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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Salford CVS as our Communications and Information Coordinator. You will be leading a small but dynamic team to manage all elements of our communications and information work.

It is literally impossible to cram the diversity of the projects and programmes that you may support into a recruitment pack – whether that’s our core delivery support for the sector or public messaging through our role as a ‘trusted voice’. To get a flavour of our work, we recommend that candidates look at our annual report.

We are looking for someone who:

 Has significant experience within marketing and communications and is passionate about developing engaging campaigns, plans and content

 Can strategically plan, monitor and report on our communications work, ensuring that it fulfils our mission of making a difference in Salford  Will interact with a range of stakeholders to produce dynamic campaigns, information and content, as well as represent Salford CVS as an organisation

 Is a bit of a data geek and is comfortable working with a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, as well as using insights and analytics data to influence our communications strategies and organisational direction

 Loves Websites! Is able to ensure our website and e-marketing remains relevant, accessible and compliant

 Has a creative mind – is able to produce a range of eye-catching content whether online or in print  Is able to share their passion and knowledge – not just to their direct team members, but also to colleagues and the broader sector  Has a passion for social media and the internet. You’re one of those people who love to search the internet for information and are convinced that social media can be a powerful force for good

 Will enjoy working within an organisation of dedicated, friendly people who believe in making a difference to the people of Salford

If that sounds like you – then we want to hear from you!

About You

First and foremost, you’re deeply passionate about developing communities and supporting the most vulnerable to particiapte in their communities in a meaningful way. You’re an experienced relationship builder and negotiator and have a track record of developing partnerships that deliver results. You’re excellent at turning ideas  into action and inspiring others to get onboard!

You have the ability to quickly understand and stay focused across a range of priorities  and themes to ensure you deliver results every time. You have the interest and ability to utilise creative ideas as part of campaigns to engage the many and turn problems into solutions that create opportunities across the communities we serve.

You need to be a great collaborator , and a self starter. Your strong facilitation skills enable you to bring people together to explore ideas and you’re able and have the ability to build strong relationships with a wide range of different players – from grassroots community groups to national corportate businesses, this will enable outcomes for all.

As Contract Executive you’ll join a team of hard working and dedicated people developing Tempo Time Credit networks across over 20 projects in England. This roles focus is to build and maintain the existing project in Cornwall which has been running since 2018.  You will work closely with Cornwall Council commissioners, service providers who delivery Supporting Families, Housing, Substance Recovery, Young People and DASV, as well as community organisations in the Cornwall Tempo network.  The current contract focuses on Penzance, Newquay, Camborne/Pool/Redruth, and St Austell, but the project covers the whole county.

You will be a confident public speaker and presenter and will raise the profile of the Time Credits programmes in Cornwall and beyond. You will build relationships with key influencers and stakeholders in each locality to support the development and growth of the network to enable groups to access Tempo Time Credits to increase volunteering and engagement and improve health and wellbeing. 

About Tempo

Tempo works to support communities to flourish through enabling more individuals and more diverse groups of people to volunteer and support their local communities.  Tempo is commissioned by Cornwall Council to work with vulnerable adults and families to support a range of outcomes.  

We work in partnership with others engaged in community development, from grassroots organisations to statutory agencies. In this role you will be working directly with groups earning Time Credits to support them to get the best use of Tempo Time Credits by ensuring that their volunteers are registered on our digital system and are earning and using their Tempo Time Credits. You will also help build our network of local Recognition Partners- businesses who support Tempo and our volunteers through offering days out, theatre and arts, leisure and fitness, food and drinks and much more.

When we work together, communities are built, lives are transformed, and positive change happens.

People earning and using Tempo Time Credits report improvements in their quality of life, more social interactions, new friendships and skills, access to new opportunities, increased confidence and better physical and mental health and wellbeing. Organisations using Tempo Time Credits with their volunteer’s report that they can recruit and retain more diverse volunteers, do more with existing resources and reach more people with their services, and make new connections with other local organisations. 

There’s never been a better time to get involved. We have an ambitious programme of work, full of challenges and opportunities in a fast-paced environment. COVID-19 has rekindled interest in community involvement and purpose, and we are here to help.

