Communications jobs in Birmingham, west midlands
Applicants must be located within 2 hours travelling distance of Cambridge City.
The Charity and Our Vision.
For over 15 years, Scotty's Little Soldiers has been supporting children and young people who have been bereaved of a parent who served in the British Armed Forces. We are about to embark on an exciting journey which will see the charity evolve to support anyone affected by a military-connected bereavement and ultimately empower a community of more than 25,000 bereaved individuals and their families by 2035.
Founded in 2010 by Nikki Scott following the death of her husband, Corporal Lee Scott, the charity currently offers a unique blend of emotional, practical, and educational support to over 750 young people.
We are proud of our vibrant, non-traditional culture, which puts the needs of bereaved children and young people at the heart of everything we do. We embrace innovative approaches, are committed to creating smiles and believe in the power of community, resilience, and connection.
Role Mission.
To ensure that Scotty’s understands and demonstrates the impact of its work — through high-quality research, meaningful measurement, and clear reporting. You will lead the development of internal and external research projects, manage beneficiary insight gathering, and oversee the systems and frameworks we use to evaluate and share our effectiveness.
This role is central to helping us improve what we do and explain why it matters and ensuring that lived experience remains at the heart of everything we do.
The key responsibilities of this role are:
Impact Measurement
- Develop and maintain frameworks to measure the outcomes of all services and programmes.
- Ensure Success Measures (KPIs) and qualitative feedback tools are aligned to our Theory of Change.
- Work with the Families (service delivery) team to embed consistent and meaningful data collection across all services.
- Design simple, automated reporting processes to reduce manual admin and improve data use.
Research & Insight
- Lead internal research projects using beneficiary data, surveys, and feedback loops.
- Scope and manage external research partnerships with academic institutions or sector bodies.
- Design and deliver surveys to beneficiaries and the wider bereaved military community
- Produce evidence to support service development, strategic decisions, influence national policy, and funding bids.
- Lead our existing advisory group (for children and young people) and establish new groups as required (e.g. for adult services).
- Ensure that lived experience remains at the heart of the charity’s focus on understanding of the need.
Communication of Impact
- Create clear, accessible insight reports and data summaries for internal and external use
- Lead the delivery of the annual Impact Report (content, structure, coordination with teams).
- Develop quarterly insight packs for funders and stakeholders, with engaging visuals and stories.
- Work with the Outreach Squad to ensure impact is integrated into campaigns and storytelling.
Learning & Collaboration
- Act as the internal ‘voice of insight’ – bringing beneficiary perspective and data into key conversations.
- Contribute to team training on evaluation, feedback collection, and outcomes thinking.
- Participate in cross-functional planning, especially with the Service Delivery and Outreach Squads.
Policy (Light Touch)
- Track key developments in bereavement, Armed Forces, and youth policy
- Produce brief summaries or ‘position snapshots’ where relevant to Scotty’s mission
- Build relationships with other research and impact professionals in the sector
The 30-day goals for this role are:
- Build a deep understanding of Scotty’s mission, our audience, the services we provide, and strategic direction.
- Develop a deep understanding of our current Success Measures, Impact measurements and Theory of Change.
- Reviewing research and data produced by the charity and related external research previously published.
- Understand the data structure and reporting capabilities of Salesforce.
- Understand existing commitments (e.g. funder report, impact reports etc).
- Taken ownership of our 2026 Community-wide survey (project will be handed over upon start).
The 60-day goals for this role are:
- Audit current data quality and gaps across the F-Team Programmes.
- Support the publishing of the 2025 Impact Report (NB this might have be published but let’s put it in for now).
- Scoped and invited members to join our first adult lived experience advisory group.
- Analysed and shared results of 2026 Community-wide survey.
- Reached out to relevant impact and research groups to introduce yourself, particularly those attached the military or bereavement charitable sectors.
- Identified 1-2 relevant conferences or forums for Scotty’s to present at.
The 90-day goals for this role are:
- Held at least 1 adult lived experience advisory group session.
- Created and shared the first quarterly Impact Review for internal use.
- Fully taken accountability for impact reporting and research projects within the charity and able to demonstrate a clear plan of action for the rest of the year.
- Proposed an outline for the Annual Family Feedback Survey in September.
About You
Must-Have
Proven experience in research and/or impact evaluation, ideally in the charity or public sector
Strong skills in data collection, survey design, and analysis
Excellent written communication and reporting skills
Able to translate data into real-world insight
Nice-to-Have
Experience working with or around the Armed Forces community
Understanding of trauma-informed or bereavement support practices
Experience producing Impact Reports or funding insight packs
Familiarity with Salesforce or CRM data tools
Some knowledge of public policy or third sector trends
Additional Information
· The role may require occasional evening or weekend work
· Enhanced DBS check required
· Travel will be required to events and team training days
The Scotty’s Way
At Scotty’s, our personal performance is only 50% of what success looks like. Our culture is equally important. When you join our team, you sign up to The Scotty’s Way, rooted in our four core values:
1. Families Come First
2. Everyone a Supporter, Every Supporter a VIP
3. Love What You Do
4. Remember, Every Day
Our values are further supported by our four non-negotiable behaviours of Show Respect, Speak Up, Take Ownership and Actively Collaborate. We are looking for an individual who embodies these values and behaviours.
When Applying:
Please submit your CV, along with a covering letter detailing your experience and what excites you about this role. Please ensure you clearly annotate which role you are applying for in the email title.
Closing date: Friday 16th January. Due to resource and time constraints, we are unfortunately unable to provide feedback for every application received and will only contact candidates shortlisted for interview.
Thank you for your interest in joining our team, we are an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees are treated with respect and given equal opportunities for employment and advancement.
We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.
We encourage all qualified individuals to apply for employment within our charity, and we provide a fair and inclusive recruitment process for all candidates.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Join us and help create opportunities that change young lives.
Career Ready is a UK-wide social mobility charity, working to empower young people with the skills, confidence, and networks they need to succeed. We’re looking for a proactive and strategic Corporate New Business Development Lead to drive growth in our corporate and partnerships income, unlocking innovative collaborations that deliver real impact.
