We are seeking to appoint a Membership and Marketing Director to increase ASDAN’s member­ship base through building an inclusive community identity and brand for customers and partners. As we embark on the next stage of our journey to be a leader in personal, social and work-related learning, our new Membership and Marketing Director will play a pivotal role in developing a marketing and membership strategy to support the charity’s targets to retain and attract new members, grow mem­bership income, and extend our impact.

Being a director of ASDAN will require a real com­mitment to our beliefs, values and principles. In return, you will be joining a team charging themselves with a truly reward­ing mission - transforming the life chances of children and young people.

About ASDAN

ASDAN is a successful national educational charity and awarding organisation for a range of qualifications, programmes and curriculum resources used by more than 3,000 schools, colleges and other education providers in the UK and internationally. 

Job purpose

To sustainably increase ASDAN’s membership base through building an inclusive community identity and brand for customers and partners.

To lead the development, implementation and review of a marketing and membership strategy to support the charity’s targets to retain and attract new members, grow membership income, and support growth in product sales.

Key responsibilities

1. Deliver the annual membership income budget by achieving targets for member retention, new members and growth in member spend, with responsibility for reporting to the trustees, including the Performance, Audit, Risk and Compliance (PARC) committee, on performance
2. Develop and implement a coherent membership and marketing strategy to build an inclusive community identity and brand for ASDAN through fully integrating three key areas of activity: marketing and communications; customer experience; customer relationships
3. Create fully integrated membership and marketing strategies that support the charity’s overall strategic direction, and are fully integrated with its education, product development and business operations functions
4. Deliver extended reach for ASDAN’s courses to a wider membership and secure evidence of the charity’s increased performance, impact and contribution to its overall charitable purpose
5. Share collective responsibility for the overall leadership of ASDAN with the director team and trustees

For full details including role description, person specification and terms and conditions, please download the Membership and Marketing Director recruitment pack.

How to apply

To apply, please follow the link below to our website.

• Applications close: Thursday 14th November, with shortlisting completed by Tuesday 19th November
• Interview date: Tuesday 3rd December 2019 in Bristol

If you have extensive experience of CRM and marketing automation and a track record of delivering successful integrated, multi-channel marketing and communication programmes, then this is the role for you!

A fantastic homelessness charity is looking for a Head of CRM to lead their new central function and work closely with business teams to develop their CRM capability.

It's an exciting time to join as they're currently establishing a specialist CRM function with a cross-organisational remit, working collaboratively across the business to develop and co-ordinate a programme of communication that strengthens engagement with all those who want to support the cause. The function will play an important role in helping the charity achieve their target of growing the active and engaged supporter base, leveraging their investment in marketing automation technology and in delivering a great supporter experience at every touch point.

As Head of CRM, you will be responsible for defining the vision for marketing automation, supporting teams right across the charity to implement plans aligned with their strategic objectives. It's a highly collaborative position that will require you to work closely with senior colleagues in Fundraising, Campaigns, Retail, and Services, along with other teams which have a cross-organisational remit such as Data Management and Insight, IT and Research. To be successful you in this post you must be digitally savvy, a natural innovator and outstanding communicator and will possess excellent networking, interpersonal and problem-solving abilities.

If you're used to worked at a senior level, ideally in an industry where customer retention is key and have a record of consistently delivering successful programmes of multi-channel communication then please do get in touch!

Please note, only sucessful applicants will be contacted with further information.

Head of Fundraising 

£58k+ pa + benefits

12 Months Maternity Cover

London or Johannesburg or Nairobi

(Local terms and conditions of employment of the Country Office will apply)

Where better to use your experience of successfully leading fundraising teams in the development sector to good use than with one of the world’s leading international NGO’s. We want you to become part of the global movement of people fighting for women’s rights, social justice and an end to poverty. Your challenge will be to provide overall leadership for our global voluntary funding strategy, inspiring our global fundraising community to deliver innovative approaches to income growth.

