Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone. We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults. Our work is guided by our values of:

Openness  |  Belonging  |  Strength  |  Collaboration

Manchester Mind is looking to recruit a Community Engagement Team Leader. The role will involve working in a collaborative and person centred way across primary care in Manchester, Bolton, Salford, Wigan and Trafford, with people with lived experience of mental health problems to improve physical health issues and promote take up of both flu and Covid-19 vaccines.

We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop and deliver accessible mental health support services.

Position: Community Engagement Team Leader

Salary: £25,991

Hours: 35 hours per week (full time)

Initially a 12-month contract.

The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:

• Ability to work in an open way that builds kind relationships and is receptive to and appreciative of the skills and talents of everyone.
• Knowledge or experience of the issues that people with lived experience of poor mental health face and the impact this can have on physical health.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others.

Application documents can be downloaded from alongside this listing, or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.

All applications must be received by 12noon, Monday 31st January 2022. Interviews are planned for 10th and/or 11th February.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.

Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone. We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults. Our work is guided by our values of:

Openness  |  Belonging  |  Strength  |  Collaboration

Manchester Mind is looking to recruit 8 full-time (35 hours) Community Engagement Workers. The roles will involve working in a collaborative and person centred way across primary care in Manchester, Bolton, Salford, Wigan and Trafford, with people with lived experience of mental health problems to improve physical health issues and promote take up of both flu and Covid-19 vaccines.

We would like to work with people who are experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop and deliver accessible mental health support services.

Position: Community Engagement Worker (x8)

Salary: £21,748 - £23,080

All posts are Full-Time (35 hours per week). All posts are initially a 12 month contract.

The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:

• Ability to work in an open way that builds kind relationships and is receptive to and appreciative of the skills and talents of everyone.
• Knowledge or experience of the issues that people with lived experience of poor mental health face and the impact this can have on physical health.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others.

Application documents can be downloaded from this listing, or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.

All applications must be received by 12noon, Monday 31st January 2022. Interviews are planned for 10th and/or 11th February.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.

Langworthy Cornerstone is looking for a Chief Officer to lead and manage our local charity in Salford. The Chief Officer will build on our passion to improve local health and wellbeing and our good reputation locally so that we can continue play an important part in promoting the health and wellbeing of the local community.

We are looking for an inspiring individual who can make things happen and deliver change, whilst also maintaining a welcoming environment for all local residents and supporting well established groups in the centre.

The opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives whilst gaining management experience and developing your skill set through working with local residents, public services and voluntary sector organisations on a range of key projects.

The role offers significant opportunities for innovation, development and growth of our programmes enhancing the Health and Wellbeing of the local community.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Salford CVS to support our capacity-building / development team.

We’re looking to recruit a full-time (37.5 hours per week) Development Worker, on a permanent contract, subject to the successful completion of a 6-month probationary period.

The post-holder will assist the Services Manager in the development and delivery of the capacity-building, information, advice and guidance (IAG) service aimed at voluntary, community, social enterprise organisations (VCSE). The role will be based in both the office and community settings.

Are you good with people?

Have you experience of working within the VCSE sector?

Are you able to effectively support VCSE groups and organisations to build their skills, knowledge and experience in order to make a difference?

The role includes providing information, advice and guidance on a one to one basis to VCSE groups and organisations. A typical working week could include:

• Working with groups and organisations, from the very small to the large, on their grant applications
• Supporting our VOCAL VCSE Forums for voice and influence
• Visiting groups and organisations  across Salford
• Partnership working -  bringing together community groups, charities, social enterprises and public sector bodies to work together
• Delivering training to VCSE groups and organisations  
• Working with a wide range of VCSE groups and organisations including environmental groups, small community social groups, homelessness charities, faith-based groups, communities of identity, and many more
• Supporting colleagues with other Salford CVS initiatives such as the Answer Cancer and Wellbeing Matters programmes, our grants and investments, membership and backroom services, etc.

Delivery is undertaken in person - either in the office or out at community locations - and also online, by phone and via email.

Blackburn Central Library with travel around Lancashire

Closing date: 30th January 2022 at 11.30pm

Do you have experience of providing housing, welfare benefits and debt casework? Then join Shelter as a Community Adviser and you could soon be part of the Building Better Opportunities team that provides a vital service to the local community.

