We are at an exciting period of change presenting a career defining opportunity for either an experienced or aspiring Chief Executive to lead on the sustainability and strategic direction of the organisation.

Sight Life, formerly Cardiff Institute for the Blind, is entering a new chapter in its long history in supporting blind and partially sighted people.

Reviewing how we can best meet the future needs of people with sight loss in South Wales, we have mutually agreed to leave RNIB, enabling Sight Loss to have a greater focus on local face to face services and for RNIB to continue its national focus. We will, though, continue to work closely with the RNIB as we did prior to the merger.

Sight Life

Sight Life is small but mighty! We have nine members of staff and over 140 volunteers, many of whom have a sight condition. Our offices are located in Cardiff and Swansea but much of our work takes place in the community. We provide a wide range of local services so that blind and partially sighted people across the majority of South Wales can enjoy independent, active, social, and fulfilled lives. Originally established in 1865, we are one of the oldest charities in Wales.

The role

As Chief Executive, you will work closely with the Board of Trustees to develop the organisation’s long-term strategy, business, and financial plans, and provide effective leadership to management teams to deliver on the organisation’s aims, securing long term financial security. 

Your initial tasks will be to ensure a sustainable future for Sight Life and that we maintain our existing services. However, beyond that, there is considerable scope for a motivated and innovative CEO to build on and expand the services we currently provide.

You will be responsible for all governance policies, processes and procedures, ensuring they meet legal, regulatory and statutory obligations relating to equality and diversity, employment law, financial and accounting practices, health, safety and welfare, information governance, safeguarding and all other requirements relating to charitable company law.

You will also represent Sight Life at external events and publicity opportunities, raising the Charity’s profile through networking and with all forms of media (print, broadcast, online, social, etc).

The successful candidate will be a proven Senior Manager with experience of leading teams, customer facing services, and successfully generating income through varied funding streams. You will be a natural ambassador, confident in building effective relationships internally and externally, using exceptional communication, influencing, and negotiating skills.

As the successful candidate you will also be responsible for steering Sight Life into a new era of independence. You will be responsible for overseeing both the organisational change and development of a new strategy, including fundraising.  

This role is open to candidates outside of the charity sector but knowledge of the statutory and regulatory frameworks that apply to the charity sector is essential.

For more information and to apply please click the apply button.

Closing date: 19 September 2021.

Sight Life is committed to being an equal opportunities organisation and we welcome applications from people with sight loss.

Carers Trust: Head of External Affairs Wales (Wales)

What are we looking for?

This role will suit someone who is a strong communicator with an interest in making a positive difference for the 370,000+ unpaid carers in Wales. Our Head of External Affairs is responsible for leading the development and implementation of strategies and operational plans designed to raise the profile of Carers Trust in Wales and the issues impacting on unpaid carers and the services they rely on.

This senior role within Carers Trust would suit someone with the skills, experience and enthusiasm to influence and inform Welsh Government and the Welsh Parliament and contribute to UK-wide campaigning activities. The role will work closely with the Director for Wales in developing our future strategic and operational priorities in Wales.

To be successful as Head of External Affairs (Wales) at Carers Trust, you will have: (the following skills and experience will be assessed at interview)

• Experience in representing a national organisation at a senior level including working with the Welsh Government and a range of strategic partners
• Comprehensive knowledge of Welsh policy-making processes including Welsh Parliament business and the mechanisms involved in developing legislation, policy and statutory guidance
• Experience in strategic influencing at a national level including working directly with Members of the Senedd, Senedd Committees and civil servants
• The ability to build relationships with a range of stakeholders and to communicate with diverse audiences effectively
• Experience in analysing and influencing policy at a national level and formulating policy recommendations in an evidence-led way that empowers those with lived experience to have their voices heard
• Experience in line management, including setting objectives, supporting performance and monitoring outcomes
• The ability to manage complex partnership projects including oversight of budget and finance as well as monitoring and evaluation of the impact
• A coaching management style focused on empowering people to produce high-quality work and to grow and develop within their roles
• Entry-level Welsh language skills as described by the Welsh Language Skills Framework which Carers Trust would be committed to supporting you to develop

What difference will you make for carers in Wales?

