As a result of an exciting array of opportunities for greater impact and influence, TLG are creating the brand-new role of Schools Strategy Director to initially lead a strategic review of the TLG Education Centre model and the existing support structure. 

The School Strategy Director will build a shared understanding with senior leaders of the practices that are central to success and identify opportunities for school improvement, efficiency, investment and change across the TLG network of Education Centre Schools. 

They will bring leadership in the implementation of change and development with the goal of enabling local churches to play their part with TLG in transforming the lives of struggling children.  We are seeking a senior educational leader with a vibrant Christian faith and a passion for the Church to be at the forefront of changing lives.

As part of our commitment to safeguarding, the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the DBS. We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

Are you experienced in leading large-scale quantitative evaluations? Interested in being at the heart of an important national evaluation within education?

NFER is a not-for-profit, independent provider of education research and insights. In our seventy-five years we have built up a strong reputation as a leading voice on the big issues and important questions happening within education. Today the Covid-19 pandemic is having a significant effect on education and NFER is committed to generating evidence and insights that can be used to support children’s learning recovery. Tutoring is a continuing policy priority for learning recovery and beyond.

Joining as the Project Director you will provide strategic direction and leadership to a consortium of organisations appointed to evaluate the National Tutoring Programme (NTP). Taking the lead of the programme in its latter Phase 1 stage, you will have two key objectives: to deliver a cohesive Phase 1 evaluation and to lead the Consortium for the entirety of the Phase 2 evaluation if our proposal is successful.

We are looking for someone who has a conceptual understanding of quasi-experimental, implementation and process evaluation work, who can lead the execution of our evaluation design and oversee the work of the Strand Leads. This will not be hands on role, you will be providing strategic oversight of the consortium and will have the support of a team of people as well as the current lead of the evaluation.

About you?

Ideally, you’ll have a;

• Track record of leading complex large-scale quantitative evaluations
• Strong understanding of what elements of a study matter in order to generate causal conclusions
• Strong understanding of current challenges around post-pandemic learning recovery
• Strong and confident communicator – in writing, face-to-face and in larger groups; able to adapt style for a range of different audiences

You’ll also be able to;

• Manage a team of people from across organisations and disciplines
• Make strategic and resourcing decisions as part of change management
• Manage and prioritise a range of activities to meet agreed deadlines

You may have held similar roles such as Impact and Evaluation Manager, Senior Trials Manager, Senior Research Manager, Research Project Director.

Why NFER?

• Competitive salary based on skills and experiences (£50,000-£60,000)
• Generous pension scheme
• 42 days’ holiday per year including Bank Holidays + additional discretionary days
• Free parking in private modern offices on five acres of green park land
• Excellent support for professional development
• Great work/life balance (35 hour working week)

Our teams are currently working from home and we are open to exploring remote and flexible working options.

This is a 2 year fixed term contract.

We are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all sections of the community. So, if you are looking for a fresh, new challenge apply via the button shown.

Role purpose

We are looking for someone to lead Voice 21’s approach to professional development, ensuring that our carefully constructed programme of professional learning is truly world-class, transforming outcomes for students in our target population.

Voice 21 Oracy Schools is a complex whole-school intervention which empowers schools to provide their students with a high quality oracy education. The Learning Design Lead will be responsible for researching, designing and refining our professional development offer, ensuring our blended approach to professional learning is of the highest standard and that participating teachers are both inspired and confident to put oracy at the heart of their practice.

The detail: day-to-day work

• Collaborating with our Schools Team to understand what’s working well and driving impact in our schools, translating this learning into our wider membership offer.

• Creating engaging online learning modules and designing new professional learning materials.

• Overseeing the design and creation of teaching materials and resources to support our schools to

  provide a high quality oracy education.

• Working with teachers from different phases and subject disciplines to further develop Voice 21’s

  approach to oracy education.

• Leading internal professional development for our team of Oracy Consultants to enable them to

  deliver high-quality courses and consultancy.

​You’ll take ownership for:

• Designing Voice 21’s professional development courses, ensuring that they empower teachers and school leaders to meet the Oracy Benchmarks.

• The conception and design of professional development programmes for particular audiences or with specific intended outcomes, such as ‘Get Talking in Prus’ or ‘Voicing Vocabulary’.

• Our content review process, modifying and improving our professional learning materials based on impact data and feedback from participants.

• Voice 21’s resources strategy, carefully considering what resources we can provide to teachers and school leaders to best support them to provide a high-quality oracy education for their students.

• The ongoing development of Voice 21’s online learning platform - The Voice 21 Exchange- ensuring that our blended approach to professional learning is high-quality and impactful.

We succeed when we work together. Here’s who you’ll be working with regularly:

• Our Research and Impact Lead, to better understand the impact of Voice 21’s work on students in our target population.

• Our Schools Team, to learn what’s working well and driving impact in our schools.

• You’ll report to the Director of Learning and Impact, working collaboratively with them to develop Voice 21’s approach to oracy education.

The essentials

• A self-starter who takes on new opportunities and challenges with positivity and enthusiasm.

• Comfortable managing ambiguity, happy to tackle problems that don’t have clear outcomes or solutions.

• A team player who enjoys collaborating with, and learning from, others.

• An excellent communicator, able to capture complex ideas simply, both in written and oral communication.

• A genuine passion for oracy and a real interest in learning more about this exciting aspect of education.

Skills and experience

• A strong understanding of the hallmarks of effective teacher professional development and an interest in exploring what makes teachers change their practice.

• A track record in designing and leading professional development for teachers.

• An interest in using technology and digital learning platforms to enhance learning design.

• Knowledge of research and best practice in oracy education.

You’ll love this job if

• You are passionate about oracy education and the power it has to transform outcomes for the least advantaged students.

• You think deeply about how best practice and research can be translated effectively into the school and classroom context.

• You are excited to make your mark on a growing, fast-paced organisation with big ambitions.

Job title: Managing Director of Lightful Solutions

Department: Lightful Solutions

Seniority: At least 5 years of experience of running large internal teams (between 20-50 people)

Reporting to: The CEO 

Direct reports: 8

Indirect reports: 13 full time, plus 6 contractors

Compensation: Highly competitive salary with stock options + other benefits

Location: Remote working, then 1-2 days in an office per week in London or Bristol

At Lightful, we believe those doing the greatest good deserve the best technology. Our products and services are designed for charities and nonprofits to simplify their work and amplify their impact.

