Deputy country director jobs in bermondsey, greater london
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
STRUCTURE AND PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
As Deputy Director, Digital Fundraising you will be based in the London office or work remotely and will be part of the Mass Markets Global Support Team. The Deputy Director will play a pivotal role in advancing IRC’s global digital fundraising efforts by providing consultation and hands-on support across paid media, creative development, analytics, and process improvement. Serving as a strategic adviser to country teams, they will guide campaign planning, platform strategy, and performance measurement while handling key relationships with digital agencies and platform partners. They will also support creative process refinement, champion digital ads testing and optimisation, and ensure compliance with data privacy standards. Through thorough analysis and cross-functional collaboration, the role will help refine attribution models, enhance reporting infrastructure, and drive continuous improvement across digital programs. Additionally, the Deputy Director will lead special projects to streamline operations and foster knowledge sharing across the global digital network.
SCOPE AND AUTHORITY
Authority:
In this role you will provide consultation and guidance on spending decisions about how best to utilise IRC budget on paid digital platforms to maximise income, and responsibility for suggesting, planning and delivering new and engaging ways to introduce prospects to the IRC brand.
Responsibility for Resources:
- Oversee Digital donor acquisition market support and cross market pilots - assessing the market needs and requirements and working with HQ functions to support local market fundraising goals and objectives
- Oversee and assess potential digital acquisition external opportunities available to IRC and advise fundraising markets on implementation.
- Coordination and oversee the work of any and all agencies, freelancers and external consultants required to deliver on the agreed strategic plan.
- Oversee and coordinate cross market testing and channel optimisation activity.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
- External Relations colleagues globally, including the USA, UK, Sweden, Korea and more.
- Partner teams across Digital Engagement, MarTech, Global Donations Operations, Creative Studio, Analytics and other key support functions.
- Collaborate with the Director of Digital Transformation & AI Enablement to prepare digital programs for AI integration and future-readiness.
- Liaise with marketing agencies, partners and freelancers as needed.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
1) Digital Media Consultation & Support— 40%
- Act as subject-matter guide and adviser on paid platforms (Meta, Google, programmatic and others) for digital country teams.
- Guide efforts to translate digital strategy into campaign and audience recommendations, investment levels and bidding strategies, and measurement approaches.
- Work with internal MarTech colleagues and external digital media agencies to ensure operational readiness - to include pixel/tagging, audiences, budgets, trafficking, and more.
- Aid in the development and coordination of digital agency RFPs, such as drafting scopes of work, gathering team inputs, and contributing to the evaluation and selection process.
- Liaise with digital media consultants and agencies as needed to support digital teams.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for global digital consultants, agencies, and platform representatives (e.g., Meta, Google, TikTok), managing relationships to ensure timely access to trends, product updates, and optimisation opportunities.
- Provide hands-on support to digital teams by troubleshooting issues, testing roadmap components, and resolving critical blockers to help ensure seamless campaign execution.
- Provide mentorship on data privacy standards and compliance to ensure digital media activities align with regulatory requirements and standard methodologies.
2) Creative Support for Digital Campaigns — 25%
- Support the management of digital creative production workflows and SOPs to help ensure smooth collaboration across fundraising, creative, and content teams.
- Coordinate across Creative & Content and local country teams to reduce lead times and ensure formats meet platform requirements and accessibility/GDPR standards.
- Support efforts to implement creative testing programs like A/B and dynamic creative, and translate results into scalable standard methodologies.
3) Digital Analytics & Optimisation — 25%
- Lead regular review cadences to analyse digital media performance, surface optimisation opportunities and share cross-market insights.
- Contribute to refining digital attribution models and building clarity around full-funnel performance to help inform and justify ongoing investment in upper-funnel activities.
- Define and maintain core reporting (dashboarding, conversion funnels, LTV/CPA analysis) for digital media and ensure data integrity with MarTech/analytics partners.
- Partner with experimentation and CRO leads to convert insights into prioritised tests and iterate on landing pages and donation flows.
- Lead time-boxed projects to streamline processes underpinning digital fundraising (e.g., automated reporting, audience governance, creative development playbooks).
- Support the documentation of key processes that underpin digital programs, helping facilitate change management and smooth handover to long-term owners.
4) Special Projects & Process Improvement — 10%
- ** Considerable professional experience, including demonstrated ability in deploying targeted digital media strategies to attract donors across new or emerging markets.
