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Oceana UK - Development Lead
Are you an experienced ocean fundraiser?
- Do you have a passion for securing funds for ocean campaigns?
- Do you have a track-record of developing and managing proposals and relationships with charitable trusts and foundations?
- Do you have a flare for delivering diverse, innovative and impactful charitable fundraising strategies?
- Are you driven to cultivate and grow relationships with new partners and funders?
- Do you want to join one of the world’s most effective marine conservation organisations?
Oceana UK
Oceana is dedicated to protecting and restoring the world’s oceans on a global scale. We are a leader in science-based advocacy, and we campaign for policies to make the world’s oceans more abundant, vibrant, and biodiverse. Globally, Oceana has won over 300 policy victories for marine life and habitats. From stopping bottom trawling in sensitive habitat areas to protecting sea turtles from commercial fishing gear, our victories represent new hope for the world's oceans.
Oceana is now focused on some of the biggest threats facing UK seas, alongside climate change. Fighting habitat destruction, stopping industrial overfishing, and preventing new offshore oil and gas developments with their inextricable link to the climate crisis.
The UK registered charity has a vision for thriving seas around the UK, using highly visible campaigns and detailed policy interventions to secure measurable changes to rebuild and maintain ocean abundance and health. Oceana UK will act as a vital public-policy interface –raising the profile of our issues through campaigns, science, communications, and expeditions, and influencing policymakers directly for commitments at key moments throughout the year.
Job Purpose
Oceana is seeking an experienced Development Lead to curate, grow and diversify our rapidly expanding fundraising and partnerships portfolio. Working closely with our UK team and US-based international development team, you will be responsible for the collaborative stewardship of relationships with some of the world’s biggest environmental foundations and philanthropists.
You will help identify and drive new relationships, managing successful grant applications with trusts and foundations in the UK, and cultivating new fundraising streams. You will have a strategic mindset along with a meticulous attention to detail. Fostering exemplary relationships with diverse partners is central to the role and critical to our success. You should be experienced in handling competing priorities, delivering exceptional funding applications and reports, and providing updates with precision and confidence. You will also have a passion for growing and diversifying income streams and converting new interest into long-term, sustainable, support.
Reporting to the Director of Finance and People, you will work closely with our teams, and the global development department, to secure the sustainable resources Oceana UK needs to deliver further impact at this crucial time for our ocean. The role will also help Oceana maximise opportunities to deliver policy victories for UK seas for many years to come and strengthen our work globally.
You will be a self-starter, with a broad range of previous experience, and the ability to develop and manage your priorities in this new role. You will be comfortable working independently and as part of a small team. The position will be hybrid, with 2 days per week from home and 3 days per week based in Oceana’s office in Paddington, London or in Newquay, Cornwall. Occasional travel will be required to meet team members and stakeholders in geographically diverse locations.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the development of a UK specific fundraising strategy.
- Manage relationships and reporting to existing funders alongside the international development team and Executive Director. This will primarily be with trusts and foundations, and individual philanthropists.
- Identify and develop new opportunities with trusts and foundations.
- Manage successful grant applications and budgets, co-ordinating and collaborating with the international development team.
- Work closely with the finance and campaigns team to ensure all relevant stakeholders are consulted in grant applications and reporting.
- Manage and deliver timely reporting, communications and updates to funding partners and stakeholders.
- Oversee and develop other existing UK income streams, including mass giving.
- Identify, develop and manage additional UK income opportunities, including with smaller trusts and foundations.
- Collaborate with the Director of Finance and People, and international development and budgeting teams to manage the income forecast and grant financial reporting.
- Maintain appropriate development records and database for all UK activity.
- Develop and manage key fundraising and partnerships events.
- Work with Executive Director to develop our outreach with funders at international events.
- Attend and represent the UK in monthly development meetings with the international team.
- Design and manage the UK’s development budget.
Candidate Requirements:
Education and work experience:
- Extensive professional experience in fundraising and development, ideally in the ocean or the environmental space.
- Good professional relationships with environmental trusts and foundations
- Demonstrable experience in managing successful multi-year grant applications and budgets with trusts and foundations.
- Strong experience of managing charitable foundation relationships and delivering detailed and timely reports, and communications to add value where required.
- Experience or working with campaigns teams to develop funding applications.
- Experience of managing philanthropist and major individual donors.
- Experience in prospecting, managing and analysing research on fundraising opportunities.
- Experience in co-developing and diversifying fundraising strategies (mass giving, digital, appeals, etc)
- Clear experience of in co-developing and diversifying fundraising strategies, and writing strategic plans, and contributing to planning and budgeting processes.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Demonstrable experience of networking and relationship development with funders.
- Proficiency at understanding, distilling and communicating complex scientific issues and detailed campaigns for fundraising purposes.
- Highly organised in managing positive relationships with funders beyond reporting.
- Strong writing skills, with experience writing applications and reports
- Excellent relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience using CRM platforms or other grant management tools.
- Strong project management skills, with demonstrable experience managing multiple workstreams effectively.
- Integrity and the ability to work with confidential information with discretion.
- Attention to detail and a commitment to fundraising targets.
