Do you love dogs?  Are you a corporate fundraiser looking for a new challenge?

Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare charity in the UK and last year we cared for over 14,000 dogs in our network of 21 rehoming centres across the UK and Ireland. Our mission is to bring about the day when all dogs can enjoy a happy life, free from the threat of unnecessary destruction. At Dogs Trust no healthy dog is ever destroyed.

We are reliant on voluntary donations to continue our work. To support this, we are seeking a fundraiser with experience of new business development to help increase our income from corporates partnerships. We’re looking for someone who relishes the excitement of new business and has exceptional commercial acumen, as this role has a heavy emphasis on bringing on board new cause related marketing and strategic partnerships in line with the current corporate fundraising strategy.

Reporting to the Corporate Development Team Manager and working alongside our existing team, you will be responsible for identifying, cultivating, and acquiring new partnerships with national businesses. You will also support the development of Dogs Trust’s partnership strategy across a range of income streams and prepare creative pitches and proposals.

If you have: (1) a proven success in securing six figure revenue (sales, marketing or partnerships), (2) excellent communication and relationship building skills, (3) an ability to think laterally and creatively, (4) a love for dogs and drive to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you!

To apply for this position please click the APPLY NOW button.  Our application process requires you to submit a CV and cover letter explaining your interest and suitability for the role.

We are passionate about the power of education in transforming lives, are you? 

PEAS believes that every young person in Sub-Saharan Africa should have the opportunity to go to secondary school. We build and run high quality schools in underserved rural communities where children previously had limited options after finishing primary school. Since 2008 we have built a network of 32 schools (28 in Uganda and 4 in Zambia) educating over 14,000 children and creating over a 1000 jobs. PEAS has strong external data of impact, happy funding partners and an excellent reputation within the international education sector.

At scale, PEAS schools and their support/supervision structures are financially self-sustainable. This means that there is a finite target for fundraised income. The PEAS school network is on a journey to becoming fully financially sustainable but, along the way, we need philanthropic partners to support our work. 

This is an exciting time to join PEAS, we are in the process of developing our new organisational strategy (2022-25) which will include several exciting new areas for growth in our work - so there will always be new ambitious targets to hit. The successful candidate will play a vital role in delivering this strategy. 

The Opportunity  

As Partnerships Lead, you will take the lead for securing new income for PEAS as well as developing and delivering a first-class stewardship programme for PEAS’ strategic partners (Technical Education specialists), corporate, major donor and trust and foundation supporters.

You’ll be joining a small team of extremely committed, proactive, effective and values aligned fundraisers. This team is well supported by the rest of UK, Uganda, and Zambia teams – we are proud to have developed a strong ‘everyone’s a fundraiser’ mindset at PEAS, thus avoiding the traditional division between programme and fundraising. So, the successful candidate will need to be able to collaborate and build strong relationships with colleagues in all three countries. 

This is an exciting role for an energetic and resourceful person with strong strategic, relationship, communication and organisational skills who will inspire and engage prospective and current partners with PEAS’ work to foster and continually strengthen long-term relationships.

The ideal candidate will have experience raising six figure amounts from a variety of funder types and will be able to adapt their style and approach accordingly. Experience working in Education and International Development is preferable.

Key areas of focus  

Proportion of time spent on each area are approximates.

1. Manage a portfolio of funders to maintain and increase support from PEAS’ current donors which will include strategic partners, corporates, trust and foundations, major donors and potentially institutional funders (50%)
2. Identifying and securing new funding opportunities (40%)

1. Take an active role in developing engaging communications for current and prospective partners (10%) 

The ideal candidate  

No matter the role, we are looking for people who believe in what we do and how we do it; is passionate about transforming lives through education and aligned to our values. 

