Development director jobs near Birmingham, West Midlands

Are you passionate about preparing people for the mission? Do you want to play an essential role in equipping the next generation of mission workers from around the world for intercultural mission? Are you innovative and hard-working? Then this might be the role for you!  We’re looking for someone to develop and lead our capacity in intercultural learning and collaboration as part of the ongoing development of BMS.

As the Director for Intercultural Learning and Collaboration, you will be responsible for the following:

• Sharing in providing the overall leadership of BMS as part of the Executive Director Team
• Providing leadership for, and further develop, an intercultural learning and collaboration team focused on resourcing intercultural mission to, within, and from the Majority World
• Developing existing and new global partnerships to facilitate ongoing learning in intercultural mission and preparation for mission.

We are looking for someone with the desire and ability to enable others to serve effectively in intercultural mission. We are extending the search globally in seeking the best possible candidate, which will be based in the Global South. 

If you have excellent leadership and organisational skills, are familiar with contemporary developments in world mission, and have good interpersonal skills, with the ability to relate well across a range of cultures, contexts, and organisations, we want to hear from you. This is a stimulating, challenging and very fulfilling role, which we anticipate will be located outside the UK.

This role has a Specific Occupational Requirement for a practising Christian. The successful applicant will be fully in agreement with the BMS vision. The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues

If you would like to discuss this role with the BMS General Director, Kang-San Tan, please contact Stephanie Brown at BMS World Mission to arrange a suitable time.

For full information and to download recruitment pack, please visit  BMS World Mission website.

About the Youth Investment Fund

The Youth Investment Fund (YIF) is a £368 million fund created by the UK government to create, expand and improve youth facilities and services in England to drive positive outcomes for young people.

YIF is being delivered by a partnership between Social Investment Business, The Key Fund, National Youth Agency and Resonance.

Together, we aim to deliver grants for up to 300 facilities in selected eligible areas across England by 2025 that represent positive value for money, are environmentally sustainable and enable positive activities for young people aged 11–18 (up to 25 for young people with SEND).

This funding will drive value-for-money facilities that youth organisations can afford to sustain. Using innovative construction techniques, as well as supporting redevelopment projects that expand youth service provision, the YIF will achieve savings on facility running costs, so that resources can focus on activities that enrich young people’s lives.

It will support projects to level up youth provision, assessing and distributing grants so that local youth facilities and services can be the best they can be.  For further information please visit the Youth Investment Fund website.

About this role:

This role will be employed by Social Investment Business (SIB) on a fixed term contract until March 2025.

Hybrid – Remote based with some mandatory travel to London (approx. 8 times per year).

For over two decades, Social Investment Business has provided finance and support to charities and social enterprises. We empower these organisations to do what they do best - serve the communities they operate within.

Find out more about what we do plesae visit the Social Investment Business website.

Our values are: People First, Curious, Bold, Collaborative, Accountable

For further information on our values and our generous benefits please visit our website.

This role will support the Director of People and Values (P&V) on the implementation, planning and creation of learning and development across the organisation.

Key responsibilities

1. Support the Director of P&V to embed the strategic training plan.
2. Co-ordination and management of learning where relevant, across the organisation and audit of new and existing L&D interventions.
3. To support the organisation to provide upskilling or retraining where required on new projects or funds.
4. Research, develop, and plan cost effective learning programmes, development initiatives and frameworks.
5. Working with stakeholders across the organisation, as well as the leadership team, to identify development needs and ensure the delivery of strategically aligned L&D solutions.
6. Source and manage third-party training providers.
7. Ensuring the application and effectiveness of learning, with a key focus on the transfer of learning to the workplace to support operational excellence.
8. Working with the Learning and Influence team on evaluating and evidencing the impact of learning.
9. Working with the Learning and Influence team on collating and evaluating employee engagement regularly.
10. Promote a culture of continuous learning.
11. To support the Director of P&V on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, including networks, information, action plans and training.
12. To support the Director of P&V with the management of the L&D Budget
13. To work within the organisation's values, principles and processes to achieve operational excellence.
14. To adopt our continuous improvement and learning ethos.
15. To support and embed equality, diversity and inclusion into day-to-day behaviours and activities within your role as well as contributing more widely across SIB’s commitment to E, D & I.
16. To support and contribute to the implementation and delivery of SIB’s strategy.
17. In agreement with manager to undertake other tasks and work on cross team projects that support the objectives of SIB as required.

