Summary

Forward Action is looking for a Digital Strategist to join our fast-moving team. You will be at the heart of our digital campaign and fundraising work, managing projects and planning strategy to help our progressive clients hit their goals. If you’re passionate about making the world a better place, have a year or two’s experience in digital campaigning or fundraising and are well organised with good attention to detail, this job is for you.

This is a permanent role, with the freedom to work both in our London office and remotely anywhere in the UK. You can work either four or five days per week.

Applications close on Sunday 2 February.

Who we are

Forward Action is a digital mobilisation agency for progressive causes. We come up with ideas for campaigns that get results, then do the work to create them. We have been in the engine room of some of the most successful election and charity digital campaigns of the last few years, helping our clients add millions of new supporters to their email lists, raise more money online (from more donors) and create campaigns that have led to real-world change.

Our clients are some of the most exciting and impactful organisations in campaigning, including Greenpeace, Cancer Research UK, Amnesty International, WaterAid, The Labour Party and SumOfUs.

What you’ll do as part of our team

• Manage projects from conception through to build, overseen by our senior strategy team. This will involve coordinating work from both our creative and development teams and liaising with clients via email, Trello and video calls, and liaising with freelancers.

• Ensure all the projects you manage stay on deadline throughout

• Work with our senior strategy team to devise strategy for the projects you’re leading

• Analyse the results of tests and tactics and provide strategic recommendations to clients based off them

• Attend planning and project review meetings with clients

• Take part in brainstorms to generate ideas for tactics that help our clients hit their goals

• Plan the layout and user experience of microsites, create wireframes, and provide designers with briefs and feedback on designs

Benefits and location

Pro Rata Salary: £31,431 if you live inside London, £28,063 (plus £3,000 travel expense allowance) if you live outside London.

Contract Term: This is a permanent contract. The role can be either full time or four days a week.

Location: In our Hoxton office, with the option to work remotely. Ensuring our team is open to people who live outside London and enabling staff to work flexibly are important values to us, so you’ll have the freedom to work from home regularly. Most of our meetings are held via video conferencing, but you will occasionally need to attend meetings with clients in London - once every two-to-three weeks on average.

Holiday: 25 days/year (pro rata), plus bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year.

Extra holiday for travelling sustainably: We’re a member of the Climate Perks scheme, so you’ll have an extra two days of holiday a year if you use them to travel by land or sea instead of taking a flight.

Maternity and Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave: Maternity leave - 12 weeks full pay, 14 weeks 50% pay. Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave: 6 weeks full pay.

Why work at Forward Action?

Our values are critical to us: we will only work with causes that make the world a better place. You will get to work with some of the most inspiring and impactful organisations in the sector, and spend your days helping win progress on everything from climate change to clean water.

You will be working at the cutting edge of digital campaigning. We recognise that what we do can always be tested and improved, so we constantly pursue innovation. We are an agile, fast-moving team, and you will have the opportunity to rapidly develop and expand your skills and experience.

Our team is open, inclusive, friendly, respectful and kind. People from communities that traditionally experience discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity or immigration status; women; new parents; people with disabilities; and LGBTQ+ people are especially encouraged to apply.

Abilities and experience you’ll need to have

• 1.5+ years’ experience working in digital campaigning, digital fundraising or digital direct marketing

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Being comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent organisation and attention-to-detail

• Experience of managing projects

• Dedication to helping build a fairer, more progressive society

• Fluency in spoken and written English

We’re also looking for a quick learner. We don’t expect you to know or have done everything when you start - instead, we’ll be looking for you to pick up new skills and knowledge quickly, then run with them.

Abilities and experience that are nice to have

We know it’s not possible for any applicants to have all these skills - it’s likely you’ll be able to bring 3-4 of the following to our team:

• Enthusiasm for thinking creatively and coming up with new ideas

• Experience working in the charity sector

• Experience planning supporter email journeys

• A solid understanding of online user experience (e.g. how to lay out a web page to improve conversion rates)

• Experience planning digital strategy to hit measurable goals

• Drafting and building emails, especially for fundraising

• Reviewing or editing content

• Drafting and setting up Facebook adverts

• Knowledge of how to plan a fair A/B experiment

• Experience working with designers

• Basic HTML skills

• Experience working at an agency

How to apply

To apply for this job, please click the "Apply" button and complete the application form.

To ensure our hiring process is as fair as possible, we run an anonymised application procedure. So please remove your name and contact information from your CV before uploading it, and only enter these details in the online form. 

To apply, you will need to include:

• your CV (with name and contact details removed)

• up to 250 words explaining how you’re suited to the role and why you want this job

Applications close on Sunday 2 February.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a written online task from home - this can be any time that works for you between Friday 7 and Monday 10 February. Selected candidates will then be invited to attend an interview (either in person in London or via a video call) on Tuesday 18 February.

Questions? 

If you’re unclear about anything to do with the role, you can contact our team via our website.

