Overview:

Women for Women International works in some of the most dangerous places to be a woman. We serve women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas around the world in 8 countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Eastern Congo, and Northern Nigeria. Our core belief is that stronger women build stronger nations; and with access to knowledge, resources, and a support network, a woman rebuilds her life and improves her community.

Our model works and we have the data to prove it. In our 26-year history, Women for Women International has reached over half a million women. The women we work with across 3 continents earn just $0.81 a day when we enroll them. At graduation, it’s $2.11, nearly tripled.

Our impact goes beyond income. The number of women who say at least one household member went to sleep hungry in the last four weeks has gone from 18% to 5%. And more women say they speak out against women's abuse: 26% report having publicly spoken in the last 6 months against physically abusing women.

When women have the right tools, they realize the power within themselves to transform their lives, their families, their communities, and finally their entire nations.

Purpose:

Women for Women International has the ambition to dramatically increase grant funding to support programming that has been proven to be transformative for marginalized women survivors of war in fragile and conflict affected countries. The Director of Global Business Development will collaboratively weave together existing strategies at national and regional level into a comprehensive Global Business Development Strategy that can guide business development across the geographic footprint of the organization. This position will be responsible to ensure that the strategy is adaptive to a dynamic and sometimes disruptive global context, supporting the global organization to build the relationships and partnerships needed for global BDU staff and staff in county to go after the most strategic opportunities. This position is responsible to ensure that the Global Board of Directors and the Executive Leadership Team remains informed of progress towards targets and engaged, as appropriate or advantageous, in BDU activity.

In addition to strategic coordination and leadership, the Director of Global Business Development will take an active role in identifying suspects, cultivating prospects, leading proposal development processes as needed and ensuring effective stewardship of current funding partnerships. The global organization has strong teams that carry forward business development from the first identification of a prospect all the way through to the final grant report. This position is envisioned to help ensure that all the teams and the processes continue to work smoothly, efficiently and effectively. Given an ambitious growth strategy, a high volume of opportunities, proposals and activity, the ideal applicant will also have demonstrated experience in contributing to the nuts and bolts of successful proposals and the willingness to take part in any part of the process to ensure success.

Women for Women International offices around the world are increasing their business development capacity and, in some instances, hiring dedicated professional business development staff. The Global Business Development Director will support the continued capacity building of the global fundraising operations and help to ensure that country offices get the support they need to grow their capacity to raise money locally. In addition, this position will help to ensure that implementing country offices can have the most efficient and streamlined engagement with business development staff globally.

The location for this position is flexible with a preference for candidates from a region where WfWI currently works (Africa, Central Asia, Middle East, Europe or the US).

Duties and Responsibilities:

Global Business Development Strategy

• We have an adaptive and rolling strategy process. Keep track of global trends and new developments and draw up analysis from each fundraising operation in order to update and implement a multi-year strategy and an annual business development workplan that will enable WfWI to meet ambitious revenue targets.
• Ensure that the Global Pipeline is regularly updated and serves to help teams track progress towards revenue targets and informs decision-makers on progress toward goals.
• Report progress to and discuss challenges with the Leadership Teams and appropriate Board committees and the Global Board of Directors.
• Work closely with key fundraisers, program staff and other teams across WfWI to implement effective strategies and approaches to grow funding and scale our programs.
• Work across all parts of the organization that are engaging in various forms of partnership to ensure that we can leverage these partners in global BDU efforts, including identifying and cultivating strategic partnership relationships.
• Coordinate fundraising activities of relevant WfWI actors.
• Support Country Office and program staff to understand and implement best practice in fundraising and partnerships with governments, institutions, foundations and corporations.
• Builds strong relationships across the organization to strategically deploy programmatic experts, staff and leadership towards implementation of the Global BDU Strategy, including support to the CEO and other Executive Leadership and staff in country offices in efforts to build relationships with donors, steward current philanthropic partnerships and achieve strategic goals.

Identify Funding Sources and Cultivate Donors

• Manage business intelligence collection efforts by staying abreast of overall funding developments and understanding overall funder priorities and calls for proposals.
• Coordinate & manage the research and strategy for pursuing viable funding opportunities from foundation, corporations and government donors.
• Build and maintain an active pipeline of prospects, in keeping with revenue targets.
• Develop leads on promising funding opportunities by initiating outreach and strengthening relationships with current and potential donors, as required.
• Identify and build partnerships with other NGOs for joint proposals.
• Regularly communicate with country offices to gather business intelligence and keep them abreast of new areas of business development and ensure that each country has a comprehensive donor mapping and a business development strategy.
• Ensure that there is a strategic approach for key priority funders including mapping our approach to funding.

