Head of Fundraising

We have a new, exciting and unique opportunity for a Head of Fundraising as part of a new organisational structure and development of Warrington Youth Zone.

Position: Head of Fundraising

Location: Warrington

Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum

Hours: 40 hours per week (we operate a flexible working policy)

Closing date: 9am, 31st January 2022

Interviews: Video interviews, 3rd February 2022, Second stage, In person interviews 8th Feb 2022

About the charity:

Warrington Youth Zone is a state-of-the-art £7.05m facility currently under construction in Warrington and is due to open in Spring 2022. Attracting young people from across the borough and beyond through its fantastic facilities. The Youth Zone is a registered charity offering young people somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to, whilst raising their aspirations.

The Role:

As Head of Fundraising, you will be tasked with generated income through philanthropic giving whilst diversifying, consolidating and growing the charity’s fundraising income, working closely with the CEO and leading the fundraising team.

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Income generation
• develop, deliver and monitor an ambitious three year fundraising strategy
• Marketing and communications

About you:

As Head of Fundraising you may be currently acting as Head of Fundraising / Senior Account Manager or up and coming fundraiser looking for your next career move.

Key skills and experience for this role include:

• Experience of corporate and major donor fundraising, partnership work and relationship management, with a flair and passion for major donor fundraising. 
• A track record of securing significant funds through a wide variety of income streams and meeting challenging financial targets. 
• The ability to draw on your strong negotiation skills, a head for strategy, and a confident approach to your work.
• Comfortable leading a team and consider yourself an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills. 
• Most importantly, you will be a resilient, determined and passionate individual – with the ability to articulate the vision of the Youth Zone, generate interest from the local business community and build lasting and fruitful relationships with patrons and funders

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of the Senior Management Team at Warrington Youth Zone, helping to create a long-lasting legacy for young people of Warrington. 

If you have the desire and drive to take on this leadership role, please provide a CV and supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria for this role based on the person specification. Please note, CV’s without supporting statements will not be accepted.

In your application please ensure you provide the following information :

• Details of your current or most recent remuneration package and your notice period
• If you have at any time been convicted of a criminal offence, please provide the details in strict confidence.
• Confirmation you are eligible to work in the UK (the successful candidate will be required to provide documentary evidence before an offer of employment is made)
• Any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you in your application or the selection process.

The strength of the charity comes from the diversity within their people. They aim for the team to reflect the local community and value people working together from a range of different backgrounds locally and nationally, and with different experiences, all with a shared passion for boosting the aspirations and lives of young people. Diversity brings innovation, fresh ideas and creativity, and they actively strive to create a culture that is truly inclusive and fair for all and where everyone in the team can be themselves and thrive. The organisation is committed to the safeguarding of young people. In accordance with Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this position requires an enhanced DBS check.

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Fundraising Manager, Senior Fundraiser, Trusts and Grants Fundraising, Trusts and Foundations Manager, Fundraising Innovation Manager, Deputy Head of Fundraising, Fundraising Director, Donor Manager, Head of Fundraising Development, Head of Partnerships, etc

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing, ambitious national charity that funds and builds state-of-the-art, multimillion-pound spaces for young people (called Youth Zones), providing life-changing support to tens of thousands of young people nationwide.  If you feel you have the necessary skills, apply today!

As Executive Assistant your professional skills & experience will support the senior staff of OnSide, a charity that believes all young people should have the opportunity to discover their passion and purpose.  You will work as a team with the full-time Executive Assistant in delivering essential business & administrative support to the senior staff, together with leading in the provision of a secretariat service to the Trustees Boards of our new Youth Centres.

We welcome applications from under-represented groups; in particular, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals, people with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ+ community. Our dedicated Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group, with support from the Senior Leadership Team, is actively promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion, ensuring a culture where everyone can be themselves and thrive.

Benefits: Flexible working culture; 5% matched contribution pension; 33 days holiday pro-rata, inclusive of Bank Holidays (rising with length of service); birthday leave; retailer & leisure discounts, free parking.