Our journey to this point has had many successes. We work with hundreds of nonprofits and foundations each year to improve how they use digital. We are a certified B Corporation, ensuring that community, the environment and our staff are central to all of our decision making. We are a recognised Living Wage employer, and have been profiled in The Sunday Times, Forbes and Sky News. We are in The Escape 100, as one of the best companies in the UK to escape to for a career with purpose. And we are supported by a wide array of incredible investors, including Nick Mason CBE and Dario Franchitti MBE.

Lightful is a business built to create impact both in and out of the office. Our people and products support nonprofits in 58 countries around the world, organisations that are solving some of our planet's greatest challenges. Our work has helped small charities increase fundraising by 64% year on year. Since achieving B Corp status in 2020, we have created an impact out of the office too. We have planted 12,371 trees planted through our employee carbon offset programme, saved 295,497 litres of water, and offset 1,107 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide emissions through 28 global carbon reduction projects.

We are expanding our senior leadership team, with the addition of a Managing Director (MD) to drive the growth and continued excellence of one of our 3 core business units: Lightful Solutions. This role will be the lead role in Lightful Solutions, a tailor-made technology consultancy that exists to help nonprofits embrace change, with best-in-class technology solutions that are dependable, secure and effective.

This position reports directly to our CEO, and works closely alongside our Co-Founders, the MD of Lightful Products and the MD of Lightful Learning to drive and influence the long term direction, profitability and impact of Lightful. 

You will have responsibility for the overall business strategy for Lightful Solutions. In this role, you will drive consistent and rapid revenue growth, lead our exceptional client delivery teams to develop Salesforce Solutions and deliver excellence to all of our clients. Internally, you will drive technological excellence in delivery, growth and development of the whole team through cross-team initiatives and continue to double our impact and our revenue year on year. 

If you have a track record of driving revenue growth, have experience delivering project excellence on behalf of clients, revel in managing a multi-disciplinary and exceptionally talented team, and are looking to focus your career to create immense impact not only for this high growth scaleup, but for our clients and for our planet, then this is the role for you.

What can we offer you?

• The opportunity to join our senior leadership team, working closely with our three Co-Founders and two other Managing Directors
• The opportunity to lead a profitable technology team that has a track record of doubling its impact and revenue each year 
• The opportunity to drive growth, change and innovation within one of our core business units
• The opportunity to develop and lead experienced client delivery teams of talented and passionate professionals across projects in the UK, North America and EMEA 
• The opportunity to shape a consultancy service at the cutting edge of digital innovation, using technologies such as Salesforce
• The opportunity to build on established relationships with world leading charities such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rhodes Trust and Citizens Advice, and the opportunity to create many more
• The opportunity to enjoy and thrive in a role that drives high social and environmental impact
• The opportunity to be a thought leader through spoken and written work by representing Lightful's work in the growing Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) and #techforgood space

What is the vision for the business that you will develop?

• To create a business that is an inspiring innovation hub within the nonprofit sector
• To create a business that puts user experience, user adoption, delight and impact at its core
• To create a business that values entrepreneurship, ambition and fun within the team
• To create a business that thrives on a fast pace of working, autonomy, and change
• To create a business that delivers excellence across all Lightful Solutions projects whilst ensuring client satisfaction and impact

Our story

At Lightful, we believe that those doing the greatest good deserve the best technology.

We’re passionate about making the best technology accessible to charities and nonprofits. Our products and solutions help organisations unleash the power of technology and make the good work they do even greater. Our products and services are designed to simplify the work and amplify the impact of charities and nonprofits. 

In 2015, Lightful was launched by Vinay Nair, Johnny Murnane and Carlos Miranda. Three friends who all had different exposure to the nonprofit sector, they all realised the same thing - nonprofits were not getting the technology they deserve.

Before evolving into Lightful (pre-2015), we were a YouTube certified multi-channel network (MCN) known as Thunderboom. Our original intention was to help charities and nonprofits of all shapes and sizes monetise their video content.

Things changed - as they do - and we eventually pivoted. We left our MCN ambitions behind, and we launched our now award-winning Lightful Social Platform. At that time, the company became known as Lightful.

From there we grew our consultancy services - now Lightful Solutions - and developed a comprehensive 12-month course to equip charities with the digital skills and capabilities they need to become more resilient - Lightful Learning's BRIDGE programme.

Lightful values

As a certified B Corp, we’re a values-led organisation, and our values are integral to the Lightful culture. Our Lightful values are:

• To act with audacity while remembering humility
• To understand the importance of both listening and leadership
• To practice generosity whilst showing accountability
• These all lay on the foundation of respect and integrity

Our business units
We offer three services to charities and nonprofits; Lightful Products, Lightful Learning and Lightful Solutions. Each business unit is different but highly interconnected, designed for the different needs of the social and environmental-focused organisations we’re proud to serve and work with.

Lightful Products
Lightful Products helps drive organisations forward with ready made software such as: 

• Lightful Fundraising Pages, fully customisable and branded to clients look and feel, to enable clients create engaging experiences that drive donations
• Lightful Social Platform, the #1 social media tool for charities, it helps charities schedule social media content, increase engagement and save time
• Lightful Components, a toolkit of adaptable components designed to build flexible, design-driven online communities

Lightful Learning

Lightful Learning helps our partners master real world skills through a combination of tools and support, building their confidence and resilience. It was designed to grow digital skills and increase effectiveness within the nonprofit sector.

Building resilience in digital growth and engagement (BRIDGE) is Lightful Learning's flagship programme for impact organisations looking to future-proof their operations at a time of great change. It combines a learning syllabus, delivered through a combination of live and recorded sessions and webinars, with the Lightful Social Platform. BRIDGE is supported by foundations and other funders, and offered to small-to-medium sized charities that they support.
 

Lightful Solutions
Lightful Solutions has been a Salesforce Partner since 2017 and has worked on almost 100 projects with over 50 clients. Our team has 27 members, including user researchers, UX designers, UI designers, developers, architects, administrators, business analysts and project managers. We have more than 60 Salesforce certifications across our team and more than 175 combined years of Salesforce consultancy experience specialising in: 

online communities, digital transformation, digital strategy, CRM support, digital fundraising, and Scoping and Solution Design (SSD).

Our design and development process is as follows: 

• Identify - Understanding the client’s ambitions, challenges and pain points to let us identify tailored approaches and opportunities
• Imagine - Our human-centred design process keeps user experience at the front and centre of how we deliver a client’s impact goals 
• Implement - We build and implement custom solutions using agile methodologies and close collaboration to ensure smooth delivery and transition

We have designed processes and large-scale implementations for major projects with significant cost and efficiency implications for organisations such as The Rhodes Trust, the European Society of Cardiology, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Atlantic Fellows, The Big Give, Frontline, Independent Age, Schmidt Fellows and Save the Children UK.
 

