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Title: Global Financial Planning and Analysis Manager 

Department: Finance 

Location:   London UK or Washington DC  Or this job can be based remotely in a RI country of  operation 

Reporting to: Financial Planning and Anylsis Director  

Direct reports: Not Applicable  

Budget responsibility: Not Applicable 

ABOUT Relief International. 

Relief International (RI) is a leading nonprofit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty. 

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them. 

RI includes the four corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, MRCA/RI-France and RI-Europe.  Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure. 

About our Country Program/ Regional Programs. 

RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.  Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.  

RI employs 7,000+ staff and auxiliary workers 

97% of staff are local nationals 

We only have some 90 ex-pat staff out of 7,000+ 

RI spent $150 million in 2019 on our programs 

Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.  

RI invests in four broad program sectors:  Economic Opportunity, Education, Health, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.  We design our programs to incorporate The RI Way:  local participation, integrated programming, the development of civic skills, and complementary partnerships including with local NGOs, governments, and the private sector.  RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change.  

Position Summary. 

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) unit has the overall responsibility for the financial planning and reporting service supporting the growth and effective management of Relief International and its various business units.

The FP&A Manager works with Director of FP&A to support the global finance team by providing leadership and coordination in the accounting, reporting and compliance efforts of Relief International. 

Essential Responsiblities and Duties. 

Income & Expenditure Reporting and Budgeting 

• Preparing and maintaining budget models and forecasts;

• Reviewing project spend down plans to ensure accuracy of the projections;

• Reviewing Proposal budgets, ensuring compliance with RI common cost allocation policy and donor regulations;

• Preparing pipeline analysis based on data provided by Program development team;

• Reviewing Global department BVA details and ensure correct allocations;

• Reviewing transaction listing at month end closing to check the compliance of allocations; based on Relief international accounting guidelines. 

Financial Analysis and Management Reports 

• Supporting the director of FP&A in standardizing and automating Budget Variance Analysis; models at Country, Regional and Global levels; 

• Manage the process of reporting global monthly portfolio and project risk management reports; 

• Lead the standardizing and automating country master budgets in consultataion with the director of the FP&A 

• Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand business unit performance;

• Preparing and manage the information on project Exchange gain loss analysis and other Global summaries;

• Work with the director of FP&A to manage the  standardisation of  project set ups in NetSuite and ensuring accuracy of data based on donor contracts; 

• Support the implementation of Financial reporting software of Relief International; 

• Develop and design financial reports in financial reportig software.

• Managing the roll out of Financial Software.

• Other Financial Analysis and Management tasks as assigned by the FP&A Director. 

Compliance/Process Improvement 

• Drafting and developing policies, processes and forms for Global department costs;

• Manage or perform periodical or ad hoc financial data analysis, queries, reconciliations and reports as needed by the Senior Management team or to satisfy external audit requests; 

• Propose and support initiatives targeted at financial processes improvement and the implementation of changes to achieve efficiencies and RI objectives in the areas of program billing, contract compliance and reporting, indirect cost recovery, financial reporting and analysis

Other related tasks that may from time to time 

Safeguarding  

• Uphold and promote RI’s commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the vulnerable communities we serve. 

• Consistent with RI’s safeguarding and protection policies, ensure that all HR activity and practice is compliant with safeguarding standards. 

Experience and qualifications required for the role. 

• Progressive finance and accounting experience with proven success with an INGO context; 

• Financial and accounting education background, CPA, ACCA and/or MBA preferred; 

• Solid understanding and knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS, Good understanding of UK GAAP

• Experience working with international donors such as USG, FCDO (previously DFID) and the EU; 

• Solid experience of financial planning and analysis in an INGO of comparable size and complexity to RI; must have INGO finance/accounting experience; preferably some field experience; 

• Knowledge of accounting and reporting software; Experience with NetSuite and QuickBooks is favorable. 

Skills and competencies 

• Keen analytic, organization, and problem-solving skills, which allows for strategic data interpretation vs. simple reporting; 

• Ability and desire to translate complex financial concepts to individuals at all levels including finance and non-finance managers; 

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; experience in effectively communicating key data, including presentations to all levels of staff; 

• High proficiency in MS Excel (eg formulas, pivot tables and graph production), MS Word and PowerPoint, proficiency in Power BI preferred; 

• Ability to travel domestically or overseas as required by direct supervisor; 

RI Values. 

Guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, as well as “Do No Harm,” Relief International Values:

We value: 

• Integrity 

• Adaptability

• Collaboration 

• Inclusivity

• Sustainability

How to apply. 

• To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button in the job advert page

• You will be asked to upload a CV and Cover Letter.  The cover letter should be no more than 2 pages long and explain why you are interested in this post with Relief International and how your skills and experience make you a good fit.