Working at Tempo

We are proud to be an accredited living wage employer and offer pay over the statutory minimum for all our team members.  In addition, we offer a wide range of staff benefits including:

• 33 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 5% ER contribution)
• Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7
• Family friendly policies
• Flexi-time Scheme (offering up to 13 days flexi leave each year)
• Wellbeing Centre offering the latest wellbeing articles, news, and advice
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Shopping Discounts - online and in-store at over 850 retailers from groceries to wellness products, travel and more
• Death in Service Grant – 1 year

One Million Mentors (1MM) is an exciting community-based mentoring programme, quickly growing roots around the UK. Our aim is to recruit train and deploy a million mentors in order to transform a million young lives.

This ambitious programme backs the talents of young people to improve their career chances. 1MM was founded on the belief that through personal, one-to-one mentoring, more young people can grow the knowledge, networks, skills and confidence they need to succeed. 

The Finance and Office Manager will have lead responsibility for preparing financial statements, monthly management accounts, maintaining cash controls, purchasing, maintaining accounts payable and budget preparation. In addition this role also includes general office management including diary management, overseeing the Business Review and overseeing some functions of HR and Health and Safety.

Our partner works to offer a comprehensive medical response during any humanitarian crisis overseas; in addition to deploying trained medical personnel, they have the capacity to set up primary health facilities and field hospitals. They are seeking an Finance & Systems Manager to support them through a period of growth, and at a time when they are responding to the crisis in Ukraine. This is 6 month fixed term contract, with the possibility of becoming a permanent role

Responsibilities

• Work with the Head of Finance in developing budgets for grant proposals, in the set up of grant management, compliance and reporting requirements.
• During an emergency response, look to establish processes and systems, working with implementing partners to ensure compliance, working with them to provide day-to-day accounting and resource management oversight and support, and advise them on contractual obligations and requirements of grants and other partner organisations.
• Prepare monthly management accounts, working with budget holders to understand variances and forecasts.
• Act as a finance business partner working closely with the logistics and operations teams in the UK and on the ground, providing accounting, financial and grants management advice and support as required.
• Contribute to ongoing systems review and strengthening

Requirements

• PQ or qualified accountant with experience of the financial operations of an international charity, experience within a humanitarian NGO is desirable.
• All round experience of reviewing and developing controls, processes and systems, budget creating, monitoring and reporting, and grants management, compliance and reporting.
• Strong finance business partner, with experience of working with non-finance teams as well as implementing partners, providing finance coordination and support on the ground.
• Demonstrable understand and knowledge of procurement processes.
• Strong systems knowledge and experience.
• Able to manage a complex grant and project portfolio.

This is a 6 month role, with the possibility of being converted to a full-time role. The organisation offers hybrid working, with the individual expected to be office-based once a week. 

Hours -37.5 hours per week

Salary -£32,992.00 with annual increments

Location -Hybrid working – a combination of home working and Together Trust Central Office in Cheadle, Stockport

Reporting to -Head of Business Development

For 150 years we’ve been championing and caring for people with disabilities, autism and complex health needs providing life-changing support for care-experienced people.

Today we’re one of the North West’s leading disability charities.  We help children, adults, parents and carers, delivering individual care, support and education to thousands of people each year.

We are looking to recruit an experienced Business Development Manager to contribute directly to financial sustainability and business growth at Together Trust through the management of proposals, tenders, grant applications, and business cases, and the development of effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders including commissioners.

What can you bring to our team….?

We are seeking an individual at degree level or equivalent with substantial experience of Business Development in Children’s Services or related markets, for example Adult Social Services, Health, Public Sector Contracting.

Are you experienced in preparing, managing and writing tenders, reports and/or funding applications as well project management and overseeing projects from start to completion?

Do you have experience of delivering presentations to internal/external audiences?

An essential aspect of this role is demonstrable experience in Business Development procedures, methods and techniques, working within a commercial environment and tender writing.  You will need a strong command of both English and Maths in a commercial context.

Are you a persuasive communicator, able to express ideas with clarity verbally and in writing to a range of audiences – can you develop and maintain effective partnerships across different departments and teams?

We are looking for someone who has a focus on effective project planning and achieving deadlines, someone with a rigorous attention to detail and quality improvement of tenders/proposals.