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• At least three years experience in account and project management.
• Experience of preparing substantive reports, budgets, proposals, presentations and undertaking pitches to secure funding and support.
• Proven track-record in meeting income generation and other targets in a fundraising or commercial context.
• Excellent MS Office skills, particularly MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience in donor account management (ideally in strategic partners, institutional, corporate, major donor and/or trust and foundations), or similar roles within the not-for-profit or commercial sector.
• Understanding of current international development issues and an understanding of, and commitment to, PEAS’ aims and values.
• Experience working in an Education setting/organisation focussed on Education.
• Experience working in Uganda, Zambia or sub Saharan Africa desirable

Skills and Abilities

• Ambitious and goal-oriented, always looking to push yourself, and the team, to achieve the most you can in your role.
• Flexible with the ability to adapt to a changing funding landscape.
• Motivated to work to financial targets.
• Proven ability to build strong and lasting relationships with senior external stakeholders and confident enough to make “the ask” to turn positive contacts into income for PEAS.
• Ease in maintaining good, positive working relations with colleagues.
• Ability to juggle priorities and work on own initiative.
• Ability to lead and influence projects without managing those projects
• Ability to motivate and inspire colleagues, including remotely.
• Exceptional written and interpersonal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Willing and able to work occasional unsocial hours and occasional travel overseas.

Benefits  

• £34-38K based on experience
• 28 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
• Matched contribution based pension of up to 6% 
• Flexible working
• International travel
• Being part of a small and friendly team who are all committed, supportive, driven and values aligned 

Please review the full job pack for full details including the responsibilites of the role and who we are looking for. 

The Trust is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic leader and Manager who is committed to the development of the Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre (WSBRC). The post holder will be someone who is able to use their ecological knowledge and their understanding of the major issues facing the natural environment to interpret and engage with key policies and strategies and work with diverse stakeholder groups to support nature’s recovery.

We are looking for a candidate who is organised and motivated, with an entrepreneurial outlook. They will be an excellent networker, able to build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders.

The role will oversee all aspects of WSBRC’s work programme and budgets, setting the strategic direction and developing products and services. They will have line management responsibility for a team of staff and office volunteers. 

For the past 35 years the WSBRC has catalogued and stored biodiversity information.  The WSBRC promotes and supports biological recording and monitoring and is part of a national network of Local Environmental Records Centres.  It gathers, manages, interprets and disseminates a wide range of biological and geological information and produces Wiltshire’s State of the Environment Report. It also works with a range of partners to deliver recording, monitoring and citizen science projects within Wiltshire.

Overview

Would you like to help build cross-sector partnerships to improve health and generate economic growth?

As Commercial Manager you will join our programmes business function with a focus on building partnerships between the NHS and commercial sector to accelerate the adoption and spread of solutions that improve the health and economy of our region.

You will manage our Innovation Exchange, working in collaboration with our wider team to provide advice on commercialisation, market access and real world validation.

We are looking for someone who shares our passion to improve health and generate economic growth through the adoption and spread of innovation from the commercial sector.

Purpose of the role

The Commercial Manager is at the heart of  our work to spread innovative practice. From increasing the uptake of new diagnostic tools to helping to implement the latest innovations in digital health, you will help make sure our work translates into improved health and care for the people in our region.

Reporting to one of our programme directors, you will work across our commissioned programmes to identify opportunities to build partnerships with the

commercial sector. You will be responsible for managing our Innovation Exchange - supporting and building partnerships with commercial organisations to develop, test and spread solutions relevant to the health and care needs of our population.

Responsibilities

• Identify, build and manage a pipeline of commercial sector innovations with the potential to help respond to the challenges in our regional health and care system.

• Support commercial sector organisations to develop solutions to unmet needs by providing advice on commercialisation, market access and real world validation.

• Build partnerships between the NHS and commercial sector to accelerate the adoption and spread of relevant, validated solutions.

• Work with national and regional agencies to improve, support and strengthen the regional health and life science sector.

• Establish strong internal relationships that draw on expertise from across the organisation to understand the needs of our regional health system and build cross-sector partnerships.