Closing date. Please apply immediately we will be reviewing applicants on a rolling basis, therefore may withdraw the position for the job board closing date. 

Please apply by uploading your cover letter and up-to-date CV on our website.  

Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.  

Note to external agencies, we will not be accepting CVs from third parties. 

Relief International is committed to protecting our staff and the communities we work with from abuse and harm including sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment.  

All staff are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.  

Recruitment to all roles in Relief International include a criminal records self-declaration, references and other pre-employment checks, which may include police and qualifications checks. 

Job Description

This is a critical support function to the Finance, HR and Administration team. It is a multi-faceted role with responsibilities for accountancy, in particular the management of the annual audits and accounts. Be the point of contact for HR and Administration functions.  Working with our accounting firms, payroll firms in the respective countries, this role will lead on all of the audit processes for the UK, EU and Australian arms of the Foundation and will also provide support to the US and Hong Kong as and when necessary.

Finance: 

● Lead on the format and messaging of the global accounts and global annual review and ensure that we provide an accurate and transparent report.

● Lead on the UK, German, Italian, Luxembourg and Australian audits and work with relevant stakeholders to ensure they are completed accurately and on time each year.  Point of contact between the finance team and external auditors to ensure queries are resolved throughout the audit process.   

● Work with the gift processing teams, third party fulfilment houses and the Finance team to ensure all income and expense records are filed correctly to support annual audit processes and in line with charity/company regulations.

● Ensure accurate coding is in place across all financial systems.

● Monthly accountancy - perform or assist with the book-keeping for each market as required.

● Manage staff expenses including reimbursement. 

● Point of contact for staff credit cards. Manage allocation and use.

● Manage global bank accounts.  Responsibility for keeping signatories, users and authorisers/directors up to date and in line with internal policies and when there are staff changes. Provide financial info to the Finance team as required. Oversee the set up of new accounts as required.

● Ensure day-to-day banking is carried out in line with our Customer Service Charter.

● Manage monthly transfers between bank accounts, supplier accounts and merchant providers for all markets in liaison with Finance team located at headquarters. Obtain required approvals and ensure operational balances are in place.

● Carry out finance related reconciliations such as expenditure reconciliation, bank reconciliation and payment platform reconciliation.

● Point of contact & account manager for payment platforms and merchant accounts, keeping information up to date etc.

 

HR and Administration: 

● Recruitment and retention, including labour engagement for UK, German, Italy, Luxembourg and Australia. 

● Work with our Global HR team to ensure Training and Development, performance maintenance, employee relations are well maintain. 

● Coordinate / arrange the European staff salaries, and other markets as required.

● Oversee supplier accounts/services & contract management: Keep records up to date, manage payments, maintain online accounts eg, office facilities and insurances. Management of global PO Boxes and international postal services. Ensure they are renewed in time.

● Manage all subscription requirements for the Supporter Engagement team (IT, sector, compliance etc).

● Management of staff mobile phone contracts.

● Control and monitor purchasing costs, including office. 

● Manage UK petty cash.

● Manage the global fixed asset registers. 

● Create and manage inventory of staff resources incl. IT equipment. 

● Assist the budget preparation.

● Assist with the creation of performance reports and other (ad hoc) reports as required.

● Provide support for financial, HR processes as required.

● Design and maintain filing systems.

Inter-department relations:

● Ensure that inter-department and inter-personal relationships are positive, cohesive, and contribute to the overall mission of AAF.

● Develop and maintain effective working relationships with management in regard to work procedures and employee relations.

Continuous Improvement and Misc.:

● Contribute to the on-going review, development and implementation of changes to improve the productivity and efficiency of AAF.

● Participate in staff training and performance and development appraisal process to assist in the achievement of AAF objectives and mission.

● Ensure procedure manuals are updated in line with changes. 

Global Program Development Manager

We are currently recruiting two roles to the team, these are critical roles that bring significant impact and opportunity of funding to our country programs.

These roles can be based in the US, hybrid office based in Washington DC or fully home based in the US on East Coast time zones.  We will also consider applicants who are homebased in the UK and other RI country of operations.

Note you must have the right to work in your remote home based location and that national terms and conditions apply.

This role is classified as requiring advanced pre-employment checks

About Relief International

Relief International (RI) is a leading nonprofit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

RI includes the four corporate members of the RI Alliance: in the UK, USA, France, and Belgium. Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure.

• RI employs 5,000+ staff and auxiliary workers
• 97% of staff are in-country nationals
• We only have some 90 ex-pat staff out of 7,000+
• RI spent $125 million in 2021 on our programs

RI invests in four broad program sectors:  Economic Opportunity, Education, Health, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).  We design our programs to incorporate The RI Way:  local participation, integrated programming, the development of civic skills, and partnerships including with local NGOs, governments, and the private sector.