As part of the selection process you will be required to produce a presentation on a given title.

This position may be withdrawn early should the ideal candidate be found prior to the closing date therefore early applicants are encouraged.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 23 August 2022.

We are looking for a Trusts and Statutory Fundraising Manager for an inspiring bereavement support charity .

This is a home based role

The Company
A well respected charity with a mission and vision to ensure everyone has equal access to excellent bereavement care

The Role

You will be responsible for the charities project pipeline across Trusts, Foundations (including corporate) and
statutory, across the UK, home nations and regional.

Responsible for Trusts and Statutory budget, reporting on monthly, quarterly and annual KPIs, and
monitoring and evaluating against ROI.

Responsible for developing monitoring system to track restricted grants and project development with relevant colleagues and Finance team.

Build relationships, multiyear partnerships and income from existing trusts and foundations and strong stewardship involving members of the senior leadership team .

Write tailored, inspirational applications and project reports addressing grant making priorities or requirements as specified.

The Candidate
Experience of developing and implementing a Trusts fundraising strategy including income from lottery and statutory sources with a creative and entrepreneurial approach to income development

Experience of leading a Trusts fundraising team, generating a minimum of 250,000 and delivering against performance targets

Proven record of personally securing minimum five-figure grants from Trusts, Statutory and other grant-making bodies

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

About the role

The Project and Fundraising role is about providing greater sustainability and resilience for Fahr Beyond, whilst building the capacity for Fahr Beyond to provide support for people living with Fahr’s Disease and their families.  This post will also act as a key role in managing Fahr Beyond’s working with the community and medical professionals to develop an awareness of Fahr’s and Fahr Beyond.  

What you will do

Fundraising

• You will identify potential sources of income from grants, legacies, philanthropy, and funds for both defined projects and unrestricted purposes to help grow Fahr Beyond.
• You will lead on the grant and fund writing as agreed by the Trustees, in doing so you will write compelling and inspiring applications. 
• You will work on developing the capacity of community fundraisers and supporting their endeavours.

Communication

• You will monitor and respond to incoming communication to Fahr Beyond, along with assigning any actions for response to the appropriate volunteer.
• You will work with Fahr Beyond volunteers to ensure that Fahr Beyond maintains regular communications with patients, medical professionals, and key partners

Project & Event Management

• Coordinating Fahr Beyond’s education and awareness events for Fahr’s
•  Coordinating and supporting the project work of Fahr Beyond as directed by the Trustees (such as allied health care offer, and education activities)

Diary 

• Managing events and calendar commitments for Fahr Beyond (Trustees and Staff)

What you will bring

You will bring prior experience of fundraising, ideally within a charity setting.

You will be a self-motivated and caring person who is passionate about helping people’s quality of life and committed to improving the outcomes of patients and their families.

You will have experience of providing patient/customer orientated care, with excellent communication skills, handling enquiries in a sensitive, diplomatic but assertive manner.

Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century?  As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as ‘everyday’ health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Planning, Performance and Commercial Analytics team as a Performance Coordinator. This role is central to the regular reporting of key metrics across the Education & Enterprise Network. Assisting the Performance & Growth Manager they will ensure timely report production to enable business decisions to be made

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. Working a 35-hour week with hybrid, flexible working the role benefits from a competitive salary, pension, 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, Blue Light and NHS discounts, life assurance, flu jab, eye care and mental health and wellbeing tools. 

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

About you:

• ​Experience of extracting and manipulating data
• Experience of producing status reports and dashboards
• Being able to manage multiple conflicting priorities and adaptable to changing circumstances
• Be able to build constructive relationships with excellent interpersonal skills

To be successful you must be able to use Microsoft Office products at intermediate level and Microsoft Excel at an advanced level.

 About the Role:

• Regularly extract, and manipulate data to produce regular Snapshot reports, identifying any patterns emerging
• Regularly extract, and manipulate data to produce monthly Scorecard dashboard reports, identifying any patterns emerging and gathering business owner’s narratives to support variances identified.
• Assisting in the arrangements of regular stakeholder meetings across multiple teams to review and collaborate on growth opportunities.

About Us: 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes).

Please apply at the earliest opportunity as applications are reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview, appoint and close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.    

