Cambridgeshire Hearing Help is looking for a new Chief Executive Officer
We are looking for a new Chief Executive Officer to lead our charity through its next exciting phase of development. Founded in 1979, we have grown from strength to strength. We have a dedicated and passionate team of six Trustees, six part-time staff, and 120+ volunteers who support approximately 6,500 individuals with hearing loss per year, most of whom are aged 80+.
Applicants must have a passionate commitment towards improving the lives of people with hearing loss and a proven track record in financial management and delivering results at senior management level.
Type of contract: Permanent contract
Location: 153 St Neots Road, Hardwick, Cambridge, CB23 7QJ
Hours: 22.5 hours per week, which can be worked flexibly. We anticipate these hours increasing in line with potential future expansion/growth.
Salary: £27,000 per annum (£35,000 pro rata)
Employer pension contribution: 7% of salary
Annual leave entitlement: 25 days pro rata, increasing by 1 day per year after two years of service, to a maximum of 30 days pro rata
Deadline for applications: Midnight on Wednesday 6th November
Interview date: Friday 29th November
Founded in June 1979 under the name of CAMTAD (Cambridge Campaign for Acquired Deafness), we are run by and for people with hearing loss. We ha... Read more
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The RSPB is looking for a PR Executive to join our busy press team. You will play an active role in promoting our work that secures PR and media coverage that communicates key RSPB projects and stories in the UK national press - with a particular focus on longlead media.
PR Executives
Reference number: A2050919
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
Salary: £22,073 to £23,912 per annum - Applicants should expect under normal circumstances to receive an offer at the bottom of the advertised range
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
With a proven track record in PR, you'll also have a friendly and inquisitive approach essential for digging out stories that will raise awareness of our work coupled with good organisational skills to manage a busy workload. Candidates should be interested and knowledgeable in environmental issues and be able to apply these interests to their work.
The RSPB's Public Relations team is responsible for implementing key aspects of the RSPB's communications strategy and raising the charity's public profile. The team is responsible for the charity's relationship with the public, demonstrating its impact, inspiring people to connect with nature and providing ways for them to take action to save it.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Europe's biggest nature conservation charity, using the media to help influence policy, make our campaigns more impactful and ultimately improve the fortunes of our most treasured species and habitats.
The job will involve some out of hours work including providing an effective on-call service for the media about one week in six. There will also be occasional travel across the UK.
Closing date: 25 October 2019
Interview date: 5 November 2019
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the 'Apply Now' button to be directed to our website where you can download the role profile and application details.
This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You will be asked to declare unspent convictions and cautions at offer of employment stage.
Please make sure you include reference number A2050919on your application.
No agencies please.
Saving nature is going to take leadership, collaboration, innovation, negotiation, and an ability to unite people to a common cause. Are these skills that you can bring to the role of Head of Digital Products?
Head of Digital Products
Reference number: tTHbV-10
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
Salary starting at: £39,970 to £46,632 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
Your role in saving nature:
The RSPB's digital estate is vital to our mission to give nature a home - from rallying people together to speak up for nature, to inspiring a love of wildlife, to raising the income that pays for our conservation work in the UK and around the world.
As the RSPB's Head of Digital Products, you'll lead a team of the RSPB's best and brightest digital strategists - the folks who develop our website, email campaigns, digital marketing, social media and intranet. You'll be hungry to find new ways to use digital platforms to meet the RSPB's goals.
There'll be fundraising targets to hit. There'll be budgets to stay within. There'll be integrated marketing campaigns to deliver across multiple platforms. There'll be relationships to build and fascinating challenges to rise to.
As a skilled communicator, negotiator and influencer, you'll be proactive in seeking out opportunities to develop yourself and your team. You'll talk persuasively with everyone from internal colleagues to politicians, journalists and people from other organisations.
Above all else, you'll be an advocate for saving nature. Nature's in big trouble - the climate crisis and loss of habitat are pushing some of our best loved species towards extinction. We won't let nature fall silent. This role is your chance to make real change possible. What do you say?
Where you'll be working:
You'll be working at the RSPB Headquarters in Sandy, Bedfordshire - imagine a campus of more than 500 passionate, fascinating people, set in the middle of a nature reserve. There's a forest to explore, and a heath. Plus, the staff restaurant serves amazing fish and chips every Friday.
