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The Patient Involvement Officer role sits at the junction of lived experience involvement and our charitable objectives and will build meaningful collaborations and alignment between those affected by primary bone cancer, researchers, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders.
The successful candidate will co-ordinate and grow our Patient and Public Involvement Panel, which currently focuses on bringing lived experience to shape and review primary bone cancer research; however, we are keen for the voices of our community to contribute to our work across all our charitable pillars including our Support & Information service and our Influencing & Advocacy work. You will also support and empower our panel to share the work of Bone Cancer Research Trust more widely to their networks, ensuring a greater awareness of the charity and the impact of our work.
We are looking for someone with a good grasp of both the scientific and patient landscapes, who can balance attention to detail with big-picture awareness and work confidently in highly collaborative settings with multiple stakeholders and partner organisations. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a tangible contribution and ensure that our community’s voices drive progress across the UK and further afield.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Our mission is to save lives and improve outcomes for people affected by primary bone cancer through research, information, awareness and support.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Topos Research UK and Topos Institute
Topos Research UK is an entrepreneurial, dynamic charity start-up in the UK (inc. 2024) with a parent charity start-up, Topos Institute in the US (inc. 2019). We are a non-profit research institute dedicated to realising a world where the systems that surround us benefit us all, so that society can better cooperate on critical issues — the climate crisis, pandemic responses, agricultural modelling, global access to education, and more — through interconnected systems that consider holistic impacts. We develop new tools for collective inquiry and modelling, enabled by a combination of novel foundational mathematics, open-source software engineering, and meaningful collaboration with domain specialists.
The Opportunity
We seek a strategic Operations Director to lead the successful scaling of our rapidly growing UK operation. This is a pivotal, creative leadership role reporting directly to our Board of Trustees, with day-to-day collaboration with board representative Brendan Fong (Topos UK Trustee and Topos USA CEO).
Current State:
- 1-year-old entity with £500k annual revenue
- 6 talented staff (research scientists, software engineers, postdocs)
- 3 planned new staff members within the next 6 months
- Two major grants: £600k (1-year) and £1.2M (2.25-year)
- Projected FY26 revenue: £1M
The Challenge: You’ll be our first senior operations hire, responsible for establishing the systems and culture that will enable Topos UK (and Topos as a whole) to thrive as we scale from startup to established institution, collaborating between the UK and US offices, and pioneering a new style of technology-oriented research organisation keenly focussed on improving lives.
Key Responsibilities
Operations & Finance Leadership
- Lead operations and finance for a projected £1M+ annual budget from research grants
- Support grant solicitation, budgeting, procurement, monitoring, and reporting
- Collaborate with financial consultants on organizational strategies, budgets, treasury, and tax affairs
- Coordinate with US-based Topos Institute on governance, consolidated reporting, and shared contracts
Strategic Planning & Culture Building
- Partner with the Board of Trustees and Topos Institute USA to develop and implement strategic plans aligned with our institutional mission
- Champion the critical role of operations and administration in achieving our research mission
- Establish and nurture an organizational culture that:
- Integrates diverse perspectives and lived experiences
- Views uncertainty as opportunity for innovation
- Balances operational efficiency with academic freedom
- Embodies public purpose, intellectual rigor, and collaboration
Team Leadership & Development
- Nurture and mentor our growing team of 6+ researchers and engineers
- Support individual career aspirations while building collective capacity
- Work with HR consultants to develop talent management systems and support organizational human resources needs
- Foster an environment where exceptional people can do their best work
Systems & Infrastructure
- Design and implement policies, internal controls, and procedures for sustainable growth
- Oversee operational functions including inventory management and facilities
- Oversee compliance, risk management, and organizational governance
- Manage physical space requirements, including future lease negotiations
- Coordinate legal affairs with Board of Trustees, sourcing expertise as needed
Stakeholder Management
- Serve as operational interface with funders, partners, and collaborators
- Represent Topos UK’s capabilities and needs to external stakeholders
- Support business development for future grant and contract opportunities
- Assume additional responsibilities as organizational needs evolve
What We’re Looking For
Essential Experience
- 5+ years in senior operations/finance roles at mission-driven organizations
