Head of public engagement and communications jobs
We are Age UK York, a local independent charity which exists to support the older people of York and those around them. For over 50 years our team of staff, volunteers and supporters have helped us to offer a wide range of services providing vital and trusted support so often when it is needed most.
Our vital work is needed today as much as ever and we ever welcome people to join our team as together we realise our shared mission of making a positive difference to the lives of the older people of York.
Job Summary:
Would you like to make a life changing difference in support of local people and communities in need here in York? Can you bring financial management expertise to support a team effort and help shape the future of our long standing charity?
Age UK York is offering an exciting senior leadership opportunity to join our fantastic team and support our vital work here in York. Could you be our Head of Finance and help lead our team, ensure our effective financial arrangements and the vital part it plays in realising our mission in the positive difference we can make in helping others.,
We are looking to find for our new Head of Finance who can bring their experience, expertise and passion to support our local York charity, our team and those we are here to help each and every day.
You will manage our brilliant team with a focus on strong financial management. With both internal and external focus the role will lead on our financial management and helping our charity make every penny entrusted to us count, as we develop, manage and realise our financial goals and the difference the enable Age UK York to make in supporting older people and those around them across York.
You will be part of our energised senior leadership and management teams helping to shape our charity and the continued positive difference we make whilst working closely across our teams in their role together with our Board of Trustees.
The opportunity offers an excellent benefits package and support for your own personal development and aspirations. The opportunity would not only empower you to take forward the strong legacy from our current team though bring your own identity, ideas and strengths to the fore in our collective efforts to be there tomorrow and beyond.
Key Responsibilities:
We are looking for an experienced financial manager with a keen eye for detail and drive for high performance, continuous improvement and team work. With an ambition and drive to make a telling contribution and strengthen our charity and the difference we can together make in supporting older people and communities.
We would love to hear from you if you have:
· Experience and success in leading the financial management for an organisation.
· Experience in providing leadership within an organisation; an eye for detail and a driver of standards in continuously learning and strengthening working practices and outcomes.
· Managed a team providing support, motivation and nurturing talent and opportunity
· The ability to readily transfer your existing experiences and skills to a new challenge;
· Understanding of your strengths and areas for continuing development and proactively build your knowledge and skills
We would love to hear from you.
We’re looking for someone who:
· Is successful in providing financial management for an organisation and effective in collaborating and supporting non-financial colleagues in our shared financial goals and successful practice.
· Demonstrates wider leadership qualities including contributing to overarching organisational strategic priorities.
· Skilled, including an excellent communicator, in building and maintaining successful relationships across internal teams and external partnerships.
· Able, and experienced, in delivering in meeting outcomes and targets whilst supporting a performance and continuous improvement organisational approach.
· Highly organised, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment;
· Strong attention to detail, analytical and critical thinking qualities, and able to apply and be energised to meet organisational challenges and opportunities in continually strengthening our organisation to help us realise our vision, mission and priorities.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· Ability to prepare, manage, monitor and report on budgets.
· Previous experience in one or more, management or financial accounting roles delivering day to day finance functions.
· Experience of line management and support, motivation and development to colleagues and collective team.
· Experience of supporting the development and delivery of high quality services through financial management and support to operational colleagues.
· Effective understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles.
· Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Including interpreting and communicating financial information to non-finance function colleagues and in support of decision making; a facilitative and accessible approach; ability to manage remote communications and diplomacy and conflict resolution skills.
· Passion and commitment to work within a not-for-profit organisation and support a team approach in working to help others.
· Decision making – ability to make decisions based on an analysis of data and insights, including financial, performance and needs based data.
Salary and Benefits:
- £17.75 per hour, £32,391 (FTE) per year, pro rata
- Flexible working options within our 21 hour per week role
- A genuinely friendly and supportive environment
- Generous holidays – 26.5 days plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time employees). Additional leave – an extra day of long service.
- Birthday day off
- Enhanced sick pay after 6 months of service
- Flexible work schedule
- Potential for funding towards professional qualifications
- Employee discounts including Blue Light Scheme eligibility
- BUPA Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Free eye test
- Free flu jab
- Free DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service)
This is a new role at ECU, being recruited as part of a wider programme of work to deepen the relationships between national organisations working on economic systems change and grassroots campaigners. The Campaigns Lead will work closely with the Head of Campaigns on driving forward our high-impact campaigns for economic systems change.
For at least the first year, the Campaigns Lead will be working primarily on our coalition campaign on the cost of living crisis, Cost of Living Action. The campaign, which is currently made up of over 40 organisations from across civil society, unions and grassroots groups, aims to end the cost of living crisis and put in place solutions to prevent it from ever happening again. It focuses on our policy demands in five areas that drive the cost of living crisis: wages, social security, energy, housing and taxation. The campaign positions itself as the civil society coalition focused on the cost of living as a whole, and that solutions to it must be addressed that way. The campaign relaunched in early 2026 and has a vital role to play in putting media and political pressure on the government to take action.
We also work closely with those most impacted by the crisis and aim to centre the voices of those with lived experience of economic hardship in all that we do. This role will shape and drive forward a programme of impactful communications, advocacy and other campaigning activities under the rebooted campaign to secure transformative changes that bring real improvement to people’s lives. There is ample opportunity to engage politically in this role, increasing as you develop in the position.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Trusts & Foundations Manager
Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity
Location: Sheffield
Reporting to: Head of Philanthropy, Trusts & Foundations
Salary: up to £41,758.26 per annum
Hours and basis: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week / Permanent position
Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity is looking for an ambitious and relationship-focused fundraising professional to join us as our Trusts & Foundations Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in growing income from trusts and foundations, helping to secure vital funding that transforms the lives of children, young people and their families.