• Work with our communications and engagement function to engage partners in our Innovation Exchange, communicate the impact of our work and raise our profile at a regional and national level.

• Work with our evaluation and learning function to build robust plans for how we will understand the impact of our support for commercial sector organisations.

• Work with our partnerships function to identify and develop new partnership opportunities to grow our work with the commercial sector.

• Build strong relationships with other AHSNs and contribute to the success of the national AHSN Network.

Experience we are looking for

• Working in or with the health and life sciences sectors – from a customer, supplier or intermediary perspective.

• A good working knowledge of the health and care system, NHS commissioning and procurement.

• Experience managing a pipeline of projects – assessing ideas for relevance and validity to identify high-value opportunities.

• A track record of influencing stakeholders to change their perspectives.

• Experience leading the delivery of projects and programmes.

Applications

We are working hard to ensure we recruit great people and minimise unconscious bias in our selection process. To support us to do so we use the Applied recruitment platform, which anonymises applicants.

Closing date for applications is 9am on the 5th October 2020.

Interviews

The interview process will be a two-stage process. Initial interviews for short-listed individuals will be held week commencing 12th October. Successful candidates will be contacted shortly after the closing date to be invited to an interview conducted via video conferencing. Part of the interview process will require candidates to prepare  a short presentation task.

Looking to expand your experience and knowledge in health and social care? Come and join Hestia in this brand-new and exciting role as part of an incredibly passionate team.

We are Hestia, a vibrant charity that has been supporting and empowering vulnerable adults and children since 1970. This year will mark our 50th anniversary so it is an exciting time to join us!

The Performance and Development Directorate drives the quality assurance of current delivery and seeks to achieve continuous improvement and innovation to optimise outcomes for our services users.

As Business Development Manager - Health & Property and senior member of the Business Development Team, you will help us explore opportunities for growth, develop existing services, and strategically build and manage relationships with new and existing partners. With experience in building relationships to secure new income routes, this role will specifically focus on engaging our national health service colleagues and housing partners.

Not only will you have the option to work from home on certain days, you will also have the option to develop innovative new service ideas and build community relationships as well as attend community events.

Hestia offer a culture of learning and development, with access to an extensive range of learning and development opportunities as well as genuine career progression.

In everything we do, we seek to be: respectful, genuine, dedicated, collaborative and courageous and if these values resonate with you, please apply.

We welcome applications from candidates with lived experience.

Hestia is proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Strictly no agencies

Person specification:

• Experience of driving strong income growth via different channels including at least one of the following: local authorities, NHS Trusts, CCGs, GP Federations, regional and national health bodies and/or grant giving institutions (essential)
• Experience working with, or within housing associations or the housing sector (desirable)
• Natural ability to create and nurture new, high-value strategic partnerships
• Knowledge and understanding of health commissioning
• A track record of developing new business from inception to delivery using a collaborative approach
• Strong written and presentation skills
• Strong influencing and communication skills (both written and spoken), comfortable operating in a range of environments and across levels of seniority
• Basic research and analysis experience
• Experience of developing and/or managing services for people affected by a crisis
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding issues and ability to address them appropriately.

In return we offer a competitive salary, a supportive working environment and a host of benefits including pension, employee discounts, 25 days holiday per annum (for full-time positions) plus the option to buy an additional 3 weeks, cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan.

Hours: 39 hours per week(all Managers may need to undertake on call duties during out of hours, for which they will be remunerated in addition to their salary).

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, Flexi-time (core hours 10.00-16.00)

About Hestia

Hestia supports adults and children in crisis across London and the surrounding regions. We campaign and advocate nationally on the issues that affect them. This includes victims of modern slavery, women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, young care leavers and older people. From giving someone a home, to helping them to get the right mental health support, we support people at the moment of crisis and enable them to build a life beyond crisis. We are supported by more than 460 volunteers who provide specialist skills such as art therapy yoga, IT, gardening, cooking as well as befriending and fundraising.

