Are you ready for a new challenge? Would you relish the chance to become part of a successful forward-thinking organisation?
This is a really exciting new role to take the lead on corporate fundraising within Stick ‘n’ Step.
You will maximise current potential through excellent stewardship of our existing partners. You will lead on securing new corporate partnerships, you will build brand-new relationships from scratch, including strategic partnerships and Charity of the Year campaigns. Taking ownership of the corporate income stream, you'll have plenty of autonomy to be creative in terms of trying fresh things and leading new campaigns.
We would welcome applications from candidates who are target driven, with strong corporate fundraising experience or from a corporate sales background, who want to use their skills to make a real difference to the lives of the children and families that we support.
If you are an enthusiastic and energetic individual, a natural networker and compelling communicator who enjoys working in a team environment to achieve outstanding results then we would love to hear from you!
Interviews will take place on Thursday 20th February.
About us:
Stick ‘n’ Step provide free conductive education sessions to children with cerebral palsy. Our support improves mobility, independence and boosts self-confidence, enabling each child to reach their personal potential.
“We work together to help everyone achieve their full potential while having fun”.
We provide vital support to over 100 children and their families from our centres in Wallasey and Runcorn. Our Runcorn centre opened in the summer of 2017 enabling us to reach out to more families across the North West of England. This is an exciting time to join Stick ‘n’ Step and we are looking for someone who has the passion and motivation to contribute to our dynamic organisation.
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Who are we?
Recently named Third Sector Charity of the Year 2018, we are a rapidly growing charity, committed to moving further, faster to accelerate change for everyone affected by a brain tumour. Brain tumours kill more children and adults under 40 in the UK than any other cancer. We know that a cure can’t wait. By recruiting a team that ‘can’, we can and will find one sooner.
Our exciting job role!
The Community Fundraiser for the North West of England and Northern Ireland will be integral in building relationships with our community to generate and grow our income and raise awareness within the region. You will support the recruit new supporters and nurture existing relationships within our community.
What we'd like from you:
It’s simple – we’re looking for the people who ‘can’. We want the talented, the energetic and the ambitious. We need the inspired and the inspirational – the people who completely embrace our values, offer a great cultural fit and who are determined to make real and lasting change for our community.
According to the job description you should also have a proven track record in community fundraising, be good at juggling a myriad of competing priorities and work well under pressure to meet deadlines.
If this is for you, we’d love to hear from you!
What we'd like to give you:
- Salary c.£24,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays – pro rata for part-time contracts (we also close at Christmas in return for you volunteering 3 charity days per year*)
- Generous pension contribution*
- Life assurance cover*
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Loads of other great benefits, plus an amazing culture to work in, a great team and lots of fun (and cake!)
How to apply to join our amazing team:
Please apply online attaching your CV and a supporting statement explaining why you want the role, what you would bring to the team and how your skillset and experience will enable us to make a real impact for those affected by brain tumours.
Advert close date: Thursday, 23rd January 2020
First interview date and location: tbc via Skype
Second interview date and location: tbc at our Farnborough office
More about us:
Visit our website careers pages to find out more about our culture and what it’s like to be part of our amazing team.
Don’t forget to check out our short videos (you can find the on our You Tube channel) to find out more about our culture and what it is like to work at The Brain Tumour Charity.
Did you know that in addition to being recently crowned Third Sector Charity of the Year, we have won a variety of other awards and have been ranked a top global organisation by renowned management consultants McKinsey? Whilst we’re not boasting, we are particularly proud that our HeadSmart campaign scooped the NHS Innovation Award, a Third Sector Excellence Award and a Charity Times Award (well, maybe we’re boasting a little bit!).
For more information, please visit our website.
* subject to qualifying criteria
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Are you a charity fundraiser ready for a new challenge offering autonomy and a chance to really influence senior management?
This is a fantastic opportunity for a fundraiser ready to step up and take on line management responsibility whilst maintaining full control of income generation activity!
About the charity
Natural Breaks have been supporting people with disabilities across the North West since 1991. The charity provides bespoke support in homes, in work, in education, with leisure or social activities and during the difficult transition from children to adult services.
As well as directly supporting individuals to lead a fulfilling and independent life, the charity also provides much-needed respite to their families. Natural Breaks now support over 100 people and their families and has historically been funded by local authorities.
