clear, simple and efficient ways of working, modelling and disseminating professional standards.

This is a full time appointment (0.8FTE contract may be considered for an outstanding candidate, with exceptional skills). In return, you will receive a competitive salary, excellent benefits and conditions of employment, including a pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement, car parking and use of College facilities

Please Note; Closing date for receipt of applications in 12 noon on 15th March 2021

Fundraising Engagement Manager

You will join our dynamic team as an ambitious fundraising relationship manager and help us fight for young lives against cancer.

As a Fundraising Engagement Manager you will maximise income and awareness for CLIC Sargent by supporting and developing regional fundraising activity across the East Anglia, Cambs and Beds area.

Fundraising Engagement Manager Responsibilities:

You will achieve ambitious targets by generating and managing fantastic supporter relationships, proactively building pipelines, and securing new business.

You’ll be responsible for generating income from corporate partners and community supporters. You will recruit, retain, motivate, and develop fundraising groups and volunteers. This position offers an exciting opportunity to help deliver our national partnership with Morrisons and play a key role in delivering national campaigns.

Fundraising Engagement Manager Requirements:

The successful candidate will have a proven track record in fundraising or relationship management and generating new business to meet income targets. You’ll be an influential negotiator with highly engaging communication, presentation, networking and relationship building skills. You will be self-motivated and action focused with excellent time management skills.

You will need to:

• Have a full UK driving licence and access to a car.
• Have a sufficient Broadband connection as this role is home based.
• Live in either East Anglia, Cambridgeshire or Bedfordshire. Candidates who live outside of the local authority should highlight an intention to relocate to the area in their covering letter for their application to be considered.

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, offering them care and support every step of the way. You can be a part of helping them live their life to the full.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate and neither does CLIC Sargent.

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

Location: Homebased – South East England

Job type: The role is advertised as full-time (35 hours) but part-time could be considered for the right candidate.

Salary: £27,531 per annum

Closing Date: 28 February 2021
Interview Date: 9 March 2021

You may have experience of the following: Fundraising Engagement Manager, Fundraising Manager, Fundraiser, Engagement Manager, Fundraising Executive, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Administrator, Sales Executive, Business Development, Charity, Third Sector, NFP, etc.

Ref: 96937