An exciting opportunity has arisen at Mind CHWF to join our Psychological Therapies and IRIE Mind’s African and Caribbean Service, as a High Intensity IAPT Therapist. This is a part time, fixed term position where you can really make a difference to the outcomes in the lives of the African and Caribbean Communities. 

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the exciting, challenging and diverse boroughs of the City of London and Hackney, the post holder will be responsible for providing a High intensity service within Mind’s IAPT service; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy in 1:1 and group format for clients of African and Caribbean heritage. The post holder will be passionate about working with the African and Caribbean Communities and a qualified clinician with additional training in CBT, IPT of CfD .

To apply, please send us your CV and a covering letter stating why you are a suitable candidate by 22nd July at 23:59..

Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. 

We are a disability confident employer. All applicants with a disability, who meet the minimum essential short-listing criteria are guaranteed an interview. If this applies to you, please email us the attached equal opportunities form to the HR Team. 

We at Mind CHWF want to assure you that your privacy and the security of your data is our top priority. It always has been, and it will continue to be, as we refine our policies and internal processes. Please take a moment to read through our applicant’s privacy notice. 

The Charity

Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey Children's Hospital a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 330,000 patients and families we care for every year.

The charity helps to fund a range of activities and projects that are designed to enhance and improve the lives of our amazing young patients. This includes the funding of specialist medical equipment to ensure our brilliant surgeons and clinical staff have the most up to date and cutting edge technology available and funding hi-tech distraction equipment designed and proven to reduce pain and anxiety in our patients. We also fund a range of programmes and special projects such as our ward musicians, our on-site magician and the play specialists we have on every ward.

In Spring 2020 we launched our £3m Children's Mental Health Appeal. Our 7 in 10 Appeal highlights that 70% of young people with a mental health condition are currently missing out on vital mental health interventions at a sufficiently early age. The Appeal is aiming to raise vital funds to enhance inpatient and community mental health services at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, enabling more children to access the treatment they need at the time they need it, an already vitally needed service which is seeing increasing demand due to the impact of Covid-19.

The Role

Alder Hey Children’s Charity recently launched its 3 year strategy with a focus on investment and growth in Individual Giving and Legacy Income Streams. Since the impact of Covid-19, especially on community and event income, these areas have become even more important. In June 2020 we launch our first ever TV appeal with a focus on regular giving.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to have ownership of the development and implementation of our individual giving and legacy strategy and have an impact on the long term direction of the charity. We are innovative and ambitious organisation with big growth plans and willingness to invest to test new ideas and help achieve our goals.

As a senior member of the team, the post holder will lead Alder Hey Children’s Charity individual giving and legacy fundraising with a focus on maximising income and lifetime value. They will develop and implement multi-year strategies to significantly increase income and other support these areas, in-line with the overall fundraising strategy. They will also play a key role in developing donor journeys for our existing and new supporters ensuring that donors feel valued and informed about the impact they are making.

In order to be successful in this role, you must have: 

• Demonstrable experience in managing an individual giving programme including acquisition and retention activity, developing donor journeys and direct mail campaigns and managing relevant agency relationships
• Proven experience of developing existing income streams and developing new fundraising initiatives
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships both internally and externally
• Be self-motivated and have a positive attitude with the ability to work under pressure and prioritise in a busy environment.
• An understanding of and commitment to the values of Alder Hey Children’s Charity

To apply please send a copy of your CV with a cover letter demonstrating how your knowledge, experience and skills meet the requirements of the role by the closing date to Kim Platt, Office Manager.

Closing date: Wednesday 29th July 2020

Our Values

Courage – We try new things and take risks to innovate and drive forward new ideas. We have the courage to speak up and take a stance. We are accountable, responsive and responsible. We are unstoppable.

Together – We work together as one team, sharing our knowledge and learning. We work in partnership with patients, families, supporters and colleagues. We are respectful, celebrate diversity and empower each other to achieve our aims.

Passion – We are passionate about what we do and why we do it.  We work together to share and grow. We inspire others.

Magic – We are fun, creative and child-led. We create special moments, provide little extras and go further for our brave young patients.

