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Location: Working remotely from home across the four nations of the UK, occasionally co-working spaces, with occasional travel.
Start date: As soon as possible (Autumn 2025)
Salary: £69,080 (F/T pro-rated for 0.6FTE to £41,808)
Benefits: 30 days Annual holiday (18 days pro rata). Pension Scheme. Flexible working arrangements. Access to co-working budget
Hours of work: Part Time at 0.6 FTE worked flexibly around business needs at 21 hours per week
Contract type: Permanent contract
Do you want to play a vital role in supporting a charity who are reshaping the systems that support children and young people across the UK? Are you a values led finance and operations leader who thrives on both strategic thinking and hands-on problem solving? Can you help steward a high performing, mission driven organisation through its next phase of growth and impact?
Dartington Service Design Lab is a national charity that harnesses experience, cutting edge evidence and design to tackle the challenges children and young people face today, securing thriving futures for tomorrow. As we move forward with our refreshed strategy, we are looking for a new Director of Finance and Operations to join our Senior Leadership Team.
This is a unique opportunity to lead the Lab’s operational heart; from finance and governance to people, culture, IT and compliance. You'll work closely with the CEO and leadership team to ensure our infrastructure is not only effective and efficient, but enabling of bold, systemic work across the UK. The role balances high level financial strategy and organisational leadership with routine financial reporting, oversight of day-to-day operations and actively supporting team wellbeing. It will suit someone confident operating strategically at an Executive and Board level, but who’s also comfortable rolling up their sleeves in a small, agile organisation.
We are seeking someone with significant experience in finance and operations leadership, ideally in a non-profit, consultancy or values driven setting, who is committed to equity, anti-racism, and social justice. This is a 0.6 FTE role (21 hours/week) and we welcome applications from those looking for flexible or part-time senior leadership work that makes a real difference. To support the removal of barriers to colleagues contributing fully as employees and to address equity considerations, we have a flexible working policy that trusts individuals to manage their time, working flexibly to deliver against our commitments, for example the 21 hrs can be condensed over 3 days or worked over 4-5 days.
As a team, we operate remotely across the UK with regular project-related travel. Our staff work from home or when appropriate, together in local co-working spaces, and normally, a few times a year we meet as a whole team for a few days to develop and connect.
Don’t meet every single requirement outlined in the Job Description? Studies have shown that women and racially minoritised groups are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single requirement. Dartington Service Design Lab is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person to help us achieve our impact for children and young people.
Candidates should be aware that, in line with our commitment to equity, we have made the decision not to negotiate regarding salary on appointment or progression. The evidence shows that negotiation of salary is an inherently inequitable process that marginalises women and those from racially minoritised communities. We do, however, have a transparent grade and scale structure for all those in the Lab which, based on organisational affordability and satisfactory performance in role, will result in an increase to salaries every two years up until the ceiling of that particular role’s banding.
The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more in the Candidate Briefing Pack.
Creating thriving futures with and for children and young people



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We are looking for a Senior Relationship Manager to work in a dedicated Programmes and Grants directorate, working at the heart of Youth Futures Foundation.
Key responsibilities:
- You will be central to our work in the delivery of innovative and impactful grant-making.
- You will lead on the delivery of key, new and existing funding programmes, relationships and portfolios, sourcing and making recommendations on complex and strategically important requests for funding and building effective relationships with our grant holders.
- You will also work closely across our Impact and Evidence, Employer Engagement and Public Policy & Communications teams to ensure successful applicants are supported to deliver high quality, impactful projects that will build the evidence base of “What Works” to support the most disadvantaged young people into good jobs.
- The Senior Relationship Manager will also work with the Head of Programme & Grants to support the line management and development of Relationship Managers and Senior Grants Officers as required.
This role is on a 12 month fixed term contract and can be based at any of our hubs located in Birmingham, Leeds or London. We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.
How to apply:
For more information and a full job description, please download the Recruitment Pack. Apply via our website.
Due to receiving high volumes of interest in our opportunities, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised deadline. To ensure your application is considered, please submit it as soon as possible
We are the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people.




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Warm Welcome Partnerships Manager
Location: Fully remote with flexible working arrangements
Salary: £38,584 per year FTE, dependent on experience
Contract: We are open to this role being part time (0.8FTE) or full time. We offer fully flexible working.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 6th July, 11:59pm
Due to high numbers of applications, prior to interview we plan to carry out initial screening calls with prospective candidates before selection for interview. We will be asking about your reasons for applying and how you think your skills and experiences align to the role.
First interviews: w/c 21st July 2025
Start Date: ASAP – this is a new post.
About the Warm Welcome Campaign
Founded in 2022, the Warm Welcome Campaign wants everyone in the UK to find a place of belonging and reconnection at a Warm Welcome Space near their home. We have a bold ambition to enable a more deeply connected society where we all have free access to welcoming community spaces.
We resource, connect and champion a network of over 5300 Warm Welcome Spaces and bring together a growing coalition of local, regional, and national partners representing the worlds of charity, faith, business, government, and philanthropy. By working together, we can unlock the power of community spaces made by and for everyone, creating a thriving network of hope and reconnection fueled by human warmth.
We’re working hard to reach everyone with the message that a Warm Welcome is waiting for them just around the corner, all through the year.
Throughout all our work and within our team we live out our values of being inclusive, collaborative and courageous and our personality that is friendly, adventurous and uplifting.
It’s an important moment for us – in the last year we have launched a new five year strategy which shows a clear picture of the path we have set ourselves ahead to continue to deliver and deepen our impact. In October 2024 we launched our 100% Pledge Campaign. and in January delivered a hugely successful first ever Warm Welcome Week in collaboration with a wide variety of partners.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and proactive individual to work within a small (but growing), friendly and dynamic team in a varied role. If you are brilliant at engaging and mobilising a wide variety of organisations and individuals, and passionate for your input to shape work that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives, this could be the role for you.
To support the range and depth of partnerships we have and the potential we see, we are looking for a Partnerships Manager to work primarily on building partnerships with Local Authorities and public sector organisations, charities and social enterprises, faith-based and inclusion-focused organisations and other groups who might help us strategically grow and resource the Warm Welcome network across the UK (NB Corporate Partnerships are managed by our newly appointed Fundraising Lead for Corporates). The Partnerships Manager will also help develop our support for Warm Welcome Spaces, including overseeing our Champions Programme which offers more intense support and a Community of Practice to a smaller cohort of local groups.
We’re looking for someone who thrives on the variety of connecting with a huge range of people and who is organised and systematic while at the same time has room for creativity and innovation.
Joining during an exciting period of growth, you will be inheriting a hugely diverse and highly engaged coalition of Warm Welcome Partners who have supported the campaign and local Spaces over the last 2 and a half years. At the same time, there remains a huge untapped potential in terms of possible partners and relationships to be developed and you will be working together with the Campaign Director and team to strategically identify and develop these new connections.
