Award winning charity, Together Against Cancer, are looking to recruit a talented Community Fundraiser.

Following their overwhelming success and growth an exciting new role, reporting to the Operations Manager, has been created which will help propel the charity to the next level.

Together Against Cancer (TAC) is an international charity, with its UK base in Leicester. The charity provides support and assistance to people with cancer and their families. They do this through complementary therapies, counselling, public awareness, online support, support groups, wellness workshops and grants.

We’re committed to helping those fighting and recovering from ill-ness. Our mission is ultimately to equip as many people as possible with the power to take control of their own health.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate success in excelling in community and events fundraising activities.

• You will contribute strongly to the overall fundraising strategy.
• You will be dynamic and inventive, as budgets are low.
• You will be an effective networker with exceptional relationship building skills.
• You must possess a high standard of numeracy and literacy as all preparation and supporting material will be created by yourself.
• You will be the Charitys main contact for community fundraising.
• Actively seek out new opportunities to cultivate new potential donors and fundraising opportunities.
• Increase income streams by developing and maintaining relationships with community supporters including existing individuals, fundraising committees, schools and community groups.
• You will be able to manage your own diary cost effectively, demonstrate excellent organizational and project management skills.

An interest in holistic health would be an advantage. This is a full-time permanent role, 5 days per week (37 hrs), this role may involve some evenings and weekend work. You will also need to own your own vehicle.

TAC has a small friendly team who work together to get the job done.  Staff benefits include 28 days holiday (including statutory), free on-site parking, hybrid working and contributory pension scheme.

Community and Events Fundraiser

We’re looking for a dynamic and creative Community and Events Fundraiser to build, maintain and manage fundraising relationships throughout Leicestershire.

Position: Community and Events Fundraiser

Location: Leicester – hybrid and homeworking arrangements with travel to Leicestershire

Hours: Part time 21 hours per week, all flexibility considered.

Salary: Full time salary circa £26,000 per annum

Benefits: Excellent health benefits, a defined contribution pension scheme and access to an employee assistance programme.

About the role:

As Community and Events Fundraiser you will be responsible for:

• Manage local fundraising groups and supporters to deliver fundraising events
• Grow donors’ scheme, raffles and lottery
• Manage a portfolio of in-house and third-party challenge events
• Manage a fundraising income and expenditure budget and meet fundraising targets
• Attend fundraising events and meet supporters as required
• Own all relationships with community and corporate supporters and be responsible for managing and developing these relationships

About you:

The Community and Events Fundraiser will have a proven record of:

• Meeting and exceeding fundraising or sales targets.
• Experience of community, corporate, major donor or events fundraising
• Acquiring and developing new supporters/customers
• Excellent skills in communications, influencing and negotiation

You may also have experience as a Fundraising Manager, Regional Fundraising Manager, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Corporate Fundraiser, Events Fundraiser, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Major Donor Fundraiser, Income Generation, Senior Community Fundraiser, Area Fundraiser, Challenge Events, Individual Giving, etc.

At Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland, a division of our charity provides support to individuals who require an advocate covering the city and counties of Leicester.

  You will provide advocacy, in line with the Care Act 2014 to, but not limited to, adults

  over the age of eighteen, who have mental health problems or learning disabilities

  and physical disabilities; The service will work alongside individuals who are going

  through assessments, support planning, review or safeguarding processes and have

  a substantial difficulty in understanding or engaging with Social Care processes and

  have no appropriate person to support them. This is such a rewarding job role,  

  being able to help individuals be heard and listened too.  

You will require or hold a relevant Advocacy Qualification or be willing to study for and obtain within 12 months of commencing employment.

A full clean driving licence and vehicle owner with business insurance is required with the occasional weekend or evening work.