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy. 

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only.

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS LEAD

Based: *Southwest Region with home working

Part Time 22.5 hours per week  

Salary FTE £30,966 per annum, pro-rata £18,830 for working 22.5 hours per week

Help & Care have an excellent reputation as a service provider and are looking for someone who wants to help them shape their identity and build their reputation even further.

The Communications & Marketing Lead is a varied and rewarding role where you will deliver effective marketing across bought, owned and earned channels. You must be a creative storyteller and know how to craft a media-worthy narrative.

Work has begun on developing an ambitious and effective marketing strategy and you will be someone that will relish in taking full responsibility for completing and implementing this in order to significantly grow our impact, reach and brand awareness.

We are looking for strong communication and project management skills, an entrepreneurial approach and a personal ability to shape strategy and brand development.

This is an exciting opportunity for a creative thinker with a talent in both communications and marketing.

Applicants should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop strong working relationships with managers and outside agencies to ensure effective promotion of the Charity.

You should have experience in both developing and producing written publications, producing content and images relevant for websites, social media, publications and leaflets to a range of audiences.

You will have a good grasp of digital communication channels and be a confident user of Microsoft Office Applications, Adobe Photoshop, mail-chimp, Google analytics and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Salesforce systems.  

It is advantageous if you have knowledge and experience of graphic design, evaluating and maintaining statistics and able to test the functionality of new or revised digital projects. It is vital that you have a thorough understanding and empathy with the values of the organisation - personal, innovation, social justice and collaboration.

If you feel you could contribute in this way, we look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date for completed application forms to be received by 12 noon on 29th August 2022.

Interviews will be held online week commencing 5th September 2022.

To obtain more detail on Help & Care and the job role including, the job description, person specification and the application form for completion, please take a look at our website vacancies page by searching Help & Care.

Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century?  As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as ‘everyday’ health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Planning, Performance and Commercial Analytics team as a Performance Coordinator. This role is central to the regular reporting of key metrics across the Education & Enterprise Network. Assisting the Performance & Growth Manager they will ensure timely report production to enable business decisions to be made

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. Working a 35-hour week with hybrid, flexible working the role benefits from a competitive salary, pension, 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, Blue Light and NHS discounts, life assurance, flu jab, eye care and mental health and wellbeing tools. 

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

About you:

• ​Experience of extracting and manipulating data
• Experience of producing status reports and dashboards
• Being able to manage multiple conflicting priorities and adaptable to changing circumstances
• Be able to build constructive relationships with excellent interpersonal skills

To be successful you must be able to use Microsoft Office products at intermediate level and Microsoft Excel at an advanced level.

 About the Role:

• Regularly extract, and manipulate data to produce regular Snapshot reports, identifying any patterns emerging
• Regularly extract, and manipulate data to produce monthly Scorecard dashboard reports, identifying any patterns emerging and gathering business owner’s narratives to support variances identified.
• Assisting in the arrangements of regular stakeholder meetings across multiple teams to review and collaborate on growth opportunities.

About Us: 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes).

Please apply at the earliest opportunity as applications are reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview, appoint and close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.    

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy. 

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only.

Raising Futures Kenya is looking for a passionate, experienced fundraiser to join our small UK team. The new Head of Fundraising and Impact will lead on the development and implementation of our fundraising and impact strategy and plans. You'll be part of a small passionate UK team and work closely alongside our fantastic team in Kenya, gaining unique insight into our programmes, helping to showcase and communicate our impact.

Hours: 25-28 hours per week, to be worked across 4 or 5 days. 

About Us

For 21 years Raising Futures Kenya has worked alongside local people in Kenya to develop projects which are owned by the community and create long-term, sustainable change to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods. 

Through our award-winning Seed of Hope training and support programme we enable 14-25 year olds (75% girls) to secure employment or start a small business, generating enough income to live above the poverty line. We provide free technical/vocational education and business skills training, alongside counselling and wellbeing support which has led to over 90% of graduates being in employment, self-employment or further education.  Seed of Hope offers young people opportunity, dignity and hope. 

