We are looking for a Head of Services to provide leadership to our core services including; our day centre, therapy team, community support work service and case work team.

This is an interim fixed-term role to provide support and leadership to our core services ensuring the services are operating safely and effectively ensuring quality for the people we support and sustainability for the organisation.

All of the roles and skills at Headway East London contribute to our success. If you are interested in the role and you think you don't have all the desirable experience but are passionate and care for our community and have skills you think will be beneficial to Headway East London we would love to receive an application from you. We also welcome applications for this role on a secondment basis.

Closing date for applications is Monday 27th September at 9.00am and shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview which will take place the week commencing 4th October.

As our Programme Officer you will be working on the frontline, delivering 1:1 sessions with marginalised young people across the capital. We want Settle to be the most effective and well-regarded homelessness prevention charity in the UK. You’ll work closely with our partners to ensure the smooth delivery of our contract and report to the Programme Manager. 

For the full job description and how to apply, head to our website: https://bit.ly/3zoSIe5

Responsibilities

Supporting vulnerable young people
You'll be delivering our programmes and working 1-1 with marginalised young people across London. You'll manage a caseload of young people and be a shining role model to those you're supporting.

Working with delivery partners
You’ll be working closely with our delivery partners to ensure the young people are getting the best support out there. Whether that’s liaising with social landlords or local debt advice charities. From time to time, you may join contract meetings to share the work you are doing on the frontline.

Collecting crucial impact data and evidencing impact
You’ll be meticulous in ensuring you collect and report data, understanding that this information is crucial to demonstrating our impact to funders and clients. You’ll ensure your notes and our databases are up to date with accurate information.

Working collaboratively
You'll work closely with Programme Officers that are delivering our in-person service to ensure you are learning from them and they are learning from your experiences.

Getting stuck in
We are a small but growing team and you'll be ready and excited to get stuck into new projects and opportunities as they arise - stretching yourself and developing your expertise.

About Us

Settle is an award-winning charity that supports young people moving into their first home. Our mission is to break the cycle of youth homelessness by equipping young people with the life skills and confidence they need to thrive. We are a fast-growing organisation and 2020-21 was a big year for Settle. We worked with more young people than ever before, developed new services and doubled our team size. You can read more about our recent work here.

Sands and Tommy’s are forming a Joint Policy Unit, working together towards halving the number of UK baby deaths by ensuring decision makers have access to up-to-date information, and maternity policy is informed by robust evidence.

We are collaborating to pull together evidence and identify the key changes needed to save babies lives, reduce inequalities and improve outcomes. Annually in the UK over 5,000 babies are stillborn or die within the first four weeks of life, with 1 in 5 pregnancies ending in miscarriage and around 60,000 babies born prematurely each year.

We know that 8 out of 10 term intrapartum stillbirths could be preventable with better care. Miscarriage is not ‘just one of those things’ – miscarriages need to be recorded, with standardised access to care across the UK and personal care pathways for women at highest risk. Successful tests and treatments to predict and prevent preterm birth have been developed, but at the moment access to these depends on where you live.

Tommy’s and Sands are members of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance leading a Maternity Consortium that includes National Maternity Voices (NMV), the Pregnancy and Baby Charities Network (PBCN) and a number of community organisations. We will use our collective expertise to join up national and local voices behind a common agenda – to reduce health inequalities for families throughout the whole pregnancy journey from pre-conception and through the first year of a baby’s life.

COVID-19 has cast a spotlight on the fragility of maternity safety initiatives as pressure on our stretched health and social care systems increased. We are now working together to help decision-makers ensure that babies are not at a higher risk of death because of postcode, ethnicity, or income.

This is an exciting time for both Sands and Tommy’s as we embark on this venture together. We have high hopes for the impact that our organisations working jointly in the policy arena will have.

The Head of Policy will be crucial to the success of the joint unit; leading, shaping and coordinating the unit’s work.