We are proud to be the home of UK SAYS NO MORE, bringing together a diverse coalition of individuals, charities, businesses and public-sector organisations to campaign for an end to the domestic abuse and sexual violence.

In everything we do, we seek to be: respectful, genuine, dedicated, collaborative and courageous.

A highly motivated, resourceful and resilient project manager is urgently required to assist several Surrey charities who want to come together to formally establish a close working partnership.  The charities have collectively secured a £4m+ health and wellbeing public contract in collaboration with the NHS.  A wide-ranging programme of health and wellbeing services for children, young persons and their families is due to commence from April 2021.  The timescales are daunting, the scope of work is broad and the challenge is immense.  If this unique opportunity excites then we want to hear from you without delay.

Food Business Manager – Asia

We are looking for a proven relationship / account manager who will work to integrate higher farm animal welfare standards into the supply chains of leading global food businesses with supply coming from Thailand and of Thai national brands. The right candidate will be responsible for developing existing partnerships and establishing new ones with leading Thai food companies and producers, using existing key Compassion initiatives including the Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards, the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare and our work on cage-free systems for laying hens and Better Chicken Commitments for broilers..

Food Business Manager Requirements:

Passionate about humane, sustainable food, you will also have experience of project management and be an excellent communicator. A strong understanding of the commercial sector is essential, and a track record of working with or for food businesses, particularly with a focus on Sustainability or Corporate Responsibility issues, is highly desirable. Knowledge of the technicalities of measuring and managing animal welfare is an advantage, but not essential.

This is a vital role within Compassion, helping to ensure farm animal welfare is adopted as part of a sustainable supply chain and incorporated in the corporate policies of the world’s leading food businesses. The role offers a fantastic opportunity to make a tangible impact for farm animal welfare within a dynamic team and influential organisation.

About CiWFI - Compassion in World Farming International:

Compassion in World Farming International is the leading international farm animal welfare organisation. Factory farming affects billions of animals – and every human on the planet. There are humane alternatives to this global crisis. Will you help us tell this story?

In an age where the debate about food provenance, sustainability and safety has never been more urgent, the challenge for Compassion in World Farming is to combat the spread of factory farming and ensure that animal welfare becomes a fundamental consideration within the global food system.

Due to the current Covid-19 situation, interviews may take place via video link and the successful candidate may be required to be home based initially before moving to be based primarily at the Compassion in World Farming international headquarters in Godalming, Surrey. Whilst there is some flexibility for home working the role will be mainly office based.

Location: Godalming, Surrey GU7 1EZ and will require significant travel to Thailand, with potentially additional travel to other countries in Asia Pacific

Job type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract for 21 Months

Salary: £30,000 – £40,000 (dependent upon experience)

Closing Date: 8th November 2020

No Agencies please.

You may have experience of the following: Food Business Manager, Account Manager and Partnership Manager, Charity, NFP etc.

Ref: 94419

Why support one charity when you can support 1000?

Do you have the gift of communication? Telling compelling stories that engage listeners in our work, and then moving beyond this to supporting our cause?

If you have experience of fundraising through developing strong corporate relationships then we want to hear from you

You will need high quality communications and marketing skills, excellent interpersonal skills and be an adept networker. You must also be able to seal the deal, by gaining firm commitments from potential givers

The Natural History Museum is both a world-leading science research centre and the most visited natural history museum in Europe. With a vision of a future in which both people and the planet thrive, it is uniquely positioned to be a powerful champion for balancing humanity's needs with those of the natural world.

The Museum's 300 scientists continue to represent one of the largest groups in the world studying and enabling research into every aspect of the natural world. Their science is contributing critical data to help the global fight to save the future of the planet from the major threats of climate change and biodiversity loss through to finding solutions such as the sustainable extraction of natural resources.