What does the role involve?

Key accountabilities

• Alongside our Co-Founders, MD of Lightful Products and MD of Lightful Learning, you will influence the long term direction, profitability and impact of the Lightful business
• Lead delivery to drive rapid and exponential growth of our Lightful Solutions business unit
• Create and execute the business strategy for Lightful Solutions 
• Orchestrate and deliver year on year revenue growth for your business unit, ensuring revenue targets are achieved monthly
• Ensure excellence is delivered across all Lightful Solutions projects whilst ensuring very high client satisfaction and impact
• Responsible for ensuring that every Lightful Solutions proposal is feasible and viable within the team through working with the Business Development team, meeting potential new clients during the RFP processes, signing off on all proposals
• Form an excellent working relationship with our two other Managing Directors - all three of our business units align and should be optimised to create and execute mutually beneficial business development opportunities
• Lead on initial project meetings to explain Lightful’s approach to digital transformation, emphatically understanding users' needs, and advising on how to achieve the best results for each and every client

Internal responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Lightful Solutions strategic plan to meet revenue targets, produce work that delivers impact for happy clients, increase delivery robustness, and have standout quality through structure and clear standards
• Manage a growing team of 21 talented employees ranging from Salesforce Administrators, Technical and Solutions Architects, Developers, and Project Managers in addition to a non-permanent team of 6-10 contractors
• Motivate, advise and provide structure to Lightful Solutions team to meet objectives and manage own development goals within team
• Harness creativity and new ideas within the team and ensure structure for success

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience of running large internal teams (between 20-50 people)
• At least 5 years of experience of running successful client projects at Associate Partner equivalent level or above
• A history of managing successful consulting and technical projects from end-to-end, including CRM (particularly Salesforce) implementation projects
• Knowledge and expertise on winning and delivering 6 and 7 figure business contracts
• Experience working with, and passion for, nonprofit and/or public sector clients
• You will have a network of leaders across the nonprofit sector in the UK, EMEA and globally 
• Strong technical and development understanding and capabilities 
• Experience managing large, medium and small Salesforce digital transformation projects

• Experience meeting client deadlines and expectations within Agile development environments 

Personal qualities 

• You have a high level of emotional intelligence and an ability to demonstrate empathy with Lightful colleagues and clients
• You are a very strong communicator 
• You have exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills and embody Lightful’s foundational principles of respect and integrity 
• You are equally comfortable addressing people with various levels of technical knowledge
• You are a proven analytical thinker
• You have the ability to support your direct reports and other team members in building solutions and providing both technical and non-technical mentoring and guidance
• You are able  to work in a highly collaborative environment, taking the initiative where necessary
• You are open to new ideas and enjoy coaching and mentoring others to get the best out of them 

Additional requirement

• Eligible to work in the UK without the need of visa support/sponsorship
   

Benefits

You will be a part of our exciting culture that fosters personal growth and development. As we expand, you will be given the opportunity to thrive in a close-knit team environment.

• Highly competitive salary 
• Stock options
• Holiday entitlement is 27 days per annum, plus bank holidays, your birthday off and a day off for moving (once a year)
• Working from home buddy to integrate you into the team
• Simply Health (claim back money on everyday healthcare costs and access to face to face counselling)
• Access to a variety of wellbeing apps
• Regular events e.g. quiz, cook-along, social drinks, summer party, Christmas party
• Lunch & Learn sessions
• Training and development plans
• Volunteering opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Paid parental leave and nursery benefit
• Lightful kids events

Inclusion of a diverse range of opinions and perspectives is core to Lightful’s open culture and ongoing success. Therefore we never discriminate on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

*No recruitment agency requests please* *We only work with direct applicants*

This is an exciting and busy time to be joining UK Youth as we prepare to launch our new strategy and  transform the way we work to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. As a result  we are recruiting for a number of new roles designed to enable the organisation to grow, improve our ways of working and enable us to deliver to deliver our ambitious 2025 strategic plan.

UK Youth are currently looking for a dynamic and talented Research and Learning Manager to join our Research and Performance team to lead on the management and co-ordination of our evaluation and learning activity.

The new Research and Learning Manager will support the team with developing robust and insightful evaluation and research. Reporting to the Assistant Director of Research, this role will support the department to shift the organisation’s approach to using evidence and learning to drive impact. This role will work closely with the Data Manager, as well as Research and Data Officers, to develop and deliver top-class evaluations against our programmes, cutting edge research outputs and drive innovation in our approaches and research activities.

To thrive in this role, you need a strong background in qualitative and quantitative research methods, and have excellent communication skills. We’re looking for an experienced and creative researcher with an open mind to developing new processes, methodologies and approaches to lift our current research and evaluation outputs to a place that matches our ambition. We’re particularly interested in candidates with a strong background in theory of change development.

We are keen to support our staff to work as flexibly as possible. Where our roles are offered on a flexible basis, staff can be based anywhere in the UK, but must be willing to travel occasionally to either our London or Avon Tyrrell office locations or external meetings as required. The regularity of this will be arranged with the line manager.

Who we are

UK Youth is a leading charity that exists to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with others to ensure that the youth sector is strengthened, supported, and that provision is youth-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes.

UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment in the youth sector, the lack of cross sector understanding in how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions. These factors lead to mass inequality of access to youth services for young people. To find more about us and how we make an impact, please visit UK Youth Website.

Why work at UK Youth?

We are a value-based, passionate and committed organisation offering a friendly working environment with lots of opportunities for professional development and socialising (even whilst we are all working remotely!) from lunch and learn sessions, staff quizzes to virtual coffee meet ups.

UK Youth prides itself on being an Equal Opportunity employer and we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Our selection procedures ensure that people are treated on the basis of their relevant merits, experience, skills and abilities and that no individual receives more or less favourable treatment.

We welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in our organisation including Black, Asian, minority ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities. We are also currently underrepresented by men, and so are seeking applications from different backgrounds, cultures, age, experience and identity to bring a wide range of experience, ideas, views and insights to UK Youth.

