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Centre for Mental Health is seeking a dynamic and experienced communications professional to join our team as Associate Director of Communications (Maternity Cover), starting in September 2025 for 12 months. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to lead our communications work, ensuring all of our written and visual outputs support our mission to drive mental health equality.
About the role
- As the lead on our media, publications, website, social media and marketing work, you’ll manage the development and delivery of impactful content that engages our key audiences and supports our influencing, marketing and fundraising goals.
- You’ll oversee the production of high-quality publications, infographics, and multimedia materials.
- You will coordinate our publications and content schedules, overseeing the launch of a range of content to maximise impact and meet the needs of funders and partners.
- You’ll be part of the Centre’s Leadership Team, helping to shape the organisation’s strategic direction, working on organisation-wide improvements and championing equality and anti-racism.
- The role will supervise a small communications team, providing support and leadership to ensure excellence across our communications.
- The role involves liaising with a broad range of stakeholders including funders, partners, people with lived experience, suppliers and wider sector colleagues.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone with outstanding communication skills, a strong track record in media and digital communications, and a deep understanding of the mental health landscape.
You will have a breadth of experience across digital and traditional communication channels and a keen eye for detail. We’re looking for someone with strong project management skills, capable of balancing competing priorities and deadlines to deliver the high-quality resources and analysis which define the Centre’s reputation.
If you’re passionate about mental health and skilled in strategic communications, we want to hear from you. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the conversation around mental health and drive change for those who need it most.
Centre for Mental Health wishes to increase our diversity and we particularly welcome applications from people from racialised communities and LGBTQ+ applicants. All our shortlisting is done without reference to personal details.
What we offer
We offer excellent benefits, including:
- 31 days annual leave per annum
- Flexible working
- A comprehensive employee assistance programme.
- Relevant training
- Up to 12% employer pension contributions.
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Are you a powerhouse in partnership-led fundraising or business development? We’re recruiting an enthusiastic leader to drive six‑figure, multi‑year deals across major donors, trusts, foundations, and corporates, with an ambitious goal to grow income from £1.6M to £4.5M by FY30, in line with our strategic roadmap.
Job Purpose
As Director of Partnerships, you will:
- Lead on partnerships fundraising, including major donors, trusts & foundations, and corporates with a focus on securing six-figure multi-year agreements to significantly grow funds raised in this area from £1.6 million to £4.5 million by FY30, in line with Operation Smile UK’s multi-year strategy.
- Foster and facilitate collaboration across different departments within OSUK.
- Ensure business as usual is achieved in line with operational plans, while also exploring and implementing innovative initiatives and campaigns to ensure the future success of partnerships' fundraising.
- Represent OSUK at a leadership level, building relationships with industry peers and peers within the Operation Smile global team to ensure best practice across all areas.
Key Responsibilities
Philanthropy Leadership
- Leads strategy, planning and operation of the major gift, trusts & foundations and corporate giving channels.
- Develops annual business plans and budgets in collaboration with the Executive Director (ED) and Executive Team.
- Strategically identifies and qualifies potential new donors to grow the prospect pipeline.
- Prepares development communications: solicitation and acknowledgement letters; case statements and proposals; stewardship reports; briefing notes; gift agreements.
- Identifies, cultivates, and solicits major gift commitments from high-net-worth individuals
- Monitors activity of the team, ensuring that benchmarks are achieved, including submission of solicitations, donor contacts and meetings, confirmations of donations, and other performance indicators as related to the team checking their portfolio.
- Provides the organisation with the interpretation of market trends and emerging issues that could impact the organisation’s partnerships fundraising stream.
- Ensures the effective collection of donor information and tracking of points of contact in accordance with best practices; provides and presents statistical analysis to senior leaders.
- Leads on data mining, prospect research, and ensuring the quality of data as it relates to the donors they work with.
- Develops and manages relationships within their own portfolio, personally conducting cultivation visits, solicitation calls and stewardship activities as required.
- Effectively manages fundraising resources and practices ethical fundraising.
HR Management
- Leads, mentors, and manages a team; regular meetings to provide direction, coaching and delegation to the partnerships team.
Financial Management
- Manages and implements approved business plans, ensuring that the annual revenue objectives and budget are met or exceeded, and oversight of the partnership’s departmental budgets.
- Provides leadership in the delivery of statistical analysis, projections, and detailed reports on partnerships fundraising goals and performance that may be used to contribute to the development of internal budgets.
Partnership Sustainability
- Develops donor relationships by researching, sourcing, cultivating, and stewarding existing and potential partners.
- Works to broaden sources of revenue, including working with corporate partners in various industries.
- Develops and implements a stewardship program aimed at cultivating deeper ties with donors and corporate partners.
- Contributes innovative ideas to the development of new strategic partnerships and alternative revenue streams.