We are looking for an independent and assertive problem-solver, a policy expert who can manage multiple priorities, take the initiative, lead the national conversation and is excited as we are about taking the helm of this new venture for both of our organisations.  

Inclusion Barnet is small local charity with big ambitions; we deliver services for both disabled people and the wider community. We pride ourselves on being a bright and passionate team which works together to create a friendly and supportive working culture, so we can ultimately make a difference to the people and organisations we support. 

We’re looking for an individual with excellent leadership skills to lead our services and projects which focus on community and community development. 

The successful applicant will lead our delivery of local voluntary sector support, working as part of our successful Barnet Together partnership with Young Barnet Foundation and Groundwork London.  As well as representing Inclusion Barnet and the wider voluntary sector across local boards and forums, you'll work to bring the sector together through leading various sector groups. You’ll work collaboratively with our wider system partners to advocate for and implement our exciting voluntary sector manifesto, ensuring these partners understand the sector’s capabilities and work in ways which build on and support these. You also work to develop and publicise our new organisational membership offer, ensuring we reach all the community groups we exist to benefit. 

Alongside the Barnet Together role, you’ll have oversight of our Healthwatch and Partnership Libraries contracts, working closely with the managers of these services to ensure they continue to thrive and develop. 

You won't be doing all this on your own - with four direct reports and an overall team of eight, this role involves managing managers and providing leadership across the services to take them to the next level.

To do this, you’ll need to be able to think strategically and creatively and manage in a supportive and collaborative style.  A confident presenter, excellent relationship-builder and a reflective professional, you’ll be excited by the challenge, intrinsically motivated to make a difference, and keen to build on the success of these services to date. This is a varied and rewarding role, and you will be able to make a real impact on Barnet's voluntary and community sector at a time when the sector has never been more essential in the long-term recovery from covid-19. 

Whilst it is initially a fixed term contract to March 2023, we hope to be able to confirm it as a permanent role within the next 12 months.  Through your excellent work, you’ll help us make that a reality. 

You will become part of a friendly and supportive team, working within a focused but flexible culture, where diversity is valued and you can bring your whole self to work. 

As a Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation (DDPO), we always welcome applications from disabled candidates, but lived experience of disability is not essential for this role.  However, the successful candidate will need a commitment to the social model of disability and a passion for thriving, inclusive communities.  They will also be willing to think strategically about how we reflect our identity as a DDPO in our portfolio of communities work.

The role will be entirely home based during Covid, but the successful candidate must be able to be based in our Colindale office in the future and travel to meetings around the Borough of Barnet.  Whilst it is ultimately a Barnet-based role, we anticipate that there will continue to be regular opportunities for home working going forward, and we encourage flexible working to suit your work preferences where possible.  We also operate a Time Off In Lieu (TOIL) system. 

To apply, please submit your CV with a brief covering letter clearly stating how you meet the person specification.

The successful candidate must be willing to undergo a DBS check and have the right to work in the UK. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

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

The Impact and Involvement Team has undergone recent changes following consultation, developing from the Enterprise Training team. We’re looking forward to starting out in our new expanded role across the organisation. This Involvement and Impact Manager role will head up this team, ensuring that we deliver excellent training opportunities for members across our suite of businesses as well as supporting those members looking to take steps into self-employment and entrepreneurship.

About the role
As Involvement and Impact Manager, you will be leading the team in creating and developing progression pathways for members looking to gain skills and experience across our Enterprise and Innovation department, from our shops and café through to supporting people into self-employment with our Changing Lives grant.

You’ll work alongside our client services department and with members to sustainably end people’s homelessness through designing and supporting the team to develop meaningful progression opportunities and new external partnerships.

About you
Short version: To be successful in this role you will be an empathetic leader who has experience in the development of new services to support people who might be vulnerable. These services will have been developed alongside those people to ensure that any outcomes are meaningful and effective. You’ll be a keen collaborator both internally and externally and excited to develop new services in line with our exciting digital transformation project.