In this pivotal role, you’ll identify and secure high-value corporate partnerships, craft compelling proposals, and lead pitches to senior decision-makers. You’ll work closely with colleagues across Communications, Programmes, and Operations to create multi-year partnerships that combine funding, programme support, and brand alignment—helping us reach more young people than ever before. The role is home-based, but you’ll have opportunities to travel across the UK (primarily London, Manchester, and Edinburgh) for meetings, events, and networking opportunities (expenses covered), giving you variety and the chance to build relationships face-to-face.
We’re seeking someone with a proven track record of winning significant corporate partnerships (five-figure or ideally six-figure), excellent communication and influencing skills, and a strong understanding of CSR/ESG trends. If you’re entrepreneurial, creative, and thrive on building relationships from scratch, we’d love to hear from you.
For full information view our candidate pack, which is available when you click on Apply.
Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 12 January 2026
First stage interviews: expected to take place w/c 19 January 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Against Malaria Foundation (AMF)
Junior Operations Manager
Full time
Job Description
AMF profile
Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) was founded in 2004 and is a charity that fights malaria in a highly effective, accountable and transparent way.
We do this by purchasing and distributing multiple millions of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) at a time in nationwide universal coverage campaigns. This is the most cost-effective way of preventing malaria. AMF receives donations from the public and in the last financial year received US$147 million and, in our history, now over US$780 million. AMF is particularly data-focused and monitors and reports on net use and drives and supports innovation to improve the effectiveness of malaria programmes.
AMF is the world’s third largest funder of nets.
AMF has been rated a top charity for all of the last 16 years by independent charity evaluators GiveWell, Giving What We Can and The Life You Can Save who focus on impact and cost-effectiveness.
We are a team of 15 highly motivated individuals with different skills and experience. Each person has an important role to play. All team members work remotely with constant communication between them. While the team is small, the impact is big - our net distributions protect millions of people. Our largest programme is in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where we are funding 52 million nets to protect 94 million people for distribution during 2025 to 2027. We have ongoing multi-million net programmes in other countries including Chad, Guinea, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.
Role Description
Our activities and commitments are steadily increasing, with 2026 a particularly busy year with over 60 million nets planned for distribution to protect more than 110 million people, and the next few years will be similarly busy. In light of this, AMF is recruiting a Junior Operations Manager to join the operations team and to play an important role in ensuring the success of the net distributions. We are looking for someone with strong quantitative and analytical skills who enjoys working with data. The ideal candidate will be a fast learner with scientific or numbers-oriented mindset, comfortable performing quick, high-quality analyses and communicating findings clearly.
The role will include involvement in all stages of a distribution campaign (pre-agreement, net procurement, post-agreement, during distribution, and post distribution) with a focus on two areas:
- Data analysis - reviewing and analysing distribution, monitoring and malaria data to support decisionmaking
- Operational work to support programmes, in particular across independent monitoring, net accounting and keeping internal systems up to date
Further information
Across the life of each distribution, AMF collects large amounts of data: household registration and distribution data, net transportation information, data from independent monitoring partners both during distributions and after distributions through post-distribution monitoring surveys conducted at 0, 9, 18, and 27 months. We also receive and analyse external data including population estimates and malaria burden data. These data are central to how AMF operates - it informs operational decisions, ensures we can track every net accountably from manufacturing site to household, and it also enables us to report to donors with confidence on where their nets went.
We are looking for a junior operations manager to support in two main areas:
1. Data analysis
This includes:
- Analysing distribution and independent monitoring data to:
- Ensure data is sufficiently high quality
- Work with monitoring partners to take quick action if operational adjustments are needed
- Working with the team to build systems enabling process automation such as data quality monitoring
- Providing ad-hoc analyses to support data driven operational decisions
- Maintaining an overview of results across countries to inform benchmarks and interpret new data
- Contributing to how we present and communicate our data, both internally and publicly. This includes summarising findings clearly and appropriately for different audiences.
2. Operational work to support programmes
This includes supporting the operations team through the stages of AMF’s programmes:
Independent monitoring
Tendering and contracting
- Sending documentation to bidding partners and receiving proposals
- Supporting budget comparisons and proposal review
- Drafting agreement documents and processing payments
Project management
- Supporting operations team and partners during data collection, drawing on the data analysis above to troubleshoot issues as they arise
Closeout
- Ensuring all reporting has been delivered (narrative and financial)
- Reviewing reporting, analysing final results and putting them in context of AMF's wider programme
- Analysing project spend against budget, proposing closeout payments and processing them
Net accounting
- Reviewing evidence of net deliveries and arrivals from in-country partners
- Checking nets were sent to locations in the quantities agreed
- Working with ops team members to flag discrepancies and support communications with partners
- After distribution, verifying and documenting nets distributed, leftover, lost or damaged Internal systems
- Keeping AMF's internal systems up to date
- Inputting and processing payments
- Ensuring distribution and project dates are up to date
- Updating the latest status for the nets for each distribution (in production, en-route to country, etc.)
There will be other significant work related to AMF Group Operations, dependent on the candidate’s skill set, such as assisting with documentation for tax deductibility, new AMF entities, and updating our website with blogposts.
Characteristics of the successful candidate
We are looking for someone who has strong intellectual and analytical skills, is a fast learner and who relishes the opportunity to develop their abilities. They will work collaboratively, building strong relationships with the AMF team and in-country partners. The ideal candidate will be motivated to help improve the lives of those affected by the wider impacts of malaria.
Required
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to work with large datasets, identify patterns, and present findings succinctly. Comfort with statistical concepts (e.g. sampling, variability, precision)
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong working relationships
- Highly confident in Excel
- Experience with Python, R, or other programming languages for data analysis is a plus
- A self-starter who is highly organised with the ability to work independently and manage working time effectively
- Ability and willingness to learn new skills
- Comfort in dealing with and learning about financial matters, willing to examine and compare budgets in detail
- An interest in driving down malaria rates through procedure changes and the use of technology
- Fluent English
Of interest (but not required)
- French language ability
- Experience with data analysis tools beyond Excel (Python, SQL)
- Background in a quantitative field (statistics, economics, science, engineering)
- Previous experience working with survey data or monitoring & evaluation
- Comfortable experimenting with AI tools as part of their workflow
This would be an excellent first job for someone just out of university or someone moving after their first job. All candidates will be evaluated in the same way, based on the characteristics outlined above.
