About Reall

Reall is an innovator and investor in climate-smart affordable housing for people living on low incomes in urban Africa and Asia.

Reall’s purpose is to improve the lives of 100M people in urban Africa and Asia by 2030 through affordable housing.  We’re doing this because homes aren’t just a fundamental human right; they unleash unimaginable human potential to shape a future of gender parity, climate resilience, clean air, renewable energy, and socio-economic justice.

The Role

As Reall grows we need a motivated and highly organised fundraising professional to join our team as a Fundraising Officer. We are looking for an individual who has at least 3 years’ experience in a similar role, and who wants to develop their career within an exciting and continually growing for-purpose organisation.

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising and Investor Relations, you will contribute to the expansion of Reall’s funding base by attracting new funders, and also manage relationships with current and new funders.

Full details are in the job description and person specification, which are available by clicking through to apply for this role.

Please ensure that you upload both a CV and a covering letter explaining why you are applying for this role, in order for your application to be considered.

You must have the right to live and work in the UK to apply for this role.  Visa sponsorship is not available.

Why work at Reall?

With a modest UK-based team, Reall is an organisation driven by efficiency, with comparatively huge ambitions and a track record of significant success. 

Our internal operations are underpinned by a culture of psychological safety, promoting trust, curiosity, and confidence.  This means that staff feel secure to speak their minds, tackle challenges creatively, and can never be described as risk averse.

A committed investor in its staff, Reall promotes an environment of conscious diversity in all its forms.  You’ll be joining a high-performing, cohesive team with its sights firmly on global impact.

Reall is committed to equality and diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We particularly welcome applications from candidates who are black, Asian, minority ethnic, LGBTQ+, and those who have disabilities, because we believe a diverse and inclusive workforce is important for our organisation and will lead to greater results and enhance our way of working.

A unique opportunity has arisen to join the Health & Safety Team at The Prince’s Trust. We are looking for someone who’s creative and enthusiastic to become the new Regional Health & Safety Manager. This role will involve supporting Scotland, North and Central England and preferably based in Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds.

All our work is geared towards supporting disadvantaged young people aged 11 – 30 and giving them the opportunity to create a better future through employment, education and enterprise. You will act as a trusted advisor on health & safety matters associated with the work we do to support young people. By helping build a strong safety culture and implementing a robust Safety Management System you will ensure The Prince's Trust complies with its legal obligations and achieves its strategic aims.

Through good risk management, you will enable programmes and events to operate safely and more effectively and allow colleagues to make a positive difference to the lives of young people. With our strong network of supporters, volunteers, employers and delivery partners, you will provide guidance and assurance that safe systems of work are in place.

You will work independently to maintain consistent H&S compliance in the regions of responsibility and play an active role in leading the continual improvement in H&S performance through stakeholder engagement, monthly reporting, management meetings, delivering training and communicating information in user-friendly language that is engaging.

With established experience in Health and Safety and professional qualifications, you will bring new ideas and innovative ways of working safely and supporting people’s wellbeing.

Please click 'apply now' to be directed to our website.

Salary: £27,744 per annum

Contract term: Fixed Term until 06/10/2022

Hours: 36.5 hours per week Monday - Friday with occasional weekend and evening working

Location: Office (Birmingham) and community based

Introduction to The Active Wellbeing Society

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives.

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference – whether at an individual level or more widely.

By working collaboratively with communities we aim to bring about sustainable change on an social, environmental and economic level; to do the social knitting required to create stronger and more resilient communities and to support communities to identify, mitigate and remove the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives.

You may like to watch this introductory video which showcases the positive work of The Active Wellbeing Society: TAWS Launch October 2018 - YouTube

Introduction to the department

Our Community Food Team supports people across the city to access nutritional food. We facilitate the Food Justice Network, a collective of over 200 organisations working to tackle food poverty and support local food need, we run a range of community cafes which turn good surplus food into healthy meals, and we work with individuals and organisations around a range of themes, from food growing to campaigning to reduce inequalities. 

