Impact communications officer jobs
Company Description
Marie Curie is the UK’s leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they’re likely to die from.
Job Description
You’ll be part of Marie Curie’s England Policy and Public Affairs team, working closely with colleagues across our research, caring services, and innovation teams. We work collaboratively with the Ambitions Partnership - a coalition of 35 national organisations - to drive meaningful change in policy and practice for palliative and end-of-life care. Our work is underpinned by evidence, lived experience, and a commitment to tackling inequities in care.
This is your opportunity to design and manage the delivery of a new and exciting programme of work for the Ambitions National Partnership for Palliative Care and End of Life Care, working with senior NHS and statutory and voluntary sector partners. You’ll also lead an innovative Marie Curie pilot focusing on working through primary care to improve end of life care in care homes. Your expertise and evidence-led approach will help shape decisions at local, regional, and national levels - creating a more equitable system for those at the end of life.
You will be responsible for:
- Leading delivery of the Ambitions Partnership’s new work programme - setting clear outcomes, managing budgets, and keeping activities on track.
- Developing partnerships across the health and care system, fostering collaborative relationships with diverse stakeholders.
- Enabling evidence-sharing by producing high-quality reports, briefings, and resources for policy and practice audiences.
- Managing the care homes innovation programme, ensuring learning is shared nationwide and translated into practical change.
- Designing and delivering engagement activities including workshops, seminars, and events to support policy and practice impact.
Key Criteria:
- Proven experience in designing and managing impactful programmes for policy and practice change.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex evidence clearly to different audiences.
- Demonstrable success in managing collaborative relationships with a diverse range of partners.
- Ability to analyse and use research evidence to influence policy and practice.
- Expertise in at least one of: palliative and end-of-life care, social care, or health from research and/or practice work.
- Knowledge of how the health and care system works, and routes to achieving change at all levels.
Additional Information
Application & Interview Process
- As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV and supplementary information about your motivation and relevant experience. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your skills, experience and knowledge for the role.
- Close date for applications: 7 Sep 2025
Salary: £45,000 - 50,000 (+£3,500 London Allowance if applicable)
Contract: Fixed-term (3 years), full-time (35 hours a week)
Based: Hybrid. You can work from anywhere within the UK, with regular travel to the London office as required.
Benefits you’ll LOVE:
- Flexible working. We’re happy to discuss flexible working at the interview stage.
- 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
- Continuous professional development opportunities.
- Industry-leading training programmes
- Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
- Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits
- Access to Blue Light Card membership
- Subsidised Eye Care
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
We're happy to accommodate any requests for reasonable adjustments. Please email any requests to our recruitment team.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
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Here at Survive we are poassionate about supporting survivors of sexual violence and abuse to heal and thrive. Could you bring your skills and experience to help our fantastic organisation? Come and join our friendly and supportive team!
This role is part of the Senior Management Team working to deliver the current strategy. You will be liaising across teams to continuously improve working processes, practices and procedures at Survive.
Finance
· Take responsibility for managing an effective and efficient finance function and producing timely reports which enable effective decision-making by the CEO and the Board.
· Lead on the production of the annual budget and work with others to project incoming funds.
People
· Lead on the delivery of effective and efficient HR operations across the full employee/volunteer lifecycle and drive key initiatives and activities which contribute to Survive being a great place to work or volunteer.
· Support our managers, staff and volunteers with day-to-day HR needs to ensure consistency and compliance.
Outline of main duties
The following is a summary of the key responsibilities of the post. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list, and the post-holder may be required to carry out other duties which are appropriate to the scale and nature of the job role.
Finance
· Provide effective oversight of the day-to-day banking, invoicing, expenses and supplier payments on Sage accounting software.
· Prepare and present timely and accurate financial data for the Finance and Resources Sub Committee and the Board including management accounts, cashflow monitoring, expenditure by funder, variance reporting against budget lines and live forecasts.
