Please note: This role can based in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, or Zimbabwe.

Passionate about safeguarding, as well as making a contribution to effecting change at a global level for and alongside people with disabilities and their communities? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Safeguarding is an organisational priority. In a newly created role, the Safeguarding Manager will lead on maintaining and implementing the safeguarding policy and associated protocols and procedures within the CBM Global Federation. The key responsibilities will combine elements of policy and procedure development, capacity building, monitoring, safeguarding report handling, management and investigation, and enforcing compliance and accountability.

To be successful in this this role you will establish a comprehensive safeguarding system, and build capacity to enable staff and entities within CBM Global understand and fulfil their responsibilities with regards to safeguarding. In addition, you’ll establish a network of trained and capacitated focal points, and effectively manage all safeguarding incidents.

You’ll also use your relationship-building skills to proactively network within the sector and contribute to relevant discussions and debates

If you can see yourself providing a deep commitment to the vision of CBM Global and are sympathetic to our Christian values, we look forward to receiving your application.

Based:  Our preference is for the post holder to be based in one of CBM Global’s programme countries. These are: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, and Zimbabwe.

Hours:  Full-time.

How to apply:  Please click the Apply on Website button on this page to visit the CBM UK website for more details. Recruitment Pack and Application Form attached here for reference.

Closing date:  Sunday 20 December 2020

This is a 12 month maternity cover 

Please make sure to answer the compentency questions listed below in your application

About us

Christian Aid Ireland believes that everyone, regardless of faith or race, is entitled to live a full life, free from poverty. We believe the world can and must be changed so that there is equality, dignity and freedom for all. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our growing team and to make this change happen. 

About the role

This post is based in Belfast and reports to the Head of Finance & Governance- Ireland.  The Finance Team in Ireland comprises 8 staff:  Head of Finance and Governance, 3 x Accountants, 2 x Accounting Technicians and 2 x Administrators.   This post is fixed term for 12  months to cover the post holder's maternity leave. 

About you

Essential:

• Member of a CCAB recognised professional accounting body with some post qualification experience.
• Experience of using complex computerised accounting systems
• Experience of working with non-finance managers on complex financial issues
• Experience of producing or assisting in the production of Annual Budgets
• Experience of producing or assisting in the preparation Management Accounts and variance analysis
• Experience of reviewing financial information for consistency and accuracy and in reviewing reconciliations of bank and general ledger accounts
• Significant experience of using Excel
• Experience in preparing or assisting in the preparation on year-end accounts and production of audit file
• Ability to work under pressure and manage and priorities workload and work to tight deadlines
• Ability to communicate well orally and in writing

Desirable:

• Experience of legislative/accounting requirements for Charities in UK and Ireland  
• Experience of payroll processing
• Experience of using computerised databases and electronic funds transfer systems
• Experience of accounting in multi-currency environment
• Experience of SUN accounting Systems
• Experience of PROACTIS
• Experience of Adaptive Budgeting system
• Experience of working in a consolidated group structure
• Experience of foreign exchange/treasury management
• Experience of payroll review
• Experience and knowledge of income tax and VAT including practical application of same

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid’s Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid’s Code of Conduct.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

• Strive for improvement – Please tell us about a time when you had to implement a new idea to improve organisational effectiveness.
• Build Partnerships – tell us an example of when you had to build relationships with different individuals or other organisations to further your organisations goals.

• Staff Management – Please outline any experience you have in staff management

• Strive for Personal Improvement - How do you go about continuing to develop your professional skills and knowledge? What Training courses have you undertaken recently?

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

About the role

Christian Aid is seeking an outstanding candidate for the newly created role of Brand Leverage Manager.

The role requires a strategic brand development mindset coupled with a large helping of practical brand activation experience as this role will work on the development and role out of Christian Aids brand strategy as well as managing associated brand advertising and brand campaign activities.

The role of brand leverage manager is a great opportunity to pro-actively drive and contribute to the delivery of greater awareness and audience engagement that delivers lasting change on some of the most important issues of poverty and justice in the world today.

This role will work closely with teams across the supporter engagement spectrum as well as policy and international teams in order to ensure that all our activities amplify the Christian Aid brand response. The Brand Leverage Manager provides governance of the brand, ensuring that the interpretation of the CA brand is reflective of both our vision and audience expectations. 

About you

You will be a self-motivated, experienced brand marketer with knowledge of how to build a brand and activate in an omni channel world. You will have a proven project management skill, able to prioritise and work collaboratively across functions.

You will have a proven ability to communicate complex messages simply and creatively and be able to influence and engage diverse audiences across the organisation.

You will have a strong knowledge of using data and insight to build coherent, audience centric brand campaigns adapting methodologies and approach to meet priorities and audience need.

Most of all you will be brave and challenging being prepared to take considered risks in order to deliver key outcomes and organisational growth.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

HEAD OF MEDIA AND POLICY

As our Head of Media and Policy, you’ll lead the development and implementation of the organisation’s media, social media, policy and influencing strategies and activities to deliver the organisation’s goals. 