- Proven ability to build systems and culture from the ground up
- Experience with research institutions, nonprofits, or technology startups
- Track record managing complex budgets and grant funding
- Track record of successfully impacting both strategic and tactical finance and administration initiatives
Leadership Qualities
- Collaborative, supportive management style with focus on team development
- Skilled at building consensus in a complex organisation and able to achieve results through influence and partnership
- Ability to foster inclusive environments where diverse perspectives thrive
- Experience mediating differences and supporting individual team member success
- Ability to communicate clearly and collaboratively, both internally and externally
- Creative problem-solving approach with strong analytical skills
Cultural Fit
- Intellectually curious with appreciation for technical research
- Mission-first orientation with commitment to public benefit
- Comfortable with complexity, ambiguity, and rapid change; sees challenges as opportunities for growth
- Committed to building inclusive, supportive team environments
- Values-driven leader who can balance efficiency with academic freedom
- Motivated by meaningful work that contributes to helping solve global-scale challenges
- Values continuous learning, diverse perspectives, and collaborative problem-solving
- Ability to periodically travel to the head office in Berkeley, California, or other locations as needed
- Flexibility with working hours, to accommodate for collaboration across global time zones
- Energetic, flexible, collaborative, and proactive; a team leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical finance and administration initiatives
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in relevant field (business, nonprofit management, etc.)
- Experience with international organizations or multi-entity coordination
- Familiarity with academic research environments
- Technical literacy sufficient to engage with mathematical/computational work
Why Topos UK
Exceptional Team: Collaborate with world-leading researchers and high calibre funding agencies.
Inclusive Environment: Be part of building a diverse team where different perspectives are valued and everyone can contribute their best work.
Meaningful Impact: Your operational excellence directly enables breakthrough research on humanity’s most pressing challenges—from climate change to public health to collaborative open science.
Technical Innovation: Support the development of genuinely novel technologies that could transform how humanity approaches complex, collaborative decision-making.
Supportive Culture: Join a caring, inquiry-driven community that values both intellectual rigor and personal well-being, with a strong focus on in-person office culture but flexibility to support work-life balance.
Growth Opportunity: Shape the foundational systems of an organization poised for significant expansion and impact.
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Topos Research UK is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. There is evidence to suggest that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications as described in the job description. No matter who you are, if this role speaks to you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you tick all the boxes. We’d especially like to encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
If you require any adjustments to the application process, such as accessibility accommodations, additional preparation time, or other, please let us know in your application. We’re happy to support your needs and adjust the application process.
Next Steps: This role offers the rare opportunity to be the operational backbone behind important research that contributes to how humanity tackles global challenges. If you’re energized by building meaningful institutions and enabling exceptional people to do transformative work, we’d love to hear from you.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We expect the process to include initial screening, work assessments, team interviews, and references.
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Sight Scotland is Scotland’s leading charity providing specialist care, education and research for people with vision impairment. The charity has been in existence for over 230 years, and offer a variety of services in the community as well as education, transcription into alternative formats and residential care for adults and children. Their vision is of an inclusive Scotland where people of all visual abilities have the opportunity to thrive.
The Digital and Social Media Creative is responsible for developing and creating engaging digital content and for managing Sight Scotland’s social media channels. This role requires a mix of creativity, digital storytelling and a passion for social media in the charity sector. The role will enhance Sight Scotland’s online presence and engage their audiences, inspiring people to donate, take part in sponsored events and online campaign actions as well as contacting the charities for support with sight loss.
It is important that the successful candidate for this role has existing experience of working within a charity/fundraising environment. In order to ensure the role is successful, an understanding of fundraising and how we can effectively apply digital tools and techniques to support income generation is vital.
