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About Us
Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Our mission is to transform the lives of people living in extreme poverty. We work with 25 million people each year, in some of the hardest to reach and most fragile places. Places prone to conflict, natural disasters, climate change and extreme hunger. When an emergency strikes, we are among the first on the ground. We use our voice to bring the stories of extreme poverty to world leaders.
Benefits
• 25 days’ annual leave, pro-rated for part-time employees
• Annual leave purchase scheme
• Enhanced parental leave pay
• Stakeholder pension
• Cycle scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Details of our benefits could be found on our website.
About the role
To manage all aspects of the shop, including recruiting and leading the volunteer team in order to maximise the income generated for Concern’s work.
Our new shop in Derry City is a thriving, busy hub that represents the future of charity retail - a modern, vibrant space that has brought new energy to Castle Street since opening in June. As a dynamic addition to the high street, it showcases how charity retail can inspire communities while supporting Concern's life-saving work.
You will be instrumental in making sure the shop is at the hub of the local community, ensuring a steady flow of donations and acting as the face of Concern Worldwide and raising public awareness of our campaigns.
You will lead by example and be confident working within a fast-paced retail environment. You will contribute towards the success of the shop by:
- Ensuring a high standard of customer service
- Achieving targets to maximise income
- Maintaining a high standard of creative visual merchandising
- Actively recruit volunteers and establish the shop in the local community
- Generate stock to fill the shop
About you
As Shop Manager, you will have the opportunity to be part of a small, but dedicated and successful retail team. You will be a highly motivated self-starter who takes full ownership of your role. You will lead and motivate your shop volunteers in maximising the fundraising income for the shop. It will be your chance to demonstrate and further develop your existing strong commercial awareness, relationship management, sales and customer service skills.
This is an exciting time for you to join Concern Worldwide (NI) as we seek to engage more with local communities and increase support for our work in tackling hunger and transforming lives in some of the poorest places in the world.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Concern Worldwide encourages all qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality.
Concern Charity Retail in Northern Ireland
Concern Worldwide operates a growing retail network of eight shops across Northern Ireland, each playing an important role in supporting our work to end extreme poverty. Our portfolio currently includes two specialist bookshops located in Derry and Holywood, alongside five established charity shops in Ballycastle, Newcastle and across Belfast on the Lisburn Road, Antrim Road and Ormeau Road.
CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT
It is the nature of this post that weekend working (Saturday) and occasional additional seasonal hours are part of the normal working week. Working hours will also involve some evening work to meet the needs of the post. Due to the nature of this role, flexibility is required.
We are happy to consider candidates interested in either part-time (28 hours per week) or full-time (35 hours per week). Flexibility required.
Appointment will be subject to a six-month probationary period
If you require a paper application form, please contact us.
Salary: £25,907 - £28,786 full time - based on full time, 35 hours per week.
New employees typically start at the beginning of their pay band.
Deadline: 26th July 2026.
Due to the urgency of filling this position, Concern reserves the right to close the recruitment activity earlier if we have received applications, which match the role. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid a potentially earlier closing date.
The successful post holder will be required to complete a Basic AccessNI check and sign a criminal records self-declaration form.
Having a criminal record will not necessarily debar you from working with Concern Worldwide (NI). This will depend on the nature of the position, together with the circumstances and background of your offences.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Talent Acquisition Partner (Permanent)
Manchester, United Kingdom
Starting salary £41,628 - £47,100
About MAG:
MAG (Mines Advisory Group) is an international humanitarian organisation based in Manchester, UK, and working in 32 countries. We remove landmines and unexploded ordnance to release safe and productive land for communities, and work to reduce the threat of armed violence by supporting governments to safely manage weapons and ammunition. In 1997, MAG was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for our work campaigning for the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.
About the role:
Reporting to the Head of Talent, you will manage the operational delivery of MAG’s external and internal talent acquisition processes including recruitment, promotion, and deployment, managing day to day hiring activity and ensuring fair, timely and inclusive processes.
You will provide operational guidance to the Recruitment Officers, support hiring managers throughout the recruitment cycle, and manage the effective operational use of our applicant tracking system. You will build talent pipelines, produce recruitment data and reporting, and work closely with HR Managers to ensure smooth onboarding and strong workforce planning. The role is central to improving the candidate experience and strengthening MAG’s overall talent acquisition capability.