Other
- Other duties as assigned by the ED.
- Meetings with OSI and partner countries.
- Board reports/board meetings as required.
Recruitment
We are actively interviewing for this role on a rolling basis as suitable applicants apply. If you're interested in this role, it is advisable to apply as soon as possible.
Disability Confident Committed Employer
We're a Disability Confident Committed employer, so we guarantee an interview to any disabled applicant who meets the minimum requirements for the job.
At Operation Smile UK, we value individuals based on their performance and potential. We're dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that supports everyone's needs. We're happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the application and employment process, and we particularly welcome applications from diverse backgrounds.
If you need this document in a different format, require any adjustments, or need help with your application, please contact us (further details contained within the job description).
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Operation Smile UK knows fundraising could better reflect the diverse backgrounds and experiences of the people the charity sector supports. If you don’t meet every requirement but believe your transferable skills align with the role, we encourage you to contact us for a conversation.
We want our team to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
We celebrate diversity and encourage you to bring your authentic self to Operation Smile UK. We are committed to supporting all applicants and ensuring a fair hiring process. All appointments will be made solely on merit, and we are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Could you please provide us with a cover letter (no longer than one A4 page) that addresses the following:
1. What prompted you to apply for this position?
2. What value will you bring to this role?
3. Can you share a specific example where you achieved income or revenue growth?
4. If you are coming from the private sector, please demonstrate how your skills are transferable to the charity sector.
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About Blagrave
We are a social justice funder committed to shifting power, dismantling oppression, and supporting communities to thrive. We fund organisations and young people creating change, with a strong focus on lived experience, anti-oppression, and systems change.
We are committed to centering the voices of those we seek to serve. Our board and staff team have relevant lived and learnt experiences to help us fulfil our mission. We listen to the communities we seek to serve both directly and broadly to have as accurate of an understanding as possible about the issues that they are facing.
As we come to the end of our current strategy cycle we are ambitious to explore how we can put our full asset base to work in support of mission and we have some exciting plans unfolding. This new role will be instrumental in ensuring collaboration is at the heart of our next strategy, with our funder peers, young people, the youth sector and local government.
We fund work in England, as well as having a specific focus on several counties in the South East of England.
About you
You believe in the power of young people to lead change and are passionate about social justice. You’re a natural relationship-builder with experience working across public, private and voluntary sectors, confident engaging at both national and local levels. You understand how to develop partnerships that are equitable, transformational, and that centre the voices and needs of young people. You have a track record in bringing in substantial partnerships in service to organisational goals.
You bring strong problem-solving skills and experience managing people. You’ve worked in, or alongside, organisations going through growth or transition and thrive in complexity. You care deeply about genuine partnerships and have a track record of working collaboratively to build collective power and challenge injustice.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and are especially keen to hear from people who can help diversify the voices shaping philanthropic work. We are committed to creating an equitable environment where everyone can thrive.
Purpose of the Role
This exciting new role is about creating connections, building ecosystems and developing and strengthening relationships that power social justice movements. As a member of the Senior Management Team, you will work closely with the CEO to lead our partnerships and community engagement work — creating the enabling conditions and networks that help youth-led movements grow, sustain, and make lasting change.
You will take lead on:
- Partnering with other funders to resource youth-led change, including co-designed and co-held programmes with other foundations.
- Developing community partnerships based on the needs and priorities of the young people we are here to serve - including charities, local businesses, and local authorities.
- Understanding the landscape of youth-led change and social justice work, identifying gaps in support and guiding our investment to help fill them, both at the national and local level.
- Monitoring and communicating the impact of our work with external audiences.
- Ensuring our work is grounded in safeguarding practices that minimise harm and uphold our commitment to care, equity and justice.
Success in this role looks like:
· A stronger Blagrave presence and impact at a local level.
· Growing networks of trust and solidarity across youth-led social justice movements, nationally and locally.
· Greater capacity, visibility, and long-term sustainability for youth-led organisations.
· Strengthened support for collective action and systems change.
· Young people and communities feeling ownership of, and connection to, the work.
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As Director of Operations and Fundraising you will play a key role in driving forward the mission of Notre Dame Refugee Centre, dedicated to supporting those seeking sanctuary in the UK.
Lead a small yet impactful team to deliver a range of vital services including IAA immigration advice and ESOL lessons, with social activities. You will work closely with our trustees, staff and volunteers to ensure that we continue to deliver life-changing support to those who seek our help.
Immigration advice, practical support and warm welcome to refugees and asylum seekers since 1996.



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The Role
The key purpose of this role is to together with the EA to the Vicar provide day-to-day support for the running of the Vicar’s Office and in particular for the Vicar (Archie Coates) and the Senior Leader (Sam Coates). The role also provides light touch support and diary management for the HTB Group COO and the HTB Group Chief of Staff.