Other role details
Reporting to a senior member of the operations team.
Location: Remote working (all the AMF team work remotely) within UK/Europe time zones.
The cost of any co-working office space will be covered by AMF. If not a UK resident, part of the first three months may be spent in the UK working with the Operations team.
Initial salary: £28,000 to £35,000
Company contributed pension scheme
25 holiday days per year + bank holidays
Travel: travel to Africa is a possibility but is not expected.
This is a full-time role
AMF will contribute a high % of the cost of a laptop if the candidate does not already have a machine sufficient for the job.
Applying
Applicants should send a) a one-page cover letter explaining why they are interested in and suitable for the position, and b) their CV to operationsmanagerJOM1225 @ againstmalaria .com.
Early applications are encouraged as we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Against Malaria Foundation (AMF)
Donations Administrator
Part time (4 days a week) or full time (5 days)
Job Description
AMF profile
Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) was founded in 2004 and is a charity that fights malaria in a highly effective, accountable and transparent way.
We do this by purchasing and distributing multiple millions of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) at a time in nationwide universal coverage campaigns. This is the most cost-effective way of preventing malaria. AMF receives donations from the public and last financial year we received over US$147m. AMF is particularly data-focused and monitors and reports on net use and drives and supports innovation to improve the effectiveness of malaria programmes.
AMF is the world’s third largest funder of nets.
AMF has been consistently rated a top charity for the last 16 years by independent charity evaluators GiveWell, Giving What We Can, and The Life You Can Save who focus on cost-effectiveness and impact.
We are a team of fifteen highly motivated individuals with different skills and experience. Each person has an important role to play. Whilst all team members work remotely with constant communication between them, this role is more independent. There is direct liaising with the CEO and with the Head of Technology as needed. While the team is small, the impact is big - our net distributions protect millions of people. Our largest programme is in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where we are funding 55 million nets to protect 100 million people for distribution during 2024 to 2026. We have ongoing multi-million net programmes in other countries including Chad, Guinea, Nigeria, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.
A commitment to accountability and transparency is at the heart of what AMF does. This is in evidence in the way we manage the more than 100,000 donations AMF receives each year and the availability of our financial data, which is publicly shown in real-time. By tracking donations through our accounts and linking them to the specific distributions, donors can track where the nets funded are distributed. All revenue and expenses are entered into our bespoke systems, which manage all of the above as well as facilitating annual audits globally and in several individual countries.
Donations Administrator
AMF is recruiting a Donations Administrator to work either four or five days per week.
This is a crucial role at AMF as this work is at the heart of managing the donations we receive which allows us to share with donors the specific impact of each donation they make.
The Donations Administrator will record and reconcile the daily donations made to AMF via various methods; online, bank transfer and cheques, across its global portfolio. They will manage email interactions with donors and other organisations as well as undertaking data cleaning or analysis/investigation. Responsibilities may also include managing aspects of our accounting system and financial reporting.
The right candidate would enjoy the detailed and systematic nature of financial bookkeeping work (although no specific financial knowledge is required), is entirely comfortable working alone at a computer for the majority of their working day and would be excited to do this for an organisation whose focus is preventing death and illness.
Skills and experience
- Outstanding attention to detail
- Excellent spreadsheet skills - data manipulation
- Strong numerical skills
- Good problem-solving skills
- Very good written communication and people skills
- Previous donation or financial management experience may be helpful, but not required
Responsibilities
- Ensuring that all offline donations are accurately recorded and entered in the online financial ledgers Reconciling donations to income received per bank statements, e.g. standing orders and bulk transfers from other collection services
- Ensuring donations are properly acknowledged and donors are appropriately thanked for their contributions
- Responding to donor queries and providing assistance
- Liaising via email with organisations who collect and transfer donations to AMF
- Identifying and implementing opportunities to improve processes to ensure donations are managed as efficiently as possible
- Liaising with recurring donors and managing enquiries
- Managing matching donations
- Managing external funds-senders and aggregators and related activity and transfers
- Managing banking reporting activity
- Responsibility for all matters relating to Gift Aid and similar systems for other countries
- Managing staff payroll and expenses
Additional responsibilities for five-day week only:
- Managing aspects of our accounting system and financial reporting
- Liaising with auditors during our audit process
- Undertaking projects to improve data collection, storage and usage
Job details
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 (depending on experience)
Working hours: 9am to 6pm, with flexible hours able to be discussed
Company contributed pension scheme
25 holiday days per year + bank holidays
Location: Home/remote working in UK. All the AMF team work remotely.
Equipment: AMF will contribute a high % of the cost of a laptop if the candidate does not already have a machine sufficient for the job.
Application
Applicants should write to DonationsAdminApplication @ againstmalaria . com with their CV and a one-page cover letter explaining why they are interested in and suitable for the position.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Salary: £37,000 (FTE)
Days: Part-time, 3.5 days (25.9hrs) p/w – flexible working patterns available
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays; pension with employer contribution of 3%; flexi-time working (core hours 10am-3pm); access to Employee Assistance Programme
Contract type: Fixed, until 31 March 2027
Location: Remote, from home (within Great Britain), with occasional travel
Direct reports: None, but responsible for liaison with project partners
We are seeking a dynamic, experienced manager to manage our part in “On track for inclusive train travel”, a research, scoping and piloting project, aiming to make rail travel more accessible and inclusive for disabled people. This project is being delivered alongside RNIB as lead partner, and funded by Motability Foundation, working with our members Community Rail Lancashire (CRL) and Gloucestershire & Oxfordshire CRP (GOCRP) to engage disabled people and shine a light on lived experience.
You will work closely with RNIB and their project manager, forming part of a small project team to ensure the success of this exciting project. You will support CRL & GOCRP in their coordination of local engagement with disabled people, helping to facilitate a pan-disability, empowering approach that draws on and champions expertise by experience. Ensuring excellent collaboration with railway partners is also key to this role, enabling us to co-create an effective, adaptable model for training, learning and culture change that can be deployed across the railways as they are reformed and renationalised.
About us
Community Rail Network is a not-for-profit organisation, working across Britain to support a growing ‘community rail’ movement. Community rail promotes sustainable and inclusive travel, coordinates volunteering and place-making projects, and brings people together.
