Do you love working with volunteers?  Are you inspired by matching their support with opportunities that will make a tangible positive impact on breaking the cycle of homelessness?  Are you good at gathering information and organising people? If so, we would love to hear from you! 

This brand new role is dedicated to coordinating volunteers to help deliver our services, campaigns and events – helping with recruitment, logistics, stewardship and communications.  You will be playing a key part in helping to look after and grow our volunteers, ensure volunteering processes are smooth and efficient, and identify volunteering needs and roles.

Social Bite wouldn’t be able to do what we do without volunteers helping us across the organisation, from our services and social impact projects through to our fundraising campaigns and events. This new role is dedicated to centralised coordination of their recruitment, management, stewardship and communications.  The role has been created to help us nurture and grow our volunteer base, ensure our volunteering needs are being met, make the most of volunteering opportunities, and ensure volunteering processes are smooth and efficient.  Having this in place is key to our strategy.

We are looking for someone passionate about volunteering, who is organised with good customer service skills, to join the friendly, creative and go-getting team at Social Bite as we take the next steps towards our vision of ending homelessness together. 

Your immediate focus will be on our Christmas campaign – the Festival of Kindness - where we need volunteers across Scotland and in London to help us deliver an initiative that will provide hundreds of thousands of Christmas meals, winter food packs, gifts and essential items – as well as accommodation – to people experiencing homelessness and food poverty.

Key responsibilities and duties

Identifying opportunities

Essential:

• Map out volunteering needs across all teams and projects, for example:
  • Social impact: free food provision service, central kitchen function, signposting support, Christmas dinners
  • Campaigns and events: event marshals; manning stalls; representing the charity at city-centre installations in shifts throughout the month of December; picking and sorting of donated items at a warehouse; gift wrapping etc.
  • Other: skills-sharing

Desired:

• Creating and updating a ‘volunteering menu’ with things that volunteers can help with – ranging from service delivery to campaigns and events, options for weekdays vs. evenings and weekends, what can be done in-person vs. remotely.

Volunteer recruitment

• Drafting role profiles and adverts for volunteering positions across the organisation – both year-round and campaign-specific
• Being the point of contact for all volunteering enquiries, including:
  • Corporate partner employees or supporters responding to volunteer role adverts
  • Members of the public proactively offering to volunteer in general
• Providing information for content for volunteer recruitment social media posts and mailchimps
• Ensure correct recruitment procedures are following eg. references, risk assessments, exit interviews where relevant.
• To maintain pool of on-call regular volunteers who can help at short notice, help with holiday cover etc.

Logistics

• Creating and organising schedules and shifts / rotas: placing volunteers into positions and knowing and communicating who is doing what and when, filling gaps and having back-ups for potential drop-outs. 
• Communicating with volunteers to let them know / remind them where to be and when, answer FAQs
• Communicating with Social Bite staff in the shops about the rota and cover for free food provision
• Communicating with the Social Impact team about any issues or support needs that might arise

Policies and procedures

• Ensure volunteers have completed all health & safety and confidentiality forms, are familiar with safe-guarding and expense-claiming policies and processes
• To liaise with unit managers to make sure that all volunteers are inducted in their roles where relevant
• To ensure volunteers get the training they need for their role, if relevant.  For example, working closely with the Social Impact Team to ensure that trusting and positive relationships are built and a trauma-informed approach is being used when working with supported volunteers.

Stewardship and communications

Essential:

• Building relationships with volunteers, thanking and updating and recognising them, celebrating them on National Volunteer Week etc.
• Keep a database of all volunteers – both long-term and campaign-only, following GDPR requirements

Desired:

• To develop and implement a calendar of activity of key events and milestones (such as Volunteers Week) and plot out key steps in the volunteer journey from induction through to thanking, to ensure efficient communication and engagement
• To work with the Comms Manager on a volunteers’ newsletter and include volunteers in the collection of content including experiences, stories, images and videos.