About the role
In this key fundraising role, you will lead the development and management of relationships with trusts and foundations, securing funding for projects that make a real difference across Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
Working collaboratively with colleagues across the Charity and the Trust, you will identify new funding opportunities, develop compelling proposals and build strong partnerships with grant-making organisations. You will manage an established portfolio of supporters while cultivating new prospects, delivering excellent stewardship and impact reporting to secure long-term funding relationships and sustainable income growth.
Key responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of trusts and foundations, developing tailored engagement strategies to maximise income and impact.
- Identify, research and cultivate new funding opportunities to build a strong pipeline of prospects.
- Write high-quality, persuasive funding applications, proposals and cases for support.
- Work closely with charity and hospital colleagues to gather project information, budgets, outcomes and impact data.
- Deliver excellent stewardship through regular communication, reporting and relationship management.
- Demonstrate the impact of donor support through compelling reports and evidence-based communications.
- Support the delivery of wider philanthropy and fundraising objectives through strong collaboration and partnership working.
About you
We’re looking for a motivated and proactive fundraising professional with experience of securing income from trusts and foundations. You will be passionate about building meaningful relationships and confident in developing persuasive funding applications that inspire support and deliver results.
You will bring:
- Proven experience in trusts and foundations fundraising, including prospecting, cultivation, stewardship and pipeline management.
- Strong relationship management skills with the ability to develop tailored engagement plans for supporters.
- Excellent written communication skills with experience producing compelling grant applications, proposals and donor reports.
- Strong verbal communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders.
- Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- A proactive, collaborative and results-focused approach to fundraising.
- The resilience and adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
For further details please read the full job description which outlines the behaviours, qualities, skills and experience we are looking for.
Why join us?
At Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity, you’ll be part of a passionate and ambitious team dedicated to making a real difference for children and young people. You'll have the opportunity to build meaningful partnerships, secure transformational funding and play a key role in helping us achieve our mission to create a healthier future for children.
Ready to make an impact?
Apply today by with your CV and covering letter
Closing date: 7th September 2026 – 9am
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond to all applicants. If you are shortlisted for interview, we will contact you directly. We thank you for your interest in joining Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity.
Agencies: We are not accepting unsolicited agency contact or applications for this role. Any CVs submitted by agencies without prior agreement will not be considered.
We support Sheffield Children’s to deliver life-changing care, comfort and new ideas to create healthier futures for children and young people.

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Please note the desired qualifactions required for the role: Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (health visitor or Family Nurse) or Midwife,
Nurse or Paediatric Nurse with community experience.
1. Proactively engage and work in partnership with professionals and organisation working with families and babies vulnerable to sudden infant death to promote safer sleep and reduce infant mortality.
2. Design and deliver training.
3. Proactively engage families with Lullaby Trust advice, responding to enquiries and ensuring anyone seeking advice is given a high-quality service in a timely way.
4. Create and assist with development of information resources.
5. Manage and supervise the Support and Training Officer and Training Development Officer.
Proactively engage and work in partnership with professionals and organisations working with families and babies vulnerable to sudden infant death to promote safer sleep and reduce infant mortality.
•To build relationships with health and childcare professionals working with families and babies vulnerable to sudden infant death in order to reach and engage those families with advice and support.
•To proactively build and maintain partnerships with relevant organisations particularly those who work with vulnerable families to co-produce and collaborate in developing resources and programmes to reduce infant mortality.
•To build relationships with local professionals in order to support local campaigns to reduce SIDS deaths, sleep related accidents and infections in babies.
•To ensure the Lullaby Trust’s work reflects the public health agenda across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
•To work with the Policy and Research Manager reviewing external health and social documents/policy.
Design and deliver training
•To be lead the Training Team Working Group and chair meetings.
•To lead and work to deliver the training strategy by creating and promoting evidence-based online training packages aligned with public health priorities to a range of professionals working with families and babies vulnerable to sudden infant death which enables confidence to have meaningful conversations with families.
•Plan, develop and record online webinars and presentations for families and babies vulnerable to sudden infant death and on bereavement support in line with the Training Strategy
•Use national and local data to create and deliver training packages which is responsive to need, SUDI and safeguarding reports and investigations and CDOP themes.
•To meet and liaise with outside organisations to deliver showcase training packages.
•To ensure training is evaluated and adapted/developed
•To work with engagement team to ensure training is promoted.
Create and assist with development of online and printed information resources particularly aimed at those vulnerable to sudden infant death.
•Assist with checking accuracy of safer sleep info posts on social media and -participating in Q&As.
•Create resources specifically aimed at families and babies vulnerable to sudden infant death.
•Develop resources and tools for professionals working with families to have meaningful conversations and support safer sleep messaging.
•Develop resources for professionals that translate evidence and research into good standards of practice.
•Review and update website text and social media messages on safer sleep in conjunction with the engagement team.
Proactively engage families with Lullaby Trust advice, responding to enquiries and ensuring anyone seeking advice is given a high-quality service in a timely way
•Manage the cover and answer information enquiries including helpline and online, on safer sleep responding within the set guidelines and KPIs for the department.
•Manage and facilitate the Young Parent Panel and New Families Panel in collaboration with other specialist organisations and charities; keeping in contact, recruiting new members, arranging meetings, focus groups and user testing and feedback on resources and activities.
•To be a representative for media work promoting safer sleep advice, including radio, tv, pre-recorded and live media.
•Work with other teams to reach more families including on projects focussing on high risk groups and under-represented families.
