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Hours: Full time (part time 30 hours considered)
Fixed Term 24 Month Contract
Location: Remote with occasional UK travel. The postholder must be based in the UK.
Salary: £28,000 - 30,000 per annum or equivalent pro rata for part time (depending on experience)
About MOVE Against Cancer
At MOVE Against Cancer our mission is to support and empower everyone impacted by cancer to be more active because movement matters. Exercise - in fact, all movement - is one of the most important things anyone diagnosed with cancer can do to enhance wellbeing and improve health outcomes both during and after treatment. We support people to get moving in a way that is right for them through our 5k Your Way support groups, the Movement Hub, Community Engagement projects and the MOVE programme.
MOVE Against Cancer is seeking a Digital and Resources Lead to develop and manage the organisation's digital presence, including our website, social media channels and online resources, such as our Movement Hub, to support people affected by cancer to move more. The postholder will lead the creation and sharing of engaging, accessible digital content, including articles, guides, videos, social media content and practical resources. They will ensure our website and digital platforms provide meaningful support for beneficiaries, while expanding the reach and impact of MOVE Against Cancer's work. The role will also lead the development of new resources and digital projects that encourage and enable more people affected by cancer to become and stay active.
Key Responsibilities
Social Media & Digital Engagement
Lead the development and day-to-day management of MOVE Against Cancer’s social media channels. Create engaging content that encourages and supports people affected by cancer to move more and stay active. Develop and share regular content to show what MOVE are working on including: movement tips educational content participant stories programme highlights expert insights Build and nurture an online community around movement and cancer. Increasing our engagement. Monitor engagement and use insights to improve reach and impact.
Digital Resources and Educational Content
Lead our resource advisory group and resource development projects. Develop, share and maintain online resources that support people living with and beyond cancer. Produce accessible digital content such as: articles Guides toolkits FAQs movement advice pages newsletters programme information Ensure resources are clear, supportive and evidence informed. Work with clinicians, partners and beneficiaries to develop relevant guidance.
Website Development
Working in partnership with our digital agency, lead the development, testing and improvement of website content. Ensure resources are easy to find, well organised and regularly updated. Create new pages and digital content that support both beneficiaries and partners.
Multimedia Content Creation and Sharing
Produce and manage multimedia digital content, including: short videos photography participant interviews educational content Capture stories that highlight the benefits of movement during and after cancer treatment.
Content Planning and Coordination
Manage a digital content calendar across social media and the website. Coordinate contributions from staff, partners and participants. Ensure consistency in tone, accessibility and messaging.
Data, Learning and Impact
Help us gather data and understand data. Use analytics to understand how people engage with digital content. Support the development of feedback and impact surveys for beneficiaries. Contribute to improvements in digital systems or databases where relevant. Lead the adoption of AI‑driven tools, ensuring our team, Trustees and volunteers understand how to use emerging technologies responsibly and effectively. Use data for planning purposes, to extend our reach to more people impacted by cancer.
Person Specification
Essential skills and experience
Experience creating and managing digital content across platforms, particularly social media and websites. Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce clear, engaging and accessible content such as articles, guides, and online resources. Experience planning and delivering social media content and engagement. Experience managing or updating website content (e.g. CMS platforms such as WordPress or similar). Experience producing video or multimedia content (videography, photography, editing). Ability to translate complex or specialist information into clear, supportive content for different audiences. Strong organisational skills and ability to plan and manage a digital content calendar. Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, partners and beneficiaries to gather stories and develop content.
Desirable Skills and Experience
Experience creating educational or health-related content. Understanding of digital accessibility and inclusive communication, and knowledge of mailchimp. Experience using analytics tools to evaluate digital engagement and improve content. Experience working in the charity, health or cancer support sector. Experience supporting impact measurement, feedback surveys or CRM/database systems. Experience of working with and managing digital and web development agencies.
How to Apply: Produce a document no longer than 2 sides of A4, outlining why your skills, experience and personal motivation make you the right person for this role. Please also attach your CV. We discourage the use of AI to write your application. Closing date to apply for this role is Midnight on Monday 21st September 2026. If you would prefer to submit your application in an alternative format, please feel free to choose your own approach to convey the information requested. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are especially keen to hear from individuals from ethnically diverse communities, disabled people, and those with lived experience of cancer, who are currently underrepresented in our sector.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About us
The Alliance for Youth Justice is an alliance of more than 70 non-profit organisations advocating with and for children to drive positive change in youth justice across England and Wales. We mobilise our members’ frontline expertise, children’s lived experience, and evidence from research to champion a child-centred, rights-based and trauma-informed system that treats contact with the justice system as a sign of unmet need and systemic failure, prioritises support over criminalisation and gives every child the opportunity to thrive.
We're widely recognised as the most influential group campaigning for improvements to the system, with trusted access to decision makers, working towards three goals: keeping children safe from the youth justice system through prevention and diversion; racial justice across the system; and custody as a last resort for children.
About the role
Following the launch of our new strategic approach, our Influencing Manager will lead the development and delivery of AYJ's influencing, policy, public affairs and campaigning work to shift policy, legislation, practice and public narratives.
Campaigning, policy and public affairs (70%) — lead our influencing strategy alongside the CEO, spot opportunities for systemic change, develop evidence-driven policy positions and briefings, and build relationships with members, politicians, civil servants and stakeholders.
Strategic communications (30%) — ensure the reach of our influencing, write high-impact influencing content for our digital channels, and act as first point of contact for media enquiries.
Anti-opressive, anti-racist practice and youth voice run through everything, including involving children and young people with lived experience safely and meaningfully in our work.
About you
You have a proven track record of influencing for systemic change through policy, public affairs, communications or campaigning within a voluntary sector organisation or coalition, and know how to turn complex policy and research into compelling written communications for varied audiences. You have a thorough understanding of the political environment and Parliament, strong relationship-building skills, and excellent project management. You bring a genuine interest in youth justice and the issues facing children in England and Wales, alongside a personal commitment to anti-racism, social justice and child rights.
Why join us
We're a small team of three punching well above our weight, with real scope to shape how we work and few layers of hierarchy. We offer flexible, trust-based home working (within core hours), plus 25 days' leave (pro rata), Christmas office closure, and a 5% employer pension contribution.
We encourage applications from historically marginalised groups even if you don't meet every requirement, and we do not use criminal records to exclude candidates.
Please download the reruitment pack to find out more and read the full job description and person specification.