Core competencies

• Commitment to quality, equality, diversity, inclusion and customers.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Team player with the ability to work independently.
• Experience of providing organisation wide training delivery.
• Experience of planning, co-ordinating and researching the most appropriate learning.
• Experience of understanding organisation delivery and creating L&D to support that. • Delivering learning interventions in a blended & agile manner.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Able to manage information and people sensitively and confidentially.
• Able to build strong working relationships across the organisation and with partners.

Desirable competencies

• Social sector experience.
• Qualification CIPD or other relevant L&D

We are really excited about this role of People Director – it will be a critical role to help us as we expand. Our people are our greatest assets, and we are looking for the right person to stand by their side. The right person will be excited to join us on our journey, protecting our existing culture as we grow, helping us to develop a shared narrative to ensure the whole organisation has shared goals.

We are seeking an organisational development professional with considerable strategic thinking and change management experience, skilled in promoting and embedding organisational effectiveness and cultural change. We are a fast growing and dynamic organisation and you will have a broad grounding in HR and experience of leading successful recruitment strategies, learning and development, diversity & inclusion, and employee engagement programmes. You will be flexible and willing to roll up your sleeves to support with operational issues as we grow the organisation and the HR function.

Access Social Care is only 2 years old. We started with only 2 employees in 2020. We are now fast approaching the 40 mark. We have built a strong and positive culture within our team and our staff team tell us we live by our values.

As an organisation we are proud that we have taken great strides in ensuring that our organisational impact reaches underserved communities with experience of disadvantage. But over the last 6 months, we have taken a good look at ourselves, and we know that we need to do better to ensure that our Senior Leadership team reflects the communities that we serve.

Applications are welcomed regardless of gender, age, marital status, disability, religion, ethnic origin, political opinion, sexual orientation, or whether or not you have dependents. Appointments are made on merit, following a fair and transparent process.

We are passionate about getting the right people in our team. People who are willing to do what’s right and not what’s easy to support us to be the best we can be as an organisation.

Please see full job pack for introduction, full job discription and personal specification.

Do you understand audiences and their motivations for giving, and you want to be a part of an Individual Giving programme you can be proud of? Do you love a challenge, enjoy working with a variety of personalities and opinions, and want the chance to make a massive difference at an amazing charity? If you believe those who have served our country, and their loved ones, deserve the support they so rightly deserve when they are wounded, this could be your next role.

Every day, men and women leave a career they love in the Armed Forces as a result of physical or mental wounds, with their lives changed forever.  Help for Heroes supports them, and those still serving, to recover and get on with the rest of their lives. Our unique approach relies on dynamic fundraising and that’s where you come in.

In this role you’ll be involved in creating fabulous online and offline campaigns that inspire people to engage with and donate to this incredible charity. You’ll manage donor development campaigns driven by audience insight and best practice. You know what makes a good direct response campaign, and how to get the best out of colleagues and suppliers. We’re not saying it’s going to be easy, but you’ll succeed by being determined, focused and working well with others.

The job can be remotely based and you’ll occasionally travel to Wiltshire, London and elsewhere to meet supporters, wounded veterans and colleagues.

Click apply to view full details of the role.

ASIRT is seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic leader with the ability to develop and deliver high quality services for vulnerable clients. This is an exciting, creative and challenging role for someone with a strong commitment to excellence, justice, and a firm belief in the rights of migrants and refugees.

ASIRT is a small, experienced team working in a challenging environment. We provide prompt, independent advocacy support throughout the West Midlands for vulnerable and undocumented migrants and refugees. We submit representations to the Home Office, provide advice and advocacy support, influence policy, and run a specialist support service for children and young people funded by BBC Children in Need. ASIRT has a strong reputation for high-level legal work and our clients are at the heart of everything we do. Our Director will play a key role in developing and promoting ASIRT’s work, improving outcomes for clients, motivating and leading our team, and driving excellence.