About Shelter
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team
You will be part of a collaborative and supportive team working on the Building Better Opportunities project. Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and the European Social Fund (ESF) 2014-2020, this vital project invests in local projects tackling the root causes of poverty, promoting social inclusion and driving local jobs and growth, including three Building Better Opportunities (BBO) projects in Lancashire which are being delivered by a partnership of social enterprise and community organisations. These are: ‘Age of Opportunity’, supporting people over 50; ‘Invest in Youth’, supporting 15-24-year-olds; and ‘Changing Futures’, supporting people with multiple and complex barriers to employment.

About the role
Working flexibly across Lancashire, you will provide housing, debt and welfare benefits support and manage a varied caseload. You’ll also build and maintain relationships within the community and collaborate with key stakeholders and referral partners to achieve positive outcomes. And, when it comes to supporting with developing and delivering training/rights awareness for staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders, again, we’ll count on you. Involving those with lived experience in service design, identifying opportunities to influence change, ensuring client details are entered onto a case management system and keeping up-to-date on changes in legislation – all are aspects of this interesting and varied role.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you

You will need experience of providing housing, welfare benefits and debt casework. You’ll need experience of supporting people with multiple disadvantages within a safeguarding framework and a proven ability to manage a caseload, adhering to multiple deadlines and utilising and applying legislation to your day-to-day casework. You will have experience of working collaboratively with key stakeholders and referral partners to achieve shared outcomes. And be able to demonstrate experience of using various IT packages to input client data and the ability to communicate using various platforms.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata), enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

The successful candidate will be working for a small, dynamic and unique charity who enable disabled people to access all forms of digital technology. This is done through assessment and the development of technology as well as providing accessible video gaming sessions using the latest technology.

The role of this job is primarily to provide a 10 month maternity cover for an existing post. However, there may be scope to extend the contract if you can develop a revenue stream that would sustain the extra position.

The post is for 36 hours a week and involves hybrid working, split between home and our centre in Sale and flexible hours of working where possible.

Due to the unique nature of our charity’s work, we do not expect applicants to have knowledge in assistive technology and so the successful candidate will be given overview training in specialist areas in order to support your role. The post will be expected to deliver the following 4 areas:

1. Fundraising

• Sourcing and delivering new funding streams – from corporate and public sources.
• Plan and implement our annual fundraiser Game Together. Producing marketing materials, recruiting fundraisers, secure sponsorship, updating communications such as website, social media etc., create fundraising packs and deliver the event.

• Look into and implement new fundraising ideas
• Liaise and maintain relationships with the charities supporters, funders and grant givers
• Assist the Fundraising Officer with submitting grant applications
• Assist the Fundraising Officer with reporting on successful grant applications

2. Engagement and communication

Engage with new and existing audiences that would:

• Benefit from Everyone Can’s services and tailor our support based on their needs
• Fund Everyone Can’s services and contribute to our financial sustainability
• Liaise and maintain relationships with families and carers of our service users.
• Promote and demonstrate the charity’s work, services and impact to service users and funders
• Attend promotional events and networking events when needed

3. Marketing

• Coordinate and produce marketing materials such as leaflets and posters
• Manage all social media platforms creating engaging daily content
• Update and amend the website with any news stories
• Create case studies for service users we have helped

4. General administrative tasks

• Responding to any charity enquiries via email and phone
• Schedule upcoming gaming sessions using Event Brite
• Register new service users at gaming sessions
• Collate feedback when needed
• Take photos of service users to use for marketing

You will also (only with agreement of General Manager):

• Support service personnel when required
• Carry out other duties to help the running of the charity

A successful outcome for this post would demonstrate a steady increase in both service uptake and income. The increase in income should see the charity being more financially stable by building on existing revenue streams already in place. There may be an opportunity for the contract term to be extended if an increase in income can be generated and shown to be sustainable.

Reporting directly to the General Manager of the trust, the post will be instrumental in communicating the benefits that our services offer disabled people, in order to gain and retain support from funders, both new and existing.

The role requires a self-motivated person with the ability to organise their own workload effectively.