Join us and you will mobilise people and resources across the ActionAid federation to deliver highly innovative strategies and tactics to sustain and increase our global voluntary giving income. We will look to you to manage and develop relationships with key stakeholders as well as use your expertise to develop systems, processes, practice and culture across the organisation to ensure that we work to the highest standards. You will also design and implement the Global Fundraising Skills Share and other initiatives to increase our ability to grow and evolve our fundraising methods. You will ensure compliance as well as monitor and evaluate effectiveness of our global strategic fundraising investments too. Important will be the ability to provide oversight of the strategic direction for fundraising trends and their implications to ensure we continue to meet ambitious income targets today and in the future.

You will have operated at a senior management level within the fundraising sector and gained an extensive understanding of individual giving operations. You will also have significant experience within a large INGO, a record of overseeing the successful delivery of complex change projects and a solid understanding of fundraising regulation and best practice. Important too, will be a detailed awareness of key trends in voluntary fundraising.

Excellent at developing partnerships you will be a real team player who enjoys working in a collaborative way and delivering highly creative ideas. Good at managing stakeholder relationships, you will possess strong communication, diplomacy, coaching and presentation skills too. You will also be effective at developing high performing and highly motived teams.

If you have the right skills and experience, please send your CV and motivation cover letter to us via the link by Midnight Sunday 27th October 2019, in the subject line please write ‘Head of Fundraising – Your Name’. Interviews will take place on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th November 2019.

You are requested to highlight in the motivation letter how specifically you meet the criteria for this role. To be considered for this role, you must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in UK or in another ActionAid Country Office. 

If you do not meet all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only invite candidates for an interview if they meet all of the essential criteria listed on the job description. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria.

Due to high volumes of applications received, should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

ActionAid is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. We value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community in particular women who are currently under represented in senior positions. We regret that agency candidates will not be considered.

Reg. Charity No: 274467

Permanent

Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Based at Counting House, London Bridge

What the job involves

This exciting new role reports directly to the Head of Digital and is part of an established team of ten digital marketers, web experts and content specialists. As part of the team, you’ll take the lead on measuring the effectiveness of our communications, learning about the behaviours of our audiences, and using that insight to drive improvement across the organisation.

You’ll work collaboratively with colleagues in the Insight team to make sure learnings from digital channels are combined with other knowledge to produce robust, comprehensive evaluations and strategic recommendations.

You’ll also be part of a range of exciting projects with purpose, including helping newly-diagnosed men get the vital information and support they need more easily, improving results from national events like March for Men that fund our work, and building understanding of our supporters as individuals so we can engage them with stories and actions that are right for them.

What we want from you

You have proven experience and an advanced knowledge of digital analytics and optimisation, including technical configuration of tools like Google Analytics and Tag Manager; in-person research methods such as usability testing; and managing, transforming and interpreting large sets of data.

You have an analytical mind and a scientific approach, an understanding of statistical significance, and you challenge your hunches and rule out alternative interpretations to reach robust, actionable conclusions. You also have a knack for communicating complex ideas to colleagues with different expertise, and the interpersonal skills to build rapport and trust with a range of stakeholders.

Why work for us?

We have a simple ambition – to stop men dying from prostate cancer

We’re investing millions to find better treatments and tests that could save thousands of lives.
We work with the NHS to make sure men get access to breakthrough tests and treatments.
We spread the word about who is at risk of prostate cancer, especially to those at higher risk.
We support people dealing with prostate cancer and provide health information. Be part of a team that will put an end to prostate cancer being a killer.

The support we’ll provide

Join our team and you’ll be working at an award-winning charity that will help you learn, develop your skills and expertise, and achieve your highest aspirations. We provide everything you’d expect from a professional organisation – competitive benefits package, contributory pension scheme, life insurance and a season ticket loan – but much more besides. Work with us and you’ll see your efforts pay off as we fight for a better future for men.

Closing date: midnight, 20th October 2019.

Interview date: 30th / 31st October 2019.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company number 02653887.

A national health charity, urgently seek an interim Head of Media until end January 2020.

The Head of Media is responsible for the charity's media and social media activity across traditional and online media outlets at national and regional level.
Through multiple media channels, the charity's media team will support strategic objectives to influence behavioural and policy change, maintain trust and brand and drive income generation.

The Head of Media will lead on and drive forward media, press and social media profile and impact, working with tenacity, imagination and good judgement to develop a high performing and sector-leading team to help achieve dramatic change for service area users.