Please provide a CV and covering letter setting out how your skills and experience match the person specification.
About This Job
The role requires a strong communicator who can translate complex information into accessible content and build trusted relationships across key stakeholder groups, particularly within the ACF. As well as a requirement to attend events across the UK to promote the charity.
Essential Skills
· GCSE English or equivalent experience
· At least two year’s experience of drafting award citations or funding applications
· Experience of working with partners, internally and externally
· Ability to extract information from people with varying powers of written expression
· Information gathering and analysis skills
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for further information.
Our charity
ACCT UK is a national youth charity dedicated to improving the life chances of young people. The Combined Cadet Force Association (CCFA) is a charity dedicated to the promotion of the ideals and activities of the Combined Cadet Force in schools. Together we want to ensure that every young person has the opportunity to learn new skills, build confidence and be inspired through their cadet experience.
We want to develop the youth leadership and training abilities of adult volunteers whilst also helping young people to access cadet activities through fundraising, grant-making, developing new resources and direct support.
We strongly believe that everyone benefits when you help young people to develop their character and values through activities that stretch and mature them. We also know that when young people engage with others at a range of levels in their communities it builds confidence and improves empathy for other’s lives.
Who we are
By joining the charities, you will help us to reach more young people and make a greater difference and we look forward to working with you. We actively promote and encourage you to explore ideas that improve all aspects of the charity’s work in pursuit of its charitable aims.
The charities are proud of our diverse teams, with people on different working patterns, from different backgrounds and at different life-stages. Our experience has taught us that having people with different perspectives and different lived experiences leads to better outcomes for our beneficiaries. If you are wondering if our organisation is for someone like you, the answer is yes! Please apply and explain how you, your experience, your talent and your potential are the right fit for this role.
What we can offer you
In addition to your salary, we offer all staff:
· Flexible working arrangements (you agree a working pattern with your line manager).
· The ability to work both from home and from our London office.
· Personal Accident Insurance, including loss of earnings cover and death benefit.
· 15 days of sick pay in any 12-month period (after 12 months employment - pro-rata for part time staff).
· A contributory pension scheme (you contribute at least 5% and we will contribute 10%).
· Good leave allowances (which are offered pro-rata for part time staff):
o 20 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
o Additional privilege leave, on set days each year, such as between Christmas and New Year.
o An additional five days of volunteering leave.
· Support for qualifications and personal development.
· Employee Assistance Programme.
· Season ticket loan.
· Railcard (if you are eligible).
· A caring and supportive team environment.
How to apply
Please send a CV and Cover letter that details how you meet the requirements of the job description by 2359hrs by Sunday 4th October 2026.
Interviews will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams shortly after the closing date.
While AI tools can be beneficial, we value the personal touch and authenticity in job applications. We encourage you to highlight your unique experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, ensuring all information is accurate. Please use AI tools responsibly and with integrity throughout the application and selection process.
Please note that as a charity dedicated to improving the lives of young people, we require staff to make a declaration about any relevant convictions, undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check. In addition, we will follow up with references.
Please be advised that this position may close earlier than the stated deadline if a sufficient number of high-quality applications are received. To ensure your application is considered, we strongly recommend submitting it as soon as possible. Candidates will be notified of the next stage in the recruitment process if they are shortlisted.
Army Cadet Charitable Trust (ACCT) UK aims to give all young people the opportunity to develop and achieve through Army Cadets activities.



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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Work where it matters most, achieve what matters more
Be part of a team where passion meets purpose, as we work together where the challenge is greatest to change the lives and build the futures of children and young people.
We are excited to share an opportunity to join our central Transformation team as our Head of Marketing. In this role you will lead strategic marketing and brand development across the Trust, raising the profile and appeal of our schools to drive pupil numbers and attract brilliant candidates to work at Ormiston. You will lead the marketing team to support schools to develop and deliver marketing campaigns, manage their websites, and engage different audiences on social media.
You will also act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders across the Trust, and lead marketing for special projects such as new schools joining the trust and key trust-wide initiatives.
This is a home based, national role with regular travel to the Birmingham office, OAT academies and other locations as required.
About Ormiston Academies Trust
Our vision is to create a school system where every child thrives, regardless of background. Our people are at the heart of our approach – they are our greatest asset.
We exist to provide the best learning opportunities every day, in every school for every child. It is the people and teams in our Trust who make this a reality and ensure we have the greatest impact. If you join us at Ormiston, whatever your role, you can be sure of a role with purpose and meaning.
Ormiston, where every member of staff enjoys…
- The opportunity to build on the legacy of those who came before – being part of one of the longest standing Trusts, created with the sole purpose of enabling children and young people to thrive
- Working for a Trust nationally recognised for its impact on disadvantaged children – a rewarding, stimulating career where staff are challenged to be the best they can be, for the pupils we are proud to serve
- Being part of a team and community where you belong – receiving bespoke and holistic support from a well-resourced and ambitious network of experts and professionals that work at the heart of communities
- A supportive environment to grow your career – an extensive professional development programme, alongside flexible working arrangements and generous benefits
About you
You'll bring strong experience leading and managing a marketing team, with a proven track record of developing and delivering multi-channel marketing strategies and campaigns across digital, print and out-of-home. You'll be confident acting as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, including the CEO, Executive Office and Principals, translating organisational goals into effective marketing plans.
The ability to manage priorities in a busy, complex environment, working across multiple stakeholders, is critical to this role.
If you are passionate about making a difference and are ready to work in a challenging yet rewarding environment, we would love to hear from you.
Benefits that care for you
We value your hard work and dedication, and we're committed to ensuring you feel supported, both professionally and personally so that you are in the best position to make the most impact for the children and young people in our schools.
When you join us at Ormiston, you can be certain that your work will have purpose and meaning. You can also expect robust and holistic support from us to enable you to excel in your role.
You will have access to an attractive benefits package including:
- 30 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service)
- Generous pension and life cover
- Access to health and well-being programmes, including counselling service.
- Discounts on retail, travel, and leisure through our benefits platform.
- Free and confidential legal, tax and health 24/7 helpline.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Automatic pay progression.
- Flexible working arrangements.
And much more as part of a leading multi-academy trust.
If you have any questions about the role please contact our recruitment team.
The closing date for applications is 25 September with interviews due to take place the week commencing 5 October 2026.
