Are you concerned about the climate emergency affecting our planet? Are you passionate about using your communications skills to work for a more just world? Do you believe in the power of faith-based organisations to inspire people to work for social justice?
We are looking for a talented Communications and Campaigns Officer to join our small but dynamic team to help deliver our exciting strategy and to raise awareness of our campaigns.
You will have a passion for social justice, proven media and communications skills and a strong desire to help drive social change and campaign relentlessly for a better world.
We are Jesuit Missions - the international mission and development office of the Jesuits in Britain - and part of the worldwide Roman Catholic religious order known as the Society of Jesus or the Jesuits. For over 50 years, JM has accompanied poor communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We also work to challenge the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice in partnership with local partners in the Global South by running campaigns in the UK in support of change.
The role is varied and challenging, but a great opportunity to develop your skills and abilities.
You’ll lead in the delivery of our communications strategy and be heavily involved in our campaigns around climate change and ethical investment.
Ideally, you will have:
- worked in a press office / PR environment
- excellent written and verbal communication skills
- great copy writing ability and up-to-date digital skills to optimise our website / social media
- a demonstrable interest in International Development
- an understanding of Catholic Social Teaching and/or the Jesuits
- the energy and ideas to organise campaigns which engage our existing supporters and attract new ones
The role is based in our office in Wimbledon, south London although some flexibility is required in light of the situation with COVID-19.
If this fires your passion and you'd like to apply, or find out more, we'd love to hear from you.
To apply: Please send an up-to-date CV and a covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) explaining your motivation for applying and how you meet the criteria set out in the job description. Please include the names and contact details of two referees one of whom should be your latest employer. References will not be taken up without the candidate’s permission.
See attached Job description for more details.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the Role
THET is a well-established charity that has been operating for over 30 years and is now opening an exciting new chapter in its work to support health workers across Africa and Asia.
If you can use your digital, communication and marketing skills to help health workers and relish being a part of something new, this is the role for you.
We are looking for a Digital Engagement Officer who can shape THET’s digital strategy, forming online systems, and embedding digital best practice across the organisation. A talented self-starter, you will join the External Engagement Team, working closely with external partners both in the UK and overseas to promote high impact, responsive and quality digital engagement.
You will be a forward-thinking person with strong professional skills, a committed team player and excellent communicator. You will be familiar with working in a digital focused environment and be comfortable working alongside technical and thematic experts on development and global affairs. You will be joining a team who are dedicated to THET’s mission of ensuring everyone everywhere can access quality healthcare.
About THET
Today, one billion people will never see a qualified health worker in their lives.
Since 1988, THET has been working to change this. From reducing maternal deaths in Uganda to improving the quality of hospital care for injured children in Myanmar, we work to strengthen local health systems and build a healthier future for all.
We do this by leveraging the expertise and energy of the UK health community, supporting Health Partnerships between NHS institutions, Royal Colleges and academic institutions in the UK and those overseas.
In the past ten years THET has reached over 100,000 health workers across 31 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in partnership with over 130 UK institutions.
You can learn more about our work on our website.
Key Projects
Health Partnership community focused
- In partnership with the Policy and Learning Team, the candidate will work to create a Learning Platform to facilitate linkages and stimulate bi-directional learning across the Health Partnership community, provide resources and guidance on international best practice and, stimulate the documentation and dissemination of new learning and innovations that will be of benefit both within the LMIC and the UK.
- To support the central learning platform’s aims the candidate will work to develop and manage three virtual tools:
- A resource hub
- Community of practice
- Immediate response platform
- To support the central learning platform’s aims the candidate will work to develop and manage three virtual tools:
Organisational and Events focused
- THET runs a wide portfolio of events and conferences, all of which will now be run online and/or through a blend of online and physical approaches. Working across the organisation the candidate will review THET’s internal processes and identify ways that technology can enhance the organisations day-to-day operations.
- Focused on ensuring the technology we employ is accessible, sustainable, secure and scalable, the candidate will work to provide insight and manage the use of digital technologies for our events and communication portfolio of work.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning focused
- Working to ensure the technology we employ for MEL is up to date and designed with the user in mind, the candidate will work across the organisation to provide support to teams using technology for data driven analysis.
Person Specification
Experience and Expertise
- A demonstrable track record in developing innovative digital platforms and encouraging online communications.
- Excellent and up-to-date grasp of digital technologies, user experience design and research techniques, and the effective use of them.
- Adept at using a range of digital systems, applications, software and websites.
- Experience of using digital solution technology for events e.g. Zoom.
- Demonstrable experience of using data and research to inform development, turning user insight into actions that improve outcomes.
- Strong awareness of external digital trends, willingness to innovate, and the ability to generate new ideas and bring them to fruition.
- Exceptional communication skills, particularly to communicate technical solutions and their benefits, limits and risks in accessible language to stakeholders with varying technical understanding.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills to manage multiple priorities concurrently.
- Excellent team-working, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
Key competencies
- Communication skills : ability to speak and write clearly and effectively; listen to others, tailor language, tone, style and format to match the audience; demonstrate openness in sharing information and keeping people informed; analyse complex information, draw out the key points and issues and present these in a way that can be easily understood.
- Ability to work with minimum supervision to identify information and knowledge sharing opportunities and to engage a wide range of colleagues in realising these opportunities.
- Planning and organising ability to develop clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies; foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning; monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary; uses time efficiently.
- Teamwork: Work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organisational goals; solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise; is willing to learn from others; builds and sustains relationships with key constituents.