Key duties will include:

• Diary management for internal and external meetings (virtual & in-person), events, conferences, travel, accommodation, etc.
• Arranging key team meetings for the senior team, taking minutes and collating expense claims
• Servicing Trustee Boards of new Youth Zone projects, including organising meetings, preparing Board packs, managing the vetting process for new Trustees, and updating Charity Commission and Companies House records
• Recording and managing relationship data on the CRM database (training provided)

About you:

For this role you will have worked as an Executive or Personal Assistant at a senior level, with experience of supporting Boards, diary management and minute taking. You will have a systematic and meticulous approach, an ability to build effective working relationships with a wide range of people, working experience of Microsoft Office programmes, and a discrete, flexible and resilient attitude.

Other skills and experience you will need include:

• Ability to work in a team and with senior staff and Board members
• Excellent organisational, administrative, interpersonal and communication skills
• Knowledge and judgement to make sound decisions and refer appropriate matters
• Ability to remain calm and resolve conflicting requirements while working under pressure and with shifting priorities
• Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 31 January 2022

Interviews: Monday 7 February 2022

OnSide is committed to the safeguarding of young people. In accordance with our Child Protection & Safeguarding procedures, this position requires a basic DBS check.

Registered Charity No 1125893

Girlguiding is the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK. Across Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers, Girlguiding gives girls and young women a space where they can be themselves, have fun, build brilliant friendships, gain valuable life skills, and make a positive difference to their lives and their communities.

Split into 10 countries and regions, Girlguiding is truly nationwide and connects with over 500,000 people per year. To remain vibrant and relevant to young people, Girlguiding is undergoing significant organisation-wide change and transformation - and as such, this is an exciting time to join!

The Commercial Finance Manager is a new opportunity to join their ambitious, busy, and dynamic Trading Services Team (the Trading subsidiary to Girlguiding) which has a turnover of £7M. Reporting to the Head of Trading, the Commercial Finance Manager will drive all aspects of the trading subsidiary finances and will provide commercial acumen to drive change in systems, stock/warehousing, planning, and reporting - tracking progress to sustain the retail pace. The role will manage and develop a small team to run the successful day-to-day finance operations.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and develop the Trading Finance team and oversee the smooth running of all the accounting functions, bookkeeping, banking, payments, receipts, and cash flow management for the Trading Company
• Manage the day-to-day operations and updates of the Finance and associated systems.
• Produce monthly management accounts for the Trading Company and Board management reporting in accordance with the timetable.
• Prepare the year-end finance statements and to take the lead on the year-end audit.
• Produce, with the Head of Trading, annual budgets and quarterly re-forecasts.
• Manage and control the processing of all payments and related issues of the Girlguiding annual subscriptions process.

What you'll offer us:

• A Finance qualification (CCAB) coupled with solid experience of trading, stock, or commercial financial control - including driving margins through price and cost analysis
• Experience in managing a multi-skilled finance team
• A track record of producing management information, monthly management accounts and year-end accounts.
• Experience in driving a commercial company forward as well as the ability to support the delivery of strategic objectives
• Attention to detail, a love of people, self-motivation, and a passion to drive change!

What we'll offer you:

• 25 days' paid Holiday each year, rising to 30 (with tenure), and the ability to buy 5 more
• 15% Pension (we contribute 10%, and you 5%), plus 4x Salary Life Assurance
• A truly flexible working environment including Flexitime, TOIL, and Family Friendly policies
• Healthcare, Eyesight Tests, Gym Discounts, Flu Vaccination, a Career Break, and many more!

About the role:

The recruitment team is an award-winning team responsible for sourcing, selecting and hiring diverse individuals who have the potential to become excellent social workers on the Frontline programme. There are two attraction managers co-leading a team to build the pipelines of prospective applicants, securing c. 3700 applications and subsequently 452 participants for the programmes in 2022 and 2023. This will directly impact the organisational aim to have 4,000 impactful fellows by 2025.

A little bit about you:

We are looking for someone experienced in Attraction Management with a strong belief in and enthusiasm for Frontline's aims and missions.

You will need experience in:

• Managing attraction strategies, sourcing talent and building a brand across university and career changer audiences.
• Advertising and marketing campaigns.

You can find out more about this role in our job pack.

