The Communications Officer helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by developing and implementing integrated communications campaigns which promote, protect, and raise Guide Dogs’ profile amongst key target audiences. In addition, working with Guide Dogs’ brand purpose, contribute to brand awareness and growth.

The role is a wide-ranging and creative and will be required to work closely alongside key stakeholders including a diverse Communications team which has a broad remit consisting of internal communications, national PR and media relations, ambassador and celebrity management, and stakeholder engagement.

This role can be based from London or our Reading Hub with some travel required between both locations.

This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. As a charity, we’re always keen to support flexible working as best we can. We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

Candidate requirements

To be able to fulfil this role, and provide help to those with sight loss, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential

• Experience of working within a busy press office and as part of an integrated communications team.
• A track record of identifying, developing, and securing high quality media opportunities which meet strategic objectives and KPIs.
• Experience of bringing our Brand and services to life by telling people’s real-life stories in an engaging, inspiring, and respectful way.
• Ability to build a rapport and strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Interest and/or experience working in the charity or public sector.
• Experience of working as part of a geographically dispersed organisation.
• Experience of developing and implementing multi-channel, integrated communications plans with measurable KPIs.
• Experience with developing engaging, creative content for owned digital channels.

Desirable

• Relevant professional qualification.

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

How to apply

Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above. As part of your application ensure you provide to evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.

The system does have a time limit, we would advise you to complete your answers and copy and paste into the online form once finalised. Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.

Remember to refer to the attached job description and candidate pack for more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

TLG Reading is a working partnership between TLG and The Gate, a church-based education centre offering a safe and nurturing place for young people to learn. We are looking for a Teaching Assistant that will work closely together with the team to support the young people in a class and act as a pastoral link for their families.

At TLG Reading young people are valued, cared for and their potential is championed. We’re passionate about seeing young people return to mainstream school, progress on to college or find work because of the support we provide.

Your role as Teaching Assistant will play an integral part in enabling young people to get their lives back on track, through assisting with the planning and delivery of lessons, leading sessions as timetabled and providing 1-1 support as appropriate to bring excellence to the young people’s learning experience.

TLG Is a Christian charity and as a team, we want to bring our Faith to the work we do. As such, we are looking to recruit an individual with a strong and vibrant Christian faith.

TLG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff including volunteers to share this commitment.  The successful applicant will be required to undertake a DBS check. 

We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

Buckinghamshire Mind shares National Mind’s vision: “We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect.” We deliver high quality community-based services across the county of Buckinghamshire to reach out and ensure everyone with a mental health problem gets access to the help they need.

Post Title: Fundraising and Communications Officer (Job Share)

Contract:Permanent

Reports to: Chief Executive

Salary: £22,950 per annum pro rata FTE 37 hrs

(£14,886 pa actual 24hrs - £18,608 pa actual 30hrs)

Location: Aylesbury or High Wycombe

Hours of Work:  Part-Time (flexible – between 24-30 hours per week)

Basic Function

The Fundraising and Communications Officer main function will be to maximise income generation via community fundraising and profile raising and to develop and deliver an effective community fundraising plan.  The role will involve the on-going creation and evaluation of marketing and communication activities to maximise opportunities for promoting the charity and build links with potential and existing supporters, including volunteers. This role requires creativity, an entrepreneurial outlook and the ability to develop high quality communications, including plans, materials and messages for all fundraising activities, in order to increase support for Buckinghamshire Mind.

Fundraising: Main Responsibilities

• To develop and deliver a community fundraising plan to achieve an agreed income generation target.
• To identify and profile grant making organisations and corporate bodies with the potential of supporting our work.
• To assist with developing effective and well‐targeted appeals aimed at trusts, corporate bodies and supporters in order to raise funds for Buckinghamshire Mind.
• To plan and deliver a calendar of fundraising events.
• To manage the stewardship of individual, corporate and community group fundraisers.
• To work closely and pro‐actively with the Chief Executive to source information in order to develop high quality funding applications. 

Communications and profile building: Main Responsibilities

• To act as a point of contact within the organisation for the promotion of Buckinghamshire Mind’s services and recruitment of volunteers.
• To manage all public relations and monitor the results.
• To utilise technologies and channels such as e-newsletter, social media, video, blog and podcast to creatively communicate with Bucks Mind stakeholders and supporters.
• To keep the Bucks Mind website up-to-date regularly.
• To communicate with supporters through our existing external social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
• To assist in the development and distribution of e‐newsletters, printed communications and annual reviews to Bucks Mind supporters.
• To attend and represent Buckinghamshire Mind at promotional and profile-raising events.