Essential skills

• Excellent relationship builder with experience of organising business and third party fundraising events to generate income, as well as being able to demonstrate an organisation’s impact to a variety of audiences to generate interest and uptake in its services.
• An ability to create successful and engaging fundraising initiatives and events. Be able to demonstrate your ability to grow income within new fundraising channels.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills with the ability to motivate both yourself and others. Be able to recruit, organise and support community volunteers if needed, to deliver organisational objectives.
• There will be a need to work one evening a week. Weekend working and overnight stays may rarely be required so you will be able to plan your time effectively. Have access to a car and a valid full driving license.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage a busy and varied workload.
• Good relationship building and networking skills
• Excellent inter-personal communication skills
• Ability to work within a small team

Essential experience

• Experience in delivering a fundraising campaign
• Must have experience in corporate fundraising and supporter engagement with a good understanding of the donor journey
• Experience in producing marketing and communications materials on brand, with excellent writing skills for a variety of media, both printed and electronic
• Knowledge of social media

Desirable skills and experience

• Knowledge of assistive technologies
• Knowledge and experience with Salesforce
• Experience of disability issues
• Experience with Adobe illustrator and/or Photoshop
• Knowledge of the gaming industry

Contract length: 10 months with possibility of being extended

Application deadline: 30/01/2022

We request a covering letter to be included with your C.V. detailing why you feel you would suit the post.

Interviews to take place on the 7th and 8th of January and attendees will be expected to give a short presentation (topic of presentation will be provided on offer of interview, shortly after the close of applications).

Expected start date ideally would be late February 2022

Job Types: Full-time maternity cover

Salary: £26.000 to £29,000 per year, pro rata depending on relevant experience

Length of contract:   12 months fixed term 

Salary:  £22,183 to £26,511 per annum (NJC scale 12/21)

Based at: Trafford

Hours:  30 hours                                                                                                       

Our Mission

We help people to achieve the outcomes that matter to them in their lives, by providing high quality advocacy.

Purpose of role

The role of a community advocate will be to provide support to individuals 18+ within the community to have a voice in decisions affecting their life, whilst helping them to understand their rights. The role will require the post holder to promote self-advocacy and empowerment and enable people to make informed decisions and get their views heard in matters relating to mental health and/or care and support needs within health and social care. This will be through one-to-one advocacy and other models of advocacy as required. This activity will include working with people of all ages, including those with learning disabilities, people with mental health needs, people with physical and sensory impairment, and older people.

Here are a few examples of how you could be supporting someone:

• Supporting a parent to have a voice when dealing with children social care services.
• Supporting a person to navigate health services and attend appointments such as mental health services or the GP.
• Supporting a person to access and navigate adult social care services
• Supporting a person to express dissatisfaction with services such as NHS Organisations or Adult Social Care or speaking on the phone if appropriate.
• Support a person to understand what services are available to them both statutory and in the community to meet their health and social care needs.

Development Research Officer – (Maternity cover) 

Manchester Metropolitan University is a thriving modern University located in the heart of a global city. We are committed to ensuring that talented people from diverse backgrounds have access to an unrivalled education and delivering research with impact.

The Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) team supports the strategic priorities of the University by raising significant donations from alumni, friends, companies and trusts and foundations and harnessing the expertise and goodwill of our stakeholder communities.

The Development Research Officer plays an instrumental role in improving our knowledge and understanding of the supporter and stakeholder communities and ensuring  donations and influence are realised to their potential.

The role

We are seeking a Development Research Officer (maternity cover), who will play a key role in developing and delivering the identification of, and research into, potential supporters, partners and influencers. This will include individuals, trusts, foundations and companies, with a view to maximising support for the University's priority fundraising projects and enabling colleagues in both alumni relations and development to reach their goals.

This post is an opportunity to make a real difference towards fundraising for transformational initiatives including the First Generation campaign, a scholarship programme which aims to break down barriers to higher education and provide scholarship support for 1,000 young people who will be the first in their family to go to university.

You will also identify potential supporters for our impactful research and senior alumni that could help support our alumni volunteering and ambassador programmes.

The ideal candidate

You will have proven experience of delivering high quality research, ideally in a similar setting in higher education or within a charity. You will have excellent written, listening and verbal communication skills and be comfortable working with a number of fundraisers closely to proactively develop their pool of donors and prospective donors.