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a suitable candidate be found.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Join us in using good food to create fuller plates, stronger communities and transformed lives across the Midlands
Job Title: Digital Marketing Officer
Reporting to:Senior Marketing & Communications Manager
Location:Flexible within the Midlands, with regular travel around the region required. Birmingham, Leicester or Nottingham base with hybrid/home working available.
Hours:37.5 hours per week
Benefits:25 days holiday, pro-rata, 5.5% Employer Pension Contribution including Life Cover, Occupational Sick Pay Benefits & Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Leave and Pay, plus more
Contract:Permanent
Salary: £27,845 per annum
About FareShare Midlands
FareShare Midlands rescues good-quality surplus food and gets it to people experiencing hardship through hundreds of community organisations across the region. Last year, we redistributed more than 5,000 tonnes of food – the equivalent of 11 million meals – reaching around 60,000 people every week.
But our impact goes beyond food. We strengthen communities, create opportunities through our SkillsShare employability programmes, and help protect our planet by reducing food waste. Over the next three years, we aim to double the food we rescue and extend our impact across the Midlands.
Good food can do extraordinary things.
The Role
We are looking for a creative, enthusiastic and hands-on Digital Marketing Officer to join our Marketing & Communications team during an exciting period of growth and development for FareShare Midlands.
Working closely with the Senior Marketing & Communications Manager and colleagues across our MarComms, Fundraising and Corporate Partnerships teams, you will help us reach new audiences, tell compelling stories about our impact and inspire people and organisations to support our work.
This is a varied role with plenty of opportunity to develop your digital marketing skills. You will work across our website, social media, Google Ads, email marketing and digital campaigns, as well as helping us capture and share powerful video-led stories from across FareShare Midlands.
A particular focus will be supporting activity that helps generate the partnerships and resources needed to sustain and grow our impact. This includes individual fundraising, corporate partnerships, events and other campaigns designed to engage supporters and inspire action.
We don't expect you to be an expert in everything from day one. We're looking for someone with good digital marketing foundations, strong content and communication skills and the enthusiasm to develop further. You might already be particularly strong in social media, video, websites or digital campaigns and be looking for an opportunity to broaden your experience across the digital marketing mix.
You'll receive support from an experienced MarComms team, while having the opportunity to take ownership of your own activity and develop specialist skills in areas such as WordPress, Google Ads, digital fundraising and performance marketing.
This could be a great next step for someone who has gained practical digital marketing experience and is ready for a role where their work can make a visible difference.
Key Responsibilities
Digital Campaigns, Fundraising & Partnerships
- Work with MarComms, Fundraising and Corporate Partnerships colleagues to plan and deliver engaging digital marketing activity.
- Support fundraising campaigns and appeals, helping to attract new supporters and engage existing donors.
- Develop digital content and campaigns to support corporate partnerships, lead generation and engagement with businesses.
- Support the promotion of fundraising, corporate and other relevant events.
- Help tailor messaging, content and calls to action for different audiences, including donors, businesses, partners and supporters.
- Support integrated campaigns across website, social media, email, digital advertising and other communications channels.
- Work with external agencies and partners on campaigns where appropriate.
- Use campaign results and audience insight to understand what works and help improve future activity.
Website & WordPress
- Support the day-to-day management and development of the FareShare Midlands website.
- Create, edit and update website content, campaign pages and landing pages.
- Help ensure website content is engaging, accessible, up to date and easy for different audiences to navigate.
- Work with our external web/digital partners on technical developments and improvements where required.
- Apply good practice in areas such as SEO, accessibility, user experience and conversion.
- Use website analytics and audience behaviour to help identify opportunities for improvement.
Google Ads & Paid Digital
- Support the day-to-day management of FareShare Midlands' Google Ads activity.
- Help create, monitor and optimise campaigns supporting fundraising, corporate engagement and wider organisational priorities.
- Monitor performance and use data to help improve targeting, messaging and results.
- Support paid social advertising activity alongside organic social campaigns.
- Work with colleagues and external partners where appropriate on digital acquisition and lead-generation campaigns.
- Develop your knowledge and expertise in paid search and digital advertising, keeping up to date with new opportunities and good practice.
Social Media
- Play a key role in planning, creating and managing FareShare Midlands' social media activity.
- Create engaging content tailored to different platforms and audiences.
- Help plan and schedule social media content around organisational priorities, campaigns and events.
- Identify opportunities for timely, engaging and reactive content.
- Support community engagement and help ensure appropriate and timely responses across our channels.
- Contribute to both organic and paid social media campaigns.
- Monitor performance and use insight to understand which content is working and how we can improve.
- Keep abreast of platform developments, trends and emerging formats.
Video, Content & Impact Storytelling
- Help identify and develop compelling stories that demonstrate the impact of FareShare Midlands' work.
- Plan, coordinate, film and edit video content for social media, fundraising campaigns, corporate communications, the website and other digital channels.
- Help organise filming opportunities, working with colleagues, community organisations, volunteers, supporters and other participants.
- Create engaging short-form video content, as well as longer-form content where appropriate.
- Work sensitively and confidently with people sharing their experiences and help ensure appropriate permissions and consent are in place.
- Develop written impact stories, case studies, blogs and other digital content alongside video.
- Ensure content is engaging, accessible, accurate and consistent with the FareShare Midlands brand.
- Work alongside colleagues with specialist design skills to develop high-quality creative content and campaign materials.
Email Marketing & Supporter Journeys
- Support email marketing activity for fundraising, corporate engagement and wider organisational campaigns.
- Create and send engaging, targeted email communications.
- Help grow and engage our email audiences.
- Support the development of email sequences and automated journeys for acquisition, welcome, engagement, stewardship and retention.
- Contribute to FareShare Midlands newsletters and other audience communications.
- Monitor performance including open rates, click-throughs and conversions, using the results to help improve future activity.
- Work with relevant colleagues to ensure supporter and marketing data is accurate, appropriately managed and used effectively.
Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Help monitor and evaluate digital marketing activity using tools including Google Analytics, Google Ads, social media insights, email marketing data, UTM tracking and campaign dashboards.
- Contribute to setting appropriate measures and KPIs for campaigns.
- Produce straightforward reports and insights that help the team understand performance.
- Use data, audience insight and testing to identify opportunities to improve engagement and conversion.
- Stay curious about developments in digital marketing, search, social media, AI and emerging technology and share relevant ideas and opportunities with the team.