If you are interested, or require any further information please contact Tara Goacher – . or visit our website for a full job description, personal specification & terms & condtions and application form

You will require :

Excellent communication skills

• The ability to develop good working relationships.
• Excellent communication skills with a range of people.
• The ability to research information and people's rights.
• Ability to stand up and challenge decisions.
• Excellent English skills to understand complex policies and procedures.
• Work under pressure with challenging cases
• Work within professional boundaries
• Good IT Skills
• Administrative tasks, compile and produce reports, assessments, deliver presentations
• Team player
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent listening skills with a non-judgemental approach

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: Region of £25,000 per annum

Base: Lansdowne House 113 Princess Road East Leicester LE2 7LA
Closing date: 03/02/2021

Interview date: 8th & 10th February 2022

Reference No. RC 13012022  

Join the GREAT Team and help to transform lives 

We have an exciting new opportunity for you to join the Getting Ready for Employment and Training (GREAT) Project which has been operating since 2017, to support families move into training and employment across Leicester city and the wider county. As a project led by Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL), we work in collaboration with several organisations to deliver effective and tailored services to participants.

The project is funded by the European Social Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund. 

Our current partnership includes;

• Business in The Community
• Optima UK
• Personal Development Point
• Scalliwags Mobile Crèche

We are looking to increase the capacity of our team to offer support to more local families who are currently not in employment and who may be facing challenges to access work or training. 

Communications Development Officer, Leicester City Centre, LE1

£29,414 pa. Full time, 35 Hours

Fixed Term to 31 May 2023

Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL) is seeking an exceptional individual to join our Communications and Marketing Team, to bring new ideas and skills to support the marketing and communications work stream of The GREAT Project.

As the new Communications Development Officer for the GREAT Project, you will co–lead on developing the communications strategy and interventions to increase participant engagement across the project, working with the current lead who works 21 hours. 

An experienced communications professional with excellent copywriting and interpersonal skills, you will have knowledge of effective marketing, event management, PR and media relations, as well as the competency to create engaging digital material to build the projects digital presence.

You will be jointly responsible for managing the content on the project website, developing the GREAT brand, designing digital and print communications to support the project delivery, as well as inspiring family members to be part of the project.

The GREAT Project has targets for engagement and you will be expected to draw on your all-encompassing marketing and communications knowledge to develop specific campaigns and events in support of this. You’ll also share the projects impact through emotive case studies, both written and video.

This role requires a proactive and dynamic approach with the successful candidate who understands the best practices of main social media channels including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. S/he must possesses exceptional writing skills and be able to compose engaging and accurate content.

The person must also be a strong communicator who works well independently and with a team. S/he will also have superior time management skills and the ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously.

We continually strive to be more inclusive, more diverse and flexible. We welcome applications from everyone. We particularly encourage applications from Men and Black/Black British candidates from or with lived experiences of Caribbean, African or other background, as these groups are under-represented in some of our teams. 

Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL) is a sector leading diverse and ambitious organisation, with a vision for growth. You will benefit from a competitive salary, a flexible and supportive working environment, 25 days annual leave, rising with service, plus bank holidays and a 6% employer pension contribution. 

Closing date: 12.00 noon Tuesday 25th January 2022

Interviews:  Wednesday 9th February 2022

Leicestershire Cares is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and passionate Project Development Officer to deliver and develop our new Community Development project, funded by the National Lottery Fund. The aim of the project is to develop and deliver activities and partnerships across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland between business, community and public sector that enable young people to:

“Develop key soft and hard skills, confidence, peer and community networks, and connections that will enable them to live happy, fulfilling and rewarding lives.”

If you enjoy working with young people, are creative, entrepreneurial, ambitious, resilient, committed to making a change and want to lead and develop community-centred projects, we would like to hear from you.

Your enthusiasm will be matched by your organisational and planning abilities and your ability to work in partnership with a wide range of organisations and business partners.

The project will give you opportunities to network locally and feed into policy and practice debates.

Given the nature of this post an enhanced DBS check will be carried out.

Salary: £23-25K per annum

Job type: Full-time (35 hours per week) fixed term contract until the end of March 2025.

Closing date: Midday on Friday 28th January

Interview date: Friday 4th February face-to-face at our offices in Leicester, subject to Covid restrictions

About us

Leicestershire Cares is a creative, vibrant and supportive organisation with a friendly working environment. We offer lots of opportunities for development and progression, and have a staff social committee that organises regular team socials and wellbeing initiatives.