As part of a dynamic UK-wide team you will:

• Lead all external affairs functions on behalf of Carers Trust in Wales creating and delivering an ambitious and impact focussed External Affairs strategy for Wales
• Demonstrably influence Welsh Government policy, Welsh Parliament business and local and regional policy and commissioning practices for the benefit of carers and carers services
• Manage complex Welsh Government funded partnership projects focused on transforming carers' experiences and outcomes in a range of settings
• Develop a high-performing expert External Affairs team and bring together various project teams to work together effectively towards achieving shared aims and objectives
• Build trust, influence and partnerships with a range of other teams within Carers Trust
• Act as an expert spokesperson for Carers Trust in Wales working directly with the media and senior decision-makers to raise awareness of the issues impacting carers
• Create a strong profile for Carers Trust in Wales positioning us as a trusted, leading organisation for carers

This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) on a permanent contract. The successful candidate will need to be able to work from home until COVID restrictions allow our Cardiff office to reopen. Once restrictions are lifted, we will consider a hybrid working pattern between home and office-based working.

If this sounds like the role for you and meets your ambitions for carers, we would be delighted to hear from you. If you have any questions then please feel free to email Simon Hatch to arrange a confidential discussion

35 hours per week

We have big goals over the next few years.

We’re going to be fighting for mental health in a way we never have before.

Together we’ll be working to make sure everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets the support and respect they deserve.

Will you join us?

Are you passionate about changing the mental health landscape across Wales, putting people with mental health problems at the heart of service design, influencing and attitude change?Are you the kind of person who can coalesce people around a common goal to create alliances that improve the lives of people with mental health problems?Do you have a proven track-record of developing and implementing corporate and cross-organisational business strategy and operational management of programme performance? Then this might be the role for you.

Reporting to the Director of Mind Cymru, you will have overall strategic responsibility and accountability for the Operations Team with the outcome of providing nationally significant mental health services and improving public attitudes, in partnership, in Wales. You will be a key member of the Mind Cymru Senior Leadership team.

Closing date: 12 noon, 23rd September 2021

Mind reserve the right to close the vacancy to applications earlier, should we receive a high volume of strong candidates – therefore we encourage an early application.

This position will initially, in line with current and potentially future guidance, be based from home. Post lockdown this role will retain some flexibility but post holders will be expected to be in the office a minimum of two days thereafter (or more, depending on the arrangements of your team).

Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please refer to the Job Description while completing your application as candidates will be shortlisted based on how closely they match the criteria.

Pennaeth Gweithrediadau (Cymru)

Caerdydd – yn debyg o fod yn gymysgedd o weithio gartref ac o deithio i Lundain ac yng Nghymru.

Cyflog - £53,175 (gyda Phwysedd Lleoliad)

35 awr yr wythnos

Mae gennym ni uchelgeisiau mawr ar gyfer y blynyddoedd nesaf.

Rydyn ni’n mynd i frwydro dros iechyd meddwl mewn ffordd nad ydyn ni erioed wedi’i wneud o’r blaen.

Gyda'n gilydd, byddwn yn gweithio i wneud yn siŵr y bydd pawb sy'n cael problem iechyd meddwl yn cael y gefnogaeth a'r parch y maen nhw'n eu haeddu.

A ddewch chi gyda ni?

Ydych chi’n angerddol ynghylch newid y tirwedd iechyd meddwl ar draws Cymru, am roi pobl gyda phroblemau iechyd meddwl wrth galon dylunio gwasanaeth, dylanwadu a newid agweddau?Ydych chi’r math o berson sy’n gallu casglu pobl o gwmpas amcan cyffredin i greu cynghreiriau sy’n gwella bywydau pobl gyda phroblemau iechyd meddwl. Oes gennych chi brofiad amlwg o ddatblygu a gweithredu strategaeth fusnes gorfforaethol a thraws sefydliad ac o reoli perfformiad rhaglenni’n weithredol?Yna, efallai mai hon yw’r swydd i chi.

Yn adrodd yn uniongyrchol i Gyfarwyddwr Mind Cymru, bydd gennych gyfrifoldeb strategol, cyffredinol ac atebol bod y Tîm Gweithrediadau yn llwyddo i gael canlyniad o ddarparu gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl arwyddocaol well a fydd yn gwella agweddau’r cyhoedd, mewn partneriaeth, yng Nghymru.Byddwch yn aelod allweddol o dîm Uwch Arweinyddiaeth Mind Cymru.

Dyddiad cau:12 ganol dydd, 23 Medi 2021

Mae Mind yn cadw’r hawl i gau’r ceisiadau am y swydd ynghynt os ceir llawer iawn o ymgeiswyr cryf - felly, fe fyddem yn eich annog i anfon eich cais yn gynnar.