We are working with a great, well-known National Disability Charity, in search of an Individual Giving Officer (Retention)

Your role will be to support the development and execution of individual campaigns that retain and recruit donors.

You will have the opportunity to project manage direct marketing campaigns, ensuring they are all high quality, creative and delivered on time and to budget.

You will support the charities relationship with its donors across the organisation, increasing loyalty and donor retention.

This is a great opportunity to really develop your skills in a friendly and supportive environment.

For this role, it is important for you to have the following:

• Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty whilst remaining focussed.


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to demonstrate diplomacy, rapport and sensitivity.


• Demonstrable experience of creating briefs. providing creative feedback and copy editing.

Closing date: asap.

Salary: £29,000

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787 or email [email protected].

If enough applications are received the charity reserves the right to end the application period sooner.

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

We are very excited here at Ashby Jenkins Recruitment to be working with a great cancer charity, this time in search for their new Senior Individual Giving Officer.

The primary focus of this role will be on retention campaigns and developing supporter journeys to retain and maximise income and engagement from existing supporters of the charity. You’ll be joining a well-established Individual Giving team and driving growth in income.

You will need:

• Previous experience of working within direct marketing, ideally strong retention experience


• Clear and appropriate written and verbal communication


• Proven direct marketing project management skills across a range of appeal and channel types

In return, you’ll be offered a competitive salary, and the chance to join a growing and ambitious organisation. They also offer a flexible working policy, along with a list of other great benefits.

Closing Date: asap

Salary: £30,000 - £33,500

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787 or email [email protected].

If enough applications are received the charity reserves the right to end the application period sooner.

We have an exciting role for a creative individual who enjoys testing new campaigns. This mental health organisation is now looking for an Individual Giving Manager to join them to support with their supporter communications, with a focus on digital fundraising.

This role will line manage a small team of two people and will lead on the individual giving strategy, the role will also oversee the website and comms.  It’s a great opportunity as it’s so important to get exposure to both of these areas in your IG career. You will also work across in-memory giving, meaning that you get plenty of variety and the opportunity to be really creative in the role.

You will have:

• Experience of working in direct marketing with good experience of using digital channels to acquire new donors


• A creative approach with experience of testing new campaigns


• Some line management experience


• An enthusiastic, positive and determined personality

Salary: £31,000 - £33,000

Closing date: 9^th July

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

Voluntary Income in The Church of England is over £800M a year, and funds most of the church's mission and ministry. The Church of England has adopted a National Giving Strategy for 2020-2025 that will invest in different ways to encourage giving within its churches.

The clergy have a critical leadership role to play in encouraging generosity and giving to the church, but often feel reluctant and lacking in confidence to fulfil this role. Currently giving is not taught to any significant degree in ordination training, and training for clergy within dioceses is limited and variable. This is an endemic and deep-rooted issue within the church - it has been this way for at least 100 years, probably much longer - and so the cultural change required will take determination and patience.

As Generous Giving Training Manager, you will create online and face to face clergy training resources and work with the Giving Advisors, to enable this to be delivered across all dioceses. You will also develop training resources for others within the church particularly laity, who take on responsibilities in this area.

To be successful, you will need experience of successfully delivering training, ideally within a church environment and of successfully encouraging giving in a paid or voluntary capacity. With leadership and influencing skills, you will be confident communicating to all audiences with a high degree of sensitivity and discretion.

Due to the specialist nature of the roles within the Giving team, training will be provided to successful candidates to enable them to carry out their role confidently.

We are a dispersed team and have a very flexible approach when it comes to working locations. In light of Covid-19, all team members are currently based at home. As a National Team we work throughout the dioceses and predominantly use online platforms to meet and train colleagues and parishes. However the willingness for some travel throughout England and Wales and work occasional weekends may be required from 2021 onwards.

Salary £38,331 p.a.- £41,216 p.a. (London based), £35,730 p.a.- £38,419 p.a. (Outer London).

This is a fixed term contact expected to last for 3 years.

Interviews are expected to be held w/c 10^th August 2020 remotely using Zoom.

In return we offer a unique environment with opportunities for continuous learning, generous annual leave for work life balance, season ticket loans and a range of benefits including discounted entry to attractions and what we feel is a market leading package when it comes to our scheme.