We Are With You rebranded from ‘Addaction’ in February this year and this is an exciting and creative leadership role with the opportunity to make a big impact on how we build our profile, reputation and new brand.

You will put the people who need and use our services firmly on the agenda whilst managing the organisation’s profile and reputation in the media and with the wider public.

You’ll have close relationships with our leadership team, the media and policy team, the fundraising team, the communications team, the wider organisation, journalists, policy markers, civil servants, MPs and other key stakeholders. 

 

What we are looking for:

You will have:

• Ability to plan and lead public facing campaigns including   media, social media, policy and influencing activities
• An understanding of what works for the media and a track record of  driving up media coverage with demonstrable results 
• Proven knowledge of the UK media landscape covering news, consumer and  PR outlets and strong media contacts
• Crisis communication and reputational management experience
• Awareness of what influences decision makers and how to achieve change
• Excellent social media skills
• Staff and performance management experience 
• A track record of working in a busy press office or a newsroom

 

For full details about the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Further Information 

This is a fixed term role (maternity cover) for 37.5 hours per week.

You will also receive an Inner London Weighting allowance of £2,759.00 per annum.

Interviews will be held via video conference during the week starting 4 January 2021.

 

Please visit our website for contact details to discuss this post further.

Interested applicants should submit an online application form with a copy of their CV by Sunday 20 December containing a personal statement how you meet the personal specification set out in the role description.

 

About us

We Are With You is one of the UK’s leading charities working across drug, alcohol and mental health support.Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.

We work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online. 

We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people in England and Scotland every year. 

We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.

Benefits of working with us 

• 28 days holiday plus a bank holiday allowance
• Enhanced employer pension contribution
• Death in service benefit scheme
• Flexible working patterns to help with work life balance
• Training and development opportunities
• 24/7 access to employee assistance programme
• Cycle to work scheme

 Information about us and our recruitment processes

 

We are an equal opportunities employer and have committed to promoting equality and diversity in all areas of our work. We actively encourage applications from but not limited to BAME candidates.  We are only able to employ those who have the legal right to work in the UK. 

 

We want to safeguard and protect the children, young people and adults we work with. Our rigorous selection process applies to all applicants to support this aim.  If you are applying for a role which involves regulated activity you will need to have an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (including Barred Lists) check (if in England) or become a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups scheme (if in Scotland). We will also seek references as part of the selection process for this role, including from your current or most recent employer.

BACKGROUND 

The Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) is a pioneering Human Rights charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers who are survivors of trafficking and torture. The people we work with have been subjected to atrocities including state-sponsored torture, human trafficking, religious and political persecution, forced labour, sexual exploitation, and gender-based and ‘honour-based’ violence. Recognising the complexity of each client’s suffering and needs, HBF offers specialist services within a Model of Integrated Care encompassing: therapy; medical advice; legal protection; counter-trafficking support; housing & welfare advice; and community and integration. 

HBF exists to ensure that all survivors of trafficking and torture are free and healthy (both physically and mentally), are safe, are protected from re-victimisation, detention and poverty, and have the ability and agency to integrate in and contribute to the communities around them. HBF also uses its unique expertise to drive change and improve practice and policy for all survivors. 

In 2020, HBF adopted a group structure: the HBF Group is dynamic, innovative and responsive to the changing and often urgent needs of our client population. Asylum Aid has been the first affiliate to join the HBF Group, delivering expert legal services to our client population, who are routinely denied access to high quality legal support. Asylum Aid are a thought leader in the sector and use their casework to seek strategic legal challenges and Judicial Review, and to seek policy changes within the UK asylum system.

We are innovative, ambitious and compassionate. The bravery and resilience of our clients is an inspiration to everyone in the Helen Bamber Foundation Group.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The role has three primary purposes.

To support income and communications growth

Supporting the Director of Fundraising and CEO to maximise income from new and existing high value accounts over 100k with a particular specialism writing applications and supporting strategic account management/donor journeys. To bring innovation and creativity in the development and progression of new and existing income streams, as well as communication campaigns including the creation of content to be used by the entire organisation.

Manage a successful fundraising team

Manage two fundraising executives with dotted line management of the Grant Manager. To join the senior management team (after probation) and support the Director of Fundraising and CEO to create fundraising propositions in line with the growth of the organisation, this will include an expected capital appeal and likely partnership and project funding.

To secure future income by building a Fundraising pipeline;

Network and pitch for new income at events, and meetings both independently and with the Director of Fundraising, focussing on the delivery of quality concept notes based on intelligence gathering. The successful candidate will also build future income through prospecting, research and fundraising and communication campaigns products and proposals.

You will need to have a passion for generating income and be creative and dynamic and successful candidates will need to have excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills. The person in the role will create and deliver collaborative applications with other human rights organisations primarily for large gifts and must be able to support and deliver the full application process from top to bottom in order to generate significant income independently as well as supporting the outcomes of the applications of others. The successful candidate will be expected to generate and maximise meetings with funders both independently and with the Director of Fundraising and CEO. The successful candidate will be an excellent manager, strategic thinker and a competent networker.   