You will have a proven track record of managing and developing services and people, and successful experience of financial administration. You will have excellent project, service, and people management skills, a keen eye for detail and significant experience of managing charitable services.

You will have a clear understanding of the needs of children and young people, a strong belief in children’s rights, and experience of safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults. You will be a strong and creative strategic thinker, used to working on your own initiative and motivating those around you to achieve their best.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all convictions, spent or unspent, must be declared. An Enhanced DBS check will be undertaken.

This post is supported by the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales.

Interveiws will take place week commencing 22nd August 2022.

Please apply via the application form on our website.  CVs will not be accepted.

Divisional HR & ER Specialist (South England- 18-month FTC)

Location: Home-based with travel across southern England.

Contract: Fixed-Term (18 months)

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 p.a. + car allowance (subject to mileage)

Application Deadline: 23:55 on 31 August - please do not delay applying as we will be shortlisting on application.

Application process: In our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, we operate an anonymized shortlisting process. Please ensure you complete the work history section of the application form and answered all application questions. CVs are required for all applications, however, they will not be reviewed until interview stage.

Are you an HR & ER Specialist who enjoys resolving complex casework, improving processes, and building stakeholder relationships across large regions? If so, you can add great value to CRUK's employee experience by supporting the well-being of our retail teams across the South of England.

Cancer Research UK and our HR functions are evolving. We have recently brought together our HR, ER, Corporate Resources, and Technology directorates as part of our operational transformation to become the hub for operational management and agile ways of working.

The HR teams maximize our employee experience by continuously delivering process improvements and guidance across the organization to engage and inspire our people who are our strongest asset in fighting cancer.

We have an exciting opportunity to join CRUK as a Divisional HR Specialist, partnering with stores across South England to resolve complex HR & ER casework. You'll have a passion for employee relations, owning cases across your division whilst also proactively providing a generalist HR service on all other HR issues. You'll also partner with the Divisional and Area Leadership Teams to support and drive effective performance management too.

What will I be doing?

Make an impact every day by:

• Partner with retail, area, and divisional managers across South England on HR (25%) and ER (75%) procedures, policies, and casework.

• Provide generalist HR service to CRUK's southern UK Trading customer group on all HR issues in line with employment legislation, CRUK's policies, and procedures.

• Resolve complex ER cases across the region including performance and capability; relationships; conduct; attendance and mental and physical health, in line with CRUK procedures and guidelines

• Partner with Divisional and Area leadership to support and drive performance management.

• Provide guidance on change management, restructuring initiates, and associated processes.

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the area and divisional managers, attending and contributing to conferences, Business Review Meetings & HR ops

• Alongside the Trading HRBP, work proactively with customers to determine people priorities and put plans in place to address these.

What skills are you looking for?

• Significant ER experience having handled complex cases (e.g. dismissals, tribunals, welfare).

• Proven HR generalist experience advising middle to high-level managers on HR cases.

• Experience applying HR policies & procedures and identifying opportunities for process improvements.

• History of handling large numbers of cases at once and spending your time appropriately to reach a resolution.

• Built strong stakeholder relationships through diplomatic coaching style.

• Knowledge of employment legislation and ability to interpret and apply employment law.

• Provided HR support across multi-sites and to a variety of customer groups

What will I gain?

Without you, we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So, we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes:

• Flexible working - home-based with travel.

• Car allowance (subject to mileage).

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 1 CRUK day (option to buy up to 5 days per annum).

• Pension (employer contributions up to 10%).

• Life insurance.

• Brilliant learning and development opportunities.?

• Discounts - Westfield Shopping Centre, travel, technology, gym memberships, and much more…

If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save and extend lives then apply here!

Evolve is looking for an experienced professional with proven ability to manage a small team of professional staff, engage positively with a wide range of stakeholders, attract funds, and generate income through fundraising.

The Director will lead the team to provide the necessary vision, leadership, and fundraising skills which will enable the organisation to achieve its strategic and operational plans and meet fundraising targets.

National Energy Action is looking for a Director of Homes who will lead the charity’s work to improve the lives of people in fuel poverty through improvements to building fabric and heating systems. It will strengthen NEA’s expertise and authority in this space across our activities.

