Blood Cancer UK is looking for a Head of Digital Services to lead our digital products and develop a product driven approach across the organisation for a 12-month fixed term contract.

We want to reach as many people affected by blood cancer as possible and to provide the best possible digital products and services. This is more important than ever, given the impact that Covid-19 has had on our community.

This is an exciting opportunity for an engaging, experienced and driven Product Lead, Website Manager or Digital Marketing Manager who is seeking an opportunity to progress their career and make a positive difference in the lives of those affected by blood cancer.

If you think this position is right for you, we welcome your application in the form of your current cv and a cover letter outlining how your skills and experience match the requirements of this role.

The closing date for this exciting opportunity is:

9am on Thursday 18 June 2020.

Please note that all applications will be reviewed on receipt and if a successful candidate is appointed, we may bring forward the closing date of this role at our discretion

Industrial animal agriculture is at the root of many of the most pressing global issues of our time, from climate change and global hunger, to increased disease risk and poor animal welfare. 

The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) is at the forefront of the movement to use food technology to replace the products of industrial animal agriculture with plant-based, fermentation-derived and cultivated alternatives. Please check out our U.S. affiliate’s website (gfi [dot] org) and read the 2019 Year in Review (gfi [dot] org/2019) to find out more about who we are and what we do. 

We are at an exciting stage in our growth and are looking for a Communications Manager to join our team. For more information about this role, please check out the job brochure: shorturl.at/JW367.

How You Will Make a Difference 

You will lead on planning and delivering impact across the entire spectrum of communications disciplines, including media and public relations, brand marketing, digital and social media, and the production of content and materials. Your ‘North Star’ will be to advance the alternative proteins sector across Europe, and to ensure that GFI Europe is the go-to thought leader within the sector. As our first communications hire in our growing team, you will be responsible for:

• Developing and executing a strategic communications plan for GFI Europe.

• Work closely with our Managing Director on developing and executing an impactful public relations programme, including writing and placing press releases, op-eds, articles and blogs, etc, to deliver and shape positive coverage for GFI Europe and the alternative proteins sector. 

• Developing a clear, impactful narrative and key messages, and delivering these across all communications channels. 

• Building relationships with journalists in the fields of science, academia, business, innovation, entrepreneurship, food/ag, and policy. 

• Acting as a spokesperson for GFI Europe when necessary.

• Understanding, listening, and following the European conversation around alternative proteins to identify new opportunities to promote the sector and GFI Europe’s work in key European countries.

• Identifying, building relationships with and influencing key organisations and opinion leaders across Europe to strengthen the narrative that supports the alternative protein sector.

• Working with fundraising colleagues to develop and implement strategies for reaching, recruiting and stewarding supporters.

• Collaborating with our policy team to ensure our political communication is effective and reaches the right audience.

• Managing GFI Europe’s social media activity and potentially developing online tools such as a new website and webinars.

• Coordinating with colleagues, and potentially external consultants, to oversee the production of GFI Europe publications and material including brochures, presentations and one-pagers, and act as our ‘brand guardian’ to ensure consistency.

• Potentially working with and overseeing agencies, freelancers and others to help deliver the above. 

• Performing other tasks as required as a member of our small start-up team.

Who we’re looking for: 

You must have:

• A passion for GFI’s philosophy and mission.

• Significant (ideally 5 or more years) communications experience, for example in public relations, media relations, social media or journalism. 

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write persuasive press releases and articles.

• A passion for, and demonstrated success with, proactive media outreach, including effectively developing and pitching stories to journalists that resulted in positive coverage.

• Good judgement and news-sense: to successfully spot opportunities and ‘hooks’ to secure coverage, and to get the substance, tone and nuance of our message right. 

• The ability to devise a well-informed strategy for GFI Europe’s comms work, in terms of audience mapping, channels, messaging. 

• Excellent people-skills: the ability to influence, network, build alliances and work well in a team.

• A can-do approach: a self-starter with the drive and initiative to take responsibility for delivering communications impact.