Job Purpose:
The Talent Acquisition Partner manage the operational delivery of MAG’s external and internal talent acquisition processes including recruitment, promotion, and deployment, managing day to day hiring activity and ensuring fair, timely and inclusive processes.
The role provides operational guidance to the Recruitment Officers, supports hiring managers throughout the recruitment cycle, and manages the effective operational use of our applicant tracking system. The Talent Acquisition Partner builds talent pipelines, produces recruitment data and reporting, and works closely with HR Managers to ensure smooth onboarding and strong workforce planning. The role is central to improving the candidate experience and strengthening MAG’s overall talent acquisition capability.
Job Description
Recruitment Delivery and Coordination with HR Managers
- Ensuring adherence to best practice recruitment and EDI policies and principles, operate as a strategic partner to the business, providing best practice advice and guidance on recruitment and selection.
- Lead end to end recruitment for your allocated roles, working closely with hiring managers to understand their needs and design fair, ensuring inclusive and efficient selection processes.
- Undertake evidence-based approaches to longlist candidates, develop interview and assessment materials, and support panels to make consistent and transparent hiring decisions.
- Take part in interviews and facilitate panel discussions to ensure consistency and alignment with best practice.
- Provide HR managers with regular updates, managing timelines, risks, and expectations throughout the process.
- Under direction of Head of Talent, support internal movement, promoting opportunities through internal channels, supporting in implementing succession plans and retention strategies.
Team Leadership and Workflow Coordination
- Manage and motivate two Recruitment Officers to perform to a high standard to deliver high quality recruitment support across the organisation, helping them prioritise work, strengthen their skills.
- Conduct appraisal meetings in line with MAG policy, agreeing and reviewing progress towards individual targets on a regular basis.
- Coordinate workloads across the team to ensure recruitment activity flows smoothly and deadlines are met.
- Work towards creating a collaborative, supportive, and high achieving team culture.
Systems, Data and Continuous Improvement
- Lead the effective operational use of our applicant tracking system, ensuring that workflows, templates, and data are accurate and support strong decision making.
- Support the Head of Talent with recruitment metrics, providing insights on performance, diversity, and candidate experience to inform strategic decision making.
- Collaborate with the Head of Talent to identify system improvements and support their implementation.
- Safeguard the accuracy and integrity of recruitment data, ensuring adherence to compliance, safeguarding and privacy standards.
Talent Pipelines and Market Engagement
- Build and maintain talent pools for recurring or hard to fill roles, engaging proactively with potential candidates.
- Maintain accurate talent pipelines within the ATS for future recruitment campaigns.
- Monitor developments in labour markets, sourcing channels and recruitment trends to inform planning
HR Operational Support and Administration
- Review new starters, internal moves, and programme changes as required.
- Review offer documentation for accuracy and consistency.
- Oversee background checking processes, ensuring timely follow up and accurate handover to HR Operations.
- Check that all candidate documentation and approvals within the selection and deployment process are consistent, accurate and compliant.
- Update payroll change spreadsheets and collaborate with HR Operations to ensure data accuracy.
- Ensure new starter information is complete and submitted within required timelines.
Collaboration with other Centres of Excellence
- Work closely with HR Operations to ensure new starters are onboarded smoothly, with accurate documentation and timely handovers.
- Work with Safeguarding to ensure that MAG’s safe recruitment principles are integrated into recruitment processes and used in practice.
- Partner with HR Managers to understand programme needs, plan for upcoming vacancies and align recruitment with organisational priorities.
- Contribute to developing tools, guidance and training that will help managers to recruit confidently and consistently.
All staff are expected to undertake the following general duties:
- Work within the framework of MAG’s core values, promoting its ethos and mission statement.
- Work towards achieving programme and/or department business plan objectives.
- Ensure familiarity with and adhere to all MAG policies and procedures and keep informed of MAG activities.
- Undertake and apply learning from appropriate training and development programmes.
- Occasionally required to travel internationally, sometimes to developing countries and areas in conflict.
- Undertake the role in a manner appropriate to the cultural context and within the local legal framework.
- Understand and uphold the standards outlined in MAG’s Safeguarding Framework, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with MAG’s work and reporting concerns if they do arise.