Prepare Proposals

• Depending on the size and complexity of the proposal, serve as lead coordinator, proposal reviewer, and/or lead writer on submissions.
• When coordinating a submission, manage technical writer, researchers or consultants where applicable, and anyone else directly involved in the application to produce compelling and competitive proposals.
• Train other staff members to coordinate all aspects of proposal development and to write high-quality proposals.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with technical specialists, subject-matter experts, and professional writers to contribute to technical solution designs, reviews, and analysis of proposals and business development strategy.
• Contribute to technical solution design processes as needed.
• Ensure that relevant internal stakeholders contribute to proposal design and that, when appropriate, relevant staff approve the final proposal.
• Liaise with colleagues in the development of a coherent budget, ensuring adherence to grantor criteria in relation to accepted costs, percentages, and format.

Support Country Office Business Development

• Coach and mentor Country Office teams to pursue local opportunities.
• Support Country Offices with updating of their business development plans
• Identify resources needed to strengthen fundraising capacity in countries.
• Develop a plan for strengthening business development in each Country Office.

Communication & Teamwork

• Prepare and communicate analysis and trends to the Leadership Team and Global Board of Directors.
• Communicate with colleagues in Global Programs Unit, Finance, Development, and the UK office. Must be able to operate in an environment with over-lapping roles.
• Develop an effective process for sharing proposals, templates, and cases for support so that all WfWI fundraisers can access material helpful to support their fundraising efforts.
• Participate in internal meetings and processes to represent the global BDU teams as needed.
• Performance manage direct reports in line with WfWI’s performance management framework, including setting of annual performance objectives, development plans, appraisals throughout the year, and regular one-on-one meetings
• Responsible for training, developing, managing and leading staff as well as hiring appropriate staff
• Ensure safeguarding measures are implemented within area of responsibility
• Follow up, and address Code of Conduct or Safeguarding issues appropriately
• Adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policies and report concerns

This position will require regular national and international travel, estimated at 25% but subject to change.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree required and Master’s degree preferred, in a relevant subject, or the equivalent in experience.
• At least ten years of experience in fundraising with hands on experience across at least two funding channels (i.e., foundations; corporate partnerships; or government (bilateral or multi-lateral) for an international NGO.
• Proven track record of success in fundraising with evidence of personal engagement and leadership of successful, large, and complex proposals and pitches.

• Proven successful grant writing experience.
• Adopts a growth mindset and has demonstrated experience in relationship-based fundraising strategies.

• Experience managing staff and working cross-departmental, cross-country contexts with a proven record of building, managing and working with virtual teams and creating an enabling environment.
• Current and strategic understanding of the global humanitarian, development and gender funding environment and future trends.
• Excellent spoken and written English to include research, writing, and communication skills.

• Editing experience and strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience building the capacity of staff in country offices.
• Independent, but good at working with a team and ability to coordinate with others to produce material on deadline, usually managing multiple deadlines.

• Proven ability to build consensus and support across, up and down the organization.

• Excellent budget management skills including the ability to oversee complex program budgets in compliance with donor requirements.
• Certification or formal credentialing in nonprofit fundraising management or philanthropic leadership a plus.

• Proficiency in French, Arabic, Swahili or Dari is a plus.
• International work experience delivering restricted/unrestricted funded projects a plus.
• Commitment to and respect for Women for Women International’s mission and values
• Computer skills including working with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Email
• Ability to travel as required and have flexible work schedule which may include early mornings, evenings and weekends. May be required to occasionally work beyond normally scheduled hours.

Organizational Values:

Adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct and organizational values -

Empowerment, Integrity. Respect. Resilience

The duties, responsibilities and activities of this job description may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Head of Programme Delivery
Location: Currently home based - frequent London HQ (N1) when feasible. Existing homeworking setup essential
Permanent, Hours: 4 days (28 hours) or 5 days (35 hours) per week
Salary: £44,500 - £46,000 (pro rata p/t)

A vacancy has opened up for the Head of Programme Delivery at Into Film, an education charity that puts film at the heart of children and young people’s educational, cultural and personal development. We are proud to say that over half of UK schools engage with our exciting programme of film clubs, cinema screenings, resources and training.

