This is a great opportunity for an experienced and energetic fundraising leader to join Raystede, the animal welfare charity in Sussex.

You will be leading on all fundraising activity and developing long term investment plans to rapidly increase Raystede’s income through the full range of income streams including major appeals, individual giving, and legacies.  You will manage our small fundraising team and will also have the opportunity to further build your own high performing team in line with agreed investments.

You will report to the Chief Executive Officer work as part of our Senior Management Team to ensure we achieve our strategic aims. 

About you

We are looking for someone who is passionate about animal welfare and can really grasp this fundraising opportunity with both hands.  You will be able to demonstrate:

• A proven track record of successful fundraising through a variety of income streams
• Experience of leading fundraising campaigns which target different audiences through a range of channels and activity
• That you are an inspiring manager able to strike the balance of keeping your team motivated and highly productive
• That you are a confident speaker and networker with proven success of building major partnerships
• Excellent planning and budgeting skills
• Able to demonstrate your knowledge of fundraising opportunities in Sussex

Please visit our website for more information about Raystede. 

If you would like a chat with our Chief Executive about the role, please contact us to arrange a suitable date to talk over the phone. 

How to apply – application form with cover letter

Closing date for applications 10th July

Telephone interviews week commencing 13th July

Interviews with CEO and Trustees week commencing 20th July

Candidates will have an opportunity to visit Raystede which will be arranged and agreed in due course.

Harris Hill is delighted to be assisting the fantastic charity, Group B Strep Support, in the search for a new Major Gifts Manager at their office in Haywards Heath, West Sussex on a full or part time basis.

Group B Strep Support is a National charity that works across the UK, striving to prevent life-threatening group B Strep infections in newborn babies. They aim to inform every expectant parent of the dangers posed by group B Strep infection. If a pregnant woman is tested for group B Strep, she can be offered antibiotics in labour to minimise the risk to her baby - preventing illnesses such as sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia.

GBSS is looking for a Fundraiser with experience of securing four/ five-figure donations from Trusts & Foundations and/ or HNWIs, to join their team. You will have sole responsibility for setting up and running the Trusts & Foundations and HNWI fundraising stream for the charity.
You will need to enjoy researching funders and developing projects as much as you like stewarding funders and hitting income targets. In conjunction with this, you will have sole responsibility for creating, producing, and implementing a new Trusts & Foundations and HNWIs fundraising strategy for the coming year. Throughout, you will need continually to monitor financial performance, keep an eye out for any new marketing and fundraising opportunities, and report progress back to the Chief Executive.
To be considered for this role you will need to be well versed in building and managing relationships with Trust & Foundation supporters and/or with HNWIs. You will have significant experience of successful fundraising from donors, demonstrable excellent written communication and project management skills, and excellent attention to detail.

If you would like to receive a full job specification for this role or have a confidential conversation, please send your cv to [email protected] or call Natalie at Harris Hill on 0207 820 7336.

Closing Date - ASAP

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

We look forward to hearing from you.

ESTEEM, a Sussex based youth charity, has a great opportunity for a Wellbeing Project Manager to join our team. Leading on Wellbeing Workshops, overseeing counselling services and supporting young people on a one to one and group level.

Based at ESTEEM’s offices, in Shoreham, West Sussex, The Well-being project acts as a ‘plug-in’ to ESTEEM’s Youth COAST (Creating Opportunities, Activities, Support & Training) project, for 14-26 year olds. The Wellbeing Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing a free counselling service, with both qualified and in-training counsellors. Counsellors provide 1:1 sessions for an hour a week per person, to be reviewed after 12 sessions. This role will also include delivery of ½ hour sessions for support, advice and guidance as needed basis.

The Well-being Project aims to work with over 100 young people per year aged 14-26, across all of Sussex, who are facing barriers to achieving their life-goals. Using the five Ways to Wellbeing (Give, Take Notice, Learn, Connect, Be Active), young people will be able to access support, guidance and gain confidence in a safe space. The Wellbeing Project encourages young people to make new friends, help the organisation grow and get involved in their local community. 

This project aims to provide (per year):

• 150 hours of free 1:1 counselling for young people 

•  200 1/2 hour wellbeing sessions for advice and planning for young people who are in need of immediate support. This would be primarily run by the Wellbeing Manager.

