Are you a compassionate and dedicated leader? Can you inspire a culture of performance, creativity and teamwork? Do you want the satisfaction of knowing you are making a difference? If so, read on...
We have a new opportunity for a Head of Care to join our team based within Cambridgeshire or Norfolk. The position includes homeworking, with regular travel to our St Ives and Swaffham locations. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £45,000 - £48,000 per annum depending on experience plus excellent benefits.
Who are we?
Caring Together is an ambitious regional charity that provides emotional and practical support, advice and guidance to carers of all ages and their families, as well as opportunities to take a break from their caring role.
We are proud to support over 12,000 carers and their families every year. Our vision is of a world where carers have choices.
About the Head of Care role:
It is an exciting time to consider being part of our Caring Together team. The role is hugely varied, one minute you may be in a board meeting reviewing results and influencing strategy the next you may be motivating your team to help grow our organisation.
The Head of Care will work as part of the executive management team with a requirement to be the registered manager, organisation’s safeguarding lead and member of the quality and service delivery sub-committee of the board of trustees and senior leadership team.
What will you be responsible for?
- Provision and growth of high-quality cost-effective homecare services and supporting the delivery of responsive, tailored family support
- Effective management of the operations managers, their performance and development, supporting them and their teams to deliver ‘outstanding’ care services across their areas
- Ensuring compliance with all regulatory guidelines and regulations seeking continuous improvement in CQC ratings
- Strategic planning and leadership of the homecare service
What makes you our ideal Head of Care?
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the CQC regulatory framework, safeguarding procedures and best practice in homecare provision
- NVQ Level 5 diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care or equivalent desirable or willing to work towards
- Experience of engaging with a diverse range of users and stakeholders with excellent customer service ethos
- An experienced registered manager who can demonstrate with comprehensive knowledge and leadership and 3-5 years’ experience of leading a CQC good/outstanding service within a healthcare or domiciliary care setting
- Able to work under pressure and cope with change and conflicting priorities
- Willingness to travel across our region
The benefits!
- Opportunity to experience working in a charity that makes caring rewarding
- Flexible working including homeworking but with regular travel to our St Ives and Swaffham locations
- Comprehensive induction and ongoing development
- 25 days annual leave plus statutory holidays (eight days). Option to buy annual leave in accordance with our terms and conditions
- Pension scheme
- Long service awards
- Refer a friend bonus
- Enhanced disclosure
Closing date for applications: 3 July 2020
Interviews: w/c 13 July 2020
Start date: from 1 September 2020
If you would like to join our team as our Head of Care, then please click ‘apply’ today – we’d love to hear from you!
Caring Together is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are inclusive. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view. We are an equal opportunities employer and expect staff to respect the personal choice and lifestyles of colleagues, carers, and people with care needs.
This position is subject to an enhance disclosure.
Reporting to: Chief Executive
Job Role: Develop a fundraising programme to include development of UKAHT’s membership.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be a well-rounded fundraiser with experience across a wide variety of fundraising sources that match the ambitions of the charity. A passion for heritage, environment and culture is essential - as is cultivating close and attentive relationships with supporters. We are looking for a collaborative worker who can roll-up their sleeves and enable the whole team to become fundraisers in their different capacities.
About You
- You are passionate about Antarctica, cultural heritage, public engagement and inspiring young people about the future of this fascinating continent.
- You feel confident representing the organisation to a variety of stakeholders, and creating bespoke cases for support for each audience.
- You are an experienced fundraiser, with a successful track record of helping charitable organisations to attract and grow income and funding from a wide range of public and private sources.
- You are entrepreneurial, ambitious but practical in your approach to fundraising and appreciate the balance of skills and requirements that this discipline requires.
- You are a proactive networker and collaborator.
- You are a strong communicator - able to identify and build effective relationships across all stakeholder groups and at all levels of seniority.
Person Specification:
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE (essentials and desirables)
Proven experience of securing significant funding from a variety of sources, including high net worth individuals, corporates, trusts, and foundations, and through face to face negotiations
Track record of success fundraising and cultivation of donors for campaigns of £250,000+
Track record of designing and implementing development strategies, including revenue and capital fundraising activities
Experience of budget development and management, and an understanding of management accounts
Proven ability to manage and grow a list of active and significant donors
Knowledge of relevant charity and tax laws
Experience of fundraising for arts, environment or education causes
Extensive networks and existing relationships with public bodies, trust and foundations, businesses, and philanthropists
Experience of working with high net worth individuals and senior volunteer boards
SKILLS, ABILITIES AND ATTITUDES (essentials and desirables)
Ability to inspire and motivate colleagues to create an effective and efficient department focused on successful income generating initiatives
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of people
High attention to detail, particularly regarding written work, budget and event planning
Excellent influencing, negotiation, and diplomacy skills
Ability to think and operate strategically and provide flexible solutions
Able to deliver to demanding deadlines and with a hands-on approach
Good IT skills including databases
Ability to self-motivate, work as part of a small team, and support colleagues
Confident, resilient, and resourceful
A commitment to excellence and professionalism
Appreciation of and support for the aims and ethos of UKAHT
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leading and managing fundraising activity across the organisation, ensuring that colleagues are alerted to relevant opportunities in their business areas and working with them to develop and curate effective relationships with funders, donors, partners and clients in a proactive and methodical manner.
