Head of HR Operations
Ref: JAN20217225
Location: Flexible
Salary: £39,970 - £44,290 – Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Annual Leave

As the leading conservation charity in the UK, the RSPB has an ambitious programme of work transforming its approach to saving nature.

Recognising that people are at the heart of delivering this we have an exciting opportunity for a talented and driven individual to join our HR and L&D Team.

Reporting to the Head of HR and Development you will be a strong leader with extensive experience in delivering results through people.

What the job is about?

The Head of HR Operations is a new role leading and managing the HR Operation function to deliver an employee focused approach where HR processes effectively support business needs and add value.

You will have full responsibility for all HR transactional services, resourcing and employee relations support leading 3 direct reports to deliver exceptional customer service through their teams.

Key deliverables will include 

• Creating and developing workforce policies and procedures that maintain the legal compliance of our management processes
• Developing the management of performance processes to ensure that the organisation benefits from high performance from all of its workforce
• Ensuring that all of our HR processes lead to accurate workforce data that supports the monthly payroll process
• Creating and communicating workforce data that allows the organisation to lead and make decisions based on relevant and up to date information
• Ensuring that our advertising and recruitment processes are inclusive and attract and retain the best possible workforce for the delivery of our strategy
• Delivering the best possible HR advice to all levels of leadership in the organisation
• Using your extensive knowledge of HR law to advise change leaders to create the most effective organisational change programmes
• Contributing to the development of the pay and reward strategy of the organisation to ensure that the workforce that is fairly paid
• Working closely with the Head of Learning & Organisational Development and Head of Business Planning to create an aligned leadership team that leads the overall HR & Development team to deliver our work plans
• Ensuring that all of our record keeping and data processing procedures comply with GDPR requirements
• Reviewing and updating our employment contracts and policies 
• Understanding the unique roles and responsibilities, strategic goals and delivery plans throughout the organisation to provide a proactive HR service

Essential skills and experience

• CIPD qualification or able to show equivalent ability through work experience
• Sound knowledge of HR Law to give professional advice
• Significant HR experience in an operational environment and experience of creating HR policy
• Knowledge of the RSPB and its mission
• Experience of leading and developing a team of specialists leading to high performance and a positive culture
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to present, influence and build partnerships both in and outside of the organisation
• Collaboration skills to build relationships, navigate politics and manage conflicts
• Project management skills and an understanding of project management frameworks to plan and manage risks, costs, and time in project delivery
• Experience of leading change
• Experience of setting standards and managing systems to provide HR business information

Closing date: 23:59, 1 February 2021

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 where you can complete your application.

No agencies please.

Head of Learning and Organisational Development
Ref: JAN20217223
Location: Flexible
Salary: £39,970 - £44,290 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Annual Leave

As the leading conservation charity in the UK, the RSPB has an ambitious programme of work transforming its approach to saving nature.

Recognising that people are at the heart of delivering this we have an exciting opportunity for a talented and driven individual to join our HR and L&D Team.

Reporting to the Head of HR and Development you will be a strong leader with extensive experience in delivering results through people.

What the job is about

The Head of Learning and Organisational Development is a new role leading and managing the L&D function to interpret business priorities and implement effective learning and development interventions that support the organisation's strategic goals.

Working closely with the Head of HR Operations and Head of Business Partnering you will create an aligned leadership team that leads the overall HR & Development team to deliver our work plans, engage with key stakeholders leading organisational change programmes to build a specific and comprehensive learning and development strategy that is an enabler for behavioural change.

Key deliverables will include

• Setting the learning and development strategy and embrace and develop the skills of the team to bring this to life
• A future focused learning offer that meets a blend of learning preferences across the generations and makes use of developing technology
• Developing the learning culture of the organisation through the engagement of your leadership colleagues
• Liaising closely with the People business partners for visibility of change to effectively plan and budget for learning and development support
• Creating effective ROI processes that promote the value of development 
• Taking advantage of all organisational intelligence to inform the future development offer whilst promoting a focus on career and self-development throughout the organisation
• Regularly communicating how the Learning & Development priorities contribute to and support the corporate strategy
• Creating a cohesive plan of internal talent development whilst complimenting this with a plan of a variety of entry level trainees
• Prioritising the elements of the learning and development strategy for delivery across all levels of the organisation
• Building a network of key internal stakeholders with whom you create specific and comprehensive engagement plans
• Working closely with those leading organisational change programmes to support behavioural change
• Role modeling and advocating high levels of enterprise leadership