The Key Responsibilities
Listed below are the key elements that the role holder will be accountable for delivering:
To support, help and advise the senior team in professional and personal matters by:
- Prioritising and actioning daily tasks, operating as a two-way channel of information and communication; action or delegate requests and tasks to the team/ organisation where appropriate, and then report back to the senior team. This may also involve acting as a liaison between the senior team and the wider organisation ensuring strong communication both ways.
- Organising and maintaining diaries.
- Acting and speaking on behalf of the senior team. This includes oversight of inboxes, letter correspondence and phone calls.
- Ensuring that the team have all they need, in advance, for talks, presentations, meetings, trips, etc and freeing them of all unnecessary administration, phone calls, interruptions, etc.
- Providing support to the vicarage for hospitality of meetings and events and other personal matters (including catering for occasional evening meetings e.g. PCC).
- Carrying out specific projects, research and administrative tasks.
- Receiving requests from internal and/ or external contacts, filtering and then delegate or address these as appropriate.
Major event support: An active role in certain aspects of events; and keeping the Vicar’s Office function and team, and the Coates’s operating while being offsite for Focus and other key events.
Special Services Coordinator:
- Coordination and oversight of baptisms across the services at HTB.
- Assistance in coordinating weddings and covering for funerals when the Weddings & Funerals Coordinator is away.
The Ideal Candidate
- Very strong administrative skills
- Highly organised, energetic and unflappable under pressure or in challenging situations.
- Demonstrably consistently excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Flexibility and excellent time management skills with the ability to meet deadlines and constantly re-prioritise own workload under consistently high pressure.
- Graceful and flexible when plans change.
- Confident handling a variety of issues, concerns or queries arising via phone or email; strong etiquette in dealing with people from all walks of life in person.
- Comfortable at visionary level and in very specific detail, particularly in handling communications with sensitivity, understanding and diplomacy.
- Strong IT skills: evidence of high competence with the full Microsoft Office package, including Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint; confident use of HTB Finance system, ChurchSuite.
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Students’ Union UCL is an organisation that exists to make more happen. We are the representative body for University College London’s (UCL) students, one of the most diverse student communities in the world. UCL students have the potential to do anything, and the Union plays an essential role in helping them to achieve things they may have never thought possible. As a charity we employ over 130 career staff and over 250 part-time student staff, and deliver a wide range of services and representative functions for students. We work in partnership with UCL towards a fantastic experience for all of our 50,000 students and to ensure that university life enables them to develop the skills, experience and confidence to become the leaders of the future.
Our vision is of an outstanding experience for all UCL students and to be one of the best students’ unions in the UK and the world.
It's an exciting time to join our growing organisation as we lead the delivery of UCL’s ground-breaking Student Life Strategy. This is enabling us to build more programmes to improve students’ mental and physical wellbeing, promote genuine equity for all, build students’ skills and confidence, develop their international connections and intercultural skills, and make a real contribution to our local community.
We are looking for a Head of Intercultural Engagement (Maternity Cover) to lead our work to create a truly global experience for all students at UCL, harnessing the diversity of our student body, creating opportunities for international mobility, and working to ensure every UCL student is internationally aware, culturally inquisitive, and a true global citizen ready to change the world for the better.
We support hybrid working. Excellent benefits including defined benefit pension scheme and generous holiday entitlement. We are proud of high levels of staff engagement and pride ourselves on being a great place to work.
The role is a full time and fixed term contract for 12 months. This role is based at our Bloomsbury campus with flexibility to work from home on a 40/60 basis (40% working from the office).
As the Head of Intercultural Engagement, you will be responsible for leading the Intercultural Engagement strand of UCL’s Student Life Strategy. By building relationships across UCL harnessing the rich diversity of UCL’s student community and creating new and investing in existing relationships with international partners, you will work to increase the number and range of opportunities for students to gain intercultural exposure on and off campus, managing a small team to support the expansion of our global engagement work.
You will lead the Union’s work on Freedom of Speech at a time of change, increasing complexity and opportunity for the sector. Your team will support the organisation to deliver over 1500 external speaker events each year. You will be responsible for leading innovative programmes aimed at enabling students to disagree well at a global university as we tackle challenging issues in an uncertain world.
Do you have experience in leading global engagement or intercultural engagement programmes? Do you have a detailed understanding of contemporary global conflicts and culturally significant global events? Are you passionate about supporting students developing intercultural competence? If the answer is yes, then we want to hear from you.
An outstanding experience for all UCL students and to be one of the best students’ unions in the UK and the world.



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Advocacy Project Manager
Join Mind in Tower Hamlets, Newham, and Redbridge as our Advocacy Project Manager to lead our Tower Hamlets Advocacy Service. You’ll oversee a skilled team, build strong partnerships, ensure contract targets are met, and embed co-production and inclusivity in everything you do.
