We are looking for a dynamic fundraising professional who can help lead us into our next stage of growth as a charity. We are looking for someone who is ambitious, visionary, creative, and compassionate, who recognises the challenges facing refugees as they rebuild their lives in the UK, as well as the great potential they possess, and the opportunities needed to realise this potential.

Imagine this…

You're packed in the back of a grubby van driving through an unknown land. You hear your smugglers exchanging a coarse joke. You look out of the tiny opening in the window beside you and watch the sun setting on another uncomfortable day. The smugglers promised you safety from violence. Right now, though, safety feels like a distant memory...

Refugees have been forcibly displaced from their home. Their lives have been invaded by violence, war or persecution.

Upbeat Communities is a Christian charity that exists to help refugees settle and rebuild their lives in the UK. We have been helping strangers become neighbours since 2005.

In line with the Christian ethos and values of Upbeat Communities, and due to the strategic importance and seniority of this role, there is a genuine occupational requirement that the post holder is a practicing Christian.

About us.

Upbeat Communities was founded in response to the needs of refugees arriving in the UK and the stories they shared of their lives and their journeys. Through building relationships with those from refugee communities we were able to identify their needs and the best ways to respond.

One of the best resources a refugee can have to help them settle in their new home is a good social network. Relationships and connectedness can help overcome the many challenges faced by those seeking refuge. With this aim, we want to help connect refugees into community.

Our name reflects our vision to see thriving, positive communities where refugees can contribute and make the most of opportunities.

We greet new arrivals with our Welcome Boxes befriending project. We offer free English classes and community activities to help refugees (adults and children) integrate. We empower refugees to rebuild their lives through Host Derby (temporary accommodation), mentoring (careers guidance) and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme, which local authorities contract us to deliver. We also empower the local community through awareness raising. Our organisational values, lived out by our staff and volunteers, are:

We work to WELCOME
We create COMMUNITY
We are inspired to act with INTEGRITY

We exist to EMPOWER
We are committed to CREATIVITY
We run on RELATIONSHIPS
We are proud to be PROFESSIONAL

We have COMPASSION at our core

Upbeat Communities’ Christian ethos is the motivation for all our work. It is the reason why we do what we do. It is to work together to demonstrate God’s love to refugees who have been displaced by war, conflict or persecution. We are inspired by the message, life and example of Jesus through which God’s unconditional love for all people is expressed. It compels us to love our neighbours as ourselves. It is through relationships, with each other and those whom we seek to work with, that we practice and demonstrate our ethos. We seek to live out Jesus’ command to “welcome the stranger” by building mutually enriching relationships with those who are seeking sanctuary in our country.

Context of the role.

We currently have a diverse range of income streams including grants, local authority contracts, one-off donations, regular giving and earned income. Our 3-year strategic plan has identified a number of areas of development which will require increased funding for the charity. Our income for each of the last 2 financial years has been ~£500K but we are looking to increase this across all current income streams, in particular our grant funding, as well as developing new areas of growth including corporate and major donor giving.

In order to achieve this, we have created a new role of Head of Fundraising and are looking to fill this position as soon as possible. The Head of Fundraising will develop and lead on our long term fundraising strategy in line with our organisation-wide strategic objectives.

The successful candidate will have a positive attitude and love resourcing our team with the finances to deliver the best possible services to those we work with. The candidate will be committed to, actively demonstrate, and take a lead in the delivery of our Christian values, ethos and practice in order to achieve our mission and vision.

About You.

Are you passionate about communicating a message of hope and transformation that will engage current donors as well as recruit new supporters in financing our work of welcoming refugees and helping strangers become neighbours?

Are you a leader who can inspire the Upbeat team with a vision for fundraising and generating new income for the charity?

Are you committed to living out your Christian faith in the workplace through prayer, worship, leadership and action?

Are you a catalyst in cultivating long term relationships with individuals, churches, businesses and grant funders?