- ** Skilled in extracting audience insights and digital marketing tactics to engage diverse geographic regions effectively that drive donor conversion and engagement.
- ** Demonstrable extensive success in leading digital advertising campaigns across Facebook, Google ads and paid search / SEM display advertising campaigns, including optimisation of campaigns to maximise results.
- ** Extensive experience in developing strategies for digital media spending, ensuring optimal allocation of resources for the highest possible returns. Demonstrated ability to adapt financial strategies based on campaign performance and evolving market trends.
- ** Extensive experience of proposing plans and budgets for spending on paid media campaigns for the best possible return.
- Ability to maintain and enhance a comprehensive monitoring and reporting framework for digital acquisition activities, with proficiency in tracking and interpreting critical metrics to continually refine acquisition strategies.
- Experience using varied and complex online tools and platforms for digital marketing and data analysis, such as GA4, Salesforce, Power BI etc.
- Consistent record in driving email marketing strategies aimed at boosting engagement and increasing the lifetime value of supporters, employing complex segmentation and personalisation techniques.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams towards achieving digital fundraising and marketing objectives, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Skilled in the use of a variety of online marketing tools, including proficiency with CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) for campaign reporting and analysis.
- Experience and understanding of campaign development process and relationship with brand identity through different channels and audiences
- Exceptional IT skills including skills in digital marketing tools such as Google Analytics, Facebook Business Ad Manager, AdWords, Power BI
- Excellent numeracy with the skills to quickly analyse, interpret and act on data sets and digital fundraising results.
- Mastery of paid search and display advertising principles, with a keen understanding of how to use these channels for maximum impact.
- Fundamental knowledge in designing, setting up, and deploying HTML and CSS-based emails and landing pages, enhancing the effectiveness of digital communications.
- Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to handle a dynamic workload.
- Able to understand and demonstrate commitment to IRC’s Equal Opportunities Policy and to ensure all activities are consistent with Equal Opportunities.
- Excellent verbal and written English and the ability to produce well designed and high quality proposals and reports.
- Screening call online
- First round panel interview online
- Second round panel interview online
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Experience:
- ** Considerable professional experience, including demonstrated ability in deploying targeted digital media strategies to attract donors across new or emerging markets.
- ** Skilled in extracting audience insights and digital marketing tactics to engage diverse geographic regions effectively that drive donor conversion and engagement.
- ** Demonstrable extensive success in leading digital advertising campaigns across Facebook, Google ads and paid search / SEM display advertising campaigns, including optimisation of campaigns to maximise results.
- ** Extensive experience in developing strategies for digital media spending, ensuring optimal allocation of resources for the highest possible returns. Demonstrated ability to adapt financial strategies based on campaign performance and evolving market trends.
- ** Extensive experience of proposing plans and budgets for spending on paid media campaigns for the best possible return.
- Ability to maintain and enhance a comprehensive monitoring and reporting framework for digital acquisition activities, with proficiency in tracking and interpreting critical metrics to continually refine acquisition strategies.
- Experience using varied and complex online tools and platforms for digital marketing and data analysis, such as GA4, Salesforce, Power BI etc.
- Consistent record in driving email marketing strategies aimed at boosting engagement and increasing the lifetime value of supporters, employing complex segmentation and personalisation techniques.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams towards achieving digital fundraising and marketing objectives, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Skilled in the use of a variety of online marketing tools, including proficiency with CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) for campaign reporting and analysis.
- Experience and understanding of campaign development process and relationship with brand identity through different channels and audiences
Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:
- Exceptional IT skills including skills in digital marketing tools such as Google Analytics, Facebook Business Ad Manager, AdWords, Power BI
- Excellent numeracy with the skills to quickly analyse, interpret and act on data sets and digital fundraising results.
- Mastery of paid search and display advertising principles, with a keen understanding of how to use these channels for maximum impact.
- Fundamental knowledge in designing, setting up, and deploying HTML and CSS-based emails and landing pages, enhancing the effectiveness of digital communications.
- Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to handle a dynamic workload.
- Able to understand and demonstrate commitment to IRC’s Equal Opportunities Policy and to ensure all activities are consistent with Equal Opportunities.
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Excellent verbal and written English and the ability to produce well designed and high quality proposals and reports.
Language Skills: English (fluent). No additional languages are vital but German, Swedish, Korean or Spanish would be an advantage.
