What it’s like working for Skills Builder – quotes from our Team Survey:

"I'm proud to work for Skills Builder, the impact we have and am privileged to be able to work with such brilliant colleagues."

"My line manager has been brilliant in making sure that our one-to-one sessions are mainly about me and my professional development. This has made me feel even more valued than I already feel as part of the company as a whole."

"The progress by the team, despite the ongoing uncertainty in the wider world, has continued to be remarkable. Everyone is such a pleasure to work with and so committed to doing their best. I've continued to really enjoy the variety and challenge of lots of different workstreams. This term I've really benefited from the support of others in the team and those who have supported my development and progression. I really feel like my hard work has been recognised and rewarded."

Development Manager

The Skills Builder Partnership is an award-winning social enterprise. Our mission is to ensure that one day, everyone builds the essential skills to succeed – beyond just a set of qualifications.

To deliver against our mission, we are looking for self-starters with a collaborative, entrepreneurial approach; comfortable influencing stakeholders to make positive change, and with a passion for social impact.

We are leading the Skills Builder Partnership, which includes over 450 schools and colleges, 130 skills-building organisations and 100 top employers including hospitals, airports and leading international companies.

Our approach is scaling rapidly as we work towards system change, with backing from sector leading organisations including the CBI and the Careers & Enterprise Company. More than 75% of secondary schools and colleges now have a touchpoint with the Skills Builder approach – and our reach is rapidly growing in other settings too.

In this role, you will be securing and maintaining the relationships and funding that make our mission possible. You will work with employers and infrastructure organisations to enable them to champion consistent essential skills development within their programmes and generate income through partnership development and wider fundraising activities. You will play a key role in achieving system change, harnessing the collective impact of the partnership by identifying opportunities for us to scale our impact and reach.

You will be able to speak and write persuasively and be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. To deliver on this, you’ll be highly organised, managing varied workflows to hit deadlines.

We have big ambitions and your scope to grow, learn and achieve matches that. If you want to benefit from working with an inspiring team, with huge potential for learning, growth and development, we want to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

1. Developing new partnerships

• Creating new partnerships with employers, sector bodies, trusts and foundations, enabling us to work together to further essential skills development.

• Working closely with partners to map out their business needs and identify where the Skills Builder Framework and approach can support their outreach, recruitment and Learning & Development initiatives.
• Creating bespoke partnership proposals to support partners in embedding the Skills Builder Framework and approach within their internal and external activities.
• Working closely with the Director of Development and Employer Manager to ensure the delivery of partnership activities and bespoke support to each key partner.
• Using systems and processes with precision to manage relationships across the team.

2. Managing existing partnerships

Maintaining and developing relationships with our existing partners by:

• Acting as the account manager for key relationships with employers, infrastructure bodies (Local Authorities, sector bodies, membership organisations), trusts and foundations.
• Communicating effectively with partners and evolving their engagement with us by identifying new opportunities for them to embed meaningful essential skills development within their work.
• Reporting to partners on the impact of their work with us and providing stewardship activities to connect them with the impact.

3. Fundraising

• Having strategic responsibility for the ‘Innovation Fund’: the income pipeline relating to innovation projects and core organisational costs.
• Reviewing, updating and managing the Innovation Fund pipeline, seeking out corporates, trusts and foundations which align with our goals and accurately communicating progress.
• Working with the Director of Development and the wider team to scope out new and existing projects to be developed.
• Identifying realistic targets for fundraising proposals and developing funding relationships with trusts, foundations and corporate partners.
• Writing and submitting proposals to potential funders.
• Sharing responsibility with the Director of Development and Head of Growth Fund for achieving financial targets across all income streams.

4. Supporting the Development team

• Collaborating across the Development Team to ensure that we achieve our overall goals.

Benefits

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 subject to review in 12 months

Start Date: As soon as possible

Working hours: Flexible but ideally 40 hours per week. Due to working with partners across England, occasional early starts and evening work will be needed.

Holidays: 25 days per year, plus bank holidays

Location: Primarily London based, with some remote working available. The role will involve some travel to visit partners across the country.

