• £20,660 per year (based on a full time salary of £27,670)
• 28 hours per week (to potentially include some evening work)
• Permanent
• Based in Greenwich

Bromley, Lewisham & Greenwich Mind is a highly regarded, innovative local Charity working alongside people with mental health problems and dementia to improve their quality of life. With an annual turnover of more than £4m, over 120 staff and 250 volunteers, we are one of the largest charities in the Mind network.

Commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich and delivered as part of an alliance of local Third sector organisations, the Connecting Communities service provides Greenwich residents with information, guidance and support to access mainstream services that can help them lead independent lives.

This is an exciting time to become part of the team at Bromley, Lewisham & Greenwich Mind, as we work with our partners Metro, Age UK Bromley & Greenwich, Greenwich Mencap, GAD (Greenwich Association for Disabled People) and the Volunteer Centre Greenwich.

About the role:

As Connecting Communities Project Worker, you will lead on the delivery and continued development of this service, working closely with internal and external teams to ensure a high quality service.  As well as providing support to clients, you will develop a team of reception information volunteers to respond to requests for information from phone and door callers.

Requirements:

Reporting to the Peer Support Volunteer Manager, you will have experience of the following to make you stand out:

• Providing appropriate and accessible information and guidance
• Supporting people with mental health problems
• Supporting volunteers

Bromley, Lewisham & Greenwich Mind are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. We value diversity, promote equality, and challenge discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. 

Staff benefits include:

• a matched contribution pension scheme
• 25 days’ holiday (pro-rata, rising with service)
• quality supervision and training opportunities.

Closing date: 11:59pm on Thursday 8th October 2020

Likely interview date: Monday 19th October 2020

More information can be found on our website

Registered Charity: 1082972

Prospectus is excited to be working with Start Network to source a Fundraiser for their exciting Bangladesh Start Fund on a 3-month temporary basis (with possibility of extension).

Start Network is the spearhead of a new era in humanitarian action. It currently brings together more than 50 aid agencies across five continents, ranging from large international organisations to national NGOs. Together, their aim is to transform humanitarian action through innovation, fast funding, early action, and localisation.

As the Temporary Fundraiser, Bangladesh, you will prepare the business case for further FCDO funding, working closely with the Start Fund Bangladesh team and the Head of Resource Mobilsation. Beyond this, you will focus on setting a plan for diversification of funding and manage all of the everyday activities related to raising funds for Start Fund Bangladesh, this will include prospect donor mapping, writing proposals, and pitching to donors.

You will need to have skills in generation income from institutional donors (particularly FCDO/DFID) and trusts and foundations. You will have an understanding of the funding landscape relevant to the humanitarian sector and be interested in working towards supporting this cause.

Start Network offer a flexible working policy as well as other benefits.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application. In order to apply please submit your CV at your earliest convenience. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. We are looking forward to speaking with you soon.

Start Network is made up of more than 50 aid agencies across five continents, ranging from large international organisations to national NGOs. Together, our aim is to transform humanitarian action through innovation, fast funding, early action, and localisation.

This exciting role focuses on raising income for the Start Network and its global initiatives, including the Start Fund, innovation, risk finance and the development of the network.

You will be an experienced trust fundraiser who wants a role focused on relationship development. You will be responsible for a small but exciting portfolio of existing and prospective funders (including one of our largest donors), adopting a relational approach to trusts fundraising.

You will be responsible for carrying out prospect donor mapping, maintaining a fundraising pipeline, building relationships with prominent foundations in the humanitarian space, writing technical proposals as required, pitching to donors well-articulated concepts and building fundraising capacity within the organisation.

Based on government guidance for working safely during COVID-19, we are all working from home. However, there is a voluntary option to work from our offices on a rota system. Our COVID-19 risk assessment will be shared.

We work with BeApplied, an online recruitment platform designed to allow teams to measure candidates on what actually matter. Follow the application link to find out more about the role and how to apply.

