Here at Doorstep Library we believe in the power of words to take you places. We are a not-for-profit community organisation dedicated to bringing the gift of books and the joy of reading into the homes of families across London who need our support, reading with them and their children to inspire a love of books, of stories and storytelling, and to instil a lifelong passion for reading.

Equipped with a reading stool and a supply of books, our volunteers are right on the doorstep, ready to use books to fuel children’s natural love of stories, fire their imaginations, and encourage their appreciation of reading. Our goal is to help each child develop the self-confidence and essential skills they need to access all the opportunities that will come their way in life. Whether in person, or online, we are there to support children and families who need us most. 

The organisation has gone from strength to strength and the postholder would be joining the organisation at a time of growth. In 2020, we had a successful year of fundraising in which we met targets and expanded our donor base. Now in our 10th year, we will shortly be expanding into our fourth London borough as well as launching our new Virtual Reading Corner service – bringing our unique service to even more families. In the 3 years ahead our organisations income will need to increase to support these plans and extend our reach.

Job Purpose:

• Strategic responsibility for fundraising, including partnership development and maintaining the charity’s strong relationships with our wide range of funding partners;
• To work closely with the SMT and actively contribute to the overall strategy and direction of the charity;
• To manage and build upon the income streams for the charity;
• To manage the charity’s fundraising operations including coordinating prospect research and prioritisation, managing workflows, and ensuring effective stewardship of donors, corporate supporters and trust and foundations grants.

Responsible to: CEO;

Responsible for: Fundraising strategy, partnership development and relationship building.  Managing the Fundraising Manager.

About the role

We are looking for a Head of Fundraising and Partnerships to report to the Chief Executive Officer. The successful candidate will sit on the Senior Management Team, working closely with the CEO, Head of Operations, Head of Programmes and Head of Marketing & Communications.

You will have substantial, proven experience of working in fundraising and of developing and sustaining partnerships, ideally in the third sector, and of how to build financial sustainability into a fast growing organisation. You will be a highly organised people-person and will be responsible for line managing the Fundraising Manager.

You will bring excellent communication skills and the ability to inspire others about our work.  With outstanding interpersonal skills, you will have the ability to forge new relationships and you will thrive on enhancing our current partnerships, and identifying and creating new ones. 

Finally, you will be truly passionate about the work that we do to support children and families in disadvantaged areas of London. As part of our expansion we are currently setting up new on-the-ground projects and launching our brand new online reading service (Virtual Reading Corner).

Role Specification

Development and delivery of the charity’s fundraising strategy

• To work closely with the CEO and trustee board to lead on the development, planning and delivery the Doorstep Library’s 3-year fundraising strategy, with further development of a longer-term strategy beyond this initial period;
• To manage and build upon the income streams for the charity;
• To take a lead on application bids, including managing, monitoring and evaluating all funding applications;
• To work closely with the SMT and actively contribute to the overall strategy and direction of the charity;

Grow, develop and sustain our partnerships and income streams

• To lead, deliver and grow our existing relationships with all of our funding partners; foundations, corporates, independent schools and individual donors;
• To identify new potential partners, working closely with the CEO and board of trustees to develop these partnerships;
• To establish a corporate supporters programme and individual giving campaigns, plus develop effective stewardship systems;
• To have responsibility for retaining and engaging the charity’s supporters, this includes providing formal reports and updates on the work of the charity;
• Working with the Marketing and Communications teams to effectively communicate the impact of our work to internal and external stakeholders;

Line Management

• To have direct line management responsibility for the Fundraising  Manager;
• To create an environment where the team feels fully supported and enabled to grow and develop under your management;

General

• To carry out all duties and responsibilities in line with Doorstep Library’s policies and procedures;
• To undertake additional duties as from time to time may be required.

Salary - £40,000 per annum – permanent

Hours – 35 per week

Benefits – 6% pension contribution, 25 days per annum annual leave, flexible working arrangements (including working from home part of the week).

Head of Strategic Church and Christian Partnerships

Salary: circa £50,000 per annum, depending on experience + good range of benefits-For exceptional candidates, this salary is negotiable.

Contract: Permanent – 36.5 hours per week / Part-time and flexible hours will be considered

Based: Remote Working (UK based only) London or Milton Keynes / Hybrid working after COVID-19 will be considered

World Vision is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries.

Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

World Vision’s global strategy is to transform lives in the world’s hardest-to-reach places, empowering every girl and boy to reach their God-given potential. As part of this World Vision UK has embarked on a new era of ambitious transformation and a focus on strategic relationship-led partnerships. Central to this is our role in the global Church, and building strategic long-term, meaningful, and fruitful relationships with Church denominations and networks, Church leaders, and Christian organisations

The new role of Head of Strategic Church and Christian Partnerships will lead a new strategy and team to deliver our ambitions to partner with, work alongside and serve the Church, Church leaders and Christian organisations evermore closely in order that together we can follow Jesus in transforming children’s lives.

