East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) supports families and cares for children and young people with life threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Events Fundraising Assistant
Based: at the Norwich, Cambridge or Ipswich office
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: circa £18,500 per annum

We are looking for an Events Fundraising Assistant to support the Events Fundraising Team, to maximise income from a portfolio of events and to deliver exceptional supporter care to those participating. This includes supporting the planning and delivery of events, marketing and promotion, event administration and supporting the event participants through their stewardship journey. This role is a great opportunity to gain extensive experience in Events Fundraising.

We’re looking for a creative, pro-active, team player who has great attention to detail and is passionate about events and fundraising. A full drivers licence is essential.

The successful applicant may initially be required to work remotely due to COVID. The work base will be discussed at interview stage.

Deadline: 23:59 Thursday 13th May 2021
Applications will be reviewed when received.
EACH reserves the right to close this vacancy, should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

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

This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

EACH is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications for all sections of the community.

No agencies please.

Senior Education, Training and Strategy Officer

Closing date for applications: 5pm Friday 14th May 2021

Hours of work:        35 hours per week

Salary Scale:           NJC SCP 21-23: £26,511- £27,741

Location: The post will be based at our office in St Neots, PE19 7BA. However, a combination of office-based work and working from home will be in place for the foreseeable future. The role will also involve travel into London and surrounding areas and occasional national travel.

Benefits: Flexible working. Occupational Sick Pay. Occupational Maternity Leave. Individual training budget. 5% pension.

Job Summary

The post-holder will be key to the effective delivery of our programmes of work on issues of equality, diversity and inclusion. This role involves supporting schools to effectively promote equality, diversity and inclusion and achieve the Equalities Award, training teachers to promote equality and tackle discrimination and delivering workshops with young people. The post-holder will assist with developing the EqualiTeach brand, create new workshops, training sessions and educational materials in line with EqualiTeach's values and strategy.

Background to EqualiTeach

EqualiTeach is a not-for-profit equality training and consultancy organisation, working with educational settings England-wide to help promote equality and tackle discrimination.

We provide:

• Equality, diversity and inclusion training for governors, teachers and support staff
• Interactive workshops with young people
• Production and updating of policies, strategies and guidance documents
• Production of training and educational resources

Details of the staff training that we currently deliver can be found here.

Details of the workshops that we currently deliver can be found here.

Key Tasks:

• Delivering workshops on issues of equality with young people and teaching staff
• Developing new training activities, workshops and educational materials in line with EqualiTeach's values and strategy
• Creating resources to support the delivery of workshops
• Meeting with schools and providing support and guidance on issues of equality
• Auditing schools and providing them with feedback as they complete the Equalities Award audit process
• Contributing to the general administration, well running and development of the organisation

Person Specification

Knowledge

• An understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion
• An understanding of the UK school system and the equality duties placed on schools

Experience

• Experience of training adults
• Experience of teaching or delivering educational workshops

Skills and Competencies

• Skilled and confident communication skills
• Good classroom management skills
• Ability to adapt to the needs of every participant, to ensure that workshops and training sessions are inclusive
• Intermediate level IT skills in standard Microsoft packages
• Strong organisational skills
• High levels of enthusiasm and motivation
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
• Ability to work with minimum supervision

Closing date for applications: 5pm Friday 14th May 2021

To apply, please complete the accompanying application form and equalities monitoring form and return these to Claire Currington via email

Interviews will be held online via Skype, Zoom or MS Teams on Wednesday 26th May 2021

EqualiTeach is a Disability Confident Employer

EqualiTeach strives to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to offer sponsorship to applicants from overseas.

Although the post is advertised as a full-time position, we are happy to explore flexible working options. If you require the application form in a different format, or reasonable adjustments made for interview, please contact us.

The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

If you have any questions, or need any further information about this post, please e-mail Claire Currington

Are you passionate about the power of research to change lives? Do you want to inspire, inform, and engage people about the progress being made in dementia research?

We are looking for a confident, creative and proactive individual to join us as Public Engagement Officer. In this role, you’ll work to make dementia research accessible and inspiring to the public through supporting researchers to embed engagement, and delivering online and in-person events and participatory projects. You will help to deliver our Inspire Fund public engagement grants, which provide funding for projects that engage on the topic of dementia and research. Reporting to the Public Engagement Manager, you’ll work with a range of teams across the charity, spotting opportunities and creating tools and activities to increase engagement with dementia research.