• Comfort working remotely in a rapidly-growing and evolving organization: the ability to work well independently and under pressure, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines. 

• Fluent English, both written and spoken. We would also welcome applications from candidates who, in addition, can work in other major European languages.

We want the best people and we don’t want biases holding us back. We strongly encourage people of every colour, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability to apply. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritize an inclusive climate absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team.

The Fine Print:

• Terms of employment: Full-time, permanent

• Location: Flexible - we will consider applicants from anywhere in Europe. You will mainly be working remotely: from your home, or wherever you choose. Once the COVID situation has cleared, you and the whole GFI Europe team will get together in-person approximately once every six weeks for around 3-4 days at a time, most likely in the London area or Brussels. There may also be other occasional work trips within Europe or to the US.

• Salary: £38,000 - £44,000.  This range is based on a UK hire and will be adjusted if hired elsewhere in Europe.

• Right to work requirements: We are only able to consider applicants who are eligible to work and travel in the EU or UK.

• Application Deadline: 29 June 2020, 11.59pm BST. We will be assessing candidates on a rolling basis, so please apply now!

Any questions?  If you have any questions about this role, please do reach out to us at  europe (at) gfi (dot) org. If you’ve read this far but decided not to apply, please feel free to share this job description with someone else in your network who you think might be a good fit for the role! Thank you.

We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We won't give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets support and respect. We provide advice and support to empower anybody experiencing a mental health problem and campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Fundraising, you will be responsible for developing and leading the strategy for Community & Events fundraising, establishing clear action plans and leading the team to deliver the strategy to meet income targets, whilst managing the budget to bring in over £12.5million with a spend of £3million.

Managing a team of 45 within the Community and Events Department and providing line management to 6 direct reports, you will work with staff across Mind, whilst creating a culture of innovation, both in terms of creating new products and initiatives and continuous  improvement of working practices and processes.

We’re looking for candidates who have significant experience of planning, developing, implementing, delivering, evaluating and reviewing strategic and operation activities, with financial and budget knowledge within fundraising. You’ll have excellent IT skills to include MS Office packages, databases and above all excellent interpersonal and communication skills, managing relationships with external suppliers and a direct or indirect experience of mental health problems would be desirable, however is not essential.

Please refer to the full Job Description upon applying for the role

Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

We are looking for an energetic Community Fundraising Executive (Community and Events) to join an inspiring women's health charity. It's an exciting time to join this amazing organisation as they have an exciting line up of events and are developing several new income streams.

The Charity
Is at the forefront of women's health, investing in medical research to save and improves the lives of women and their families for generations to come.

The Role:
You will help plan, implement and develop community income streams to deliver the target income.
Work primarily across challenge events, digital fundraising campaigns and community fundraising initiatives.
Work closely with the Head of Partnerships and Community Fundraising to review the organisations community fundraising products and processes, implement new ideas, campaigns and products designed to increase our supporter engagement and community income.
As part of a small team that supports each other's work, you will also be required to help at some of our major donor events.

The Candidate:
Experience in a community fundraising role.
Excellent communicator both written and verbal and enjoy working with people and nurturing relationships.
Demonstrate a good understanding of the current fundraising climate, and digital marketing and fundraising products.
Brave, plenty of drive with an entrepreneurial streak.
Bring energy and new ideas with them.

The Position

The Development Team Administrator is responsible for a range of administrative and development activities that support Lewa UK’s fundraising goals and provides Executive Assistant support for Lewa’s International Executive Director. **To apply please provide a CV and covering letter**

The Role

The Development Team Administrator will be detail-oriented, familiar with fundraising processes and the importance of data management, a team-player, self-driven, and passionate about contributing to high standards of excellence. A commitment to and interest in wildlife conservation and community development is advantageous. This full-time position is based in London close to Hammersmith underground station.

Broadly, the Development Team Administrator is responsible for supporting the UK team in meeting ambitious annual fundraising targets, overseeing operations of Lewa’s London-based office, and ensuring excellent donor stewardship and data management. 

