We are proud of our pioneering bullying prevention work whether through our ZAP and RISE workshops, Parent Advice Line or our training in schools. We know our work is effective and has significant impact on the lives of children and young people.

Over the next three years we have an ambitious plan to expand our reach to children and families throughout England and Wales, to represent diverse communities, and to respond to the needs of children and families.  

Financial sustainability is a key enabler, and the Head of Income Generation and Partnerships will lead on diversifying our income channels through identifying new partners, supporting and growing existing partnership arrangements and exploring innovative ways to boost traded income.

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.

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.

About us 
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it. 

Crisis’s Innovation & Enterprise Team manages the charity’s portfolio of businesses and drives the growth of the charity’s entrepreneurial and innovation culture.?We use innovation to test new solutions to end homelessness, improve ways of working?across the charity?and generate new sources of?income.? 

It’s an ambitious, creative and driven team looking to accelerate an end to homelessness through its commercial activities. 

About the role 
As Head of Innovation, you will lead the development and implementation of the charity’s innovation strategy determining how we harness and employ innovation to accelerate an end to homelessness.  

This newly created role will work with teams across the charity from our client facing teams to our policy teams to disseminate best practice and equip them with innovation tools and resources. Working with external partners you will bring in insight into future technologies and trends and create a network of innovation experts to support our mission. You will work with senior management to support transformation projects.  

It is an ideal role for an entrepreneurial individual, who’s an expert in innovation and would relish the opportunity to create a new offer to support staff, members and volunteers to shape their innovation capabilities.  

About you 
We are looking for: 

• A wealth of innovation expertise: You are creative, curious and have a depth of knowledge of innovation practice. You are passionate about innovation and driven to use it to support our mission to end homelessness. 
• Senior leadership experience: You have experience of working with senior leaders and management in an innovation or entrepreneurial role  
• Diverse thinking: You may have experience of leading innovation practice in a corporate or consultancy setting. You do not need to have worked in a charity previously, we are actively seeking candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences.  
• An excellent communicator & facilitator: You can demystify innovation and make it accessible for all. You have experience of leading engaging activities for a range of stakeholders.  
• A networker with strong partnership building skills: You are able to identify, build and maintain partnerships across a range of sectors developing collaborations with long-lasting value.  

Benefits 
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including: 

• Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy 
• Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%  
• 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days 

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career. 

How to apply 
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below. 
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.

Closing date: Monday 12th April 2021 (at 23:59) 

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Job Title: Head of Innovation
Hours: 37 hours per week (Flexible)
Salary: £42,821 (point 39 NJC salary scale) per annum
Contract: Open Ended
Holidays: 28 days plus bank holidays (per annum)
Pension: Auto-enrolment scheme in place
Probationary Period: 6 Months
Accountable to: Director of Services, Oxfordshire Mind
Place of Work: 2 Kings Meadow, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0DP

About Oxfordshire Mind

We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We’re here to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for advice and support; in total over 20,000 people in Oxfordshire and West Berkshire access our services each year. With one in four people experiencing a mental health problem at some point in their lives, people need Mind more than ever.

We employ over 180 staff and operate in 29 locations across Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

Purpose of the Job

This new, exciting position will play a key role in leading and shaping the newly created Innovation Team comprising Data & Quality, Volunteering, Service User Involvement and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.

You will work closely with colleagues across Housing, IAPT, Wellbeing Services and Operations teams to support Oxfordshire Mind to deliver excellent inclusive services: providing strategic oversight to facilitate continuous improvement and development of service provision, implementation of new projects, ensuring service user voice, feedback and data informs our work.