Strategy

Desired:

• To help shape and implement a volunteering strategy
• To explore a Volunteer Programme accreditation / award

Person specification

Experience and knowledge

• Experience in working with groups of volunteers in a professional capacity

• Basic knowledge of charity law

Skills

• Excellent time & priority management and organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Ability to proactively acquire information from colleagues to assess what is needed
• Ability to collate, analyse and evaluate that information and use it to inform a plan and next steps
• Ability to build relationships with a wide variety of individuals to achieve positive outcomes and establish sustainable relationships

Ethos and approach

• Confident in proactively reaching out to colleagues and volunteers to acquire and share information
• Flexible and solution-focused
• Passion for the cause and a commitment to working as part of a team on a mission to help end homelessness.
• Ability to represent the work of Social Bite to the public with commitment and integrity.
• A willingness and commitment to undertake the role in a professional manner and maintain high-quality work at all times.
• To help promote an effective, positive and constructive team culture, where the work of others is valued and respected.

Relationships:

Internal:

• Director of Fundraising and Partnerships
• Head of Social Impact
• Communications Manager
• Campaigns Manager
• Wider Fundraising and MarComms team
• Wider Social Impact team
• Shop managers and staff

External

• Volunteers
• Corporate partner employees who are volunteering
• Social Bite supporters

Based in any UK office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)

The job of a Save the Children’s UK Senior Partnerships Development Manager is exciting and fulfilling.

• Do you have significant experience of securing ambitious, multi-dimensional corporate partnerships?
• Can you demonstrate your ability to win partnerships of £500k or more?
• Are you a strong relationship builder?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Head New Business Partnerships, the Senior Partnerships Development Manager will be responsible for securing strategic, multi-year corporate partnerships that align with Save the Children’s organisational objectives and our 2030 ambition.

This role sits in our Partnerships and Philanthropy team and the Senior Partner Development Manger will be tasked with identifying and securing new partnerships to meet ambitious financial and non-financial, value- add targets.

The Senior Partnerships Development Manager will also collaborate with colleagues across our Programmes and Advocacy teams to develop innovative propositions for business that respond to their areas of interest and maximise their skills and expertise.

This is a great opportunity to work with a well-established team that is well known for leading corporate partnerships with many well-known brands.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Senior Partnerships Development Manager’s key duties will be to:  

• Contribute to annual team target of over £4m

• In addition to funding, identify and secure additional non-financial value that partners can bring to Save the Children

• Develop and implement ambitious sector strategies and produce tailored new partnership propositions that align to corporate challenges and opportunities

• Take personal responsibility and accountability for proactively generating leads, building networks, making contacts and bringing in new partnerships

• Demonstrate emphasis on external facing activity, meeting and engaging prospective partners and seeking and attending external events as an opportunity to generate leads

• Work cross-organisationally, identify when to engage experts across Programmes and Advocacy and senior staff in approaches and engagement

• Produce and deliver high quality, creative bespoke proposals

• Take a proactive role in feeding into the partnership development strategy, generating ideas, bringing external insight and taking a role in agreed areas of delivery

• Play a supportive role in developing a high performing new business culture, including mentoring peers, maintaining process and high standards, identifying opportunities for increased impact across Partnerships & Philanthropy and other departments within Save the Children

• Ensure Save the Children’s aims and objectives are met, legal and other guidelines adhered to and that new strategic partnerships align with Save the Children’s principles

Person Profile

Experience

• Significant experience of securing ambitious, multi-dimensional corporate partnerships in the private or third sector

• Demonstrable experience of the approach needed to win partnerships of £500k and above

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to include face-to-face and on the phone, effective proposal writing and correspondence to internal and external audiences

Abilities

• Ability to think creatively and to develop tailor made proposals to meet corporate and Save the Children objectives

• Ability to plan, prioritise and manage a varied workload in a pressured environment

• Ability to build relationships and influence others internally and externally

• Ability to think strategically, influence and bring others on a journey to inspire and deliver new partnerships

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment

• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

The Eric Liddell Centre is undergoing a significant period of growth, change and development with a new vision for the future, in addition to embarking on an exciting initiative linked to the 2024 Centenary of Eric Liddell’s Olympic Medal winning performance, with our strategic and international partners.

