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Job Title: Area Manager (National Careers Service)

Location: Field/ Home Based - Southeast Regions - Kent, East Sussex and Berkshire

Salary: £34,325 - £38,658 per annum (depending on experience)

Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week)

Contract: Permanent

Reports to: Regional Manager

About CXK

CXK empowers people to succeed in employment, education and training. The charity strives for a fairer society where everyone can grow and realise their potential. “The CXK Way” embodies the following core values:

• Ethical – We work with professionalism, honesty and integrity
• Passionate – We reach out enthusiastically to all who need out support
• Innovative – We inspire, enhance and improve
• Collaborative – We engage, support and share with others

The National Careers Service  

The National Careers Service provides free, professional careers information, advice, and guidance to help our clients make decisions about learning, training, and work at any stage of their career. The service is available to anyone living in England and aged 13 or over. Through the National Careers Service, anyone can access professional careers advice and support for free via webchat, on the telephone, and face-to-face with a qualified careers adviser in the local area. Our skilled careers advisers can provide support on any aspect of our client’s career journey.

The Team

As part of the National Careers Service management team in the Southeast, you will be part of a small management and strategic team with an overview of a cohort of highly experienced and qualified Careers Advisers, trainees, tracking and admin staff that support our clients by providing Careers Information, Advice, and Guidance (CIAG) and monitoring our clients’ journeys.

About the Role

We’re seeking an inspiring, dedicated, and compassionate Area Manager to lead, support, and manage a team of careers advisers delivering the National Careers Service within the community. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing and delivering high-quality, innovative services tailored to customer needs, while driving team performance to meet targets and upholding the highest standards of impartial careers information, advice, and guidance.

You will ensure the successful delivery of services across community venues, Job Centres, education providers, and online platforms. This role blends performance management, resource planning, and partnership building with oversight of daily operations. You will also ensure the effective use of data and CRM systems, deliver clear communication and training to staff, and identify opportunities to expand and enhance service delivery.

This position requires travel and may include covering out of hours, weekends and bank holidays in line with First Contact requirements. There will be an on-call payment that will be received monthly.

About You

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with management experience to lead by example, use innovation and action ideas with urgency. The successful candidate will be passionate about delivering high-quality services that truly make a difference, with an eye for detail and a commitment to excellence. You’ll inspire those around you to meet the highest standards, from National Careers Service and Ofsted requirements to safeguarding and equality. Successful candidates will welcome feedback, see it as a chance to improve, and take pride in your own growth through continuous professional development. You will need to be Adaptable and resilient and be able to thrive in changing circumstances while keeping people at the heart of what you do.

Skills and Knowledge

At CXK we are proud to be a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. We actively promote diversity within our workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Minimum Criteria

• Relevant experience and knowledge of the employability, careers and charity sector
• Leadership experience, set challenging targets and provide robust people and performance management
• Full UK driving licence and use of own vehicle

Essential Criteria

• Experience of using Microsoft Office packages, including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proven track record of working in a target driven environment, and be able to demonstrate an ability to meet or exceed contract targets
• Proven ability to negotiate with others to securing new business opportunities and increase levels of performance or achievement of outcomes
• Prepared to occasionally work outside of office hours to respond to demands of the role
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with experience liaising effectively with multi-agency professionals
• High level of organisational skills, efficient and results orientated with good time management
• Ability to build effective and professional relationships with partner agencies and organisations

Employee Experience

A career with CXK is deeply rewarding and offers the opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of our clients. As part of the National Careers Service team, this role gives you the chance to empower and motivate your staff to ensure our clients take positive steps into education, employment, or training.

At CXK, we are committed to supporting our staff to grow, thrive, and develop their potential. You’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values inclusion, and wellbeing.

Benefits of working with us

Our employee benefits include:

• 30-33 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Defined contribution pension scheme (matched by CXK up to 10% depending on length of service criteria)
• Benenden private healthcare cover
• Flexible working
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Training and development programmes and opportunities
• Mental and physical healthcare initiatives and more

Recruitment Timeline

Vacancy closing date: Tuesday 30th September 2025

Application review date: Wednesday 1st October 2025

Interviews date: Thursday 9th October 2025

Format

This recruitment round will consist of a competency-based interview and a pre-interview exercise.

Useful Information

If you have any questions, please contact the Recruitment Team.

Please note: Applicants will need to complete an enhanced DBS check and provide references before any offer of employment is made.