Duties:
Lead on the creation and delivery of a pipeline of proactive media activity and annual media and social media plans, collaborating with teams across the organisation and providing expert advice, to support the charity's strategic objectives.
Develop and lead the Media team to deliver and evaluate ambitious, analytically-driven PR and social media plans, that support strategic aims including communicating our key messages, increasing our reach and awareness, influencing behavioural and policy change and driving income.
Oversee the day-to-day running of the media office, including the management of social media channels and their content, ensuring fast, accurate and strategically-aligned responses to media
enquiries and that we capitalise on media opportunities presented by the news agenda. Ensure output is high-quality and effective in ensuring media cut-through to maximise impact for the charity.
Use a range of internal and external data to inform media activity and support innovation.
Advise the organisation on media matters to inform planning and responses to the media agenda, based on an in-depth understanding of the relevant external press, media and social media environment, trends.
Manage, motivate and support the Senior Media Officer and Senior Social Media Officer as well as leading the wider team, being an ambassador of best practice and professional development.
Develop and lead the media team to network and build relationships with key journalists to support the media team's objectives.
Lead the team to source and interview case studies and engage with celebrity supporters to support media objectives, complying with internal process and data protection legislation.
Be responsible for ensuring that the organisations spokespeople are trained and able to deliver effective media interviews - and deliver continuous coaching and development.
Lead our operational response as Incident Communications Lead for the organisation, playing an active role in preparing for and implementing responses to crisis or high-risk situations, and advising the Senior Leadership Team as appropriate.
Ensure there is robust business intelligence for the organisation and team. This would be achieved by setting KPI's and targets for our media, tracking effectiveness through monitoring, providing insight into how this effectiveness can be improved, and producing reports for the Senior Leadership Team and Board of Trustees to inform future strategic direction.
Ensure that the work produced by the Media team adheres to organisational policies and positions and aligns with the strategy at all times for maximum effect.
Manage the Media team budget and monitor expenditure.
From time-to-time, as needed, create high-quality media materials including press releases and statements, comment pieces and spokesperson briefings.
Available to work outside office hours, including managing out of hours media office.

Experience:
Significant experience of developing creative media concepts, strategies and tactics and implementing on and off-line media plans.
Significant experience of securing on-message national, regional, trade and broadcast coverage to support policy, health advice and fundraising campaigns that creates tangible, measurable impact.
A digital mind-set and proven track record in devising, managing and evaluating successful media campaigns integrated with other activity.
Significant experience in interviewing case studies in a sensitive way whilst eliciting strong media angles.
Significant experience in analyzing complex data to identify newsworthy statistics.
Significant experience in building and developing relationships with journalists in a range of media.
Experience managing projects, budgets and timelines.
Significant experience of line management and team leadership including the ability to motivate and manage people effectively.

Day rate is based on an annual salary of £52kpa. The upper end of the scale is based on someone working through a Ltd or Umbrella company.

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We help people directly out of homelessness, and campaign for the changes needed to solve it altogether. We know that together we can end homelessness.

About the role
Crisis’ ambitious Marketing and Communications team is growing, so that we can build large-scale public support for our goal of ending homeless for good. This exciting new role will help to lead a step-change in our marketing activity, bringing together our existing marketing and digital functions with newly created digital marketing and supporter engagement teams.

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

- Interest free season ticket loan
- Interest free bicycle loan
- Rent deposit loan scheme
- Childcare voucher scheme
- 8% employer contribution pension

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we are committed to your ongoing training and development to build your skills, experience, and career.

How to apply
Please click apply to be taken to the Crisis online jobs portal. The job description can be downloaded by clicking the 'Additional Details' tab to the upper right hand side of our advert.

Closing date: Sunday 3 November

Interview dates: Thursday 21 November

At Crisis we value diversity, promote equality, and challenge discrimination, and we encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team using the information on the Crisis Jobs site.

