The job of a Save the Children UK’s Full Stack WordPress Developer is busy and rewarding.

• Are you an experienced Full Stack WordPress Developer who is available on very short notice?
• Do you have excellent PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS skills?
• Are you great at solving complex issues through analysis and defining a clear way forward?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Head of PMO, the Full Stack Word Press Developer will be responsible for ongoing development of our Resource Hub and Shops websites, both hosted in WordPress.

The Full Stack Word Press Developer will be expected to deliver enhancements and fix bugs that have already been listed in prioritised backlogs for each of the two respective websites.

This is a short-term contract role for 2.5 months with some potential to extend into 2022.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Full Stack Word Press Developer key duties will be to:

• Configure, design and develop enhancements/features, and fix bugs on multiple WordPress sites (including Ecommerce and resource hubs)
• Work in both of the product developments above, in close conjunction to the Lead Developer and Developers working within the Development Scrum
• Undertake/co-ordinate testing on any upgrades and developments to ensure live operations are safeguarded
• Assist with web development and associated technologies
• Develop proof of concept solutions and enhance iteratively to full production applications

Person Profile

Experience

• Excellent PHP and phpMyAdmin skills
• Excellent MySQL and JavaScript skills
• Excellent html and CSS skills
• Excellent experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.

Abilities

• Excellent ability to understand, interpret (and challenge) business requirements and translate these into a developed solution.

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

We are partnering exclusively with a major cultural organisation in London to recruit an Infrastructure Team Lead. Working closely with the Head of IT, this role provides technical leadership to the IT department on digital cloud infrastructure technology and leads on the delivery of secure, customer-centric and compliant IT infrastructure for a large cultural organisation.

Current Priorities

• Developing and maintaining core on-premise and cloud infrastructure, services and systems and ensuring data security and compliance
• Managing risk and ongoing compliance with PCI, GDPR and relevant cybersecurity standards and best practice
• Developing and designing cloud based infrastructure to replace physical infrastructure where appropriate
• Improve speed, accessibility and fault tolerance on systems that must remain on premises
• Designing, implementing and testing business continuity plans and systems
• Supporting the Head of IT in the development and implementation of a digital strategy for IT infrastructure across the organisation.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead on physical and virtual server administration (on-premise and cloud)
• Lead on infrastructure management and projects including network security, design and implementation
• Lead on all cyber security risks relating to the delivery of operational digital and technology services and take overall responsibility for related audit actions
• Lead on all aspects of data security, the technical aspects of PCI and GDPR compliance and
• Ensure ongoing risk management and updating of the risk register
• Lead on Cloud platform management and design - Azure and Amazon AWS
• Lead on IT Business Continuity implementation and testing
• Manage all system changes in accordance with Change Request and Approval processes
• Manage a small team ensuring they’re motivated, productive and their skills are developed
• Ensure appropriate patch and security update management across IT systems
• Manage the asset register of all IT hardware assets across the SC
• Lead on IT vendor and contract management
• Identify and recommend opportunities to optimise secure business processes and procedures through IT technology, including the communication of those technologies to users
• Ensure that systems monitoring physical and cloud infrastructure performance are fit for purpose and provide timely and accurate feedback
• Ensure that an asset replacement programme is adhered to and aligned with business need
• Manage IT infrastructure budget, planning, and recruitment
• Deputise in the absence of the Head of IT
• Any other duties as may be reasonably required in supporting the delivery a strong IT service to the organisation

Essential skills and experience

• Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship building skills to foster relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Understanding and ability to continually update cybersecurity skills relevant to present and future IT architectures
• Significant experience leading and managing an infrastructure and operations team
• Significant experience designing, implementing and supporting IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GoogleCP) and desktops
• A deep understanding of current and emerging-technologies as well as an overview of technical trends
• Significant experience with managing risk, audits and compliance to PCI, GDPR and relevant standards
• Experience with managing staff and handling outside consultants, including cybersecurity specialists
• Significant experience leading on business continuity strategy and solution design
• Significant experience of vendor and contract management
• Sound project management skills with regard to projects, budgets and personnel with a proven ability to collaborate across departments and leading teams
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal

If you're a Solutions Integration Engineer who is excited to work with Dynamics and Power Platform then this could be a great role for you!

We are partnered with a great organisation, a leading organisation with a truly inspirational social purpose.

What will you be doing?

