About us

Humane Society International/UK is a global animal protection organisation, striving for a better future for animals through advocacy, education, and hands-on programmes. HSI UK is a leading force for animal protection, with hundreds of thousands of supporters across the country. We are an effective voice for animals, with active programmes in wildlife protection, alternatives to animal experiments, and farm animal welfare. A small but effective team, HSI UK has big ambitions to create further positive change for animals both here in the UK and around the world.

About the position

This is an exciting opportunity for a fundraising professional specialised in high value giving to work as part of a global organisation. We are seeking a dynamic individual with more than 2 years’ experience in high value giving. This role will play a pivotal part in supporting the work of the Senior Major Gifts Manager in the UK and will have primary ownership of trusts and foundations fundraising in the UK market. You should have a good understanding of one of these key major gift areas; individuals, corporates and/or trusts and foundations.

The purpose of the Major Gifts Consultant is to deliver trust and foundation income and support all other areas of major gift fundraising in the UK market. This post will be managed by the Senior Major Gifts Manager.

This is a great position for someone wanting to learn and grow within major gift fundraising and be part of a global, friendly, and professional team.

Key areas of responsibility will include: 

• Managing and building our trust and foundation portfolio, including identifying and researching prospects. 

• Helping to develop solicitation and cultivation plans for all major donors and ensuring these are updated in our CRM system. 

• Developing strategic partnerships with a mid-value companies to deliver both a financial and strategic contribution to the charity. 

• Steward donors and prospects that you are account manager for. 

• Writing creative fundraising material to support trust applications and major donor/corporate pitches to secure funding.

• Develop reports for high value donors, corporates and trusts as required. 

About you

Our successful candidate will be a dedicated, positive and proactive fundraising professional with a proven track record of achieving revenue growth, ideally within the third sector. An excellent communicator with experience and understanding of the spectrum of individual giving channels, you will possess a good understanding of donor care, with the skills and experience necessary to acquire and cultivate meaningful relationships with major donors. You will have a good understanding and experience of what it takes to make successful applications to trusts and foundations, and to build on those successes where possible. You will have an eye for detail and enjoy being part of a team but equally able to drive your own success forward.

If you want to use your skills to make a difference and be part of a global team, we want to hear from you! 

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter via the CharityJob website by Sunday 24th January 2021.

Do you have experience of working with children and young people and do you understand the challenges they face?  Are you passionate about empowering young people to have their voices heard?

If so, you could be part of an exciting new project that brings positive change to young people’s health and social care services in Gloucestershire.

Healthwatch Gloucestershire is the county’s independent health and care champion. We exist to make sure that local health and social care services are shaped by the people who use them. We want to ensure that children and young people from across the county are listened to and heard by those responsible for health and social care services in Gloucestershire. 

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Youth Engagement Officer to lead our new Young Listeners project. You will recruit, train and support a team of 10 volunteer Young Listeners, to design the project and engage with other children and young people through a peer-to-peer approach. It will be a varied and interesting job and no two days will be the same.

We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic people-person, with a can-do attitude, who will enjoy being part of a small and dynamic team.  

In return we offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous contributory pension scheme, comfortable office accommodation in Quedgeley and flexible working practices.

If this sounds like you, please visit our website for more information.

Alternatively, if you are interested in working on this project as a consultant, please get in touch.

About the role

The Youth Engagement Officer is an exciting and important role to engage young people across Gloucestershire.  The role will lead an exciting new Healthwatch Gloucestershire Young Listeners project which aims to ensure the voice of children and young people in the county are listened to and heard by the people who buy, plan and run health and social care services in Gloucestershire .  A team of 10 young people will be recruited to become Young Listeners who will then go out and engage with and listen to other young people on a variety of topics.  The post holder will recruit, train and support the planning and delivery of activities to engage other young people in Gloucestershire.  The post holder will work with the wider Healthwatch Gloucestershire team to deliver the project.