The successful candidate will have a degree or equivalent experience in life sciences, and a track record in designing, delivering and evaluating successful public events and projects. As a new role at this level, you will have the opportunity to shape it and make a significant contribution to the charity’s public engagement activities.

Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity dedicated to diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure. Backed by our passionate scientists and supporters, we’re challenging the way people think about dementia, bringing together the people and organisations who can speed up progress, and investing in research to make life-changing breakthroughs possible.

Main tasks of role:

• Design, deliver and evaluate public events and projects.
• Facilitate, train and support dementia researchers to develop and deliver public engagement and involvement.
• Assist the Public Engagement Manager with running the Inspire Fund grant scheme.
• Act as a point of contact for dementia researchers and Inspire Fund grant holders, and maintain working relationships with them.
• Design compelling and innovative activities and resources to support engagement.
• Assist in the delivery of large-scale public engagement projects and work to promote them and ensure their long-term success.
• Build partnerships with individuals and organisations to work together to develop new ways to engage the public with research.

What we are looking for:

• Degree in a life science subject or equivalent experience.
• Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating successful public engagement.
• Experience of discussing health or research matters with the public.
• Excellent communication skills, including networking and presentation skills with a range of audiences.
• Ability to communicate appropriately with people affected by dementia and their families.
• An eye for creativity and innovation in public engagement.
• Experience creating compelling content for digital channels, including web, emails and social media social media.
• Project management skills and experience.
• Negotiating, influencing and problem-solving skills.
• Developed organisational skills with a strong attention to detail.
• A confident and friendly manner; would feel at ease representing the charity to a range of audiences to a high level.
• Working with independence, drive and initiative.

Location: Granta Park, near Cambridge.

Salary: Circa £28,000 per annum, plus benefits

Please download the Vacancy Pack for more details.

The closing date for applications is the 23 May 2021, with interviews to be held on the either the 7, 8 or 11 June 2021. We would encourage applicants to submit their application at the earliest opportunity as the closing date may be brought forward at any time. Should we wish to contact you to arrange an interview on any other date this will be based on the availability of the candidate and the panel. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are unable to attend on a particular day.

In order to be considered, please create an online account using our Online Recruitment System which can be accessed through our Job Vacancies Page. You will be able to attach a CV and covering letter to your application, track your application and view other vacancies that may be of interest.

To view further details about this role and the benefits of working for us please visit the Alzheimer’s Research UK website.

Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity dedicated to diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure. Backed by our passionate scientists and supporters, we’re challenging the way people think about dementia, bringing together the people and organisations who can speed up progress, and investing in research to make life-changing breakthroughs possible.

Alzheimer’s Research UK’s (ARUK’s) Supporter-led Fundraising (SLF) team saw rapid expansion in the years before the pandemic, and now has big ambitions to continue that growth through creative, powerful marketing campaigns, improving supporters’ fundraising experience, developing exciting fundraising products, and driving income to power more world-class dementia research.

Working across our Sporting Events and mass participation fundraising products, you will deliver market-leading campaigns, develop creative and engaging supporter content, and explore new channels of communication and re-engagement with our supporters to achieve further transformational growth.

The role requires an ambitious marketeer with previous product/event marketing experience, outstanding copywriting skills and an enthusiasm for identifying and implementing new social and digital technologies.

Main duties and responsibilities of the role:

• Lead multi-channel marketing campaigns for our mass participation fundraising events.
• Write clear, engaging and fun copy for campaigns, emails and web.
• Work with agencies, partners and internal stakeholders to ensure campaigns are delivered on time, to budget and hit all key targets.
• Review and implement new technologies to improve our campaigns, drive engagement and boost supporter experience.
• Be a pivotal player in the delivery of over £1m income in the next year.

What we are looking for:

• A marketeer with experience running successful income-driving marketing campaigns from concept to delivery.
• Budget management, campaign planning and project management experience.
• An experienced copywriter who will create fun, engaging copy to acquire new supporters and steward supporters through their fundraising journey.
• Previous fundraising experience not essential.

Location: Granta Park, near Cambridge (flexible working considered)

Salary: Circa £27,000 per annum, plus benefits

Please download the Vacancy Pack for more details.