•Ensure any safeguarding concerns are actioned in accordance with the organisation’s Safeguarding Policy.
To manage and supervise the Support and Training Officer and the Training Development Officer
•To supervise and set priorities for the Support and Training Officer, following Lullaby Trust processes.
•To provide regular support and supervision to the Support and Training Officer.
•To attend regular meetings of the Lullaby Trust Management Team.
•Deputise for Support and Information Team when needed.
Any other work which relates to the Lullaby Trust’s strategic objectives
•To participate in training and events with colleagues on a regular basis.
•To work with the relevant departments in the organisation to deliver and implement the organisations strategy
•To keep abreast of external research on SIDS and related fields.
•Maintain knowledge of developments within health service provision and family social care to identify opportunities for improving support for families.
Safer sleep for babies, Support for families
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Head of Policy & Influencing is responsible for shaping and delivering the Foundation’s policy and influencing strategy within the Impact on Urban Health (IoUH) directorate. The role leads the development of parliamentary and government engagement strategies, ensuring a coordinated and impactful approach across multiple programme areas.
The Head of Policy & Influencing provides strategic oversight of all influencing work, guiding Policy & Influencing Managers and the Policy & Convening Manager, and advising colleagues on how to maximise policy impact. The role drives a unified urban health influencing strategy that aligns with the Foundation’s priorities and contributes to meaningful changes in policy.
The Head of Policy & Influencing builds and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders across government, the policy sector, and partner organisations, acting as a spokesperson and creating opportunities for collaboration. The role supports senior leadership with stakeholder engagement, oversees budgets and manages a team, while ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion are embedded in all influencing activity.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver our parliamentary and government engagement strategies across all our issue areas.
- Provide strategic oversight of programmatic influencing strategies developed by the Policy & Influencing Managers and Policy & Convening Manager, ensuring a coherent and complementary approach across all programmes.
- Lead on our cross-programme urban health influencing strategy.
- Provide high-level strategic advice to Heads of Programme and Portfolio Managers on programmatic influencing strategies and the development of influencing partnerships.
- Develop and maintain a broad range of stakeholder relationships, with a view to creating opportunities for us to partner on our influencing work and acting as a spokesperson for our work at external events.
- Support senior leadership with stakeholder engagement.
- Oversee budgets for our programmatic policy and influencing work.
- Deputise for the Director of Policy, Influencing & Communications as required.
- Line manage the Policy & Influencing Managers and Policy & Convening Manager.
- Bring a diversity, equity and inclusion lens to all our policy and influencing activity, and support cross-organisational work on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Role responsibilities are not exhaustive, and you would be reasonably expected to take on wider tasks that are commensurate with the level of your role.
Skills, abilities, and attributes
- Excellent interpersonal and networking skills at all levels.
- Enjoys working in places with a clear and ambitious mission, a matrix structure and ways of working that challenge the norm.
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications
- Significant experience working in public affairs and policy in a UK setting, with demonstrable impact on policy making in Westminster Parliament and/or the devolved administrations.
- Experience leading teams to deliver against impactful influencing strategies.
- Experience working across a broad policy brief, and the ability to develop expertise and familiarity with different policy areas quickly.
- Experience developing and managing budgets.
- In-depth understanding of the UK political environment and operation of Government.
- Expertise in public policy, ideally in issues relating to health equity or social justice.
Benefits
- Contributory pension
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
- Shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
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Head of Health Information and Support
Permanent
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 per annum, plus benefits
London N1
Full time – 37.5 hours a week
We're a hybrid working employer, meaning you're required to come into the office on average 2-3 days per week, currently Tuesday and Wednesday or Thursday
Closing date: 11.59pm, Mon 31 August 2026
First Interviews: 9/10/11 September 2026
Second interviews: 22/23 September 2026
An exciting opportunity for a Head of Health Information and Support has arisen at World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
World Cancer Research Fund champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can empower people to make informed lifestyle choices to reduce their cancer risk.
We are seeking an inspiring, strategic and collaborative leader to shape and deliver WCRF’s Health Information and Support strategy across three core audiences: the general public, health professionals and cancer survivors. The team turns WCRF’s scientific evidence on cancer prevention and survival into practical, accessible information, training and support based on our Cancer Prevention Recommendations. The postholder will lead and develop the team, ensuring its work is innovative, evidence-based, high quality and demonstrably effective.
Working across Science, Policy, Fundraising, Communications and Engagement, you will create new ways to share our health information, improve existing resources and services, and build impactful partnerships. You will ensure that public and patient insight shapes our work from cancer prevention to survivorship, strengthen programmes for health professionals and make effective use of digital channels. Responsibilities include contributing to our Medical Education programme, participating in working and steering groups and speaking at national conferences, networking at events, engaging corporate audiences and acting as a spokesperson in broadcast and print media. Ultimately, you will help establish WCRF as the go-to source of information and support on the links between cancer, nutrition and lifestyle.
The successful candidate will have a strong track record of implementing strategy, developing business and operational plans, and leading high-performing teams.
You will bring substantial experience in areas such as health information or education, working with healthcare professionals, UK health policy, health science or research, or marketing health information and services. You will be confident in measuring impact, managing budgets and using data to improve performance, with strong knowledge of non-communicable diseases and issues including nutrition, obesity, diet and physical activity. An excellent communicator and relationship-builder, you will be proactive, creative and results-focused, able to operate at senior management level and open to using digital, AI and other emerging tools to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
Application Details:
If you are interested in this role and feel you possess the necessary requirements, please submit a current CV and covering letter (maximum 2 pages) by the closing date. You must have current right to work in the UK.
