Contract: maternity cover

Hours: 35 hours per week

Closing Date: 19 May 2022

Interview Dates: 13 & 14th June 2022

Role start date: Early August

Location: Home based with regular travel

Do a job that makes a difference

If you want to do a job that matters and you are looking for interesting and varied work in a friendly team, and loads of job satisfaction - we have the role for you.

Based in York, Family Fund is the UK's largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled children.

The role

We are looking for a Partner Engagement Manager on a temporary basis to cover maternity leave. In this role you will promote and develop the work of Family Fund in its reach to families and its profile within the disability sector in England. You will proactively work with a wide range of public, private and third sector organisations to ensure Family Fund’s strategy is understood and mutually beneficial relationships are formed.  You will seek out opportunities which allow Family Fund to achieve its key priorities, deliver added value for funders, and secure positive outcomes for our beneficiaries.

You will also be acknowledged as a senior Family Fund representative across the disability sector, deputising for the Group CEO, or Directors on committees and at events as required.  You will build effective partnerships and proactively develop activities with key organisations across public, private and third sectors.

Other responsibilities include:

• Ensuring that Family Fund’s profile remains high amongst key organisations.
• Promoting the support offered by Family Fund to support demand generation, including targeted work in relation to our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion objectives.
• Being Family Fund’s key point of contact for all partners and stakeholders in England.
• Engage in sector working groups and consortia to help secure improved support for families raising disabled children.

About you

For this role you will need to have experience of presenting to external stakeholders and representing an organisation in a professional capacity.  Experience in networking and developing relationships with organisations is also required. You should also have experience of managing budgets and delivering projects. 

To be successful in this role you will need to be self-motivated and be able to motivate a team.  You must be flexible, adaptable and resilient to work demands and change. This post is home based with regular travel.

In return, we offer the chance to be right at the heart of a supportive professional team, where you'll make a real positive difference to families in need every day. As a member of our staff, you'll receive quality training for your role, contributory pension and access to our employee discounts scheme.

About us

Family Fund is a great place to work for great people. We provide a challenging and rewarding working environment where every staff member can make their mark. We are a values based organisation, and we aim to show our values in all that we do. 

Family Fund is committed to inclusion, equality and diversity, and we welcome applications from all parts of the community. We are a Disability Confident Employer and all disabled applicants who meet the requirements for the role will be invited for interview. If you have a disability, and are happy to let us know, please highlight this in your covering letter.

Community Engagement Coordinator x 3

Location:

1x role in the south of England

The role will be home-based with extensive travel across the south of England, the London office and regular travel to other regions and BookTrust offices in England.

1x role in the central England

The role will be home-based with extensive travel across the central England and regular travel to other regions and BookTrust offices in England.

1x role in the north of England

The role will be home-based with extensive travel across the north of England, the Leeds office and regular travel to other regions and BookTrust offices in England.

Contract: 2 years fixed term, extendable for a further year

Salary: £30,000 p.a.

BookTrust is the UK's largest children's reading charity. Working with every local authority and across every region in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and supported by Arts Council funding, we reach over 3 million families a year through schools, health visitors, libraries and other partners. This incredible network helps us to get children excited about reading from an early age. We know that children who read are happier, healthier, more creative and do better at school.

This is an exciting time to join us; Book Trust is investing in the expansion of the Partnership Team that supports our work across England. Building our capacity in all regions of England will offer greater opportunity to work with our partners in a place-based way, working in and with local communities and the children and families most in need of support.

As a Community Engagement Coordinator, you will work within the regional partnerships team to support projects, pilots and pieces of learning to build greater place-based working with the BookTrust partner network.

To apply, you must complete all elements of the process below and submit by the closing date. To find out 'How to Apply', please go to our website. The selection process will take place in June 2022.

1. Submit a written answer in no more than 750 words to the question below:

“Can you tell us about a time when you worked to support local communities, tell us what you role was, what was important to ensure a successful outcome and how you used your skills, knowledge and or experience to deliver a successful outcome.

1. Please submit your CV, comprising of no more than 2 sides of A4.
2. Please submit a covering email stating only the attachment of the documents set out in points 1 and 2 and confirming which role and region you wish to apply for. Lengthy covering emails will be disregarded.

Closing date: Friday, 3rd June, 12pm

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity

We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: BAME candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from underrepresented communities.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team (contact details can be found on our website). 

BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflect our commitment to safeguarding therefore, the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, and pre-employment checks.

Macmillan Engagement Lead
Permanent
Full time [34.5 hours with flexible working, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours]
Mobile Worker – Northern Ireland
Salary  £33,000 – £39,000 plus car allowance 

Are you someone who thrives on engaging with different communities? Do you want to use your skills and expertise to really make a difference and help support people living with cancer? If so, this could be a great role for you.