Introduction to the role

This role is to lead the organisation’s work on the Birmingham Food Justice Network (FJN). Food Justice is a movement aiming to respond to food insecurity and economic pressures within the community and to shape food policy. The Birmingham FJN was born out of work we did with partners in the first lockdown and over the last 12 months this has developed into supporting the community in a number of ways.

This role will involve coordinating the network: mapping of resources such as foodbanks; facilitating networking and information sharing through meetings and newsletters; linking network members into other things going on in the city; onboarding new members; encouraging workgroups around specific areas of activity; reporting on impact.

The role will also involve working in partnership to facilitate an on-street support forum, bringing together homeless outreach groups and statutory services to ensure the support system for vulnerable people in Birmingham is joined up and sharing best practice, supporting the Positive Pathway Approach and WMCA Designing Out Homelessness Strategy.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Facilitate regular communication between network members
2. Maintain and improve mapping resources relating to current food provision in the city
3. Work with individuals across both geographic and thematic areas to identify common purpose and develop plans of action
4. Ensure the Food Justice Network takes an active role on wider initiatives relating to poverty and food systems in Birmingham, ensuring any relevant opportunities are communicated to the network
5. Manage a complex network of partner organisations and individuals, helping to link people together and create local opportunities for collaboration
6. Represent TAWS and the Food Justice Network at meetings and local forums
7. Play an active role in encouraging collaboration and communication amongst network members
8. Work with BVSC and other stakeholders to develop the ‘on-street support forum’
9. Work with a range of homeless outreach groups and statutory services in the city to understand barriers, local need and co-create solutions
10. Ensure timely monitoring and evaluation of activities in line with reporting requirements
11. Work with wider team and Volunteer Manager to recruit and support volunteers and signpost to relevant and required training.
12. Work with the Assistant Director of Food and Sharing and the funding team to support the development of new opportunities

Duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

1. An understanding of existing food networks/systems and projects in Birmingham
2. An understanding of how to facilitate a welcoming and empowering network
3. Excellent partnership and relationship management skills, able to motivate a wide range of individuals
4. The ability to solve problems and identify opportunities in challenges
5. Confident taking key minutes and representing TAWS or the Food Justice Network in 1:1 and wider meetings
6. Good computer skills: proficiency in software such as Zoom, MS Teams, Word, Excel and Google Maps
7. Strong organisational skills, able to work autonomously
8. Confident chairing and facilitating meetings

STAFF BENEFITS

• Nest Pension – 8% employer contribution - 3 % employee contribution.
• Heath Cash Plan – giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more.
• Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)
• Death in Service – x4 your salary paid to beneficiary.
• Annual Leave – 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days
• Flexible working
• Hybrid working options
• Bring your own device - £20 towards your phone bill monthly
• Fantastic volunteering opportunities within TAWS every month

Successful applicants will be required to be DBS checked prior to starting.

Closing date: 28th November 2021

Due to the high numbers of applications we received for our job vacancies, we may close application windows early, so we would encourage you to submit your application ASAP

Interview date: TBC

Product Owner – Email
Reference: OCT20214294
Location: Flexible in UK
Salary: £32,400 - £35,944 per annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days Annual Leave
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

Reporting into the Head of Digital Products, this role is responsible for setting the strategic direction of our externally focused Email marketing activity. Focusing on increasing reach and relevancy and in growing the number of supporters taking action via email communications. 

Email is a critical communication tool for the RSPB as it delivers a large majority of our digital traffic, it is used to help engage our supporter, increase their awareness and understanding of key challenges facing the natural world and helps drive these supporters align to our causes and to take action for nature.

As a Product Owner within the RSPB, you will be responsible for helping develop an ambitious, focused, and measurable product strategy based on sound business and performance data, you will be responsible for the vision of your product and responsible for defining and prioritising a backlog of requirements that deliver valuable, iterative change to your product portfolio.

