This is a great entry level role in our Programmes Division. We’re recruiting for a self-starter who is passionate about customer service to support participants on our programmes to have the best experience.

Working with participants across numerous programmes, you will be supporting educators in schools to keep getting better, ensuring every child can thrive, no matter what their background. 

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

• A strong commitment to helping educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better.
• A good understanding of customer service delivery and best practice
• Good organisation, planning and prioritisation skills with attention to detail
• Good communication skills (written and oral)
• Ability to use own initiative to respond positively to change and/ or to challenging situations with a desire to seek solutions and make improvements
• Strong team player with the ability to work independently and seek advice where required

Our offer

We are happy to be able to offer you:

• Agile working - a dynamic and flexible internal culture that gives employees control over the way they work and supports wellbeing
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
• Competitive salaries rates and life assurance
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply

To apply for any of our vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive at this stage we will not be able to contact unsuccessful applicants.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation. 

As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.

Islamic Relief Worldwide is an independent humanitarian and development organisation, serving humanity for over 35 years. With an active presence in more than 40 countries, we strive to make the world a better and fairer place for those effected by poverty, conflicts or natural disasters.

Our Birmingham / London office, UK is currently recruiting for the position of ‘Social Media Officer’ to join the External Relations and Advocacy Team. The post holder will be responsible for the oversight and execution of all social media activities throughout the year, managing multiple platforms to support news, advocacy, branding and PR content. The post holder will manage the Islamic Relief’s social presence on a range of platforms including; Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Instagram and You Tube. They will also lead on the social media aspect of various campaigns and support key moments by gathering and sharing compelling social content about our work across the world.

The successful candidate must have or be:

• Experience managing various social media platforms effectively
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to use written, oral and visual content effectively to influence target audiences with clarity
• Experience in developing and implementing social media strategies and campaigns
• IT literate with a command of MS Office applications, Adobe packages, social media platforms and analytics software, including social media monitoring tools such as Hootsuite and FollowerWonk
• An understanding of development and humanitarian work at an international level
• A degree or qualification in media, marketing, design or other relevant degree is highly desirable
• Ability to edit video and / or photo content is highly desirable
• Social media moderation experience is highly desirable
• Past experience working in a busy newsroom, the media team of a PR agency or a leading aid organisation is advantageous
• Understanding of using tools like Google Adwords, MS Adcenter, Keyword Spy, Adwords editor & Google analytics advantageous

Islamic Relief promotes equality and meritocracy and seeks individuals who are sympathetic to the IR values of; Sincerity, Excellence, Compassion, Social Justice and Custodianship together with our policy standards on Anti-Bribery, Child Protection and Code of Conduct. If you would like to be a part of an organisation striving to make a difference in the world and are looking for a meaningful career, we will be glad to hear from you.

Please Note: Interviews are expected to take place on mid-December 2019. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Pre-employment checks:

Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:

• Screening clearance
• Proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK
• Receipt of satisfactory references

For UK based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications which would require sponsorship.

Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer

TPP Recruitment are proud to be supporting a Wolverhampton based health charity on their hunt to recruit an Individual Giving Fundraiser to support within their in their successful team. This is a great time to join this organisation as it goes through a significant period of growth, seeing new campaigns and products being created. The role on Individual Giving Fundraiser will cover a maternity leave for 12 months and focus on managing their regular giving campaigns. A lot of these campaigns work across a number of teams within fundraising meaning communication skills are key.

Job Title: Individual Giving Fundraiser
Location: Wolverhampton
Salary: £19,000 to £30,000
Contract length: 12 months

Within the role you will manage two of their major regular giving campaigns as well as take a lead on their supporter journey and ensuring this is delivered to all regular givers. The role will also see you manage their In-Memory Fundraising, this is a key area to their growth as a charity as they are looking to engage with a new audience.

Essential experience needed for the role:
* You must have experience working on individual giving campaigns within a fundraising team.
* Experience managing over income and expenditure budgets will be key.
* Ability to analyse and segment date in order to be approaching the correct audiences with your campaigns.
* Up to date knowledge of relevant fundraising codes of practice.

This is a great opportunity to work for a charity on the growth, who are looking to create new products and attract a new audience. If you are interested in a role that will support in developing your career further than we would like to discuss the role with you in some more details.

This amazing organisation that works across the Midlands has been supporting people with disabilities for over 25 years. With a range of services that includes giving information and advice; as well helping improve health and wellbeing, the organisation provides vital support to people with a huge range of needs. 