Other employee benefits include:

• Employer pension scheme (Leicestershire Cares matches employee contributions by 5%)
• Free parking on site
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance scheme
• Generous leave allowance
• Flexible/agile working
• Cycle to work allowance
• Employer-supported volunteering opportunities

Leicestershire Cares is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to inclusivity. A core part of our work focusses on ensuring that we support the full and diverse range of local communities in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and our team brings together staff from different backgrounds, cultures, age, experience and identity.

We would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. 

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual in the UK who can support the Publishing business in the development of content acquisition, in order to deliver on the company’s strategic business plans and effectively contribute to the strengthening of Practical Action’s profile as an impactful knowledge broker. You will be part of a small specialist publishing company, which is an integral part of the wider Practical Action organisation, and will help us drive content commissions and publishing impact.

In this exciting role you will oversee the acquisition process and budgeting of all of Practical Action Publishing’s growing published content, from liaison with authors and editors to the point at which final digital files or printed publications are completed and published.

Tasks include: representing the company on editorial matters externally and taking responsibility for contracting new work - commissioning and responding to new proposals received; developing existing contacts with authors, editors and co-publishing organisational representatives; managing the peer review system; researching new areas for publishing, new proposals and new editions of existing works; and contracting and client managing authors, editors and publication sponsors.

Critical to the success of the role will be the ability to engage, communicate, and build relationships with authors, editors, partner publishers, academic institutions and international NGOs.

About you
You are a committed and creative individual with substantive experience working in a professional publishing environment, specifically in a commissioning and/or acquiring new publishable content role.
You will also have immaculate English language skills; confidence in building relationships and communicating with a wide range of people, whether that is in writing or verbally, with the ability to pay close attention to detail.
Ideally you will have publishing project management experience, preferably with specific technical or international development studies subject knowledge and experience of working with international development organisations.
This is a real opportunity to further develop your expertise and profile in professional publishing in an international development arena.

Why join us?
The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.
In addition, we offer the following benefits:
• Flexible working hours - full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week.
• We operate an agile flexible working policy, where flexible working hours are enabled as well as remote working depending on the role.
• 26 days holiday in addition to public holidays.
• A pension scheme that new employees can join from day one of employment – (rules apply) employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.
• Life assurance (3 x annual salary).
• Bike to Work scheme.

About us
Practical Action Publishing are an independent publishing company and an integral part of an international development organisation, Practical Action, putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.
We’re part of a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.
Practical Action helps people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

Additional information
Practical Action believe that having a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace culture based on respect will enable us to be an effective organisation. We seek to create an inclusive workplace in which people are accepted as individuals, regardless of their differences and where they feel their contribution is valued. We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.
Practical Action are committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.
Please note that should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.
The successful applicant must have the pre-existing right to both live and work in the UK.
Closing date for applications: 20th January 2022
Interview dates: January-February 2022
Start date: February-March 2022

Would you love to work for a small but mighty International Development charity which is striving towards four goal areas: access to energy; sustainable agriculture; water, sanitation and waste management; and disaster risk reduction?

Charity People is delighted to be partnering exclusively with Practical Action in search of an talented Senior Partnerships and Philanthropy Officer to join their team. If you are looking for a role with real, tangible impact in a charity that is making huge strides forward, this is the one for you.

Practical Action is a global innovator, encouraging people to discover and adopt ingenious, practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage. From incredible practical solutions like enabling marginalised farmers without land to earn a living by cultivating pumpkins on barren sandbars, to innovative ideas like their extraordinary floating gardens, which uses water hyacinth to construct rafts enabling farmers to grow crops on flooded land.

Reporting into the Philanthropy Manager you'll be responsible for managing and developing relationships with a portfolio of trusts and foundations and major donors, both existing and new, capable of giving five and six figure grants or gifts, securing income and contributing to the wider Partnerships and Philanthropy strategy. You'll get the opportunity to work across the whole organisation, including the Board as part of their giving circle.