Brand, Compliance & Collaboration
- Act as a brand champion, helping to ensure consistency, accessibility and quality across digital communications.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across Marketing & Communications, Fundraising, Corporate Partnerships and the wider organisation.
- Build positive relationships with colleagues and help delivery teams communicate their work effectively.
- Ensure digital marketing and fundraising activity complies with GDPR, consent requirements and relevant good practice.
- Support wider marketing and communications campaigns and activity as required.
What We're Looking For
We know that great candidates don't always tick every box. You don't need to be an expert in every aspect of digital marketing – we're interested in what you can already bring to the role, as well as your enthusiasm and ability to learn and develop.
Essential
- Practical experience in a digital marketing, marketing or communications role.
- Strong experience creating content for social media and digital channels.
- Good copywriting and storytelling skills, with excellent written communication and attention to detail.
- Experience creating and editing video content for digital channels, with the confidence to help plan and organise filming opportunities.
- Experience using WordPress or a similar content management system to create and update website content, with an interest in developing your website skills further.
- Some practical experience of Google Ads or other paid digital advertising, with an interest in developing deeper expertise in campaign management and optimisation.
- Experience supporting or delivering digital campaigns across a range of channels.
- Experience using email marketing platforms.
- Confidence using basic analytics and campaign performance information to understand what is working and where improvements can be made.
- An understanding of how digital marketing can help organisations attract, engage and inspire different audiences to take action.
- Good organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- A collaborative, proactive and flexible approach.
- Commitment to FareShare Midlands' mission and values.
Desirable
It would be great if you also have experience or knowledge in some of the following areas, but we don't expect candidates to have all of them:
- Fundraising, donor marketing or supporter engagement.
- Corporate partnerships, B2B marketing or lead generation.
- Marketing events or campaigns designed to generate participation or income.
- Managing and optimising Google Ads campaigns.
- Google Ad Grants.
- Paid social media advertising.
- WordPress website management beyond basic content updates.
- SEO and optimising website content for search.
- User journeys, landing pages and conversion optimisation.
- Email automation and audience segmentation.
- Mailchimp, Donorfy or similar email marketing/CRM platforms.
- Google Analytics and campaign tracking.
- A/B testing and digital campaign optimisation.
- Working in the charity, public or social impact sector.
- Basic ability to create or adapt everyday digital assets using Canva or similar tools.
What We Offer
- Competitive pay and benefits.
- Training and development opportunities.
- The chance to develop broad, practical experience across the digital marketing mix.
- The opportunity to build specialist skills in areas including WordPress, Google Ads, digital fundraising and performance marketing.
- A supportive and experienced MarComms team.
- The opportunity to work on impactful, purpose-driven campaigns and see the difference your work makes.
- A collaborative working environment during an exciting period of organisational growth.
How to Apply
To apply, please submit:
- Your CV.
- A supporting statement demonstrating your suitability for the role and explaining your interest in FareShare Midlands. Please note that applications without a supporting statement will not be considered.
We continue to strive to ensure that the profile of our staff and volunteers reflects the diverse communities we serve across the Midlands. We encourage and welcome applications from all our communities and particularly welcome applications from groups currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Closing date: Friday 18th September
First interviews: Tuesday 29th September
Second interviews: Friday 2nd October
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We redistribute good quality surplus food which would otherwise go to waste and also support people to find work through our employability programme.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Arthritis Action is the UK charity giving hands-on, practical help to improve the quality of life of people affected by arthritis. We offer an integrated self-management approach, which looks at both the physical and mental health impact of living with arthritis. We support people living with musculoskeletal conditions through healthy eating advice, mental health resources, pain management techniques, Online Groups, employment support, and exercise advice and resources.
We are looking for an experienced Volunteering Manager, based in the Midlands, to lead the development of an exciting new volunteering programme, helping us build a diverse, inclusive and engaged volunteer community that brings our strategy to life.
The Role
Home-Based in the Midlands with monthly travel to the London office (EC1V)
The Volunteering Manager will lead the development, delivery and continuous improvement of volunteering within Arthritis Action. This is a new role responsible for ensuring that more people affected by arthritis across the country receive high-quality, evidence-based support and have meaningful opportunities to connect, participate and influence our work.
The postholder will oversee our volunteering activity, in turn enabling volunteers to extend our reach, strengthen communities and increase our impact across the region. The postholder will work closely with the Head of Services and Engagement to develop the relevant polices and strategies whilst also thinking about recruitment, onboarding, training and retention.
Key Responsibilities
Volunteering Development
• Develop a strong understanding of the volunteer journey, using insight, feedback and data to identify opportunities to improve engagement, satisfaction, retention and outcomes.
• Develop approaches to ensure volunteers can increase engagement amongst diverse and underserved communities.
• Implement effective monitoring and evaluation processes to demonstrate impact.
• Work with colleagues to identify opportunities to link volunteering and donor journeys.
• Establish effective onboarding, recruitment, training and retention processes.
• Update existing volunteering policies and strategy documents to bring them in line with practice for 2026 and beyond.
• Work alongside the CEO to support and develop our new Clinical Advisory Panel.
Engagement Building
• Develop and implement an engagement approach that strengthens relationships with existing and potential volunteers.
• Create meaningful opportunities for people with lived experience to volunteer with Arthritis Action.
• Work collaboratively with Communications and Fundraising colleagues to maximise awareness and impact.
• Build relationships with community partners and relevant external organisations to build the volunteering network.
Volunteering Strategy and Development
• Develop Arthritis Action’s volunteer strategy with support from the Head of Services and Engagement, creating a sustainable model that supports organisational priorities.
• With support from the Head of Services and Engagement, establish appropriate volunteer policies, processes, safeguarding arrangements and systems.
• Work alongside staff to create volunteer led services.
Line Management
• Act as the first point of contact for volunteers.
• Responsibility for volunteers supporting the charity.
Data, Insight and Impact
• Use data, feedback and evaluation to understand the effectiveness and impact of our volunteering programme, identify opportunities for improvement, and enhance the experience and contribution of our volunteers.
• Report meaningful KPIs for volunteering and engagement, using the CRM.
Person Specification
Essential
Experience
- Experience of developing and establishing volunteering and volunteer led services within a charity, healthcare or related environment.
- Experience of developing and improving volunteering based on evidence, insight and user needs.
- Experience of engaging diverse communities, members, service users or people with lived experiences through volunteer led services and volunteering.
- Experience of developing partnerships and collaborative approaches.