Requirements
About you:
You will have strong experience leading a talent acquisition team to deliver end-to-end recruitment in an international or multi-site context. Confident using applicant tracking systems and recruitment technologies, you bring experience in direct sourcing and building talent pipelines for hard-to-fill roles. A collaborative and credible partner, you work effectively with stakeholders across the organisation and closely with HR operational teams.
You are proactive, adaptable, and comfortable working at pace, with the ability to balance competing priorities while maintaining sound judgement. You bring creativity and a continuous improvement mindset to recruitment practice, with a commitment to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring.
Essential Experience
- Experience leading and supporting a talent acquisition team to deliver end-to-end recruitment support in an international context or multi-site organization.
- Proficient use of applicant tracking systems (ATS) and other recruitment technologies.
- Experience in direct sourcing, market mapping or talent pooling activities for hard to fill roles.
- Experience in collating HR data and developing periodic reports.
- Experience collaborating with HR Operations, payroll or administrative teams.
Essential Skills and Knowledge
- Strong understanding of best practice talent acquisition, and an ability to contextualise this to meet organisational needs
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of an organisation
- Demonstrated creativity to improve Talent Acquisition efficiencies, talent sourcing methodologies, and employer branding principles.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing deadlines and high-volume workloads.
- Ability to manage, motivate and develop a team
Essential Aptitude
- Proactive attitude to change with the ability to recommend improvements to process and practice, leading through to implementation.
- Demonstrated creativity and passion for talent sourcing methodologies, and employer branding principles.
- Proactive, collaborative, and adaptable in an evolving environment.
- Ability to work at pace and with a range of competing demands whilst maintaining excellent judgement
Desirable
- Experience using Workable ATS
- Experience in monitoring and reporting recruitment/EDI KPIs.
- Demonstrable understanding of optimising stakeholder experience and employer brand strengthening
- Experience of using an Employer of Record Service and/or dealing with employment for non-UK remote employees
We are happy to receive flexible working and job share requests in your application. If you are applying with an existing job share partner please see the candidate information sheet for further guidance.
Benefits
Remuneration
The starting salary will be £41,628, based on a 37.5 hour working week. MAG has a system of incremental pay increases, up to a limit, based on length of service in the role. Further information will be provided to the successful candidate.
Closing Date: 21st July 2026 - Midday
Interviews: 30 - 31 July 2026
(Previous applicants to this role will not be considered)
Please note that as part of MAG's commitment to safeguarding, this post is subject to background checks before an offer of employment is confirmed. For more information on MAG’s approach to safeguarding and background checks on our website.
MAG is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. If you think you would be suited to one of our roles we would welcome your application regardless of your background. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive working environment where all employees feel respected and supported in fulfilling their potential.
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We do whatever it takes to get to a landmine before another child does.
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About Saferworld
Saferworld is an independent international organisation working in partnership with civil society to prevent violent conflict and build safer lives. We work in solidarity with people affected by conflict to improve their safety and sense of security, and we build conditions for peace and justice. We also support analysis and learning to influence local, national and international policies and practices that help foster lasting peace and justice. Our priority is people – we believe in a world where everyone can lead peaceful, fulfilling lives free from fear and insecurity. We operate on a not-for-profit basis with partners in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with nine offices across those regions and offices in the UK, USA and Belgium.
Saferworld is committed to providing a safe, trusted environment that safeguards our staff, partners and communities. Our organisational integrity is derived from the values and principles that underpin and guide our work.
We are seeking a strategic and inspiring Head of Funding and Programme Development with a proven ability to lead, motivate, and mobilise resources in a values-driven environment. This role calls for a leader who is deeply committed to equitable partnerships with communities and organisations in conflict-affected settings, guiding teams to raise resources effectively while advancing peace and justice outcomes. Grounded in a people-centred vision of change, you will foster collaboration, champion locally-led approaches, and steer efforts toward resourcing sustainable, community-driven, and collective visions of peace.
About the role
- The Head of Funding and Programme Development will shape Saferworld’s income profile in alignment with our organisational strategy and change process. The post-holder will lead the development and implementation of Saferworld’s funding strategy, ensuring it supports our strategic, programmatic and operational priorities.