We are looking for a brilliant relationship fundraiser with:

* Experience in fundraising from high net worth individuals making gifts privately, or through trusts and corporations
* A proven track record of identifying and securing new business
* Experience of using a range of prospect research techniques to identify and qualify new prospects to feed the donor pipeline
* A strong track record of managing and developing a portfolio of donors

Practical Action offers a flexible, life and family-friendly working culture and the opportunity to work primarily from home (with 1 day in the office per month) Or if you prefer a hybrid mix you can work from their lovely open plan offices in the heart of Rugby.

For lots more detail on this exciting role, please send a copy of your CV to Ellen Drummond at Charity People.

Closing: 28th January
Interviews: w/c 31st January

Please note our offices are closed over Christmas and New Year but do send in your CV and we will be in touch ASAP in 2022.

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), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Would you love to work for a small but mighty International Development charity which is striving towards four goal areas: access to energy; sustainable agriculture; water, sanitation and waste management; and disaster risk reduction?

Charity People is delighted to be partnering exclusively with Practical Action in search of an talented Senior Partnerships and Philanthropy Officer to join their team. If you are looking for a role with real, tangible impact in a charity that is making huge strides forward, this is the one for you….

Practical Action is a global innovator, encouraging people to discover and adopt ingenious, practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage. From incredible practical solutions like enabling marginalised farmers without land to earn a living by cultivating pumpkins on barren sandbars, to innovative ideas like their extraordinary floating gardens, which uses water hyacinth to construct rafts enabling farmers to grow crops on flooded land.

Reporting into the Philanthropy Manager you'll be responsible for managing and developing relationships with a portfolio of trusts and foundations and major donors, both existing and new, capable of giving five and six figure grants or gifts, securing income and contributing to the wider Partnerships and Philanthropy strategy. You'll get the opportunity to work across the whole organisation, including the Board as part of their giving circle.

We are looking for a brilliant relationship fundraiser with:

* Experience in fundraising from high net worth individuals making gifts privately, or through trusts and corporations
* A proven track record of identifying and securing new business
* Experience of using a range of prospect research techniques to identify and qualify new prospects to feed the donor pipeline
* A strong track record of managing and developing a portfolio of donors

Practical Action offers a flexible, life and family-friendly working culture.

Location: Rugby, Warwickshire. It is Practical Action's normal practice to operate an agile flexible working policy, where flexible working hours are enabled as well as remote working.

For lots more detail on this exciting role, please send a copy of your CV to Ellen Drummond at Charity People.

Closing: 28th January
Interviews: w/c 31st January

Please note our offices are closed over Christmas and New Year but do send in your CV and we will be in touch ASAP in 2022.

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), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

About the role:

Are you an experienced Internal communications and staff engagement professional looking for your next challenge? Are you passionate about making a world that works better for everyone and being part of a globally connected organisation? Can you take our Internal communications and staff engagement plan to the next level, communicate, engage and connect all our people embracing the diversity of each individual who works for PA? This could be the role for you.

The role sits in the Global People and Culture Learning and Development team.

You will partner with the CEO and Senior leadership team to advise, coach and support them with their engagement and communications agendas to help deliver on our strategic ambitions.

You will drive an increase in employee engagement and organisational performance through the creation and implementation of an integrated and strategy aligned Internal communications and engagement plan.

You will manage the organisations employee engagement activities with a strong emphasis on our Global Learning and development events, and connect all our staff with story’s and learning from our communities and programmes across the 10 countries we work in, collaborating with our global Impact and learning, Marketing & external communications and program teams.

You will introduce new digital platforms and tools that will modernise and streamline the way we currently communicate and will embrace the languages and cultures represented at PA.

This is an exciting role that holds a lot of antonymy and the scope for being both creative and ambitious, and a genuine opportunity for you to really influence the culture of PA as we journey forward to create a world that is better for everyone.

Why join us? 

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

Our new open plan offices are located in the centre of Rugby near to the train station. 