We are at a pivotal moment in our history as we launch a new strategy setting out our role as the natural world faces increasing threats. Building on our world-leading collection, global reputation for science and as one of the world's leading visitor attractions, the NHM has ambitious plans leading up to the 150 anniversary of the opening of the Waterhouse Building in 2031, making this a truly exciting time to be part of the NHM team.

About the role

This is a once in a century opportunity to shape the future of the Museum, protect and share our unique collection and further our science!

In March 2020, the UK Government announced a substantial investment, of £182m over 6 years to set up a new Science and Digitisation Centre at the Harwell Science and Innovation Centre, in south Oxfordshire. As a part of this the museum has developed the Collections Programme, which forms a major strand of the Museum's spatial masterplan for South Kensington.

Other major work strands currently underway in the Museum's masterplan portfolio include the Urban Nature Project, which will redevelop our grounds and gardens into exciting living galleries, and national outreach programme; the Public Spaces Development Programme, which will reimagine our permanent galleries, exhibition and commercial spaces, and visitor facilities; and a development plan which will see major investment at our museum in Tring.

Drawing together common threads to develop convincing business cases for the projects outlined above, you will primarily develop the outline business case for the Collections Programme that will be submitted to DCMS as part of the programme reporting and grant drawdown process, whilst also managing any associated documentation that will be required.

You will also work with the Head of Masterplanning and various Programme and Project Managers and/or Directors to ensure a holistic approach to benefits management creation and tracking. Focused on developing business cases and progressing benefits management across the Museum, this a pivotal role as well as a challenging and exciting opportunity.

About you

We are prioritising candidates who have specific business case development experience and benefits management knowledge.

You will have expert knowledge of and proven success in creating, leading the development of and producing business cases; as well as experience of applying HM Treasury Green Book guidance and the 5 Case model to writing business cases.

Expert knowledge of option analysis, costing and benefits management and excellent commercial awareness will be advantageous.

Fixed term contract, 23 months
Closing date: 9am on Monday 5 October
Interviews expected on Wednesday 14 October

To apply, please visit and upload your CV with a covering letter, which clearly outlines how you meet our person specification.

***Previous applicants need not apply***

About us

Food for Life (FFL) is an exciting and fast-growing programme that bring schools, nurseries, hospitals and care homes, and their surrounding communities, together around the core ethos of healthy, tasty and sustainable food.

Our programme is about making good food the easy choice for everyone – making healthy, tasty and sustainable meals the norm for all to enjoy, reconnecting people with where their food comes from, teaching them how it’s grown and cooked, and championing the importance of well-sourced ingredients.

We work with schools, nurseries, hospitals and care homes, helping them build knowledge and skills through a ‘whole setting approach’. This engages children and parents, staff, patients and visitors, caterers, carers and the wider community to create a powerful voice for long-term change.

About the opportunity

This is a unique opportunity to help shape and lead our Business Development Team for Food For Life, this role comes at an exciting time in the development of our new and ambitious ten year strategy at The Soil Association and we are looking for someone to develop and secure our portfolio of income generation to ensure a sustainable future for the Food For Life Programme and meets its ambitions for impact on Climate, Nature and Health.

Your role

As our Head of Business Development, you will work throughout the UK across a range of programmes and products to generate a portfolio of earned income for the Food For Life programme , including the management of public sector commissions and Food for Life Served Here accredited schemes.

This is a busy, fast paced role, which requires an innovative mindset, to help shape and position our approach to income generation. You will enjoy building relationships, spotting opportunities and managing a small, dynamic team to deliver a sustainable business model for the FFL programme.

About you

You’ll thrive in this role if you are an innovative business developer, commercially-minded and committed to making a difference in the world. We are looking for a passionate leader, with the following skills and experience to make a real impact:

• Proven experience of managing 6 figure cost budgets and achieving commercial outcomes

• Experience managing and motivating a team

• Experienced relationship builder across multiple stakeholder types

• Substantial experience of delivering and reporting in a multi-agency partnership, preferably in education, community development or public health.