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Hybrid, with 2 days a week in Edinburgh office
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37 days leave pro-rata (inclusive of bank holidays)
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Contributory pension scheme – up to 12% employer contribution
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Closing midnight Tuesday 21st October
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Interviews are scheduled for Wednesday 29th October in person at Sight Scotland's HQ in Edinburgh.
In order to progress your application, please download the Candidate Pack and make contact with THINK Recruitment for an informal screening call. Please ensure you reach out to arrange a call with enough time before the role closes as unfortunately we cannot progress candidates to longlist who haven't been screened.
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About us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here.
The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.
About the role
Individual giving is a fantastic, high performing team, generating over £20 million fundraised income per year. Your role will help to plan and develop fundraising strategy, budget management, as well as being responsible for delivering campaigns of significant scale and generating income both now and for the future.
If successful you will be responsible for reaching out to thousands of people across the UK to find new committed supporters, as well as growing long-term engagement with existing supporters through retention communications.
Key to this role is building relationships with internal and external stakeholders to help deliver engaging marketing campaigns at scale, across a wide range of channels and activities (including face-to-face, DRTV, direct mail, digital), driving vital income to support the charity’s research and care objectives.
About you
You’ll have good experience of running direct marketing activity to generate income, working with suppliers and at scale to solicit funds from tens of thousands of supporters.
A well organised person with excellent communication skills, you’ll be managing relationships with key external agencies and in house stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-faceted campaigns while closely monitoring and managing significant expenditure budgets. You’ll have a real focus on monitoring key campaign metrics to optimise performance.
Working across email, online, telemarketing, direct mail, door to door and private site, you’ll understand supporter motivations, and how to increase supporter engagement, testing and evolving our campaigns to best fit what works for our supporters and ensuring that the Breast Cancer Now brand ethos is at the heart of all communications.
Job description and benefits
Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.
Primary location of role and hybrid working
This role will be based in our London office, however, in line with our hybrid working practice, full-time staff members may choose to work up to three days per week from home.
When applying
We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you’ve any immediate questions please contact the Breast Cancer now recruitment team
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.
Closing date Monday 20 October 2025 9 am
Interview date week commencing 27 October 2025
We reserve the right to close this advert early. Therefore, to avoid disappointment please submit your application as soon as possible, if you’re interested in this opportunity.
Please include details about the skills and attributes ideally required of the person you’re looking to appoint. Choose terminology and language that doesn’t discourage applicants from under the neurodiversity umbrella or from under-represented community group applying
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In addition to the 50+ young people we see every day out our centre, New Horizon’s Outreach service works with young people on the streets and in the community. The team works pan London to deliver a youth-specific outreach service to young people currently or at risk of rough sleeping. We use our extensive housing expertise to place those young people into accommodation that is appropriate and safe, whilst encouraging them to access the day centre to benefit from the wide range of services we offer. This role will involve regualr outreach shifts (early mornings and late evenings) across London aswell as supporting our clients in the day centre and developing a best practice approach to supporting young rough sleepers and the hidden homeless.
- Permanent, full-time role in the Rough Sleeping Team
- Salary: £31,200-£34,736
- Deadline to apply: 9am Friday 24 October
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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At Action for ME, we believe that change won't just happen; it has to be made. That's why action and impact are at the heart of everything we do. Whether that's helping people today with support, information, or care. Or working towards securing future change through our research and campaigning work.
The intent of everything we do is to pursue positive impact for the lives, rights, and futures of people affected by ME.
More information can be found in the application pack.
You will play a pivotal role supporting the Charity in several different ways. Working with the Senior Leadership Team, you will ensure the smooth running of the organisation, providing administrative support to the Director of Operations and the Chief Executive. As a self-starter you will manage a range of tasks such as diary management, meeting minutes, assisting with event administration and HR administration. No two days will be the same!