In addition, we offer the following benefits: 

Flexible working/hours – full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week. 

It is our practice normally that we operate an agile flexible working policy, where flexible working hours are enabled as well as remote working (between 2-3 days per week depending on the role).

26 days holiday in addition to public holidays. 

A pension scheme that new employees can join from day one of employment – (rules apply) employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%. 

Life assurance (3 x annual salary). 

Bike to Work scheme. 

About us 

We are an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world. 

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big. 

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone. 

Additional information 

Practical Action believe that having a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace culture based on respect will enable us to be an effective organisation. We seek to create an inclusive workplace in which people are accepted as individuals, regardless of their differences and where they feel their contribution is valued.We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation. 

Practical Action are committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing. 

Please note that should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date. 

The successful applicant must have the pre-existing right to both live and work in the UK. 

Interview Process: 

Closing date – Friday 21st January at 5pm

First round of interviews – First week of February 2022

Regional Manager – East Midlands Gateway

Remote based; with frequent travel across region.

£32,000 to £35,000 DOE, plus 25 days holiday & pension

Monday – Friday 35 hours per week

Career Ready is an award-winning agent for change. Over the last 18 Years, Career Ready has been transforming the lives of more than 150,000 Children and Young People across the UK. We believe that every young person, regardless of background, deserves the opportunity to enjoy a rewarding and successful future and to progress to a sustained, positive post-school destination.

We are working in partnership with SEGRO to recruit a Regional Manager to support the launch of a new partnership to deliver the transformational Career Ready 16-18 programme within local schools/colleges across the East Midlands Gateway. This new partnership will inspire the next generation of employees across the East Midlands Gateway and will help young people, particularly those from underprivileged backgrounds - to meet their full potential.

Across the Midlands we are currently engaged in working with schools and colleges in Staffordshire, East and the West Midlands. This role will expand our reach in the region, into the East Midlands Gateway (Leicester and Leicestershire) an area of huge opportunity and need for young people. Our Career Ready programme is based on our Skills for Career Success learning outcomes, delivered by employer volunteers. The core pillars of our programmes are a series of structured masterclasses, mentoring, workplace visits and  four-week internship. Last year 98% of students aged 16-18 leaving our Career Ready programme went on to positive destinations.

You will be joining Career Ready at an exciting time following the launch of our most recent strategy 2021-2024. We are on a drive towards growing our work across the U.K with employers to support and invest in young talent. This role will support us over the next three years, as we grow our work and solidify our position as a sustainable charity that boosts social mobility for more young people across the UK. 

About the role

This is a significant opportunity for a new Regional Manager to lead on a landmark employer partnership and be at the centre of innovating to create partnerships locally. Identifying the schools/colleges and students who will benefit most from the programme, to ensure we are having the greatest impact possible on the lives of the young people. There will also be opportunities to collaborate and be creative, as well as being autonomous in how you run and develop programmes with your schools/colleges and employer accounts.

The Regional Manager will be responsible for launching the Career Ready programme across the East Midlands Gateway and will help to :

• Raise awareness and aspirations of career opportunities for young people across the East Midlands Gateway;
• Promote local industries and social mobility within local communities;
• Support participating students with practical and ‘real life’ learning opportunities
• Provide a sound medium to long term pool of young people entering the local workforce;
• Develop a pipeline to entry level roles with our students;
• Provide a significant volunteering programme to support local employer volunteering and skills opportunities.
• Deliver a robustly evaluated community investment for programme, with impact data for social value reporting.