Location: Tower Hamlets
Salary: £40,000
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: 12 month FTC - potential to become permanent
Key Responsibilities:
• Manage day-to-day operations and performance of our Tower Hamlets advocacy service.
• Ensure contract targets and KPIs are met, including monitoring and reporting.
• Supervise, support and develop advocacy staff and volunteers.
• Champion co-production and culturally sensitive service design.
• Build strong partnerships with commissioners, health, and community organisations.
• Contribute to service development and funding opportunities.
About You:
• Qualified advocate (National Advocacy Qualification).
• Experience managing advocacy or support services, preferably in mental health.
• Skilled in staff supervision, service performance, and stakeholder engagement.
• Committed to anti-racist and inclusive practices.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
Why join us?
We are a dynamic, inclusive charity affiliated with national Mind, committed to empowering diverse communities and transforming mental health support.
Apply now to lead with purpose and make lasting impact.
Closing date: Monday 28th July at 9am
Interview date: Wednesday 30th July
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, especially those with lived experience.
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An exciting position has arisen for a Head of Finance to join an excellent Community Foundation on a permanent basis. The postholder will be reporting directly to the CEO and will be part of the executive team, leading a team of 7.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead, manage and improve the Trust’s finance function and provide accurate, timely and relevant financial reports as required by the CEO
- Be the Executive Lead of the Finance Audit and Risk Committee, ensuring timely papers to the CEO and to the Committee and Board as required
- Ensure the provision and reporting of financial accounts, forecasting and large-scale project/programme budgets
- Oversight of the legal and financial statutory processes in line with the Charity Commission and Companies House requirements, including the annual audit
- Allocating tasks for timely responses and keeping all colleagues abreast of progress
- Monitor, cash flow, reserves, analysis of performance against the organisation’s annual business plan and dashboard as it relates to the finance function
- Contribute to the overall leadership of the Trust and to the Trust’s future strategic and operational planning
- Direct line management of 3 staff, indirectly manage 7
- Ensuring an excellent service to all budget managers, enabling them to make effective use of all systems and monitor and manage their income and expenditure
- To attend the Executive Team meetings and provide reports
Successful candidate profile:
- Qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
- Significant track record in a Head of Finance / FD role for a Charity
- Experience of implementing enhanced reporting tools
- Experience of cost-effective procurement in line with policy
- Extensive staff management experience
Salary: up to £80,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Working pattern: on site
Hours: 35 per week
Location: West London
Duration: Permanent
Agency Reference Number: J81925
This vacancy will be actively shortlisted so early applications are encouraged to avoid missing out.
Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.
Background
VCKC empowers people to develop skills, knowledge, confidence, and positive relationships through rewarding volunteering. We enable people to improve and maintain their health, find paid work where that is one of their aims, and increase their independence.
VCKC helps local community organisations to recruit and manage volunteers to provide their vital services, while also ensuring placements are accessible, inclusive and safe, and that volunteers have a good quality experience that responds to their volunteering goals.
Main Purpose of Job
● To provide people with criminal records released (or about to be released) from prison or secure hospital with advice, assistance, and advocacy services in order to improve their wellbeing, enable them to establish and sustain independent
lives, and reduce their risk of re-offending
● To help InsideOut participants to maintain and develop strong, healthy relationships with those around them – friends and family, neighbours, civil society, and those able to support them or offer them opportunities to support others
● To use volunteering to develop participants’ skills, knowledge, and confidence
● To enable participants to gain paid employment/self-employment where this is their aim
● To develop and maintain good working relationships as part of the VCKC team (maximising potential to contribute to a positive culture and to achieve our shared objectives)
● To liaise with a wide range of statutory and non-profit stakeholders, including prison staff, health, and probation service teams, to further the objectives of the programme
● To promote the impact of the service and the needs of participants
Please refer to the job description for further information.
In your cv and cover letter, please outline how you meet the requirements of the role and why you would like to work for us. You must account for any gaps in your employment history.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday, 22 July. Interview questions and presentation tasks will be shared with shortlisted candidates in advance.
Webinar and Q+A: For a chance to find out more about our organisation, the Inside Out project and this particular role, join our webinar and Q+A session on Thursday 10 July from 12pm to 1pm.
Please click on the ‘How to apply’ button to access the full application instructions, inlcuding the sign up link to our webinar, and how to contact us for an informal 1:1 chat.
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We're pushing for better, right here, right now. Every one of us has a crucial role to play as both drivers and enablers of change.
Parkinson’s UK is the UK’s leading charity for people with Parkinson’s. We're a growing organisation with 605 employees, 4000 volunteers and a projected income of £50m+. Our proud history dates back nearly 60 years, but now we’re on a mission to be fit for the future, ensuring we have the infrastructure, culture, and operating model to drive even more impact for people with Parkinson’s, both now and in the future.