The long-term solution to fuel poverty is for homes to be more energy efficient and more affordable to heat.  As National Energy Action’s Director of Homes, you will be at the heart of this vital transformation.  You will be part of our senior leadership team.  You will be responsible for our practical projects to improve the homes of people in fuel poverty; and you will bring expertise to critical debates on retrofit, decarbonisation and affordable warmth. 

This is a great time to join a passionate, committed and expert team.  If you think that everyone should be able to afford to keep their homes warm and safe; if you have the experience to drive our work in these areas, if you want to change for the better how people live their lives – we would love to hear from you.

This is a full time, permanent post with a flexible location in the UK.  The successful candidate will be part of the Senior Management Team, along with 3 other Directors, the Deputy Chief Executive and the Chief Executive. 

Candidates should have a demonstrable and evidenced track record of directing major programmes with complex funding arrangements, securing contracts through commercially-tendered bids, commissioning or procurement by private and public bodies.

The job description provides a list of the duties of the post and the person specification provides the list of essential and desirable criteria.

Our staff continue to work remotely on a temporary basis.  Post-holders must be resident within the UK, and be able to prove their Right to Work in the UK.  Post holders must also be willing to travel throughout the UK, including overnight stays as appropriate.

Interviews will take place on 7 and 8 September 2022, these could be in person or virtually.  Please indicate in your application if you will be available on these dates should you be selected for interview. Candidates are not expected to be present for the full two days.

The Prince's Trust is a youth charity that helps young people aged 11 to 30 get into jobs, education and training.

The Trust has an ambitious strategy to be there for young people and maximise our impact, strengthen our support network, build a better future for young people, and become one of the most diverse and inclusive organisations serving young people.

To achieve our strategic goals, it is critical that we communicate effectively both internally and externally with a range of stakeholders, which ultimately means we can be there for young people. This includes the communities we want to reach, funders, volunteers, and colleagues. The Director of Communications post is vital in ensuring we maximise our impact on young people by ensuring that the strength of the reputation of The Trust is developed and protected to ensure we have the funds and support available to benefit our communities.

As an active member of the Executive Leadership Team, the Director of Communications leads all aspects of The Trust’s communications, developing and delivering a compelling series of campaigns to enhance awareness and understanding, while being a strong custodian of a positive reputation. The role will also lead on coordination with Clarence House on matters relating to corporate positioning, media relations and key events involving HRH The Prince of Wales.

This role would suit an experienced communications professional with a passion for supporting young people and addressing issues of social mobility. Experience of UK media and campaigns would be very helpful, as would an understanding of how to operate in complex environments. You do not need to have been a Director before, and we’d also welcome applications from candidates outside of the charity sector.

The Prince’s Trust is committed to building a workforce that is as diverse as the young people that represent modern day Britain, and we are ultimately here to support. As part of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy we are wanting to build a management and leadership team that has greater representation of the diverse communities across England and particularly welcome candidates with lived experiences from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds. To that end, we welcome applications from all candidates, including those from under represented groups.

Closing date: 9 a.m. Friday 26th August 2022 

Please click ‘Apply via website' to be directed to the Peridot Partners website and to contact the advising consultants to discuss this role in more detail.

Role description

Vibrant, diverse, and robust civil societies are essential to achieving peace, human rights, and environmental justice. But most of the world lives in countries with threatened civic spaces and global freedom continues to decline year on year.

Courageous people and communities around the world are fighting to make rights and justice universally possible within this context. But they face attacks, harassment, and censorship from powerful vested interests. Many pay the ultimate price.

This is where you come in.

You will be leading an international team of consultants providing security mentoring and capacity building to organisations and activists under threat in violent environments and closed civic spaces. You will be liaising with international foundations and high-profile nonprofits in the human rights, environmental, and humanitarian worlds. And you will be central to the organisational culture and strategic planning needed to grow our organisation in a sustainable manner. 

As our director of safety and security, your primary responsibilities will include:

Lead our safety and security workstream

1. Continuously develop and promote our safety and security consultancy services to foundation and nonprofit clients.

2. Respond to enquiries from clients and liaise with them and our consultant team through any subsequent contracts.

3. Manage our responses to referrals for fully-funded safety and security support for at-risk activists and low-resource civil society organisations and liaise with referral partners through any subsequent support.

