With public awareness of mental health higher than ever before, there’s never been a more exciting time to join the Corporate Partnerships Team at Mind. We’re growing and changing fast, but there’s still much to be done.

We’re looking for a Regional Corporate Partnerships Officer to join our successful and growing team. Mind has recently secured a high-profile seven-figure national partnership with a large-scale UK food retailer, for 2019-21. You will support the delivery of this partnership in your region, whilst also managing a small portfolio of your own partnerships. As a skilled relationship manager, you’ll provide first-rate account management and stewardship. You will develop creative fundraising and engagement plans to excite, inspire and maximise income and other opportunities for Mind. 

This role is homebased, covering the North West and Yorkshire, with the potential to be based at the retail partner’s site in Manchester 1-2 days a week. This is an 18-month fixed-term contract.

To apply, please follow the link below to our website.

Closing date: noon 4th November 2019

Interviews: week commencing 11th or 18th November 2019

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.

We’re looking for two talented and inspirational Directors to join our Operations directorate to lead on Service Delivery and on Network Strategy and Standards in order to ensure that millions of people every year get the help they need, when they need it, in the way that they need it.

Every year millions of people come to Citizens Advice for help. The Citizens Advice service is made up of the national charity, and our network of over 270 independent local Citizens Advice charities. Our dual mission is as relevant today as it was when we formed 80 years ago: to provide advice and support to the people who need help solving their problems and advocate to fix the underlying cause of those problems.

As a national charity we support local Citizens Advice to deliver their services and deliver a number of high profile national services. We’re also the consumer champion for the energy market and the statutory consumer watchdog for the postal service.

Our service is run by over 850 national staff, 6,300 local staff, 18,300 local volunteers and 3,000 Witness Service volunteers. We’re an important part of communities – locally, advice is offered from approximately 2,550 locations and our Witness Service is available in criminal courts across England and Wales. Nationally, Citizens Advice is run from 6 administrative offices.

The Operations directorate, our largest directorate, is integral to co-ordinating our work across the network – working with local Citizens Advice and national teams to ensure that clients receive the help and advice they need when they need it. We have bold ambitions to sustainably serve greater demand effectively and efficiently through high quality delivery, use of technology, strategic thinking, and a culture of collaborative support across the directorate and network.

The Director of Network Strategy and Standards is responsible for providing strategic oversight, leadership and support to the network of local Citizens Advice, whilst the Director of Service Delivery holds strategic responsibility for the transformation, sustainable delivery and continuous improvement of a range of nationally-funded services delivered to clients via our network of local Citizens Advice and partners. The roles require extensive face to face engagement with leaders, staff and volunteers in our network, national charity staff, external partners and funders, as well as regulators. The Directors will work closely with other Directors as members of the Citizens Advice Leadership Team to deliver on the organisation’s strategy, the Future of Advice, as well as providing expert advice and insight to the Executive Team, Trustee Board and other senior leaders on strategic decisions.

We are seeking strategic leaders experienced in large and complex organisational contexts with multiple, diverse stakeholders, who can contribute to an inventive, responsible and generous organisation and team culture and commit to creating a positive working environment in which equality and diversity are well managed, dignity at work is upheld and staff are empowered and motivated. Candidates will demonstrate the ability to run and develop high quality, value and volume client-facing services at a senior level in a multi-stakeholder environment, to build effective relationships at all levels, and to innovate and lead change. In return, we offer a commitment to your development and access to a number of benefits to demonstrate that we value the people who work at Citizens Advice.

Citizens Advice is fully committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles – we stand up and speak up for those who face inequality and disadvantage, and we want this to be reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us.

If you have the personal qualities and enthusiasm to drive change within the Citizens Advice service and you embody our inventive, responsible and generous values, we would love to hear from you.

Please click 'Apply on website' to apply or obtain further information on the required qualifications, skills and experience for these exciting opportunities:

Reference 4329 – Director of Network Strategy and Standards

Reference 4330 – Director of Service Delivery

The deadline for applications is Monday, 14th October 2019.

Please note that these roles can either be based in London or in one of our other regional offices, with regular travel to London.

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Harris Hill are recruiting for a Director of Finance on a 3 day a week basis, for this well-established Charity based in Sussex

Salary: 55,000pa Pro Rata
Location: Sussex
Day: 3 days a week, with 1 day working from home if required

The Director of Finance will focus on ensuring that the charities Finance and IT services deliver its mission and achieve its strategic goals. Reporting directly to the CEO and as part of the Senior Management Team, the post-holder will play an important role in the leadership and management in helping deliver their ambitious strategy to 2021 and beyond.