We want Crisis to be an inclusive employer which then reflects our members and the communities we work in. We want to offer opportunities to everyone regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

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

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

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

When you join us you will have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation.

We have 5 staff diversity networks which include Black, Asian and Ethnic people, LGBTQ+ people, those with Lived Experience of Homelessness, Women at Crisis and Disability Awareness.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.

Closing date: Sunday 10th October 2021 (at 23:59)
Interviews will be held week commencing 18th October.

Accessibility
We welcome applications from people who identify as neuro diverse and want our recruitment process to be as accessible as possible. If you need us to make an adjustment or provide additional support as you apply for a role, please email our Recruitment team, contact details can be found on our website.
 
 Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

We are looking for an experienced Head of Development candidate who will help develop the capacity of new and existing BAME organisations by providing high quality advice, information and developmental support; to offer support in helping these organisations develop resources.

Key Tasks/Duties:

1. To work with the Director and other relevant people to implement transparent and effective grant giving, partnership and development services

2. To manage any grants programme contracted to Voice4Change England and ensure proper monitoring and reporting structures

3. To develop assessments frameworks to assess needs using different levels of frameworks to make sure these are suitable for small, information groups as well as larger organisations.

4. To base development work on identifying some of the structural discriminations faced by BAME groups and develop ways to help groups tackle this; to work with the Policy and Influence officer to ensure that research and trends are available for funders and other decision makers to develop more inclusive and anti-discriminatory services.

5. To develop and implement training and developmental support to help organisations build capacity to overcome barriers and develop; to develop a library of templates and tools that can help with this

6. To build a development programme that helps organisations with holistic development, covering all aspects e.g. governance, strategic planning, quality systems, policies, effective delivery, monitoring and evaluation; to organise this in a way that is appropriate for the level of the BAME group.

The post holder will work remotely but will be required to go into the office once or twice a week. 

Apply now to join our amazing organisation. 

**UPDATED 12th September**

Looking for the next step in your career progression and the opportunity to work for a dynamic charity that shapes young people's lives, boosts social mobility, and strengthens society? 

This is an opportunity to join an ambitious UK education charity that ensures young people are prepared to thrive as confident, informed and engaged citizens. We help young people have a sense of ownership and confidence in shaping their community and society, to create a more just and fair society and stronger democracy. 

About the Role 

This Head of Partnerships and Engagement role is a chance to join the charity's senior leadership team and progress to a Director role after the first year. The aim of this role is to drive our business development through leading the orchestration of how the charity approaches partnership working at the highest level alongside sector profile and credibility building with strong oversight of communication activities that align across all our teams.

An ability to cohesively deploy, plan and lead our communication functions and maximise our charity’s partnership opportunities, and how these are strategically structured, will be essential for this role.

With the vision of our new Chief Executive, we are aiming to build on our strong foundation of quality corporate programmes and create a wider offer that engages partners of all types across our partners - from courts to school networks, as well as companies. This role will support our programme teams and work with the SLT to look after the culmination of these priority areas for the charity that results in more opportunities, boosted credibility and strong partnership ways of working.

About You 

We are looking for a skilled relationship manager capable of working in collaboration across our programme teams to develop the charity’s sector offering and partnership opportunities alongside aligned communication strategies that support organisational growth, profile and reputation.
You will also work towards improving our educational impact as well as developing network growth that drives successful fundraising.

Your efforts will support the success of a partnerships team currently expanding their corporate offer and assessing ways of aligning this with our educational programmes. You will also lead a communications function with an effective understanding of how this function strengthens our relationships, increases engagement across audiences and boosts our visibility for growth.

For more information on the essential experience required to deliver this role successfully and how to apply please download the Recruitment Pack to find out more. 

