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Are you a senior international fundraiser who is looking for a new challenge?
We’re looking for an interim Head of International High Value Fundraising, who will take the lead on high value fundraising for our international work, ensuring our work can impact dogs and their owners across the world.
What does this role do?
As Head of International High Value Fundraising, you'll:
- lead the International High Value Fundraising team, providing direction and day-to-day leadership to inspire and support the team in cultivating transformational giving. Motivate and empower colleagues to unlock major opportunities in the United States and strengthen our approach in other regions.
- partner with other fundraising teams across Dogs Trust and our international partners, World Veterinary Service and Mission Rabies, to enhance and align global philanthropy strategies. Identify and pilot innovative approaches to generating significant new income and building long-term, sustainable partnerships.
- personally manage a portfolio of high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, foundations, and major donors, leading on all aspects of relationship management, from prospect identification and tailored proposal development to bespoke stewardship and long-term engagement that secures six-, seven-, and eight-figure gifts,
- represent Dogs Trust internationally, strengthening our global profile and cultivating relationships that increase awareness of, and secure substantial philanthropic support for, our international programmes.
This role is being offered as a fixed term, family leave cover role until January 2027. Interviews for this role are provisionally scheduled for Friday 21st November 2025, however, we may invite suitable candidates to interview for the role sooner. Interviews will take place on Teams.
Could this be you?
To be successful in this role, you’ll be a dynamic, innovative senior fundraiser, with a breadth of experience across different fundraising modalities in the international context, ideally with some experience of setting up a new function. You’ll have excellent communication and partnership management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with varied internal and external stakeholders. This is a growing, changing role with lots of moving parts, so we’re looking for a someone who is flexible and adaptable, who proactively identifies challenges and opportunities. We’d love to hear from candidates who hit the ground running, and enjoy taking the lead on a new, exciting area of work. Above all, you’ll need a commitment to the work we do, and understand the importance of this work internationally.
About Dogs Trust
We love dogs. That’s why we do whatever we can to make sure every four-legged friend gets the love they deserve. We’ll never put a healthy dog down, so our work is focused on helping dogs in need, supporting owners every step of the walk, and creating a better world for dogs in the future. It’s what we’ve been doing since 1891 and how we’ve grown to become the UK’s leading dog charity, helping 12,000 loyal friends find their forever homes every year.
To apply for this position please click the APPLY NOW button. Our application process requires you submit a personal statement explaining your interest and suitability for the role.
Dogs are incredibly diverse, much like the humans that love them! At Dogs Trust we value diversity, and we're committed to fostering an inclusive culture. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, abilities, and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce helps us to achieve our mission. Our colleague networks give our people a voice, acting as vehicles for real and meaningful change within Dogs Trust. We truly want to see every candidate shine throughout the entire job application process, interview stages, and during their time with us. If there's anything on your mind or any adjustments you may need, don't hesitate to reach out to us. We're here to support you every step of the way.
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Are you looking for a meaningful part-time role where your organisational skills can make a real difference in healthcare? We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Quality Improvement Administrative Assistant to join our supportive Quality Standards for Imaging team which is a collaboration between the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and College of Radiographers (CoR).
In this varied and rewarding role, you’ll play a key part in supporting imaging services across the UK as they work towards the Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI), a nationally recognised mark of excellence. From coordinating meetings and events to managing communications and supporting financial processes, your work will help ensure services deliver safe, effective, and person-centred care.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Supporting imaging services on their QSI journey with accurate record-keeping and communications.
- Coordinating meetings and webinars, including preparing agendas, minutes, and logistics.
- Assisting with the planning and delivery of our annual QSI conference and monthly events.
- Managing financial tracking and administrative tasks with precision.
- Collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to keep everything running smoothly.
About You:
- Proven administrative experience, ideally in a team-based environment, with a professional and responsive approach to internal and external contacts.
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage your own workload, prioritise tasks, and meet deadlines with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the confidence to engage with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, and a willingness to learn new systems and tools as needed.
- A proactive and flexible mindset, ready to take initiative and support a variety of projects and events.
- A commitment to quality and service, aligned with our values of continuous improvement and delivering excellent support to healthcare services.
Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a passionate team committed to improving healthcare quality. We offer a collaborative and inclusive working environment, opportunities for professional development, and the chance to contribute to meaningful change in imaging services across the UK.
How to apply
If this sounds like the role for you, please download the candidate pack or visit our website to find out more along with instructions on how to apply. The closing date for applications is 23.59 on Sunday 16 November 2025.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Starting Salary: £54,269 - £59,422 (including LW)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Romero House, London - Hybrid working with a minimum of 40% of your time in the London head Office
Job Profile
CAFOD has an ambition to be digital first in our marketing and communications, to stay ahead of emerging trends and make the most of what digital technology can offer to strengthen our relationships with our supporters and in our ways of working across the organisation. Digital technology has already transformed our communications and will continue to do so. This senior communications and marketing role will be responsible for steering the ongoing digital transformation of CAFODs work, primarily in the supporter programme and also across the wider organisation.
This role encompasses overall responsibility for the brand, digital marketing, messaging, proactive and reactive media relations, with a core focus on digital transformation across all platforms. This post will play a key role in guiding our digital shop fronts and marketing efforts, evolving supporter journeys, steering our email programme and leading on the digital infrastructure to enable delivery of our supporter programme. It will ensure that digital engagement and conversion is embedded and an integral part of our communications planning.
This role will drive innovation and data-informed insight across the full spectrum of communications and wider organisation functions. It will embed a digital-first approach across teams and guide and accompany the wider organisation on harnessing opportunities of new technologies, making digital engagement integral to communications planning.
This role will drive brand awareness, brand advocacy and action across our programmes to ensure CAFOD is top of mind amongst the Catholic Community of England and Wales, helping to grow support from our constituency. You will bring proven senior-level experience in digital communications and marketing, ideally within the charity sector. With a strong understanding of communications at a senior level with expert knowledge of digital channels, audience engagement, and online conversion, you also have a strategic grasp of how digital integrates into broader communications and supporter strategies. Your leadership style is collaborative and visionary, and you have the gravitas and expertise to set the digital marketing direction for a large organisation, while bringing all teams along with your vision.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic development, direction setting and delivery of an ambitious, insight-led digital-first communications strategy that enhances supporter journeys, increases engagement and drives measurable growth in support of our supporter programme, especially our parishioner-first fundraising strategy.
- Act as CAFODs senior expert on communications, advising the Executive team, across departments and influencing strategic decision-making, including on digital direction and development, at the highest level.
- Lead complex cross-organisational projects that improve our digital supporter experience, from acquisition to long-term engagement and conversion, ensuring timeliness and consistency with supporter programme priorities, especially the parishioner-first fundraising strategy and approach.
- Provide leadership and overall oversight of external communications and messaging, including brand consistency and press/media engagement, ensuring consistency between our fundraising efforts, our campaigning work and profiling our international work to supporters and key stakeholders.
- Lead and oversee the digital teams - email marketing programme, social media engagement, digital developments, campaigns and the website, to ensure user experience is optimised and platforms support our supporter programme and broader organisational strategic objectives and ambitions.
- Lead the media team to explore and encourage new approaches including how we further maximise the digital media landscape.
- Line manage senior specialists across digital marketing, website, and media and PR, ensuring high performance and professional growth.
- Work closely with IT, data and external agencies to ensure agile, secure and effective digital delivery across platforms.
- Represent the organisation externally where appropriate, with a focus on digital thought leadership.
- Develop and manage the communications budget effectively, aligning resources to priority areas and demonstrating clear impact. Agree and ensure accountability for objectives and KPIs as part of the wider supporter strategy, fostering a culture of ongoing learning, adaptation and improvement.
Safeguarding
All CAFOD staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities.
Person Specification
- Extensive experience in a senior digital communications and marketing leadership role, with demonstrable success in developing and delivering integrated and audience-led multi-channel communications and marketing strategies.
- Strong experience of overseeing development of supporter journeys and objectives, website development, CRM integration and email engagement and conversion.
- Passionate about digital innovation and technologies, with deep knowledge of platforms, formats, and trends.