4. Manage an international and multilingual team of 10 consultants and trainers providing safety and security support to clients and recipients, including.

   1. Quality assure and provide expert technical input into the work of your colleagues in the safety and security team.

   2. Review and approve consultant invoices and timesheets, update our project management system, and conduct annual reviews with team members.

   3. Maintain an effective team and recruit and onboard new consultants as required to fill gaps or meet demand.

5. Complete security risk management and duty of care audits and produce bespoke security risk management frameworks and other higher-level products for clients (approximately 20% of time).

Champion our own security risk management

1. Provide travel security support to our team members, ensure that our travel management procedure is understood and followed, and coordinate any check-ins and loss-of-contact procedures during travel.

2. Review and revise our crisis management procedure, constitute and coordinate the crisis management team, and capacity build where required.

3. Coordinate our response to any security incident or crises involving our team members.

4. Continuously improve and socialise our security risk management framework.

Shape our organisational strategy and culture

1. Play an active role in defining our organisational strategy and culture as part of our senior management team alongside our CEO, finance director, wellbeing and resilience lead, and digital security lead.

2. Participate in monthly senior management team meetings (strategy) and monthly programme meetings (operations).

3. Contribute safety and security expertise throughout our enterprise risk register annual cycle.

On joining, your early priorities will be getting to know our existing clients and team members, taking over the smooth management of current contracts and projects, and understanding our internal processes and workflows.

You will be supported in your role by a safety and security programme associate (four days a month) and an executive PA (20 hours a month) plus a CEO who believes in servant leadership. We also have an extensive internal knowledge base and an up-to-date project management system. To help you grow as a leader, we will co-design your annual objectives, and you will be offered a 360° review, an annual performance review, and executive coaching.

Person specification

Essential

• You will have at least five years’ professional experience in roles focussed on humanitarian security risk management or the protection of human rights defenders.

• You will have at least three years’ professional experience in international programme management roles or similar senior roles.

• You will have at least two years’ professional consultancy experience or similar experience delivering projects for internal clients.

• You will understand how security risk management interacts with enterprise risk management in the non-profit sector. 

• You will be sensitive to the progressive and rights-based agendas and diverse profiles of our clients and recipients.

• You will have excellent technical knowledge and experience, and be confident in conducting security risk assessments and security management audits and creating security risk management policy frameworks.

• You will be an excellent people manager with the ability to build, motivate, and mentor distributed consultant teams.

• You will have excellent project and budget management skills.

• You will have lived and worked in violent, austere, and remote environments or closed civic spaces.

• You will have excellent written and spoken English.

Desirable 

• You may have a strong understanding of the digital security and psychosocial aspects of holistic security and how they interact with physical security.

• You may have experience working in a senior management team or board.

• You may have excellent written and spoken French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Arabic.

Terms and remuneration

This is a full-time staff role for an initial 12 months, renewable long term by mutual agreement and dependent on funding and performance. This is a remote, working from home role and flexible working is encouraged. If based outside the United Kingdom, we ask that you are based in a time zone that is UTC +/- 4 hours in order to collaborate with team members and clients.

If you are based in the United Kingdom, you will be employed by Open Briefing on a salary of £65,000 per annum. We will offer you a range of benefits, including 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and up to two sustainable travel journey days. We will provide you with a package of psychosocial support, including private health insurance and an Employee Assistance Programme. And we will make an employer’s pension contribution of 5%. 

If you are based outside the United Kingdom, you will be offered comparable compensation through either a consultancy contract or an Employer of Record, depending on your location. 

Note, we always seek long-term working relationships over several years with our team members, so this position would not suit someone looking for a short-term contract.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Open Briefing values diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore encourage applications from all who meet the person specification and particularly from candidates who are underrepresented in our senior management team. This currently includes those who are black, indigenous, or people of colour.

We will make reasonable adjustments for disabled and neurodivergent people during the recruitment process and any subsequent employment.

Recruitment timeline

• Closing date: 09:00 BST (UTC+1), Tuesday 30 August 2022.

• First round interviews: 12-14 September 2022.

