We are seeking a candiidate with experience of working in a communications and events role but who wants a rewarding new challenge.
Job Description
You will work alongside the Fair Tax Mark team to plan, develop and deliver our communications. You will also design and run a range of imaginative external events (all now subject to change given the covid crisis). Success in this role will require you to generate content across multiple channels which ensures we engage regularly with all our stakeholders, supporters and accredited businesses.
About the Candidate
We are seeking someone with experience of working in a communications and events role but who wants a rewarding new challenge. The candidate will be comfortable taking a hands-on approach and working alongside our existing PR and graphic design suppliers (both 0.5d/w). This job will require the versatility to deal directly with clients that range from large multinationals through to co-operatives, social enterprises and NGOs.
The candidate will need to be a confident and skilled communicator, able to write engaging copy for both corporate and consumer audiences. Working in a small team will require someone able to manage their own workload and take overall responsibility for delivery of our communications and events.
Location:
The candidate can be either home or office-based, or a mixture. Our Fair Tax Mark offices are in Manchester and we whilst we would prefer a candidate based in either Manchester or London, we would consider applications for home-based workers from other locations in the UK. The offices of the Fair Tax Mark are upstairs in an accessible building. If home-based, the candidate will need to provide a safe, secure and efficient working environment.
Areas of responsibility:
- Develop and deliver all elements of the communications of the Fair Tax Mark organisation. The role will require copy creation and materials production, delivering this information to specific, targeted audiences, using the most appropriate message and communication channel. Regular liaison with accredited businesses and other organisational supporters is to be anticipated.
- Day-to-day management of the Fair Tax Mark social media accounts, liaising with the Fair Tax Mark team to create news stories and announcements, to proactively create ideas and content to improve engagement with our supporters and generate interest and to develop a long-term strategy to build a strong social media presence.
- Oversee creation of digital media content for the website, including videos, audio and graphics. Responsibility for overall website functionality and relevance.
- To be responsible for the creation of regular newsletters focused on supporting the relationships with Fair Tax Mark’s various stakeholder groups.
- To conduct other tasks and help with other Fair Tax Mark projects when required.
- Liaise with the Fair Tax Mark accreditation manager to ensure that new businesses are supported by the Fair Tax Mark when they are first announcing their accreditation and ensuring all tasks connected with re-accreditations are completed.
- Supporting (and where necessary, leading) the Fair Tax Mark presence at third-party events. Tasks include producing display materials, organising attendance by Fair Tax Mark staff, ensuring coverage on social media as required.
- Manage the delivery of the Fair Tax Week as it transforms to more virtual event, as well as other connected external events. This will include (where necessary) booking venues, promotion of events (both physical and virtual), liaising with speakers, commissioning photographers and undertaking support tasks as required.
Person specifications:
- 3 years’ experience working as a key member of a team managing and delivering communications and events.
- Experience of creating engaging digital content.
- Experience of writing copy for a variety of media and audiences.
- Experience of successfully leading the design and delivery of outreach events.
- Experience of managing relationships with corporate clients and NGO stakeholders.
- Experience of website management.
- Experience of using appropriate software packages for content design and creation.
- Excellent organisational skills, ability to meet deadlines, multi-task and prioritise, and work on own initiative.
- Ability to be flexible and manage own workload whilst working effectively as part of a small, focused team.
- Values aligned to the cause of tax justice.
- Ability to occasionally travel and work outside normal office hours.
How to apply
To apply for this role, please send CV and covering letter using the ‘apply’ button below.
Please note that applications submitted without a covering letter will not be considered.
All applications must be received by the closing date, midnight on Friday 25th September.
Equality and diversity matters is important to the Fair Tax Mark. If you think you have the skills and experience this role requires, we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.
The Fair Tax Mark does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies.
