Over the past year CPRE, the countryside charity has undergone a great transformation which has led to a range of exciting developments including a completely new brand, a strong set of organisational values, a new strategy, in depth audience insight and the launch of a new website.
We are now looking for enthusiastic Individual Giving Officer to support the development, delivery and growth of our individual giving programme through exciting new innovation testing.
As one of two individual giving officers, you will support programme growth and generate income from donors, both new and existing. These donors will give to us through membership, regular donations, annual appeals, raffles and digital fundraising, and through new products we are in the process of establishing.
Reporting to the Individual giving manager, you will support the development, implementation and growth of a portfolio of products, while working in our friendly and busy office in London. By building upon existing relationships, and attracting and converting new supporters, you will grow our income in this area, helping to create a sustainable platform for all our fundraising activity.
We are looking for an enthusiastic all-rounder - someone with a real passion and aptitude for working with creative partners and colleagues to creating compelling and effective fundraising communications, while also being confident in the more technical aspects of direct marketing: drafting data briefs, devising robust tests and analysing results.
The successful candidate will have previous experience in a charity fundraising environment and a proven track record in project managing direct marketing activities across a variety of income streams and channels, including digital and social media. Ideally, your experience will include supporter acquisition as well as retention, with knowledge of new product/offer development and implementation of ‘test and learn’ programmes.
If you would like to apply for this post you should send us your CV, the referee sheet with a covering letter (approximately 800 words) addressing how you meet the criteria of the job and person specification; failing to do this, will mean you will be unlikely to be shortlisted.
Closing time/date: 9am Monday 8 February
Interview dates: Tuesday 16, Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 February 2021
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Policy and Communications Officer - Drive Partnership
Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
£22,000 - £25,00 depending on experience (plus £3000 London Weighting if applicable)
Fixed Term to end September 2021, with the possibility of extension
Location: Bristol, London or remote, with some travel
The Role
The Drive Partnership programme of work has two main objectives. The post holder will support in the delivery of both objectives as part of the Communications, Policy and Public Affairs team:
1. Rolling out operational delivery of the Drive intervention in other areas of the country.
2. A wider, national systems change programme to influence a transformation in the response to all perpetrators of domestic abuse across England and Wales.
Benefits include a generous package including 25 days’ holiday a year plus public holidays, pension scheme, Cycle2Work scheme.
If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form.
Closing date: Thursday 25th March 2021
SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all, please see our job description for full details.
No agencies please.
The Sussex Archaeological Society (trading as Sussex Past) is a multifaceted organisation operating six high-profile visitor attractions and museums across Sussex (including Fishbourne Roman Palace which is the largest Roman villa in Northern Europe), producing high quality archaeological and historical publications, supporting research initiatives and providing learning opportunities for thousands of schoolchildren and students.
The Society is at a critical stage of its development, working hard to stabilise and recover from the impact of the Covid crisis and seeking a truly sustainable financial operating model for the future.
We wish to appoint an experienced and innovative CEO with a proven track record of success to lead the Society’s team of 62 staff and over 300 volunteers. The CEO will be someone with the drive, creativity and entrepreneurial approach to energise and mobilise a wide range of stakeholders including staff, members, visitors, funders and donors.
The postholder will be responsible for developing with the Trustees, a new Purpose & Vision for the Society and a new 5-year strategy that has the buy-in of all stakeholders. This strategy will be expected to develop the Society’s financial sustainability, grow and diversify its visitor and audience profiles, care for its significant collections and properties and deliver research and advocacy.
If you are interested in applying for this role please submit your CV and a supporting statement which should set out clearly how you meet the essential criteria of the post and supply specific examples and evidence of success (including figures where possible). It should be no more than two pages in length.
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Can you help inspire others to want to support and be part of the Wildlife Trust’s vital work through leaving gifts in Wills? Are you familiar with marketing tools, and can apply them in this particularly sensitive area of fundraising? Are you interested in building meaningful relationships with some of our most generous supporters? If all of these apply, we could be looking for you!
Our new Legacy Development Officer will be a flexible worker, with the ability to think on their feet and willingness to use their own initiative on an hourly basis. They will be able to balance the need to build strong individual relationships with the need to market to a wider audience; combining excellent communication with applying all relevant legislation and good practice.