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About the Role
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. MAP is the leading UK charity delivering health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and displacement, in the occupied Palestinian territory and Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon.
MAP seeks a Head of Logistics Systems and Training to lead the development and implementation of standardized logistics policies, procedures, and tools (excluding procurement). This role is central to ensuring that logistics systems are fit-for-purpose, efficient, compliant, and supportive of MAP’s medical aid delivery across the occupied Palestinian territory and Lebanon. A key focus will be on staff capacity building and field support to ensure high-quality logistics practices aligned with medical and humanitarian standards.
About You
You are an experienced humanitarian logistician who enjoys designing and building systems, ways of working, and governance to support more effective logistics processes and function. You have a broad range of expertise across warehousing, transport, customs and fleet management, and particular experience in health supply chains and medical logistics. You are able to bring a team with you through training to develop adherence to policies and procedures, and apply your experience in emergency response to give context appropriate advice. A solid communicator, you convey both the detail of processes and the reasons behind them to ensure buy-in from stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
Duties and key responsibilities
1. Policy and Systems Development
• Develop, document, and roll out logistics policies and SOPs in the following key areas:
o Warehousing and cold chain management (with sensitivity to medical supply needs)
o Stock control, inventory, and distribution tracking
o Fleet and transport management (including movement of medical supplies across checkpoints and borders)
o Asset tracking and management
o Import/export procedures and customs clearance, especially for medical goods
o Logistics record-keeping and audit readiness
• Ensure that logistics systems are context-appropriate, compliant with MAP’s internal policies, donor regulations, and relevant health standards (e.g., WHO guidelines, GMP).
• Ensure that there is one version of the truth in MAP’s logistics systems, working with other systems, projects, and governance bodies as required.
• Support the development of the required systems to enable improvements in the supply chain function.
2. Training
• Conduct multiple needs assessments to identify logistics training gaps across MAP’s country offices.
• Develop training materials such as competency frameworks, learning and development programmes, and associated training materials tailored to MAP’s operational and medical logistics context.
• Deliver training and coaching to logistics, operations, and program staff in Lebanon and the oPt (West Bank and Gaza).
• Build staff capacity in cold chain, medical warehousing, and cross-border logistics procedures.
• Establish systems for ongoing learning, including refresher trainings and knowledge sharing.
3. Quality Assurance and Compliance
• Monitor field implementation of logistics procedures and identify areas for improvement.
• Ensure all MAP medical logistics operations conform to Good Distribution Practice (GDP) standards.
• Support internal audits and donor reviews by ensuring logistics documentation is in place and systems are audit-ready.
• Work with MAP’s MEAL and Operations teams to develop KPIs and performance metrics for logistics operations.
• Develop and maintain a logistics risk management plan (RMP) and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) plan, supporting the identification, assessment, and prioritisation of risks.
4. Operational Support
• Provide technical support to country teams during emergency responses, including surge capacity for logistics planning and setup.
• Liaise with program teams to ensure alignment between logistics support and medical programmatic needs.
• Work closely with MAP's Procurement function to ensure consistency between Procurement and Logistics systems, policies, and procedures.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential:
• University degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Humanitarian Operations, Public Health Logistics, or related field.
• Significant experience in humanitarian logistics, including field-based experience in complex or protracted crisis contexts.
• Demonstrable experience developing logistics SOPs and operational tools (excluding procurement).
• Experience developing and implementing logistics systems (e.g. inventory management, e-assets).
• Strong training and facilitation skills, including ability to work across cultures and languages.
• Knowledge of Good Distribution Practice, cold chain and medical logistics standards.
• Familiarity with customs, import/export, and movement constraints in occupied and conflict-affected areas.
• Understanding of donor compliance frameworks (e.g., FCDO, ECHO, UN agencies).
• Prior experience with medical or public health-focused NGOs.
Desirable:
• Arabic language skills (spoken and written).
• Experience working in or on the occupied Palestinian territory and/or Lebanon.
• Prior experience with medical or public health-focused NGOs.
• Knowledge of humanitarian standards such as Sphere, Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), and WHO guidelines.
• Familiarity with the software development life-cycle.
Personal attributes and other requirements
• Commitment to a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation & abuse/safeguarding.
• Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities.
• Commitment to upholding the rights of people facing disadvantage and discrimination.
• Commitment to the values and ethos of MAP.
• Able to work flexibly in emergencies and to meet specific deadlines including some evenings and weekends.