Community rail is made up of 75 community-based partnership organisations, 1,300 station friends volunteer groups, and other community-led initiatives around Britain. Their activities range from creative projects with young people, to advising train operators on service improvements, to building travel confidence with families and marginalised groups, to biodiversity projects at stations, to promoting greener travel and tourism by rail.
Our enthusiastic team of 23 works mainly from home in different locations, but we come together regularly in person and online. We work collaboratively to advise our members, provide training, events and resources, run campaigns, and champion community rail and its insights via decision-makers and the media. We believe in developing our team and supporting everyone to reach their potential while having a good work-life balance.
Responsibilities
Project and local engagement coordination
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Work closely with the RNIB project manager and as part of the project team to help ensure effective planning, coordination, management, communication and the overall success of this project, in line with its purpose and aims;
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Ensure excellent coordination and communication with the two community rail partnerships, supporting their delivery of empowering, high-quality engagement, in line with project plans, requirements and objectives;
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Ensure CRL and GOCRP are enabled to play their part effectively, using their expertise and local relationships to bring the experiences, ideas and voices of disabled people to the fore, while engaging railway staff constructively, to research, develop and test our model, and forge ongoing dialogue and understanding between the disabled community and railway;
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Take a particular lead in utilising and championing co-creation principles and empowering ways of working, across this project and its partners, and in building a legacy;
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Coordinate closely with our core railway partners helping to develop and test our model, and work across the rail industry, including engaging existing inclusion and accessibility forums and networks, to support the research phase and generally build on community rail’s positive relationships and ability to support inclusive railway practices;
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Manage Community Rail Network’s budget and monitor the CRPs’ budgets in partnership with their project leads, ensuring these are in line with agreed grant funding;
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Maintain and uphold our partner agreements and MoU with RNIB.
Research, evaluation and reporting
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Work as part of the project team to engage railway partners and jointly deliver effective research, to understand current practices and issues within the railway around accessibility and inclusion, and opportunities to improve this;
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Support the CRPs and their interaction with RNIB’s research and innovation staff and our academic advisor, and involving the disabled community and railway staff members;
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Support effective recording and evaluation by the CRPs, ensuring this is in line with project requirements, and serves our goals around legacy-building and empowering those involved;
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Advise and feed into RNIB on the completion of grant reports and financial statements, including coordinating and reviewing input, data and reports from the CRPs;
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Maintain strong relations with Motability, as part of the project team.
Legacy building, communications and influencing
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Continually feed into our senior team and the project board on insights emerging from the programme to help us advocate for more inclusive, confident (rail) travel for disabled people;
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Support and feed into Community Rail Network and RNIB’s strategic work engaging with rail reform and transformation, such as attending meetings and providing briefings, reports and recommendations, to help us seize opportunities to advocate for positive change;
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Attend and speak at community rail and other relevant events to develop awareness of the project, share its lessons, and promote our model;
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Work with Community Rail Network and RNIB’s communications teams, and other colleagues and partners, to promote the project and its achievements, and amplify the voices/views/needs of disabled people, across our networks and build a legacy.
General team working
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Contribute to the wider objectives and development of Community Rail Network, especially by sharing project progress and learnings, and offering advice and input.
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Help our member support & development team to embed lessons from the project on involving and empowering disabled people.
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Contribute to the maintenance and development of our internal systems (e.g. shared drive, CRM) such as by data capturing relevant contacts and saving documentation.
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As a member of the Community Rail Network team, assist with more general work as needed.
Skills and competencies
- A proven track record in project management, including coordinating between multiple delivery partners and ensuring project/funding requirements are met, and supporting/overseeing effective monitoring and evaluation.
- Demonstrable experience in supporting community engagement, ideally related to inclusion, disability and/or mobility, and a good understanding of and confidence using engagement, project planning, and evaluation techniques to develop and support such initiatives.
- The ability to collaborate and communicate with community groups and other local partners, draw on their views and expertise, and support them to build capacity and confidence.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work confidently with stakeholders at all levels and facilitate positive discussion; articulate and assertive, and a great team player.
- A proven ability to bring partners and groups together, develop and maintain mutually-beneficial partnerships, deliver joint activities, and form professional networks.
- Good writing, research and analysis skills, including the ability to draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence, produce case studies, briefings and reports.
- Awareness of accessibility, social mobility and social inclusion issues, and an appreciation of the importance of rail, sustainable travel and mobility to communities and disabled people.
- A demonstrable ability to manage time effectively and juggle a range of activities in an organised, professional, productive manner, including planning and scheduling, coordinating with colleagues and partners, and bringing projects to fruition.
- Proactive, positive and self-motivated, able to work on own initiative and inspire and enthuse others, and overcome hurdles to achieve results.
- IT literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and the internet.
Other information
This post is home-based, but with travel (including occasional overnight stays) for project meetings, events and external meetings. Applicants will need local access to a train station to enable rail-based travel for work as needed.
This is a fixed term contract and includes a probationary period of three months from the date of appointment. Successful applicants will need to provide proof that they have the right to work in the UK and provide two references.
We are committed to being a flexible, supportive, inclusive and understanding employer.
Championing the community rail movement | Connecting people and their railways | Creating inclusive, empowered, sustainable and healthy communities
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Role Description
The purpose of the Executive Assistant role is to provide administrative, organisational and coordination support to the Executive Team, ensuring their time and attention are aligned with organisational priorities, goals, and objectives. The role covers executive coordination, governance administration and project support. The Executive Assistant enables effective decision making across the Leadership Team, supports the smooth delivery of priorities, and contributes to the execution of long-term strategic goals.
The Executive Team comprises the Chief Executive, Operations Director and Business Development Director. They work together as part of the Leadership Team, comprising key leaders from across the charity.
Excellent attention to detail is crucial, as is the ability to operate with discretion and flexibility. A high standard of written and verbal communication is essential. The role requires collaboration across Finance, HR, Trustees, and external stakeholders, and an understanding of effective charity governance would be desirable.
This role requires a high level of emotional intelligence, sound judgement, and the ability to build trusted relationships across all levels of the organisation. Success in this role depends on a proactive mindset, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to remain calm and resourceful under pressure. The Executive Assistant must be highly dependable, detail-oriented, and capable of managing sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.
