35 hours per week – Permanent

We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets support and respect. We provide advice and support to empower anybody experiencing a mental health problem and we campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

Mind’s Fundraising department consists of five fundraising teams – Partnerships Fundraising, Public Fundraising, Workplace Wellbeing, Data and Supporter Relations and Fundraising Strategic Development; overseen by our Fundraising Director. It currently generates in excess of £35 million per annum gross income for Mind’s work.

The Business Support Manager will lead a team within Partnerships Fundraising, which consists of the Major Gifts, Trusts and Statutory and Corporate Partnerships teams. We have big ambitions to increase fundraising income from a wide range of partners to support Mind’s Strategy and you will play a key role in supporting this growth.

Reporting to the Head of Partnerships, you will have overall responsibility for planning, delivering and evaluating key projects designed to streamline and strengthen processes, systems and working practices within the Partnerships Team in order to achieve improved effectiveness and efficiency.You will provide robust and comprehensive project management of business-critical projects that will enable us to achieve our fundraising strategy.You will work closely with senior colleagues across Fundraising and the organisation more widely and will work with volunteers/temporary staff/consultants as required. The post holder will also need to work effectively with colleagues in Wales.

About you

With strong project management skills, to include project plan development and problem solving, you will be experienced with evaluating, developing and improving workflow systems, whilst having the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimum supervision. With a high level of initiative, you will have extensive experience of interpreting, assimilating and translating complex financial and technical information and will have strong IT skills including experience of using relationship databases.An understanding of working within a fast-paced fundraising environment, current fundraising trends, knowledge of fundraising specialisms and a direct or indirect experience of mental health problems would be desirable, however is not essential.

Closing date: Monday 1 September 2020

Mind reserve the right to close the role early due to receiving a high volume of quality applications, therefore we recommend you apply early!

Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Hours: Full-time, but with some flexibility possible

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £32,000 + 8% pension (non-contributory) and benefits including a healthcare scheme

Deadline: Monday 28 September at 9am

Background

ShareAction’s vision is of a world where the financial system powers environmental and social progress. We are dedicated to making the global investment sector responsible for its impacts, while mobilising its power to limit climate change, promote good work, and drive better health. This means a global financial system that:

• Respects the ecological limits of our planet
• Reflects and respects the societies it’s there to serve
• Rewards those who invest responsibly

We are a unique charity that works with the global financial system to campaign for positive corporate behaviour, and with civil society and individuals to build a movement that increases the pressure on the system to act responsibly.

Over the last 15 years ShareAction has built an enviable reputation for engaging with the global financial system, through asset managers, owners and financial companies. We painstakingly analyse and rank financial players against environmental and social indicators, and shine a spotlight on corporate behaviour. We work across the financial system and through policy makers in the UK and the EU to encourage engagement with the issues and drive systemic change.

We reach out to individual savers and civil society to inform and educate about financial products into which we all pay, such as pensions, and we are building a movement to demand that these significant funds are managed in a way that positively impacts society and our planet.

Job Description

We are looking for a Fundraising Manager to join our ambitious Development team. ShareAction is a growing charity working in an area that is attracting increased attention from a variety of philanthropic trusts and foundations across the UK, EU and, increasingly, the USA. 

This is a great opportunity for an experienced fundraiser to shape and develop further the current programme. Building on an already extensive portfolio of funders, the successful application will manage these relationships to maximise income whilst developing new partnerships, working on a wide range of funding applications across grant making trusts, foundations and statutory funders.  We are particularly interested in applicants with experience of fundraising from statutory sources across the EU.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The main responsibilities of the role will include:

• Manage a pipeline of prospects and take overall responsibility for securing the funding of certain projects or workstreams;
• Leading on, or being a key contributor to, securing major multi-year programme grants from UK, EU and global statutory sources, foundations and trusts, major annual grants and core grants;
• Work with the Senior Fundraising Manager to ensure a co-ordinated and collaborative organisational approach to fundraising, including keeping the whole team up to date regarding new opportunities and identifying/communicating next steps;
• Cultivating and maintaining positive funding relationships through timely reports and updates, meetings and events as appropriate;
• Working with the Senior Fundraising Manager and the Fundraising Assistant to ensure all monitoring and evaluation processes are robust and effective and meet the varying needs of our funders;
• Developing and maintaining a bank of project-specific and organisational case studies in line with our brand narrative;
• Taking a strategic approach to identifying and researching prospects and exploring opportunities for raising income for new and existing programmes and projects;
• Maintaining a professional knowledge of trust/foundation and statutory fundraising within the UK, EU and more widely, and identifying appropriate learning opportunities in association with the Senior Fundraising Manager in order to facilitate this.