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The Crowd (www.thecrowd.me) is a network for purpose-led businesses to share insights on the big global trends impacting the transition to a low carbon, socially sustainable future. We are recruiting an experienced events manager with a passion for sustainability to programme, co-ordinate and deliver our events and community engagement.
Over the last twelve years, The Crowd has hosted 200+ events and brought together over 16,000 business leaders committed to sustainability and public leadership. We have welcomed high profile global leaders including Christiana Figueres (Former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC), Kate Raworth (renegade economist), Lord Deben (Chair, UK Climate Change Committee) Jonathon Porritt CBE (Founder, Forum for the Future) and Henry Timms (co-author, New Power). Since 2018 The Crowd has been operated by Common Vision, a social enterprise specialising in public dialogue around long-term social and political issues.
The Events and Operations Manager will programme, communicate and organise a wide range of events, both online and in person.
Key responsibilities
- Programming and executing a varied schedule of events for The Crowd on topics relating to corporate sustainability and socially responsible business
- Programming and executing events relating to Common Vision's other programmes
- Liaising with our community members and event participants including business professionals, civil society leaders, public commentators, Parliamentarians and academics
- Liaising with high profile speakers and contributors including senior business/civil society leaders, Parliamentarians and other public figures
- Contributing to our external facing communications including written, audio-visual and other creative content outputs
- Supporting outreach via social media and channels/ platforms for our published content
- Supporting fundraising bids and external engagement with partners, funders and wider stakeholders
- General project management and administration
Candidate specification
We are looking for a proactive, versatile individual who is comfortable working at a fast pace in a start-up environment. You will need to demonstrate:
- At least three years of events organisation experience in the corporate or charity sectors
- Knowledge of virtual event delivery (e.g. webinars, online events etc)
- Impeccable administrative and organisational skills, and a keen eye for detail
- Experience of copywriting, producing and editing web materials, and social media
- An enthusiasm for knowledge and insights relating to corporate responsibility and/ or social, economic and environmental sustainability
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- A conscientious and flexible work ethic
We will consider part-time or flexible working arrangements for the right candidate.
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The Face to Face Manager leads the recruitment of monthly donors by the Face to Face in-house team. The team is responsible for the development, planning and implementation of the F2F fundraising strategy.
Key responsibilities:
- Deliver the F2F fundraising strategy to reach new regular supporters and increase income from monthly donors.
- Work in collaboration with the Campaign Manager to manage the F2F budget, ensure regular monitoring of expenditure as well as the performance of the team against agreed targets.
- Manage the strategy for F2F private sites through specialist agencies, with responsibility for recruitment and stewardship of venues, promoters and agencies and providing the charity with sponsored access to event participants and audiences.
You will have the following skills and experience:
- Extensive experience of face to face fundraising.
- Ability to think strategically with a demonstrated track record of problem-solving/seeking solutions to challenges.
- Experience of management against budget, timescale and deadlines.
- Excellent planning skills with a proven ability to carry out different tasks simultaneously and prioritise time and resources accordingly.
Harris Hill is delighted to be working with the award winning, Muscle Help Foundation in their urgent search for a Virtual Events Project Manager (Actual title is Virtual Muscle Dream Maker)
The Muscle Help Foundation (MHF) is an award-winning small specialist national family-centred charity that delivers transformational, highly personalised, empowering experiences in the UK (ie. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), called Muscle Dreams for children and young people with muscular dystrophy and allied neuromuscular conditions.
As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, their activities had been delayed but the organisation is determined to continue their vital work.