Job Summary

You will be required to:

• Project manage the project
• Recruit, train and support a team of 10 Young Listeners
• Work with the EC Communication team to design materials – logos, leaflets and images – to promote the project
• Identify opportunities for Young Listeners to carry out engagement working with groups and organisations across Gloucestershire
• Work with the Young Listeners to design their own engagement activities and data collection methods
• Provide support to the Young Listeners to carry out a minimum of 100 listening’s
• Analysis the data to identify key messages and recommendations for commissioners and providers.
• Work with the Young Listeners to report on their findings, e.g. video, audio presentation.
• Produce final report
• Monitor the project and on a monthly basis provide an update including case studies as required

Closing date: January 31st, 2021

Location:                                 Bristol, UK

Contract:                                 Full-time 12-month fixed term, with possible extension

Salary:                                     £27,500 - £29,500 per annum depending on experience plus benefits

About Action for Conservation

We are at a critical moment in our earth’s history, and it’s never been more important to empower every young person to fight for their future and the future of the planet. Action for Conservation is an innovative young charity using pioneering approaches to inspire the next generation of environmental leaders. We work with young people from diverse backgrounds to build a youth movement committed to the earth.

About the role

This is an exciting role for an experienced manager who shares our passion for youth-led solutions to the climate and environmental crisis. The Programme Manager will work closely with the Head of Programmes to lead and expand our core programmes in South West England and Wales, grow and mentor a regional delivery team and support with other emerging areas of our work. You will act as an educator, role model and mentor to young people, whilst demonstrating strong, visible and inspiring leadership within the organisation.

If you feel you would make the most of an opportunity to shape an exciting young charity and have a positive impact on young people’s lives and the future of our planet, then we want to hear from you.

Why work with us?

You’ll be joining a young, mission-driven team who truly love what they do. Working with young people is always rewarding, sometimes challenging and never boring, and you’ll get to experience first-hand the positive impact that our work has. It goes without saying that we work hard, but we also maintain a positive work-life balance and spend lots of time outdoors. You’ll receive 33 days annual leave including public holidays, 4 paid annual volunteer days, quarterly team ‘action days’, away weekends, access to flexible working, training, development and career progression opportunities and a work place pension.

Our commitment to diversity

Diversity is one of our core values as an organisation and we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued and there is equality of opportunity. We also recognise that the climate and ecological crisis disproportionately impacts minority and/or marginalised communities – yet these voices are largely underrepresented in the sector. We therefore encourage people from backgrounds currently underrepresented in the environmental movement and on our team, including people of colour, disabled people and LGBT+ people, to apply.

Our commitment to safeguarding

We’re committed to ensuring that robust child safeguarding practices are seen as the norm, so that safeguarding becomes everybody’s business. We expect all staff, volunteers and partners to protect the young people we work with from harm and abide by our Child Safeguarding Policy. Prior to appointment, the selected candidate will be required to provide two references and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be carried out.

How to apply

For more information, please download the Job Description and Application form and read more about Action for Conservation. 

1. Your CV, including contact details for two referees. References will only be contacted after interview and prior to appointment.

2. Completed Application Form

3. A video recording (max 1 min) of yourself answering the question: What do you perceive to be the biggest barrier to young people becoming involved in environmental action?

This role is situated within the Campaign to End Loneliness, which is hosted by the Centre.

The Communications Manager is responsible for raising the public profile of the Campaign, across a broad range of broadcast, print, digital and social media channels to promote our work and reputation. Overarching role objective is to provide management and coordination of communications activity using established communications channels that are central to the delivery of the Campaign’s evidence, community and action related goals.

Please see the attached Job Description for more information on the Campaign to End Loneliness, role responsibilities and essential criteria.

A number of our staff work flexibly and/or remotely. We are open to various possible working arrangements for the candidate who is the right fit for the role.

About Global Witness

It has never been a deadlier time for land and environmental defenders to protect their community, way of life, or environment.  At Global Witness we’re campaigning alongside them, making sure their voices are heard and taking their fight to the corridors of power and the board rooms of corporations.

About the role

As an Investigator you’ll lead, deliver and publish high quality and ground-breaking investigations to highlight companies involved in abuses and violations of the rights of land and environmental defenders and their communities.

By working closely with other team members as well as across our advocacy, legal and communications teams throughout the process, you’ll help advocate targets to ensure that these investigations result in real world systemic change and support our vision to protect the world’s climate-critical tropical forests and the people defending them. 

About you

You’ll have a track record in delivering targeted investigations, and you’ll be able to use your ability to cultivate a range of sources as well as analyse finance, corporate structures and ownership data.  Your investigative techniques and meticulous fact-checking will be key in this role.