Responsibilities
Executive Coordination
- Manage calendars, inboxes, travel and meeting preparation for Executive Team
- Coordinate agendas and logistics for internal and external meetings
- Liaise with stakeholders, clients and partners to ensure smooth engagement
Governance Support
- Own the established governance timetable, board meeting scheduling, and trustee communications
- Draft and distribute board packs, take minutes, and track actions
- Support governance processes in collaboration with the Operations Director
- Support trustee onboarding, training, and engagement
- Ensure timely completion of Charity Commission and Companies House submissions
- Leverage AI tools and platforms to enhance business processes
Strategic communications
- Communicate with external stakeholders on behalf of the Executive Team
- Coordinate staff events and meetings
- Work with marketing and communities & projects teams for conferences and external events
Project support
- Support ongoing transformation projects in collaboration with Head of Business Functions
- Support recruitment and onboarding for senior roles led by the Head of Business Operations
- Support strategic planning and performance tracking led by the Operations Director and Business Development Director
- Support handover and re-onboarding of Executive Assistant on her return April 2027
Role Requirements
Required:
- Minimum of four years’ experience in a similar role.
- Experience supporting senior leaders in a fast paced and changing environment, taking initiative and managing competing deadlines calmly and flexibly.
- Confident communicating with the executive and leadership team, trustees and external partners in a professional and timely way.
- Able to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and good judgment.
- Confident coordinating meetings, preparing papers and taking accurate minutes.
- Ability to research, digest, analyse and present material clearly and concisely.
- Ability to identify and apply AI-driven tools to enhance business activities and using AI to streamline workflows and personalise business engagement.
- Comfortable stepping into an established role quickly and maintaining continuity during the maternity leave period.
Desirable:
- Experience in charity governance
- Experience in project support/management
Employees are also expected to be flexible in undertaking the duties and responsibilities attached to their post and may be asked to perform other duties that are consistent with the grade, responsibilities, and typical scope of the role. Any additional tasks should remain appropriate to the nature of the post and not extend into unrelated functions or specialisms.
All employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s values and behavioural standards, which include being supportive, transparent, respectful, kind, honest, and collaborative. This means fostering a culture of empathy, openness, integrity, and teamwork in all interactions, and contributing positively to the organisation’s mission and strategic objectives.
We are committed to flexible working and are open to requests for different working patterns. This includes part time arrangements and four day working week requests, which we will always consider as part of the recruitment process.
To apply for this role, please share your CV with a one-page cover letter setting out why this role appeals to you and how your skills and experiences meet the key skills points in the job description.
Interviews expected to take place on week commencing the 2nd of February 2026.
To apply for this role, please share your CV with a one-page cover letter setting out why this role appeals to you and how your skills and experiences meet the key skills points in the job description.
Interviews expected to take place on week commencing the 2nd of February 2026.
To support the social housing sector to unlock the full potential of its social purpose, for the benefit of residents & local communities
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This is an opportunity to step into a rewarding & influential role that supports our Head of GINA to lead, grow & nurture GINA effectively. Encompassed by general duties, your role will revolve around offering support with 3 core pillars:
1. Grants & Funding
2. Business Development & Trading Income
3. Partnerships & Communications
The role blends income generation with relational working & creative communications to elevate visibility, strengthen engagement & enhance sustainability.
This varied role is an opportunity for you to gain exposure to a diverse array of areas involved in the leadership & management of a non-profit organisation. This role will encompass continual opportunities for ideas, creativity & exploration.
Salary: £29,064 (NJC 13) pro rota (plus pension contribution if applicable)
Hours of work: 16 hours a week (working days & times to be determined)
Location: Birmingham City Centre with remote working
Deadline: rolling
Please note, opportunities are open to women only (Exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1)
For more information & to apply, head to our GINA website.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Grants & Funding
To identify & secure grants to support our core support provision.
· Researching, identifying & pursuing grants & funding opportunities.
· Leading in the preparation & submission of high-quality small grant, bids, proposals & funding applications.
· Offering support with the preparation & submitting of high-quality large grant, bids, proposals & funding applications.
· Supporting the development of grant reports, impact summaries, outcome reporting & funder communications.
Business Development & Trading Income
To increase our support offering & trading/unrestricted income to enhance sustainability & meet the needs of women subjected to sexual violence & abuse.
· The development, implementation & management of new & existing services, products & resources.
· To identify strategies, opportunities & ideas for growth, greater social impact, income generation & income diversification.
· Exploration of new revenue models & earned-income opportunities.
· To lead on projects associated with trading income generation & diversification.
Partnerships & Communications
To enhance our partnership working & communications to nurture supportive relationships in our community.
· Establishing, developing, maintaining & cultivating strong partnership working with individuals & organisations that support our work (including educational institutions, corporates, non-profits & other organisations).
· Nurturing partnerships to raise awareness of our work & enhance associated income opportunities.
· Developing partnership models, value propositions & partnership packages tailored to prospective supporters that facilitate support delivery, community engagement & organisational growth.
· Supporting co-design initiatives where appropriate with partners & beneficiaries.
· Supporting with marketing & communications tailored across platforms to our supporters & partners.
· Supporting with strategic marketing, communications & social media activities.
General
· Contributing towards creative idea exploration surrounding the growth & expansion of GINA, services, products & resources.
· Monitoring trends in the non-profit sector funding landscape including philanthropic shifts, corporate social responsibility & community needs.
· Collaborating & supporting with the line management of relevant volunteer teams to support with the above activities.
· Ensuring lived experience remains centred within all activities & continuously exploring opportunities for involvement & infusion of lived experience.
· Representing GINA at events (occasional travel)
· Undertaking any other duties as required by GINA (including, but not limited to operational & administrative tasks).
For more information & to apply, head to our website, the 'support us' tab & 'join GINA HQ' tab
Empowering women affected by sexual violence through compassion, connection, and advocacy for systemic change.


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Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with our client in their recruitment of a new Health Information Officer, on a full-time, permanent basis. This is an exciting role for the organisation which offers flexibility, with the option to either be office-based, hybrid, or remote (condensed working will also be considered).
