Charity grants manager jobs near Reading, Berkshire

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 for further details.

About this role:

This role will be employed by Social Investment Business (SIB) on fixed term contract for 2 years.

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

For over two decades, Social Investment Business has provided fHybrid – Remote based with some mandatory travel to London  (approx. 8 times per year)inance 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 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.

Reporting to the Customer Manager, this role plays an important part in supporting organisations during their customer journey with SIB. This includes responding to enquiries, customer correspondence and gathering customer feedback, in line with SIB’s strong customer & partner value proposition.

We are looking for someone who: is motivated by our mission and is looking for entry level position at SIB. You will need to enjoy working with people and have good attention to detail.

Key responsibilities

1. To handle and triage initial enquiries from customers looking to obtain funding including undertaking an initial eligibility assessment. Most of this work will be as part of the Youth Investment Fund.
2. To manage the retrieval of documentation and any necessary clarifications for customers to begin their full assessment.
3. To support the collection and recording of customer feedback via email, phone calls, in line with SIB’s customer procedure.
4. To contribute to the ongoing iteration of external customer resources about funding opportunities and information including FAQs, eligibility, and application process, with the aim of expectation management and customer satisfaction.
5. To support the Customer Manager on the coordination of the implementation of the impact and learning plans including arranging meetings, taking notes and other relevant administrative tasks.
6. To work within the organisation's values, principles and processes to achieve operational excellence.
7. To adopt our continuous improvement and learning ethos.
8. 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.
9. To support and contribute to the implementation and delivery of SIB’s strategy.
10. 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 listening skills.
• Calm approach to dealing with customers.
• Competent in using Microsoft.
• Solution focussed.

Desirable competencies

•  Experience of customer service.

WR Fundraising Recruitment is looking for an experienced trusts fundraiser for an exciting new role where you will have the opportunity to grow a trusts and grants fundraising stream while managing a number of existing multi-year relationships with the likes of Children in Need and Big Lottery.

A great home working role for an experienced fundraiser who can shine while working autonomously.

With a role that covers the entire trusts fundraising process from prospect research to monitoring and reporting, you will have the opportunity to diversify the trusts and grants fundraising stream – bringing new funders to the charity and developing key relationships with existing and new funders.

You will inherit a strong portfolio or existing grants (over £250K) and a database of ready to go applications and prospects.

We’re looking for an experienced trusts fundraiser who is willing to take responsibility for all aspects of trusts fundraising – including prospect research, relationship building and reporting) has a track record of securing a wide range of grants (up to 6 figure would be preferred).

With a prominent cause in the spotlight, and a very financially stable charity, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of applications and bids and join an emerging fundraising team that’s set to grow over the next year.

Trusts and Grants Fundraising Manager

Full Time, Permanent

Home Based / Remote – With occasional meetings in London area.

Circa £35,000 per annum

Duties will include:

• Generate fundraising income from key Trusts and Foundations and research potential new avenues for funding
• Write tailored, inspirational applications and reports addressing grant-making priorities or requirements as specified
• Building strong relationships with other teams within the organisation in order to understand the work of the Charity and thus build a case for support
• Maintain and deliver a pipeline of applications and reporting to grant makers, including prospecting for new funders
• To research relevant Trusts and Grant making bodies, developing compelling applications
• Build new relationships with trust and grant awarding organisations, updating them with the work of the charity and impact of trust funding.
• Stewardship of existing trusts and foundations, reporting on impact and identifying new opportunities for support

The ideal candidate will have:

• Track record in trusts fundraising / winning funds through bids and applications to grant giving, statutory bodies and foundations
• First class, demonstrable written communication skills with the ability to write compelling and innovative proposals and funding reports
• Strong interpersonal, networking and relationship building skills
• Proven experience undertaking research, developing proposals, and winning funding.
• Experience in managing relationships with trust and grant awarding bodies

To apply or for further information, 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.

You will be responsible for managing new and existing relationships with funders, including grant writing, meetings and pitches. You will involve appropriate colleagues and our membership network of students across the globe, to secure support, provide information and help maintain support from funders. You will be creative and persuasive in your approach to helping the organisation grow financially. You will be asked to write reports about our deliverables, identify leads and follow these up alongside your senior leadership colleagues. The ideal candidate will thrive when they are able to interpret a strategy, identify the key areas for us to focus on and write persuasive, concise and effective fundraising applications. We are looking for someone who can use their own initiative and problem solving to the role.

This is your chance to join an amazing team that works to reform economics education around the world. We are excited to launch our search for our next Senior Fundraising & Partnerships Manager. We are constantly growing so if you want to be part of the team that realises our vision of a better economics education around the world then please do apply.