About the role

Your responsibilities will include:

• Work with the Oxfordshire Mind Senior Management Team to create the service development strategy and plan, including continuous improvement of current services and new initiatives.
• Develop and apply advanced data analysis methods to generate strategic insights into potential areas of innovation, gap analysis of Oxfordshire Minds current and planned services.
• Develop and implement an approved procedure for the critical appraisal of opportunities and how this relates to our service development strategy, risk management strategy and other policies and procedures.
• Ensure best practice built into service development.
• Work alongside the Director of Services in responding to tendering opportunities; ensuring bids, Pre-Qualifying Questionnaires, Invitations to Tender etc. are completed and submitted on time and in a complaint manner.
• Work with the Development Team to secure appropriate funding.
• Coordinate the capacity and financial costing for business cases / bids / projects with the Head of Finance and Resources.
• Develop, with the Data and Quality Service Manager, approaches to develop insights into potential areas of innovation.
• Develop quality and performance systems for current and new services being delivered to ensure that tangible reporting of the impact of services can be measured and reported.
• Support the development and implementation of the Oxfordshire Mind Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy with the EDI Project Lead.
• Effectively chair Oxfordshire Mind’s EDI Action Group.
• Ensure service users and other lived experienced stakeholders are engaged and involved in the co-production of new services and continuous improvement of existing services in line with Oxfordshire Mind’s Involvement Strategy
• Support the Service User Involvement Coordinator to facilitate the involvement of service users and carers to articulate and measure quality of service delivery and outcomes
• Support the Volunteer Coordinator to oversee and expand the involvement of volunteers and peer supporters across current and new services
• Ensure the provision of mutually beneficial volunteering opportunities across Oxfordshire Mind

About you

Essential Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience of successfully leading and managing projects and teams, delivering outcomes against agreed objectives, in a relevant setting.
• Substantial experience of providing effective staff supervision and line management.
• Proven experience of developing, implementing, managing and delivering high customer service levels within a multi-disciplinary department.
• Proven experience of positively managing change strategically and operationally.
• Experience of planning, monitoring and managing budgets.
• Significant experience of managing performance, monitoring and evaluation including developing and delivering quality improvement.
• Demonstrable influencing and negotiating skills and ability to analyse information, write reports and present an argument.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including service users, colleagues, partners, funding agencies and the public.
• Excellent organisational, planning, administrative and IT skills to deliver work to agreed timescales and standards.
• Excellent decision-making and problem-solving skills finding creative and innovative solutions.
• Capacity to cope effectively with the pressures of the post and to use the support and supervision provided.
• Ability to develop and evaluate service models and contribute to funding bids.
• Knowledge of best practice in community-based mental health services, including expertise in how to ensure people who use services are involved in decision making at all levels.

Closing Date: Tuesday 13th April, 2021, at 5.00pm
Interview Date: Monday 22nd April, 2021
Interview location: Held virtually via Microsoft Teams

How to Apply

Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can view the full Job Description and complete your application online.

Oxfordshire Mind is fully committed to the principles and practices of equal opportunity and diversity.

We are a Mindful Employer.

No agencies please.

Title: Head of Operations and Quality
Salary: £53,751 - £62,001 per annum depending on experience
Hours/Contract: Full Time, 35 hours per week
Location: South West of England (Devon, Bristol, Somerset, Dorset and Cornwall)
Closing date: 22nd April 2021
Interview dates: TBC

As Head of Operations & Quality, you will work as part of a newly created South West England leadership team at Marie Curie. Reporting to the Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships & Services, you will be accountable for ensuring excellence in clinical practice providing clinical leadership for teams across the South West of England ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, person-centred care and for developing and managing robust governance systems.

You will be accountable for the development, management and delivery of integrated services utilising your strong management skills to lead and empower a diverse range of multi-professional clinical and non-clinical teams across the South West of England.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team focused on improving outcomes for people at end of life, integrating our patient-facing services, developing partnerships with other organisations, and building our approach to community engagement and development so that citizens are at the heart of planning and delivery of services.

Utilising your extensive experience in Health and Social Care and expertise in regulatory compliance you will be a dynamic leader, responsible for ensuring that all services across the South West of England deliver safe, effective, person-centred care and that a robust governance and compliance framework is in place to optimise standards, manage risk and demonstrate excellence in end of life care.

