Flexible working available. We are open to a wide range of locations and working patterns, please ask.  We have a Central London office where we’ll need you to be at least once a month.

About the Centre

We are the UK’s national body for wellbeing evidence and practice aiming to improve wellbeing in the UK through the use of evidence. The Centre is an independent collaborative organisation working to understand what governments, business, communities and people can do to improve wellbeing using research, data, professional experience and trying things out. 

• Our vision is of a future where the wellbeing of people and communities improves year on year and wellbeing inequalities are reduced. We believe that improving wellbeing is the ultimate objective of policy and community action.
• Our mission is to develop and share robust, accessible and useful evidence that governments, businesses, communities and people use to improve wellbeing across the UK.

Our approach is independent, evidence based, collaborative, practical, open and iterative.

About the role

We are looking for a values-driven communications leader and expert with a track record of developing and delivering communications strategies that make an impact. You’ll be motivated to join the Centre's mission to protect and improve wellbeing through better, evidence-informed policy and practice. 

You’ll be managing a communications officer, and a number of freelancers who we work closely with to create awesome publications, digital products, and drive digital and media dissemination.The communications team is closely integrated with our evidence, implementation, and governance teams.

Top priorities

1. Help us get louder about our impact. To enhance the impact of our major campaigns and social change projects through securing national and regional broadcast and print coverage, integrating digital mobilisation and social media into campaign strategy.
2. Delivering high quality publications and products. To drive a step change in engagement through our weekly blog, research findings, social media, online learning, videos, digital hub, and so on to target audiences across public, private, and voluntary sectors.

Main responsibilities

Leadership and strategy

• Contribute to the development and delivery of strategy and priorities as a member of the senior leadership team.
• Lead the design and delivery of a communications strategy for internal and external audiences that delivers on mission and priorities.
• Strong understanding of collaboration and stakeholder engagement. 

Identity and message

• Manage a compelling organisation identity and narrative, driven by an understanding of audience needs.
• Embed this identity and related messages and voices into communication with all partners including through press, website, and internal communications.
• Collaborate across the Centre on design and delivery of a high-quality communication strategy to engage target audiences for effective knowledge use.

Impact

• Support the evidence and implementation teams from start to finish to lead on communications planning, product management, and dissemination of a range of outputs for different Centre audiences.
• Enable, through the team, the delivery of high-quality communications support for dissemination and engagement activities including press, social media, creative content and digital mobilisation.
• Lead on the Centre’s learning, testing, and adapting communication processes, products, and channels in response to user analytics.

Project, finance, people management and teamwork 

• Confident product and project management skills across a shifting portfolio of activities. 
• Manage the communications budget and contribute to Centre business planning and monitoring.
• Line management and management of freelancers.
• Ability to work as part of a team and as a senior leader within it.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of communications areas including press and media, internal engagement, campaign and influencing, digital, public affairs, brand and reputation management.
• At least five years in a senior communications position developing and delivering communications strategy with impact and demonstrable results.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment, juggling competing demands.
• It is desirable that you have experience leading a communications function or team, especially in a small team with big impact.

Skills and knowledge

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing a website, ideally on a WordPress platform.
• Experience using digital analytics to understand and improve experience for users, e.g. Google analytics.
• Excellent time and project management skills.
• Ability to develop impactful and accurate messaging and narratives from different types of research.
• Knowledge of digital platforms and how they relate to engagement and outreach.
• At least a basic understanding of creative tools, such as Adobe CC.

Values

• A strong desire for evidence-informed change to value wellbeing as a policy and practice outcome.
• Appetite for both strategic leadership and some hands-on delivery.
• Respect for a wide diversity of people, approaches, and perspectives.
• A strong team leader, adaptable and flexible in approach.
• Self-motivated and accountable.

Fixed term contract for 12 months

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? Join us as our Head of Child Poverty (maternity cover) and help us to change outcomes for children experiencing the injustice of poverty in the UK.