Disclaimer
**MAP reserves the right to close this advert before the confirmed closing date when we are in receipt of sufficient applications.
**We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the deadline, then you have not been successful in shortlisting
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About the Role
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Strategic Communications and Policy Influencing Lead to spearhead the implementation of the Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub (RSH) communications and policy influencing strategy globally. The position will shape and oversee the programme’s global communications and policy influencing strategies, ensuring coherence across national and global levels.
This role is central to translating strategy into action at national and global levels: working closely with country teams, donors, civil society, and survivor-led organisations to strengthen prevention, accountability, and justice frameworks. The role will align communications outputs to influencing and other strategic goals and making sure national and global work connects. The programme will support teams across Bangladesh, Jordan, Pakistan and Syria, as well as other countries still to be decided.
About the Programme
The Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub (RSH) is a programme that aims to support organisations in the aid sector to strengthen their safeguarding policy and practice against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment (SEAH). RSH supports organisations working in both the humanitarian and development sectors and is driven by the needs of smaller national or local organisations in developing countries.The programme is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) until 2030.
How to Apply
If you are interested in joining our dynamic team, please refer to the Person Specification and submit your tailored CV and cover letter to the link below. The deadline for applying is Sunday, 26th October 2025. Due to the high volume of applications, we are only able to respond to shortlisted candidates.
As this is a UK-based role, please confirm your eligibility to reside and work in the UK as part of your cover letter.
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Compass is a growing organisation with a long history of bold national campaigns, local groups across the country and a newly launched political network organising within the Labour party, Mainstream.
To grow our network and influence, we are looking to power up our organising, particularly by running impactful events. The Political and Campaigns Organiser will work with the Compass campaigns team to support our national campaigns for electoral reform and public ownership of water. They will also work with Compass’ organising team to support our network of local groups and to contribute to our organising across all progressive parties and in particular within the Labour Party.
They will contribute to our full organising programme, but with particular responsibility for events and working with our local groups. They should be comfortable working flexibly in a small, lively team and with groups with different perspectives.
This role involves:
- Growing, building and coordinating our local groups network across England and supporting their local campaigns.
- Working with the organising team and the local groups to strategise, plan and coordinate actions.
- Working with the whole Compass team to deliver events. We run a range of events throughout the year, from our big event Change: HOW?, our Annual Gathering, our panel events at party conferences and festivals to smaller events like our online party group meetings and briefings on our reports.
- Engaging and activating Compass’ member and supporter base through local groups and organising to maximise our impact, with a view to attracting and energising younger activists.
- Supporting the delivery of effective and creative campaigns - including supporting the campaigns team in writing copy and sending mailouts.
What this role might look like on the day to day:
- Meeting a local group in Warwickshire to plan an effective meeting to build their campaign against the far-right.
- Supporting the team to convene civil society leaders as part of our work on a New Popular Front by sorting logistics for events - choosing a venue or booking catering.
- Writing copy for emails to keep our activists up to date with key information about our activities.
- Supporting the organising team with desk research to feed into our political engagement work.
- Supporting our political party organising by writing template council or CLP motions.
- Following up with a member interested in starting a local group via phone or email, finding out what motivates them and building a relationship.
Requirements
Skills and competencies
We're looking for:
- Strong interest in UK politics, particularly the Labour Party, with a clear understanding of the political context in which we work, which issues are politically sensitive and the culture Compass represents.
- Willingness to learn: open-minded, flexible and eager to learn new skills.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate: able to bring people together to take action, work across networks, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, online and in person.
- Self-organisation: able to self-motivate, be proactive and work independently to an agreed schedule.
- Flexibility and adaptability: confident handling competing priorities across multiple fronts.
- Enthusiasm and energy: a demonstrable passion for the political change we seek and a willingness to work in pursuit of it.
Experience, qualifications and knowledge
- Experience working with a not-for-profit, political party, charity, trade union or NGO.
- Experience in political organising, whether in a professional or voluntary capacity.
- An insight into how local groups work as part of a national network.
- Experience in managing and running events online and in-person as part of a team.
- Experience of working with volunteers, activists and groups with different beliefs to build trust and work towards common goals.
- An understanding of the UK progressive political scene, particularly the Labour Party, and support for the aims, vision and values of Compass.