Application Process

Applications should be made via our online form - on completion of the online application please also send your CV by email. This round of applications ends at 9am on Monday 26th May 2021 with interviews taking place on weeks commencing 31st May and 7th June.

Applicants are encouraged to explore our work before applying.

Skills Builder Partnership is a Top 100 Employer. We champion equal opportunities, and actively encourage applications from all qualified individuals.

Our recruitment process is designed to give you a sense of what this role as part of the Skills Builder team would be like. We follow best practice of blind-scoring applications and use the Skills Builder Universal Framework when assessing candidates’ essential skills.

About us:

It’s unacceptable that more than half of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die within 3 months. Survival rates have improved enormously for most cancers, yet for pancreatic cancer, this is not the case. And, with treatment and care affected by the pandemic, the situation has only got worse.

Pancreatic Cancer UK is a national charity dedicated to taking on this injustice using every possible means. We’re supporting people with pancreatic cancer now, campaigning, and funding vital research to transform the future.

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Relationship Manager to join our Philanthropy & Partnerships (P&P) team, which sits in the Fundraising, Marketing, and Communications Directorate. This new role is all about outstanding relationship management. We are looking for someone who can inspire and manage our highly influential Development Fund Board (DFB) alongside a portfolio of relationships with high net worth individuals and ambassadors, creating standout experiences for those that support Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Our P&P team consists of six members of staff, and we are on track to raise £2m this year. We are a small team and we aim to work closely together to maximise our collective impact. The successful candidate will be an experienced relationship manager and will develop and embed a one-team approach to stewardship of high-value supporters. This role involves being the lead on developing our stewardship programme, creating tools and resources that support the whole P&P team in delivering exceptional relationship management. No day will be the same in this role. It requires a love of relationship management, strategic vision, and the ability to work hands-on to give our supporters a very special experience.

About you:

• You will have a track record and experience in developing and managing strong relationships with high-value supporters.
• You will have strong communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to build relationships and rapport with others.
• Experience in working with fundraising committees and senior volunteers.
• Experience in designing and delivering special events, volunteer-led events, and/or engagement events.
• The ability to demonstrate respect, understanding, and sensitivity when communicating around pancreatic cancer.

Please see the job pack on our website for full details of the role.

Working with us:

We are an inclusive employer committed to developing a diverse workforce and are looking for people who can demonstrate dedication to our cause and values. We offer a supportive place to work with helpful and friendly staff who report a high level of job satisfaction. We are currently working remotely due to Covid-19 restrictions, but our main office is based in London on the river with views towards Westminster.

To apply for this role, please visit our website to view the job pack and complete section 1 and section 2 of the application form.

Other details about the role:

• Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Flexible working is available for this role (four days per week will also be considered). If part-time hours are agreed, please note the salary will be pro-rata.
• Location: London SE1 (temporarily remote working from home)
• Closing date and interviews: We are accepting applications and interviewing on a rolling basis (Interviews will take place remotely via a Zoom video call).

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

This is an exciting time to join our team. During the Coronavirus pandemic our bold, collective action helped thousands of people off the streets in the space of just a few weeks and prevented thousands more people from becoming homeless. The easing of restrictions is a time to build on this and shape a better future for all of us.

To make sure everyone housed temporarily during the outbreak is helped directly into a secure home of their own. To make this the beginning of the end of homelessness.  

About the role 
In this role you’ll lead on the development and delivery of our established fundraising strategy and plans in Wales & the South West. You will work closely with colleagues in Swansea and throughout Great Britain to ensure that our ambitious plans are achieved, steward our supporters and raise funds from a range of streams to ensure success. 

About you 
To be successful in this role you will be an experienced fundraiser and networker, with a proven ability to develop and implement a fundraising strategy and plan involving a range of income streams. You will share our passion and commitment to ending homelessness and will put Crisis supporters and members at the heart of our work.

Working at Crisis
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
•  Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy 
•  Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5% 
•  25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

Crisis staff have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation. We have 5 staff diversity networks which include Black, Asian and Ethnic people, LGBTQ+ people, those with Lived Experience of Homelessness, Women at Crisis and Disability Awareness. 

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.

Closing date: Sunday 16th May 2021 (at 23:59).
Interviews will take place on Friday 28th May.