Naturally you’ll have the verbal communication and writing skills to run your investigations from concept to publishing the final report, collaborating all the time with internal teams and external contacts along the way.

Working for us

We aim to be a diverse and inclusive place to work.  We value new perspectives, original ideas and different ways of working. We believe that different views and experiences improve the way we do our work. We do our best to make our jobs accessible to all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or identity.

We offer an excellent benefits package including a competitive salary and 25 days holiday (exc. public holidays), private medical insurance and flexible working arrangements.

This role involves travel to remote locations, including (with appropriate training and risk mitigation) potentially hostile environments.

To apply

Please send in your CV and a covering letter which tells us why you’d be a great fit for this role, taking into account each of the person specification requirements with Investigator LED in the subject heading, and where you saw the role advertised, by 9am 15 February 2021. We encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.

Location:

Home-based until Covid-19 restrictions lift. Then at least one day a week office in central Oxford.

The organisation:

The Right Ethos recruitment consultants is managing this recruitment assigment for Global Canopy. GC is an innovative environmental organisation that targets the market forces destroying nature.

The role:

To lead and implement thought leadership strategies including considerable time spent writing, commissioning, editing and pitching of editorial content in particular Op-eds and LinkedIn posts, as well as developing briefings for speaking opportunities.

To coordinate communications outputs across the organisation, have responsibility for the day-to-day scheduling of the organisation’s communications and deputise when needed for your Director.

To guide and manage three, four and potentially more as the communications team continues to grow.

The candidate:

A brilliant writer, with a great nose for a story, passionate about delivering high quality content in a busy setting. And a track record in relevant sectors such as sustainability, climate change, and international development; and/or with target groups including companies, financial institutions, governments, civil society and the media.

Experience of building relationships at all levels, and partnering with others to leverage impact. Great emotional intelligence – knowing how to get the best out of others. Outstanding at building positive relationships: working collaboratively, creating buy-in.

Entrepreneurial and adaptable: able to respond flexibly to a fast-moving internal and external context, and to get new ideas off the ground. Excellent judgement: able to listen to a range of voices, and bring a considered and pragmatic point of view to decision- making based on evidence and experience.

Deadline:  9am Thursday 4th February 2021

Senior Co-ordinator (Part Time - 3 Days per Week)

Central London, WC1

Deadline: 31st January 2021

Please note that early applications are encouraged as IIED reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate before the deadline.

About Us

We are the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), an independent research organisation that aims to deliver positive change on a global scale.

We provide original, rigorous research that helps to drive progress, support sustainable development and protect the environment. We identify local solutions that can work at scale and introduce these to global forums.

We are now looking for a part-time Senior Co-ordinator to join the Human Settlements Group at IIED, which has worked on urban environmental and poverty issues since the 1970s. The group aims to support more equitable and sustainable development in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries.

Your Benefits

- Salary of £38,765 - £42,683 pro rata

- Comprehensive benefits package

This is an exceptional opportunity for a co-ordinator or support professional with a background in project or programme finance and project management to progress their career with our international charity.

Joining us means joining the people that make change happen. The work we do within our Human Settlements Group has been changing the face of urban living in low- and middle-income nations for decades.

For our work, we have won recognition the world over as well as prestigious awards, but for us, that isn’t what it’s about. We know there’s still work to do and we have strategies and projects underway to keep us pushing to make the world a safer, healthier, happier place. We now need you to join us and help to continue fighting against the urban crisis faced by so many across the world.

Your Role

As a Senior Co-ordinator, you will provide comprehensive co-ordination support to the Human Settlements Group which encompasses research project management, financial management and administrative support. '

Primarily involved in the management, co-ordination and financial management of projects, you will also be involved in some fundraising and business development activities and will contribute to a positive environment across our institution.

Specifically, you will:

- Oversee a portfolio of complex projects of work

- Monitor the progress of work to ensure milestone achievement and contractual adherence

- Liaise with donors and subcontractors as required

- Support donor and project reporting activities

- Complete financial reporting for projects

- Manage the budget and finances for your portfolio

- Oversee  and manage contracts for all aspects of projects

- Act as bid manager for funding proposals

About You

To be considered as a Senior Co-ordinator, you will need:

- Relevant work experience in co-ordination and programme support roles

- Experience of the different phases of the project cycle, especially budget preparation, monitoring and reporting

- Experience of managing a portfolio of complex, multi-layered budgets and financial planning, reporting and the monitoring of accounts

- Experience of fundraising

- Knowledge of budget and financial management in the international development sector

- Thorough knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), with advanced knowledge of Excel

- A relevant first degree or equivalent level of education

Other organisations may call this role Programme Co-ordinator, Project Co-ordinator, Junior Project Manager, Programme Support Co-ordinator, or Project Finance Co-ordinator.