Every child has the right to have their basic needs met, and to receive the support to ensure they can reach their full potential. The greatest barrier to this in the UK is poverty and inequality. 

Our UK mission is to make a sustainable reduction in the number of children growing up in poverty, and to narrow the learning gap between those children and their better-off peers.

We believe this future is possible. It requires more money to be put back into the pockets of parents and carers, decent jobs, more opportunities for young children to play and learn, and policies and services which centre children and families' needs, reduce discrimination, and that are designed to help children to flourish by preventing difficulties at the earliest possible stage: in pregnancy, at birth, in the crucial first 1,001 days of life and throughout childhood.

We work closely with the communities we aim to support. We recognise their diversity and strengths as well as the challenges they face, and we aim to reflect their diversity and experiences in our UK staff team.

This role is situated in the UK Impact Department within our Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns Division. We integrate lobbying government, research, policy, media and campaigning and organising into one agile, powerful engine for change. It's fundamental to how we do things that we alongside families who know what poverty feels like.

As Head of Child Poverty, you will lead Save the Children's child poverty work to influence the UK government. You will work with minimal supervision, leading a multi-disciplinary team to drive change for children in poverty, alongside families on low incomes and other organisations. You'll also line manage the child poverty policy team, consisting of a senior policy adviser and adviser. You'll be able to hit the ground running quickly, spot how we can respond quickly to new opportunities in a fast moving environment, while keeping focused on how we can maximise impact for the long term.  You'll have significant experience of leading teams and enabling staff to be their best, developing high impact partnerships and collaborations, and applying your strategic thinking to develop campaign approaches that build public and political support. Understanding of the child poverty policy landscape is also desirable.

You will:

• Further develop and drive Save the Children's UK child poverty strategy 2021 - 2024, reporting to the Director of UK Impact and working with colleagues across the 4 nations
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team of policy, campaigns, media and public affairs specialists, including two direct line reports and matrix management of the rest of the team
• Oversee the development our stakeholder engagement and management strategy for our child poverty work, and for leading on relationships with key external stakeholders in line with this strategy, ensuring that we always keep a focus on how our work can support and amplify that of others for greatest impact
• Accountable for the delivery of our UK child poverty strategy and using learning to continue to develop and refine it
• Contribute to the strategic leadership of all of our work to help children and families in the UK as a member of our UK Leadership team

To be successful you will have / be:

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the child poverty policy context, or expertise in a similar field
• Demonstrable strategic thinking skills and political nous, which enables you to develop effective plans for change, working with others
• Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams to achieve significant public policy changes and engage the public, as well as some line management experience
• Experience of ensuring that children and families from low incomes are meaningfully involved in policy and strategy development, and in advocacy and campaigning
• Experience of working with external stakeholders from a variety of sectors to maximise impact, based on establishing a shared vision and values
• Experience of creating a learning culture to develop and improve strategies and campaigns, and to enable all members of the team to learn and develop their skills and knowledge
• Solutions-focused with a creative problem-solving approach
• Comfortable taking risks, in order to learn, grow and develop
• A strong team player with an empowering and collaborative working style, and excellent interpersonal skills
• Positive, resilient, and committed to improving the lives of families on low incomes across the UK, demonstrating positive leadership behaviours to others

Diversity & Inclusion 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity, and a commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 25th April

Interviews will take place w/c 3rd May

For more information and to apply please visit our website. 

Please note - whilst this role is advertised as office based, Save The Children UK will remain a remote-working organisation until at least 30 June 2021.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as these are underrepresented at Save the Children UK.

• Are you a mover and shaker, bursting with creativity?
• Do you thrive when inspiring others to be agile and take risks?

We’re looking for a Head of Communications to raise the profile of our work to end material and spiritual poverty. This is an opportunity for someone to shape our approach to external communications, conceiving and executing powerful and strategic campaigns and products which inspire and engage existing and new audiences.