Bydd yr ymgeisydd llwyddiannus, i ddechrau, yn unol â'r canllawiau presennol, ac yn y dyfodol, mae'n debyg, yn gweithio gartref. Ar ôl y cyfnod clo, bydd yn dal rywfaint o hyblygrwydd, ond disgwylir presenoldeb yn y swyddfa am o leiaf ddau ddiwrnod yr wythnos (neu fwy, yn dibynnu ar drefniadau eich tîm).

Mae Mind wedi ymrwymo i gydraddoldeb cyfleodd i bob aelod o staff ac anogir ceisiadau oddi wrth unigolion beth bynnag yw eu hoedran, anabledd, rhyw, ailaseiniad rhywedd, tueddiad rhywiol, beichiogrwydd a mamolaeth, hîl, crefydd neu gred a phriodas a phartneriaethau sifil.

Cofiwch ddilyn y Swydd Ddisgrifiad wrth baratoi eich cais, bydd ymgeiswyr yn cael eu rhoi ar y rhestr fel yn ôl i ba raddau y bodlonir y meini prawf.

We are excited to be recruiting a Product Manager to join our technology team.  This new role will help us to achieve a best-in-class digital experience for our students, colleagues, and partners, as we begin delivering our new five-year strategy that includes ambitious plans for digital transformation. It’s an exciting time to be joining us!

The successful applicant will oversee the development of our new platform for pupils, tutors, and teachers. The role will require excellent relationship management skills working to balance the prioritisation of both internal and external needs. You will support the Tech & Product Director to ensure the vision of a fully inclusive user experience for pupils is achieved, working in an agile way to gather regular user feedback.

This role may appeal to someone who has experience delivering products as part of an IT team, or has demonstrable experience delivering projects in the education sector with significant technology components. We’re looking for a self-motivated, empathetic, focused individual that is happy working with cross-functional teams and knows how to get things done! We think this is a great opportunity to join The Brilliant Club at an exciting time when technology is a key part of charity’s strategy.

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

Person Specification

Time and Resource Management

• Develops and delivers on plans, using appropriate product/project management tools
• Can manage organisational projects, with appropriate levels of time and resource input

External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management

• Triages relationships so that those that need it get most attention
• Manage external supplier relationships to ensure the charity receives value for money

Communication

• Listens to others and ask clarifying questions to understand the needs of users
• Confidently adapts content, tone and delivery of written and oral communications to the needs of the audience and is aware of their impact

Initiative and Problem Solving

• Identifies problems, suggests possible solutions and effectively implements agreed solutions.  

Role Specific Knowledge and Skills

• Essential – Comfortable liaising with senior stakeholders and managing competing priorities.
• Essential – Can confidently oversee multiple projects simultaneously.
• Essential – Confident gathering and challenging requirements.
• Essential – Able to work with new technologies and adapt to new approaches.
• Essential – Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Desirable – Familiarity with Agile delivery methods e.g. Kanban/Scrum.
• Desirable – Working with users of digital products and gathering feedback.

Role specific Experience and Qualifications

• Essential – IT product/project management experience – directly, or indirectly where technology component is significant part of a wider project or programme.
• Desirable – Knowledge of Salesforce CRM.
• Desirable – Agile project management experience/qualification.

Our Programme Development team are looking for someone with great knowledge of the Education sector across the UK and a real passion for developing market-leading programmes to become our new Head of Education.

You will set the vision and strategy for our education programmes, ensuring they equip young people with impactful experiences which support their success in an education setting and beyond.

The role is perfect for you if you have experience designing services for young people that are delivered within an education setting. You’ll also have great knowledge on how we can blend digital and face to face engagement approaches to deliver the best learning experiences possible.

Based in any UK Office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)

The job of a Save the Children’s UK Head of Engineering is influential and exciting.

• Would you like the opportunity to have a real impact in shaping the future of our IT Development strategy?
• Are you a passionate with exceptional technical leadership skills?
• Do you have a proven track record in leading talented cross-functional IT engineering teams?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Head of Engineering will be responsible for leading the engineering effort to ensure effective development, enhancement and use of business intelligence, CRM and digital platforms.

The Head of Engineering role is critical to the successful delivery of technology solutions to support our goal of providing better programming for children, better engagement with supporters, and more effective internal management.

The role holder will work as a strategic partner to ensure that our organisational outcomes for technical solutions and our IT development strategy are well defined and understood. They will rigorously challenge and question both organisational requirements and proposed solutions and technology choices as necessary.