The Operations team plays a key role in driving that mission. Over the coming years we’ll be modernising our systems and processes to ensure they’re fit for now, as well as in the future. Much of this work is already underway, and we’re now ready to start our exciting new chapter.
We’ve been working to get ourselves in the best shape to deliver that progress over the next few years, and we’re now looking for ambitious, driven, and purpose-led people to join our team of ‘relentless doers’. To hear more about these exciting new changes and how you can play your part in our story, click Apply to hear from Ben Clarkson, Chief Finance and Operating Officer.
About the role
You’ll provide expert technical support and guidance on a variety of software and hardware used at Parkinson’s UK, working as a key member of the Technology Services Team.
You’ll help maintain a consistently high level of service, ensuring staff and volunteers receive timely, effective support to carry out their work efficiently.
What you'll do
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Provide support for IT related incidents and problems, and be the escalation point for 2nd/3rd line
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Build, configure, test, assign and issue laptops to staff
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Manage our server estate
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Provide BAU support for Google Workspace applications
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Support and develop the more junior members of the Technology Services team
What you'll bring
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Demonstrable experience in a 2nd/3rd line support role
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Excellent customer service skills and demonstrable experience of dealing with support queries
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Experience in creating Windows images using appropriate tools
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Expert Google Workspace, Good Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP knowledge and experience
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Knowledge and experience of SQL Server
If this opportunity sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
To apply, please submit a CV and a supporting statement that demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria (marked with an 'A') in the 'what you'll bring' section of the job description.
The in person/office attendance expectation for this role will be a minimum of 4 days in the office per week.
Anyone can get Parkinson’s. It’s vital that the people who work for Parkinson’s UK are representative of our diverse community. We actively encourage people from all sections of the community to apply, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.
We exist to make every day better, for everybody living with Parkinson’s. Right now.

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Head of Fundraising
Salary Scale: Grade PO5/6/7 £50,568 - £58,692, inclusive of London Weighting
Location: Copthall House, Sutton, SM1 1DA
Hours: Full-time 36 hrs per week, hybrid office/home working, standard working pattern is 8.45am – 4.30pm M-Th and 8.45am – 4.15pm F, with 30mins lunch break each day.
OHC&AT is a family of specialist education providers for over 1800 pupils and students from nursery to further education across 14 academies and 9 college centres in London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs. To find out more about us, and what makes us a special place to work please visit our website.
We're looking for a passionate individual to join Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust as our Head of Fundraising. This is a new senior strategic position within Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust (OHC&AT), with overarching responsibility for all Fundraising across the organisation. Reporting to the Executive Director of Development, the Head of Fundraising will be a self-starter, who is target driven and proactive. We are seeking a hands-on, dynamic, and engaging person to take on this role. An outstanding communicator, who will build relationships across our schools and college to fully understand what the funding needs are. A fundraising all-rounder who will be able to identify which route of fundraising could be the most fruitful and have the know-how and ability to pursue these opportunities.
The post-holder is starting with a raft of opportunity. The College and Schools lend themselves to many corporate partnerships with their vocational courses for students ranging from, Catering and Hospitality, to Farming, Hair and Beauty and Retail. There are opportunities for companies to volunteer, mentor, sponsor awards and visit – all the ingredients necessary to attract and engage local companies. In addition, the items and activities that need funding, from sensory play areas and additional therapists to monthly night clubs for young adults with special needs, open up funding opportunities from across the board – individual donors, companies and trusts and foundations.
The Head of Fundraising will manage and support the Trusts and Foundations Manager and be able to expand the portfolio of Trust supporters through experience and knowledge and by supporting and guiding this post holder, who already has much success. Our Head of Fundraising will have excellent emotional intelligence and be able to represent OHC&AT at external meetings in a confident, compelling and informed way.
We are committed to promoting and advancing equality of opportunity by attracting and retaining the most diverse range of students, staff and partners.
Your application form will be scored according to each of the requirements laid out in the person specification for this role. Please demonstrate in your statement how your experience, skills and knowledge match the criteria that are required for the role.
How to Apply:
To apply for this role, you will be directed to a ‘Login’ page on our E-Teach portal, once signed in, please complete and submit the Application Form.
Please note that CV applications cannot be considered.
Closing Date: 9am Monday 14th July 2025
Interviews: 22nd and 23rd July in person interviews at Copthall House, SM1 1DA
We encourage you to apply before the closing date as we reserve the right to arrange interviews and close this advert before the closing date if we receive applications from exceptional candidates.
Safeguarding Statement
Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Appointments made will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace for all.