You will matrix manage and lead a team of cross-functional colleagues to ensure this work is delivered using various methods, including our project management framework alongside the principles of agile and scrum project delivery methodologies. Whilst developing the brand and supporting the priority objectives of the organisation, departments and programmes your channel represents.

This is a digital position and as such can predominantly be conducted remotely, however the successful candidate will be required to attend RSPB's headquarters in Sandy, Bedfordshire on a monthly basis for team meetings.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• Able to demonstrate a working knowledge of systems and software that supports the management of Email, including but not exclusively, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and litmus (Content & Analysis) and Return Path (IP Certification platform).
• Be skilled in project and programme delivery through various agile methodologies to take project ownership and lead projects to deliver continuous and valuable improvement through the product portfolio.
• Competency-based knowledge, understanding email maturity & content optimisation based around behaviours, practices, and processes to drive market uptake
• Accountable for utilising insight from a range of sources (Google Analytics and other tools) to develop, implement and improve capability and user journeys that help achieve outcomes and objectives
• An ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across the organisation to help secure buy-in and support for your product vision and priorities
• Be skilled in initiating and presenting a robust testing plan for continued optimisation of key customer journeys to help improve performance and the email product
• Strong working knowledge of audience segmentation to ensure maximised engagement and conversion through email communications
• A good working knowledge of GDPR and PECR principles to provide governance and standards and minimise legal and reputational risk to the organisation
• Able to demonstrate an ability to manage and prioritise multiple objectives, workstreams and communication priorities.
• Strong knowledge of the email industry, latest trends, regularly following within best practice and implementing the latest knowledge and insight to drive email growth.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Closing Date: Tuesday 7th December 2021

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website

No agencies please.

Helpline Deputy Manager 

Birmingham 

£24,610 per annum

Our client is a leading provider of mental health services in Birmingham and the West Midlands. 

Their Helpline service is aimed at service users and their carers living in Birmingham and Solihull, to offer a range of interventions to support individuals who are experiencing psychological distress and/or a mental health crisis. Additionally the service has been designed and developed to help reduce the burden on statutory services including A&E departments and the police.

The role:

The Deputy Manager for the Helpline service will provide support to a team of Helpline Intervention workers and volunteers with the day to day management of the Helpline Service.

The Helpline Service is a 7 day a week service operating between the hours of 9am -11pm and requires a member of the management team present at all times. Under the direction of the service manager you will support the running of the Helpline service in line with contractual requirements, their Vision and Values, its Operating Policy and Procedures, and any relevant legal requirements.

About you:

The successful candidate will possess the following skills and experience;

• Experience in a supervisory role.
• Previous experience of working either in a voluntary or paid role within the Health and Social care sector.
• A positive attitude to people who have experienced mental health difficulties.
• Experience of managing challenging situations and working under pressure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A flexible approach in terms of your working hours which will include evenings and weekends. 

Rewards:

Benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme, Paycare which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme which includes free counselling and a comprehensive training Programme.

Our client's people are key to the success of the organisation and they are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. They welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.

If you wish to apply please provide a detailed explanation of how you feel that you have the skills and experience required for this position.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 12th December 2021

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 22th December 2021

Creative Support is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Senior Service Manager to lead the operational management of a range of community-based services across Sandwell and Dudley.

As the Senior Service Manager, you will be responsible for maintaining an overview of all community-based services in Dudley and Sandwell, leading a highly motivated team of managers and contributing to the further development of services within the region.

At these services, we provide quality care and support to individuals with a learning disability, autism, including people with additional complex care and communication needs. You must be an accomplished manager and have extensive experience and knowledge of working within the social care sector in support of people with learning disabilities and mental health needs. You must be highly proactive, resourceful and possess an analytical approach to problem solving.

As the Senior Service Manager you will ensure the service is of the highest quality, meeting all CQC standards and contract requirements and that this can be demonstrated through comprehensive quality and contract monitoring processes. You will also hold the CQC registration for the Dudley and Sandwell area. We are very keen to develop new services that meet local needs and promote opportunity, choice, health and wellbeing.

