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We are delighted to be working in partnership with World Vision UK. As a global Christian humanitarian charity, World Vision is dedicated to tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice, empowering children, families, and communities to thrive. Through advocacy, emergency relief, and long-term development, they bring hope and transformation where it’s needed most. At the heart of their mission is a deep commitment to demonstrating God’s unconditional love.
We are seeking a confident communicator with a heart for mission and a head for strategy to become their new Midlands Area Manager. In this important role you’ll lead their work with churches, leaders, and Christian networks across Midlands. You'll inspire action through giving, prayer, and advocacy, sharing the life-changing impact of World Vision’s work with the world’s most vulnerable children. From church visits to major festivals and online events, you’ll bring energy and purpose to every interaction. With team leadership responsibilities and room to grow, this is a bold, faith-filled role where your ideas and passion can truly thrive. You’ll represent World Vision by speaking in churches for approximately 18 Sundays per calendar year, a wonderful opportunity to inspire, connect, and share the heart of our mission with church communities.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate:
- Experience in leading/supporting a team working to targets, perhaps in a fundraising, sales or similar environment.
- Knowledge of the Christian landscape in the Midlands and key relationship management principles.
- Ability to represent World Vision at a range of events, speaking to leaders, churches and individuals about our work.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively and supportively with external partners, internal team members and multiple church relationships.
This is an incredible opportunity for a practicing Christian who wants to make a powerful, lasting impact. Join a passionate team committed to transforming the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children. You won’t just be part of the mission, you’ll help drive it forward, bringing hope, change, and practical support to children who need it most, all around the world.
Midlands Area region consists of: Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.
The ideal candidate should reside in the Midlands. This is a home-based role with extensive travel across the Midlands.
This role is subject to a DBS check, which will be carried out by the employer.
For more information, please contact Nick Thomas, Senior Consultant, Charisma Charity Recruitment. Your application should be submitted through the Charisma website and include your CV and supporting statement.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion*, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law.
Charisma is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment processes. If you have any reasonable adjustments or wish to apply for this role under the Disability Confident Scheme, please confirm in your application, or contact our Operations Teams separately. Charisma will ensure all candidates who disclose that they wish to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and that meet the minimum criteria for the role will receive an opportunity to interview with the Charisma Consultant representing the vacancy.
*In accordance with the Equality Act 2010, Part 1, Schedule 9, it is a genuine occupational requirement that the post holder is a practicing Christian and in agreement with World Vision’s mission and values.
Contract / Hours: Permanent / 36.5 hours per week. Part time considered (min 25 hours per week)
Location: Home-based with extensive travel across the Midlands. The ideal candidate should reside in the Midlands.
Closing date: Thursday 6th November
Charisma vetting interviews much be completed by Tuesday 11th November
Interviews with World Vision UK: w/c 17th November
We are advertising for this role in three different regions - Scotland, South East, and London. Please specify which region you are applying for.
Working hours for each regional role:
Scotland: 3 days (22.5 hours)
South East: 4-5 days (30-37.5 hours)
London: 3-4 days (22.5-30 hours)
Flexibility can be discussed at the interview. The salary shown is for full time hours and would be pro rata for part time.
CAP celebrates the value of diversity and our aim is for our workforce to be as inclusive as possible as well as representing the communities we serve. With this in mind, we welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from candidates from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. We are committed to continue building an environment that embraces diversity and includes all.
Partnership Development Managers (PDM) are motivated and driven to broaden and deepen CAP's relationship with the church to fulfil CAPs Purpose, Vision & Mission.
Purpose Statement
To inspire and equip churches across the UK to help people out of debt andpoverty and invite them to become followers of Jesus.
Vision:
Transformed lives - We want to see people across the UK released from poverty, living with faith in Jesus and hope for the future.
Thriving churches - We want to see churches that have become the beating heart of their communities, actively serving them and bringing the hope of Jesus.
An end to UK poverty - We want to see a hope-filled society, free from poverty, with churches united to improve the lives of those facing debt and financial hardship.
Mission
No one should face debt and poverty alone: The steadfast presence of a local church, ready to walk alongside you during the toughest financial storms.
Our aim is that when a vulnerable person who needs our type of face to face help is experiencing financial crisis or vulnerability, there will be a church in their community that is ready to walk alongside them. That church will offer steadfast support as they restore their financial resilience and hope for the future whilst introducing them to the fullness of life that Jesus offers.
Partnership Development - Team Purpose
Our work is fundamental to the growth and success of CAP, encapsulated in our Mission statement: to have a partner church in every community ready to walk alongside the poorest and most vulnerable people. We are responsible for achieving this by establishing Church Partnerships.
Together with our Church partners, we deliver our life-changing services, firstly our core Debt Help service that is then supported by essential wrap-around resilience programs like Job Clubs, Life Skills, and Money Coaching. This work isn't just about helping people get out of debt and poverty; it's about seeing lives radically changed. We are driven by a passion to see people not only find financial freedom, thriving in life, but also become followers of Jesus and find a true sense of belonging in a local church.