Skills and Knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to write in Plain English.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Strong understanding of inclusion, accessibility and reducing health inequalities.
- Ability to use insight, data and evaluation to improve impact.
Attributes
- An understanding of, and commitment to, Arthritis Action’s vision, mission, equal opportunities and diversity.
- A self-starter able to work on own initiative where required.
- Values-driven, collaborative and inclusive professional.
- Empathetic and committed to ensuring people’s voices shape services.
- Able and willing to travel within the Midlands.
Desirable
- Experience of supporting people with long-term conditions.
- Experience using CRM systems and digital platforms to improve engagement.
How to apply
Applications should be in the form of a CV with a covering letter explaining your interest in and suitability for the role. Please provide both email and telephone contact information for yourself.Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Applications should be received by 11:59pm on Thursday 17th September 2026 at the latest.
First-round interviews will take place by Zoom on Tuesday 22nd September 2026. Second-round interviews will take place in the London office on Monday 28th September 2026.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert ahead of the deadline should we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Arthritis Action is an equal opportunities employer. We treat employees and job applicants in the same way regardless of age, disability, marital status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief
Please apply with a CV and Covering Letter. Applications without a Covering Letter will not be accepted.
Arthritis Action is a UK charity helping people with arthritis to live fuller lives with less pain.



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The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) is the leading membership body for voluntary sector organisations that support disabled people. Representing over 145 organisations across England and Wales, we bring together leaders, experts and partners to influence change, share learning and strengthen the sector.
We're looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Events and Engagement Manager to lead the delivery of our growing programme of conferences, professional networks, member events, learning opportunities and stakeholder engagement activities.
This is a varied and rewarding role at the heart of the organisation. You'll be responsible for creating exceptional experiences for members and delegates, coordinating high-profile events, supporting external engagement activity, managing key relationships and identifying new opportunities to increase member participation and value. You'll also use data, feedback and insight to continually improve our offer and help shape future engagement activity.
We're looking for someone with strong event and project management experience, excellent organisational and communication skills, and the ability to build productive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. You'll be equally comfortable managing the detail of event delivery and contributing to wider organisational objectives.
In return, you'll join a small, ambitious and supportive team committed to improving the lives of disabled people by supporting a strong and vibrant voluntary sector.
If you're passionate about bringing people together, creating engaging experiences and making a meaningful difference, we'd love to hear from you.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible. If you require any reasonable adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us.
Our vision is for an ambitious, trusted and vibrant voluntary sector that works together to enable disabled people to live the lives they choose.


The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Role Overview:
The Talent Set are delighted to partner with our client on a fantastic Philanthropy Manager (part-time) role. This position involves cultivating relationships with high-net-worth individuals and philanthropic donors to support impactful education programmes in developing regions, through personalised engagement and strategic fundraising.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify, approach, and manage relationships with prospective and existing donors to secure significant gifts.
- Develop and implement tailored donor engagement plans, including face-to-face meetings, events, and written communications.
- Organise and support high-quality fundraising events and engagement opportunities to cultivate relationships and generate income.
- Research potential new donors, funding streams, and opportunities, supporting proposal and report development.
- Manage donor records and interactions accurately within CRM systems, ensuring timely acknowledgements and stewardship follow-up.
- Provide administrative support to senior stakeholders for supporter meetings, communications, and scheduling.
- Collaborate across teams to optimise donor engagement strategies, leveraging learnings from past activities.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the organisation’s programmes, impact, and funding needs to inspire supporter confidence.
Person Specification:
- Proven experience in developing relationships and securing funding from high-net-worth individuals or philanthropic sources.
- Confident in designing and delivering personalised, high-quality engagement and stewardship activities.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, capable of inspiring and motivating supporters.
- Demonstrable organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise a busy workload.
- Strong IT proficiency, including experience with CRM systems such as Salesforce or similar platforms.
- Results-oriented, with the ability to work independently and under pressure while contributing to a collaborative team environment.
- Genuine commitment to the organisation’s mission and values, with an understanding of international development and education sectors.
What’s on Offer:
- Salary: £24,000 - £27,000 (£40,000 - £45,000 FTE)
- Location: Remote – UK based
- Contract: Part-time (3 days a week) - 9-month FTC
- Start: October 12th
How to Apply:
To apply, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role by clicking the 'apply now' button (please do not apply via email). We aim to get back to all successful candidates within 48 working hours.
Commitment to Diversity:
The Talent Set are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, or age. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.
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About the Role: GardenOfLove is a UK-based platform connecting individuals, verified charities, and businesses through giving, volunteering, and community. We're looking for a Partnerships & Business Development Manager to help us grow and manage those relationships as we expand across the charity, university, and corporate sectors.
This is a hands-on, relationship-driven role for someone comfortable moving between long-term trust-building and direct commercial conversations, often in the same week.
What You'll Be Doing
- Charity partnerships: identifying, approaching, and onboarding verified UK charities onto the platform, and maintaining strong ongoing relationships with them.
- University partnerships: leading outreach to universities for student wellbeing initiatives, campus Gardens, and pilot programmes.
- Corporate Gardens sales: managing the full sales process for our B2B CSR product, from first outreach through to signed, onboarded corporate clients.
- Sector networking: representing GardenOfLove at relevant events and conferences across the charity and corporate sectors.
- General business development: identifying new partnership opportunities, including with media, incubators, and adjacent organisations, and helping shape how we approach them.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in a partnerships, business development, or corporate fundraising role, ideally with some exposure to the charity or nonprofit sector.
- Comfort with both relationship-led conversations and direct commercial pitching.
- Strong written and verbal communication — you'll often be representing our voice directly to charities, universities, and companies.
- Genuine curiosity about, and comfort with, the mission behind the platform — this matters more to us than a perfect CV.
Before You Apply: We'd encourage you to explore our website and try the app yourself before applying. We'll ask about your experience with it directly at interview — genuine engagement will come through, and that matters to us more than a generic cover letter.
Compensation: Competitive salary, dependent on experience, plus standard benefits.
Why This Role Matters: This isn't just another platform with a mission statement attached. Kindness staying free, verification-first trust, and community-driven giving are structural choices we've built the business around, not marketing lines. If that's a philosophy you'd genuinely want to represent, not just describe, we'd love to hear from you.