This is a part-time role working 3 days per week (circa 21 hours).

This position is NOT opened to sponsorship.

Interviews will be held week commencing 15th February 2021

Webrecruit and the International Institute for Environment and Development are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Senior Co-ordinator, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

37.5 hours per week
Location Flexible (home, Bristol office or London office) with regular travel across UK

Our training programme significantly improves the ability of domestic abuse professionals and other frontline responders and organisations, including police, children’s social care staff, and corporate HR and community teams, to identify and respond to domestic abuse and closely linked issues. We take a holistic approach, looking at the whole family and the connections between them to keep families safe sooner. We offer a whole range of training products, including accredited professional training (e.g. Idva, Ypva), accreditation of specialist DA services (Leading Lights), and bespoke services for public, voluntary and commercial organisations.

Our training programme across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aims to create:

• user value: with learners who attend our training feeling more confident and better equipped to fulfil their role
• social value: with measures showing professionals who attend our training provide more effective interventions for those who experience abuse
• financial value: responsible for generating around a third of SafeLives’ annual incom

As the Senior Training Lead for SafeLives, you will help shape the SafeLives Training and Development programme, with responsibility for developing, delivering and continuing a range of courses from within our suite of training products, in collaboration with our team of Lead Trainers, Training Coordinators and our Associates. You will work to ensure that SafeLives’ training programmes are in line with our strategic priorities and are of the highest quality, including course development and delivery with external partners and associate trainers.

You will combine teamwork with working independently on a day-to-day basis at home, in SafeLives’ Bristol or London office and at training locations.

You will be responsible for leading and driving forward SafeLives Responding Well cultural change programmes, in particular our delivery of the DA Matters programme for police, developed in partnership with the College of Policing.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the performance of professionals within the domestic abuse and related sectors as well as the response of other frontline or first responders in the public, voluntary or commercial sectors, and thus help address the risks faced by victims of domestic abuse across the UK.

Benefits include a generous package including 25 days' holiday a year plus public holidays, employee pension scheme with up to 4% employer contribution, childcare voucher scheme, 365 days a year access to Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle2Work scheme, flexible working

If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form.

Closing date: Monday 8th February 2021 at 9am.

SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all, please see our job description for full details.

No agencies please.

Position:  Programmes Coordinator (Temporary)

Location:  London

Status:  Full-time, temporary (9 months, with a possibility of extending to 12 months)

Reports to:  Chief Programmes Officer (CPO)

Deadline to Apply:  28 January 2021

I. Position Summary:

The Programmes Coordinator provides extensive support to the Chief Programmes Officer (CPO) and the wider Programmes Department. Key responsibilities include providing support to the CPO with scheduling, travel, expense reports, as well as administering critical aspects of Malala Fund’s Programmes Department, project managing special initiatives, facilitating departmental coordination (including meeting management), providing logistical support for physical and virtual meetings with grantees and programme participants and corresponding with internal and external parties.

Excellent communication skills, time and priority management, strong attention to detail and discretion are essential for this role.

II.  Responsibilities:

Executive Support 

• Plans and coordinates diary scheduling for the Chief Programmes Officer (CPO).

• Compiles and helps prepare pre-read documents, interview briefs and trip information to ensure the CPO is well prepared for all meetings and events. 

• Manages critical deadlines and special projects for the CPO to ensure smooth implementation.

• Supports other members of the department’s Senior Leadership Team with logistical support for special projects. 

• Provides logistical support for travel, including booking air travel, hotels, visas and preparing expense reports. 

• Performs other administrative functions as necessary to best facilitate the CPO’s ability to effectively lead the Programmes Department and support Malala Fund’s Executive Leadership Team. 

Departmental Administration and Coordination

• Manages the Programmes team’s meeting schedule and agenda, takes notes, tracks departmental decisions and action items and prioritises conflicting needs to follow projects through to successful completion. Works cross-departmentally to ensure coordination across projects.