You will be a key strategic and externally facing leader, who will bring excellent relationship building abilities, an entrepreneurial and commercial mindset, innovative thinking, a deep passion for serving the Church and the world’s most vulnerable children and prayerful wisdom to deepen engagement with Church denominations, networks, Church leaders, and Christian organisations.

Building on the momentum gained with significant new Church partnerships, the role will lead a new strategy and team, to inspire, build, and enable mutually beneficial partnerships and relationships to:

1. Reach new Christian audiences via networks/large Churches

2. Raise awareness and support for World Vision’s Christian, child-centred, and community-empowering humanitarian and development programming

3. Generate income in excess of £3m per annum over the medium term to enable greater impact for children

4. Engage the next generation of Church leaders with World Vision

The role will be an ambassador for World Vision’s vision and mission, providing prayerful thought leadership and working closely with Senior Leadership and the Board in leading a ‘Circle of Friends’ network that enables opportunities for individuals to engage with and support World Vision.

You will work collaboratively across WVUK, particularly with the UK Church Engagement and Policy & Advocacy teams as well as with the global World Vision partnership, and the Church teams of World Vision Australia, United States and Canada.

Please do consider whether God is calling you to exercise your experience, gifts, and commitment to help every child walk into the hope and future God has for them.

As an active Christian*, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).

Please ‘click’ the link provided to view the full job description.

Please upload your CV and include educational and professional qualifications, a full employment history showing the more significant positions, responsibilities held and relevant achievements. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.

*Permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010

Closing Date for applications: 6 June 2021

Interview Dates: TBC

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family.  As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK - Job Applicant Privacy Notice is available on our website.

No agencies please.

Momentum Children’s Charity is a local organisation that supports families whose children have cancer or a life-challenging condition. We were founded 17 years ago by our current Chief Executive and have grown enormously over that time. We currently have partnerships with six local hospitals who refer families to us for support, which ranges from therapies and counselling, to respite holidays and special family experiences.

It’s an exciting time for us, as our vision is to expand further to meet the needs of even more families. To support this growth, we need to raise awareness and the profile of the charity, as well as substantial funds to deliver our support programme. We have an ambitious three-year strategy, which includes broadening our reach into new geographical areas and, in turn, this opens the opportunity to increase our profile, supporter base and fundraising activities in new communities across South-West London, Surrey and Sussex.

The Head of Fundraising will play a crucial part in helping us achieve our vision. Reporting to the CEO, you will be a key member of the Senior Management Team, working alongside our Head of Strategic Development, Head of Service Delivery and Head of Finance and HR.

You will have overall responsibility for Fundraising and Marketing activities, leading and inspiring a small but dedicated team. We want you to bring fresh ideas and lots of enthusiasm: in return, you have our guarantee that we recognise the value and need to invest in fundraising. We’re doing a lot of great things already, but we know we’re not perfect! In particular, we hope you can develop our Individual Giving, Community and Events income streams, and support the other key fundraising areas in reaching their potential. You’ll be joining us as we launch a fabulous new brand design which, alongside a compelling children’s charity cause and plenty of fundable activities, makes our charity a genuinely exciting place to be!

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced institutional funding professional to join our new business development function to drive donor engagement and new funding at Alert. You will be responsible for identifying and tapping into new funding markets and coordinating HQ-led engagement with the top peacebuilding donors.

You will also work closely with regional and country teams to share information and intel to support business development in-country. We are looking for someone adept at networking and building relationships internally and externally, with a proven track record in securing new funding. You should bring a deep knowledge of key peacebuilding multilateral and bilateral institutions, ideally with a specialism in the UN, EU, FCDO, USAID, and/or other European bilateral funders.

In return, you will have the opportunity to join a dynamic and creative team, working with senior leadership in HQ and within Alert’s country programmes to drive new funding opportunities for the organisation. As a new position you will also have the opportunity to shape the role, and so a proactive, entrepreneurial approach is a must.

Details

• Salary: £45,372 per annum plus excellent benefits
• Contract: Permanent
• Location: London or The Hague
• Closing date: 14 May 2021 (23.59 UK time)

As Head of Frontline Innovation, you will lead the first half of the Year Here Fellowship. This will involve securing paid partnerships with frontline organisations across London and curating a powerful learning experience for our Fellows.

Frontline service sits at the heart of Year Here – giving the Fellows a chance to gain the insight and legitimacy that comes from working with people living through tough realities. You’ll make sure that our Fellows make a meaningful contribution in their placements and drive innovation that has lasting impact.

It’ll be really varied. In any given day you might be trying to sign up new placement partners, designing a learning session or coaching a Fellow on their frontline innovation project idea.

As part of Year Here’s management team, you’ll also contribute to strategic initiatives across the whole Fellowship. The Head of Frontline Innovation will report to the Fellowship Director.

This is a London-based role. We are open to full-time or 4 days per week.