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated person to lead our friendly, tight-knit team of talented creatives, including writers, editors, designers and web specialists. Working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, you’ll oversee the creation of a range of high-quality print and digital outputs, and you’ll use your own proven skills to help produce compelling, integrated campaigns which help our supporters to be a part of our global story. As the lead creative in the team, you’ll use your skill and experience to deliver powerful, story-based content that demonstrates how God is at work through BMS projects worldwide.

You’ll be the top authority on BMS’ brand, shaping how BMS compellingly presents itself through its tone of voice and visual integrity. You’ll be essential to ensuring that BMS’ new five-year strategy is brilliantly communicated. And when events take place, you’ll be the one to decide on messaging and design, getting the tone and materials just right.

This varied, challenging and rewarding role needs someone with superb instincts for putting the right thing in front of different audiences. You’ll be approachable, dedicated, decisive and driven, building rapport with colleagues with values of servant leadership, integrity and a commitment to excellence.  Above all, you’ll share our vision for a world made better through knowing Christ.

The successful applicant will be a committed Christian. The nature of this role means that this is a specific occupational requirement.

Location : Didcot, Oxfordshire, possibility of some home work (currently remote)  

Hours : 35 hrs per week / full time

Salary range : £35,812 to £40,199

Closing date : 5pm on Monday 26 April

 Interview date :              Thursday 6 May 2021

If you would like to discuss this role in detail with the BMS Communications Director, please contact Sarah Anthony and/or Ben Drabble at BMS World Mission.

Alternatively, you can contact Hayley McDonald of Action Planning’s Recruitment Team, who are managing the recruitment process at Action Planning website. 

Norwood is looking for an experienced, creative and highly motivated Head of Marketing & Communications to join our senior management team. You will lead and develop the marketing and communications strategy at a pivotal time in Norwood’s 225-year history, building on our reputation as an innovative and high-quality service provider as we work to transform the lives of children and families facing social, emotional or mental health challenges and children and adults with learning disabilities or autism into the future.

You will be responsible for driving stakeholder engagement and well as supporting income generation on which our vital work depends. The right person will enjoy working as part of a team and be adept at juggling competing priorities. You’ll feel comfortable dealing with a wide range of stakeholders, from our service users, care staff and Trustees to journalists, donors and our volunteers.  Working closely with our Director of Transformation, you’ll implement and establish a range of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of our communications activity in a challenging and competitive market.

Some of the Main Responsibilities

1. Develop and oversee the implementation of Norwood’s Marketing and Communications Strategy, in order to strengthen Norwood’s position as a leading Jewish charity across all our stakeholder groups, internal and external. In addition to the charity’s general marketing activity, this includes public and media relations, press statements and crisis management

2. Together with the Senior Marketing Manager, set and monitor the annual marketing budget. To hold overall responsibility for the department’s budget and leveraging it to its fullest potential

3. Develop an excellent knowledge of Norwood services to

• benchmark the organisation in the marketplace

• identify Norwood’s USP and differentiators

• effectively position Norwood as a ‘go to’ organisation for children and families facing challenges in their lives and for anyone of any age with a learning disability or autism

4. Oversee Norwood’s website and intranet to ensure clear, engaging and succinct messaging for all those who use our digital platforms.

5. Set strategic direction and assist the Senior Marketing Manager in developing creative briefs for the editorial, design, production and distribution of Norwood’s internal and external communications.

Essential Requirements:

• Demonstrable extensive skills, knowledge and experience in the design and execution of marketing campaigns, communications and public relations activities in busy environment with multiple stakeholders

• Strong creative, strategic, analytical, organisational and sales skills.

• Experience of developing and managing budgets, training, developing, supervising and appraising marketing teams

• Experience of developing and implementing an External and Internal Communications strategy

• Demonstrable successful experience of developing compelling external content

• Experience overseeing the design and production of campaigns and content from brief, implementation and review

• Ability to manage multiple projects with responsiveness to emerging priorities

Incentives:

• The opportunity to work for a leading UK charity

• Competitive salary & benefits package

• Generous annual leave entitlement

• 1pm finish on a Friday

• A challenging and varied role

• A supportive team

• Additional leave during Jewish festivals

Norwood is committed to offering high quality, continuous professional development for our staff.