This "Proof of Concept" project is funded by BBC Children in Need, so is absolutely essential that we find the right person to deliver on the organisation one goal:
Plan and implement virtual Muscle Dream programme experiences fulfil programme interventions like MHF's pre-Christmas Virtual Laughter Muscle Dream Programme that saw 17 beneficiaries and their family's participate, and singular family interventions like Christian's Virtual Muscle Dream experience
Overall, this is an event / project management role below an insight into the specific activities that you will be required to undertake:
Muscle Dream programme ideas will have already been established by the charity's CEO your role will be to project manage and deliver the programmes:
- Confirm date with key delivery partner/s (liaise with CEO)
- Promote programme via MHF's social media channels
- Communicate programme participation to successful beneficiary families
- Check families have required technology to interact virtually
- Online application form/s, amend exiting online forms if required
- Ensure the charity's safeguarding protocols are administered and met
- Manage invitation process
- Arrange tech delivery solution ie. hosted on Zoom, resources etc, mentimeter
- Arrange post delivery film-clip for family and also social media channels
- Arrange special 'gifts' (voucher + book) to be sent directly to families
- Capture, report and reconcile programme & singular costs
- Follow-up with comms to include MHF online evaluation questionnaire
- Organise film-clip with MHF provider & promote via social & update website
- From outset, interface with Evaluation Consultant agreeing framework & providing data (ongoing throughout project timeline)
Experience:
- Excellent event and project management skills
- Self-starter who can work independently is critical
- Enjoys talking to and virtually meeting people
- Time management
- Social media, digital skills (essential)
- Experience of Mentimeter audience engagement online tool (desirable)
- Excellent communication skills
- An eye for detail, with bags of initiative to quickly grasp what needs to be done
- Sensitivity in listening and responding in a thoughtful / considered manner
- High levels of empathy in communicating with our clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) families
- Excellent organisational skills with strong project management abilities
- Initiative and creative input to help shape delivery
- An eye for detail
- Outstanding admin skills, specifically recording & updating using software tools in real timePassionate attitude that reflects the charity's vision, mission and values
- A commitment to and an understanding of disability issues
- A commitment to and an understanding of equal opportunities & diversity
We welcome applications from anyone who feels they meet this specification and has the enthusiasm, drive and passion to take on this key appointment at a time that continues to be extremely challenging for this clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) community.
Due to the urgent nature and start date of this role, the client will select the first, best candidate that comes forward, so do not delay.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual to join a forward-thinking charity and help achieve our exciting growth ambitions. We are looking for an energetic and inspiring Director of Fundraising and Supporter Care who is not afraid to go for it and will spearhead the growth in income set out in our 2025 fundraising strategy, seeking to exceed targets at all times.
Brain Tumour Research is an influential, game-changing, intelligent and focused charity embracing its fantastic supporter base across the UK. Despite the pandemic, Brain Tumour Research is determined to continue its growth trajectory. We are passionate about finding a cure for brain tumours through the establishment of dedicated Brain Tumour Research Centres of Excellence around the UK and increasing the national investment in brain tumour research.
Director of Fundraising and Supporter Care
Location: Head Office in Milton Keynes currently working from home in line with government guidelines
Salary: c. £60,000 per annum
Full Time – Permanent
Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the implementation of the fundraising strategy which seeks to build and improve existing income streams, accelerate the growth in floundering and emerging income streams and invest in growth opportunities.
- Building a portfolio of high value prospects and supporters and a substantial corporate fundraising income stream.
- Developing innovative, enterprising and effective fundraising and supporter care strategies, together with operational plans, that ensure that the organisation exceeds its income targets and builds sustainability and predictability into forward income forecasts
- Inspiring, developing, motivating and leading a dynamic and effective fundraising team that can deliver diverse, innovative and cost-effective activities that exceed the organisation’s fundraising targets
- Being an active member of the leadership team. contributing to the overall strategic direction of the charity and representing the fundraising function at board meetings
- Growing and maintaining relationships with key volunteers and supporter groups, ensuring their needs are met and that they have the support and motivation to extend their volunteer contribution to achieve Brain Tumour Research’s aims
Closing date: Sunday 7th February
Early applications are encouraged, interviews will commence before the closing date if suitable candidates are identified.
Please read the attached full job description and upload your CV with a covering letter, demonstrating why you are a suitable candidate, how you could add value to our organisation and detailing your current salary.
No agencies please.
Chief Executive Officer
Salary: £45 – £50,000 per annuum
Hours: 35
Contract: Full time (but will consider part-time, flexible hours and job share)
Annual leave: 30 days
Pension: 5.6%
We are recruiting a new CEO to join our team.
We are a vibrant, forward thinking law centre co-located in Hammersmith Library. We have a strong reputation locally and nationally for providing people in need with legal advice and representation and campaigning on access to justice issues.
The law centre was established in November 1979 to assist those most vulnerable and disadvantaged to access their legal rights, to promote social inclusion and reduce homelessness and poverty. These goals still remain at the core of our vision to uphold equality and social justice.
We have a 40-year history of providing an excellent service to the community. Our patron is Lady Hale, retired president of the Supreme Court.
Closing date for applications is 9am on the 12th February 5pm.