Are you meticulous in your approach to project/campaign planning and delivery and can work well at both the strategic and operational level?

Do you thrive in an environment that can change quickly and needs creative and agile responses, often needing flexibility to manage the competing demands on your time?

Are you comfortable working digitally, embracing new developments in tech, whilst also confident in more traditional approaches to fundraising including bid writing and engaging relationally with major donors and grant funders?

Are you committed to standing alongside refugees, providing welcome and support as they rebuild their lives as well as listening and learning from those who remain resilient in the face of great difficulty?

Are you an experienced Fundraising Manager looking for a new challenge, an ambitious fundraising professional looking to develop your skills and experience, or maybe someone who hasn’t worked in the charity sector previously but has some amazing transferrable skills gained in the public or private sector?

If that describes you, then you sound like the perfect fit!

Please read the full job description/ person specification attached before applying.

There is no set deadline for this post. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews will be scheduled accordingly. Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

It is likely initial interviews will be carried out online, with second stage interviews taking place in person.

All applicants need to submit a CV and covering letter explaining why they would be a fantastic fit for the role.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR X4, OPPORTUNITY NOTTINGHAM, 37HPW, FRWK08 £21,150 - £22,831 FTE, FIXED-TERM TILL JUNE 2022 (WHEN THE PROJECT IS DUE TO END)

Opportunity Nottingham is part of the National Fulfilling Lives Programme and Big Lottery Funded until 2022. We exist to improve the lives of people with multiple and complex needs in Nottingham City, and deliver our work through a partnership of local agencies, of which Framework is the lead.

Beneficiaries of Opportunity Nottingham need to be experiencing at least three out of the following four complex needs; homelessness, substance misuse, offending, or mental ill health and may have had poor experiences of engaging with mainstream services. We are recruiting for: Personal Development Coordinators x 4 Full time 37 hours per week.

The main purpose of the job will be to coordinate delivery of services to individual beneficiaries and directly support a beneficiary caseload. The successful candidate will also work with beneficiaries to create Personal Development Plans and liaise with referring & partner provider agencies.

This group of beneficiaries present challenges, therefore the team and its members need to be resilient, creative, flexible, patient, and persistent and, where required, assertive in their approach.

We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate:

• Experience of working with vulnerable people, particularly those with multiple needs

• Understanding of partnership working with external agencies

• Understanding of the range of services available to vulnerable people

• Understanding of the issues faced by people who are affected by: homelessness, substance misuse, mental ill health, and offending

• Ability to accurately plan and record work with beneficiaries

• Commitment with tolerance and flexibility.

• Excellent communication, liaison and negotiation skills

  Opportunity Nottingham has a diverse team and we positively encourage applications from all communities. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

For more information please contact Scott Pickard

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

CVs will not be accepted

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

The post holder will be the key component in our management of finances and the various paperwork involved in managing properties, such as safety certificates and other documents needed to evidence our robust systems to ensure our properties and therefore residents are provided with safe and secure homes. 

About Us

We are a very small but dynamic team, working hard to give the best service to our residents. We are also very much a learning organisation and do allocate specific areas of work to team members based on a strengths-based approach. We work very well together and welcome having new team members with us.  

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.

Are you a confident communicator who enjoys working with a wide range people?

Do you see the potential in ideas as well as the challenges?

Are you passionate about your community? 

The National Lottery Community is looking for a Funding Officer to join our Midlands regional team and work in across an area covering the City of Nottingham to ensure that our funding responds to what matters to our local communities. You will build long-term relationships with people and organisations, talk about their ideas and ambitions and assess funding requests providing useful feedback and support.

About the Role

Funding Officers are responsible for our grant-making activity, including pre-application support, assessment, grant management and shared learning. You will ensure that our funding responds to the local context as well as challenging yourself and colleagues to continually improve the way we work across the Midlands region.

