This role provides a great opportunity to join and lead a busy team of four, working towards eliminating cervical cancer through our local engagement programmes. The Health Engagement team engages with a range of stakeholders including women affected by cervical cancer and cell changes (abnormal cells) women and young people eligible for cervical screening including marginalised groups and HPV vaccination, primary and secondary health care professionals, and key heath influencers. We are evidenced based with everything we do and we hope that you will have a passion for health engagement and how it can be evaluated. 

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their ability to manage a dynamic team, based in London, Glasgow and the West of Scotland. You will be a strong communicator, have proven success in building strong relationships with local health influencers and have experience in public health engagement. You will lead your team in initiating and achieving targets to support the charity to achieve its overall mission as well as increasing the charity's influence and its expertise through developing new relationships across the UK.

About the role

As Public Health Engagement Manager you will lead your team to develop the charity’s health engagement and outreach ambitions. This includes the successful oversight and completion of major projects funded by the Tampon Tax and Scottish Government.

You will show your influencing and partnership making skills with those who make decisions on investing in locally focussed work on cervical cancer and prevention such as CCG's, Cancer Alliances and Health Boards.

This role requires highly sophisticated interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to build rapport with a wide range of stakeholders including senior health influencers, partner providers, health professionals, operational staff, volunteers and service users.

The post holder will motivate and inspire our team, engaging staff and volunteers in the primary purpose of our organisation – delivering trustworthy information and education about cervical cancer and its prevention.

The Public Health Engagement team are a highly skilled, passionate and motivated group who fully understand their roles and are deeply committed to the work of Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust.

To apply for this role please send a CV and a covering letter to Robert Music, Chief Executive. Further information can be found on our website. Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Closing date for application:  5pm on Friday 31st January 2020

1st Interview date: Monday 10th February 2020

2nd Interview date: Monday 17th February 2020

Centrepoint is the UK's leading charity for homeless young people. We provide a range of accommodation and support services to vulnerable young people across London, Yorkshire and the North East. Our vision is to end youth homelessness but until then we will continue to provide young people with a place to call home, tailored support and the opportunity to build the skills needed to sustain independent living.

We’re looking for an ambitious Corporate Development Assistant to join the team.  

It’s a hugely exciting time to be joining the team. Centrepoint is growing to meet the increased challenges facing homeless young people and will be launching new strategic projects to ensure a better and brighter future for homeless and at risk 16-25 year olds.

The CDA is one of two assistant roles who take a lead on the finance processes, email inbox and teams as well as having the opportunity to support on large accounts and new business approaches.

Additionally, the post-holder will work closely with the rest of the team to deliver Sleep Out, our annual fundraising campaign.

Working to create a vibrant and collaborative culture where everyone feels motivated and able to succeed the role will involve:

• Leading on thanking corporate donations
• Looking after adhoc corporate supporters
• Managing weekly finance processes
• Managing the corporate inbox ensuring enquiries are dealt with in a timely manner
• Creating content for the Corporate Team Comms
• Supporting on larger accounts and new business approaches
• Working with the team to deliver Sleep Out

This role is perfect for an ambitious person looking to start a career in fundraising – ideally with experience of working in a fundraising/office or admin environment.

What we offer in return...

In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:

- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days

- Excellent training package to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career

- Employer pension contributions of 4%

- Clear career progressions, linked to portfolio work, that enables movement up the pay scale

- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme

- An interest-free travel loan

We seek to challenge discrimination and are committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint. We welcome applications from anyone with direct experience of being homeless or using young people's services.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Corporate Development Assistant, click ‘Apply’ now!

Closing Date: 27 January 2020, 10am

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? Join us as the Regional Fundraising & Engagement Manager for the South East & London and lead a team focussed on growing income from communities, groups, regional corporates and individuals. This is a 10 month maternity cover contract.

In our Marketing, Fundraising and Communications department, we fight for children every single day. We inspire millions of people, from individuals to large corporates, to support our quest for change. We go the extra mile - and we don’t rest until the work is done.

As Regional Fundraising & Engagement Manager you will lead, manage, motivate and support a team of Community Fundraising & Engagement Managers (CFMs). You will set and deliver agreed fundraising budgets and regional targets, providing accurate financial commentary on the region, as well as reporting on variances and implementing contingency plans. You will also oversee the regional fundraising and supporter & volunteer pipelines to achieve income, engagement, loyalty and campaigning targets. In addition, you will:

• Oversee a regional pipeline of partnership and corporate opportunities
• Provide direction and support to direct reports by holding consistent 121s, annual reviews, role modelling activity, and leading team meetings
• As part of a Regional Manager team contribute on the development of management and fundraising tools and processes and projects to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.