• You will be responsible for design, development, and support of core integration work
• As the IT Solutions Integration Engineer, you will configure and support applications across the business
• You'll coordinate and document technical services; plan, organise, consult, and bridge the gap between IT and other business teams
• Review the current technologies in the organisation and help to harness these applications and solutions in the business
• You will also focus on the customers and how to solve customer issues through the use of solutions and technologies

What do you need to apply to this role?

• Experience managing change
• Technical skills and functional appreciation of Dynamics applications and Power Platform
• Demonstrable experience working as an Integration Engineer
• Working experience in integrations between internal and external systems, applications, data storage, or SAAS solutions

Reports?to: Lead QA Engineer

Location:?Redman Place, Stratford

Contract: Permanent. 35 hours per week.

Flexibility: We're flexible on how you do your work, with this role only expected to be in the office 1 or 2 days per week, and a 'core hours' policy of 10am-4pm

Salary:?£30,000 - £40,000 per annum dependent on experience?.

Application method:?Please complete the anonymous application form, making sure?all of?your experience is included so that we are able to effectively shortlist.

Application Deadline:??Sunday 7th November 2021, 11.59pm. Do not delay applying as we will be shortlisting on application.

Cancer Research UK and our Technology team are evolving. The Quality Assurance Team's mission is to drive quality into all software products produced by/or on behalf of Cancer Research UK. The team is striving to enhance testing service throughout the project lifecycle and ultimately assist Technology in improving the quality of product we deliver to our customers, whilst pushing shift left forward in the lifecycle.

Want to know more? Take a look at our

What will I be doing?

As a QA Engineer in the team, you will champion the quality of our features in our development pipeline whether that be pairing with developers promoting testability or trying to break the feature through exploratory testing. You will own authoring and the execution of test plans, test cases and testing at every stage of the lifecycle. You will have a significant impact in the quality and delivery speed of our software, most importantly our customers. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, and other QA in order to ensure the features we deliver to our customers have a high level of quality. In addition, you will also have the opportunity to propose improvements to our existing processes and automated tools in order to improve the team's speed, quality and efficiency.

• Experience of working in an agile environment

• Skilled in the design of acceptance tests
• Working experience of REST API, Web GUI and cross-browser testing. Tools we like: Cypress, Pact, Postman (Equivalent tools/frameworks valid)
• Solid experience of JavaScript (TypeScript would be a bonus)
• An enthusiasm for new technologies with the ability to adapt and learn. Has the confidence and initiative to evolve ideas and bring together pieces of work to produce changes

What's in it for me?

• 25, days annual leave (plus bank holidays and the ability to buy up to 5 days per annum) and 1 CRUK day.
• Pension (employer contributions of up to 10%), life insurance and a great benefit discount platform.
• An incredibly strong tech stack
• A brilliant learning and development environment
• Platform to develop your testing knowledge within our QA Community.

Our optimism and desire for success leads us to constantly challenge ourselves and others, which means you'll be encouraged to stretch yourself in our dynamic environment. And ultimately, you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work.

If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.

Reports?to: Lead QA Engineer
Location:?Redman Place, Stratford
Contract: Permanent. 35 hours per week.
Flexibility: We're flexible on how you do your work, with this role only expected to be in the office 1 or 2 days per week, and a 'core hours' policy of 10am-4pm
Salary:?Senior QA Engineer £40,000 - £50,000 per annum dependant on experience?
Application method:?Please complete the anonymous application form, making sure?all of?your experience is included so that we are able to effectively shortlist.
Application Deadline:??Sunday 7th November 2021, 11.59pm. Do not delay applying as we will be shortlisting on application.

Cancer Research UK and our Technology team are evolving. The Quality Assurance Team's mission is to drive quality into all software products produced by/or on behalf of Cancer Research UK. The team is striving to enhance testing service throughout the project lifecycle and ultimately assist Technology in improving the quality of product we deliver to our customers, whilst pushing shift left forward in the lifecycle.

Want to know more? Take a look at our Senior QA Engineer:

What will I be doing?

The Senior QA Engineers in the team, your focus will be on supporting the engineering team with testing guidance and provide training to enable the team to continuously deliver high-quality products and features. You will be proactively planning and coordinating testing activities, collaborating with product management and developers to streamline the release of new features with high confidence in delivering quality. Drive process improvements that ensure our testing culture is continuously moving towards a collaborative model of software testing and quality assurance.

What experience do I need?