Main Responsibilities

The Role

Research and consultation

Work with key individuals within dioceses and NCIs to research and consult on the most effective ways to develop training for clergy.

This includes:

• Consult with dioceses, theological colleges and colleagues in the Ministry division to explore different ways that training can effectively be delivered to clergy.
• Develop an understanding as to how giving and generosity link with other training priorities including mission, discipleship, financial management and governance.
• Explore the opportunities for clergy to deepen their experience of a generous God, and reflect on the extent to which generosity is integral to their ministry, and how this opportunity can be delivered as part of pastoral care for their health and wellbeing.
• Review existing training provision, and map the extent of training currently provided for giving and generosity.

Train clergy

Create a training strategy for clergy, working with partners within NCIs, the wider church and external agencies, and manage the roll out of training across all dioceses.

This includes:

• Pilot different approaches to clergy training on giving and generosity with early adopter dioceses
• Write a report for the Archbishops' Council Finance Committee, Ministry Council and others on the conclusions reached and recommendations on the approach(es) to be taken for a national roll out.
• Create a project plan for the implementation of training on leading generous churches across all dioceses.
• Engage with dioceses, colleagues in the national team, colleagues in the Ministry division, theological colleges and training providers to create training frameworks and materials for clergy on leading generous churches.
• Implement the project plan, rolling out training across all dioceses.
• Integrate ongoing evaluation and monitoring of impact to help shape the roll out of the training.

Voluntary Income in The Church of England is over £800M a year, and funds most of the church's mission and ministry. The Church of England has adopted a National Giving Strategy for 2020-2025 that will invest in different ways to encourage giving within its churches.

Summary

Parishes need support to ensure they are enabling giving and encouraging generosity, and dioceses need support to ensure the parishes fund their ministry.

As Regional Giving Advisor, you will support the recruitment of Diocesan Giving Advisors in the Midlands / East and develop the knowledge and adoption of good practice in parishes and dioceses. You will support dioceses who access the Giving Advisor Fund, assisting them throughout the recruitment process, and providing training and non-managerial supervision for new Giving Advisors. You will also develop regional initiatives, and take a national lead on specific areas of giving and produce training and guidance in these areas.

To be successful, you will need experience of encouraging giving in a paid capacity and of influencing through communications with sensitivity and discretion. Experience of working within the Church sector, either in a paid or voluntary capacity would be an advantage.

Due to the specialist nature of this role within the Giving team, training will be provided to successful candidates to enable them to carry out their role confidently.

This role will cover Midlands and East.

We are a dispersed team and have a very flexible approach when it comes to working locations. In light of Covid-19, all team members are currently based at home. As a National Team we work throughout the dioceses and predominantly use online platforms to meet and train colleagues and parishes. However the role will require focused work with the Midlands and East Region, therefore a willingness for travel within this region as well as for some travel throughout England and work occasional weekends may be required from 2021 onwards.

Interviews are expected to be held w/c 10^th August 2020 remotely using Zoom.

In return we offer a unique environment with opportunities for continuous learning, generous annual leave for work life balance, season ticket loans and a range of benefits including discounted entry to attractions and what we feel is a market leading package when it comes to our scheme.

Main Responsibilities

The Role

Supporting Giving Advisors

Supporting dioceses through assisting in the recruitment, training and non-managerial supervision of giving advisors.

This includes:

• Assisting dioceses in the recruitment process for Giving Advisors, offering guidance and support on job descriptions, person specifications, recruitment advertising, shortlisting and interview process and sitting on the interview panel if asked.
• Auditing the training needs of all Giving Advisors in the region, and creating and delivering a training programme with colleagues from the national team and others.
• Providing non-managerial supervision and specialist advice and guidance for Giving Advisors, through regular meetings and ad-hoc support, where Giving Advisors are supported and given space and time to explore their challenges and the most effective way of addressing those challenges.
• Co-ordinate regional meetings of the Giving Advisors, agreeing dates, venues, agendas and desired outcomes.