The Fundraising Manager will be a member of our Senior Management Team, will play a key role in developing our fundraising strategy and manage a team of motivated and enthusiastic colleagues. You will lead the work to identify, generate and grow charitable income to underpin the ELC’s work in the community by managing a portfolio of funders and prospects, creatively stewarding existing relationships and maximising opportunities for giving.

You will demonstrate a proven track-record in generating major income through managing a diverse portfolio of funders, strategic developments and staff management. 

The post will suit an energetic person, who enjoys working to create their own success.  There is great potential to grow the role and make a real difference to the Eric Liddell Centre and the communities it serves.  The successful candidate should show a keen interest in and understanding of the Eric Liddell Centre and a passionate belief in our vision and mission.  You will demonstrate a proven track record in generating major income from trusts and foundations and grant funders.  A great team player, with excellent organisational and administrative skills and a positive, can-do attitude, you will be joining us at a challenging stage in our development and this is a great opportunity to become part of a supportive and friendly team.

Job Title:  Engagement Manager (Scottish Borders)
Role Reports To: Delivery Leader
Direct Reports: None
Job Family:  3 – £24,000 FTC until 31st March 2022
Department: Delivery
Full time role  - 35 hours 

Overview

Volunteering Matters is a national volunteering and social change charity. We use the unique power of volunteering to resolve some of the UK’s most pressing social issues.  In collaboration with local authorities, we have created a programme to support improvement in services for care experienced young people.

The system of public, private and third sector providers across a range of local services tend to be designed for people who are able to engage with little or no support.  People of all ages have barriers to engaging in services and care experienced young people can have more barriers than most.  For care experienced young people, whilst they have talent and potential, they face some of the starkest outcomes of any group in society given their additional barriers, and a legacy of discrimination, oppression, and a lack of access to resources and opportunities.

What is the problem we are trying to solve? Despite the challenges, there is a considerable growing consensus and momentum around the idea that care experienced young people cannot rely on services and infrastructure that have been designed without their input or have not been specifically designed with their needs in mind.

By making use of the Scottish Approach to Service Design and supporting No One Left Behind Principles, we therefore want to give care experienced young people a voice and an opportunity to influence change by involving them in the design of services and opportunities, providing them a platform to have their voices heard.

Role Purpose

As our Engagement Manager working in the Scottish Borders, you will work closely with care experienced young people to empower them to have a voice and to support them to identify and review referral pathways within the local authority.  You will provide an independent and improvement-orientated framework to self-assess services relating to care experienced people.

The ambition is then to co-design necessary services to fill gaps, providing a supported pathway for care experienced young people on their journey to sustainable fair work.  Finally, we hope to support in re-orientating existing structures, services, commissioning frameworks and pathways to enable improvement whilst offering peer support and learning opportunities for all areas under review.

The role involves working closely in collaboration with local services and within local governance and with the Improvement Service to make positive change.  This programme is currently operating in three local authorities in Scotland – Clackmannanshire, Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway, so there will be opportunities for shared learning and peer support.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with local authority to identify the appropriate and relevant departments and services requiring auditing and review
• You will attract, recruit and support care experienced young people to undertake an audit of pathways and services. Undertaking surveys, observations, questionnaires, and focus groups
• You will work closely with these individuals to identify the current processes and procedures within the relevant services and complete a mapping exercise to what the “exiting care” journey looks like for all care experienced young people
• Together with the young people, you will identify the existing interventions and their effectiveness against the improvement plan
• Create networks and conversations which enable local authorities to learn from care experienced individuals and families and develop collaborative learning opportunities
• You will develop evidence-based findings and recommendations and present back to decision makers to take the first steps of changing the lives of care experienced young people
• Recognise the confidential and sensitive nature of personal information relating to children, young people, and families and how this should be communicated, used, published, shared, recorded, and handled appropriately
• Contribute to the wider Volunteering Matters team, always upholding our values
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships and communication lines with colleagues, volunteers, young people, families, partners, and others
• Administration tasks including maintaining up- to- date, effective and accessible records and the use of Microsoft Office and other software packages