About the role of Fundraising Officer
Natural Breaks gained charitable status in 2016 and as part of the next phase of their development and recently approved fundraising strategy, now offer this opportunity to lead on fundraising activity at the charity. An experienced charity fundraiser will be the next addition to the team to drive new revenue streams to secure existing services and allow for an expansion of services for families in the North West. This really is a varied role and offers the opportunity to drive revenue in Trusts and Foundations, Community, Individual Giving and Corporate fundraising.
As this is a brand-new position in the team, the successful candidate will be given the autonomy to deliver on the fundraising strategy, whilst also encouraged to influence senior leadership. The role also comes with line management responsibility and a chance to grow the team further upon success.
The charity prides itself on its positive working environment and excellent track record of staff development and retention. Natural Breaks want their staff to be the best that they can be, to deliver the best possible support. They truly believe leading an ordinary life can be extraordinary.
You may be an experienced generalist ready to embrace an opportunity to work for a progressive and well-managed charity, or perhaps you are a specialist fundraiser seeking an opportunity to expand your knowledge in a supportive environment. Wherever you have developed your charity fundraising experience, we are keen to speak to you about this unique opportunity!
How to apply:
If you think this is a perfect match for your skillset then please get in touch with the BTA recruitment team today.
Please get in touch with James for more information.
Closing date: 9am, Wednesday 5th February 2020
Interview date: w/c 10th February 2020
This search is being conducted exclusively on behalf of Natural Breaks Ltd. by BTA. Our leadership team have all worked in the voluntary sector and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments.
The Communications Officer will ensure that Wirral Ark has high quality communications and marketing in place to support its activities. Through high quality marketing materials, social media campaigns and consistent branding, will support our fundraising, policy and raise local awareness.
Key duties and responsibilities are as follows:
To support the fundraising function of the charity
- To work with fundraisers and management to make an appropriate comms plan for each fundraising event
- To support the success of fundraising events by reaching as many potential participants or donors as possible through appropriate channels
- To work with the fundraiser to respond to information requests from potential participants or donors
- To help produce and distribute fundraising packs in connection with ongoing events
- To create social media campaigns leading up to and through fundraising events
- To help design and produce printed materials relating to upcoming events
- To help organise our Christmas Card sales
Building awareness in the local community
- Publishing materials on different online channels that shares and champions the work of Wirral Ark
- Taking a lead on social media activity, ensuring we have a continual presence and engage with our local stakeholders
- Attending local events and helping raise awareness of the charity and its work
- Occasionally doing presentations to local community groups about Wirral Ark
- Helping design thank you and similar public stakeholder events each year
- Helping process volunteering queries coming in to the charity
- Creating and distributing press releases to appropriate places
- Manage and curate mailing lists of supporters
- Producing regular newsletters about Wirral Ark’s work
- Oversee the design and publishing of the charity’s website
Internal comms
- Helping design and refresh the Wirral Ark brand
- Producing brand guidelines and helping staff work inside them
- Support staff in producing their own printed materials for project and other internal purposes
- Inputting to the work of other staff where it relates to comms
General duties
- To attend all mandatory training courses
- To attend all staff meetings
- Other duties as required by the role.
A full job description is available to download.
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Salary: £31,114 per annum
Hours: 37 per week
Based: Flexible with travel across UK including the Liverpool Head Office
Duration: 12 months with possible extension
This is an exciting new role, created as part of our investment in income generation for our five year transformational strategic plan. As our fundraising lead you will work as part of the communications team to create and deliver an income generation strategy to develop our work promoting and celebrating the contribution of people with personal experience of supportive shared living.
You will be responsible for leading the organisation in generating new income (with support from colleagues) from a variety of sources including individual donors, events, corporate sponsorship, lottery and assisting with project grants.
You will need to have the ability to be a strategic thinker and have the energy to kickstart our fundraising plan and help lead the organisation in unrestricted income generation. The role has the potential to grow depending on the success of the organisation.
We are looking for an individual who understands and believes in our ethos and is ready to join us on our journey.
Job objectives
1. Corporate: raise money from local, national and international businesses, working in association with our corporate fundraising agency.
