ABOUT THE JOB
This is a Home-based role, with occasional travel to London and within our operating areas of Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Slough, Milton Keynes and Luton as required.
To make a full application, please send your CV & one side of A4 covering letter letting us know why you are interested in this position and provide information on any relevant experience that may assist your application.
For the full job description & recruitment pack, please visit our website.
PURPOSE OF ROLE
Major donors and philanthropists are currently responsible for over a quarter of Caudwell Youth’s annual income – due in part to the generosity of the networks of our founder, John Caudwell.
As Caudwell Youth enters its fourth year, we are seeking a Senior Philanthropy and Corporate Partnerships manager to help us expand beyond our strong founder-led base into a sustainable major donor and corporate supporter portfolio.
Proactive and commercially-minded, you will be confident driving and developing all stages of the major donor and corporate supporter stewardship process. Confidence in engaging in new business research, prospecting, initial meetings and pitches is a must, as you will be responsible for growing our small pipeline of supporters and warm prospects into a long-term income stream.
This is essential to Caudwell Youth’s future sustainability, with corporate partnerships and major donor income currently making up 30% of Caudwell Youth’s annual fundraising income (forecast to be around £450,000 this year).
Our ambition is to increase this revenue stream by around 50% to over £800,000 by 2030, in order to support more at-risk young people from across the UK, as set out in our recently launched strategy, Going National.
This is a role for a self-starter who is excited to drive high value growth and be a key part of Caudwell Youth’s upward trajectory, working within a small but dynamic fundraising team. It offers significant opportunity to shape and lead this area of fundraising as it grows.
You will be an experienced fundraiser with a proven track record of securing major gifts of four, five and six figure gifts, familiarity with managing corporate partnerships and evidence of growing and developing new pipelines and revenue streams.
You will own a significant portion of this income stream, with responsibility for securing new high-value relationships and growing existing supporters.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Operating at a senior level within the fundraising team, this role will take the lead across Caudwell Youth’s philanthropic and corporate giving.
Working closely with the Fundraising Director to drive income growth and strategic development, your key duties will include:
MAJOR DONORS & PHILANTHROPISTS
You will manage a mixed portfolio of existing supporters and warm prospects, while building a pipeline of new high-value opportunities. To do this, you will:
- Take personal responsibility for securing, retaining and growing high-value (four, five and six figure) gifts and philanthropic partnerships, by engaging in detailed prospect research and building contacts with high-net-worth individuals and their intermediaries to create a pipeline of new opportunities.
- Provide a high-quality supporter stewardship experience to Caudwell Youth’s existing major donors and philanthropists and warm prospects, tailoring this to their wishes to create a unique journey for each donor which seeks to deepen their engagement with the charity. This may include:
- Personalised reporting
- Bespoke communications
- Face-to-face meetings and events
- Unique ways to be consulted on and engage with our work
- Opportunities to be recognised.
- Lead on the continued growth, development and stewardship of Caudwell Youth’s Oracles fundraising board in order to maximise its annual revenue.
- Support John Caudwell’s Charity Pioneer with the stewardship of existing and potential Life Changers Circle donors, including through hosting cultivation and network events.
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS AND FUNDRAISING
- Develop our corporate support pipeline, seeking to strengthen connections with existing corporate donors. This will include developing partnerships typically in the £10,000 - £100,000+ range through CSR, fundraising and sponsorship opportunities which align with Caudwell Youth’s values.
- Work with major donors and philanthropists, colleagues across the charity, volunteers and other stakeholders and contacts to proactively identify new corporate fundraising opportunities for Caudwell Youth.
- Work on Charity of the Year applications, pitches and proposals in conjunction with the Senior Leadership Team and representatives from volunteering and operations as required.
- Act as an account manager and first point of contact for corporate supporters of Caudwell Youth, coming up with tailored programmes of supporter engagement to maximise their fundraising, increase connection with our cause and engage them in strategic multi-year support partnerships.