· Mange fund accounting including restricted, unrestricted and designated funds and comply with external funders’ requirements.
· Contribute to Finance and Resources Sub Committee meetings and provide advice on financial forecasts, budget planning, policy development, reserves and investments.
· Develop an annual budget for the year ahead and assist the Fundraising Sub Committee to produce budgets for grant proposals and scenario planning.
· Prepare Survive’s accounts for independent examination by the appointed Accountants and hold administrative responsibility for the successful completion of the annual financial statements and the annual report, and the timely submission to the Charity Commission and Companies House.
· Administer the payroll for Survive employees, liaising with the outsourced payroll provider. Make the relevant payments to HMRC including the annual P11D amount. Administer the Survive pension scheme and ensure the correct contributions are paid each month.
· Produce financial monitoring KPIs, statistics and reports for grant applications, funders, Board of Trustees and other organisational and strategic planning as required
· Line manage and develop the Finance and People Administrator.
People
· Deliver the People strand of Survive’s strategy and chair People Sub Committee meetings, maintain and develop People policies and procedures.
· Provide training on Survive’s People policies to the management team to ensure consistency and understanding.
· Provide support for all HR queries including applying policies appropriately.
· Manage staff benefits, calculating entitlements, enrolling onto schemes and answering queries.
· Provide information on the Survive pension scheme to staff and enrolling them into the scheme as appropriate.
· Source training courses as required and oversee management of Survive’s e-learning accounts. Co-ordinate team training days and ad-hoc training sessions.
· Contribute to the monthly internal newsletter to keep the whole team informed about internal and external news, training opportunities and resources.
· Co-ordinate the annual health and wellbeing survey, and lead on making improvements following inputs and suggestions from the Survive team.
· Oversee maintenance of HR system (HR Breathe) and ensure that data is accurate, complete and up to date.
· Maintain existing and work towards gaining new accreditations such as Disability Confident.
· Support hiring managers with the recruitment process including placing adverts, receiving and anonymising applications, arranging interviews. Be part of the shortlisting and or interviewing panels as required.
· Prepare and deliver organisational inductions to all new employees and volunteers.
· Maintain and oversee efficient HR administration for the joiners and leavers processes.
· Monitor the data that Survive holds for staff, volunteers and trustees in order to comply with organisational policy and UK GDPR.
Person Specification – Finance and People Manager
Qualifications
- Qualified by experience or hold a professional accounting qualification. HR qualification preferable.
Experience, knowledge and skills
- Understanding of financial and HR systems (we use Sage and Breathe HR) and Microsoft Office packages.
- Understanding of charity finance including reporting on restricted income and expenditure and managing reserves.
- Experience of managing payroll and pension administration processes.
- Knowledge of GDPR and data management, able to handle sensitive and confidential information.
- Working knowledge of UK employment law and best practice.
- Experience of working within a management team, and reporting to Trustees.
- Experience of presenting financial information to a variety of audiences.
Personal
- An interest in the work that Survive does to support survivors of sexual trauma.
- A commitment to uphold and work towards Survive’s values including active promotion of equal opportunities, diversity and inclusive practices.
- Able to work independently and prioritise work effectively to meet demanding deadlines.
- Able to build good working relationships across a whole team.
- Excellent listening skills; written and verbal communication skills.
- A flexible approach to work and problem solving and ‘can do’ attitude to get things done.
- An interest in continuing your own personal development and learning.
Applications close on 8th September
Interview date 25th September in York
Post start date 1st December
please send your CV and a covering letter explaining how you meet the person specification and have the experience and skills listed in the job description.
Survive delivers specialist services and trauma-specific interventions that help adult survivors of rape, sexual assault and child sexual abuse.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We Are Survivors have multiple job roles available in our ever growing Community Services team.
The organisation has an ambitious strategy to ensure that #NoMaleSurvivorsIsLeftBehind and is looking for new members of staff to help us achieve this. We are recruiting for the below positions:
- 1 x Full-time Community Development Co-Ordinator (Starting Salary: £25,750).
