This is an opportunity to join a growing team at the Global Distributors Collective (GDC). The GDC started in October 2018 and, since then, we have gone from strength to strength supporting our members – last mile distribution organisations – to sell life-changing products to low-income, remote or otherwise marginalised people across the world. Our ambition is to make last mile distribution the first priority.

Engaging with our members and partners sits at the core of everything we do; from delivering our innovation workstream and providing technical assistance directly to our members, to hosting learning and collaboration events and gathering/disseminating research and insights. In this role you will work closely with the Head of the GDC, GDC Project Manager and particularly the Communications and Impact Manager to help shape and deliver an ambitious agenda of communications activities, to support last mile distribution companies to save time, money and increase their impact at the last mile. You will also coordinate our member engagement work, providing you with an opportunity to liaise directly with, and learn about, socially-driven companies operating all across the world.

No two days working for the GDC are the same. We are a small, fun and fast-paced team looking forward to welcoming a new team member into the mix!

About you

You are an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a questioning mind and desire to learn. As a communications professional, you will have exceptional written and verbal communications skills and be comfortable liaising with a range of stakeholders. Your eye for design means you are creative with the ability to champion the GDC brand, ensuring that our external communications are always top quality. You will be familiar with working in a customer- or client-facing role; experience working or volunteering within a membership organisation would be an asset.

You are comfortable to work remotely and undertake tasks independently, often delivering work to time-pressured deadlines; while also being a keen team player and ready to chip in when necessary. While you may not have prior experience of working in the international development sector, you’ll have an interest in development issues and finding ways to improve the lives of marginalised people.

As our small international team works predominantly in English, it’s important that you are a fluent English speaker. Many of our members speak French as a first language, so French language skills would also be an asset!

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

Our other benefits include:

• Full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week
• 26 days holiday rising with continuous service, in addition to public holidays.
• Pension scheme - employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave.
• Life assurance (3 x annual salary).
• Bike to Work scheme.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme
• Remote working / home working is possible with this role.

About us

Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

Additional information

We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.

Closing date for applications: midnight GMT Friday 19th March

Tentative Interview date: week commencing 29th March

Please note that, should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.

Are you experienced in engaging citizens in practical social change and looking for your next challenge?

Are you interested in working for a progressive and constantly evolving organisation?

We’re looking for an Area Manager to help us deliver an impactful, stimulating and inclusive programme of opportunities (including peer to peer) for RSA Fellows in the Midlands and East of England.

We’re looking for someone who has demonstrable knowledge of and interest in participatory engagement. You will be a creative problem solver, experienced at helping turn people's ideas into action, managing diverse networks and be passionate about engaging citizens in the process of change. You will be a self-starter with the ability to develop collaborative working relationships with people from a diverse range of backgrounds, professions and interests. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in the RSA’s key research programmes.

To find out more about this role, please visit our website.

About Us

We are the RSA.  The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce.  We’re committed to a future that works for everyone, a future where we all can participate in its creation. With over 250 years of heritage in making significant social impact, we bring together, our rigorous research, proven change process, influential ideas platforms and our global community of over 30,000 problem solvers united in a desire to deliver solutions for lasting change.

To achieve this, we ask everyone – our staff, our Fellowship, our collaborators, our partners and wider society – to commit to our values and world view, and strive to achieve genuine positive impact in our lives. This isn’t something we can achieve overnight. But we are asking you to join us all on this journey. The commitment you make now, is a commitment to be with us, to shape us, to challenge us, and to stimulate us all, to find better ways of thinking, acting and delivering change.

It represents the pact you sign when you join us. A pact that represents everything we do, every decision we make, and every action we take.

And it represents how we act. In a way that represents out values, with rigour and proven processes. A relentless spirit. Open minds, and an open door.

We bring to life out Commit to Impact brand idea through every organisational touchpoint, so we can ask everyone who interacts with us: will you?

We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas to resolve the challenges of our time.

We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more!

Apply

In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am 15 March 2021. Interviews will be in the week commencing 22 March. A second interview will follow in the week commencing 29 March if you are successful in these initial stages, to be arranged on a 1:1 basis.

Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.

We are working with a well-known charity based in the Midlands to recruit a Prospect Researcher. You will be joining a successful and growing team, supporting with activities across all funding streams. This is a new and exciting position that offers a good step into prospect research and fundraising.

You will be working with a supportive and collaborate manager who will offer lots of training and development.
 