This position reports to the Deputy Director of Development Europe, Middle East & Asia (DDofD EMEA), currently based in London. Lewa’s International Executive Director (IED) has overall responsibility for all staff and consultants who are hired to work on Lewa’s behalf outside of Kenya. 

Responsibilities

Administrative Duties

• Schedule meetings, set up conference calls via Zoom, keep global calendar up to date;
• Handle mailing requests from donors including mailing of impact reports, donation receipts, special gifts and other items;
• Implement new filing system and ensure ongoing proper filing practices under guidance of the Global Data and Administration Officer;
• Arrange conference rooms and food catering when needed;
• Provide administrative support to DDofD and IED for scheduling meetings, data entry, arranging travel, etc.

Donor Information and Support Management

• Enter donations and detailed notes into Salesforce and process donor acknowledgement letters under the direction of the DDofD;
• Ensure tasks and deadlines assigned to consultants are entered and updated in Salesforce;
• Monitor general Lewa email account for follow up tasks and responses;
• Support in data management via Salesforce and Dropbox by logging call notes, next steps, donor information, and follow-up tasks;
• Support all fundraisers on data entry, especially during heavy workload times of the year.

Travel and Event Planning

• Provide travel support to Lewa staff and partners visiting the UK, under direction of DDofD and Global Data and Administration Officer, including booking internal flights and hotels when needed; developing and keeping a travel itinerary up to date; requesting meetings; arranging in-country travel; and fulfilling special travel or hosting-related requests;
• Event support including planning, guest list creation and management (with the Global Data and Administration Officer) set-up and overall administrative management. Specific tasks may include logging auction items, photos and descriptions; helping to coordinate and deliver purchased auction items; posting purchased auction items; preparing and printing table place cards; updating attendance lists; delivering supplies to event location; assembling gift bags; ordering thank you gifts for committee members, etc; 
• Coordinate quarterly board committee calls and attendance at three annual board meetings, including polling board members about date availability, setting up Zoom calls, ensuring technology needs are in place for meetings, etc;
• Responsible for planning all UK board meetings and International Advisory Council meetings annually including booking hotel room blocks, arranging catering if necessary, answering questions from board and staff who are traveling to the meeting, distributing schedules and materials, etc.;
• Assist with meeting material preparation including proofreading, editing, and organizing board books via PDF;
• Attend board meetings and take detailed meeting minutes.
• Assist the DDofD in supporting the Lewa Next Gen programme and on average two events annually and associated Communications.

Fundraising Support

• Play a key supporting role in annual direct mail activities including mail merges, formatting, printing letters, troubleshooting, etc.
• Draft emails and donor correspondence as requested;
• Respond to donor and board member queries in a timely, professional manner.
• Proof read proposals and other communications text
• Assist the Fundraising and Communications Officer in writing Social Media posts and other Communications relevant to Lewa UK/ EMEA.

Office Oversight

• Office oversight and management including making sure the office has proper supplies and functioning equipment;
• Coordinating IT support for the team when necessary;
• Track expenditures for key staff and events in cooperation with Global Data and Administrative Officer and Senior Finance Manager;
• Pricing research for supplies, services, travel, etc.;
• Manage vendor relationships for UK under direction of Global Data and Administrative Officer and DDofD;
• Research and query common HR and administrative practices to establish better office and employee management systems when needed;
• Other duties as assigned.

The Person

This challenging role demands a highly organized, detail-oriented, entrepreneurial individual with strong communication skills and the ability to work with limited supervision.  We are looking for someone to join our growing team who has a genuine passion for the cause and pride in their work, as well as understanding the vital contribution this role makes to a busy team!

Qualifications and Competencies

The Development Administrator must demonstrate:

• Attention to detail and willingness to carefully track data related to donors and office management.
• Strong writing and editing skills to assist on proposals.
• Ability to keep to budget
• Should be skilled in Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel, and a CRM database.
• The ability to initiate and complete long-term projects as well as manage time-sensitive daily activities, and the flexibility to work as part of a collaborative office environment. 
• The ability to foster a healthy organizational culture in a multinational, multicultural environment.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively and efficiently against pressing deadlines.
• Ability to work in harmony with teammates and enthusiastic about contributing to team goals.
• The ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and integrity. 