• Second round interviews: 16 September 2022. 

• Desired start date: 1 October 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. 

Please let us know in your application if any of these dates are problematic and we will try to accomodate. The successful applicant will need to complete a reasonable vetting process before engagement.

TPP are delighted to be working with the National Youth Agency, who are an educational charity that exists to professionalise, support & champion youth work in England & Wales. They are seeking to hire a Director of Policy & Communications. Reporting directly into the CEO, you will be responsible for leading two matrix connected teams which are focused on ensuring the voice of the NYA is heard and acted upon across government, local councils and important points of influence.

This is an excellent time to join the organisation at a time when our client has secured £368 million of funding from DCMS to improve youth services in underserved areas. Our client is based in Leicester, but this role is home based, with occasional travel into Leicester for meetings.

Your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Member of the senior management team, and leader of the policy & communications directorate.

• Work with the CEO to report to the board regarding progress towards strategic priorities.

• Strategic lead for the policy and influencing strategy, working with parliamentarians, government officials and arm’s length bodies to secure greater prominence and investment in youth work.

• Establish networks of policy advisors, Special Advisors, NYA Associates, officials and partners to support NYA’s goals.

• National lead for Youth Work policy in England, developing campaigns and political engagement activities.

• Delivering an ambitious new communications strategy to double the reach of NYA across England by 2025.

• Defining key messages and positioning of NYA, enhancing their reputation and relationships.

• Providing people management and leadership to a growing team of policy and communications professionals.

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Your experience and skillsets and experience will include:

• Experienced leader and influencer at a senior level with experience of influencing government and politicians.

• Proven forward-thinking, and dynamic individual who can provide proactive leadership to evolve an innovative programme.

• Demonstrable experience setting strategies and plans.

• Demonstrable track record of engaging with decision makers and key influencers.

• Proven experience in building effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Experience of working across all communications disciplines including media, PR, internal communications, brand, stakeholder engagement, partnership development and digital.

• A strong track record of positioning an organisation to achieve tangible outcomes in a competitive communications environment.

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We are recruiting for a maternity cover for the Director of Programme Management in The Brilliant Tutoring Programme (BTP). 

This role will play an important role in the delivery and leadership of The Brilliant Tutoring Programme, which is currently being delivered as part of the government’s National Tutoring Programme (NTP). The Brilliant Club is also exploring opportunities for the charity to deliver attainment raising activities beyond the NTP. This role will be important in scoping possible forms of attainment raising work.

The Director of Programme Management will provide team leadership of the BTP team, to ensure excellent programme delivery to all BTP schools. They will ensure that systems and processes for the delivery of BTP are effective and efficient, supporting the BTP Manager to have oversight of BTP delivery cycles. The Director of Programme Management will ensure high school renewal rates and high Net Promoter Scores from schools and tutors, as needed they will support with unresolved stakeholder management resolution.  They will continually evaluate potential risks to programme management and collaborate effectively with colleagues to ensure these are resolved.

They will work closely and collaboratively with other teams, particularly the School Partnership and Tutor Engagement Teams, to ensure that the needs of the programme are met, including onboarding schools and the recruitment of tutors. Working with the Director of Access Programmes they will ensure the overall strategic leadership of the programme, ensuring high-quality, efficient delivery. 

The role requires an accomplished professional, with experience of leading complex projects or programmes at a national level. They will champion the charity’s values and embody them in interactions with colleagues and partners. 

The Brilliant Club exists to increase the number of pupils from underrepresented backgrounds progressing to highly selective universities. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of our beneficiaries, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans including non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low-income families. These groups are currently underrepresented at The Brilliant Club, and we are committed to increasing representation and diversity at the charity.