As we enter a critical period in our technology transformation journey, this role offers a true opportunity to make their mark and influence how Save the Children UK uses technology in the next 5 years.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Head of Engineering will be responsible for ensuring the effective development, enhancement and use of business intelligence, CRM and digital platforms. Key duties will focus on:

Strategy

• Drive the vision, design and implementation of an effective platform strategy. Make this a strong and collaborative contribution to the Technical Design Authority function of the CIO

• Play a lead role in the development of SCUK’s Data and Analytics strategy

• Lead and manage the execution and evolution of platforms (data, BI and digital), software and application development (adobe systems - experience manager, target and analytics)

Leadership

• Work alongside our Head of Service Delivery, Head of Business Architecture and Analysis, and Head of PMO to form a coherent leadership team for our Technology Department

• Lead a team of 20+ cross functional development and test staff, contractors and vendors

• Provide technical expertise guidance and direction to solution design and delivery

• Setting an overall strategy and workplan for the team, and ensuring optimal deployment of resources to meet requirements

• Ensuring the implementation of agile processes wherever appropriate and in all cases support engineers to participate in the methods chosen by projects

• Drive positive, proactive engagement with the wider organisation, bringing engineering into the solution design and analysis activities, and driving “can do” “yes if…” behaviours

Quality systems and methods

• Lead engineering techniques including DevOps / release management

• Set coding standards
• Own QA and testing methods, systems and environments

Other

• Manage the development, documentation and enforcement of architecture and design standards and guidelines.  Ensure that Save the Children has a complete, comprehensive and high-quality set of documents for its systems

• Keep abreast of new technologies and champion the use of data analytics and digital technologies in Save the Children’s work. Technical evangelist in areas such as data, BI, .NET, digital platforms (AEM, ACM etc.)

• Work effectively with colleagues across the Save the Children movement to ensure stronger alignment of systems within a coherent overall architecture

• Capability of becoming part of the broader iNGO tech community and keen to explore and contribute in order to share best practise and new opportunities

Person Profile

Essential Technical Skills Required

• Proven track record in a similar role leading talented cross-functional engineering teams

• Solid and demonstrable experience in most of data, BI, .NET, digital platforms (CMS, email campaign, personalisation)

• Experience of agile delivery process

• Understanding of testing methods relating to delivery of platforms and associated applications and software

• Good understanding of how quality data and information can be used to make day to day business decisions

• Previous experience in two or more of the following: 

• Experience of data virtualisation platforms e.g. Tibco, Denodo etc.
• Experience of automation and/or CI/CD
• Experience of DataOps
• Experience of data mining, machine learning, visualisation
• Integration of online and offline data in a digital world
• Enterprise architecture experience

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Our Programme Development team are looking for a dynamic leader with strategic focus and a great collaborative approach to become our new Senior Head of Change Delivery. (10 months maternity cover)

You will build and drive forward a transformation roadmap which aligns all of our programme design work and technology development, ensuring that it meets the organisation’s strategic aims for the support we give to young people within the fields of Education, Enterprise and Employability.

This role is perfect for you if you are experienced at driving change within complex organisations, adept at balancing multiple priorities and used to influencing stakeholders at all levels.

The Prince's Trust has been transforming the lives of young people for over 45 years. We are proud to be the UK's leading youth charity. But we never rest on our laurels. We always want to do more. As we emerge from the Covid pandemic, the challenges facing young people from 11-30 years old are considerable, but so are the opportunities. Our ambition over the next five years is to give even more disadvantaged young people the very best opportunity to create a better future for themselves and wider society. We want to get them into great jobs, to give them a life-long enthusiasm for learning and education, or help them set up their own business or enterprise. To do this, we must maximise our impact right now and strengthen our incredible Prince's Trust network to build a better future for young people. But we don't stop there!We also want to be one of the UK's most equal, diverse and inclusive organisations serving young people. We want to do the best work of our lives!

In this Delivery Partnerships and Volunteering Manager role, you will be based in Wales or can work sometime from home and have responsibility across Wales. You will be a key member of the Wales leadership team and will lead a team of highly motivated and skilled Youth Development Leads. Working closely with colleagues from Fundraising, Marketing, Finance, Service Delivery and our programme development team, you will plan, manage and monitor all our partner-delivered programmes. You will also work closely with our People partners to ensure a high quality experience for our volunteers, including their recruitment, onboarding, training and development. You and your team will help support and inspire young people from, building their self-confidence, enhancing their life skills and progressing their educational development and on a path towards employment.