At Warm Welcome, we value diversity and we recognise the enormous benefits and the social imperative of bringing together diverse groups of people. We therefore warmly welcome applications from a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Responsibilities
Building Partnerships
● Developing our Partnership Strategy to identify and engage the best potential partners to help us grow the network and reach our ambition of 100% of the population living within a 30-minute walk of a registered Warm Welcome Space. This will involve identifying and engaging partners in geographical ‘cold spots’ for the network (utilising our mapping tool developed with UCL), as well as forming partnerships to unlock new or under-represented types of Warm Welcome Spaces (e.g. Housing Association Community Spaces, cinemas, community spaces created by new housing developments etc).
● Leading the development of our Local Co-ordinators Cluster which brings together Local Authorities and others who are leading place-based networks of community spaces.
● Overseeing and developing the Champions Programme, providing more intensive support and connections to a smaller cohort of Warm Welcome Spaces.
Engagement and Inclusion
● Developing our Inclusion Strategy to identify and engage the best potential partners to diversify our Coalition and support local Spaces to become more accessible and inclusive.
● Working with the team to develop regular engagement activities for Warm Welcome Partners.
● Producing compelling communications (written and verbal) to promote the work of the Warm Welcome Campaign and grow the depth and breadth of partnerships - to include but not limited to partnership proposals, pitches and reports.
Good Practices, Standards and Systems
● Supporting, maintaining and developing existing partnerships and manage the systems (including CRM use) needed for excellent partnerships delivery, stewardship and development.
● Leading Warm Welcome Space good practice and driving up quality standards across the network, including through developing a Warm Welcome Awards programme.
● Promoting good practice in volunteering and supporting Spaces to maximise and grow volunteering opportunities.
● Working with the team and, using our new CRM, track, measure and analyse our partnerships delivery.
● Supporting the delivery of other Warm Welcome efforts, as appropriate
Reporting to the Campaign Operations Director, you will work closely with them and other Senior Directors to grow the range and impact of Warm Welcome partnerships. The role will also work closely with the Communications team and with our two Warm Welcome Co-ordinators who deliver our Champions programme and provide a direct link between the campaign and Warm Welcome Spaces.
Person specification
Building Partnerships
● Successful experience of securing, maintaining and developing highly impactful partnerships for charitable benefit with a wide range of different types of organisations.
● Experience of writing, creating inspiring and successful pitches, proposals and assets and verbal presentations.
● Experience of developing and delivering partnership-related strategies.
● Clear understanding of organisational motivations and dynamics related to partnerships and collaboration.
● Ability to network, finding and grabbing opportunities to make new connections and deepen existing ones.
Engagement and Inclusion
● Experience of developing impactful partnerships focused on inclusion.
● Ability to communicate across a range of mediums, to a range of audiences.
Good Practices, Standards and Systems
● A strong team player who is flexible, positive and responds with strong influencing and negotiation skills and a commitment to the organisation and team working.
● Understanding the value of accurate record keeping and the ability to create high functioning, accessible systems for the whole team’s use.
● Highly organised with ability to prioritise work to ensure deadlines are met and opportunities are maximised.
● Competent with Google Suite and Microsoft Office.
● Able to use a CRM for pipelines, relationship development, reporting and evaluation.
Working Arrangements
● Current members of the team are based across the UK, with some in London, Reading, Bristol, Manchester and Northern Ireland. Applicants must be able to travel to Bristol once a month for a Tuesday full team meeting. Given the nature of this role we would also expect the applicant to carry out a reasonable amount of travel to both Warm Welcome Spaces and partners across the UK.
● This role is fully remote, with flexible working arrangements.
● All employees, volunteers, partners, suppliers and consultants working with GFP are expected to adhere to our Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies. GFP’s commitment to safeguarding means we seek to ensure that no harm comes to people as a result of contact with the organisation’s programmes, operations or people.
● You will need to have the right to work in the UK.
Supporting your Application
● We’d be very happy to answer any specific questions relating to this role - please email us with ‘Query for Partnerships Manager role’ in the email subject line and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
● We are happy to discuss and make any reasonable adjustments you might need at any stage of the recruitment process.
● To apply, send a cover letter (max 1 side of A4) which specifically addresses the requirements listed in the person specification, along with a CV, as we will use this to shortlist applications. Email these with ‘Application for Warm Welcome Partnerships Manager role’. Applications must be received by Sunday 6th July, 11:59pm.
● For more information, see our webite or find us on twitter at @goodfaith
The Good Faith Partnership – The Warm Welcome Campaign’s host Organisation
The Warm Welcome Campaign was incubated by and is hosted by the Good Faith Partnership. Founded in 2016, we create solutions to society’s most difficult problems by bringing together leaders and organisations from different sectors. Our clients are diverse and complex, from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to faith-based organisations, businesses, charities and funders. We connect businesses, governments, charities, philanthropists, foundations and communities to make lasting change - from incubating projects like the Warm Welcome Campaign, helping support the Home Office’s Homes for Ukraine Scheme or co-ordinating public affairs for the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the UK, US and EU.
We are relational, ambitious, curious and solution-focused. At our core, we believe in the power of strong, unlikely relationships, to drive positive social change.
Competencies and Behaviours in our Team
The core competence of everyone in our team is the ability to build trusted relationships among people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
We are looking for people who are:
● Exceptional with people and committed to the power of relationships to facilitate social change
● Collaborative, ambitious and inclusive, aligning with our core values
● Self-starters with high levels of commitment, energy and motivation to build a vision from scratch
● Curious and show initiative, with problem-solving skills and an ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing context
● Skilled at working in a complex environment with cross cultural, interfaith and political partners
● Willing to pitch in to help other team members if needed
● Organised with effective time management skills.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you passionate about community, creativity, and professional development? Join the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth) and help shape the future of dramatherapy in the UK.
We’re looking for a dynamic and driven Membership Engagement & Development Coordinator to lead on member communications, grow our professional community, and deliver impactful CPD programmes. This is a unique opportunity to make a real difference in a creative and caring sector, supporting dramatherapists across the UK and beyond.
In this pivotal role, you’ll:
- Enhance member satisfaction and engagement through strategic communication and outreach.
- Coordinate a diverse and profitable CPD programme, including our annual conference.
- Drive membership growth and diversification, with a focus on inclusion and innovation.
- Support and celebrate our vibrant volunteer network.
- Work flexibly from home, with a supportive and collaborative team.
Whether you're experienced in membership development, event coordination, or communications—and especially if you’re excited by the arts therapies—we’d love to hear from you.
Apply by: Sunday 20 July 2025
Interviews: Week commencing 4 August 2025
Location: Remote (UK-based)
Salary: £30,000 per annum (pro-rata if part-time)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
A truly rewarding role…supporting local people facing food insecurity
Job Title: Culinary Chef and Trainer
Location: Birmingham
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £34540 per annum
About FareShare Midlands
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, tackling inequality, transforming lives and ensuring no good food goes to waste. We rescue surplus food and redistribute it to 650 local charities and community organisations, feeding 60,000 people every week. We also invest in communities, providing education, training and volunteering opportunities, helping over 700 individuals to date to build a better future. Together, we’re fighting hunger, reducing food waste and creating opportunities across the Midlands. Learn more here or read our latest Annual Report Snapshot here.