Interviews will take place on the 24th February 2021
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Women’s Aid in Luton (WAIL) has been established for over 40 years. We are the sole provider of refuge accommodation in Luton for women and children fleeing domestic violence and abuse and are the lead delivery partner for refuge and community based services to women with complex support needs. As a member of Women’s Aid England, we are committed to enabling survivors to be able to lead safe and independent lives.
Our constantly changing environment presents us with both challenges and opportunities and we are looking for a leader who can embrace these to build a robust and resilient organisation, which is fit for the future.
The Chief Executive Officer is our most senior staff member, reporting to the Board of Trustees and leading the Organisation on all aspects of our strategy, finance, risk, commercial development and transformative service delivery.
This post would potentially suit someone who is looking to progress into their first CEO role; but who has established senior management skills, experience of strategic planning and of reporting to a non-executive Board. If you can demonstrate experience of contributing to the development and achievement of organisational aims and objectives, this role could be for you.
You should be able to demonstrate experience of contract management, within the context of service delivery and of budgetary management with a proven track record of securing funding through application and tendering processes. In addition, you will have experience of leading change management and of being responsive to the needs of service-users and stakeholder through the transformation of services. An understanding of the charity sector is desirable and you will be able to demonstrate a commitment to addressing violence against women and girls. You will also have a proven track record of building and maintaining networks and working with partner agencies and other key stakeholders.
WAIL undertakes values-based recruitment and you will be required to demonstrate how your own values and behaviours are aligned with our values of; Commitment, Integrity, Leadership, Progress, Empowerment and Working Together.
Due to the sensitive nature if this role we will be considering female applicants only for this post in accordance with the provisions of the Occupational Requirement (Equality Act 2010, pursuant to schedule 9 part 1). Applicants will be required to have a satisfactory enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Closing date for applications 5pm on 5th February 2020
To Apply: In the first instance ,please submit your CV which must be accompanied by a covering letter showing how you meet the requirements of the role . Relevant applicants will be asked to complete an Application form at a later stage.
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Flexible location - Our team is dispersed, but our head office is based in London
We’re looking for a talented, creative and experienced Events and Campaigns Lead, to conceive and deliver impactful events and communications that help us to achieve our mission.
WHY IS THIS ROLE IMPORTANT FOR THE CENTRE’S WORK?
The Centre for Homelessness Impact is the UK’s What Works Centre for Homelessness. We want evidence to become the new normal in the homelessness sector, just as it is in education and public health. After the successful launch of our book, Using Evidence to End Homelessness, we are on the precipice of a new and decisive movement to end homelessness with evidence and need a creative campaigner to support the team to move this work along. We also have a strong track record delivering quality events, both in person and on-line, including our flagship evident, the Impact Festival. As we navigate our way through the pandemic we are looking for a confident Events and Campaigns Lead to continue this work, curating a varied programme for our audiences at a time of great uncertainty.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN:
- Develop our existing events portfolio in line with our strategy and our mission
- Raise the profile of our campaign and create engagement opportunities
- Stay organised and keep plans clear, updated and accessible to the team at all times
- Keep abreast of all of the centre’s work and develop creative ideas based on our outputs
- Engage high profile stakeholders and build a network of contacts
- Deliver varied and impactful online, in-person and hybrid events
- Develop clear success measures for the programme
THE EVENTS AND CAMPAIGNS LEAD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
- Planning, creating and delivering our 2020/21 events programme
- Supporting the growth of our End it With Evidence campaign
- Delivering our flagship events series - the Homelessness Impact Festival
- Developing tailored events for different types of audience
- Developing and maintaining relationships with external partners
- Working internally to get insights from the CHI team to inform our campaign and events work
- Working collaboratively with Centre associates who support the Centre’s activities.
- Measuring engagement and defining success measures
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIOURS
You will:
- Have a proven track record of delivering successful events
- Have experience working in a campaigning organisation
- Learn about our varied audience and the differing needs for each
- Be able to manage competing priorities and thrive in an agile environment
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of our audience
- Be proficient in coordinating and facilitating online events using Zoom and other platforms
- Work with the Lived Experiences Specialist and the Strategic Communications and Engagement Manager to ensure a diverse range of views and experiences are represented in our work.
Start date: Immediately.
CLOSING DATE: Midnight, Sunday 31 January 2020
Interviews will take place on Thursday 4 February via Google Meet video call.
If you are interested in applying please visit our website via the Apply link.