- Ability to work collaboratively with staff and other organisations.
Equal OpportunitiesOceana UK is committed to having a diverse workforce that is representative of the community it serves at all levels of the organisation. We therefore welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community.
All offers of employment are conditional upon the successful completion of reference checks.
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Application Deadline: 2 July 2024
Interviews: w/c 8 July 2024
Starting: ASAP
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
As Trusts and Foundations Officer you will be Baobab’s key fundraiser and a self-starter with experience of working in a small or medium sized charity. You will be responsible for carrying out a successful program of fundraising from small, medium and large charitable trusts and foundations to an agreed annual fundraising target. You will also assist in delivering Baobab’s individual major donor programme, helping to set up and deliver communications and events related to this income stream. You will work closely with our operations team to gain an overview of all aspects of Baobab’s work. Working in a collaborative team with the Operations and Fundraising Manager and senior fundraising consultant, you will be a central part of this small team and contribute to discussions on Baobab’s fundraising plans and strategy.
This role is for 4 or 5 days per week depending on your preference, it will include Friday which is when staff meetings are held.
Please read the below alongside the full Job Description and Person Specification attached.
Mental Health: All of the young people Baobab supports suffer significant mental health and developmental difficulties and many function in an unstable and more immature way than their chronological age. Due to their experiences it takes time to gain trust from the young people in our community. As a core member of our team, you will understand the impact of specific human rights abuses on the development of children and young people in exile and their individual experiences of loss, trauma and grief on their mental health and well-being.
Baobab’s Model: Please read the accompanying ‘Baobab Context and Model’ document for a detailed introduction. It often takes a significant amount of time to understand Baobab’s model of working, which aims for rehabilitation and justice through attending to both the internal and external world of each young. It is important that you strive to have an insight to the experiences of both the internal and external factors impacting on the lives of unaccompanied young people attending our centre. It is also important that you understand the ways in which UK society and policy impacts on young asylum seekers (including invisibility, marginalisation, discrimination, and the fact of waiting in uncertainty for a long time).
Multi-disciplinary Working: Baobab aims to be a reflective, thinking organisation and we place a high value on shared thinking time, sharing responsibilities and working together with others. A key aspect of the role is communicating and working in a holistic way.
Please include details on relevant fundraising experience, including examples of successfully won bids; as well as relevant experience related to the context of our work.
The Baobab Centre is a non-residential therapeutic community that offers support to young survivors of human rights abuses seeking refuge in the UK
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Who we are
Chefs in Schools is a young, ambitious charity that’s rapidly growing. Our mission is to improve kids' health, through improving school food & food education. We focus our efforts in areas of high socio-economic deprivation, where more than a third of children are entitled to free school meals, and diet-related disease is driving further inequality.
We support and train school kitchen teams to serve the best, freshest and tastiest food possible, alongside meaningful food education. We share learning and resources, aiming to inspire and enable others to follow our lead.
We’re backed by some of the biggest names in food and have ambitious targets to ensure every child has access to incredible school food and food education, setting them up for life with the skills and knowledge to feed themselves well.
About you and the role
The purpose of this role is to manage operational delivery of our School Chef Educator programme, ensuring efficient and effective delivery. The School Chef Educator programme is a 10 week training programme for school kitchen staff, covering topics such as Reducing Food Waste, and Food Education. It is delivered in a blended learning format, through a mix of in-person training, bitesize webinars, and our online learning website.
You will be supported by our Director of Transformations, and manage our Chef Trainers who deliver our School Chef Educator Programme. You will work closely with the Director of Partnerships & Impact, our School Engagement Manager and our Research Supervisor, to identify and liaise with suitable funding partners, academies and schools, and ensure we are monitoring and evaluating our programme delivery to evidence it’s impact and ensure quality delivery across the cohorts that take part.
Your role will oversee our School Chef Educator Programmes, delivered across England. This role will be primarily focused in London, but will include supporting schools in locations across the UK as we develop new hubs. An average week in this role might see you attending meetings with new partners to secure support for new programmes, sourcing venues for training days, scheduling programme delivery dates, identifying and contacting schools in our programme delivery areas to sign up their kitchen teams to our programme, developing new content on our learning management system, attending webinars our Chef Trainers are delivering, and supporting Chef Trainers with our in-person kick off sessions, and graduation celebrations.
You will be joining a dynamic and growing charity who are passionate about delivering exceptional training, skill sharing, expertise and know-how to advance the quality of food preparation, food service and food education in schools.
You will have an understanding of the context that we operate in, education and food sectors. You will have strong people skills, be highly organised and have the ability to manage effective partnerships with external organisations.
The responsibilities, skills and experience listed below are intended to give you an idea of what we need for this role. If you don’t meet every requirement but feel you would be able to work with us to deliver the majority of them, we urge you to apply anyway. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and for us the most important ‘experience’ is passion for our mission. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We want to get to know you at the interview and understand we can do this best if you’re at ease. We’re an inclusive employer and are passionate about creating a welcoming working environment for everyone. We’re continually updating our DEI policy and have a neurodiversity champion. If you need adjustments to the interview process please let us know.