Our team
We're looking for a compassionate, self-starting individual who is tenacious, goal-oriented, and target-driven with a make it happen mentality, because they know the impact growing this movement will have on thousands of people's lives.
This role is part of the Partnership Development Team within the Mission & Movement Directorate. Reporting to the Head of Movement Development, you will be responsible for initiating and engaging with senior church leaders and wider networks to partner with CAP, primarily through our life-changing Debt Centre service.
As a Partnership Development Manager, you'll be a key driver of our mission. We're looking for a self-motivated, results-oriented, problem solving individual who can build and nurture relationships across diverse church networks and denominations.
You will be responsible for generating new partnership opportunities, inspiring church leaders and wider networks to engage with CAP's vision and partner with us. You'll need to be an entrepreneurial self-starter with a proven ability to build a robust pipeline and deliver on growth targets, specifically around Debt Centre growth motivated by our desire to help more people out of debt and poverty and see them become followers of Jesus.
Partnership Development Manager Scope
- The team is split between full time and part time PDMs.
- Significant amount of travel with large regions to cover.
- This role has no direct reports.
- In line with our expenses policy, all expenses (e.g. mileage costs) are claimed retrospectively via our CAP Expenses system.
Role:
Accountabilities:
- Responsible for expanding CAP's partnership network across your region alongside the Regional Director and Head of Movement Development, strategically prioritizing and developing relationships with church leaders and networks to establish new partnerships and services. You'll achieve this by collaborating with other teams, proactively networking with Christian organizations and denominational leaders (where appropriate), and representing CAP at various events, all with the goal of growing our influence and opening new services in every community.
- Proactive management of contacts as they progress through the pipeline, working alongside churches to identify if a CAP service supports their church vision, and if appropriate, manage them through the church journey and experience to open a new CAP service.
- To open new Debt Centre Partnerships as laid out in regional Development plans in target areas of deprivation and communities across the region.
- To open resilience services (Job Clubs, Life skills & Money Coaching) with new and existing church partnerships.
- Alongside Regional Director to identify key areas from across the region to host and organize a targeted number of CAP Spotlight Events per term. These events are designed to gather church leaders around a table to have conversations around opening a multi Church Debt Centre.
- To proactively build, manage and progress a self generated caseload of churches within your region, through cold calling, face to face meetings and all other appropriate forms of communication. This will include frequent travel across the region to meet with appropriate churches/ leaders.
- Refer potential new Debt Coaches or Churches that might want to work with an existing or expanding Church Partnership to the relevant Area Partnership Managers who are responsible for existing centre growth and sustainability.
- To work with Regional Leaders and Area Partnership Managers to deepen local knowledge and connections in order to deliver new church partnership opportunities.
- To collaborate across departments where needed to support and engage with Church Events, Talks, Conferences, Festivals, Church Leaders Meetings and other relevant events within your region, working on exhibition stands (when necessary) to help generate enquiries.
- To work with local church teams to ensure appropriate candidates are identified and have a full understanding of the role and responsibilities involved, ensuring CAP¿s selection team receive the appropriate information in a timely manner.
- To advocate and make introductions where appropriate for Church talks, CCT and fundraising opportunities.
- Where appropriate, to represent Partnership Development in additional projects which improve the delivery and content of CAP's products and services.
Measurable Outputs:
- Consistently exemplifies a can do, above and beyond go-getter attitude to deliver results, keeping the main thing, the main thing.
- Achieve targets around the number of new Debt Centre openings in your region per term and year.
- Achieve targets around the number of new to CAP, Job Clubs, Life Skills and Money Coaching openings in your region per term and year.
- Achieve targets around the number of self generated warm leads (warm = actively engaging in conversation with a view to partnership).
- Achieve targets around Regional Spotlight events.
- Active pipeline management (closed, lost, won).
- Ensure that every new partner church completes and returns partnership agreements, additional policies and all candidate paperwork by the relevant deadlines for every new service prior to training (including Direct Debit Agreements).
- Active involvement to support the wider team around logistics, processes and a small amount of project management.
Culture:
- Clearly live out and embrace the cultural values of CAP.
- Clearly demonstrate a heart and passion for the charity.
- Sincere acceptance, understanding and practice of the Christian ethos and purpose of the Charity.
Other Responsibilities Include:
- Being willing to pray with staff and be fully engaged with our Christ Centred culture.
- To encourage friends, family and other contacts to support the charity through the Life Changer program, and other fundraising initiatives.
- Attendance at annual CAP staff conferences
- Ability to self generate opportunities through hard work, tenacity and relationship.
- Ability to build relationships and inspire others to take action, especially church leaders from across a range of denominations, your passion for the mission is infectious and is your key motivator.
- Ability to manage the whole sales process, confidently leading the conversation and directing the next steps for action at every step.
- Ability to talk confidently and with compassion about the subject of poverty inspiring Churches to respond to the need.