Excellent interpersonal skills will enable you to forge and nurture successful working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, and to ensure that Marie Curie is an established and respected partner in the provision of End of Life services across the South West of England.
As a confident communicator and negotiator, you will be accountable for the contract management and service reporting of both commissioned and non-commissioned services across the South West of England, ensuring that they achieve optimum performance at all times.

Creativity and vision are key to the role and you will constantly be seeking opportunities to enhance the Marie Curie brand both in the South West of England and beyond.

TO APPLY
Please attach a cover letter/supporting statement describing how you meet the criteria, providing an example/s of how you have demonstrated this in your work (200 words max).
As part of the interview process, shortlisted candidates will be required to prepare and deliver a presentation.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Karen Burfitt, Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships and Services on 07824 837325.

What's in it for you:
· Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
· Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
· Season ticket loan
· Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
· Continuous development
· Industry leading training programmes
· Employee Assistance Programme
· Flexible Working

Please click here to view the full job description.

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families.

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

This role will be subject to receiving a satisfactory Enhanced criminal record check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

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 partnering with a large high profile children's charity on the exciting Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion vacancy. This is a home-based role anywhere in the United Kingdom.

This role will be responsible for driving forward the charity's ambitious agenda to be exemplar in their approach to equality, diversity and inclusion and will have overall strategic responsibility and sustainability for the delivery of the EDI Action Plan aligned to their Corporate Strategy.

The Head of EDI will be the strategic subject matter expert working collaboratively with the CEO and senior leaders across the charity to embed EDI to be at the heart of every agenda, as well as expanding their external presence as a sector leading charity. You will serve as strategic thought partner and advisor to senior leaders in the Regions and Nations and functional departments to support efforts, and capabilities of colleagues to be EDI champions, to develop a more inclusive culture and embed EDI practices sustainably.

Key responsibilities include:

• Take the strategic lead on ensuring that the EDI Action Plan is delivered effectively and efficiently.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholder to deliver to their commitment to become an anti-racist organisation.
• Engage with all Directors on a quarterly basis to monitor implementation of context of the EDI Checklist for Directors and progress on EDI Action Plan priorities.
• Evaluate and track the key performance indicators through which the charity will be able to judge the success of its EDI Action Plan and report to the CEDI Board.
• Engage and influence policy analysis, best practice reports and exemplars, connecting the Corporate Leadership Group members with the latest policy thinking around EDI, preparing briefings for members on key issues concerning EDI.
• Provide strategic EDI thought advice to senior managers across the organisation and support them to embed EDI practice.
• Support senior leaders to role model inclusive leadership behaviours
• Support the Chair of the CEDI Board in the running of and the development of CEDIB.
• Work with Brand, Marketing and Communication teams to build the charity's reputation as a leading charity on equality and diversity.
• Work with Development and Innovation and Children's Service Operations to ensure best practice in EDI is reflected in our models, products and services.
• Work with the EDI Team and others to develop key organisational initiatives, i.e. employee surveys & listening initiatives, Safeguarding training, and benchmark awards.

• Anticipate and keep up to date with current thought pieces, social, ethical and political movements, trends, legislation and policy in the E&D field, including maintaining an up to date knowledge of E&D policy and practice including developing relevant external networks
• Take responsibility for sharing best practice on equality and diversity within the organisation.

We are looking for someone with the following experience:

• Working at a strategic level, developing the strategy, policy to deliver the EDI agenda.
• Considerable experience in delivering, planning and championing the effective utilisation of E&D programmes, including interdependencies with digital and learning and development.

• Evidence of the successful leadership of development and implementation of cultural change to drive organisational performance.
• Experience of advising at CEO/Senior Leader level.
• Significant experience of internal and external collaborative working.
• Evidence of personal impact both operationally and strategically.
• Communicating effectively in writing compelling policy, plans and communications to tailor to the audience receiving them, in plain speak.

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

Head of Digital Engagement

£48,374 - £55,000pa

Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey

This is an extremely rare opportunity to use your experience of working in a fast-paced communications environment to have a profound effect on life as we know it. Our planet is in peril and if it is to survive, we need to find solutions to restore nature, tackle climate change and feed a growing global population. By joining the senior leadership team at the world’s largest independent conservation organisation you could play your part in saving our world for future generations.

