New opportunity not to be missed! Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Regional Fundraising Co-ordinator to join our Fundraising team based in Bradford or Manchester to support and develop Centrepoint's regional fundraising portfolio. In return, you will receive a competitive salary plus excellent benefits.
This is a 6-month fixed term contract opportunity with a closing date of 17th January 2021.
We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently.
Together with our partners, we support thousands of homeless young people each year.
The Fundraising Directorate is responsible for generating and raising the funds need to support the work we do. Millions of pounds is generated through businesses and their employees, trusts and foundations, wealthy individuals and fundraising events. Income from voluntary sources enables Centrepoint to provide non-statutory support services including the organisations in-house Learning and Health Teams and the Centrepoint Helpline.
What you’ll be doing…
• Working under direction from the Regional Fundraising Manager to support Centrepoint’s Regional Fundraising Strategy, primarily through community and events fundraising, with a particular focus on helping to develop community fundraising in the North.
• Develop and deliver a portfolio of regional events including challenge and mass participation events, supporting Centrepoint’s flagship Sleep Out events and other events on the calendar.
• Recruiting and managing the stewardship of regional events participants to maximize fundraising and turn them into committed Centrepoint supporters.
• Implementing and delivering an interesting and engaging communications schedule with regional events participants.
• Identifying key potential community partners, securing income and generating relationships with them.
• Developing existing community partnerships
What we offer in return...
In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
- Excellent training package to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career
- Employer pension contributions of 4%
- Clear career progressions, linked to portfolio work, that enables movement up the pay scale
- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
- An interest-free travel loan
We seek to challenge discrimination and are committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint. We welcome applications from anyone with direct experience of being homeless or using young people's services.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Regional Fundraising Co-ordiantor, click ‘Apply’ now!
Keywords: Fundraising / Corporate / Bradford / Manchester / Charity / Homeslessness
Centrepoint is the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people.
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About Us
The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.
At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.
About the Role
In this exciting new post, you will play a pivotal role as a senior leader within the newly formed Funding Strategy Directorate, working closely with the Funding Strategy Director and Senior Management Team to ensure the implementation of the Fund’s vision and ambition.
The Funding Strategy Directorate is a central enabling function that supports the development, innovation and delivery of our funding across all our funding portfolios. This role will lead the Funding Design and Development function, accountable for our grant management system alongside funding controls, policy and practice. With a deep understanding and demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches and applied strategic thinking you will enable us to deliver excellent services both to our external customers as well as our internal teams.
To be successful in this post you will be passionate about our work and strategy ‘People in the Lead’. You will be an established leader with first class team leadership and coaching skills. You will be adept at setting strategies that drive forward positive change marrying business needs with innovative analysis. You will have experience of designing and delivering a major digital system and be skilled in making complex decisions balancing outcomes with risks.
The team is spread across the UK and you can be based at any of our office locations. When we return to the workplace there will be some travel between offices.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered
Interview Date: W/C 1 Feb 2021
Essential Criteria
Please ensure that your application demonstrates, with examples, how you meet all these essential criteria.
- Deep understanding of the communities we serve and our role as a funder
- Experience of leading strategy for the whole organisation, marrying business needs with innovative analysis
- Demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches, applying strategic thinking in how to provide the best service
- Responsibility for the design and delivery of at least one major digital system used by a business or organisation to manage its work whilst aligning with its ambition.
- Building or growing at least one team of mixed skills to deliver such a project.
- Proven ability to coach and lead teams in agile and lean practices, thinking of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes
- Excellent Communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrable ability to mediate between people and communicating with stakeholders at all levels
- Experience of making and justifying decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity
Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge of the wider digital economy and advances in technology, understanding how these impact on a funder context
For You
We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.
We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:
- Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
- Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Season ticket and cycle to work loans
- Paid volunteering leave
How to Apply
Visit our website on The National Lottery Community Fund for further details about the vacancy and our application process.
Equal Opportunities
Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive. We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.
£22,105 to £23,850 per annum
Permanent, 37 hours a week
Are you excited by the opportunity to create amazing work that engages and celebrates our 38,000 strong community of students at Manchester Met?