Please note: We reserve the right to close the advert, once we receive sufficient applications, so recommend an early application. For a full Job Description please contact us.

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure.

Patron: Her Majesty The Queen.

Registered Charity No: 1059050.

This is a new and exciting role which will lead and develop the communications and marketing strategy for the organisation, driving stakeholder engagement and working collaboratively across the charity. You will be responsible for raising awareness of our helpline, patient projects and our policy work, building on our excellent relationships externally.

Please provide a covering letter to your CV outlining your experience for this role.  Interviews will be held on the 4th May 2021

Our client is seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Public Affairs and Campaign Communications. 

Evolve HR Consulting is delighted to be supporting a national and international humanitarian and campaigning charity, well-known for being a pioneer in its critical, life-saving work, in its search for a critical role; Head of Public Affairs and Campaign Communications. This is a unique and exciting time to be joining a team fighting for a cause that has a catastrophic impact on lives in the UK and around the world.

Our client has innovatively led the way in its growing sector for 25 years and is recognised for setting the standard for robust and sustainable partnerships using a model often copied by others and that provides a significant proportion of the Charity’s income.

Working closely with the Chief Executive, we need a heavy-weight Head of Public Affairs who is research-driven, results-driven and has top-notch communication skills. You provide the evidence, develop the relationships and partnerships, and are the influence and voice to achieve our Manifesto and develop the charity’s statutory funding. 

You will have a successful track-record in achieving campaign outcomes through:

• through research-driven evidence gathering
• insightful and accurate analysis
• high-level government diplomacy and negotiation
• stakeholder relationship building and communications
• You have a keen head for figures, complex text, analysis, written communication, and news hooks
• You understand how to communicate successfully with politicians and ministers

The role is mainly based at home with some travel required into London when restrictions allow.

About the Freedom Fund

The Freedom Fund is a leader in the global movement to end slavery. It:

• Invests in those countries and sectors with the greatest incidence of slavery.
• Analyses which interventions work best and shares that knowledge.
• Brings together a community of activists committed to ending slavery and empowered by the knowledge of how best to do so.
• Generates funding by demonstrating how effective interventions can protect those at risk of being enslaved and free those in slavery.
• The Freedom Fund now has programs in India, Ethiopia, Thailand, Nepal, Brazil and Myanmar and will open new programmes in Indonesia and Bangladesh in 2021. It currently supports and funds over 140 partners around the world.
• Our Vision is a world free of slavery and our Mission to mobilise the knowledge, capital and will needed to end slavery.

About the position:

Increasingly we recognise the power of great communications to drive change. The incoming Head of
Communications will lead the evolution of the Freedom Fund’s communications efforts, as we strive to not
only reach ever wider and more inclusive audiences, but also to engage and activate them. Reporting to
the Director of North America, the Head of Communications will lead our external engagement with media
and shape our global communications strategy. This individual will be the first person in this role and as
such, will have the ability to carve the path forward for the Freedom Fund with an ambitious
communications strategy.

We are looking for someone who will be able to create and promote the organization’s strategy internally
while simultaneously driving it forward externally. This individual will need to be an experienced strategic
leader who can create strong alignment between organizational strategy, external relations, and
communications tactics and execution. This position also requires skills with building relationships and
working cross-functionally.