We are striving to do everything we can to ensure that our workforce is representative of the people we support, and those who support us. We advocate for being an inclusive organisation, where everyone can feel that they belong and where there are no barriers to success. 

We want every individual to feel empowered to bring their best to work, and that’s why we offer flexibility in our working locations, working hours and benefits so we can support you in your life and your career, and we welcome a conversation about how these options can best support you.

We offer a range of flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, e.g. 34.5 hours in 4 days instead of 5, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am - 4pm and more options. 

About the role

Our Engagement Leads are key to providing the support and structure to enable people living with cancer to shape and influence service delivery, policy and our equality, inclusion and diversity agenda. The role is home based and involves daily travel covering Northern Ireland in the normal course of the work and therefore a current valid driving licence is essential. Some evening and out-of-hours work will also be required, and occasional overnight stays and occasional travel to Scotland and England.

About you

As part of the Northern Ireland geographic team you’ll put your excellent communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills into play to influence and inform your target audience. Your drive and knowledge of how the health and social care sector is structured will enable you to implement a person centred approach via the involvement of others.

You will bring experience in working with groups and volunteers in a community based setting, development of community partnerships and the ability to plan community networking and outreach events.

You can demonstrate the ability to analyse qualitative data to report outcomes and be confident to take the lead on project development and project management.

About us

We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. Together, we do whatever it takes for people living with cancer; with heart, with strength and with ambition.

Recruitment Process

The deadline for applications is 22nd May 2022 at 23:59. Virtual interviews will run from 14th June 2022. 

In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.

Any offers on this role are made subject to a criminal records disclosure check or equivalent

About Black Thrive
We exist to change the odds stacked against Black people by embedding race equity into systemic change so that thriving is not the exception but the norm.
Black Thrive Global evolved from the work of the Black Thrive Lambeth Partnership, which was established in 2016 to address the inequalities that negatively impact the mental health and wellbeing of Black people in Lambeth. Black people’s cumulative exposure to negative experiences and poor outcomes are not unique to Lambeth and Black Thrive Global was founded in 2020 to address the detrimental outcomes for Black people of African and Caribbean descent wherever they may be located. Our work covers all life stages – children and young people, working age adults and older adults. Our guiding principle is to centre the lived experiences of Black communities in all that we do and our strategic priorities are to embed race equity in systems change and to decolonise the evidence landscape.

Purpose of the role

This post is a central delivery role that will help with the implementation of the Communications Strategy, a key enabler for public co-production and participatory decision making. The role supports community-led consultation on how to improve trust and relationships between policing and Black Communities across London. The Community Engagement Officer will be undertaking a wide range of work including support with the development and distribution of communication content that is culturally appropriate, engaging and informative. This role is a great fit for someone who is energetic and committed, and has a passion for working directly with local communities and developing methods for local participation.

Main Accountabilities:

• Maintain relationships with local communities and partners
• Organise external workshops and events with the objective of hearing from a representative voice of London's Black communities
• Improve reach to community members and strengthen of already established relationships
• Update website and social media accounts as required
• Support the development of blog posts, reports, newsletters, social media content and other external facing communications content

Interviews on 26th May 
Closing date 23rd May
Application Instructions: Please send a cover letter and upload ONE document which contains your CV (of no more than 3 pages) and the completed equality and diversity monitoring form.

Youth Engagement Manager

Fixed Term Contract
Job Ref: V400
Hours/Days per week: 35 hours per week – (Flexible days/hours)
Salary: £24,000 plus attractive employee benefits package
Start date: ASAP
Location: Homebased (travel required around Glasgow)
Closing date: 26th May 2022
Interview date and Location: Week commencing 30th May 2022

Volunteering Matters

At Volunteering Matters we use volunteering’s unique power to bring people together and build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK.

We bring people together to resolve some of society’s most complex issues.  From social isolation and loneliness; improving health and wellbeing; building skills, confidence, and opportunity; to ensuring young people can become change makers in their community, the impact that we make is great.  And we won’t stop until everyone in the UK has the opportunity to thrive.

People-led and impact driven, we are a national charity that is deeply embedded in local areas across the UK.  We operate in five regions: London and the South East; Wales and the West of England; East of England; the Midlands and North West England; and Scotland and North East England.  We also have an Employee Volunteering Team with over 25 years’ experience, acting as a broker to provide tailor-made solutions to employers. We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.

This is an exciting time to be joining the team.  We’re changing the way we work to meet new ambitions and make sure our impact continues to grow alongside out business.

Role Purpose

We are looking for a talented, dynamic, and professional Youth Engagement Manager to join our team in the Glasgow City.  The right candidate would be someone who can work flexibly and demonstrate an understanding and total commitment to our organisational values.