Before applying, please explore our website and try the app yourself. We'll ask about your experience with it directly in the interview, so in place of a generic cover letter, include a short note on what stood out to you about the platform.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The role
At Cruse, our strategy, sets out our charity’s plans to grow our income and build on our expertise and unique position in the sector. We provide expert bereavement and grief information and support, and our charity has been supporting people for over 65 years. We support adults, children and young people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, through our national services, over 80 local branches and online information about grief and bereavement.
Working within the Fundraising Operations and Supporter Care Team and reporting to the Fundraising Operations and Supporter Care Manager, the Supporter Care and Data Officer will deliver excellent customer care to our supporters, responding to enquiries, and thanking supporters to help drive income and show them how valued they are to Cruse Bereavement Support. You’ll work with the fundraising CRM to ensure and maintain the quality of information available and support the Commercial Income Team (c25% of time) with administrative tasks.
How to apply
Your application must consist of a CV and covering letter, which outlines your suitability for the role with reference to the Job Description and Person Specification and should be no longer than two pages. Please note that if you application does not include both a CV and covering letter, your application may not be considered.
The closing date for applications is 25 September 2026 with interviews taking place week commencing 5 October 2026. We reserve the right to close the advert early, as interviews will be held as suitable candidates apply.
Please be advised that if you do not hear from us by 5 October 2026, unfortunately on this occasion you have not been shortlisted.
Cruse welcomes and encourages applications from all protected groups as defined by the Equality Act 2010. Appointment will be made on merit.
Criminal Record Checks
All staff are required to complete a Criminal Record check. Staff working directly with clients will be required to complete an enhanced check. We comply with the relevant codes of practice and they can be viewed online:
Applicants in England and Wales: DBS Code of Practice
Applicants in Northern Ireland: AccessNI Code of Practice
Previous convictions will not prevent full consideration of your application to work with Cruse. Our Recruitment of Ex-offenders’ Policy & Handling Criminal Record Check Data Policy are available on request by email.
We comply with all relevant data protection legislation and process your data fairly.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a respected professional membership organisation and educational charity at a time of significant development and growth. Working within a collaborative team, you'll lead the marketing strategy for a portfolio of professional qualifications, helping to attract future students, engage employers and strengthen the position of industry-leading qualifications.
As Qualifications Marketing Manager, you'll be responsible for developing and delivering strategic marketing plans that increase awareness, generate engagement and grow the student pipeline. You'll use audience insight, research and performance data to shape campaigns, improve customer journeys and deliver measurable results.
This role offers a unique blend of strategic marketing, stakeholder engagement and content development. You'll work closely with employers, training providers and internal teams to ensure marketing activity reaches the right audiences, communicates clear value and supports long-term growth objectives.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the marketing strategy and delivery for professional qualifications, certifications and programmes
• Driving student recruitment and awareness through targeted B2B and B2C campaigns
• Leading the marketing activity for a major qualification launch and ongoing promotional campaigns
• Using audience insight, market research and performance data to inform strategic decision-making
• Mapping and improving customer journeys to increase engagement and conversion
• Creating compelling content across websites, email marketing, social media and digital advertising
• Developing marketing plans, creative briefs and campaign assets that align with brand guidelines
• Building strong relationships with employers, training providers and key stakeholders
• Managing agency relationships and external suppliers
• Monitoring performance, analysing results and reporting on ROI and campaign effectiveness
- Proven experience delivering integrated marketing and campaign strategies
• Experience of both B2B and B2C marketing
• Strong analytical skills and experience using data and insight to drive decisions
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Experience developing engaging content across digital channels
• Confidence working with CRM systems, website platforms and marketing analytics tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
• A proactive and self-directed approach with excellent attention to detail
• Experience within a membership body, professional education or qualifications environment would be highly desirable
Closing date: 25 September 2026
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
Elrha is a global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation.
We are looking to recruit a Research & Innovation Manager (Maternity Cover) to join our Programmes team on a fixed-term basis. Funding for the role is currently secured until 28 February 2027. While we anticipate the maternity cover requirement continuing until the end of November 2027, any extension beyond 28 February 2027 will be dependent on funding being confirmed.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead and shape Elrha's Readiness to Scale Pipeline, supporting innovative humanitarian solutions as they progress towards wider adoption and real-world impact. You will work closely with promising scaling grantees and technical partners, providing strategic oversight, strengthening quality and learning, and helping to navigate risks and opportunities. As a key member of the team, you will play an important role in advancing and evolving Elrha's approach to scaling and adoption, contributing to the future of humanitarian innovation globally.
Your application will need to demonstrate:
- Experience of managing complex grants, programmes or projects, including monitoring performance and impact.
- Experience designing and delivering applied learning and capacity building activities, including needs assessments, learning journeys and strategy development.
- An understanding of how innovations can achieve scale, adoption and sustainable impact.
- Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage diverse partners and build effective relationships.
- Proven ability to coordinate delivery, manage risk and drive high-quality outcomes.
- An interest in the humanitarian or development sectors, ideally demonstrated through academic qualifications and/or paid or voluntary work.
Experience of donor engagement, systems and design thinking methods, mentoring innovators or working within humanitarian innovation would also be an advantage.
If you want to be part of an organisation that creates positive change in the humanitarian sector, then join us and we’ll give you every opportunity to succeed.
We offer:
- Remote working as standard – staff can access office bases in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester if required/ appropriate. We expect staff to attend team meetings and away days in person as required.
- As standard we work 35 hours per week. We are also happy to discuss flexible working patterns and many of our staff work non-standard working hours.
- Our benefits include minimum 5% employer pension contribution (3% employee contribution), life cover, organisational sick pay, family friendly pay and leave schemes; 26-day basic annual leave entitlement with incremental increase depending on length of service, opportunities for learning and development, a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and retail discounts platform.
- Please read through the Information for Candidates document for further information about working at Elrha including information about Our Values, Strategy, Benefits and Salaries.
Note for applicants:
- Candidates must have the independent right to work in UK, and be resident in the UK, at the time of appointment as we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this role.
- This is a maternity cover position. Funding for the role is currently confirmed until 28 February 2027. Any extension beyond this date will be subject to the availability of funding and the ongoing requirements of the role.
- Please read through the job description for a detailed list of requirements, and ensure you complete the personal statement to explain how you feel you meet the requirements of the role and why you feel this is next career move for you. Applications without this information will not be shortlisted.
- Elrha is an independent subsidiary of SCUK and benefits from some SCUK systems and processes.