Other

• To attend staff meetings and external meetings as agreed with the Chief Executive.
• To keep the Chief Executive informed of matters relating to fundraising and communications, particularly those which have a bearing on the reputation and development of Buckinghamshire Mind.
• To keep up-to-date with research and developments regarding mental health and wellbeing and/or have a bearing on the fundraising and communications work of Buckinghamshire Mind.
• To undertake such duties not included in the job description as are reasonably requested by the Chief Executive. 

Person specification

Post: Fundraising and Communications Officer

The person specification seeks to define a person most likely to be suited to the job of Fundraising and Communications Officer.  Candidates are required to meet all the essential Conditions listed.  E = essential criteria; D = desired criteria.  Reference to both Conditions and Requirements in completing your application form will help in selecting candidates for interview.

Conditions

• Supports the aims and work of Buckinghamshire Mind (E)
• Maintains strict confidentiality concerning all Buckinghamshire Mind matters (E)

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

• Relevant professional qualification e.g. degree or diploma (E)
• Relevant experience (E)
• Experience of marketing and business development within the voluntary sector (E)
•  Experience in or aptitude for fundraising/generating income. (E)
• Experience of writing and distributing press releases (D)
• Experience of creating content for and using social media channels for PR purposes. (D)
• Experience of the issues affecting hard to reach and excluded groups (E)

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Is committed to working in an anti-oppressive way and striving to create equal opportunities for all people (E)
• Maintains confidentiality in line with Buckinghamshire Mind policy (E)
• Has knowledge of social and situational factors influencing people’s mental health and wellbeing (E)

• Has excellent IT and communication skills (E)

• Is able to network and build sustainable working partnerships with other agencies (E)

• Is able to organize own workload and work without direct supervision (E)
•  Is able to prioritise competing tasks, manage a busy work load, work quickly and deliver to deadline. (E)
• Is able to monitor and evaluate work and produce reports (E)
• Is able to keep written records and data (E)
• Has a current clean driving license and use of own vehicle (work related mileage will be paid) (D)
• Understanding of equality and diversity principles (E)

Employee Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2 wellbeing days pro rata

• Sodexo employee benefits - access to a portal with discounts on supermarket shops, holidays, high-street shops, days out, cinema and gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme – free professional confidential counselling
• Childcare vouchers
• Annual leave purchase scheme
• Flu vaccinations
• Free eye tests
• Pension: Auto Enrolment (currently 3% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution)

To apply, please send the following 2 documents:

- CV

- Supporting Statement (explaining how you meet each criteria in the job description)

Buckinghamshire Mind is an Equal Opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. Any offer made relating to this post will be subject to satisfactory references and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, therefore please apply as soon as possible.  

A client of Morgan Hunt are looking to recruit a Recreational Activities Manager in West London.

You will be required to work Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm however some weekend or evenings may be required.

This permanent position is well suited to an individual that has experience managing Recreational activities for under 12's across multiple sites. Based within the Children department, you will manage, oversee, and develop the day to day running of all Recreational activities for children delivered by YMCA St Paul's Group. This will include developing and implementing new services to ensure the sustainability of the department. You will ensure a high level of quality and impact whilst adhering to budgetary limitations, and business processes.

As the Recreational Activities Manager you will be responsible for:

• To oversee the management of the Soft Play (if reopened), Birthday Parties, and Children's activities ensuring the smooth and safe running of the service, compliance with licensing laws, and other regulations and to ensure adherence to
• Provide line management, motivational leadership, mentoring and coaching to the staff team, ensuring clarity of direction, effective communication and personal and professional development
• Manage the Children's Recreational activity budget, and to oversee price increases, ensuring that the team operates within its budgetary parameters

The successful candidate of the role of Recreational Activities Manager will have:

• A minimum of 3 year's experience managing recreational activities for under 12's across multiple sites
• A minimum Level 5 Qualification in Sport/Child related studies
• Experience in in growing and expanding income, generating children's recreational activities
• Good understanding of Safeguarding Policies, Legislation and practice
• Ability to form non-judgemental and constructive relationships, especially with vulnerable people, whilst holding clear boundaries

If you feel that you meet the criteria above then please get in touch for an application pack

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

Ambitious College is London's first specialist Day College for young people aged 16-25 with a primary diagnosis of autism. We believe that every young person attending Ambitious College deserves a fulfilling, happy and rewarding life. Our educational approach focuses on the individual at all times.