Our commitment:

We believe that diversity makes for a stronger team and want our organisation to better reflect the communities we serve. Therefore, we are actively seeking applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds for this role. We are also a disability confident employer and welcome applicants with disabilities. Please let us know how we can make the recruitment process more accessible for you by emailing our People team which is found on our current opportunities page.

We only accept applications through our non-biased recruitment website, Pinpoint.

Deputy Shop Manager (Bury) (TRD3350)

Location: F1171 Bury

Hours: 36 per week

Salary: £17,784 per annum​

Job Type: Fixed Term

Closing Date: 27 January 2022

About us

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

Oxfam Purpose

To work with others to overcome poverty and suffering 

Trading Purpose

To make as much money as possible to overcome poverty and suffering

About our Oxfam Shops

Open for business since 1948, Oxfam shops are at the heart of the charity and their community, raising vital funds and increasing public awareness of what we do. They are always guided by our values of empowerment, accountability and inclusiveness and focussed on making as much money as possible.

The Role of our Deputy Shop Managers

Commercially aware and constantly looking for new business opportunities, deputy shop managers motivate their teams and create a safe and energised work environment. They have high standards, a strong drive to achieve results and are accountable for their business.

The role of the deputy shop manager is empowered, varied, busy and gives the opportunity to work with some amazing people. Shop managers are pivotal for the success of our business and can make a real difference. Oxfam operates a volunteer operating model, in which volunteers are empowered to take over most of the tasks within the shop, including running the shop in the manager’s absence. 

Often the only paid member of staff, our managers and deputy managers are comfortable in this environment, really enjoy working with others and are great at delegating to their teams. Excellent communicators, they are creative, and always look for opportunities to attract new supporters every day.

Please note: This is a fixed term position (9 months ending on 30/09/2022)

Our Values and Commitment to Safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Key Skills and Competencies required

• Significant leadership qualities and experience. (E)
• Ability to build, retain and develop a team. (E)
• Strong drive to achieve results through others. (E)
• Ability to delegate, coach and listen. (E)
• Enjoys working with people and has a friendly and approachable manner. (E)
• Ability to manage time under conflicting priorities. (E)
• Ability to demonstrate resilience to the everyday pressures that come with the role. (E)
• Excellent communication skills.(E)
• Ability to motivate self and others. (E)
• High level of motivation, enthusiasm and a sense of fun. (E)
• Open and adaptable to change and able to support others through it. (E)
• Commercial awareness and judgement. (D)
• Ability to establish and maintain successful retail processes and merchandising. (E)
• Ability to understand and interpret basic financial reports. (D)
• IT literacy and numeracy skills. (Using email systems and online resources; use and understand basic spreadsheets and word processing packages. Be aware of and be open to the role of social networking and ecommerce.) (E)
• Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values (click here) as well as the promotion of diversity and gender rights (click here).  (E)
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles. (E)

How to apply 

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile. 

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to protect the rights of children and vulnerable people very seriously; therefore, the successful candidate for this post will be also subject to extensive background checking, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS), as this role involves unsupervised access to the above-mentioned groups.

For full information surrounding DBS and the vacancy, please view the full job description. 

This role is a permanent position at 0.8 FTE (30 hours per week) and based in the North West.

Please note: Your application will be assessed based on your written application answers, not your CV. Please provide as much detail as possible within the word limit.

About the role:

To be a part of a high performing team that builds and maintains partnerships with local authorities (LAs) and children’s trusts nationally, in order to develop and support 600+ Fellows (alumni) annually through our key programmes. This is directly linked to achieving Frontline’s organisational objective of having 4,000 impactful Fellows by 2025, who will create social change for children without a safe or stable home.

A little bit about you:

We are looking for an account management / business development / relationship management professional that will consistently deliver on sales targets for our programmes, and develop and maintain strong relationships with our partners for high satisfaction rates.

Our commitment:

We believe that diversity makes for a stronger team and want our organisation to better reflect the communities we serve. Therefore, we are actively seeking applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds for this role. We are also a disability confident employer and welcome applicants with disabilities. Please let us know how we can make the recruitment process more accessible for you by emailing our People team, the email address is on the link to this job advert.

We only accept applications through our non-biased recruitment website, Pinpoint.