What we offer:
- 25 days annual leave plus 3 days winter closure between Christmas and New Year
- 3% pension contribution when Employee contributes 5%
- Cycle to work scheme
- Child Care voucher scheme
- Subsidised lunch canteen
- A friendly, supportive work environment
How to apply:
To apply for this role please send your CV and a cover letter through the following link by midnight 07th July 2020.
Closing date for this role is 07th July 2020
THET is an equal opportunities employer.
This post is UK based. Non-EC nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK.
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Are you looking for an exciting new Fundraising role?
Fundraising Manager, Feed the Minds (9-12 month maternity cover)
Contract: Full-time, temporary
Salary range: £29k - £33k
Location: Vauxhall, London
Feed the Minds is looking for a highly skilled and ambitious Fundraising Manager to deliver our fundraising strategy for the organisation – helping to improve the lives of women and their families in marginalised communities in the Global South. We are an international NGO, working with partner organisations in the Global South to run innovative projects for women and vulnerable people living in some of the world’s poorest communities.
About our work
Feed the Minds is a small, but ambitious UK-based international development organisation, operating in 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Our projects emphasise partnership and sustainable solutions promoting economic empowerment, health and citizenship through practical education. Our funding comes from a wide variety of sources, with a particular focus on increasing our digital fundraising and regular giving income streams.
About the role
The right person will be an innovative networker and influencer, with strong analytical skills. We are looking for a candidate with several years’ experience of fundraising, including a proven track record of winning and delivering partnerships with, and funds from, companies, community groups and individuals. We are particularly interested in a background in digital fundraising and/or event or community fundraising.
We are keen to find the right person for this role and would therefore be happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, if needed. We can offer supportive working relationships with our core team based in London and our international partners.
Our current Fundraising Manager is due to go on maternity leave in mid-September and ideally, we would like a short handover period.
This post will initially be a 9-month contract with the opportunity to extend.
Salary range £29k - £33k
Closing date for applications: 12 noon Wednesday 15th July
To apply, please send your CV together with a covering letter stating how you meet the person specification. The job description with person specification is attached. Interviews for shortlisted candidates will take place on Tuesday 28th July.
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Size of Wales is a growing, ambitious Cardiff-based charity with global impact. We work to mobilise Wales to protect tropical forests and restore tropical forest landscapes as part of Wales’ national response to climate change. We do this through education and awareness raising activities in Wales as well as funding and supporting a number of overseas projects.
Size of Wales has been going through an exciting period of growth, having substantially increased our income and expanded our team. 2020/21 marks our 10-year anniversary and we are launching an ambitious new 5-year strategy seeking to respond to the climate emergency and to mobilise Wales to achieve maximum impact for tropical forests.
We are looking for an outstanding new Director to join the team and lead Size of Wales into this exciting next phase. Reporting to the board of trustees and managing a team of approximately 13 staff and freelancers, the new Director will be responsible for achieving Size of Wales’ new 5 year goals, raising the profile of the charity across - and beyond - Wales and increasing our global impact.
The successful candidate will be an experienced and skilled leader. You will have experience of working in the third sector, ideally on international development, tropical forests and/or climate change projects. You will be emotionally intelligent, creative, dynamic and strategic and have a strong track record in delivering results in leadership positions. Ideally you will have a good understanding of the devolved context in Wales and be able to speak Welsh.
Salary for the role is approximately £45,000 p.a., dependent on experience. The package of benefits includes a 6% pension contribution, 30 days annual leave including bank holidays and a flexible working policy. The role is based in Cardiff but with regular remote working if desired. The role is a full-time role but applications for flexible working and job shares will also be considered.
Size of Wales recruits, employs, trains and promotes regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability, age, gender identity and/or expression, or any other protected status. Size of Wales is dedicated to nurturing an inclusive environment where employees can bring their full selves to work. We celebrate diversity of thought and recognise the strength and dynamism that comes with it.
Size of Wales, and all its staff and volunteers, are committed to ensuring a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. Any candidate offered a job with Size of Wales will be expected to agree to and adhere to Size of Wales’ Safeguarding policy and Code of Conduct.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: London-based Hub in Islington with potential for remote working
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £70,000
Cruelty Free International is the leading charity working to end animal testing for cosmetics globally and is seeking a Director of Audience Development and Fundraising to implement strategies to grow income and deliver key messages across the range of their audiences to deliver a step change for laboratory animals worldwide.
Cruelty Free International’s brand and ‘leaping bunny’ symbol have a high level of recognition globally and the charity is one of the world’s longest standing and most respected animal protection organisations.
This new role will be responsible for the charity’s marketing, communications, audience development and fundraising functions. The post-holder will work closely with the Chief Executive and other departmental leaders to develop and drive innovative and ambitious strategies to engage and increase the organisation’s audiences and at the same time build and maintain a sustainable income base. They will also be a leading advocate for the charity’s cause and a strong communicator that can represent Cruelty Free International at all levels.
The charity is looking for an inspirational leader who is a strategic thinker, but with a hands-on, ‘can-do’ approach. They must have experience of working in a similar role leading a small audience development team and of developing income generation strategies both in the UK and internationally. A strong track record in the field of philanthropy and corporate partnerships is also required. They will also have led and devised successful marketing and communication strategies for business and audience development and will have excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.
Finally, the successful candidate must share a commitment to animal protection and to the values and aims of Charity Free International, to work with them to help create the tipping point for change for laboratory animals.
For an informal conversation prior to applying to this role, please contact Anton Packheiser +44 (0) 7749 858597 or Suzie Spooner on +44 (0) 7960 932 315.