Your responsibilities will be to:

• Co-create the frontline phase of the Fellowship – working with faculty to impart the curriculum and create a powerful learning experience.
• Secure paid partnerships with frontline services across London.
• Lead programme setup, guiding Fellows from offer through to day one.
• Draw on your frontline experience to coach our Fellows to success.
• Be the face of Fellows’ frontline learning experience.

Who we’re looking for

• You have a solid frontline background – with a track record of improving services and innovating new solutions.
• You’re a confident manager of projects and commercial partnerships.
• You’re a bold and creative facilitator.
• You’re insatiably curious about how people learn and grow.
• You’re committed to social justice, diversity and inclusion.
• You’re not afraid of working hard in pursuit of a big vision.

Job Role: To provide strategic leadership and direction on all Choose Love's safeguarding activity.

In this recently created role, Choose Love is looking for an experienced Head of Safeguarding to lead, implement and oversee our UK and international safeguarding strategy. You will ensure that our safeguarding policies and their implementation are comprehensive, robust and effective, and serve to keep all those with whom Choose Love has contact informed, empowered and safe.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), you will work across both our UK and International contexts, building on our existing safeguarding architecture and approaches and leading on our strategy to keep people safe.

This exciting opportunity has significant influence. The post holder will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and has accountability at board level. You will manage Choose Love’s team of safeguarding specialists and lead on work with our UK and international operating partners to ensure that safeguarding principles – as expressed in its policies - are integrated into organisational culture, function effectively and are supported by good governance, staff supervision and management.

Choose Love

Choose Love started in August 2015 as a hashtag that called for donations for refugees in Calais. Within a week, it had raised 56,000 and was soon receiving 7,000 items every day. Within five years Choose Love had developed a corporate funding base and was supporting over 120 projects across Europe, the Middle East and on the US-Mexico border. Our work now reaches over one million people – all powered by the hard work, dedication and love of over 35,000 volunteers. This growth has been accompanied by institutional change and organisational growth and development. In 2021, following a period of reviews and consultation, it introduced a suite of safeguarding policies.

As Head of Safeguarding, you will create and foster a safeguarding culture that embeds learning, facilitates safe reporting, prevents harm and ensures that we and our grantees do all we can to meet our obligations to be accountable to all those with whom we have contact. You will ensure the effectiveness of procedures and processes for responding to all safeguarding concerns received by Choose Love. In addition, you will:

• Ensure that standards of safeguarding are maintained across all directly delivered programmes and activities.
• Develop and implement a programme of support and assurance for partners, to ensure that suitable safeguarding arrangements are in place across all Choose Love’s programmes and activities and those that are delivered by others in our name, and those who receive grant funding from Choose Love
• Provide support to the safer recruitment process to ensure that all those appointed to act on Choose Love’s behalf are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.
• Deploy globally to support partners in the investigation of safeguarding breaches or act as a tactical advisor to those conducting such investigations. You will do this in liaison with Prism the Gift Fund, which is a a registered charity responsible for the governance of Choose Love.

You will have a relevant qualification in a safeguarding related field and/or a minimum of two years professional training/experience in preventing, detecting, and responding to sexual abuse and exploitation. You will also have sound knowledge and experience of survivor centred approaches in the management of safeguarding concerns reported to CL and/or its partners in the field. You should also have substantial experience of managing and supervising staff engaging in safeguarding casework, preferably with a focus on child and / or vulnerable adult safeguarding or working in vulnerable communities. In addition, you will have:

• Extensive experience of safeguarding case work, liaison with statutory partners and the management of organizational responses.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of safeguarding in varied settings, preferably with experience of working in/adapting to differing legal jurisdictions.
• Proven experience of investigating allegations of abuse against children and vulnerable adults or other areas of sexual misconduct.
• Proven record of accomplishment of strategy development and implementation.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including experience of training or public speaking.

At Choose Love, we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of all those with whom we have contact, especially refugee children and vulnerable adults. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children, vulnerable adults and displaced communities and are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

Your suitability for the post.

• With extensive knowledge of safeguarding children and/ or adults at risk of abuse and Protection against sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) in the UK and internationally, you will have demonstrable experience of developing and implementing measures to keep people safe from abuse and harm (safeguarding) and misconduct and bullying in a complex organisation.
• Your safeguarding decision-making processes are informed, rigorous and timely. You exercise effective delegation where this is appropriate based on situational risk-assessments You put in place safeguarding management systems and monitor them.
• You are an inspirational leader with excellent judgement, diplomacy and decision-making skills, with proven ability to analyse complex issues, draw conclusions and make clear recommendations. You have experience of directly leading and managing a team of safeguarding focal points; focused on developing, supporting and motivating people to work at their very best.
• You will be experienced in overseeing responses to serious and often traumatic incidents; ensuring that the right people are involved, good decisions are made, and appropriate actions taken with learning shared and incorporated in policy reviews.
• You will be confident in your ability to develop corporate strategies, delivering on associated, planned objectives having previously operated at a senior level in a large and complex organisation that works in a political and contested public space. You use insight and evidence to report to and brief at Board and Executive level.
• You are committed to the values of Choose Love and to upholding the organisation’s fundamental principles and act with integrity.