Please note: Your cover letter should highlight how your skills and experience will benefit WCRF and equip you for the role.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are only able to provide feedback to shortlisted candidates. If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
WCRF is a UK cancer prevention charity. We look at how diet, weight and physical activity affect the risk of developing and surviving cancer.
Summary of some of the main duties for full details and how to apply visit the website link provided.
•Lead the development and delivery of integrated marketing campaigns across HOME’s full artistic, engagement and membership programme, working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners.
•Collaborate with the Head of Digital to plan and deliver integrated campaigns, ensuring messaging is consistent across digital and physical channels and guided by audience insight.
•Lead the development of campaign messaging and positioning, ensuring clear, consistent and compelling communications tailored to HOME’s target audiences across different artforms and initiatives.
•Partner with the Head of Digital to design and deliver multi-channel marketing campaigns across HOME’s entire programme, ensuring they meet or exceed income targets and contribute to audience growth.
•Work closely with the Head of Digital to apply audience insights and segmentation in campaign planning and creative delivery.
•Lead HOME’s media buying. Plan and manage out-of-home advertising strategies, ensuring creative alignment, timely delivery, precise targeting and budget control.
•Be the lead for HOME Communications, Manage HOME’s relationships with PR agencies and build successful relationships with media partners and influencers.
• Manage freelance marketers and designers – briefing, negotiating and overseeing delivery.
•Collaborate with visiting companies, artists, producers, funders and distributors to maximise shared marketing opportunities and ensure strong promotional presence.
Team: Marketing and Communications
Reports to: Director of Audiences
Responsible for: 3 People
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About Us
We Are Survivors is a survivor-focused voluntary sector organisation that aims to create and facilitate safe spaces for male (including trans and non-binary individuals) survivors of sexual harms across Greater Manchester, providing access to quality-assured support. Our work is focused on developing ways for individuals to empower themselves to work through personal and sometimes painful issues, guided and supported by our trauma-informed team, following the trauma and recovery model.
Our vision is to have “A society where NO male survivor is left behind”
About the Roles
At We Are Survivors, every role exists for one reason: to support male survivors of sexual harms and the people who stand alongside them. While each position has a different focus, they all contribute to providing safe, effective and trauma-informed services that help survivors and their loved ones move forward.
Head of Support and Advocacy
The Head of Support and Advocacy provides operational leadership across We Are Survivors’ support and advocacy services. Working closely with the Service Director, Operations Director and Executive Team, the role ensures services are effective, well governed and meet the needs of survivors and their loved ones. This includes overseeing our trauma-informed, survivor-centred approach; monitoring service performance; safeguarding and record-keeping; and ensuring contractual commitments and quality standards are met. The role also represents the organisation in external partnerships and helps shape services in response to changes in policy, evidence and the needs of people with lived experience.
About You
Head of Support and Advocacy
You’ll be an experienced operational or clinical leader who is comfortable overseeing services that work with trauma, mental health and complex needs. You’ll understand how to balance compassionate, survivor-centred practice with effective governance, safeguarding, quality assurance and contractual performance. Experience of working with men, sexual harms or people with lived experience would be valuable, alongside the ability to build strong relationships with staff, partners and stakeholders. Most importantly, you’ll be someone who can lead with clarity, curiosity and care while helping services continue to learn and improve.
Why Join Us?
· a competitive salary.
· annual leave package with incremental rises plus bank holidays.
· company sick pay.
· Birthday annual leave.
· monthly clinical supervision.
· pension contribution.
· and a range of discount and benefit programmes.
Apply by sending your CV and a short supporting statement (max 2 pages)
In your supporting statement, we want you to answer these two questions:
• How can your experience support male survivors to thrive?
• How do you meet the role profile? Ensure you answer ALL elements in your CV or supporting statement.
Interviews are expected to take place towards the end of September.
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About the role:
We are seeking a Communications and Engagement Officer to support our Policy and Public Affairs team and lead on engaging with our members. You will be the main point of contact for our members and support our Policy team to mobilise the collective voice of our membership to influence public policy and drive long-lasting, systemic change. The successful candidate will be competent in digital technology, have a passion for human rights, equality and social justice, some experience or knowledge of public policy and/or human rights and equality frameworks, and strong interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
This is a varied role that would suit a candidate with a broad range of skills and interests. Each day is likely to be different and might include drafting communications material, supporting a submission to a government consultation or arranging and servicing member meetings.
About the organisation:
Equally Ours (previously the Equality and Diversity Forum) is a UK charity that brings together people and organisations working across equality, human rights and social justice to make a reality of these in everyone’s lives.
Through its members and networks, Equally Ours joins up research, policy and communications to shift public opinion and policy in positive and powerful ways. This is an exciting and pivotal time for us. Our 10-year strategy, Together for social justice, sets out our bold agenda to increase equality and strengthen rights at scale in the areas of law, climate and investment.
Our policy work supports our membership of networks, communities and grassroots groups across the UK to influence public policy and decision-making.
We are a small team, which means you will have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues across the organisation and gain experience of a wide range of activities involved in running a small membership charity. You will support different aspects of our day-to-day work and have opportunities to learn from colleagues with expertise across policy, public affairs, engagement, operations, finance and programme delivery. You can find out more about our team on the 'about us' page of our website.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Membership engagement
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Support potential new members through our member application process, prepare applications for review by the board
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Arrange inductions with new members, including arranging induction meetings between senior staff and CEOs
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Organise regular members’ meetings, contacting and liaising with speakers from across our membership and research networks, as well as parliamentarians and other policy-makers.