- Leading in delivering new fundraising and projects, including time-bound campaigns and new creative initiatives to grow income sustainably and ensure that the organisation follows appropriate internal and external applications and reporting timeframes and processes.
- Supporting colleagues in drafting correspondence and documentation, such as reports, briefings, applications, presentations, or other communication items to support development activity.
- Designing and implementing systems to identify and assess relevant opportunities.
- Developing and managing effective policies and procedures in line with best practice in the sector.
- Ensuring income generation activity is produced, filed, and archived in a systematic and efficient way, for all research, contracts, reports, and other records relating to fundraising.
- Managing development budgets and other related resources.
- Deliver a successful income generation plan that enables the delivery of UKAHT’s strategic plans and has the support of the CEO and Chair of the Board of Trustees.
- Lead fundraising activities across cultivation events, stakeholder management, sponsorship, individual giving, legacies, and capital projects.
- Develop and maintain productive and positive relationships with Trustees and Ambassadors.
- Support the development of UKAHT’s business plan.
- Represent UKAHT at internal and external networking opportunities, developing existing and new donor relationships, and deputise for the CEO where necessary.
FUNDRAISING AND ADVOCACY
- Be personally accountable for successful generation of major income to support programmes and the delivery of the ongoing strategy, agreeing fundraising targets with the Director and regularly reporting on progress.
- Set and achieve fundraising targets, showing year on year growth in activity and results.
- Manage and motivate directly or indirectly effective use of the Chair, Trustees, and Ambassadors for cultivating prospects and developing projects.
- Develop and maintain UKAHT’s relationships with funders, including major donors, trusts and foundations, corporate partners, and statutory bodies.
- Develop and maintain supporter schemes, including introduction of a legacy group.
- Have responsibility for development events, including private views and patrons’ programmes, ensuring high standards of donor care are maintained.
- Keep appraised of latest developments in the sector.
- Work closely with the Digital Engagement Manager to maximise case for support messaging, develop advocacy materials, undertake successful digital campaigns.
- Ensure accurate and appropriate accreditation of supporters, sponsors, and partners.
ADMINISTRATION
- Produce reports for and make presentations to the Board of Trustees, as necessary.
- Ensure supporters are reported to in an appropriate and timely fashion.
- Manage development budgets and prepare financial data.
- Support the maintenance of an accurate database.
- Carry out any other duties as deemed appropriate by the CEO.
TERMS:
UKAHT is committed to providing excellent terms and conditions of employment for all employees.
Location
Pre-COVID this role was based in the UKAHT office in Cambridge:
High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET. However, as we adjust to a COVID world we envisage a flexible blend of homeworking with some office-based work.
Salary: £38,000-£40,000 pro rota + benefits
Working Hours: 3 or 4 days a week (working week 37.5 hours) with potential for full time in the future
Holidays: 25 days per year pro rota of paid leave plus the usual public holidays.
Expenses: All reasonable travel costs incurred as part of the role will be reimbursed as per UKAHT policy
Benefits: UKAHT operates a contributory pension scheme into which you will be enrolled.
Probationary period: The appointment will be subject to a six month probationary period
Notice period: Upon completion of the probationary period the period of notice will be two months by either party.
UKAHT is committed to equal opportunities and to learning how to increase the diversity of our people. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons and encourage applications from people currently underrepresented in the Polar regions, including women in senior leadership positions, members of black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, people with disabilities and LGBTQI+ people. We also welcome flexible working arrangements.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Full-time, 35 hours per week
Based in the East of England region
Our mission is to enable families in the East of England to build resilience and make choices to improve the life chances of their children.
We are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated Operations Manager to join our team. With experience of remote management over a wide geographical area, you will lead and develop a vibrant and varied portfolio of family support services in a range of settings across the region.
With our strategic focus on designing, developing and expanding high-quality, sustainable services which improve the wellbeing and resilience of children and their families, it is an exciting time to be joining us.
For more information, or to apply for this post, please visit our website via the apply button.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 24 August 2020.