Be a part of our Marketing and Communications team and deliver projects and campaigns that have a positive impact on students, staff, and stakeholders.
Who are we?
Located in the heart of Manchester, The Union is part business, part charity, part membership body. Operating independently from Manchester Metropolitan University, our aim is to support and represent each one of our student members. Each year our growing team of over 60 full time and up to 150 part-time staff, work alongside elected student leaders to make change, improve lives and help fulfil student potential.
Winner of the NUS Campaigning Award 2017, The Union is one of 550 students’ unions across the country, and we’re one of the most exciting - with over 38,000 student members and 150 student groups, a huge range of services and a bold strategy.
What’s the job?
You’ll be the go-to person in The Union’s Marketing and Communications team for all things social media - you’ll facilitate the production of original, engaging digital content that builds affinity for and raises awareness of The Union. This role is perfect for someone with a clear understanding of what works best across multiple social platforms and has the creativity to bring new ideas to life. You will also support The Union’s marketing campaigns and objectives by planning and delivering a range of briefs and projects, including web, email, and print.
What are we looking for?
Someone creative. You will be full of ideas, happy to experiment and have a good editorial judgement. You will use your up-to-date knowledge on the latest social media trends and updates to ensure high levels of engagement and channel growth. A team-orientated person who can build relationships and work successfully with people at all levels, you will work closely with staff across The Union and University and will support the recruitment and supervision of a growing team of student Content Creators.
Why apply?
There has never been a better time to work for The Union. Based just off Oxford Road, in the centre of vibrant Manchester, The Union will train you thoroughly, reward you well and encourage you to build a long-term career that inspires you.
The exact opposite of corporate, we’re progressive, creative individuals working to make a difference in unconventional workplaces. In return for your passion and experience, we offer the flexibility for work-life balance, a competitive salary for the non-profit sector and excellent holiday allowance. We’re absolutely open to considering requests for job share or part-time working.
We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability status.
We want to support diverse and inclusive work environments and are actively looking for people who share our values. Whilst not a requirement, we are particularly welcoming to BAME candidates within the Union as we are underrepresented.
To Apply:
Please complete the attached application form and send to us via email, as detailed on our website via the Apply button.
Please note we do not accept CVs or cover letters for this role and are only accepting application forms in the Microsoft Word format.
Closing date: 22:00, 17th January 2021
If you are successfully shortlisted, we will see you at an interview during week commencing 27th January 2021. Please note interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams. Therefore, you will be required to use a laptop and camera for the video interview.
Work somewhere professional, but different. Build a career with students’ unions.
Oasis is recruiting three Youth Development Workers to be part of a new team of working on a groundbreaking project, supporting A&E Departments in the Greater Manchester area in reducing the harm to young people from violence. As this is a new project we are also recruiting for a Project Coordinator and an Administrator.
Key responsibilities for the Youth Development Workers will be:
- Offering intensive 1:1 support to young people who present to A&E due to violence, including support for the parent / carers and family unit.
- Designing a bespoke plan for the young person (inc referrals partners, agencies)
- Developing the skills of staff within A&E in engaging with young people who come into A&E as a result of a violent incident.
- Working in a team that delivers one-to-one support and mentoring.
Amongst other requirements, the successful post holder must have:
- A relevant qualification in Youth & Community (JNC) or Social Work (QSW) or SEND OR able to demonstrate relevant experience.
- Proven experience working with young people ‘at risk’.
- Reliability, with a flexible approach to changes in circumstance and able to work unsocial hours
- Experience with working with multi agencies
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new project based in A&E Departments, making a difference to communities on a local level, while individually improving the life chances of young people. As part of the package, Oasis offers:
- A pension scheme, currently offering 7% employer contribution
- A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays)
- A supportive, friendly work environment, with flexible working arrangements
If you are interested in this position, please download the documents on this page or go to the Oasis UK charity website (CVs alone will not be accepted).
Completed applications should be returned by 9am Monday 25th January 2021.