Education, Training, and Experience 

• University degree preferred; strong professional experience without a University degree also considered.

Compensation 

Lewa UK provides a competitive salary, benefits and holiday compensation package.

**To apply please provide a CV and covering letter**

CANDIDATES

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy UK is committed to building a truly diverse and inclusive organization with a focus on valuing, serving, and understanding Lewa’s constituents in Kenya and globally. Lewa UK is an equal opportunity employer committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its hiring and promotion process without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, partnership status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital, parental or familial status, national origin, ethnicity, veteran or military status, age, disability, or any other legally protected basis. Racial and ethnic minorities and men are encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels. Lewa UK is not able to sponsor employment visas.

Overview:The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

Established in 1995, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (Lewa, or the Conservancy) is an award-winning catalyst and model for community-centric conservation in northern Kenya. Lewa has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and features on the IUCN Green List of Excellence in protected area management. The Conservancy is the heart of wildlife conservation, sustainable development and responsible tourism in northern Kenya. Lewa’s successful working model has inspired replication by other conservation organizations in the region, notably through its close partner organization, the Northern Rangelands Trust, which now comprises 39 community conservancies.

Lewa is home to 14% of Kenya's rhino population, the world's largest resident population of the endangered Grevy's zebra, and many other species. The Conservancy also promotes landscape connectivity for wildlife, especially for more than 6,500 elephants that move from the high-altitude areas in the Mount Kenya Forest, through Lewa and the neighboring Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve, to habitats in Samburu and areas further north. 

Lewa’s success can be attributed to its close working partnership with neighboring communities through education, clean water projects, health clinics, microcredit programs, and sustainable agriculture work. Through a broad range of programs, the Conservancy benefits more than 60,000 people in surrounding communities who in turn have become Lewa’s first line of defense against poachers and criminal elements who seek to profit from illicit trade in rhino horn, ivory, and other wildlife products.

This new role has been created to drive and deliver the organisation’s fundraising programme incorporating direct mail (acquisition and retention) telephone and digital fundraising platforms, and high-value fundraising working with corporate partners and major donors.

You will contribute to the development and delivery of a donor acquisition and retention programme, helping us understand and attract new, committed supporters who are inspired by our work.

You will work closely with the Development Manager to acquire new donors; develop supporter journeys and improve donor retention; implement individual giving campaigns (including RG campaigns and appeals); and support stewardship event opportunities for potential corporate and major donors.

Cruelty Free International is the leading organisation working to create a world where nobody wants or believes we need to experiment on animals. Our dedicated team are experts in their fields, combining award-winning campaigning, political lobbying, pioneering undercover investigations, scientific and legal expertise and corporate responsibility to make a positive difference to animals in laboratories.

Purpose of Role:

To drive the creation, development and improvement of our range of digital products based on member, supporter and volunteer needs, as well as organisational goals.

To act as the user champion for key Ramblers digital products, ensuring the best possible experience for those users.

To work with relevant internal stakeholder teams as well as volunteers and external user representative groups to prioritise the most valuable features and functionality improvements for our products.

Essential requirements include:

• Educated to degree level, or experience that demonstrates equivalent analytical and management skills.

• At least three years’ experience of effectively managing multiple digital products and services in a fast-paced environment.  

• Knowledge and understanding of good practice in digital product design and development.

• Experience of designing and developing mobile applications and mobile-first web applications.

• Excellent and up-to-date grasp of digital technologies, user experience design and research techniques, and the effective use of them.

• Exceptional communication skills, particularly to communicate technical solutions and their benefits, limits and risks in accessible language to stakeholders with varying technical understanding.  

• Excellent organisational and time management skills to manage multiple priorities concurrently.

• Excellent team-working, collaboration and problem-solving skills.

• Adept at using a range of digital systems, applications, software and websites.