You will ensure that the care and support delivered is truly personalised and provided in accordance with agreed care plans, enabling service users to enjoy wellbeing, quality of life and community connections. You will promote and re-inforce a culture of responsive, person-centered practice and active support across the service, with relationships based on respect and unconditional positive regard.

Your rewarding role will include responsibility for:

• Recruitment and selection of staff matched to needs of service users
• Management and support of a team of managers and senior staff
• Deployment of staff to meet the needs of service users
• Ensuring continuous, reliable and consistent service delivery at all times
• Maximising positive outcomes for all service users
• Performance management
• Auditing and Quality Assurance
• Compliance with CQC & commissioner expectations and standards
• Contract management
• Providing excellent customer care to all stakeholders

A current, clean UK driving license is essential for this role, you will be required to drive across Sandwell, Dudley and the West Midlands. You must have at least three years relevant experience of supporting people with learning disabilities and/or autistic spectrum conditions and at least two years’ experience of managing and supervising staff.

This role offers unique and challenging opportunities, bringing great job satisfaction and career development opportunities. We provide accredited management training and health and social care diplomas through our own training academy, as well as local coaching and mentoring by experienced qualified social care practitioners. We may support you with advanced practitioner training opportunities in relevant areas. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development, we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture.

Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Silver award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures.

We expect all applicants to Creative Support to have had at least their first Covid 19 vaccination prior to starting employment with us and to be committed to having the second vaccination within a 3 month period.

Work with us

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. 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, health care 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 encourage people to enjoy healthy vegan food that looks good and tastes great? We’re looking for an enthusiastic Senior B2B Marketing Officer who can help to support both individual behaviour change and system change.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

The Vegan Society as an organisation values equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to be an organisation that tackles any structural discrimination or prejudice. We are actively trying to increase diversity in our organisation and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We will offer an automatic interview to all candidates who meet our essential criteria and who identify as from an under-represented race or ethnicity or as deaf, neurodiverse, or living with disability.

The role

The Senior B2B Marketing Officer role will be responsible for the development of our business to client marketing activities. They will lead on various areas including the sales strategy for the Vegan Trademark. This will include sourcing and managing relationships between various third-party stakeholders, developing and delivering the strategy for how the Vegan Trademark markets outside of the UK and managing a team of two.

This role requires a candidate with experience of business-to-business marketing with a strong focus on sales and conversion, as well as knowledge of brand expansion.

The role is suitable for someone with 3+ years of Sales & Marketing or B2B & Client Relations experience, as well as other essential criteria listed below.

As Senior B2B Marketing Officer you will:

• Own the marketing lead target for incoming clients to the Vegan Trademark.
• Create and manage the strategy for marketing activities to gain leads through B2B marketing.
• Manage the B2B function so that long-term campaigns are managed and monitored.
• Create B2B social channel strategies for non-UK audiences (LinkedIn) and work with the B2B team on developing the established UK strategy.
• Work with the B2B Marketing Officer on producing strong sales content for a variety of digital channels and audiences.
• Own the competitor matrix for the Vegan Trademark to maximise knowledge of the external market and deliver international brand marketing activities.
• Manage the reporting and impact of B2B activities.
• Work alongside the rest of the BD department to gain insightful client feedback to directly impact the development of the marketing strategy for the Vegan Trademark.
• Manage and support the B2B Marketing Officer in their role in delivering leads, providing engaging B2B content and establishing a clear strategy for supporting incoming clients as well as established, renewing clients.
• Manage and support the Marketing Assistant.
• Work alongside the International Sales Manager to expand marketing communications outside of the UK.
• Attends trade and consumer shows when appropriate.
• Deliver talks, workshops or presentations relating to the Trademark and/or VEG 1.
• Work with the Fundraising Manager to identify potential relationships and opportunities that will increase the brand awareness of the Trademark and/or VEG 1 products.