You will build long term relationships with people and organisations in the area you cover. This will include reaching out to new groups, supporting people who are applying, and continuing the relationship after a grant has been awarded.

You will be responsible for understanding how an organisation’s ideas align with our funding priorities and making good judgements about when to take an application further or when to signpost to other opportunities.

You will combine local knowledge, understanding of best practice and the experience of grant holders to make informed recommendations about who and what we fund.

You will represent the Fund within your local area including at funding fairs and external meetings and create opportunities for people to come together. You will share learning from your conversations, events, grant holder reports and evaluations with other colleagues so that we can maximise our impact (COVID-19 dependant).

You’ll be part of a team of Funding Officers, led by a Funding Manager.

Contract: Permanent

Hours per week: 37 hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview date: 7 September

Essential Criteria

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and confidence to operate in a wide range of environments
• Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships at a number of different levels
• Ability to manage your own time and workload with minimal supervision
• Confidence to use your judgement, take initiative and challenge when appropriate

Desirable Criteria

• Assessment and reporting writing
• Demonstrate sound IT skills and the ability to learn detailed processes

For You

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

How to Apply

Visit our website on The National Lottery Community Fund for further details about the vacancy and our application process.

Equal Opportunities

Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.

To coordinate the successful delivery of a range of children and young people programmes in educational and community settings and to ensure all project outcomes are met, monitored and evaluated in line with contractual obligations and local need. Using the results to shape local policy and practice and reflect the needs of young people as well as to develop funded sustainability plans with new and existing funders.

The post holder will be responsible for generating new school business through selling our existing offer and identifying new project opportunities across all levels of school education. They will be expected to inspire and educate children through the co-ordination and provision of high quality coaching across the County.

Support and Develop a branded holiday coaching programme to maximise income to be generate for the Charity ie: holiday coaching, weekly coaching sessions, Development Centres and pre trials 1:1 coaching.

Create an effective communication method with children, young people, parents, schools, community group and Notts County Football Club to ensure engagement in projects and programmes that the Charity and The Portland Centre run.
The CYPC will work strategically with other departmental staff to support existing activities across our S.H.I.N.E outcomes.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Plan, co-ordinate and manage the delivery of CYP programmes.
• Develop and embed FITC’s equality, diversity and inclusion practices into the programme areas, learning from and influencing partners and play a key role in Safeguarding and EDI compliance.
• Develop an engaging and creative offer for early years children ranging from 18 months to 4 years that gives the little ones an introduction into sport, incorporating LTAD and FUNdamentals of movement principles.
• Administer holiday coaching, including the management of the online booking system and act as point of contact for coaching bookings, queries and payment.
• Being responsible for implementing the Player Pathway coaching programme and developing players technically, tactically, physically and overseeing the coaching team that work within the Player Pathway and being actively involved in the coaching.
• Work alongside partner organisations to identify opportunities for the development of pilot projects and/or funding bids.
• Develop a quality assurance plan and framework to monitor and evaluate our delivery to ensure our activities are delivered to the highest standards. Making sure all Views data inputting is kept up to date as required to help with the monitoring.
• Produce reports, presentations and information as required by the organisation and external partners to report against performance targets
• Develop and maintain effective and positive working relationships with all stakeholders
• When leading, ensure high-quality delivery that inspires and engages all participants, meeting project aims and objectives
• Attend all relevant meetings, training events etc. as part of personal and business growth
• Work with the Sport and Inclusion Manager and Senior Management to ensure that all strategic objectives are met
• Liaise with other relevant departments within FITC, NCFC and across the county to ensure the effective internal and external promotion and communication of programmes and activities. Supporting the delivery of projects and activities of other departments within both organisations
• Use evidence from programmes to make recommendations and shape future delivery through shared learning to better meet the needs of young people.
• Use appropriate data, insight and research to understand the motivations, behaviours and priorities of target audiences

You will be a people person, who is passionate about social justice and ensuring our residents receive the best quality support whilst they live in our housing. You will have demonstratable skills in advocacy ensuring our residents are able to access all the services they need and are entitled to. This sometimes will mean pushing people to help, sometimes when they don’t want to, but should. Fighting for the rights of our residents is a key part of who we are and you will be supported through your journey with us.