Supporting over 750 children and nearly 1,000 families annually, Acorns Children’s Hospice is a vital lifeline for families across the West Midlands and Gloucestershire during unimaginably difficult times.

Palliative care for children aged 0–18 is delivered at Acorns’ hospices in Birmingham, Worcester and Walsall, as well as in family homes and other community settings. Acorns’ holistic, tailored approach is designed to meet each child’s clinical, emotional, cultural, religious, and spiritual needs.

Trust and Foundation income is a cornerstone of Acorns’ fundraising strategy. Income is primarily unrestricted and multi-year – a reflection of the strong, long-standing relationships Acorns have built with funders.

We’re looking for an experienced Trusts fundraiser to provide maternity cover and hit the ground running. You’ll take on a robust pipeline and inherit relationships from a portfolio that includes multi-year partnerships with major funders such as Children in Need and John Martins. With a responsive Data team, access to strong stories, and excellent internal buy-in, this is a rare chance to build on solid foundations and deliver high-impact work. 

As Fundraising Manager – Trusts and Foundations, you will:

• Take on a well-established portfolio of trusts and foundations with a combined value of c.£850K, delivering a mix of templated and bespoke applications
• Collaborate closely with an experienced peer Trusts Manager, sharing responsibility for monthly submissions and stewardship
• Maintain and build relationships with existing funders, ensuring excellent reporting and donor care
• Work cross-functionally with the Data, Marcomms, Finance, and Care teams to develop strong cases for support
• Support joint cultivation and engagement events alongside the Philanthropy team

To be successful in this role, we are seeking:

• Experience of personally securing mid to high 5-figure+ grants from trusts or foundations
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging across formats and word counts
• Stakeholder management skills
• Someone highly organised and efficient, who is able to manage a busy workload with autonomy
• A collaborative and supportive team player with a donor-centred approach
• Desirable but not essential: Health sector fundraising experience 

This is a hybrid role. Ideally 1 day per week at either Selly Oak, Worcester or Walsall hospice office. There is flexibility - please discuss. 

Employee benefits include:

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (5 days holiday buyback scheme starting from April 2026)
• 7.5% employer pension contribution
• Life assurance scheme (2 x annual salary)
• Retail discounts (including the Blue Light card)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Access to expert financial health and wellbeing support

WCCM seeks to appoint an experienced, creative, and highly motivated Grant and Major Donor Fundraising Manager to lead fundraising and grant management across a global organisation dedicated to the teaching of Christian Meditation. Working to the Executive Director, you will interact with our decentralised finance, marketing and communications staff and volunteers.  Together, you will nurture Major Donor relationships and create and manage appropriate donor stewardship schemes and rationalise our income streams. You’ll ensure grant reporting and management is kept on track whilst developing targeted proposals for new funding from sympathetic donors in the arena of Trusts and foundations.  You will work to support both our teaching and resourcing of meditation and the running of our retreat centre in Bonnevaux, near Poitiers in France. An excellent writer with excellent financial and budgeting skills, you will be adept at pulling together relevant, succinct and compelling information for our donor reports and bids. You’ll work with communications staff to develop impactful donor communications which enhance our accountability and inspire renewed major donations.  You will have a demonstrable track record in winning grants as well as in the stewardship of major donors.  Occasional trips to France. Interest in Christian Meditation/Spirituality an advantage.

About Nordoff and Robbins

We stand for music and believe in the value of music for all people in our society. Every day we use the power of music to enrich the lives of people affected by life-limiting illness, trauma, isolation, social exclusion or disability.

Our goal is to bring more people together through the power of music. We can only do this if we pioneer creative new approaches to income generation that help us engage more people and grow our fundraising.

We need courageous, curious, agile, innovative change makers and music lovers like you to make this happen.  This role is your chance to help us achieve our ambitious goal of transforming more people’s lives through music.

The culture

If you want to work at a charity with people and music at its heart; that is committed to providing an equitable, diverse and inclusive workplace full of inspiring colleagues who work tirelessly to put those we exist to serve front and centre of everything we do; if you want to work collaboratively with integrity and kindness and are willing to come with us on a journey as we work together, we could be your next team.

Could this be the place for you?

If you are values driven, courageous, curious, agile, flexible, enthusiastic and future focused (without losing sight of the here and now), if you can bring positivity and accountability to your work, if you strive for brilliance, challenges excite you and if you would speak with passion and dedication about our cause we want to hear from you!

