WR Fundraising Recruitment is delighted to be working with an inspirational charity that has an amazing track record of providing impact in a wide breadth of programmes that include environmental, health, education, community, training and offender reform.

At a very exciting time of development, we are recruiting for a Corporate Partnerships Account Manager to nurture key commercial relationships for the charity, working closely with an amazing Head of Fundraising in managing unique partnerships and a core commercial programme that generates high levels of income for the charity. This role focusses on developing a small number of high-impact strategic corporate fundraising relationships with some extremely recognisable brands.

We’re looking for an experienced corporate partnerships fundraising professional who is skilled in managing key relationships, has an exceptional level of organisational skills and can influence / negotiate at all levels.

We welcome applications from experienced corporate fundraising professionals who are keen to undertake a new challenge and bring their own ideas to a unique role within a very well respected charity.

Corporate Partnerships Account Manager

Part time – 2.5 days per week – flexible on working patterns

Up to £30,000 per annum pro rata

Coventry, West Midlands (Flexible and home working encouraged)

Permanent

Duties will include:

• Project manage the charity’s largest commercial partnership ensuring all key elements are overseen and implemented
• Developing existing partnerships to uplift, diversify, and extend the relationships.
• Build and develop long term mutually beneficial partnerships that deliver income and importantly contribute to the charity’s vision and mission.
• Identify and secure opportunities to engage corporate supporters in the work and activities throughout the term of their partnership.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Significant and demonstrable knowledge of multi-faceted corporate partnerships / commercial partnerships
• Evidence of effective working knowledge of corporate fundraising account management with experience of working with high value commercial or corporate fundraising partners
• Ability to manage and develop corporate fundraising partnerships and the senior relationships included
• Demonstrable track record of growing and developing relationships with corporates and working collaboratively with internal stakeholders to help develop mutually beneficial partnerships
• Highly organised working style with the ability to work flexible to deadlines when needed.

For further details or to apply, please email a copy of your up to date CV in the first instance.

The team at WR Fundraising Recruitment are passionate about bringing together talented fundraising professionals with fantastic organisations. We’d love to hear from you if you are looking for a new fundraising opportunity.

Description​

• Applications Close: Thursday, 13th May at 9am (Please note late applications cannot be accepted)
• Salary: £30,000 p.a. (+ £3,000 London weighting, where applicable)
• Contract: Full-time, permanent
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week. We are open to agreeing a flexible working pattern to best suit the successful applicant.
• Location: London or Birmingham (with travel to London for meetings). Remote working initially until staff return to office-based working).
• Interviews: Wednesday 26th May 2021 (TBC)
• Start date: ASAP
• Reporting to: Senior Business Partnership Manager

About The Access Project

In the UK today, students from the most advantaged backgrounds are six times more likely to make it to a top university compared to their least advantaged peers. To change this, The Access Project supports students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access top universities, through a unique combination of tuition and in-school mentoring. We work with them to make good applications, get the grades and transition to university.

Our approach works: our students are more than twice as likely to place at top universities compared to similar peers.

Through the COVID crisis, we have supported students by rapidly moving all provision online. In summer 2020, we were selected as a Tuition Partner for the highly competitive National Tutoring Programme, in recognition of the quality of our work. This partnership has enabled us to expand and we now serve 1,700 students in London, the East and West Midlands and Bradford. As the country emerges from COVID, tackling educational disadvantage is an urgent social challenge - a challenge we aim to meet by expanding our footprint and reaching more students than ever before. The Access Project has established partnerships with leading companies who are committed to social mobility, want to provide volunteering opportunities for their staff and recognise the value of our work.

About the role

We are seeking a talented Corporate Partnerships Manager to secure and steward long-term corporate partnerships for The Access Project.

We have identified corporate funding as one of our largest growth areas. This is a new role in our Partnerships team to help to drive forward our business partnerships strategy and double our corporate income over the next 4-5 years. You will be instrumental in developing partnerships with major companies to secure income for TAP and engage their staff to support young people through volunteering.

We are looking for an individual with a strong track record in new business sales or business development. You will be responsible for your own portfolio - winning new business and account managing existing relationships.

The successful candidate will be passionate about levelling the playing field for disadvantaged young people in education. You will be an exceptional relationship builder with strong communications skills, able to inspire companies to support our mission.