• Demonstrable experience of using data and research to inform development, turning user insight into actions that improve outcomes.

The Ramblers are an equal opportunities employer.  We promote diversity and warmly welcome applications from appropriately qualified people from all sections of the community.

We are the world’s oldest human rights organisation and our vision is a world free from slavery. We believe that modern slavery is a contemporary issue of the highest importance and we are determined to work with others to ensure people can be free from slavery across the world.

Anti-Slavery International is recruiting this post to aid the development of Anti-Slavery’s individual giving fundraising programme. As part of a small Communications and Fundraising Team, you will join a friendly and supportive team generating funds for the eradication of all forms of slavery throughout the world.

Reporting to the Individual Giving Manager, you will support programme growth and generate income from donors both new and existing. These donors will give to us through membership, regular donations, appeals, digital fundraising and through new products we are yet to establish.

You will support the development, implementation and growth of a portfolio of products. By building upon existing relationships, and attracting and converting new supporters, you will grow our income in this area, helping to create a sustainable platform for all our fundraising activity.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, we look forward to hearing from you.

A fantastic children's charity are at an exciting time where they are localising some of their corporate income. You will be joining a wonderful team who are on the search for a dynamic fundraiser who has experience in sales or corporate fundraising. You will be their new Corporate Fundraising Manager.

They are working to develop more long-term sustainable support and relationships with the wider community including the growth of their portfolio of events, new support groups, Charity of the Year adoptions, support from small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and the development of key fundraising products and activities.

This role is home-based within the local area, the post holder will be required to travel across the UK too.
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If you would like to receive a full job specification for these roles or have a confidential conversation, please send your cv to [email protected] or call Hannah at Harris Hill on 0207 820 7331.
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Salary is £24,000 - £31,000 (This includes London weighting)

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Who is CFG?

At CFG, our vision is to inspire a financially confident, dynamic and trustworthy sector. Everything we do is led by our goal to enable charities to deliver more impact to their causes.

It’s our mission to put finance at the heart of social change organisations, making their money work harder and achieve the maximum positive outcome for their beneficiaries. Our members include over 1,400 charities, social change and public benefit organisations, all working hard to improve the lives and outcomes for their beneficiaries – often on a tight budget.

The role

We are looking for a membership and marketing enthusiast with a commercial brain, who has the ability to understand and identify member need and be completely at ease in the digital environment. The ideal candidate will have CRM knowledge and the ability to ensure systems are developed to meet organisational need.

Looking for someone who is comfortable analysing data and able to draw insights from market intelligence and member feedback. Someone who strikes a superb balance between commerciality and service provision so that our offerings are tailored, sustainable and effective; leading the team and providing expertise.

Why work for us?

We are a friendly team with a great sense of humour that enjoys the work that we do. There is lots of potential for development for talented individuals within CFG, and we can provide an excellent platform for career progression within the sector. We also offer a superb range of benefits including flexible working and a generous pension contribution.

Deadline for applications: We will be reviewing candidates as and when we receive CVs and cover letters and will appoint as soon as we meet the right person. Therefore, to avoid disappointment please apply early. This position is available immediately.

Our Communications team plays a crucial role in telling the story of our work and its impact, building our profile, our media presence, our brand and managing our reputation. As part of our ongoing commitment to increasing awareness and understanding of our work, we are expanding and reshaping the team to enable us to adopt a more strategic, pro-active and integrated approach to our communications activities.

Reporting to the Director of Communications, the PR & Digital Manager will have a key role in the team, setting and delivering our PR and Digital goals, working with colleagues from across the organisation to ensure our media engagement and messages are consistent with our vision, mission and  values, while  constantly monitoring and evaluating to ensure our success is based on learning.

You will use a range of different channels to spread key messages, build relationships with local and national partners including the media, and manage campaign activities.

You will also support the fundraising team to develop new income generation campaigns via our digital channels, ensuring income growth grow year on year.

The role is a varied one and involves working across the charity and the NHS on many projects at any given time.