- Supported by our Supporter Engagement Coordinator, encourage our corporate donors, major donors and philanthropists to meaningfully engage with our challenge fundraising programme.
- Review our existing Torchrunners model as a means of engaging corporate supporters as a group.
ACROSS THE FUNDRAISING TEAM
- Promote other ways to support Caudwell Youth, including gifts in wills, payroll giving, help in kind, challenge fundraising, charity-wide appeals and campaigns, events and digital content to your network of major donors, philanthropists and corporate supporters as appropriate.
- Work in partnership with the Grants and Impact Lead to develop applications and reporting for family philanthropic trusts where required.
- Work effectively as part of the fundraising team, together seeking ways to enhance and strengthen each others’ activities and diversify our revenue streams as required, including in relation to systems, policies, supporter engagement communications and fundraising events.
- Attend team meetings, personal work reviews and relevant meetings proactively and as a contributor.
- Deputise for your line manager as required in their absence, with support from the rest of the SLT.
ACROSS CAUDWELL YOUTH AND EXTERNALLY
- Work with Caudwell Youth’s operations and volunteering teams to create bespoke and sustainable opportunities for major donors, philanthropists and corporate supporters to engage in our work, while ensuring the needs of the at-risk young people that we support are always put first.
- Collaborate with our communications team to develop compelling copy and content which promotes our corporate fundraising offering and major donor support as required.
- Develop strong collaborative working with the wider teams to maximise income generation, and promote good communication and shared focus
ADMINISTRATION
- Use our CRM database, Beacon, to ensure all activity is properly captured, manage your pipelines, forecast income, track trends and data.
- Provide timely reports internally on performance, informing budget setting and subsequent reforecasts as required
GENERAL
- Behave and communicate in a way that is courteous and professional at all times, including representing the charity professionally to anyone you come into contact with and role modelling appropriate behaviour to colleagues.
- Express and promote equal opportunities and encourage inclusion and involvement.
- Ensure your work is aligned with the vision, mission and values of the charity.
- Ensure your work involves and reflects our young people’s views and voices where appropriate.
- Undertake and identify training as required and take a positive approach to personal development.
- Fulfil the duties and responsibilities of an employee as regards to Health and Safety at Work, including own safety and self-management.
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks deemed necessary as required.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
ON APPOINTMENT, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE:
- Significant professional knowledge and experience in your specialist area
- The ability to take on substantial responsibility quickly
- Critical and detailed understanding of the specialty.
IN YOUR ROLE YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:
- Solve complex problems creatively
- Make judgements requiring analysis and interpretation
- Carry out duties with significant strategic influence
- Lead and line-manage others
- Deputise for your line manager, including handling serious issues, where required.
ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- In-depth understanding of major donor and philanthropy fundraising, including a demonstrable track record of managing a portfolio of high value supporters and securing and managing four, five and six-figure gifts.
- Knowledge of corporate fundraising and partnership development, including experience developing and managing corporate partnerships worth £10,000 and upwards.
- Ability to identify, qualify and cultivate high value prospects, with evidence of strong commercial awareness to spot opportunities, grow fundraising income and build new pipelines.
- Understanding of impact-led fundraising and how to communicate charitable outcomes effectively to supporters.
- Exceptional networking and relationship-building skills, with experience developing long-term fundraising plans and tailored donor engagement journeys.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presentations, proposals, pitches, reports and stewardship materials.
ESSENTIAL PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Self-motivated, proactive and comfortable with a high degree of autonomy.
- Entrepreneurial and commercially minded, with good business sense.
- Results-driven, with the ability to translate strategic ideas into tangible action.
- Confident and persuasive when working with senior stakeholders and major donors.
- Resilient and persistent when pursuing new opportunities.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Possess a passion for making a positive impact on young people's lives.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Title: CRM and Power Platform Developer
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: One-year fixed term
Location: Office, hybrid or remote (1 week induction in office)
Salary: £39,793 pro-rata
Accountable to: Head of IT (Operations)
Responsible for: No management responsibility
DBS Eligibility: Basic DBS check and Social Media/Adverse Media checks
Closing Date: 10th August 2026
About the role
Join a charity that’s passionate about safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. If you want your work to have a real-world impact, this is the role for you.