This is a very special opportunity to transform the lives of thousands of young people. We hope you can grasp it!

This is an exciting time for Brain Tumour Research, and you will join us to support the delivery of our strategic plans and objectives, by generating and growing our income through community fundraising activities.

You will help raise awareness by engaging people with our work and by recruiting and supporting the fundraising of individuals, challenge event participants, our Fundraising Groups and Charity of the Year partnerships.

You will help build and sustain our supporter base and provide excellent stewardship at all times.

You will come to us as an experienced fundraiser ready to hit the ground running with insight into how local fundraising works, with good office skills. Your ability to work proactively and as part of a remote team is important to us to ensure that we grow the budget we need.

Community Fundraiser – South Wales
Reports to: Community Development Manager
Direct Reports: None
Location: Home Based
Salary: up to £27,500
Full Time – Permanent

Requisite Skills and Experience:

• Experience of fundraising, donor management and stewardship
• Experience of working with a database / CRM.
• Ability to identify and maximise opportunities.
• A good communicator, including an excellent standard of written and spoken English.
• Be prepared to converse sensitively and empathetically with members of the public who may be going through current or recent traumatic experiences
• Experience of working with MS Office, especially Word and Excel
• Outstanding organisation skills.
• Flexible in your approach to work, embracing change and development and able to work occasional evenings and weekends when necessary.
• Access to a car and full driving license are essential for this role.
• Proactive mindset.

Main duties:

• Ensure supporters, volunteers and fundraising groups have access to relevant fundraising advice, guidance and accurate signposting, whilst promoting best practice in fundraising.
• Manage, and continuously develop and improve your region by running online donation reports, accurately coding income and account managing supporters as directed by the Community Development Manager.
• Ideally have knowledge and competence with social media to maximise reach and engagement.
• Ensure that all relevant charity and other legislation is complied with.
• Comply with Brain Tumour Research’s internal policies as appropriate.
• Research and contact RAGs, mayoral offices and other candidate organisations across the area with a view to securing charity of the year opportunities.
• Be available to undertake one-off projects for other colleagues across Brain Tumour Research as agreed by your line manager.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the Community Development Managers, National Fundraising Events Manager, the Director of Fundraising and Supporter Care and members of the management team
• Deputise for colleagues as necessary to deliver an exceptional supporter experience.
• Be a point of contact for teams within the neuro hospitals within your area in order to organise regular information stands taking place on brain tumour clinic days, and to book in visits from the Community Development Manager as appropriate.

Closing Date: Monday 27th September
Early applications are encouraged, interviews will commence before the closing date if suitable candidates are identified.

Interested?

Please click the apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.

No agencies, please.

Based in any UK Office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)

The job of Save the Children's UK Head of Hunger and Nutrition (Global Policy, Advocacy and Research) is varied and fulfilling. 

• Are you an enthusiastic and experienced policy advocate?
• Are you a brilliant people manager?
• Do you have the ability to conduct policy research and communicate clearly with different audiences?
• Do you have expertise in the field of global hunger and nutrition?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you! 

About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose
As Head of Hunger and Nutrition (Global Policy, Advocacy and Research) you will directly impact on Save the Children's Survive Global Breakthrough which aims to ensure that no child dies from preventable causes before their fifth birthday by 2030. Addressing the barriers to ending hunger and malnutrition for all is central to us achieving this goal.

You will lead and drive Save the Children UK’s policy, advocacy and research on hunger and nutrition, with focus on equity and child rights, to influence key global and national policy makers to achieve policy and system change.

You will lead a team of expert policy and advocacy advisers to meet their goals in the key areas of our hunger and nutrition work, including on infant and young child feeding, access to health and nutrition services, adolescent nutrition, famine prevention and access to safe, nutritious and sustainable diets. An important aspect of your role will be to ensure your team’s wellbeing, continued professional development and learning.  