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Could you lead our Flagship LGBTQI+ specialist mental health service? Islington Mind have an exciting opportunity to apply for the of role Outcome Senior Team Leader (LGBTQI+ specialist service). Due to the ethos of the project and funding requirements we are seeking a person from the LGBTQI+ community to lead this multifaceted service. Islington Mind has worked alongside volunteers and service users for over 40 years to co-create a unique, supportive and therapeutic LGBTQI+ community, supporting people with mental health difficulties. This role offers the opportunity to join a well-established, skilled and committed team. Please see the Job description for the full range of duties and role requirements.
We offer :
- An inclusive and supportive work environment
- Competitive salary
- 26 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (Pro rata for part time hours)
- A pension scheme
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Reports to: Director of Fundraising & Communications
Closing date: 24th July (We’ll be interviewing for the role on a rolling basis until the position is filled so please apply early to avoid disappointment)
Preferred timezone: GMT -/+ 5 (for meeting purposes, but all applications welcome)
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About Climate Catalyst
Climate Catalyst is a U.S. based non-profit dedicated to galvanizing the collective power of business, investors, and civil society to influence and accelerate policy change in Asia and Europe. Our vision is a just, prosperous world in which global warming is limited to 1.5°C.
Climate Catalyst works to strengthen collaboration and mobilise new actors on pivotal climate challenges to build power and compel political leaders to act at the speed and scale needed to tackle the climate crisis. We do this by:
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Working behind the scenes with stakeholders in Europe and Asia to identify critical climate issues where action to date has been limited and the potential for collaboration is high.
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Bringing together renowned experts and new entrants to share ideas, and design and deliver creative campaigns that secure decisive changes in national and regional policy to deliver sectoral tipping points and secure significant emissions reductions.
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Advising on strategy, offering grants and bringing creative communications, advocacy and business expertise to build power across the climate community and catalyse action.
To date, we’ve used this model successfully to mobilise the business community in support of the EU Nature Restoration Law, the first legislation for peatlands protection across Europe, and spark collective action in India that led to commitment from the Ministry of Steel to develop a green steel policy. Our vision is of a just, prosperous world in which global temperature rise is limited to 1.5°C.
About The Role
The overall remit of this role is to:
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Lead prospect research and funding trends analysis, identifying strategic opportunities and informing fundraising strategy
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Strategically map, expand, and cultivate high-value supporter networks, taking ownership of key relationships
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Design, implement, and optimise comprehensive stakeholder engagement journeys, ensuring a high-quality donor experience
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Support good governance in Climate Catalyst by planning and organising the work of the board, with direction from the CEO
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Lead and manage high-level stakeholder engagement strategies, including direct engagement with members of the Strategic Council to foster sustained partnerships.
What you will do
Strategic stakeholder relationship management, engagement and mapping (70%)
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Strategically identify, research, and qualify high-net-worth individuals, foundations, and corporate prospects, developing robust pipelines for major gifts.
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Identify, cultivate, and steward significant donor relationships, focusing on securing major gifts and sustained funding.
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Design, implement, and lead comprehensive donor cultivation and stewardship strategies, ensuring effective pipeline management and successful solicitation of significant contributions.
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Develop and execute sophisticated communication plans tailored to specific donor segments, ensuring compelling messaging and impact reporting.
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Prepare and deliver high quality briefings, proposals, and presentations for senior leadership to use in high-stakes donor meetings and engagements.
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Support the development and updating of core project materials including key messages, Q&A, response lines, briefings and presentations, tailoring messages to specific audiences, to be used across multiple channels
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Proactively analyse philanthropic trends, competitor activities, and funding opportunities to support the Director of Fundraising & Communications in adapting Climate Catalyst’s fundraising strategy
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With support from the Digital Communications Manager, lead the strategic utilisation and optimisation of CRM and fundraising management tools to ensure data integrity, generate actionable insights, and support reporting on fundraising performance.
Board and Strategic Council support (30%)
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Support good governance in Climate Catalyst - by developing the board workplan, organising meetings, securing inputs to these meetings, minute-taking, and ensure follow up on agreed actions (all with direction from the CEO)
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Drive and support pro-active engagement between Climate Catalyst senior staff and individual members of the Strategic Council, with direction from the CEO
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Drive and support pro-active and effective relationship management by the CEO with high-level partners and allies of Climate Catalyst, by planning, preparing and tracking engagement
What You Would Bring
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Experience in managing and supporting the governance functions of boards or similar high-level advisory bodies, demonstrating autonomy and initiative.
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Demonstrated success in managing complex stakeholder relationships, including foundations, high-net-worth individuals, institutional funders, and senior advisors
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Exceptional project management, organisational, and administrative skills with a proven ability to independently manage multiple priorities and complex workflows.
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Demonstrated track record of independently identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major donors or high-value foundations, resulting in significant grants or partnerships.
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Strong understanding of philanthropic trends, fundraising best practices, and donor lifecycle management.