Main purpose and description of the role:

The Grant Manager, Energy will play a significant role within the Programmes and Operations team at FILE.  This role will primarily focus on managing FILE’s expanding grant portfolio which seeks to deliver a socially responsible transition towards a net zero emissions economy.  This is an exciting opportunity to support world-leading non-profit partners in delivering strategic legal interventions to impact.  

The Grant Manager, Energy will be one of the first staff members of FILE, and hence will play an extremely formative role in shaping FILE’s grant-making, due diligence and reporting processes.  The successful candidate will help to lead the design and delivery of protocols and grant management processes to ensure that FILE’s philanthropic products are of the highest quality and consistent across the organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly rigorous philanthropic professional with outstanding communication and quantitative skills, keen to be part of an exciting, growing environmental organisation. 

The Exciting Opportunity

The Grant Manager, Energy will be responsible for:

Portfolio Management

• Management of FILE’s Energy grant portfolio throughout the grants cycle, including initial concept formation, managing grant delivery and key partnerships, and impact/progress reporting to FILE’s Board and donors.
• Supporting partners in project/pipeline planning and delivery, including connecting the dots, sequencing priorities and developing, and ensuring delivery of, project workplan with milestones.
• Provision of oversight and management of the overall Energy portfolio budget.  This includes supporting grant partners in developing and delivering against individual grant budgets, ensuring that projects are adequately resourced and funds are spent in accordance with project objectives.
• Effective monitoring of the progress and impact of projects and grants, including managing reporting requirements, facilitating review and feedback process and enabling robust and timely reporting to donors.
• Ensuring cross-portfolio knowledge learning and sharing, to ensure that partners within the Energy portfolio benefit from all learnings.

Strategy Development and Delivery

• Contributing to the strategic direction of the FILE Foundation, by co-developing a strategic Energy grant portfolio and shaping high-level goals.
• Working with the Strategy and Law team, supporting the development, validation and due diligence of proposals from potential partners, preparing recommendations to the FILE Board and donors.
• Translation of strategy for partners at project level, ensuring that KPIs and deliverables are well aligned with and provide learnings for the portfolio.

Partnership management and donor reporting

• Building trusted partnerships with key partners both within and beyond the grant portfolio, growing FILE’s stakeholder network.
• Facilitation of close collaboration amongst grantees through managing effective communication channels and coordinating engagement, enabling consistency across FILE’s projects and portfolios.

• Using the portfolio results framework, KPIs and deliverables, submission of donor reports in relation to the Energy Portfolio on a timely basis, under the supervision of the Director, Programmes and Operations.
• Content input for the Energy portfolio for fundraising documents and other donor relations activities, as required by FILE’s Executive Team

Operations:

• Together with the Finance and Operations team members, enabling the implementation of grant management systems and maintenance of relevant templates and tools.
• Ensuring that FILE’s overarching budget and strategy reflects and guides the Energy portfolio.
• Maintaining open and professional relationships with team members, promotion of a strong team spirit and provision of oversight and mentorship, including potential line management of Analysts and interns.

 The Talented Individual

Qualifications & Experience

• A university degree in a related field including law, political science or environmental science. A postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline is desirable.
• Deep understanding of the energy, with understanding of legal strategies or advocacy desirable.
• Outstanding partnership management skills, with the ability to establish and manage collaborative internal and external partnerships.  Existing networks in the non-profit climate and energy field desirable.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to assimilate and digest large volumes of information.
• Experience in Grant Management, and implementing and managing grant-making protocols level is required, experience in the Energy field would be desirable.
• Excellent budget management and donor reporting skills
• Outstanding and demonstrable English written and communication skills.  You will be able to present information in a compelling way through proposals, memos and PowerPoint presentations.  Knowledge of other languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin advantageous.
• Ability to work unsupervised, a motivated self-starter, with strong problem solving and multi-tasking skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, strong organisational and project management skills and the ability to be flexible as priorities and needs change.