You will also be responsible for relationship management with key donors and partners, and for high-level influencing to ensure that international commitments to end hunger and malnutrition for all are fulfilled.  With this remit, you will be able to own professional relationships and grow your network, getting to know the development sector and architecture. Ending hunger and malnutrition is a significant priority for Save the Children, and this role will position you well for your future career and personal development opportunities.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The post holder will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Key accountabilities:

• Oversee the organisation's policy, advocacy and research on hunger and nutrition by supporting the highest quality analysis and delivery
• Provide excellent management support, including performance management, pastoral care and ensuring that line reports have development and career-progression opportunities
• Contribute to the success of SCUK's multi-disciplinary teams by providing resource and technical expertise as required
• Ensure close working with key internal stakeholders, including programming, humanitarian, fundraising, comms and other colleagues across Save the Children UK and the Save the Children movement
• Lead a community of practice for technical experts that keeps abreast of best practice and external trends and innovates to maximise impact for children
• Represent the organisation externally including in meetings, media and other opportunities as
• required
• Be a visible and credible voice externally, strengthening Save the Children's global profile
• Build relationships with and influence key decision makers and opinion-leaders
• Give strategic leadership on grants for advocacy including liaison with donors
• Carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way that reflects
• Save the Children's commitment to safeguarding children in accordance with its Child Safeguarding Policy
• A commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission, values and approach
• A commitment to effective management of risk, by operating within the Charity's code of conduct, policies, procedures and controls and by carrying out the risk management and assurance responsibilities of the role as set out in the Risk Policy and Procedures

Person Specification

The ideal candidate would be an enthusiastic and experienced policy advocate, motivated by a desire to make children's rights a reality for all and address inequality. They will have expertise in the field of global hunger and nutrition and have managed a team of policy experts to deliver change at a global and national level. The candidate will be a strong project and people manager with policy experience and strong networking skills. The candidate will have experience of leading teams and matrix working within organisations.

The candidate should be a team-worker, thriving on collaborating with others to achieve shared objectives within dynamic and agile teams. Excellent communication and influencing skills are essential, coupled with technical expertise global hunger and nutrition and the ability to conduct policy research and communicate clearly with different audiences.

Technical Skills:

• World-class knowledge and analysis of global debates in international development, children's rights and your area of expertise, especially for low- and middle-income countries with the highest inequalities
• Effective line-management experience or clearly evidenced potential, including in setting direction, performance management and feedback, with the ability to matrix-manage staff across teams, in order to lead, motivate, retain and manage a diverse team of professionals
• High-level knowledge of human rights, international relations and politics and the international humanitarian system.
• Exceptional understanding of the role of NGOs in influencing change and ability to negotiate and strategize to ensure impact
• Proven track record in policy and advocacy success and demonstrated leadership in advocacy development.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to inspire and engage with a wide range of audiences.

Personal Skills:

• Excellent networking and experience of building coalitions and working with civil-society actors to achieve change
• Proven ability to build relationships with and influence decision-makers and policy specialists, including politicians and donors, and other key actors globally
• Outstanding interpersonal communication skills
• Ability and willingness to travel for up to six weeks per year
• Commitment to Save the Children UK’s goals, mission, values and approach.
• Ability to operate within a predominantly self-servicing administrative environment

Education/Professional Skills:

• Masters' degree or equivalent experience in your area of expertise.

 Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Closing date: 21st September 

We intend to hold first round interviews for this position on Wednesday 29th September.  Interviews will be held online. 

Visitor Experience Area Consultant (Marketing)
Reference: AUG20216448
Location: Flexible
Salary: £27,574.00 - £30,590.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Annual Leave

This role will cover: Wales and the Central region or Southern England and Northern Ireland

We showcase nature and people thriving together where nature lives….

To achieve a world where all people are living harmoniously alongside nature; the RSPB must broaden its appeal and enable more diverse people to act for nature.

We inspire everyone to thrive harmoniously alongside the natural world by offering inclusive, memorable, and emotive, nature-based experiences, enhancing the lives of our visitors, wildlife, and special places we protect.

Our Nature Reserves are windows into the wildlife and habitats we are fighting to protect. They showcase the wonderful conservation work we’re delivering, and should inspire, enable, and empower everyone to play their part in the fight against the nature and climate emergency.

We are looking for someone who will provide leadership in visitor experience and marketing, ensuring a world class experience across RSPB nature reserves for everyone.

We are creating a new strategy for positioning our reserves as fantastic days out in nature. We are looking for someone with expertise across visitor experience as well as knowledge and experience of marketing destinations and targeting audiences with the right offer. We would welcome applications from the tourism, visitor attraction and heritage sectors to spearhead this new approach to planning and marketing experiences across our nature reserves.