Accessibility
We welcome applications from people who identify as neuro diverse and want our recruitment process to be as accessible as possible. If you need us to make an adjustment or provide additional support as you apply for a role, please email the Recruitment team, contact details can be found on our website.
 
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

Fight for Peace is an international non- governmental organisation (NGO) thatsupports young people to achieve their full potential and helps create peaceful communities. The organisation was founded in Rio de Janeiro, in 2000, and set up in London in 2007. 

We believe the choices young people make are based on the opportunities and support they have access to, as well as the way they see themselves, how they relate to others, and how they see their future. That’s why Fight for Peace invests in young people, offering integrated and holistic programmes in a safe environment. 

Strategically we focus on three main activities: firstly, we provide direct services to young people through our Academies in London and Rio; secondly, we support youth-focused partner organisations who are members of the Fight for Peace Alliance; and thirdly, through our Collectives - currently in Newham and Jamaica - we work with local partners, government bodies, donors and the private sector, to generate greater impact in preventing violence in communities. 

A PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH TO VIOLENCE PREVENTION 

Fight for Peace uses a public health model which focuses on three levels of violence prevention. We offer universal services that opportunities and provide support for all young people living in communities affected by crime and violence. We also focus on individuals or groups identified as being at risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of crime and violence. And we support young people most at risk of harm, or causing harm, to disengage from crime and violence, and work to prevent them reoffending or being victimised again. 

OUR LONDON ACADEMY 

We set up our London Academy in North Woolwich in 2007 to provide services to children and young people aged 7 to 25 in the borough of Newham and beyond. Today, the Academy usually works with around 900 young people annually and acts as a training hub for our Fight for Peace Alliance member organisations. It is also the location from which we coordinate our London-based Collectives. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, many of our services are being provided online. 

THE FIGHT FOR PEACE FIVE PILLARS 

Our Academies use a Five Pillars methodology, drawing on non-traditional methods to engage young people where conventional methods aren’t working. Through boxing and martial arts, young people build strength and discipline, gain self-respect and learn that success comes through hard work and dedication. We offer formal education programmes for young people who are not at school to re-engage with their learning, and employability support and training for young people to get access to the job market and progress in their professional lives. 

Through our Support Services, specialist youth workers support young people to overcome issues they may be facing at school, at home or in their personal lives. And our Youth Leaders help to design programmes, develop strategies and make decisions at every level of our organisation. 

In this way, we provide young people with the tools and support structures they need to become life champions and create positive futures for themselves. 

In 2015, Fight for Peace launched Collectives to establish a location-specific, multi-agency approach to promoting youth safety in areas affected by inequality and violence, to ensure young people can access the range of support they need. Collectives have been implemented in Kingston, Jamaica and Cape Town, South Africa.

NEWHAM PARTNERSHIPS

Fight for Peace launched the Pan-Newham Partnership in January 2020. This is a pilot of the collective impact approach in the borough of Newham, London. Fight for Peace facilitates and coordinates the work of the partnership which includes 30 organisations across the voluntary sector, public sector, health and the private sector. The vision of the partnership is to facilitate collaboration between organisations to increase opportunities for young people and improve youth safety in the borough. Fight for Peace was successful in leading a consortium bid to the Violence Reduction Unit with three grassroots members of the Pan-Newham Partnership. The consortium is called ACT-AS-1 (All Communities Together Are Stronger) and the programme is called MyEnds. The aim of this programme is to ensure local communities, and specifically young people, have their voices, ideas and solutions heard and acted on to make their community safer and create more opportunities for young people. The programme centres around three wards in Newham: Canning Town North, Custom House and Plaistow South which are impacted by high levels of violence.

NEWHAM PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER ROLE OVERVIEW

The manager leading this exciting programme, is going on maternity leave shortly and we are looking for cover for 9-12 months to ensure the aims and objectives of the MyEnds programme continue with momentum and the Pan-Newham Partnership develops in line with its vision.

This is not an oversight role, you will be expected to continue driving the MyEnds programme forward with the support of a newly recruited team and with support of Fight for Peace colleagues. 

See Job description and person spec for further details.