- The role will focus on strengthening the quality, flexibility and diversity of Saferworld’s funding base, nurturing relationships with strategic institutional donors, growing philanthropic funding, and identifying new income opportunities.
- This is an exciting opportunity to influence Saferworld’s fundraising and programme development approach during a pivotal period for the organisation. The role will line-manage a small team across programme development, philanthropy and funding.
Key responsibilities
- As part of Saferworld’s senior leadership, you will support organisation-wide initiatives and contribute to strategic decision-making. You will monitor funding trends, identify emerging issues relevant to Saferworld’s work and partnership approaches, and develop appropriate strategies to respond.
- Working closely with the Senior Operations Team, you will ensure funding plans are developed across business units and thematic/regional areas, and that income pipelines are maintained while quality assurance and active cost recovery are proactively pursued. You will oversee the funding and prospects pipeline, produce data and analysis to support decision-making, and provide regular reporting to senior leaders and the Board.
- Externally, you will represent Saferworld with key donors, partners and networks, building strategic relationships and identifying funding opportunities.
- You will lead the development, implementation and monitoring of Saferworld’s funding strategy, ensuring a balanced, ethical and diverse portfolio of restricted and unrestricted income streams. This will include securing quality funding against agreed targets and supporting income diversification through trusts and foundations, commercial funding, and other sources.
- You will work closely with Saferworld’s Grant Management Team to ensure a coordinated and strategic approach to donor relationship management and cultivation. You will also lead the design of multi-country and thematic proposals, as well as consortia bid development, to strengthen partnerships and support new ways of resourcing Saferworld’s strategy.
- The post-holder will set standards for collaborative and participatory programme design, manage proposal development processes from opportunity notice to contract signing, and ensure learning from donor feedback is used to strengthen our fundraising approach.
- You will lead the Funding Leadership Team to ensure cross-organisational ownership of fundraising efforts, and work closely with regional, thematic, policy and grant management colleagues throughout the funding cycle.
People and leadership
- You will line-manage the Funding and Programme Development Team and foster an environment where staff feel empowered, take responsibility and are accountable for achieving organisational objectives.
- You will ensure the team facilitates strong participatory programme design and proposal development with partners and staff, embedding Saferworld’s organisational values and principles. You will also support the team to work closely with colleagues across the organisation, grounding proposals in learning, evidence and evaluation findings.
About you
- You will bring proven senior leadership experience in funding, with a track record of developing and implementing funding strategies and raising income through a range of donors, including individuals, institutions, trusts and foundations. You will also have experience securing high-value contracts and grants of seven figures.
- You will have strong experience of leading complex participatory programme design, including developing budgets, monitoring frameworks and proposals. You will be confident coordinating programme development processes with multiple teams and partners to ensure a collaborative and inclusive approach.
- You will have a proven track record of motivating, mentoring and managing a team, and supporting that team to think creatively about fundraising. You will also be confident developing networks, building alliances, and nurturing relationships with individuals, collaborators and funders.
- You will bring a strong understanding of key political, development and humanitarian trends and debates, particularly linked to peacebuilding, development, human rights, governance, and security and justice. You will also have sound knowledge of UK civil society and charity regulatory requirements, and an understanding of the current international aid, peacebuilding and human rights funding environment.
- Experience of working and/or living in conflict-affected contexts, and understanding of peacebuilding and conflict prevention, are desirable.
Skills and qualities
- You will have excellent leadership and management skills, including strategic planning and business development. You will be able to provide sound financial and compliance advice, demonstrate good financial stewardship, and bring a creative, proactive approach to your work.
- You will be able to set priorities while working under pressure, adjust to multiple demands and shifting priorities, and move between hands-on involvement in proposal writing and strategic oversight.
- You will bring strong communication skills, including experience of communicating across cultures and with diverse audiences. You will understand the power imbalances that may be reflected in programme design and budgeting, and bring a strong commitment to inclusive processes and to shifting power and resources to partners.
- You will be committed to Saferworld’s vision, mission and values, including equality, diversity and safeguarding. You will be able to lead by example and create a safe and respectful environment for all staff.
Application process
- Please apply through our vacancy portal on the Saferworld Jobs website.
- Upload your CV and a covering letter addressing the person specification and explaining why your experience matches the requirements of the role.
Deadline for applications: 3 August 2026
Interviews planned: Week commencing 10 August 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.