With exciting plans for the future, the organisation is recruiting for a Fundraising and Marketing Officer to join its small Fundraising and Marketing team. Working 20 hours per week this role will be based in Birmingham (although home working will be considered for the right candidate), and will include the following responsibilities:

• Raise income to an annual agreed target which will support the organisation's activities, predominately via trusts and foundations, as well as exploring new income streams

• Market and promote the work of the organisation to a wider audience

• Undertake systematic trust research to identify potential income and funding opportunities

• Prepare compelling applications to grant-making trusts and foundations, as well as corporate supporters, ensuring that the potential of these is fully maximised

• Empower supporters to organise and undertake fundraising activities

• Contribute to a consistent brand communication throughout all fundraising and income generation activities

• Maintain accurate records, including maintaining the fundraising and income generation database and CRM system with targets and approaches

• Identify, develop, and lead on priority marketing projects including social media, with the aim of increasing the organisation's visibility, brand and reach

The successful applicant will have the following skills and experience:

• Experience of writing successful fundraising applications (or equivalent writing experience)

• Experience of raising funds and/or achieving income targets

• Experience of working to deadlines and ability to manage time effectively

• The ability to build strong relationships with companies and supporters

• Experience of marketing to help build brand awareness

• Experience of researching funding opportunities from statutory bodies and other grant funders is desirable, as is experience of organising fundraising events and working within the community to inspire support and raise funds

• A good level of IT literacy

• Knowledge of, and ability to, make online applications for fundraising including the use of online tendering portals

• Knowledge and understanding of how to social media for marketing and promotion purposes

This leading arts organisation with over 500,000 visitors each year is recruiting for a Head of Corporate Development to lead and develop corporate income generation strategy. Based in the heart of Birmingham, the organisation has a hugely positive impact in the surrounding area and ambitions to further grow and extend their reach both into the community, and of their programmes and events. The Head of Corporate Development will be joining this dynamic organisation at an exciting time.

Key responsibilities within the role will include:

• Creation and delivery of a strategy for corporate engagement, to deliver income and value growth
• Work with senior internal stakeholders to ensure that the fundraising strategy is balanced and collaborative and that its approach to corporate support is ambitious and robust
• Lead and manage the corporate function including setting targets and continuing to build a high performance culture
• Achieve the agreed financial targets and operating within the expenditure budget for corporate partnerships
• Identify where corporate partners can deliver value to the wider organisational strategy, and build long term partnerships with companies that support the vision and objectives
• Drive multi-year, high level sponsorship to support growth
• Set operational plans and budgets for the team
• Lead the team to deliver new corporate sponsors, members and partners
• Create presentations, pitches, proposals and marketing collateral; and to lead on new business pitches and meetings when appropriate
• Lead the Business Development Manager to deliver excellent account management relationship management, and stewardship for corporate partners and members, ensuring a high level of partner retention

The organisation would love to see applications from individuals with the following experience and skills:

• Proven ability to secure, maintain and grow strong and profitable high value, multi-year corporate relationships
• Ability to negotiate and influence opinion effectively internally and externally
• First class communication skills, both written and verbal as well as excellent presentation ability
• Experience of developing corporate development strategies that maximise fundraising income
• Significant experience of corporate fundraising, corporate sponsorship, or solution based sales
• Proven track record of income generation against targets
• Experience of securing new corporate income from prospecting to partnership at a high level
• Experience of developing strategic partnerships
• Experience of line managing and developing a team

If you'd like to be considered for this role please send your CV to or call on 020 7939 7448 to have an initial chat about the position.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), race, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Please note, due to the number of applications we receive we aren't always able to respond to unsuccessful candidates.

About Us

Grapevine is a national award winning charity tackling disadvantage, isolation and poverty in Coventry and Warwickshire.

We are a triple action organisation – strengthening people, sparking community, shifting power. We help individual people get what they need to take control, turn their lives around and realise their potential. Collectively we help them spark movements for change in their communities. But we want to get at the root causes of the most difficult problems – not just treat the symptoms. So we work intensively with systems and services like the NHS and local authorities to understand issues together, shift power and solve the real problem – for good.

Strong local people and communities tackling their challenges, taking opportunities, shaping their lives – that’s our mission.

About the role

Our Warwickshire Empowerment Service aims to ensure that disabled people in the county have the greatest possible opportunity to be involved in the design of services. But it doesn’t stop there. We also look at local issues, trying to change areas for the better to allow people to have safe, healthy and well-connected lives.

The work isn’t as straightforward as running consultations. You could be campaigning with an inflatable zebra crossing one minute and the next running an open mic night to help make night-life safer.

Your base will be our HQ in Coventry and you will be mobile in Warwickshire. 18.5hrs p/w, contract until end of March 2021.

About you

To be successful in this role you will  need to be adaptable and creative, making tough subjects easy to understand. We need people who are outgoing and willing to partner with other organisations, forging connections that can help make change.

Benefits
- 25 days annual leave rising with service to 28 + 12 bank holidays (FTE)
- Flexible working
- Stakeholder pension scheme plus 8% employer contribution
- A friendly workplace with a strong culture of helping people uncover their potential. Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

To apply please download an application pack and application form from this website. 