• Builds, maintains and manages excellent relationships with all members of the Programmes and Executive Leadership Team, grantees and other stakeholders. 

• Leads on logistics for group events and supports the Programmes Team in trip scheduling and event logistics, including booking travel and securing visas. 

• Coordinate and administer all departmental contracts, invoices, translations and consultant recruitment.

• Ensures key Programmes contacts are captured and recorded in a Salesforce database. 

• Compiles Programmes data as written summaries for internal and external stakeholders. 

• Helps facilitate onboarding of new Programmes Team staff members. 

Programmes Support

• As directed by the department’s Senior Leadership Team, project-manages projects for the Programmes department to ensure quality and timely delivery of objectives. 

• Develops and implements streamlined processes for furthering efficiencies in team systems.

• Conducts desk research as necessary to advance programme development and expansion. 

• Provides scheduling support to senior members of the team as required. 

Organisational Culture

• Upholds the values of Malala Fund.

• Actively contributes to making Malala Fund a diverse and equitable workplace through inclusive practice and openness to different perspectives, cultures and ideas. 

• Maintains behaviour and conduct that uphold the highest standards for safeguarding, professionally and personally.

• Acts as a role model for a ‘learning organisation’ culture by seeking insight and using problems as opportunities to learn.

III. About the Ideal Candidate 

Skills and Knowledge (Essential)

• Experience managing communications for high-level political, business and non-profit officials in the UK and/or the US and preferably internationally.

• Experience handling sensitive and confidential information with the highest level of discretion.

• Familiarity of project management, including planning, coordination and monitoring. 

• Experience planning and managing events, including facilities and external vendor contracts. 

• Experience managing complicated domestic and international logistics – ideally with experience securing travel visas.

Skills and Knowledge (Desirable)

• Formal certification in project management such as PRINCE2 or similar.

Experience and Qualifications (Essential)

• Superior organisation, prioritisation and project management skills with high attention to detail.

• Resourcefulness and ability to work independently and with excellent judgment, taking ownership of a wide range of responsibilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

• Availability to occasionally travel both domestically and internationally as needed.

• Pre-existing authorisation to work in the United Kingdom (given temporary nature of position).

Experience and Qualifications (Desirable)

• Experience of operating in international settings, especially any of Malala Fund’s programmatic countries.

• Experience  with any of the following would be a plus: budget management, large event management, or travel security protocols. 

Behaviours

• Strong commitment to Malala Fund’s mission, purpose and values.

• Strong commitment to gender equality, racial justice and other social justice issues. 

• Strong commitment to professional development and continued learning. 

• Excellent team player with ability to work independently and in collaboration with colleagues at all levels across departments and external stakeholders. 

IV. About Malala Fund

Registered as a public charity in the U.K. and U.S., Malala Fund is working toward a world where all girls can learn for 12 years and lead without fear. We advocate for resources and policy changes needed to give all girls a secondary education. The girls we serve have high goals for themselves — and we have high expectations for leaders who can help them. We invest in developing country education leaders and frontline organizations — the people who best understand girls in their communities — in regions where most girls are missing out on secondary school. We amplify girls’ voices. Malala Fund is building a movement of young education activists who, like Malala, speak truth to power around the world.
 

V. How to Apply

Before 28 January 2021, please submit your resume and covering letter, outlining how you meet the requirements of the role, through the “Programmes Coordinator” position on Malala Fund’s hiring page.

Please note that due to the very high number of applications we receive when positions are posted, we are only able to respond directly to candidates with whom we wish to move forward in the interview process.

Malala Fund is an inclusive organisation and welcomes applications from under-represented and intersectional groups including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities. We are seeking people from different backgrounds, cultures, age, experience and identity, to provide a wide range of experience, ideas, views and insights into the strategy, policies, culture and ambitions of Malala Fund.

Malala Fund is committed to ensuring the safety of those involved in our work. Our first priority is protecting everyone who comes in direct or indirect contact with our organisation. Malala Fund has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse and exploitation by any of our staff, representatives or partners. We commit to ensuring that those who work with Malala Fund or on our behalf are able to work in an environment that is free from harm. To this end, Malala Fund reserves the right to conduct background checks on prospective and current employees.