Benefits

• Working location flexibility
• 30 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - pro rata for part time working
• Up to 8% contributory pension (employer plus employee)
• Flexible working policy
• Opportunities for personal development.

The Burdett Trust for Nursing is an independent charitable trust named after Sir Henry Burdett KCB, the founder of the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses (RNPFN).

The Trust was set up in 2002 in recognition of the foundation, philosophy and structure of the RNPFN. Nurses, midwives and the allied health professions make up the majority of the healthcare workforce and play a pivotal role in direct care to patients. The Trust makes grants in support of nurse-led projects, using its funds to empower nurses and make significant improvements to the patient care environment.

We are delighted to be working with the Trust to recruit a Head of Grants to join its team.

The role:

This role will be responsible for supporting the CEO in the management and development of the charity in addition to leading on engagement with external stakeholders. This will involve developing the grant-making activities of the organisation to maximise the benefit of the charity's support to the nursing community. This new role will work closely with the CEO to manage all grant giving which includes some global projects with the aim of meeting organisational objectives and financial performance. This will entail responsibilities such as deputising in the CEO's absence, supporting future strategy, assisting existing grant applicants with all enquiries, due diligence, governance and compliance and developing strong relationships with Trustees and a wide range of relevant stakeholders. Leading on the external communications of the organisation including brand management, website, social media and events will also be important components of the key role.

The person:

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience of having worked for a similar grant making organisation with a similar level of responsibility. Highly numerate, organised and approachable, this person will have excellent communication skills, will be empathetic and customer service driven. Being the first port of call for all enquiries from grantees and stakeholders this person will be warm, friendly and professional with confidence drawn from substantial experience in the grant making sector. Attention to detail is vital to success in this role as is an appreciation of the value and importance of the support given to nurses and the essential and demanding work that they carry out on a daily basis.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity for a senior grant maker keen to work and support the nursing community and to have excellent potential for professional development with the organisation.

If this sound like you, please apply now!

Head of Policy (Public affairs, advocacy, lobbying)

Industrial animal agriculture is at the root of many of the most pressing global issues of our time, from climate change and global hunger, to antibiotic resistance and poor animal welfare.

The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) is at the forefront of the movement to use food technology to replace the products of industrial animal agriculture with plant-based and cultivated alternatives. Please check out our U.S. affiliate’s website (gfi [dot] org) and read the 2020 Year in Review (gfi [dot] org/2020) to find out more about who we are and what we do.

We are at an exciting stage in our growth, and are looking for a Head of Policy to lead and build our growing policy team in Europe. For more information about this role and the team you will be leading, please read the Head of Policy job brochure here: shorturl.at/ilrAP.

How You Will Make a Difference

Your role will have high responsibility and high impact. You will significantly influence how quickly Europe and the world moves to a more ethical and sustainable food system.

You will be responsible for leading, coordinating and growing a team to drive policy impact on alternative proteins at EU and national levels across Europe.  You will provide strategic oversight and manage a team that works directly with policymakers, non-profits, and other stakeholders.

Specific work-streams that the policy team are working on include, amongst other things, delivering a fair, evidence-based regulatory path-to-market for plant-based and cultivated proteins, driving significantly more public investment into Research and Development for plant-based and cultivated meat, and ensuring that the labelling of plant-based food products is not unfairly restricted. Our team recently played a key role in defeating the "veggie burger ban" labelling proposals in the EU Parliament.

In addition to providing strong leadership and management, you will also be a senior external spokesperson for GFI. Depending on where you are based, you may also take up responsibility for some direct advocacy in your country, if appropriate. For example, if we hire a candidate who is based in the UK, you may take direct responsibility for some of our UK government engagement work. If we hire a candidate who is based in Brussels, you may directly support the team on some EU-facing lobbying.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and support our growing and high-performing policy team in Europe.
• Provide strategic direction, oversight and coordination of GFI Europe’s policy work.
• Help plan and organise our policy work by overseeing objectives, key results, and action plans, and ensure that we deliver on those plans.
• Manage and support our policy team, including performance assessment, professional development and other aspects of line-management.
• Oversee policy team budgeting, growth planning and, in collaboration with our Operations team and the Managing Director, recruitment of new policy team members.
• Personally contribute to lobbying efforts in some areas, where needed.
• Oversee and assist the policy team in developing and coordinating lobbying strategies to deliver positive policy change to support plant-based and cultivated protein, based on thorough research and mapping of decision-makers.
• Oversee external contracts relating to GFI Europe’s policy work, including with service providers such as political consultancies, and grant-funded partnerships.
• Act as a senior spokesperson and representative for GFI in meetings with stakeholders (including donors), in the media, and at public events, as needed.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior politicians and officials in relevant public institutions such as the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of the EU, and national level decision making bodies.
• Build alliances and work cooperatively with other organisations, companies and stakeholders, and engage respectfully with people who are still to be persuaded. You will cultivate relationships with non-profit organisations, industry, and other stakeholders, including those focused on the environment, global hunger, public health, animal welfare, and food safety.
• Together with Communications colleagues, work with the media and use social media to help deliver our objectives.
• Perform other tasks as required. 