RI is committed to ensuring that all those involved in our work uphold the highest ethical standards and are safeguarded against any form of exploitation and / or abuse.

About the opportunity

Work collaboratively with the Regional Directors and Regional Program Directors, country teams to ensure donor engagement and capture management (approximately 30%) and managing and/or assisting in proposal development (approximately 70%). 

You will be dedicated to building high impact programing by raising income from institutional donors (like the USAID, FCDO, EC, GAC and the UN) as well as bilateral donors (like French MOFA, GFFO and SDC).  Thrive in an entrepreneurial senior team dedicated to building high-impact programming

About you

Your success in this role will be driven by your entrepreneurial approach and experience in building high impact programing though quality program design and proposal development.

Bringing excellent relationship management skills, a strong network of contractor, donor relationships and understanding of donor tends. Having hands on experience in proposal writing and partnership development.

You will bring a track record of achievement in a previous, similar role with a progressive work experience and responsibility within an INGO context.  Together with a proven experience to work closely with country teams to motivate and deliver to tight deadlines in challenging and complex fragile contexts.

How to apply

To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button in the job advert page.

You will be asked to upload a CV and Cover Letter.  The cover letter should be no more than 2 pages long and explain why you are interested in this post with Relief International and how your skills and experience make you a good fit.

Closing date. Note the closing date as per the job board listing, however, please apply immediately as we will be reviewing applicants on a rolling basis and may withdraw the position before the job board closing date.

Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

COVID 19: To ensure a safe workplace, RI follows government requirements, and in some locations a mandatory vaccination policy applies.  When working or traveling on RI business, all staff, contractors and visitors must follow the rules and entry requirements of the country.

Relief International has a zero-tolerance policy for unlawful harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse. Relief International is committed to protecting our staff and the communities we work with from abuse and harm including sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment.

All staff are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.

Recruitment to all roles in Relief International include a criminal records self-declaration, references, and other pre-employment checks, which may include police and qualifications checks.

The Prince's Trust is a youth charity that helps young people aged 11 to 30 get into jobs, education and training.

The Trust has an ambitious strategy to be there for young people and maximise our impact, strengthen our support network, build a better future for young people, and become one of the most diverse and inclusive organisations serving young people.

To achieve our strategic goals, it is critical that we communicate effectively both internally and externally with a range of stakeholders, which ultimately means we can be there for young people. This includes the communities we want to reach, funders, volunteers, and colleagues. The Director of Communications post is vital in ensuring we maximise our impact on young people by ensuring that the strength of the reputation of The Trust is developed and protected to ensure we have the funds and support available to benefit our communities.

As an active member of the Executive Leadership Team, the Director of Communications leads all aspects of The Trust’s communications, developing and delivering a compelling series of campaigns to enhance awareness and understanding, while being a strong custodian of a positive reputation. The role will also lead on coordination with Clarence House on matters relating to corporate positioning, media relations and key events involving HRH The Prince of Wales.

This role would suit an experienced communications professional with a passion for supporting young people and addressing issues of social mobility. Experience of UK media and campaigns would be very helpful, as would an understanding of how to operate in complex environments. You do not need to have been a Director before, and we’d also welcome applications from candidates outside of the charity sector.

The Prince’s Trust is committed to building a workforce that is as diverse as the young people that represent modern day Britain, and we are ultimately here to support. As part of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy we are wanting to build a management and leadership team that has greater representation of the diverse communities across England and particularly welcome candidates with lived experiences from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds. To that end, we welcome applications from all candidates, including those from under represented groups.

Closing date: 9 a.m. Friday 26th August 2022 

Please click ‘Apply via website' to be directed to the Peridot Partners website and to contact the advising consultants to discuss this role in more detail.

CRM Project Manager

An exciting new opportunity for a CRM Project Manager to join one an international leading charity, on a fully remote basis.
The CRM Project Manager will lead on the implementation of MS Dynamics, which is a huge charity-wide undertaking!

This brilliant opportunity will allow the skilled CRM Project Manager to act as an integral figure throughout a period of change whilst allowing the organisation to continue to build a better future for those in need.

As a CRM Project Manager you will shape and manage the project workstream as well as ensuring the agreed targets for project delivery are met. Additionally, you will be responsible for managing issues and ensuring supplier dependencies are met.