The Head of Programme Delivery (HPD) works closely with the Director of Programme Delivery and Learning to lead the Programme Delivery team, ensuring delivery is in accordance with Into Film’s mission, vision and strategic objectives. The HPD manages and guides the regional/national Programme Delivery Managers (PDMs) to develop and deliver their operational plans including budgets, targets, strategic objectives and project delivery in their region(s). The HPD supports the team in creating programme initiatives that feed into the development and ongoing active engagement of schools, teachers, children and young people and beyond in Into Film programme activities. The HPD works closely with all Heads across the organisation ensuring planning and initiatives make use of the expertise of other directorates to achieve a joined-up approach.

The HPD gathers regional intelligence and knowledge from the PDMs and the rest of the Programme Delivery team to feed into strategic and UK-wide plans to develop the Into Film programme, and writes reports to feed into monitoring and evaluation frameworks and fundraising proposals. The HPD develops, establishes and maintains UK-wide partnerships, and is an advocate for Into Film operating at all levels and throughout all four nations.

The closing date for applications is midday on Wednesday 11th November.
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed on 19th and 20th November. 

To Apply and for More Information:

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

Please note that we will only consider application forms uploaded at the 'Apply' link on our microsite - no CVs or email applications will be considered.  

The successful applicant will need to undertake and maintain enhanced DBS clearance, which will be arranged by Into Film. 

APPLICATION FORMS ONLY - NO CVs OR AGENCIES PLEASE

Job Purpose

CHUMS Charity are looking for a Charity Director to lead the charity in an exciting time of organisational growth and development. The charity has new structural, legal and governance requirements as well as meeting the challenges of the Covid 19 pandemic.

The Charity Director will lead a small and dedicated team of fundraisers to provide the necessary vision, leadership, and fundraising skills which will enable the organisation to achieve its organisational development programme and meet fundraising targets. The Director will ensure the Charity has robust governance and complies with all legal requirements and has a comprehensive fundraising strategy which explores new methods of raising funds.

The successful candidate will have substantial leadership and management experience within the charitable sector and a talent for building relationships. They will also have a track record in governance, strategy and securing funds from statutory sources, foundations, trusts and major donors. Experience in development of an individual donor programme including donor marketing is desirable.

Main Responsibilities

Governance and finance

• Oversee and ensure charity governance and Charity Commission compliance, including development and implementation of policies
• Work with the Trustees and staff team to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Charity, both in relation to building a safe and robust organisation and fundraising
• Lead financial planning and budget management including being responsible for the development of budgets for revenue and expenditure
• Develop and maintain income and expenditure tracking and evaluation systems

Fundraising strategy

• Work with the Trustees and Fundraising Team to develop, implement and deliver a new dynamic fundraising strategy to create a sustainable income model and to increase net revenue from all income streams
• Identify potential new income streams and produce strategies to access these funds
• Proactively lead on the continuous development of the Charity's fundraising strategy, researching best practice, current trends and new opportunities
• Manage and develop the Fundraising Team to deliver the fundraising strategy
• Be responsible for fundraising compliance, including the Code of Fundraising Practice
• Oversee the management of grant and trust income programme, supporting the Head of Fundraising as necessary and ensuring production of effective, high quality proposals and reports
• Lead an individual giving development plan for 2021 onwards which includes recruitment and development of donors, including corporate donors
• Develop new and maintain existing effective supporter journeys. This includes liaising with current and new Ambassadors, Trustees and ensuring they remain engaged and actively supporting our community fundraising programme
• Identify timely solutions to any issues that arise with fundraising, including any complaints
• Liaise with support provided to agree a marketing strategy, web exposure and supporting literature for any events programme

Stakeholder Engagement

• Keep key stakeholders updated in relation to the Charity's activities, including the Operating Board of CHUMS CIC

Staff Management

Line management of the Charity's staff team, including:

• Agreeing objectives and work plans
• Managing workload and performance through regular one-to-one line management of the Head of Fundraising
• Undertaking annual performance reviews
• Planning and implementing personal development programme for team members in all relevant skills

Location: We are flexible about your working location, although we would expect you to be in our head office in Central London around two days a week when Covid restrictions are no longer in place.

About the role:

This is an important time to join Pilgrims’ Friend Society.  Our population is ageing significantly, and we are one of the leading evangelical Christian charities responding to the opportunities and challenges that this brings. We have just embarked on an ambitious “Renewal Programme” to develop six new state of the art Christian care homes across the UK to help people have fulfilled lives when they can no longer live safely at home and, by partnering with local churches, to be good news to older people who are lonely in the community. The first new home is planned to open in summer 2021.