We value optimism, diversity, collaboration, sense of ownership, the ability to embrace ambiguity, a talk-less-do-more attitude, learning from failure, and making each other successful. If you identify with our values and want to help us end homelessness faster, we’d love to have you in. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and particularly welcome applications from people with experiences of homelessness.
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SOS Children's Villages UK works to ensure that every child has a safe home to grow up in where they can feel safe, loved and supported. We simply couldn't do this without our incredible supporters, and that's why we need you to help us ensure they get the best possible experience whenever they contact us.
Reporting to the Supporter Care Manager, you will ensure excellent supporter care is provided to all
SOS UK’s Individual Giving supporter types, including sponsors, committed givers, cash supporters,
community fundraisers, groups, challenge eventers, and general enquirers.
The role has a particular focus on cultivating mid- and high-value supporters, and legacy pledgers.
With excellent communication skills and outstanding attention to detail, you will be self-motivated
and capable of multi-tasking and prioritising.
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Chapter, a Cheshire based mental health charity, is looking for an experienced and proven Grants Fundraiser to join its dedicated team.
Chapter promotes the mental health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and workplaces through the provision of education and training services that adopt preventative and/or therapeutic approaches.
With an exciting strategic plan in place and a solid track record of securing funding from grants over the last 30 years, we’re looking for someone able to capture the imagination of funders and secure the monies needed for our core costs as well as a range of new projects.
This post offers the flexibility of home-based working, however you will be required to work a minimum of one day a week based in our Ellesmere Port office. Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic the successful candidate may be required to work largely from home in line with Government guidelines.
We have a strong commitment to promote equality and equal opportunities. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental ill-health.
Closing date for applications is Sunday 14th February 2021.
Interviews will be held Thursday 25th February 2021. Due to current Government guidelines, it is expected that initial interviews will take place virtually.
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Dementia UK provides specialist support for families through our Admiral Nurse Service. When things get challenging or difficult for people with dementia and their families, our nurses work alongside people with dementia and their families: giving them the one-to-one support, expert guidance and practical solutions people need. The unique dementia expertise and experience an Admiral Nurse brings is a lifeline – it helps everyone in the family to live more positively with dementia in the present, and to face the challenges of tomorrow with more confidence and less fear.
Dementia UK’s fundraising has seen significant growth over the last five years, and this growth has continued in 2020-21 despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The Database Services team is integral to managing this growth and expansion of fundraising activities and ensuring effective processes and frameworks are in place for further growth in the near future.
We are looking for an experienced Database Manager to lead our Database Services team in our strategy to underpin and drive continued growth across a range of income streams. The fundraising teams at Dementia UK are continually innovating and creating new products and activities, particularly in digital areas since the Covid-19 pandemic. The Database Services team needs to be able to provide support to a diverse range of activities while offering guidance and advice to teams developing new initiatives.
You will manage the team in providing excellent data management, data selections, and in analysing and manipulating data in order to inform decisions on fundraising strategy and the overall supporter journey for Dementia UK. You will lead the team to achieve these organisational aims as well as their own personal development goals.
You will have significant experience in database management and will lead the department in adopting new processes and technological solutions to continually improve the charity’s use of data, delegating projects to your team as appropriate. You will work closely with your team, the Head of Supporter Care & Database Services, and other teams to lead projects to improve the management of our data in order to better support and drive fundraising growth and innovation across Dementia UK.
Please note only applications including both completed application questions and a CV will be considered.
Interviews due to take place w/c 8th February 2021.
The deadline for applications for this role has been extended to 1st February 2021
Community Fundraiser
“I hope my fundraising will help to raise more awareness of the condition and stamp out ignorance within the UK and beyond for good. Especially as this is not always a visible disability.” (Belinda who makes handmade cards for Action for M.E.)
Are you an exceptional, experienced fundraiser looking for a new challenge? Could you support fundraisers like Belinda to raise funds through a wide range of different events and challenges? Could you take the lead in community fundraising, increasing our income to enable us to reach more children and adults with M.E. and ensure they get the support they need at the time they need it? If so, we are looking for someone to join our ambitious organisation to help us end the ignorance, injustice and neglect experienced by people with M.E. The purpose of this post is to maximise Action for M.E.’s income from a range of community based events and fundraising initiatives and to grow our network of community fundraisers/supporters. If you are a dynamic, charismatic person up for a challenge, we’d love to receive an application from you.
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