Skills that are required for CRM Project Manager:

• Knowledge of CRM implementations/transformations
• Experience within the charity/fundraising sector (ideally)
• Previous project experience with MS Dynamics
• Strong Communication and stakeholder skills

CRM Project Management / Dynamics / CRM Systems / Salesforce / Project

Salary: £45,000-£46,000

Location: Fully remote, office space in London if required

Contract: Starts as an 8 month contract, but likelihood is this will extend to 12 months and beyond

Summary

SumOfUs is looking for a People Operations (Human Resources) Manager to help us grow our team to win campaigns against corporations behaving badly. If you are excited about global economic justice, and if you are hungry to support an amazing team to thrive in a stable and supportive workplace, then this might be the role for you.

This role will primarily focus on maintaining the day-to-day work of the People Operations team, supporting our global and fully remote team, and helping scale our work and initiatives with a growing team and organization. This role requires exceptional project management and organization to keep our work running smoothly in a global, unionized workplace, and a grounding in anti-oppression principles. Experience working in People Operations (or HR) in more than one country is a must.

This position is full-time, remote and can be undertaken by anyone between GMT -5 (East Coast Americas) and GMT +1 (Central European Time, West Africa Time).

A bit about us

SumOfUs is a global movement of consumers, investors, and workers standing together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new and sustainable path for our global economy. We are a movement of more than 20 million people, brought together by a global team of 40 campaigners, fundraisers, product and operations staff who are passionate about creating a more caring, equitable society.

We are aiming to fundamentally reshape the global economy to put people and planet over profit, but we know we can not do it alone. We build partnerships with on-the-ground activists and organisers, and we follow their lead. We innovate, experiment and embrace professional and organizational growth. We invest in people and we invest in how we work, because our vision calls on us to build the most effective, global, diverse, and talented team possible.

We highly value a diverse team and an equitable work environment where every member of our team is set up to thrive. We have taken steps to nurture this environment including an Anti-Oppression Leadership Team that leads work to transform injustice within the organization. We expect all team members to take responsibility for co-creating an equitable work community where everyone is able to do impactful, world-changing work. We offer benefits including additional sick days for parents and caregivers, flexible working hours, and professional development stipends. We review our policies and practices for equity frequently. We recruit and encourage people identifying with marginalized communities to apply.

What you’ll do as part of our team

• Lead day-to-day of HR functions and the People Operations team. As a skilled HR generalist, maintain key people operations functions (such as connecting individual performance with organizational goals, change management, culture development and transformation, continuous engagement, employee recognition, and employee development and learning) and the processes, practices and systems SumOfUs uses 

• Work closely with the Director of People Operations to execute strategic priorities, goals, and special projects, using project management and change management strategies 

• Continually work with the People Operations department to develop and streamline processes and systems in line with best practices in the field, using technology to connect the work of our remote team across time zones

• Apply and monitor policies and procedures across organization, including auditing and monitoring adherence, ensuring equitable and anti-oppressive application of policies, and tailoring to local context

• Ensure equitable and anti-oppressive application of People Ops policies and processes, and identifies improvements 

• Maintain knowledge of HR best practices, trends, laws, regulations, and technology to support our work and work with the People Operations team to apply them at SumOfUs

• Other duties as assigned, this role is part of a growing People Operations department and there will be opportunities to take on other duties

Skills and experiences you’ll need to bring:

We have no formal education requirements – if you can meet the responsibilities of the role and are willing to grow, that’s all that matters. 

All roles at SumOfUs require you to be:

• Dedicated to building a fairer and more sustainable global economy

• Demonstrate a commitment to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive work community

• Work remotely (SumOfUs provides funds to set-up a home office or to work from a co-working space)

And, this role in particular will require you to:

• Bring at least 3-5 years of HR experience across a range of HR functions

• Have a strong equity lens, understand oppression, and bring anti-oppression principles into all aspects of work

• Have excellent organizational and project management skills, be able to track multiple moving pieces and coordinate the work of several stakeholders

• Familiar with change management strategies to be used within the People Operations team and broader organization

• Be comfortable with technology, learning and figuring out new systems, then providing support to team members

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Be able to handle sensitive information with integrity and maintain confidentiality of HR related information

• Be familiar with applicable best practices, rules, and laws in hiring and HR, and navigate operating in several countries (note: you will not be expected to know labor laws in all the countries we operate in, but will be expected to be able to raise questions and challenge assumptions you may have based on how things are done in your home country)

• Have excellent time management skills, and the ability to navigate working across multiple time zones

• Have excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills

• Have experience working in nonprofit HR in multiple countries, especially outside the United States

• Be willing to learn and approach challenges with curiosity and from a solutions based mindset

Big pluses

We know that no one can possibly have all these skills and experiences - you will likely be able to bring 2 or 3 of the following to our team:

• Familiarity with online campaigning organizations 

• Experience with a unionized workplace

• Experience with Greenhouse applicant tracking system, Clear Review review software, and/or Bamboo HR

• Fluency in French, German, or Spanish

How to apply

We don’t find cover letters particularly helpful in seeing how someone might fit a role. Instead, use the form on our website to upload your resume and your answers to the following questions in English:

• Why are you applying for this job? (suggested word limit: 200);

• Please describe a human resources process that you have successfully created or maintained. 