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Ensure all our methods of engagement (meetings, events, comms, web content, etc) are accessible, liaising with participants, suppliers, venues, etc to ensure that access needs are met
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Maintain our member and research network contact lists and support the Head of Policy and Engagement in maintaining contact lists for parliamentary contacts, using Mailchimp
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Take ownership of longer-term projects to support and improve our membership engagement offer
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Use membership engagement to support the wider team in its long-term efforts to protect the equality and human rights legal framework
Communications and Engagement
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Draft and send member updates regularly, informing our members about opportunities for collaboration, and upcoming meetings and events
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Draft and send newsletters to our audience of 5,000, providing updates on the work of our membership as well as news and updates from government and public bodies
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Draft and schedule LinkedIn and other social media posts to share information about our work and that of our members.
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Update and manage the website with any relevant news or information.
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Monitor and report on engagement levels with our newsletters, member updates, social and web content, suggesting areas for improvement.
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Use communications tools and techniques to mobilise support for the protection of the equality and human rights legal framework.
Policy and team support
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Organise meetings and events; including timelines, sending invites and reminders, speaker liaison, logistics and planning.
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Draft meeting agendas and send along with any supporting documentation in advance of any meetings.
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Take the minutes at various meetings, summarise for distribution, and follow up on any actions.
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Monitor and report on the attendance levels of our members’ meetings, working group meetings and events.
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Draft and administer satisfaction and impact surveys, and report on the results.
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Support the wider team to conduct its policy influencing work for example, through government consultations and correspondence with policy makers.
Person Specification (Essential Skills and Experience):
Communication skills:
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Very strong oral and written communication skills, coupled with an ability to communicate with tact and diplomacy.
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An ability to quickly adapt to our unique tone of voice in your communications, ensuring that your language and tone are accessible and sensitive to the topics being written about.
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A willingness to understand and adopt a human rights-based approach in your language, understanding the power of words and how they might uplift or diminish people.
Organisational skills:
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Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
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Strong attention to detail whilst maintaining the ability to work quickly and responsively.
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Demonstrable experience of using platforms such as Eventbrite and Microsoft Teams to manage large meetings and online events, and Microsoft SharePoint for file management.
Interpersonal skills:
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The ability to liaise and engage with people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and create and sustain positive, collaborative relationships.
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High levels of emotional intelligence and resilience including an ability to hold and manage difficult feelings and conversations with tact and sensitivity.
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Understanding and ability to manage how privilege and inequality can impact in the workplace for yourself, colleagues and external stakeholders.
Professional skills and experience:
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Equality and Human Rights: a passion for human rights, equality and social justice and a drive to support systems change in order to support communities and people who experience disadvantage and discrimination.
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Content creation and management: experience of drafting engaging content for a range of audiences and through a range of channels, using Wordpress, Mailchimp, and Canva.
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Experience in or strong understanding of accessibility and inclusion; ensuring that communications and events are accessible to people with a range of conditions.
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Confidentiality and safeguarding: A good understanding of GDPR principles, ensuring people’s privacy is protected where necessary, and experience of or ability to work within our safeguarding policy.
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An understanding of, or a willingness to learn about, how public policy is developed in the UK and the importance of civic engagement in building public policy and legislation
Personal qualities
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Initiative and growth mindset: the ability to identify and act on opportunities.
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A flexible and collaborative approach, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and support a range of projects in response to organisational needs.
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Commitment to embed anti-racism across all aspects of our work.
Please read the full application pack attached before applying. You must be signed into your CharityJob candidate account to access and view this document.
Please note we will only accept applications that include a cover letter.
Application Instructions
Please submit a CV and cover letter (max 2 pages) explaining your interest in this role by 11pm on 11 September. Ensure that you address all the criteria, providing sufficient relevant evidence, including examples, to show how your skills and experience match those required in the person specification.
If you would like to apply under the guaranteed interview scheme, please review the criteria on the last page of the job pack, and then contact us so we can provide further details.
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We’re currently looking to welcome a new Communications and Campaigns Officer to join our team at the Society of Authors (SoA) which is the UK's largest trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators. We’ve been advising authors and speaking out for the profession since 1884.
Role overview
To support and deliver the internal and external communications and campaigns with the goal of enhancing the SoA’s profile, engage stakeholders, and promote key initiatives. The successful candidate will have at least two years’ experience in content creation, media and policy monitoring, digital marketing, and multimedia communications across a range of channels, including newsletters and social media. Objectives • Help to ensure consistent, high-quality communications and campaigns across all channels. • Provide support for brand visibility and audience engagement through digital marketing. • Provide support for delivering content via The Author magazine and outgoing mailers. • Support organisational campaigns, events, and key initiatives. • Monitor media coverage and policy developments, and evaluates website and communications performance.
Key responsibilities
• Media monitoring and reporting: monitor media for relevant coverage and compile regular media reports and summaries, maintaining media contact lists and databases.
• The Author magazine and mailers: liaise with The Author magazine production team, contributors and internal departments, support with the production schedules and deadlines. Oversee the administration and invoicing for The Author advertising and subscribers. Support with distribution and performance tracking (e.g. open rates, click through rates). Provide support for development of membership mailouts including proofing.
• Digital marketing and social media: contribute to the development of digital marketing campaigns across platforms – create and schedule engaging content, monitor engagement metrics and optimise content performance.
• Design and visual communication: produce basic graphics for digital and print (e.g. social posts, newsletters, flyers, banners). Support with the layout and visual design of newsletters and publications. Work with approved templates and design tools (e.g. Canva, Adobe suite basics).