The Director of Finance is responsible for the preparation of all financial information, relating to strategic projections, annual planning, budgeting and statutory accounts, monthly management accounts, audit processes and ensuring adequate financial controls and governance are in place including in our overseas programmes (this may require some international travel). They will contribute to risk management and will manage a small finance and administration team.

The Person
The successful candidate will be a dynamic leader with strong programmes experience who is CCAB qualified (or QBE) with experience of producing accounts compliant with the Charities SORP and with managing restricted funding.

Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People is looking for a Director of Supporter Relations to develop sustainability of income and long-term relationships with donors.

As the East Midlands’ only hospice for children and young people, Rainbows is a place where children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families can find care and support. Their incredible team of people help with end of life care, symptom management and respite care. They also support parents and siblings through their bereavement. Last year, Rainbows’ day care facilities welcomed over 1000 children and young people through their doors.

The Director of Supporter Relations role will provide leadership and direction to the Supporter Relations team and will develop and implement an overall fundraising strategy aligned to the business plan of the organisation. They will also create a high-performance culture within fundraising. The post is responsible for four fundraising departments - Individual Giving, Organisational Giving, Supporter Care and Retail - to meet the needs of the ongoing challenge of provision of funding for the charity’s vital services. Including fundraising costs, it costs the charity £6.6 million every year to provide their high-quality care.

The hospice is seeking a motivational leader with strong organisational, interpersonal, and statistical and analytical skills. You will have an excellent understanding of donor acquisition and retention, and a proven track record of achieving significant targets within agreed timescales. You will also need to have managed a medium-large fundraising team and be a positive and dynamic self-starter, capable of working under pressure.

If you have the relevant skills and experience and want to help Rainbows be there for even more families when they need them the most, then find out more by clicking though to our recruitment pack.

For an informal conversation prior to applying to this role, please contact Anton Packheiser +44 (0) 7749 858597 or Suzie Spooner on +44 (0) 7960 932 315.

PLEASE NOTE: We will be shortlisting as we receive applications, so please apply early to register your interest.

Orbis UK - one of the leading international eye care charities preventing and treating avoidable blindness and visual impairment - is seeking a strategic fundraising leader to provide management and coordination of Orbis UK’s fundraising and communications activities in the UK and Europe.

Orbis works to help the estimated 253 million people in the world who are blind or visually impaired, 75% of whom have conditions that are preventable or treatable. Working in communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America, where the majority of people with sight loss live, Orbis screen for and treat eye conditions, raise awareness about eye health, and train and mentor local eye care teams. Through their long-term programmes and their unique Flying Eye Hospital, Orbis save sight and transform lives around the world.

Orbis UK are looking for a highly motivated and inspirational fundraising leader to develop and deliver a three-year strategy for fundraising and communications, building upon their income growth over the last ten years. You will be a key member of a global fundraising team working to ensure global alignment and opportunity planning across all income generation streams.

You must have experience of leading and motivating a multi-disciplinary team and have a track record of delivering against targets. You will also be a strategic and creative thinker with a firm understanding of how the communications function works to increase awareness with key audiences. You will also be well-organised with excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as prepared to travel internationally.

International Peacebuilding Charity seeks an experienced Director of Operations to join the senior management team at a time of organisational growth.  Based in London, s/he will develop this new role to make it her/his own, working with the Chief Executive and Finance Director to provide leadership and strategic direction to our work.

Concordis International is a UK registered peacebuilding charity with programmes in Central African Republic, Mauritania, Sudan and South Sudan, plus some new work in the pipeline. 

We work alongside those involved in or affected by armed conflict, helping them find workable solutions that address the root causes of conflict and contribute to lasting peace and economic development.  We’re committed to finding solutions that benefit women as well as men, those in armed groups as well as those who chose not to take up arms, national governments as well as civil society.

Conflict is always complex and exists at multiple levels with numerous parties and a range of different drivers.  Concordis has particular expertise in conflict management and security issues across fluid borders, particularly involving cross-border seasonal migration and trade.  Independent evaluation of these dialogues found that the work was “unprecedented” and achieved “highly successful results” in mitigating conflict arising out of cross-border migration.