Who we are

As the UK’s leading social impact investor, our role is uniting capital, expertise and ideas to create better lives.
Working with expert partners, we seek to understand people’s needs first. Then, using our knowledge and capital, we collaborate and invest with fund managers who also want to create a better, sustainable future.

They, and the social enterprises and charities they invest in, create the impact. Our role is to bring the most relevant experts from our network to the table, generating ideas and connecting capital to where it’s most needed.

We want to give more people and communities the chance to have an impact on the issues they care about – from affordable homes, to vulnerable older people and preventing mental ill health. In this way, we create opportunities for investors and enterprises to generate systemic social change, not just for today but for generations to come.

Overall purpose of the role

Location:London, EC4A (currently remote working)

Accountable to: Senior Director, Social Sector Engagement

Contract type: Full-time, permanent

Salary band: £33,000 - £37,000 (depending on experience)

Big Society Capital has an important role to play in building understanding of social investment in the UK. We are looking for a creative new Social Sector Engagement and Communications Officer with a passion for creating a positive social impact to join our collaborative, dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a key role in our social sector engagement campaigns and events across Big Society Capital and our collaborative project, Good Finance.

As Social Sector Engagement and Communications Officer you will be responsible for:

Communications

• Supporting the Senior Director, Social Sector Engagement to ascertain the most appropriate channels and content to deliver impact through our engagement work

• Building value and impact of social sector engagement and positioning both internally and externally

• Brand strategy and supporting the delivery of Social Sector Engagement and Good Finance tone of voice and corporate identity

• Developing content to support our campaigns and events work including blogs, podcasts, webinars, videos and infographics

• Shaping and managing content for relevant parts of the Big Society Capital website and associated micro-sites

• Supporting the evaluation and maintenance of the Good Finance marketing strategy

• Managing the social sector input to Big Society Capital’s social media channels (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc) and campaign newsletters

• Developing creative approaches to engage with varying audiences from across the social sector

Campaigns and Events

• Coming up with ideas and identifying new opportunities and subject focus for existing and future campaigns

• Coordinating and delivering communications support for targeted engagement campaigns through different media channels

• Building constructive relationships with key partners to reach a wider audience and maximise impact including through campaign-related events

• Managing event organisation of regional network events supported by Big Society Capital: Let’s Talk Good Finance and Good Finance Live

• Co-ordinating communications support for social sector facing events supported by or attended by Big Society Capital

• Facilitating social sector speaking opportunities for social sector team

• Developing core resources for events, campaigns and 1:1 meetings with stakeholders

• Leading legacy work and maintenance of our campaign resources

Engagement Stakeholder Management

• Building relationships with marketing and communications colleagues in other organisations across the financial and social sector

• Managing relationships with a range of campaign and events partners; including infrastructure organisations like NAVCA, Vonne and SEUK

• Instructing, managing and working with external agencies when required (e.g. video resources, webinars, events)

Internal Relationships

• Working closely with other team members to ensure effective delivery of Good Finance and social sector communications objectives

• Working closely with other Big Society Capital marketing and communications team members to ensure effective delivery of Good Finance and social sector communications objectives within the wider organisational strategy

• Being supportive of delivery and development plans for our wider social sector engagement work in order to maximise reach and impact

• Attending internal stakeholder meetings and contributing to Big Society Capital wider team initiatives

Reporting

• Evidencing impact through KPI reporting, using qualitative and quantitative data across social sector engagement to better inform our work

Compliance

• Reviewing financial promotions and ensuring compliance with regulations

Person profile

Essential experience

• Strong and relevant communications experience and a familiarity with common social media tools and website CMS tools

• Desire to develop knowledge of user centred design principles

• Keen interest in and understanding of public policy and current affairs and how their implications on the social sector

• Experience of working across the social sector or finance sector

Desirable experience

• Experience and competency in video/sound editing and with in design packages including InDesign and Photoshop

• Experience and competency of user X design

• Event management experience

Skills, abilities and attributes

• A self-motivated ideas person, willing to take initiative and work independently

• Enthusiastic about developing solutions and making recommendations

• Creative flair and a keen eye for design and attention to detail

• An engaging writer with an ability to tell a story and bring ideas to life

• Strong ability to work well under pressure and adapt to change

• Natural at building relationships and an ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders

• Collegial, team player with a supportive approach and desire to be part of a close-knit team

• Passionate about supporting positive social impact in the UK through investment

• An appetite for continual learning and development of skills and expertise

• Ability to travel and commit to outreach activity across the UK

Salary and Terms of Employment

• This is a permanent, full-time role (open to flexible working).