About Rethinking Economics International

Rethinking Economics (RE) is an international network working to build better economics in society and the classroom. We started as a student movement in 2012 and have since grown to become a registered charity, Rethinking Economics International with a 10-person staff team. Through a mixture of campaigning, events and projects, we support over 100 groups in over 30 countries around the world. These students work alongside thousands of supportive members of the public, to reform the university economics curriculum to make it more pluralist, critical and applicable to the real world. Rethinking Economics International is undertaking an exciting transition process in which we are developing and expanding the future of the organisation. This includes the development of a new strategy for 2023-6 and a move to a more international workforce.

We will be accepting candidates for this role from anywhere which is  +/- 6 hours GMT/BST. The conditions of employment will vary location to location, depending on the law and equitable work standards for the territory where you are based.

Please see our website for the full job information, including a person specificiation for this role and details of how to apply.

We are working in partnership with an independent specialist school, and registered charity, who provide education and residential care for young people with complex autism, aged 5-25. Set within a 50-acre site in Berkshire, they have extensive bespoke facilities to help young people to be healthy, happy, more independent and have the opportunity to work.

The organisation is now seeking a Fundraising Manager to manage, develop and deliver all aspects of the Fundraising function. Key responsibilities will focus on line managing and motivating the Fundraising Team, planning, and agreeing a departmental budget, working to achieve or exceed fundraising targets and ensuring success of their £1m+ Performing Arts Centre capital appeal, leading on the development of new fundraising initiatives and/or techniques and identifying and securing new strategic corporate relationships to generate long-term income through Charity of the Year partnerships, or which deliver value across the organisation in terms of pro bono, gifts in kind and volunteering opportunities. Building relationships with high profile and high net worth individuals, managing a portfolio of supporters, and devising and delivering engaging propositions to maintain existing relationships and maximise opportunities for repeat donations, as well as supporting the Trusts & Foundations Manager with the submission of large grant applications will be expected.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the following:

• 5 years’ experience working as a fundraiser in a charity environment
• Track record of securing five- or six-figure donation
• Experience of developing a pipeline of prospects and maintaining relationships with high level supporters
• Effective use of a fundraising CRM database
• Line management experience

We are seeking an individual with outstanding interpersonal, networking and presentation skills, with the ability to develop strong relationships with high level decision makers. Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to effectively prioritise workloads and meet deadlines will be expected.

For more information, please contact Katherine Anderson-Scott, Senior Consultant, Charisma Charity Recruitment.  Your application should be submitted through the Charisma website and include your CV and supporting statement.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law.

Closing date for applications: 1 September 2022

However, applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis, so please apply without delay to avoid disappointment.

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.

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.

This is an exciting time at Cruse Bereavement Support, with our strategy ‘Bereaved People First’ and the charity is under-going significant transformation. This role is essential for the well-being of bereaved people across the country by raising funds from charitable trusts and foundations.

Working within the Trust Fundraising team, you be responsible for maximising financial support from charitable trusts and foundations, predominantly with our incredible network of Hubs and Branches. You will be an excellent relationship builder, with a passion for generating income from new and engaged funders.

The post holder will be working remotely with occasional travel to meetings within the London area. 

Essential experience

• Minimum of 2 years’ trust/and/or statutory fundraising experience
• Good research skills, with experience in identifying quality new leads
• Proven ability to form good working relationships, both internally and externally at all levels
• Track record of working towards and exceeding income targets
• Experience of working independently to drive and deliver multiple projects
• Ability to work on own initiative and to meet objectives and tight deadline

Desirable experience

• Experience of securing major grants
• Experience of preparing, manipulating and presenting budgets and working knowledge of charitable financial accounts

Knowledge

• Up to date and current grant making trends
• Understanding of the impact of bereavement and knowledge of the voluntary sector

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including copywriting and proof-reading
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to work to deadlines and re-prioritise workload as required
• Operational flexibility and able to work on own initiative
• Strong communication skills, oral and written
• Strong IT skills, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and databases

Education and training

• Relevant experience and evidence of commitment to continuous development

Personal attributes

• Ambitious, self-motivated and enthusiastic
• Willingness to be flexible and help in tasks that furthers the aims of the wider team
• Ability to function well in an environment where bereavement issues are constantly under discussion 

Evolve is looking for an experienced professional with proven ability to manage a small team of professional staff, engage positively with a wide range of stakeholders, attract funds, and generate income through fundraising.

The Director will lead the team to provide the necessary vision, leadership, and fundraising skills which will enable the organisation to achieve its strategic and operational plans and meet fundraising targets.