0.8 FTE (28 hours), flexible working

Initial one year contract, renewable
Grade C, starts at £26,074 per annum for 4 days per week, plus London weighting if applicable

Mostly based in London, although we are all currently working at home

This new and exciting role at MRG has been created to grow individual giving fundraising at MRG. By ‘individual giving’ we mean engagement of donors primarily through digital but also through traditional, channels.

As a strong digital all-rounder, you must have hands-on experience in a wide range of digital marketing channels and platforms, as well as the ability to translate data into meaningful insights to drive action.

You will contribute to the design and delivery of a donor acquisition and retention program, helping us understand and attract new, committed supporters  and develop existing supporters.

You will lead on implementing individual giving appeals. You will also contribute to high value donor and legacy fundraising.

You will liaise across the Communication and Fundraising teams to utilize audience insight (especially social media followers) and evaluate activity to grow income and engagement. An enthusiastic self-starter with a hands-on approach, you will be capable of working independently or as part of a multi-disciplined team managing cross-organization campaigns across several channels to deliver against targets and objectives.

As an accomplished communicator, you will be able to write engaging content for a wide variety of donors and through different channels, ensuring that they feel personally connected to us. You will also ensure effective response handling and excellent customer care and that our supporter care systems and processes are efficiently maintained and delivered, ensuring donors have the optimal experience.

Details

For more information, download the job description and person specification from our website.

We particularly want to encourage applications from people from minorities, especially from people of colour and people with disabilities, as these are under-represented within this team.

We are occasionally able to sponsor visas, but only if we cannot find an applicant with an existing right to work in the UK.

How to apply

Please see our website for details.

Interviews will be on 16 October 2020 via zoom.

This post is to be normally based in the London office at least part of the time.

I am working on behalf of the Diocese of Westminster who is looking for a new Trust officer to join their Fundraising department on a permanent basis.

In this role, you will be responsible for building relationships with grant makers to generate income for Caritas Westminster. To research, identify and apply to trusts and foundations and other grant-making bodies across the UK, which are likely to support the varied work of Caritas Westminster.

Key Responsibilities:

-Identify potential new partners for inclusion into the Trust & Foundations fundraising programme.
-Produce, submit, and manage all communications with target funders
- Draft, submit and successfully manage the progress of funding applications for priority projects
- Establish and monitor progress of applications
- Develop a new stewardship programme for Trust & Foundation donors
- Working closely with the Development manager, regularly review the strategy to maximise and renew income from trusts and foundations

Essential Criteria:

-Minimum of two years trust fundraising experience
-Experience of maximising opportunities from researching prospects to generating meetings, and securing income to achieve targets
-Strong proposal writing skills with high attention to detail
-The ability to develop strong relationships with new and existing donors
-Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and good, accurate typing skills
-Solid organisational and time management skills; ability plan and prioritise own workload
-Able to tackle challenges constructively, and find creative ways forward

For a full job description please get in touch with Natalie at Harris Hill by emailing [email protected]

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, modern slavery and human trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM). Every day we support over 6,500 women and children in our national network of services.  These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs/ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services, culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline. We advise Government and lobby hard to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, manage a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider. We give a voice to the voiceless.

Fundraising at Refuge has been transformed in recent years; at present we are a growing team of 16 passionate and dynamic fundraisers working collaboratively to achieve our goal of creating a world where violence against women and girls (VAWG) is not tolerated. In 19/20, the fundraising team outperformed their annual target, and they have shown positive progress to build on these impressive results in 20/21 despite working in such unprecedented times. To support this growth and achieve our ambitions we are looking to appoint a new Senior Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser.

This new role requires someone with three years of experience of experience in generating income from voluntary sources. The role sits within the Major Gifts team, and will report into the Trusts and Foundations Manager. Trusts and Foundations income is well established at Refuge, and has always been a top performing income stream at Refuge. This Senior Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser is a newly created role and will be responsible for generating income from a portfolio of mid-level donors, effectively stewarding and growing year-on-year relationships.