As Head of Digital Engagement, you will own the strategy, delivery and management of the Social Media and Email teams ensuring work is in line and supportive of strategic goals. We want you to bring more digital expertise, rigor and leadership in house to support new initiatives, advise on business-critical projects, campaigns and drive our digital and data maturity forward. You will develop our Email and Social channels to drive income in line with our ambitious growth strategy as well as ensure they effectively support campaign actions and change objectives. A hands-on digital leader you will manage and advise on reputational issues in the social space as well as influence internal stakeholders to see the value of a more digital approach to our work. Important will be the ability to embed a culture of professionalism and best practice and increase the capacity of your team to deliver projects effectively.

For this position you will need experience of working in a commercial or agency organisation and be comfortable operating in a fast-paced communications environment. Having worked in a similar senior role, you will be used to managing supplier agencies, implementing successful large-scale email programmes and embedding a culture of channel ownership and best practice.

An excellent communicator, you will be effective at stakeholder engagement, influencing others and building high performing teams. Results driven, you will possess strong project management and problem-solving skills too. You will also enjoy overseeing multiple projects, hitting deadlines and sharing your enthusiasm for best in class digital communication.

If you have a passion for Digital and new technology coupled with a desire to save our planet, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our website via the link, complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up to date CV with cover letter highlighting why you are why you believe you are suited for the role.

Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you.  Here at WWF we’re committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose.  We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.

Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.

Head of Business Advocacy

£48,374pa

Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey

Fighting for our planet is not for the faint hearted and this exciting new role within WWF UK is no exception. This role provides an amazing opportunity to use your experience of leveraging businesses through impactful advocacy to catalyse action and create solutions in the fight for our world.

With the scale of challenges facing our planet, we know we cannot succeed alone. Our success depends on forging relationships with companies that will join us in tackling the pressing threats facing our world. This is where your passion and talents come in as our Head of Business Advocacy.

As Head of Business Advocacy, you will mobilise businesses in support of our policy, advocacy and campaigning objectives. Working as part of a ‘matrix’ team you will shape and lead our business advocacy strategy to ensure we are as effective as possible in our advocacy outreach and engagement. You will develop clear and ambitious asks and stretch targets for business to deliver the change we want in key policies and practises. You will make the most of all opportunities, support media work and help shape external communications for businesses too.

Leading our private sector advocacy, you will collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to deliver results. An immediate priority will be leading our business advocacy for COP 26. Your role will be key to making sure the business voice around the COP is progressive and ambitious when it comes to tackling climate change and delivering on the Paris commitment to keep warming to 1.5C. You will also engage with food retailers to ensure they play their role in reducing emissions and transforming the food sector.

For this role, you must have significant experience of working with businesses and driving change in the private sector. This will include engaging with businesses to deliver change on either social or environmental issues. Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the environmental and climate change challenges facing businesses and their supply chains, you will be skilled of at developing policy, advocacy and campaigning. Comfortable operating at CEO and Director level, you will be a natural leader who can bring creative and innovative ideas as well as drive strategy from design through to delivery and impact.  Passionate for our mission, you will also be effective at influencing stakeholders as well as having excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.

If you have the expertise to harness the power of businesses to drive positive change for our planet, we would love to hear from, so please visit our website via the link and complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up to date CV and complete the Supporting Statement highlighting why you are interested in this role as well as why this role is for you.

Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you.  Here at WWF we’re committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose.  We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.

Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.

Job Title: Head of Operations

Salary:  £45,000 - £50,000 depending on experience

Hours of work: Full-time / permanent

Location:  Home-based (sites in South Wales, South Gloucestershire, Buckinghamshire and Haringey)

We are working in partnership with Ategi, an established charity currently undergoing a period of organisational transformation.  Ategi support people to live their lives, providing services that are specific for the needs of the individual.  The organisation strives to ensure that the support and care delivered is of a high quality and meets the needs of the people they support across their three streams of work; Shared Lives, Supported Living and Visiting Support.