The Sufi religious worker will engage, motivate donors on Islamic charitable giving, participate in:

-implementing fundraising strategies

-arranging call to prayers and Iqamat according to the Islamic law

-preparing weekly sermons for senior Imam, responsible for maintaining the religious transcripts and translations

-assisting in arranging at special services like birthdays, funerals, Khatam Sharif, URS Sharif, Milad day and other religious functions

-Reciting Quran and Nasheeds at religious events

-able to lead Taraweeh in Ramadhan

-will perform other non-pastoral work in a religious order

The applicant should be fluent in Arabic (essential), Urdu (preferable) and English (preferable).

The successful applicants will be required to provide an enhanced DBS Certificate/Police Certificate and expenses to be met by the applicant. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

·Qualification must be equal to GCSE and Basic Religious Education. (Essential)

·Applicant must have worked with the religious organisation, Sunni Sufi meditate on practices, previous experience in similar role and knowledge of system and practice. (Essential)

·Applicant must be Sunni Sufi faith and proven with previous related documents. (Essential)

·Applicant must have good written & Communication Skills. (Essential)

·Hafiz-e-Quran and previous work with the NGO. (Essential)

Contract Type: Fixed Term until 31st March 2020

Hours: Part time – 20 hours a week

Location: Birmingham

Our Learning & Development Coordinator will be the first line of contact for staff and delivery partners booking onto training courses. You will be responsible for the administration of the L&D offer to our organisation, which will include booking, advertising and coordinating courses and events. You’ll be responsible for invoicing, raising purchase orders and recording budgetary spend. Supporting the administration of digital learning and ensuring staff have access to the offer will also be part of the role.

The Learning & Development Coordinator will provide a range of administrative tasks for various functions with the theme of L&D, maintaining accurate and up to date records, completing filing and archiving as required.

To succeed at this role, you will be required to have the ability to communicate with internal and delivery partner staff. The ideal candidate will have excellent IT skills and be highly motivated, with strong organisational and interpersonal skills.

To learn more about the role, please download the job description.

About The Prince’s Trust

We are a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome!

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.  Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.  We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.  We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

The Prince’s Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of the children and young people we work with. Successful applicants to roles at The Prince’s Trust will be subject to criminal vetting checks, and where necessary for the role, a check at an enhanced level will be required.

To apply for this vacancy please go to our website and complete the online application.  To help you with the supporting statement section, you may want to download a copy of the Prince’s Trust Behavioural Framework.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we'd like a helping hand. We'll be in touch if we need you.

This award-winning education organisation supports educators at every stage to keep getting better with the aim of ensuring that children from all backgrounds, including the most disadvantaged, are given the opportunity to thrive. An organisation that truly understands the impact it has on the communities and individuals it works with, the charity is recruiting for an Area Director, Partnerships, to lead on delivering regional acquisition targets, account manage senior stakeholders and lead an outstanding regional sales team.

The post holder can be based within the Birmingham or Manchester, or home-based.

Key responsibilities within the role will include:

• Develop and deliver the area plan in line with national strategy to achieve regional and national sales targets
• Lead, inspire and motivate staff to achieve results, providing for the development needs of staff within the team
• Work as a member of the SRMT to give strategic input to the overall regional operation
• Monitor area performance and provide regular reports and forecasts to the Regional Director on pipeline activity, movement and results against target
• Account manager key relationships with senior stakeholders, and lead on selected national accounts
• Develop collaborative partnerships with key strategic partners and alliances including local authorities and Masters of Teaching; as well as opportunity areas and school's groups to achieve recruitment targets
• Represent the organisation at conferences, events, and networking meetings including delivering presentations and workshops
• Work in partnership with the Business Development Team to design and develop bespoke solutions to needs presented by accounts in the region

The successful applicant will have the following skills and experience:

• A commitment to education, the non-profit sector, and raising the aspirations and achievements of all children
• Experience of meeting ambitious and demanding sales targets in a previous role and of effectively managing a sales pipeline
• Experience of developing strategy and leading complex operations in a previous role
• Experience of successfully developing and leveraging external stakeholder relationships
• Experience of building relationships with a range of internal stakeholders, and working to align varied, often competing, interests
• Knowledge of the education sector, national influencers, advocates and key stakeholders
• Experience of successfully facilitating and driving change and of designing and delivering training
• Experience of leading, motivating and developing others
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

This is an amazing opportunity to work for an organisation making genuine strides in ensuring that a high standard of education is delivered to all children regardless of their background. If you have experience of building partnerships within the education system, of leading and developing a team, and a passion for equality of education we'd love to hear from you.

If you'd like to be considered for this role please send your CV to or [email protected] or call on 020 7939 7448 to have an initial chat about the position.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), race, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Please note, due to the number of applications we receive we aren't always able to respond to unsuccessful candidates.