Person Specification

Essential

1 Substantial experience within a marketing or digital role at management level

2 Significant experience of leading digital and marketing programmes and campaigns with demonstrable impact

3 Excellent digital marketing knowledge with experience across content, social media, email, search and digital advertising

4 Ability to design and implement a compelling content strategy which meets multiple organisational objectives

5 An audience-centric approach with experience of commissioning, analysing and applying audience insight from a variety of sources

6 Solid understanding of supporter engagement principles and experience of designing customer/supporter journeys across multiple touchpoints

7 Experience of building digital capabilities across an organisation

8 Very strong people management skills, with the ability to inspire teams across functions to work in an integrated way

9 Very strong relationship building skills at all levels and across a complex organisation, approachable and confident

10 Strong project and stakeholder management skills

11 Excellent written and verbal communications skills with the ability to influence a range of audiences, both internal and external

12 Commitment to Crisis’ purpose and values including equality and social inclusion

Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

ETI is a leading alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs that promotes respect for worker’s rights worldwide. ETI’s company members include major high street retailers, luxury fashion labels and supermarkets and it works together with the membership and international partners to drive long-lasting change for workers in global supply chains.

The Strategic Lead will provide leadership and expert insight within the General Merchandise sector (electronics, furniture, rubber, stone and more) to drive and manage the design, development and implementation of key global supply chain programmes and other related initiatives to better protect the rights of workers around the world. We are looking for someone with experience working collaboratively with diverse groups of clients or stakeholders, including for company representatives, NGOs and Trade Unions and expertise working with and analysing supply chains in the Global South.

ETI has positioned itself as a global leader in offering multi-stakeholder and long-term solutions to complex and challenging issues, striving to achieve respect for workers worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity to positively influence multiple major businesses to have a truly positive impact on the lives of workers in the global supply chain.

Salary commensurate with skills and experiences. Benefits include 7% pension, 25 days holiday, cycle-to-work scheme, childcare vouchers and interest free travel loan.

Unicef ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

But we could not do this without our supporters. Inspiring and engaging with the public is at the heart of Unicef UK’s strategy – we want more people to know, love and give to our work than ever before. Achieving this in such a complex and changing environment will be a huge challenge. That’s where you come in.

As Head of Supporter Acquisition, you will develop and implement ambitious plans to recruit new supporters. You will provide strategic direction and leadership for a multi-functional team, with strong digital, broadcast and face-to-face programmes. It is a rare opportunity to lead such a talented, sector-leading supporter acquisition team.

To succeed, you will have experience of developing and implementing successful marketing strategies, either in-house or agency side. As an experienced leader, you will be able to motivate and inspire team members, including coaching and developing them to deliver our ambitious plans. You will have excellent communication skills and a track record in successfully engaging senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.  And finally, you will have experience managing a large-scale marketing programme with expenditure of over £1million, so you will be comfortable managing complex financial, risk and compliance factors.

The charity

Bishopsgate Institute is the delivery arm of the Bishopsgate Foundation, founded in 1894 for “the promotion of the education of the public”. We are a small, independent charity with our own extraordinary premises at the crossroads of the City, Spitalfields and the East End. Our motto is “I grow old, but not lazy” and we apply this philosophy throughout our work. 

The role

This is a part-time role for 28 hours per week.  As a member of the Senior Team you will support the charity to achieve its charitable objectives by leading on audience development, customer experience, campaigns and marketing and the development of an integrated programme of activity.  All to specifically increase enrolments and bookings (including venue hire), strengthen relationships with existing audiences and customers and nurture new audiences.

You will have skills and expertise across digital and offline marketing, PR and communications, campaign planning, tone of voice and visual identity management, integrated programming and events including ticketing, audience insight and analysis.

The successful candidate will also have experience working at a strategic level, well-developed people and performance management, robust budget management and forecasting skills and excellence in collaborative project management.

Please download and consult all of the information available on our website before beginning your application.

** CVs alone will not be accepted **

The application deadline is Sunday 27 October 2019 (17:00)

Late applications will not be considered.

Senior Insight Manager

£43-47,000pa

Living Planet Centre Woking

Woking, Surrey GU21 4LL

This is an incredible opportunity to use your experience of managing research projects to help find solutions to the greatest environmental problems facing our planet. As part of the world’s principal independent conservation organisation we want you to take a lead role in helping bring our organisation closer to our supporters and the broader public by providing strategic and tactical consumer research and insight to help unlock the potential as well as drive impactful delivery of our audience engagement.