The charity is now seeking to appoint an experienced Head of Operations to provide operational leadership and managerial responsibility across the organisation.  Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you will support them to set achieve the charity’s vision and mission. 

The successful individual will demonstrate the following:

• Professional experience of working and leadership within a similar sector undergoing change
• Experience of service delivery within CIW and/or CQC regulated environments is essential
• Resilience in dealing with challenging and difficult situations
• Proven experience of leading successful teams in a senior role
• Exceptional management and organisational skills
• Part of a senior leadership team during a time of organisational transformation

We are seeking an individual who is creative, forward thinking and shares our commitment to the vision and values of the organisation.  You will be a team player, with drive, energy and enthusiasm and relentless in your desire for delivering high quality services.  As a leader you will have the responsibility for ensuring that your team are trained, developed and qualified, successful, motivated and happy.

To apply for this role, please e-mail your CV, Supporting Statement and Equal Opportunities and Diversity Monitoring Form to Adam Stacey, Director, Charisma Charity Recruitment, quoting our reference JO2828.

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. 

Closing date for applications: 26 April 2021

Interview date: w/c 10 May 2021

Job Summary

This post will be part of Gaddum’s central services. As the Equality Diversion and Inclusion lead, the post holder will:

• Ensure that the Equality Diversion and Inclusion agenda is recognised as positive, proactive and influential in contributing to the organisation’s strategic and operational planning process.
• To support the development and implementation of Equality Diversion and Inclusion policies, procedures and guidelines, practices and behaviours to improve outcomes for the workforce, stakeholders, communities etc.
• Provide advice and support the development of workforce policies that promote fairness and embed diversity in the workplace.
• Provide relevant training in relation to Equality Diversion and Inclusion as part of induction.
• Develop and lead an integrated approach to Equality Diversion and Inclusion in line with the organisation’s values and behaviours and best practice.

Saint John of God Foundation is part of a global group that delivers healthcare in over 40 countries in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, and Australia.  The Foundation is responsible for raising funds for healthcare work in Ireland, Malawi and eight countries in West Africa though raising money in Ireland, UK, and the Netherlands.  The Foundation raises over €8m per year mainly from over 45,000 regular monthly donors.  The Foundation is now seeking to expand its fundraising income with the following key objectives:

1. Increase the base of regular giving.

2. Increase the level of cash/ appeal giving.

3. Maximise the return form tax efficient giving programmes.

4. Increase the proportion of regular and appeal income delivered on-line.

The successful candidate will be responsible for an investment budget of €0.75m.

Purpose of Role

The successful candidate will be responsible for

• Strategic development, budgeting and annual forecasting of all donor recruitment, retention and donor development, including making investment cases for long term growth in Ireland, Northern Ireland and The Netherlands.
• Overviewing of the individual fundraising programme, developing fundraising strategies and managing a range of activities across the whole supporter journey. 
• Taking lead responsibility for the day to day running of the Individual Giving programme including line management of fundraising staff. 
• Advising on the Individual Giving programme of our sister charity in The Netherlands, Hospitaal Broeders.

Principal Accountabilities

1. To have an overview of the entire Individual Giving programme; developing fundraising strategies and managing a range of activities across the whole supporter journey. (50% of time)

• Lead responsibility for planning and co-ordinating all aspects of integrated marketing campaigns, across a range of channels such as D2D, Direct Marketing, Telemarketing and DRTV.
• To be responsible for operational plans for the development of individual supporters ensuring seamless transition from initial recruitment through to on-going tailored communications and retention programmes.
• To be responsible for developing an effective integrated communications programme for cash donors and regular givers, and to be responsible for data segmentation strategies and tailoring communications according to donor profiles.
• To develop and implement donor recruitment strategies including DRTV & D2D in order to achieve strategic goals laid out as part of the organisational strategic plan.
• To be aware of trends affecting the charity marketplace for donor recruitment activity and direct marketing in general, identifying changes, predicting future trends and implications, and making recommendations as necessary.