To be considered as our Senior B2B Marketing Officer you must have:

• Marketing, Sales or Business-related degree/qualification (or 3+ years’ workplace experience in Sales & Marketing or B2B & Client Relations
• Experience creating strategic documents and identifying complimentary activities.
• Experience of delivering marketing strategy for sales and brand development.
• Experience utilising B2B social platforms and their related adverts managers.
• Experience in collating, reviewing and monitoring brand competitors.
• A proven track record of generating new leads through marketing activities.
• The ability to produce concise reports and impact briefings.
• A good understanding of business operations for a Trademark/certification scheme: production processes, administration, marketing, PR, promotion and sales.
• Understanding of corporate identity and branding needs.#

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 (5-7% employer contribution)
• Death in service benefit
• 28 Days leave + 8 Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave & 3 closure days)

Additional information

This is full time role (37.5 hours per week) role with a salary of £25,863-£32,718 per annum

This is a predominantly home-based position, but the successful candidate must be willing to travel to our head office in Birmingham when required.

The application deadline is 9am on Friday 10th December 2021.

Interview’s will be held w/c 10th January 2022

Find out more about what it is like to work for The Vegan Society by reading our recruitment pack.

The opportunity

Are you interested in a career in customer service?  Do you love providing excellent customer service? Would you love to work for an amazing charity that funds research that really does save lives?

If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

About the role

We’re looking for three Customer Care Advisors to help us provide a fantastic responsive service to all our customers. 

Acting as one of the first points of contact with the customers, representing British Heart Foundation (BHF) you’ll provide an exceptional level of customer service. You’ll respond to and resolve inbound customers, supporters and fundraisers queries via telephone, email and live chat. 

This role is fast paced and you'll be able o take account for your own work and actions. Using the BHF’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database you’ll keep records of all contact made, updating customers’ addresses, contact preferences and all other admin needs.

We're open to receiving applications from candidates UK wide. Candidates would work a blended contract between home and office working and there will be a requirement for a weekly presence at our Birmingham hub.

Please note these are fixed term contracts for 6 months, with the potential to be extended to 12 months. 

About you

With a high standard of written and spoken English, you’ll have experience working in an call centre environment.You’ll be a fantastic communicator, able to listen and problem solve and able to work at pace. 

You'll have a good standard of IT skills and computer literacy specifically relating to Microsoft Office packages, database/CRM systems and the recording/inputting of data.

With a real passion for delivering world-class customer service, you'll be able to demonstrate excellent customer service skills, with energy and empathy by telephone and in writing. You’ll also be able to demonstrate attention to detail and will have excellent administrative and time management skills to deliver results on time and within target.

About us

We’re here to keep hearts beating and blood flowing. With research spanning all heart and circulatory diseases, we are out to beat the world’s biggest killers. From head to toe you have over 60,000 miles of blood vessels in your body so we have our work cut out.

Here at the BHF we understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life.  Many of our people work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.

We celebrate diversity and make inclusion part of what we do every day. Diversity and Inclusion forms a main pillar in our People Experience Strategy. Our aim is for all of our colleagues and volunteers to bring their true self to work.

Interview process 

The interview process will be held over MS Teams. 

How to apply 
 

It’s quick and easy to apply for a role at the BHF. Just click on the apply button below. All you’ll need is an up to date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role’s criteria.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Our recruitment process requires that successful candidates are asked to consent to a Basic criminal records check and any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.

Can you deliver exceptional customer service and aspire to make a real impact on our customer journey?

About the role

Supporters are at the heart of everything we do, and we believe that donating to us should be a positive and rewarding experience. We are not funded by the government and rely completely on the generosity of our supporters to fund our life saving research.

Our Customer Payment Advisors play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth process of customer payments, working closely with data and income processing. 

In this role, you’ll be processing and thanking all general donations, sponsorship, community fundraising and volunteer income and in memoriam. You will manage administrative tasks from internal and external customers in an efficient and helpful manner within agreed timescales and service levels.