We are happy to consider candidates looking for flexible working options.

You will need to have proven experience of growing relationships with a range of Trusts and Foundations. You will have a firm grasp of best practice how to implement that into everyday work, including; managing an evolving pipeline, writing creative and compelling applications and updates, good record keeping and relationship building. The right candidate will have outstanding organisational and administrative skills.

All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality which underpin all of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to work within Refuge’s Values and Behaviour Framework and demonstrate these in their everyday work.

Competitive salary offering annual progression within points of the salary grade, 28 days annual leave increasing to 30 days, pension scheme with People’s pension that includes a 6% Employer contribution, comprehensive EAP.

Refuge is proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. We offer the first Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) accredited qualification for our profession. 

Please visit Refuge’s website for further details and other opportunities.

Closing Date: 05 October 2020

Interview Date: TBC

A Basic Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

Refuge is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

No agencies please - as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down.

We are seeking a Temporary ESOL Community Class Coordinator to join our committed team. The Coordinator will support our volunteers to deliver our services, including remote ESOL support and community classes. We are looking for someone with experience of and commitment to working in a multi-cultural environment with a vulnerable client group. The candidate will also have experience of volunteer management, delivering workshops and teaching ESOL. The person we are looking for will be able to work flexibly and on their own initiative, but also have strong communication and team-working skills.

Learn English at Home (LEAH) has been working for 38 years with ethnic minority adults, including refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, to help them overcome their isolation through the teaching of English. We support clients throughout Kingston, Richmond and Hounslow. Through language support and signposting to local statutory and voluntary services, we empower people to become active in their communities. We aim to provide a stepping stone to employment, volunteering, other educational opportunities, and other forms of community involvement. 

A great opportunity to support the diversification of a portfolio of institutional funders, as part of a brand new strategy.

This position is critical to the development of strategic relationships for the organisation, focussed on accelerating climate action. The income stream has been crucial to the organisation in recent years, forming the largest proportion of their income and their ambition is to build on this by continuing to invest and grow this area.

Job specification

As Institutional Donor Manager you will:

• Proactively identify new institutional funding opportunities and support pipeline development with short-, medium- and long-term plans
• Use various communication channels to engage with key government agencies
• Manage proposal development, including work plans and coordination with internal departments
• Secure long-term funding through the creation of six- and seven-figure proposals and concepts for a variety of institutional funders

Person specification

The role would best suit:

• A candidate with demonstrable institutional fundraising experience and a proven track record of securing six- and seven-figure grants
• Someone comfortable working in a fast growing organisation in a start-up environment
• An individual with a strong understanding of institutional donors such as SIDA, NORAD, UK BEIS etc.

                                     

To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Naomi Carruthers at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.

Community Fundraising Assistant

Fixed Term Contract

£20,000 - 23,000

London

As part of the Community Fundraising Team, the Fundraising Assistant will provide essential support to ensure the team is well supported and the Red Nose Day campaign is delivered successfully.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the Fundraising Managers and Associates with multiple fundraising stewardship campaigns across the team.
• Deliver proactive outbound communications with fundraisers in the public, as well as schools, on the phone, over e-mail, by post.
• Work with our supporters in a friendly professional manner helping to maximise their engagement in Red Nose Day.
• Carefully track all interactions and communications with supporters using our fundraising database.
• Utilise triage tools to help identify new key accounts that will most benefit from additional stewardship and support.
• Support the Community Fundraising Team to identify interesting and engaging fundraisers and stories for potential media and promotional use and gather and store the appropriate permissions.
• Undertake any appropriate work related to stewardship and administration including creating reports, tracking income and briefing on activity.
• Support the Community Fundraising Associate in delivering the Community Thanking and Retention strategy for supporters.
• Assist the wider team with administrative support as required.
• Coordinate any School and Community Fundraising Team meetings, events and internal communications.
• Assist the Supporter Services team in busy campaign periods responding to enquiries from Red Nose Day fundraisers
• Lead on social media community management for Red Nose Day fundraisers