  • What was the problem or goal that the process addressed?

  • Who did you consult when implementing or adjusting this process?

  • What steps did the process include? How did you communicate these to others?

  • How did you ensure equity and inclusion was built into the process?

• List which of the “BIG PLUS” qualifications above you believe you bring to your work at SumOfUs, with a few words of explanation.

Applications close 11:59 pm ET on August 21, 2022, but will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications are only accepted through our website.

Further details

Compensation is competitive and will be determined based on a combination of experience, seniority, and location. For some context: this position in the UK would pay between £48,000 - £58,400. In other regions, compensation will be adjusted for local currency and local market rates. SumOfUs's compensation policy is calculated with a focus on equity and where staff can thrive.

SumOfUs is a fully remote and distributed team, as such we offer stipends to offset cell phone and internet costs. We offer stipends to set-up home offices or to rent space in a coworking environment. We offer five weeks paid vacation (plus additional sick leave and all major public holidays off and 6 months paid parental leave), contributions to retirement, and the ability to work from home and work with a degree of flexibility outside our core hours of operation. We cover private health insurance premiums for employees and dependents who live in countries without public insurance. We are happy to answer any questions you have about our leave policies and other, similar benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and are committed to racial equity and social justice.

Are you looking for a job where you are in control of the work you do, have life balance and the flexibility and freedom to achieve results?

Are you looking for new energy and a new challenge?

Newark & Sherwood CVS (NSCVS) & Rushcliffe CVS (RCVS) are looking for a Business Development Manager (working title you get to choose your own!) to develop a Partnership which will support our communities to grow and thrive.

Some of the things you’ll be doing:

• Creating and Developing the project
• Working with stakeholders to help shape the project
• Delivering solutions to meet community need
• Developing more effective and sustainable services

We’re interested in your ability not your qualifications; whatever your background e.g. NHS, Local Authority, VCSE we would love to hear from you if you can demonstrate:

• Working at both a strategic level & operational level
• Partnership Development experience with the skills to motivate stakeholders to get involved
• An understanding of the issues affecting communities at a local and national level

Closing date: We will keep the post open until we’ve recruited and will be viewing applications as they come in.

WR Fundraising Recruitment has an amazing opportunity to work with a national charity in a Trusts & Statutory Fundraising Manager position.

The charity is going from strength to strength having more than doubled its income in the last year, and with a fundraising team that has been bolstered by a number of new additions, we’re looking for a trusts & statutory fundraiser to join the charity as part of the senior management group and be central to a dynamic fundraising team.

You will have the opportunity to inherit a strong portfolio, be encouraged to develop and implement your own ideas and concepts, and have an input into the next growth strategy plan.

Trusts & Statutory Fundraising Manager

Full Time, Permanent

Home Based with flexible working

£39,000 - £42,000 per annum

Duties will include:

• Deliver and develop a relatively new income stream that is long term and sustainable
• Lead on writing applications, managing and growing the existing portfolio and providing support for corporate grants and foundations
• Work closely with the directors and other senior fundraisers in developing a framework for and reporting on the charity’s impact
• Responsible for Trusts and Statutory budget, reporting on monthly, quarterly and annual KPIs, and monitoring and evaluating against ROI
• Responsible for developing monitoring system to track restricted grants and project development
• Build relationships, multiyear partnerships and income from existing trusts and foundations and strong stewardship involving members of the senior leadership team
• Liaise closely with senior managers and teams to plan and develop the strongest possible proposals
• Close collaboration with Partnership Team to identify funding opportunities including corporate grants and foundations

Suitable candidates will have:

• Experience of developing and implementing a Trusts fundraising strategy including income from lottery and statutory sources
• A creative and entrepreneurial approach to income development
• Experience in generating a minimum of £250,000 and delivering against performance targets
• Proven record of personally securing minimum five-figure grants from Trusts, Statutory and other grant-making bodies
• Strong project planning and financial management skills, including planning, forecasting, modelling and performance analysis
• Experience of implementing a formal prospect research and management system using a variety of tools and techniques
• Experience of developing robust cultivation and stewardship plans to build positive, long term relationships with key funders and supporters
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences

Closing date is 18th August with interviews on 22nd August. 

To apply or for further information, please email a copy of your up to date CV in the first instance.

The team at WR Fundraising Recruitment are passionate about bringing together talented fundraising professionals with fantastic organisations. We’d love to hear from you if you are looking for a new fundraising opportunity.