You will:

• Set the expected standards on reserves for visitor experience providing direction to underpin a high-quality visitor offer and a consistent experience across our nature reserves – focusing on profitability, exemplary customer service and infrastructure; ensuring reserves are front and centre of RSPB brand.
• Drive the implementation of the visitor experience strategy across allocated geographical areas and work collaboratively with nature reserve teams to support them in achieving their ambitions. This role will work closely with country and central teams.
• Be a creative individual to create a step change in marketing our nature reserves. We are looking for someone who can inspire and drive visitation to our reserves working closely with country and central teams. You will have lots of ideas in how we use the incredible stories our reserves have to tell in showcasing our reserves as amazing places to visit. This is an exciting opportunity to help position our nature reserves as visitor attractions in the heart of nature.
• Provide consultancy support to RSPB nature reserves in shaping the visitor experience and deliver strategy across teams.
• Be a leader, working collaboratively across UK countries and departments, with a broad skillset who will support nature reserve teams across the UK in achieving their ambitions.

What we want to see:

• Expertise in visitor experience/operations/engagement and marketing to position RSPB nature reserves as world class visitor destinations, following our vision of being the UK’s leading choice for nature experiences.
• Using your expertise and your excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, you are able to produce effective guidance, support and toolkits for reserves in their planning as well as leading on national initiatives, working with external partners and tourism agencies.
• Our ideal candidate will have a great understanding of visitor attractions or public engagement and how to market sites creatively whilst also having excellent commercial knowledge. We are looking for someone with a broad skillset who is willing to drive visitor experience growth to ensure success across our visitor operations.

What you can expect:

• A supportive, dynamic, and high-performing team of talented individuals around you, who want to make the world a better place than we found it.
• The chance to lead and get involved with exciting new plans to support our nature reserves in a step change in how we drive visits, create amazing experiences connecting people to nature and making a real difference in ensuring the protection of our incredible places for wildlife and people.
• Access to excellent learning and development opportunities and employee benefits package.
• Opportunities to travel across all four countries of the United Kingdom and get closer to our amazing wildlife, all while you play your part in safeguarding its future.
• No two days are the same! We are looking for someone who is flexible and willing to travel. Some days you will be based at home or in the office, others you will be visiting some of the most beautiful places in the UK.

This is a permanent contract working 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 23:59, 06 September 2021

Interested?

If you would like to find out more please click the 'Apply' button. You will be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.

This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

No agencies please.

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

Do you want to work for an organisation that makes a difference, every single day, to people from all walks of life? The people that turn to Citizens Advice need help overcoming an obstacle in their lives – from debt to evictions to trouble at work – and you can be key to them getting the support they need in the quickest, easiest, and most effective way.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates. We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

People expect a modern service to feel seamless as they move through different advice areas, channels, and touch points. As we scale up cross-channel delivery of advice, we need to hide or remove silos to create an experience that feels joined-up for our clients. To achieve this, we are starting a team that will look at improving referrals as part of the client journey, either where a client is referred between Citizens Advice and another partner or internally between services. This will allow us to reduce friction for clients during the advice process and allow us to improve how we work with partners to ensure people get the support they need.

This role will sit within the referrals team, where as a delivery manager you’ll enable the agile product team to focus on the right priorities, work together effectively and deliver user-centred products and services that meet user needs and business priorities. You’ll ensure a high team standard is set, expectations are managed and identify and remove issues, blockers and risks to delivery and build the capability of your team to work effectively in an agile way, through coaching, contributing to a culture of learning and transparency, encouraging and enabling self-organisation. You’ll have excellent facilitation skills, be able to foster a feeling of safety and employ self-awareness, self-management and neutrality as needed, as well as designing and running meetings with clear purpose, using a mix of activities, tools and techniques to achieve desired outcomes.

You’ll be action orientated, with sound judgement in identifying issues and putting forward solutions and adept at drawing together insights from data, research and other sources to help inform decision-making and make recommendations. You’ll work with product managers, product designers, user researchers, service designers and developers in an agile environment. You’ll have access to the latest equipment needed to do your best work; including MacBooks, Google Suite, and software for remote and in-person facilitation. We're looking for someone passionate about services for the most vulnerable and using those to help solve society.

Our products, content and services will impact people’s everyday lives. It’s an exciting thing to be part of. We need you.

The National Citizens Advice Operates from offices in England and Wales, with 4 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham and Leeds, therefore all successful applicants must be based within England or Wales.

Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early.

Closing date: 20/09/2021

Interview date: 29th and 30th September 2021

This vacancy closes at 23.59 on the closing date.

We are currently looking for candidates for an 18 month Fixed Term Contract across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and this role will be based in our offices or at home. 