Role Description

As with any small charity, you'll get unique exposure and insight into most aspects of running a charity. You'll work closely alongside the team in Kenya to get to know the programmes and share the impact. We've got some exciting opportunities in the pipeline over the next year so it's a great time to join a growing organisation. We're on our journey of shifting the power to our partners in Kenya and diversifying our income streams. We have an incredibly passionate and dedicated team who value honesty, integrity and finding a good work/life balance.

Duties would include:

Fundraising

• Responsible for leading and implementing the fundraising strategy and meeting the fundraising targets of the charity (c. £250,000 annually), mainly from grants and individuals. 

• Responsible for grant fundraising. We have a healthy pipeline of funders to apply to each year with a pool of current and warm funders. You will review our case for support quarterly or sooner if data changes. You will manage the application cycle, periodically researching new funders to add to it, updating deadline dates and funding requirements etc. You will be responsible for submitting applications to funders identified on the cycle and meeting the agreed income annual target.

• Managing grant/funder relationships - including meeting with funders when appropriate, managing the reporting requirements and deadlines for all grants and researching new funding opportunities. Support the Kenya team, if required, with managing any reporting requirements for grants received directly in Kenya.

• Seeking new income streams, particularly grants from the USA and Kenya as these are potential growth areas for us. 

• Supporting the team in Kenya to apply for funding for local NGOs, which would go directly to Kenya. 

• Manage individual giving fundraising stream (with support from the part-time Fundraising Support Officer) including the marketing and communications strategy and implementation thereof to aid donor retention and acquisition.

• Oversee our annual matched-giving fundraising appeal, Big Give Christmas Challenge, in December.

• We have secured a Radio 4 appeal for February 2023, you will lead on promoting the appeal with current donors before, and overseeing the thanking and recording of donors as a result of the appeal.

• We have a marketing and communications plan for the year, you will oversee and update this as required and work with the Fundraising Support Officer to ensure it is implemented. The Fundraising Support Officer will lead on social media content, overseen by you. You will be responsible for writing the newsletters on MailChimp and creating a printed update for donors without email.

• Maintain our existing corporate partnerships, including attending events when required, and respond to proposals of new partnerships.

• Updating the website, blogs, events etc, in Wordpress.

• Overseeing the use and management of the donor database in Salesforce.

• Make excellent use of volunteers and pro-bono experts to support workload.

Finance

• Manage budgets. The UK and Kenya budgets will be created by the CEO and Kenya Operations Director usually, and then approved by the Board. You will use these to create fundraising budgets for applications and contribute to future iterations of the budgets as required.

• Track income and expenditure versus budget (in Xero), in order to prepare comprehensive budgets and accurate financial reporting for grants/funders. 

• Produce finance reports from Xero in order for the Treasurer to write finance reports for Board meetings, which may require insight from you on the source of income and likely future/pledged/secured income.

• As required you may be asked to make payments, if the CEO is unavailable.

• As required you may be asked to review the monthly requisition requests from Kenya to ensure they are aligned to the budget and to review income and expenditure reports from the previous month from Kenya, if the CEO is unavailable.

Impact

• Oversee the impact of the work in Kenya by coordinating MEL data collection alongside the team in Kenya (using the agreed MEL calendar), analysing results (survey results collected using Google Forms which are then downloaded to a spreadsheet), creating twice yearly impact reports (based on findings from the data analysis), reports for funders and impact stories for use in communications with donors and supporters. 

• Work alongside the team in Kenya to identify any areas of programme improvement or development for the next financial year in response to the impact data collected. 

• Facilitate quarterly reflection meetings with the Senior Management Team in Kenya to reflect on successes and challenges from the previous quarter, and plans/suggestions for the coming quarter.

Networking and Partnership Development

• Networking and partnership development with funders and other NGOs working in technical vocational training (TVET) or education programmes in Kenya or East Africa to share knowledge and learning. 

Senior Leadership Team 

• As a member of the senior leadership team, you will be required to support the organisational needs of the charity as required, deputising for the CEO when required. 

• Ensure that fundraising and impact activities are aligned to the UK and Kenyan Strategic Plans and complete activities/monitor progress towards achieving these. 

• Line-manage the Fundraising Support Officer. To include annual objective setting and quarterly performance reviews along with informal check-ins so ensure they feel supported and able to do their job to the best of their ability. Manage leave requests and absence.