National Lead for specific areas of expertise

Researching, training and developing guidance and advice on specific areas of expertise (such as giving and young people, giving in fresh expressions, giving in a rural context, giving in an urban context, giving in a small / large church, giving in different traditions etc).

This includes:

• Working with the line manager to identify the area of expertise that guidance will be produced for.
• Researching existing writing on the agreed area of expertise.
• Identifying models of good practice within dioceses.
• Agreeing collaboration with one or more dioceses in the creation of advice and guidance.
• Producing good practice guidance in various formats by working closely with the Marketing Manager.
• Organising and hosting events to develop understanding and practice in this area of expertise.
• Monitoring and evaluating the impact of the adoption of good practice across The Church of England.
• Answering queries and offering advice and guidance to parishes throughout The Church of England on this area of expertise.

Developing good practice in the region

Recruitment during COVID-19 restrictions
During the COVID-19 restrictions, our interviews will be by video call.
Additionally, the successful applicant will be fully supported to work from home for the initial period where restrictions on non-essential travel are in place.

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

The brilliant Individual Supporters Team at Crisis plays a key role in our successful and innovative Fundraising Programme – raising in excess of £30m per year. The team is vital to the long-term income growth of the organisation, recruiting new individual supporters and increasing the engagement of existing supporters through an audience – led communications programme of diverse channels and products and the production of the data files that work alongside our fantastic creatives are key.

Now is an exciting time to join Crisis as we are being more proactive in the way we work and becoming more agile every day and is currently implementing productivity tools such as Atlassian Confluence/Jira to make our jobs more streamlined across the organisation.

About the role
As Supporter Data Executive you will support the team in producing data selections, large and small, for a range of communications that go out to our wonderful supporters through various channels to update them on our work and what they can do to help. You also get to work alongside the creative teams and help with live laser proofs for mailings to ensure the data you’ve supplied is being used as intended.

About you
To be successful in this role you will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and have extensive experience of producing data selections using Blackbaud’s Raisers Edge 7 and either Excel or Access for data manipulation. Have the ability to work on own initiative, and strong proactive approach to ensuring delivery, especially at the moment whilst we are working from but also a key player and part of a team whereby, we work together to ensure all deadlines are met.

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

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

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

How to apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.

Please address points 1, 3, 4, 7 & 9 only from the Person Specification in your supporting statement.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team, contact details can be found on our website. 

Closing date: Monday 20 July 2020 (23:59)

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

For more information about our work please visit our website.

Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

We’re looking for a Payroll Specialist to play a pivotal role in continuing the exceptional progress we have made in aligning our core HR systems and providing a self-service offering to our colleagues.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving and supportive workplace and is best suited for someone as passionate as us about transforming the lives of young people.

Due to Covid-19, this is initially an agile role so you can be based anywhere in the UK. Once we start to re-open our offices for staff, you must be able to travel to our Birmingham office at least 1-2 times a week. 

What you will do:

• Progress our pension provision
• Review and align all payroll processes and inform on best practices
• Be involved in supplier engagement
• Help build on the capability within the team in line with our People Agenda
• Work closely with our payroll team to provide leadership and coaching to develop succession planning within the team

What we need from you:

• Experience of payroll systems, ideally SAP SuccessFactors
• Experience of coaching, mentoring and developing others
• Be able to run a payroll end-to-end
• In-depth knowledge of pension scheme rules and administration of schemes, including salary sacrifice
• Experience of end to end project management
• To be able to commute to our Birmingham office when required 

For a full breakdown on our essential and desirable criteria and what you’ll be doing on a day-to-day basis, please go to our website.

Why we need a Senior Payroll Specialist:

This year we aim to support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome.

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.  Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper. 

We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.  We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

Perks for working at The Trust:

• Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
• Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
• The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
• You can volunteer for and/or attend events – music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
• Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)

The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all roles within the Trust, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.

We are committed to equality and believe in building a diverse organisation that is representative of and responsive to the needs of our young people and stakeholders.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!