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease which is uncommon, complex and poorly understood. It affects the immune system and can cause lasting damage to the kidneys, skin, heart, lungs and/or brain. This organisation is the only national charity supporting people living with lupus and those that care for them. They hold an ambition for a world where people with lupus can live full and active lives and work hard to empower people by providing information about lupus and offering support so their voices are heard and their condition diagnosed and managed effectively. With 35 years of service, the charity is now embarking on an ambitious new strategy, aiming to broaden and deepen its reach across the lupus community.
Reporting up to the Health Information, Policy, and Research Manager, your role will focus on developing high quality, trustworthy, current and effective information resources for the lupus community. This will include evidence-based printed publications, web content, research summaries, videos, and other digital materials to support and empower everyone affected by lupus. You will work to ensure that health information meets the needs of people with lupus as well as their families, and is marketed, promoted, and disseminated effectively to people who need it, working closely with colleagues across the Community and Social Media teams, as well as with beneficiaries themselves.
To apply for this role, you will be a creative communicator, with demonstrable experience of communicating complex health, scientific, or research information in an accessible, engaging manner. You will have experience of developing information for a wide range of audiences and in a range of formats, including print, digital, video, or audio. You will also have experience of working directly with key stakeholders to co-develop information (including people living with health conditions, young people, healthcare professionals, and researchers). Overall, you will be collaborative, proactive individual, passionate about ensuring that health resources are tailored and accessible for all.
Please apply by submitting your CV in Word format (cover letters are not required at this stage). Successful candidates will be contacted and invited to provide a supporting statement.
Interviews to take place week commencing Monday 19th January.
As a specialist recruitment practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are invested in supporting you through your application journey.
Salary: £25,630 - £30,490 per annum, depending on experience
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Worcestershire with a caseload in one of our locality teams: Worcester and Malvern, Redditch and Wychavon or Kidderminster and Bromsgrove
Job reference number: 1587
Are you passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives? At Cranstoun, we are a social justice charity with a global ambition: to be a world-class leader in rebuilding lives. We are looking for multiple Keyworkers in the Cranstoun Worcestershire Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service who share our values and are ready to support individuals affected by alcohol and/or drug use on their journey to healthier, safer lives.
Cranstoun’s Key Workers are based in operational teams covering the six districts of Worcestershire and overseen by an Operations Manager and Senior Practitioner.
You will be responsible for delivering a good quality and safe service to the people you support including assessment and engagement support, case load management, needle syringe programme delivery, harm reduction and interventions. You will have good knowledge of harm reduction and, if you are someone who enjoys problem solving to help people to change their lives for the better, this role’s right for you.
The most important thing you’ll bring to this role is your desire and ability to make a positive difference to people’s lives.
Our staff teams are motivated and committed to delivering a quality service to residents of Worcestershire and we are looking for likeminded individuals to join us. You will have good Microsoft Office skills and be able to manage your own diary efficiently and proactively. You will have integrity, enthusiasm, and a passion to make a difference.
All post holders may be required to work some evenings, to meet our service delivery requirements. The core service operates Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure.
For more details and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button.
Closing date: 4 January 2026.
Interview date: w/c 12 January 2026.
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This is a fantastic opportunity to build and grow Molly Rose Foundation's lived engagement and youth programmes, and to push for a safer online world driven by the needs and perspectives of lived experience.
Working at the intersect of tech accountability, online safety and suicide prevention, Molly Rose Foundation was founded following the death of 14-year old Molly Russell.
Today we’re committed to building and amplifying the voices of those with lived experiences of online harm – and to challenging government, regulators and tech firms to listen to and act decisively on what they have to say.
MRF is grounded in youth and lived experience, and we will always ensure the lessons of Molly's death act as a catalyst for positive change. You’ll help us maintain and grow our networks to build and amplify the voices of youth, bereaved parents and young people directly impacted by harms, and have a track record in working in partnership across the sector.
As Lived Engagement and Youth Manager you'll build strong internal and external relationships and ensure lived experience and youth runs through everything we do.
You'll manage day-to-day relationships with youth and lived experience advocates and have a strong focus on safeguarding and trauma-informed practice.
This is a rare opportunity to build a lived experience programme that really counts. We’re looking for an exceptional individual who’s motivated by the chance to really make a difference. Your work will help to ensure that tomorrow’s young people live long and stay strong.
MRF is committed to flexible working and we know that a diverse team makes us stronger. While we are recruiting for a full-time position, we will actively consider part-time and flexible working requests.
Please submit your CV and a cover letter, no more than two sides each, to apply for this role. Please refrain from overly relying on AI in your application.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We’re looking for a Social Media Administrator to join the WildFish Communications and Marketing team.
WildFish is a charity dedicated to conserving wild fish and their aquatic habitats. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys creating content, feels passionate about the positive impact of social media, and is keen to develop their skills in digital storytelling.
You’ll help to bring campaign messaging to life across our social media platforms, engage audiences, and run the day-to-day management of our accounts.
Key Responsibilities
● Content creation and planning: Draft and design engaging visual content (images, short videos, graphics) for social media. Maintain the social media content calendar.
● Channel management: Schedule and post content across social platforms (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube).
● Community management: Monitor comments, messages, and mentions; flagging or responding where appropriate. Engage with followers and build community.
● Platform maintenance: Account administration, including bio updates, ensuring profile assets remain timely and relevant, and maintaining brand consistency across platforms.
● Performance tracking: Analysis performance metrics and create reports.
● Trend spotting: Stay current with social media trends and platform updates, keeping an eye on emerging patterns in the environmental space.
Personal Requirements
Essential
● Passion for WildFish’s mission and a commitment to its values.
● Over two years' experience with social media platforms.
● Proficiency with social media management tools. .
● Experience with graphic design and video editing tools for creating engaging visual content.
● Understanding of social media analytics.
● Good written communication skills and an eye for detail.
● Organised, proactive, and eager to learn.
● Comfortable juggling multiple tasks and deadlines.
Desirable
● Background in an environmentally-focused role.
● Knowledge of wider communications mix and how the channels interact.
Preferred Qualifications
● A bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or a related field.
● Relevant work experience in a related digital marketing, content creation or agency role.
● A portfolio demonstrating successful social media campaigns, community building or follower growth.
What We Offer
● Salary: £25k - 28k (dependent on experience).
● 25 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays.
● Additional leave during the festive season.
● Flexible and remote working arrangements, with fortnightly travel to Salisbury (SP2).