Duties and responsibilities

Work closely with the Senior Business Partnership Manager and Partnerships Director to support the delivery of new corporate partnerships and account management for the organisation:

Corporate partnerships

Development and strategy

• Identify potential ‘flagship’ partnerships within your portfolio, and devise strategies to develop these.
• Contribute ideas to further develop our corporate partnerships offer.
• Develop high quality materials to support corporate partnerships.
• Devise new and imaginative strategies to engage businesses and maximise their potential for support.

New business

• Use research into businesses and TAP networks to identify and act on new business leads.
• Undertake due diligence research on potential new partners in existing industries and in identified industries that have strong ties to STEM subjects (science, technology, Engineering and Maths)

Account management and stewardship

• Account management of a portfolio of corporate relationships and prospects, including formal reporting, informal updates responding to feedback and identifying and potential issues.
• Provide recognition and stewardship opportunities to businesses in line with our corporate partnership levels.
• Use corporate partnership levels to incentivise businesses to increase their support.
• Contribute to regular engagement events for business partners.

Working collaboratively

• Work closely with the volunteer team to maximise the number of volunteers from businesses.
• Work with senior staff and stakeholders at TAP to reach influencers at businesses.
• Working with the communications team, devise creative ways to recognise and publicise business partnerships and to increase brand awareness of The Access Project in business circles.
• Work with staff in all TAP regions to ensure coordinated business approaches, providing input where needed.

Corporate foundations

• Write and manage grant proposals to corporate trusts where appropriate.

Targets, forecasting and budgeting

• Meet annual targets, KPIs and milestones set with the Senior Business Partnership Manager and Partnerships Director.
• Contribute to quarterly financial review and forecasting, as well as annual budget setting.

Wider partnerships duties

• Contribute to partnerships materials and communications.
• Maintain records on the database and internal systems.
• Generate ideas for wider fundraising opportunities and strategy.
• Attend TAP cultivation and stewardship events.

Person specification

Essential characteristics and experience:

• At least 2 years’ experience in a fundraising role working with businesses, or in a business to business sales role.
• Demonstrable success in successfully growing a fundraising or revenue stream.
• Ability to generate new ideas and tactics to grow business partnerships.
• Superb communication and presentation skills: written, visual and verbal.
• Excellent relationship-building skills. Diplomatic and able to interact with people from all walks of life.
• Ability to understand and articulate the needs of business partners and how this relates to The Access Project.
• Strong organisational skills, with ability to manage multiple accounts, projects and deadlines.
• Experience of meeting financial targets and KPIs.
• Ability to discuss issues relating to our mission with confidence and sensitivity.
• Ability to sensitively balance the interests of different people and groups, both internally and externally.
• Commitment to the cause, mission statement and aims of The Access Project.

Desirable:

• Experience of using Salesforce would be beneficial.
• Understanding of fundraising best practice and regulations.
• Knowledge of the education sector.

Benefits

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications for all suitably qualified persons. However as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals are currently under-represented within the organisation, which does not reflect our diverse student body, we would particularly welcome applications from BAME candidates. All appointments will be made on merit.

TAP offers:

• A great working environment!
• 25 days annual leave p.a. (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure.
• PerkBox Perks – offering nationwide shopping discounts, gym memberships, holidays, freebies, learning and much more.
• Employee Assistance Programme, a 24 hour helpline for staff
• Online Medical assistance – access 24/7 to a qualified GP within minutes, with referrals and prescriptions available same-day.
• Interest-free travelcard loans
• 3 paid volunteering days per year, should you take up the opportunity to volunteer
• Cyclescheme loans
• Employer’s pensions contributions (3%)
• CPD options
• TAP welcomes requests for flexible working arrangements
• Monthly work-from-home days (when not in lockdown, obviously)!

Please see our online application portal for further information about the role and The Access Project.

We are a social mobility movement committed to ensuring that every young person experiences educational equity.

As an award-winning, fast-growing charity our mission is to support young people from disadvantaged communities to identify and fulfil their potential. Working in partnership with schools, we deliver academic tutoring programmes that improve a pupil’s grades, confidence and independence so they can win places at top universities and on high level apprenticeships.

Having turned seven years old in February 2021, we’re at an exciting stage of growth and have ambitious plans to scale our impact and reach. This coming academic year, we are supporting over 2500 pupils. Currently working across London, the South East, the West Midlands and the South , we are looking to thoughtfully scale our academic programmes into hard-to-reach deprivation areas; develop a primary strand to our work; and increase the impact of our programmes.