• Substantial programme development experience across multiple range of settings and sectors

• Proven track record of securing relationships and income from public, private and charity sectors, with track record of delivering 7 figure sum income portfolios

• Bid/tender writing with demonstrable success rate

• Experience of successfully positioning programmes as a means to help stakeholders/other organisations achieve their targets

• Sound knowledge of programme delivery mechanisms and the results of the evaluation

Our Benefits

Working with us you will have a range of financial and lifestyle benefits, including 27 days annual holiday plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service (pro rata for part-time). For more information on our benefits please visit our website.

Important dates

Closing date for applications: 9am, Wednesday 30th September
Interviews are expected to take place: During week commencing 5th October

To Apply

Please note a full driving license is required for this role due to the travel involved

Previous applicants need not apply.

Please read our full job description for this role.

Please submit your CV with a covering letter (both in Microsoft Word format). Your covering letter must cover the “essential” criteria listed in the Job Description. Failure to submit a covering letter may mean your application is removed from the shortlisting process. Please make sure that the file names of the documents you attach contain your name (first name and surname).

Please also complete our equal ops form and return this with your CV and cover letter.

Please note we look at applications on arrival and reserve the right to close this vacancy early.

Soil Association is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of their background. We value diversity whilst also acknowledging that people from certain backgrounds are underrepresented in our organisation. If you’re not sure about applying, please get in touch with us for a chat.

Thank you for your interest in Food for Life and our job opportunities.

Lead Age UK Sutton’s work to develop our unique Help at Home Social Enterprise to enable it to reach more people and generate more net income, and ensure it continues to offer excellent, good value services and customer care.

Help at Home is Age Uk Sutton’s commercial social enterprise, a paid for service offering support to enhance older people’s quality of life.  Our team of workers help with laundry, shopping, cleaning, light meal preparation, socialisation and accompanied visits.  Customers see the same workers every visit, building strong relationships and confidence.  We have ambitions to expand our offer to support even more people.

Age UK Sutton is seeking to appoint a Help at Home Enterprise Business Manager to drive the development of our service, to grow the service and maximise income-generation whilst offering a highly valuable service to older people in need of support. There will be opportunities to start new services, scale up existing activities, and develop the way we operate to the benefit of our customers.

You will be championing the benefits of this service with older people,  and deliver effective targeted marketing and promotion of the service, including through networking with other professionals in health, care, business and the charity sector.  You will also be responsible for the support, training and engagement that makes our team of workers proud to be part of the Age UK Sutton family.

This new role is a fantastic opportunity to play a critical role in enhancing Age UK Sutton’s work with older people, the impact we have, and the experience we offer.

For full details and how to apply, please review the Job Pack

Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 10 October 2020

Do you like being empowered? And empowering others? Do you have experience of successfully leading a team? Are you passionate and creative? Are you flexible, adaptable and willing to learn? We're excited to be able to offer you an opportunity to join our team.

We're looking for someone who loves working with people and has the ability to lead, inspire and empower those around them. Our successful candidate will be someone who is friendly and positive in their approach and attitude, with the energy to instil this in others. They will be able to work collaboratively with peers and colleagues, actively engaging with others and building strong working relationships. We also require someone with a business mind with the ability to make confident commercial decisions.

As a Shop Manager, we can offer you a challenging but enjoyable and hugely rewarding role with Save the Children. We will provide you with the right support and coaching you need in order to successfully manage and lead a team of volunteers in running one of our Mary's Living & Giving shops.

The Mary's Living & Giving philosophy is about bringing the local community to life, creating a welcoming environment for people to come together with energy, kindness and love. See attached.

Does this excite you? Is this something you can believe in?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Working in more than 120 countries, Save the Children does whatever it takes to create breakthroughs in the way the world treats children. Together, we save children's lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing Date: 30th September 2020

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as these are underrepresented at Save the Children UK.