Concordis’ UK footprint is intentionally small; we focus our resources on the countries where we work.  We’re therefore looking for a highly adept Director of Operations who will bring a range of skills and experiences to the post and to our organisation, from high level organisational management, through staff care for our teams around the world, to the ability to communicate our work more effectively to donors and supporters.

Above all, our organisation is founded on the belief that strong relationships are key to both peaceful societies and healthy teams.  As Concordis grows, we need someone who will help maintain a strong team dynamic, wherever staff may be based.

Job Title: Director of Operations

Location: London

Duration: Permanent (subject to probation)

Hours: Part time: 20-25 hours per week (negotiable); flexible and some off-site working available

Salary: £40,000-45,000 pro rata (i.e. £21,400 – £30,000 pa depending on agreed hours and experience)

Reporting to: Chief Executive, based in the UK

Application: Applications will only be accepted if submitted on the application form available on website

Deadline: Sunday 20th October 2019 at 23.59 hrs

Key Areas of Responsibility

Working with the board of trustees, the chief executive and the finance director to develop strategic direction for the organisation that will enable us to make a measurable impact for peace in the places where we work.

Sharing responsibility for implementation of that strategy, ensuring Concordis has the financial, human and organisational resources to deliver it.

Leading on the operational aspects strategic delivery, with particular responsibility for:

Our people:

• Making Concordis a great place to work, maintaining a positive and supportive culture, with clear unity between our offices in London, Nouakchott, Paoua and Abyei, even as the organisation grows
• Supporting the staff team, helping to ensure that their passion and dedication to the work doesn’t jeopardise their own health and wellbeing
• Retaining the culture in which staff remain with the organisation for the long term, recognising that peacebuilding depends on building relationships of trust, which take a long time to develop
• Leading on the recruitment of excellent new team members when the need arises and means permit

Our supporters

• Helping us to be better at explaining what we do to those who support us and who take a personal interest in our work
• Growing our supporter network, identifying and securing donations from new people and trusts who may be interested in partnering financially in our work for peace

Our partners

• Taking a direct and informed interest in the wider community of peacebuilders and humanitarians, particularly in the UK, helping to ensure Concordis promotes a joined up and collaborative approach between different disciplines in addressing the complex challenges faced in fragile states
• Representing Concordis in meetings of partners, funders and other stakeholders as needed
• Providing editorial supporting to the programme teams in ensuring production of high quality reports on our work, then helping to disseminate these reports and their recommendations to a global audience through peer networks and via social media

Our resources

• Ensuring the teams around the world have the resources they need to do their work, including logistical, insurance and IT support
• Supporting the programme team by proof-reading funding proposals to help ensure sustainable programme finances

Our governance

• Reporting directly to the board and its sub-committees, particularly to the risk, human resources and fundraising / communications sub-committees
• Supporting with the chair of the board and the chief executive by ensuring board minutes and other papers are in good order, action points are followed up and the board have the best information available to help them make informed decisions
• Ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the London office in compliance with current legislation governing employment practice, safeguarding, data protection, charity and company law, ensuring Concordis’ policies remain up-to-date and workable, that they are followed by the staff team, and that they enable Concordis to work safely and securely
• Taking stewardship of the organisational risk register, using this as an operational document that ensures risk is properly managed

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential Attributes and Qualifications:

1. Extensive experience of organisational management at director level or equivalent, reporting to boards and taking responsibility for delivering results
2. Positive examples of designing and implementing strategies to manage growth and change
3. Experience of recruiting, managing and motivating a multi-cultural team of staff in multiple locations to excel in challenging roles
4. Demonstrable experience of effective and persuasive communication of complex messages, both verbally and in writing, to raise organisational profile
5. Impressive track record of raising funds through private donors, grant making trusts and / or institutional donors
6. Clear understanding of the political landscape around international development and peacebuilding
7. Excellent IT skills including website management, databases, desktop publishing and finding fixes for day to day IT issues
8. Sublimely organised and able to keep calm and prioritise under pressure
9. Clear working knowledge of current legislation governing employment practice, safeguarding, data protection, charity and company law and experience of ensuring pain-free compliance across an organisation
10. Experience of assessing and managing complex risk
11. A passion to help make the world a more peaceful place
12. Commitment to Concordis’ mission, principles, values (available at http://concordis.international/our-mission-and-values
13. Entitlement to work in the UK

Highly Desirable Attributes and Qualifications:

1. Experience of the charity sector
2. Fluency in French
3. Willingness and ability to travel internationally when necessary

Health and Wellbeing Director
37.5 hours per week. Flexible working will be required. Salary – £40,000 – £45,000
Based at Beacon Centre in Sedgley, with responsibility across the charity’s geographic operating footprint. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.