Req ID: 402 

Change Delivery Manager & Lean Specialists

Vauxhall, London (with travel throughout the UK as required)

35 hours per week / 23 Month Fixed Term Contract

Closing date: 2nd August 2020 (subject to change)

Interview dates: (1st Stage): w/c 17th August / (2nd Stage): early September

About the role

Marie Curie is in the midst of a transformational journey to ensure that everyone who is affected by dying, death and bereavement has the best possible experience at the end of life. As part of making this happen, we are embarking on a new change programme to deliver our new strategy

Reporting to the Director of Change Delivery, the purpose of the role is to work closely with our Senior Leadership Team and our newly created change delivery team, to deliver transformation and improvement activity across the Charity, through employing change methodologies and the application of innovative thinking.

This is a superb opportunity for an outstanding individual to really make their mark in helping us achieve our long-term strategic aspiration of successfully establishing, managing and delivering our new strategy.

About you

As a talented Lean practitioner, you are a capable lead in an ambiguous complex environment and thrive in change delivery and best practice. Your experience enables you to confidently demonstrate past successes of transforming organisations through efficiency, cultural and evidence-driven change.

With extensive knowledge and expertise of portfolio management, cross-directorate projects and initiatives, you will likely come from a background working in the Charity sector, Public Sector, NHS or Consultancy.

A suitably qualified and independently minded professional, you are ambitious and driven with first class interpersonal and communication skills

Whilst sharing our values and future vision, you are capable of ensuring practices are deployed to shape, plan, implement and track change throughout the organisation.

Being a real team player, you work effectively in a collaborative environment. A positive person by nature, you exude passion in what you do and motivate those around you.

About us

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left. Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

Marie Curie is 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 are looking to recruit an experienced individual to join us as Information Security Specialist, to support the organisation by helping to safeguard our information assets and systems.  The role of Information Security Specialist sits within the Legal & Compliance team at Save the Children Fund (SCUK) and advises the organisation on information security issues, supporting delivery of SCUK's strategy, ensuring good governance and the effective management of risks relating to information security. 

In our Support Services department, we fight for children every single day. We provide leadership and direction in the business of running an efficient organisation. We ensure our resources are used to maximum effect. We go the extra mile - and we don’t rest until the work is done.

The role of the Information Security Specialist is to provide pragmatic and proactive support and advice to colleagues across SCUK on our cyber security programme and new business initiatives involving the use of technology, to update and maintain our Information Security Policy and related procedures, standards, and guidance, and to assist in the management and investigation of cyber-security related incidents.  The Information Security Specialist also may collaborate with Save the Children International (the international programming arm of Save the Children) and with other members of the Save the Children global movement on projects or issues where relevant.

The Information Security Specialist will work closely with our Legal & Compliance and Technology teams and will need to be comfortable engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation. You will be responsible for reviewing our security frameworks, identifying potential and actual Information Security problems, and implementing mitigations to address them. You will also establish and validate cyber controls by developing and recommending improvements to the framework for controls and levels of access. In addition, you will:

• Maintain assurance over escalated system access by providing regular information, resources, and technical support

• Ensure authorised systems access, reporting violations, monitoring information requests for new systems and recommending process improvements

• Provide advice and sign-off for information security initiatives such as firewall rules

• Investigate security incidents in accordance with protocols, collaborating with response teams in Technology and Legal & Compliance.

To be successful you will hold a CISSP or CISM qualification and have experience working in a similar role. Driven to improve systems and processes, you will also be adept at providing subject matter expert advice on the delivery of technical projects. You should also have the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to a variety of non-technical audiences. In addition, you will have:

• A sound understanding of core principles of network and server cloud architecture, Mobile Device Management, encryption, vulnerability scanning, and SIEM monitoring

• The ability to effectively influence senior leadership in strategic decision making

• An understanding of disaster recovery principles and an awareness of PCI-DSS legislation and standards

• The ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a critical area of the charity, supporting and making a difference in the midst of a global crisis.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

Closing date: 26th July 2020

Please note that we will be reviewing applications throughout the advertising period and may close the vacancy early due to interest levels, therefore early applications are encouraged.

Description

We are looking for an experienced specialist to join our team to protect, nurture and grow relationships with key supporters and stakeholders. This new post is pivotal to our planned growth to enable us to help more children and young people who need our support to tackle significant challenges in their lives.