What we can offer you

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

• Flexible/Agile Working
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme (currently UK Youth match employee contributions up to 5%)
• Membership of our life insurance scheme which would pay-out up to 4 times your salary
• Employee Assistance Programme to support employees both professionally and personally
• 20% discount off bookings at Avon Tyrrell our New Forest Outdoor Centre including, camping, lodges and outdoor activities.
• Cyclescheme and Techscheme

How to apply 

Candidates are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description for this role. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, about your journey to date; how this has shaped you and the things you learnt along the way.

If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please download the job description, and then click on the link and complete an application via our completely anonymised recruitment system (provided by Applied).

• Closing date for applications will be 9am, 17th May 2021
• A pre-interview task will be arranged for the week commencing 25th May with first round interviews due to take place 25th May 2021. We reserve the right to host a second interview if it is necessary.

As this role involves working in a regulated environment with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory background checks which include criminal record check and employment reference. However, we welcome applications from those with previous criminal convictions.

As part of the recruitment process UK Youth will be gathering and uses certain information about you. For further information regarding this please review our Data Protection Privacy Notice which explains what data of yours we process and how we use it.

Director of Development Job Description

Hours:                        22.5 - 37.5 hours per week (negotiable)

Salary:                          £40k per annum (Pro-rata)

Reporting to:               Chief Operating Officer

Location:                    Cornerstone, Mercy UK, West Yorkshire 

Application Deadline:   Open until a suitable candidate is found 

Interview:                    Applicants deemed suitable for the role will be invited to engage with

                                        key members of the team before consideration for a Formal interview

Interview dates are:    27th April, 29th April, 17th May

Please note: This position carries an Occupational Requirement (OR) on the grounds of religion and belief in keeping with current guidance. The post holder must demonstrate an active Christian belief and value system in line with Mercy UK’s core objectives and values. 

Here at Mercy UK we have a passion for God, passion for people and passion for excellence – this means we are committed to becoming an organisation where team members feel supported, valued and challenged to deepen their personal and professional growth. As an agile and fast-moving team, we seek to give our very best to what we do in attitude and activity.

As the Director of Development, you are a strategic member of the Senior Leadership Team, working collaboratively with peer members in directing significant and strategic business development plans. As an innovative director, you embrace ambitious financial targets and confidently lead on the production of professional high-value fundraising and trading proposals and hold a good track record of success.

You are a discerning leader, highly motivated at the prospect of shaping fundraising and communications for Mercy UK at a pivotal stage in the charity’s growth.

Your experience in communications enables you to inject the Mercy UK ‘voice’ in both internal and external communications, both written and spoken and in doing so, you are able to engage and retain stakeholders as integral players in the Mercy story.

Prospectus is delighted to be supporting a national youth charity to recruit for an Interim Assistant Director of People on a short term 4 month contract (part time, 2-3 days per week). The role is required to support the organisation in the interim before their new Director of People starts full time in September 2021.

The charity is looking for a senior professional to support with high level strategic projects, in particular relating to Organisational Development, Learning and Development, and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. You will also have the experience and skillset to support the HR Team with any complex employee relations queries.

To be successful in this role you will need to have worked in a similar, senior level position and have key experience relating to Organisational Development, Learning + Development and EDI. Due to the urgent nature of the role the charity is looking for the candidate to start ASAP therefore it will suit someone that is either available immediately or with a short notice period.

Prospectus will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis therefore you are encouraged to apply ASAP. Please apply with your CV only (in Microsoft Word format). Following your application you may be contacted by Prospectus for an informal discussion, and may be asked to provide further information to assist with the recruitment process.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Please note, due to high volumes of interest in vacancies it may not be possible to answer all individual queries on positions prior to an application or registration.

This is an exciting temporary opportunity to support the development of Bikeability, the Government’s national cycle training programme as a key member of the Executive Team.

You will lead the Trusts finance and compliance work, ensuring that we maintain high standards of financial accounting, reconciliation and reporting. You will work with the Executive Director to ensure that all areas of finance, risk, policy and regulatory compliance are upheld across all Trust operations.  

You will have honed experience of charity finance and reporting. An established leadership with excellent financial acumen, you will have used these abilities to establish and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, external stakeholders and networks. You have a collaborative approach and enjoy working as part of a team.

The Bikeability Trust

Underpinned by the National Standard for Cycle Training, Bikeability was launched in England in 2007 and is backed by funding from the Department for Transport from 2016-2022.  The Trust maintains the National Standard for Cycle Training, manages, monitors and quality assures the delivery of the Bikeability programme across England, promotes the effectiveness of Bikeability, distributes Bikeability award materials, and registers local Bikeability schemes and instructors.

The Bikeability Trust’s Vision is to ensure everyone has the confidence to cycle and enjoy this skill for life.

The Trust aims to make Bikeability the leading programme for cycle training by ensuring:

• Child focussed: We deliver cycle training to both children and adults, but the majority of delivery is helping children learn the life skill of cycling
• Quality: Our Instructors deliver high-quality, consistent cycle training across England
• Inclusivity: We take action to reduce barriers to participation and ensure that anyone who wishes to access Bikeability cycle training is able to
• Efficiency: Our delivery programme offers value for money and is delivered in an economic and efficient way
• Influence: We share our evidence of the impact of cycle training across a variety of sectors (transport, education, environment, health, leisure, etc)
• Collaboration: We work with stakeholders, partners and commercial organisations to achieve our vision and ensure Bikeability is a household name

Job Description – Director of Finance and Compliance  

Location: Home Based, with occasional travel with COVID permits

Reports to: Executive Director  

Staff responsibilities: None, but liaison with Management Accountants and contractors

Hours of work: 2.5 days a week (flexible on days/ times)

Salary range: £50,000 pro rata

The Director of Finance and Compliance is responsible for the implementation, monitoring and reporting on all areas of the Trust’s finance and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Finance and compliance operations of the Bikeability Trust:
  • Develop annual budgets for the Bikeability Trust
  • Implement forecasting and monitoring of each department budget
  • Work with PEM management accountants to monitor cash flow, accounts, and other financial transactions
  • Facilitate day-to-day operations, including tracking financial data, invoicing and payroll
  • Interpret complex financial information and provide updates and information as needed
  • Work with the Grants team to process and authorise all grants pay runs
  • Champion and advocate across all areas of the Trust strong financial management to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and economy
  • Ensure the Trust operates within agreed budget and delivers on Business plan and strategy
  • Ensure the Trust delivers strong financial management on the Bikeability programme grant
  • Ensure the Trust can deliver income to the Innovation Fund and report on impact
  • Deliver Financial contribution to Bikeability Trust performance management dashboard providing regular reporting to Board and attending Board meetings
  • Work with auditors annually to review financial reporting

• Ensure that all of the Trust’s practices are in line in statutory regulations and legislation
  • Work with the Executive Director to ensure all policies and procedures acrtoss the Trust and Bikeability Trading are
  • Keep up to date with changes in legislaiton of practice that would impact of charity operations
  • Ensure the annual financial accounts for Bikeability Trust and Bikeability Trading Ltd are submitted on time
  • Keep the risk register and financial controls of the Bikeability programme grant up to date in line with best practice
  • Ensure all Trust operations comply with Data Protection and Information security management.

