We are looking for a passionate and driven individual to join our School Partnerships team. You will have proven experience of building highly effective relationships with external stakeholders at all levels, including those at senior level. The Manager, School Partnerships will pursue and convert sales opportunities, own relationships with accounts of varying size and design and deliver a strategy for programme recruitment and sales in their area. You will build highly effective relationships with schools, system leaders and other stakeholders and influencers across the education landscape. You will raise Ambition Institute’s profile and reputation to help us achieve our mission.
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:
- A strong commitment to education, the non-profit sector and raising the aspirations, achievements and life chances of all children
- Ability to build highly effective relationships with external stakeholders at all levels, including those at a senior level
- Highly organised and thrives on multi-tasking in a sales and target-driven environment
- Experience of managing accounts of varying sizes and in developing new business relationships, preferably, but not necessarily having experience of working to sales targets
- Skilled at persuasive writing and using a range of strategies to impact and influence
- Excellent presentation skills and high personal credibility
- Computer/IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Desirable
- Experience of line or task managing others
- Worked with data and building reports within a CRM system
- Experience of having worked in the UK education sector
- Knowledge of the professional development landscape in schools
How to apply
To apply for any of our 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.
Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive at this stage we will not be able to contact unsuccessful applicants.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation.
As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.
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Prevent Breast Cancer had a phenomenal 2019 which included the launch of an innovative new campaign, BreastFest, aiming to make Manchester the most breast aware region in the UK, as well as winning the brilliant Ride London partnership. Small but mighty, Prevent punches above its weight in the fight against breast cancer and is now looking forward to 2020 to take advantage of the opportunities this busy year has brought by growing their corporate fundraising team.
Day-to-day, the new Corporate Development Assistant will provide essential administrative and marketing support to the Corporate team, ensuring that leads are followed up, the database (Raiser's Edge) is up-to-date and partners are well looked after. Brilliant IT and communication skills are therefore on our 'must have' list.
We're looking for a pro-active "all-rounder" who is eager to learn about corporate fundraising from researching new prospects, through to pitching and winning partnerships and ongoing account management. On-the-job training will be provided and you'll be mentored by a team of talented fundraising pros.
It's a fast-paced, busy team so you will need to work well under pressure and know how to prioritise your own work load. Charity, sales administration, marketing or account management would all provide relevant skills transfer for this role.
Flexible, life and family-friendly working culture and a warm welcome from a friendly team awaits you!
If you would like to become part of the Prevent team, please get in touch with a copy of your CV to our Manchester consultant, Amelia Lee: [email protected]
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity 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 do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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Fundraising Manager Maternity cover – 11 months, 12 hours per week
NJC Scale 29 – actual salary for 11 month contract £7715
Home-Start Manchester is a registered charity committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under 5 years of age. We exist to support parents to give their children the best possible start in life because we believe that childhood cannot wait.
For the last 18 months the charity has successfully grown it’s income as a result of employing a Fundraising Manager. We are now looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Fundraising Manager to continue this momentum during a period of maternity leave.
The Fundraising Manager will play a vital role in successful and sustainable growth of the organisation by delivering an existing fundraising strategy that will increase income, particularly unrestricted income, that will ensure a more diverse funding portfolio. The strategy focuses on corporate, challenge event and community fundraising activity.
Applicants must have substantial experience in a fundraising role and a demonstrable track record of securing income. We are looking for a candidate with the experience and confidence to quickly pick up and run with a busy portfolio of work. This is a great opportunity for a part-time Fundraiser looking for additional hours or someone requiring part-time hours to fit around other commitments.
Closing date: Friday 7th February 2020 12noon. Interviews 17th,18th or 19th February 2020.
For more information and an application pack please go to our website for an application pack or apply online!
Home-Start Manchester is committed to equality and diversity and to safe recruitment practice as an important part of safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults.
Home-Start Manchester: Registered Charity Number – 1105353. Company Number - 5183477
Home-Start Manchester's vision is to give every Manchester child the best possible start in life.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a passionate, driven and hardworking Recruitment Manager to join our People team. You will be an experienced resourcing professional with knowledge, ability and experience of attracting, sourcing and selecting talent. Operationally, the HR Recruitment Manager will be responsible for all recruitment activities across the organisation and will manage processes to ensure they support the organisation to attract and retain the best talent. A key part of this role will be to launch and implement a new applicant tracking system.
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:
- Able to hit the ground running and get stuck into the role at pace and with minimal supervision.
- You will be adaptive, flexible and comfortable working at pace.
- You will be versatile, flexible and collaborative, understanding the need for effective business partnering.
- You will have experience of leading a recruitment team or the recruitment process.
- You will have experience of working within a complex fast paced organisation and one that has gone through significant change.
- You will have experience of dealing with external candidates with a customer centric approach.
- You will have experience of working with a wide variety of job boards and professional social sites such as TotalJobs, LinkedIn, Glassdoor etc.
- You will have proven experience of influencing hiring managers.
- Outstanding people skills, with the ability to influence others and establish effective working relationships with people of all working styles, backgrounds, experience, etc.
- A team player, but with the ability to work under own initiative to deliver to deadline.
- Able to apply corporate style within a social enterprise.
- Attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
- A strong commitment to education, the non-profit sector and raising the aspirations, achievement and life chances of all children.
Desirable
- CIPD qualified or working towards a qualification relevant to HR and recruitment / resourcing and or employee retention
- Experienced HR Generalist knowledge with strong recruitment background
Our offer
We are happy to 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
- 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
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We are working with a nonprofit, who are looking for a Business Development Manager to join their team.
As an organisation they work on an initiative to improve the construction industries image. Construction sites and companies can register with their scheme, and are monitored against a Code of Practice, designed to encourage best practice beyond statutory requirements.
The scheme monitors any area of construction activity that may have a direct or indirect impact on the image of the industry as a whole. The main areas of concern fall into three categories: the general public, the workforce and the environment.
It is an exciting time for the organisation. A new Chief Executive has recently joined, and is implementing some great ideas to move the organisation forward.
The Business Development Manager is a new role, focusing on the North of the UK and Ireland. As an organisation they have been extremely successful in London and South, however there are substantial areas of the UK where they have not yet reached saturation - as well as new sectors to be engaged. Eg. Utilities.
At present the Chief Executive is proactively engaging in new registrations in the North, and you will be supported by her once joining.
As Business Development Manager your main areas of focus will be;
Non-Partners
- The Business Development Manager will analyse current company databases and pursue companies who are not registering all of their sites.
Client Partners
- Client partners include local authorities and national retailers. As Business Development Manager you will focus on developing relationships and signing up new Client Partners - focusing on public sector organisations such as educational institutions etc.
Regional Reach
- Analysis has indicated that the organisation has registered 60% of eligible sites nationally, with the proportion in London and South East. As Business Development Manager you will pursue better regional reach.
There ideal candidate will be an experienced Business Development Manager who has experience of selling to Local Authorities as well as some retailers.
This will be a home-based role, and can be based anywhere in the North, ideally Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle etc. The role will pay up to £40,000 and will have a yearly incentive bonus. You must have access to your own car - millage will be reimbursed.
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