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Skills

• A strong passion and commitment to volunteering, our organisational values and flexible working strategy
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with a strong ability to influence and motivate others
• Excellent people skills, including being able to develop professional and effective relationships with a range of stakeholders
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, including the ability to plan effectively
• Self-motivated, ability to work on own initiative, ability to multi-task, an approachable manner, team player and sound judgement skills
• Excellent administration and IT skills, including the use of Office 365 and Microsoft Teams

Experience

• Awareness and understanding of effectively supporting care experienced young people or families
• Experience in identifying and delivering effective change
• Effective teamwork including building effective relationships with internal and external partners
• Experience of group facilitation/ running activities or events to engage children, young people and families
• Volunteer Management
• Child Protection/Adult Protection and Safeguarding process and policies
• Experience of achieving ambitious goals and targets, completing a high standard of work to meet successful outcomes

Qualifications

Relevant experience and values alignment is more important for this role than specific qualifications

Other

The post will be home based however given the nature of this role you will be expected to work within the local community and be available to regularly engage with care experienced young people in a setting they feel most comfortable with.

Internet access to enable remote working is a requirement.  IT equipment and infrastructure will be supplied. Post Covid-19 and in accordance with any social distancing guidelines there may be an expectation to travel across Scotland to engage with colleagues, volunteers and beneficiaries.

This role requires membership of the PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) scheme. Having a conviction will not necessarily cause a bar to employment.

 Our Values & Ways of Working

In all that we do, we embrace a philosophy of ‘Freedom within a Framework’ and are guided by our values:
Empowering, Inclusive, Compassionate, Positive & Straightforward.

To apply please visit our website 

Save the Children have been fighting and working tirelessly to make sure that children survive, get protection when they are in danger, and have the chance to learn for over 100 years. Poverty, conflict, and hunger are some of the terrifying threats which are sadly faced by millions of children every day.  Standing side by side with children in the toughest places to be alive, this incredible charity helps over 45 million children across the world get the medicine, good food and education they need each year.

Every year, 5 million children under the age of 5 die due to starvation, war, pneumonia, and other preventable causes.  The number of children going hungry in the world is unacceptable, with 45% of child deaths being linked to malnutrition and many diseases can be treated with basic medicine, yet every year, 3 million babies die within their first month from curable diseases. Because of the magnificent work that Save the Children do, more children are surviving their early years than ever before. Millions of children never see inside a classroom, or they drop out due to overcrowded classes, conflict, or simply because they are a girl. Save the Children believe that education is a birth right and they work with children to create a world where they don’t just survive but thrive.

Save the Children need a new Regional Fundraiser. In this role, you will play an important part in helping the life-saving work of Save the Children. It is an exciting and varied role. One day you might be meeting face to face with a partner organisation or company and the next you could be speaking at a local secondary school who have chosen to support the charity. By communicating with impact and inspiring others, you will help to further the charitable aims of this organisation and help give children a reason to smile.

The new Regional Fundraiser will have the desire to seek new opportunities and build sustainable relationships with donors while managing high value corporate and individual relationships. To deliver exceptional supporter experience, you will have strong and developed relationship management skills and be personable and engaging. You should have a high level of initiative with the ability to work independently without supervision while still being a team player, along with excellent organisational and time management skills. You will have resilience and the determination to succeed, with a credible presence to provide professional expertise. Experience of securing new partnerships and working with databases is needed along with having the experience of unlocking networks.

This is an exciting, inspiring opportunity for an independent, driven individual to join a friendly, inclusive organisation who deliver incredible impact by fighting for lasting change for children. If you have a great work ethic and share this charity’s values, then please consider this as your next career move.

We are seeking to appoint a new Chief Executive Officer, who will provide strategic direction for the charity and its staff; have responsibility for the delivery of a growing range of support and awareness activities; and directly contribute to improving statutory services and research in dermatology across the UK.

Key responsibilities will include:

· Oversee the development and implementation of the charity’s strategy and vision.

· Ensure the continuous improvement of our services’ quality and impact.