We are looking for a Director of HR to lead the charity through the challenges of building and recruiting the teams we need to deliver this Renewal Programme. You will also lead  the development of HR best practice across the organisation so that we have the right people with the right skills to deliver excellent Christian care through the challenges of the pandemic and at a time when there are national shortages of care workers. 

About you:

Our ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic HR leader who is experienced in: developing people; driving forward cross-organisational culture and change programmes; recruitment and retention strategies; and remuneration and reward.

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Experience of working in a similar sized organisation (500 staff and £11m turnover) with a growth agenda.
• Experience of leading an HR team.
• Ability to engage others in setting a clear direction and in driving plans forward with energy and credibility.
• Project management skills to deliver multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Qualified to CIPD Level 7 or with further relevant experience.

We have an occupational requirement that those in leadership positions, of which this post is one, are Christians able to fully subscribe to our Doctrinal basis under s9 of the Equality Act.

What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to play a vital role in driving forward our growth agenda.
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• Life Assurance of twice annual salary.
• Flexible work location so long as you can be in our London office around 2 days a week.

About Pilgrims’ Friend Society

At Pilgrims' Friend Society we help older people flourish as God intended and to lived fulfilled lives in older age. We believe that as well as providing secure, comfortable homes and professional care, older people should be supported and encouraged to spend the later part of their lives contributing to the world around them, growing and enjoying fulfilling lives.

Inspired by our Christian faith, we are committed to love and have compassion for our neighbours at every stage of life. We follow the examples of our Christian predecessors in cherishing the elderly, treating them as treasured human beings made in the image of God, and capable of continuing their spiritual growth even as their body or mind may fail them. Working with partner churches we have a vision that no-one living in the catchments around our homes will face death alone and without having had the opportunity of hearing the Christian gospel.

How to apply

For more details and how to apply for the role, please download our candidate application pack which is available from our recruitment consultant’s website at Action Planning.

The closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 9th November.

Registered Charity Number: 242266.

We particularly encourage applications for this role from BAME applicants who are currently underrepresented at senior management level within the organisation. All applications will be considered on merit against the person specification.

No agencies please.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Cardiff Women's Aid, this fantastic charity are working to prevent and respond to domestic and sexual violence and all other forms of violence against women and girls. They have steadily grown over the last few years and currently have a dedicated team of over 60 staff and 40 volunteers. They develop specialised, tailored services for survivors of violence against women.

Services Director

Salary: £40,000

Contract: Permanent

Location: Cardiff

The post holder will join the CEO and Business Development Director in forming the senior executive team which oversees all aspects of Cardiff Women's Aid including all internal core services, all support services, all projects and all business development and financial sustainability for the organisation. The Executive Management Team holds a collective responsibility for the management, leadership and development of CWA.

Reporting directly to the CEO, the post-holder will be responsible for the effective delivery of the organisation's support services through the line-management of senior managers to deliver services which are person centred and solution focussed. Identifying and managing risk will be a high priority but the service must be delivered in a way which is trauma informed and recognises the needs and priorities of the client and their family.

The post holder will lead on the strategic delivery of all front-line support services including accommodation-based support, community provision, children and young people services and projects. The post holder will work collaboratively with the CEO and Business Development Director in identifying gaps in provision and shaping new services. A key function of the post will be to provide strategic direction for the support services provision and ensure delivery of high quality, trauma informed, needs led practice.

To be considered for this position you will need to have: CEO or senior management team level experience with wide-ranging responsibility at an organisation of comparable scale and complexity. You would need to provide a track record of successful organisational development, managing operational and financial performance, building relationships with professionals and non-executives and experience of implementing systems and processes.

If you would like to receive an Information Pack for this role, with details on how to apply, please contact Shweta Prabhakar at Harris Hill by pressing the apply button.

Closing Date: 9AM, Friday 6th November 2020

We look forward to hearing from you.

Head of Programmes needed for the Youth Endowment Fund with expertise in leading a team that identifies and funds great initiatives.

Reports to: Director of Operations & Programmes, Youth Endowment Fund

Salary: £60,000

Location: Central London 

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund exists to prevent young people and children from becoming involved in violence.

In recent years there has been a significant increase in violent crime. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. For children and young people, there have been particularly large increases in those who are both the perpetrators and victims of offences involving knives. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. Many organisations have this calling. Our unique role is to identify what works best and spread the good news. For this reason, we only fund people and organisations when we can work together to learn from what they are doing and use that learning to affect change.

Our Head of Programmes will lead the team that identifies and funds great initiatives, makes sure we can learn from them, and works to scale them up and spread great ideas.