The closing date for applications is the 16 May 2021, with interviews likely to be held on 3 and 4 June 2021. 

In order to be considered, please create an online account using our Online Recruitment System which can be accessed through our Job Vacancies Page. You will be able to attach a CV and covering letter to your application, track your application and view other vacancies that may be of interest.

To view further details about this role and the benefits of working for us please visit the Alzheimer’s Research UK website.

Face-To-Face Membership Venues Manager
Reference: APR20214891
Location: Flexible
Salary: £25,280.00 - £28,045.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days Annual Leave, Sabbatical Opportunities

The RSPB is looking for a new Face To Face Membership Venues Manager to join our amazing Face To Face Membership Team. This is an exciting time to join the UK's largest conservation charity as we launch our saving nature strategy for the next ten years.

The mission of this role is leading and managing a team of Face To Face Membership Venues Officers to successfully book shifts for our growing team of Face To Face Membership Fundraisers to attend. There is a budget to manage for paid venues, and many of the venues we attend will need to be negotiated free of charge.

Your team will have targets to ensure our Face To Face Membership Fundraisers are in the best places to give them the opportunity to meet and inspire the public to support our vital conservation work.

Wellbeing is a top priority, so your team will also need to ensure the Face To Face Membership Fundraisers are travelling within reasonable average time limits, have a variety of venues to attend with access to facilities, and are provided with all the briefing information they need.

You will be responsible for providing your team with the direction, motivation and development they need to understand and achieve what's expected. As part of our annual performance and development cycle, you will work with individuals in your team to create tailored personal and professional development plans, SMART objectives and actions which you will follow up together. You will work with a team of peers to develop and implement best practice in how the wider Face To Face membership Venues Team operates and communicates.

Feedback from venues, Face To Face Membership Fundraisers, their Face To Face Membership Area Managers, and regional Face To Face Membership Operations Managers will also inform how your team functions.

The role requires in particular the ability to motivate a remote team who are mostly working from home around the country, build collaborative relationships, make decisions, act on feedback and hold team members to account for progress with performance and actions, all within an inclusive and inspirational working environment where we all learn together.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• Sales/Events Fundraising knowledge
• Experience of successfully supporting and influencing a high performance and target-driven team
• Understanding of legislation/best practice as set out by The Fundraising Regulator and IoF Compliance Directorate in private site fundraising
• Able to inspire others
• Able to build collaborative relationships
• Results-focused
• Flexible and adaptable approach, in an ever-changing environment
• Excellent time management
• Able to get support and buy-in from others
• Able to act quickly in response to performance data and management information
• Experience of working with and influencing external partners and networks
• Experience working in a fast-paced industry and to tight deadlines
• Microsoft Office and spreadsheet skills

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

• Previous experience of territory management systems
• Previous experience of Customer Relationship Management databases
• At the RSPB we are proud of our positive working culture, and we expect everyone in our team to role model our cultural behaviours - bold, focused, supportive and together.

Closing date: 23:59, 23 May 2021

To Apply and For More Information:

If you would like to apply or find out more about this position, please click the 'Apply' button. You will be directed to our website where you can complete your application.

No agencies please.

Director

• based in Cambridgeshire and surrounding areas
• home-based
• part-time - this role is primarily offered with a view to the individual working 2.5 days per week, however due to the nature of this role and the needs of the charity, flexibility is required and therefore you should ideally be available to work up to 3 days per week, including 4 Saturdays a year for Trustee Board meetings
• flexible working policies and practices

Evolve Counselling (working name ‘Evolve’) is a long-established charity with a successful track record. Our business model is to provide high quality counselling to corporate clients at full cost, generating a surplus to pay for low-cost, high quality counselling for private individuals who can’t afford going rates for counselling sessions. 

We have been steadily growing for the last 43 years and over that time the environment in which we operate has changed dramatically. Under the outgoing Director we have largely completed a far-reaching programme of governance, management and systems reform. We now require a leader to manage and grow the charity, to develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising and income-generation strategy and to ensure robust governance.

Like so many charities we were hit by Covid19, but we have comprehensive recovery plans in place. One of these is to place increased emphasis on business development and fundraising. The new Director will work closely with the Business Development Manager and fundraising consultants to diversify and increase the charity’s income.