About the role

You’ll be joining the partnerships team, which is a key role within the fundraising department and part of our wider Income Generation directorate.  You will have a minimum of three years account management experience gained in charity corporate partnerships or a relevant account management role, as well as a proven track record of cultivating, securing and successfully managing corporate relationships. You are a natural strong communicator, with the ability to build effective and long-term relationships both internally and externally. You'll have proven experience of inspiring and motivating supporters and developing partners enabling them to maximise all income generating activities in the area and deliver impressive results. The Nordoff and Robbins partnerships portfolio is going from strength to strength, and we have created this new role to truly accelerate our partnerships offering and meet ambitious fundraising targets as part of our new 5-year strategy

What we offer:

3 best things about the job (in our humble opinion)

· You will be the Lead Account Manager across a portfolio of household brands and corporate partners most of which are connected to Music, Entertainment and Media

· You will be invited to bring bold, creative, and forward-thinking engagement and relationship management to help us communicate the amazing impact of Music Therapy to our partners

· You will be instrumental in inspiring and motivating corporate partners and developing to maximise all income generating activities and deliver impressive results.

Don’t worry, you don’t need to be musical, but you do need to be able to work cross-organisationally with colleagues in all areas of the charity to help bring awareness of our mission, vision and achievements to the world.

· A salary of £43,971 plus £1,500 London Weighting (if applicable) per annum.  Total salary £45,471 per annum

· Pension scheme

· 31 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

· Mix of office based in our North London office (min 2 days per week) and home working

· Salary sacrifice benefits including cycle to work

· A true People First charity with training and career development at our core

· An inclusive culture – and lots of music!

· This role is full time

We have a firm set of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) principles and values that we all commit to:

1: ACCESSIBLE TO ALL

Understanding the / Removing any barriers (including barriers in communication methods) to becoming a client, colleague, trustee, student, volunteer, supporter doner or any user/contributor to the services of Nordoff Robbins.

2: PROVIDING EQUITY OF OPPORTUNITY

Giving everyone the right tools and access for salary, promotions, roles, responsibilities, learning, development, and access to a Music Therapist for those at most need.

3: DIVERSE ENGAGEMENT

Reaching our audiences in a multitude of ways including by having conversations with them, and meeting them where they are – be that through services, communications, events, research, resources etc.

4: BE FREE FROM DISCRIMINATION

To ensure we have fair practices, and allow people to speak out, question and challenge language, actions and behaviours of NR as an organisation and those who represent it and to provide channels for them to do so safely.

5: BE VIGILENT, PROACTIVE AND RESPONSIVE

To instil a culture of continual listening, evolving, and learning from people including our clients, their families and our colleagues and students

About the role

You will be at the forefront of establishing a centrally-located PMO to embed project excellence in a mission-driven environment, operating both strategically and hands on across the King’s Fund. Your responsibilities will include developing and embedding project management standards and governance frameworks, establishing a performance framework to understand the impact of our projects, and providing oversight and assurance for key projects and programmes.

You will engage with senior leaders and staff leading and coordinators to embed a culture of effective project delivery, lead change management and continuous improvement efforts, and act as a trusted advisor on project and programme management. Additionally, you may matrix-manage project staff or line manage a small team as the PMO grows, ensuring effective use of project management tools and systems through a cross-organisation community of practice.

About you

As an established PMO Manager, you will bring your experience in setting up PMOs and use your knowledge of a diverse range of project and programme management methodologies. You will be enthusiastic about making a difference, and are able to bring people with you in change. You will be an excellent communicator, with experience of facilitation, and influencing skills, and proven experience in managing change are essential.

About us

The King’s Fund is an independent charity working to improve people’s health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life. Our mission is to inspire hope and build confidence for positive change. We achieve this through expert insights and original research, developing leaders and their organisations, convening, and strategic, collaborative partnerships. We are looking for someone to support us on this journey and to track and support our progress.

What you'll get in return 

The King’s Fund is committed to a hybrid working model that meets the organisation’s needs, while giving staff flexibility to choose between office and home working. In keeping with our current policy, the post-holder will be required to work a minimum of two days per week from our central London office (pro rata, averaged over a month).

In addition to a competitive salary, The King’s Fund offers generous holiday entitlements, a £3 daily discount in our café and an on-site gym.

How to apply

To apply, please visit our website and read our supplementary guidance documents, then download and fill in our application form. If completing the application form presents any challenges, contact us by email so we can discussion options.

Please note that in order to apply, you must have existing documented proof of your right to live and work in the UK. 