Key Responsibilities

Your job is to lead our work to find and fund the best people and organisations to work with to learn about what works to reduce youth violence. Each year we will execute multiple, large rounds of funding for grants and you will be at the heart of making this a success. You will:

• Lead and coach a team to design, implement, assess and manage our work to fund people and organisations to prevent youth violence. Each round of funding we launch will have a specific focus, designed to help us better understand what works. Your job will be to make sure everything we fund will help build our knowledge around that specific focus.
• Build and nurture strong relationships with organisations across England and Wales who are working to prevent youth violence. Through these relationships, you will identify promising initiatives and groups of people and make sure they are ready to apply for our funding.
• Build the capacity of organisations we work with to engage in evaluations of their work, use available evidence, implement what works and grow. You will think proactively and creatively about how to make sure the people and organisations we fund get the support they need to implement excellent programmes and help us learn.

• Make sure we have the systems, processes and structure to launch, assess and manage multiple high-volume funding rounds. You will be responsible for making sure our assessment processes are fair and transparent and help us choose diverse people and organisations to fund.
• You will develop and maintain our policies and guidance on how we appropriately and proportionately review organisations and their programmes during the assessment and management phases of each grant we make.
• Help YEF as a whole understand the work of the programmes team and the organisations we fund to help us learn and feel connected to our mission.

 As a senior staff member, you will also:

• • Help inform our wider strategy, deliver results and be accountable for achieving certain targets with your team.
  • Provide regular and up to date information to internal and external audiences on the work we fund.
  • Represent the Fund at external events.
  • Help build and model an organisational culture where it is natural to perform well, be yourself at work and support colleagues brilliantly.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in a charity that is making a difference. You like the idea of doing a job that makes young people safer.
• You have significant experience of managing large programmes. You have a track record of getting things done. In previous jobs, you have held significant responsibility for ensuring programmes of a significant size are delivered excellently. You are very reliable. You take pride in making things happen.
• You have delivery experience. You know what it’s like to work for an organisation supporting young people directly. You may have been a teacher, a social carer, a police officer or a youth worker. When a person or organisation we fund is facing challenges, you can relate from first-hand experience.
• You are excellent at organising and analysing a ton of information. You will be responsible for organising information from thousands of grantees and applicants and you know how to develop and maintain excellent systems for doing so. You love to roll up your sleeves and get into the numbers and data and you are great at analysing and synthesising that information so we know what it’s telling us.
• You are an optimiser. You are solutions oriented and think creatively to overcome challenges. You are curious, hungry to learn and always looking for ways to improve our work to have the greatest impact on young people’s lives.
• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with people at every level inside and outside the organisation and have managed large networks of stakeholders with different interests and priorities. You are excellent at customer service and can professionally handle issues that come up within your grant portfolio.
• You are an excellent communicator. Whether in writing or verbally, you are great at distilling a lot of information and clearly communicating a powerful idea.
• You work very well in a team. You are not motivated by being the individual winner. You want the team as a whole to succeed and are excellent at motivating and bringing the best out of the people around you. You don’t care who gets the credit as long as things get done.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, backgrounds and values.

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

Applications close midnight, 15th of November 2020.

You should include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage.

First round interviews will take place over three weeks from the 9th of November 2020 until the 27th of November 2020.

Second round interviews will take place from the week commencing 23rd of November 2020.

This position will require a DBS check to be performed, but a record is not a block to performing this role.

The Charity

OMS is the world’s leading MS lifestyle charity. We are a young, unique and dynamic organisation bringing fresh hope to the MS community both in the UK and around the world. Established in 2012, we’ve been raising awareness of the OMS 7 Step Recovery Programme, a scientifically researched, evidence-based approach to MS management that has been shown to improve health outcomes through diet and lifestyle changes.

You will be joining us at exciting new chapter in the charity’s evolution with committed, passionate and experienced colleagues, as we gear up for launching a new strategy with primary focus on empowering people with MS to transform their lives. We want to become even more visible, energetic, vocal, collaborative and impactful. The new Head of Programmes will join us at a pivotal moment in our organisation’s journey, as we seek to embed our new digital programmes, begin to capitalise on opportunities to scale and expand our work.

The Role

We are looking for an ambitious, proactive and personable individual who is able to think strategically and out of the box, who can deliver operationally and set an example to others proactively championing the following principles that underpin our work:

• Organisational excellence (agile, efficient, proactive, credible)
• People-centric (active community engagement)
• Digital and accessible (dynamic web platform)
• Working towards sustainable and diverse funding sources.