The West Midlands has been one of our key emerging hubs. Since 2016, we have developed partnerships and relationships across the region with schools, universities and collaborators. We are now looking for a leader to realise the region’s full potential.

We need an outgoing self-starter to drive our work in the West Midlands forward, making it a sustainable hub that delivers real social impact. As the public face of the organisation, you will be responsible for partnership development, profile raising and managing our programmes from volunteer recruitment all the way through to evaluation. This is an in at the deep end role and you will flourish in a small dynamic team with real influence in decision making.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Growing the West Midlands as a sustainable CoachBright region:

• Generating new school leads and securing programmes
• Generating income outside of school programmes
• Growing a strong and supportive network of schools, Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), universities, corporate partners and others
• Ensuring retention of volunteer coaches (meeting minimum targets set termly)

Create a thriving community of social mobility advocates among university students and young professionals:

• Delivering recruitment strategy for West Midlands programmes to meet termly targets
• Training volunteers in coaching and our pedagogy.

Oversee multiple in-school programmes across the West Midlands:

• Setting timelines for programme start and finish dates
• Communicating with school staff weekly to provide feedback following sessions
• Visiting schools to oversee quality. Programmes to include a mixture of Core Programme: University student volunteers coach pupils in Yr 9-13 and Peer to Peer Programme: Year 12 pupils coach pupils in Yr 7-10.

Programme Design and Delivery

• Contributing to the design of current workshops and creating new workshops when needed
• Running in-school and virtual workshops for groups of pupils (KS3-5) and facilitating university trips at the start and end of our programmes

Managing partnerships with West Midlands universities:

• Maintaining regular contact with relevant staff members in outreach and or/volunteering teams at each university
• Managing room bookings for events at university campuses

Line managing a team of Programme Officers and Head Coaches:

• Managing a team of up to 6 full-time programme officers
• Delivering training for Head Coaches in the West Midlands
• Holding 1-1 appraisals to monitor performance and set actions

Embodying our values (humility, high expectations, serving the team, responsibility and resilience) and demonstrating commitment to our mission.

Person Specification

Essential characteristics and experience

• Passion for social mobility: we have big aims and are looking for those who share our desire to make education fairer in the UK so a person’s background does not determine their future.
• Relationship building and facilitating: this a public-facing role so you will love communicating and delivering workshops to groups as well as communicating our mission to a wide range of stakeholders (business leaders, senior members of MATs, universities etc.)
• Organisation: working in a fast paced young organisation you’ll be able to work between different programmes and workstreams.
• Resourcefulness: we’re a small, dedicated team - you must be a self-starter prepared for practical roles with lots of responsibility. A willingness to stay solution-focused with last minute challenges is a must!
• Young People: experience in a school or youth organisation as a facilitator.
• Flexibility: the role will occasionally involve working evenings & weekends
• Full clean driving licence: the role will involve substantial travel across the region visiting our partners.

Desirable knowledge/experience:

• 2-3 years frontline experience working in a school or social sector for example as a teacher or workshop facilitator.
• Experience recruiting volunteers.
• Experience of working in a small team and working independently.
• Experience measuring and evaluating the impact of youth-based programmes.
• Experience of sales in an education context.
• Knowledge of programme design, pedagogy or coaching.
• Knowledge of UK university sector, including knowledge of the UCAS process.

Benefits:

• An opportunity to contribute to a young, exciting social enterprise with scope to input widely and take on new roles.
• Starting Salary: £28-30k per annum
• Annual Leave: 28 days pro rata
• Office space: initially working from home. Longer term to be based between our West Midlands Office (Birmingham City University) and partner schools with travel to other regions.
• Training: we are a reflective organisation and keen to support your professional development. Opportunities include being matched with a mentor in the social sector and becoming an accredited Executive Coach

Key Information:

• Length: 12 months (with likely extension dependent on performance and funding)
• Hours: Full Time
• Reporting to: National Programme Manager
• Responsible for: Region and its programmes
• Start Date: June-August 2021 (flexible for the right candidate).

TO APPLY:

Please email your CV and a cover letter of no more than 350 words to Robin by no later than Friday 4th June, 12pm.

Please note: We will be interviewing successful candidates on a rolling basis, so may close the post at any time. Early application is therefore highly encouraged. 