Please download the Role Description and Application Pack for full details about the role, person specification and more importantly - what you can expect from us. You can also visit our website for more information.

In your cover letter please ensure you explain:

• Why you are interested in the role

• Your relevant experience (specifically include grant fundraising and impact/MEL experience)

• Your relevant skills and values

• Your availability to start

We look forward to hearing from you!

P.S. We've pledged to always show the salary, not require degrees and share interview questions in advance to make the recruitment process as stress-free and transparent as possible. We are committed to a culture of inclusivity. We are able to grow and learn better if we have a diverse organisation formed of the collective sum of individual differences, lived experiences, knowledge and self-expression. We support all accessibility requirements; our organisation is designed for everyone. We encourage participants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process better for you/allow you to show your best self, please let us know. In recruiting for our team we welcome the unique perspectives you can bring in terms of culture, education, opinions, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, values, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, beliefs, nation of origin and languages spoken. 

At The Bike Project we provide an innovative solution to one of the most pressing problems facing asylum seekers and refugees on arrival to the UK: access to transport when living on a limited income, which for asylum seekers is as little as £5.66 per day.

Our mission is simple: each year we match refugees and asylum seekers with the many thousands of bikes that go abandoned or unloved around the country. We then go on to support these new bike owners to realise the emotional, practical and physical benefits of cycling.

10 years since that first bike donation, we are about to donate our 10, 000th bike and have expanded the project to include multiple programs, from refugee befriending services to women-only cycling classes.

We have supported tens of thousands of refugees to get access to bikes, learn to cycle and created a community of colleagues, refugees, volunteers and supporters. And we’ve grown rapidly in the last few years, from £720k turnover in 2018, to £2.2m turnover in 2021

Despite our successes, this is just the start. The demand from refugees for our work far outstrips our ability to meet it so we are looking to continue to grow until every refugee in the UK has the opportunity to start cycling.

If you want to be a part of that, read on!

About this role

This is where you’ll come in – if you choose to apply for the amazing role of Ecommerce Executive. Our ecommerce and retail arm has grown leaps and bounds since 2019, and we need someone brilliant to help take us to the next level.

Why you should apply:

If you care about refugees and asylum seekers, and want to work for a non-profit – then this is the job for you.

Working in the wider marketing and fundraising department, you’ll be part of a team of five and report into the Head of Marketing and Fundraising.

The role has real responsibility and autonomy. With plenty of support and a great on-boarding program, you’ll nevertheless be able to jump straight into managing and planning campaigns.

What you’ll work on:

• Work closely with the Digital Marketing Manager and the Retail Staff to define site updates in-line with the marketing calendar, planning to ensure timely execution.
• Set-up and upload new products, offers, text links and banners with accuracy across our websites and other digital properties including Ebay.
• Ensure the customer journey and site standards are optimised and achieved on the site. (Product, content and SEO links are commercialised)
• Responsible for growing our organic traffic profile via our Google Grants account.
• Suggest and implement recommendations using our SEO tools to improve our quality scores, reduce page errors, broken links and improve relevancy for important keywords.
• Continuously improve campaign performance through A/B testing of creative, placement and targeting combinations to improve customer conversion rates, exit pages, bounce rate.
• Be proactive to develop business growth with new and existing customers.
• Work closely with the operations and retail team to always ensure the inventory is covered.

Platforms you’ll work on:

You don’t need to be familiar with all of them, we will train you!

• Shopify
• Email Platform (Campaign Monitor)
• Salesforce
• WordPress
• Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

This job may include working with vulnerable people in challenging situations. As such, a DBS basic disclosure will be required. An openness and sensitivity to religious and cultural differences is essential when interaction with bike recipients.

How to apply!

We welcome applications via our website. 

* This role is mostly remote, but you must be able to attend some meetings in our HQ in Brixton, London, as well as occasional events and site visits

About the Youth Investment Fund

The Youth Investment Fund (YIF) is a £368 million fund created by the UK government to create, expand and improve youth facilities and services in England to drive positive outcomes for young people.

YIF is being delivered by a partnership between Social Investment Business, The Key Fund, National Youth Agency and Resonance.