Inheriting a “small but mighty” communications team, the individual will bring an orientation toward growth
and development of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of our global communications strategy.
• Develop and execute creative and powerful media strategies that elevate our brand, engage potential donors and advocates, and showcase the dynamic model and work of the Freedom Fund.
• Develop and cultivate close relationships with key editors, journalists and influencers at relevant outlets.
• In coordination with the Partnerships and Programs teams, design and implement effective outreach strategies for engaging new audiences, prospective donors and deepening relationships with current supporters.
• Lead the creation of high-quality media materials, including press releases, pitches, bylines, briefing notes and media follow up.
• Develop and implement an effective strategy for leveraging social media and other digital communications to enhance the Freedom Fund’s brand and further our strategic goals.
• Develop internal resources (including speakers) so we are able to powerfully present the Freedom Fund externally.
• Identify and secure thought leadership opportunities across the organization, including bylines, speaking and executive personal branding opportunities.
• Manage one full-time direct report (based in the US), freelance designers, photographers, videographers, printers, and other independent contractors.
• Expand key performance indicators and further current analytics to show the effectiveness of the Freedom Fund’s communications activities to allow for continued improvement of strategy and tactics.

Qualifications and experience:
Essential:

• At least 5 years of experience in a professional environment with a focus on external communications.
• Excellent people and project management skills, including staff development and agency/vendor management.
• Innovative thinker, with a track record of translating strategic thinking into action plans and output.
• Strong experience in crafting effective media hooks, identifying PR opportunities, and conducting media landscape analysis, including an ability to judge and implement tactics and campaigns that will attract local, national and international press attention.
• Past experience in speaking to and creating messaging for American audiences and working with US based media.
• Passion for storytelling and being part of a growing organization.
• Collegiate approach able to engage and support colleagues to effectively represent the Freedom Fund externally including with media.
• Excellent planning, project management and organizational skills, so as to manage multiple priorities at once, while also retaining a thorough attention to detail.
• Outstanding ability to develop key relationships and strategic partners, around both communications and/or fundraising opportunities.
• Intellectually curious - constantly seeking to understand and internalize various subject areas of a complex model.
• Ability to travel to New York frequently to work with the rest of the team.
• Entitled to work in the United Kingdom without work permit sponsorship from the Freedom Fund.

Desirable:

• Managerial experience
• Experience in the anti-trafficking, international development or human rights sectors would be highly valued, as well as some partnership experience.

Personal Attributes:

Essential:

• A commitment to the Freedom Fund’s vision, mission, values and goals, with a passion to work in promoting human rights around the world
• A willingness to work as part of a team in a cooperative and supportive way
• A commitment to excellence and a relentless pursuit of results, a self-starter with an exceptional work ethic, strong organisational skills and a can-do attitude
• Ability to build relationships with a wide range of individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to work independently, displaying strong initiative in solving day-to-day problems with limited direction.
• An entrepreneurial drive and exceptional attention to detail
• A willingness to undertake careful planning, and to manage multiple activities under pressure and with high levels of precision
• Ability to make critical judgments, solve problems and to be resourceful
• Ability to motivate and support direct reports and build a high functioning team.
• Willingness and ability to travel locally and internationally.

Compensation:

• £62,000 - £70,000 per annum pro rata, plus 10% non-contributory pension scheme.
• 25 days holiday pro rata, plus public holidays.
• Season ticket loan and cycle scheme available.

Eden Brown is working with a fantastic charity in London who is looking for an experienced, creative and highly motivated Head of Marketing & Communications to join their senior management team. You will lead and develop the marketing and communications strategy at a pivotal time in the charity's history, building on their reputation as an innovative and high-quality service provider as we work to transform the lives of children and families facing social, emotional or mental health challenges and children and adults with learning disabilities or autism into the future.

The Head of Marketing & Communications will be responsible for driving stakeholder engagement as well as supporting income generation on which their vital work depends. The right person will enjoy working as part of a team and be adept at juggling competing priorities. You'll feel comfortable dealing with a wide range of stakeholders, from the charity's service users, care staff and Trustees to journalists, donors and our volunteers. Working closely with their Director of Transformation, you'll implement and establish a range of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of their communications activity in a challenging and competitive market.