Essential skills and experience

• Degree level qualification in a relevant subject or able to show equivalent ability through work experience
• Knowledge of the RSPB and its mission
• Experience of leading and developing an L&D team leading to high performance and a positive culture
• Significant experience in creating relevant L&D interventions and working with psychometric testing
• Experience of developing entry level talent such as graduates and apprentices 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to present, influence and build partnerships both in and outside of the organisation
• Collaboration skills to build relationships, navigate politics and manage conflicts
• Project management skills and an understanding of project management frameworks to plan and manage risks, costs, and time in project delivery
• Experience of leading change
• Ability to provide professional expertise and advice

Closing date: 23:59, 1 February 2021

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

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

No agencies please.

Job Description - Part-time Senior Fundraiser (Trusts) and Communications Officer

Tom’s Trust provides psychological support for children with brain tumours and their families, currently in the East of England and in the North East. We are a small, dynamic, charity, with a vision that all families will in the future have this support and a new strategy to make this happen.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a motivate, skilled, supportive individual to join our dynamic fundraising team.

Role: Senior Fundraising and Communications Officer
Based: Cambridge (Whittlesford) but with some homeworking if wished
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week, with flexibility

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years fundraising experience, specifically with success in applying for grants and trusts; good communication skills both in writing and in person, ideally including writing for websites and other digital work
• Drivers Licence and use of car
• Good IT skills essential
• Some experience of marketing useful
• Salary: £15,000 - £20,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

As Senior Fundraiser and Communications Officer, you will be responsible for continuing to develop our Case for Support and for putting together large applications for grants and trusts, including creating project budgets. You will have experience with Wordpress and maintaining website content, with skilled and inspiring writing, and good technical skills creating images for social media, websites and newsletters.

You will be confident using Microsoft programmes, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Donorfy or a similar database would be a bonus.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience of developing and implementing fundraising strategies and ability to create motivating and inspiring proposals to trusts and foundations. You will be a confident speaker for presentations and talks and have an experience in building trust and relationships with supporters.

Closing date: 12 January 2021.To Apply and for More Information, please email your CV. Interviews in January with the aim to start asap. No agencies please.

SOS Children's Villages UK is going through an exciting period of growth, as part of which we are strengthening our corporate partnerships team.

Reporting to the Head of Corporate Partnerships, you will help grow SOS Children’s Villages UK’s income from companies through a range of mechanisms including employee fundraising, Charity of the Year, cause-related marketing and strategic partnerships.

The SOS Children's Villages UK offices are in Cambridge but this role can be largely home-based with travel to Cambridge, London and partners as required. Everyone is currently working from home as per government guidelines.

Please see the attached job description for further information about our Corporate Partnerships Officer role, how to apply and employee benefits (including a generous holiday entitlement, a contributory pension scheme and a Training & Development Policy) 

Applicants must be UK based (as must be able to travel reguarly if required as mentioned above), have the right to work in the UK and be able to produce the relevant valid documentation.

We will be unable to consider applications that do not have a cover letter.

SOS Children's Villages UK is going through an exciting period of growth, as part of which we are strengthening our programme funding team.

Reporting to the Head of Programme Funding, the Grant Fundraising Manager will secure charitable income from grant making organisations and support applications to statutory and lottery funding, prioritising restricted funds and projects with the greatest need, while ensuring unrestricted funding opportunities are maximised. With a passion and creativity for developing high quality grant applications and reports, you will be responsible for research to ensure a regular and reliable pipeline of new prospects, developing grant proposals and reports, whilst also leveraging existing relationships.

The SOS Children's Villages UK offices are in Cambridge but this role can be largely home-based with travel to Cambridge, London and partners as required. Everyone is currently working from home as per government guidelines.