Developing an excellent understanding of the BHF’s CRM database and associated procedures, you’ll ensure the accurate and responsible handling of all data in line with British Heart Foundation (BHF) data policies.

We're open to receiving applications from candidates UK wide. Candidates would work a blended contract between home and office working and there will be a requirement for a weekly presence at our Birmingham hub.

About you

As our ideal candidate, you are a self-starter, with excellent attention to detail, and a calm, can-do attitude. Strong communication skills are essential plus the ability to build successful working relationships. 

You’ll have a good standard of IT skills and computer literacy specifically relating to Microsoft Office packages, database/CRM systems and the recording / inputting of information. This will be matched by your data entry and manipulation skills and ability to proofread.
 
With excellent numerical skills you’ll also have the following skills and experience:
•          Ability to use own initiative and manage own workload
•          Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service skills and respond by telephone and in writing sensitively to our supporters and customers

About us
 
We’re here to keep hearts beating and blood flowing. With research spanning all heart and circulatory diseases, we are out to beat the world’s biggest killers. From head to toe you have over 60,000 miles of blood vessels in your body, so we have our work cut out.

Here at the British Heart Foundation, we celebrate diversity and make inclusion part of what we do every day. Diversity and Inclusion forms a main pillar in our People Experience Strategy, and we drive our strategy through our diversity and inclusion leaders group Kaleidoscope. Our aim is for all of our colleagues and volunteers to bring their true self to work, so we can beat heartbreak for everyone.

Here at the BHF we understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life.  Many of our people work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.

Interview process 

There will be a two stage interview process and planed to be held on:

Telephone interviews - Wednesday 15th December 2021
First Stage Interviews - Monday 20th December 2021 
The interview process will be held over MS Teams. 

What can we offer you

To find out more about benefits available at the BHF please download our benefits document at the bottom of this page.

How to apply 

It’s quick and easy to apply for a role at the BHF. Just click on the apply button below. All you’ll need is an up to date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role’s criteria.
 
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Our recruitment process requires that successful candidates are asked to consent to a Basic criminal records check and any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.

Job Advert – Policy Research Manager

About Reall

Reall is an innovator and investor in climate-smart affordable housing for people living on low incomes in urban Africa and Asia.

Reall’s purpose is to improve the lives of 100M people in urban Africa and Asia by 2030 through affordable housing.  We’re doing this because homes aren’t just a fundamental human right; they unleash unimaginable human potential to shape a future of gender parity, climate resilience, clean air, renewable energy, and socio-economic justice.

The Role

We are looking for a Policy Research Manager to lead Reall’s research

and impact targets, and its shaping and transforming global affordable housing agendas.  This role will lead and manage research, which drives our communication and shapes partnerships.  We want this role to help Reall in achieving tangible change, including through the influencing of external stakeholders.

Ideally you will have first-hand, or considerable research, experience related to urban development and/or housing in the global South.  You will be a confident communicator, enjoy influencing and shifting mindsets, and have a strong research and writing skillset matched with an ability to work across key areas related to

Reall’s mission, namely climate-smart and affordable housing, understanding and evidencing the needs of the bottom 40 per cent, and exploring innovative technologies and applications.  Finally, you will enjoy working across diverse teams in a matrix environment.

Full details are in the job description and person specification, which are available by clicking through to apply for this role.  Please note that you must have the right to live and work in the UK to be eligible to apply for this role.

Why work at Reall?

With a modest UK-based team, Reall is an organisation driven by efficiency, with comparatively huge ambitions and a track record of significant success.

Our internal operations are underpinned by a culture of psychological safety, promoting trust, curiosity, and confidence.  This means that staff feel secure to speak their minds, tackle challenges creatively, and can never be described as risk averse.

A committed investor in its staff, Reall promotes an environment of conscious diversity in all its forms.  You’ll be joining a high-performing, cohesive team with its sights firmly on global impact.