Main duties and responsibilities

Regional management

• Stakeholder mapping and outreach to onboard new employers to support schools within the region.
• Recruit new schools/colleges to enrol on the programme for September 2022 in agreement with targets.
• Strategic account management and reporting for the Career Ready and SEGRO Partnerships.
• Project management of running the Career Ready programme working on a regular basis with schools and colleges e.g. support internships, managing events for students and corporate supporters, etc.
• Account manage relationships with regional and local corporate supporters and regional or local operations of national corporate supporters.
• Promote the contribution of Career Ready and awareness of Career Ready to potential supporters and assist in engaging their commitment to give both practical and financial support.
• Provide regular communication and reporting to the Lead Manager for the Midlands and external funders.
• Set up and Manage the  Local Advisory Boards (employer board) – for your region.
• Help support mentor volunteers with their programme support.
• Ensure that all regional management information is submitted to the organisational database (Salesforce) in a timely and accurate way.
• Support schools and colleges in delivery of internships and work placements.
• From time to time there will be need to deliver sessions to skills and careers leads and to groups of young people within the school and college setting.

National and strategic management

• Contribute to the corporate work of Career Ready.
• With the Chief Executive, Director of Programmes and Midlands Lead Manager  - monitor the state of Career Ready in the region and seek ways to promote its achievements and improve the service given by the central staff team.
• Attend meetings and training days .

Profile raising

• In conjunction with senior staff and the communications team, work to raise the profile of Career Ready in the Regional Manager’s area, and its key stakeholders in the regional and local media, business and education communities.
• Undertake public speaking and media engagements as required to promote the work of Career Ready in the Regional Manager’s area.                                       

Events

• Assist schools and colleges on our programmes to plan, manage and run events to promote Career Ready to potential corporate supporters, students, parents / carers and the local community, and be prepared to present at such events.
• Attend national Career Ready events such as A Capital Experience.
• Arrange and manage regional events including launch events, mentor icebreakers, work place visits.
• From time to time, Regional Managers may be required to deliver programme materials (e.g., assemblies, masterclasses etc.)

General

Promote a commitment to high standards of service, and to equality of opportunity through leadership, policy development and good practice. You will be able to build local partnerships with schools, colleges and employers with a view to growth with the Career Ready strategic plan. An entrepreneurial spirit allied with a can-do attitude will go a long way.

Person Specification

• Target driven, but able to balance financial and non-financial objectives.
• Entrepreneurial with the ability to follow through and achieve results.
• Forward planner with excellent time management skills.
• Able to deliver targets and objectives, often alone, but also to rise above the detail and take a strategic perspective.
• Able to communicate effectively in a wide variety of situations, including formal speaking engagements to large audiences.
• Able to reach, network with and communicate to a wide range of stakeholders and potential stakeholders including senior business people, principals of schools and colleges and students.
• Able to operate corporately as part of the Career Ready team.
• Consultative and supportive management style.
• Skilled negotiator, internally and externally.
• Ability to use databases, Word, excel, PowerPoint and other ‘Office’ packages.

A flexible approach to working hours is essential as ‘out of hours’ meetings are common within the requirements of this role.

Experience

One of the following:

(i) Preferably three years in an education role.  Experience could have been gained in schools, FE colleges or not-for-profit organisations, but the successful applicant must be able to gain credibility with senior managers in a variety of educational institutions; or

(ii) Three years experience in a not-for-profit organisation involved with young people; or 

(iii) Three years experience in a community development or Corporate Social Responsibility role in a company; and

Evidence of commercial awareness and proven experience of account management.

Appointment will be subject to a 3-month probation period during which time the contract may be terminated with one week’s notice.

An enhanced criminal record (DBS) check will be required for the role.

The role is home based (remote working)

Salary & Benefits

• £32,000-35,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Plus 6% contribution to personal pension plan, subject to 3% employee contribution
• Annual leave: 25 days per annum plus bank/public holidays. The Charity is also closed between Christmas and New Year and there are an additional 2 days of leave available in August.
• Interest-free season ticket or bicycle purchase loans.
• Access to both our Reward Gateway Portal and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual Work Anniversary Gift Voucher

Application

If you are interested in the role then please submit a CV and a covering letter stating why you believe you are suitable for the role, giving details of your current salary.

If you would like to discuss this role further before applying, you are welcome to request a call back.