As we work with children and young people, an offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and DBS clearance, in line with our safeguarding policy.
Key responsibilities:
● To work with the Director of Transformations to ensure that all programme delivery is delivered in line with our vision, values and ethos.
● To support and manage our Chef Trainers to ensure a high quality and consistent standard of programme delivery.
● Coordinate and oversee all programme activities, including booking venues, scheduling, logistics, and managing Chef Trainer workload.
● Work closely with the Director of Transformations, Director of Impact and Partnerships and the School Engagement Manager to assess, cost and propose suitable programmes of support for schools, multi-academy trusts and caterers interested in our School Chef Educator Programme.
● Working with the School Engagement Manager, attend and contribute to meetings with Senior Leadership of prospective participating schools and academies.
● Liaise and manage relationships with Senior Leadership and Programme Sponsors, being the key contact for operational delivery of programmes.
● To work alongside the Director of Transformations and Director of Partnerships & Impact to ensure that service level agreements are agreed with partners and that our delivery matches the agreements.
● To monitor costs of the programme delivery, reporting progress of programmes to the Director of Transformations, identifying any risks or delays to programme delivery.
● At all times to ensure that our training programmes are being delivered in a legally compliant, cost-effective way.
● Working with the School Engagement Manager, to identify suitable schools for our funded training programmes, ensuring a high uptake of available places on our funded training programmes.
● Ensuring learning and evaluation is embedded in our programme delivery, working with the Chef Trainers to document best practice learnt from each programme.
● To work alongside the Director of Partnerships & Impact and our Research Supervisor to ensure that we’re collecting accurate and relevant data to measure our impact, evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the programmes, conducting regular assessments and measurements.
● Work with the Research Supervisor to support preparing reports on the impact of the School Chef Educator programmes, including statistical data, trends, and success stories.
● Maintain accurate data records and ensure our contacts database is up to date with relevant participant, partner and engagement information.
● Collaborate with the Chef Trainers to ensure the delivery of high-quality services that meet the needs of participants on our programmes.
● Overseeing project planning and execution for the continued expansion of the roll-out of the School Chef Educator training programme - this will involve being organised and keeping the project on track, working with internal and external parties.
● Assist in the delivery of programmes where necessary, providing support and guidance to the Chef Trainers as needed.
● Working with the Chief Innovation Officer, the Chef Trainers across all our programmes and the wider Chefs in Schools network to identify current and future skills requirements for the school kitchen workforce.
● Developing and/or commission relevant training materials to keep our programme up to date and develop new programmes that complement our organisational strategy.
● Plan, and manage the continued iterative development of our School Chef Training programme. Lead on programme design, monitoring performance and adjusting our approach as necessary for future cohorts.
● Line manage the Chef Trainers, lead on hiring, training and managing any future staff required as our programme offering grows.
● Maintain and manage our Learning Management System, and Learning App, ensuring good version control, user management, and digital legal compliance.
Skills & experience:
● You are passionate about food and want to make an impact
● You have interest and belief in our mission, to improve child health through improving food and food education in schools
● You have a background or experience in project or programme management at national scale
● You are self-motivated, customer focused and driven
● You are interested in people (working in a small, supportive team)
● You are organised, methodical, strong on detail, and able to map out deadlines and plan ahead
● You are an excellent writer and communicator with strong presentation and facilitation skills
● You are skilled in building rapport with people and strike a balance between being supportive and challenging
● You have a background or significant experience in training
● You have delivered, developed and/or been involved in the roll-out of programmes at scale
● You have experience in delivering in-person and online training sessions
● You have curriculum, pedagogy or training design experience
● You have good digital skills to maintain our resources on an online platform and innovate the learning experience
● You have hands-on experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS) including user management, content updates, and troubleshooting technical issues.
● You are well-versed in legal compliance requirements related to digital training programs, ensuring all training content and data management practices adhere to current regulations.
● You possess strong analytical skills for monitoring and evaluating LMS performance, using data to improve user experience and ensure compliance with legal standards.
● You have some experience in leading or managing a team
● You have stakeholder and partnership management experience
Most Important Skills- list 5-8
- Training Delivery and Development
- Curriculum and Training Design
- Project or Programme Management
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Stakeholder and Partnership Management
- Communication Skills
- Organisational Skills
- Data Collection and Analysis
Benefits
You would be joining a friendly, supportive team who work hard, but believe in a healthy work / life balance. We seek a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge. Joining a small, collaborative team means you’ll be able to contribute to, and draw on, a variety of projects and strategic insights.
We offer 33 days (pro-rata for part time positions) of holiday per year, including bank holidays, a Cycle to Work scheme, hybrid working, free access to the CODE app for discounted restaurants & hospitality venues, enhanced parental leave. We are committed to developing our team and will support you with relevant training opportunities including £250 towards elective training and development of your choice.
We also offer Bupa Dental Insurance, Income Protection Insurance, as well as access to the AIG Smart Health Platform which offers health benefits including free rapid access online GP appointments, free counselling and wellbeing support.
Application process
In line with our commitment to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process, we will invite candidates to interview based on their answers to a series of questions related to their day-to-day job. Please follow this link to answer the questions and submit your application.