- Committed to insight-led and data-driven approaches with skills to use digital tools, platforms and analytics to shape decisions and measure impact.
- Excellent leadership, inter-personal and team management skills, with the ability to develop and motivate multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong cross-functional project management ability, with experience leading organisational change in digital capability.
- Understanding of broader communications and marketing disciplines, with the ability to ensure alignment and brand consistency and also oversee media and PR work, including reputational risk and crisis communications.
- Understanding of the Catholic church in England and Wales and knowledge of Catholic Social Teaching.
- A track record of strong written and spoken communication skills.
- Highly organised, able to manage a busy workload and consistently meet deadlines.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.
Registered Charity
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CAFOD is the official Catholic aid agency for England and Wales tackling poverty and injustice across the world.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We are seeking a proactive, detail-oriented and data-focused [IT/data confident] administrator to support our CRM and audience development activities.
Hofesh Shechter Company is a boundary-breaking international dance company, led by Artistic Director Hofesh Shechter. Our work includes large-scale touring, film projects, the emerging talent programme Shechter II interwoven with our Shechter Moves learning programme.
This newly created position is central to our data strategy, focusing on centralising audience and supporter information using our new specialist CRM and event management systems, Monad and YesPlan. You will be responsible for data integrity, analysis and supporting us to turn rich audience insights into a powerful tool for storytelling and growth, helping us build deeper relationships with our diverse audiences.
This is an ideal role for someone passionate about IT systems and the arts. It suits a recent data/business analytics graduate looking for a role with real-world impact in the UK’s vibrant creative sector or an aspiring arts administrator who thrives on a mix of analytical and creative work.
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Closing date: 28 November 2025 at 00:00
Development Manager
Purpose of the Role
The Development Manager will play a vital role in expanding The Churchill Fellowship’s income from Trusts, Foundations, and other institutional funders. Working closely with the Development Director, the post holder will identify, cultivate and secure new funding partnerships that support our core Fellowship programme, unrestricted income, and the Activate Programme in line with our organisational priorities.
The postholder will manage the full funder journey, from initial engagement to long-term stewardship, ensuring all relationships are grown and managed professionally and effectively. They will work closely with relevant departments to coordinate proposals, reports, and communications, helping maintain strong connections with funders.
Key responsibilities
Prospecting and Pipeline Development
- Research and identify new potential supporters, primarily from the Trusts & Foundations sector, with some engagement of aligned individuals or family-foundation prospects in conjunction with the wider Development Team.
- Support the Development Director in delivering targeted cultivation and engagement strategies to grow new income streams.
- Build and maintain a healthy, dynamic pipeline of qualified new business opportunities.
- Monitor sector trends to identify emerging supporters and new partnership opportunities
Approaches and Proposal Development
- Prepare tailored, persuasive funding proposals, applications, and cases for support, drawing on internal expertise and materials.
- Lead on initial engagement with new prospects, coordinating meetings, briefings and follow-up communications.
- Manage the cultivation process ensuring prospects receive timely and professional engagement throughout.
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure proposals are accurate, evidence-based and aligned with organisational objectives.
Relationship Management
- Act as the key contact for donors and funders secured through this role, managing relationships and ensuring continuity of communication.
- Work closely with the Development Director, Appeal Director and CEO to coordinate senior-level involvement in funder engagement where appropriate.
- Ensure accurate monitoring, evaluation and reporting for all grants, providing timely updates and impact information to funders. Liaise with colleagues across the organisation to identify when and how internal contacts or senior volunteers can support prospect engagement, ensuring this complements any existing relationships or approaches.
Internal Collaboration and Systems
- Record all activity in Salesforce, ensuring accurate data capture on all prospect and funder activity.
- Contribute to income forecasting and team reporting
- Collaborate with colleagues across departments to align fundraising approaches with strategic initiatives, ensuring consistent messaging and shared priorities.
General
- Ensure fundraising activity complies with relevant regulations, GDPR, and due diligence processes and ethical fundraising policies
- Support Development team events and activities as required, occasionally outside normal working hours.
- Undertake any other duties as reasonably required by the Development Director to support the success of the team and organisation.