Personal Specification:  

Qualifications & Experience

• Advanced degree/professional qualification in accounting business, finance, or a related field;
• Leadership experience in finance
• Charity Board experience
• Understanding of data privacy standards;

Qualities

• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal;
• Thorough understanding of business principles and practices;
• Superior attention to detail

Product Knowledge

• Xero
• Dext

How to apply

Please send a two-page curriculum vitae accompanied by a one-page letter of application and your completed equal opportunities monitoring form, by midnight 24th May 2021.  Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed virtually on the 10th June 2021 . 

Your curriculum vitae should set out details of your

• qualifications and professional body memberships (dates, institutions, qualifications/status)
• if employed, current employment (job title, employer, duties, start date, full-time equivalent, gross salary, period of notice)
• employment and voluntary work history (dates, job titles, employers, duties)
• names, email accounts, phone numbers and relationships for two referees, and permission to contact them.

Your letter of application should explain how your employment and other experience, education and training match the requirements of the job description and person specification, giving examples where appropriate. 

Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) network
GAPS Director

Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) is the UK’s Women, Peace and Security civil society network. GAPS was founded to progress the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and to hold the UK government to account on its international commitments to women and girls affected by conflict worldwide.

The GAPS Director will led the GAPS network and delivery of the GAPS strategy. The role works closely with the GAPS Management Board, GAPS Policy Advocacy and Communication Managers, the GAPS Network Assistant, GAPS member agencies, partners and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS).

Candidates with experience, talent and/or potential in: policy and advocacy; social media; using their networking skills; working and building relationships with civil society, government or a multilateral institutions; have a commitment to gender and women and girls’ rights; leading an organisation or part of an organisation; will be welcome.  Experience in women and girls’ rights, peacebuilding, development, humanitarian and/or international relations as well as governance and monitoring, evaluation and learning will also be of interest. This role will suit someone wanting to lead with a dynamic and ambitious civil society network, and specifically work on international women and girls’ rights and/or peace and security policy. Expertise on Women, Peace and Security and working to influence decision-makers is welcomed.

GAPS is hosted by one of our member agencies, Women for Women International UK. Women for Women International was founded in 1993 to help women survivors of war rebuild their lives, their families and communities. The UK office was established in 2006. The GAPS Director would be expected to work within the framework of GAPS and Women for Women International’s core values. Women for Women International UK is the legal employer of GAPS staff. As a result of COVID-19, this role will likely be home-based with some potential travel, including to the office depend on COVID-19 related restrictions.

Women for Women International UK is an equal opportunities employer and we positively welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their religious beliefs or political opinions, sex, marital or family statuses, races, sexual orientations, ages or whether they are disabled.

All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

Women for Women International UK is a registered charity (charity number: 1115109) and a company limited by guarantee (company no: 05650155), registered in England and Wales.

Reports to: GAPS Management Board Chair who is the Executive Director of Women for Women International UK

Proposed start date: June 2021

Location: 49-51 East Road, London, N1 6AH (currently working remotely, hybrid working model when Covid restrictions allow)

Working pattern: Full time

Salary level: £53,560 per annum (based on Women for Women International UK’s salary scale)

Application process:

•  Please go to our website and fill out the Application Form and Diversity Monitoring Form, and if you would like to share anything else to support your submission please do so with a short cover letter.  If you would like to submit your application another way, please contact us.
• If you would like to learn more about this vacancy, we are hosting a Q&A session on Wednesday 19 May at 1pm If you want to attend this session please see details on our website.

Application deadline: 6pm, 1st June 2021

Interviews: w/c 14th June 2021

Person Specification

Essential criteria

• Ability to demonstrate having led a small organisation or part of an organisation, including ability to develop and implement an organisational strategy and led annual planning processes
• Ability to demonstrate project and programme management and working with multiple partners
• Ability to lead fundraising, including government, trust, foundation and multilateral agency applications
• Ability to manage budgets, including from multiple donors
• Ability to draft, review and sign-off policy, advocacy or research documents
• Ability to build and maintain successful relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Ability to work with a civil society, government, parliament or multilateral organisations
• Experience of representing an organisation, including to deliver key messaging
• Experience of line management
• Knowledge and understanding of Women, Peace and Security frameworks and how they apply to the international community and Government policy and programmes
• Knowledge and understanding of broader international frameworks and commitments relevant to gender equality and women and girls’ rights
• Familiarity with and/or work experience in or on a range of conflict or post-conflict contexts
• Ability to lead donor reporting and donor relationships, including with governments, trusts and foundations and multilateral agencies
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including digital and online communications
• Ability to demonstrate overseeing event organisation and planning
• Attention to detail and ability to work independently across multiple workloads and with diverse stakeholders
• Experience of working in busy environments, multitasking especially in a small team
• Computer literate, including in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel  and social media
• Demonstration of sharing the GAPS values and principles[1]

Desirable criteria

• Experience of monitoring and evaluation tools
• Experience of working with or within a network and/or coalition
• Experience of drafting communications plans for projects, events or policy documents

Knowledge of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation

[1] Our work is guided and informed by our commitment to and belief in: peace, participation, representation, non-violence, non-partisanship, cooperation, democratic decision-making, transparency, openness, intersectional feminism, anti-racism, equality, clear communication, learning, integrity and independence.

Job Title: Programme Officer  

Responsible to: Head of Programmes, Africa

Location: UK home-based, may require some international trave

Job purpose: Grant management and country support for HPA work in Somaliland.

Salary: £29,000 - £32,000 depending on experience

Hours: Full-Time

Closing date: Tuesday 18th May 2021, 11.59 pm

Interview dates: Week commencing 24th May 2021

Please note that due to a potentially high number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

BACKGROUND

Health Poverty Action works for health and global justice in partnership with people who have been marginalised and pushed into poverty.

We work with communities to help them demand their right to health and to challenge the power imbalances that deny them their health rights. Our distinct approach can be summarised as a combination of three areas:

We approach health as an issue of social justice

Health is a Human Right that many are currently denied. The greatest causes of poor health worldwide are political, social and economic injustices. This is a global scandal which causes unnecessary suffering on a massive scale.