We are proud to be a ‘Good' Ofsted rated provision and were awarded the ‘Natspec 2020 award' for ‘Wellbeing and mental health'. Ambitious College has remained open in term time throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure our vulnerable young people and their families are provided with the much needed support they deserve. In turn our college team has ensured wellbeing is at the heart of supporting one another. You will be joining a passionate and dedicated team who support each other through all challenges.

Your role as a 'Learning and Behaviour Specialist':

• Provide day to day support, delivering 1:1, paired and small group teaching, and learner sessions using Positive Behaviour Support.

• Supervise and support community-based learning and educational visits.

• Work closely with the class Lecturer using your creativity daily to support lesson plans using a wide range of materials and resources.

• Support our learners to develop crucial life skills, meet their goals and aspirations through communication, independence and participation.

• We are looking for empathetic and adaptable individuals, who thrive under pressure and have a natural ability to solve challenges.

Why join us?

• The role itself is very rewarding both through the freedom of creativity and seeing first hand, our learners develop and progress through their goals and aspirations.

• Excellent CPD including a wide-range of in house and external training courses.

• You will have the support of a wider Transdisciplinary Team that includes full-time Occupational and Speech and Language Therapists as well as BCBA qualified Behaviour Analysts.

• Competitive annual salary paid over 52 weeks and excellent salary progression within the role.

• Annual staff recognition awards.

• Cycle to work scheme up to £5000.

• Season ticket loans.

• A wide range of wellness programmes including: virtual yoga & zumba classes, running club, art & cooking classes online.

• Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family, and personal life.

• Access to physiotherapy.

• On-site parking.

Start date: ASAP or September 2021.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Fed up with the prospect of returning to a London commute? Or fancy a step up from your current role? This is a fantastic opportunity to join and make an impact within a small team, at a long established, national charity. The role is currently remote working but will be based in Ascot, close to M3/M4 motorways and rail networks.

With at least three year’s relevant experience, you will have the opportunity to develop and utilise PR, social, event management and broader marketing skills, as you work across the Charity’s four brands – Licensed Trade Charity and its three schools, LVS Ascot, LVS Hassocks and LVS Oxford. In a positive, encouraging environment you will be empowered to be creative, make your mark and develop your career.

The Licensed Trade Charity supports people who currently or have previously worked in the pub, bar and brewery sector. LVS Ascot, is an independent, mainstream, day and boarding school for children aged 4-18, while LVS Oxford and LVS Hassocks, provide education and support for young people aged 11-19 with a diagnosis of autism.

The Public Relations (PR) Executive will report into the PR Manager and be responsible for implementing, monitoring and evaluating PR & events plans in order to support the organisation’s objectives and maximise positive exposure for all four brands.

In addition, you will work closely with and provide support to the wider marketing team. This role will require some travel and occasional extended hours.

Please visit our website for more information on who we are and to view the full job description.

Closing date for applications is Friday 16 April 2021, interviews will be soon after the closing date.

Interested in being our PR Executive and taking on the challenge? Then email your CV and covering letter explaining why you believe you match what we are looking for to Tracy Spencer.

Coeliac UK currently has an exciting opportunity for a Head of Sales to join them based in High Wycombe and from home. You will join us on a permanent, full-time basis working 35hrs per week (occasional evening and weekend work may be required). In return, you will receive a competitive salary circa £40,000 plus 36 days holiday a year including bank holidays.

The Head of Sales role:

Coeliac UK is committed to increasing food safety for the benefit of people who are reliant on gluten free food for health reasons. Commercial Services supports this commitment through working with food sector businesses to raise awareness of the need for gluten free foods in which consumers can be confident, providing independent certification of gluten free products, accrediting catering functions and training.

The focus on food safety is increasing for the industry and consumers alike. It is attracting new entrants into the market for gluten free food safety services, challenging us to strengthen our sales activity. As Head of Sales, you will define the sales strategy and lead the sales’ team in achieving annual sales targets. You will collaborate with the Head of Commercial Development and the Marketing Manager to develop compelling strategies for increasing market awareness, new sales campaigns, product development and achieving our growth targets.