- We reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a very high volume of applications.
- We do not use recruitment agencies.
Closing date: 20 September 2026
Interview dates: w/c 5 October 2026
A global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation.



The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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💚 About Movement
Movement builds the campaign infrastructure behind some of the most effective progressive organisations in Europe. Our platform powers CRM, communications, and campaigning for trade unions, NGOs, charities, and political parties. The Labour Party used Movement to win the 2024 General Election. The NEU, UNISON and Greenpeace use it every day to organise, mobilise, and win.
🎯 The role
Our clients split into two worlds. Trade unions run ballots, organise workplaces, and mobilise reps. NGOs and political parties run campaigns, fundraise, and fight elections. Each world deserves a dedicated lead who knows it inside out.
You'll be that lead for NGOs and political parties, working alongside our Head of Campaign Success for Trade Unions. You'll take on our priority NGO and political party accounts.
The shape of the role will shift as the segment grows. Our trade union book is deep. Our NGO book has flagship names but fewer of them, so at the start you'll spend a lot of time helping us win new NGO and political party clients. Sales for this segment is founder-led, and you'll be the founder's right hand: running demos, working events, building relationships across the sector, and onboarding what we win together. As the book fills out, the role tilts towards account management and campaign success. You'll be growing your own future job.
This is a hands-on role. You'll set up accounts from scratch, work out how a client's structure maps onto the platform, and troubleshoot technical issues as readily as you'll run a demo or a renewal conversation. You'll also take your turn on the support rota alongside other campaign success team members.
You'll manage one direct report. Their role covers our client community, training, webinars, case studies, frontline support, and some of our smaller NGO accounts.
🛠️ What you'll do
🚀 Help grow the NGO and political party segment (the biggest part at first)
- Work alongside the founder leading sales for this segment as their right hand on every deal
- Run product demos, solo or as part of a founder-led pitch
- Represent Movement at sector events, conferences, and meet-ups. Build the network that brings deals in
- Follow up inbound leads and keep longer conversations warm
- Help build proposals and contribute to RFP responses
🤝 Own our priority NGO and political party accounts (growing as we win)
- Build strong relationships with campaigners, digital leads, and data teams at our NGO and party clients
- Run onboarding for the accounts we land: kick-off, training, launch planning, and the first 90 days
- Drive adoption of the features that move the needle for each client, from branded RCS to share testing to organiser dashboards
- Lead renewal conversations. Spot churn risk early and act on it
- Find expansion opportunities and turn them into proposals
- Run quarterly reviews that clients actually find useful
🔧 Be the technical lead for your accounts
- Set up new accounts: provisioning, custom fields, tags, segments, and templates
- Configure integrations, single sign-on, and sender domains
- Triage and resolve technical issues for your accounts, escalating to engineering when needed
- Take your share of support days on the rota, covering the inbox for the whole client base alongside the rest of the team
- Translate between campaigners and engineers. You'll be fluent in both languages
🌱 Manage and develop your direct report
- Set priorities for our client community, training, webinar, and case study work
- Oversee our smaller NGO & WhatsApp only account book, which your report manages day to day
- Support their development as their role grows
- Build support workflows that scale as the client base does
🔍 Who we're looking for
You've probably done one of these:
- Worked in sales, account management, or implementation at a campaigning platform or similar such as Action Network, Engaging Networks, or NationBuilder, and know how NGOs buy
- Run digital, data, or a CRM at an NGO, charity, or political party, and been the person who actually built the segments and fixed the emails
- Led campaigns with serious digital infrastructure behind them and managed the platform relationship from the client side
Experience inside the NGO, charity, or party world counts for a lot here, especially alongside commercial experience. We're not ruling out people from outside the sector.
✅ You'll need
- Confidence running demos and holding your own in commercial conversations, plus a genuine appetite for events and networking
- Real experience with campaigning or CRM platforms as a power user or administrator
- The technical depth to build an organisation from scratch. Give you a client's structure, branches, regions, teams, campaigns, and you can work out how it maps onto fields, tags, lists, audiences, and permissions
- The ability to read HTML or SQL and follow a technical conversation. You don't need to be an engineer, but you can't be scared of the tools
- Strong relationship skills. Clients should feel you're on their team
- A track record on retention. Renewals landed, churn spotted early, accounts kept and grown
- Experience managing someone, and the appetite to develop a report whose role is growing
- Willingness to take your share of support days. Everyone here covers the inbox, us included
- Genuine commitment to progressive causes. Our clients will feel if you don't mean it
✨ It would help if you have
- Knowledge of email deliverability, GDPR in a campaigning context, or the European progressive tech landscape
- A second European language
🎉 Why this role
- You'll own the priority accounts in a whole segment, and work shoulder to shoulder with a founder to grow it
- You'll see the whole company, not one corner of it
- A four day week as standard, remote-first with a London office when you want it
- Your clients will be organisations fighting for things that matter, and your work will directly affect whether they win
- Movement is profitable and growing, and this role grows with the segment you build
On a mission to empower progressive organisations with innovative digital tools to mobilise supporters and drive meaningful social change
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Harris Hill are delighted to be partnering with Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis (APF), the UK’s leading patient charity for people affected by pulmonary fibrosis, to recruit a Senior Education and Events Officer.
Salary: £31,000 - £34,500
Location: Hybrid role, with attendance at the charity’s Peterborough office for team meetings, collaboration and other key activities, typically on a quarterly basis, alongside travel to meetings, events and partner sites as required.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced events and education professional to coordinate and deliver APF’s education and events programme for people affected by pulmonary fibrosis, healthcare professionals and wider stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate and deliver patient education sessions across online, in-person and hybrid formats.
- Support the development and delivery of APF’s annual education plan and calendar.
- Work with clinicians, speakers, colleagues and people with lived experience to develop relevant and accessible sessions.
- Host and facilitate education sessions, ensuring a welcoming and positive attendee experience.
- Manage registration processes and attendee communications before, during and after events.
- Maintain accurate attendee, speaker and stakeholder records and ensure effective database and follow-up processes.
- Develop joined-up user journeys so attendees can access APF’s wider support, information, newsletters, fundraising and campaigns.
- Coordinate and deliver APF events, including webinars, conferences, symposia and stakeholder meetings.
- Manage event logistics, including venues, platforms, suppliers, speakers, accessibility and materials.
- Lead coordination of APF’s attendance at external conferences, including BTS, ERS and other relevant sector events.