Essential Skills and Competencies:

• Experience of delivering fundraising strategies and propositions for fundraisers
• Experience of developing fundraising ideas that engage fundraisers and drive support
• Strong attention to detail – to produce work, which is consistently accurate, and which fits the purpose for which it was intended.
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• A proactive, positive and fun individual with a “can do” attitude

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 29th Sep 2020 BST (Europe/London)

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

• Be valued for being yourself
• Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
• Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
• Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.

Flexible location – can be based at any of Shelter’s hubs in England or Scotland or home based

This is a great opportunity for someone with customer service experience looking to start a career in the charity sector, or move to a larger organisation, to join us a Community Fundraising Assistant and be part of an award-winning fundraising team.

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.

Part of our hugely successful Income Generation division, Shelter’s Community Fundraising team is a new and, currently, small team but with big plans to grow our numbers to have Regional Fundraisers in 12 cities across England and Scotland. Community Fundraising is a key part of Shelter’s long-term fundraising strategy and investment is being made available to fund it. We have recently appointed a new Head of Community Fundraising and are now seeking to expand our team – it’s a great time to join us.

At Shelter we are committed to tackling systematic inequalities and currently we are looking to increase the diversity within our Fundraising team. We would particularly welcome applications from anyone with a BAME background or considers themselves to have a disability.

About the role
You’ll be providing administrative support to the Community Fundraising team across a range of activities. But that’s not all. You’ll also be responsible for helping to ensure that everyone who supports Shelter receives the highest standard of supporter care. Liaising with supporters and suppliers, maintaining a database, organising materials for events, assisting with community enquiries and supervising event fundraising volunteers – these are just some aspects of this interesting and varied role.

About you
As well as excellent administrative skills and proficiency using Microsoft Office applications, you’ll need proven experience of using databases (we use Raiser’s Edge). We’ll also be looking for commercial awareness, a customer focused approach and the ability to collaborate effectively with others and build a network of good relationships. Proactive and results-driven, you have lots of initiative too. What's more, you’re not afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas when appropriate and are keen to develop a thorough understanding of Shelter and the wider sector.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, 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 promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities),gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

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.

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

Community Fundraising Associate

£30,000 - 33,000

London, and currently remote

As part of the Community Fundraising Team, the Community Fundraising Associate will work closely with the High Value Fundraising Manager, and manage the Fundraising Assistant, to help maximise fundraising for the Red Nose Day 2021 campaign managing the accounts of some of our most valuable fundraisers across Community Fundraising for Red Nose Day.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver against the strategy, working across the organisation to help deliver materials, products, ideas and propositions that will inspire fundraising in these audiences
• Work with the High Value Fundraising Manager on delivering the High Value fundraising strategy, providing exceptional stewardship and relationship development to our most valuable fundraisers.
• Deliver on set income targets and KPIs ensuring accurate tracking and evaluating to discover insights and trends.
• Identify inspiring fundraising stories from supporter audiences settings that can be used in marketing materials, fundraising materials and editorial. Collect and document these stories, collecting photos, fundraising totals and permissions, acting as the main point of contact
• Brief and work with the Supporter Care Supervisor to ensure all enquiries and complaints are managed effectively and within the agreed timeframes.
• Deliver engagement activities for our key fundraisers such as project visits and webinars. Attend events and visit fundraising events on behalf of Comic Relief and act as representative of charity.
• Contribute creative ideas to incentivise fundraising, enable recognition and achieve better retention.
• Alongside Fundraising Managers, brief and manage creative resource

Essential Skills and Competencies:

• Experience account managing high value fundraisers including individuals and organisations.
• Experience of delivering fundraising strategies and propositions for fundraisers
• Experience of developing fundraising ideas that engage fundraisers and drive support
• Strong attention to detail – to produce work, which is consistently accurate, and which fits the purpose for which it was intended.
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• A proactive, positive and fun individual with a “can do” attitude

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 29th Sep 2020 BST (Europe/London)

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

• Be valued for being yourself
• Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
• Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
• Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.