Beacon is a charity with a bold vision of making a visible difference for people living with sight loss, helping them to live fuller, more independent lives. With the Chief Executive and the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) you will be responsible for developing, implementing, evaluating and achieving the Ambition 2025 strategy. Building on the organisation's people, systems and assets, you will be part of the team that ensures the long-term performance and sustainability of the charity to the benefit of its customers and supporters.

As Health & Wellbeing Director, you will lead on developing Beacon’s Health & Wellbeing services offer to a wider sight loss customer base and their carers across its operating geography. You will provide leadership across our regulated care, day activities provision, community development and employment programmes, empowering staff to put our customers at the centre of their service provision. Engaging with strategic influencers and developing a range of partnerships, you will promote Beacon as a provider of choice for citizens, communities and commissioners.

This is an exciting time for Beacon, and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead a new directorate and make a lasting contribution to the strategic direction of the charity. The ideal candidate will have experience of:

- Strategic senior management in a dynamic, fast paced and challenging environment
- Proven track record of overseeing the delivery of regulated care and day services, including compliance with Care Quality Commission and Local Authority Adult Social Care
- Experience of developing and managing complex budgets, including external funds
- Excellent people manager, with the ability to inspire and empower staff to perform at their highest level
- Proven entrepreneurial abilities and demonstrable experience of leading business planning processes from vision to implementation to evaluation

In return, we offer flexible working, on site restaurant facilities, competitive benefits including generous holiday allowance, Simply Health Cash Plan and pension, plus a fun environment, led by an inspirational CEO.

If you are interested in the above vacancy, please select the apply button shown.

If you do not hear within two weeks of applying, please assume you have been unsuccessful.

Due to business need, we will be reviewing candidates on a case by case basis. As such, please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Other organisations may call this role Head of Support Services, Head of Social Care, Support Services Director, Care Services Manager, Head of Care Services, Care Services Director, Health Services Director, or Wellbeing Services Director.

This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

The Cares Family is seeking a Director of Development (Maternity Cover), to drive and adapt our fundraising strategy, to lead our Development team across our national group of charities, and to raise at least £300,000 of new income between the end of 2019 and March 2021.

In this role at the heart of our senior leadership team, you will work closely with our Founder/CEO, Managing Director and Director of Programmes to set and drive The Cares Family's fundraising strategy and potential, and to help execute our broader strategic priorities. You will line manage our national Head of Development as well as two of our Development Coordinators. And you will inspire our Development team of seven across five city locations to drive community fundraising at a local level.

So we're looking for a real leader – someone who can lead by example, inspire confidence, deliver strategy, and identify and mitigate risk. That requires communication, personal warmth, determination, planning, listening skills and a keen eye for detail. With your team working hard to drive local income, you will be responsible for generating income for The Cares Family at a national level. 

That's why we need someone with a track record in securing gifts from major donors; someone who has the desire to get out of the office to build external relationships; who knows the importance of stewardship, and has secured six figure gifts as a result. You will also work closely with our growing Development Board to establish new networks and gifts for The Cares Family. And you will drive our corporate relationships and accounts. 

With so much of this role depending on relationships, we need a real people-person. You will have excellent cultivation and negotiation skills, but also the tenacity and hunger to create new opportunities. We need someone who is dynamic, passionate about people and who can clearly promote our vision for building friendships across deepening divides. 

To do that, you will work predominantly from one of our five offices in London, Manchester or Liverpool, and will be required to travel between them on up to 30 working days of the year. In return, you'll be trusted to work independently across these exciting charities, with a growing profile and backing from major local and national supporters. You'll also be provided with all the professional support, accelerated personal and professional development opportunities and networks to play a lasting, transformative role in the development of the “Cares” vision and family.

If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Closing date:    17th October 2019 at 1700hrs

Interview Date: 29th October 2019 

2020 is Florence Nightingale’s bicentennial year. This role is therefore an exciting opportunity to lead the development and delivery of the Florene Nightingale Foundation Academy, its strategy and work-plan for the Foundation to achieve its organisational strategic and annual priorities.