Please see the attached job description for further information about our Grant Fundraising Manager role, how to apply and employee benefits (including a generous holiday entitlement, a contributory pension scheme and a Training & Development Policy) 

Applicants must be UK based (as must be able to travel if required as mentioned above), have the right to work in the UK and be able to produce the relevant valid documentation.

We will be unable to consider applications that do not have a cover letter.

About Caring Together

Caring Together is a leading charity supporting carers of all ages across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk. 
We provide information and advice, run services in our local communities and campaign so that carers have choices. 
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 role - Fundraising officer – trusts and foundations

It is an exciting time to consider being part of our Caring Together team. We are focussing on growth to reach more carers.  Working as part of the Fundraising and engagement team, your days will be varied and might involve researching new funding opportunities, developing a case for support for a project, collaborating with senior leaders in developing a funding bid to building a new relationship with a potential funder.

You will you to get to know all areas of the charity from carer services to digital transformation.

This is a permanent, part time post, working 14 hours flexibly per week.  The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary of £25,000 - £27,000 FTE, and company benefits as detailed below.

The perfect candidate is an experienced, organised and determined trust and foundations fundraiser with the commitment and enthusiasm to develop and grow income against ambitious fundraising targets.

Key accountabilities of the role

• To collaborate with relevant colleagues to research, develop and produce accurate and compelling funding proposals.
• To grow and develop a funding pipeline in support of the charity’s strategic objectives.
• Develop and manage a portfolio of existing and new funders to maximise voluntary income.

Benefits

• Opportunity to experience working in a charity that makes caring rewarding.
• Competitive salary £25,000 - £27,000, FTE.
• Flexible working including homeworking but with occasional travel to our Cambridgeshire office (St Ives) and Norfolk office (Swaffham).
• 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.
• Permanent post working 14 hours per week.

Skills and knowledge

• Experienced trust and foundations fundraiser who can demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and a proven track record of generating charitable income from trusts and foundations in the voluntary sector and or health and social care sector.
• Ability to effectively monitor, analyse and evaluate projects.
• Experience of engaging with a diverse range of users and stakeholders with excellent customer service ethos.

For further information or for an informal chat about this opportunity please contact Hannah Crouch, Head of Fundraising and engagement at Caring Together. Her email address can be found on our website. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is important to read the full Job Pack which can be downloaded below. Applications will not be considered without a supporting statement of how you meet the criteria and short application form.

The closing date for all applications is 9am on 1 February 2021

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.  We welcome applications from those with different strengths and the value that comes with difference and the positive contribution that diversity brings to our community.

Caring Together is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.

No agencies please. 

Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) is dedicated to supporting innovation in patient care at Addenbrooke's and the Rosie hospitals. Whether it's treatment for an emergency, acute condition, pregnancy or long-term illness, we believe that every patient deserves the highest quality of care available.

We are looking for an experienced high value major donor fundraiser with hands on experience of asking for and securing major gifts. You will lead our £1.5M robot appeal to fund a new surgical robot at Addenbrooke’s. As a strong team player, you will have the ambition to drive the appeal, ensuring supporters engage with it and donate at significant levels.

The role will entail managing and growing a portfolio of major supporters. You will find yourself working with amazing clinical teams; from nurses to matrons, surgeons and consultants – to senior hospital leaders and Trustees. 

This role is a wonderful opportunity to make a huge impact on the treatment and care offered to patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s longest established international conservation organisation. Our vision is to create a sustainable future for the planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living closest to it. We aim to do this through the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. We have become a trusted entity in the world of conservation. Today FFI is active in over 40 countries.

You will support delivery of FFI’s strategy that seeks to empower our partner organisations to achieve their conservation goals. You will lead the technical capacity support that the Partnerships & Organisational Development (PODs) Programme offers to FFI staff to help them effectively manage partner relationships and support the partner’s organisational development. You will lead on and ensure implementation of FFI’s Partner Due Diligence process. You will assess and evaluate staff capacity in supporting the organisational development of partner organisations. Where appropriate, you will also support needs-based capacity development interventions for priority FFI conservation partner organisations.