Responsible for ensuring that robust, timely and aligned evidence is readily available from across the breadth of Trussell Trust’s programmes and projects, including those of the Foodbank Network. This role holds responsibility for developing and updating impact frameworks, ensuring that accurate data are collected in line with these frameworks, and overseeing and shaping the way in which we communicate our impact. Working across service delivery, policy influencing and attitudinal change activities, this role is responsible for the delivery of the organisation’s annual Impact Report, and for providing effective oversight and guidance to team members to support impact reporting and evaluation at a programme and project level.

Role responsibilities

• Support the Head of Impact and Evidence, by leading the operational planning and coordination of our impact measurement work, working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation to ensure that our approach to evidencing impact is effective, inclusive, consistent and reflects our values.
• Act as owner of our organisational Theory of Change, maintaining the evidence base by bringing together data from across programmes, projects and external sources and highlighting where underpinning assumptions or activity may not be aligned.
• Working closely with colleagues in Strategic Communications and Strategic Intelligence, develop and extend our internal, network and external-facing impact reporting, including managing delivery of our annual Impact Report and ensuring relevant impact data is readily available for support-raising teams.
• Provide expert advice to support effective decision-making about our approach to impact and evaluation, and lead a team of monitoring and evaluation specialists, drawing on their skills in qualitative and quantitative research design and analysis, and ensuring that our Impact and Evaluation team is able to provide a consistent and high-performing service to other teams across the organisation.
• Where necessary, advise on, project manage, and deliver or commission complex evaluations or impact analysis of our programmes as required, working collaboratively with staff accountable for programme delivery.

• Work with team managers and the Head of Impact and Evidence to facilitate regular opportunities for Trussell Trust staff and food bank network colleagues to learn from evaluation and monitoring work, including through workshops and webinars, in ways that promote reflective practice and inform programme development.

Home or Poole based

About us

Our purpose is simple, to save lives at sea. Since the 19th century, our crews have been risking their lives to save those who are in danger of drowning. The National Partnerships team supports the RNLI by securing, building and managing corporate partnerships which generate sustainable income, raise awareness, and help us acquire new supporters to fund the RNLI’s lifesaving work.

Your Role

We are looking for a Partnerships Account Manager to join our friendly and ambitious team.

The location of this role is flexible and can be homebased, but ideally within a commutable distance of Poole or London, as the successful candidate will be required to travel to these locations on a regular basis, sometimes at short notice, to meet with the team and with key internal and external stakeholders

As a Partnerships Account Manager, you will manage a portfolio of high value, multi- faceted, long term partnerships for the team. You will be responsible for planning activity with these partners, driving the delivery of these plans and looking to maximise every partnership by identifying growth and diversification opportunities to generate income, raise awareness and help secure new supporters.

You will provide excellent management and stewardship of your partnerships, building strong relationships with the partners and across the RNLI to ensure success. You will providing regular and accurate performance updates against objectives and KPIs, and accurately forecast short, mid and long-term partnership income. You will help to drive creative thinking within your partnerships to drive development and benefits for both the RNLI and the partner.

This is an exciting time to join our National Partnerships team at the RNLI, as we have a strong portfolio of partners and our Bicentenary celebrations are only a few years away. Building upon previous success in the team (with the likes of Helly Hansen, Ford UK and Haven), we are looking to continue to build the scale of partnerships we secure and manage. The team has ambitious income and engagement targets over the next 5 years, and this position is key in helping to support this growth.

About You

As well as a keen interest in the cause, you will have a proven track record in a fundraising, sales or account management environment, along with demonstrable experience managing partnerships to maximise on their success and to generate income. This role requires someone with outstanding interpersonal, communication and relationship building skills, who is comfortable delivering against partnership targets, working collaboratively with a wide range of teams, presenting, building networks and working with senior stakeholders both internally and externally.

Our ideal candidate will be a self-starter who seeks to drive forward opportunities to maximise the benefit for the RNLI. Previous experience working with a CRM system, excellent verbal and written presentation skills, project management and organisation skills and experience working within a large complex charity would be advantageous.

Experience required

• Significant account or relationship management experience.
• Significant, demonstrable experience of delivering and growing a range of multi-facetted partnerships.
• Comfortable delivering stretching financial targets and working across a variety of market segments.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Proven ability to prioritise, good time management and effective use of a database for recording and reporting against your pipeline.
• Experience influencing stakeholders.

So, if you are a commercially minded professional who enjoys building relationships with companies and internal stakeholders and enjoys managing partnerships to maximise on their benefit this could be the role for you. Please apply via the button shown.

Closing date: 21 August 2022.

Interview date: w/c 29 August 2022.

WR Fundraising Recruitment is looking for an experienced trusts fundraiser for an exciting new role where you will have the opportunity to grow a trusts and grants fundraising stream while managing a number of existing multi-year relationships with the likes of Children in Need and Big Lottery.