Job type: Permanent, Part time (22.5 hours/week)

Location: Sheffield is our office base but we will consider home working. 

Salary: £27,000 - £35,000 per annum, dependent upon experience, plus excellent benefits

Closing Date: 12.00 Noon on Friday 9th October 2020

An opportunity to be part of a dynamic social change charity, working at scale across the UK and internationally. 

Good Things Foundation is the UK’s leading digital and social inclusion charity. Our mission is a world where everyone can benefit from digital. Through our Online Centres Network of hyperlocal partners, we are supporting people and communities to overcome some of the most pressing social challenges they are facing through digital. 

Since 2010 we’ve helped over 2.8 million people to improve their lives using digital, driving positive outcomes such as employment, reducing loneliness, supporting basic digital skills, and health and wellbeing. 

We are seeking an experienced and values-driven professional to provide legal, compliance and governance support to our organisation, working closely with the Senior Management Team and relevant business development and service delivery staff in the UK and Australia.

Your responsibilities will include (see full job description for more):

• Managing the drafting of legal agreements and provide negotiation guidance 

• Ensuring all legal documentation work is signed off at the appropriate level 

• Leading on ensuring that the organisation has fit for purpose policies and procedures and provide staff awareness training

• Leading on relevant statutory registrations and ensuring they are in place and current 

• Managing our relationship with the relevant regulators in England & Wales

• Managing and leading on renewing the organisational insurance policies ensuring the organisation receives the cover it needs and value for money 

• Keep abreast of developments in charity governance and ensure the organisation’s governance is in line with best practice

• Ensuring we have effective complaints processes and carry our incident complaint and whistleblowing investigations 

• Ensure compliance with our legal obligations on data protection (GDPR)

• Lead the work on information security policies, ensuring that effective procedures are in place

• Manage, supervise and support the work of the Information Security Officer

It is essential that you are able to demonstrate that you possess the following experience, knowledge, skills, education and qualifications (see the full job description for more detail):

• A broad experience of working in a legal and compliance environment, drafting legal agreements and researching legislation in different contexts, in particular in a corporate or charity environment and with a commercial or business perspective

• Line management experience including being capable of delegating tasks, supervising where appropriate, performance management and working on your own initiative.

• Demonstrable commitment to ensuring effective systems are in place to administer and support effective processes - this can be in a work or voluntary capacity

• Being proactive in making a sustainable difference through voluntary or other activities

• Experience of running effective training both face to face and online

• Demonstrable commitment to working in the voluntary sector

• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail

• Excellent written skills and a confident communicator

• Knowledge of contract law; intellectual property and commercial law; data protection and security legislation and regulations;charity and corporate sectors - company and charity law

• Ability to digest and communicate complex information including legal documents in an easily understandable way to both peers and lay persons

• Ability to think innovatively

• Excellent time management and ability to prioritise

• Excellent IT skills - word processing, spreadsheets, slides/powerpoint, email etc

• Ability to conduct comprehensive research of legal issues

• Understanding of the role of Company Secretaries

How to apply:

You can download the full job description and application form from our Work for Us page.*  Please return the Application Form and your CV, along with the Equality Form by the closing date of 12 noon on Friday 9th October 2020

*Application information can be made available in other formats (for example, large print), so please contact us if you need to discuss what alternative format would be accessible for you.

Good Things Foundation is a social change organisation with a mission to ensure that everyone benefits from digital. We live the change we are seeking to achieve and encourage applications from diverse backgrounds.  We operate a policy of providing equal opportunities in all aspects of work including recruitment, training, and promotion, whatever the colour, race, religion, belief, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age or disability of an employee, having regard to the individual's aptitudes and abilities and requirements for the job. Good Things Foundation is opposed to all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination. 