Role purpose:

This role will work closely with all parts of the operations, communications, international and fundraising teams to drive, develop and deliver great quality content (both from the field and in the UK) for use by our fundraising and communications team in the UK and around the world.

Working with the Brand & Content Manager and wider team, the successful candidate will help deliver projects to bring the brand alive and support our fundraising, communications, international and operations teams to work within brand guidelines.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a creative talent, with excellent attention to detail. With a focus on regularly producing high quality video edits, written content and editing and curating compelling photographs, you must be highly proficient in Adobe creative suite and be able to demonstrate excellent copywriting / scriptwriting skills. You will also be a great relationship manager – particularly working closely with our operations team and operations partners.

It is also a requirement of this role to have a working knowledge of Premier Pro, Indesign, Photoshop and After Effects. With a strong creative approach, you’ll be able to pick up new ideas and concepts. The role will work across all content disciplines with a particular focus on the brand and helping others to make content effectively within brand guidelines.

The successful candidate will have experience in practical photography and film. You will need to be able to confidently pick up a camera and capture ShelterBox footage as well as being a passionate and proficient editor. This role will be required to deploy in both major disasters and pro-active content trips in the field and the UK – gathering content themselves and supporting external freelancers – once the necessary pre-deployment training has been completed and our teams are safe to travel again.

You will be self-motivated, with a can-do approach and able to confidently manage multiple projects across a variety of teams. You will be flexible in supporting the wider team, thinking strategically, with an ability to focus on both long and short-term objectives.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

Brand

• Help support and train the wider organisation to effectively create content within ShelterBox brand guidelines.
• Support the delivery of an online brand hub and updated brand guidelines.
• Support the Brand & Content Manager and Head of Brand & Content to develop a purpose led brand.
• Support a small roster of freelance creatives to adhere to brand guidelines when developing materials and assets and to stay abreast of latest brand developments.
• Help drive brand storytelling across the organisation.

Content gathering and training

Day-to-day roles

• Act as the main point of contact for fundraising, communications and international teams looking for content. Advise and create content briefs to deliver across projects.
• Work closely with the operations team to highlight content gathering opportunities and ensure we are exploring all options for great storytelling across all our live deployments.
• Develop and deliver quality content training (online and in-person) for ShelterBox staff, ShelterBox Response Teams and partners (within GDPR, consent and ethical guidelines).
• Maintain regular verbal and written contact with teams in the field to ensure that they are optimising content gathering opportunities, to provide strategic or technical support and to maintain a strong working relationship with teams.
• Review and develop content gathering processes as part of post-deployment processes and apply a continual improvement approach to ensure we’re constantly optimising our ways of working in an iterative way.
• Identify opportunities for deploying with freelancers and complete preparation processes with support from Brand & Content Manager and operations.

Deployment and UK content gathering

• Gather case studies and interviews and shoot photography and video on deployment and in the UK.
• Deploy to gather content or train partners - dependent on funding and strategic need. At times this will involve taking freelancers on agreed trips. Note: Deploying in major disasters or to partner organisations may involve operating within ERA (enhanced risk assessment) areas so role will need to be HEAT (Hostile environment awareness training) trained.

Content production

• Deliver content projects from initial briefing through to final concept working with teams across the organisation.
• Support the team to provide content for digital channels – working to weekly/fortnightly editorial meeting outcomes.
• Use raw material gathered to produce engaging content with particular focus on video for digital.
• Produce and edit film, audio and photography. Write and edit copy with digital focus but also for fundraising and communications.
• Ensure all content follows the ShelterBox brand guidelines and tone of voice. This includes feeding back to teams and agencies on projects.
• Ensure all content follows sign-off processes.

Content administration

• Manage and update Assetbank (our photo library) – or any other content sharing platform.
• Act as the key point of communication with Assetbank – working with ShelterBox IT to make sure stakeholders are able to access content.
• Update key stakeholders with weekly/monthly content round ups to ensure people are using the most recent assets.
• Help to manage our ShelterBox studio and photography, film and audio equipment for staff and volunteers.

Planning and team working

• Be an integral part of project planning.
• Use audience insights to inform plans.
• Offer knowledge of best practice and innovations from other organisations and sectors.
• Support the measurement-based approach of the Brand & Content team by contributing to monthly reporting as well as spotting trends and opportunities.
• Help to develop and implement a content strategy.
• Any other specific projects given by the Brand & Content manager.