You will directly support young people aged 16 to 24 across Glasgow, who may have complex and challenging barriers that prevent them from achieving a positive pathway towards the next stage of their lives.  Your work is aligned with the Young Person’s Guarantee, which is Scotland’s commitment to bring together employers, partners and young people.  It aims to connect every 16 to 24 year old in Scotland to an opportunity. This could be a job, apprenticeship, further or higher education, training or volunteering.

Your support in Glasgow will include barrier identification and removal, elements of one to one employability support, and given our passion for volunteering, focus will be on supporting young people to embrace a local volunteering placement as an excellent route to work/next steps in life.  Each young person we work with are offered a mentor and so you will also work alongside colleagues in our Mentoring team, ensuring young people have the opportunity to benefit from a ProjectScotland Volunteer Mentor.

You will manage and develop our networks and relationships in the area, including within education, social work and employability teams, to secure referral pathways into our service.  You will identify and build partnerships with charitable and not-for-profit organisations across Glasgow who will host volunteer placements.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• To meet ambitious targets in supporting young people, and their progression into long-term outcomes
• Working one to one with young people, identifying barriers they face and provide support and strategies to overcome them
• To provide one to one employability support that is tailored to the young person’s personal circumstances
• To engage directly with young people to understand their wants, needs and aspirations and determine the best opportunity for each to volunteer, and provide the support they need in advance of volunteering
• To work alongside the ProjectScotland mentoring team to ensure young people have the opportunity to benefit from the experience and skills of a dedicated volunteer mentor
• To manage all elements of the young person’s experience from point of referral to completion of their volunteering opportunity, and beyond
• To identify, develop and maintain excellent relationships with charity and not-for-profit partners across Glasgow, as well as referral partners and agencies
• Ensure diverse, high quality volunteer roles are available that reflect the needs and interests of young people
• To manage the risk assessment, quality assurance and audit processes as appropriate
• Ensure monitoring, impact and evaluation information and data is collected and that the project meets it’s agreed targets, reporting format and schedule. Assist the Delivery Leader by preparing reports to funders
• To ensure all the above is done with excellent record keeping, in accordance with compliance requirements. This includes the use of Salesforce CRM system
• Promoting and representing Volunteering Matters and ProjectScotland across Glasgow
• Contribute to the wider Volunteering Matters and ProjectScotland staff teams, upholding our values at all times

Person Specification 

Skills 

• A sound and comprehensive understanding of the particular challenges and barriers that young people face
• Understanding of how to assess the needs of an individual using a person-centered approach
• Excellent organisational and IT skills
• Excellent people skills with the ability to build professional, long term relationships with others
• Beneficiary-focused, and adaptable – able to go from strategic conversations with key partners to chatting with a young nervous potential volunteer
• Ability to manage a busy workload and prioritise accordingly
• Strong attention to detail and a willingness to accurately record all interactions
• Creating, coordinating and supporting proper reporting channels around contract compliance
• Experience of project management and working to deadlines

Experience 

• Significant experience working directly with young people, particularly those who face challenges and barriers
• Demonstratable relationship management experience with a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience in using a CRM (customer relationship management) system
• Experience of project management, achieving high targets and working to strict deadlines
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and work as part of a team

Qualifications

Relevant experience and values alignment is more important for this role than specific qualifications

Other

Having a regular presence in the area, to work with partners and young people is essential for this role (in line with COVID restrictions).  Given the geographical spread of the working area, a driving license and access to a vehicle would be beneficial.  When home based, internet access to enable remote working is essential.  IT equipment and infrastructure will be supplied.

This role requires membership of the PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) scheme. Having a conviction will not necessarily cause a bar to employment.

Our Values & Way of Working:

In all that we do, we embrace a philosophy of ‘Freedom within a Framework’ and are guided by our values: Empowering, Inclusive, Compassionate, Positive & Straightforward.

This job description is intended to include the broad range of responsibilities and requirements of the post. It is neither exhaustive nor exclusive but while some variations will be expected, these will be at an appropriate level for the role.

Diversity & Inclusion

Volunteering Matters welcomes all applicants and are keen to ensure our team reflects the diversity of the UK and the communities we serve. We encourage applications from disabled, LGBT and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, along with candidates with any protected characteristics and from disadvantaged groups.

Disability Confident & Reasonable Adjustments:

We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. Please provide evidence in your application, which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required in the “Experience/Skills” section of this advert. To be considered for a guaranteed interview or to discuss any reasonable adjustments during the process, please state this in your application or contact our HR team for more information.

We have also committed to the following pledges which positively encompass our recruitment and selection processes and methodology: The Promise, Show The Salary, Salary History.