● Learning and development opportunities.
● Pension contributions of 5%.
Diversity and Inclusion
At WildFish, we value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and encourage applications from individuals from under-represented groups in the conservation sector. If you don’t meet all the criteria but are passionate about our mission and believe you can contribute, we encourage you to apply.
How to Apply
For questions about the role or application process, including reasonable adjustments, contact our Operations Manager. Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Deadline for applications: 7 January 2026
Our mission is to reverse the decline of wild fish populations and their habitats, ensuring clean, healthy, fresh and coastal waters.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This is a homebased role, with some occasional travel in and around South London.
At CareDogs, we reduce social isolation by getting people out and about with local volunteers and their dogs for regular walks, talks and companionship.
We believe in a society that values community, celebrates intergenerational friendship, honours the human–animal bond, encourages us to be outside more, and helps people feel like valued members of their local communities.
As Fundraising and Marketing Assistant, you will play a central role in delivering CareDogs’ fundraising strategy, helping to grow income, strengthen community connections and raise awareness of our work. You will contribute to the development and delivery of creative fundraising initiatives, build relationships with local partners and supporters, and create engaging content that inspires people to get involved.
This is a hands-on, varied role for someone who enjoys both community engagement and communications. With a growing presence in South London, it’s an exciting opportunity to help shape the next stage of CareDogs’ growth and sustainability.
What you’ll do
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Deliver activities and campaigns that support CareDogs’ overall fundraising strategy and income targets.
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Proactively increase public fundraising initiatives and promote ways for people to fundraise for or donate to CareDogs, researching and implementing opportunities for increasing donations through organised, community and ‘DIY’ fundraising events and challenge activities.
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Establish, nurture and maintain community relationships, securing donations and support from local businesses (such as supermarkets and pet stores), community groups and individuals.
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Create marketing materials and social media content in line with CareDogs’ brand guidelines.
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Record and report fundraising campaign income and activity outcomes.
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Lead on public awareness-raising events such as Paws in the Park and other local community events.
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Cultivate and steward relationships with existing supporters, responding to enquiries (emails, letters, phonecalls) and increasing supporter engagement.
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Keep the website up to date with news, blogs and community stories, and support monthly newsletter communications via Squarespace and Mailchimp.
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Maintain accurate supporter records on our CRM (we use Beacon), updating contact and engagement information regularly.
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Utilise Eventbrite to promote events and ensure the charity’s JustGiving Page is up to date with any fundraising campaigns
What you’ll get
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Join us as the first person in this new role and help shape its direction as the charity grows. A fantastic opportunity to learn, contribute, and make a real impact.
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Be part of a rapidly growing grassroots charity with a mission to reduce loneliness and increase wellbeing.
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Support from CareDogs' experienced board members and senior leadership.
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A flexible role with the opportunity to mostly work remotely.
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20 days per year annual leave, alongside UK bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time staff), plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
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Dog-friendly annual events: Celebrate and connect with your colleagues, and bring your furry friend along!
About you
We think you’ll succeed in this role if you:
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Are familiar with the charity sector and best practice when it comes to fundraising
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Have experience managing social media channels, including content creation and scheduling, as well as using Canva or similar design software
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Have great interpersonal skills and are a persuasive, confident communicator.
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Are a self-starter, and are comfortable working independently and remotely
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Have proven experience in fundraising and donor stewardship, especially within communities or supporting local partnerships
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Have strong written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail.
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Understand the charity sector and best practice in fundraising and supporter engagement.
Essential requirements
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A genuine passion for CareDogs’ mission and values.
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A full, clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle.
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A clear DBS check (to be completed upon job offer).
Additional information
Occasionally this role will require you to attend community CareDogs events outside of office hours, so you’ll need enough flexibility to allow for this.
Solving social isolation, one dog walk at a time
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are seeking a Community Engagement Officer to provide vital administrative support to our policy & campaigns function and across the organisation, facilitating strong engagement with our community of dementia carers. The successful candidate will act as the first point of contact for enquiries around our carer engagement projects, and will assist with the coordination and administration of policy and campaign activities. You'll be joining us at an exciting time as we build on our successes and continue to grow our reach and impact to make a difference for dementia carers.
What we do at Dementia Carers Count
We support, advocate and campaign for dementia carers so that no-one feels isolated, invisible or alone.
Key responsibilities of the role
- Be the first point of contact for enquiries, managing incoming phone calls and generic inboxes for policy and campaigns, ensuring that enquiries are escalated efficiently and calls transferred to appropriate DCC team members.
- Record carer details and interactions on the database.
- Support the recruitment and ongoing management of the dementia carer community, including working across DCC teams to facilitate the promotion and ongoing coordination of a range of engagement opportunities.
- Assist in the planning, coordination, and delivery of campaigns and community engagement activities.
- Support communication with and management of the Carers’ Advisory Panel, including scheduling meetings, maintaining attendance records, and facilitating communication among members.
- Provide support for carer engagement, as required, to other teams in DCC.
We are looking for the following experience:
- Managing incoming enquiries via phone and email, with the ability to efficiently triage and escalate as needed.
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Using databases to record and manage personal information
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Coordinating appointments, meetings, or events.
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Using email or community and campaigns engagement clients like MailChimp, Campaign Monitor or Engaging Networks.
Full job description and person specification can be found in our recruitment pack via our website.
This role is remote, with periodic days in London required.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Edward’s Trust
Edward’s Trust is a local West Midlands charity providing support for bereaved children, young people, and parents. We have 36 years of experience and operate at the highest level, providing qualified counselling and holistic support for complex or prolonged grief. We do not set time limits and the service is completely free. We do not get Government funding; therefore, we rely on donations to keep this vital service going.
Our Values
RESPECT
We will act with integrity in all that we do, being mindful and considerate to all. We respect and remember those who have died. Respect is a constant that embraces diversity and uniqueness of experience.
HOPE
A feeling of trust in tomorrow. We embody, instill and empower a feeling of trust in tomorrow. Hope is the hand to hold. We have a vision that one day there will be a universal understanding of life-changing grief.
HOLISTIC
Complete and all encompassing. We acknowledge and respond to the needs of the whole person: mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We recognise the total experience of grief, promoting a holistic approach to bereavement care.