To be successful you will be an excellent communicator and team player with outstanding leadership and coaching skills, alongside a track record of building a high performing team. You will have significant experience of leading an income generating team and driving growth from community audiences, as well as strong financial and data analytics experience. Additionally, you will have:

• Full clean drivers license
• Multi-year experience of regional and community fundraising
• Team leadership and line management experience
• Willingness to work outside of office in home-based position.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity and a real commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world, and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

To apply please visit our website.

Closing date: 26th January 2020

At Peer Power, we are looking for individuals who are able to empathise with and support young people to influence change in the health and justice system.

This is an exciting opportunity for the postholder to join a small but fast growing team including; Head of Finance and Operations, Peer Engagement Worker, Office Manager and Youth Engagement and Coproduction Manager, CEO and new roles Senior Youth Worker and Training, Learning and Development Lead.  We also work with a freelance fundraiser, evaluation specialist and therapists.

Due to funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation, we can recruit our first Communications post at Peer Power. The charity goes into its fourth year in 2020, and this role is crucial to help us realise our ambitions to support more young people with their social action projects and system change activities, packaging up and delivering training outside of London and exploring routes for scaling our impact. It will suit someone looking for autonomy in their role, excited to work alongside young people and our team and wanting to ‘make their mark’ in an important and meaningful role.

Reporting to and working closely with the CEO as a senior member of a small but growing staff team, the Head of Communications and Marketing is responsible for:

• Creating and delivering our communications strategy: working with the whole team at Peer Power (including in partnership with teenagers and young adults engaged with the charity) to develop and deliver a new and successful marketing and communications strategy that promotes the organisation's work and supports projects, fundraising and corporate partnership initiatives. 

• Supporting business growth: meeting personal and organisational marketing and communications targets, business objectives and income generation. 

• Reinforcing organisational culture: building and maintaining a culture within the whole organisation that understands the importance of strong, clear and consistent internal and external communications. 

• Advancing our mission through communications: ensuring that the organisation's communications are of the highest quality and that they support and advance our charitable objectives. 


Who we are looking for: We are looking for an exceptional person, who is energetic and ambitious, and wants to contribute their time, passion and positive energy to our mission! Is this you?

• You are passionate about social justice, and utilising your communications and marketing skills and experience to really make a difference 

• You have excellent inter-personal skills, values led, with a high level of social and emotional intelligence. 

• You are empathic, fair and kind, and can relate to and connect with people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. 

• You will relish the challenge and autonomy this role presents, and getting involved with all aspects of a young and growing charity. 

• You are excited about coproduction and the opportunity to work alongside young people, sharing decisions and budgets. 

• You enjoy working as part of a team, and can get on board with ‘consent-based decision making’ in an organisation. 

• You are ambitious, looking for somewhere you can grow and build your career and you thrive working in fast paced environments where you can influence growth and innovation.

You will promote and demonstrate the values of the charity by being positive, open and honest, actively demonstrating love, empathy, respect and fairness, and will contribute actively as a key partner in the design and development of our work at Peer Power.

PART- TIME 17.5 hours

Salary £37,638 - £45,468 (Pro Rata)

TSSA represents people working in transport and travel. Our vision is to be a well organised and effective trade union where our members are at the heart of everything that we do. We are now involved in an ambitious growth project – our organising teams are focused on building bigger and stronger workplaces, where members have the power to challenge and create change, to ensure they are respected in their workplace and able to address inequalities.
Can you help us make our vision a reality? Then join our Organising team where we have vacancies in the North of England and in London.

Being an Organiser in TSSA – You will either be focusing on key priority transport companies including TfL, London Underground and Network Rail or/and leading on our innovative and progressive equality campaigns including our work to engage with and support LGBT+ and BAME workers. Through the application of strategic organising methods, you will drive membership growth and develop lay representatives to create sustainable active union workplaces where our members have the confidence to apply power and leverage to make a difference to everyone’s working lives. You will be responsible for coaching active members and will promote our equalities agenda in the workplace.

Do you have the skills we are looking for? - We are looking for talented and creative Organisers who are ready to be part of our progressive transport union and the opportunities that organising and bargaining in a new era of rail will bring. As a creative thinker you will be able to identify, plan and pursue organising and campaigning opportunities that achieve the strategic aims of TSSA. You will be able to identify and cultivate workplace leaders through your own strong interpersonal and leadership skills. You will be able to lead collective negotiations and challenge employers via the representation of members in pursuance of TSSA’s bargaining, organising and equality agenda.