- High levels of emotional intelligence with an ability to progress relationships and conversations to reach desired outcomes.
- Strong telephone manager with an ability to connect over the phone.
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
- Naturally decisive and proactive.
- Natural relationship builder.
- Able to work remotely, unsupervised, under pressure and juggling multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Resilient.
- Confident Public Speaker
- A confident communicator who promotes CAP's culture and values at all times.
- Ability to prioritise time, tasks and attention effectively in a pressured environment.
- High levels of organisation skills and drive to reach targets quickly and efficiently
The above job profile is a guide to the work you may be required to undertake but does not form part of your contract of employment and may change from time to time to reflect changing circumstances.
Experience
- Absolute passion and experience to advance the Kingdom of God, either through, with or as part of your local church.
- Demonstrable example & experience of what it takes to grow a business / portfolio / partnership / and or client base.
- Demonstrable examples & experience of what it takes to drive success in a commercial context.
- Demonstrable experience of what it takes to be a self starter
- Experience of managing multiple stakeholders.
- Experience in driving and delivering results.
- Experience of building networks and relationships with external organisations.
- You know what it takes and what¿s required to work to deadlines and targets.
- Administrative experience.
- Good I.T. skills
- Comfortable praying for and with Church leaders
Christian Commitment:
The candidate must be able to give both verbal assent to and practical demonstration of Christians Against Poverty's Statement of Faith and Core Values
Must be able to actively participate in prayer and worship, whether individual, small group or corporately, as an expression of own personal faith and in line with CAP's Statement of Faith.
All adults working in, or on behalf of the CAP have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults. This includes: A responsibility to ensure a safe environment in which CAP Services can be delivered. Identify children and adults where there may be safeguarding concerns and to follow the CAP Safeguarding Policy in addressing any concerns appropriately.
Educational requirements:
- A proven track record is what matters to make this role a success.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Insights and Impact Manager £41,738
The Role
Are you passionate about putting girls' voices at the heart of programme design? We're looking for a collaborative and data-informed Insights and Impact Manager to bring research, evidence and learning into our work at GFS. You'll design and lead monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) across all programmes, build systems to gather insight from girls and young women, and ensure their experiences directly shape our delivery and strategy.
About Girls Friendly Society
Established in 1875, GFS is one of the oldest UK registered charities working to support girls and young women. We believe in challenging gender inequality by empowering girls and young women. We achieve this by providing groups and opportunities for girls and young women to build friendships, gain confidence, and learn that they are unstoppable. We deliver a programme of activities designed to develop socio-emotional skills such as confidence, self-esteem, emotional wellbeing, and resilience, and recruit and train women volunteers to run those activities in a space designed for girls and young women. We prioritise working in areas of disadvantage.
Why Join Us?
At GFS, we believe in creating a supportive and inclusive work environment where our team can thrive. As part of our organisation, you'll enjoy:
- 25 days annual leave (pro rata), plus bank holidays
- Long service leave after two years
- GFS Pension Scheme with 7.5% employer contribution
- We embrace flexible working and support our employees to work in ways that suit their individual circumstances and responsibilities.
- 24-hour access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Season ticket loan
- Annual EDI Learning Days
- Study time to support your professional development
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
GFS is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from marginalised communities including Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled people, and those from underrepresented groups.
As part of our commitment to equitable recruitment, we guarantee interviews for candidates from marginalised communities who meet the essential criteria for the role. We are also committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace. If you require any adjustments to support your application or interview, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure an accessible and inclusive process.
Key Dates
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Closing Date: Noon, Thursday 20th November 2025
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Interviews: Thursday 4th December 2025 and Friday 5th December
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
At TLG, we are passionate about building an exceptional team committed to transforming the lives of children who are struggling. Our vision is bold, and we are looking for outstanding people to join us on this journey. This role offers an exciting opportunity for a motivated and purpose-driven individual to become our Graphic Designer & Editor.
As Graphic Designer & Editor, you will lead the delivery of excellent design across the organisation, championing brand consistency to effectively engage diverse audiences. You will use your creativity in design and video to raise awareness, share impactful stories, and inspire action from a wide range of stakeholders.
We are seeking someone who is not only highly creative but also proactive, organised, and determined. You will understand how to inspire, challenge and motivate others through compelling visual content, ensuring that every piece of work reflects TLG’s mission and values.
Working as part of a dynamic team, you will help communicate TLG’s work through multiple channels, driving brand awareness and creativity throughout the charity. At the heart of this role is a desire to creatively showcase the life-changing impact of TLG’s work and enable audiences to more fully understand the barriers and challenges that struggling children face.
TLG is a Christian charity and, as a team, we want to bring our faith to the work we do; as such, we are recruiting an individual with a strong and vibrant Christian faith. We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 23rd November
Initial Interviews: Thursday 27th November – Online
Final Interviews (TBC): Wednesday 3rd / Monday 8th / Tuesday 9th December – at our National Support Centre in West Yorkshire
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.