Title: Regional Community Fundraiser - Midlands

Reports to: Head of Fundraising

Salary: £24,000 - £26,000 (depending upon experience)

Location: Home based with occasional duties/visits to Head Office in Havant, Hampshire and attendance, from time-to-time, of other charity events across the country

Region: Midlands, covering counties within a 60 mile radius of Birmingham.

Hours of work: 35 hours per week (Full Time) please note that this position includes some evening and weekend working.

We are seeking a passionate, motivated, individual with past, proven, experience in developing Community Fundraising activities to meet defined income targets. The successful canidate will ensure that appropriate community fundraising activities are implemented and managed to deliver budgets, targets and income in-line with agreed plans and strategies.

Who are we looking for?

• A confident self-starter, an experienced relationship builder who is able to identify and nurture opportunities to the benefit of the charity and it’s beneficiaries
• Experience of managing mass participation events and enthusiastic about making new connections
• Experienced in managing income, budgets and meeting financial targets
• A flexible working approach, someone that welcomes the opportunity to help grow and develop community fundraising activities for a small, but dynamic, medical and health research charity
• Homebased, comfortable and confident in remote working, supported by a small team based in Havant, Hampshire
• A confident driver, with own vehicle, able to travel and cover the Midlands area, as defined by the terms of employment, with occasional travel to the charity’s Head Office in Hampshire

*Download the full job description and charity overview below*

Employee Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 25 Days Annual Holiday
• 8 additional Public Holidays
• TOIL for hours over 35 per week
• Mobile phone & laptop
• Business element of private car insurance reimbursed
• Standard Life workplace pension

Check out our website for further information on all aspects of Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation on our website. To apply for this position, please click the ‘Apply Online’ button below.

We’re looking for an energetic individual with an entrepreneurial outlook to join a senior leadership team who will drive INF/UK to the next level.

We have drawn up ambitious plans to significantly grow the scale of the projects we support to help more of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in Nepal.

You will have extensive experience of managing relationships with major donors and trusts at the highest level, including making financial asks both face-to-face and in writing, and a track record of achieving six-figure income targets.

You will understand fundraising dynamics in the context of Christian groups and faith-based audiences, and are also able to relate and grow relationships outside a faith-based sphere.

In accordance with the Equalities Act 2010 (Paragraph 3, Section 9), this post carries a Genuine Occupational Requirement for the post-holder to have a personal commitment to the Christian faith.

Could you be the right person for this opportunity? Please download the Job Information Pack and Application Form from our website.

Application deadline: 9am on Monday 3rd February

Interviews will take place in Birmingham on Wednesday 12th February

About INF: The International Nepal Fellowship (INF) is one of Nepal’s longest serving international NGOs with decades of experience working with poor and disadvantaged people and communities. Formed on missionary principles in 1952, we have developed into a forward-thinking and impactful organisation, supporting healthcare services (including a cutting-edge hospital focusing on the treatment and rehabilitation of disabled people), plus a wide range of community health and development programmes that reach diverse and hard-to-reach groups in some of the poorest and most remote parts of Nepal.

INF/UK is a key part of the international INF family, raising funds and generating support from the UK to support projects in Nepal, most of which are delivered by INF/Nepal.

We are looking for a positive, empathetic and people-focused Support Services Team Leader to provide high quality information and support to those affected by blood cancer via the phone, email, social media, via our online forum and face to face.

You’ll also have experience developing services and managing exciting, new projects. You will be emotionally resilient, hardworking and understand the value that your role brings to the blood cancer community.

Please note: This is a 12-month maternity cover position.

We welcome submissions from applicants who would be based either from our London office or would be based remotely.

If this sounds like the role you are looking for and you feel you have the knowledge, skills and experience we need, please apply with a current cv and covering letter setting out how you match the requirements of the job specification by: 9am on Friday 21st February 2020.

Applications for this role will be reviewed as soon as they are received so please note that we may bring forward the closing date at our discretion.

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Mummy’s Star has been providing support to women and their families diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or within a year of a birth since 2013 and operates across the UK and Ireland. To date the charity has supported over 800 families

We are now at the exciting stage where we are looking to recruit a Fundraising Manager to support our work.

For this home-based role, the successful candidate will focus on specific fundraising areas identified in the fundraising strategy. Highly motivated, skilled and resourceful, they will have management skills, influencing abilities and a proven track record of delivery across the fundraising mix including corporate partnerships, trusts and grants and managing high value relationships.

Above all, they will be a creative thinker who can translate ideas into action, whilst demonstrating a strategic and proactive approach to researching, targeting and recruiting donors/supporters.

The post-holder is expected to contribute to Mummy’s Star-wide initiatives and development activities at a senior level. Within the small team all staff are expected to work in a flexible way and tasks that have not been covered in the job description may have to be undertaken. Time off in lieu is given for additional hours worked in line with our staff handbook policies.

Post holder will have good IT skills, including Word, Excel and be confident and competent with the internet, social networking sites and email. Travel will be required, therefore driving and having your own car would be preferential but is not essential.

Application is to be provided on no more than 2 sides of A4 to the email address below and emailed to the address below. A CV will be accepted as evidence of work experience but not as application