Who we’re looking for:

You must have:

• A passion for GFI’s philosophy and mission.

• A demonstrated ability to drive policy change.
• Significant experience working on policy at the EU, national (within Europe - whether in an EU member state or a non-EU country) or multilateral level, for example in a government, public institution, political party, NGO, think tank, industry association, consulting firm, multilateral, or other relevant institution.
• Demonstrated experience as a supportive, collaborative, empowering line manager.
• An excellent ability to think and work strategically to set a compelling and optimised strategic direction for GFI’s policy work in Europe, including vision-setting, prioritising between competing workstreams and opportunities for impact, etc. 
• Excellent people-skills - the ability to influence, network, build alliances and work well in a team.
• Enthusiasm, a strong work ethic and self-motivation; a sense of ownership and responsibility to drive outcomes. A positive, can-do attitude.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

It would be an advantage to have some or all of the following attributes, but none of them are prerequisites, and we welcome applications from candidates without any or all of them:

• Experience leading and managing a team, potentially including leadership and management qualifications.
• Experience leading/managing teams working remotely across multiple geographies.
• Experience in one or more of the following policy areas: research and innovation, food and agriculture, legal and/or regulatory affairs, climate and environment policy, public health.
• Experience working on policy at the EU level.

• Comfort with, and a history of, interacting with and influencing senior officials and politicians.
• A strong network of high-level contacts in relevant institutions.
• A demonstrated ability to build alliances with NGOs and industry actors.
• Fluency in European languages other than English.

We want the best people and we don’t want biases holding us back. We strongly encourage people of every colour, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability to apply. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritize an inclusive climate absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team.

The Fine Print:

• Terms of employment: Full-time, permanent
• Reports to: Managing Director of GFI Europe
• Location:  Flexible. This is a remote role - you will be working from home, or wherever you choose. We will consider candidates based anywhere in Europe. (If the successful applicant for this role is based in Brussels, they would be able to join the Brussels-based members of the policy team in their office, as needed). Once the COVID situation has cleared, the whole GFI Europe team will aim to get together in-person approximately twice per year for around 3-4 days at a time, most likely in the London area or Brussels.
• Salary and benefits: We offer competitive salaries and benefits, based on experience and prevailing rates for similar roles in non-profits in the country where you are based.
• Right to work requirements: You must have the right to work in the country where you are based.
• Application Deadline: 24th May 2021 at 11.59pm CEST. We will be assessing candidates on a rolling basis, so please apply now!
• Application process: Please complete the short form to upload your CV and cover letter. Your cover letter (of 1-2 pages) should set out:
  • what motivated you to apply for this role
  • how you meet each of the requirements for the role as listed in the job description
  • which bit of the job description energises you the most.

The full application process is outlined in the Head of Policy job brochure here: shorturl.at/ilrAP. We really look forward to hearing from you!

Any questions? If you have any questions about this role, please do reach out to us at europe [at] gfi [dot] org. If you’ve read this far but decided not to apply, please feel free to share this job description with someone else in your network who you think might be a good fit for the role! Thank you.

Change Please is an award-winning social enterprise operating in the homelessness sector. We want to see a world in which there is no more homelessness. We train and employ people experiencing homelessness as baristas, support with housing, the Living Wage, mental well-being and then into onward employment with our partners in the hospitality and catering sector.

We are looking for a senior fundraiser to join our team as a Head of Fundraising. Reporting directly to the Director of Impact and Fundraising, this is an exciting time of organisational growth and impact following Covid-19. The postholder will build the department and lead on funding strategy.

Following a successful year, we are looking for someone who can deliver on our organisation’s strategy and vision. The Head of Fundraising will recruit and lead a dedicated team of fundraisers and consultants to bring in funds to help us achieve our mission.

We want someone who can provide the vision, leadership and fundraising skills to achieve our targets and development programme. We want someone with substantial fundraising experience from Trusts and Foundations, excellent at building relationships, organising funding pipelines, reporting and securing funds from a variety of sources. Experience in more than one discipline will be an advantage.