The closing date for applications is 5.00pm on Sunday 30th January 2022 and interviews will take place virtually in week commencing 7th February

Registered Charity Number 1092891

Senior Development Worker – Mental Health Crisis Alternatives

This is an exciting new role and the successful candidate will be instrumental in supporting communities to provide an alternative to crisis support. This is a role that requires an understanding of mental health challenges and would be an opportunity to work at a senior level to develop new services across Derby and Derbyshire. We require someone with excellent interpersonal skills, a track record in community development and some knowledge of the mental health voluntary sector would be desirable.

37 hours, including some weekend and evening working

Salary: £31.746.00 -  12 month contract (possible extension subject to external funding and review)

We need a new senior development worker who will support the development of pathways for supporting delivery of Crisis alternatives across a wide range of stakeholders.

You will need excellent communication skills, and an aptitude for learning. You must be self motivated and able to work independently within an agreed framework. You will be self-supporting so must be fully computer literate. You will need to be able to work flexible hours and to travel across Derby and Derbyshire.  Posts will be based at our office in Long Eaton.  

The post is initially for a one-year contract (possible extension subject to external funding and review)

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:  9^th February 2022 4PM.

INTERVIEW DATE: 16^th February 2022

Contract: Contract for delivering services (on a self-employed basis)

Hours: Varied

Locations:

• Brighton – meets on the 4th Monday of every month
• Leicester – meets on the 4th Monday of every month
• Ruislip – meets on the 1st Thursday of every month
• Salisbury – meets on the 3rd Wednesday of every month
• Swindon – meets on the 2nd Wednesday of every month

Our services are usually held in hospitality or community venues in the town or city centre.

Pay: We offer flat fees for work undertaken delivering our services as listed below:

• £130 for facilitating a 2 hour ‘meet up’ session
• £150 for facilitating a quarterly 2.5 hour speaker session
• £15 admin fee per session
• Additional fees for attending training and meetings, or facilitating a larger annual information event.

We do not provide expenses or any fee for travel time or costs.

The role

We are currently looking for experienced facilitators with a counselling qualification to deliver our Living with Secondary Breast Cancer (LWSBC) service in various locations across the UK.

Our LWSBC groups offer support and information to anyone living with a diagnosis of secondary (metastatic) breast cancer. The groups offer a safe space where people can come to talk freely and share experiences and mutual support with others who understand, away from friends and family. They are not therapeutic support groups in the traditional sense but are delivered in accordance with Breast Cancer Now’s service model used across the UK which has been developed and tested for over 10 years. Each group meets monthly 11:00am – 1:00pm with a slightly longer meeting each quarter (11:00am – 1:30pm) when an expert speaker presents on a relevant topic.

You will be responsible for facilitating the meetings, drawing upon your therapeutic skills as required to ensure that all attendees are given time to share and supported to take part in discussion, including around challenging topics affecting this patient group such as end of life. You will work independently in your region, with sole responsibility for facilitating each group meeting, liaising with venue staff as required. You will act as an ambassador for Breast Cancer Now, promoting our charitable aims and building professional relationships with healthcare professionals who attend.

This is offered as a contract for services position and as such the appointed contractor would not be an employee of Breast Cancer Now but a self-employed individual. We require all contractors to adhere to and follow Breast Cancer Now applicable policies and procedures and to undertake some mandatory training in core subjects such as data protection and cyber security. A satisfactory criminal record check will be required, and we advise you to have your own Public Liability insurance in place to fully cover the work you undertake on behalf of Breast Cancer Now.

About you

You will have a counselling qualification and experience of facilitating groups, preferably ongoing support groups for people affected by cancer or a life-limiting long-term condition, or other vulnerable/sensitive group. You will have a warm and approachable manner, able to communicate sensitively with people facing difficult challenges. You should be confident using your own initiative and dealing with unforeseen challenges when working alone.

About us

We’re Breast Cancer Now, the charity that’s steered by world-class research and powered by life-changing care. We’re here for anyone affected by breast cancer, the whole way through, providing support for today and hope for the future.

We’re that trusted friend that people affected by breast cancer turn to for caring support when they need it most. The expert authority on breast cancer research who is making breakthroughs and driving forward progress. And a vehicle for change, acting now to make sure anyone affected by breast cancer gets the best possible treatment and care.