Purpose

The new Head of Programmes will contribute to the successful implementation of our new business strategy through effective design and delivery of projects and programmes across our 4 key strategic areas of focus, to:

1. Inform and educate people with MS, their families and key stakeholders about the OMS recovery programme, raising awareness of its benefits and enabling access to it by diverse MS communities across the globe
2. Build our community engagement programme to inspire hope, ensuring it is supportive, accessible and responsive to the needs of people living with MS
3. Advocate for change by empowering people with MS to influence Healthcare Professionals and demonstrate how a holistic lifestyle approach can help prevent future health challenges
4. Grow collaborative partnerships that showcase how the OMS programme is underpinned by world-class research and enable holistic lifestyle approaches to become the norm in treatment.

Responsibilities

• You will oversee existing and help shape our new programmes of activity, undertaking necessary research and contextual analysis, setting up required implementation, monitoring and reporting infrastructure.
• You will help design and ensure successful delivery of specific projects that drive our community engagement and growth in our outreach internationally.
• You will lead the development of new projects and programmes that enhance our digital information platforms, build our profile, advocacy, campaigning, and awareness raising activities so that the voice of people with MS and their families is heard.
• You will lead on designing monitoring and evaluation systems for our projects and programmes, enabling us to capture robustly the evidence of our impact.
• You will lead a small team, including our volunteer resource, setting clear objectives and expectations, providing support and development opportunities.
• You will help build strategic and operational collaborative partnerships that add value to our work and enable lifestyle change interventions to become mainstream in healthcare settings.
• You will identify, assess, and manage potential or existing financial, operational, regulatory, reputational and health and safety risks across the organisation.
• You will support our fundraising activity by providing evidence of the effectiveness of our projects, programmes and partnerships.

We anticipate that as the person who is the perfect fit for this exciting role;

• A strong understanding of the not-for-profit sector and healthcare systems, in the UK, and ideally also – internationally.
• You will have significant experience of overseeing digital projects and implementation of digital tools designed to engage and support diverse audiences (e.g. website development, managing information systems, embedding CRM, setting up online events).
• You will bring strong experience of working with and supporting volunteers.
• You will have a good understanding of regulatory and best practice requirements in safeguarding – working with people with a medical condition.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent presenter of information with outstanding analytical skills.
• Energy, tenacious and are a self-motivating individual.
• Ability to work on own initiative and thrive as a team player.
• Ability to develop and coach others to fulfil their potential as an effective and experienced leader and line manager.
• You are motivated by making a positive impact on the lives of people living with a progressive illness.

Please review the role description for a full list of responsibilities, experience, skills and attributes entailed for this role.

As our new Head of Programmes, you will play a central role as part of the OMS team, working alongside the Chief Executive Officer and our Head of Fundraising, and will be instrumental in the successful delivery of our projects and programmes.

If this sounds like the dynamic you and you would like to apply for this role, please email your CV and a supporting statement (no more than 3 sides of A4), which should highlight your interest in the role, along with your relevant skills and experience, with specific examples, to be sent no later than 5 pm (BST) on 28th October 2020.

If you’d like to discuss the role further, please contact Grazina on +4 4 (0) 1 8 4 4 3 1 8 7 7 8.

Overcoming MS will begin screening candidates shortly after the closing date, with shortlisted candidates round of interviews taking place w/c 2nd November 2020 and with final interviews scheduled for the following week on 19th and 20th November via Zoom.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES:

Plays a leading role in the development, promotion and marketing of TRAFFIC’s global conservation programme, with specific attention to Asia;

Inspires, manages and guides the TRAFFIC's programme delivery in Asia;

Works as part of the TRAFFIC senior leadership team, with collaborative responsibility for development and implementation of TRAFFIC’s global conservation programme, with specific attention to the Asian region.

SPECIFIC DUTIES:

Programme development

• Plays a key role in the development of the content of TRAFFIC’s global programme strategy in collaboration with the Director – Programme and Research and other senior staff;

• Guides Asia regional teams and staff in developing programme packages and projects necessary to deliver the TRAFFIC global conservation programme, including oversight of the development of funding proposals and ensuring connectivity between actions in Asia and the wider TRAFFIC programme;

• Plays a leading role in marketing programme packages and projects to potential donors and promoting TRAFFIC’s work more generally.