The Role
We’re looking for a Culinary Chef Trainer for our brand-new purpose built Commercial and Training Kitchen in The Coronation Food Project Hub, Birmingham, helping combat food insecurity by providing affordable, nutritious surplus food in a dignified and supportive environment for underserved communities. In addition to catering skills, you will need to demonstrate a passion for reducing food waste through innovation and creativity.
Working closely with FareShare Midlands Head of Operations you will develop and mobilise the kitchen and catering service(s) for The Coronation Food Project, enabling significant increase in FSM’s reach, support and impact in tackling food insecurity. You will play a lead part in managing our flagship Kitchen, producing high quality meals from surplus food as well as catering for large corporate events. We are keen to grow a Catering skills programme in line with our Employability strategy and you will need to play a key role in informing and shaping the training programmes. Like most charity roles, this is as much a “hands on” as well as management role.
Key Responsibilities
Food Preparation and Cooking
- Plan, prepare and cook high quality, innovative meals in a timely manner for staff, volunteers, visitors and the public as well as larger catering events, ensuring variety, nutritional balance, and high standards of taste and presentation.
- Ensure all food is made according to the recipe and portion control standards
- Adapt menus based on seasonality and availability of surplus food
- Address any feedback or special dietary requirements to ensure a high level of satisfaction, improving offerings
Menu Planning and Development
- Develop and create new recipes in collaboration with the staff, volunteers and local organisations
- Innovate dishes that align with the organisations concept and demand
- Monitor food trends and implement them in the menu, while maintaining FareShare’s brand and ethos
- Create and deliver menus for corporate events
Training
- Develop and coordinate the delivery of catering skills and cookery courses to individuals of all ages and abilities within The Coronation Food Project Hub Kitchen, ensuring equipment, resources and ingredients are appropriate to each class
- Supervise members of staff & volunteers supporting the delivery of cookery classes
- Participate in staff reviews, appraisal and personal development scheme
- Undertake further training as required
Kitchen Management
- Oversee kitchen team, including training, scheduling, and managing their daily tasks.
- Ensure proper stock control, including the procurement of ingredients, maintaining inventory, and minimising food waste.
- Manage food costs, portion control, and kitchen meeting budgetary requirements.
- Work to guidelines from key stakeholders such funders, Public Health etc. keeping up to date with changes in food policy, strategy and dietary advice.
Health, Safety, and Compliance
- Implement, manage and monitor all food safety standards, policies and protocols including sanitation, food safety, storage and food handling and distribution.
- Oversee the cleanliness, organisation, and hygiene standards of the kitchen, ensuring compliance with HACCP, COSHH and food safety regulations, ensuring effective and timely liaison with Environmental Health Officers.
- Compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act, with specific responsibility for the health safety and welfare of all personnel within their control.
- Reports all accidents and/or incidents and near misses in accordance with the organisations’ procedures.
People Management
- Working closely with the Head of Operations and Food, provide effective leadership, management and supervision to kitchen staff, volunteers, setting clear priorities and targets.
- Ensuring that staff and volunteers understand their role responsibilities in line with FSM overall mission and have the resources, capacity and capability to effectively undertake their duties.
- Ensure and support adequate training and development of staff and volunteers within the team.
- Participate positively in FSM people management processes ensuring organisation and team development, undertaking all aspects of line management responsibility including supervision, development and appraisals for teams.
- Ensure the service is delivered by teams in accordance with FareShare Midlands Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Staff Wellbeing Policies and maintain the values and culture of the FSM.
- Recruit, support and manage volunteers and staff teams.
Person Specification
Essential Experience, Skills & Competencies
- Minimum of 3 -5 years in a Chef/Kitchen Manager/ CDP or similar role.
- Expertise in various cooking techniques and styles.
- Ability to engage with a diverse range of people including corporate guests with strong customer service skills.
- Strong leadership, time management, and organisational skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks.
- Knowledge of kitchen safety, food hygiene, and sanitation regulations.
- Intermediate food hygiene level 3.
- First Aid Certificate.
- Able to travel and work weekends.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of working in a charitable organisation
- Experience of working with volunteers in a charitable setting
- Experience of working with surplus food
- Culinary degree
- Mentoring/ Coaching experience
Competencies and behaviours
- Creativity and passion for food.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Team-oriented and a strong leader.
- An understanding of, and sympathy with FareShare’s mission.
- Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team and across other internal teams.
How to Apply
To apply, please submit:
- A supporting statement demonstrating your suitability for the role and explaining your interest in FareShare Midlands.
- Your CV.
We continue to strive to ensure that the profile of our staff and volunteers reflects the diverse communities we serve across the Midlands. As such we encourage and welcome applications from all our communities. We particularly welcome applications from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds as they are currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
“Right to Work” in the UK status is required.
Closing date: Monday 14th July 2025, 9 am
Interviews: As soon as possible and during week commencing 14th July 20
We redistribute good quality surplus food which would otherwise go to waste and also support people to find work through our employability programme.
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To develop and deliver the charity’s policy and campaigning strategy and the charity’s programme of health projects to ensure the charity achieves its key objectives. To build engagement with the NHS, Department of Health, Parliamentarians, policy makers, think tanks, charity and patient groups to develop and deliver our campaigning strategy. Build engagement with HCP networks and related organisations to inform and support delivery of our health information work.
To be the owner and primary point of contact for FBC’s health policy and campaigning activities, working closely with the CEO to represent the interests of the charity with decision-making bodies such as UK government and Parliament, NHS, devolved health and social care bodies and other stakeholders. The postholder will Influence key decision makers, collaborate in initiatives and comment on policy decisions to press for higher levels of research funding, organisational changes to drive earlier diagnosis and improvements in patient experience.
The post holder will have the ability to meld impactful campaigning, political astuteness and evidence-based policymaking to drive change with demonstrable sensitivity to health inequalities and other issues that affect bladder cancer patients and their families.
They will be organised and will be able to manage several tasks at once, meeting strict deadlines.
Candidates who are unable to answer the screening questions to our satisfaction will not be considered for the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
CVs not accepted. Please apply using out HR portal
JOB PURPOSE:
- To lead on the development of a healthy childhood programme for children and young people living in Sparkhill.
- To provide a range of activities for children, young people and their families which promote physical exercise and healthy eating.
- To promote the referral uptake from a range of services including the School Nurse Service, Family Hubs and GP practices.
- To monitor individual lifestyle assessments and to maintain an overview of the individual’s journey, including attendance, improvement of their lifestyle indicators etc. and capture case studies.
- Refer participants to health professionals, support providers or other agencies, reviewing the outcome to ensure their needs are met.
- Manage and monitor a caseload in line with the priorities set out in the programme including reviewing the effectiveness of the service.
- Ensure that safeguarding and wellbeing of all children and young people is adhered to.
- To ensure good relationships with parents and carers and professional partners.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Receive and manage referrals including self-referrals.
· Co-design personalised support to children, young people and their families referred onto the programme.
· Plan and deliver a range of physical activities suitable of the needs of children and their family’s including commissioning activities from partner services.
· Arrange and manage triage meetings with participants.