HBF is an equal opportunities and Living Wage employer. We are committed to attracting and recruiting diverse candidates as we are keen to make sure that our staff, trustees, volunteers and ambassadors reflect the communities we serve and the wider community we work in at every level within the organisation.

Please note that the successful candidate will be offered the job subject to suitable references and a DBS check. This role will require disclosure of both the adult and child barring lists. If appointed, you will be required to give your consent to HBF to receive regular updates on your criminal records status throughout your employment.  

  Please submit an up to date CV and a covering letter by 9am 4th January 2021 by outlining your relevant skills and experience, as well as how your previous experience that matches the listed responsibilities and person specification to Gareth Holms, Please state in your covering letter when you would be available to start the role. Interviews are scheduled to be held in the week of the 11th January 2021  and will be conducted via Zoom. 

We particularly welcome applications from those from Black, Asian, Minority-Ethnic, refugee and migrant backgrounds. 

Our office is closed between 19th December 2020 and 3rd January 2021.  We regret that we can only respond to applicants who make it to the interview stage. No agencies. 

Integrity Action is seeking a seasoned, creative, and tenacious relationship builder, with strong proposal writing and persuasive speaking skills to fill this newly created Senior Management Team position. You will lead on securing approximately £2 million annual income for our pioneering approach that combines a tried and tested citizen-centred methodology with Integrity Action’s proprietary tool and mobile app called DevelopmentCheck.

Integrity Action’s priorities in 2021 and 2022 are:

• Spreading our work by integrating it into development practice and public service delivery.
• Continuing to innovate, so we can help citizens solve the widest possible range of problems, from workers being exploited to understaffed hospitals.
• Researching key pressing questions in transparency and accountability that include how to ensure sustainable accountability outcomes, what motivates officials and other responsible parties to act with integrity, and how problems are being solved.

You will work closely with the Head of Programme Development to convert learnings, project concepts and designs into compelling offers to trusts, foundations and institutional funders. You will lead on writing the most strategically important proposals, and potentially commission external support to complete other proposals. You will also be supported by several team members who will lead on development of theories of change, results frameworks and project-specific delivery models.

You will help open doors to potential new funding, securing opportunities for the CEO and Head of Programme Development to present Integrity Action’s work to grant funding decision makers. When this is done successfully, you will lead the follow up to ensure we receive a grant. Secured grants are managed by the Operations team and their tasks include reporting to funders. Your involvement in this process will be to contribute to the reports to ensure they also work as a fundraising tool.

As a member of the Senior Management Team you will contribute to the strategic leadership of the organisation. This means leading on creating a fundraising function including strengthening strategic fundraising and executing annual plans. You will report to the CEO and share progress with the senior management and Board leadership quarterly.

Although all team members are based in the UK, we are all working remotely. Once it is safe for us to work face-to-face, we will consider in consultation with the team taking up an office space located in London. If we do, how we work will be aligned with our flexible working policy.

We expect you to live our organisational values. We believe that diversity of people, ideas and cultures enriches both our insights into the work we do and our relationship with each other. Being an inclusive organisation matters a lot to us. The existing team comes from different backgrounds and walks of life so you can expect yourself to be embraced.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Key Result Area #1: Lead and manage writing and submission of core (unrestricted) and project (restricted) funding proposals

• Work closely with the Head of Programme Development to translate project concepts into winning proposals
• Lead on submitting compelling, persuasive, and accurate proposals to a range of funders and to a range of budgets. When bidding within partnerships or consortia where we are not the project lead, ensure high quality narrative and financial inputs
• Working closely with Operations and Finance teams, lead on development of new budgets ensuring full cost recovery and demonstrating value for money principles
• Coordinate inputs to proposals from a range of partners
• Manage fundraising consultants

Key Result Area #2: Build highly effective relationships with trusts, foundations and institutional funders

• Help open doors to potential new funding, progressing conversations and securing opportunities for the CEO and Head of Programme Development to present Integrity Action’s work to grant funding decision makers
• Working closely with the CEO, cultivate new and retain existing funder relationships
• Solicit restricted and unrestricted grants across multiple years

Key Result Area #3: Build and manage a systematic approach to fundraising

• Strengthen the approach to strategic fundraising and lead on executing annual plans
• Lead on funders' prospecting
• Manage fundraising progress monitoring including the CRM system (Dynamics 365) to manage relationships with funders
• Lead on fundraising reporting to the CEO and the Board

Key result Area #4: Contribute to the organizational strategic leadership

• Work closely with CEO to build annual business plans including revenue projections
• As a member of the Senior Management Team, lead on development and implementation of organisational strategies and policies
• Contribute to effective leadership and role modelling of values internally and externally
• Support CEO on other strategic tasks and decision making

REQUIREMENTS

We are looking for a development generalist with at least 10 years of fundraising experience of which at least 3 have been at senior management level.

Essential experience / knowledge

• Demonstrated expertise in trusts, foundations and institutional fundraising.
• Demonstrated experience in building relationships with trusts and foundations.
• Exceptional writing skills, with the capacity to write for different audiences and about topics on which they may not be a technical expert.
• Excellent oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with the landscape, priorities, and methodologies of private foundations and institutional funders. It would be an excellent bonus if these are accountability and transparency funders.
• Excellent interpersonal and team-building skills.
• Experience creating fundraising, organizational and programme budgets.