Your answers will go through our sifting process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an online interview on 17th July.
Successful candidates will then be invited to an in-person interview to take place on Wednesday 24th July at our office in Brixton, London for which we will ask you to complete a short task. You have 15 mins to complete this task. The interview overall will take a maximum of one hour.
Expected duration of this application process: 6 weeks
We’re on a mission to transform kids’ health through food – plate by plate, class by class, school by school.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Working hours 32 hours/4 days per week with potential for full-time (40 hrs per week) depending on other ministry gifts and passions you could bring.
Salary £29-£31k (pro rata) depending upon experience
Why St Stephen’s?
We are growing resource church with over 500 people attending every week. Our vision at St Stephen’s is to Love God, Grow Disciples and Transform Communities. Sundays are central to how we do this, as we gather across 3 services to worship God together and learn from His Word. We are passionate about: our ever-expanding youth, children’s and families' ministries; equipping each other to be Whole Life Disciples; enabling people to explore faith through Alpha; and transforming society through church planting, and various social transformation ministries. We are about to begin a new strategy process and are excited where God might lead us for the next few years.
With the second phase of a tech upgrade about to start, this is a great time for someone to be stepping into this post.
Main Purpose of the Role
The Media, Production and Sound Technician is a key role within the Creative and Worship teams, with responsibility for the provision of sound, visual and technical support for St Stephen’s Worship, Communications and Media production ministry.
Key objectives
· To enable the church’s worship through excellent sound, visual, staging and production of all services and special events (including online).
· To continuously recruit, train, oversee and support volunteer teams for sound, lighting and VPS.
· To have a vision for enabling worship which flows from your own living faith in Jesus.
· To help inspire a culture of creative worship and prayer at St Stephen’s.
· To oversee the maintenance of worship equipment (inc. organ and piano tuning), liaising with external contractors as needed.
· Encourage, equip and develop worship beyond Sundays (special services, events, Seasons)
· Oversee the provision of sound and visuals at weddings, funerals etc.
· To organise (with the Worship Pastor) regular creative team nights for community building, discipleship and training.
· To task manage and train interns to set up worship equipment, and operate sound and visuals desks
Technical Competencies
Essentials
· Highly experienced at using a digital audio mixing console.
· Fundamental understanding of video switching
Desirables
· Experience using ProPresenter 7 (or other presentation systems)
· Experience working with Dante or an equivalent A/V network platform
· Experience working with an SDI based Video Switcher
· Experience working with Stage Lighting Dimmer Racks
· Experience filming
· Comfortable working at height
· Experience working with Contractors
Person Specification
· Servant hearted
· A committed Christian with a heart for worship, sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and a passion to lead people into the presence of God.*
· Is already or is willing to become a worshipping member of St Stephen’s church.
· Technical skills & experience in audio, visual, lighting and production, including sound desk operation and mixing.
· Ability to lead, encourage, train and inspire.
· Ability to manage a budget.
· Excellent planning and organisational skills.
· Flexible approach to work.
· Good interpersonal skills.
· An optimistic realist.
· A desire to grow in leadership and to develop others.
· A self-motivated, team player.
· Doesn’t take themselves too seriously!
· Committed to safeguarding: understanding and personally applying the safeguarding policy and procedures & undertaking safeguarding training as required.
· A commitment to health and safety.
The details
· £29-31k (pro rata) depending on experience
· 32 hours/4 days a week (40 hours/5 days FTE) including Sundays, to be worked flexibly to cover ministry needs. We would be open to exploring a full-time position, if a candidate brings gifts in another area of ministry (e.g. Youth, Children, Worship, Creative, Students, Comms etc.)
· Occasional evenings and Saturdays, Christmas, and Easter services, with appropriate time off in lieu
· Full participation in the staff team (including attending staff worship, staff meetings and APCM)
· 25 days’ annual leave (20 days pro rata) including up to 5 Sundays plus Bank Holidays and a day off on your birthday.
· Church of England pension: 8% of salary of which 6.5% is paid by employer and 1.5% by employee
· Life Insurance
· 6-month probationary period
· Responsible to the Vicar
*NB. There is a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GoR) for the successful applicant to be a Christian and this GoR applies under the Equality Act 2010.
Closing Date
Wednesday 26th June 2024
Interviews
Week commencing Monday 1st July 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Purpose of role
To manage the annual programme of the PPA psychoanalytic psychotherapy qualifying training and the Advanced Clinical Course. To promote and grow the trainings. To manage the budget and collect and report on performance management data. To track all trainees’ progress, to ensure the smooth running of all elements of the teaching provision and to liaise and work in collaboration with the PPA training committee (TC), curriculum committee (CC), selection committee (SC) and post graduate committee (PGC).
Accountable to
The post will be line managed by the office manager will be accountable to and work in close collaboration with the committees of the PPA.