· Ensure all participants are registered onto the programme and lifestyle assessments are completed to support The Healthy Childhood Programme monitoring, evaluation and demonstration of impact.
· Provide continuity and co-ordinated support, remaining the point of contact throughout the participant’s journey with the healthy childhood programme.
· Build supportive relationships with participants, providing non-judgemental support, understanding diversity and lifestyle choices.
· Maintain good communication with participants at all times, providing them with clear written information on what has been agreed and the next steps to be taken in their journey.
· Support participants to identify the wider issues that have an impact on their health outcomes and wellbeing.
· Be a friendly source of information about healthy lifestyles and wellbeing.
· Where appropriate, introduce participants to community groups, activities and statutory services. Follow up to ensure they are happy, able to engage, included and receiving good support.
· Ensure all data, monitoring and evaluation is kept up to date and reported back as required.
· Adhere to data protection, confidentiality, information sharing protocols and provide monitoring information as required.
· Feedback on-going development, monitoring and evaluation of the programme highlighting any issues that need resolving.
· Provide regular reports detailing the progress of the service and updates as and when required.
- Put into practice the agreed policies and procedures of the organisation in order that legal, regulatory and quality standards are met.
- To work professionally as part of a team, participating in individual and team reflective youth work practice; supervision; appraisal; professional development; recording; reporting; and contributing to quality improvements as required.
- Maintain accurate and up to date records in line with data protection requirements and with respect to confidentiality at all times.
- To take part in regular reviews of the service, identify and overcome any barriers preventing people from accessing the service.
- Lead on evaluation of services delivered, providing an evaluation report to the Senior Leadership at the agreed frequency.
To complete risk benefit assessments on activities, outings and events as necessary.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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First Steps ED are looking for a passionate and strategic Head of Fundraising and Communications to join our team and help make a difference in the lives of those we support. First Steps ED provide person-centred support to our service users for a range of disordered eating and eating disorder presentations.
The Head of Fundraising and Communications will lead on the development and implementation of strategies to diversify and grow our income streams, strengthen our brand, and increase engagement with key audiences. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the postholder will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships across trusts and foundations, corporate partners, individual donors, and community supporters. This role will also oversee all aspects of external communications and marketing, ensuring a consistent and compelling voice for the organisation across digital, print, media, and stakeholder channels.
The Head of Fundraising and Communications will provide line management and strategic direction to the fundraising and communications team, with accountability for delivering income targets and enhancing the charity’s profile and impact.
Role Overview:
This position requires a strategic leader who will be a proactive engagement lead and support the charities overall strategy and mission. You will have a proven background of successful fundraising activities, diversifying engagement and income and cultivating key relationships through communication strategies.
Key Responsibilities:
This is an opportunity to develop and shape the fundraising and communications strategy for a growing charity, in an are that is getting more and more attention. The role will require an agile mind to adapt to the ever changing environment, and in return the charity leadership promises flexibility and understanding, as we test learn and adapt these strategies.
Some of the area you are expected to work on are the following, and the rest can be defined by you:
- Budgets and Targets: You are directly responsible for the budgets, and income targets attached to Fundraising and Communications.
- Engagement and Income Diversification: Develop and implement strategies to diversify income streams, including legacy giving, corporate partnerships, individual donations, and major donors.
- Marketing and Communications Strategy: Create and implement strategies to reach a wider audience through innovative marketing and communications channels.
- NHS and Private Sector Opportunities: Identify and pursue new business opportunities within the NHS and private sector.
- Relationship Management: Manage key relationships with donors, partners, and stakeholders.
- Team Leadership: Manage and support Fundraising, Marketing and Communications officers, ensuring alignment with fundraising goals and charity objectives overall.
- Lead our flagship campaigns: This year we are developing an online campaign, currently called Scroll Safe, to tackle the issues with online safety, we are included in the parliamentary act, and we wish this to be a multi-year campaign. It is in development for 2025, and you are expected to hit the ground running. Other campaigns include Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and Christmas.
- Digital Agency and PR Management: Oversee the work of digital agencies and PR consultant to enhance online presence and engagement with public relations and media outreach.
- Ambassadors and Patrons Management: Engage and manage relationships with ambassadors and patrons to leverage their support and influence.
- Web Development Leadership: Lead the development and maintenance of the charity's website to ensure it effectively supports fundraising and communication efforts as well as providing clear and concise support to our service users, carers and professionals.
- Manage our portfolio of events: We have an emerging trend in challenge events, and we manage these carefully and mindfully especially long-distance sporting events. This requires key insights in trends and work with our marketing team on key insights.
- Working with the CEO: You will identify opportunities for strategic communications and growth. You will network with likeminded individuals from other charities and build sector connections.
- Senior Leadership Team: You will be an integral part of our Senior Leadership Team, which means working across the whole charity on tasks that may pop up, and planning with the team our Organisational Development.
Qualifications:
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years in a senior fundraising and communications role, preferably within the charity sector.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Relationship Management, or a related field.
Skills:
- Strong strategic planning and implementation skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
- Proficiency in fundraising software and CRM systems.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
What we offer
- 28 days annual leave (pro rata for part time)
- Enhanced sick pay
- Company events
- Blue Light Card
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program + Wellbeing App
- Company pension - 5% employee, 3% employer
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Work from home (depending on role)
- Accredited training programme towards CPD
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Should we met our target number of applications we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than the closing date.
To ensure everyone impacted by eating disorders and disordered eating has access to professional care.

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Are you looking for a fully remote, purpose-led and meaningful leadership role, one where you will be dismantling the motherhood penalty for thousands?
Pregnant Than Screwed work sits at the intersection of providing information and support, research, raising awareness, and advocating and campaigning for change – always with a bold, unapologetic commitment to justice for mothers and parents.
Their impact over the last 10 years speaks for itself with 20,000 supported through their one-to-one advice line, successfully influenced key changes in UK law, including the Day-one right to request flexible working, and extended redundancy protection for pregnant women and new mums. Over 150 mentions in Parliament, Thousands of pieces of media coverage, including front-page features in The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Mail and over 400,000 followers across social media, building a powerful digital movement
Culture and Inclusion
As Head of Communications and Campaigns, you will work with an amazing CEO, an individual who has the empathy, knowledge and savviness to lead the charity through its next level of growth. She is a progressive and inclusive leader, bold and brave in her actions, knowing that words do not bring about change, only actions. A kind yet fearless leader who will offer freedom, flexibility and personal and career growth. This is a unique opportunity to work with an incredible CEO and shape the future of working mums in the UK forever.
The lived experiences we’d love you to have
Pregnant Than Screwed is not a “box ticker” instead they are a progressive and inclusive employer, one where they value your lived experiences and skills just as much and can see behind any gaps you might have on your CV.
They are seeking a skilled and strategic Head of Communications & Campaigns to lead our external voice, policy influence, and campaign strategy — ensuring our work remains bold, intersectional, and impactful.
This is a senior leadership position, central to our mission. You will be responsible for ensuring PTS is shaping public debate, influencing key decision-makers, and mobilising thousands of parents to take action. You’ll lead the organisation’s media engagement, strategic communications, political advocacy, and campaign delivery.