Are you passionate about ending educational inequity for young people?

If so, Right to Succeed are looking for a committed and highly skilled fundraising professional for the exciting new position of Trust and Statutory Fundraising Manager. The post holder will play a pivotal role in supporting our plans to secure funding to roll out our work to more communities across the UK where young people experience educational disadvantage.

Right to Succeed is a fast-growing national charity, working to deliver place-based and educational change in the most disadvantaged communities. Together, alongside their local and national partners, Right to Succeed delivers coordinated, impactful programmes aimed at improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people, their families and wider communities. 

Supporting the Head of Fundraising, the Trust and Statutory Fundraising Manager will have extensive experience in the following three areas:

• submitting fundraising applications and bid writing

• researching and identifying fundraising opportunities

• maintaining excellent donor relations through arranging events and providing monitoring and evaluation

This is an exciting time to join Right to Succeed. We are a young organisation giving you the opportunity to shape the future of our work as we grow, whilst making a real difference to the most disadvantaged young people in the country.

To apply for this role, please submit your CV and a supporting statement detailing how you meet the requirements of the person specification via CharityJob.
 

LEGACY PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER (EAST ANGLIA, EAST AND WEST MIDS)

Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 per annum + car allowance

Contract length: Permanent

Location: Home based covering East Anglia, East and West Mids

Application Deadline: Tuesday 18th May 2021, 23:55

Are you a self-motivated and sharp minded individual with strong stakeholder management skills that can help us beat cancer?

Why we need you

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Legacy Partnerships Manager. We need you to help deliver the professional partners engagement strategy and support our vision of building first-class professional partnerships. In doing so, you'll maintain our market share and encourage growth in our legacy giving products.

What will I be doing?

Make an impact every day by…

• Being responsible for delivering a seamless end to end supporter journey for the professional audience, through outstanding relationship management

• Being responsible for delivering regional activity for Legal Professionals

• Supporting the wider team in the development of the Legacy Professional Partnership strategy

• Building processes to identify and develop relationships with relevant professionals

• Exploring opportunities for building and deepening partnerships

• Identifying, developing and managing relationships with solicitors and will writing firms.

To view a full job description please click here:

What skills are you looking for?

You'll be able to bring to the role…

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills

• Experience of budget management

• The ability to work well under pressure

• The ability to identify and build on new opportunities

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills

• A flexible approach to managing ambiguity and changing environments.

What will I gain?

Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance, gym membership, childcare vouchers and much more. You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work.

If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.

About CDP 

CDP is an international non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Over 8,400 companies and 920 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental data to CDP. Our platform is one of the richest sources of information globally on how companies and governments are driving environmental change. By working with institutional investors with assets of US$87 trillion, we leverage investor and buyer power to motivate companies to disclose and manage their environmental impacts. Visit our website or follow us @CDP to find out more. 

Job Purpose 

CDP, one of the world’s leading climate change charities, is seeking a highly motivated individual to support CDP’s corporate engagement work, specifically joining the CSC UK and Worldwide leadership team. In your role as Senior Account Manager Reporter Services, you will accelerate our mission and motivate global multinationals with expertise, enthusiasm and endurance on the strategic journey to limiting climate change, improving water stewardship and banning deforestation from direct corporate business practices. The role covers UK and Worldwide (WW) companies. WW is defined as companies from regions not covered by other CDP offices (e.g. Russia, Middle East).

Key responsibilities include:  

The Senior Account Manager, Reporter Services, CSC UK & WW will work to successfully deliver the following outputs: 

Management 

• Line managing direct reports and overall resource planning for the Reporter Services team in UK & WW

• Responsible for achieving annual RS revenue target and related KPIs – as well as collective responsibility for meeting all the UK CSC financial targets. 

• Serving as a point of escalation for high priority companies or sensitive account management circumstances that arise for RS account managers 

• Building relationships with key companies, partners and investors through public speaking and event attendance 

• Preparing and delivering presentations to external audiences on the value of CDP 

• Co-designing strategy for UK & WW corporate engagement campaigns including disclosure, commit to action and CSC business development for memberships (such as reporter services and supply chain), products and services; closely tied to the development of the company journey framework 

• Work with Global Head of Value Chains and regional director corporations to develop annual operational plan and budget for the RS team 

• Serve as a senior member of the Global Reporter Services team, working with global counterparts explore synergies and coordinate on relevant decision making, coordination of input and application of central systems, processes and communications.