Key responsibilities of the Head of Sales:

- Support the Director of Commercial Services in delivering the charity’s strategic aims and marketing objectives for gluten free licensing, accreditation and training services, and other schemes/services primarily aimed at the food sector
- Own the sales strategy, updating to ensure it remains current and fit for purpose
- Develop marketing and promotional strategies to support focussed sales activities
- Develop and roll out an account management strategy, building strong and sustainable relationships with key commercial partners, income growth and connecting clients into services delivered elsewhere within the charity
- Manage sales activities across the charity’s food safety product range (currently licensing, accreditation and training)
- Undertake face to face and remote sales, leading to customer engagement, acquisition and retention
- Lead sales of advertising and sponsorship opportunities, including prepare and deliver pitches to prospective customers, with follow through to close deals.
- Lead and manage the sales’ team to deliver against plan and budget
- Support the sales’ team to maximise its potential

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the Head of Sales:

- Drive for results
- Strong sales background
- Understanding of charity values
- Scientific or technical background is desirable
- Ability to build relationships and rapport and skilled in account management
- Analytical and numerate with necessary skills to produce, monitor and interpret financial information and reports
- A positive, personable and confident communicator
- A confident and motivated team player, experienced in managing people
- Ability to identify new business opportunities and generate additional income
- Ability to manage workload on own initiative within a team environment and to motivate people
- Attentive to detail
- Keen to help with and work on a variety of projects
- Flexible approach
- Graduate
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Previous sales experience
- Knowledge of the FMCG market and ideally the gluten-free market is desirable

If you would like to be considered as our Head of Sales, please apply now with your CV and cover letter. We’d love to hear from you!

Marketing Officer

We have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional communicator with a broad range of marketing experience to join the team as Marketing Officer, focusing on delivering key marketing projects from brief to execution.

Position: Marketing Officer

Location: Fleet – flexible working considered

Salary: Starting salary £23,500 pa (within the grade £23,500 - £29,580 pa)

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9.00 – 17.00

Benefits: Benefits: Enhanced pension scheme, 25 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays, non-contributory pension scheme (10% employer contribution), enhanced holiday allowance, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance (on completion of probation period), Income Protection & Group Life cover.

Closing Date: 28th April

Interview Date: Via ZOOM 13th/14th May

At the heart of organisations ministry is a relentless passion to act on faith and empower every child left vulnerable by poverty: a purpose embodied in the phrase “Releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name”. The charity’s work is Christ centred, child focused, and church based.

About the Role

As a Marketing Specialist, you’ll work within the fast-paced, vibrant and collaborative Communications Team.

In this role, you’ll help develop clear propositions for our communications, adding value and relevance for sponsors and donors. At the earliest stages of projects, you’ll help feed into the ideation and refinement of campaign and marketing plans.

Working with teams and individuals across the organisation, the Marketing Specialist will:

• Develop clear project briefs
• Commission creative from internal and external suppliers
• Manage stakeholders, schedules and resources and deliver creative, professional, cost-effective and targeted campaigns and collateral for promotional platforms (e.g. church services, summer events and exhibitions), and across a range of mediums, including email, print, video, web and mobile app.
• Ensure work is delivered on time and within budget, in line with our mission and brand guidelines.

About You

To flourish as Marketing Officer, you’ll need:

• Experience of working in a similar marketing role
• A solid understanding of marketing principles and be willing to apply your knowledge to steer projects and advise stakeholders on best practise
• Good project management skills
• To be able to demonstrate that you are a well-organised team player
• To illustrate your ability to initiate, monitor, and complete projects on time and on budget; with the ability to multi-task, meet tight deadlines, juggle multiple projects and stakeholders and prioritise according to organisational objectives
• Core office/administrative skills
• Experience producing a range of marketing collateral
• Previous experience of delivering creative, professional, cost-effective and targeted marketing collateral across a range of mediums, within budget and agreed timeframes.

We need you to be…

Personally, committed to the Christian faith. There’s an occupational requirement for the holder of this role to be a practising Christian, in order to promote the charity’s ethos and help others to experience, explore and express the faith-based motivation of our work.

Please note that the charity can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK and all candidates must be personally committed to the Christian faith and be able to respect, uphold and work within our client’s Christian mission, values, culture and faith statements. This individual will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian charity. Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.