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Who we are looking for
We are looking for a number of motivated and talented individuals with sales and stakeholder engagement experience to join our School Partnerships team as a Manager. The role is responsible for pursuing and converting sales opportunities, owning relationships with accounts of varying size and designing and delivering a strategy for programme recruitment and sales in your area. The role will build highly effective relationships with schools, system leaders and other stakeholders and influencers across the education landscape. The School Partnership Manager will raise Ambition Institute’s profile and reputation to help us achieve our mission. We are currently recruiting for one 6-month fixed term role based in the Lancashire and West Yorkshire region, and one permanent and one 6-month fixed term role based in the South East and South Central region.
Based in either our London or Manchester office, and reporting to the regional Associate Director, you will have the ability to build highly effective relationships with all levels of external stakeholders, whilst also being highly organised, with the ability to thrive in a target-driven environment. This exciting role is varied and complex, and will require an excellent communicator, ideally with experience of working in the UK education sector. It is essential that you have excellent presentation skills, and are able to use a range of strategies to impact and influence.
Who are Ambition Institute?
Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Our offer
We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:
- Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager
- A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
- 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period
- A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
- Competitive salary rates
- Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
- An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
- A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development
How to apply
All applications must be received by the closing date, midnight on Thursday 1st October 2020. Interviews are expected to take place the week beginning 12th October 2020.
To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.
Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.
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Director of External Relations
Salary: £50,000 to £60,000
Selection process: Application; I/Vs with CEO, ELT and Board members.
Hours: Full-time/permanent
Holidays: 25 days pro-rata plus up to five days during the college’s Christmas closure period
DBS: All employees undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Pension: Workplace Pension Scheme inc. employer contribution of 10%
We are a high performing specialist College, the first brand new FE College in England since 1993, focused on developing our student’s technical, creative and entrepreneurial mindsets, skillsets and networks. We are passionate about educating, supporting and creating the next generation of digital pioneers, and we are particularly proud of our focus on identifying and supporting students from tougher backgrounds and young women. In November 2018, we were rated ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ features by Ofsted. We are looking for a Director of Finance and Operations, on an interim or permanent basis, to support us during a transition period.
All our students and apprentices are passionate about tech and we are committed to supporting them to progress onto highly skilled roles in the digital sector. We run a high-performing specialist 6th form in which all students study computer science with regular off-curriculum industry projects with partners such as King Games, Deloitte and Bank of America. We consistently are rated in the top institutions in the country for our computer science curriculum. Students can also study a range of related A-levels and BTECs
We also train 240+ Higher Level and Degree Apprentices digital apprentices for 30+ companies ranging from Google to Deloitte, Expedia and the FT as junior developers, data analysts and tech consultants. We use innovative Foundation and BSc. Programmes developed with our employer partners and validated by the OU.
With campuses in Tottenham Hale and Whitechapel we have a very diverse student body from a wide range of backgrounds and are committed to using tech as a tool for social mobility. We offer a supportive culture for students and staff and our excellent industry links mean staff get regular formal and informal CPD to support their learning and development as teachers but also as leaders.
As Director of External Relations you will be responsible for both the high level strategy, including working with the Executive Leadership Team to implement and update the College’s Strategic Plan and, with your team, the daily implementation of a number of key functions. A few are listed here but a fuller list is in the attached job description:
- Ada’s fundraising activities including corporate philanthropy, major donors, trusts and foundations and implementing a wider individual giving programme.
- Facilitating and managing the extensive volunteering by industry partners in Ada’s sixth form and apprenticeship programme, including virtually due to pandemic restrictions.
- Raising the profile of the college including marketing and communications as well as public speaking and network building, and including virtual prospective learner outreach.
- Managing the outreach and recruitment of sixth form students and apprentices, in line with Ada’s social missions.
- Defining Ada’s alumni engagement and support strategy
The appointed candidate will be a champion for Ada’s unique mission and have a passion for supporting young people to succeed, especially young women and those from tougher backgrounds.
The right candidate will play a pivotal role in driving the College’s future success and will join at an exciting time in our evolution. We are looking for someone who is engaging, proactive, influential and aligned to our values; someone who will lead change management and who will support and motivate colleagues to be as efficient as possible with their budget, operations and team to drive high performance.