• 8 -12 Wellbeing Workshops per year including topics such as Resilience, Leadership, or Creative Thinking. Occasionally these may need to happen during the evening Drop-in (6-8pm).

• Oversee the recruitment and coordination of 2 fully qualified Counsellors and 3 Trainee Counsellors & facilitate access to clinical supervision, with a view to growing this team as capacity permits.

• Liaise with Counselling training providers.

• Maintaining records and updating staff.

• Liaise with ESTEEM’s Head of Safeguarding to ensure best practice is maintained throughout the project.

Principal tasks and responsibilities 

Well-being High Level Support 

1. Liaising with CO, Project Manager, Project Worker & Counsellors to manage & schedule 1:1 support sessions with young adults

2. Working closely with young adults to prompt and identify any issues & help them to make a resolution plan 

3. Spend quality time with young adults, listening & offering support while maintaining clear boundaries

4. Maintain up to date contact logs and data files to ensure information is correctly shared and acted upon according to data protection and confidentiality guidelines

5. Promote and keep yourself up to date with other organisation’s events and projects that may benefit young people

6. Updating the staff team with any issues or developments with young people

7. Write quarterly reports for the senior team and trustees on project progress

8. Be part of the Designated Safeguarding team with 2-3 evenings on-call (until 9pm) each month.

Counselling Coordination

1. Working with ESTEEM Counsellors to offer them support & guidance, ensuring clinical supervision is maintained for all counsellors

2. Liaise with ESTEEM Staff Team to maintain in-house clinical supervision for front-line staff

3. Liaise with counsellors in matching young adults with suitable counsellors, taking into account skill level, interests & approaches

4. Liaising with external Counselling Training Providers, offering placements at ESTEEM & providing relevant documentation & procedures

5. Managing the space for confidential sessions, alongside the other staff team members

6. Promote the wellbeing services that ESTEEM offers within the team & on external networks 

7. Work with the Youth COAST Project Manager to oversee and monitor the project’s budget

Well-being Workshops

1. To run between 8-12  workshops of between 2hrs to 1 day in length 

2. Cover a range of topics that are requested or identified by young adults as being needed or wanted

3. Maintain records of attendees and ensure relevant documentation is completed

4. Liaise with the Project Worker to coordinate & plan the Drop-in activities involving your workshops 

5. Work to budgets

6. Liaise with the YMT (Youth Management Team) to tailor sessions & workshops & maintain ESTEEM’s Youth-led approach at all times

7. Signpost participants to ESTEEM opportunities and promote relevant events and projects

Research, Policy and Communications Team
The aim of the Research, Policy and Communications Team is to influence the housing and homelessness sector to ensure stays in unsupported temporary accommodation (UTA) are as short, safe and healthy as possible.

Since 2013 Justlife has carried out research and produced reports ranging from a review of the effects on the health and wellbeing of people placed in UTA, recommendations of solutions to the challenges faced by local authorities, landlords and support services, and mapping the provision of UTA across England.

The research, policy and communications work build on local frontline services in Brighton and Manchester that support adults experiencing housing vulnerability, many of whom face complex and multiple disadvantage. It uses learning from the services and from the wider research that it carries out to influence policy and systems change for residents of UTA on a local and national level, as well as within the Justlife services.

The role will build on our communications strategy and drive improvement in our ability to tell our story through promoting the work of Justlife, with the aim of building brand awareness and increasing fundraising, as well as highlighting the issues and solutions we develop locally and nationally. The role will include some travel between Justlife’s two projects based in Brighton & Manchester.

This is a new role within a newly created team at SN. Your time will be split between supervising and supporting the Welcome Workers and carrying out the Welcome Worker role.

The Welcome Team will be the new 'front door' to our specialist services for survivors of violence and sexual abuse. The team will be the first point of contact for many survivors accessing our services.

You will have significant experience of working with vulnerable or traumatised individuals and experience of supervising or mentoring staff or volunteers in a role working with vulnerable people.

We have offices in both Brighton and Eastbourne and your working location can be negotiated. Travel may be required throughout East Sussex.