Ideally you will have recent experience of implementing prospect research strategies, or applicable transferable skills in a similar area of gathering and cross-referencing high quality information from a wide range of sources in a timely manner and will be able to demonstrate effective use of CRM databases. 

Tenacity and the ability to use your own initiative is a must in this role, whilst having the flexibility to work in a close-knit team on a number of projects at any one time. 

This is an excellent opportunity for someone wishing to develop their career in higher education fundraising within a dynamic and growing team. 

Interviews will be held on Friday 28th January.

Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We promote applications from all sections of the community, irrespective of background, belief or identity, recognising the benefits that a diverse organisation can bring. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minority Ethnic candidates, who we recognise are underrepresented in this area.

We recognise the benefits and importance of an environment that supports flexible working and are open to conversations about this throughout the application process.

Closing date: 23 January 2022

Community Engagement Coordinator 

Manchester

Grade 5 (£23,487 to £26,341)

Ref: 4366

Manchester Metropolitan is proud to be a part of our community. Our campus sits right at the heart of both the city centre and Hulme and our impact stretches further afield through Greater Manchester and beyond. Community engagement a major part of who we are and what we do. Our culture – from research to the student experience - develops strong and long-lasting community connections.

We are looking for a new Community Engagement Coordinator to join the Public Affairs team, who are responsible for engaging with external stakeholders and leading on activities as part of the University's Communications Strategy. With a new GM Civic University Agreement in place and the launch of our ambitious 2030 Sustainability Strategy, this is a great time to join the University and support our work with local communities.

The Public Affairs team are looking for an exceptional communicator, who is approachable and skilled at fostering positive relationships. You will support engagement and communications with our neighbours and partners including local residents, community/voluntary groups and networks. A key point of contact for local communities, you will also respond to enquiries and create bespoke communications for a range of target audiences.

This role also provides a fantastic opportunity to develop and maintain close working relationships with staff across the University. You will support the initiation of community engagement on and off campus and facilitate the use of University resources as appropriate. As well as supporting best practice across the University, you will be responsible for leading on specific activities to deliver against University and local priorities including sustainability and wellbeing.

This role includes some weekend and evening working. We recognise the benefits and importance of an environment that supports flexible and remote working and are open to conversations about this throughout the application process.

You are an enthusiastic, adaptable, motivated, and organised individual with proven ability and skill to create effective communications, handle different levels of enquiries and build strong relationships.

With an excellent knowledge of community engagement practices and local priorities, you will demonstrate the skill set to plan, deliver, and evaluate projects.

Your work will be underpinned by your strong administration skills, attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.

Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We promote applications from all sections of the community, irrespective of background, belief or identity, recognising the benefits that a diverse organisation can bring and particularly encourage applications from groups which are underrepresented in the University workforce.

Hybrid working is offered for this role.The nature of the role requires presence on campus at certain times of year, but at other times you will be able to complete some work remotely. We recognise the benefits and importance of an environment that supports flexible working and are open to conversations throughout the application process.

Closing date: 26th January 2022

Good Practice & Partnerships Team and Clients Access to Rights & Entitlements (CARE) Project West Midlands

London, Birmingham, Bradford or Manchester with significant home working options

Part time - 14 hours per week

Permanent - with initial funding for two years

We’re looking for a Partner Development Project Coordinator to increase access to justice in the West Midlands by offering developmental support to 6 – 12 asylum, refugee and / or migrant organisations on a one-to-one and regional basis.

The role is part of an exciting partnership between two Refugee Action teams – the Clients Access to Rights and Essentials (CARE) Project West Midlands and Good Practice and Partnerships (GPP).

Building on our existing initial organisational needs assessments, the Partner Development Project Coordinator will co-create individual development plans / agreements and provide bespoke support packages with and for the partner organisations.  Their focus will be in 3 main areas: 

1. Develop - Supporting partners to develop their immigration advice models and / or legal literacy practice, whilst working closely with the Frontline Immigration Advice Project (FIAP) to enable them to access training and support.