Key responsibilities
1) To oversee and manage the delivery of the annual programme of the PPA trainings in collaboration with the TC and PGC.
a) Booking clinical, theory and group seminar leaders in collaboration with TC and PGC.
b) In liaison with the Director of Marketing, Communications and Engagement place adverts for supervisors, teachers, and group leaders as appropriate.
c) Ensure that trainees and TC have an up-to-date list of Training Analysts, Training Supervisors and Approved Therapists
d) Room booking for all aspects of the programme.
e) Annual review, update and production of handbooks and all written materials for course.
f) Collaboration with the library to track reading list production.
g) To be the first point of contact in cases of emergency.
h) To collect, collate and report on trainee feedback.
2) To oversee the annual trainee selection for the trainings.
a) To be the first point of contact for potential applicants, giving out appropriate information about the trainings and passing appropriate inquiries onto the training advisors.
b) To liaise with interviewers and arrange trainee selection interviews.
c) To attend selection week/day process.
d) Collate information on the number of applicants and successful candidates and report to TC.
3) To support the TC in the monitoring and management of trainees’ progress throughout their training.
a) To record which tutors have been assigned to trainees in collaboration with training committee.
b) To receive monthly updates from training tutors, collate and report to TC as required.
c) To manage collection and evaluation of all feedback from trainees and seminar leaders and send as appropriate to the training committee.
d) To find readers and markers for final clinical papers and arrange dates for reading ins.
4) To promote and grow the trainings.
a) In collaboration with the Director of Marketing, Comms & Engagement to develop and implement a marketing plan for PPA trainings.
b) To work with the Events Officer to promote the trainings at bpf open days.
c) To liaise with the PPA newsletter editor to ensure the production and circulation of the newsletter and to communicate with the Membership Officer about any PPA items for the bpf newsletter.
d) Ensure consistent messaging about PPA trainings across internal and external communications.
e) To have oversight of the cycle of reaccreditation with the BPC.
5) To ensure effective administrative and financial management of PPA trainings.
a) To take lead on ensuring all communication with trainees is up to date including collection of fees, sending out handbooks, curriculums, all training materials, and dates.
b) To work with the Director of Corporate Services to oversee and maintain budgetary control of both trainings.
c) To work with the Director of Corporate Services to provide management reporting data.
d) To collect and report on data collection of protected characteristics.
e) To provide budget updates to the training committee.
f) To recommend and implement improvements to PPA training admin systems and processes.
g) To manage all payments from trainees and to teaching staff.
6) To work with all PPA committees to maintain the functioning and growth of the PPA association.
a) To attend TC meetings, PGC meetings, bpf Heads of Trainings meetings and any other meetings to ensure the smooth running of the committees and clear communication between committee members.
b) Organise and oversee the termly PPA reading group and other social events in collaboration with the Events Officer.
c) Encourage and grow PPA members’ events in collaboration with the Membership and Engagement Officer.
7) General
a) Any other activities deemed appropriate by the CEO and Office Manager.
b) Supporting office colleagues with other trainings when necessary.
c) Working collaboratively with the whole bpf staff to ensure the smooth running of all bpf training and membership activities.
d) Being part of the office duty system.
e) Adhere to bpf policies and procedures.
This job description is intended as a guide and is not an exhaustive list of the duties and responsibilities of this role. Such duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility entailed.
This job description and person specification may be subject to review from time to time in conjunction with the postholder.
Person specification
Qualifications
Good level of general education.
Experience
· Significant experience in an administration role, preferably in a client/customer-facing role, and ideally in a training, education, or membership environment.
· Knowledge of higher education or professional healthcare training, in relation to psychotherapy or counselling desirable.
· Experience of managing budgets desirable but not essential.
· Knowledge of financial and invoicing procedures desirable but not essential.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to compose communications to a wide range of professionals, and to take accurate minutes.
· Good general computer literacy including competency in Microsoft Office, databases, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, and the ability to be self-supporting.
· Able to understand the complexities of working in a membership organisation.
· Excellent organisational and time management skills.
· Able to work independently and be proactively as well as able to exercise judgement about when to draw on colleagues’ expertise and ask for assistance.
· Methodical with good attention to detail.
· Able to use initiative and continue to think under pressure when faced with sensitive interactions.
· Ability and commitment to maintain strict confidentiality.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you looking for a role which gives you purpose?We are looking for an ambitious candidate who will have several years fundraising’ experience, particularly of increasing income and cultivating supporters. We need you to develop and implement our fundraising strategy by contributing to agreed objectives, income targets and other key performance indicators within the timeframe and budget specified while contributing to our purpose of helping vulnerable people to live in dignity and to achieve their potential.
Remote working may be considered.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are seeking an experienced philanthropy professional to lead and grow our income streams from individual philanthropists, trusts, foundations, and corporates. In this role, you’ll lead the philanthropy programme, inspiring Trust and Charity staff and key stakeholders, and developing relationships with major donors. Reporting to the Director of Development, responsibilities include implementing a philanthropy strategy to meet growth targets over the next three years, increasing charity income, and managing a team of specialist fundraisers.
You will provide the highest quality donor cultivation and stewardship practices, oversee bespoke donor events, and manage your own donor portfolio. The role will also include regular reporting on activities and risks, collaboration with various charity departments, and ensuring compliance with fundraising best practices. Additionally, you will have a proven track record in significant fundraising, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and preferably, a background in health-related fundraising or understanding of the NHS.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Affinity Trust
At Affinity Trust, we are committed to making a difference in the lives of people with learning disabilities and autistic people. With over 30 years of dedicated service, we champion inclusivity, support independence, and create opportunities for the people we support, enabling them to live their lives in their way.