Person Specification 

Time and Resource Management

• Excellent organisational and project management skills, with an ability to prioritise and manage time and budget effectively
• Helps others to develop the skills and behaviours to build good time and resource management
• Critically evaluates how to mobilise members of their direct and wider team to successfully deliver projects and tasks, balancing the need for high quality delivery with the resources available 

External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management

• Understands complex external stakeholders as individuals and as part of the wider sector
• Coaches their team to identify issues and opportunities to better manage external stakeholder relationships

Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Confidently adapts content, tone, and delivery of written and oral communications to the needs of the audience
• Makes sound, nuanced judgments about how, when and whether to communicative difficult or complex messages 

Initiative and Problem Solving

• Proactive in seeking to enhance processes, spot inefficiencies and identify emerging risks, solving problems and suggesting solutions as they arise
• Uses the best data available and analyses/synthesises it to arrive at a robust, evidence-based solution
• Takes a strategic approach to problem solving which understands interdependencies and the implications for risk management 
• Approaches issues with fluidity, flexibility, and an understanding of the wider external/strategic context

Developing Self and Others

• Self-reflective and committed to own professional development
• Stretches self, team members and colleagues to develop

Role Specific Knowledge and Skills

• Essential – capable of adapting quickly to new systems and interfaces
• Essential - knowledge of educational interventions, including impact management
• Essential – knowledge of the education sector
• Desirable – confident in using digital systems for delivery

Role specific Experience and Qualifications

• Essential – proven experience in leading the delivery of a project or programme across a locality
• Essential – sustainable experience of managing a team
• Essential – experience of using data and feedback to improve processes and approaches
• Desirable – experience of developing and improving delivery systems
• Desirable – teaching skills, including delivering training to adults
• Desirable – Experience of leading change management processes to embed new processes or systems across a team

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Home based (UK-Wide)
Salary: £82,000 plus London allowance of £3,600 (if applicable)
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 23 August 2022
Interview Date: Thursday 15 September 2022 (Via Micosoft Teams)

Please note the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is 23:59pm on the closing date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

About Alzheimer\'s Society

Who we are

Alzheimer’s Society are a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia.

What we want

We will not rest until people with dementia and their carers live more fulfilled and less fearful lives, free from stigma and inequality.

What we do

We support people affected by dementia through some of the hardest and most frightening times, to improve their lives and help to avoid crisis.
No matter whoever you are, whatever you’re going through, you can turn to Alzheimer’s Society/us for expert support through practical advice, emotional support, and guidance for the best next step
We join forces with people affected by dementia, leading scientists and policy makers, amplifying voices to push for cutting edge breakthroughs and societal change that’ll improve the lives of people affected by dementia, now and in the future

How we do it

We’re the friendly face of support, the warm voice at the end of the phone and the determined minds who will fight passionately for the cause of everyone affected by dementia.

About the role

Fundraising is at the heart of everything we do – supporting the ambition, the possibilities, and the vital income we need to reach everyone who needs our support, now and in the future. We are a high-performing team, focussed on continuous improvement and offering the best supporter experiences possible. Trusted experts in our fields, we are collaborative, business-focused, compassionate, and determined to make a difference to the fundraising industry, the sector, our organisation, and people affected by dementia.

You will;

- Direct teams to deliver outstanding results collaboratively and at pace.
- Focus on joining up the fundraising functions in Philanthropy, Corporate and Legacy areas, making them more collaborative and efficient
- Share skills and resources, looking for opportunities to build on successes
- Setting a joined-up plan across the areas you oversee, and aligning your area with the other Associate Director areas of Fundraising
- Look up and across the organisation to ensure your area is working collaboratively and effectively with other Directorates.
- Be responsible for representing Fundraising at the highest level, within the organisation, and externally.
- Take overall accountability for delivering fundraising excellence, industry-leading results, an exceptional team culture with a focus on ‘mastery, purpose and autonomy’ across your teams.
- Oversee three key Fundraising functions (Philanthropy, Corporate Partnerships and Legacies) and have strong and demonstrable knowledge of leading at least one of these functions to a very high standard.
- Take corporate accountability for the operational, day-to-day success of the organisation and its continued growth and development through innovation and collaboration at every level.
- Acts as a role model you will drive forward an inclusive and high-performance culture making sure that our values and expected standards of behaviour are embedded across the entire organisation, as well as in your own teams.