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Experience with CRM systems (e.g., Hubspot, Salesforce, Raiser's Edge) for donor management, pipeline tracking, and reporting, with an ability to leverage data for strategic decision-making.
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Experience, comfort with, and preference for working across various regions and cultures.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling proposals, presentations, and reports for diverse audiences.
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Ability to schedule work and deliver to tight deadlines
How You Work
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Results-driven with a strong focus on achieving fundraising targets and strategic objectives, while maintaining meticulous attention to detail.
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Collaborative leader who actively supports and champions colleagues, fostering a positive and productive team environment.
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Strategic thinker who can actively listen, synthesise complex information, and contribute to elevating the overall thinking and strategy of the team.
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Humble, with low ego and ready to roll up your sleeves
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Committed to our values of courage, collaboration, diversity and learning
Additional Information
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Currently, our main working language is English. Fluency in another language is highly valued.
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This position requires travel
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If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment tasks or otherwise participating in the interview process, please inform us of that in the relevant application section.
Compensation + Benefits
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Pay is competitive in all hiring regions.
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The salary band for this role in USD is $70,000 - $86,000
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Benefits include: wellness stipend, professional development, co-working space coverage, generous pension contribution and more.
For more information about working with us at Climate Catalyst, including compensation and benefits, visit our website.
Diversity at Climate Catalyst
Climate Catalyst aims to design inclusive strategies to meet our objectives. We recognise that the only way to deliver on this is to build a diverse team composed of individuals with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage applicants from historically marginalised and currently underrepresented groups in the climate movement to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunities
Climate Catalyst is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable employment opportunity laws prohibiting discrimination. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
How to Apply
To apply, please upload a cover letter of no more than one page outlining interest in the role and your CV to this application page.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Are you looking for a fully remote, purpose-led and meaningful leadership role, one where you will be dismantling the motherhood penalty for thousands?
Pregnant Than Screwed work sits at the intersection of providing information and support, research, raising awareness, and advocating and campaigning for change – always with a bold, unapologetic commitment to justice for mothers and parents.
Their impact over the last 10 years speaks for itself with 20,000 supported through their one-to-one advice line, successfully influenced key changes in UK law, including the Day-one right to request flexible working, and extended redundancy protection for pregnant women and new mums. Over 150 mentions in Parliament, Thousands of pieces of media coverage, including front-page features in The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Mail and over 400,000 followers across social media, building a powerful digital movement
Culture and Inclusion
As Head of Communications and Campaigns, you will work with an amazing CEO, an individual who has the empathy, knowledge and savviness to lead the charity through its next level of growth. She is a progressive and inclusive leader, bold and brave in her actions, knowing that words do not bring about change, only actions. A kind yet fearless leader who will offer freedom, flexibility and personal and career growth. This is a unique opportunity to work with an incredible CEO and shape the future of working mums in the UK forever.
The lived experiences we’d love you to have
Pregnant Than Screwed is not a “box ticker” instead they are a progressive and inclusive employer, one where they value your lived experiences and skills just as much and can see behind any gaps you might have on your CV.
They are seeking a skilled and strategic Head of Communications & Campaigns to lead our external voice, policy influence, and campaign strategy — ensuring our work remains bold, intersectional, and impactful.
This is a senior leadership position, central to our mission. You will be responsible for ensuring PTS is shaping public debate, influencing key decision-makers, and mobilising thousands of parents to take action. You’ll lead the organisation’s media engagement, strategic communications, political advocacy, and campaign delivery.
The role is outward-facing and fast-paced, requiring both strategic oversight and hands-on delivery., which covers:
· Strategic and Inclusive Leadership Across Communications and Campaigns
· Public Mobilisation, engage, grow and mobilise the PTS supporter base
· Policy & Advocacy Leadership
· Senior Leadership Team and Governance.
In return for your passion, commitment and hard work, you will receive some of the most competitive benefits across the sector, whilst knowing that every day you are changing the lives of parents, families and the workplace. Your passion for gender equity will be shape the lens through which you storytelling and campaign tirelessly for the good of the millions of women who continue to lose their jobs, get passed over for promotion and face a penalty for being a mum.
Here are just some of the benefits they offer:
· Flexible working is embedded in our culture with employees working different hours, and days of the week.
· 34 days annual leave, including statutory bank holidays. This is pro-rata for part-time staff.
· Paid leave between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
· 2 paid ‘’Wellbeing Days’’. These are days that can be booked off with no notice and no questions asked.
· 5 days paid leave to care for dependents.
· Participation in a comprehensive workplace pension scheme with contributions from the organisation of 4%
· Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
· 4 days of training per year.
· Work from home onboarding and office set up.
Next steps
We would love you to apply, which is a simple and transparent process, with a screening and interview stage with Scoutess Consultancy (recruitment partner for this role) and a one-stage interview (please see JD for full process)with our client on 22nd July 2025. Please note the advert will close on Sunday 13th July at midday, however, you may be contacted earlier if shortlisted.