SUPPORT
Enabling with compassion and care. We provide responsive support that is appropriate, relevant and meaningful to each individual. Together in safety and strength. Encouraging society to respond appropriately to people facing loss and surviving bereavement
EXCELLENCE
Embracing professional integrity and creative innovation. We are passionate about providing exceptional services and maintaining the highest standards in all that we do. Excellence is valuing people. We are committed to driving innovation and change.
Role summary
If you’re ready for your next fundraising role, taking a step up and pushing yourself whilst working in a small but mighty team, this role really is for you. This role is a critical part of the fundraising puzzle to deliver the Edward’s Trust fundraising growth plan for 2026 and increase income and services in the local West Midlands area. This role allows you to apply your fundraising skill and knowledge and have a real and measurable impact." This Senior Fundraiser will report to the Interim Head of Fundraising, with a plan to lead the team from June 2026 with a comprehensive handover.
This role will deputise for the interim Head of Fundraising when required and has huge potential for professional growth. This role will be an exciting opportunity to work with the leadership team to develop and implement the Edward’s Trust income generation strategy, and we are particularly interested in candidates that have grown corporate income. You will be individually responsible for Corporate, Legacy, and Regular Giving fundraising.
Working with interim Head of Fundraising, you will enhance the donor experience, ensure relationships are strong and that excellent personalised communication systems are in place and that we are truly audience led. You will be required to support other members of the Fundraising Team on fundraising activities where extra resources or senior representation may be required.
You will be responsible and accountable for ensuring the database (Donorflex) is maintained by the Fundraising Team alongside the Head of Fundraising.
You will be responsible for supporting the Head of Fundraising in reviewing systems and processes and ensuring that the Fundraising Team is working efficiently and in accordance with regulatory and legal requirements and best practice.
The role will involve managing and tracking the Fundraising Team budget through direct line management when appropriate and you will be required to create monthly reports and updates as well as Trustee Reports, and, when needed, to reforecast income/expenditure, liaising with the senior leadership team.
We are open to flexible/hybrid working requests which can be discussed at interviews.
Supporting bereaved families with care, compassion and hope across the West Midlands



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We are recruiting three Funding Strategy Development Managers, two Permanent roles and one Fixed-term for 12 months. Please state clearly in your supporting statement if you wish to be considered for the Fixed Term or Permanent role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the National Lottery Community Fund’s, Funding Strategy, Innovation and UK Directorate at a key moment in the delivery of our strategy. If you are up for playing a central role in a new team, which will be vital in enabling the Fund to deliver for communities in the years ahead, then this role could be for you.
We are approaching the midpoint of implementation of our strategy “It starts with community”. Over the last few years our funding portfolios in each of the nations of the UK and corporate functions have worked hard to embed the strategic ambitions we set ourselves. We are looking to take stock of our progress, understand how a changing world may impact our work and explore how we can grow our ambition to address the issues that will impact communities over the years ahead. Building on what we have achieved so far, we want to make greater progress including:
- Ensuring the fund has a thorough and live understanding of its collective response to the strategy, where our successes are and where there are opportunities to go further.
- Supporting our senior management team to come together to understand and explore our progress and shape the strategic direction for the organisation together
- Supporting greater engagement and collaboration between funding portfolios to enable sharing and learning, to build a better collective understanding of our missions and commitments and grow our impact
- Delivering ambitious and impactful projects to address common opportunities and challenges, for example to support the embedding of partnership working across the Fund, or to respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies.
- Supporting ongoing strategy development, including horizon scanning to maintain a collective picture of key developments related to our missions, cross cutting commitments and wider factors impacting communities.
Your day will be a blend of strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and practical execution, with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, influence, and drive change across the Fund. You will be one of two permanent managers in a small new team led by the Head of Strategy Development.
As this is a new team roles and responsibilities will be defined as the Team comes together. However, responsibilities may include:
- Drafting Senior Management Team (SMT) and Board reports on strategy implementation to update on progress and promote discussions on areas for development.
- Monitoring of funding portfolio strategy development and delivery activity, including maintaining regular engagement with portfolio representatives.
- Reviewing progress reports, identifying risks and issues and shaping recommendations to meet challenges and opportunities to go further in meeting strategic ambitions.
- Working closely with the Fund’s Governance Team to ensure the appropriate use of governance fora to provide oversight of strategy implementation and development work and maintaining an effective forward look of key priorities.
- Leading on engagement with key corporate functions, such as analytical, communications, legal and Human Resources, to support alignment with strategic ambitions.
- Engaging with funding teams across the Fund to support strong alignment between strategic ambition and operational realities.
- Leading discreet projects to explore emerging shared opportunities and challenges, undertaking desk research, engaging internal and external stakeholders and shaping proposals.
- Identifying opportunities for further alignment, internal partnerships and new ways of working.
Interview Details:
- Interview Date: TBC - 22 and 23 of January
- Format: Virtual
- Location: UK-Wide
Location: We have a hybrid approach to working, work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, these are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Newcastle and Newtown.
Briefing session: We will be hosting a briefing session to further outline the role and answer questions on the following date: 15 December 2025, 3:15- 4:00pm. To register or ask any questions about the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment team.
How to apply:
Upload your CV in word format and write a supporting statement (1000 words) with the following criteria, we will use this to score your application.
Essential criteria:
- Experience of working with civil society, either working in a civil society organisation or in a supporting function (e.g. in a funding, consultancy or policy making body) with a strong understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the sector.
- Experience of managing competing priorities to ensure successful delivery of key pieces of work.
- Strong collaboration skills, able to work with a range of people at different levels within an organisation to shape plans and projects that reflect the interests of the organisation.
- Strong external engagement skills, able to proactively identify a range of relevant stakeholders, build and maintain relationships, and draw on knowledge and expertise to inform proposals and projects.
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to draw on data and qualitative evidence to understand complex topics and shape evidence led proposals.
- Strong communication skills, able to present complex topics clearly using a range of communication tools, in particular, able to write clear and succinct formal papers for senior leaders.
- Strong project management skills, able to use a range of tools to set out clear and timely delivery plans, identifying appropriate milestones, risks and issues.
Desirable criteria:
- Experience of working in a policy or strategy team, helping to set direction for an organisation or major programme of work
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.
We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition).
It starts with community.
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