Reall is committed to equality and diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We particularly welcome applications from candidates who are black, Asian, minority ethnic, LGBTQ+, and those who have disabilities, because we believe a diverse and inclusive workforce is important for our organisation and will lead to greater results and enhance our way of working.

Work with us

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. 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, health care 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 encourage people to enjoy healthy vegan food that looks good and tastes great? We’re looking for an enthusiastic dietitian who can help to support both individual behaviour change and system change.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

The Vegan Society as an organisation values equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to be an organisation that tackles any structural discrimination or prejudice. We are actively trying to increase diversity in our organisation and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We will offer an automatic interview to all candidates who meet our essential criteria and who identify as from an under-represented race or ethnicity or as deaf, neurodiverse, or living with disability.

The role

This role will be working within a team of sales professionals proactively contacting business to sell the benefits of the Vegan Trademark. They will nurture sustainable and long-term relationships finding the right fit our clients and delivering excellent customer service across a variety of touch points.

The post requires an experienced salesperson who can work across the new remote landscape as well as presenting confidently face to face. They should be motivated by closing deals, hitting targets and have an eye for spotting new opportunities.

More widely they will also support the sale of our Product VEG 1 via our expanding network of wholesalers.

As Trademark Sales Executive you will:

• Identify Trademark strategy driven sales opportunities within the supermarkets business line and take forward to confirmed order stage by engagement, meetings, to be achieved by cold calling, networking and social media
• Cross sell and upsell to existing supermarket clients
• Identify and convert new global supermarkets to adopt the vegan trademark
• Convert leads into orders through effective and timely engagement, selling the key features and benefits of the Vegan Trademark
• Develop tactical sales plans in line with sales Trademark strategy
• Develop own sales pipeline in line with budget driven targets
• Set up & agree amendments to Licensed Agreements & Non-Disclosure Agreements & deal directly with new clients & prospective clients with regards to all enquiries about Trademark applications from the UK & Internationally
• Identify and develop any necessary projects & processes for streamlining work and improving the client experience in conjunction with line manager
• Identification, engagement and successful closing of new business accounts
• Support the supermarkets team with effective Key Account Management
• Manage and grow accounts in identified business lines, ensuring excellent communications and customer care skills are demonstrated, to retain, maintain and increase client accounts
• Keep up to date and with accurate database and paper records inputting for clients on a designated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system with an excellent level of attention to recording detail
• Develop a good understanding of the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods market across the range of products we register with the Trademark
• Attend trade shows and events as needed.
• Collaborate with Trademark Operations and Marketing teams & refer opportunities for promotional/marketing activities from accounts
• Provide monthly updates on Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), objectives & workload progress to the Line Manager which will contribute to the overall success of the team

To be considered as our Trademark Sales Executive you must have:

• Proven experience as a Sales Executive or relevant role
• Demonstratable sales success within a B2B environment
• A thorough understanding of marketing and negotiating techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Computer literacy with strong MS Office skills
• The ability to establish strong working relationships with colleagues and Trademark clients
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and work to deadlines whilst under pressure.
• A good understanding of business operations: production processes and administration
• Demonstratable problem solving skills
• A professional and responsible approach confident and friendly manner

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 (5-7% employer contribution)
• Death in service benefit
• 28 Days leave + 8 Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave & 3 closure days)

Additional information

This is full time role (37.5 hours per week) role with a salary of £24,391 - £27,041 per annum

This is a predominantly home-based position, but the successful candidate must be willing to travel to our head office in Birmingham when required.

The application deadline is 9am on Friday 3rd December 2021.

Interview’s will be held throughout December.

Find out more about what it is like to work for The Vegan Society by reading our recruitment pack.

OVERVIEW

Hours: Full time - 36.5 hours per week

Location: A combination of office (Birmingham) and remote home working (during the current pandemic). Some occasional UK travel will be required.