The role is outward-facing and fast-paced, requiring both strategic oversight and hands-on delivery., which covers:
· Strategic and Inclusive Leadership Across Communications and Campaigns
· Public Mobilisation, engage, grow and mobilise the PTS supporter base
· Policy & Advocacy Leadership
· Senior Leadership Team and Governance.
In return for your passion, commitment and hard work, you will receive some of the most competitive benefits across the sector, whilst knowing that every day you are changing the lives of parents, families and the workplace. Your passion for gender equity will be shape the lens through which you storytelling and campaign tirelessly for the good of the millions of women who continue to lose their jobs, get passed over for promotion and face a penalty for being a mum.
Here are just some of the benefits they offer:
· Flexible working is embedded in our culture with employees working different hours, and days of the week.
· 34 days annual leave, including statutory bank holidays. This is pro-rata for part-time staff.
· Paid leave between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
· 2 paid ‘’Wellbeing Days’’. These are days that can be booked off with no notice and no questions asked.
· 5 days paid leave to care for dependents.
· Participation in a comprehensive workplace pension scheme with contributions from the organisation of 4%
· Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
· 4 days of training per year.
· Work from home onboarding and office set up.
Next steps
We would love you to apply, which is a simple and transparent process, with a screening and interview stage with Scoutess Consultancy (we are a recruitment partner managing this campaign) and a one stage interview with our client w/c 21st July (22nd July interview date). Please note the advert will close on Sunday 13th July at midday, however, you may be contacted earlier if shortlisted.
Please apply via Charity Jobs, sending your CV alongside a covering letter of no more than 500 words detailing your suitability for the role.
Charity working to end the motherhood penalty.
Trauma Treatment International (TTI) is a registered charity in the UK. Our focus and expertise is in providing evidence-based psychological treatment and support to victims of collective violence around the world. As well as providing treatment for victims directly, we work with organisations and communities to manage, mitigate and prevent trauma.
This is a highly rewarding role and an exciting opportunity to join and lead our small, yet experienced and impactful team. The role offers the platform to work creatively and flexibly internationally, network with fantastic organisations and help to influence, shape and sustain TTI’s strategy and activities in this pivotal time in the organisation’s development.
Description
Key Areas of Responsibility
Clinical strategy and plans for growth
- Have responsibility for the strategic development of TTI’s clinical team, clinical delivery and clinical outcomes, to meet TTI’s ambitious and transformational Strategy 2025-2030.
- Provide clinical leadership to the development of TTI’s strategic vision and annual delivery planning, models of service delivery, standards and clinical governance.
- Support and enable partners, service users and especially those with lived experience to inform TTI’s clinical service design, delivery and evaluation and to engage in communications and research activities in a way that is psychologically safe and follows principles of trauma-informed practice.
- Manage TTI’s clinical capacity and skills, and oversee the growth and development of the team, including recruiting, supervising and managing workload/ assignment of internal staff, associates and external multi-disciplinary team to ensure the organisation’s ability to meet service demand.
- Develop and implement strategies to actively promote diversity in the clinical team and champion culturally sensitive approaches to trauma treatment through research, partnerships and new projects.
- Liaise directly and regularly with TTI’s Trustee with responsibility for clinical oversight, and provide regular reports to the Board of Trustees to support strategic decision-making and risk oversight.
- Oversee the smooth running and effectiveness of specialist clinical advisory groups (clinical advisory groups, research advisory groups and project advisory groups) for TTI that meet the strategic requirements of the organisation and build the evidence base, engage experts and build the reputation and scope of TTI’s work with professionals, networks and sectors in the UK and internationally.
- Take a lead in developing clinical research opportunities, identify opportunities to develop Quality Improvement Projects and disseminate learning internally and externally in collaboration with the communications team.
- Build relationships with Clinical Leads in organisations with shared aims, to build TTI’s relationships and opportunities for partnership and project working.
- Lead the design of internal wellbeing policies and activities and embed trauma-informed knowledge and skills across the organisation, including with clinical and non-clinical staff and trustees.
Delivery of Clinical Services
- Drive TTI’s clinical delivery, in line with TTI’s overarching strategic objectives, including setting long-term and annual objectives and KPIs, within the context of clinical evidence- based best practice, trauma informed principles, participation of those with lived experience and budgetary, donor and risk-management requirements.
- Oversee the development and implementation of TTI’s clinical treatment pathways for survivors of torture, trafficking, slavery and violent conflict or those affected by vicarious trauma or burnout through their work in human rights, including:
- up to date and evidence based clinical pathways for the main clinical presentations we see at TTI
- robust assessment, formulation, treatment and ending processes
- robust partnership agreements with organisations referring people to TTI for clinical treatment.
- Develop and refine TTI’s clinical services in response to community needs and local/global events, in line with TTI’s strategy, including for working in international communities affected by violent conflict.
- Maintain an appropriate clinical caseload.
- Deliver services to TTI’s organisational clients, (including organisational reviews, trauma training, 1:1 professional consultations, critical incident support), especially to pilot, test and quality control these aspects of TTI’s delivery.
- Support gaps in clinical team capacity as required to ensure smooth running of delivery and excellence of service to our individual and organisational clients.
- Support internal processes led by the fundraising team to design new projects and develop grant applications in order to grow the reach and impact of TTI’s work.
- Support the development of international projects and partnerships and oversee the safe delivery of international work, whether in person or online, in collaboration with the Projects and Partnerships Lead.
- Attend conferences and networks of psychologists in order to learn and embed TTI’s clinical reputation and access to learning and dissemination.
Quality Assurance and Evaluation
- Deliver an evidence-based and continuous evaluation culture and promote internal reflection and learning.
- Maintain and further develop a robust framework for quality assurance and evaluation of TTI’s clinical activities, including engagement of clients, service users and those with lived experience.
- Oversee the consistent use of evidence based clinical measures and ensure robust processes to monitor, evaluate, learn and report on the quality and impact of TTI’s clinical activities and outcomes.
- Support the transition of TTI’s clinical team and associates onto client management software, with a focus on good data, confidentiality and consistency of adoption.
- Ensure that all systems and processes for storing, managing and reporting on clinical/client data provide robust confidentiality, security and meet TTI’s policies and legal frameworks including Data Protection Act 1998, Caldicott principles.
- Provide regular, timely and accurate data on TTI’s clinical activities and outcomes, to contribute to reports for donors, communications campaigns and annual impact reports and as required throughout the calendar year.
- Provide quarterly performance reports to the CEO and Clinical Trustee on clinical performance, based on clinical data and input from the clinical team and attend Board meetings as requested to report on clinical delivery.
- Oversee TTI’s processes for gathering and responding to feedback from clients and service users, and manage formal and informal complaints relating to the delivery of clinical delivery with the CEO.
Clinical Risk and Safeguarding
- Hold delegated authority from the Board for TTI’s clinical risk management, including engagement in TTI’s Risk-Management Sub-Committee, driving implementation of risk-management and mitigation actions relating to clinical delivery and leading TTI’s monthly internal QSP meetings.