For this role we are looking for someone with the following experience:

* Demonstrable extensive skills, knowledge and experience in the design and execution of marketing campaigns, communications and public relations activities in busy environment with multiple stakeholders
* Strong creative, strategic, analytical, organisational and sales skills
* Experience of developing and managing budgets, training, developing, supervising and appraising marketing teams
* Experience of developing and implementing an External and Internal Communications strategy
* Demonstrable successful experience of developing compelling external content

This is an exciting opportunity and the charity will be holding interviews on a rolling basis so email your CV to Eden Brown immediately.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

The Role

This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced fundraising lead with skills across income generating channels and a hands-on approach, to be involved in establishing and growing a fundraising service in a respected patient organisation charity.

Allergy UK is the only national charity that provides support services for the breadth of the allergic community across the UK. With your expertise and innovation our charity can diversify and grow its income generation through a range of fundraising opportunities, which will enable us to ensure that we can deliver even more support and services to the estimated 21 million allergic community across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. 

Allergy UK’s “new ambition” is a vision where ‘no-one should die from allergy’ and our mission is ‘for everyone in the UK to take allergy seriously’.  At the core of our 5-year ‘strategy for change’ is the exciting opportunity for an experienced Head of Income Generation to contribute to the development and implementation of an income generation strategy and the establishment of Allergy UK as a fundraising charity.

The Head Income Generation will play a key role in raising our national profile, identifying opportunities for growing our income through creating new approaches to fundraising. 

The postholder will be responsible for raising and growing revenue in line with budget expectations and will lead and implement a strategy to increase diversification of income. They will grow and lead a team of fundraisers and be a member of the executive leadership team reporting to the CEO. 

Candidates should have a track record of achievement and leadership at a senior level in income generation, preferably with expertise in the not-for-profit sector.

Key responsibilities are:

• Part of the Executive Leadership Team with responsibility for bringing about and embedding an internal cultural change, with a specific focus on income generation across the charity.
• To contribute to the development, implementation and delivery of a sustainable Income Generation Strategy that is aligned to the charity’s strategic objectives, building support, generating income, and raising the profile of the charity across the UK.
• Work closely with teams across the charity and its trading subsidiary service areas to deliver an implementation plan that supports the Income Generation Strategy and creates a sustainable model for the organisation.
• Develop and monitor fundraising data reporting to inform return on investment performance.

Salary: £45k to 48k depending on experience

Holiday: 28 days plus Bank Holidays

Pension: 3% Employer, 5% Employee

Free Parking

We look forward to receiving your covering letter and CV.

Closing date for applications: 9am on 19th April 2021.

Initial telecom interviews: Week of 26th April 2021

Interviews for selected candidates: Week of 4th May 2021.

If you would like an informal discussion about the post with the CEO then please request in your covering letter.

Head of Philanthropy Campaign and Engagement

Reports to: Head of Philanthropy Services

Salary: circa £65,000 (with flexibility commensurate with experience)

Location: Flexible (minimum of 3 days per week at Stratford)

Application Deadline: We will be reviewing applications as they come in, so please do apply as soon as possible.

Candidate Pack:

The Head of Campaign and Engagement is a senior member of the Philanthropy Directorate and the Philanthropy Services team responsible for all engagement functions for the Philanthropy programme and Campaign. The role will set the high-level engagement strategy for all prospects and donors to the comprehensive Campaign, with a focus on prospects capable of giving £100K+, and donors who give £1M+.

The Head will lead a team of 13 with six direct reports, hold accountability for team output and budget expenditure, and focus on driving the Campaign and engagement strategy. The Cancer Research UK Campaign will galvanise our high value prospect and donor community, drive Campaign-focused fundraising activity, and enable us to deliver results on a scale never seen before in the UK charity sector.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the development of the Campaign and engagement strategy, scope and goals
• Positioning the campaign at the top of the organisation's agenda, working with senior internal partners to understand their role in the campaign's success.
• Managing the annual and multi-year engagement calendar of activity, identifying key campaign benchmarks, including the 2022 CRUK 20th anniversary, Campaign public launch, gift announcements and celebrations, etc.
• Developing and leading a strong donor relations programme ensuring every gift and donor is thanked for their support; receives an annual gift reporting that deepens the donor(s) involvement with CRUK/Crick/Cancer Grand Challenges (CGC) and demonstrates the impact of their gift.
• Leading a team of professionals to ensure high-quality administration, strategic coordination and management of campaign activities at all levels - individual meetings, small and large events, creative cultivation and stewardship events that are virtual and in person.