Duties for the Prospect Researcher:
Undertake primary and desk research to identity, charitable trusts, community, corporate and potential high net worth individuals
Prepare profiles, reports and development plans on existing and prospective donors
Utilise the database to record and monitor supporter relationships and interactions
Support the head of department to develop use of the database, utilising specific modules in RE
Provide reports and communications to funders and other internal and external audiences
 

You will have:
Excellent communication and writing skills
Proactive and forward-thinking attitude, the ability to work on own initiative
Ideally some knowledge of fundraising however this is not essential
Strong MS office skills
Knowledge of CRM or relational databases would be desirable

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call on 02030 062787 or email [email protected]

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable roles. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically, supporting people to find their perfect role within the not-for-profit sector.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.
 

If enough applications are received the charity reserve the right to end the application period sooner.

This is a great opportunity to join our local delivery teams in our Central Region.  We are looking for an Operations Executives to manage a caseload of Young People into sustainable outcomes.  We are currently working from home which will feature for the foreseeable period.

Your responsibilities will include delivery of a range of sessions to local Young people helping them secure positive outcomes in Employment, Education or Enterprise. Working as part of a small team you will need to be flexible, adaptable and build great relationships with Young People, our delivery partners and volunteers. You will help to deliver our ambitious plans to provide the very best support to young people across the area whilst ensuring the Trust is known to local recruiters for referrals. Within your role you will have responsibility for a specific theme, either Enterprise, Education or employability.

We have the ambition to become the very best organisation within the sector. You will be required to continually innovate, review, and support our operations to ensure we deliver the very best for young people across the area. 

We want to hear from applicants that have high motivation to succeed, can work to local contract requirements and KPIs and are a great team member.

 You will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders (internal and external) and ensure that our delivery plans are achieved, and the quality and impact is high.

The Trust has a behavioural framework which informs all our work with colleagues, young people and partners. Through the process, the successful candidate will demonstrate their ability to lead by example, communicate effectively, continually improve themselves and others and by working as one team deliver results for the benefit of young people.

Please note: We will begin reviewing applications prior to the closing date so we advise you to submit something sooner rather than later. If you have already applied, you do not need to reapply. 

This charities story spans over 80 years, during which they have made a huge difference to the lives of thousands of former servicemen and their families. From their wellbeing services to pension advice and financial support, this charity delivers a person centred approach to support individuals and they are now looking to reach and help even more beneficiaries.

Charity People are thrilled to be heading up the search party to find this wonderful charity a talented Supporter Insight Analyst. The supporter insight role is diverse, fast paced and purposeful. You will be manipulating large volumes of data from multiple sources, wrangling and cleaning datasets. Shaping forecasting and testing tools to refine and complement the organisations supporter engagement strategy. Collaborating and advancing the use of the CRM/Salesforce platform. Being proactive to find solutions to derive actionable insights and evolving ways for the charity to gain feedback from members/supporters on their experience. You will produce tools and deliver reporting to monitor KPI progress as well as benchmarking and monitoring the external landscape. You will working closely with the Supporter Insight Manager in delivering bespoke supporter data analysis and forecasting to shape their engagement planning and strategy. Working with other teams, you will define the scope of their data requirements, progress accordingly, and ensure all data from all sources can be integrated to provide a 360-degree supporter picture.

On our absolutely 'must haves':

The Supporter Insight Analysit will be an experienced data and supporter champion who is confident, positive, patient and empathetic in your approach. You will have previously worked in designing, producing and communicating strategic insights and recommendations to maximise the potential of an organisations customer or supporter database in order to improve engagement, income generation or sales. You will be a first class communicator, adaptable in your approach to project management and a hands on strategic thinker who has a real passion using data to develop new ideas. You will have a depth of industry experience in either a marketing or business discipline which covers response analysis, customer or supporter segmentation models, profiling and lifetime value models. You will need to have skills and experience in data visualisation skills/story telling using tools such as Power BI or Tableau. An advanced level of computer literacy in SQL, Pivot Tables and Excel, experience of using CRM databases desirably in Salesforce and a working knowledge of current GDPR and PECR legislation best practice.

This charity provides some fantastic staff benefits and has an incredible flexible working policy. The role can be homebased with travel to Leicester for meetings & training when needed.

Closing ASAP
Interviws 12th March

For more information on this exciting opportunity, please contact Ellen Drummond at Charity People

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.