Evolve is looking for an experienced professional with proven ability to manage a small team of professional staff, engage positively with a wide range of stakeholders, attract funds, and generate income through fundraising. The Director will lead a small and dedicated team to provide the necessary vision, leadership, and fundraising skills which will enable the organisation to achieve its strategic and operational plans and meet fundraising targets.

If you have experience in the voluntary sector, an understanding of mental health challenges and have the ability to lead, collaborate, network and inspire we would love to hear from you. An enhanced DBS check is required for the role.

Every child has the right to fulfil their potential through the love, care, and support of a family, and we ensure that no child, no family anywhere is left behind.

SOS Children's Villages UK specialise in caring for unaccompanied and separated children and strengthening families. We give a voice to children and young people, helping them to engage directly with governments and international organisations, and we advocate side by side with them to advance children's rights.

Chair

Meetings are usually held in Cambridge, currently via video conference

Unremunerated

SOS Children's Villages UK, is part of a global charity supporting children without parental care and families at risk of breakdown or separation. We work in 136 countries and territories worldwide with local staff to provide long-term family-like care, education and healthcare as well as a wide range of family strengthening programmes.

At this critical time, we are seeking a new Chair of Trustees who is truly committed to our mission; to ensure that no child grows up alone.

The new Chair will bring a strong understanding of the role of Charity Boards as well as good governance experience and significant strategic leadership. You will serve as an effective ambassador working closely with the CEO and motivated board. It would also be advantageous to bring knowledge of the International NGO sector or an international context.

SOS Children's Villages UK is committed to achieving greater diversity in its board and welcomes applications from currently under-represented groups at Board level including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, and disabled people.

For more information about the organisation and this important opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please find the appointment brief below.

If you wish you have an informal discussion about the opportunity, please contact our retained advisors Camille Revuelta or Emily Hayman at Prospectus

Deadline for applications: Sunday 23rd May

Initial interviews with Prospectus: w/c 31st May

Staff Session and Final Panel Interviews: 25th, 28th & 29th June

This is a brand new role to Cambridge SU, and an exciting opportunity to help shape the way that we communicate with our members and the wider Cambridge community. As this is a maternity cover, we have a clear idea of what we would like to be achieved in this time. This role is suitable for an ambitious, driven, Marketing and Communications specialist looking to take on an exciting challenge. You’ll join our friendly and fast-paced Membership Engagement Department, and lead the Marketing and Communications team

In short, this role is responsible for ensuring that everyones knows exactly what Cambridge SU is up to. The role-holder will be responsible for ensuring regular communications are reaching across the collegiate university, so that students are informed and aware of how the SU is working for them. The role-holder will ensure that the SU brand is protected and strong, that all outputs are of a high quality.

Key projects for this maternity cover:

• Developing and delivering a communications and engagement strategy with the Marketing and Communications Team
• Developing our use of mailing lists, and identifying best practice for email segmentation
• Setting up and monitoring relevant analytics and reviewing SEO of all Cambridge SU websites 
• Supporting the delivery of regular press releases and blog posts from teams and sabbs across the SU
• Reviewing and distributing assets across the collegiate university 
• Explore ways to increase advert productivity

* Temporary working from home required due to Covid-19 pandemic*

Please see the information pack and submit the following no later than 9.00 am Monday 31st May.

1. CV
2. Supporting statement outlining why you're interested in this vacancy, what you'll bring to the role & outlining relevant experience (maximum two sides A4).

You can contact the SU if you'd like to arrnage a time discuss to role further via phonecall.

About Jimmy’s Cambridge

Jimmy's is one of Cambridge’s leading providers of support and accommodation to people who are  experiencing homelessness. We help people get off the streets and into their own home, backed up with all the support we can offer from our talented and committed team of staff, volunteers and partners.

Our success in delivering our services is underpinned by the support we receive from individuals, organisations, our volunteers and our partners, all of whom are fundamental to our work. In addition to maintaining a sustainable set of existing services, we also have ambitious plans to increase our services and impact, ensuring we can support as many people as possible who are and have been experiencing homelessness.

Purpose of the Role

As an organisation we have decided to utilise Inform as our service management database (which is a Salesforce product), in line with other homeless organisations in Cambridge and the City Council; and Salesforce Non-Profit as our donor/funder database. While we are already working with a Salesforce consultant to ensure the new databases meet our needs, we want to build up internal capacity to enable the best use of the data for learning, research and ultimately better service provision.