Benefits

Our employee benefits reflect our culture which is built on an approach of full flexibility with accountability, and designed to let you make your most positive contribution; we offer Flexible Working by Default (re hours & place of work), Unlimited Annual Leave, Employee Pension scheme, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Employee Assistance Programme, enhanced sick and family leave. We are also open to discuss job share applications.

GDPR Statement

If you apply for a role with us, we will retain your contact details including your name, address, email address and phone number to help us manage your application for up to 6 months.  We will not use your personal data for any other purpose or share it with any third party. You can contact us at any point to update your personal information or ask us to delete it from our records.

To Apply - please see our website 

Head of Youth Re-Imagined

ABOUT US

The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity.We want to see a world where trees and woods thrive for people and nature. The Trust engages and inspires people to make their difference tackling the nature and climate crisis helping protect, restore and create our vital woods and trees. 

THE ROLE

As part of the Woodland Trust’s strategy to 2030, there is renewed focus on engaging young people with the work of the Trust. Therefore, the Head of Youth Re-imagined is a newly created role fixed term role (with the potential for permanent) which will transform our relationship with young people. The focus of this role in the initial phase is to kick-start the new strategy and lay the foundations for successful engagement. This will involve:

• Developing a compelling narrative for Youth Re-Imagined, in order to support fundraising efforts with relevant teams across the Trust
• Providing credible and inspirational leadership, supporting the Executive and other staff in achieving a shared vision for and with young people
• Establishing metrics and monitoring key performance indicators linked to agreed Youth Re-Imagined objectives
• Co-designing innovative initiatives that will bring young people’s ideas and perspectives into the Trust’s strategy, decision-making and communications
• Responsibility for the Youth Re-Imagined budget spend and management account responsibility, including grant management, whilst understanding and collaborating on the resource demands elsewhere in the organisation
• Being responsible for developing and managing a small Youth Re-Imagined dedicated team

THE CANDIDATE

You’ll be a strategic leader with experience of enabling organisational change and continuous improvement. You will also be an effective communicator with the ability to engage and influence the decisions and actions of others. Being an expert in the development and delivery of strategies that embed young people across an organisation you will also have good knowledge of legislation and policies designed to safeguard children and vulnerable adults.

You’ll be an experienced senior manager with the ability to nurture a new team and excellent relationship management skills enabling you to develop strong partnerships across sectors and with key stakeholders.

WHAT TO EXPECT BY JOINING A TEAM AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE

There’s no other organisation like the Woodland Trust. Joining the team you will be making your contribution to tackling the nature and climate crisis. In return, we recognise and value our people. You'll have our full support, training and opportunities for professional development, along with a contributory pension, life assurance, good holiday allowance and the opportunity to work flexibly from home.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

At the Woodland Trust, we believe everyone deserves to have their lives enriched by trees and woods.

We also believe that our organisation should reflect and represent the full richness of human diversity in terms of background, identity, ability and circumstance. As groups of people currently underrepresented as Woodland Trust employees, we are particularly keen to receive your application if you are Black, Asian or minority ethnic, disabled or under 25. We are measuring our success in redressing this.

We are open to discussion of any adjustments or flexible working arrangements you may need to achieve your full potential at any stage of the process, and if you are successful in gaining a position with us, during employment.

We promise the only thing we assess within your application is how you have demonstrated your suitability for the job, and nothing else.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we find the suitable candidate before the closing date. 

Our Hybrid working model is an expectation of working from the office a minimum of twice a month – this may vary from role to role.

Engagement Officer – (Bristol and South West) 

Civitas Recruitment are proud to be partnering with a great charity focused on working with those living with older age and committed to fighting loneliness so that people can have social lives and friendship groups however old they are. The charity looks to inspire and enable meaningful connections and shared experiences within communities across the UK for people over 75 facing loneliness and social isolation. An exciting opportunity exists for an Engagement Officer to join the charity. As Engagement Officer, you will contribute to the delivery of the charity’s objectives by working with referral partners ensuring older people across Bristol and the South West have access to the charity’s services. You will identify speaking and presenting opportunities to ensure that the work of the charity is widely known and understood by referrers. It is a  12 month FTC role working from home. 

Who are we looking for? 

Ideal candidates will have excellent people skills with a proven ability to collaborate with professionals, partners, older people, volunteers and colleagues. Candidates will have experience of working across different sectors and developing links with other organisations. You will have experience of working to deadlines and meeting KPI’s. You will be organised and have strong administrative and IT skills. Experience of delivering and implementing community projects would be an advantage however it is not essential for the role.

If the above role description sounds of interest and you feel like you meet the criteria; please apply immediately or for further information, please contact Syed at Civitas Recruitment for a full JD and informal discussion. Early applications are encouraged as we will be reviewing on a rolling basis. 