Together, we aim to deliver grants for up to 300 facilities in selected eligible areas across England by 2025 that represent positive value for money, are environmentally sustainable and enable positive activities for young people aged 11–18 (up to 25 for young people with SEND).

This funding will drive value-for-money facilities that youth organisations can afford to sustain. Using innovative construction techniques, as well as supporting redevelopment projects that expand youth service provision, the YIF will achieve savings on facility running costs, so that resources can focus on activities that enrich young people’s lives.

It will support projects to level up youth provision, assessing and distributing grants so that local youth facilities and services can be the best they can be.  Please visit the Youth Investment Fund website.

About this role:

This role will be employed by Social Investment Business (SIB) on a fixed term contract until March 2025.

Hybrid – Remote based with some mandatory travel to London  (approx. 8 times per year).

For over two decades, Social Investment Business has provided finance and support to charities and social enterprises. We empower these organisations to do what they do best - serve the communities they operate within. 

Find out more about what we do by visiting our website.

Our values are: People First, Curious, Bold, Collaborative, Accountable

For further information on our values and our generous benefits please visit our website.

Reporting to our Head of Youth Investment Fund (HYIF) this role plays an important part in supporting and coordinating Governance and Business Support activities across various internal and external partner teams, Boards and Committees.

Key responsibilities

1. To actively engage with the internal Relationship Management team and external partner teams to ensure papers are produced to pre-determined quality standards and deadlines.
2. Produce papers for meetings including but not limited to monthly Assessment Panels, Quarterly Grant Committees and Programme Boards.
3. To administrate and coordinate all YIF meetings including:
   • timetabling and meeting planning ensuring diary availability and quorate attendance by panel and committee members
   • ensuring all reports from all internal and external partners are received within the pre-determined deadlines to the required quality standards
   • publishing meeting packs on Board Intelligence software
   • attending meetings and taking accurate minutes ensuring discussions, decisions made, ownerships and deadlines for completion are properly documented.
   • preparing follow up action tables from meetings with ownerships and deadlines
   • ensuring follow up action is completed by relevant team members
4. To work with HYIF and Governance Team to feed into the main Joint Board and ensure all minutes, resolutions and approvals are saved on Board Intelligence.
5. Coordinate key reports and dashboards from relevant teams for all YIF meetings to ensure these are received and circulated on time.
6. To support the HYIF by actively seeking and collating information and updates from all teams and people across the organisation working on YIF and produce reports where necessary.
7. Work within the organisation's processes and procedures required to contribute to the effectiveness of overall Governance within SIB.
8. To work within the organisation's values, principles and processes to achieve operational excellence.
9. To adopt our continuous improvement and learning ethos.
10. To support and embed equality, diversity and inclusion into day-to-day behaviours and activities within your role as well as contributing more widely across SIB’s commitment to E, D & I.
11. To support and contribute to the implementation and delivery of SIB’s strategy.
12. In agreement with manager to undertake other tasks and work on cross team projects that support the objectives of SIB as required.

Core competencies

• Commitment to quality, equality, diversity, inclusion and customers.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Team player with the ability to work independently.
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office Suite, confident working with bespoke software (SalesForce).
• Demonstrable evidence of supporting teams and cross-team working.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Well organised with attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise, multi task and work flexibly.
• Understanding of Governance and administration for Board and Committees.
• Ability to deal sensitively and diplomatically with people from all levels.

Desirable competencies

• Good knowledge of the voluntary and community sector, local and central government and the statutory sector as a whole.

About the Youth Investment Fund

The Youth Investment Fund (YIF) is a £368 million fund created by the UK government to create, expand and improve youth facilities and services in England to drive positive outcomes for young people.

YIF is being delivered by a partnership between Social Investment Business, The Key Fund, National Youth Agency and Resonance.

Together, we aim to deliver grants for up to 300 facilities in selected eligible areas across England by 2025 that represent positive value for money, are environmentally sustainable and enable positive activities for young people aged 11–18 (up to 25 for young people with SEND).

This funding will drive value-for-money facilities that youth organisations can afford to sustain. Using innovative construction techniques, as well as supporting redevelopment projects that expand youth service provision, the YIF will achieve savings on facility running costs, so that resources can focus on activities that enrich young people’s lives. It will support projects to level up youth provision, assessing and distributing grants so that local youth facilities and services can be the best they can be.   For further information please visit the Youth Investment Fund website.