How to Apply 

• For full details please be sure to see the Recruitment Pack that includes details of what to include in your application. In place of a generic Covering Letter (which will not be accepted or reviewed), please provide a personal statement answering the 3 questions which are outlined in the recruitment pack.  
• Closing date for applications: 9 am, Monday 11th October. Please note applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, therefore please do not wait to apply. 
• All candidates must have the existing right to work in the UK. 

If you would like to informally discuss this opportunity or have any issues with your application please contact the Recruitment email address outlined in the recruitment pack. 

If you have not heard from us within 7 working days after the closing date, it means your application was not shortlisted on this occasion. We apologise in advance but due to the volume of applications, we cannot provide individual feedback on unsuccessful applications that are not shortlisted.

Please note that Young Citizens is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young people that we work with and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A background or DBS check may be required for any eventual appointment.

About Young Citizens

Young Citizens is an education charity working in primary and secondary schools to help educate, inspire and motivate the active citizens of tomorrow. Since 1989 Young Citizens (formerly known as the Citizenship Foundation), has helped millions of young people understand society’s democratic structures, and the rights and responsibilities of its citizens by running a range of programmes and experiences for young people, with the help of thousands of volunteers. We have a newly appointed CEO and growing remit to work with national partners to influence how we support young people as thriving, empowered young citizens. By joining Young Citizens you will be joining a team that is collaborative, ambitious and dedicated to producing amazing impact for young people through high-quality work with our corporate, foundation, and schools partners.

This is an exciting opportunity for an evaluation or social research professional to establish and lead International Alert’s new Impact team. This three-person team will build on our existing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practice to oversee the organisation’s impact assessment, and provide technical support to our evaluation and research. The Head of Impact will establish new systems, and improve on and streamline our existing approaches.

You’ll lead the development of our organisational theory of change and organisational indicators, creating a common framework to enable us to plan for, measure, and disseminate the impact of our peacebuilding work. You’ll oversee our bi-annual organisational Outcome Harvesting reflection processes, and coordinate with others to enable us to use these insights in external engagement. Convening a network of M&E staff across the organisation, with your team you’ll develop common tools and in-country capacity, and support country teams to recruit specialist staff or procure consultants to undertake project or programme evaluations. Your team will be the focal point for engagement with peers and other stakeholders in improving the quality of monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding.

You’ll bring to this role your significant experience developing theories of change, indicators, and logical frameworks for international development or peacebuilding projects, and your thorough knowledge of participatory monitoring and evaluation methodologies. Your experience developing M&E systems for organisations and teams, and undertaking M&E in complex settings, will be invaluable. Engaging with colleagues across the organisation will be central to this role, so you’ll draw on your extensive experience working remotely with country teams, supporting and building the capacity of others, as well as your experience facilitating workshops and working with people from diverse backgrounds. Fluent in written and spoken English, we’ll benefit from your clear and concise writing style, analysis skills, and your excellent interpersonal skills.

French or Russian language skills would be beneficial but are not essential.

Note: The above include some of the requirements for the job. For the full job requirements, please read the job description.

Details

• Salary: £45,372 per annum ( if based in london)
• Contract duration: Permanent
• Location: London, DRC, Kenya, Lebanon, Mali, Netherlands, Nigeria, Rwanda orTunisia
• Closing date: 29 September 2021 (23:59 pm UK Time)

Starting Salary: £49,194 - £51,162 (depending on experience)

Contract: Fixed Term – 2 years

Location: London

Position Description

The post holder will provide strategic leadership on effective development, coordination and delivery of Integral Ecology Programme Model – CAFOD’s organisational approach to how International Programmes will contribute to achieving the vision, mission, and commitments of Our Common Home - CAFOD’s new strategic framework. The post holder is a member of the International Programmes Management Team (IPMT) and will work closely with colleagues across International Programmes, Advocacy and Education Group (AEG), Organisational Performance and Governance Team and Safeguarding Team.