Please note that this list isn’t exhaustive and the role might change slightly from time to time

Person specification

We are looking for a passionate, determined individual, with the following experience and skills:

ESSENTIAL

• A minimum of two years experience in trust and foundations fundraising, ideally with bid/proposal writing experience for five and six figure projects;
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal and the ability to communicate complex information and ideas;
• Exceptional organisational, project and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure, plan and prioritise work effectively and meet deadlines;
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple competing priorities, completing work to the highest standard;
• Experience of using CRM systems to manage a Trusts and Foundations portfolio, ideally SalesForce;
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word and Excel.

DESIRABLE

• Experience in EU/US based statutory, trust and foundation fundraising;
• Experience in fundraising for climate, environment, social welfare, equality, poverty causes;
• Experience in statutory fundraising;
• An understanding and passion for the role of the investment system in driving positive change in corporate behaviour;
• Experience of working with Office 365, particularly SharePoint.

ShareAction values and respects all differences in people seen and unseen. One of the ways we do this is by actively encouraging staff to work in ways that best suit their needs and our flexible working policy outlines many of the options available- such as part-time and term-time working, job sharing, home working and working compressed hours. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Due to Covid-19 all interviews will take place online, you will also be expected to work from home for the foreseeable future.

Please note that to be considered for this post you must be legally eligible to work in the UK. Due to current restrictions we are unable to hire anyone that isn’t already living in the UK.
Due to our size we are unable to sponsor visas.

How to apply

To apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

An exciting role for a Junior Accounts Administrator

Client Details

This dynamic organisation provides affordable housing across London

Description

The Accounts Administrator will assist the Accounts Payable team with various duties

Profile

The successful Accounts Administrator will have experience in a busy finance team and exposure to SUN systems.

Job Offer

An hourly rate of between £10 - £13 pounds per hour.

REDRESS is an international human rights organisation based in London and The Hague that represents victims of torture to obtain justice and reparation. We bring legal cases on behalf of individual victims of torture, and advocate for better laws to provide effective reparations. Our cases respond to torture as an individual crime in national and international law, and as a human rights violation with state responsibility. We apply our expertise in torture, reparation, and the rights of victims to national and international courts. Through our victim-centred strategic litigation we are able to have an impact beyond the individual case to address the root causes of torture and to challenge impunity. We conduct research and advocacy to identify the changes in law, policy and practice that are necessary. We work collaboratively with international and national organisations and grassroots victims’ groups.

The Role

REDRESS receives funding from a variety of sources, including large foundations, family trusts, and major donors, and project funding from governments and philanthropic organisations. Our fundraising strategy seeks to diversify our sources of core funding, and encourage more multi-year funding, in order to ensure the longer-term stability of the organization. REDRESS is planning for modest growth in the organization over the next three years, and this new position is part of that process.

Based in London the Development Manager will be required to:

· Lead Redress’ small fundraising team.

· Develop and deliver a fundraising strategy for core and project funding, together with annual plans to deliver that strategy.

· Manage our trusts and foundations fundraising.

· Develop a new “major donors” campaign for the 30th Anniversary of Redress.

· Oversee applications for project funding.

Responsibilities

The position is expected to contribute to the work of REDRESS as follows:

· Strategy. Support the Director to develop a fundraising strategy for Redress that complements the organizational strategy.

· Planning. Conduct annual planning to identify key targets for the year. Review those targets with staff periodically.

· Management. Manage the fundraising process to ensure we meet all deadlines, and identify key priorities.

· Relationships. Maintain relationships with our key donors, and with relevant staff in our main project partners.

· Core Funding. Together with the Director, deliver a strategy for increasing unrestricted revenue by diversifying our income streams.

· Major Donors. Develop a major donors campaign, through direct approaches and events.

· Funding Proposals. Prepare and draft funding proposals and reports, and co-ordinate with staff for input on substance, strategy, and budget.

· Team Leadership. Lead the small development team and supervise the Development Officer.

· Professional Responsibility. Maintain the highest ethical standards in accordance with the recommendations of the sector regulators.

· Reporting. Provide reports to the Director, and to the Development Committee of the Board of Trustees.

The Development Manager is also expected to carry out such further duties as may reasonably be requested from time to time by REDRESS.