About the role 

Carers NI has a fantastic new opportunity to lead and manage our new Advocacy and Voice Project. You’ll establish forums, organise events and provide support to empower carers from across NI, from a diversity of backgrounds, to have their voices heard, and their lived experiences brought, to the heart of government and the Assembly. You will also be a key member of the Carers NI policy team, contributing to analysis of policy and strategy, developing research, co-ordinating engagement with partners, supporting campaigns and representing Carers NI nationally and locally.

About you

This role requires a broad range of skills in engaging with others and communicating at all levels. You will have excellent written and verbal communication, presentation skills, self-motivation and attention to detail. You will have an understanding of the issues facing unpaid carers and their families and ideally of the current Northern Ireland political system.

The role will particularly suit a proactive individual who enjoys working with people and creating successful networks, can multi-task and who can represent the charity to partners across all sectors, civil servants and politicians. 

In return, we can offer you a rewarding role where you can make a real difference to the lives of unpaid carers in Northern Ireland.

Diversity and inclusion

Carers UK is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard. 

To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.

As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.

The closing date for applications is 12pm 20 May 2022

Interview Dates w/c 13 June 2022

Supporter Engagement Coordinator

Contract Type: Fixed Term
Location: Home Worker (England, Wales and NI)
Salary: £18,707.20 - £19,462.40 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience) + London allowance of £3,600 (if applicable)
Working Hours: 28 per week

Closing Date: 19 May 2022
Interview Date: TBC (via Zoom or Teams)

Reference Number: VAC3098

Contract: This is a fixed term/secondment opportunity for 12 months

Hours: This role is working 28 hours per week. The salary advertised is a reflection of the part time hours.

Please note, the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is 23:59pm on the closing date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

About Alzheimer's Society

We are the UK's leading dementia charity. Every day, we work tirelessly to find new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for dementia. We provide expert information, training, and support services to all those who need our help. And we are creating a more dementia-friendly society so people with the condition can live without fear and prejudice.

Until the day we find a cure, Alzheimer's Society will be here for anyone affected by dementia - wherever they are, whatever they're going through. Everything we do is informed and inspired by them.

About the role

We have a new and rewarding opportunity for a Supporter Engagement Coordinator to join our Fundraising division.

The role is varied and exciting, with a core focus on putting the supporter at the heart of everything we do here at Alzheimer’s Society. We support the Regional Engagement team with governance of certain processes that enable them to work effectively and offer the best supporter experience.

The role requires a high level of organisation with multiple supporter channels being the focus of your role daily. We use a central CRM system and additional reporting methods which you will be completing to a high level.

The role is the gateway into the wider Regional Engagement team, triaging all community led supporters from fundraising through to dementia friends and events. We focus on quality, delivering an unrivalled journey for our supporters which we constantly look to improve and develop. The successful candidate will help drive this development through excellence and passion.

About you

Ideally you will:

- Be able to demonstrate a high level of supporter centric focus and experience,
- Attention to stewarding our supporters with their specified Fundraising journeys.
- Ability to work working remotely
- Confidence to work as a team and to set deadlines.
- Excellent IT skills including MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook and MS PowerPoint
- Experience of managing and working with fundraising database systems (full training provided).
- Have a passion for supporter care and stewardship (desirable)
- Ability to multiple tasks through your day with an eye for details and accuracy.

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer's Society.

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.

You may have experience of the following: Fundraising Administrator, Supporter Engagement, Sales Support, Sales Administration, Project Support Project Coordinator, Telemarketing, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Executive, Fundraiser, Membership Services, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit etc.

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About Digital Social Care

Digital technology helps care services spend more time caring. It helps the people we support keep control of their lives, and of their care. And in recent months, the need for information to be shared securely and efficiently between health and care services has become even more apparent. But there can be risks – for example how information is kept safe and secure, and what happens if a digital system fails.

This is a shared role across Digital Social Care (DSC) and Better Security, Better Care (BSBC).

DSC is run by social care providers for social care providers. It is a dedicated platform for providing advice and support to the sector on technology and data protection. BSBC is a support programme to help adult social care providers to store and share information safely through the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT). The DSPT is a free, online self-assessment for health and care providers to evaluate and improve their data and cyber security.

The BSBC programme supports the sector with resources hosted on DSC and assistance provided by local partners to help care providers complete the DSPT. It’s an ambitious programme which aims to have all Care Quality Comission-registered adult social care services completing the DSPT at least once a year. The programme is delivered by a diverse group of care sector organisations, including many local care associations, with colleagues from the NHS, the Association of Directors of Social Services and local councils also involved.