We have ambitious goals to increase our support and income over the next few years, and research and insight will be key to deliver this strategy. As Senior Insight Manager you will collaborate with colleagues to deliver insight to support the design and evaluation of our supporter engagement activities - including our brand work, communications development, fundraising and campaigning -  as well as create a portfolio of research that will best support our work. Leading a small team, you will plan and schedule research activities, ensuring it is delivered to the highest quality and with commercial and practical relevance.  You will bring expertise in social, market and behavioural research, employ best practice methods and oversee partner organisations. You will also find ways to improve our data structures so that we are able to analyse data at pace as well as take responsibility for meeting all data compliance requirements.

You must have extensive experience in designing and managing research projects in the Market or Social research sector and the ability to take projects through from research design and proposal through to presentation and embedding. You will be used to working across the full quantitative and qualitative research cycles too. Highly analytical and creative, you will adept at interpreting data and producing great reports that inspire.

Calm under pressure you will possess good communication and presentation skills, an eye for detail and the ability to multi-task. You will also be an effective project manager.

Knowledge of the charity sector as well as analysis tools, such as SPSS would be an advantage.

How to Apply

Use your expertise in managing research projects in the Market or Social research to save nature. 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 with cover letter highlighting why you are interested in this role as well as why this role is for you.

At WWF-UK we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and there is equality of opportunity. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community and we offer a range of benefits to encourage a work life balance.

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.

Communications Project Manager – Reframing Homelessness

Department: Policy and External Affairs

Reporting to: Head of Marketing & Communications

Location: Based in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff or Swansea with regular travel between all four locations (including a minimum of two days every fortnight in London)

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We help people directly out of homelessness, and campaign for the changes needed to solve it altogether. We know that together we can end homelessness.

About the role
This is a unique opportunity to shape public thinking on homelessness and build support for the solutions that will solve the homelessness crisis once and for all.
Crisis has worked with the FrameWorks Institute on a leading-edge research programme into how the British public understand homelessness, and how we can shift thinking on the issue. With funding from Comic Relief, we’re now looking for a Strategic Communications Project Manager to lead the implementation of a groundbreaking new, evidence-based communications approach across Crisis, the homelessness sector and the media.

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

• Interest free season ticket loan
• Interest free bicycle loan
• Rent deposit loan scheme
• Childcare voucher scheme
• 8% employer contribution pension

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we are committed to your ongoing training and development to build your skills, experience, and career.

Interview dates: Tuesday 5 November

At Crisis we value diversity, promote equality, and challenge discrimination, and we encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

We are searching for someone to deliver regional sales against targets, account manage key regional stakeholders and lead an outstanding regional sales team.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities: 

• A strong commitment to education, the non-profit sector and raising the aspirations, achievements and life chances of all children
• Experience of meeting ambitious/demanding sales targets in a previous role and effectively managing sales pipelines.
• Experience of developing strategy and leading complex operations in a previous role.
• Experience of successfully developing and leveraging external stakeholder relationships in a previous role.
• Experience of building relationships with a range of internal stakeholders, and working to align varied, often competing, interests.
• Experience of matrix working and managing a complex workload in a previous role.
• Extensive knowledge of the education sector, national influencers, advocates and key stakeholders.
• Experience of successfully facilitating and driving change through peers in a previous role.
• Experience/knowledge of designing and delivering training/CPD.
• Experience of successfully delivering presentations/workshops to external stakeholders in a previous role.
• Experience of successfully motivating and developing others.
• Strong writing and presentation skills.
• Computer/IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you: 

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager 

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays 

• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate) 

• Competitive salary rates

• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers 

• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters. 

• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development 

How to apply 

To apply for any of our vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive at this stage we will not be able to contact unsuccessful applicants.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation. 

As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.  

What the job involves

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Data Insight Analyst to join our Data Insight function. As part of the Data Insight & Analysis team, you will play a key role in providing actionable insights through data deep-dive analysis to help to inform business decisions. You will support the organisation in advancing in its use of descriptive and predictive analytics to maximise the audience responsiveness and income generation.