No agencies please.

CVs will not be accepted as applications. Applications must be submitted using The King’s Fund application form.

The deadline for receipt of applications is Thursday 18 September at 9.30am. Late applications will not be considered.

We regret that we cannot respond individually to all applicants due to the high number of applications we receive.  If you have not been contacted within 3 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted for interview. 

Interviews will be held on Monday 29 or Tuesday 30th September. Role available to start shortly thereafter.

Please submit your application with a cover letter by 24th September 2025
About Homewards

Homewards is a five-year, locally led programme, launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales in June 2023.The aim of Homewards is to demonstrate that together, it is possible to end homelessness – making it rare, brief, and unrepeated. 

The Royal Foundation has selected six flagship locations across the UK and formed Coalitions of committed organisations and people from their public, private and voluntary sectors: Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Lambeth, Newport, Northern Ireland, and Sheffield.

About The Royal Foundation

The Royal Foundation mobilises leaders, businesses, and people so that together we can address society’s greatest challenges. Led by our Principals, The Prince and Princess of Wales, our work is built on world-class research, long-term partnerships, and measurable, scalable impact.
 

Role description and core responsibilities

We are seeking an exceptional Project Manager to play a key role in coordinating and delivering projects across our Northern Ireland location. Reporting into the Northern Ireland Lead and working closely with colleagues across the programme, thisis a vital role as we deliver an ambitious Action Plan across the country.

The Project Manager will be based within the core Homewards team but will work closely with other Foundation teams, Kensington Palace, and external delivery partners.

The role will be varied and wide-ranging, working with other internal and external colleagues to determine project needs and key deliverables.
Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

· Establishing and executing the project management processes required to ensure effective delivery of projects within Northern Ireland

· Coordinating delivery efforts with the Homewards Northern Ireland Coalition (and other external delivery partners) to ensure strategies and commitments are deployed on the ground

· Taking ownership for the successful delivery of allocated projects

· Monitoring and reporting on delivery of projects against agreed timelines, ensuring risks, assumptions, dependencies, and actions are identified, tracked, and resolved

· Organising programme and stakeholder meetings, preparing agendas/papers, managing logistics and producing minutes as required

· Build and maintain relationships with appropriate internal and external stakeholders, and support the day-to-day management of the stakeholder ecosystem

· Working with senior colleagues on agendas and ensuring actions are captured and carried out

· Promoting a strong partnership/team ethos and collaborative ways of working both within the programme team and wider Homewards partnership

• Playing an active broader role in the programme team, working collaboratively to offer ideas on strategy and operational design.

Relevant knowledge and experience

· Knowledge and experience of project management, being directly responsible for the delivery of substantive projects (essential)

· Previous experience of working in a fast-paced delivery environment and/or on a complex project (essential)

· Experience of budget management (essential)

· Highly competent user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (essential)

· Experience of successfully dealing with stakeholders at different levels (essential)

· Experience with a project management tooling such as Mondaycom, MS Project, Smartsheet, Trello, Salesforce (desirable)

· Previous experience in a sector relevant to the programme (e.g. homelessness sector or charity sector more widely, local government) (desirable)

Personal qualities

· You will be a collaborative and confident relationship builder, with strong stakeholder management skills; a genuine ‘team player’ who is able to influence and bring people with you

· You will be agile, able to respond confidently and positively to changing scenarios

· You will be highly organised and capable of balancing multiple, complex priorities 

· You will have an optimistic and energetic outlook, keen to maximise the positive change you and the team can deliver 

· You will be an excellent communicator, both in writing and orally, able to tailor your deliver based on the audience. 

· You take a creative/innovative approach to problem-solving, as well as being keen to offer ideas/challenge on issues not strictly within your remit.

The Royal Foundation is a high-profile organisation, and the successful candidate will appreciate the importance of discretion and confidentiality and have a mature and professional approach.

Job type: Permanent, full-time.

Location: Banbury, London, Cardiff, or Belfast – you will be contractually based in the office nearest to you with hybrid working.

Hybrid working: You will be able to work from home and come into the office to collaborate with your team(s) when required. We have flexible core hours, and we don’t believe in a culture of presenteeism. We will discuss what is important to you during the recruitment process.

Salary & Benefits: £50,000 + 10% pension, 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, 35 hour working week, up to 13 flexi-days, private medical insurance, life assurance, and much more!

Closing date: Friday 26 September at 09:00 BST. WRAP reserves the right to close this role early in the event of a large volume of applications.