Position: Integrated Care Systems Lead
Contract: Two-year, fixed term basis. Applications for full or part-time are welcome
Salary: £60,000 (pro-rata if working part-time)
Location: Home-based role
Flexible, with a requirement to travel across our operational areas in the UK.
The Role
As our Integrated Care Systems Lead, you will play a pivotal role in steering Affinity Trust's engagement with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across the UK. Your primary focus will be building robust relationships with ICSs, aligning our services with their strategic ambitions, and securing new social care contracts. This role is critical in ensuring Affinity Trust is positioned as a partner of choice within the evolving health and social care landscape, providing innovative and person-centred services to support people with learning disabilities and autistic people
Why Join Us?
- Impactful Work: Make a tangible difference in the lives of people we support.
- Career Development: Opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment.
- Competitive Salary and benefits package, including a focus on work-life balance.
- Inclusive Culture: Be part of a diverse team that values every individual’s contribution.
How to Apply
We're excited to hear from experienced professionals who are passionate about shaping the commissioning landscape for health and social care. Please share your CV and a cover letter explaining why you're a perfect match for the role and why you would like to be a member of the Affinity Trust team.
Application Deadline: 01 July 2024
Affinity Trust is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Home-Start:
We are a community-based charity with 30 years’ experience of supporting local families with children under the age of 5. We offer our combination of home-visiting, counselling and group support to families across Watford, Three Rivers and Hertsmere districts. By offering parents the support and guidance they need when their children are young, we can prevent crisis and ensure children have the best possible start in life. We tailor support to the needs of each family, supporting them to identify and tackle their most pressing needs. Our practical support ensures children have a safer, more stable home environment; our ethos of building family resilience ensures parents are better equipped to cope with adverse circumstances; and our focus on promoting a more secure parent-child attachment ensures parents can identify the kind of support their children need to thrive.
Working closely with colleagues from across the organisation and our contacts within the community, the successful applicant will support the external communications of the charity, helping to extend the reach of the charity. Raising awareness, developing donor and supporter relationships, working with the Directors to identify and develop funding streams.
The role:
As a Community Engagement and Fundraising Officer, you will play a vital role in helping our charity manage and develop relationships with our donors, supporters and our existing key relationships, whilst identifying and creating new relationships in our local areas to garner support and promote our services.
- You will be responsible for delivering activity to maximise fundraising from our community, including schools, individuals, local businesses and community groups. You will proactively recruit, grow and nurture supporters, empowering them to manage their own fundraising activities.
- You will manage our annual challenge event programme from supporter engagement, assisting fundraisers journey and utilising tools to maximise supporter’s impact.
- Crucial to your role will be building strong and lasting relationships with supporters, colleagues and volunteers, positively engaging with members of the public and maximising all fundraising opportunities.
What you’ll do:Principle duties and responsibilities
- Take responsibility for the delivery of effective Community Engagement and Fundraising.
- Actively promote all aspects of Home-Start Watford, Three Rivers and Hertsmere to local businesses, schools, community organisations, volunteer groups, and individuals.
- Motivate and influence supporters to independently manage their own fundraising activities, with your support, being the main contact for supporters.
- Work closely the Business Support Officer to manage and create social media content to promote fundraising activities, relationships with supporters and the relationships you build in the community.
- Prepare and deliver individualised communications, presentations and assemblies for a diverse range of audiences.
- Attend and run activities at a variety of community events when required, to ensure a strong presence from Home-Start Watford, Three Rivers and Hertsmere in the communities where we support.
- Identify and implement new fundraising opportunities and initiatives.
- Work closely with the other Community engagement and fundraisers, building on local knowledge, sharing best practice and creating a peer circle of support, including peers from HSUK our parent company.
- Act as an advocate within the community. Uphold our values, and communicate with enthusiasm, credibility, conviction and knowledge.
- This role will require occasional weekend and evening working.
- Keep up to date with all fundraising legal implications.
- You will be responsible for creating our quarterly newsletter, working with the rest of the team, to engage with our supporters.
- Create Bi-monthly board reports on the growth of community engagement, communications and fundraising, which will go directly to the trustee board. Occasional attendance at board, building a relationship with a trustee identified to manage fundraising.
- Annually, you will lead on the creation of the annual report and social impact reporting working across the team.
- Creating strong relationships with local magazines and identifying and managing news tools to ensure that we are sharing our successes and informing our audiences of our services. Occasionally creating press releases for campaigns and building a network of people to help share our news as far and wide as possible.
- You will also be involved in the updating of our website, working with the Business Support Officer and volunteers to ensure our website remains the best tool to advertise what we do.
- Creating and nurturing a small group of fundraising support volunteers to help facilitate events and share our story in the community.
What you’ll bring:Experience
- Preferable, fundraising experience of 1 year, in a community engagement or fundraising role in the charity sector.
- Demonstrable experience in building relationships within the community and with fundraisers.