You will design and develop business KPI dashboards, deliver campaign and audience analysis, and provide recommendations to influence future planning and decision making. You will work collaboratively with various stakeholders to share data best practice, optimise data usage and create an insight driven culture across the organisation.

What we want from you

We’re looking for a self-motivated and experienced data insight analyst, who is passionate about using data and insight to solve business questions and deliver business strategy. You will have extensive experience of manipulating large data sets, data mining, segmentation, profiling and predictive modelling techniques. You will have hands-on experience of various analytics software including FastStats, Alteryx, SPSS, R or equivalent. A working knowledge of data visualisation tool such as Tableau would be beneficial.

You will have advanced knowledge of relational databases and strong SQL ability to query/join/transform data from various databases. A working experience of CRM system such as Raiser’s Edge in the charity sector would be advantageous too.

Apart from excellent analytical skills, you will have strong organisation, time management and problem-solving abilities. You need to be a strong communicator, confident at delivering your analysis outcomes to a wide range of audiences with excellent influencing skills. You will also need to be able to work flexibly, responsively and with minimum supervision.

The support we’ll provide

Join our team and you’ll be working at an award-winning charity that will help you learn, develop your skills and expertise, and achieve your highest aspirations. We provide everything you’d expect from a professional organisation – competitive benefits package, contributory pension scheme, life insurance, and a season ticket loan – but much more besides. Work with us and you’ll see your efforts pay off as we fight for a better future for men.

Closing date: Midnight, 20 October 2019.

Interviews: 30 October – 1 November 2019.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company number 2653887.

About Us:  

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a global organisation providing personalised contraception and safe abortion services to women and girls. Our local teams of professionals are passionate about the work they do in communities across 37 countries. The services we provide give a woman the power to choose when she has children so that she’s free to pursue her plans and dreams for herself and her family.

The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: The prevention of unwanted births and its mission of ensuring an individual’s right to: children by choice, not chance.

Marie Stopes International operates through a network of channels (Clinics, Social Franchise, Marie Stopes community based Ladies and Outreach). This network is complemented by our Social Marketing operation which provides and supplies medical abortion and emergency contraception and other contraceptive and Sexual Reproductive Health products both within and outside our channels.

 

The Function:

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is one of the 20 largest charities in the UK providing family planning & safe abortion services across the globe. MSI operates as a social enterprise, and reveneues are divided almost equally between donor funds and revenue from clients that receive our services.

MSI Group Finance is based in MSI’s London Support Office (the Head Office), based in Conway Street, central London. The Group Finance team comprises:

• The Group Reporting team
• The Donor Finance team
• The Global Support Office finance team including Shared Services
• Treasury
• Financial Planning & Analysis

The Group Reporting team consolidate global financial information and prepare the core group financial reports: the group management accounts, group statutory accounts and annual audit, global balance sheet. In additional, the group team is responsible for grant financial accounting and revenue recognition.

The role:

The role is part of the wider Global Accounting Team with specific management responsibility for the Group Reporting team, including:

• Managing Group month-end including relevant management reports
• Preparing Group Statutory Accounts (and managing the group statutory audit)
• Managing and monitoring the group balance sheet
• Managing global grant income recognition, grant financial accounting and pre-financing reporting

About you

To succeed in this role, you must have:

Skills and Experience:

• Financial & management reporting experience (essential)
• Experience of preparing accounts under UK accounting standards and the Charities SORP (essential)
• Experienced in multi currency reporting and accounting (essential)
• Finance systems experience, preferably including SUNsystems, InforQ&A and InforBI (desirable)
• Experience of group reporting in an international donor funded organisation (desirable)
• Experience of working in-country for a large, international NGO (desirable)
• Experience in managing staff (desirable)

 

Qualifications and Training:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, other relevant qualification) (essential)

 

Personal Attributes:

• Pro-Choice on abortion
• High level of numeracy
• Analytical approach
• Attention to detail
• Proactive at solving problems
• Good communicator with colleagues with a finance and non-finance background; and with non-native English speakers
• Good at prioritising to meet deadlines

For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.

Location: London, W1T 6LP

Closing date: 10th October 2019 (midnight GMT+1). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

Fixed Term Contract – approximately 6 months

Salary: £46k - £53k depending on experience

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.