Who are we?

WRAP is a global environmental action NGO championing the shift towards a circular economy, fundamentally reshaping how we produce, consume, and manage resources. Our vision is a world transformed, in which Circular Living is commonplace. Where the systems that provide our everyday goods contribute to the world's prosperity and sustainability instead of reducing it.

WRAP is driving Circular Living through four key areas: accelerating the circular economy, future-proofing food, preventing problem plastics and transforming textiles. We catalyse action from policy makers, businesses, NGOs and citizens to make it happen.

We have offices in the UK, USA and Australia, and live projects in over 30 countries.

Join us at WRAP and you'll drive important change to make Circular Living the norm.

The role

As one of our Strategic Engagement Managers for the public sector you will be responsible for building and maintaining strong working relationships with UK government departments and other key public sector bodies globally with the aim to grow income and impact.  The Strategic Engagement Manager is responsible for the delivery of engagement strategies and increasing the commercial funding from public sector sources for WRAP. In addition, this role will oversee the delivery of commercial public sector projects and programmes to ensure that funders are delighted with performance. This role will report to the Head of Public Sector Partnerships.

Who are we looking for?

Someone who:

• Has significant experience of building successful relationships at all levels with funders, partners and/or customers.
• Is able to demonstrate an understanding of the workings of UK government, international experience would also be desirable.
• Has a track record in developing income from the public sector sources in the UK; international evidence is also desirable.
• Is a skilled communicator and able to write clearly for a wide range of audiences.

Ready to lead the way to circular living?

If you think you have what it takes but your experience looks different to what is advertised, please still apply. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of your age, race, gender, neurodiversity, ability, beliefs, sexuality, or personal preferences.

We want to help you be your best, so please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustments during the recruitment process.

Find out more about life at WRAP here.

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Closing date 6 October 2025 at 9am

Are you an influential, collaborative and compassionate individual with proven experience and in-depth of implementing safeguarding policy and legislation affecting children and young adults, including transitional safeguarding?  Do you have sound experience of delivering or supervising trauma-informed, strengths-based, and person-led services?

If so, join St Giles as a Team Manager where, as part of the Services Directorate, you will supervise and coach practitioners delivering our based community-based services ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed, young person-led services.

About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

Our successful candidate will lead the day-to-day service delivery of trauma-informed, co-produced, and developmentally appropriate interventions for children and young adults.  This will include maintaining strong local partnerships and representing the service in external meetings and forums, acting as safeguarding lead and promoting a proactive safeguarding culture across the team, plus providing line management, supervision, and coaching to up to eight service delivery practitioners.

We will also count on you to drive performance against KPIs, outcomes, and quality standards using data to inform service improvements and to ensure compliance with GDPR, data protection policies, and reporting obligations including ISAs and DPIAs.  Supporting the implementation of service reviews, audits, and quality improvement initiatives and the recruitment, induction, and training for staff are both also key duties, as is contributing to continuous service improvement through reflective practice and feedback.

What we are looking for

• Proven ability to lead and coach diverse teams and manage performance effectively
• Experience with quality assurance tools, audits, and using data to improve service delivery.
• Understanding of service contracts, KPIs, and performance management.
• Experience advocating for teams and young people in multi-agency settings
• Experience maintaining compliance with data protection obligations and service standards
• Confident in managing safeguarding, risk escalation, and decision-making
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written
• A professional, collaborative and flexible approach to your work

Please note:  as an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Adult and Child with Child Barred List DBS.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.

To apply visit our website via the apply button. In your personal statement, please address the following three areas:

• Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications – Give examples of your professional and/or voluntary experience, highlighting how you meet the essential criteria.
• Skills & Abilities – Explain the skills you bring to this role and how you have applied them in practice. 
• Personal Qualities & Values – Describe the personal attributes and values you would bring, including how you align with the values of St Giles. 
• Applications will be shortlisted against the Person Specification. Please use clear examples wherever possible.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

We will be reviewing applications as they are received and reserve the right to close this advert early if a suitable candidate is appointed. We therefore strongly encourage early applications to avoid any disappointment.

Worldwide Veterinary Service is searching for an experienced manager to support the growth of our global education programme.

 This is an ideal role for an experienced project manager who wants to make lasting improvements to the lives of children and animals around the world.

Reporting to the Head of Education at global animal welfare charity, Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS), you will help grow and develop education programmes that protect children from key zoonotic disease and improve the relationship between animals and people.