We tackle these complex root causes of social injustice in two ways. Firstly, we work in partnership with communities to help them take back the power to improve their own health. Secondly, we campaign on a national and international level to change policy, and destroy unjust power relations.

We prioritise those missed out by others

We believe in health for all, without exclusion. Development organisations tend to cluster together, which leaves large populations with almost no support at all. People may be living in hard to reach areas, or are difficult to support for some other reason. We make these most neglected populations our highest priority.

We address the full range of factors which impact on health

Health is a combination of physical, mental and social wellbeing. As well as strengthening health services we work on areas such as nutrition, water, sanitation, gender discrimination, and income generation. Tackling one cause of poor health in isolation can give the appearance of improving health in the short term, but tackling numerous factors together saves lives.

We are acutely aware of how our own power dynamics as an organisation impact on the people we work with, and we work in partnership with communities to create long term relationships built on trust.

In 2017 we formed a strategic partnership with Find Your Feet. The partnership ensures Find Your Feet’s livelihoods work will continue through Health Poverty Action.

We are also proud to be one of the small number of organisation recognised as being structurally part of the global People’s Health Movement. This quote from the founding document of this movement, the People’s Health Charter, sums up the essence of Health Poverty Action’s values and identity:

“Health is a social, economic and political issues and above all a fundamental human right. Inequality, poverty, exploitation, violence and injustice are at the root of ill-health and the deaths of poor and marginalised people. Health for all means that powerful vested interests have to be challenged, and that political and economic priorities have to be drastically changed. This Charter encourages people to develop their own solutions, and to hold accountable local authorities, national governments, international organisations and corporations.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Context of the role

This position will sit within the Africa Programmes Team. Our programmes are managed by Country Directors overseen by two Heads of Programmes (one responsible for Africa and one responsible for Asia). The Programme Team in London provides support services to the development, implementation and administration of Health Poverty Action’s programmes.  Health Poverty Action’s programme work in Africa takes place through country offices in Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Somaliland and Find Your Feet’s in Malawi and Zimbabwe. The Programmes Department liaises with: the Policy & Campaigns Department to ensure strong integration between our programmes and advocacy work; the Fundraising Department to develop proposals and reports for trusts and foundations; and the Finance Department on programme finances.

This position will operate as the direct contact point for the Somaliland country office and act as donor contact point for HPAs’ grants in this country.

Responsibilities

Main Functions of the Post

• Grant management, including donor reporting and contract compliance (40%)
• Administration and monitoring of country and project finances (40%)
• Build and maintain excellent relationships and reporting with selected donors (5%)
• Support programme development (15%)

Outline of Responsibilities

1. Grant management, including donor reporting and contract compliance (40%)

1.1 Review and submit donor quarterly and annual narrative reports from projects

1.2 Monitor donor relations & communications

1.3 Act as link between other London staff and field teams when required

1.4 Oversee country procurement process in ensuring adherence internal and donor processes and procedures

1.5 Provide administrative and logistical support to the Country Office staff and their consultants

1.6 Support country teams with the administration of evaluations (e.g. reviewing TORs, reviewing report drafts etc.)

1.7 Ensure that programme files, electronic and hard copy, are maintained within an agreed system, to allow easy access by other staff

1.8 Regularly (minimum one per year per country) conduct monitoring visits to country offices for monitoring of programmatic and financial systems

2. Administration and monitoring of country and project finances (40%)

2.1 Preparation and maintenance of project budgets including preparing budget variance analysis on a monthly basis

2.2 Monitor field expenditure/income on allocated projects, providing feedback to field staff as appropriate

2.3 Review monthly financial reports, including bank reconciliations

2.4 Prepare donor financial reports (monthly, quarterly and yearly)

2.5 Assist in monitoring cash flow to field offices and process transfer requests

2.6 Train country level staff and consultants on project finances

2.7 With support of the Finance Department, conduct internal audits and spot reviews of programme and partner finances

3. Build and maintain excellent relationships and reporting with selected donors (5%)

3.1 Help to ensure that all projects remain compliant with donor contracts

3.2 Represent Health Poverty Action at appropriate donor liaison meetings and attend networking or other external meetings as required

3.3 Maintain up to date understanding of donor requirements/trends; develop relationships with donors and other agencies, gather information and disseminate information on funding sources and procedures to colleagues. This may include exploring new donor sources.

3.4 Respond appropriately to all donor enquiries, maintaining a positive relationship with them

4. To assist with programme development & research (15%)

4.1 Support country proposal development and review draft proposals – including co-development of budgets with team members

4.2 Support the small number of consultancies the Programme Team supports, including budgeting, bid development and review

Safeguarding

This position may involve travel to overseas programmes and therefore you may come into contact with vulnerable children and adults.

Health Poverty Action recognises that all adults and children have equal rights to protection from abuse and exploitation. Health Poverty Action condemns exploitation and inappropriate behaviour, and is committed to taking action for the protection of programme participants.  In cases where positions include a high level of safeguarding risk, police checks or local equivalents will be carried out.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential Criteria

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
At least two years of experience in programme management working in international development
A high level of numeracy & good analytical ability with experience of working on NGO financial reporting

Understanding of accounting and financial controls
Excellent skills in setting up spreadsheets and understanding of spreadsheet design using Excel
Experience of proposal writing, grant monitoring, M&E, and donor reporting, preferably in an NGO setting
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to prioritise tasks in response to multiple requests
Ability to negotiate contractual requirements with donors
Excellent word processing and internet skills
Openness to learning new skills & a pro-active approach to tasks
Positive team-worker, supportive and helpful towards colleagues
Ability to communicate with people from other cultures at a distance.

Desirable Criteria

Master’s degree in a relevant discipline
Experience working on themes around health and the social determinants of health
Experience in procurement processes for high value purchases
Experience of managing & reporting against donor budgets
Proven skills in preparing funding applications
Experience of institutional grant funders such as FCDO (DFID), EC, UN, USAID
Experience of working on programmes implemented in a developing country context especially in sub–Saharan Africa.

Safeguarding

This position may involve travel to overseas programmes and therefore may come into contact with vulnerable children and adults. In cases where positions include a high level of safeguarding risk, police checks or local equivalents will be carried out.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Salary

£29,000 - £32,000 depending on experience

Hours

Full-time – 35 hours per week

Health Poverty Action is very committed to flexible working. We will consider applicants to work on a part-time and a flexible working basis where possible.