The post-holder will support the Head of Services to embed Inform as our service management database across the teams and set it up to produce reports to helps us improve our services; and work with the  Communications/Fundraising Team to further develop and embed Salesforce Non-Profit as our donor/funder database

As this evolves, there will opportunities to work with the CEO and research partners (including at Cambridge University), to use the data and information we are collecting to evaluate the impact of our services, and collect evidence which has a wider influence about how homeless services can be delivered (e.g. by publishing ‘insight reports’).

About You

You will come with experience of data management or analysis, gained in a work, volunteer or educational setting. You will need excellent IT skills, with a real aptitude for Excel and the capability to quickly learn Salesforce, which is the basis of the two databases we are using. You will be interested in the work that Jimmy's does, and understand the importance of data collection to measure and then share the impact of our work, enabling us to tackle homelessness to the best of our ability. 

Do you have legacy fundraising or donor acquisition experience in which you have managed a busy operational plan?

Do you want to be part of a new and ambitious fundraising team that aims to exploit the legacy growth potential in the animal welfare charity sector?

Wood Green, The Animals Charity, is looking for a new member to join its Legacy and In-memory team, within its Individual Giving department. This role will help to manage and test legacy marketing campaigns with the aim to grow the size of the charity's legacy enquirer and considerer base using various channels such as social media, press, direct mail and direct-response television. This role will also work on recruiting enquiries about the charity's Pet Promise scheme and recruit new in-memory and tribute fund supporters.

The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills, able to deliver campaigns on time and within budget. He or she will need to make decisions based on sound evidence, and always demonstrates an attitude to learn-and-adapt campaigns. He or she will also have strong communication skills able to champion legacy giving and work closely with internal and external stakeholders.

Wood Green will offer you the opportunity to progress your career in an experienced, ambitious and growing fundraising team, with access to support and training to help you excel in your role.

Key responsibilities:

* Work closely with the Senior Development Manager, Legacies to develop the legacy marketing acquisition strategy and tactical plan to grow the pipeline of legacy pledger base.
* Plan and project manage the annual operational plans, managing direct marketing campaigns from end to end using a mix of offline and online channels, which includes DRTV, press, inserts, direct mail, door drop and social media/PPC to grow the existing legacy pipeline.
* Manage the services of multiple suppliers for the planning, creative, media, print and distribution, producing comprehensive written briefs with verbal discussions to ensure the output meets requirements.
* Build relationships and work closely with internal colleagues across the organisation to leverage 'piggy-backing opportunities' as well as helping to champion legacy giving across the charity
* Work with the Database Team to deliver end of campaign results analysis, ensuring reporting data is correct and highlight key observations and recommendations for future activity or further insight requirements.
* Manage a six-figure expenditure budget, allocating budget to channels and products

Person specification:

* Experience of planning and managing donor acquisition campaigns to recruit individual supporters ideally using DRTV, direct mail, door drops, digital, inserts and press.
* Experience of effective management of multiple key suppliers, ensuring service is to agreed standards
* Experience of effective expenditure budget management
* Experience of prioritising and managing multiple campaigns
* Experience of analysing results and using insight to inform strategy and tactical plans
* Experience of building effective relationships with internal stakeholders

c£35000

London or Godmanchester based

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Location: Cambridgeshire with regular travel to Baca Office in Loughborough and Leicestershire