Programme implementation

• Line manages Programme Office Directors in Asia in their management of implementation of the programme, especially with respect to global programme engagement and timely delivery of quality-assured outputs;

• Line manages Programme Office Directors in Asia with respect to their budget management and financial accountability;

• Provides guidance and support to the design, management and evaluation of TRAFFIC projects, with particular emphasis on multi-regional and large-scale activities;

• Acts as technical supervisor of major projects managed by TRAFFIC International;

• Promotes the development and maintenance of partnerships that enhance implementation of TRAFFIC’s programme and projects and provides advice to TRAFFIC Programme Offices in this regard;

• Plays a leading technical role in development and delivery of policy work, including that directed at key international agreements, working particularly closely with the Director of Policy in this regard;

• Collaborates with the Head of Communications and other relevant staff to guide staff in Asia in effective communication of TRAFFIC profile and messaging to target audiences.

Other duties

• Plays and active role in TRAFFIC’s global direction and oversight as member of the Programme Coordination Team (PCT) and Senior Leadership Team (SLT);

• Provides input to the technical review of TRAFFIC publications and funding proposals;

• Represents TRAFFIC at national and international meetings.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Significant work experience relevant to nature conservation, familiarity with major trends in biodiversity conservation policy and issues relevant to the trade in animals and plants.

• Broad international experience, a good understanding of wildlife management and sustainable development issues, international nature conservation laws and agreements and the range of policies affecting the conservation, use of and trade in biological resources.

• Strong skills in environmental research, analysis and policy with knowledge of biological and social science and insight into drivers of government and private sector decision-making.

• Strong knowledge and experience of project design, management and evaluation methods.

• A university degree and preferably a post-graduate qualification in a relevant discipline.

• Proven experience in supervision and an ability to work co-operatively with others, both in an office situation and with other colleagues and partners, with respect for and sensitivity to multi-cultural approaches.

• Good IT skills and strong communications skills with proven experience of working with the media, both written and verbally.

• Fluency in English and working ability in at least one Asian language.

• A willingness to travel world-wide on a regular basis and to work under pressure.

SUPERVISION

Acts as line manager to: Programme Office Directors for Southeast Asia, Viet Nam, Japan, India and China and other staff as appropriate.

We would consider the role being based in another TRAFFIC Asia Office for the right candidate.

Contract: 24 month contract (with the possibility of extension).

Job Overview

A government funded charity is seeking an Interim Director of Finance to start immediately.

£400 per day

Home based

3 month Contract

Responsibilities

The role would include:

1. Line managing a financial controller and ops manager
2. Signing off financial reporting to CEO, Finance and Risk board committee, and the board itself
3. Signing off financial plans if a new contract is bid for, and working with the financial controller if any ad hoc requests come in around reporting from our government contract managers
4. Overseeing HR, IT and legal (with the support of an ops manager using mainly outsourced services)
5. Overseeing office space work (particularly ensuring covid regulations are maintained)
6. Oversight of compliance and other policies, and risk management

Really bringing in safe pair of hands would be the ideal situation to keep things in good order while the client looks to appoint a permanent Director of Finance

Qualifications/experience required

ACCA, CIMA, ACA Qualified

Director of Operations

Competitive Salary with excellent terms and conditions

Full Time, based Richmond, Surrey, with requirement for extensive UK travel [currently all Richmond-based roles are working from home in line with temporary Covid arrangements]

We are seeking to recruit an exceptional individual to this senior management position.  At the centre of the Poppy Factory operations, the post has responsibility for delivering the charity’s award-winning employability service across the country whilst simultaneously contributing to wider strategic objectives and business change.

Delivering an effective employability service requires strong and effective leadership of a diverse and geographically dispersed team as well as continual monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation of the service to meet client needs.

The role will involve significant input at senior executive level, supporting strategic initiatives, planning and implementing the growth of the service, representing the charity at Board, regional and national level and identifying and building key partnerships within the charitable, corporate and statutory sectors. 

How to Apply

For the full job description and more information about the role, please refer to the candidate pack.

To apply for this position please prepare your CV and a covering letter clearly outlining how you meet the criteria set out in the person specification. You may address your covering letter to Deirdre Mills, Chief Executive.

This post is anticipated to close on midnight on Sunday 8 November 2020, we reserve the right to withdraw the advert if we appoint to the role before this date.  Please note that we cannot accept late or incomplete applications. Interviews are expected to take place mid-late November 2020.

If you would like an informal conversation about the role please contact Posey Furnish to arrange a call with Deirdre Mills, Chief Executive.

Help us to use rural estates, farms and locations in Oxfordshire to enable people with learning disabilities and autism to live a life with purpose, progress and fun. The Director of FarmAbility is responsible for ensuring the success, sustainability and growth of FarmAbility for the benefit of co-farmers (people with learning disabilities, many also with autism) through overseeing an effective programme and fundraising strategy, and engaging staff and volunteers in working well towards programme outcomes.