Structure/Scope:

The Programme Quality & Support Team is a newly established team with a remit to support international programme teams to increase the impact of our partners work through: 

• provision of technical support and accompaniment (short-term and long-term) to programme teams and partners – to develop, implement, and monitor effective, safe, dignified, and inclusive programmes.
• develop and manage a functional knowledge management system and ensure sharing and utilization of knowledge and evidence to facilitate learning and innovation, enhance decision-making and improve programme effectiveness. 

This post sits within International Programmes Group and reports directly to the Head of Humanitarian Programmes and Partner Support. The post holder manages (1) Programme Quality Lead, (2) International Programme Accompanier, (3) Sustainability Technical Lead, (4) Capacity Strengthening Advisor (5) Inclusion & Gender Advisor and (6) Data Quality & Evidencing Officer (7) Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening – Project Manager.

To read more about the job role and apply, please visit CAFOD website to begin filling out the application form.

Supporting Older People is the largest programme in our portfolio and supports ageing populations in the former Soviet Union, many of whom faced persecution and repression of their Jewish identity having lived through Nazi occupation and decades under communism. Now in their later years, economic instability caused by extremely low pensions and limited welfare support, often leads to ill health, loneliness, discrimination, disability and crippling poverty.

Working with local partners in Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and Moldova, we provide practical assistance, such as life-saving food and medicine. We ensure that if people’s homes are in need of repair, we fix them and if someone needs homecare assistance, we provide that too. Our work brings older Jewish people together to forge a sense of community and combat isolation.

We are seeking a maternity cover post to take responsibility for our programmes supporting older people, including further development of a strategy to ensure older people lead healthier and more dignified lives. The role will ensure that we drive forward the quality of our programming and partnerships in order to address the challenges, opportunities and the significant poverty and vulnerability amongst the people who participate in our programmes.

Managing school and business relationships You will build and maintain long standing relationships with the designated lead at each school and business partner in your cohort. You will work with them at the planning, delivery and feedback stages of each programme.In the UK, family income is the strongest predictor of how well a young person will do at school and the future opportunities they will have. Future Frontiers exists to change this.

We work in pursuit of life-changing impact for the young people we serve. By partnering with schools and forward-thinking businesses, we provide young people with an intensive programme of face-to-face career coaching and opportunities to engage with relevant sector role models in the lead up to the major crossroads in their education aged 16.

Why we need you

As a Programme Manager you will be on the ground delivering our programmes across our partner schools. You will be working directly with schools and businesses, providing that crucial link between coaches and students and facilitating life-changing conversations. We are looking for an organiser, problem-solver and relationship-builder to join our growing team and contribute to our evolving programme as we focus on delivering lasting impact for our disadvantaged young people. The successful candidate will be energetic, ambitious and resilient, and will aspire to build Future Frontiers into a leading national programme across the UK.

Candidates who have not been to university or who have lived experiences relatable to our young people are strongly encouraged to apply.

Your responsibilities

You will be working directly with students and business coaches, facilitating our excellent programme. We expect you to spend 2-3 days a week delivering in schools and 2-3 days a week on programme administration. Here are the key areas:

Programme delivery

• You will lead a portfolio of programmes across the UK (predominantly in London) and deliver all stages of the programme for young people.
• This will include onboarding pupils, delivering assemblies, preparing coaches, conducting DBS checks, and monitoring programme feedback. 

Training coaches

• You will learn how to deliver quality training sessions for each cohort of volunteer coaches in your portfolio of programmes.
• You will be supported to develop your skills in group training and public speaking.

Managing school and business relationships

• You will build and maintain long standing relationships with the designated lead at each school and business partner in your cohort.
• You will work with them at the planning, delivery and feedback stages of each programme.

Programme Monitoring

• You will be responsible for collecting feedback and key data from your coaches, students and schools.
• You will work with the programmes team to identify trends in programmatic success and develop interventions that continually improve each programme.

About You

You’ll thrive in this role if you...