- Feed into internal annual policy review processes, as they relate to clinical delivery, risk management and compliance with clinical duties and trauma-informed practice.
- Be the Safeguarding Lead for TTI, escalating to the Senior Safeguarding Leads as required and ensure processes are in place to meet TTI’s Safeguarding Policy and procedures within the clinical team and associates.
People Management
- Line manage and supervise senior clinical staff and provide support in their duties to manage and supervise their direct reports.
- Notice and respond appropriately to any performance management issues.
- Organise CPD opportunities for internal staff and associates. Oversee the Head of Treatment Services in delivering peer support for internal staff and associates. Update staff of any relevant changes in professional guidance.
- Support the wellbeing of the clinical team and embed a culture of self-care, trauma-informed practice and delivery excellence.
- Take up monthly external supervision provided by TTI.
- Identify skills gaps and strategies to fill these across the clinical function, within budgetary constraints and maximising access to and sharing of internal knowledge and expertise.
- Maintain up to date knowledge of requirements, guidelines and best practice from clinical governing bodies.
General
- Provide clinical input into communications materials and content in line with TTI’s Communications Strategy as required by the communications and marketing teams.
- Compliance with organisational policies and practices, and attendance at mandatory training.
- Any other appropriate duties as required by the organisation.
Personal Specification
Essential Criteria
- HCPC registered psychologist who has completed Post Graduate doctoral level training in counselling or clinical psychology.
- Minimum 5 years post registration experience working within mental health services.
- Managerial and leadership experience
- Clinical experience across the life span of individuals
- Up to date knowledge and experience of working with clients with PTSD, complex PTSD, survivors of human rights abuses, such as torture, and/or war related trauma and/or asylum seekers.
- Training in at least two UK NICE guidelines evidence based treatment for PTSD.
- Significant experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of settings (could include one or more of NHS, voluntary sector, international humanitarian, community-based, inpatient, field hospital, disaster response etc).
- Experience of developing and delivering training online and in person.
- Knowledge of risk management, safeguarding
- An understanding of the complexities of experience of those surviving torture, trafficking and slavery, persecution and violent conflict
- Understanding of workforce exposure to trauma or traumatic material and experience in staff support
- Evidence of post qualification development
- Training and supervisory experience
- Project management experience
- Ability to manage, motivate, support, develop and lead an online team and promote safe remote working
- A degree of financial awareness with an appreciation of the need to balance the provision of quality care against a budget
- Knowledge of appropriate standards and external regulatory bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of crisis response work
- Knowledge of languages or cultures of those we seek to support
- Lived experience of the issues reflected in TTI’s mission and aims
- Working knowledge of relevant Mental Health, Asylum, Employment and Health & Safety Legislation (e.g. Human Rights Act 1998, Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Incapacity Act 2005)
- Experience of working in the charity sector or international development sector in the UK or internationally
- Experience in facilitating critical incident response sessions and reflective practice
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy)
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (DPsyc)
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:
- 33 days annual leave, pro rata to reflect contractual hours (including bank holidays and 3 mandatory days over the Christmas period)
- 3% Employer Pension contribution
- Commitment to staff wellbeing as a trauma informed organisation
- Commitment to personal and professional development
- Flexible working to fit your personal circumstances
- Opportunity to lead the organisation’s clinical development and make your mark as the organisation grows
Our vision is that everyone affected by collective violence can live fulfilled lives in a supportive and informed world.

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Executive Assistant
Location: Remote (UK), with approximately monthly travel to Stroud
Contract type: 12 months, with aim to make permanent
Salary: £31,000- £35,000 pro rata, depending on experience (plus benefits)
Working pattern: Full time or part time (minimum 4 days/week (0.8 FTE)
Closing date: 6 July 2025
Commencement date: Negotiable, preferably week commencing 18 August 2025
How to apply: Submit your CV and a short covering letter via CharityJob
Introduction
Iswe is a social impact foundation dedicated to finding ways to put people at the heart of social and political decision-making to solve some of society’s greatest challenges. We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Executive Assistant to play a pivotal role supporting our CEO and leadership team.
We know that building a team representative of wider society fosters creativity and innovation. We welcome people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences and are committed to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly welcome applications from candidates who are disabled, Black, Asian or from other minority ethnic backgrounds, who identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, or identify as from a lower or disadvantaged socioeconomic background as these groups are currently under-represented on our staff team.
Role Purpose
The Executive Assistant is an important role within our organisation, working closely with the CEO and leadership team. This is a dynamic, fast-paced position at the heart of a globally significant initiative. The successful candidate will be a key partner to the CEO, helping translate vision into action and ensuring high-level stakeholders receive timely, professional and thoughtful communication.
We’re seeking an experienced Executive Assistant who is flexible in approach, adaptable to changing priorities, and shares a belief in our vision.
If you believe in the wisdom of everyday people, are values-driven, self-reflective, creative, curious, agile, flexible and enthusiastic, if you want to do work that learns and grows from all the richness each of us brings – where we welcome learning from a diverse array of life experiences, cultures, and backgrounds, if you can bring positivity and accountability to your work, if you strive for brilliance, challenges excite you and if you would speak with authenticity and dedication about our work, we want to hear from you!
Main duties
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Proactively manage the CEO’s diary, inbox and meeting schedule to ensure strategic alignment and use of time
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Draft, edit and manage correspondence, briefing notes, and presentations on behalf of the CEO and leadership team
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Coordinate and support internal and external meetings, including logistics, agenda preparation, taking accurate minutes and tracking decisions and actions that arise
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Support the CEO to track progress on key priorities, ensuring deadlines are met and decisions are followed up
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Provide administrative and organisational support for events, travel and itineraries (UK and international) and other logistics
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Manage the CEO’s social media accounts as directed, posting content and responding to key contacts
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Financial Administration - gather and provide financial information to Finance co-ordinator, gather and co-ordinate receipts etc
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Maintain relationships with senior stakeholders, partners and board members with professionalism and tact
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Assist the CEO and leadership team with additional administration/ organisational tasks at their discretion
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Assisting with research of projects, e.g. potential partner research
Essential skills and experience
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A minimum of five years of experience providing high-level administrative support in a busy organisation
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Proficient in workplace software including Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, Trello and able to learn to navigate new systems quickly
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Experience of upwardly managing senior leaders with limited time and high responsibility
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Experience managing external communications with senior stakeholders
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Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to maintain accurate records and produce coherent reports and minutes
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A proactive, self-starting attitude with the ability to anticipate needs and adapt to changing priorities
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Excellent time management skills: the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines is key
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Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Excellent interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
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Confidence to constructively challenge when necessary, including speaking openly about conflicting viewpoints or workload balance
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Discretion in handling confidential or sensitive information
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Self-reflective, open to feedback and committed to personal growth
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Enthusiasm for Iswe’s mission and dedication to its continued success
Desirable skills and experience
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A relevant tertiary qualification is advantageous but not essential for example Certified Administrative Professional (CAP), Exec PA Diploma, Certified Executive Assistant Professional (CEAP) etc
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Experience of working within the charity or non-profit sector
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Experience of working in a startup environment
Salary, Benefits and Conditions
We are a supportive and purpose-driven team. We offer:
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Flexible working arrangements
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Generous holiday allowance (35 days plus bank holidays, pro rata)
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Opportunities for professional growth and development
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A supportive, inclusive working culture built on trust and mutual respect
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Opportunities to contribute to globally significant work
About Iswe
We believe that many of the crises we face today - health, climate, the cost of living etc - are symptoms of failing governance structures, and that putting people in the driving seat of decision-making will transform our futures for the better. Our current strategy focuses on innovations around citizens’ assemblies (and similar deliberative processes), public services and the relationship between politicians and the communities they serve.