In the current environmental, political and economic crisis that we are in, never has there been a more important and challenging time to play a part in creating change, drive social engagement and challenge discrimination via pro-active and positive campaigns in the public and private transport industry.
The office location for these roles is either York, Manchester or Liverpool St, London. All roles require travel across your region and will on occasion involve overnights stays.

TSSA Organisers starting salary is £41,323 plus London Weighting of £5,521 that can rise on an incremental scale to £50,736 plus LW over a period of five years.

TSSA offers all employees a generous annual leave entitlement and defined benefit pension scheme. TSSA is an equal opportunities employer striving to maintain and grow our diverse workplace community. We welcome applications from all sectors of the community. We are a family friendly employer and pro-actively support staff with disabilities. We are proud to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion and have just recently signed the Time to Change pledge.

Interested – then visit the TSSA website or check us out on Linked In

The closing date for this vacancy is Monday 27th January 10am and assessments will be held on either Monday 10th or Tuesday 11th February 2020.

Project Associate - Young Cities & YouthCAN

• Organisation: Institute for Strategic Dialogue
• Reporting To: Project Manager
• Contract: FTC to February 2022 with possibility of extension
• Location: London, UK
• Preferred Start Date; March 2020
• Salary Bracket: £25,000 - £28,000 depending in experience

ISD is looking for an exceptional individual to work on our YouthCAN and Young Cities programmes as a Project Associate based in London.

Founded in 2015, the Youth Civil Activism Network (YouthCAN) is one of ISD’s longest running programmes and works across the globe to empower young activists to challenge hate, prevent extremism and promote peace. We enable youth to find their voice and take action to help build a more peaceful world through the provision of training, support and resources. YouthCAN’s goal is to further the role of young people in P/CVE at all levels by ensuring that young people have the knowledge, skills and confidence to act effectively, as well as the opportunity to engage meaningfully at all levels both as partners and as leaders.]

Young Cities is a joint effort by YouthCAN and one of ISD’s other longest running programmes, the Strong Cities Network (SCN), bringing youth voices to city halls across Lebanon, Kenya, Senegal and the Western Balkans. Young Cities works in partnership with both young people and local government to enhance and support youth-led solutions to community challenges such as hate, polarisation, extremism and violence.

Young people have the insights, ability and creativity to affect change on deeply entrenched community challenges. YouthCAN and Young Cities support and amplify these efforts through local research, capacity-building, seed funding and direct support, giving young people the skills and freedom to develop programming that responds to the needs of their communities. 

Simultaneously, Young Cities works with local government to support city-level youth collaboration and to develop more effective policy that champions youth as key partners in resilience building efforts. By working simultaneously with both groups – youth and local government – our youth programmes foster a shared understanding of local youth issues, facilitates new opportunities for cooperation, and ultimately enhances both groups’ capacity to tackle community-level challenges of hate and polarisation.

Role Purpose

The Associate will work as part of the Young Cities and YouthCAN teams to deliver project activities predominantly with youth, but also local government stakeholders. This includes organising workshops, helping deliver project communications and social media presence, and providing research support. This is a global-facing role, and the Associate will engage with stakeholders across the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Australia and the Western Balkans. There is an opportunity to develop a larger focus on engagement in the Western Balkans, depending on language skills of the applicant. 

Responsibilities

1. Event organization: Assist the successful delivery of Young Cities and YouthCAN project activities in multiple regions

• Contributing to defining objectives and setting the agenda for events
• Helping drive recruitment and managing attendance
• Liaising with event venues and organisers
• Maintaining contact with external speakers
• Preparing collaterals and materials for events
• Coordination and participation on the day of the event as required
• Conducting desk-based research as required

2. Support project communications, including the projects’ social media and online presence

• Support the Youth Coordinator in managing the websites for YouthCAN and Young Cities
• Help manage YouthCAN‘s social media pages and drive engagement
• Help manage YouthCAN’s online community of more than 1,500 young activists globally
• Curate and help create engaging and relevant content that can support and inspire activists
• Liaise with YouthCAN’s activists in Lebanon, Kenya, Senegal, Pakistan, Australia and the Western Balkans to provide content for YouthCAN’s social media highlighting their work  