Skills and abilities:

• Ability to maintain high standards of ethics, integrity, and professionalism, and to handle sensitive and proprietary financial information.
• Ability and willingness to work flexibly in a fast-paced team environment.
• Anticipatory and strategic thinker with a hands-on, problem-solving, proactive attitude.
• Systematic approach to tasks, excellent time management skills, and attention to detail.
• Computer skills:  Google Drive and Salesforce or similar database software.

Personal style and behaviour:

• Commitment to Integrity Action values and to upholding our operating principles (read more on our website).
• A sense of humility, and collegiality.
• Capacity for self-reflection and a commitment to learning and growth

To apply: Please send a CV and covering letter of no more than 2 pages outlining your relevant experience and why you want the job 

Jubilee Debt Campaign is recruiting a Head of Advocacy to strengthen our advocacy and influencing work across our projects and campaigns.

We are a small, agile, high–impact campaigning charity working to tackle poverty and inequality caused by unjust debt. 

This is a new post we are creating as part of a planned expansion to further increase our impact. We’re seeking a savvy and experienced political operator with a track record of impactful advocacy and a keen interest in media and strategic communications. 

As the Head of Advocacy you will: 

• Oversee the development, implementation and coordination of advocacy and influencing strategies across our projects and campaigns 
• Build support for our proposals amongst target stakeholders and decision-makers 
• Lead the strategy and planning process for one of our three priority campaigns 
• Line manage the Advocacy Team as it develops

This is a permanent role offered on either 5 days / 35 hours or 4 days / 28 hours per week.

We value diversity and welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from women and people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background. 

We offer: 

• Pension contributions of up to 7.5% of your salary plus 1% of the average organisational salary 
• An annual leave entitlement of 30 days per year plus bank holidays 
• Flexi-time working arrangements outside the core hours of 10am-4pm 
• Access to other benefits including interest-free season ticket loans and tax savings on bikes and home technology equipment via salary sacrifice schemes 

The role will be working from home until Jubilee Debt Campaign decides it is safe for staff to return to working in the office.

The deadline for applications is 9am on Wednesday 9 December. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 15 December.

Please see the recruitment pack for further details and information on how to apply:

Embrace the Middle East is an international Christian charity helping people of all faiths and none to free themselves from a life of poverty and injustice. Our work and the work of our Christian partners, in Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Syria and Iraq, who run hospitals, clinics, schools and centres for people with disabilities, really does make a difference. Together we lift up the vulnerable and marginalised, serving families escaping violence or persecution, people living with all kinds of disability, women and children deprived of access to vital education and health services.

As the charity enters a new 5-year strategic period (Hope in Action), we have ambitious plans for growth. Reporting to the Director of Programmes and Engagement, this newly created role will lead our Supporter Engagement Team, playing an integral role in driving and developing our core fundraising programme. We are seeking to nurture an engaged group of supporters, to develop and grow our supporter base; individuals and churches who give, pray, advocate and volunteer.

We are looking to recruit (and welcome to the team) a Head of Supporter Engagement to:

• Work collaboratively with the Engagement team, to develop and implement a clearly defined supporter strategy for retention and growth.
• Provide creative direction and leadership to develop a church engagement strategy that deepens and broadens congregational support and raises more income through church giving.
• Guide the development of Embrace’s legacy and in-memory giving strategy as an integral part of Embrace’s Supporter Engagement strategy.
• Work in close cooperation with the Head of Communications on the development and delivery of effective supporter resources and targeted marketing to new and existing audiences.
• Refer to data intelligence, to set, monitor and evaluate whole team and individual income targets and performance indicators.
• Provide inspirational leadership to the Supporter Engagement team (6 people), empowering them to support the Charity in every way possible to fulfil its vision and charitable aims.
• Work with the Director of Programmes and Engagement, to contribute to the strategic direction of the Charity and be accountable for the success of the Supporter Engagement team.

About you:

We are looking for an experienced fundraising and marketing professional, an imaginative and collaborative team leader, who is passionate about Embrace’s work and has experience of developing supporter engagement opportunities and stewardship journeys for thousands of supporters. You will be able to innovate and improve how Embrace connects with an engaged and growing group of long-term supporters. You will have a high-level of operational expertise and enjoy seeing others develop and flourish.

We are looking for someone who is committed to the Christian mission, vision and values of the charity, either as a practising Christian or someone with a sympathy for Embrace’s mission with the Christian faith and is comfortable working in a faith inspired religious environment and ready with compassion to serve and work with Church congregations structures and communities.

To succeed, you will have experience devising and implementing integrated supporter journeys across traditional and digital channels, leading a team to deliver individual giving, including legacies and community fundraising, programmes achieving income donation in the region of £1.5 Million per annum.

This is a collaborative team role, working with colleagues to bring hope and healing to those whom we serve. You will be part of an organisation that values everyone’s contribution, pays a fair wage as well as attractive benefits, and is committed to support your continuing professional development.

