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We're recruiting for an Engagement Lead, to work in our Innovation & Practice team.
As Engagement Lead you will play a central role in our team – developing, leading and managing significant projects for us, including citizens’ assemblies, citizens’ juries, deliberative workshops, and participatory processes. You will need to have a good understanding of deliberative processes, have excellent project leadership and project management skills, as well the ability to build and maintain good relationships with a wide variety of people, including members of the public, project partners, colleagues and decision-makers.
The role sits in the Innovation and Practice team that designs and delivers high quality practical engagement work leading to better decisions, more engaged citizens and helps address critical challenges of our society. We are constantly balancing high quality standards with innovation to ensure that we stay at the cutting edge and that our engagement processes break down entrenched inequalities of power.
You will be a proven project leader looking to make your next move and develop your leadership skills and profile in this interesting and important area of public participation work. We are particularly interested in candidates who have experience in the design and delivery of large scale deliberative engagement projects.
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Use your IT expertise to enable global mission. Join OMF International (UK) as IT Manager and lead secure, efficient systems that support gospel work.
This is an exciting opportunity to manage and develop the full IT infrastructure of a mission-focused organisation. You will provide hands-on support across hardware, software, networks, and cloud services, while ensuring GDPR compliance and system security. Based in Manchester, you’ll serve a diverse team of staff, members, and volunteers, delivering technical excellence while actively participating in OMF’s Christian community life.
If you thrive on managing change, solving complex problems, and want your skills to contribute to a global mission, we would love to hear from you.
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About the opportunity
Are you passionate about using data to create change for children and young people in education? We are looking for a Data and Insights Manager to lead the ongoing development of our Salesforce CRM and help us make the most of our data to achieve our charity mission.
At Action Tutoring, data is central to everything we do. With an evidence-based culture and impact at the centre of our strategy, gathering and analysing high-quality data is a key priority.
Our highly customised Salesforce database supports every aspect of our work—capturing and managing data from volunteers, pupils, schools, and tutoring sessions. As Data and Insights Manager, you will make sure our system remains fit for purpose and help turn data into meaningful insights that can inform decision-making.
Duties and responsibilities
Salesforce and systems development
- Collaborate with external Salesforce development consultants to continue building our system capabilities and design.
- Design and oversee the collection of stakeholder, tutoring delivery, quality assurance and evaluation data, working with colleagues to ensure data is collected in a timely, accurate and consistent manner.
Team leadership and support
- Line manage the Data Lead, ensuring their work is of high quality and they have clear development objectives.
- Plan and oversee training and support for the whole organisation on the effective use of Salesforce, developing their understanding of the purpose and value of data.
Data insights
- Support the Head of Impact and Quality to generate insights from data to inform evidence-based decision-making across departments, including through dashboards.
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Data governance
- Champion data security and GDPR compliance across the organisation, including contributing to the upkeep of privacy notices, responding to queries, and facilitating stakeholder GDPR rights.
- Any other reasonable tasks as per the request of the CEO.
About you (person specification)
Qualifications criteria:
- Right to work in the UK.
We are looking for some of the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others:
- Two or more years experience with Salesforce administration.
- Experience working with complex datasets in Excel (including data cleaning in preparation for import, export or analysis).
- Experience analysing and visualising quantitative data.
- Good understanding of GDPR compliance and processes.
- Able to design new processes that are scalable, impactful and user-focused.
- Experience managing projects effectively.
- Confident in communicating change to stakeholders at all levels.
- Creative and inquisitive about how technology and automation can improve efficiency.
- Committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Committed to the mission and values of Action Tutoring.
- Committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children.
You will be likely be more successful in this role if you have:
- Salesforce Administrator Certification (or on track to complete within the next six months).
- Line management experience.
- Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Experience using coding languages R, Python or SQL for data cleaning or analysis.
- Experience working in the charity or NGO sector.
Reports to: Head of Impact and Quality
Place of work: Flexible/hybrid. The candidate can be based anywhere in England. Our London office address is: 8-10, Fivefields, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH
Contract and hours: Permanent, full time contract (37.5 hours)
We offer flexible hours 9.30-4pm as core hours.
Application deadline: Sunday, July 13th, 2025
Interviews: Tuesday, July 22nd – Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Ideal start date: Monday, August 18th, 2025 (though we are flexible for the right candidate)
DBS requirement: All Action Tutoring staff must have an enhanced DBS check suitable for the child workforce.
If you don’t already have one, we’ll process one for you. Should you be aware of any incidents, cautions or convictions that would appear in a DBS check, please notify us when you apply.
For more information on the role and information about Action Tutoring, please see the attached job pack.
Registered Charity
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Award-winning national education charity working towards a world in which no child’s life chances are limited by their socio-economic background.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.