* Senior QA Engineers must have proven experience in creating test automation frameworks.
* Practical knowledge of non-functional testing types such as accessibility, performance and security testing
* Experience of working in an agile environment
* Skilled in the design of acceptance tests.
* Working experience of REST API, Web GUI and cross-browser testing. Tools we like: Cypress, Pact, Postman (Equivalent tools/frameworks valid).
* Expertise of JavaScript (TypeScript would be a bonus).
* An enthusiasm for new technologies with the ability to adapt and learn.
* Has the confidence and initiative to evolve ideas and bring together pieces of work to produce changes.

What's in it for me?

* 25, days annual leave (plus bank holidays and the ability to buy up to 5 days per annum) and 1 CRUK day.
* Pension (employer contributions of up to 10%), life insurance and a great benefit discount platform.
* An incredibly strong tech stack
* A brilliant learning and development environment
* Platform to develop your testing knowledge within our QA Community.

Our optimism and desire for success leads us to constantly challenge ourselves and others, which means you'll be encouraged to stretch yourself in our dynamic environment. And ultimately, you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work.

If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.

Head of Software Engineering

Up to £70,000pa

London and Remote - we are a hybrid working team

The Head of Engineering innovates and progresses Comic Relief’s (CR’s) digital giving capabilities and data platforms to deliver best in class User Experiences for our staff and supporters.

The role is responsible for establishing and continuously refining processes, standards and practice for the development, delivery, and operation of all digital products in a secure, scalable, agile, and operationally efficient manner.

They are responsible for the architecture and operation of the infrastructure, and for nurturing a team of highly skilled engineers to deliver and support these critical systems.

Equally importantly, the role works with the CTO, Head of Product, Head of Data and Analytics and IT Service Delivery Manager to lead a Technology team which keeps Comic Relief at the forefront of technology innovation, and which helps us deliver our challenging objectives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Vertical ownership of the whole software stack including support, monitoring and full operational responsibility, (including participating in 15X7 support rota during key periods).
• Leadership and continuous development of a high-performing Engineering team which partners with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver to the highest standards.
• Advise on and implement technology choices that will contribute to CR’s strategy and continue our tradition of technology innovation.
• Define and embed coding, architecture and infrastructure provision standards and processes.
• Mentor other engineers; organise development forums; create a culture of operational excellence, quality first development and continuous refactoring and improvement.
• Actively engage in open source and technology communities and raise the profile of CR as a top tier software development organisation.
• Work on other products and tools like the testing stack, continuous integration, and delivery pipelines, and help craft unique user centred digital experiences in an agile setting.
• Act as a source of knowledge regarding the choice of approach for new projects and application development.
• Create opportunity for engineering team members to have closer ties to CR’s Social Tech portfolio e.g. mentoring, tech clinics, code reviews.
• Progress Machine Learning projects that unlock access to unrealised assets, streamline inefficient processes and/or accelerate strategic goals.
• Be an ambassador for collaborative cross-functional working both within the Technology team and across the wider organisation.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent software engineering leader with solid, demonstrable experience in leading and mentoring software engineering teams to deliver innovative, high-performing solutions to time and budget
• Strong software development skills with experience in most / all of the following:

            JavaScript (NodeJS, react),

            CSS/HMTL,

            API development,

           Continuous integration (GitHub actions, concourse ci),

           Test-driven development,

          12-factor application development,

          Serverless development in an AWS environment.

• Solid software testing and delivery skills – able to help create secure, scalable, and adaptable digital platforms and services.
• Excellent problem solver – good attention to detail, experience in performing root cause analyses and able to identify tactical methods for improvement.
• Strong people leader and coach, excellent motivational skills, can build high performing teams and drives towards a dynamic and innovative hybrid working culture that builds capability in line with organisational technology strategy.
• Strategic thinker with demonstrable experience and passion for innovating the discovery, design, and implementation of transformative end-to-end technology-enabled services.

Perks and benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Work from home option
• Wellness programs
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid emergency leave
• Sabbatical Opportunities
• Professional development
• Mentoring/coaching
• Paid volunteer days
• Payroll giving
• Team social events
• Extracurricular clubs
• Cycle to work scheme

To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.

Closing: 12:00pm, 2nd Nov 2021 GMT

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

• Be valued for being yourself
• Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
• Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
• Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.

The job of a Save the Children's UK BI Developer is busy and complex.

• Are you passionate about providing high quality data solutions?
• Are you driven to help organisations understand the value good quality data?
• Do you have strong stakeholder management and communication skills?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

The BI Developer will be responsible will be responsible for the design, build, test and delivery of reporting and developments, in accordance with agreed development plans. You will play a key role in the support of the system, working with the CRM Team and Information Systems (IS) Team to ensure that the availability and integrity of the data and system is maximized.