The RSPB is a team of more than 1,000 staff and 8,000 volunteers, all working to give nature a home, in the UK and around the world, from the heathlands of Dorset to the rainforests of Sierra Leone. You'll join a group of passionate research scientists, marketers, policy advisors, creatives, ecologists, communicators and educators. Are you with us?
Closing date: 21 October 2019
We are actively recruiting and may draw the role to close when suitable applications are received. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply Now button to be directed to our website. There you can download the Role Profile and Application Details.
This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You will be asked to declare unspent convictions and cautions at offer of employment stage.
When you make your application please ensure that you include reference number tTHbV-10 on any correspondence.
No agencies please.
We face an escalating climate and nature emergency. Saving nature is going to need the very best communicators with the ability to produce innovative and engaging content that grows our audiences and drives support. Do you have the skills and abilities to make this happen?
This is a wonderful opportunity to join a brand new team, saving nature across England through delivering inspiring and impactful communications.
Communications Officer - England - Two Roles
Reference number: A2431019
Location: Flexible within England
Salary starting at: £19,602 to £21,236 per annum - Applicants should expect under normal circumstances to receive an offer at the bottom of the advertised range
Hours: Full time, Flexible hours will be considered
As Communications Officer, you will be at the forefront of creative content production and management across the full suite of delivery platforms, from digital marketing and social media to broadcast and consumer PR. You will be responsible for creating compelling stories that change hearts and minds to support our priority work and campaigns.
Our vision is an England richer in nature, where wild birds and other wildlife are no longer declining, where nature is being restored and is enriching people's lives. We have a world that guarantees future generations clean air and water, a stable climate, rich and varied wildlife and a robust and sustainable economy.
Working within the new Communications & Marketing team for RSPB England, you will work with your colleagues to build and deliver the country communications plan that will achieve this vision. You will support our major campaigns, carry out destination marketing for our major visitor reserves, and create compelling content to promote our work saving species, and delivering land and seas well managed for nature.
You will have a passion for creating remarkable content that inspires audiences to do the incredible.
You will be skilled in telling inspiring stories, using the full range of communications platforms. You will have skills and practical experience in: managing social media accounts, including use of analytics to monitor outcomes; creating digital content; digital promotion and marketing; destination marketing; broadcast interview skills; producing long-lead consumer PR content; and visitor signage / interpretation.
Working within a dispersed team, you will need to work under your own initiative but within clear priorities and work programmes. You will be expected to provide support, advice and training on all areas of communications to our operational teams across England. This will require determination, innovation, adaptability and resilience.
Above all, you will be an outstanding communicator who can instil in others the passion you feel for saving nature.
Closing date: 28 October 2019
Interview date: 7 November 2019
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the 'Apply Now' button to be directed to our website where you can download the role profile and application details.
When you make your application please ensure that you include reference number A2431019 on any correspondence.
This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You will be asked to declare unspent convictions and cautions at offer of employment stage.
No agencies please.
We launched IWM membership in 2017 and currently have over 33,000 members supporting us. We are now at a critical point of development and have big plans to grow our membership. Our membership vision is to reach millions of people, connecting them with our cause and inspiring a long term commitment to support IWM. In order to do this we need to put our members at the heart of everything we do.
Key Duties
- Assist the Head of Membership in creating direction, energy, capability and collaboration across all IWM teams to achieve ownership and support for IWMs membership vision and strategy. Be and lead the change required to embed the behaviours and culture of a membership organisation.
- Responsible for developing and implementing member acquisition and retention plans including performance and success measures in line with our membership strategy.
- Responsible for the successful implementation of all member communications and events programming in line with our membership strategy and member acquisition and retention plans. To include collaborating with Customer Experience, Volunteering, Marketing & Communications, Commercial Events, Retail & Admissions, Public Engagement and Learning and Collections Management.
- Responsible for co-ordinating, tracking and communicating internal performance reports and taking a lead role in ensuring action is taken as a result across all channels.
- Lead, motivate and empower all direct reports and peers in the delivery of agreed membership KPIs. In particular help drive a membership and supporter experience culture across all our branches and public engagement work.
- Accountable for ensuring that training, support and resources are in place for all Face-to-Face staff.
- Responsible for managing income and expenditure budgets.
- As part of the Membership Team play an active role in the ongoing development of IWMs membership strategy and business model.
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