About you and the role

As Engagement Manager, you'll play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of the DSC and BSBC programmes. You willprovide key insights and support to our national project team and Local Support Organisations to enable them to engage with their health, social care, digital and tech stakeholders, liaising with our partners and grantees and addressing all manner of different challenges. You'll manage programme-critical functions and will take an entrepreneurial approach to improving our stakeholder engagement and management. You'll report to the Programme Director and work closely with the Programme’s Communications Manager and Digital Social Care’s Project Manager. The role is fully remote but there will be some national travel and event attendance required.

Here’s a taste of what you’ll do:

· Stakeholder mapping. Taking the lead on developing, drafting and implementing a stakeholder mapping process.

· Toolkit development. Making sure our local support organisation are equipped with everything they need to effectively reach out to their local stakeholders and are able to report this to our central team. 

· Development of special interest groups.

· Events planning. Leading the development and management of online and in person events across both programmes. 

· Tracking and managing contacts across the programme compliance and governance processes. Managing paperwork and reporting for the board.

· Ensuring regular communications to the grantees and stakeholders, working closely with the Communications Manager and Delivery Manager to develop the comms and marketing for the programmes.

· Providing monthly data reports to the BSBC board and relevant stakeholders. Managing the effective data monitoring system and proposing developments and improvements where necessary.

· Grow with the role. As the programme grows, lead the delivery of our local and regional support as well as working closely with the wider Better Security, Better Care and Digital Social Care teams to ensure the programme is embedded in the digital developments across the sector.

Your skills

You'll be the right person for this job if:

· You're passionate about solving problems, no matter if their big or small; and have a strong mindset of getting things done.

· You will have experience of working in or alongside adult social care providers.

· You will have experience of working with large, complex stakeholder networks and building positive relations

· You will have experience developing and managing events.

· You appreciate the big picture of our mission and balance that with a collaborative mindset to prioritise your work. 

· You have excellent digital, verbal communication and presentation skills.

· You feel comfortable dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity.

· You are willing to learn and can develop new skills and can tackle new areas.

Benefits

You'll benefit from:

· Salary £43,000 

· fully flexible, remote working

· 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Next steps: Click the link through to our application process via Applied.

You’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day job. After the job closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which includes [add next steps here]. Also, we love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process, we'll let you know how well you performed.

Expected duration of this application process: 4-6 weeks

We are an equal opportunities employer

As a Funding Officer you will assess requests for funding and manage grants using local knowledge, best practice, thematic expertise, and the experience of customers and stakeholders to improve our grant making and inform our decision making. By working closely with people and communities from a defined geographical area, you will understand what matters to them and where our funding can make the biggest difference.

Being responsible for supporting local people and communities you will have a strong understanding of our vision, our commitment to equity and inclusion and our funding products. You’ll also need to support our stakeholders, helping them to make connections that will help them achieve their goals.

Being responsible for the pipeline of projects you will need to understand and respond to the different needs of our customers by providing advice and considered feedback and be willing to have challenging but constructive conversations.

Funding Officers will ensure our grant management and assessment play an effective part in contributing to the Fund’s knowledge and learning as a grant maker. You will manage your own caseload, liaise with grant recipients, undertake project visits, identify and manage risk, supporting organisations to deliver their projects and measure their impact.

You’ll also need to work within the Fund’s policies and procedures and the necessary legislation, and in a way that is in line with our vision and principles.

You will represent the Fund within your local area, including at funding fairs and external meetings and create opportunities for people to come together. You will share learning from your conversations, events, grant holder reports and evaluations with other colleagues so that we can maximise our impact.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview Date: w/c 20th June 2022

Location: Black Country with a Walsall Focus (ideally living in or close to the Black Country)

Essental criteria

• Lived experience or working knowledge of the Black Country and the local third sector.
• Communication skills: Strong listening, written and verbal communication with an emphasis on written communication for assessment purposes.
• Relational skills: Ability to nurture, develop and promote effective relationships and communication with colleagues, community organisations and other external agencies with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion
• An ability to manage your own workload with minimal supervision and demonstrate strong self-organisation and prioritisation skills.

Desirable criteria

• Analytical skills: Ability to assess a high volume of applications, make good judgements, challenge when appropriate and manage risk.
• Demonstrate sound IT skills and the ability to learn detailed processes
• Experience of working across a variety of situations. This role will predominately work across the Black Country with a specific focus on Walsall. The role is mobile and will involve working from home, video calls on Microsoft Teams, visiting organisations, occasionally meeting at the Birmingham office and wider locations mostly in the Midlands as required. A car is not necessary but an openness to travel to different locations is desirable.

For you 

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

Equal opportunities

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds.  As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and will proactively make reasonable adjustments if needed through the recruitment process and during employment. This can be related to a physical and mental health conditions.