The role will initially be home-based, with flexible working options will be available thereafter. This will include the option to work at Embrace’s offices in Amersham or mainly from home, attending the office as required.

How to apply:

To apply for this role, kindly send through a completed online application form, via the link on our website, attaching a copy of your CV and covering letter outlining your suitability and your motivation for the role.

Closing date: Friday 8 January 2021.

We will contact all shortlisted candidates either before or shortly after the closing date for applications.

Embrace the Middle East is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to child protection. Please note that in order to be considered for this position you need to have the right to work in the UK, either through nationality or relevant work visa. The successful candidate will be required to complete a medical questionnaire and undertake a disclosure check as part of the Charity’s safer recruitment policy.

Jubilee Debt Campaign is recruiting a new Senior Policy and Research Officer to help drive forward our work on the global South debt crisis. 

We are a small, agile, high–impact campaigning charity working to tackle poverty and inequality caused by unjust debt. 

This is a new post we are creating as part of a planned expansion to further increase our impact.

We are looking for someone with strong research and policy analysis skills, a strong campaigning mindset, experience of statistical analysis, and a passion for social justice. We are not expecting you to already be an expert in all aspects of the role but are looking for someone with the potential to develop quickly.

You will: 

• Research and publicise compelling data and analysis that illuminates our campaigns to decision-makers, influencers, activists and the media 
• Monitor and respond to developments in UK government and international institution policies and approaches to debt 
• Liaise with allies around the world to develop joint campaign strategies based around acting in solidarity with people in countries affected by unjust debt. 

This is a permanent role offered on either 5 days / 35 hours or 4 days / 28 hours per week.

We value diversity and welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from women and people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background. 

We offer: 

• Pension contributions of up to 7.5% of your salary plus 1% of the average organisational salary 
• An annual leave entitlement of 30 days per year plus bank holidays 
• Flexi-time working arrangements outside the core hours of 10am-4pm 
• Access to other benefits including interest-free season ticket loans and tax savings on bikes and home technology equipment via salary sacrifice schemes 

The role will be working from home until Jubilee Debt Campaign decides it is safe for staff to return to working in the office.

The deadline for applications is 9am on Wednesday 9 December. Interviews will be held on Thursday 17 December.

Please see the recruitment pack for further details and information on how to apply:

This role is 21 hours per week. Salary advertised is full time equivalent.

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty.

Poverty is an outrage against humanity. It robs people of their dignity and lets injustice thrive. But together we have the power to transform lives.

We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality, justice and love worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

Everyone is equal in the sight of God. For over 70 years, this has inspired us to stand together in solidarity with our most marginalised global neighbours, of all faiths and none.

We push for good nutrition and healthcare for all. We fight the climate crisis and provide urgent help when disasters strike. We work in places of conflict to stand against violence and build lasting peace. And we help people living in poverty to earn a fair wage so they can protect themselves in times of crisis.

Above all, we seek to eradicate extreme poverty by tackling its root causes. Together with people living in poverty, we amplify our voices to speak truth to power and create lasting change.

About the role

The PPC Executive Assistant will take initiative and proactively organise, manage and provide support to the Director and FSE Senior Management Team. The successful candidate will have great organisational skills, bias for action, the ability to think laterally and deliver results. A high level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information and professionalism in dealing with senior professionals inside and outside the company is imperative.

You will have the autonomy to complete complex tasks and projects quickly with little guidance and react to situations which require a quick turnaround, often not knowing the full picture. None the less you will react with the right level of urgency (and courtesy),and will efficiently and proactively solve complex problems that affect people within the department or other related groups. We are looking for someone that keeps calm under pressure and is able to manage assignments with sound judgement and with multitasking capabilities. This is a fast-paced environment but working within the team and as part of it is very rewarding.

PPC delivers policy, advocacy and campaigns work in the UK, and internationally, and provides strategic advisory support to country offices across our international programmes. We build evidence by drawing on our international programmes to make the case for change. We influence global, regional and national decision-makers, taking our case for change to those with power to effect it and we build movements to engage local people as agents of change.

This is a part time role, ideally Tuesday to Thursday, that will be initially home-based and then located at our London office when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

About you

We are looking for someone with significant administrative and/or secretarial experience, including support for senior staff in a large organisation. This will include experience of diary management and travel arrangements, and the ability to manage competing demands, often against tight deadlines

The successful applicant will have an excellent track record in building effective working relations across a team and the ability to maintain confidentiality and use discretion when managing relationships at a senior level. You will require strong interpersonal skills and the ability to negotiate and influence.

The role requires clear and confident verbal communication, good written communication, great organisation skills and the ability to minute effectively within varied and complex meeting agendas. You will need to be competent in a range of Office programmes including MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel and have experience of financial software, record keeping and budget monitoring. You will need to be willing and able to take responsibility for project work within agreed parameters.

Knowledge and understanding of the international development and humanitarian sector as well as understanding of Church relations and/or political relations would be an advantage.

We are looking for someone to join our team who is committed to Christian Aid's mission, vision and values, who is able to take the initiative, has the flexibility to respond to changes demands and is a great team player. Please refer to the role profile for the specific requirements.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Delivering Results: Tell us about a time when you planned, prioritised and monitored your own work to meet the team's objectives to the standards required

-What was your context?