How to apply for the role
Please complete the application form and include a concise but detailed statement, that clearly addresses how your experience, skills and qualifications match the varied responsibilities of the post and the requirements, as set out in the person specification and email to our Jobs email address. In the subject field please write “Application for Director of External Relations” followed by your name.
If you have questions about the role and would like to have an informal conversation before submitting a completed application form please write to our Jobs email address with your CV to request a conversation with a member of the interview panel.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore, the ability to speak and write fluently in English is an essential requirement of the role.
Ada is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and its staff. We expect everyone to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks including an enhanced DBS check.
We are recognised as a disability confident employer and positively encourage applications from all social, gender and ethnicity backgrounds.
Thank you for your interest in the role and good luck in applying!
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Passionate… professional… creative… pro-active…
Do you want to use your skills to make a real difference in the world? Through quality fundraising, Chell Perkins Ltd exists to make a very real and lasting impact on the third sector. We want to identify, partner with and nurture the next generation of potential fundraisers to see all charities have access to bespoke, exceptional and affordable fundraising support.
Personally, Stuart and I have been blessed by the charities we have worked with. They offered us training, sharpened our fundraising skills, challenged us, and invested in our ability to fundraise well: releasing us to help more individuals with deeper support.
Chell Perkins Ltd wishes to pay this kindness forwards through our Junior Fundraising Training Programme.
Break into fundraising and make a difference:
If you want to use your skills to help charities, this five year training programme will teach you everything you need to know about fundraising, whilst giving you considerable on-the job training and support.
How it works:
Year 1 - Fundraising Officer: You’ll be inducted into an immersive training programme, featuring classroom training, self study and key textbooks. There is plenty of practical experience with trusts and foundations, event, corporate, individual donor and major donor fundraising. This is all aimed to equip you for your Certificate in Fundraising in year two.
Year 2 - Fundraising Consultant: This year you will have the opportunity to complete IOF's Certificate in Fundraising. This is the industry recognised qualification for frontline fundraisers, fully funded by Chell Perkins Ltd. It provides the theory and principles behind successful fundraising and practical skills to make an immediate impact on fundraising results. With your increased experience and knowledge, you will find yourself taking the lead more with our client’s trust and foundation, direct mail, capital and event fundraising.
Year 3/4 - Senior Consultant: By year three, you will have experienced fundraising across a diverse range of income streams. This learned experience will now see you assisting Chell Perkins Ltd with strategy formation and consultation work throughout the third sector. We will offer some candidates the chance at this stage for our Senior Consultants to enter into a Level 7 qualification either with the Institute of Fundraising or the University of Kent.
Year 5 - Principle Consultant/Team Leader: As the scheme progresses and you continue to sharpen your fundraising toolkit, you will be given the choice of two directions: working towards being a Principal Consultant or becoming a Team Leader.
Team Leader - This role will see you managing your own team of fundraisers within a speciality or sector that suits you best. You will be responsible for ensuring all output from your team is exceptional quality, bringing the best outcomes for the charities we work for. You will help to mentor and train some of the newer members of staff on your team.
Principle Consultant - You will use your skills to now lead and partner with your own charity clients. In working with charities throughout the last 4 to 5 years, you will have built relationships and grown your capacity to support organisations in a variety of ways. Chell Perkins Ltd will support you as you transform charities through professional, passionate and pro-active fundraising.
Both roles will be instrumental to ensure that Chell Perkins Ltd continues to support charities and make their Vision A Reality.
Why ChellPerkins?
At the end of this scheme you will be a fundraising expert, trained in every aspect of the job and capable of talking to clients and organisations of all shapes and sizes. But there’s much more to the scheme than the nuts and bolts. Although we are biased (of course) the Chell Perkins team are a great bunch of people to work with. We really care about your future, our clients and the world we all share. We want you to become part of the family, enjoying a sometimes-chaotic, always-caring and fully-empowering work culture that is aimed at helping you realise your own potential.
Client mix
Candidates should be aware that at present 70% of our clients come from a Christian background (either they are churches or Christian charities). While it is not an occupational requirement to be a Christian, candidates must be happy to write for a faith-based audience.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.