We are also proud to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion, supporting our commitment to being a great place to work for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) staff.

Do you want to join our commitment to ensure no family faces cancer alone?

We are looking for a standout relationship manager to join our fantastic team of fundraisers who work tirelessly to raise funds for Young Lives vs Cancer. This is a role of variety, opportunity and innovation and we are looking for someone who embraces change and constantly strives to achieve more.

Fundraising Engagement Manager Responsibilities:

A great personality and team ethic are really important in this role as you will maximise income for Young Live vs Cancer by coaching our supporters to reach their goals, whilst seeking out new fundraising opportunities for your geographical area. This role sits within the ‘Supporter Experience’ team and we need someone with natural customer service skills who wants to deliver a legendary experience to all of their supporters. Your team of supporters will range from volunteers and individuals, to groups and local corporates.

North East England is a big area filled with some of our most committed supporters but there is so much opportunity to grow support across the region.

This is not your average 9-5 role and we’re not looking for an average candidate. We encourage flexibility and adaptability, and in return offer a strong flexible working arrangement to ensure a healthy work/life balance. Many of the team work condensed or flexible hours to suit individual circumstances and we would love to discuss your needs further at interview.

Fundraising Engagement Manager Requirements:

Experience within a similar role, or within the charity sector, would be great, but we know that a lot of the most important skills in this role are easily transferable from another sector. We want the right person and we will invest in training the right candidate. The skills we are looking for in this role are:

• Strong prioritisation skills
• Great communicator
• Self-Motivated
• Emotionally intelligent
• Master at storytelling
• Epic at relationship building
• Self-Aware
• Great at spotting opportunities
• Influencing/Negotiating
• Compassion
• Bravery
• Integrity
• Team player

The must haves:

• Have a full UK driving licence and access to a car
• Have a sufficient Broadband connection for this home based role
• Live in North East England
• This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
• In return for your commitment, we offer a great reward package, which includes generous annual leave entitlement, enhanced pension and employee savings scheme.

If you think this sounds like you then please have a read of the attached job specification. If you wanted to discuss the role before applying, then we welcome these informal chats.

At Young Lives vs Cancer, we recognise that opportunities for too many people remain a condition of their race, class, sex, disability, sexual orientation – or a combination. This has never been acceptable to us as an organisation. At Young Lives vs Cancer, we do not just accept difference — we value it, we celebrate it, we nurture it, and we thrive off it. We positively welcome your application irrespective of your background.

We are on a journey, and if you join us, you will be part of a community that is committed make a difference to the lives of children and young people with cancer.

Young Lives vs Cancer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Location: Home-based
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 17.5 hours per week
Salary: £28,357 per annum (FTE)

Closing Date: 5 June 2022
Interview Date: 29 June 2022

May also have experience in the following: Fundraising Engagement Manager, Fundraising Manager, Fundraiser, Engagement Manager, Fundraising Executive, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Administrator, Sales Executive, Business Development, Charity, Third Sector, NFP, etc.

Ref: 132 762

The Mammal Society is an award-winning evidence-based conservation charity. For over 65 years we have been championing better protection of British mammals through professional and citizen science projects. We are at an exciting time in our history with ambitious plans to broaden our reach and increase our impact on the conservation of mammals here in the UK.

We are currently seeking to recruit a permanent Data and Information Officer.

Main purpose of job: To promote evidence-based conservation of British mammals by

1. supporting the Science Officer in managing databases containing information on the distribution and density of mammals and managing Ecobat online tools
2. assisting in the writing of engaging documents for technical and lay-audiences
3. With the Communications and Engagement Officer, co-ordinate involvement in our citizen science surveys and projects such as the annual harvest mouse survey
4. answering general enquiries and contributing to the Society’s social media output

It is expected that time will be divided approximately equally between these areas.

Place of Work: Home based with occasional UK travel.

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and dynamic member of staff, with an interest in British mammals and a desire to promote evidence-based conservation. The job would ideally suit a graduate or post-graduate of Ecology, Conservation, or Biological Sciences.

For a full job description and person specification please visit our website.

Application deadline: 5pm 30th May 2022. Interviews are expected to be held w/c 6th June.

We are seeking a dynamic coordinator to work with community rail partnerships across Scotland, supporting them to promote and enable sustainable travel by rail through community-based projects. You’ll be playing a vital role, as our organisation’s representative in Scotland, supporting those working and volunteering within our grassroots movement to involve local communities, building confidence and positivity about climate-safe transport.

About us

The Community Rail Network is a not-for-profit organisation supporting a growing ‘community rail’ movement, which brings people together and helps communities have a voice, promotes sustainable and inclusive travel, and supports local development, linked to railways and stations.