Essential Competencies

The ideal candidate will have the following experience.

· At least seven years relevant professional experience, preferably including experience in the human rights sector.

· A degree in a relevant area, such as human rights, social sciences, or international relations, or equivalent relevant experience.

· Significant experience at fundraising, including developing a fundraising strategy.

· Experience managing trusts and foundations fundraising.

· Demonstrated excellence in writing fundraising proposals.

· Knowledge of fundraising regulations and best practice.

· Developing and budgeting NGO projects, and preparing project proposals.

· Managing junior staff and volunteers.

· Monitoring and evaluation as part of project funding.

· Fluency in written and oral English.

Desirable Competencies

The following competencies are desirable:

· Experience working with NGOs and other stakeholders in developing countries, including working overseas.

· Fluency in a language other than English, in particular French or Spanish.

Personal Attributes

To work for Redress, the candidate should have the following personal attributes:

· A positive and collaborative attitude.

· Good interpersonal skills when engaging with staff, partners, donors, and supporters.

· Comfortable working with victims of human rights abuses.

· Highly efficient and organised, with an ability to multi-task and to work independently.

· Able to pay close attention to detail and work with accuracy.

· Able to understand and support the aims, objectives and values of REDRESS and reflect them in all aspects of work.

· Able to think and work strategically, creatively, and under pressure.

Terms

Reporting. The position reports to the Director.

Hours. Full time (35 hours a week). Evening and weekend work may be required from time to time. Redress has a flexible working policy that allows for some working from home.

Location. The Redress office in London. For 2020 staff are mainly working remotely.

Salary. Redress uses salary scales with four levels (Assistant, Officer, Advisor, Head of) and seven steps within each level. There is a cost of living increase annually and an expectation of a step increase for strong performance, where funds permit. This is a C-level ‘advisor’ position, with an initial annual salary range (C1-C3) of between £37,500 and £45,000.

Probation. There is a three-month probationary period, which can be extended to six months.

Holiday.  There are 25 days of holiday per year, in addition to UK public holidays. The office is also closed between Christmas and New Year.

Status. The candidate must have the right to live and work in the UK. For EU citizens without settled status, Redress will support any application that might be necessary to remain in the UK after 31 January 2021.

Timeline

The closing date for applications is Friday 30 October 2020.

First interviews will take place on Wednesday 11 November 2020.

Final interviews will take place on Wednesday 18 November 2020.

How to Apply:

Please send a cover letter explaining your interest in REDRESS and your qualifications for the role, a Curriculum vitae, the names and contact details of two references (these will only be approached in final short-listing process).

Our client, a recognised charity, has a new opportunity available to join an established team as Head of Register Recruitment. You will be instrumental in helping them to reaching out and engaging with volunteers that could go on to save someone's life. This is a permanent role that offers flexible working and is London based.

Key responsibilities for the Head of Register Recruitment:

• Your main goal is to maximise outreach using digital and other methods to increase volunteer engagement
• Drive efficiency, empower your team to deliver activity through a growing community of volunteers and partners
• Lead, coach, support and motivate a high performing established team
• Engage with digital tools to drive results, impact and efficiencies
• Continuously monitor and evaluate all recruitment activity
• Maximise opportunities to reach and engage target audiences
• Develop plans, budgets and non-financial KPIs, benchmarking, reporting and reforecasting

It is essential that you demonstrate a proven track record of increasing engagement from volunteers and a natural affinity to utilise multiple digital tools at your disposal. You will be working at a strategic level with a combination of being hands on with the team across the UK. A strong leadership style with substantial line management experience will be expected. Significant experience of planning, developing and reporting on multi-year budgets and non-financial KPIs. If you have had success in engaging with BAME and harder to reach groups, then you would be a highly desirable candidate for this position. It will also be useful to have experience managing remote workers. Naturally you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills-with a proven ability to communicate persuasively. If you have experience of working in membership organisations and/or building volunteer networks, then please do apply.

To apply for this Head of Register Recruitment, please email your CV to our Office & Specialist Support Team quoting the reference number 73950CH.

Are you an accomplished writer with experience of producing a range of content? Then join Shelter as a Senior Legal Writer/Editor and you could soon be producing vital advice, legal and promotional content for a variety of audiences.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our Content for Professionals team was formed back in April to transform Shelter’s offering for professionals working with people in housing need. Our team of content producers work together to produce high-quality, user-focused content for a variety of audiences. We also support colleagues within Shelter who provide helpline support and training for professionals. Our products are designed to help advice and services, public authorities and local authorities through trusted resources they can rely on. We’re currently developing our offering to make our services and information simpler, clearer and faster. To do that we need a new member to join our growing team.