One child dies from rabies every 10 minutes. Most victims are under the age of 15. Rabies is 100% fatal, but entirely vaccine preventable. Children just need the right information to protect themselves. WVS established Mission Rabies, a campaign that aims to eliminate rabies for good, in 2013. We have worked hard to reach 9.6 million children worldwide, but around half of the world’s 2 billion children at this age still live in rabies endemic countries. You will manage national education managers based across Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America to spread our core messages to a wider audience. This is essential if we are to deliver our goal to halve the number of people dying from rabies in the next 5 years.

We are looking for somebody who is proactive, driven and has a history of making things happen. The ideal candidate will have a results-oriented mindset, be comfortable working with ambiguity and adaptable to change. As an organisation we are embracing hybrid working, and remote working within the UK could be considered for this role. There is an expectation that employees will attend monthly meetings at our Dorset office in Cranborne if practical, and for this role regular international travel to global project sites will be required.

About Us

At Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) we champion animal welfare around the world. We send vets where they are needed most, provide expert veterinary training in hard-to-reach places, and ship urgent aid supplies worldwide, every day of the year.

We deploy teams of vets and vet nurses, send equipment and supplies to help struggling organisations on the front line of animal welfare, and train vets at our international training centres in India, Thailand, Malawi and the Galápagos Islands.  We also work on strategic one health projects such as rabies elimination campaigns with Governments and NGOs all over the world.

Last year, WVS treated over 103,000 animals, trained over 2,800 vets, deployed teams of vets all over the world, and sent over 1,042 parcels of veterinary supplies to 231 charities in 65 countries. Over 1.2 m dogs were vaccinated against rabies last year as part of our Mission Rabies campaign.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

•  Support with the development of our education and behaviour change campaigns in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
• Develop robust monitoring and data collection systems and build capacity in the team to adhere to these mechanisms.
• Work with country teams to research the effectiveness of pedagogical approaches in terms of impact and behaviour change across various contexts and for different age groups.  
• Work closely with colleagues to provide technical advice and implementation assistance to Mission Rabies and WVS projects around the world.
• Write strong project reports and proposals.
• Undertake international field visits in support of this work.
• Any other duties as required.

 Essential Skills & Experience

• 7+ years in project management in an education, animal welfare, public health, humanitarian and/or international development capacity.
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL).
• Ability to tailor communication to a range of audiences, particularly making research findings accessible to a non-academic audience.
• Experience in working with diverse teams in low resource environments.
• A strong team player.
• Strong report and proposal writing skills.
• A passion for animal welfare.
• Proficient in Microsoft packages - Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• The ability and willingness to be flexible and work irregular hours, including evenings and weekends occasionally when the charity requires.
• Qualified to degree level or with a relevant recognised qualification.
• Proficiency in English (mother tongue or C2 level equivalent).

 Desired Skills & Experience

• A background in qualitative research.
• Experience in delivering public health or behaviour change campaigns.
• Experience working on education programmes.
• Experience working on international programmes.
• Experience in taking projects to scale.
• Experience in working with government stakeholders.
• Experience in business development/proposal writing.
• A full driving licence.
• The right to work in the UK.

Candidates with a right to work in the UK are preferred, however exceptional candidates outside of the UK may be considered on a contract basis. Please include this in your cover letter if this is your preference.

Please note, we are unable to respond to individual queries regarding the role.

Location: Camden Road, London N7

Salary: circa £45,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Reporting To: Head of Finance and IT

Contract: Permanent

Centre 404 is a thriving charity with a proud history of supporting people with learning disabilities and their families. Based in North London, we currently work across eight London boroughs. We are looking for a skilled and motivated Finance Manager to lead our finance function and help us build a financially resilient future.

�� About the Role

This is a key leadership role within our Central Services team. You’ll oversee day-to-day financial operations, manage a small team, and deliver accurate, timely reporting that supports strategic decision-making across the organisation.

You’ll work closely with the Head of Finance & IT, senior managers, and Trustees to ensure robust financial planning, compliance, and risk management. Your work will directly support our mission and help us maximise the impact of every pound we receive.

�� Key Responsibilities

· Lead the finance team and manage daily operations

· Deliver monthly management accounts, statutory reporting, and audits

· Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning

· Ensure compliance with Charity SORP, funder requirements, and financial regulations

· Support strategic projects and deputise for the Head of Finance & IT

�� About You

We’re looking for someone who is either qualified or working towards ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CIPFA, with a strong track record in financial management. You’ll be a confident communicator, a proactive problem-solver, and a collaborative leader who thrives in a mission-led environment.