1. Amplify - Working with partners who would like to increase the engagement of Experts by Experience into their own service offers by supporting them to access the Lived Experience Exchange Programme (part of Explore Adapt Renew – a Good Practice and Partnerships project).

1. Collaborate - Creating local / regional networks to increase peer support, referral pathways and collaboration between organisations who provide legal advice.  Exploring the viability of piloting a Community of Practice in the West Midlands.

To succeed in this role you will have:

• Understanding of the wider needs, hopes and experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, combined with a particular-focus on their legal immigration advice needs.

• Understanding of how to assess organisational needs and how to provide high quality development support to a range of organisations (from grassroots to small and medium sized), including identifying needs and working towards solutions.

• Experience of development work that is empowering, preventative and / or asset-based; enabling communities of people or organisations to gain confidence, skills and resilience.

• Excellent networking and partnership-building skills, with the ability to initiate and maintain effective networks.

• Understanding of how organisations can increase the amount of asylum and immigration legal advice provision within their services, as well as local area networks / ecosystems.

• Excellent facilitation skills.

• Experience, or relevant transferable experience, of partnership working within the voluntary, legal or asylum / refugee / migrant sectors in the West Midlands; especially Birmingham, Coventry and / or Stoke on Trent.

• For further details, and to apply, please visit our website.

  Those with lived experience as a refugee are encouraged to apply.

  Closing date: 09:00am, Monday 7th February 2022

  Interviews: Monday 21st February 2022 – online via Zoom

We are looking for a Membership and Development Officer for the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), part of the Applied Research and Evaluation Division of the Anna Freud Centre.

You will be a proactive, motivated, organised individual – data competent, adaptable to work across different types of projects, and committed to all that CORC stands for. You may have an NHS or mental health background, work in social care, a local authority or schools, or you may come from another field entirely.

The Consortium spans schools, professional bodies and service providers in health, local authorities and the voluntary sector, across the UK and beyond. All collaborating organisations are committed to a shared aim: collecting and using evidence to improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. 

The postholder will be a key point of contact for CORC members, leading on managing relationships. developing the CORC offer and communicating it through responses to queries, planned events and training, and written and digital materials. They will provide advice and support directly as part of specific projects or initiatives.

The Membership and Development Officer oversees the smooth-running of systems and processes supporting projects and members. The postholder will be an excellent communicator, working with colleagues to build engagement with the collaboration and promote CORC’s offer to prospective partners.  

The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families supports distressed children and their families through innovative therapeutic practice and research, training and promoting awareness of mental health issues.

Please specify in your application whether you wish to work from our Manchester or from our London offices.

The Centre values diversity and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.

The Centre has moved to a hybrid model of working. Staff are currently working 20% of their working hours onsite. From January 2022, staff will be required to work onsite for up to 40% of their working hours, either at the Anna Freud Centre in King’s Cross, London (4-8 Rodney Street, London N1 9JH) or our Northern Hub in Manchester (Huckletree, The Express Building, 9 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester M4 5AD).  Regular UK travel, including occasional overnight stays, is required as part of the role. 

Please note all our posts require candidates to have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of applying and we do not hold a sponsorship licence.

The Diocese of Chester is seeking to recruit a committed and collaborative Director of Development (Vision and Strategy) who will play a pivotal role in the new vision and strategy development for the Diocese of Chester.

The successful candidate will have a profound understanding of the mission of a Church of England Diocese and a personal commitment to seeing lives and communities transformed in the love of  Christ. They will have a proven ability in working with multiple stakeholders both as part of a team and individually, emotional intelligence, strong listening skills, professional excellence, strategic thinking, and adaptability.

The postholder will be someone who brings a balance of clear awareness of strategy development process with a strongly relational approach and exceptional communication skills to engage and mobilise a diversity of stakeholders.

Salary: £45- to £60,000 plus pension (dependent upon qualifications and experience). This is a fixed term position for one year.

There is an Occupational Requirement that the post-holder is a Christian in accordance with the Equality Act, 2010.

The job description, person specification, background paper and application form can be downloaded from the Diocesan website.

PLEASE NOTE: Applications should be made via the Diocesan website using the diocesan application form.

Completed application forms should be returned to Mrs E A Geddes, Diocesan Director of Human Resources preferably by email

Or by post to Church House, 5500 Daresbury Park, Warrington, WA4 4GE.