About the Role
Your main focus will be on producing a range of advice, legal content and promotional content, mostly for use by Shelter’s professional audiences to be delivered across a variety of mediums. However, you’ll also need to be able to write for the public, keeping up- to-date with the latest developments in housing law and related policy and good practice will be important too, as part of a team that also works with wider teams and organisations. That could mean liaising with other content producers, advisers, lawyers, product managers and owners, developers – anyone, in fact, that you need to, in order to produce first-class resources.

About you
As well as experience of writing and editing high quality, accurate content for online and print publications, .you ideally have an excellent all-round understanding of housing and related law and advice. You should also be comfortable with working with primary materials – legislation, regulations, case law – to help create user friendly content that’s easy to understand. Proactive and enthusiastic, you know how to produce content with a professional user, not a client, in mind first and foremost. What’s more, you’re great at taking complex language and processes and making them easy to understand, are happy to champion user-focused advice and content design and do robust research, and able to explain how you reached your decisions clearly and rationally.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

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

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

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

I am thrilled to be supporting an innovative charity, who pioneer research and fundraise to save the lives of people with blood cancer who need a stem cell transplant. In this newly created role you will unlock the power of volunteer networks across the UK, in order to maximise opportunities to engage with target audiences both on and off line, to help build the stem cell register.

I am keen to speak to someone with expertise in reaching hard to reach audiences, or who has mass supporter engagement experience, through your own effective communication, marketing and relationship building skills.

You'll be an inspiring and confident team leader who takes a collaborative approach to working with colleagues across the organisation to unlock opportunities. You will also be capable of driving a high performing and efficient team at a time of change.

We are particularly interested to hear from you if you have experience in engaging with supporters from minority ethnic background and can help us make a step change in how we recruit potential donors from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

Key skills:

* Excellent leader, able to coach and motivate
* Digitally savvy and creatively minded
* Experience of working innovatively
* Strategic ideas

You will join a fantastic, hard-working team who are eager to find the right person and team fit for the team. In return you'll receive great benefits, and have the opportunity to work from home, with occasional travel each month.

Salary: £50,000 to £55,000 (depending on experience) - includes London Weighting

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Remote / Flexible working (willingness to travel to London Office when required)

If you are keen to find out more about this role and opportunity, then please call me 02078207305 or e-mail [email protected] for the full spec.

London Community Foundation exist to help develop strong and connected communities. They do this by inspiring individual and corporate philanthropy - as well as public sector funds - to invest in London's grassroots charities. The Foundation has unrivalled access to small charities and community groups across London and their role is to inspire London's wealth to support them. Having now made grants totalling £80 million since their founding in 1995, the Foundation has seen their annual grant awards grow from £60,000 to £9.5 million over this period.

Trustees

Unremunerated

London

London Community Foundation now seeks to grow the size of their Trustee Board to greater reflect their role in London's communities. This is an exciting time of growth for the Foundation as they continue to make more grants than ever before and are in the process of establishing a pro-bono advisory network to strengthen their reach into the City and its leaders.

The Board of London Community Foundation seek to recruit four new Trustees to support the continued ambition of the foundation in inspiring the Capital's generosity and investment in frontline, grassroots community organisations.

Specifically, London Community Foundation is interested in candidates who bring a background in one of the following areas:

• Experience of navigating London's philanthropy networks and working closely with donors

• CEO experience in a London based community focussed charity

• A strategic assurance background with experience of managing complex operational risk

• Local authority leadership experience in a London Borough

The successful candidates will be deeply invested in London, its diversity and its communities.

At LCF, we are committed to ensuring that how we are governed, our team and our partnerships all reflect the true diversity of London. We need to challenge ourselves and be challenged. We will fall short at times, but we will continue to learn and to support pro-active long-term change for grassroots organisations and the communities they serve. We actively encourage applications from those that have lived experience of benefitting from community projects in London. We strongly encourage applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups will shortly be under-represented on our Board due to the expiry of Trustee Terms.

To learn more about this unique opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please read the full appointment brief, on the Prospectus website, which can be reached by clicking on the “Apply on Website” Button.

Closing date: Sunday 25 October 2020

Initial Interviews with Prospectus: w/c 2 & w/c 9 November

Final stage interviews with LCF: w/c 23 November