About us

Humane Society International/UK is a global animal protection organisation, striving for a better future for animals through advocacy, education, and hands-on programmes. HSI UK is a leading force for animal protection, with hundreds of thousands of supporters across the country. We are an effective voice for animals, with active programmes in wildlife protection, alternatives to animal experiments, and farm animal welfare. A small but effective team, HSI UK has big ambitions to create further positive change for animals both here in the UK and around the world.

About the position

We are looking for an experienced relationship-focused major gifts manager to join our UK team and drive forward ambitious growth plans for HSI UK, increasing our income from existing revenue streams, namely trust and foundations, corporates and high net worth individuals. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a fundraising professional specialised in high value giving to work as part of a global organisation. We are seeking a dynamic individual with more than 5 years’ experience in high value giving and a track record of developing and delivering significant five figure gifts. This role is responsible for corporate, trusts and foundations as well as high net worth individuals. You should have a deep understanding of one or more of these key areas and be skilled in building donor journeys and managing income pipelines and budgets.

Reporting directly to HIS’s Senior fundraising Director UK/EU, this maternity cover post will work closely with colleagues in Philanthropy teams in HSI’s Washington DC headquarters, in order to deliver a coherent global fundraising approach, optimising opportunities and maximising results for our animal protection programmes around the world. The position is supported by a part time Major Gifts Consultant. 

Key areas of responsibility will include: 

1. Develop and deliver Major Gift (institutions, corporations, and high net worth individuals) fundraising, to generate funds for our global animal protection programmes.

2. Acquire, develop and maintain relationships with new high-value prospect, leading to ongoing financial support. Initiate, manage, and develop relationships with corporations, trusts, and foundations.

3. Identify and qualify new prospects in order to meet set income targets. 

4. Develop and produce compelling and accurate cases for support for HSI’s campaigns and projects. Liaise with international colleagues to prepare tailored fundraising documents including grant applications and project proposals, and other supporting materials as required. 

5. Ensure provision of tailored updates to high value donors, including managing any specific conditions attached to grants or donations.

6. Manage the major gifts consultant to ensure all work is delivered in time and to budget. 

7. Work collaboratively with colleagues to manage comprehensive information in donor records, ensuring compliance with all relevant data protection and privacy regulations and adhering to best practice guidelines from the Fundraising Regulator. 

8. Oversee institutional funding and major gift budget expenditure and income.

About you

Our successful candidate will be a confident, positive and proactive fundraising professional with a proven track record of achieving revenue growth, ideally within the third sector. An excellent communicator with experience and understanding of the spectrum of individual giving channels, you’ll possess a good understanding of donor care, with the skills and experience necessary to acquire and cultivate meaningful relationships with major donors, and you’ll have demonstrable history of success raising five figure gifts. You’ll have a good understanding and experience of what it takes to make successful applications to trusts and foundations, and to build on those successes where possible. You’ll have an eye for detail but also be able to see and analyse the big picture, continually applying learnings in a positive feedback loop to improve donor journeys and increase return on investment. 

If you want to use your skills to make a difference and be part of a global team, we want to hear from you! 

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter via the CharityJob website by Sunday 24th January 2021.

Leap Confronting Conflict is looking for an IT and Database Senior Officer to provide our growing charity with ICT infrastructure support. This role is essential to the success of the organisation; primarily through excellent  provision of a broad range of internal IT support and expertise, also through the involvement in a variety of system change projects that work to improve our efficiencies and the digitisation of our operations and delivery.

Leap has recently invested in a Salesforce redevelopment project and this will be an opportunity to co-ordinate the implementation of training and new process development in this area.

This role will also manage relationships with a range of external consultants and suppliers, and as part of the Finance and Resources team providing organisation wide support.

This is a permanent part time role of 21 hours per week and will be managed by Leap’s Director of Finance and resources. We are keen to encourage flexible working of these hours across the week, specifically to enable provision of daily IT support.

Production Editor

The College is looking for an enthusiastic and creative individual with an exceptional eye for detail. This a fantastic opportunity to work across a variety of publications and platforms in a friendly and high-performing team, which is involved in the wider communications strategy for the College. 

The Production Editor plays a vital role in sub-editing and proofreading for both print and digital outputs, as well as promoting editorial standards and house style. An in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Word and Adobe Creative Cloud, including InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, is essential.