• Video and multimedia production: create and edit short-form video content for social media, newsletters, and website. Support with the filming of events, interviews, or promotional material for SoA events and campaigns. Add captions, branding, and basic effects to videos.
• Event promotion: support the Events and Engagement team with the communications and digital marketing plans for events, supporting with the creation of promotional materials (digital and print), proof events copy, ensure visibility of promotion on our website.
• Website: contribute to the content management of the SoA and Human Authored websites, updating content and posts as needed.
Role specification
Essential skills and competencies
• Two years’ experience creating engaging digital content for different audiences
• Good graphic design skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Social media management and content planning experience
• Media monitoring and reporting experience
• Familiarity with email marketing platforms (e.g. Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor or similar)
• Experience with social media platforms (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn)
• Experience with design tools (e.g. Canva, Adobe InDesign/Photoshop basics)
• Video filming and editing skills (e.g. Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar)
• Use of scheduling and analytics tools (e.g. Hootsuite, Buffer, Google Analytics)
Desirable skills
• Experience working for a membership/not-for-profit organisation
• Experience managing publications or organisational magazines
• Understanding of branding and communications strategy
• Photography skills
• Knowledge of Search Engine Optimisation and digital content optimisation
• Experience with audience segmentation and database systems
What we offer
As a progressive and ethical not-for-profit organisation, we offer a range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
We are a London Living Wage and a Disability Confident – Committed employer.
Benefits include:
• Competitive salary
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• Death-in-service benefit (8 x salary)
• Employee assistance programme
• Flexible, hybrid working practices.
• Family-friendly, disability-confident inclusive culture
• Generous annual leave, including all bank holidays.
• Salary exchange pension scheme
• Interest-free annual travel card loan
• *Office closure over Christmas
• Private healthcare
*Colleagues can work over the Christmas period, although the building is closed. For those who wish to take additional time off, colleagues take these days from their annual leave allowance.
Flexible Working
As an employer, we nurture a working environment in which staff can grow and develop. We recognise the value of flexibility in the way we work with a positive culture of hybrid working practices.
Inclusion
Inclusion, diversity, and representation are at the core of our values, and we work to tackle structural discrimination and prejudice. Part of this commitment means that we are looking to increase diversity in our 3 organisation at all levels. We strongly encourage applications from a broad range of social, cultural, educational, and underrepresented backgrounds.
To apply, please send your CV and a personal statement as a single document (max. 3 x A4
pages)
Empowering authors since 1884. We have been advising individuals and speaking out for the profession for more than a century.
Help us achieve our vision that fewer people die by suicide.
We're looking for an experienced and commercially minded finance leader to join Samaritans as our Head of Financial Planning & Analysis. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in supporting strategic decision-making across the organisation, leading financial planning, forecasting and reporting, while helping ensure we can continue delivering our life-saving work.
Reporting to the Executive Director of Corporate Services and working closely with senior leaders across the charity, you'll provide expert financial insight, lead a high-performing team, and drive innovation and continuous improvement across our finance function.
Contract terms:
- £75,000 (FTE) per annum, plus benefits
- Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
- 35 hours per week (full time)
- We are passionate about flexible working, talk to us about your preferences
- Hybrid, linked to our Ewell (Surrey) office
- We value meeting in person and working collaboratively. Finance team members are encouraged work from the office one day per week.
- 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro-rata)
What you'll be doing:
As Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, you'll lead our FP&A team and oversee the organisation's financial planning cycle, management reporting, forecasting and financial modelling activities. You'll be a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, providing commercial insight and helping leaders make informed decisions that support our strategic objectives.
You'll also be a member of the Senior Leadership Group, contributing to organisational planning and helping shape the future direction of the finance function. Alongside your strategic responsibilities, you'll oversee both the Management Accounts and Accounts Payable & Receivable functions, ensuring robust financial reporting, controls and processes are in place.
Key responsibilities
- Leading the organisation's budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes.
- Providing strategic financial insight and partnering with senior leaders to support decision-making.
- Delivering financial modelling, scenario analysis and business case support for key projects and initiatives.
- Overseeing management reporting and ensuring accurate, timely financial information across the organisation.
- Leading and developing a high-performing finance team, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Driving financial capability, commercial awareness and strong financial management across the business.
- Supporting Board, Finance Committee and senior leadership reporting through clear, insightful analysis.
- Ensuring robust financial controls, processes and systems that support organisational effectiveness.
What you’ll bring:
Essential
- A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience.
- Extensive experience across financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial modelling.
- Proven experience leading organisation-wide budget-setting and financial planning processes.
- Strong leadership skills with experience developing and motivating high-performing teams.
- The ability to engage, influence and challenge senior stakeholders through clear, evidence-based financial insight.
- Excellent analytical and commercial awareness, with confidence interpreting complex financial data and translating it into meaningful recommendations.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience using financial planning and reporting systems.
- Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively across a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable
- Experience within the charity or not-for-profit sector
- Knowledge of VAT, Corporation Tax, procurement or project management
For full details, please see the Job Description and Person Specification
Why Samaritans?
At Samaritans, you’ll join a values-led organisation with a powerful mission. You’ll be part of a collaborative and supportive team where your voice matters, your expertise makes a difference, and your work helps save lives.
We offer flexible hybrid working, great benefits, and the chance to make a tangible difference in suicide prevention across the UK and Ireland. To find out more about Samaritans, please read our recruitment brochure.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the people we support and who support us. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels seen, heard and supported, at all levels of the organisation.
Apply now
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, we’d love for you to apply. You will be asked to answer some short application questions and to upload your CV and cover letter addressing key points in the job description.
If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know.