Responsible for: Cambridge Service Delivery Team

Hours: 37.5 hours per week including evening and weekend work

Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Overall purpose

• To take the lead in establishing and leading the delivery of our holistic therapeutic young people’s service in Cambridge. Through this service we aim to empower unaccompanied asylum seeking young people, some of whom are victims of trafficking, with dignity, strength and hope - inspiring them to become individuals who are net contributors to society.
• To partner with social workers, representatives from other agencies, community groups and voluntary sector organisations for the benefit of the young people.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the team and establish the Rebuild service for unaccompanied young people aged 16+ in Cambridgeshire in line with Baca’s vision, mission and values, by working closely with the Leadership Team and the wider team of Baca.
• Develop the service in line with Baca’s Theory of change, to enable young people to achieve the following outcomes –
  • Improved Physical Wellbeing,
  • Improved Emotional Wellbeing,
  • Increased engagement with Education, Employment and Training,
  • Increased Social engagement and
  • Increased Personal Safety. 
• Line Management and development of service delivery team to deliver the best they can to enable young people to achieve the outcomes above.
• Lead on ensuring safeguarding practices and culture are embedded in the core of all services delivered.
• Regularly review and manage the risks associated with young people and ensure their risk assessments are up to date.
• Ensure delivery of high quality support work for the best interest of the young people.
• Playing an active role in developing knowledge and understanding in areas relevant to the role, especially in the areas of asylum and refugee law, trafficking, supporting separated children and the cultures of different nations relevant to Baca, by learning from the young people themselves and other key partners.
• Research and identify the most suitable and appropriate educational provision, leisure and community facilities, local amenities, taking into account the needs - physical, emotional, safety, social, cultural and religious - of the young people. 
• Establish and be lead on working relationships with all external stakeholders with proactivity and problem solving initiative, reflecting Baca’s values. 
• Work in close partnership with social workers, other professionals and volunteers to provide a holistic development package for each young person enabling them to become independent.
• Taking the lead in ensuring that all accommodation run by Baca in location is of the highest quality and meets young people’s needs and helps their recovery.
• To be proactively available to cover as a support worker, in all instances necessary, to ensure the young people are cared for with compassion and to ensure they are progressing towards independence.
• Lead, organise and coordinate meetings & events for internal and external stakeholders as required, ensuring all relevant actions are followed through.
• Manage risks of the delivery of the service in line with established policies and processes, working closely with the Leadership Team to respond and mitigate against key risks.
• Be an active member of the Management Team at Baca, to ensure cohesive and coordinated approach to establishing the new service.
• Work closely with the Management Team to ensure that all processes, procedures and practises of the project are compliant with Baca’s systems.
• Manage budgets, working closely with the finance team, necessary for delivering young people services.
• Be part of the Oncall team and deliver oncall support outside of work hours on a rota basis, which comes with additional pay per night.

General

• Be a role model, leading by example in practicing the Values of Baca.
• Play an active and supportive role within the organisation 
• Take ownership of all administrative aspects of the role.
• Maintain strict confidentiality in relation to work undertaken and ensure all confidential material is stored according to Baca’s Confidentiality statement and Data Protection Policy. 
• Treat all staff and young people fairly and without prejudice, in line with Baca’s Equality and Diversity policy 
• Be adept in employing the correct procedures for dealing with any safeguarding incidences or concerns, in line with Baca’s Child, Vulnerable Adult Protection & Safeguarding Policy 
• Adhere to all Baca’s policies and procedures. 
• Ability to work flexible hours, including occasional evenings and weekends, in line with the needs of the team.

More information is in attached Recruitment Pack. Closing date is 2nd of June 2021. Interviews will be week commencing 14th of June 2021. An enhanced DBS check will be required of the successful candidate. 

About Jimmy’s Cambridge

Jimmy’s Cambridge is one of Cambridge’s leading providers of support and accommodation to people who are and have been experiencing homelessness. We aim to help people get people off the streets and into their own home, backed up with all the support we can offer from our talented and committed team of staff, volunteers and partners.

The Role

This exciting new role is an exceptional opportunity to build, shape and deliver Jimmy's communications offer, in order to help meet our ambitious aims. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you will use your passion, experience, and expertise to implement a new communications strategy. This will maximise engagement with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders – supporting us to develop greater community links – and supporting fundraising efforts to run transformative services and projects. 

As a community organisation, maximising engagement and communication with our local community is critical to our success. Whilst the role would suit a communications professional, fundraising experience in helping organisations to increase and diversify income streams, steward existing supporters and identify and securing new funding opportunities would be a bonus.

A key part of the role will also be to ensure the impact of our work is clearly communicated to a range of audiences, allowing key stakeholders fully appreciate the difference we make to our local community.

About You

You will have a proven track record of successfully communicating and advocating on behalf of an organisation – either commercial or charitable - and demonstrable experience of customer engagement, and in developing and delivering communications campaigns. Fundraising experience or knowledge of the charitable sector will be a bonus.