ABOUT US
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. We want to see a UK rich in native woods and trees, for people and wildlife. The Trust aims to engage and inspire people about woods and trees to help us meet our vision of creating, restoring and protecting woodland.

THE ROLE
As the Personal Assistant to our Directors of Fundraising and Brand & Communications of you’ll be integral in driving activity and ensuring successful delivery of priorities, projects and workflow through the department. You’ll work closely with the Directors’ Senior Leadership team, wider department and with other PA’s across the Trust to ensure smooth delivery and to ensure best practice is shared.

You’ll also ensure monthly reports, meeting minutes, KPIs and other reports are collated and submitted to tight deadlines, and monitor and report on budgets across each team within the Fundraising and Brand & Comms department.

THE CANDIDATE
With clear administrative experience at Director support level, including effective management of a busy diary, you’ll have excellent IT skills across all Microsoft Office applications and exceptional organisational and planning skills.

You’ll also have strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work well with colleagues and achieve the necessary outcomes within timescales.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
There’s no other organisation like the Woodland Trust. Whatever you do here you will be supporting our work to protect and enhance woods and trees. In return, we recognise and value our people. You'll have our full support, training and opportunities for professional development, along with a contributory pension, life assurance and good holiday entitlement.

There will be the opportunity to workk from home within this role.

RECEPTIONIST, LONDON ROAD, NOTTINGHAM, PERMANENT, FRWK03 £16,915 - £18,430 FTE, 37HPW

The London Road Service is the first step towards independent living for single homeless people in Nottingham City. We provide short-term accommodation and support to assist people in making positive changes to their lives. The service is made up of 45 units of accommodation.

We are looking for reliable and self-motivated candidates who have experience of working within an accommodation based service.

The main functions of this role will be;

• Supporting and signposting service users in providing support which may require liaising with staff

• Requirement to monitor the entry door whilst performing other Health and Safety tasks such as ensuring visitors are signed in, and given radios.

• Ensuring The Lone Working Procedure is followed by monitoring individual’s whereabouts and recording.

• Communicates and co-ordinates appointments with various stakeholders and colleagues, and service users

• Ordering stationary in a timely manner, and operating the room booking system.

• Responsibility of administration tasks such as photocopying and printing.

• Co-ordinating and facilitating visitors to the service to achieve the purpose of their visit.

  For more information please contact Katie Walker

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

CVs will not be accepted

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

NIGHT SUPPORT WORKER X2, THE CRESCENT RECOVERY SERVICE, NOTTINGHAM, PERMANENT, 30 HPW, FRWK03 £16,915 - £18,430 FTE (PRO-RATED RATE OF PAY: £13,715 - £14,943) PLUS 7.5% ENHANCEMENT FOR HOURS WORKED BETWEEN 10 PM TO 7AM

The Crescent Recovery Service offers high quality, supported accommodation to homeless and vulnerably housed people with mental health problems in Nottingham City.

We are looking for candidates who can communicate with people in a friendly and welcoming manner. You will need to be reliable and enthusiastic with some experience of dealing with the public in a busy service environment - experience of working in a hostel or similar environment is not necessary. You must be willing and able to work nights, on a flexible, shift rota basis.

The main functions of this role will be:

• To ensure that clients and the building is safe and secure

• To build the skills and confidence of service users to empower them in maximising their independence

• To contribute to the achievement of contractual service obligations

• To work in partnership with other agencies to maximise service delivery

• Our aim is to work with individuals to support to get them in to accommodation.

For more information please contact Carl Colton

What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

97% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application

CVs will not be accepted

NO AGENCIES PLEASE