About you

- Significant experience and demonstrable success at leading a large fundraising function (at Head of Department level) within at least one of the disciplines you will oversee (Philanthropy, Corporate or Legacies).
- Strong experience and understanding of fundraising, the charity sector, relationship management / stewardship and direct response marketing principles.
- Proven ability to design and develop a cohesive approach to fundraising team plans and strategy - embedding values and cultural development.
- Significant experience of setting, managing and delivering multi-million-pound budgets and targets, with the ability to flex and adapt in response to external factors and campaign results.
- Experience of working with and understanding data to drive results across the full portfolio of activity and provide management information, insight and reporting to enhance knowledge and future decisions.
- Great management experience of a large team across a range of functions – requiring a flexible leadership approach to deliver messages to different audience groups.
- Talent acquisition, management and development ability.

You may have experience of the following: Director of Fundraising, Head of Fundraising, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Fundraising Director, Not For Profit, Senior Fundraising Manager, Trust, Individual Giving, Director of Fundraising, Development Manager, Corporate Partnerships, Engagement, Relationship Building, Sales Manager, Business Development, Key Account Manager, Field Sales Executive, New Business, Territory Sales Manager, Account Management, etc.

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Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Home based (UK-Wide)
Salary: £82,000 plus London allowance of £3,600 (if applicable) and London Link allowance of £1,440 (if applicable)
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 21 August 2022
Interview Date: 5th September 2022 (Via Microsoft Teams)

Please note the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is 23:59pm on the closing date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

About Alzheimer\'s Society

Who we are

Alzheimer’s Society are a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia.

What we want

We will not rest until people with dementia and their carers live more fulfilled and less fearful lives, free from stigma and inequality.

What we do

We support people affected by dementia through some of the hardest and most frightening times, to improve their lives and help to avoid crisis.
No matter whoever you are, whatever you’re going through, you can turn to Alzheimer’s Society/us for expert support through practical advice, emotional support, and guidance for the best next step
We join forces with people affected by dementia, leading scientists and policy makers, amplifying voices to push for cutting edge breakthroughs and societal change that’ll improve the lives of people affected by dementia, now and in the future.

How we do it

We’re the friendly face of support, the warm voice at the end of the phone and the determined minds who will fight passionately for the cause of everyone affected by dementia.

About the role

At Alzheimer’s Society we believe everyone has the right to be the person they are, to live without fear or prejudice regardless of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, faith and belief, or a diagnosis of dementia. It is vital that in everything Alzheimer’s Society does, it walks that talk.

We have made progress in the last year, exploring how we can be more inclusive within our organisation. We have continued to develop a safe environment for people to talk about the things that matter, from religion and domestic violence to menopause. We have created new network groups and built development programmes with our colleagues from ethnically diverse communities and our female leaders.

We have increased training and awareness, introduced reverse mentoring for senior leaders and undertaken training in allyship and other key topics across the organisation.

However, there is still much to do - what matters to us is that the changes we create are permanent and have a long-lasting impact on the organisation, who we are, and the services we deliver. We aren’t interested in tokenism here.

This year we have completed an exercise to co-produce an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Plan that will sit smack in the centre of our new five-year strategy. The plan is forward looking, stretching but achievable and has the ownership and quality you’d expect of a plan developed by the people it will affect. What we need now is the dynamic Equality, Diversity and Inclusion lead to help us make it happen.

About you

- Excellent strategic thinker and able to clearly articulate the world you will help us create for people living with dementia and our own team.
- High level of technical expertise and understanding of the latest evidence and best practice. Plus you’ll have extensive networks and contacts you can call on to enhance your work and enable us to partner with others.
- Demonstrable experience in cultivating networks externally and internally that add value and instigate long lasting impact.
- Demonstrable experience of managing teams that provide EDI leadership and support to organisations.
- Demonstrable experience of Leadership and influencing but also practical hands on skills, able to develop and implement a practical EDI plan and support teams integrating it.
- Ability to manage senior roles and performance.
- Demonstrates sound decision-making taking personal accountability for risks and decisions which carry organisation-wide impact.

Person Specification

- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written [essential]
- Excellent organisational and timekeeping skills [essential]
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Be a team player, supporting colleagues when there are deadlines, and who knows when to ask for help themselves.
- Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated.
- Demonstrate your creative nature.

You may have experience of the following: Governance and Compliance Manager, Compliance Manager, Governance Manager, Policy Manager, Governance Consultant, Compliance Management, Audit Manager, Regulatory Compliance, etc.

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