You will be a great communicator, with excellent interpersonal skills, able to build relationships and create inspiring campaigns. Jimmy’s has a wonderful breadth of stakeholders that all help keep us doing the work we do, and you will know how to ensure these are valued and are given the opportunity to understand and appreciate the impact their support is making.

We’re recruiting for an exciting maternity fixed-term contract role in our highly-skilled Fundraising & Communications department. Reporting to the Director of Fundraising & Communications, the role will work with colleagues to launch a new strategy and deliver outstanding fundraising, marketing & communications team activity. The post also line manages one team member.

CBM transforms the lives of people with or at risk of disability in the world’s poorest places, reaching over 30 million people globally each year. Working through local partners and based on Christian values, CBM UK raises £9m annually to tackle poverty, prevent blindness, improve health and support people with disabilities.

Key responsibilities

Working within our Fundraising & Communications department of 19 staff, the role ultimately helps to create extraordinary and wonderful moments in our 45,000 supporters’ lives, with responsibility for:

• Helping to launch our new fundraising & communications strategy.
• Coordinating integrated appeals, including two exciting Winter 21 and Spring 22 campaigns.
• Improving our supporters’ experiences with CBM.
• Coordinating CBM award applications and funding applications.
• Managing 1 talented staff member.

For full details please download the Recruitement Pack

Fundraising Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Fundraising Manager, to help a Cambridge based charity increase income from trusts and foundations, major donors and legacies.  

Our client is a local charity that cares about Cambridge and its green landscapes, they protect the green setting of Cambridge and its most valuable landscapes and work to enhance and connect them for people and nature.

Position: Fundraising Manager

Salary: circa £35,000 pro-rata, dependent on experience.

Location: Wandlebury Country Park, Cambridge - This role is suitable for home working combined with team working at the office and site-based activity.

Duration Full-time (37.5 hrs per week) preferred but will consider flexible working arrangements to accommodate work-life balance.

Benefits: 33 days annual holiday entitlement pro rata, includes allowance for Public/Bank Holidays, a pension contribution of up to 5% of gross pay.

Closing date: 10:00am, Monday 17 May 2021

About the role:

As Fundraising Manager you will be a key member of the Management Team, you will co-ordinate and deliver fundraising activity and own the charity’s fundraising targets.

This role potentially covers the full range of fundraising opportunities, the main focus will be fundraising from mid-level donors, legacies, membership and trusts/foundations. The charity’s ambition is to develop a small team who can work to broaden the scope of the fundraising work, there will be opportunities for line management responsibilities if desired.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Increase charitable giving from current supporters.
• Research and identify fundraising opportunities from trusts and foundations as well a major donors and corporate fundraising.
• Develop and promote appealing memorial and legacy giving opportunities.
• Responsible for membership recruitment and retention to achieve annual targets for membership subscriptions. 
• Develop and maintain effective systems to support the fundraising functions of the charity.
• With the CEO, discuss and agree an annual budget for fundraising.
• Prepare accurate, succinct and easy to understand reports on the charity’s fundraising work.
• Ensure that the charity adheres to relevant fundraising legislation, including compliance with the Fundraising Regulators guidelines.

About you:  

To be successful in the role of Fundraising Manager you will be supportive of the charity’s cause; you will use your relationship management skills to strengthen existing funding relationships and use your research and networking skills to identify and cultivate new opportunities.

You will bring with you the following key skills and experience:

• Demonstrable evidence of successful fundraising from individual donors, trusts & foundations and legacies.
• Excellent written and visual communication skills, with evidence of producing effective fundraising content.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to encourage support for the charity and build long-term relationships.
• Knowledge of UK fundraising and data protection regulations.
• An excellent eye for detail.
• Good IT skills (spreadsheets, Microsoft Office suite, database management) and experience of fundraising support systems.
• Experience of administering grants and donations.
• Experience of organising donor cultivation and solicitation events.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a small, friendly and committed management team where you can make a real difference and your work will have an impact, so apply today!

Please ensure that, along with your CV, you submit a covering letter telling us how you feel you would be a good fit for the role.

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Fundraiser, Corporate Fundraising Manager, Community Fundraising Manager, Donor Manager, Major Donor Fundraising, Individual Giving, Philanthropy, Community Fundraising Manager, Trust Fundraising, Partnerships Fundraising, Development Manager, Regional Fundraising Manager, Area Fundraising Manager etc