Community rail is made up of 73 community-based partnerships, plus more than 1,000 station friends volunteer groups and enterprises, striving to put railways and stations at the heart of communities across Britain. Activities range from station-based arts projects for young people, to advising train operators on local needs, to empowering marginalised groups to access new opportunities by rail, to promoting green tourism.

In Scotland, there are eight community rail partnerships, working in a range of locations, drawing on local knowledge and collaboration, and contributing to the Scottish Government’s aims to develop a fair, accessible and climate-safe transport system.

Our enthusiastic team of 19 is mainly based from home in different locations around the UK, with a small office in Huddersfield. We work together to support and advise our members, provide training, events and resources, and champion community rail and its unique insights. We believe in developing our staff and helping every team member reach their potential.

About this role

Thanks to funding from Paths for All’s Smarter Choices Smarter Places fund, this role provides a critical addition to our team, allowing us to work closely with our Scottish members, to help them promote rail and sustainable mobility in their localities across Scotland.

You will work with, support, and draw on the expertise of, eight community rail partnerships in different locations (see map) around Scotland, working with them to develop effective community engagement to enable and encourage sustainable travel. You will support them to develop their awareness of sustainable travel, build links with local partners such as schools, colleges, community groups and authorities, extend existing and set up new initiatives, reaching wider audiences. Collaborative working with our members, the rail industry, and third and public sector partners will be essential.

The role will include regular rail travel around Scotland, alongside online and phone contact, plus occasional trips to our office in Huddersfield and our events in other locations. We therefore encourage applications from people who live close to good rail links.

Main responsibilities

Reporting to our experienced head of support and development, you will work with our members and partners to develop effective community rail activity in Scotland promoting sustainable travel by rail. This will include:

• working closely with eight community rail partnerships, drawing on their local expertise and ideas and ensuring strong relationships and collaboration;
• supporting effective local partnership working, helping to maximise opportunities for community rail working with schools, colleges, clubs and other local groups, as well as rail and transport operators, local authorities and regional transport partnerships;
• building knowledge and confidence among community rail partnerships and volunteers of sustainable travel, such as by facilitating sessions sharing and discussing community rail projects across the network and bringing in expertise from sustainable travel partners;
• exploring and developing opportunities to extend and enhance existing community rail initiatives promoting rail as a part of sustainable travel and tourism;
• working with the community rail partnerships to establish new local engagement projects, helping them to run targeted and needs-based activities such as travel confidence workshops or interactive sessions with young people or parents, creative projects, participatory mapping, station visits and community events;
• working with our communications team to deliver local PR to raise awareness of community rail and take the sustainable travel message to wider audiences;
• creating reports and case studies showing progress and impact, and liaising with and reporting to funders, rail industry partners and third sector networks to ensure this work is well-coordinated, informed and evaluated;
• keeping informed about sustainable transport and rail development in Scotland, ensuring our work supports wider strategic goals to enable more sustainable and inclusive mobility.

Skills and competencies

1. Demonstrable experience in supporting community engagement projects, ideally related to sustainability and mobility, including working with young people or families to overcome barriers;
2. A good understanding of and confidence using community engagement, local communications, project planning and evaluation techniques;
3. The ability to collaborate and communicate with community groups and other local partners, draw on their views and expertise, and support them to build capacity and confidence;
4. Awareness of sustainable transport and social inclusion issues, and an appreciation of the importance of rail, sustainable travel and mobility to communities across Scotland;
5. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work confidently with stakeholders at all levels and facilitate positive discussion; articulate and assertive, and a great team player;
6. A proven ability to bring partners and groups together, develop and maintain mutually-beneficial partnerships, deliver joint activities, and form professional networks;
7. Good writing and analysis skills, with the ability to draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence, produce case studies and reports, and advise on local communications;
8. A demonstrable ability to manage time effectively and juggle a range of activities in an organised, professional, productive manner, including planning and scheduling, coordinating with colleagues and partners, and bringing projects to fruition; 
9. Proactive, positive and self-motivated, able to work on own initiative and inspire and enthuse others, and overcome hurdles to achieve results;
10. IT literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, the internet and social media. 

Other information

The post is home-based, but with significant travel across Scotland and occasionally to our office in Huddersfield and events elsewhere. We therefore encourage applications from those with good rail links across Scotland.

This is a part-time position, 26-29 hours per week. We are flexible which days these hours would be and use a flexi-time/TOIL system (with core hours usually 10am-3pm). We are committed to being a flexible, supportive and understanding employer. This is a fixed term position to 31 March 2023, but with the potential for extension or making the role permanent, subject to funding being continued or secured from other sources. There is a probationary period of three months.

Community Rail Network is an equal opportunities employer.