· Lead and motivate all staff, line manage the senior management team

· Manage risk and work with the board of trustees to ensure the charity complies with regulation

· Maximise the charity’s financial long-term sustainability and secure project funding

· Be the voice of our beneficiaries within statutory and academic networks across the UK

· Ensure the charity’s values and culture underpin everything EOS does

The successful candidate must have sound leadership experience in the voluntary sector, knowledge of relevant legislation and excellent financial management skills, including securing and managing large grants for projects. You will be a confident and passionate communicator, with an ability to create positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

Position: Chief Executive Officer

Hours: FT, worked flexibly

Place of work: Home and Office based (Linlithgow, West Lothian) – subject to negotiation

Salary: £40,000 to £45,000

Duration: Permanent

Leave: 28 days + office closure over Christmas and New Year

Pension: Employer’s contribution: 4%, employee’s contribution: 4%

This is an exciting time for Brain Tumour Research, and you will join us to support the delivery of our strategic plans and objectives, by generating and growing our income through community fundraising activities.

You will help raise awareness by engaging people with our work and by recruiting and supporting the fundraising of individuals, challenge event participants, our Fundraising Groups and Charity of the Year partnerships.

You will help build and sustain our supporter base and provide excellent stewardship at all times.

You will come to us as an experienced fundraiser ready to hit the ground running with insight into how local fundraising works, with good office skills. Your ability to work proactively and as part of a remote team is important to us to ensure that we grow the budget we need.

Community Fundraiser – Scotland
Reports to: Community Development Manager
Direct Reports: None
Location: Home Based
Salary: up to £27,500
Contract: Full Time - Permanent

We welcome applicants based in Scotland, Cumbria and Northumberland.

Requisite Skills and Experience:

• Experience of fundraising, donor management and stewardship
• Experience of working with a database / CRM.
• Ability to identify and maximise opportunities.
• A good communicator, including an excellent standard of written and spoken English.
• Be prepared to converse sensitively and empathetically with members of the public who may be going through current or recent traumatic experiences
• Experience of working with MS Office, especially Word and Excel
• Outstanding organisation skills.
• Flexible in your approach to work, embracing change and development and able to work occasional evenings and weekends when necessary.
• Access to a car and full driving license are essential for this role.
• Proactive mindset.

Main duties:

• Ensure supporters, volunteers and fundraising groups have access to relevant fundraising advice, guidance and accurate signposting, whilst promoting best practice in fundraising.
• Manage, and continuously develop and improve your region by running online donation reports, accurately coding income and account managing supporters as directed by the Community Development Manager.
• Ideally have knowledge and competence with social media to maximise reach and engagement.
• Ensure that all relevant charity and other legislation is complied with.
• Comply with Brain Tumour Research’s internal policies as appropriate.
• Research and contact RAGs, mayoral offices and other candidate organisations across the area with a view to securing charity of the year opportunities.
• Be available to undertake one-off projects for other colleagues across Brain Tumour Research as agreed by your line manager.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the Community Development Managers, National Fundraising Events Manager, the Director of Fundraising and Supporter Care and members of the management team
• Deputise for colleagues as necessary to deliver an exceptional supporter experience.
• Be a point of contact for teams within the neuro hospitals within your area in order to organise regular information stands taking place on brain tumour clinic days, and to book in visits from the Community Development Manager as appropriate.

Closing Date: Sunday 17th October
Early applications are encouraged; interviews will commence before the closing date if suitable candidates are identified.

Interested?

Please click the apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.

No agencies, please.

We are looking for a senior fundraising and sponsorship expert with a creative approach to income generation to join our team. If you have extensive experience in high net-worth donor cultivation, excellent relationship building skills, are a strategic thinker and a compelling communicator, we’d love to hear from you.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will lead on vital areas of our income generation strategy, working with others to ensure a strategic approach to fundraising, and leading our small development team to success on three ambitious challenges: our £7.5million Save the Fringe campaign; our search for new corporate partnerships; and a reimagining of our hugely popular Fringe Friends initiative.

For this role, the salary is circa £42,000 – £45,000. We also offer 4.5 pension contribution, generous annual leave, flexible working and an excellent work culture.

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please take a look at the full job description on our website and apply online.

We use positive action under section 159 of the Equality Act in relation to disability or race. This means that if we have two candidates of equal merit in our process, we will seek to take forward the D/deaf, disabled, Black, Asian or ethnically diverse candidate in order to diversify our staff team.