- 1 x Full-time Community Development Co-Ordinator (Starting Salary: £25,750) – Fixed-term Contract to 31.03.27.
You’ll play a key role in delivering our community support activities to male survivors of sexual harms, working directly alongside our other services (including, therapy, ISVA, OUT Side OUT Spoken, OUT Spoken) to ensure that our clients receive quality assured care for their needs. You will also support our volunteer workforce and the provision of various advocacy requirements to survivors and their supporters.
Apply by sending your CV and a short supporting statement (max 2 page).
In your supporting statement we want you to answer these two questions:
How can your experience support male survivors thrive?
How you meet the role profile, ensure you answer ALL elements in your CV or supporting statement?
By applying for the any of the above roles, you confirm that you have read and agree to our Privacy Notice
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Domestic Abuse Trainer
Location: Homeworking with a requirement to occasionally work at Head Office (Vauxhall, London)
Salary: £30,108 per annum Inclusive of London Weighting, which may not be applicable depending on your home location and any agreed permanent homeworking arrangement.
Contract type: Part Time, Fixed Term (Until May 2026)
Hours: 30 hours per week (across four days - Monday-Friday - days to be discussed)
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Domestic Abuse Trainer and Assessor on a part time, fixed term contract until May 2026.
Refuge has recently been granted funding from the Ministry of Justice to develop training for Independent Domestic Violence Advocates (IDVAs). This role has been created as a fixed term post to support that project. This is a strategic project and the overall aim of the MoJ is to increase access to training for IDVA professionals.
As the Domestic Abuse Trainer, the post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering a high quality, accredited training programme, including workshops, assessments, and digital resources for professionals in the domestic abuse sector.
This role will work in partnership with our Service Delivery subject matter experts and our People & Organisational Development team to develop and deliver domestic abuse training for Independent Domestic Violence Advocates and other front-line specialists. You will also be leading on assessments for delegates attending the training which should demonstrate competence through on the job training.
The post holder will be able to demonstrate extensive experience in training delivery or education in the domestic abuse sector. They should also have an understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse and the barriers many women face in seeking support.
Closing Date: 15 September 2025
Interview Date: 29 September 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Salvation Army is recruiting a Head of Supporter Services. This critical role will ensure that The Salvation Army maintains and increases its impactful presence as one of the top ten charities in the UK, and as a worldwide Christian Church that puts belief into action.
One of the UK’s most inspiring and best-known faith-based organisations, The Salvation Army, is looking for a Head of Supporter Services who will be responsible for ensuring supporters have a positive and memorable experience of engaging with the charity.
As Head of Supporter Services, you will influence best practice in customer service and fulfilment. The ultimate goal is to help ensure that The Salvation Army, as one of the most diverse providers of community and social services in the UK and beyond, can continue to do so in the future, by implementing a supporter services strategy that underpins our ambitions for income growth and is absolutely right for our identity, brand and values.
To be successful in this role you will have;
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Substantial experience of delivering supporter services within a complex organisation
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A confident people leader and collaborator
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Ability to influence at a senior level and inspire and motivate colleagues.
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Experience of managing budgets, developing spending plans and delivering financial reporting
This is an exciting time to join The Salvation Army. If you are an ambitious experienced supporter services expert looking for your next challenge and would like to play a key role in The Salvation Army’s income growth, this could be the role you’re looking for.
The Territorial Headquarters (THQ) are located in Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8FJ. The Salvation Army require the post-holder to work a minimum of 2 days per week from THQ, the Supporter Services Team are currently based there full time.
To find out more, discuss any reasonable adjustments you may require and to progress an application, please download the Candidate Pack and email us to arrange a chat with our Recruitment team.