Benefits
Compass is a highly ambitious organisation, working to change the way we do politics. With a strong track record of bold and innovative campaigns and a wide network of members, associates and partners, Compass is rapidly expanding its political influence and reach, particularly within the Labour Party via the Mainstream network.
Mainstream is a new hopeful and purposeful vehicle to turn the Labour Party back once again to the direction of hope and a progressive and plural future.
This post is suitable for someone who believes in and wants to be part of creating the vision and culture of a good society and wants to work flexibly and energetically to further these goals. Though small in size, the team is supported by a community of partners, allies, members and supporters.
This role is suitable for someone who wants to work hard to develop new skills and is able to learn on the job, even if they haven’t worked in a political role before.
Pay will be £27,000, London-based, with room for flexible working in terms of hours and location. The team has an office in central London (near Vauxhall) and the likely candidate would need to be comfortable travelling to the office at least 2- 3 times a week.
You will work closely with Compass’ Deputy Director and our Political Affairs and Organising Officer who will offer managerial support and work with you to develop and deepen your skills over time.
The position is full-time and we are looking for someone to start as soon as possible. There is a 3-month probationary period.
Compass is committed to providing equal opportunities to people regardless of background and we actively seek applications from people with backgrounds that are underrepresented in our sector, especially with regards to race and class. We recognise that representation in our sector is not good enough; this makes our politics and our campaigns weaker. As such, we particularly encourage applications from people who can demonstrate the skills, even if they have never worked in this precise field. We welcome people to apply who can demonstrate their aptitude, even if a career in politics has so far been closed off to them.
To apply for this role follow the below link. You will be asked to upload a CV and answer three questions related to the position.
The application deadline is Tuesday 28th October, 10am. We expect interviews to be held in October and November and will explain more about the process if you’re invited to the next round.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Chair of the Education Committee
£3,000 pa honorarium, plus expenses
Part-time, 3 meetings per year plus 4 Governing Board meetings
Hybrid working with occasional travel to London
We’re seeking an experienced, visionary leader to chair our Education Committee, guiding a passionate professional community and shaping the impact of acupuncture education.
This is a unique opportunity to foster collaboration, and champion the educational aims of an influential complementary health profession recognised by the WHO. We are looking for someone who values the profession, understands its potential, and is committed to supporting its educational development and visibility.
To ensure an independent perspective informed by broader sector insight (across higher education and health), this role is open to senior education leaders from other UK healthcare professions outside acupuncture.
What you’ll do
· Support the development of the educational strategy and decision-making that ensures the committee’s work is both forward-looking and fit-for-purpose.
· Lead and chair meetings effectively, balancing strong voices and diverse perspectives.
· Uphold the principles of Public life (NOLAN principles) build collaboration and trust across committee members, staff leading on education, and external stakeholders.
· Bring an external perspective to shape the committee’s work, policies, and outputs so they are credible, impactful, and positively perceived by external audiences (e.g., public, students, other professions).
· Navigate the balance between autonomy in your committee’s work and alignment with the wider membership body’s vision, working closely with the Governing Board, CEO, and Deputy CEO/Education Manager.
· Working with the Chair of the Accreditation committee, support the accreditation and activity of the BAcC.
What the committee does
· Ensure excellence in acupuncture education within the UK and influence acupuncture’s educational standards globally.
· Encourage institutional self-improvement by valuing diversity, creativity and innovation.
· Promote the standards of education and with these curricula standards, celebrate the unique and diverse traditions of the profession.
Who we’re looking for
Someone with significant senior leadership experience in UK healthcare higher education, from a profession other than acupuncture, with a strong understanding of professional education, governance, and academic standards.
You will have:
· a collaborative, inclusive style and excellent facilitation skills
· the ability to manage vocal and engaged members effectively while maintaining focus on outcomes
· strategic thinking with the ability to bring external insight to influence committee outputs and alignment with wider organisational goals
· the capacity to balance independent judgment and delegated authority alongside understanding education’s role within the organisational vision and priorities
· a passion for supporting and championing acupuncture education and standards while offering an independent perspective informed by broader sector insight
Time commitment:
· 3 meetings per year plus 4 Governing Board meetings
· Regular touchpoints with Chair of the Governing Board, Chair of Accreditation Committee, CEO and Education manager.
· Undertake preparatory work in advance of meetings.
If you are interested in this role and would like to discuss it informally before applying, contact details can be found via the application link.
Closing date: 12pm on Monday 20 October.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 29 October via MS Teams.