-What was your task/responsibility?

-How did you make your plan? What actions did you take?

-What was the impact of your actions? Were you successful? How did you know?

Communicate Effectively: Tell us about a time when you handled a difficult issue with someone else with openness, honesty and respect

-What was the context?

-What did you have to do?

-What did you say and how?

-What was the result? If you were successful, how did you know?

Build Partnerships: Tell us of a time when you had to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with a wide range of contacts and networks

-What was the context? Why did you need to establish the new relationships and why was your attitude to this important?

-What was your task? What outcomes were being sought?

-What actions did you take? How did you take them?

-What was the impact of your actions? Were you successful?

This role can be based in the UK or Ireland, homeworking in either location will be considered. If the role is based in the London office an additional £4,170pa London allowance will be paid.

About us

Christian Aid is an international development charity that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty, and for this to happen unequal power relations need to be challenged and changed.

We work in partnership to eradicate extreme poverty; dismantle its root causes across the world; and enable the voice and agency of the poor and marginalised to be fully realised. We deliver humanitarian assistance, in the wake of disasters and conflict, development programmes and policy, advocacy and campaigns so that poor and marginalised children, women and men, of all faiths and non, can achieve equality, dignity and justice.

About the role

This role will be the chief policy advisor for the organisation on the critical sustainable development, economic and political issues of the day. As a strategic role for the organisation, the post holder will ensure that Christian Aid is the 'go-to' faith and development agency in the UK and internationally for progressive policy advice and direction. Ensuring excellent quality public policy research and reports across Christian Aid, the post will have specific responsibility for producing high profile flagship reports on critical and current development issues. Our policy work will be grounded in the experience and evidence from the country programmes, and provide leading edge policy analysis to deliver our strategic advocacy objectives, in the UK and globally.

This is a complex and senior role that will rely on both actual authority as well as credibility and the ability to build relationships across Christian Aid. The post holder will exercise a high level of influence with senior colleagues, building policy coherence and cohesion across the areas of Economic Justice, Climate Justice, Humanitarian, Gender Justice and Theology and shaping organisational thinking and understanding on key issues within the context of the corporate impact areas

The role will work closely with the Head of Global Advocacy and Policy and with Issue Leads and will have a high level of self-determination in how they structure their work and achieve their objectives. The role holder will need to be able to work independently and be confident in taking responsibility for the decisions that they make.

About you

You will be an experienced policy professional and manager, who can see both the big picture but can analyse policy in forensic detail, and who understands and is abreast of the latest thinking on multi-dimensional poverty, and has demonstrated real change with and for people living in poverty.

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build Partnerships and Communicates Effectively

Can you outline, at least two policy areas where you have built coherence across diverse and complex policy areas which has led to successful change for people living in poverty. How did you approach this?

Steward Resources

Christian Aid works with the people and partners in our global and country programmes to leverage change at a national, regional and global level. Can you give some examples of how you can worked with country programmes or partners to generate evidence and data and how have you used this knowledge to deliver effective advocacy at a regional or Global level?

Steward Resources and Deliver Results

This role will be managing a team can you outline two examples of where you have both been part of a team and influenced from within, and where you have managed a team and been in a leadership role where you have had to balance multiple view points and reach consensus and have had manage risk. What approach and tactics and tools did you use?

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the UK or Ireland where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid's Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid's Code of Conduct.

This role can be based in the UK or Ireland, homeworking in either location will be considered. If the role is based in the London office an additional £4,170pa London allowance will be paid.

About us

Christian Aid is an international development charity that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty, and for this to happen unequal power relations need to be challenged and changed.

We work in partnership to eradicate extreme poverty; dismantle its root causes across the world; and enable the voice and agency of the poor and marginalised to be fully realised. We deliver humanitarian assistance, in the wake of disasters and conflict, development programmes and policy, advocacy and campaigns so that poor and marginalised children, women and men, of all faiths and non, can achieve equality, dignity and justice.

About the role

This role will be the chief policy advisor for the organisation on the critical sustainable development, economic and political issues of the day. As a strategic role for the organisation, the post holder will ensure that Christian Aid is the 'go-to' faith and development agency in the UK and internationally for progressive policy advice and direction. Ensuring excellent quality public policy research and reports across Christian Aid, the post will have specific responsibility for producing high profile flagship reports on critical and current development issues. Our policy work will be grounded in the experience and evidence from the country programmes, and provide leading edge policy analysis to deliver our strategic advocacy objectives, in the UK and globally.

This is a complex and senior role that will rely on both actual authority as well as credibility and the ability to build relationships across Christian Aid. The post holder will exercise a high level of influence with senior colleagues, building policy coherence and cohesion across the areas of Economic Justice, Climate Justice, Humanitarian, Gender Justice and Theology and shaping organisational thinking and understanding on key issues within the context of the corporate impact areas

The role will work closely with the Head of Global Advocacy and Policy and with Issue Leads and will have a high level of self-determination in how they structure their work and achieve their objectives. The role holder will need to be able to work independently and be confident in taking responsibility for the decisions that they make.