Safeguarding Statement and Pre-Employment Checks

Here at Good Things Foundation, we work with vulnerable adults and are fully committed to ensuring their safeguarding and welfare at all times, in line with our Safeguarding Policy and Procedures. All of our employees, contractors and volunteers will be expected to comply with the policy and procedures. Upon a conditional offer of appointment being made, all employees will also be required to satisfy our pre-employment screening process which for this position, will include:

• An identity check (photo ID)

• Receipt of two satisfactory references

• Documentary evidence of right to work in the UK

The organisation will also carry out a Baseline Personnel Security Standard check (BPSS) prior to your commencement of employment.  This check will consist of a Right to work check, ID data check, criminal records check, employment history check and the disclosure of any significant periods spent abroad (6 months or more in the last 3 years).  The BPSS check will be undertaken by an external agency.

Overview

Do you want to be part of our team leading the spread of innovative practice in health and care?

We are looking for three new Senior Delivery Managers who share our passion for improving the health of people in our region by spreading innovative practice.

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will join our programmes team to help us manage the development and delivery of our national and regional programmes – working with our member organisations, national commissioning bodies, the AHSN Network and our broader network of partners across the South West.

You will specialise in building our networks, knowledge and relationships with our members and partners across specific areas of the health and care system, such as acute, community, mental health and care homes, and draw on capabilities from across our organisation to deliver our programme aims.

Senior Delivery Managers are at the heart of our work to spread innovative practice. From supporting front-line clinical teams to better detect patient deterioration and optimising the use of video consultation technologies in hospitals, to identifying place-based approaches to support people disproportionately affected by COVID-19, you will manage the design and delivery of a portfolio of projects focused on spreading innovative practice.

Each senior delivery manager in our programmes team leads on different parts of the health and care system, and draws on skills and experience from across our organisation to make sure our work translates into the improved health of people across our region.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and manage the delivery of our programmes commissioned by national, regional and local partners, on time and within budget.

• Build deep knowledge, local networks and strong relationships within a defined area of the regional health and care system.

• Establish strong internal relationships that draw on expertise from across the programmes team and wider organisation to support the delivery of our programme aims.

• Develop our methodology to spread innovative practice.

• Provide regular, accurate and detailed reporting on programme performance.

• Work with our communications and engagement function to engage partners in our programmes, communicate the impact of our work and raise our profile at a regional and national level.

• Work with our evaluation and learning function to define and measure the impact of our programmes.

• Work with our partnerships function to identify and develop new partnership opportunities to grow our work.

• Manage external contractors, associates and clinical advisors to deliver programme aims.

• Build strong relationships with other AHSNs and contribute to the success of the national AHSN Network.

Experience we are looking for:

• Project and programme management and leadership.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management capability.

• Track record of influencing stakeholders to change their perspectives.

• Knowledge of change methodologies such as Quality Improvement (QI) frameworks, Lean or Six Sigma, and project management frameworks such as PRINCE2 or Agile.

• Use of quantitative and qualitative data to inform programme design, delivery and monitor performance.

Experience and capabilities you will develop in the role:

• Leading large-scale, cross-system programmes to improve health and care.

• Applying cutting-edge improvement methods and approaches to the spread of innovative practice.

• Building multi-partner collaborations that deliver impact across a large geography.

• Working with partners at a local, regional and national level.

Abilities and attributes:

• Analyst – able to analyse and coordinate complex problems and projects.

• Critical thinker – creative, curious and unafraid of complexity.

• Adaptable – able to appraise and re-prioritise tasks quickly and calmly.

• Effective stakeholder manager – able to earn and maintain the trust of internal and external stakeholders at all levels and inspire through a shared purpose.

• Effective communicator and presenter – able to engage a wide range of audiences by being compelling, credible and inspiring.

• Energetic and goal-focused – demonstrating a commitment to delivering excellence in all circumstances.

• Learning mindset – offering a track record of working on complex issues, embedding learning into practice, and generating insight to inform approaches