Corpus Christi College aims to appoint an outstanding individual to the post of Director of Development and Alumni Relations. Corpus is the sixth oldest college in the University of Cambridge and one of the smallest, with 300 undergraduate and 200 postgraduate students, 60 Fellows and 120 staff. Corpus is known for its friendly atmosphere and its long tradition of academic excellence.
The Director of Development and Alumni Relations has overall responsibility for building, maintaining and enhancing the relations between the College and its five thousand alumni, its supporters, and other potential benefactors. The Director will take the lead in designing and implementing the College’s development strategy, and will manage the work of the Development Office. Priorities will include: developing and refreshing the pool of individual prospects; engaging with recent graduates and overseas alumni; and spearheading a major fund-raising campaign focused on widening participation and the provision of bursaries and studentships. The appointee will be elected a Fellow of the College, reflecting the seniority and significance of the post.
Candidates will be confident, outgoing and sociable, with the ability to relate to different audiences. They will be driven and able to demonstrate outstanding leadership, interpersonal, diplomatic, negotiation and communication skills. They should also be able to evidence success in establishing and achieving ambitious fund-raising targets. They must have a proven track-record of developing innovative strategies and implementing change. They must be supportive of the College’s academic mission and be committed to its core values of academic excellence, mutual support and respect. This is an exciting opportunity to bring new ideas and direction to the work of the Development Office.
The College has retained Minerva Executive Search to advise them. The successful candidate will be expected to take up their appointment no later than March 2021.
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- Remain conscious of the financial position of the College and be able to articulate how Development activity impacts the work of the institution now and into the future.
- Design, implement and coordinate a comprehensive donor relation and stewardship programme that promotes interaction with, and recognition of, donors at all levels in an appropriate and consistent way.
- Implement a strategic and visionary stewardship plan that will assist in the continuation of all donations from small regular donors to existing major donors.
- Assume key prospect management responsibilities to ensure that all current and prospective donors are stewarded appropriately to maximise their lifetime giving.
- Take responsibility for identifying and subsequent stewardship of Trusts and Foundations to solicit funds.
- Procure and oversee the effective delivery of an income of c. £500k plus per annum.
- Establish short- and long-term goals for development efforts, including fundraising strategies and building the case for support.
- Review, develop and implement the College’s fundraising plan.
- Work with the communications and alumni teams to ensure that a holistic communications strategy is agreed, funded and delivered annually for alumni development.
- Work with the alumni team to develop a plan to secure funds from alumni and through alumni relationships.
- Oversee and develop all development/fundraising/stewardship related content of print literature and digital communications over time.
- Identify and implement a plan to secure a £20m endowment.
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Actions for Nature Project Manager
Reference number: A0710920
Location: Flexible
Salary: Starting at £26,212 to £29,320 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract: Fixed Term until December 2023
This role presents a unique opportunity to play a leading part in an exciting new project to enable and empower people to take action for nature. Working in partnership with one of our major corporate partners, this project will inspire people to give nature a home where they live, such as in their gardens or on balconies, as well as helping people take a range of other actions to help tackle the nature and climate crisis.
Your role will help ensure that we build a robust delivery plan for a project with multiple workstreams, including the development of digital and non-digital tools and products, social science and behaviour change research, community empowerment activity and supporting communications.
By working together with key stakeholders, especially the Corporate Partnerships Manager and Action for Nature programme board members, you will ensure the successful operational delivery of the project; from risks and issues management through to the ongoing monitoring and reporting of key milestones, outputs and objectives.
We are looking for an outstanding candidate who can hit the ground running; someone with excellent communication skills who is highly organised, collaborative, creative, tenacious, and who has the gravitas and experience to unite people behind a common goal and to drive the project to a successful outcome for all stakeholders.
It's a great time to join the RSPB as we ramp up our ambition to help save nature through people and build momentum to help tackle the nature and climate crisis.
Closing date: 30 September 2020
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can download the role profile and application details.
No agencies please.
Racing Welfare is a national charity supporting all those working in and retired from the British horseracing and breeding industry. Following an exciting period of growth and development we are looking to appoint a Deputy Head of Welfare to support the Director of Welfare in order to deliver an effective and efficient welfare service to the horseracing industry.
The new post holder will have direct responsibility for a number of key welfare projects and will ensure successful delivery and development of these as well as being responsible for supervising, coaching and guiding the Regional Management Team. Reporting to the Director of Welfare you will have proven and demonstrable experience of safeguarding and supporting vulnerable people and will ensure that standards of excellence, best practice and efficiency are delivered through highly effective teams. It is essential that you have the ability to manage budgets, allocate resources, line manage, decision make and problem solve.