Other roles you may have experience of could include Marketing, Communications, Marketing and Communications, Marketing Specialist, Marketing Officer, Marketing Executive, Marketing Executive, Digital Marketing Executive, Communications Officer, Communications Executive, Content, Digital Content, Digital, Digital Marketing, Digital Communications, Social Media, Marketing Support, Marketing Assistant, Marketing and Communications Assistant, PR, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Campaign, Campaigns, Digital Projects, Supporter Engagement.

The successful candidate will lead on supporting parish-related administration and Synodical Governance activities for the Diocese ensuring that these continue to develop in support of the “Transforming Church, Transforming Lives” vision and mission of the Diocese of Guildford, specifically Goal 10. They will also lead on the administration and operation of the parish-needs-process through the parish co-ordination team, ensuring the annual review, planning and delivery against a “one set of services” list for Church House, and lastly, they will lead on all matters relating to Parish Share, including modelling, communication and recovery, whilst actively engaging in work to deliver financially sustainable ministry in all parishes.

The full job description, person specification, further details about the diocese and information on how to apply for the role can be found in the application pack attached and on our website.

How to apply

A completed application form - attached or on our website, including a supporting statement (no more than 2 sides of A4) detailing your reasons for applying, what you bring to the post and how you meet its requirements should sent by email to the address on the bottom of our application form no later than the closing date: 30th April 2021.   

21 hours per week, with flexible working possible.  £35,000 pro rata, plus 5% pension.  Burpham, Guildford.

Surrey Community Action are looking for a skilled and experienced finance manager to help us thrive and grow for the benefit of Surrey’s voluntary sector.

You will be responsible, along with a Finance Assistant, for managing all aspects of the charity’s finances, developing financial services for other voluntary sector organisations, and contributing to the strategic management of the charity.

If you feel you have the special blend of finance management skills, an entrepreneurial mindset and management skills, and are passionate about working with Surrey’s voluntary sector, then we want to hear from you.

To apply for this position, please send a CV and Cover Letter.  Cover letters must include why you want the role and  examples illustrating skills and experience against the person specification. 

Applications will not be accepted without a cover letter.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community and will offer interviews to all applicants with disabilities who meet the criteria for the roles.

We are committed to flexible working and will consider job shares.

Closing date for applications is 5:00pm on Monday 19 April 2021.

Interviews provisionally scheduled for Week Commencing 26th April 2021.

Registered Charity,1056527 and a Company Limited by Guarantee, number 03203003.

Education Coordinator 

Our client is seeking to recruit an Education Coordinator to develop their efforts to increase education access for Travellers families in England. The Coordinator will play a key role within their team, working with families and educational organisations – as well as supporting their training programmes.
In their recruitment, they are looking for potential as much as experience.

Education Coordinator Requirements:

You will demonstrate a tangible understanding of the need for your role and be enthused about pursuing its purpose. You will show a vocation for service to the marginalised. You will be a first-rate communicator, have an ability to persuade and handle difficult conversations, with a talent for effectively managing multiple competing priorities. You will be adept at navigating public service systems as well as providing a compassionate, high quality service to vulnerable people, including in times of trauma and crisis. You will be a team player, but equally happy when working autonomously, possessing a good sense of humour and well-rounded humility. You will be warm and empathetic and also show professionalism and resilience.

About our client:

They have a team of close-knit employees and volunteers. Everyone demonstrates an immense personal commitment to their work serving the marginalised. They are a relaxed team, with a big sense of humour, but also value drive, hard work and going the extra mile. They believe that their team is their greatest asset and they want to give them autonomy and challenge as well as support and training, with a real sense of continued learning that they can take forward in their careers. They celebrate potential as much as experience.

Location: Henley on Thames, Homeworking considered

Job type: Fixed Term Contract 3 years, Part Time 16 hours per week with opportunities to increase hours in Yrs 2 & 3.

Salary: £12.36 per hour

Benefits: Pension scheme, Personal training budget, Generous paid holiday: pro rata equiv. 35 days holiday plus 8 days national (bank) holiday, Flexible working-hours and some working from home.

You may have experience of the following: Administrator, Admin Assistant, Office Administrator, Administrative Assistant, Office Assistant, Customer Service, Administration Assistant, Administration, Customer Service Administrator, Data Entry, Education Coordinator, Education Officer, etc.