You’ll bring:

· Experience in charity finance and donor reporting (desirable)

· Strong understanding of financial systems and controls

· Ability to lead and develop a finance team

· Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills

· A commitment to Centre 404’s values and mission

�� What We Offer

· A supportive, inclusive working environment

· Opportunities for professional development

· Flexible working arrangements

· The chance to make a real difference in people’s lives

Join Our Team!

We have an exciting opportunity to join us as our IBD Project Manager. You will lead and coordinate the redesign and relaunch of the IBD UK Alliance programme, to improve the quality and standards of health services for people affected by Crohn's and Colitis across the UK.

You'll be working closely with the Director of Services & Evidence and Head of Health Services to support the charity's leadership of the IBD UK Alliance.

Download our recruitment pack from our website containing full details of the job description and person specification.

About you

You will need to have:

• Experience of developing and delivering successful health service quality improvement projects and programmes.
• Knowledge and experience of working in UK health services or a health or medical charity.
• Experience of successful development of operational performance metrics, strategies and objectives.
• Evidence of establishing and maintaining effective relationships with external stakeholders, including senior clinicians and NHS business managers.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing by one day per year up to 30 days
• Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme
• Flexible working options
• Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Wellbeing programme
• Interest free loan for season tickets
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking and secure bike locks
• Training and development financial support and/or study leave
• Performance review and development scheme

Our location

We are based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, so we are easily accessible by road and rail. In this role there is plenty of scope for working from home, although there will be occasions when you will need to attend 2 directorate days and conferences/events. In addition, the charity meets four times a year at the office in Hatfield for its 'All Staff Together' days, at which attendance is mandatory.

Communications and Impact Lead

Full time (part time will be considered)

Hybrid (with a minimum of 2 days in our office on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus)

Permanent contract

£43,000- £46,000 per annum (depending on skills and experience)

Do you want to make a difference to healthcare globally? Do you have skills and experience in Communications, Marketing and Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning? Come and join a brilliant team working from the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and with partners across the world.

For nearly twenty years, Cambridge Global Health Partnerships (CGHP) has been strengthening health systems across the world through education, reciprocal learning, and relationship building. CGHP uses a health partnership model - working with hospitals, governments and health organisations in Cambridgeshire and East of England region and in low- and middle- income countries (LMIC) to provide specialist expertise, support shared learning and encourage sustainable change. This is a two-way process involving NHS staff, trainees and students working with LMIC partners using a hybrid working model combining online working and exchange visits. CGHP is a charitable programme based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and is a linked charity to Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust.

We are recruiting for a Communications and Impact Lead who will lead these functions within CGHP and will be a member of the CGHP Senior Leadership Team. You will work at a tactical and strategic level with responsibility for increasing understanding of our impact and raising our profile to enable CGHP to achieve our strategic ambition. The role will ensure effective impact measurement, communication, promotion, marketing and engagement to support our goals. The role requires excellence measuring impact and communicating with people and groups on all issues and at all levels and. Creativity in communication to effectively tell our story will be key, as will confidence and understanding of monitoring, evaluation and learning.

We are looking for someone imaginative, creative, and dynamic with excellent organisational skills who can ensure that our impact is measured and recognised, and our story is heard. The position is the ideal role for someone who has a combination of skills and experience of communications, impact analysis and project management.

To see a full job description and person specification please visit our website

The closing date for applications is 28th September 2025, however we reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received or a successful candidate is found.

Application Process: Please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are a good fit for the role by email

MARKETING PLANNING MANAGER

Salary: £38,000 - £42,000 per annum

Reports to: Senior Marketing Strategy & Planning Manager (Paid Media)

Department: ?Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract

Hours: ?35 hours per week (we are open to compressed hours or four days part-time)

Location: Stratford, London w/ high-flex (1 - 2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: Sunday 21 September 2025, 23:55

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

??We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you. ?

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly organised marketeer to join Cancer Research UK's Marketing Planning Team to play a key role in supporting our audience-led marketing strategy and planning function. Using your integrated marketing expertise, you will take a centralised view across our marketing, audiences, channels, and performance to ensure all activity is insight led, balanced, well-timed and has maximum impact. This is your chance to support the delivery of high profile and impactful campaigns, helping to bring everyone closer to our purpose, transforming Cancer Research UK into an influential and impactful force in society, inspiring audiences to help us beat cancer.