• Co-designing a comms and event plan for UK & WW CSC with the UK & World Wide CSC Management team. This plan will include events such as spring workshops, end of year score events and other opportunities we want to pursue. Taking the event director role for delivering one of these events.

• The precise description and nature of the role may be varied from time and other duties as necessary may be required to be carried out 

The successful candidate will have:  

• Minimum BA/BSc degree; 

• 3 years proven experience in account management, sales or business development 

• Strong organisational and planning skills – both at strategic and operational levels; 

• Proven team-building and inter-personal relationship skills

• Advanced analytical and technical skills, a liking for data analysis, data mining, benchmarking and process optimization;

• Experience in working on climate change and sustainability topics, with a special focus on GHG emissions and /or water / forest and within a corporate environment a plus; 

• Knowledge of client relationship management system and data analysis programs desirable, or ability to learn quickly; 

• Good communication skills, ability to interact convincingly with people at different levels of seniority and different cultural backgrounds; 

• Very good Microsoft Office skills, in particular Excel, ideally including macro programming or interest to master such skills; 

• Ability to work within an annual process with shifting priorities; 

• Flexibility and creative problem-solving; 

• Willingness to travel if required; 

• Fluent in spoken and written English; additional languages eg Russian as advantage.

This is a fixed term role for one year based at CDP’s Central London office reporting to the Global Head of Value Chains. 

Salary and benefits: £35,364 - £39,000 per annum, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, Training and development, Flexible working opportunities and other benefits.  

Before you apply

We’ll only use the information you provide to process your application. By emailing us your CV and covering letter, you are permitting CDP to use the information you have provided for recruitment purposes.

How to apply 

Please visit our website to apply for this role.The deadline is Tuesday 18 May 2021 at 17:30 (UK time). 

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We are unable to sponsor this role.

Business Development Manager

Are you passionate and driven to help build a better world and have experience in sales or business development? We have an exciting and rewarding role working with the Managing Director ensuring that business development, sales and renewals are successfully achieved for this award-winning international social enterprise accreditation authority.

Position: Business Development Manager

Location: Home or office based in Plymouth (flexible)

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: from £25,000 pa, depending on experience

Contract: Fixed-term (maternity cover, up to 12 months)

Benefits: Statutory allowance with rise to 8% employer’s contribution on completion of probationary period, 25 days exclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata)

Closing Date: 16th May 2021

Interviews: 24th or 26th May 2021

The Role

The Business Development Manager will work closely with the Managing Director to successfully achieve the organisations business plan.

Key Duties and responsibilities include:

• Contribute to overall business planning
• Ensure that new customer sales and renewals targets are met
• Work proactively to develop, manage and follow up on leads
• Manage initial sales enquiries
• Co-ordination of the application process, including effectively resolving queries and complaints
• Manage the licence renewals process for all
• Ensure alignment with and amplification of key marketing messages through business development activities
• Represent the organisation effectively at events
• Build and develop effective partnerships
• Issue of some key client communications such as welcome packs, assessment certificates, approvals and reports
• Manage the drafting of partnership and other proposals and contracts

About You

As Business Development Manager, you will have knowledge and awareness of the social enterprise environment and personal values and convictions that fit with the social enterprise movement and business model

You will have:

• Demonstrable experience of and skills in business development/sales in a commercial context
• Excellent customer service and people skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail, particularly in developing and delivering processes
• Organisational and planning skills, including achieving goals and deadlines
• Flexibility and willingness to travel where necessary
• Ability to work independently and manage own workload and operate as part of a small, cohesive team
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• IT literacy

As part of the recruitment process you will be asked to submit a CV and Cover Letter to support your application.

About the Organisation

Work for an award-winning international social enterprise accreditation authority, which recognises and builds the capabilities of social enterprises as competitive, sustainable businesses, dedicated to maximising social impact. The organisation is the only social enterprise accreditation body to operate as a social enterprise and were named in the top 40 UK social enterprises in the 2020 SE100 Index and Social Business Awards.