Person Specification
Qualification:
- Degree level or equivalent transferable skills - Desirable
Skills and Experience
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in a fundraising, grants or donor facing role, particularly prospecting new funders
- Proven success in securing funding from Trusts & Foundations or HNWIs, particularly new business (one-off or multiyear grants and repeat grants)
- Strong experience in research & prospect identification for trusts/foundations or major donors
- Excellent proposal/application writing, with ability to tailor cases to funder priorities
- Good interpersonal and communication skills — able to engage funders at senior levels and with colleagues internally
- Strong organisational skills, managing multiple proposals and deadlines simultaneously
- Proficiency with CRM systems (preferably Salesforce) and using it to manage pipeline / prospect data
- Ability to interpret and present information (budgets, impact data, reports) clearly to funders and internal stakeholders
- Ability to work both independently and in collaboration with senior staff, trustees and senior volunteers
- Knowledge of fundraising regulations, due diligence and GDPR
Personality Characteristics
- Proactive, self-starter with a solution focused approach
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable working in a dynamic environment
- High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy (important in proposals, budgets, follow-up)
- Strongly committed to the values, mission and ethos of The Churchill Fellowship
- Comfort meeting face‑to‑face and representing TCF externally
- Ability to meet deadlines under pressure and prioritise work effectively
- Collaborative, dependable and able to work with integrity
- Willingness to travel occasionally and work flexibly to meet funders.
Other
- Some UK based travel required for meetings, presentations etc
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word and Outlook
About our charity
Join us to support people-led change across the UK
We run the Churchill Fellowships, a unique programme that supports UK citizens to find new solutions worldwide for today’s most pressing challenges.
Every year we fund over 100 new Fellows to discover the latest ideas and best practice in any practical issue they care passionately about, anywhere in the world. The topics they explore cover every aspect of society and are often informed by their own lived experience. They meet leading practitioners, encounter cutting-edge projects and gather their findings in a published report. We help share their findings to inspire change in communities, sectors, and fields across the UK.
Fellows tell us that their Fellowship is life-changing, for themselves and for those who benefit from their global learning. These are dedicated and practical individuals with a strong vision of the change they want to see, the knowledge to progress it and the drive to make it happen. As a result, their impact is felt throughout the UK and many go on to be leaders in their fields.
Our unique approach has created a community of thousands of highly effective changemakers working on the frontlines of today’s key issues. At the heart of all this is a simple but enduring concept: we are empowering individuals to learn from the world and transform lives across the UK.
Working for The Churchill Fellowship
Detailed package, benefits and wellbeing package:
- Salary £45,000 per annum
- Hybrid working policy (minimum of 1-2 days per week in the office)
- 5 weeks holiday a year, with additional paid leave when the office closes over the Christmas Break
- 1 weeks paid leave for volunteering
- Non-contributory pension scheme with 10% employer contribution
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance
- Bike purchase salary sacrifice scheme (Cycle2Work)
We have embraced the benefits of working from home and at the same time, we value the contribution of face-to-face contact in building teamwork, collaborating with your colleagues, exchanging ideas and know-how, and for work efficiency. We therefore operate a hybrid working policy, where staff can work from home if they wish, however everyone is required to work in the office a minimum of 1 to 2 days a week with Tuesdays as the core day for regular whole team meetings.
Note: unfortunately, we are not currently in a position to offer sponsorship for visas and all applicants will need to have, and be able to prove, the right to work in the UK.
How to apply
Please submit your CV, along with a cover letter using this as an opportunity to tell us a bit more about who you are as a person. As a people centred, relational organisation, we want to understand how you as an individual are going to be a great fit for this role.
Recruitment Process
We hope to meet initially with as many candidates as possible, however where demand is unusually high, we may not be able to meet everyone.
If your skills and experience are relevant to the role, you will likely meet with a member of the HR Team to talk through any questions you may have, and for us to find out a bit more about you.
Once the advertising has closed, we will invite the shortlisted candidates to a formal in-person interview with the view to appointing the Finance Assistant as soon as possible after that.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are core to the values and ethos of the charity’s work across all activities. The Churchill Fellowship is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. Our office accommodation is accessible throughout.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.