2. To lead in the budgeting and annual forecasting of the programme, including making investment cases for long term growth (20% of time)

• Play a key role in the annual budgeting process.
• Manage the forecasting and reporting on a monthly basis.
• Co-ordinate analysis of campaigns and constant development of present and future campaigns as a result of learnings.
• Ensure strong supporter engagement via the development of excellent donor operations and management of call centres.

3. To take lead responsibility for the line management of the Fundraising Team (15% of time)

• Manage and develop the team through the annual appraisal process and regular one-to-one meetings.  Be a positive role model, motivate and facilitate personal and professional growth and progression where possible.

4. Other duties where necessary (15% of time)

• Advise on the optimisation programme of the Dutch IG Programme.  The Dutch charity has its own management and staff responsible for fundraising development and delivery.
• Play an active role on the Saint John of God Foundation management team.
• Negotiate with, manage and motivate key agencies and suppliers within their specific area of expertise.

The principal accountabilities are not meant to be an exhaustive list of tasks. The need for flexibility is required and the job holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

Profile

Experience

• Significant experience in Direct Marketing including proven experience in devising and implementing successful integrated direct marketing income driven campaigns to mass market audiences using current best practice.
• Proven track record in generating significant fundraising income.
• Effective financial management, control, and prioritisation of budgets, including annual planning, reforecasting and presenting investment cases.
• Practical knowledge of working with Salesforce or a similar CRM and MS Office, particularly Excel.
• Competency on all social media channels.
• Experience of devising and implementing segmentation, targeting and prompt strategies.
• Experience of managing creative, print and media agencies with practice in negotiating strong commercial agreements.
• Demonstrable experience of leading, managing, motivating and inspiring a team.
• Experience of appraising new ideas and proposals and testing (or not) as appropriate.
• Experience of working for a not-for-profit organisation would be desirable.

Skills (Special Training or Competences)

• Strong analytical ability.
• Positive, results driven individual.
• Proven strategy development, project management and planning skills.
• Robust, confident, ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Creative and innovative thinker motivated by pushing the boundaries.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Core Behaviours

• Change & Improvement.
• Delivery and Implementation.
• Communicating & Influencing.
• Planning & Organising.
• Team Working.
• Decision Making.

Key Relationships

Internal

• CEO.
• Management team.
• IG Team.
• Manager – Netherlands.

External

• Representative agencies
• All fundraising agencies – Telemarketing, print etc

The deadline for application is Sunday April 25th, 2021

Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion , Barnardo's

Location: Home based in line with our work from anywhere approach.

Salary: Circa £52,000

"No ifs, no buts, no excuses" - part of our commitment to promote equality and diversity across Barnardo's.

Barnardo's is recruiting to a key leadership position of Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

EDI is at the heart of our mission to deliver better outcomes for more children. Diversity is built into the very heart of our 10 year Corporate Strategy as a key enabler and we are driving forward our ambitious agenda to be an exemplar in our approach to EDI . Additionally , we are committed to being an actively anti-racist organisation and the post holder will be fundamental in keeping us on track to deliver this challenging commitment .

You will be an outstanding subject matter expert who will work collaboratively with the CEO and senior leaders across the charity to embed EDI at the heart of every agenda, as well as expanding our external presence as a sector leading charity. The postholder will be a strategic thought partner and advisor to senior leaders across charity to support the efforts and capabilities of colleagues to champion EDI , developing a more inclusive culture and embedding EDI practices sustainably .

Your skills and experience will include:

* Expert knowledge and understanding of EDI within a large-scale

organisational context.

* Good knowledge of equalities legislation , employment law, social

and political contexts across EDI .

* Considerable experience at a strategic and operational level,

developing and delivering EDI action plans and policy

* Experience of advising at CEO/senior leader level

* Ability to successfully harness the passions and commitment of a

geographically dispersed workforce

To view the full job description for this exciting opportunity and read our commitments on tackling racism please see below.

https://www.barnardos.org.uk/barnardos-commitment-tackling-racism