3. Support the development of youth-led and co-created campaigns and initiatives

• Support strategic development of locally-tailored policy advice and youth-led campaigns and initiatives in Kenya, Lebanon, Senegal, Pakistan, Australia and the Western Balkans
• Support coordination of small grants and project delivery, including stakeholder management with youth and local government as required
• Support delivery of tailored training sessions for youth groups
• Conduct research into local-level approaches, policies and programmes

4. Project administration

• Assist Managers and Coordinators in the administration of projects, including contributing to the Project Operations Document
• Support tracking of budget expenditure
• Contribute to reporting processes

What success looks like

• Contribute to the organization of at least 4 events per year
• Increase following and engagement on social media pages and in online activist community
• Productive working relationships developed in multi-regional environment
• Developed expertise in youth, peace and security-related issues 
• Positive 360 feedback from team colleagues

Person Specification

Essential:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant work experience (such as conflict studies, peacebuilding, international development)
• Previous experience in project or programme delivery, with proven ability to meet deadlines and contribute to team project work
• Previous experience with communications and social media management 
• Clear, fluent and concise oral and written communication
• Highly organized with the ability to be flexible, multi-task and respond proactively in a fast-paced environment
• Highly IT literate, with willingness and ability to quickly learn new online tools and content management systems
• Online and offline research skills
• Intercultural and interpersonal awareness
• Willingness to travel internationally

Desirable

• Masters degree from reputable university
• Previous experience with youth-led peacebuilding work and/or general youth engagement projects and passion for working with youth
• Previous experience with projects building resilience against hate, violence and polarization
• Skilled writer for public audience
• Experience working with international stakeholders
• Ability to work well independently and in a team
• Fluency in Macedonian, Albanian, or Serbo-Croatian highly desirable.
• Fluency in Arabic, Swahili, Urdu or French desirable.
• Previous work experience and/or living in the Western Balkans, West and/or East Africa or Middle East desirable.

How to Apply

If you would like to apply for this position, please submit a one-page cover letter and up-tp-date CV (no more than two pages) by Friday 31st January, 5pm UK time.

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted and applications without a covering letter will not be considered. All applicants who are invited to interview will be asked to produce evidence of their right to work in the UK.

Interviews will be held between 6th-7th February 2020 in London.

ISD reserves the right to assess any applications throughout the application process and may conduct interviews earlier than the closing date of the vacancy as stated above.

Senior Trusts and Foundations Officer

Job title: Senior Trusts and Foundations Officer
Reporting to: Director of Fundraising
Key linkages: Fundraising Assistant, Programme Managers, Digital Fundraising and Communication Officer, joint CEOs
Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum, depending on experience
Job type: Permanent, full-time (35h). Flexible working considered.
Location: Flexible/working from home with 2 days a week in our London base. Occasional travel to our main office in Farnborough may be required.
Other benefits: 25 days annual leave plus 2 company days; 5% employer’s pension contribution

Are you an energetic, passionate and hands-on fundraiser looking for a new challenge?
Are you ready to contribute your talent and drive to a small charity with a big mission?
We are currently looking for that special someone to have an influential role in growing fundraising from trust and foundations. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced trust fundraiser to take on this new role in a fast-paced environment.

Your skills, mindset and commitment to our vision of ‘No child forgotten’ will be vital in helping us grow into the organisation we want to be and give you the chance to fundamentally impact the lives of some of the most vulnerable children in Africa.

You will develop and implement a strategy for trust fundraising with the Director of Fundraising adhering to agreed targets and plans as well as our Ethical Fundraising Policy and our donor promise. You will build relationships with a portfolio of potential and strategically important trusts funders and engage with them through phone calls, meetings, written correspondence and events. The Trusts and Foundations Manager will also maintain and deliver a schedule of applications and reports to grant makers, including prospecting for new funders with an emphasis on fundraising from larger trusts and securing multi year gifts.

At the charity, the Fundraising and Communications Team works collaboratively with the Programmes team to share ideas, knowledge, skills and experience to create a supportive culture. In the role you will work closely with the Programmes Team to create engaging proposals, however experience of writing bids for institutional funders is not required as this is managed by the Programmes Team.

You will have strong relationship-building skills and be a highly effective communicator. You will enjoy the challenge of a busy team, using your excellent organisational skills to manage a large portfolio of trusts and foundations. Your initiative and self-motivation is especially important while working remotely as part of our geographically disbursed team in the Africa and the UK.

We are looking for someone with proven experience and a recent track record of success in raising funds with Trusts and Foundations (100,000+, including multi-year funding) and you will be keen to use what you have learnt to expand your own knowledge in growing the small but established portfolio at Chance for Childhood.