Closing date:  12noon on Friday 11th February 2022

Interviews: Friday 25th February 2022

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.

About the Role

We are looking for a Knowledge and Learning Officer to join the National Lottery Community Fund. The position can be based anywhere in the UK either working from home or one of our offices.

The Knowledge and Learning Officer role will focus on supporting colleagues, grant holders and stakeholders to share, create and use their insights to create lasting change.

The role will primarily be looking to exploreand understand the different approaches to delivering grant making we use and how these can improve the difference our funding makes to our grant holders and communities.

You will be developing and leading our teams learning on specific areas of focus for example participatory grant making.

Supporting funding teams across the UK to understand the difference, impact and effectivenessof these approaches. This will be through the development and delivery of a learning plan and sharing this through events, webinars, blogging and other ways of sharing learning.You will also be involved in supporting a community of practice to share learning and insights across the Fund.

The role will be dynamic and fast paced working with a dedicated team of staff to deliver on common goals and innovative pieces of work. This might mean chipping in to support assessment of applications, grant management and other areas of work when required. 

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Location: UK Wide

Interview Date: W/C 28th February

Essential Criteria

• Ability to nurture, develop and promote effective relationships and communication with colleagues, community organisations and other external agencies in order to share learning
• Ability to design and deliver learning approaches that develop robust evidence and insights about a topic or programme
• Curious mindset to understand, research and to make sense of things with others. We need someone who cares about the detail and the context and looks for ways to find out more.
• Ability to write and speak about complex ideas, information and impact in an engaging and accessible way

Desirable Criteria

• An understanding of equitable funding and/or equitable evaluation approaches
• Experience of managing learning or evaluation programmes

For You

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

Equal Opportunities

Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.

Community and Events Fundraiser

We are looking for a Community and Events Fundraiser to support the delivery of the charity’s work by securing income.

Position: Community and Events Fundraiser

Location: Home based (throughout England and Wales, with possibility to work in Walton-on-Thames or Cardiff offices)

Hours: Part-time, 22.5 hours

Salary: £23,000 – £25,000 pro rata (depending on experience)

Contract: One year fixed term with possible extension

Benefits: Excellent benefits package including 35 days per year pro rata (inclusive of bank holidays), Employer Pension contribution of 5%, Death in Service benefits, access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity for flexible working.

Closing Date: Thursday 27 January

Interviews will take place on a rolling basis, so please apply early.

The Role

As Community and Events Fundraiser, you will support the delivery of securing income through providing excellent donor stewardship which inspires individuals, groups and local corporates to maximise their giving and organising, marketing and delivering a mass participation and third party events programme.

Main duties and responsibilities include:

• Grow the individual supporter base of the charity by identifying, researching and implementing new ways to approach potential supporters
• Work with the fundraising team to implement and facilitate stewardship of donors
• Research, identify and implement new fundraising income streams
• Make links with schools, organisations and community groups in order to develop support
• Identify, propose and develop corporate partnerships
• Give talks to community/supporter groups where it is deemed of benefit to do so
• Develop and manage development committees
• Recruit and manage volunteers
• Manage the charity’s challenge event income for England and Wales
• Work within the guidelines of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising best practice
• Ensure all fundraising activities collect and manage donor data in accordance with relevant legislation
• Deliver work projects against agreed targets
• Raise the profile and awareness of the charity through marketing and communication channels

About You

As Community and Events Fundraiser you will have an understanding of general fundraising methodologies and approaches.

You will have experience of:

• Delivering successful community fundraising activities.
• Marketing and managing events.
• Developing relationships across a wide range of external customers including individuals, groups and companies.
• Managing projects ensuring completion within budget and deadline.

When applying for this role you will be asked to submit a CV and Covering letter of no more than 2 sides of A4.

About the Organisation

The charity improves the health and wellbeing of children and adults through the healing power of live music. Every year, professional musicians share live music with over 100,000 people from across the UK, who may not otherwise get to experience it. This includes those living with dementia, mental health problems, or who are seriously ill. 

The charity is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes enquiries from everyone and values diversity in the workforce and is committed to safeguarding. This role will require a basic DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) or equivalent check

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