You will act as a central point to consult closely with marketing agencies and internal stakeholders on campaigns and activity to ensure optimal strategic alignment and fully integrated planning. You will also support the annual marketing planning process in setting overarching marketing objectives, key performance indicators, forecasts, and budgets, translating these into an all-channel strategic brief for the cross-portfolio marketing plan, alongside campaign briefs. To be successful you must have a strong understanding of fully integrated end-to-end marketing campaigns and enjoy working with a range of stakeholders across a wide variety of projects.

What will I be doing?

• Supporting the annual marketing planning process in setting overarching marketing objectives, key Performance Indicators, forecasts and budgets; translating these into an all-channel cross-portfolio marketing plan

• Consulting with agencies and internal teams on paid marketing campaigns and activity to ensure optimal strategic alignment and fully integrated campaign planning across, audiences, channels and products

• Working closely with the Commercial and Operations function to support the end-to-end marketing workflow including and managing key stakeholder and agency/supplier relationships

• Working closely with the Marketing performance team and wider marketing teams to gather actionable insight and learnings from past campaigns

• Analysing campaign results, evaluating performance against targets while spotting opportunities to optimise activity, innovate and increase efficiency

• Taking a future-facing view of marketing trends and developments as well as competitor activity, the consumer landscape and data insight to ensure Cancer Research UK's marketing and communications stay ahead of the curve and are data and insight driven.

What skills are we looking for?

• Strong understanding of paid media channels; Audio Visual, Out Of Home, Digital with a particular focus on Paid Search and the role of the different channels in integrated campaign planning. You will also have experience working in an Agency environment.

• Excellent project management and communication skills with experience of managing and improving priority workstreams involving multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Media planning expertise and experience delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns across a broad portfolio.

• Experience of leading communications to manage and motivate suppliers and agencies to drive maximum value from relationships.

• Relevant experience of building positive working relationships and influencing others and working effectively as part of a matrix team.

• Commercially aware with budget management experience.

• Awareness of direct marketing channels and their role in the end-to-end marketing journey.

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.

Shape the future of the voice of the rare condition community.

Genetic Alliance UK is looking for an exceptional Director of Engagement and Impact to transform how we connect with our 220+ member organisations, communicate our mission, and foster a thriving, supportive team culture.

If you’re a strategic leader with a gift for building relationships, crafting compelling messages, and creating positive change, this is your opportunity to make a lasting difference for the 3.5 million people in the UK affected by genetic, rare and undiagnosed conditions. 

Director of Engagement and Impact
Salary: £55,167 – £63,654 (with new starters usually starting at the lower end of the range)
Location: Home-based, UK (occasional travel required)
Contract: Permanent, full-time (35 hours per week) with applications for up to 28 hours per week considered.
Closing date: 09:00 on Monday 22 Sept 2025 

About Genetic Alliance UK
Genetic Alliance UK is the national charity working to improve the lives of the 3.5 million people in the UK affected by genetic, rare and undiagnosed conditions. We are an alliance of over 220 charities and support groups, bringing together patient voices to campaign for timely diagnosis, better care, and improved access to treatments. We host Rare Disease UK and SWAN UK, and lead national activity for Rare Disease Day.

About the role
This is a new senior leadership position designed to strengthen our membership engagement, amplify our communications impact, and support a positive, collaborative working culture.

As part of our Senior Management Team, you will:

• Lead and develop our approach to engaging and supporting our diverse membership.

• Provide strategic oversight for all communications, ensuring our messages are clear, consistent and impactful across multiple audiences.

• Champion and embed systems for staff performance, development and wellbeing, ensuring our culture is inclusive, supportive, and sustainable.

You will oversee the Head of Membership and Communications, the Communications and Engagement Manager (SWAN UK), and two new posts (Communications Officer and Project Support Officer). You will also provide operational oversight of SWAN UK, and work closely with the Policy, Public Affairs and Research teams to maximise impact.

About you
We are looking for a strategic leader who combines a talent for building relationships with outstanding communication skills. You will bring experience of leading teams, delivering organisational change, and working effectively with diverse stakeholders. You will be comfortable navigating the needs of a membership organisation, and passionate about making a tangible difference for people living with rare conditions.

What we offer

• Generous pension (5% employer, 3% employee)

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and full office closure over Christmas/New Year

• Flexible, home-based working with occasional UK travel. 

• The opportunity to lead work that has a direct and lasting impact for people affected by rare conditions