You will have the ability to build and manage relationships with a wide range of individuals and organisations. You will have excellent facilitation, communication and collaboration skills, including consensus-building skills and be able to apply these to diverse groups of people. You should have a minimum of 5 years demonstrated knowledge and experience relating to organisational development. You will need good knowledge of strategic development/Theory of Change approaches and significant experience of providing capacity building, mentoring and/or training support to others. You should be passionate about mentoring and capacity building, be able to build positive personal and institutional relationships, and have the ability to work across multi-disciplinary groups and geographically dispersed teams.

In return, the role offers the opportunity to work within a ground-breaking and entrepreneurial organisation, at the forefront of global conservation. In addition, FFI offers a generous pension contribution, attractive annual leave allowance and life insurance. Our offices are located in The David Attenborough Building in central Cambridge, just a few minutes’ walk from glorious historic buildings and museums, the picturesque River Cam, the central market and shopping centre, and a host of cafés and restaurants.

For further details and to apply please click here

Please note that the closing date for applications has been extended to Sunday, 24 January 2021.

Director of Development
Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Highly Competitive Salary

Fitzwilliam seeks to appoint an experienced professional into the role of Director of Development, a lead for philanthropic fundraising across the College. This is a key senior, strategic position and comes at an exciting time, with the recent appointment of Baroness Sally Morgan as the College’s ninth Master.

Fitzwilliam is a large, modern, diverse and friendly college and enjoys a seven-acre tranquil site within ten minutes' cycle ride of all the major faculties and departments. Most of its award-winning contemporary architecture dates from the 1960s onwards, including some of the best student accommodation in Cambridge, a state-of-the-art auditorium and the Olisa Library. Fitzwilliam's beautiful gardens are one of Cambridge's best-kept secrets. 

The community is a dynamic, forward-looking one, reflecting Fitzwilliam’s motto of ‘The Best of the Old and the New’. The College combines a drive for academic excellence and inquiry, with a commitment to widening access to a Cambridge education. Fitzwilliam has one of the highest proportions of state school pupils in Cambridge and can demonstrate through its results that widening participation and academic success go hand in hand. 

Fitzwilliam maintains close relationships with a community of over 10,000 alumni, who give support financially and in other ways. The 150th Anniversary Campaign that concluded two years ago, having raised £23.5 million over a ten-year period, was an illustration of that support. With the arrival of the new Master in 2019 and a new Bursar in 2020, the College has embarked on the development of a new strategic plan, which will enable Fitzwilliam to redefine its mission, to be confident about its identity as a college and to develop clear priorities for the years ahead. The components of this refreshed strategic vision will be used to form the basis of a new and ambitious fundraising campaign for the College.

The College sees this appointment as an exciting and challenging opportunity for a strategic and motivated individual who will actively seek - and seize - new fundraising opportunities, be they within Fitzwilliam’s alumni community or beyond. Supported by a new Communications & Alumni Engagement team, which sits alongside Development, the Director will lead a dedicated team of three with scope to reorganise and/or build the team as needed. The Director will report directly to the Bursar and will carry a dotted reporting line to the Master. Both the Master and Bursar are committed to give generously of their time and networks in the pursuit of ambitious philanthropy for the College. The Director will be expected to spend a significant proportion of time meeting with current or prospective donors in the UK and overseas.

As the College’s principal fundraiser, you will carry your own portfolio of major gifts prospects and will have a lead role in the solicitation of major donations. You will be a confident communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills and an enjoyment of people. You will have a strong sense of integrity and a proven track record in securing philanthropic gifts from major donors, together with experience of a variety of styles and types of fundraising campaigns, expertise in relationship management, outstanding organisational and management skills and a passion for the mission of Fitzwilliam College.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the world’s leading academic institutions and, with the full support of the new leadership, to deliver a step-change in philanthropic fundraising. 

The College recognises the importance of this position and a Fellowship will be awarded to the successful candidate.

We are looking for a reliable, professional administrator. You would provide a first point of contact for clients, referrers and other stakeholders as well as providing admin support to our team of front line staff.  Some hours will need to be worked at our office in Hardwick near Cambridge to scan post and send stationery and PPE to colleagues.  You will need to be organised and flexible with good IT skills and a willingness to tackle a range of tasks.  Application by CV and covering letter addressing the points in the person specification by midday on Friday 22nd January.  If you do not address the points in the person specification your application may not be considered.