What You’ll Do:
You’ll be part of a small, collaborative data team of three, working closely with our Head of IT & Data and colleagues across the organisation. This is a hands-on role where you’ll:
- Redevelop our CRM and introduce new features.
- Create intuitive tools like Power Apps to make life easier for users.
- Design workflows and automations that boost efficiency and improve data quality.
- Develop reporting tools that empower teams to use data effectively every day.
It’s a unique opportunity to combine technical development with strategic thinking—embedding data-driven practice across Thirtyone:eight.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Purpose-driven work: Everything you do helps protect children and vulnerable adults.
- Flexible working options: Balance your life and work with hybrid arrangements.
- Professional growth: Opportunities to learn, innovate, and lead.
- Supportive culture: Join a friendly, collaborative team that values your ideas.
If you love solving problems, building tools that people actually enjoy using, and want your work to have a positive impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Main Responsibilities
- Enhance and support Thirtyone:eight’s Microsoft Dynamics CRM to meet business requirements, ensure reliability, performance, security and compliance with GDPR.
- Create Power Apps to support the ongoing requirements of the business
- Perform Unit Testing and end-to-end testing as appropriate
- Liaise with end users for User Acceptance Testing and user-training
- Maintain clear and up to date documentation of system design, configuration, workflows, and user guides
Specific Responsibilities
- Work with the Senior Developer to support and enhance Thirtyone:eight’s Microsoft Dynamics CRM, ensuring it is secure, fit for purpose, and meets service and reporting needs.
- Design and maintain Power Platform tools, including Power Apps and Power Automate, with user-friendly interfaces for efficient data entry and access.
- Create and optimise workflows and automations to improve efficiency, strengthen data quality, and reduce manual processes.
- Optimise the use of storage within Thirtyone:eight’s Dataverse environment.
- Facilitate workshops, discussions, and user interviews to capture functional and non-functional requirements.
- Translate business needs into clear, structured specifications and user stories.
- Validate requirements with stakeholders to ensure shared understanding before development begins.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and data quality enhancement.
- Collaborate with users and managers to translate requirements into practical, user-friendly solutions, supported by appropriate documentation.
- Integrate Power Apps with other Microsoft services, such as SharePoint and Teams, and with third-party tools where applicable.
- Develop and follow test plans to support reliable delivery of changes and enhancements.
- Keep system documentation current, covering design, configuration, workflows, reporting structures, and user guidance.
- Ensure all developments comply with GDPR, data protection, and security standards.
Person Specification
A) Essential Personal Characteristics and Qualities:
- Humility - Having a modest view of your own importance.
- Integrity - The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
- Openness - Acceptance of, or receptiveness to change or new ideas.
- Collaborative - Involving two or more parties working together.
- Solution-focused - Concentration in problem solving or dealing with a difficult situation.
- Learning - Knowledge acquired through study, experience, or being taught.
- Creative - Having good imagination, thinking differently, or having original ideas.
- Fair - Treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination.
- Committed - Dedicated to a certain course, cause or policy.
- Passionate - Having or showing strong feelings or beliefs.
B) Essential Experience:
Experience in application or systems development, with either direct Microsoft Dynamics/Power Platform experience or transferable experience that would support rapid cross-training, including:
- Developing, configuring, or supporting business applications using a modern programming language or low-code platform.
- Working with relational databases, data models, queries, reporting, dashboards or structured business data.
- Creating or working with APIs, integrations, connectors or data flows between systems.
- Gathering user requirements and translating them into practical technical specifications or solutions.
- Testing, documenting, deploying and supporting system changes or enhancements.
B) Desirable Experience:
- Direct experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Power Apps, or Power Automate.
- Experience with Power BI or other reporting tools.