The BI Developer will be able to read and interpreting what the business is saying to proactively identify potential issues and problems, you will develop, build and maintain all aspects of the BI and Data platform. You will also be responsible for data definitions, source system identification and connectivity, and performing data variation, whilst working with end users to define business requirements and needs.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The Senior Media Manager will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

Key duties will include:

• Partnering with multiple departments to help drive data driven ways of working, using query tools to transform data into useful insights as well as creating data visualisations and interactive dashboards to service requests from across the organisation

• Creating Dimensional Data model from new requirements and develop a multidimensional cube using SSAS
• Considering how to increase connectivity between systems, building automated workflows and data checks to constantly improve the smooth running of the processes, data integrity and accurate reporting, working closely with the BI team

• Ensuring a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development, supporting our growing number of global users and services

• Working with other developers across the entire technology real estate

• Keeping up to date with the latest technologies and methodologies to ensure Save the Children UK stays ahead of the game and can provide suitable solutions for the business requirements

Person Profile

Experience

• Experience in working with the Cisco Information Server CIS or any data virtualisation platform

• Significant MS SQL experience and Data Modelling experience

• Experience in database management/marketing with a strong understanding of the use of data and systems in online marketing campaigns

• Significant MS SSAS and MS SSIS experience

• The ability to understand, interpret and challenge business requirements and translate these into a developed solution

• Experience solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in

Abilities

• Ability to understand, interpret and challenge organisation requirements and translate these into a developed solution

• Ability to understand customer requirements and deliver applicable solutions

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment

• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

From Bernie Sanders to Greenpeace UK, progressive organisations are using digital mobilisation to activate hundreds of thousands of campaigners and raise millions of pounds online. Forward Action believes that a digital mobilisation model - where organisations use digital channels to drive hundreds of thousands of supporters to take advocacy, fundraising and volunteering actions - can revolutionise campaigning and fundraising in the NGO sector. However, its potential is still largely untapped in the UK. We help progressive organisations build digital mobilisation programmes and, as a Junior Web Developer at Forward Action, you will build and support some of the technology that powers those programmes.

You will work in our small development team creating campaigning and fundraising pages. You’ll also build A/B optimisation tests to make sure those pages drive as many people as possible to take action. You will be guided and mentored by our Lead Developer. If you’re passionate about helping to make the world a better place and you want to gain some hands-on experience as a web developer whilst doing that, this is the job for you.

This is a permanent role, with the freedom to work both in our London office and remotely anywhere in the UK. You can work either four or five days per week.

We are committed to making sure Forward Action is an inclusive, diverse and anti-racist organisation. People from communities that experience discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity or immigration status; sexuality or gender identity; age; socio-economic status; or disability are actively and especially encouraged to apply.

Applications close on 14th November 2021.

Who we are

Forward Action is a digital mobilisation agency for progressive causes. We help our partner organisations reach new supporters, then mobilise them to become activists and donors. We have been in the engine room of some of the most successful election and charity digital campaigns of the last few years, helping our partners add millions of new supporters to their email lists, raise more money online (from more donors) and create campaigns that have led to real-world change.

Our values are critical to us: we will only work with causes that make the world a better place. You will get to work with some of the most inspiring and impactful organisations in the sector - such as Greenpeace, Cancer Research UK, and Refuge - and spend your days helping win progress on everything from climate change to homelessness.

You will be working at the cutting edge of digital mobilisation. We trust in data rather than our gut instincts, so we are constantly testing and iterating in our work in order to challenge assumptions and drive better results. We are an agile, fast-moving team, and you will have the opportunity to rapidly develop and expand your skills and experience.

One of our fundamental values is that all our work should drive real-world, measurable results. But we also believe that the greatest progressive impact we can have is to give our partner organisations the skills, knowledge and culture they need to do what we do themselves. We want to spread our skills and way of working across the progressive sector, not make our partners dependent on us.

What you’ll do as part of our team

• Create and maintain advocacy and fundraising pages using HTML, CSS and JavaScript for our partners' campaigns
• Write code to set up A/B conversion rate optimisation tests to improve those pages, collecting analytics for our strategy team to analyse
• Contribute to the development of custom tools to support our partners' work such as this Union Finder or this map
• Assist in the development of our internal tools, such as Blueprint, our petition and fundraising platform.

Benefits and location

Pro Rata Salary: £29,201 if you live inside London, £26,072 (plus £3,000 travel expense allowance) if you live outside London.