A great home working role for an experienced fundraiser who can shine while working autonomously.

With a role that covers the entire trusts fundraising process from prospect research to monitoring and reporting, you will have the opportunity to diversify the trusts and grants fundraising stream – bringing new funders to the charity and developing key relationships with existing and new funders.

You will inherit a strong portfolio or existing grants (over £250K) and a database of ready to go applications and prospects.

We’re looking for an experienced trusts fundraiser who is willing to take responsibility for all aspects of trusts fundraising – including prospect research, relationship building and reporting) has a track record of securing a wide range of grants (up to 6 figure would be preferred).

With a prominent cause in the spotlight, and a very financially stable charity, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of applications and bids and join an emerging fundraising team that’s set to grow over the next year.

Trusts and Grants Fundraising Manager

Full Time, Permanent

Home Based / Remote – With occasional meetings in London area.

Circa £35,000 per annum

Duties will include:

• Generate fundraising income from key Trusts and Foundations and research potential new avenues for funding
• Write tailored, inspirational applications and reports addressing grant-making priorities or requirements as specified
• Building strong relationships with other teams within the organisation in order to understand the work of the Charity and thus build a case for support
• Maintain and deliver a pipeline of applications and reporting to grant makers, including prospecting for new funders
• To research relevant Trusts and Grant making bodies, developing compelling applications
• Build new relationships with trust and grant awarding organisations, updating them with the work of the charity and impact of trust funding.
• Stewardship of existing trusts and foundations, reporting on impact and identifying new opportunities for support

The ideal candidate will have:

• Track record in trusts fundraising / winning funds through bids and applications to grant giving, statutory bodies and foundations
• First class, demonstrable written communication skills with the ability to write compelling and innovative proposals and funding reports
• Strong interpersonal, networking and relationship building skills
• Proven experience undertaking research, developing proposals, and winning funding.
• Experience in managing relationships with trust and grant awarding bodies

To apply or for further information, please email a copy of your up to date CV in the first instance.

The team at WR Fundraising Recruitment are passionate about bringing together talented fundraising professionals with fantastic organisations. We’d love to hear from you if you are looking for a new fundraising opportunity.

Part time 30 hours per week [over 7 days to include Sundays]

Location – Sawston Book Shop and Sawston ladies shop

We offer many enhanced benefits including; 28 days holiday a year - plus Bank Holidays and stakeholder pension scheme with matching contributions up to 8%. Full details about our benefits can be found on our website.

We are looking for an Assistant Shop Manager to work alongside the two Shop Manager in our Sawston book shop and Sawston ladies shop. Are you self motivated with strong interpersonal skills and thrive on challenges and opportunities that come with assisting in the running of a shop? Can you assist the Shop Manager's in driving sales and profits and able to work closely with staff and Volunteers to ensure we deliver the best level of customer service.

We are looking for someone who loves working with people and has the ability to lead in the absence of the Shop Manager, inspire and empower people around them. We are looking for someone who is friendly and positive in their approach and can instil an energy to those around them. Have you got a creative ability that you can bring to the role?

 You will make a real difference to young people in England by helping to raise vital funds needed to support our frontline work.  

It is important that you have good communication skills both inside and outside the shop, reaching out to the local community to help build support for the shop.

If you have what it takes to work hard but have some fun along the way, and support your Shop Manager to be the best, then this is the place for you!

Every day we’re changing the lives of children in this country for the better – and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

We look forward to receiving your application.

The closing date is Wednesday 17th August 2022.

TPP are delighted to be working with the National Youth Agency, who are an educational charity that exists to professionalise, support & champion youth work in England & Wales. They are seeking to hire a Director of Policy & Communications. Reporting directly into the CEO, you will be responsible for leading two matrix connected teams which are focused on ensuring the voice of the NYA is heard and acted upon across government, local councils and important points of influence.

This is an excellent time to join the organisation at a time when our client has secured £368 million of funding from DCMS to improve youth services in underserved areas. Our client is based in Leicester, but this role is home based, with occasional travel into Leicester for meetings.

Your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Member of the senior management team, and leader of the policy & communications directorate.

• Work with the CEO to report to the board regarding progress towards strategic priorities.

• Strategic lead for the policy and influencing strategy, working with parliamentarians, government officials and arm’s length bodies to secure greater prominence and investment in youth work.

• Establish networks of policy advisors, Special Advisors, NYA Associates, officials and partners to support NYA’s goals.

• National lead for Youth Work policy in England, developing campaigns and political engagement activities.

• Delivering an ambitious new communications strategy to double the reach of NYA across England by 2025.

• Defining key messages and positioning of NYA, enhancing their reputation and relationships.