We are in the quiet phase of our targeted philanthropic campaign. As Head of Campaign & Engagement you will unite the organisation around high value fundraising, ultimately delivering increased funds for research which will be transformational for CRUK.

The team will work in close collaboration with Philanthropy frontline fundraisers, organisational and scientific leaders to develop the gift opportunities, campaign messaging, volunteer structures, individual, small and large scale events with institutional and volunteer leaders and stewardship programme for the Campaign, as well as develop best practices that will be sustained after the Campaign has concluded. You'll also partner with the CRUK CEO and leadership team, as well as scientists and philanthropy colleagues to develop and implement strategies for these campaigns.

Key Technical Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Behaviours

We're looking for a variety of skills and experience for the role, and we're excited to hear what you can offer. Some of the key things we're looking for are:

• Experience of leading a large philanthropic campaign, ideally either within a charity or higher education environment;
• Strategic mindset, extensive experience in strategy development and implementation;
• Track record of leading and developing high performing communications and engagement teams that design and deliver events and comms which engage, inspire and drive change
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing skills and ability to work with, and communicate effectively and professionally with a wide range of individuals from internal colleagues, institutional leaders, and external collaborators, stakeholders and high value audiences

In addition, you'll be able to synthesize research information, lead on key Campaign priorities with the team and colleagues across the Philanthropy Directorate and demonstrate the intellectual curiosity to understand complex scientific areas of research. You'll then have the ability to transform this information into engaging, donor-friendly communication will be key.

If this sounds like you, please do take a look at the full candidate pack linked above, and submit an application.

Action Against Hunger have established a strong platform for the growth of their public engagement fundraising. For example, they rebranded in 2016, they became members of the Disasters Emergency Committee in 2018, and they launched a new website optimised for a public audience in 2020.

Using the platform of their increasing profile, a priority objective of their strategy for the next five years is to establish a significant long-term sustainable income stream. Public engagement is a key feature of this strategy.

Job description

• Lead a team of five across public engagement that includes individual giving, legacy, supporter care, database and community
• Long term aim is to double income over five years to £1 million
• This is an important income stream for the charity and has full backing from senior leadership and the board
• They are looking for someone who is able to drive the programme forward and realise the potential of the strategy in place
• The role would suit an experienced senior manager or a current head of looking for their next challenge
• Expertise in the following areas is desirable: digital fundraising, donor acquisition and international development

Closing date of 19 April, with CV and supporting statement as submission documents. Interviews to be held 26-27 April.

Benefits

• The charity is incredibly flexible. Their 'where you work' policy allows employees to have total flexibility over their working weeks, including having no core hours at all. 2-3 days WFH is also accepted
• Up to 4% pension contribution
• Private medical insurance
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• 25 days leave plus bank holidays (rising to 30 after 4 yrs’ service)
• Discounted gym membership

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To apply for this role, please click Apply on website and submit your CV to Janice Hardy at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.

Head of Campaigns and Organising:  Permanent (Campaigns and Engagement)

Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to work NEF in a senior position. Working with diverse organisations, networks and people across the UK, you will help strengthen progressive movements for climate, economic and social justice. The pandemic has taking its toll on communities up and down the country, with over 21 Million Living below an acceptable standard of living, growing inequality and a climate crisis accelerating – the need to build a just, fair and green recovery is urgent.   What the recovery looks like will depend on the collective power and innovative campaigns we can build to transform the future of the country. Join us to organise together for a better future.