Applications close: midnight on 1st September 2026
1st stage interviews (online): w/c 14th September
2nd stage interviews (in person): tbc
At Samaritans, human connection is at the heart of everything we do.
We do not use AI at any stage during the selection process. Your application will always be carefully reviewed by the recruiting manager or a member of the Talent Attraction Team.
We kindly ask that you avoid using AI tools to generate your application or interview answers. We want to hear your own ideas, insights, and writing style so your unique strengths can shine through. We recognise that some candidates may use assistive technology or tools to help with accessibility, structure or grammar.
We prevent suicide through the power of human connection. Connecting people in crisis with trained volunteers who will always listen.



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The Head of Public Fundraising is a new role at Coeliac UK leading the charity’s public fundraising function. The role focusses on driving sustainable growth across individual giving, community fundraising, events, lottery, raffle, digital fundraising and merchandise. This role is responsible for delivering Coeliac UK’s 5-year fundraising strategy to maximise return-on-investment, grow long term supporter value, and contribute to the charity’s mission.
The Head of Public Fundraising will embed and deliver comprehensive fundraising strategies, growing Coeliac UK’s supporter base and income, building up new and under-developed income streams and communicating effectively with their audiences to expand their reach, and encourage financial and non-financial support to deliver the organisations mission.
Who are we looking for?
Key to the success of this role is a strong understanding of individual giving fundraising. This role blends the strategic oversight and leadership of a Head of role across multiple income streams, with the hands-on expertise of an IG fundraiser. Experience across other income streams and areas of fundraising delivery would be a huge benefit as the role leads community fundraising and events, will take on digital fundraising - currently led by the Chief Engagement Officer, as well as manage the data and supporter care functions, but experience in individual giving is essential as Coeliac UK has defined that as an area of priority income. To progress to a screening call with THINK Recruitment, your CV must demonstrate evidence of delivering individual giving income in a UK charity environment.
The successful candidate for this role will be someone who has already operated at a senior level within a charity such as at Senior Manager level, or Head of in a specific income stream.
Hybrid working
The role has a hybrid expectation of a minimum of a day a week in the High Wycombe office (HP11 2QW) to build relationships and provide support to the fundraising team, and there will be flexibility required for other in person meetings and events. However, Coeliac UK are keen to secure the very best candidate, if the hybrid expectation presents challenge for you but you otherwise meet the requirements of the role, please do get in touch with THINK to discuss.
Application notes
Please download the Candidate Info Pack provided for further information about the role, timelines and next steps.
To progress your application, please contact THINK Recruitment to organise an informal screening call. Please note, we cannot shortlist candidates who have not had a screening call so please allow enough time to have a call before the closing date. You will be provided with information on how to complete your full application on the call.
If you need assistance with downloading the pack or any reasonable adjustments to ensure you can engage with the selection process, please contact THINK Recruitment and our team will support you.
Closing date for expressions of interest: Midday Friday 21st August
Closing date for full applications: Midnight Sunday 23rd August
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Suzy Lamplugh Trust
Hybrid (40% office-based)
Full-time (35 hours)
Permanent
£47,124
Start: ASAP
Lead and shape services supporting victims of stalking and abuse
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust is seeking a Head of Operations to provide strategic leadership across our services, ensuring they are safe, effective, compliant, and sustainable.
This is a senior leadership role, responsible for overseeing service performance, infrastructure, and delivery at an organisational level. You will play a key role in shaping strategy, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring our services meet the needs of victims and funders alike.
About the role
You will:
- Provide strategic and operational leadership across all services, ensuring high-quality and compliant delivery
- Lead on organisational performance, including KPIs, quality standards, and reporting frameworks
- Oversee contract and grant delivery, ensuring all obligations and compliance requirements are met
- Hold senior relationships with commissioners, funders, and external stakeholders
- Lead service development, mobilisation of new contracts, and organisational change
- Ensure effective systems, infrastructure, and processes are in place to support delivery
- Provide leadership across safeguarding, risk, and organisational compliance
- Work as part of the Senior Management Team to shape and deliver organisational strategy
This role focuses on service infrastructure, performance, and strategic oversight, rather than direct frontline management
About you
You will be an experienced senior leader with a strong track record in operational and strategic service delivery within a safeguarding or related environment.
You will have:
- Significant experience leading multiple frontline services within a safeguarding or VAWG-related sector
- Experience operating at senior leadership level, contributing to organisational strategy
- Strong experience of performance management, KPIs, and quality assurance frameworks
- Experience managing statutory contracts or grant-funded services
- Proven ability to lead organisational change, service mobilisation, or transformation
- Strong understanding of safeguarding, compliance, and information governance
- Experience working with commissioners and senior external stakeholders
Desirable:
- Experience within stalking, domestic abuse, or VAWG services
- Experience in a charity or commissioned service environment
- Experience in organisational restructuring, service redesign, or systems implementation
Why join us
- Lead and shape services that support victims of stalking and abuse
- Join a collaborative and mission-driven senior leadership team
- Play a critical role in organisational strategy, growth and impact
How to apply
Please submit your CV and a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria detailed within the person specification.
Applications will not be considered without a supporting statement
Additional information
- This is a senior leadership role reporting to the CEO
- Initially office-based (London) for 3 months to support a meaningful induction, moving to a blended working model (40% office / 60% home)
To reduce the risk and prevalence of abuse, aggression and violence - with a specific focus on stalking and harassment

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Are you a talented storyteller, digital communicator, and community builder looking for a role with real purpose? St Marylebone Parish Church is seeking a creative and proactive Communications & Engagement Officer to help shape the voice and presence of one of London's most historic and vibrant parish churches. In this dynamic role, you'll lead engaging communications across digital, print, media, and events, promoting worship, music, outreach initiatives, and community activities that make a meaningful difference in people's lives.