Ref: 98203

Thrive is a national charity using Social &Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) to make a positive impact in people’s lives. We have offices in London, Reading and Birmingham.

We are looking to recruit an experienced and determined Fundraising Officer to be based at our Reading Office on a permanent basis.  We are looking for someone who is a creative thinker, resourceful and proactive and a good communicator. 

You should have experience of identifying and growing income for charities, across a variety of streams.

You will need to have a ‘can-do’ attitude with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. Knowledge of the fundraising environment and regulatory framework in the voluntary sector is essential for this role.

This role requires organisation, flexibility and understanding of the issues affecting people with disabilities, ill-health and long-term conditions.

Key areas of work will include:

• Individual donors
• Committed donors
• Company giving
• Community groups
• Thrive events

Reporting to the Fundraising Manager, the Fundraising Officer will formulate and deliver strategic and operational plans to establish and grow unrestricted/core income for the charity. You will be working towards financial targets and will be working closely with the wider fundraising team to ensure targets are met and that key relationships are developed.

For further information please download the job and person spec attached.

Application process:

Please send an up to date CV and an accompanying statement explaining how you meet the person specification and what you can bring to Thrive.  Please also complete the attached equal opportunities Monitoring Form

Applications will not be considered without an accompanying statement.

Closing date:     30th April 2021        

For further information please contact Stacey Lewis.

Thrive are a Disability Confident Employer and as such we are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people and will offer an interview to give you the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities at an interview, if you declare that you have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the job,).

By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competency as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential.

Are you a self-motivated, experienced administrator who could provide the administration for a team of expert volunteers at Ealing Mediation Service?

We are a small charity based in Ealing, West London, providing a mediation service to residents within the London Borough of Ealing and other nearby London boroughs. 

Job Description

Service Administrator

PURPOSE OF ROLE

To support EMS with administrative excellence. To ensure that mediation cases are brought to mediation quickly and efficiently, that high quality records are maintained, and good communications are secured. 

Essential skills and experience

• Excellent administrative and organisational skills
• Outstanding communication skills – both written and orally
• Self-motivated and ability to work without supervision
• A flexible and problem-solving approach to time and task management
• Proficient practical knowledge of Microsoft 365 Suite including Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, Word and Excel
• A willingness to learn new skills

Key Relationships

Operations trustee

Board members including Chair, Vice Chair and Treasurer

Mediators and other volunteers

What’s in it for you?

Competitive salary

Training provided

Opportunities for flexi working

Location 

Home and office in Central Ealing

How to Apply

If you have read the attached documents and you feel this role matches your skills and expertise, we would love to hear from you! Please send your CV, with contact details for two referees, along with a letter of application detailing how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and what you think you could bring to the role. Closing date for applications is Friday, 23 April 2021. Interviews will be held w/c Monday, 3 May 2021

EMS is an equal opportunities employer

Creative Support is a national, fast-growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We are currently seeking a highly motivated office administrator to join our friendly office in Reading, Berkshire.

We are looking for someone to provide efficient and responsive administration support for our West Berkshire services. These services provide dedicated support to older people and other adults with a range of support needs. The post-holder will work 25 flexible hours per week, according to the needs of the office. This is perfect for those with commitments out of work. We are looking for someone with a can-do attitude, excellent customer care skills, professionalism, and the ability to multi-task to complete a wide range of administrative duties.

Office Administrator duties include:

• To type correspondence and to produce professional documents and reports required for monitoring and other service purposes,
• To answer the phone in a professional and efficient manner, take accurate messages and respond to phone calls and queries,
• To provide secretarial and administrative support to senior staff. This will include setting up files, scanning documents, taking minutes for meetings and payroll,
• To help implement and maintain accurate client records,
• To send emails professionally and efficiently.

The ability to accurately input data into databases, minute meetings, and use Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook is essential. You must have excellent telephone communication skills. You will have the ability to take detailed messages, signpost individuals to the appropriate people, and triage calls and actions taken. Experience of working in a busy office is also essential.

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

• Free 24/7 counselling and employee support programme,
• Competitive pay and a pension with company contribution and 28 days annual leave,
• Company paid enhanced DBS for all staff,
• A one-off bonus payment of £100 (subject to tax) upon passing the four-month probationary period,
• Birthday Holiday Bonus after 2 years’ continuous service.