You will be the point of contact for our HR, recruitment and training systems, ensuring consistency and assurance across the organisation. You will support HR administration such as supporting recruitment, on-boarding and off-boarding of colleagues as well as taking minutes for Board meetings, so you will need to be able to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
As a team player, you will provide comprehensive, confidential and sensitive people-orientated administration support, developing a deep understanding of our organisation, our work and build strong, effective working relationships with colleagues.
Remote working at home can be challenging for some and for others, it works incredibly well. You will need to be able to work on your own, use your own initiative and ensure you are proactive in maintain good levels of communication and contact with your colleagues to ensure we deliver the best service possible to people with ME.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Our mission is to improve the lives of people affected by ME. Better meeting their needs today while taking action to secure change for tomorrow.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We are looking for someone to join the team as a Retail Superstore Supervisor in our Abbey Wood Superstore.
Are you someone who thrives in a fast-paced retail environment, passionate about charity, and ready to take the next step in your career? If you’re organised, proactive, and love leading a team to success, we’d love to hear from you!
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is commercially minded, hands-on, and driven to make a real difference. You’ll be part of a dynamic team working for one of Bristol’s most cherished charities, helping to generate vital income through our retail operations.
The details:
- Working 37.5 hours, 5 in 7 days
- Salary: £25,633 - £26,620 per annum, dependent on experience
- Permanent position
Key responsibilities:
- Support the Shop Manager and Assistant Manager in leading the team to achieve sales and performance targets
- Deliver excellent customer service and maintain high shop standards
- Deputise for the Manager when required, using initiative and sound judgement
- Drive commercial decisions using data and retail systems
- Recruit, train and retain a multi-skilled team of volunteers
- Ensure compliance with health & safety, gift aid, and operational procedures
- Promote the hospice’s values and build relationships within the local community
What we are looking for:
- Retail experience and at least 12 months of leadership experience
- Commercial awareness and strong numeracy skills
- Excellent communication, customer service, and team leadership abilities
- Confidence using MS Office, Teams, and retail systems
- A proactive, flexible, and organised approach
- A genuine interest in charity retail and second-hand goods
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
We know the 'perfect candidate' might not tick every box, so if you're excited about this role and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please apply — you could be just who we need!
Due to the nature of the work, this role is exempt from the ROA and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here.
We fund life-saving research, campaign for change and provide information and support to anyone affected by breast cancer.
Why? Because our vision is that by 2050, everyone diagnosed with breast cancer will live, and be supported to live well. But to make that vision a reality, we need to act now.
About the role
Are you a creative storyteller with a passion for digital content and social platforms? Then you could make a real difference to people affected by breast cancer.
We’re looking for a multimedia producer to join our busy, dynamic and creative team. As part of our in-house multimedia studio, you’ll create high-quality content and produce live broadcasts for our social media channels.
As well as developing new content, you’ll breathe fresh life into existing ideas – producing content covering everything from fundraising and campaigning to support and research. You’ll be a champion of our visual identity and consistently show-off our brand in the best ways possible.
If you’re a creative, proactive multimedia producer looking to work at an ambitious, forward-thinking charity, we’d love to meet you.
About you
Ideally you:
· Will be a multimedia producer who puts the audience at the heart of every piece of content
· Will have an excellent understanding of multimedia production, including platform-native content creation, and advanced skills in editing and audio production
· Will have experience in producing live social media broadcasts, particularly across Facebook and Instagram
· Will have a solid understanding of audience behaviours and platform algorithms
· Are self-motivated, organised and comfortable working on several briefs at once
· Enjoy looking for new ways to approach things and responding to trends in real time
· Are a creative thinker, with a portfolio of work that shows your ability to shoot, edit and publish content for social media
Job description and benefits
Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.
Primary location of role and hybrid working
This role is primarily based in our London office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 3 days per week at home.
When applying
We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you’ve any immediate questions, please contact the breast cancer now recruitment team
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.
Closing date Thursday 16 October 9 am
Interview date week commencing 27 October
We reserve the right to close this advert early. Therefore, to avoid disappointment please submit your application as soon as possible, if you’re interested in this opportunity.