Working at the heart of a thriving church community, you'll have the opportunity to create inspiring content, build relationships with diverse audiences, develop impactful marketing campaigns, and help strengthen connections with congregation members, local residents, visitors, businesses, and community partners. No two days will be the same, offering a rewarding blend of communications, engagement, events, and operational support.
If you're an organised and enthusiastic communicator with a passion for building communities and telling compelling stories, this is your chance to use your skills in a role where your work will have a visible and lasting impact. Join St Marylebone Parish Church and help bring our mission, values, and community outreach to a wider audience.
We are a large Parish Church in central London, a community from all over the world and of all ages, journeying together in faith, hope and love.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Your Mission
CALM has launched an ambitious fundraising growth strategy, and this brand-new, high-impact role is positioned right at the heart.
- You’ll join a growing team, fresh off its biggest fundraising year to date.
- You’ll lead the strategy for how CALM recruits, stewards and retains mass donors, with responsibility for one-off giving, regular giving and the development of other mass market products.
- You’ll establish and scale a supporter engagement programme that grows both connection to CALM and sustainable income for our work.
- You’ll bring together data, insight, communications and fundraising to create supporter experiences that recognise why people choose to support CALM, and give them reasons to stay involved.
We’re looking for someone who can combine strategic thinking with practical experience. As a new role within a high-performing team, you’ll have the autonomy to shape how CALM approaches mass supporter engagement.
Responsibilities
- Develop, execute, and own CALM’s overarching Supporter Engagement strategy, taking responsibility for targets, performance metrics, and budgets to scale mass donor income.
- Oversee the end-to-end recruitment, stewardship, and optimisation of the Individual Giving portfolio, maximising the LTV across one-off donations, regular giving, and other products within the portfolio.
- Lead the continuous development of new, audience-focused fundraising products and giving methods for a mass giving audience, to build and secure a predictable baseline of recurring income for the organisation.
- Champion the use of supporter data to design, deploy, and optimise automated, multi-channel communications, ensuring mass audiences receive highly personalised, relevant, and meaningful touchpoints.
- Work collaboratively across all fundraising functions and wider CALM teams to deploy products and communication tools holistically, ensuring donor experiences reflect true supporter needs rather than internal processes or structures.
- Pioneer the department's approach to gathering robust supporter data and audience insights.
- Maintain awareness of industry trends and best practice, with a view to use these to increase CALM’s income
- Working with the Head of Public Fundraising, and direct reports to; set, manage and deliver against budgets, reporting on OKR’s, performance and reforecasting accordingly.
- Attending CALM events to help provide a great experience for all attendees
- Leadership and line management of team members, supporting them to achieve their objectives and creating a high-performing team.
Your profile
Competencies
Essential
- Proven track record of driving significant income growth through developing and executing multi-channel mass donor strategies (across regular giving, one off giving) whilst maximising Supporter Lifetime Value (LTV).
- Experience of using CRM segmentation, audience insights, and automated marketing tools to deliver personalised, high-volume communications that treat mass supporters as individuals.
- Expertise in mapping, testing, and optimising end-to-end supporter journeys, removing operational friction, and building retention
- Strong track record of driving collaboration across wider departmental functions (such as Brand, Communication and Digital) to deliver cohesive, integrated public-facing acquisition campaigns.
- Experience managing income and expenditure budgets, setting performance metrics/OKRs, and executing detailed financial reforecasting to demonstrate clear return on investment (ROI).
- Demonstrated ability to line manage, coach, and motivate a multidisciplinary team to foster a high-performing, supportive team culture.
Desirable
- Proven experience designing, testing, and scaling innovative fundraising products or concepts to secure recurring, predictable revenue streams.
Why work for us?
Reports to: Head of Public Fundraising
Contract: Permenant
Benefits: Unlimited annual leave, Healthcare cash plan, 6% pension contribution, therapeutic services (after completion of probation), hybrid working & nine day fortnight
Based: London Waterloo twice a week (Wednesdays and Thursdays) / Remote Working (Mon, Tues & Fri), 9.30am - 5.30pm.
Salary: £50k - £55k per annum (for employees) . We benchmark our salaries to ensure our pay structure remains fair, transparent, and equitable for everyone in our team.
A work environment that values creativity, personal growth and collaboration.
Applications will close on Sunday 6th September and are reviewed on a rolling basis; we encourage interested candidates to apply early.
We are aiming to conduct first round interviews on 9th/10th September and second round interviews on 16th/17th September.
About us
We’re Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), and we’re united against suicide.
We’re a suicide prevention charity, on a mission to help people end their misery, not their lives. We run stigma-smashing campaigns, offer loads of digital tools and resources, and run a life-saving helpline - all designed to help people find hope and a way forward. We are - united against suicide.
Don't meet every requirement? We’re still interested.
Research shows that people from marginalised groups – including women, LGBTQ+ people, people from global majority backgrounds, disabled people, and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds – are less likely to apply for a role unless they meet the full criteria. At CALM, we know that skills and potential come in many forms, and that diverse perspectives and lived experience of mental health or suicide can be just as valuable as formal qualifications.
If you're passionate about our mission but your experience doesn't tick every box, we'd still love to hear from you. You could be exactly who we're looking for.
Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk, both offline and online. We recognise that harm can occur in physical, digital, and virtual environments, and we take our safeguarding responsibilities seriously across all areas of our work.
To help people end their misery, not their lives.