The Publishing and Digital team deliver across a wide variety of projects, often running simultaneously, so it is essential you have strong organisational skills, experience in planning production schedules, and a proactive and positive attitude.

Pathology is at the heart of modern healthcare. Pathologists work to prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor diseases and are involved in the diagnosis of disorders affecting every organ of the body, from before birth to after death. The majority of tests requested by doctors will be performed and interpreted by a clinical scientist or medically qualified pathologist. 

The Royal College of Pathologists is a professional membership organisation with over 11,000 members who are doctors and scientists working in hospitals, universities and laboratories in the UK and overseas. We work with pathologists at every stage of their career – from setting curricula, organising training and running exams, to approving job descriptions, publishing best-practice guidance and providing continuing professional development. 

We offer attractive staff benefits including 25 days annual leave rising with length of service, an employee discount scheme, season ticket and gym membership loans, as well as a defined benefit company pension scheme.  The College values diversity, welcoming applications for all members of society.

To apply, please complete the attached supporting information form and email it with your application via the link.

Interviews will be held on the 4 and 5 February 2021.

Please note that all staff are currently working remotely and the interviews will be carried out by video.

Internews are exclusively partnering with Robertson Bell to recruit their Finance Coordinator role on a permanent basis.

Following a recent period of rapid growth and expansion, Internews are now looking to recruit this key role.

The Finance Coordinator will be responsible for a variety of tasks across team including ensuring smooth operations between Internews Europe and its Related parties. The role will support both Corporate and Project finance tasks, as well as assume responsibility for key areas of Corporate reporting.

About Internews

Internews is an international non-profit organisation whose mission is to empower local information providers worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.

Internews provides communities the resources to produce local news and information with integrity and independence. With global expertise and reach, Internews trains both media professionals and citizen journalists, supports business development strategies for the sector and helps establish policies needed for open access to information. Internews programmes create platforms for dialogue and enable informed debate, which bring about social and economic progress.

Internews’ commitment to research and evaluation creates effective and sustainable programs, even in the most challenging environments. Internews operates internationally, with administrative centres in Arcata, California; Washington DC; and London, UK; as well as regional hubs in Bangkok and Nairobi.

Formed in 1982, Internews has worked in more than 90 countries, and currently has offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.

Our commitment to a culture of belonging

Internews is passionate about our core values and about supporting positive change in the world. We pride ourselves on our commitment to innovation and flexibility. We believe that diverse teams are strong teams, and work to support an ethic of belonging, dignity, and justice for all people. Our current team includes a mix of genders, parents and non-parents, the self-taught, and people of multiple races, nationalities, ages, sexual orientations, and socio-economic backgrounds. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage candidates of all races, genders, ages, abilities, orientations, ethnicities, and national origins to apply, and actively welcome those with alternative backgrounds and experiences.

The key responsibilities are as follows:

• Monthly review of financial records, ensuring the completeness of records and reconciled balances:
  • Balance Sheet reconciliations
  • Partner/Sub-grantee reconciliations
  • Regular Balance sheet reconciliations
• Supervision and management of organisational timesheets.
• Oversight for Internews Europe’s key financial relationships with its sister companies, including preparing monthly reconciliations and allocations, providing financial accounting support and regularly liaising with key stakeholders to manage relationships.
• Work closely with the Audit Manager to provide support in funder audits as required.
• Provide efficient delivery and support of periodical assignments such as annual budgeting, cashflow reporting and year-end statutory tasks.
• Provide invaluable support in the creation of new policies.
• Play a significant role in supporting the migration from Quick Books to Unit 4 ERP. 

The successful candidate will have:

• Made significant progress on working towards a professional accountancy qualification (ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA).
• A minimum of five years’ experience of working in a fast-paced finance department.
• Strong experience preparing balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ideally, previous experience working within an NGO. However, candidates without this are still strongly encouraged to apply.
• Previous experience assisting on management and/or financial accounts.
• Good Excel skills, including vlookups, SUMIFS and Pivot Tables.
• Proven experience in working across diverse teams and multi-cultural environments.
• Good understanding of other Microsoft Windows applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven multi-tasking skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

CVs are being reviewed on a daily basis with first stage screening interviews commencing as early as 14th January. Please submit your application ASAP with our exclusive agent Robertson Bell to avoid disappointment.