About this role:

This role will be employed by Social Investment Business (SIB).

For over two decades, Social Investment Business has provided finance and support to charities and social enterprises. We empower these organisations to do what they do best - serve the communities they operate within.

To find out more about what we do please visit the Social Investment Business website.

Our values are: People First, Curious, Bold, Collaborative, Accountable

For further information on our values and our generous benefits please visit our website.

We are in the midst of a large transformation project, adopting a cloud-first approach to our core business systems. You will be joining the Business Systems team focused on improving the core systems that support our team, customers and partners. The team draws on a mix of skills and backgrounds including business analysis, agile project management and software-specific knowledge.

We are looking for a new member of the team to drive the development of our Sharepoint, Teams and other core Office 365 collaboration tools. The role will also provide-cross cutting support to the team and there will be opportunities to develop knowledge and skills in other systems including our core Salesforce CRM.

We are looking for someone with good experience and familiarity of Office 365, particularly Sharepoint and Teams. Most importantly we need someone who can identify improvements to our ways of working and translate requirements of non-technical users into effective solutions that use 365 tools. The role will also include end-user training and troubleshooting.

Key responsibilities

1. Work with our Head of Systems Improvement to ensure that we are using Sharepoint, Teams and other 365 tools to support our core business processes.
2. Lead the day-to-day development of our sharepoint site into a user-friendly intranet and collaboration platform.
3. To oversee a training programme for our team on core business systems, including managing some end-user training and producing videos and supporting materials.
4. Working closely with our delivery teams to enable them to define core end to end processes and introduce regular reviews for continual improvement.
5. Overseeing our approach to sharing and collaboration. Ensuring that our business processes are secure, and protect customer data while enabling us to collaborate with colleagues and partners working remotely across the UK.
6. Working with the Head of Systems Improvement to use PowerApps, Power Platform and other automation tools to build user-friendly automated processes across our 365 platform.
7. Provide support to the Head of Systems Improvement working with subject experts in the delivery teams to design new processes and improve existing processes for our programmes and funds. Contributing to developing these processes using tools like PowerApps, Power Platform and Docusign.
8. Working with our Managed Services Provider to manage and audit our IT endpoints. This includes reporting on Microsoft Intune, as well as maintaining the IT asset log and ensuring that colleagues have the hardware they need in a timely manner.
9. Leading Testing (both technical and User Experience) before new systems are implemented.
10. Working with our data team, ensure that our data infrastructure and processes enable data capture and reporting to support internal and external requirements.
11. Contribute to the reporting on the performance of business systems and data quality as part of our KPIs.
12. To work within the organisation's values, principles and processes to achieve operational excellence.
13. To adopt our continuous improvement and learning ethos.
14. To support and embed equality, diversity and inclusion into day-to-day behaviours and activities within your role as well as contributing more widely across SIB’s commitment to E, D & I.
15. To support and contribute to the implementation and delivery of SIB’s strategy.
16. In agreement with manager to undertake other tasks and work on cross team projects that support the objectives of SIB as required.

Core competencies

• Commitment to quality, equality, diversity, inclusion and customers.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Team player with the ability to work independently.
• Good experience of Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365. This can be at super-user level.
• Willingness and commitment to develop further knowledge and qualifications on key systems (with support from SIB).
• Excellent project management skills including the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Good analytical and critical thinking capabilities. Familiarity with approaches to ensuring data quality.
• A focus on end users, both internal & external. Experience of business analysis particularly gathering requirements and process-mapping.
• Ability to provide constructive challenge where appropriate.
• Ability to work effectively with a small busy team, providing cover when needed.
• Ability to support and train end users and the business through credible knowledge, experience and communication skills.
• Ability to translate user requests into actionable work units through problem decomposition and planning.
• General understanding of business systems.
• Experience in working with IT Provider Partners in managing and delivering technical processes.

Desirable competencies

• Exposure to Agile methodologies in multi-team environments.
• Familiarity with Salesforce.
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Power Platform.
• Experience of delivering training in business systems use.
• Knowledge of grant making.
• Knowledge of social investment.