Our team has decades of experience in democratic innovation. Projects include Global Assembly for COP26, Good Help and The Future Armenian. Iswe is a fast-growing foundation, dedicated to empowering citizens to play a leading role in the decision-making that affects their lives.
Our work is founded on strong values, including openness, transparency and humility. We believe that when ‘I’ (an individual) becomes ‘we’ (part of the collective), the results are transformational. We are actively working to build a healthy culture, rooted in care and characterised by being self-organising and self-reflective. We are committed to addressing the dynamics of oppression in ourselves and our work.
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The CMV Connect Project Coordinator role is designed to enhance the charity's outreach and support initiatives, focusing on building and maintaining relationships with healthcare professionals, families, and the broader community. This position involves coordinating projects that aim to increase awareness, provide resources, and support families affected by cCMV. This role is a part time role funded by National Lottery Community Fund. It is a freelance contractor role, as it is a contract for services.
CMV Action is a UK-based charity dedicated to supporting families affected by congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV), a leading cause of childhood disabilities such as deafness, developmental delays, and vision impairment. The charity provides information, advocacy, and support to raise awareness and improve outcomes for those impacted by cCMV, both during pregnancy and in babies and children.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Coordination: Oversee the planning, implementation, and evaluation of CMV Connect initiatives, ensuring they align with the charity's objectives. Work with other Operation Team members and report to the Board fortnightly.
- Supporting families: Work with the trustees to follow up on those we support and identify how we can support them in the future. Work with volunteers to organise in-person and online opportunities for families to meet up.
- Volunteer Coordination: Recruit, train, and support volunteers involved in CMV Connect project.
- Event Management: Organise and support events and campaigns aimed at raising awareness and funds for CMV Action.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain relationships with healthcare professionals, community groups, and other families to promote awareness and support for cCMV. Provide social media content to the Fundraising Officer when each milestone is reached.
- Resource Development: Assist in creating and distributing educational materials and resources for families and healthcare providers.
- Data Management: Collect and analyse data to assess the impact of initiatives and inform future strategies. Financial data collection for the final evaluation report.
Person Specification
Essential
- Education: Degree level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
- Experience: Proven experience in project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and working within a charitable or healthcare setting. Previous working experience with volunteers within a project would be ideal.
- Skills: Strong organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office, including proficiency in Excel.
- Attributes: Ability to work independently and as part of a team, manage multiple tasks, and maintain confidentiality.
Desirable
- Qualifications: Project management or volunteer management qualification.
- Experience: Experience in fundraising, event management, and using CRM systems, experience managing a similar project or offering support to families.
- Knowledge: Understanding of public health issues, particularly related to congenital infections and how to work in the charity sector.
Working Conditions
- Location: The role is home-based with occasional travel required for meetings and events.
- Hours: Part-time position, with flexibility to accommodate the needs of the projects. Approximately 16 hours per week, equivalent to 2 days per week.
- Salary: £150 per day, 8 hours a day, approx. 2 days a week, approx. 40 weeks till early June 2026.
This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of families affected by cCMV, contributing to the charity's mission to raise awareness and provide support.
This role has been funded thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund!
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Learning & Development Manager (LDM) – Cymru Wales, West Midlands & South West
Home - Based
If you’re passionate about helping further the mission of Methodist churches, circuits and districts, then we would like to hear from you. As an experienced professional with a proven track record in learning and development, and management, you will be part of a Learning Network (LN), within the Ministries and Learning team and part of the Connexional Team of The Methodist Church.
The LN comprises 30+ staff working as part of a single team operating across the Methodist Church in Britain. The team is strategically and collaboratively managed by Learning and Development Managers (LDMs), each having responsibility for a number of Learning and Development Officers (LDO) working within a geographical area. We are seeking to recruit an LDM for the Cymru Wales, West Midlands and South West area. There is a requirement to live within this geography that includes the Methodist districts: Wales Synod Cymru, West Midlands (following the merger of the current Birmingham District and the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District on 1st September 2025), Southampton, Channel Islands, Bristol, and South West Peninsular.
Responsibilities of the Learning Development Manager include:
- strategic shared leadership of the LN
- leading and managing the LDOs, balancing the needs and expectations of lay and ordained
- developing, implementing and reviewing, alongside other LDMs and the Director of Ministry Learning, the strategic work plan of the LN
- building and maintaining good relationships across the Connexional Team and with individuals and communities across the church and beyond
- encouraging the sharing of individual gifts and experiences across a number of teams and stakeholders
- travel (including overnight stays), weekend and evening work
We are looking for someone who has:
- proven experience of coordinating and managing a dispersed team of staff and volunteers
- significant experience and is passionate about learning and development
- a strong commitment to collaborative and partnership working
- a proven track record of meeting deadlines within a complex and varied workload
Knowledge of the Welsh language would be a valuable asset to this role
Our Culture, Values and Benefits
Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.
We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.
The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups.
For ministers in Full Connexion the standard terms of service apply.
Closing date: 23:59 on 21/07/2025
Interviews to take place on: 08/08/2025 in London in person.
N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.

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About Brake
Brake is the UK’s leading road safety charity, dedicated to supporting people affected by road crashes and advocating for safer streets. Since 1995, we have been helping victims and their families to navigate the devastating impact of road collisions through the National Road Victim Service—providing immediate, compassionate, and tailored support for those who have been bereaved or seriously injured. Our mission goes beyond recovery; we campaign tirelessly for legislative and societal changes to prevent future tragedies and make roads safer for everyone.
Join us as a Caseworker – East Midlands Region - To apply for this role, you MUST be a resident in the East Midlands area.
This year, Brake celebrates 30 years of life-changing work, and we’re looking for a committed and compassionate Caseworker to help us continue making an impact. If you are based in the East Midlands region and want to help people at their most vulnerable moments, this could be the role for you.
Every 20 minutes, someone is killed or seriously injured on UK roads. For families affected, the emotional and practical challenges are immense. As a Caseworker, you will provide direct, trauma-informed care to individuals and families suffering from the sudden bereavement or life-altering injury of a loved one. Working mostly remotely, with home visits to service users, you’ll offer vital emotional and practical support—including helping them access therapeutic resources, financial assistance, and guidance through the complexities of medical and legal processes.
This role is flexible, allowing you to structure your own working pattern within weekdays from 8AM to 6PM. While travel is required, you’ll have control over your diary. The work is challenging but immensely rewarding, requiring resilience, empathy, and a dedication to making a real difference in people’s lives.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing direct support to road victims and their families in the East Midlands region, following Brake’s trauma-informed model of care.