2. Individual giving: maintain, promote and manage our existing outsourced weekly lottery offer. Build, promote and support a series of fundraising events (using existing organised events) to raise our profile and donations.
3. Community: recruit, motivate, organise and facilitate supporters to raise money for our work – building a community that will help sustain our work. Work with targeted small/local businesses to facilitate community fundraising and awareness raising.
4. Trusts and foundations: Helping to apply for grant proposals for grants from funders whose values are aligned to our own.
5. General: to contribute to the health, sustainability and ethical development of Shared Lives Plus
Shared Lives Plus is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.
For more information contact Phoebe Rowell, Communications Manager or visit the Shared Lives Plus website
How to apply
Apply by sending an up to date CV and a supporting statement, which should be kept to a maximum of two pages. Please start your supporting statement by saying why you want to work for us and work in the Shared Lives sector. Your supporting statement will also need to demonstrates how you meet the requirements of each area of the person specification below:
- Relevant skills and experience
- How your knowledge, values and attitude make you a suitable candidate
- How you would meet the practical requirements of the job.
To get a better sense of what we are looking for in each of these areas please read through the main duties and responsibilities and the detailed personal specification below.
Shared Lives Plus is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice is an inspiring charity that provides palliative, respite and end of life care to babies and infants aged from birth to five years suffering from life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Compassionate care is at the heart of its philosophy, and there is no cost to the families.
This unique non-profit operates three hospices across England. A team of specialist nurses offers 24/7 care and support in a safe, caring and fun environment, where parents know that their child will receive the best possible care. A home away from home.
About the role of Corporate Fundraising Manager
Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice in Liverpool has a great relationship with its corporate partners. Since the hospice opened its doors in 1995, Zoe’s Place has strived to deliver high-quality supporter journeys to corporates who in turn have been so valuable to the unique services offered to the families that rely on the Hospice.
To continue this fantastic work, the charity is recruiting a creative and confident individual to lead on income generation from corporate partners on a 12-month fixed term contract.
You will maximise existing relationships, whilst actively identifying and securing new partners. A confident networker, you will understand the need for a bespoke approach to each corporate, understanding their requirements and how best to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship.
This exciting opportunity would suit either an experienced corporate fundraiser, or someone with private sector marketing and communications, B2B sales or account management experience seeking an opportunity to kick start their career in the third sector.
Salary: £24,748
Hours: 37 per week
Based: Liverpool
Duration: Permanent
Shared Lives Plus is the UK network for family-based and small-scale ways of supporting adults. Our members are Shared Lives carers and workers, and Homeshare programmes.
This is a new and exciting role created to support the pivotal role that our income generation, external communications and back-office functions will play in our 5-year transformational strategic plan. As part of the wider ‘back office’ team you will have specific responsibility for supporting SMT, HR and our externally-facing strategic support and communications work. You will need to be dynamic and able to manage a wide and varied workload. You will be particularly skilled at supporting great internal communications between our busy teams. You will support our Strategic advice and support manager to keep track of progress against project timelines and to keep our external partners up to date.
This role will:
- Assist and Support the Senior Management Team in all their administrative needs.
- Maintain and update all of the HR records and support the HR manager in recruitment and staffing changes.
- Support the Strategic advice lead with project co-ordination, helping the team to keep track of progress against their project plans.
- Support the Communications and fundraising team with any administration needs.
- Support the administration team with phone queries and ad hoc work load peaks.
How to apply
Apply by sending an up to date CV and a supporting statement, which should be kept to a maximum of two pages. Please start your supporting statement by saying why you want to work for us and work in the Shared Lives sector. Your supporting statement will also need to demonstrates how you meet the requirements of each area of the person specification below:
- Relevant skills and experience
- How your knowledge, values and attitude make you a suitable candidate
- How you would meet the practical requirements of the job.
To get a better sense of what we are looking for in each of these areas please read through the main duties and responsibilities and the detailed personal specification below.
If you have any questions about the role please contact Lynne Harrison, Operations Manager or visit the Shared LIves Plus website
Shared Lives Plus is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.
Deadline for completed applications 9.30 am on Monday 27th January 2020
Pre-interviews via skype pm Thursday 30th January 2020 and interviews in Liverpool on Thursday 6th February 2020
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.