Interviews will take place on 11th & 12th February 2021 (possibly in person or online)
FULL TIME, 40 HOURS PER WEEK (1 FTE)
FIXED TERM CONTRACT TO MARCH 2022
SALARY: £23,396 p.a. (plus 7% non-contributory pension)
LOCATION: GREATER MANCHESTER
Oasis Charitable Trust is a multi-national charity supporting young people and their families in 10 countries worldwide. Our vision is for building healthy communities: places where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their full potential.
Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
Oasis supports Equal Opportunities. Registered Charity No. 1026487
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Oasis Charitable Trust is a multi-national charity supporting young people and their families in 9 countries worldwide. Our vision is for building healthy communities: places where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their full potential.
Due to a successful funding bid, Oasis is now searching for a Project Coordinator to provide inspiring leadership with a new team of Youth Support Workers and volunteers on a groundbreaking project, supporting A&E Departments in the Greater Manchester area in reducing the harm to young people from violence. As this is a new project we are also recruiting for Youth Development Workers and an Administrator.
Key responsibilities for the Project Coordinator will be:
- Ensuring successful implementation of the Oasis Navigator pilot project.
- Working with safeguarding children teams to assess the needs of the vulnerable young people
- Building capacity of Emergency Department and Urgent Care staff with training and developing systems.
- Being responsible for securing funding for the project’s continuation and expansion
- Supervise and manage the Oasis Navigator team and volunteers
Amongst other requirements, the successful post holder must have:
- A relevant qualification in Youth & Community (JNC) or Teaching (QTS) or Social Work (QSW) at DipHE level or above OR able to demonstrate relevant experience.
- Proven experience working with young people ‘at risk’.
- Reliability, with a flexible approach to changes in circumstance and able to work unsocial hours
- Experience of project management, budget management and presentation skills.
This is an exciting opportunity to inspire and lead a new project, making a difference to communities on a local level, while individually improving the life chances of young people. As part of the package, Oasis offers:
- A pension scheme, currently offering 7% employer contribution
- A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays)
- A supportive, friendly work environment, with flexible working arrangements
If you are interested in this position, please download the documents from this page or visit the Oasis UK charity website (CVs alone will not be accepted).
Completed applications should be returned by 9am Monday 25th January 2021.
Interviews will take place on 11th & 12th February 2021 (possibly in person or online)
FULL TIME, 40 HOURS PER WEEK (1 FTE)
FIXED TERM CONTRACT TO MARCH 2022
SALARY: £27,099 - £30,033 p.a. (plus 7% non-contributory pension)
LOCATION: GREATER MANCHESTER
Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
Oasis supports Equal Opportunities. Registered Charity No. 1026487
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Oasis has a vacancy for a Project Administrator to be part of a new team of working on a groundbreaking project, supporting A&E Departments in the Greater Manchester area in reducing the harm to young people from violence.
We are looking for an organised and pro-active Administrator who has a flair for setting up systems, maintaining databases, sorting paperwork and keeping processes on track, all while maintaining confidentiality and helping people from all walks of life. Like most administration jobs, no day will be the same, so you will need to think on your feet and be ready to challenge and be challenged. As this is a new project we are also recruiting for a Project Coordinator and three Youth Development Workers.
To be successful, you will need solid administration experience including minute taking, using social media, as well as data management systems. This role will suit someone who is self-motivated, flexible and reliable, and wants to work in a unique area of youth and community work.
Oasis Charitable Trust is a multi-national charity supporting young people and their families in 10 countries worldwide. Our vision is for building healthy communities: places where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their full potential.
Working for Oasis offers:
- A pension scheme, currently offering 7% employer contribution
- A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays)
- A supportive, friendly work environment, with flexible working arrangements
If you are interested in this position, please download the documents on this page or go to the Oasis UK charity website (CVs alone will not be accepted).
Completed applications should be returned by 9am Monday 25th January 2021.
Interviews will take place on 11th & 12th February 2021 (possibly in person or online)
PART TIME, 24 HOURS PER WEEK (0.6 FTE)
FIXED TERM CONTRACT TO MARCH 2022
SALARY: £11,606 p.a. (plus 7% non-contributory pension)
LOCATION: GREATER MANCHESTER
Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
Oasis supports Equal Opportunities. Registered Charity No. 1026487
You don’t have to look very far in this world to see the injustice that surrounds us – there’s a lot of people living difficult lives in even more... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.