23 hours a week Monday to Friday,  some of which can be worked from home.

Salary £14,898 for a 23 hour week (£23,966.11 pa pro rata)

Sciety is a platform for research communication where new research results in biology, medicine and other sciences are made available for peer review and curation by different expert communities. It is built and operated by a small team at eLife Sciences Publications Limited.

Communities of discipline experts, academic societies, journal editors, early-career reviewers, or institution- and department-level teams can share expert reviews of new findings and help readers to navigate the expanding volume of literature made openly available every day. We have communities like eLife, PREReview, Review Commons and Peer Community as examples of those already on board.

We are now seeking a Community and Outreach Manager to help us change behaviour in scholarly communication to make it more open, diverse and trustworthy. We want to grow the usage and influence of the platform by talking to new communities, helping existing communities and finding groups of readers and authors to use it.

Our Team

You’ll join a small and enthusiastic cross-functional team who are passionate about continuous improvement and building tools to enable positive change. Everyone gets involved in all aspects of the platform, with our group of eight staff regularly discussing the next software feature to experiment with, based on user feedback. You’ll represent the needs of communities in those conversations and choose the metrics we use to measure engagement. You’ll also assist our Product Manager and the rest of the team in promoting the platform to potential users through a variety of channels.

The distributed team works remotely in a very sociable way. Most of the software development takes place on a single video call with others joining occasionally to provide input and join the conversation. We also have a regular “campfire” session where we learn about each other and share team folklore to improve our shared understanding of what we’re building and how. The team constantly adapts to meet the needs of its members: we meet briefly at the beginning and end of every day, always looking to make improvements to our process and practices. We also have a number of ways to reserve time for self-directed and team-based learning.

About You

You care about building a strong sense of community around a product and know how technology can enhance the lives of people that use it. You know that getting the best out of a system comes from strong collaboration with the people using it, both on the user side and within your team. You enjoy working with diverse communities that want to try new things, and have spent time building new communities through social media and marketing. Engaging in discussions to attract like-minded evangelists to your product and uniting them around a common cause is something that excites you.

You’ll succeed in this role if you’re self-motivated, flexible, responsive, and willing to take on a variety of tasks. In addition you’ll have:

• Some experience in community outreach and management
• Strong relationship-management skills
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills

Your Responsibilities

This role will allow you to exercise and develop your expertise in community-building and marketing through:

• Identifying and recruiting communities of expert peer-reviewers to the platform
• Listening to communities, serving as their primary contact point and providing support so that we can make their use of Sciety a success
• Increasing awareness of and readership for Sciety and the content we have
• Liaising with communities to facilitate smooth on-boarding and integration with their existing services
• Representing Sciety at events and meetings

About Our Offer

Sciety is operated by a team within eLife who are a well-supported, not-for-profit, mission-driven organisation. It’s important to us that you thrive as a person, not just at your job. We invest in the wellbeing of our staff and promote a culture where feedback and ideas are welcome from across the company, so you’ll get the chance to really make a difference.

The post is a permanent position, 37.5 hours per week, and offers a competitive basic annual salary in the range of £32,500-£37,000 (depending on experience). Applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK to be considered for the vacancy. We also offer:

• A flexible approach to working hours and remote working
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, increasing on service up to 30 days
• 4 days per year dedicated to your personal development
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Company pension scheme

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace and we actively encourage applications from groups that are underrepresented throughout the industry.

To apply

Please send your CV and a covering letter explaining your enthusiasm for this position and why you are a great person for this role. Informal enquiries are very welcome; please contact Paul Shannon, Head of Technology, via p.shannon[at]elifesciences[.]org.

The closing date for applications is Friday, 29th January, 2021 at 5pm GMT. Interviews will be arranged remotely via Google Meet or Zoom video-call. Candidates invited for an interview will be contacted by Friday, 5th February, 2021.

Reference ID: SCOM/2020-12