The Florence Nightingale Foundation Academy will provide an integrated approach to meeting the following objectives:

• Develop leadership capacity and capability at every level in the nursing and midwifery professions
• Develop capacity and capability to exploit and utilise evidence to inform policy and improve nursing practice, patient experience and health outcomes
• Develop, strengthen and mobilise the voice of nursing and midwifery in health policy agendas
• Develop nursing and midwifery capacity and capability to influence policy decisions and act as change agents to improve patient and health care outcomes

The Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) has a growing national and global reputation for promoting excellence in nursing and midwifery practice. It has a rapidly developing portfolio of activities which are designed to enhance the impact and influence of the nursing and midwifery professions on the quality of patient care and health related policy issues and decisions.  Our mission is to strengthen the voice of nurses and midwives and their influence and impact on quality of care and health outcomes.

At the Florence Nightingale Foundation, diversity is an integral part of our Board, team, scholar selection, programme content and delivery. Inclusion is the way we treat and perceive all differences. We want to create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are treated as equal. Diversity adds richness to the Florence Nightingale Foundation.

Job Purpose (see downloadable document)

The Director of the FNF Academy (DoA) will manage day to day operations of the Academy, deputise for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), offer professional nursing/midwifery leadership offer professional nursing/midwifery leadership to the design of scholarships and commissioned programmes and be responsible for the quality and efficiency of the Academy’s business processes. The core elements of the role are:

• Work with the CEO and Board of Trustees to execute the Academy’s strategy and delivery of the Business Plan
• Oversee the day to day operations of the Academy and the work of the team including external professional providers for example FNF Faculty Associates
• Provide, in partnership with the CEO, professional leadership within the Foundation
• Foster opportunities and partnerships for the development of commissioned programmes
• Write funding proposals with support of the CEO and Chief Finance Officer (CFO)
• Co-design new scholarships and commissioned programmes, ensuring these meet national standards and are evidence based
• Use national and international research and practice to inform new and innovate frameworks and pathways for delivery to enhance nursing practice
• Develop and evaluate methods of demonstrating the impact and outcome of the Foundation's work
• Deputise for the CEO as required

Scope of the Role

The DoA is the most senior role in the Foundation after the CEO and so will have the responsibility and authority to support the development and transformation of the Foundation whilst driving forward operational excellence and maintaining the confidence of donors, scholars, regulators and wider stakeholders.

On behalf of the CEO, the post holder will have responsibility for the overall performance and operational management of the Academy, ensuring that robust systems and processes are in place so that the Academy can deliver its core functions.

The DoA will be a member of the Executive Team, attend the Foundation's Trustees Board meetings and deputise for the CEO as appropriate.

Director of Housing

Letchworth

£80,000 to £90,000 depending on experience

Our client is a modern social business. As a proud provider of social housing, they manage over 9,000 properties across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. Formed in 2003, they were previously known as North Hertfordshire Homes.

They currently have an exciting opportunity for a Director of Housing to take the lead on the delivery of services to their customers. 

The Director of Housing will lead the housing, home ownership, income, lettings, retirement and temporary accommodation teams.  You will work closely with residents, the maintenance service and customer contact centre and will aim to create a joined-up easy to use service for all residents. 

As part of the leadership team, you will contribute to our client’s strategy and the way they are led, championing the customer and applying a collaborative and flexible approach.  This role really is at the heart of their operations.

Our client is looking for a leader, with strong technical housing knowledge, who is passionate about housing and looking to join a progressive organisation.  A proactive, visible and engaging leader, you must be able to share your housing experience with your team, inspiring colleagues and encouraging an open and honest approach.

If you have good practical experience of running a busy frontline customer facing service along with knowledge of a range of housing tenures, our client would love to hear from you!

 

Closing date: Midday 14 October

Interviews will be held: w/c 21 October

Closing Date:  17th October 2019

Interview Date: 29th October 2019

Job Purpose 

2020 is Florence Nightingale’s bicentennial year.  This role is therefore an exciting opportunity to lead the development and delivery of a new multi-channel communications strategy and work-plan for the Foundation, in order that we can achieve its organisational strategic and annual priorities. You will build and deliver targeted, results orientated and quality communications, including for a new fundraising campaign launching in early 2020.

The Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) has a growing national and global reputation for promoting excellence in nursing and midwifery practice. It has a rapidly developing portfolio of activities which are designed to enhance the impact and influence of the nursing and midwifery professions on the quality of patient care and health related policy issues and decisions.  Our mission is to strengthen the voice of nurses and midwives and their influence and impact on quality of care and health outcomes. 

At the Florence Nightingale Foundation, diversity is an integral part of our Board, team, scholar selection, programme content and delivery. Inclusion is the way we treat and perceive all differences. We want to create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are treated as equal. Diversity adds richness to the Florence Nightingale Foundation.

Team Purpose

To positively showcase the influence and impact nurses and midwives have on improving health and care outcomes through delivering a compelling programme of communications, marketing and events. This programme will raise the profile of the Foundation’s work and delivers our objectives for income, influence and impact with our key stakeholders (including donors, NHS, private sector, government, civil society and the media).

Fifth Sense
Development Director

• Are you passionate about helping people who often feel marginalised?
• Are you looking for a job with purpose?
• Could you build on some amazing work done to date entirely by volunteers and trustees and help Fifth Sense grow into becoming an established national charity? 

If so, please read on….

Introduction to Fifth Sense

Fifth Sense is the charity for people affected by smell and taste disorders – such as anosmia, the loss or lack of the sense of smell – conditions which are often invisible to those unaffected.  The vision of our pioneering and innovative organisation is to transform society’s understanding of the senses of smell and taste, and through doing so, transform the lives of those affected by smell and taste disorders.  We educate people on the importance of smell and taste and the impact that impairments of these senses can have whilst providing support, advice and a signpost to potential diagnosis and treatment to those affected, including their partners, family members and friends.  We also support, promote and facilitate research into such conditions. 

Established in 2012 by the current Chair, Fifth Sense has already established a programme of activity on which our 3 year Development Plan has been built.  Having now been granted a significant award from the National Lottery Community Fund to support our plan, we are in a position to scale-up our existing activity which will enable us to benefit many more people. 

Fifth Sense are therefore seeking a positive, motivated and dynamic individual with an interest in the senses of smell and taste to commit to leading our ambitious Development Plan and grow our organisation towards becoming a sustainable national charity.

The Role

You will lead the delivery of a multi-strand three-year project to grow Fifth Sense towards becoming an established charity with a national reach.

• Working in partnership with Consultant ENT Surgeons, Scientists, Academics and relevant external organisations, you will direct and oversee a programme of beneficiary-led activity to ensure that the people we represent:
  • will be better informed about potential medical treatment available;
  • will receive improved support and understanding both from their partners and from their medical practitioners;
  • will be better able to manage their own condition and thereby alleviate the distress caused;
  • will be able to use their personal experience to help others, for example by taking part in research and by volunteering.
• Using your enthusiasm and motivational and organisational skills, you’ll empower teams of volunteers to become the champions of their own condition and make their invisible condition visible. 
• Securing the future of our organisation is a crucial part of our Development Plan, and you’ll build on the external relationships already established by the trustee board to increase our reach and grow revenue in line with our sustainability plans.

This is a three year contract, with a six month probationary period.  Applicants will need to submit their cvs and to complete the application form to show how they match the requirements.  Please note that candidates selected for interview will be required to demonstrate that they are eligible to work in the UK.

The proposed timetable which may be subject to change if necessary is as follows:

13 Oct 2019
Applications close

17 Oct 2019
Selected candidates will be invited for interview in Leeds. Candidates will be expected to complete some assessment tests.

21 Oct 2019
Shortlisted candidates will receive additional information from the 3 year development plan from which they will be expected to prepare a presentation explaining how they propose to achieve the organisations aims. 

30 Oct 2019
Presentations from the shortlisted candidates will be received in London. 

Fifth Sense celebrates diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Please click here to be redirected to the Fifth Sense website where you can download a full job description and an application form. 

This is a key operational role with both an internal and external focus. The post holder is responsible for the service delivery performance of all Trailblazers projects; currently at HMPs Aylesbury, Wandsworth, Brinsford, and Isis, however this could be extended. Additionally, the post holder will be responsible for any contract or grant compliance stipulated by our funders and responsible for the quality and health & safety within the individual projects.

Externally the post holder will lead and build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure young people on release secure Education, Training or Employment (ETE) opportunities. The post holder will be tasked with ensuring an agreed percentage of young people achieve an ETE outcome within six months of release. The post holder will also assist the CEO with strategic development including income generation.

