Love4Life is the primary programme delivered by TwentyTwenty. Love4Life is about empowering young people to build confidence and make positive choices in their relationships, health and education. Based in Loughborough, working across Leicestershire and Derbyshire, Love4Life is currently a programme of therapeutic and emotional support for vulnerable girls aged 11-19 years. We support around 600 girls a year across our local communities and in secondary schools.

As Love4Life enters a new chapter of programme development, we are looking for a passionate and inspiring person to lead and develop the core delivery of the programme across our three localities (Loughborough, Leicester and Derby) and commit to the leadership and development of our Area Coordinators.
Working closing with our CEO you will help develop the Love4Life programme ensuring we are supporting young people, in the most deprived areas, who would most benefit from our inventions.
Your role will involve identifying, developing and leading on key relationships with schools, community venues and all local referral agencies including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Social Services, Local Authorities and the Police.
You will help our charity to measure and understand the impact of our programme by monitoring tools and reporting on outcomes. In addition, you will lead on our safeguarding policies and processes ensuring reporting and best practice is at the core of our work.
You will be passionate and experienced in working with disadvantaged and vulnerable young people and as part of the delivery team; you will know how to provide inspiring, engaging learning and activities. 

Are you a fundraising or sales professional ready to help us fund life-saving cancer research? We're looking for an ambitious, confident and engaging Corporate & Community Fundraiser who can:

• Recruit, manage, and support businesses and potential volunteer fundraisers within the local community, helping them to reach their fundraising potential
• Identify and develop new relationships with corporate supporters, community groups and potential high net-worth individuals
• Inspire and bring out the best in supporters, corporate partnerships and community groups, engaging them with Hope Against Cancer’s life-saving work over the long term
• Enable our supporters to set and achieve ambitious fundraising goals
• Engage supporters in Hope-organised and third party events
• Be an ambassador for HOPE in the community, working with businesses, community groups and volunteers to unlock new opportunities. 

Have you got:

• Proven experience of exceeding targets and working to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Excellent ability to motivate, inspire and influence people
• Strong networking skills and proven ability to build long-lasting relationships
• Proven ability to track and report on income
• Flexibility and willingness to travel where needed to support events.

We want you to help us build great relationships with our supporters and to help them achieve their fundraising ambitions, allowing us to grow sustainable, annual income. This is a rewarding and fast-paced role, in a small team. No two days will be the same as you'll be working with individuals, trustees, groups and local/regional businesses, supporting them with their fundraising ambitions!

About the role

We are looking for a Marketing Strategist to join our Marketing and External Engagement team to focus on increasing engagement and income from our individual giving supporter base.

You will be responsible for developing deep audience and channel insights to propose and drive marketing and communications strategies that deliver to Practical Action’s wider mission and specific objectives for your audiences.

You will take the lead on understanding what drives and motivates our existing audiences, why they engage with us, their capacity to support and their marketing preferences.

Increasingly our marketing is a digital and analogue blend, so you will be planning activity that includes mail, email, website content and social media. You will plan expenditure, monitor progress and enact course corrections based on results.

You will work with our Brand and Content team to develop messaging and creative approaches and our Campaigns team who will plan and execute campaigns.

About you

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level with a qualification in or considerable experience of marketing, market research or related discipline.

You will have extensive marketing experience, ideally gained in multi-disciplinary settings and experience of marketing planning, as well as significant current experience of digital marketing planning and execution across major public-facing campaigns. Recent experience of charity marketing and fundraising is preferred.

You will have strong analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills with the ability to clearly and simply communicate insights to a diverse set of stakeholders. You must have a strong marketing planning experience coupled with digital and social media skills.

The successful candidate will be highly numerate, able to assimilate and make sense of complex data and research, with a proven understanding of the skills and methods needed for planning and measuring engagement with target audiences.

Why join us?

You will join a high performing team of marketing professionals, all committed to making the world work better for everyone. You will experience and contribute to a friendly and supportive culture, where we value work life balance and flexible working.

Our brand new open plan offices are located in the centre of Rugby and near to Rugby train station but we also offer free parking.

In addition, we offer the following benefits:

• Full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week.
• Most staff in the UK are currently working from home due to coronavirus and we expect to it be this way for some time. It is however 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 rising with continuous service, in addition to public
• Pension scheme – employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental
• Life assurance (3 x annual salary).
• Bike to Work

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

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

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 is 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.

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

How to apply

If you want to work for a charity with significant people ambitions, then we would like to hear from you. To apply go to Practical Action to view the full recruitment pack.

Closing date for applications: Friday 30th April