- Experience working in a charity, membership, CRM, case management, or safeguarding-related environment.
d) Essential Abilities, Knowledge & Motivation:
The successful candidate will also be able to demonstrate:
- Strong technical aptitude and the ability to learn new systems, platforms and development approaches quickly.
- Practical problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse issues and deliver workable, user-friendly solutions.
- Clear communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Good attention to detail when working with data, configuration, testing and documentation.
- Awareness of data protection, information security and good practice when designing or supporting systems.
- A proactive and organised approach, with the ability to manage priorities and deliver work on time.
- Willingness to develop expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Power Apps and Power Automate.
- A desire to “give back” by working for a non-profit and supporting Thirtyone:eight’s safeguarding mission.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Independent and thought-leading, we equip organisations, churches, other faith groups, individuals and government with safeguarding tools they need
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
The National Youth Agency is looking for a National Digital Innovation Lead.
National Digital Innovation Lead
Contract: 12-Month Fixed-Term to cover Maternity leave
Hours: Full-time - 37 hours per week, flexible working
Salary: £40,000 - £47,380 per annum, dependent on experience and qualifications
Location: Home-based in England with occasional travel for meetings, workshops, and team activities. Head Office is in Leicester.
What we do
As the national body for youth work, the NYA has a dual function. We are the professional statutory and regulatory body (PSRB) responsible for qualifications, quality standards, and safeguarding for youth work and services in England. In line with our charity mission and aims, we also champion youth work through research, advocacy, campaigns, and programmes.
We work in partnership and believe in collaborative leadership, listening to youth workers and the youth work sector so that we can understand their needs and respond to the challenges they face. We are ambitious for youth work and for young people and integrate youth voice and influence across our work
About the Role
The National Digital Innovation Lead will drive NYA's digital youth work and innovation agenda, helping to shape the future of youth work through technology, collaboration and sector leadership. The postholder will develop strategic partnerships, lead innovative digital initiatives, influence national policy and support youth organisations to confidently adopt digital approaches that improve outcomes for young people.
Key Responsibilities
As our National Digital Innovation Lead, you will:
- Lead the development and delivery of NYA's digital youth work programmes and innovation activities.
- Build and maintain strategic partnerships with youth organisations, technology partners, policymakers and funders.
- Develop and lead national networks and communities of practice that advance digital youth work.
- Research, pilot and evaluate emerging technologies, including AI and immersive technologies, to support innovation across the sector.
- Develop guidance, frameworks, training and resources that promote safe, ethical and inclusive digital youth work.
- Provide consultancy and subject matter expertise to organisations adopting digital approaches.
- Influence national policy and best practice through collaboration with partners and sector stakeholders.
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of digital initiatives, using learning and insight to inform future developments.
Why Work for NYA?
- NYA operates as a people-focused organisation, prioritising the well-being and needs of its employees.
- NYA offers an exceptional flexible working approach which encourages our team to balance professional responsibilities with their personal life.
- A remote based team, spread across England, fostering inclusivity and diverse talent. Despite geographical distances between team members, NYA maintains a highly motivated and connected team through the optimisation of digital tools.
- NYA is committed to supporting the continual personal and professional development of our team and helping them achieve their ambitions.
- We provide 25 days leave plus 8 days, life assurance scheme, 5% employer pension contribution and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme via Spectrum.life with unlimited specialist support available to all NYA employees.
Closing date: Monday 30th July 2026
Please be aware that we will close this vacancy early once we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications.
We therefore strongly encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible and not to wait until the closing date.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
The National Youth Agency is an equal opportunities employer.
At NYA our inclusive culture means that we embrace individual differences and understand that we need a diverse team to achieve our organisations mission.
We wish to recruit candidates from all backgrounds to ensure our team reflects the rich diversity of the communities we serve. We encourage applications from anyone regardless of disability, ethnicity, heritage, gender, sexuality, religion, socio-economic background and political beliefs but we particularly welcome applications from global majority candidates and those from other minoritised ethnic groups in the UK as they are currently underrepresented in our team.
No agencies please.