Holidays

25 working days holiday a year

Pension

Staff are encouraged to join Health Poverty Action’s pension scheme. Health Poverty Action will match your contributions up to a maximum of 5% of gross salary.

Location

Currently, the arrangement for this post will be working from home in the UK. while it may involve some international travel.

At Health Poverty Action we celebrate diversity and promote equality and inclusion amongst all of our staff and everyone we work with.

Thank you for considering working with Health Poverty Action.

This is an exciting and busy time to be joining UK Youth as we prepare to launch our new strategy and transform the way we work to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. As a result,  we are recruiting for a number of new roles designed to enable the organisation to grow, improve our ways of working and enable us to deliver our ambitious 2025 strategic plan.

The new External Relations Assistant Director is responsible for developing the strategic vision for how we engage with UK Youth’s external audiences and key stakeholders (including outdoor learning). This role will provide operational leadership to three teams (Partnerships and Philanthropy, Engagement and Digital, Marketing and Communications) and will play a key role in transforming the way the whole organisation uses digital to build and engage audiences, leveraging the power of existing and new platforms to grow our brand.

This role will oversee the implementation of a new External Relations Strategy that focuses on growing the influence of our brand and increasing cross-sector awareness of our work, as well as overseeing the development and implementation of an ambitious and diversified income generation strategy. This role will also lead our campaigning and storytelling work, enacting a step change in the way we use creative stories to share our work and amplify the voices of young people and youth organisations that support them, alongside responsibility for developing the organisational Ambassador Strategy.

Who we are

UK Youth is a leading charity that exists to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and

empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with others to ensure that the youth sector is strengthened, supported, and that provision is youth-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes.

UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment in the youth sector, the lack of cross sector understanding in how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions. These factors lead to mass inequality of access to youth services for young people. To find more about us and how we make an impact, please visit UK Youth Website.

Why work at UK Youth?

We are a value-based, passionate and committed organisation offering a friendly working environment with lots of opportunities for professional development and socialising (even whilst we are all working remotely!) from lunch and learn sessions, staff quizzes to virtual coffee meet ups.

UK Youth prides itself on being an Equal Opportunity employer and we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Our selection procedures ensure that people are treated on the basis of their relevant merits, experience, skills and abilities and that no individual receives more or less favourable treatment.

We welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in our organisation including Black, Asian, minority ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities. We are also currently underrepresented by men, and so are seeking applications from different backgrounds, cultures, age, experience and identity to bring a wide range of experience, ideas, views and insights to UK Youth.

What we can offer you

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

• Flexible/Agile Working
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme (currently UK Youth match employee contributions up to 5%)
• Membership of our life insurance scheme which would pay-out up to 4 times your salary
• Employee Assistance Programme to support employees both professionally and personally
• 20% discount off bookings at Avon Tyrrell our New Forest Outdoor Centre including, camping, lodges and outdoor activities.
• Cyclescheme and Techscheme

How to apply 

Candidates are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description for this role. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, about your journey to date; how this has shaped you and the things you learnt along the way.

If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please read the job description, and then click here and complete an application via our completely anonymised recruitment system (provided by Applied).

• Closing date for applications will be 5pm Tuesday 1st June 2021
• First round interviews are due to take place Tuesday 8th June 2021
• Second round interviews are likely to take place Thursday 10th June 2021

As this role involves working in a regulated environment with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory background checks which include criminal record check and employment reference. However, we welcome applications from those with previous criminal convictions.

As part of the recruitment process UK Youth will be gathering and uses certain information about you. For further information regarding this please review our Data Protection Privacy Notice which explains what data of yours we process and how we use it.

Wave Café, a social enterprise based in North London, seeks a creative, organised and community-minded development director to oversee the strategic planning and delivery of its exciting, inclusive community café project.

Status: Part time (3 days /week, with potential for growth)

Salary: £30,000 p/a, pro-rata

Start Date: September 2021

Who we are

Wave Café is a charity whose aim is to reduce inequalities and radically change attitudes to learning disability and difference in our local community. While we recognise there is lots of provision for people with learning disabilities in our society, places where people of all abilities mix with each other as equals, not as ‘helpers’ and ‘service users’, are few and far between. By creating a community space where We are All Valued Equally, Wave Café showcases an alternative brand of community – one where people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities spend time together - socialising, working, creating, and enjoying each other’s company and qualities.

We currently operate an inclusive community café space in Muswell Hill, North London, 9am-5pm on Thursdays. We open our doors to those with and without learning disability in our community, offering a relaxed and friendly space to work or socialise, with inclusive art and yoga and great food  (at an inclusive price point).

We are looking to move to opening two days each week as soon as we can.

What it’s like working for us

Wave Café is a small and intimate charity with a warm, friendly and non-judgemental ethos. You will get to know the members of our vibrant and diverse community quickly – it is a bit like a very large family! It is vital that our staff can maintain the balance between the informal, inclusive atmosphere with the necessity to maintain high standards in the running of the café.

Equally, as an organisation developing in size and capacity, there will often be times when you will need to be self-directed in your work – taking initiative and thinking on your feet.

You will be expected to ‘get stuck in’ at all levels of the organisation, happy to do the organisational and managerial aspects of the role as well as the more everyday tasks. Wave Café also places huge value on the relational and interpersonal aspects of the role – it will be important that you can work alongside and get along with all different types of people.

Who we’re looking for

For this role, we are looking for someone with experience of working in a small business, charity or start-up environment. Alternatively, someone with a background in education or support work with adults, children or learning disability.

We want someone dynamic and creative, who can bring a fresh and exciting pair of eyes to this small social enterprise as it seeks to take the next steps in its growth. Good inter-personal skills are essential, as there will be lots of relationship building and community work involved with the post. We also require someone with the capacity to line-manage a varied team, and proven experience of planning and delivering projects.

You should have an interest in food and the creative arts, and a keen imagination, able to devise and plan engaging activities and events at the café. Some experience of working with websites, data management and social media would be desirable.

You may have previous experience working within an inclusive environment, or with people with learning disability, but it is not essential. Above all, you will be willing to work with difference, and open to learning from this experience. We recognise that changing one’s own attitudes to disability and difference can take time and hard work – we’re all on the journey!

Please refer to job description for more details.

How to apply

Please send a CV before Friday 28th May. You should include a brief personal statement (no more than 500 words) explaining why you are attracted to working in an inclusive environment and why you feel you will be suited to work within Wave Cafe.