Main Job responsibilities

• Strategy and planning
  • Create and update fundraising strategy with Director of Impact to develop and achieve income targets
  • Maintain up-to-date list of prospects and opportunities for funding from a wide range of sources
  • Lead the annual fundraising planning process to produce effective strategies to achieve income targets
  • Identify new funding opportunities to achieve agree long-term goals and targets
• Monitoring and evaluation
  • Develop and review monitoring and evaluation systems in line with funders’ and Change Please’s requirements
  • Maintain calendar and organise reporting requirements for funders
  • Writing clear reports for funders
• Fundraising / writing
  • Write excellent and persuasive written applications and material
  • Develop new donors
  • Lead on new funding streams for Change Please
  • Oversee management/reporting of Trust income/expense programmes
  • Writing applications for awards relative to Change Please’s work
• Budgeting and finance
  • Ensuring that the department is in budget
  • Produce effective project and funding budgets with fundraising team
  • Working with Finance Team and Treasurer
  • In cooperation with the executive director, lead the development of any long-term strategy to achieve
• Management and people
  • Overseeing work of freelance fundraisers and fundraising team (to be recruited)
  • Managing workload and performance through regular one-to-one line management discussions
  • Plan and implement personal development programme for team members in all relevant skills
  • Undertake annual performance reviews

Person Spec

• At least five years’ experience in a similar role
• Demonstrable track record of Strategic Fundraising
• Successful, significant and relevant achievement at management level in a comparable organisation
• Experience of utilising the strength of an organisation brand for charity/business development
• Proven track record of meeting challenging income targets
• Proven ability to build, manage and develop key stakeholder, client and donor relationships
• Experience of developing and implementing strategic and business plans
• Proven track record in fundraising that has directly resulted in increased income for an organisation
• Effective dissemination of information to large and diverse groups
• Strong leadership skills.
• Track record of bringing innovative creative thinking and fresh ideas to an organisation and/ or its services
• Commitment to Change Plesae’s work and beneficiary group

Location - It may be possible for the post-holder to work from a different location if the candidate is based in a country/territory with an Amnesty International Secretariat office and we are in a position to hire an employee in that location - please see link below to see our worldwide office locations: )

Salary grade and benefits will vary country dependent

ABOUT THE ROLE

Working with teams across the organisation, The Head of Safeguarding will bring the necessary expertise to develop robust preventative measures in our working practices and support investigations of reported incidents. The role will work closely with the People and Organisational Development team on anything related to employees but will also support teams with risk mitigation strategies, including sections or third parties where necessary.

JOB PURPOSE

The Head of Safeguarding provides specialist advice to the organisation and leads the development, implementation and monitoring of strategies, policies and procedures to support the implementation of the organisation's safeguarding framework. This is within the context of the broadened definition of safeguarding which includes not only children and at-risk adults, but also the duty of care AIIS owes to other groups that they come into contact with including staff, volunteers, activists, programme partners and beneficiaries.

ABOUT YOU

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead on?the development and implementation of?AIIS's?overarching safeguarding strategy to operationalise the safeguarding?policy.?
• Develop safeguarding protocols, procedures, and risk assessments in line with the recently adopted policy,?ensuring they are legally?compliant, in all the locations in which we will be applying them.?
• Work?collaboratively with colleagues?in all our offices to ensure compliance with best practice and lead on the development of a safeguarding culture and practices across all the IS offices.?
• Play?a lead role in creating an organisational culture where safeguarding is prioritised, discussed in teams, with activists and partners, allegations are taken seriously, and beneficiaries, staff and partners feel safe to report.?
• In partnership with the Head of Learning and Development, develop a training programme including designing new training material, or outsourcing this where necessary and also determining who should take what training and when.
• Develop and maintain a programme of assurance to ensure that safeguarding standards are maintained across all activities.
• Lead on dealing with any incidents reported. Work with People and Organisational Development or external parties as relevant to carry out?investigations. Monitor and make improvements to the reporting process and tools as necessary.
• Work with teams using digital tools to ensure safeguarding issues are built into this way of working. Provide?ongoing advice, support and information to senior managers, key staff and?the International Board?on?best practice, and current developments in safeguarding policy.?

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrable experience of leading on the development and roll-out of safeguarding policies and practices
• Experience of safeguarding case work and managing organisational responses
• Proven experience of investigating sexual misconduct or abuse.
• Experience of working in a multi-location international organisation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including experience of training and public speaking.
• Ability to influence key decision-makers and teams to ensure organisational buy-in.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability and credibility to interact effectively with colleagues at all levels and build relationships with relevant external organisations.
• Proven project management skills involving multiple stakeholders on cross-organisational projects.

ABOUT US

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. We reach almost every country in the world.

Our aim is simple: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they're denied. And whether we're applying pressure through powerful research or direct lobbying, mass demonstrations or online campaigning, we're all inspired by hope for a better world. One where human rights are respected and protected by everyone, everywhere.

At Amnesty International, we are passionate about what we do and we are proud of our achievements as a movement. To compensate our employees for the critical work they do, we reward them through a combination of an attractive and sector competitive salary and benefits package, high levels of engagement and involvement, and a commitment to employee development.

WHAT WE HOPE YOU WILL DO NEXT

If you are talented, passionate about human rights and want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to change the world then we would encourage you to click 'Apply for this Role' below.

Freedom, Justice, Equality. Let's get to work.

N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.

Established in 1995, Bow Arts is an arts education charity that has grown rapidly to become one of London’s leading affordable workspace providers for creative professionals.  Our mission is to support community renewal across London by delivering arts and creative services through our financially sustainable social enterprise model.