About Chance for Childhood
Chance for Childhood is an award-winning charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children, such as street children, disabled children, children affected by conflict and kids behind bars. Our vision is of a world where no child is forgotten!

We work with African visionary community leaders to implement locally-relevant yet far-reaching projects that create lasting change within the justice, education and social protection sectors. This enables us to focus on ‘hard to reach’ children, both in terms of their complex needs (e.g. street children with learning difficulties) and location (e.g. urban violent slums or remote rural areas). Together we make ideas and impact both sustainable and scalable to protect, educate and empower even more of the world’s most disadvantaged children.

Purpose of the role

The Trusts and Foundations Manager will:

• Build upon partnerships with, and secure new income from, an existing pipeline of trust and foundations.
• Research and build relationships with new funders who we can approach for single and multi year funding.
• Deliver high-quality cultivation and stewardship of all trusts and foundations to produce robust and measurable growth over time.
• Provide a first class experience to all our donors and supporters.

Main duties and responsibilities

General

1. Actively contribute to implementing our new integrated fundraising strategy and yearly budgets in line with our 2019-2021 strategic priorities.
2. Work with the wider team to develop compelling cases for support by having a strong understanding of our work, current objectives and future plans in order to match donor interests effectively and see opportunities for further support.
3. Monitor and analyse key performance indicators to evaluate specific fundraising projects and ensure a steady increase of income year on year.
4. Keep up to date with any changes in legislation, regulatory procedures, best practice and industry standards in relation to fundraising.

Trusts and Foundations

1. Maintain and deliver a schedule of applications and reporting to grant makers, including prospecting for new funders, working collaboratively with the Director of Fundraising and Programme Team.
2. Research, develop and maintain a pipeline of new relationships to secure fundraising opportunities with a specific focus on multi year funding.
3. Write tailored, inspirational applications and project reports addressing grant-making priorities or requirements as specified.
4. Develop and maintain reporting and application systems and coordinate information across the organisation.
5. Liaise closely with the Programmes Team to plan and develop the strongest possible proposals and build relationships.
6. Ensure high-quality, ongoing management and engagement of existing trusts/foundations, including coordinating all commitments for these funders across the charity.
7. Develop and implement personalised cultivation and stewardship plans for specific funders to build and manage relationships with them.
8. Work with the Director of Fundraising to identify and cultivate links between major donors and trusts and foundations.

Other duties

1. Support the Director of Fundraising in the organisation of cultivation events.
2. Actively contribute to the team’s work plans and internal staff meetings.
3. Attend networking groups and external events to make contacts and represent Chance for Childhood.
4. Support on other fundraising initiatives as required such as our online matched-giving initiatives and during busy fundraising campaigns.
5. Any other duties commensurate with the level of the post, as may be required.

Person specification

Essential

• Excellent written communication skills with the experience of writing successful fundraising applications to foundations and charitable trusts and securing five and six figure grants.
• Experience of developing income from trusts, foundations and grant-giving bodies.
• Experience of developing and implementing a trust fundraising programme, including acquisition, retention and development.
• Demonstrable ability to develop relationships with grant-making bodies.
• Strong track record of meeting and exceeding both financial and non–financial targets.
• Excellent written communication skills with the experience of writing and editing inspiring and accurate proposals and reports independently.
• Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to engage and inspire people at all levels of seniority and all walks of life, whilst understanding the needs and knowledge of the target audience.
• Excellent relationship-building and donor care skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to manage a varied and complex workload, prioritising competing demands.
• Desire to gain results both as part of a multi-disciplinary team and on own initiative.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• Self-reliant and confident IT user including internet, email, databases, spreadsheets, desktop publishing and Windows package.

Desirable

• Knowledge of international development sector.
• Experience of undertaking high-quality research to identify prospective funders.
• Good budgeting skills.
• Knowledge of institutional funders.
• Experience of using databases as an integral part of your work.

To apply please visit our website.

Send a supporting statement highlighting how your skills and experience meet the person specification (2 pages maximum) and your CV. 

Closing date: 9am Monday 27th January (or before if a sufficient number of applications have been received).

Interviews: Thursday 30th January.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required for this post, as part of Chance for Childhood’s commitment to child protection, as outlined in our Child Safeguarding Policy, which all staff are required to sign and adhere to.

Chance for Childhood is an equal opportunities employer.

Please complete and return our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form with your application. There is no need to print it as it is a fillable form.

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