Introduction to The Active Wellbeing Society

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) are a community benefit society and cooperative working to tackle inequality and promote community wellbeing. Our work with communities cuts across a wide range of policy agendas – from health and social care to transport and planning, community cohesion to climate action, jobs and skills to physical activity – and is increasingly recognised nationally as demonstrating best practice in reaching and supporting those from our most disadvantaged communities and achieving significant system and behaviour change.

Introduction to the role and department

As Funding Development Lead, you will take a senior role in identifying opportunities for funding, working with managers and directors to develop project proposals in line with TAWS’ strategic aims, mission and values. You will be responsible for drafting and coordinating funding applications related to health and wellbeing, working with the wider team to produce high quality proposals and managing a funding pipeline. You will also work with partners and stakeholders to co-produce joint funding applications and develop good relationships with relevant funders.

This role, based in the Funding & Strategy team, will support development across a number of areas including within health, wellbeing and activity, as well as programme areas aimed at tackling inequalities.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

1.Work with managers and Directors to scope, develop and sustain projects in line with our strategic aims and objectives

2.Identify relevant opportunities for funding and take a leading role in shaping and developing new projects including developing budgets in line with resource requirements

3.Work across Directorates such as Healthy Communities, Data and Insight and Active Communities to ensure collaborative approach to funding and business development is achieved 

4.Produce high quality funding bids including writing and editing copy and support the team to draft funding applications

5.Ensure that deadlines are met and that submissions are managed in a timely way

6.Play a leading role in supporting the development of the funding function, including supporting the wider organisation to develop fundraising skills

7.Support the Head of Funding and Strategy to embed clear processes within the team, including managing and monitoring the funding pipeline

8.Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external) including coproducing funding bids with partners

9.Keep abreast of new and emergent thinking across wellbeing, community development and tackling inequalities

10. Develop written materials that raise the profile of the organisation and the services we deliver for a range of audiences and to different stakeholders

11. Support the teams to develop materials and information outlining good practice in service delivery

12. Produce content that supports funding applications and business development such as case studies, stories, good practice information

13. Ensure that key info relevant to bud submissions is up to date and of a high quality (i.e. service delivery information, service and team information, key content relevant to bids and applications)

14. Carry out all duties as may be reasonably assigned from time to time and within the level of this job description

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

1.Experience of public sector commissioning / tendering for contracts (e.g., health, social care, employment, research)

2.Experience of engaging with stakeholders (internally and externally) – strong upward management skills and ability to influence senior leaders

3.Experience of working with funders/commissioners

4.Strong written communication skills and excellent attention to detail

5.Experience of responding to grant funding opportunities, including trusts and foundations

6.Entrepreneurial approach and experience of project management within a complex and changing environment

7.Highly organised with the ability to manage and prioritise own workload and comfortable juggling multiple projects

8.Understanding of health landscape desirable

9.Experience of working in health (NHS, primary/secondary care, voluntary sector, Public Health or Social Care) desirable

10. Passion for tackling inequality and promoting community wellbeing – and a keen understanding of the social and political landscape we operate in

STAFF BENEFITS

• Nest Pension – 8% employer contribution - 3 % employee contribution.
• Heath Cash Plan – giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more.
• Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)
• Death in Service – x4 your salary paid to beneficiary.
• Annual Leave – 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days
• Flexible working
• Hybrid working options
• Bring your own device - £20 towards your phone bill monthly
• Fantastic volunteering opportunities within The Active Wellbeing Society every month

APPLICATION DETAILS

Please submit a Cover Letter and CV.

When writing your cover letter we would suggest include an introduction of your experience of the 'Main Duties' and 'Skills & Experience' sections of the advert.

Application Closing date:19th December 2021

Due to the high numbers of applications we received for our job vacancies, we may close application windows early, so we would encourage you to submit your application ASAP

Interview date: TBC

Successful applicants will be required to be DBS checked prior to starting.

We will provide all applicants with an outcome on your application, this will usually be within 1 week of the application window closing.

Thank you for your interest in working for The Active Wellbeing Society, we look forward to receiving your application.