• All applicants must have an existing Right to Work in the UK

• Salary of £33,000- £37,000 (depending on experience)

• Big Society Capital is committed to being a diverse organisation that is truly representative of the communities we serve. We are an equal opportunities employer with an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential.

Applications

Please apply via our blind recruitment system, BeApplied by midday on Friday 29th May 2020.

Interviews will be held in early-mid June 2020.

Please download our Candidate Pack for further details.

All Big Society Capital staff are currently working from home. We will be as flexible as possible in light of any COVID-19 priorities and challenges which you may be facing.

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The Vegan Society is an anagram of The Nicest Voyage. Quite fitting, we think, as for many people veganism is a journey – and a pretty remarkable one at that. Regardless of where you are on your vegan journey, our staff are on hand to make it easier, healthier and more fun. And if you think you’d be great at helping others with this, read on, as this may be right up your street.

The Vegan Society makes veganism more accessible and an easily adopted approach by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, healthcare professionals and the media.

Who we're looking for

Are you passionate about changing the way we treat animals? Do you want to help reduce damage to our environment? Do you want to get people to enjoy healthy vegan food that looks good and tastes great?

As individuals, we have a somewhat eclectic mix of skills, passions and idiosyncrasies…but it works. Probably because we all have one thing in common: we believe we’re on to something really special.

In order to meet our ambitious plans for the next few years, we need to recruit some new people to our team in our new offices conveniently located by Snow Hill station in Birmingham.

What we offer

- A fun and supportive team
- A solution-focused atmosphere and hard-working environment
- Flexible working hours
- Employee Assistance Programme and health cash-back scheme
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Childcare vouchers scheme
- Animal companion compassionate leave
- Ethical pension scheme
- 28 days’ leave + 8 Bank Holidays
- Central Birmingham office location

The role

The Business Development Department (BD) works alongside The Vegan Society’s (TVS) Communications Department and Campaigns, Policy and Research Department.

BD generates the majority of the income for the charity via The Vegan Trademark licence fees and sales of our vegan supplement, VEG 1.

The BD Sales & Marketing Team manages various supporting activities for the Vegan Trademark and VEG 1 operational teams. This includes:

For Trademark:

- Generating sales and managing leads
- Marketing and brand awareness campaigns (B2B)
- Marketing and brand awareness campaigns (B2C)
- Co-ordinating promotional opportunities for our trademark holders

For VEG 1:

- Managing the sale of VEG 1 products direct to customers (B2C)
- Promotion of VEG 1 products to new wholesale clients (B2B)
- Marketing and brand awareness campaigns (B2C)

The Business Development Sales and Marketing Manager manages a team of professionals that promote the Trademark to potential clients (B2B) and VEG 1 wholesale opportunities (B2B); create awareness of the trademark to consumers (B2C) and for sales of VEG 1 products direct to customers (B2C); whilst co-ordinating promotional opportunities for our Trademark holders.

The role is responsible for supervision, motivation and development of the BD marketing team, carrying out performance reviews and monitoring effectiveness of its direct reports.

Salary and hours

This is full-time (37.5 hours per week) role with a salary of £32,029 - £36,876.

How to apply

The application deadline is 9am on Monday 1st June 2020.

Interviews will be held on the 10th June 2020 (potentially virtually).

CVs cannot be accepted. No agencies.

Other organisations may call this role Business Development Manager, Sales and Marketing Manager, Sales Manager, Marketing Manager, New Business Development Manager, or Senior Sales and Marketing Executive.

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