About you

You will be an experienced policy professional and manager, who can see both the big picture but can analyse policy in forensic detail, and who understands and is abreast of the latest thinking on multi-dimensional poverty, and has demonstrated real change with and for people living in poverty.

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build Partnerships and Communicates Effectively

Can you outline, at least two policy areas where you have built coherence across diverse and complex policy areas which has led to successful change for people living in poverty. How did you approach this?

Steward Resources

Christian Aid works with the people and partners in our global and country programmes to leverage change at a national, regional and global level. Can you give some examples of how you can worked with country programmes or partners to generate evidence and data and how have you used this knowledge to deliver effective advocacy at a regional or Global level?

Steward Resources and Deliver Results

This role will be managing a team can you outline two examples of where you have both been part of a team and influenced from within, and where you have managed a team and been in a leadership role where you have had to balance multiple view points and reach consensus and have had manage risk. What approach and tactics and tools did you use?

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the UK or Ireland where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid's Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid's Code of Conduct.

Role overview

The Right to Education Initiative (RTE) is looking for a programme manager to lead RTE’s work on Early Childhood Education and the right to pre-primary education,  in line with RTE’s strategic plan.

The successful candidate will be responsible to implement RTE’s strategic objective regarding ECE & the right to pre-primary education which is to ‘lead global advocacy for the establishment of an international legal framework that recognizes free quality pre-primary education; provide legal and empirical information, advice and tools, including defining specific indicators and offering guidance for monitoring this issue.

This position includes possible travels to undertake field research and to attend work-related meetings and events worldwide.

Areas of responsibilities and key tasks

Strategic planning & fundraising

• Develop and implement  a sub-strategy for RTE’s work on early childhood education (ECE) based on a comprehensive analysis of the sector from a human rights perspective.

• Support RTE’s Executive Director in raising new funding for RTE’s work on ECE from dedicated foundations and other sources.

Research, advocacy & capacity development

• Conduct and/or coordinate legal research and analysis to support advocacy, including from UN Treaty Bodies concluding observations and court decisions.

• Work  in close collaboration with RTE’s advisers and others partners to build a network of various actors working on this issue, including child development experts, policy makers, lawyers, academics and activists to facilitate discussions on ECE from a human rights perspective, agree strategies to secure better legal recognition and strengthen advocacy for free quality pre-primary education for all.

• Produce reports, papers, articles, brief and tools, including right to education indicators

• Develop indicators and guiding questions for research to support the monitoring of ECE and pre-primary education as part of our wider activities related to monitoring and accountability.

• Encourage civil society organisations (CSO) partners to monitor this issue and report about it at national, regional and international levels.

• Coordinates pro bono projects and lawyers, commissions legal briefs with pro bono lawyers, and develops and manages relationships with law firms.

• Track developments on ECE internationally.

• Facilitate training workshops.

Networking & outreach

• Work in close collaboration with key partners, including CSO, academic researchers, UNESCO, UNSR.

• Advocate to key targets including States representatives in various fora, including UN Human Rights Council, GPE, OIF, UNESCO.

• Represent RTE in events and meetings related to ECE, and deliver presentations when relevant.

Communication

• Inform and raise awareness about this issue through our website, social media networks and e-bulletin, providing key information, including on the current legal framework applicable to ECE, relevant resources, news, blogs and useful links.

• Write content for RTE’s website on this issue (webpage, blog, news).

• Organise events, such as panels, seminars, roundtables.

• Draft press release in collaboration with the communication manager.

Other

• The role holder will from time to time be required to carry out any other duties that are within the scope of the job.

Candidate profile

We are looking for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Programme Manager to join our team and lead RTE’s work on ECE from a human rights perspective. 

This is a new position and key role, and the successful candidate will have proven experience in managing programmes in the field of human rights and/ECE.

Aside from sharing our values, we are looking for someone who is comfortable working in a multicultural environment and who is happy to take on new tasks and support the team when needed.

We will provide the candidate with the opportunity to work as part of a small team of dedicated and passionate people and the real opportunity to shape the growth of the organization.

In addition to an expert, we are looking for someone who has excellent interpersonal skills.

The ideal candidate will have:

Education & qualifications

• Postgraduate education in human rights law or in the field of ECE.

• At least five years of experience working on human rights issues, ideally working on the right to education or economic, social and cultural rights.

Essential knowledge

• Solid understanding of international human rights law with a background in economic, social and cultural rights.

• Knowledge of ECE and pre-primary education.

• Theoretical and practical knowledge of international human rights law.

• Understanding of human rights-based monitoring, campaigning and advocacy strategies

Know-how 

• Excellent research and analytical skills, including significant experience in designing and implementing advocacy-oriented research and policy analysis.

• Excellent written and editing skills, with the ability to translate complex legal information into accessible information for non­legal professionals.

• Experience of drafting, editing and presenting research reports and policy papers, including submissions to UN bodies.

• Experience working with allies and partners across various civil society sectors, including social movements, NGOs, unions, academic institutions, policy makers, UN agencies and others.