Timeframes:
Role closing: midnight Tuesday 9th September – please ensure you have allowed time for a screening conversation with the THINK Recruitment team before the closing date
1st Stage interviews: 17th and 18th September 2025
2nd Stage interviews: 29th September 2025
Harris Hill is delighted to be working with The Borrow Foundation to recruit its new Director of Finance and Operations (DFO).
The DFO will be the principal employee of the charity and will:
• Work closely with the Board, providing essential support to the trustees in the furtherance of the charity’s objects whilst fulfilling its legal, governance and financial obligations.
• Develop, strengthen and lead a small team that is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the charity and its subsidiary company, and oversee the implementation of the policies, strategies, and decisions of the Board
• Build strong and effective relationships with the charity’s stakeholders, internal and external
The Borrow Foundation’s mission is to promote the improvement of oral health primarily in children through the prevention of oral diseases. The charity’s focus is on population oral health and the need to reduce inequalities within and between countries.
It provides grants to leading health agencies, government bodies, academic institutes, dental associations, and charities. These are being applied in many parts of the world to help improve oral health, primarily in children, through the prevention of oral diseases.
Job title Director of Finance and Operations
Hours 3 – 5 days per week (negotiable)
Salary £85,000 - £95,000 p.a. FTE
Employment term Permanent
Location Waterlooville, Hampshire with hybrid working options
Benefits 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays; 7% employer pension contributions; private health insurance
How to apply:
Please review the recruitment pack for further information about The Borrow Foundation, the DFO position and for details on how to apply
Closing date for applications: 9am, Friday 12th September
Both The Borrow Foundation and Harris Hill operate an equal opportunity policy and commit to treating all of our candidates and jobseekers fairly. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
We’re looking for a Finance and Operations star to support the team across finance administration, HR processes, compliance, and operational logistics. You’ll be a key part of the smooth running of the team that enables us to carry out our work making change with young people!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Housing Support Worker
Location: Warwickshire, Dispersed Accommodation (mainly based in South Warwickshire)
Salary: £25,857.12 per annum
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week. As part of this role, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call rota.
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Housing Support Worker to provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children living in our dispersed refuge accommodation in Warwickshire.
You will be joining the Warwickshire Dispersed Safe Accommodation service. This service will provide emergency safe accommodation across Warwickshire with high-quality domestic abuse support, ‘by-and-for’ services for survivors of domestic abuse and their children. Housing Support Workers will work closely with the Floating Support Workers and Child Support Workers (who provide the personal support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children) to ensure that the emergency accommodation and support meets the whole range of survivors’ needs.
The post holder will be responsible for the Health and Safety and maintenance of emergency safe accommodation units in multiple 1–3-bedroom properties across Warwickshire. This will include the practical set up and maintenance of home furnishings and utilities in each property and the management of the cleaning and replacements required between each use of the accommodation unit.
The post holder will provide support to survivors fleeing domestic abuse around accessing housing benefit for the dispersed accommodation and support survivors with exploring and accessing move on accommodation.
The Housing Support Worker (HSW) will be responsible for ensuring that the properties will maintain Refuge’s accommodation standards and comply with all Health and Safety legislation and requirements.
As part of this role, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call rota.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Closing Date: 09:00am 26 September 2025
Interview Date: 9 October 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you bilingual in French/English and enjoy Senior Operations Management? If so, we are delighted to announce that we are recruting for a Senior Operations Manager role. MannionDaniels seeks a bi-lingual (French/ English) Senior Operations Manager to support the delivery of Gavi’s new fund to strengthen engagement with CSOs and local partners across 14 countries through up to 60 grants.
MannionDaniels have been contracted by Gavi to deliver this new funding mechanism which aims to:
i. Increase vaccination coverage and reduce zero dose and under-immunised children.
ii. Set up grant/contract schemes with CSOs and local partners that are results-focused, cost-effective and provide value for money.
iii. Strengthen the capacity of CSOs and local partners to implement contracts/grants effectively and efficiently.
iv. Contribute to a conducive partnership, a joint vision and clarified collaboration modalities between governments, and civil society and local partners,
v. Help roll out HPV vaccination; and
vi. Robustly evaluate the contracts/grant with CSOs and local partners to capture learning and ensure course correction as required.