Ormiston Families is committed to safeguarding. We are also an equal opportunities employer, value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Supporter Engagement Manager
Location: Flexible – Cambridge, Norwich or Ipswich
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum, pro-rata.
Full or Part-time
Are you looking to join an ambitious and skilled fundraising team, take on a new challenge in a well-established organisation with an excellent brand and make a difference to the lives of life-threatened children and young people, and their families?
We are recruiting for a new Supporter Engagement Manager role, who will have a primary focus to develop and lead a new team to support our strategy to put donors at the heart of everything we do, inspiring and motivating more people to connect and contribute to the work of EACH.
You will have a thorough understanding of direct and digital marketing, donor development and supporter care, via channels inclusive of online and offline newsletters, email, and Facebook, significant experience of managing and producing fundraising and marketing campaigns, experience of managing income and expenditure budgets and of reviewing and developing strategic plans. You will be comfortable leading change and encouraging new ways of working.
The post holder will make an active contribution to the overall Fundraising department, providing support and advice on donor development, supporter acquisition, retention as well as lead and embed a culture of compliance and risk management across the Fundraising department, ensuring colleagues consider compliance as an integral part of the process when designing and delivering fundraising communications and activities.
The work base of this role can be flexible, to work from our Cambridge, Norwich or Ipswich sites.
Closing date: Tuesday 8th September
To Apply and for More Information:
If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website.
This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.
EACH is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications for all sections of the community. EACH reserves the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a sufficient number of applications.
No agencies please.
Community Manager - SMEs
Our client seeks a Community Manager (SMEs) on a permanent full-time (35-hour week) basis. You can be based at their Cambridge Science Park office or home-based within the UK, if you are able to travel to their Cambridge office as necessary.
Position: Community Manager (SMEs)
Location: City of Cambridge (commutable from Alconbury, Bedford, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge North, Cherry Hinton, Chesterton, Ely, Fen Drayton, Fenstanton, Histon & Impington, Hitchin, Huntingdon, Longstanton, Milton, Newmarket, Northstowe, Oakington, Orchard-Park, Royston, Saffron Walden, Somersham, St Ives, St Neots, Stevenage, Swavesey, Waterbeach, Wyton and surrounding areas)
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 35 hour per week
Salary £40,828 - £45,363 per annum plus benefits
Benefits: Excellent contributory pension scheme, generous paid holidays, 35-hour (for full-time staff) working week, learning and career development, subsidised staff restaurant (Cambridge office), staff sports and social club, free private healthcare plan, income protection scheme, critical illness insurance, life assurance, free on-site parking (Cambridge office), season ticket, car/motorcycle and cycle to work schemes, membership subscription, employee assistance programme, eye-care at work scheme, wellness initiatives, flexible work environment, employee recognition, long service awards, membership subscription to professional body and their organisation, two discounted staff flats on-site (Cambridge office) and more.
Closing Date: 31 August 2020
About the role:
The Community Manager (SMEs) is an outward-looking role, suited to somebody who enjoys developing and growing business communities and building relationships.
You will join a friendly, open and entrepreneurial team passionately supporting science, collaborations and skills in the chemistry-based industries. The role reports to the Senior Manager – Industry and is part of community management, part project management.
As Community Manager (SMEs) you will develop a bird’s eye view of the needs, gaps, and opportunities for companies, and be the voice for hundreds of high potential SMEs. As a result of the excellent understanding of our companies, the role holder will play a crucial role in facilitating interactions between businesses and help inform future initiatives to increase the impact, visibility and support for our chemistry-based SMEs.
Essential knowledge and skills:
• Experience working in one or more chemistry-based industries, or experience working with business communities.
• Educated to degree-level or higher, in chemical sciences or other science subjects.
• Knowledge and ability to talk confidently and passionately about topics relating to business and technology to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Understanding of the needs of small companies and the environment, they operate in.
• Demonstrable relationship management and influencing skills.
• Strong communicator, written and oral, able to produce clear, concise and accurate documents, presentations, blogs.
• Highly organised, objective and deadline-orientated with a clear ability to manage and prioritise a workload in order to meet tight deadlines
• A team player, who thrives in fast paced and changing environment.
• Initiative and ability to develop new ideas and approaches.
• Strong IT skills.
• Excellent project and financial management skills.
Desirable knowledge and skills:
• Community management experience.
• Experience of using CRM systems.
• Experience organising events, workshops, roundtables.
Our client supports development and offers excellent benefits.
If this sounds of interest, please apply before the end of their closing date.
You may have experience of the following: Marketing, Recruitment, Stakeholder Management, Client Relationship Manager, Account Manager, Tender Management, Project Manager, Project Management, etc.
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