• Experience of supervising, managing and coordinating the work of others, including staff, consultants, and external partners such as pro bono lawyers. 

• Experience of planning, organising and prioritising work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines

• Written and oral fluency in English is required; fluency in other major languages such as French, Spanish or Arabic is highly desirable.

Personal skills/qualities

• Ability to think strategically.

• Ability to speak publicly.

• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, including from distance, as well as external partners.

• Flexibility and adaptability - can adapt to changing work priorities at short notice, take on the ideas of others, adapt own way of working.

• Ability to manage relationships based on respect for each other and mutual trust.

• Positive attitude.

•  Curiosity and creative thinking.

• Open-minded, including open to constructive feedback.

• Good time management and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work in an independent and autonomous way. 

• Willingness to learn new skills.

• Willingness to “pitch in” and support colleagues outside the parameters of the job description where necessary

Status & location 

• Full time position, 35 hours a week.

• One-year contract with possibility of extension, depending on funding.

• Our office is based in London, with flexibility to work from home. Working from another country can be considered.

Salary range                                                                                                             

£35,000 - £39,500 gross per year.

How to apply

Please send a CV and cover letter with the subject line ‘ECE programme manager application’

We expect your cover letter to explain:

• Your interest in joining Right to Education Initiative

• Your interest in this role

• Your relevant experience as per the skills and competencies outline above

Deadline to apply: 29 November 2020, 11.59 pm GMT. 

Interviews: the two first weeks of December.

In view of the volume of applications anticipated, we regret that we are unable to answer individual queries in relation to posts or on the progress of individual applications. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted shortly after 29 November 2020.

About RTE

The Right to Education Initiative (RTE) is a global human rights organisation focusing on the right to education. Established in 2000 by the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Katarina Tomaševski, RTE was re-launched in 2008 as the 'Right to Education Project', a collaborative initiative supported by ActionAid International, Amnesty International, Global Campaign for Education, Save the Children, and Human Rights Watch. Since May 2017 the Right to Education Initiative is a charity registered in England and Wales with the charity number 1173115.

We stand for the full recognition of education as a human right, essential for the wellbeing and development of every individual, regardless of their status and circumstance over their life course. This commitment is underpinned by the principles of universality, indivisibility and interdependence. We recognise that education is key for the realisation of other rights and for building societies where respect for human rights, tolerance, inclusivity and diversity are valued. 

RTE promote education as a human right, striving for a world where everyone, without discrimination of any kind, can fully enjoy the right to education in all its dimensions. We do this by advocating for states to both legally commit to and implement the right to education - to make it a reality for all. In so doing we also seek to ensure that governments are held accountable for meeting their human rights obligations. We believe that human rights law can be a powerful tool for lasting change. We seek to empower all rights-holders to claim and enforce their right to education, by making law accessible and usable including through online resources. We also work at the frontiers of the right to education, breaking new ground and helping to clarify and deepen understanding and action on critical emerging issues.

RTE builds bridges between diverse fields (human rights, education and development), stakeholders, (including civil society organisations, international organisations, academics, and states) and diverse language communities (including English, French, Spanish and Arabic). We link global, national and local research and evidence-based policy dialogue to campaigning and advocacy with the aim of accelerating progress towards the realization of the right to education for all through positive and concrete changes on the ground.

RTE is a small and agile organisation which combines being a definitive reference point on the right to education and being a cutting-edge actor addressing current and emerging education issues. We play a dynamic and catalytic role to influence the changes needed in law, practice, and societal attitudes, to advance the right to education.

Do you want to help tackle UK poverty?

We are looking for an Insight Analyst who does.

One in five people among us, over 14 million in total across the UK, are unable to thrive because of a lack of money. Turn2us exists to help people struggling to make ends meet. We do this by giving direct financial help through our own charitable grants; supporting people to increase their income through benefits, grants and other support; and by highlighting ways to reduce essential costs.

We’re looking for an Insight Analyst to be part of our fight against the poverty that is devastating lives across Britain today.  Joining a vibrant and creative team, the right person will be passionate about tackling UK poverty, and driven to create insights from our data, so that the charity can continuously improve.

As Insight Analyst, you will be responsible for delivering insights from Turn2us’ large-scale datasets, for both external research purposes and internal business analysis needs. You will create and maintain internal visualisation tools and share our service data across the organisation. Finally, you will collaborate with external partners, so that we use our data to support people facing life-changing events and tackle the causes and symptoms of poverty.

Although technical skills are required to perform this role, an open and inclusive approach to insight and analysis is essential. We believe that deep knowledge and understanding are created through discussion between people. We are looking for someone who can support colleagues at Turn2us to analyse data from themselves and derive their own understanding.

The Insight Analyst will also work to include service users, in any analysis project. By working in partnership with people with lived experience, Turn2us’s strategy, services and outcomes will more fully reflect what people need. We particularly welcome applications from anyone who has their own lived experience of poverty, or financial hardship.

This is a key role for an ambitious charity and at an exciting time of change and growth.  If you wish to be part of that, and to help improve the lives of people in vulnerable circumstances across the UK, we look forward to hearing from you.