• Have a desire to help young people develop aspirations that will inspire them to achieve their full potential
• Are confident working independently and solving problems in the moment
• Have exceptional communication skills; you’ll be passionate, compelling, and able to inspire others around you using a clear and concise communication style
• Are adept at building relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Are highly organised and able to manage multiple responsibilities with competing deadlines and timelines
• Are flexible and able to respond effectively in a changing environment
• Can maintain the ethos of the charity and positively promote our work at all times.

Essential requirements:

• Minimum 1 year experience working with young people

What we can offer you

• Early finish on Fridays
• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Team building offsites and regular team socials throughout the year
• Cycle to work scheme
• Generous parental pay and additional childcare leave

Equal Opportunities, diversity and inclusion

Here at Future Frontiers we are dedicated to the practice of equal opportunities. The principles of it underpin our mission and we treat all employees, volunteers, clients and students as individuals. We believe in having an open and inclusive culture that champions diversity in all its forms, including disability, culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, life experiences, socio-economic background, and religion. We encourage everyone to apply for our roles.

If you would like to talk to us about working at Future Frontiers in advance of your application, particularly in regards to diversity, we strongly encourage you to contact us via email and we will arrange a call. We’d love to hear from you. 

To improve the diversity of the programmes team we are particularly interested to hear from candidates who have not been to university or who have lived experiences relatable to our young people. 

Application details

Full details of application and interview dates on linked JD.

First Deadline: 22nd September at 9am

• Stage 1 interviews will be held on Friday 24th September and stage 2 interviews will be held on Thursday 30th September.

• Start date is 25th October or as soon as possible after.

• Applications will remain open after the deadline for recruitment of further positions with later start dates

Your role is to lead a team to build and maintain partnerships with local authorities (LAs) and children’s trusts, in order to develop and support 600+ Fellows (alumni) annually through our key programmes. This is directly linked to achieving Frontline’s organisational objective of having 4,000 impactful Fellows by 2025, who will create social change for children without a safe or stable home.

This is a relatively new team created by consolidating activities and accountability across the organisation to become the lead interface to Frontline partners for all our programmes and initiatives.  We are looking for a Head of Partnerships and Placements to lead this team and ensure targets are met for partnerships, programme places, and overall partner satisfaction.  Additionally they will play an active role within Frontline’s Leadership Group.

We have increased the diversity of Frontline’s workforce in the last 12 months, but we need to do more to have greater ethnic minority representation in our senior roles. We know the value ethnic minority voices bring and therefore, we are strongly encouraging applicants from these backgrounds to apply and will keep applications open until we have satisfactory representation on the shortlist.

The location of this role is flexible, with frequent national travel required, including occasional travel to our head office in central London. We have office bases in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Bristol.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery and growth of the Firstline leadership programme and our new leadership programme for Heads of Service (Headline) starting in October 2021. These are both national leadership development programmes which target good social work managers and Heads of Service to become excellent leaders in the social care field. Building on our successful track record in social care leadership, the team is now expanding to recruit a Programme manager to help us continue to strengthen and grow the programmes. There is a high autonomy culture within the team and organisation, so the role requires someone who is well organised, pro-active and can use their initiative to do what works. The successful candidates will have strong project management skills, stakeholder management and experience of large scale programme delivery.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our organisation and therefore are actively encouraging applications from ethnic minority and/or disabled candidates.

Introduction to Borne

Funding for research into complications during pregnancy and childbirth lags far behind other medical conditions. Borne is a young, dynamic medical research charity with great ambition to strengthen the research base and bring about ground-breaking collaboration between clinicians and scientists in order to make scientific breakthroughs possible. We seek to bring about lasting change by finding answers, nurturing talent, and improving care in this pressing area of need. 