- Demonstrable experience in managing your own income budget and monitoring expenditure against agreed targets. Analysis of income data, identifying trends, evaluating activity and ROI, and ensuring key learnings and insight are fed into planning and budgeting of future activity as appropriate.
- Demonstrated success in coordinating events, campaigns and initiatives.
- Familiarity with donor databases, CRM systems, and fundraising software.
- Able to provide direction, energy and capability to lead fundraising volunteers at community events.
- Understanding of fundraising principles, best practices, and ethical standards.
- Knowledge of Community Engagement and different fundraising channels.
- Awareness of current trends and innovations in fundraising.
Skills
- A motivated, articulate and confident communicator.
- A passion for making a difference to families and young children.
- An ability to analyse data.
- Understanding of risk management.
- Experience of client relationship management databases.
- Understanding of content creation systems such as Mail Chimp and Canva.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills including excellent attention to detail and effective time management.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with a varied group of stakeholders.
Personal Attributes
- Passion for the vision of Home-Start Watford and Three Rivers and alignment with their values for supporting families.
- Proactive and self-motivated with a positive and can-do attitude.
- Creative approach to a limited marketing budget and working within a small team.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion.
- Willingness to work occasional evenings or weekends for events and campaigns.
- Ability to represent the organisation professionally and ethically.
- Strong client facing aptitude and communication skills both written and verbal.
- Calm and patient when dealing with a range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels
- Team Player: working collaboratively and flexibly to achieve outcomes and keen to add value to the organisation’s culture and ethos.
What you’ll get
- Working with a small, friendly, supportive team, who are supported by a proactive trustee board.
- Flexible working.
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Job satisfaction, changing families lives and enabling children to have the childhood they deserve.
- Working in the charity hub, based near Leavesden film studios, in a modern office space, sitting amongst other charities and the local CVS, W3RT, within a collaborative and supportive workspace.
- Café and dining facilities, including outside space.
- Free onsite parking.
Closing date is July 11th at 5pm 2024, interviews are likely to take place w.c. 22nd July, in person, at our offices in Leavesden, Watford, Hertfordshire.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Join our small fundraising team to create opportunities for Centre for Mental Health to change lives. This is a part-time role, 21 hours to include Fridays. If you have experience of writing compelling bids and have a passion for mental health and equity, we need to hear from you. Our team enjoys flexible working (from home if you prefer), 31 days (FTE) of leave plus Bank Holidays, up to 12% employer pension contributions and exceptional wellbeing support.
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The position of Chief Operating Officer is an exciting new role within the charity. The last few years have seen Coram’s Fields grow both operationally and financially, and we now employ around 65 staff and in 2024/25 are expecting to turnover c.£2.4 million.
As our organisation and team has grown, so too has the need to strengthen our infrastructure and we are now looking for an experienced and skilled COO, to drive operational improvements across the key areas of HR, Finance and commercial.
Coram’s Fields prides itself on having a strong, values led culture, and one where our commitment to our staff and their development is matched by the commitment we bring to the children and young people we support every day. Building on this by developing and embedding high quality people management systems and creating a culture of best practice across all our teams will be a key part of your role.
Over recent years, we’ve been working hard to build our financial resilience and develop a more sustainable operating model, including further investment in our fundraising team. We’ve made significant progress, but we know there are plenty more opportunities to strengthen our work in this area. Modernising our financial systems and strengthening financial capabilities across our management team will be a focus of the role and you will relish the opportunity to impart your own financial knowledge and skills on those around you, to support the delivery of even better outcomes for the young people we serve.
The success of our financial model is underpinned by just under half our annual income coming from commercial revenue streams. You’ll bring a proven track record of maximising commercial income opportunities, a keen eye for spotting new ones, and the ability to cultivate these into financially rewarding ventures that support our overall sustainability and mission.
To be successful, you'll need to be an outstanding communicator, capable of building relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, from service managers on the ground, to our Trustees.
Our commitment to changing the lives of children and young people for the better is unrelenting and your reward in this role will be quite simple – to play an instrumental role in building the capacity of our team and the organisation to deliver even greater outcomes for the young people we support.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Membership officer will play a key role in ensuring a smooth and successful membership journey for FSC members. This role will be responsible for the oversight and coordination of member activities and events. The role will also contribute to a culture of continual learning through gathering and analysing member feedback and implementing changes as part of FSC’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework.
The successful candidate must be able to self-manage projects and tasks to completion. Flexibility, positivity, proactively, independence, drive and a willingness to pitch in as true team-player are essential to success. This role reports to the FSC Executive Director but works closely with other members of the team.
Global Fund for Children partners with local organisations around the world to help children & youth reach their full potential & advance their rights
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Introduction to the role
We are seeking a highly organised, professional and proactive Executive Assistant to support the Co-Directors and senior management team on a part-time basis.
This is a key role in the team and is vital in ensuring the smooth operation of the organisation and our activities.
This is an in-office role; working from our beautiful building in Liverpool Street.
Salary and working hours: Part-time 2.5 - 3 days per week, £30,000 pro rata.