Data can be a powerful tool for empowering grassroots environmental campaigners and for telling powerful stories of hopes, threats, and injustices in order to build a better world for people and planet.  We want to appoint an Environmental Data Lead to develop our skills in this area, build-on our existing data products and to grow a network of volunteer data enthusiasts to build capacity and extend reach. 

As well as having expertise in using data tools for statistical analysis and display (such as SQL, R, Python, Excel, QGIS), you will also need to be a great team worker building strong relationships with others across the organisation and across the wider data community. You'll need to demonstrate that you are passionate about using data to make a meaningful impact on the climate and ecological emergency and for addressing environmental injustices.

Closing date: 21st September 2021

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture. 

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement. In particular we welcome people from a BAME background and/or lived experience of disability or other marginalised background.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Visitor Experience Area Consultant (Interpretation)
Reference: AUG20217916
Location: Flexible
Salary: £27,574.00 - £30,590.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Annual Leave

This role will cover: Wales and Central England or Southern England and Northern Ireland.

This is a permanent contract working 37.5 hours per week

We showcase nature and people thriving together where nature lives….

To achieve a world where all people are living harmoniously alongside nature; the RSPB must broaden its appeal and enable more diverse people to act for nature.

We inspire everyone to thrive harmoniously alongside the natural world by offering inclusive, memorable, and emotive, nature-based experiences, enhancing the lives of our visitors, wildlife, and special places we protect.

Our Nature Reserves are windows into the wildlife and habitats we are fighting to protect. They showcase the wonderful conservation work we’re delivering, and should inspire, enable, and empower everyone to play their part in the fight against the nature and climate emergency.

We are looking for someone who will provide leadership in interpretation, ensuring a world class experience across RSPB nature reserves for everyone.

We are creating a new strategy for new ways to engage and excite our audiences through innovative events and experiences across RSPB nature reserves. We are looking for someone with expertise in creating amazing visitor offers and striving for excellence across visitor operations. We would welcome applications from the cultural arts, visitor attraction and tourism sectors to spearhead this new approach to our annual events and experiences programme across our nature reserves.

You will:

• Set the expected standards on reserves for visitor experience providing direction to underpin a high-quality visitor offer and a consistent experience on our nature reserves – leading on profitability, exemplary customer service and infrastructure; ensuring reserves are front and centre of RSPB brand.
• Drive the implementation of the visitor experience strategy across allocated geographical areas and work collaboratively with nature reserve teams to support them in achieving their ambitions. This role will work closely with country and central teams.
• Create a step change in interpreting our nature reserves, someone who can inspire and move people to learn more about the incredible stories our nature reserves have to tell. Using your expertise in interpretation, events or exhibitions, you will help to create fantastic days out for everyone. This role will work closely with country and nature reserve teams, as well as external stakeholders in seeking out creative ideas to enhance our visitor offer.
• To provide consultancy support to RSPB nature reserves in shaping the visitor experience and deliver strategy across teams
• Be a leader, working collaboratively across UK countries and departments, with a broad skillset who will support nature reserve teams across the UK in achieving their ambitions.

What we want to see:

• Expertise in visitor experience/operations/engagement/cultural arts to position RSPB nature reserves as a world class visitor destinations, following our vision of being the UK’s leading choice for nature experiences.
• The ideal candidate will have an excellent understanding of visitor attractions, creative arts, or public engagement and how to interpret sites creatively whilst also having excellent commercial knowledge. We are looking for someone with a broad skillset who is willing to drive this area of visitor experience and support RSPB nature reserves in achieving their ambitions.
• Using your expertise and your excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, you are able to produce effective guidance, support and toolkits for reserves in their planning as well as leading on national initiatives working with external parties.

What you can expect:

• A supportive, dynamic, and high-performing team of talented individuals around you, who want to make the world a better place than we found it.
• The chance to lead and get involved with exciting new plans to support our nature reserves in a step change in how we drive visits, create amazing experiences connecting people to nature and making a real difference in ensuring the protection of our incredible places for wildlife and people.
• Access to excellent learning and development opportunities and employee benefits package.
• Opportunities to travel across all four countries of the United Kingdom and get closer to our amazing wildlife, all while you play your part in safeguarding its future.

No two days are the same! We are looking for someone who is flexible and willing to travel. Some days you will be based at home or in the office, others you will be visiting some of the most beautiful places in the UK.

Closing date: 23:59, 06 September 2021

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.

The RSPB reserves the right to extend or make this role permanent without further advertising dependent on business needs at the end of the contract term.

This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

No agencies please.