- Build strong relationships with clinicians, speakers, partners, suppliers and conference organisers.
- Work closely with Communications, Services, Fundraising, Policy and Data colleagues to maximise the reach and impact of education and events.
- Support healthcare professional education activity alongside the HCP Manager and clinical colleagues.
- Track attendance, engagement and feedback, using insight to evaluate and improve future activity.
- Ensure event and education materials are accurate, accessible, up to date and appropriate for different audiences..
We are looking for:
- Experience managing event registration, attendee communications or participant journeys.
- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, speakers or contributors.
- Experience using databases, CRM systems, booking platforms or similar tools.
- Strong organisational skills and excellent attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence working across teams and with external stakeholders.
- Confidence hosting or facilitating sessions both online and in person.
- Experience using data, feedback and insight to evaluate and improve activity.
- The ability to write clear attendee communications, briefings and follow-up materials.
- A proactive, practical approach with the ability to solve problems and keep activity moving.
- Good digital skills and confidence using event platforms and databases.
- A commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, including improving access for under-served and digitally excluded audiences.
Experience within a health, charity, membership, education or patient-support setting would be desirable, as would experience working with clinicians or supporting external conferences, policy events or funded activity.
If you are an organised, collaborative events professional looking for a role with genuine purpose and impact, we would love to hear from you.
For more information, please submit your CV.
Please note, CVs are being reviewed on a rolling basis, and only successful applicants will be contacted with more information.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
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Your role
We are seeking a Finance & Operations Leader to lead Design for Good’s finance, operations and organisational effectiveness, combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
Reporting directly to the Managing Director (MD), you will lead the organisation’s core finance, operational and enabling functions, ensuring we have the financial and operational infrastructure, people systems and governance frameworks needed to deliver our mission.
This is a hands-on senior leadership role, suited to someone who is both strategically minded and operationally confident — a collaborative leader who can lead suppliers, strengthen systems and financial processes, and take ownership of day-to-day operational delivery in a growing global charity.
Key Responsibilities
Financial leadership, planning and sustainability
● Support the MD in developing the annual organisational budget and take overall responsibility for financial performance, controls and processes.
● Work closely with the external accountants to ensure timely and accurate management accounts, annual accounts, financial reports, forecasts reporting for the MD, Board and Finance Committee.
● Take ownership of cash-flow forecasting, reserves management, financial planning and financial controls to support the organisation’s long-term financial sustainability.
● Ensure compliance with Charity Commission requirements, Companies House requirements (for any trading subsidiary) and charity SORP accounting standards.
● Lead the annual independent examination process and manage relationships with external auditors/examiners and other financial advisers.
● Oversee payroll, pensions, VAT returns and day-to-day financial administration, working closely with the external accounts team.
● Oversee restricted fund accounting, ensuring accurate tracking of grant expenditure, compliance with funder requirements and timely financial reporting.
Operations, systems and organisational effectiveness
● Lead and strengthen the organisation’s operational infrastructure, ensuring systems, processes and ways of working are effective, efficient and fit for purpose.
● Maintain an overall organisational plan, coordinating priorities, timelines and dependencies across the organisation.
● Identify and implement opportunities to improve organisational systems, operational processes and internal coordination to strengthen effectiveness and support sustainable growth.
● Oversee the day-to-day running of the organisation, including office management, IT systems, supplier contracts and operational compliance.
● Ensure the organisation’s IT and digital systems effectively support current and future organisational needs, including identifying and implementing opportunities for AI to improve efficiency and support organisational goals.
● Lead procurement and contract management, ensuring value for money, appropriate controls and effective supplier relationships.
● Lead financial and operational planning for key organisational activities, including the logistics and delivery of major events.
● Oversee joiner and leaver processes, ensuring a consistent, compliant and effective experience and that all required processes are correctly followed.
Governance, risk & compliance
● Lead the management, monitoring and reporting of the organisational risk register, ensuring key risks are actively managed and appropriately reported to the Board and relevant sub-committees.
● Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and regulatory requirements, including employment law, GDPR, health and safety and charity law.
● Act as the organisational lead for data protection, ensuring effective and compliant data protection practices across the organisation.
● Provide the Company Secretary function, including preparing Board papers and minutes, supporting the administration of the Finance and Risk Committees, and maintaining statutory registers and records.
● Work closely with the Chairs of the Finance and Risk Committees to support effective Board oversight of financial, operational and organisational risks.
● Ensure organisational policies are kept up to date, appropriately reviewed and approved by the Trustees.
Key Requirements
● Demonstrable experience in a senior finance and operations leadership role within a charity, not-for-profit, public or values-led organisation.
● Strong experience leading organisational operations and enabling functions, including finance, governance, compliance, IT and organisational infrastructure.
● Strong financial management experience, including budgeting, forecasting, management accounting, financial controls, audit processes and financial planning.
● Experience contributing to organisational strategy, operational planning and decision-making as part of a senior leadership team.
● Good understanding of governance, organisational risk management and regulatory compliance within a charity or not-for-profit environment.
● Experience working in a fast-paced environment, managing competing priorities, complexity and operational risk while maintaining a high standard of delivery.
Preferred Skills and qualifications
● At least 5 years’ experience in a managerial finance and/or operations role.
● Ability to operate confidently at both strategic and operational levels, balancing long-term organisational planning with hands-on delivery and problem-solving.
● Strong financial and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret, present and communicate financial information clearly to non-finance audiences, including Boards and senior leadership teams.
● Ability to influence, advise and support decision-making at senior leadership and Board level.
● Strong organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to strengthen systems, improve operational processes and enhance organisational effectiveness.
● Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to build trust and collaborate effectively across teams and with external stakeholders.
● Strong IT and digital systems skills, including experience with finance systems, CRM platforms and organisational technology tools.
● Ability to navigate complexity, manage organisational risk, exercise sound judgement and make sound decisions in a values-led environment.
● Excellent time-management and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing demands and deliver to deadlines.
Knowledge & Understanding
● Good understanding of charity finance, governance and regulatory compliance, including charity SORP and restricted and unrestricted fund management.
● Good understanding of people administration, employment legislation, organisational risk and operational compliance, including safeguarding responsibilities.
● Understanding of how financial management, operational infrastructure and people practices contribute to organisational effectiveness and the delivery of mission and impact.
Design for Good mobilises a global alliance to create lasting impact through design.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.