Shortlisting will take place in the week beginning Monday May 31st. Interviews will take place over Zoom, and these are planned for the week beginning Monday June 14th.

Wave Café is committed to an equal opportunities policy for employment. If you feel you require support with any aspect of the application process, for whatever reason, the please let us know.

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? Join us as a Senior Evidence and Learning Adviser and help us to generate the evidence that will unlock our understanding of the ways in which can reduce the impact of poverty on children's lives and support their early learning outcomes.

Every child has the right to ensure that their basic needs are met, and to receive the encouragement and help which enables them to reach their full potential. The greatest barrier to this in the UK is poverty and inequality. Our mission is to secure a sustainable reduction in the number of children growing up in poverty and work to narrow the early learning gap between those children and their better off peers.

We believe this future is possible. It requires more money to be put back into the pockets of parents and carers, decent jobs, more opportunities for young children to play and learn, and policies and services which centre children and families' needs, reduce discrimination, and that are designed to help children to flourish by preventing difficulties at the earliest possible stage: in pregnancy, at birth, in the crucial first 1,001 days of life and throughout childhood.

We work closely with the communities we aim to support. We recognise their diversity and strengths as well as the challenges they face, and we aim to reflect their diversity and experiences in our UK staff team.

The UK Evidence and Learning team generates evidence that enables us to secure changes to policy and practice, in every nation of the United Kingdom. Through our work, we demonstrate what is effective in improving lives for children and families; we collect evidence directly from children and families to help us understand how current practice affects their lives; we develop and test promising, sustainable interventions in communities; and we gather and synthesise evidence from local partners, organisations in our sector, and academia. We draw on all this learning to work with colleagues to influence decision-makers and advocate for policy and practice change, with and on behalf of families.

As a Senior Evidence and Learning Adviser, you will:

Develop strategies for generating evidence and learning, especially focussing on qualitative research, participatory practice and other open research and intelligence gathering approaches.

Undertake primary research and evaluation, analysis and evidence syntheses.

Support teams to implement evidence strategies, building their capacity and confidence to support evidence and learning practice and ensuring that the approaches put in place are rigorous and practical.

Support teams in developing and using theories of change and outcomes frameworks.

Capture and disseminate our data and learning.

To be successful you will:

Hold expertise in evaluation and evidence generation across a wide range of methods, although we are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with a strong technical background leading qualitative, ethnographic, innovation and participatory research practice.

Have experience of and be confident in undertaking evaluation and research with both children and families and with marginalised groups.

Hold expertise in learning and improvement methodologies and have experience of using data and evidence for improvement.

Hold strong analytical skills, be able to interpret complex data and make it meaningful to others.

Be adept at developing relationships and working with a wide range of individuals, teams and in different policy and practice contexts.

Be a confident and experienced user of data analysis software, such as Nvivo or Atlas.ti

Diversity & Inclusion 

To help us attract and encourage applications from a wide range of people, we are holding an open information session so that you can find out more about working at Save the Children, the UK Impact team and our vision and mission for children in the UK.  For details on how to sign up please visit our website.

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.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity, and a commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 17th May 2021

Passionate… professional… creative… pro-active… 

Do you want to use your skills to make a real difference in the world? Through quality fundraising, Chell Perkins Ltd exists to make a very real and lasting impact on the third sector. We want to identify, partner with and nurture the next generation of potential fundraisers to see all charities have access to bespoke, exceptional and affordable fundraising support.

Personally, Stuart and I have been blessed by the charities we have worked with. They offered us training, sharpened our fundraising skills, challenged us, and invested in our ability to fundraise well: releasing us to help more individuals with deeper support. 

Chell Perkins Ltd wishes to pay this kindness forwards through our Junior Fundraising Training Programme. 

Break into fundraising and make a difference:

If you want to use your skills to help charities, this five year training programme will teach you everything you need to know about fundraising, whilst giving you considerable on-the job training and support. 

How it works:

Year 1 - Fundraising Officer: You’ll be inducted into an immersive training programme, featuring online/classroom training, self study and key textbooks. There is plenty of practical experience with trusts and foundations, event, corporate, individual donor and major donor fundraising. This is all aimed to equip you for your Certificate in Fundraising in year two.

Year 2 - Fundraising Consultant: This year you will have the opportunity to complete IOF's Certificate in Fundraising.  This is the industry recognised qualification for frontline fundraisers, fully funded by Chell Perkins Ltd. It provides the theory and principles behind successful fundraising and practical skills to make an immediate impact on fundraising results. With your increased experience and knowledge, you will find yourself taking the lead more with our client’s trust and foundation, direct mail, capital and event fundraising. 

Year 3/4 - Senior Consultant: By year three, you will have experienced fundraising across a diverse range of income streams. This learned experience will now see you assisting Chell Perkins Ltd with strategy formation and consultation work throughout the third sector. We will offer some candidates the chance at this stage for our Senior Consultants to enter into a Level 7 qualification either with the Institute of Fundraising or the University of Kent.

Year 5 - Principle Consultant/Team Leader: As the scheme progresses and you continue to sharpen your fundraising toolkit, you will be given the choice of two directions: working towards being a Principal Consultant or becoming a Team Leader. 

Team Leader - This role will see you managing your own team of fundraisers within a speciality or sector that suits you best. You will be responsible for ensuring all output from your team is exceptional quality, bringing the best outcomes for the charities we work for. You will help to mentor and train some of the newer members of staff on your team.

Principle Consultant - You will use your skills to now lead and partner with your own charity clients. In working with charities throughout the last 4 to 5 years, you will have built relationships and grown your capacity to support organisations in a variety of ways. Chell Perkins Ltd will support you as you transform charities through professional, passionate and pro-active fundraising.

Both roles will be instrumental to ensure that Chell Perkins Ltd continues to support charities and make their Vision A Reality.

Why ChellPerkins?

At the end of this scheme you will be a fundraising expert, trained in every aspect of the job and capable of talking to clients and organisations of all shapes and sizes. But there’s much more to the scheme than the nuts and bolts. Although we are biased (of course) the Chell Perkins team are a great bunch of people to work with. We really care about your future, our clients and the world we all share. We want you to become part of the family, enjoying a sometimes-chaotic, always-caring and fully-empowering work culture that is aimed at helping you realise your own potential.

Client mix

Candidates should be aware that at present 70% of our clients come from a Christian background (either they are churches or Christian charities). While it is not an occupational requirement to be a Christian, candidates must be happy to write for a faith-based audience.