About Reall

Reall is an innovator and investor in climate-smart affordable housing for people living on low incomes in urban Africa and Asia.

Reall’s purpose is to improve the lives of 100M people in urban Africa and Asia by 2030 through affordable housing.  We’re doing this because homes aren’t just a fundamental human right; they unleash unimaginable human potential to shape a future of gender parity, climate resilience, clean air, renewable energy, and socio-economic justice.

The Role

Reall is looking for an exceptional leader, collaborator, and facilitator to join its growing team in the role of Business Performance Manager.

Reporting to the Head of HR, this key role needs an adaptable and organised individual to bring innovation and impact to Reall’s Annual Operating Plan, leading on organisational integration, and working closely and strategically with the Leadership and Executive Teams, as well as with colleagues across the organisation, to raise performance standards and improve the management of business processes.

In addition, this role will also lead on the design and implementation of key strategic internal meetings, events, and away days, manage communication and engagement with colleagues, and drive efficiency across the organisation.

Full details are in the job description and person specification, that are available by clicking the link to apply for this role.

Why work at Reall?

With a modest UK-based team, Reall is an organisation driven by efficiency, with comparatively huge ambitions and a track record of significant success.

Our internal operations are underpinned by a culture of psychological safety, promoting trust, curiosity, and confidence.  This means that staff feel secure to speak their minds, tackle challenges creatively, and can never be described as risk adverse.  A committed investor in its staff, Reall promotes an environment of conscious diversity in all its forms.  You’ll be joining a high-performing, cohesive team with its sights firmly on global impact.

12 Month Contract | 30 hours per week

The Disability Resource Centre (DRC) is a leading disability organisation operating in Birmingham, Solihull and the wider West Midlands.

Our mission is ‘to build a sustainable business to empower disabled people to take control of their own lives and to actively seek out opportunities to achieve their full potential as individuals in mainstream society’. This is at the heart of everything we do.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced person to assist the Information, Advice and Guidance team to support clients in achieving a better state of wellbeing as well as conduct Focus groups and telephone research and provide a platform for disabled people and their families to highlight their needs in such challenging times.

As our ideal candidate, you will be able to provide effective and efficient person-centred casework support within our Information and Advice team. Candidates should have relevant experience of working with complex cases, possess a Level 2 in Information, Advice and Guidance, sound knowledge and understanding of third sector disability issues and welfare entitlements as well as good working knowledge of IT including MS Office and data management.

To apply, please visit our website via the apply button.

Closing date: 21 May 2021.

Interview date: w/c 24 May 2021.

ASSISTANT OPERATIONS MANAGER 

Are you an accomplished, confident, approachable and empathetic manager? Do you want a job where you make a difference every day? Can you listen as well as talk, be organised as well as flexible?  If this is you, then you should take the next step and apply to join the family of the Fishermen’s Mission.

We are looking for an Assistant Operations Manager to work closely with the Operations Manager to deliver frontline emergency response, practical welfare and pastoral support operations throughout the UK. 

This job is about commercial fishermen and their families and the Fishermen’s Mission staff that support them in times of need.  You will be able to drive consistency and professionalism in service delivery and lead the application of the charity’s values. You will be able to communicate clearly the bigger picture of the charity's aims and will also have the attention to detail to make sure everything is running like clockwork, both from an administrative perspective and in terms of HR, compliance and governance.

The role will entail significant travel to staff at the fishing ports and harbours throughout the UK. (Easy access to major travel routes would be an advantage as it is anticipated that the succesful candidate would be expected to be travelling and visiting operational staff around the UK for approxiamately 70% of the time. )

As a key player in the Head Office team, you will also be able to input to the development of operations at the management level. This is one of the most rewarding jobs you could ever hope to have. 

The Fishermen’s Mission is a Christian charity that has been around since 1881.  We help active and retired commercial fishermen and their families.  You could be part of our vital work.   Relevant experience is important, but we’re not caught up in qualifications; we are looking for the right person.  Someone who can organise and inspire a dispersed and diverse team to perform willingly and consistently.  Sound like you? Get in touch.

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? Join us as a Senior Evidence and Learning Adviser and help us to generate the evidence that will unlock our understanding of the ways in which can reduce the impact of poverty on children's lives and support their early learning outcomes.