The Senior Operations Manager supports the implementation of effective and efficient activities to deliver the Gavi project in accordance with international standards, best practice and donor expectations. The role reports to the Deputy Team Lead- Gavi and is responsible for consistent implementation of systems and procedures. The Senior Operations Manager will be expected to support our culture of continuous improvement.
A strong operational background in international development, including extensive field experience, and excellent project management skills are essential for the role. The Senior Operations Manager will manage a medium sized team and occasional overseas travel may be required.
We’re looking for a proactive individual who is passionate about volunteering to join our team. Our Volunteer Coordinators are responsible for co-ordinating volunteer recruitments, providing volunteer management advice and guidance to staff who work with volunteers, and establishing positive relationships with volunteers to ensure they have a fulfilling volunteer experience at Battersea.
As well as administration and support, this role also has the opportunity to work on projects to improve our volunteer programme at Battersea.
This role will work directly with cattery volunteers at Battersea London. We work on a hybrid working rota of 3 days in the office, and 2 days from home per week. There may be the need to work on a weekend day on occasion.
What we can offer you:
In return for your commitment to our cause and to recognise the value of our employees, Battersea offers a range of benefits to support the wellbeing of our employees. These include:
- 28 days of annual leave (plus 8 days paid public holidays) per year
- Discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme and access to Wellbeing Resources
- Generous pension contributions - up to 10% employer contribution
- Free healthcare cash plan, where you can claim for a range of treatment including dental, optical, physiotherapy, chiropody and acupuncture every year
- Annual interest-free season ticket loans
We are also committed to providing learning and development to our employees. During your time with us, we provide support for your professional and career development, including access to digital and in-person training programmes, leadership and management training, mentoring and much more.
Our hybrid working model:
We operate an onsite hybrid working model, with our office-based staff splitting their time between site based and home working. This enables our office-based staff to balance the benefits of home working with onsite collaboration and maintaining a connection to our cause. As our Volunteer Coordinators support our onsite volunteers, the expectation in this role is to spend 3 days of every week onsite.
Diversity and inclusion:
We are committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive experience for all staff, volunteers and trustees and those hoping to join us. We operate an anonymised shortlisting process and actively seek to ensure our process is fair and equitable for all.
We understand the value of diverse voices, perspectives, and experiences to help us deliver even more for our dogs and cats, and we welcome applicants from all sections of the community.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we will ask about any adjustments you may need at application and/or interview stage, and if you are offered a role with us, we’ll talk to you about any workplace adjustments you may need to help you perform at your best.
More about us:
At Battersea, we aim to never turn away a dog or cat in need of help. We give each one lots of love, expert care and get to know their characters and quirks so we can find them a new home that’s just right for them. Join us and help us be here for every dog and cat, wherever they are, for as long as they need us.
Acceptable use of AI:
At Battersea, we value expertise. We recognise each candidate that applies to us will have a range of expertise they can offer us, so we want to hear about this in your own words. We understand the support that generative artificial intelligence (AI) software can offer but it can also lead to numerous applications presenting as generic and impersonal. This makes it difficult to gain understanding of your unique experience.
To best showcase yourself, we encourage you to write your responses without the assistance of AI. If you require the use of AI software to aid in completing your application, we ask you use the generative responses as a prompt for writing your answers and avoid copying and pasting. You must also ensure the information presented in your application accurately reflects your experience.
Closing date: 14th September 2025
Interview date(s): 22nd/23rd September 2025
For full details on the role, please download the recruitment pack. All applications must be submitted before the closing date advertised. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications is received.
Battersea is here for every dog and cat, and has been since 1860. We believe that every dog and cat deserves the best.





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