Location: On site, St Ethelburga's Centre, City of London
Please note: Unfortunately we cannot sponsor visas for this role
Responsibilities:
1. Administrative Support:
• Manage calendars, schedule meetings, and coordinate travel arrangements for the Co-Directors.
• Prepare and edit correspondence, communications, presentations, and other documents.
2. Meeting Coordination:
• Organise and coordinate internal and external meetings, including preparing agendas, taking minutes, and following up on action items.
• Arrange logistics for board meetings, staff meetings, and other key events
3. HR and Governance Support:
• Support HR functions including recruitment, onboarding, and maintaining employee records.
• Assist with employee communications, benefits administration, and other HR-related tasks.
• Assist in the development, review, and implementation of policies and procedures.
4. Research and Reporting:
• Conduct research on various topics relevant to the Centre's mission and activities.
• Prepare reports, summaries, and briefing materials for the Co-Directors and senior management team.
5. Funding Applications:
Assist in the research, preparation and submission of funding applications and grant proposals.
• Support fundraising campaigns and events, including coordinating logistics, preparing materials, and liaising with donors and sponsors.
6. Project Management:
Assist in the planning and execution of special projects and initiatives as directed by the Co-Directors.
• Track progress on various projects, ensuring deadlines are met and milestones achieved.
Is This You?
• Proven experience as an executive assistant or in a similar administrative role.
• Exceptional organisational and time-management skills. Able to work fast and to deadlines.
• Cheerful and optimistic, with a positive attitude and problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software.
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a diverse team.
• Interest in the mission of St Ethelburga's Centre.
About Us:
"Bridging divides, loving Earth"
St Ethelburga's work sits at the intersection of climate and peace. We believe there can be no peace on Earth unless we also realise peace with Earth.
St Ethelburga's is a 'maker of peacemakers.' We offer events, training, leadership programmes and multimedia content which equip and inspire people to become peacemakers in their own contexts. Our project areas include community reconciliation, refugee inclusion, radical resilience, viewpoint diversity, and spiritual ecology.
To Apply:
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter detailing their qualifications and interest in the role to Tarot Couzyn by 6pm on Friday, 5th July. Please include "Executive Assistant Application' in the subject line.
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Reprieve
Reprieve is a UK charity founded in 1999. Reprieve uses strategic interventions to end the use of the death penalty globally, and to end extreme human rights abuses carried out in the name of “counterterrorism” or “national security”.
Reprieve works with the most disenfranchised people in society, as it is in their cases that human rights are most swiftly jettisoned and the rule of law is cast aside. Thus, Reprieve promotes and protects the rights of those facing the death penalty and those who are the victims of extreme human rights abuses carried out in the name of “counterterrorism” or “national security”, with a focus on arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial executions.
Reprieve’s main office is in London, UK. Reprieve also supports full-time Fellows, who work as lawyers, investigators and campaigners in the countries in which we work. We work closely with a number of partner organisations in jurisdictions all over the world, who provide access to clients, expertise, knowledge and guidance on specific issues or regions. We work in cooperation with relevant government officials, individual lawyers and human rights defenders, as well as individual, corporate and foundation funders to further the cause of our shared goals.
About this role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Reprieve team as our Head of Digital and Mass Engagement covering parental leave. With the support of the Deputy Director of Development, you will lead our fast‐moving and creative Mass Engagement Team, who power fundraising across multiple channels. They do this by engaging and building a community of supporters and running campaigns that inspire people to support our work.
As a dynamic leader, you will oversee this area of our work by delivering and implementing Reprieve’s recently launched Mass Engagement strategy. You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation, as you lead digital campaigns that mobilise Reprieve’s existing community (currently about 95,000 people in the UK and 9,000 in the US) while inspiring others to join the movement.
Our Mass Engagement work is at a pivotal moment. Reprieve’s income from the general public through regular and individual giving, generated largely by email fundraising, has experienced a drop, with many of our supporters understandably reassessing their charitable giving in the face of the economic crisis.
In response to this new context, Reprieve is launching its new strategy and investing creatively to ensure sustained engagement and growth of our incredible community of supporters. Joining the team at this key moment, you will be energised to bring your skills, experience and knowledge to implement and deliver these plans, testing opportunities to diversify and grow the programme.
Salary, contract and location
The annual salary is £59,226 per annum less any required deductions for income tax and national insurance. This is an approximately 9 month fixed-term contract to cover parental leave, beginning in mid-October.
Reprieve operates a hybrid working model and we require staff to work a minimum of 2 days a week from the London office and the rest of the week from home.
Full details and how to apply
Please review the job description for full details on the role. Applicants should complete an application form and submit it following the instructions in the job description. The deadline for applications is 23 June 2024. Applicants must have the current right to work in the UK.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Engagement and Project Delivery Lead for leading Charityin North West London required.
We are small but growing organisation and looking for the right person to join our friendly and progressive Independant Chair led team. Please do take time and consideraton in applying for this role as we are looking for a candiate that fits the criteria and relevent exprience of the role.
Application forms will be sent on request and must be completed for consideration to proceed to the nxt interview stage. Copy and paste CVs will not be accepted.
Interview dates will be Mid July.
Previous Applicants need not apply.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.