Preterm birth is the number one cause of infant death and disability worldwide.  Around the world, 15 million babies are born prematurely. One million children are born too early to survive; and those who do survive often suffer life-long disability. In the UK, over 50,000 babies are born preterm each year. Babies who are born too soon face many challenges. The earlier a baby is born, the more likely their organs will suffer damage or not develop as they should because they are less mature. Each day in the womb is essential to a baby’s healthy development and survival. We invest in world-class early-stage research projects aimed at unravelling the science behind the complex biomedical conditions that lead to premature birth.  We want the best ideas, backed up by the strongest science, to have the greatest chance to succeed.

We are looking for a dynamic Head of Development and Fundraising with the experience, drive and ambition to strengthen and grow Borne’s fundraising capability through major gifts, corporate partnerships and philanthropic trusts and foundations. The incumbent will be a key member of the charity’s senior leadership team, instrumental in driving forward strategic fundraising initiatives that are key to the charity’s continued growth and impact.

Thank you for your interest in Borne. We hope you will seriously consider joining us on our mission to ensure babies are not born too soon.

Borne’s Mission

Borne believes that every child should have the chance of a full and healthy life, unaffected by disability. A baby’s first hours should not be its hardest, or its last.

Borne brings scientists and medical teams together to advance our understanding of pregnancy, and to identify what causes premature birth so that outcomes can be improved.

Capacity building by attracting more of the best scientific and medical minds to this area of research is key to strengthen the base of research into pregnancy and childbirth, and the conditions in pregnancy that may lead to preterm birth.

By investing in big science –the latest technology and bioinformatics expertise – Borne aims to foster collaboration across institutions and geographical borders to accelerate scientific analysis and discovery.

The Role

Reporting to the Chief Executive as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, the Head of Development and Fundraising is responsible for shaping the charity’s fundraising and development strategy, and instrumental in executing the charity’s fundraising strategy in partnership with the Chief Executive, a very proactive Board of Trustees and a Development Board that the incumbent will be instrumental in helping set up.

You will work to secure new income, identify, and purposefully steward fundraising and development opportunities from new sources. You will strengthen relationships with a growing network of major donors, philanthropic entities and corporate partners and individuals, inspiring them with vision, passion, and opportunities to support the charity’s ground-breaking research work.

You will have substantial experience raising philanthropic income at the six and seven figure gift level from high-net-worth individuals, companies and trusts and foundations, and will be comfortable owning the steps it takes to secure that income. You will also have experience in creating fundraising plans and setting targets while initiating, developing, and maintaining excellent relationships with prospects and donors, and building corporate partnerships for long term mutual benefit.

Teamwork is key within Borne’s small, high performing team. The role will suit someone who enjoys working with others, rolling up your sleeves to get stuck in while excited about the prospect of accelerating the realisation of the charity’s ambition and impact.

Borne are ambitious to double its annual income from £1.5 million (pre-COVID) to over £3 million p.a. by delivering sustainable income growth from a strong network of support.

The Candidate

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a strategic thinker that can be target driven to deliver on objectives on time and within budget; able to demonstrate an ability to identify new opportunities for developing the charity’s development and fundraising programme.

• Has highly developed communication and interpersonal skills; persuasive with both internal and external stakeholders demonstrating a natural ability to understand donor motivations and able to be highly influential and responsive to senior-level individuals in articulating an inspiring and compelling case for major philanthropic support of Borne.

• Is comfortable engaging senior academics, scientists, clinicians, and researchers with an intellectual curiosity to understand and communicate complex scientific areas of research.

• Is a motivated self-starter who has a real ‘can do’ attitude working within a small team.

• Can craft and manage compelling bids and proposals for fundraising purposes; capable of negotiating funding agreements with follow-through on impact reporting and the proactive stewardship of relationships.

• Models leadership qualities and behaviours within the charity that is empowering of colleagues and team members.

• Is IT literate with experience of using Microsoft Office and can harness the power and potential of CRM to support a data and process driven approach to fundraising.

• Has a clear understanding and experience of relevant regulatory compliance, international tax codes, and ethical codes of practice associated with fundraising

• Is educated to graduate level or equivalent with experience of raising funds for higher education or medical research desirable.