You will be a highly driven self-starter and an innovative, strategic thinker. It is essential that you have a keen interest and knowledge of the horseracing industry in addition to being passionate about improving well-being outcomes for people working in racing. You will be an excellent communicator across a range of stakeholder groups and will remain strategically aligned to the charity’s core objectives and purpose. This post can be home or office based or a combination of both and you should be willing to travel across the UK as part of the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Product Owner
Nature needs you. We have an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner to champion and lead a business intelligence and analytics strategy. As the largest nature conservation charity in the UK with over 1.2 million members, the organisation makes a real difference to the world we live in and they can’t do that without great people.
We're in curious times for which we need people with curiosity, who like to dig a bit deeper, have a strong focus to shape a better world and with a side hustle of needing to do something different with their work time.
Maybe you've felt you want to make the right contribution to the world in some way? If this is you, and you love data, or what it can tell us about the everyday decisions we make to help nature, then your curiosity is needed by our client in a delivery focused team with a strategic appetite to create richer business intelligence resources for the whole organisation.
Our client invites you to join us at the largest technical team in conservation.
Position: Product Owner - Business Intelligence
Location: Flexible, but with regular visits to HQ, Sandy, Bedfordshire
Salary: £34,643 - £38,632
Hours: 37.5 full-time, permeant
Benefits: Flexible working, 26 Days Annual Leave, Free access to our reserves, up to 20% discount off retail items in our shops. Free access to a confidential Employee Assistance programme that provides support and advice around financial, physical and mental health wellbeing. A substantial Learning and Development offer.
Closing date: 10th October
Interviews commencing week beginning: 19th October
About the Role
Working closely with technical and non-technical leads, analysts, users and suppliers, the Product Owner will significantly champion and lead a business intelligence and analytics strategy that is fit for purpose across data sets which include but not limited to membership, volunteer and supporter management, marketing, fundraising, conservation, web and social media, finance, HR and other workforce systems.
About You
As Product Owner you will build relationship with users and technical specialists to design and deliver a roadmap for the RSPB business intelligence that reflects the functional and strategic needs of the organisation.
You will have:
- The ability to evaluate existing service provision, keeping abreast of feedback and new developments to ensure appropriate developments and solutions to enhance and maximise service quality, efficiency and continuity
- Significant operational and /or technical knowledge data sciences, advanced excel, analytics platforms such as PowerBI, Business Objects, Cubes, SASS, R, Python, SQL or a combination of these.
- Experience working as a project manager, commissioning and overseeing delivery of substantial or complex work completed by other teams including Data Development, Data Operations & Technology Services and exposure to AGILE working.
- Application of in-depth knowledge and experience of business intelligence to provide advice/guidance to others or to address significant problems, some of which will be multi-disciplinary in nature.
- Experience of working with and influencing senior management.
- Experience of developing innovative ideas and potential solutions for further development
Other role you may have experience of could include: Digital Projects, Digital Project, Product Owner, Digital Product, Agile, Agile Team, Digital Project Lead, Digital Product Lead, Digital Coordinator, Junior Product Owner, Digital Product Owner, Digital Product Specialist, PowerBI, Business Objects, Cubes, SASS, R, Python, SQL.
As the CRM & Data Insight Lead you will take the lead in managing one of ACT’s most valuable assets, our CRM database and helping to maximise its value to our ambitious fundraising goals. This is an exciting time to be joining the team in this role, as we recently launched our new CRM – Donorfy – which means you’ll be able to help shape the way ACT uses this exciting new software, and help us to maximise the potential of this system to take our fundraising to the next level.
You’ll work closely with colleagues across all of the teams in ACT, from helping Fundraising colleagues to maximise the value of the CRM and data insights to their work, to working with colleagues in Finance to put in place solutions that create efficiency and drive up accuracy of reporting. In particular you’ll be working closely with the Direct Marketing Lead and the Head of Donor Care to support ambitious plans to significantly grow the number of supporters on our database and their lifetime values.
You’ll be playing a key role in helping the charity to meet its growing ambitions and challenges and helping to ensure that it can continue to support a world class hospital in delivering the very best patient care, research and treatment.
A full job description and Person Specification can be found on our website.
The closing date for applications is 9th October 2020, however we reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received or a successful candidate is found.