The Head of Campaigns and Organising is responsible for developing powerful campaigns, building diverse alliances to win change, and driving forward NEF’s approach to organising and people-led policy making to ensure that the people most impacted by the changes we seek are central to making policy and winning change. The Head of Campaigns and Organising is part of our wider leadership team, sharing in the leadership and management of the organisation and line managing colleagues within the campaigns and organising team.

Our Head of Campaigns and Organising leads us in developing and implementing our campaigns and organising strategies to achieve a fair, just and Green Recovery. They will play an integral role in leading Build Back Better; developing the campaigns function across NEF. The successful candidate will work closely with the Director of Campaigns and Engagement, Our Organising team, the Heads of Communications (news and digital), and NEF’s Policy teams.

Salary: £45,220 - £50,540

Deadline for applications: 12th April 2021, midnight

Interviews: 27th April 2021

Start date: As soon as possible.

Location: flexible. We encourage applicants from outside of London and the South East but requiring occasional travel to our London offices.

To apply and to see more details see the ‘about us/job vacancies’ section of our website.

NEF is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in research and policy making and we’re committed to doing what we can to correct this. We are particularly keen to receive applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic people; people with disabilities; people who identify as being LGTBQIA; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working class or have done so in the past. We are also aware that many highly capable prospective candidates nonetheless rule themselves out of work in research and policy because they underestimate their own ability to do the role. With this in mind, we strongly encourage applications from anyone who is prepared to learn and grow on the job and would like to stress that past experience of working in think tanks is not required.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.  We make use of positive action to select between candidates of equal merit as a way to address under-representation in our workforce.

NEF believes in diversity

Registered charity number 1055254

We are seeking someone with expert knowledge and experience of human rights law and practice, including on economic, social, and cultural rights in the UK, for this key role driving and delivering the organisation’s specialist policy, research, and campaigning activities.  

You will be comfortable working as part of a small team, independently, and on your own initiative.  You will have excellent policy, research and campaigning expertise and skills, a can-do and collaborative approach, and the ability to manage and deliver work to a high standard.  

Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 26 of April 2021

About Just Fair:

We are a small specialist human rights charity working on economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) in the UK.   Founded in 2010, we combine specialist ESCR monitoring and evidence-based research, campaigns, advocacy with movement building around social rights.  At the heart of our theory of change is a commitment to bring about social justice through the better protection, respect, and fulfilment of ESCR.

The Head of Partnerships will lead a £1.3m team of four which delivers both the Love Food Give Food campaign with the hospitality and food industries and more traditional corporate partnerships.

The role will line manage 3 x Partnerships Managers, each responsible for a strategic area. The Head of Partnerships will also personally secure new business and take the lead on key accounts.

Job description

• Look at the Love Food Give Food strategy, making tweaks for the next campaign
• Personally secure new business for Action Against Hunger
• Confidently lead and manage the team, ensuring they make the most of all prospects and live partnership opportunities
• Ensure the team are motivated, developing in their careers and feeling positive and supported
• Play a leadership role across the organisation as a part of the fundraising leadership team
• Represent the UK in the ACF-UK network global partnerships team
• Guide the team towards fewer, bigger and better partnerships

Person specification

• Extensive experience of the UK corporate partnerships space
• Demonstrable experience in winning and managing 6- and 7-figure partnerships
• Experience in leading large scale appeals
• Proven experience in strategic planning, budgeting and exceeding targets
• Experience effectively leading and managing high performing teams

Shortlisting meetings on 7 and 14 April. Interviews from 14 April.

Benefits

• The charity is incredibly flexible. Their 'where you work' policy allows employees to have total flexibility over their working weeks, including having no core hours at all. 2-3 days WFH is also accepted
• Up to 4% pension contribution
• Private medical insurance
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• 25 days leave plus bank holidays (rising to 30 after 4 yrs’ service)
• Discounted gym membership

To apply for this role, please click Apply on website and submit your CV to Emily Birch at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.