FarmAbility exists to give our co-farmers a more purposeful, healthy and fulfilling life, whilst having fun and making friends. Our programmes are thoughtfully designed to allow co-farmers to make their own choices and to try new things in a happy, caring and supported environment. We benefit from the rich landscapes that our partner farms, estates and owners of green spaces generously provide us with and, in turn, co-farmers make a valued contribution to the seasonal cycle of farming and horticulture.

The Director provides strategic leadership in order that FarmAbility achieves strong outcomes for co-farmers’ well-being and skills development, while ensuring the programme is flexible, responsive and financially viable.  The Director seeks to innovate and develop the programme and develops effective partnerships with relevant bodies to create more opportunities for new co-farmers to benefit from farm-based programmes.

The British Society for Rheumatology is a membership organisation which brings together expertise from across the rheumatology profession, harnessing a wide variety of experience and skills to ensure we are supporting our members to the very best of our combined ability.

Our mission is to support members to deliver the best care at all stages of the rheumatology care pathway, focusing on communication, transparency and collaboration.

Following a mini-restructure, we are now recruiting a Director of Practice and Quality.  This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to lead the new Practice and Quality Directorate.

The Director for Practice and Quality will focus on the development and delivery of outputs that can be translated into practice and ensure that BSR makes the most of our links across the different areas of work.  This will help to underpin our relevance to members, develop our leadership voice and promote best practice, and will involve our Journal, Registers, Guidelines, Quality Improvement, Devolved Nations and Policy and Public Affairs teams becoming part of the new Directorate.

BSR particularly welcomes applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds. 

BSR is committed to encouraging inclusion, equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation by complying with the Equality Act 2010. 

We want a working environment free of all of the above, where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued. To do this, we will proactively tackle discrimination and disadvantage and ensure that no individual or group is directly or indirectly discriminated against for any reason. We expect all BSR employees to champion and live our values through their work at every opportunity. 

BSR is an Investors in People-accredited organisation, committed to the continuous professional development of our employees.

Vital Xposure, the disabled-led national touring theatre company and ACE NPO, has been developing hidden voices to tell extraordinary stories for the last ten years. Founder Director Julie McNamara is now leaving the company in search of life and adventure overseas.

We are seeking a dynamic, creative leader with a strong artistic vision, to join this small, hard-working team and shape the future of Vital Xposure.

We are looking for an explorer, open to new adventures; someone with a passion for staging performances that challenge political injustice and social inequalities, who will deliver outstanding work for the company.

Are we looking for you?

Contract type:

Permanent / part time: 0.6 of full time. Days / hours to be agreed

Salary band:

£38,520 - £43,520 pa (based on full time)

This position: £23,112 - £26,112 (based on 0.6 FTE)

For full information and to download the Job Description and How to Apply, please go to Vital Xposure’s website.

Deadline for applications: Thursday 29 October, 2020 at midday

Interviews via Zoom: Friday 6 / Monday 9 November, 2020

If you require information in an alternative format, please contact Vital Xposure. These formats will be available upon request to ensure they are suitably tailored to support the applicant’s access requirements.

Director vacancy

4 - 5 days / week (neg)

Circa £40,000 per annum (pro rata)

Refugee Action Kingston was established in 1991 and based in the London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. The charity plays a significant role in bringing positive change to refugees and asylum seekers through its high quality services. These include: advising and empowering refugees and asylum seekers towards building fulfilled and independent lives through skills development, advice, counselling, and assistance in access to services and employment. In addition the charity provides advice and advocacy on the asylum process. 

We are looking for a Director with experience of a leadership position ideally in the charity sector to lead a small team of 16 staff and over 80 volunteers who deliver our frontline services. As well as being a passionate leader with a strong commitment to and understanding of the welfare of asylum seekers and refugees, the ideal candidate should have a proven track-record in managing and empowering people, developing change strategies, securing funding, working collaboratively and strengthening relationships with funders, collaborators, networks and a range of other stakeholders. The candidate will lead the organisation as it adapts its working practices in response to the Covid 19 pandemic.

The Director will be a strategic thinker who will work with trustees to address the key priorities of quality, efficiency and sustainability. They will have ultimate responsibility for setting and delivering the organisation’s operations and its strategic objectives ensuring good governance and financial sustainability. If you feel this role is for you we look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date:15 November 2020