- Managing a caseload of service users, ensuring their emotional, practical, and advocacy needs are met.
- Undertaking comprehensive needs assessments and creating individualised support plans
- Offering emotional and practical support—this can include helping families access therapeutic resources, financial aid, or even facilitating keepsakes to honour the memory of their loved ones
- Liaising with professionals, including police officers, Family Liaison Officers, mental health services, coroners, GPs, and other support organisations.
- Advocating for victims within medical, legal, and social services to ensure their voices are heard.
- Providing support through multiple channels, including in-person, remote calls, video chats, and messaging, depending on service user preferences.
- Completing safeguarding assessments and escalating concerns to the Designated Safeguarding Lead when needed.
- Maintaining accurate case records in compliance with data protection policies.
- Engaging in external clinical supervision to manage personal resilience and well-being.
- Participating in team meetings, training, and professional development to ensure the highest standard of service delivery.
What We Offer
- £20,800 per year (fixed term contract, maternity cover until August 2026).
- Flexible working hours—working pattern can be shaped around your needs.
- Mostly remote work, with travel to service users’ homes or safe meeting places (mileage expenses reimbursed).
- Death in service benefit, to the value of 2 x salary.
- 36 days annual leave, including bank holidays and compulsory end of year shutdown (pro rata for part time working patterns).
- Employee assistance program, including counselling, legal and financial advice.
- External trauma consultant support to aid in caseworker resilience.
- Structured induction, training, and ongoing development including in trauma-informed support and risk management.
Who We’re Looking For
Essential Requirements:
- A full, clean UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle.
- Resident in the East Midlands area.
- Experience in frontline support services, preferably involving sudden bereavement or heightened vulnerabilities.
- Strong advocacy and research skills to liaise with multiple organisations on behalf of service users.
- Competency in I.T skills to work remotely.
Desirable Experience:
· Comprehensive understanding of the processes involved in the criminal justice system and coronial process
Personal Qualities:
- Self-motivated and resilient—able to navigate emotionally challenging situations.
- Empathetic and compassionate, with a commitment to helping others.
- Adaptable and creative, able to tailor support methods to individual needs.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with professionals and service users alike.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Brake is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. We particularly welcome applications from those who are part of the global majority, the LGBTQIA+ community or disabled. We are proud to be a disability confident employer. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. So, if you have a passion for making a difference and share in our vision for a world where no one is killed on our roads, we would love to hear from you.
We want to get to know you and we welcome cover letters in alternative formats, for example you could send a short video cover letter instead of a traditional written one.
We work to stop road deaths and injuries, support people affected by road crashes and campaign for safe and healthy mobility for all.


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About Brake
Brake is the UK’s leading road safety charity, dedicated to supporting people affected by road crashes and advocating for safer streets. Since 1995, we have been helping victims and their families to navigate the devastating impact of road collisions through the National Road Victim Service—providing immediate, compassionate, and tailored support for those who have been bereaved or seriously injured. Our mission goes beyond recovery; we campaign tirelessly for legislative and societal changes to prevent future tragedies and make roads safer for everyone.
Join us as a Caseworker – Kent, Essex & East Region - To apply for this role, you MUST be a resident in the Kent or Essex area.
This year, Brake celebrates 30 years of life-changing work, and we’re looking for a committed and compassionate Caseworker to help us continue making an impact. If you are based in the Kent or Essex area and want to help people at their most vulnerable moments, this could be the role for you.
Every 20 minutes, someone is killed or seriously injured on UK roads. For families affected, the emotional and practical challenges are immense. As a Caseworker, you will provide direct, trauma-informed care to individuals and families suffering from the sudden bereavement or life-altering injury of a loved one. Working mostly remotely, with home visits to service users, you’ll offer vital emotional and practical support—including helping them access therapeutic resources, financial assistance, and guidance through the complexities of medical and legal processes.
This role is flexible, allowing you to structure your own working pattern within weekdays from 8am to 6pm. While travel is required, you’ll have control over your diary. The work is challenging but immensely rewarding, requiring resilience, empathy, and a dedication to making a real difference in people’s lives.
Key Responsibilities
· Providing direct support to road victims and their families in the Kent, Essex & East region, following Brake’s trauma- informed model of care.
· Managing a caseload of service users, ensuring their emotional, practical, and advocacy needs are met.
· Undertaking comprehensive needs assessments and creating individualised support plans
· Offering emotional and practical support—this can include helping families access therapeutic resources, financial aid,or even facilitating keepsakes to honour the memory of their loved ones
· Liaising with professionals, including police officers, Family Liaison Officers, mental health services, coroners, GPs, and other support organisations.
· Advocating for victims within medical, legal, and social services to ensure their voices are heard.
· Providing support through multiple channels, including in-person, remote calls, video chats, and messaging, depending on service user preferences.
· Completing safeguarding assessments and escalating concerns to the Designated Safeguarding Lead when needed.
· Maintaining accurate case records in compliance with data protection policies.
· Engaging in external clinical supervision to manage personal resilience and well-being.
· Participating in team meetings, training, and professional development to ensure the highest standard of service delivery.
What We Offer
· £15,600 per year (12 months fixed term with the possibility of extension depending on funding)
· Flexible working hours—working pattern can be shaped around your needs.
· Mostly remote work, with travel to service users’ homes or safe meeting places (mileage expenses reimbursed).
· Death in service benefit, to the value of 2 x salary.
· 36 days annual leave, including bank holidays and compulsory end of year shutdown (pro rata for part time working patterns).
· Employee assistance program, including counselling, legal and financial advice.
· External trauma consultant support to aid in caseworker resilience.
· Structured induction, training, and ongoing development including in trauma-informed support and risk management.
Who We’re Looking For
Essential Requirements:
· A full, clean UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle.
· Resident in the Kent or Essex area.
· Experience in frontline support services, preferably involving sudden bereavement or heightened vulnerabilities.
· Strong advocacy and research skills to liaise with multiple organisations on behalf of service users.
· Competency in I.T skills to work remotely.
Desirable Experience:
· Comprehensive understanding of the processes involved in the criminal justice system and coronial process
Personal Qualities:
· Self-motivated and resilient—able to navigate emotionally challenging situations.
· Empathetic and compassionate, with a commitment to helping others.
· Adaptable and creative, able to tailor support methods to individual needs.
· Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with professionals and service users alike.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Brake is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. We particularly welcome applications from those who are part of the global majority, the LGBTQIA+ community or disabled. We are proud to be a disability confident employer. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. So, if you have a passion for making a difference and share in our vision for a world where no one is killed on our roads, we would love to hear from you.
The successful candidate will be required to go through an enhanced DBS vetting process due to the sensitive nature of the service delivered.
Please note we do not accept applications from serious traffic offenders due to the nature of our work. Employees are subject to driver licence checks.
To apply
Submit your CV and a covering letter which clearly demonstrate you have what it takes to perform this challenging and rewarding role.
We work to stop road deaths and injuries, support people affected by road crashes and campaign for safe and healthy mobility for all.


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