We believe that we can change the future of breast cancer and make sure that, by 2050, everyone diagnosed with the disease lives – and is supported to live well. But we need to act now.

How to apply

Please submit an online application form via the link provided. Please specify within your application which location/s you are applying for.

Closing date: Monday 31 January 2022 at 09:00am

Interview date: Interviews will be held virtually over Microsoft Teams on the following dates based on the location you have applied for. If you have applied for more than one location, you will only be required to have one interview (if shortlisted):

• Swindon – Tuesday 8 February 2022
• Brighton – Wednesday 9 February 2022
• Ruislip – Wednesday 9 February 2022
• Salisbury – Thursday 10 February 2022
• Leicester – Friday 11 February 2022

Area Manager for Leicestershire

Young Enterprise is a national charity which helps thousands of young people every year to develop the life skills, knowledge and confidence they need to succeed in the changing world of work. We are looking for an Area Manager to join our team in Leicestershire.

As Area Manager, you will coordinate projects, manage relationships with volunteers and funders and liaise with schools, further education and higher education centres to promote YE’s full suite of programmes. You will also deliver our enterprise, careers and employability programmes directly to students such as our Company Programme and Start Up programmes. Coupled with occasional event management, reporting, and networking, the role will suit candidates who enjoy a varied work week.

We are looking for a motivated self-starter, who can inspire young people to achieve their potential, enable educators to meet their goals, and engage supporters in seeing the benefit of the charity's work. Experience of recruitment, training and onboarding of volunteers from community or corporate sources would be highly advantageous.

You'll be working alongside an experienced and passionate small team, with a 'can-do' ethos of supporting each other and sharing knowledge across programmes and geographies.

As part of Young Enterprise you will also benefit from:

• A People-focussed, friendly and supportive work-place culture
• An active commitment to equality and diversity
• Generous holiday allowance of 7.2 weeks
• Access to NHS top-up scheme, for money back on expenses such as dental and optical
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Group Life Assurance of 2x annual salary

This is a home-based role, but will require significant travel throughout Leicestershire.

Interviews will take place with Marie Tedstone (Regional Manager) and Lee Palmer (Director of Educational Partnerships) via MS Teams. Interviews will be held on the week commencing 24th January at the latest, however we will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and may shortlist and invite candidates to interview before the closing date.

Are you a Vet Nurse who is passionate about animal welfare, loves dogs and is looking for an excellent work life balance? We are seeking registered Vet Nurses to join our Veterinary Teams based in rehoming centres in Cardiff, Glasgow and Loughborough.

Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare charity in the UK with a nationwide network of rehoming centres and charity shops. Last year, Dogs Trust centres cared for over 9,000 dogs; we never put a healthy dog down.

In this key role, you will work closely with the Dogs Trust rehoming centre team and the centre Veterinary Surgeon to help provide excellent veterinary care and welfare to our dogs. You will be involved with all aspects of surgery, assisting with consultations, maintaining clinical protocols, monitoring our recovery kennels, and you will also be a point of contact regarding veterinary assistance for the centre team, helping to ensure that protocols are adhered to by providing informal, occasional training to staff.

To be successful in this role you will be a Registered Veterinary Nurse with an appreciation of handling dogs in accordance with Dogs Trust guidelines, using positive reinforcement techniques. Experience of working in a rehoming/charity establishment would be desirable, but a full induction is provided. You will be able to show empathy and understanding towards both dogs and people and be committed to delivering the highest standards of patient care and customer service. You will also need a full, clean UK driving licence.

The role benefits from a Monday to Friday working schedule, with no out of hours or weekend commitment. Dogs Trust actively encourage professional development, with opportunities to work alongside our in-house behavioural teams, and a generous CPD allowance (including access to external opportunities). Additionally, RCVS fees for Vet Nurses are paid.

To apply for this position please visit our website.

At Dogs Trust we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture.  We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, abilities and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to achieve our mission. Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, either at application or interview stage, please contact us on the email address listed on the job advert.