Addenbrookes Charitable Trust is an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce. We therefore positively encourage applications, regardless of age, race, religion & belief, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity or disability.
Health Safety and Environmental Advisor
Reference number: A0670920
Location: Central England (with flexibility to be home based)
Salary: Starting at £26,212 to £29,320 Per Annum
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
If you have a track record in health and safety management systems, and would like to apply your skills and experience in the diverse operational environments of the UK's leading nature conservation charity, this could be the opportunity for you.
We are seeking a committed, outgoing and enthusiastic individual to support The RSPB health, safety and environmental management systems across Central England with the flexibility to be home based.
The role will involve advising staff and volunteers on health, safety and environmental matters across the full range of our operations, including; stunning nature reserves with wetlands, woodland and a range of other outdoor spaces, membership recruitment, project delivery, retail and catering outlets, and formal office environments.
A knowledge of or an interest in nature conservation would be an advantage. The RSPB England reserve estate covers over 100 individual sites, with more than 60,000ha that are home to important habitats and wildlife. The Central England area includes some important wetland sites linked to Nature after Minerals
You will have a pragmatic and problem solving approach to health, safety and wellbeing, and be willing to learn how to deal with a wide range of issues in sometimes challenging and novel situations. You will be self-reliant, have good interpersonal skills, be IT literate and be willing and able to travel throughout Central England and elsewhere when required.
We are looking for at least a Technician Member of IOSH or equivalent looking to use your health and safety knowledge in new and challenging situations. Wellbeing is also of significant importance to our RSPB culture and an understanding of the principles of visitor risk management is highly desirable.
Closing date: 9 October 2020
Interview date: 19 October 2020
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply Now button to be directed to our website, where you can complete your application for this position.
No agencies please.
Head of Programmes and Partnerships
Our client is the largest wildlife conservation organisation in Europe, they are looking for a strong leader to establish and grow the movement for nature and climate.
With over one million members, they speak out for birds and wildlife, tackling the problems that threaten our environment.
Position: Head of Movement Building (internal title)
Location: Head office is Sandy, Bedfordshire, however the location can be entirely flexible as homeworking is available.
Salary: £48,848 - £54,321 per annum
Hours: Full time, permanent
Benefits: Flexible working, 26 Days Annual Leave, Free access to our reserves, up to 20% discount off retail items in our shops. Free access to a confidential Employee Assistance programme that provides support and advice around financial, physical and mental health wellbeing. A substantial Learning and Development offer.
Closing date: 11 October 2020
Interview date: 21 October 2020
About the role:
As Head of Programmes and Partnerships you will provide strategic leadership and contribute to the development and implementation of the charity’s programmes, by leading a specialist department and providing professional support to operational teams.
To tackle the nature and climate emergency more people need to feel enabled and empowered to act for nature. The charity needs to connect, empower and mobilise more people to save nature and support this movement to shape social, political and economic change. They need to put people at the heart of the mission to save nature, and that is what their ‘Saving Nature Through People’ strategy is all about. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in leading and implementing this strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Contribute to the charity’s strategy at a programme level by providing country/operational context and functional expertise and analysis
- Motivate and engage teams and external audiences
- Provide cross organisational leadership of change, programmes, projects and teams to deliver outcomes as required
- Develop high level, strategic and collaborative external and internal relationships with key stakeholders
- Develop, monitor and manage programme and function budgets
- Identify and manage potential or current financial, operational, legal, reputational and health and safety risks across function
- Prepare papers and reports for the charity’s governance including Council Committees, and contribute to the development of business metrics
- Act as an advocate with both internal and external audiences
About you:
As Head of Programmes and Partnerships you will be an effective, charismatic leader who can support and nurture the leadership of others and set up the Movement Building department to succeed. The successful candidate will passionately believe in enabling and empowering others and understand movements for change.
You will have experience of activating programmes and partnerships and navigating complex organisations to make things happen. You will have strong change leadership skills, and the ability to build networks and relationships across the movement.
With a portfolio of Campaigning, Community Empowerment and Education, Families and Youth teams, this is an exciting opportunity for you to help play a crucial role in facilitating many more people to save nature. If you have the energy, passion and leadership skills to do this we would love to hear from you.
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Head of Movement Building, Head of Charity Development, Head of Development, Development Director, Head of Community Empowerment, Head of Campaigns, Campaign Director, Head of Charity Operations, Head of Engagement, Head of Partnerships, Head of Brand and Communications, Head of Strategy etc.