Fundraising Officer

Based in Westminster

£20,000 – £24,000 pa depending on experience

Full time, permanent

Are you enthusiastic about the world of fundraising? Do you like working in a challenging and rewarding environment? Are you fascinated by the history of churches and their role in 21st century Britain?

As the independent, UK-wide charity supporting churches, chapels and meeting houses of all Christian denominations, the National Churches Trust supports and promotes church buildings of historic, architectural and community value by inspiring support, preserving heritage and promoting sustainability. Our aims are to help maintain the UK’s heritage of church buildings and to enhance their ability to serve local communities; and to promote the benefit to communities of church buildings and to inspire everyone to value and enjoy them.

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join the Trust as Fundraising Officer. Reporting to the Senior Fundraising Officer and the Head of Finance & Operations, this is an excellent opportunity to work for a national charity across a range of supporter services and fundraising functions. The post-holder will be the first point of call for all enquiries or donations from our Friends and supporters, ensuring those who come into contact with the Trust are dealt with professionally and efficiently.

The successful candidate will have excellent organisational and administrative skills, including managing tasks and projects, and good attention to detail and accuracy. With a confident and professional manner, they will also have excellent communication skills, financial acumen and good IT literacy.

For further information and to apply for this role, please click the Apply button to be redirected to our website for details.

Closing date: Tuesday 29 September at 12 noon

Interview dates: Monday 5 October 2020 (Westminster or via Zoom)

We have a very exciting new role for a leading homelessness charity for a Community Fundraising Innovation Manager, this role will lead a team of five to develop new fundraising products and excellent stewardship communications for donors based across the UK.

This team have performed brilliantly over the last 6 months due to excellent leadership and are 60% above their fundraising target so it’s a great team to join. This role can be based remotely or in London and it’s a great opportunity to springboard and help grow this area of income for the charity.

You will have:

• Significant experience of developing new fundraising products, you must be able to demonstrate a strategic and analytical approach to this work


• Experience of developing supporter journeys and communication plans


• Ability to build rapport with a range of internal and external audiences, including supporters, patients and their families


• Line management of at least a team of two previously

Closing date: 5^th October

Salary; £32,000 - £38,000

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

Full time post based in Reading Berkshire or Pimlico, London

Full time salary in the range £43,084 - £52,657 pa plus £3,299 pa location allowance if based in London  

PACT is a supportive and respectful place where people are genuinely passionate about delivering positive outcomes for children and their families.  We have been at the forefront of adoption services for nearly 70 years, working with Local Authorities and Regional Adoption Agencies across the country.

With our outstanding rating with Ofsted, we work with a high degree of flexibility and innovation and with a range of adopters from all backgrounds, including those from black and minority ethnic heritage and the LGBT and faith communities.

Our adoption teams focus on recruiting and assessing adopters and the placement of children. We then provide high quality post placement support to adoptive parents and their children to help them reach their potential.  

If you are a registered and qualified senior social worker or manager, with over three years of experience in adoption seeking an exciting opportunity to shape the continuous development of our adoption services we would love to hear from you.

Alongside our Team Managers, you will lead a small team of experienced and dedicated social workers plus contractors, managing all aspects of the team’s work supporting our valued applicants from recruitment, initial interview, preparation and training, through to successful placement and adoption order, supporting families for life.

Further information (including the job description) together with details of the benefits we offer, is available on our website.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Closing date:   Friday 9th October 2020

Interview date: Friday 16th October 2020

PACT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults therefore please note our recruitment procedure includes DBS checks and overseas checks (where applicable). Please note prospective employees will need to evidence they have the relevant permission to work in the UK.

No agencies please