Bow Arts manages affordable creative workspaces for 500 artists across multiple sites and runs an education programme with over 90 schools and a public exhibition and events programme delivered through the Nunnery Gallery.

It is made up of four core delivery departments: Property Management, Learning, Arts & Events and Enterprise & Place Making. These delivery departments are supported by a Core Services team. Bow Arts has a staff of 21, based in our office at our Bow Road site, and is a friendly, fast-paced environment to work in.

As an award-winning social enterprise, Bow Arts is one of east London’s great success stories. We earned our reputation by being community-focused and through our ‘creative place making’ approach. We take underused or overlooked spaces and revitalise them to create supportive environments for artists and creatives, while at the same time generating long term benefits for the communities in which we are located.

We have grown a reputation as an open, friendly and innovative organisation.

Role Overview:

The Head of Property will play a key role in the Trust. The property portfolio is the financial driver for the charity and as such it will be the responsibility of the Head of Property to generate surpluses that maintains revenue streams for the charitable work of the Trust. 

We have extended our studio management activities to build truly innovative work in the spheres of creative and arts education in schools and neighborhood renewal; we work with a number of major housing associations and property developers as such external relationships are key to our business.

We have a young and efficient property management team who manage the existing portfolio as well as the communities of artists therein; the Head of Property will ensure the continuation of the excellent management of our portfolio continues. 

The trust currently manages 14 sites, supporting up to 500 artist, designers and makers alongside a number of commercial clients and Facilities Management contracts.  In addition, we run a meanwhile housing project in partnership with Peabody Thamesmead consisting of 40 residential flats.

We intend to expand our portfolio over the coming years through strategic partnerships and we are looking for an individual able to grow with us and support the development of these relationships. 

We are looking for someone with an affinity for the sector and with experience to manage the day-to-day activity of a diverse portfolio. We seek a clear communicator capable of running a team and reporting at an executive level and for someone who wishes to grow with the organisation

Detailed Duties:

Senior Team

• Contribute to the business planning and be accountable for the delivery of Bow Art Trust’s objectives, particularly in relation to development, investment, procurement and maintenance of the property portfolio.
• Regularly attend and contribute to Board meetings and deliver high-quality reports and management information to the Senior Team and the Board as required.

Finance & Reporting

• Maintain good quality management information to support the financial and operational management of the property portfolio.
• Assemble and present high-quality reports on the performance of the property portfolio to the Senior Team and the Board as required.
• Produce Annual Departmental Budgets, Operational Plans and set yearly Key Performance Indicators.
• Maintain monthly finance reports and quarterly management reports for the Chief Executive and Board, highlighting key variances.

Property

The property portfolio is the financial driver for the charitable activity and outputs of the Trust.

• Take day to day responsibility for management of the Trust’s property portfolio.
• Ensure that void spaces are kept to a minimum and that all spaces are marketed and let in the most time efficient manner.
• Be responsible for contracts and leases, renewals, management agreements, rent reviews and property related indemnities.
• Oversee Fire, Health and Safety Risk Assessments for studios and property as required; Coordinate regular checks and servicing of Fire and Health and Safety systems.
• Oversee and manage the cyclical programs of maintenance and remedial works taking account of lease provisions, renewals and reinvestment plans.
• Ensure all capital and repair expenditure is effectively costed, managed and monitored, anticipating any variance to budgets and recommending remedial action.
• Regularly monitor and review service contracts to ensure they meet the needs of the organisation and are cost effective and offer best value for money.
• Manage and review contractors and where appropriate put in place new contractors for the maintenance and upkeep of the portfolio and ensure that these contracts demonstrate best value for money.
• Manage and oversee business rates accounts, make application for CBRR charitable business rates relief and support the transition to SBRR.
• Provide professional support to staff on all property maintenance, compliance and improvement matters.
• Be the responsible officer for dealing with emergency property maintenance and compliance matters.
• Oversee the project management and refurbishment of new studio buildings, manage budgets and contacts.

Staffing

• Deliver line management, monitoring and evaluation of staff against an agreed appraisal system.
• Establish and operate a performance management culture whereby roles and accountabilities are clear and individual and team performance are regularly monitored and underperformance is addressed immediately.
• Ensure all staff are supported through regular feedback, both informal and formal (the latter in line with appropriate policies and procedures) to achieve their potential in delivering agreed outcomes.

Other

• Ensure compliance with Bow Arts policies and procedures, including: Equality and Diversity, Financial Regulations and statutory Health and Safety.
• Maintain confidentiality agreements and to conduct yourself in a professional manner during the course of your duties.
• Demonstrate a willingness to undertake training as required for the development of the post and enhancement of the Company’s skill base.
• Engage with staff and clients of Bow Arts in a positive and constructive manner and attend such meetings as the post requires in order to fulfil its aims.
• Promote the aims and objectives of Bow Arts by acting as an ambassador for the organisation in a pro-active and informed manner.
• Undertake other duties consistent with the level of the post. 