Hours: There is flexibility in start and finish times with working hours (37.5 per week) normally between the hours of 0800 – 1730. It is expected that the post-holder will work flexibly around contracted hours to meet business requirements and deadlines. Occasional weekend and evening working may be required. Holiday – 23days p.a. plus eight public holidays
Location: London or Aylesbury

Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for the recruitment, induction, training and performance management of Project Managers
• Lead and support the Project Managers to foster and maintain a culture of high performance and entrepreneurial spirit within their projects
• Lead Project Managers to ensure young people and volunteer mentors have a positive experience with Trailblazers
• Ensure the effective supervision of Project Managers including regular 1:1s, the setting of objectives, reviewing and monitoring of objectives
• Supporting the CEO with active relationship management of HMP governors and senior management
• Encourage innovation with the Project Manager team, but take responsibility for ensuring that new initiatives are implemented consistently in line with Trailblazers objectives
• Lead the Project Managers to ensure volunteer mentors are recruited in a timely way and that project KPIs are achieved
• Development of mentor resource center including induction, training and on-going support of our mentors
• Risk management including safeguarding staff and mentors
• Ensure that each project is gathering and recording data accurately and on time so that performance management can be reviewed in “real time”
• Identifying and working with partners in delivery e.g. community support, probation etc
• Deputising for the CEO

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring adherence to the policies and procedures of Trailblazers and must work flexibly to achieve these.

The successful applicant will be required to apply for an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and / or Pre-Appointment Checks from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). Such checks are impartial and confidential. They give details of an individual’s criminal record if any and where appropriate give details of those who are banned from working with children or vulnerable adults.

Key Relationships
External:
• Volunteering / employment / training organisations
• Funders
• Partner organisations including: Mentoring & Befriending Foundation, Third Sector Research Centre and other third sector organisations
Internal:
• Staff and Senior Management Team
• Board of Trustees
• Volunteers

Person Specification
Experience required: Essential
• Minimum 2yrs experience of working within the criminal justice sector or related areas
• Significant proven experience in the design, leadership and delivery of training to staff, volunteers or service users
• Proven experience in the interviewing, selection and leadership of staff or volunteers
 

Experience required: Desirable
• Experience of working at a senior level within an organisation (ideally at SMT level)
• Significant experience of the voluntary sector
• Commercial experience and budgetary responsibility

Skills & Abilities: Essential
• A proven self-starter with a high level of self-motivation and enthusiasm
• Proven ability to achieve results in a complex operating environment
• Personable in approach and a good people manager
• Excellent administration, well organised, determined, resilient and the ability to maintain a high level of pace (and effectiveness) in the role
• Excellent IT skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Please note we expect a covering letter no more than one page summarising why you  want the position and what you would bring to the role along with a copy of your CV.

The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) is seeking a Director of Fundraising to build on a strong fundraising track record and to develop and implement a fundraising strategy that will help them meet their vision for 25 years’ time.

The NMRN plays an essential role in in raising public awareness and understanding of all aspects of the Royal Navy, embracing all aspects of the Royal Navy’s past, present and future. They do this through raising funds and restoring collections that help conserve the history, deeds and traditions of the Royal Navy and its fighting arms; theirs is a story of a Service that has literally sculpted the history, culture and people of Great Britain.

The NMRN has bold plans to increase financial resources and are looking for an inspiring and motivational Director of Fundraising to lead all their fundraising programmes and activities, and to develop and implement their fundraising strategy. The role will be responsible for ensuring significant, sustained voluntary income to secure the Museum’s financial position and to deliver priority projects, working closely with the Director General and in collaboration with members of the Executive Team.

You must have a wealth and breadth of experience of professional and technical knowledge in fundraising and supporter development, particularly relationship fundraising, with a strong understanding of donor and market dynamics and requirements. You must be able to demonstrate the ability of effectively developing and stewarding high-level relationships whether that is with senior figures in the Royal Navy, companies, foundations or government departments. You will be pro-active and creative with experience across individual philanthropy, foundations, corporate fundraising and legacies. You will also have secured and stewarded seven figure gifts.

If you have the relevant skills and experience and would like to be part of an amazing organisation that celebrates and preserves the history of the Royal Navy, then please do apply.

For an informal conversation prior to applying to this role, please contact Anton Packheiser +44 (0) 7749 858597 or Suzie Spooner on +44 (0) 7960 932 315.