• Providing people management and leadership to a growing team of policy and communications professionals.

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Your experience and skillsets and experience will include:

• Experienced leader and influencer at a senior level with experience of influencing government and politicians.

• Proven forward-thinking, and dynamic individual who can provide proactive leadership to evolve an innovative programme.

• Demonstrable experience setting strategies and plans.

• Demonstrable track record of engaging with decision makers and key influencers.

• Proven experience in building effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Experience of working across all communications disciplines including media, PR, internal communications, brand, stakeholder engagement, partnership development and digital.

• A strong track record of positioning an organisation to achieve tangible outcomes in a competitive communications environment.

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Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Home based (UK-Wide)
Salary: £36,515 - £40,257 per annum (depending on skills and experience) + London allowance of £3,600 (if applicable)
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 17 August 2022
Interview Date: W/C 22nd August 2022 via Teams

Please note the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is midnight on the closing date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

We are open to part time (minimum 21 hours per week) and other flexible working requests for this role. Please include your preference in your application for discussion.

About Alzheimer\'s Society

Who we are

Alzheimer’s Society are a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia.

What we want

We will not rest until people with dementia and their carers live more fulfilled and less fearful lives, free from stigma and inequality.

What we do

We support people affected by dementia through some of the hardest and most frightening times, to improve their lives and help to avoid crisis.
No matter whoever you are, whatever you’re going through, you can turn to Alzheimer’s Society/us for expert support through practical advice, emotional support, and guidance for the best next step
We join forces with people affected by dementia, leading scientists and policy makers, amplifying voices to push for cutting edge breakthroughs and societal change that’ll improve the lives of people affected by dementia, now and in the future

How we do it

We’re the friendly face of support, the warm voice at the end of the phone and the determined minds who will fight passionately for the cause of everyone affected by dementia.

About the role

This role is a pivotal part of our Supporter Experience team, enabling our High Value fundraisers to connect and deepen relationships with supporters. You will lead the prospect research strategy for Alzheimer’s Society, working closely with our High Value teams to reach our ambitious income targets.

Managing our Prospect Development function, really getting an opportunity to put you stamp on things & help shape the next phase of our prospect research strategy.
Flexing your excellent research skills by supporting an ambitious team of high value fundraisers to achieve their strategic goals.
Using your outstanding relationship building skills to forge connections across our welcoming fundraising team to make connections & deliver maximum value and excellent experience for our supporters.
Working with incredible colleagues passionate about making a difference and giving our supporters the best experience possible.

Your main responsibility will be managing the Prospect Development team to deliver high quality research, plans and connections, helping us achieve outstanding prospect acquisition and intuitive supporter journeys.

Using your unique leadership style and excellent knowledge of prospect research including policies, procedures & processes you will foster a culture of continuous improvement in your specialism. Sitting as part of our Supporter Impact team, you will work together to become an expert on the work of Alzheimer’s Society, ensuring we have ambitious plans for consistently spotting the most current & exciting opportunities to further our fundraising ambitions as well as monitoring, reporting & evaluating the progress against these plans.

About you

- Experienced prospect researcher looking to broaden your management experience, who regularly asks – “how can we do this better?”
- Fundraising management experience, with a passion for horizon scanning and prospect research looking to expand your technical expertise.
- You will share your knowledge, experience, and expertise through your team and your excellent network of internal relationships.
- You will be innovative, but detail orientated, and be able to present complicated information to a range of audiences.
- You will be motivated by delivering truly transformational positive impacts for those affected by dementia, and you will learn how to weave this pivotal impact into every piece of work.
- You will be a subject matter expert and have the opportunity to learn from a diverse array of fundraisers – including corporate, philanthropy, trusts, foundations, and communications specialists.
- Opportunity to shape a team, supporting development of technical skillsets such as the use of news aggregations tools, CRM databases and other software to build high quality research outputs.
- Working as part of a close knit but geographically dispersed team, there will be regular opportunities to discuss professional strengths and development needs, learning from peers and leadership teams alike.

The successful candidate will be encouraged to pursue project work playing to their strengths, as well as benefit from robust development plans to support areas for further upskilling. If you feel professionally fulfilled by using your expertise to deliver value and achieve ambitious income and supporter experience targets- this is the role for you!

Person Specification

- Excellent interpersonal skills, being approachable and friendly.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent IT skills and ability to use Microsoft packages confidently.
- Be enthusiastic and passionate with a can-do attitude.
- Be able to work collaboratively with other team members if/when required.

You may have experience of the following: Prospect Development, Prospect Development Manager, Development Manager, Fundraising, Donor Manager, Business Development, Events Manager, Fundraiser, Marketing, Client Relationships, Account Manager etc.

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