Person Specification:

• Knowledge and experience of property and facilities management, with a particular focus on workspaces.
• Knowledge and experience of property refurbishment, tender processes and managing contractors
• Knowledge and understanding of current Health and Safety Legislation, with particular regard to those factors applying to managed workspaces.
• Experience of managing a range of staff.
• Experience of developing and managing budgets.
• Experience of liaising with a range of organisations and individuals at many levels, including Local Authorities, developers, planners, funders.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• IT literate.
• Motivated and organised.

Bow Arts is an equal opportunities employer and registered charity no. 1046958. The Bow Arts office is fully wheelchair accessible.

This exciting role sits within the heart of our high-performing marketing team and will play a vital part in helping us succeed across both our fundraising and youth-focused activities.

Throughout the six months, as Head of Marketing Partnerships, you will manage our precious marketing partnerships with media owners, agencies and expert volunteers to ensure two projects are delivered – an important brand campaign and a high-profile media partnership that will raise vital donations for The Trust.

You’ll be eager to use your knowledge of marketing, agencies and media and excited by the opportunity to work with some of the best in these industries who kindly give their support to help our charitable projects flourish.

You will embrace life at The Prince’s Trust – we care about our people, and bringing their talents to life, and you will be empowered to own the projects in hand and enjoy the flexible working and supportive team environment.

If this challenge sounds exciting, we’d love to tell you more about our plans over the next six months and how, with your help, we can make great things happen in support of young people in the UK.

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation that stands up for children? Then join us as Head of UK Impact and Investment, driving Save the Children’s Partnerships & Philanthropy and our cross organisational innovation strategy, across a variety of markets, including the UK.

About the Role

As Head of UK Impact Investment, Partnerships and Philanthropy you will be responsible for identifying and executing a £10million + portfolio of investment for new products in addition to delivering £10million per annum from more traditional forms of philanthropy.

You will also play a key leadership role in delivering our future innovation and impact investment strategy across a variety of markets, including the UK; helping Save the Children in facing 3 key strategic challenges: raising new unrestricted income; attracting new funding for our programmes (restricted income) and finding new impact for children through new partnerships and collaboration.

Key accountabilities

In addition to the above, you will:

• Lead all parts of the cycle from development of the innovation model to taking a new product to market and securing philanthropic capital, with an active pipeline of £10million in development for 2021
• Be a lead member in our Innovation cross organisational working group, with accountability to drive forward and pilot at least one new business model in 2021
• Be integral to the delivery of our strategy to build long lasting, highly engaged relationships with philanthropists leading, cultivating & stewarding, with on focus on 7 figure gifts & relationships
• Proactively set up external networks to enable best practice sharing with other INGOs, social enterprise, B-Corps, academia and others working in this space
• Work with the CEO’s office, trustees, and senior volunteers, to seek new opportunities and to help enhance or recognise our donor relationships.

Person profile

To be successful you will have direct experience of working in both the private and philanthropy sectors as well as experience of working within a company to drive innovation approaches. You will also have excellent strategic thinking capability and highly developed influencing skills. In addition you will have:

• Extensive understanding of new financing models to drive impact, including outcome funds, results based financing, social finance
• Excellent knowledge of private sector approaches in developing countries and fragile states (e.g., shared value, philanthropy, and corporate responsibility)
• Experience of developing, networking & enhancing philanthropic relationships, at £5m+ giving levels, and demonstrable experience of high level stewardship
• Excellent written skills, including development of compelling communications for donors.

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.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

The aim of the Royal Society’s Grants Programmes is to support outstanding researchers, with a significant focus on supporting the best early career researchers. The Grants Team is responsible for shaping and delivering the Royal Society’s Grants Programme, including the major fellowship programmes, international collaboration, capacity building programmes and industry programmes.

The post holder will join the Grants Senior Leadership team, one of three Heads, to shape the future Royal Society’s Grants programme, leading on the delivery of all of the Society’s major UK based fellowship programmes, including the Society’s flagship University Research Fellowships, Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships and Royal Society Research Professorships.  In addition to overseeing delivery of the programmes, the Head of Grants will be responsible for managing relationships with partner organisations and key stakeholders, including Government departments such as BEIS, other funders including UKRI, philanthropic supporters, senior staff within University departments and the Royal Society’s research fellows. 

The Royal Society is in the process of evolving the delivery of the programme in the Grants Team, working alongside an external Change Manager, the postholder will be key to helping to shape the future delivery of the programme and will work closely with colleagues in the Grants Senior Leadership Team including the Director of Grant programmes. The post holder currently manages a team of 12 senior managers, programme managers and scheme managers.

Reports to: Director of Grant Programmes

Line manages: Senior Grants Managers

Location: 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG (Temporarily remote)

Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week

Pay Band: F, £61,506 - £65,000 per annum.

All applications must be made on The Royal Society jobs portal.

To view the full job description and to apply, please refer to our website.