Every child has the right to ensure that their basic needs are met, and to receive the encouragement and help which enables them to reach their full potential. The greatest barrier to this in the UK is poverty and inequality. Our mission is to secure a sustainable reduction in the number of children growing up in poverty and work to narrow the early learning gap between those children and their better off peers.

We believe this future is possible. It requires more money to be put back into the pockets of parents and carers, decent jobs, more opportunities for young children to play and learn, and policies and services which centre children and families' needs, reduce discrimination, and that are designed to help children to flourish by preventing difficulties at the earliest possible stage: in pregnancy, at birth, in the crucial first 1,001 days of life and throughout childhood.

We work closely with the communities we aim to support. We recognise their diversity and strengths as well as the challenges they face, and we aim to reflect their diversity and experiences in our UK staff team.

The UK Evidence and Learning team generates evidence that enables us to secure changes to policy and practice, in every nation of the United Kingdom. Through our work, we demonstrate what is effective in improving lives for children and families; we collect evidence directly from children and families to help us understand how current practice affects their lives; we develop and test promising, sustainable interventions in communities; and we gather and synthesise evidence from local partners, organisations in our sector, and academia. We draw on all this learning to work with colleagues to influence decision-makers and advocate for policy and practice change, with and on behalf of families.

As a Senior Evidence and Learning Adviser, you will:

Develop strategies for generating evidence and learning, especially focussing on qualitative research, participatory practice and other open research and intelligence gathering approaches.

Undertake primary research and evaluation, analysis and evidence syntheses.

Support teams to implement evidence strategies, building their capacity and confidence to support evidence and learning practice and ensuring that the approaches put in place are rigorous and practical.

Support teams in developing and using theories of change and outcomes frameworks.

Capture and disseminate our data and learning.

To be successful you will:

Hold expertise in evaluation and evidence generation across a wide range of methods, although we are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with a strong technical background leading qualitative, ethnographic, innovation and participatory research practice.

Have experience of and be confident in undertaking evaluation and research with both children and families and with marginalised groups.

Hold expertise in learning and improvement methodologies and have experience of using data and evidence for improvement.

Hold strong analytical skills, be able to interpret complex data and make it meaningful to others.

Be adept at developing relationships and working with a wide range of individuals, teams and in different policy and practice contexts.

Be a confident and experienced user of data analysis software, such as Nvivo or Atlas.ti

Diversity & Inclusion 

To help us attract and encourage applications from a wide range of people, we are holding an open information session so that you can find out more about working at Save the Children, the UK Impact team and our vision and mission for children in the UK.  For details on how to sign up please visit our website.

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

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 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.

Closing date: 17th May 2021

Group Coordinator Smethwick GFS 9162

Term time only

Part time 5 hours per week

Salary: £2,535 (£12,86 per hr).

As part of our Covid recovery and growth plan, GFS are seeking a proactive and organised individual, to open and manage our planned group in Smethwick.

About the job

As part of our growth plan, GFS is undergoing an exciting change in the way we manage our service delivery. We have big plans to develop clusters of groups in targeted areas of England and Wales, to ensure we are best placed to meet the needs of girls and young women. As part of this change we are looking to recruit group coordinators to both new and existing GFS locations. Successful candidates will coordinate a local GFS group and gain experience in managing a team of volunteers and supporting the growth of GFS in the local area.

You will be responsible for; promoting GFS in schools and local networks to recruit girls/young women; train and lead a team of volunteers to plan and deliver weekly GFS sessions.

You will need experience of youth work or a related field in particular developing and delivering activities for children/young people.

You should be able to; apply equality, diversity, and inclusive practices across your work, operate within GFS’s feminist values, and put girls and young women at the heart of decision making.

You will have the ability to lead, motivate, and inspire volunteers and work as part of a team to deliver a structured programme of activities.

You will be an effective communicator able connect to a variety of audiences; and build your local knowledge to develop effective partnerships with people and organisations.

This post will require unsocial hours. (Evenings and weekend)

Statement of exemption with reference to the Equality Act 2010

The employee may provide girls and young women with personal services, promoting their welfare or education, which can be provided most effectively by a person of the same sex. The girls need a positive role model to build self-esteem, confidence and to help them take responsibility for their lives.

Due to the nature of the role this post is restricted to female applicants only under the Equality Act.

To apply please download the application pack and submit your application as soon possible. We will be scheduling interviewd as pplications come in.

Please note CV’s are not accepted.