As a Disability Confident employer and member of the Global Equality collective, the organisation is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. It aspires to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Other roles you may have experience of could include Business Development, Business Development Executive, Account Manager, Business Development Lead, Senior Business Development Manager, Business Development Manager, Business Development Officer, Development Manager, Social Enterprise, Sales, Sales Lead, Sales Manager, Renewals, Membership, Membership Sales, Memberships, Accreditation, Sales Executive.

Springfield Mind (South Warwickshire and Worcestershire) is looking to recruit to an exciting brand-new role developing partnerships across Warwickshire.

Springfield Mind (South Warwickshire and Worcestershire) is committed to working in collaboration with partners to provide excellent mental health wellbeing services for our communities. The Head of Partnerships (Warwickshire) plays an integral role in developing and maintaining effective relationships, to ensure we can provide the services our communities need.

Working with the CEO and Director of Services to build and maintain robust and effective working relationships with our partners across Warwickshire. Partners include local CCGs, NHS Trusts, the emergency services, local councils, National Mind, local Mind branches especially Coventry and Warwickshire Mind and Trust & Grant Providers.

The post holder is to work creatively and energetically to develop business through partnership working.

The postholder will also work closely with internal partners to ensure we act as a collective team within Springfield Mind with the service users at the heart of all that we do.

The postholder will play a vital role in ensuring that the services we currently deliver are effective and supporting the mental wellbeing of our clients. This includes working closely with the Service Delivery Team in Warwickshire.

This position will be required to work from home.

Important Dates:

Closing Date: Friday 7th May at 4pm

Interview Date: Week beginning 19th May 2021

The next step:

If you feel this position is right for you, visit our job opportunities page on our website, where you will find the  Application Form, Equality Monitoring Form and Job Description that is required to complete your application.

**Please note an application form is required to be considered for this position. CV's will not be considered**

The Head of Fundraising & Development will oversee, manage and take responsibility for the fundraising function in order for us to deliver our clinical operations now and the growing demand anticipated in the future. 

This is a newly created role and you will be joining the Fundraising team at an exciting time.

Blue Smile is a charity dedicated to transforming the mental health and life chances of children across Cambridgeshire. We are looking for a dynamic and inspiring individual to enable us to implement and drive the fundraising strategy for the Charity and have a positive impact on many children’s lives across Cambridgeshire - giving more children the chance of a brighter future.

Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

We achieve this in two ways. First we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.

Job Description

As Development Coordinator you will play a foundation role in the Catch22 Development Team. You will support the Senior Development Managers in the Business Development and Partnerships units, creating a platform for them to drive growth and development through relationship-building, proposal-writing and high-impact pitching. Your excellent research, drafting, publishing and project management skills will be critical to keeping the show on the road. You will enable the whole Development Team to work through a large volume of opportunities, as we seek to achieve our development goals.

You will be joining an entrepreneurial, energetic and passionate unit with a fun but hardworking culture, all relentlessly committed to Catch22’s core mission and purpose. You will be someone with excellent organisational and administrative skills, an eye for detail, and a passion for social impact. Your research and development skills, ‘self-starter’ mentality, and raw energy will be instrumental to your and the Team’s success. 

The Development Team as a whole is the engine room of Catch22’s mission and business plan. Collectively it seeks to grow Catch22’s reach, influence, impact and secure funds that allow us to change peoples’ lives for the better. If you are energetic and motivated, and feel you have the skills, please read on.

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified to degree level, or proven experience in relevant field

Knowledge

• Knowledge of statutory and voluntary funding mechanisms and the external funding environment
• An understanding of how market research and analysis can contribute to strong product development, bids, tenders and proposals and how these interlink to generate income.

Experience

• Experience of developing, promoting and selling products to commissioners through external meetings, presentations and pitches
• Experience of utilising project management and coordination techniques
• Experience of writing bids / tenders/proposals
• Experience of coordinating bid plans and preparing bid templates
• Experience of communicating with partner organisations.

Interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised

Are you perhaps a fundraiser who wants to take the next step in your career? Come and play an integral role in helping shape the next, exciting stage of our development as a charity and be a part of a brilliant team working with children and young people all across Salisbury and South Wiltshire!

The role of Deputy-Director is a senior-level position, with a 50% focus on fundraising and income generation and a 50% focus on strategy and developing new projects that will enable us to move to the next level as a charity; to ensure future sustainability and to bring Christian faith, hope and love to more and more young people across Wiltshire!

Key aspects of this role will include:

• Providing leadership alongside the Director to develop and implement a cohesive and ambitious 3-year strategy that aids our vision.
• Developing a funding model and income streams that can resource the ongoing and future work of the Bridge, particularly through trusts, foundations, statutory funding, the Diocese, school income, major donors and networking.
• Liaising with operational colleagues to identify innovative and ground-breaking projects and priorities for funding, and in consultation with the Director, develop them into compelling projects for funders.
• Reviewing and developing our impact measurement and monitoring, ensuring that it is effective and captures the difference we’re making.
• Conducting an ongoing review of our policies and procedures.
• Line-management of the Operations Manager.
• Hands-on schools work where appropriate, including mentoring.
• Deputising for the Director, where necessary.

Essential Characteristics:

• A committed Christian with a strong desire to see our vision lived out.
• Extensive experience and track record in trust fundraising and income generation. 
• A strong, strategic thinker and leader with proven experience leading teams.
• Experience in project development, from infancy to delivery.
• Good communication and organisation skills.
• Able to take the initiative.
• A strong networker with influencing skills.
• Experience in either education, or work/ministry relating to children and young people.
• It is a genuine occupational requirement for the post-holder to be a committed, practicing Christian.

  Desirable skills and experience:

• Qualified youth worker.
• Leadership and management/fundraising qualification.
• Experience in charity management.

We have a vision to…

Bring Christianity alive in classrooms across South Wiltshire and beyond; through professional, creative RE lessons; impactful emotional literacy programmes; faith-inspiring collective worships, transition work and transformative whole day events.

Enable young people to engage with Christianity by reframing chaplaincy for the modern age, to stimulate spiritual curiosity and to develop young people holistically. We want to deliver a service that brings positive change and hope to the mental health & wellbeing of young people through the delivery of exceptional pastoral care, youth work that breaks new ground and mentoring streams.

Build on our existing partnerships with schools and, where appropriate, to develop outstanding and innovative youth and community work that spills out of schools and brings Christian faith, hope and love to young people in other contexts.

How to apply…

Please send your CV and a covering letter to Alex Ewing, the Director, explaining how you meet the requirements of this role and why you want to work for the Bridge. No more than 2 sides please.

Please visit our website to find out more, where you can watch our promotional video and see our job pack.

For an informal conversation about the role, please do not hesitate to email Alex and a chat can be arranged. 

About us…

The primary schools’ team deliver engaging RE lessons, whole-day events, transition work, social skills programmes and collective worships. The secondary team provide lay chaplaincy to schools, focusing on 1:1 pastoral support, drop-in’s, specialist group work, assemblies, lessons and prayer spaces. Our Mentoring Scheme matches 40 mentors from local churches with a mentee from a local school. They meet together once a fortnight in school-time, for a whole academic year, setting goals in the process. Finally, we have recently established an exciting primary school chaplaincy programme in the north of the county, working with 4 schools as part of a pilot scheme.

We want to act as a bridge between schools and churches, giving young people an opportunity to discover more about the Christian faith in a relevant and engaging way. We have an active and passionate board of trustees with a wide variety of experience.

So come and join us and be part of the Bridge family! We have an exciting vision to grow the impact and geographical scope of our work across the schools in the years to come, as well as implement new lines of work that might spill out into the community.

Terms of Employment

Salary: £27,000-30,000 (dependent on experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (negotiable) - occasional evening and weekend working may be required.

Annual Leave: A generous 30 days annual leave + bank holidays

Location: Our office in Salisbury/some optional home-working

Pension: 7.5% employer contributions

Term: 3 years (to be extended subject to funding)

Closing date: 23rd May at midday. Interviews TBC