Please apply via Charity Jobs, sending your CV alongside a covering letter of no more than 500 words detailing your suitability for the role.
Charity working to end the motherhood penalty.
Southwark Law Centre is a charity offering free specialist legal advice and representation to individuals in Southwark and beyond.
Southwark Law Centre
Job Description
Job Title: Operations Manager
Reports to: Executive Director
Salary: NJC Scale SP SP27-31 £41,580 - £44,480 (starting salary dependent on experience)
Hours: Full-Time – 35 hours per week
Main Objectives
· To oversee the smooth running of the Law Centre
· To ensure we have the right systems in place to support staff to work efficiently.
· To identify opportunities to use tech to support our mission.
· To lead on data, supporting us to tell our clients’ stories and to demonstrate the transformative nature of our work.
Key Responsibilities
1. IT Coordination
- Oversee the Law Centre’s IT systems to ensure they are secure, efficient, and meet the organisation's needs.
- Manage and develop the Law Centre's case management system to ensure it supports the effective delivery of services and reporting requirements.
- Liaise with external IT providers to coordinate maintenance, updates, and troubleshooting.
- Identify and implement opportunities for digital transformation and improved operational efficiency.
- Complete the annual Cyber Essentials return, ensuring that the organisation maintains the highest level of data security.
- Ensure the Law Centre makes use of the most appropriate and cost effective equipment, systems and software.
- Providing basic training to staff on systems and tools
- Maintain the asset register.
- Maintain the organisation’s IT plan and update it annually
2. Systems
· Lead on our paperless working processes
· Ensure that our Sharepoint site is set up logically and with the correct permissions in place.
· Develop our Sharepoint site in order that it functions as an intranet for sharing information internally.
· Negotiate and manage our contracts with printing providers
· Maintain regular reviews of the systems we’re using, assessing whether they are fit for purpose or not and whether there are alternative products which represent better value for money.
· Manage the organisation’s telephony.
3. Data and Reporting
- Maintain a clear overview of the data collected by the organisation.
- Prepare reports from the case management system and other data collection tools to feed into reports and funding bids.
- Develop new reports to feed into our billing and accountancy as well as various audits.
- Review and analyse the organisation’s data to understand trends and to assist with service development.
- Play an integral role in using data to communicate the impact of the organisation.
4. Data Protection
· Overall responsibility for the data protection obligations of the organisation.
· Keeping abreast of changes and updates to Data Protection legislation.
· Delivering regular training to staff on Data Protection.
5. Finance and Billing
· Support the finance manager and practice manager by ensuring all systems are optimised for efficiency.
· Liaising with our payroll provider, responsible for running monthly payroll accurately, including keeping track of new starters and leavers.
· Support casework staff with training and technical solutions to allow them to bill files efficiently.
· When needed, to work with the finance manager and practice manager to coordinate regular payment runs.
· Attendance at regular meetings of the Finance Sub-Committee.
6. Support to Executive Director
- Member of the senior management team, contributing to strategic planning and organisational development.
- Provide operational insights and recommendations to enhance the Law Centre’s performance and service delivery.
- Coordinate and chair regular meetings of the IT Working Group
- Report regularly to the Trustees on operational issues
7. Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements, including health and safety and data protection (GDPR).
- Participate in and ensure the smooth running of the annual Lexcel audit as well as other regular audits.
8. Professional Development
- To attend regular support and supervision and appraisal meetings.
- To keep up-to-date and to meet identified learning and development needs as appropriate.
9. Teamwork and Service Development
- To attend and contribute to staff meetings
- To attend and actively participate in other meetings as required, and to take an active role in the planning and development of the Law Centre.
- To network and liaise with external agencies as agreed.
10. General
- To uphold and promote the Aims and Principles of the Law Centre
- To be available to work outside normal office hours on occasion as required and notified in advance.
- To undertake any other duties that are compatible with the functions of the post.
Person Specification
Essential
- Excellent IT skills with extensive experience working with Excel and other Microsoft Office products as well as database products.
- A minimum of two years experience in a similar role, or relevant transferrable skills.
- Ability to develop, maintain and report on data and compliance records, including the ability to impart information in an understandable way.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Highly organised with the ability to set priorities, meet goals and evaluate processes and results.
- Confident, self reliant, capable of taking the initiative and working autonomously.
- Good attention to detail.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills.
Desirable
- Experience managing and developing case management systems or similar software.
- Demonstrated ability to manage budgets and supplier relationships effectively.
- Experience in supporting legal or advice services organisations.
- Knowledge of the operational challenges facing community-based organisations.
Please visit our website to download an application pack
Closing date for applications: 28 July 2025 at 9am
Interviews will take place on: 6 August 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.