You will already know how to give our major donors an excellent experience of their support for the charity – and be able to provide them with appropriate ways to give, to get involved and learn how their support is making a difference.

You will also have experience of finding, engaging and involving new prospective supporters and be able to plan events and other ways to showcase the great work this charity does and how donors can help us do more of it.

Responsibilities

• Effective communication with existing and prospective major donors and linked stakeholders
• Development of new relationships to achieve growth - building for the future whilst also meeting the current year's income targets
• Producing clear, concise, compelling proposals and reports
• Information and insight management - ensuring our systems are kept up to date with an accurate picture of opportunities and communications.

Experience

• At least two years successful experience in major donor fundraising
• Experience of stewarding and cultivating relationships with senior stakeholders, internal and external, in a charity context
• Experience of writing high quality, successful donor proposals and presentations
• Demonstrable experience of recruiting new major donors

Skills

• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills and emotional intelligence
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent time management: able to prioritise a varied workload, and work independently with minimum supervision to achieve objectives
• Articulate, confident, sensitive and diplomatic
• The ability to understand and convey complex financial information, communicating to donors and prospects
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft 365 software and good working knowledge of a fundraising CRM
• Highly motivated and objective orientated
• Proactive, positive and collaborative approach
• Ability to deal with confidential matters discretely
• Ability and willingness to travel and occasionally to work at evenings or weekends
• A strong belief in the importance of preventative work with children, coupled with an understanding of the need for philanthropic support to achieve it

Qualifications

• Educated to 'A' Level or equivalent (essential)
• Institute of Fundraising Certificate/ Diploma (desirable)

Job Benefits

• Flexible working, including home working
• Pension scheme

How to apply

To apply, please download the full job description/person specification and application form from our website.

The job will involve working with people in custody or subject to supervision in the community, to engage them in learning, training and employment opportunities, either through one-to-one or group work.  You’ll need to be proactive, a good communicator and effective at working with partner organisations to ensure the best results for our participants. Recording of accurate information on participant plans is an important part of the job, so you’ll need to be comfortable working on databases and systems and have a strong attention to detail. 

We are especially looking for applicants who can connect with people to help move them forward, embrace the quality and compliance requirements of working on a contract and have the skills to work towards individual performance targets.

We’ll give you all the training you need to do the Case Manager job and provide you with support to get established in the new role.  We employ a team of 45 Case Managers across the NW, who are very proud to work on this highly successful ESF programme.

Our full-time staff enjoy a reasonable 35h working week and we also offer flexi-time, so when we ask our staff to do extra, we always make sure they’ve got those hours to take back another time.  It’s a great benefit of working for Career Connect. 

Do you want to play a significant part in making the ordinary possible for children and young people with autism? Working as the Major Donor Officer you can make a difference.

Ambitious about Autism is the national charity for children and young people with autism. Our mission is to help children and young people with autism to learn, thrive and achieve. We work to improve the services available for children and young people with autism, to increase awareness and understanding of autism, to campaign for change and, through TreeHouse School, The Rise School and Ambitious College, to offer outstanding specialist education and support.

To enable us to achieve our mission, we are looking to appoint a Major Donor Officer to join our award-winning Fundraising team, who will work with the Head of Philanthropy to develop and manage an engaged and committed portfolio of individual major donors.  This will be achieved by management of a personal portfolio of high net-worth prospects, but also by maintaining a comprehensive stewardship programme for all our major donors and managing a giving club for mid-level donors.

Working as a Major Donor Officer, you will:

• Contribute to the development and delivery of a major donor strategy, in line with the overall fundraising plan
• Identify and research prospective funders, both independently and collaboratively, using a range of tools, sources and contacts, to help maintain a healthy pipeline of people to engage and cultivate
• Build and maintain effective relationships with prospective supporters using expert verbal and written communications skills
• Cultivate a portfolio of prospective major givers to secure four and five-figure donations
• Manage and develop a giving club to create closer relationships with mid-value donors

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking organisation and make a real difference to the lives of young people and children with autism. In return, we offer a great working culture, excellent befits and flexible working.

If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity, need any further information or wish to have an informal discussion please contact: Stephen Vickers, Senior Recruitment Officer 

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.