Contract Term: This is a permanent contract. The role can be either full time or four days a week.

Location:  We offer remote working or you can work from our Hoxton office. Ensuring our team is open to people who live outside London and enabling staff to work flexibly are important values to us. Most of our meetings are held via video conferencing and all our workflow is built to be remote-first.

Holiday: 25 days/year (pro rata), plus bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year.

Extra holiday for travelling sustainably: We’re a member of the Climate Perks scheme, so you’ll have an extra two days of holiday a year if you use them to travel by land or sea instead of taking a flight.

Maternity and Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave: For a small organisation, we’re proud to have a generous and progressive parental leave policy. Maternity leave is 12 weeks at full pay, 14 weeks at 50% pay. Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave is 6 weeks at full pay.

Period policy:  We know that periods can have a big impact on people's wellbeing, and we're proud of our pioneering period policy to support people who menstruate. We encourage an open, positive and respectful conversation about periods in the workplace. Team members who menstruate can take one full day of leave each month where needed, without needing to tell their manager it’s because of their period. We have hot water bottles, tampons and pads, painkillers and chocolate available in the office.

Working culture and hours: Our team is open, inclusive, friendly, respectful and kind.

We work eight hour days (including a 30 minute lunch break), with core hours of 9:30am-4:30pm. We put a lot of importance on ensuring everyone finishes on time: while there are some times when you’ll need to stay a little later to finish work, people in the team rarely work more than 45-60 minutes late. No one ever works on weekends or their holidays.

Abilities and experience you’ll need to have

• 6 months+ experience working professionally as a developer OR a relevant degree OR be a dedicated self-learner who has completed online web development courses
• Good knowledge of HTML and CSS and comfortable with JavaScript fundamentals
• Have a Github profile that shows off some recent examples of your work
• An eagerness to learn and grow as a developer
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail
• Dedication to helping build a fairer, more progressive society
• Fluency in spoken and written English

Abilities and experience that are nice to have

We know it’s not possible for any applicants to have all these skills - ideally you’ll be able to bring 2-3 of the following to our team:

• Experience working with Vue.js (or another modern JavaScript framework such as ReactJS, and a desire to pick up Vue.js)
• Experience with PHP (specifically Laravel framework) and MySQL databases
• Experience working with SASS and utilising module bundles such as Webpack or Parcel
• Experience creating and working on applications that consume external APIs
• Knowledge of Git and Github
• Experience with automated testing using Jest and/or PHPUnit
• Good understanding of UX best practises and accessibility guidelines
• Experience running A/B tests
• Experience working with an agency or as a freelancer

How to apply

Please apply by clicking the button above or on the Forward Action website

To ensure our hiring process is as fair as possible, we run an anonymised application procedure. So please remove your name and contact information from your CV before uploading it, and only enter these details in the online form.

To apply, you will need to include:

• your CV (with name and contact details removed)
• up to 250 words explaining how you're suited to the role and why you want this job
• A link to your Github profile
• A link to a recent example of your work on Github, a brief explanation of the project and something you learned whilst working on it.

Applications close on 14th November 2021.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a short technical task that we expect to not take more than 60 minutes. Based on the task, a small number of candidates will be asked to attend an interview via a video call on the week commencing 29th November.

Technology & Planning Specialist (Retail)

Salary: £32,500 - £37,500 per annum dependent on experience

Location: Flexible - with travel into the office once a fortnight

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time 35 hours

Application Deadline: 11th November 2021 11:59pm

We will be shortlisting upon application and will close the role once filled, please apply ASAP to be considered.

Are you a self-motivated and sharp minded individual with experience in Technical Project Management that can help us beat cancer sooner?

Working closely with CRUK Technology Directorate to support and help to deliver technology initiatives at a localised and national level; which support the Corporate Strategy, Trading department's long-term plan and the maintaining of business-critical shop infrastructure. The Technology and Planning Specialist support the development and delivery of our retail teams technical roadmap - scheduling changes, enhancements and fixes, to the technology systems and services used by the Trading team.

Want to know more > take a look at our For a full role profile, please see here:

If you are a retail application support analysist interested in moving into more of a delivery role working with different stakeholder and leading on projects, then this could be of interest to you. This role could also suit a technical project manager with an interest or knowledge of retail.

To execute this, some of the things you can expect to be involved in are…

• Championing improvements to till devices, it's associated software and hardware peripherals, for 600 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) shop's, throughout the UK.

• Providing support and advice on several complex tech lead projects, helping to identify success measures, work with project teams/stakeholders and provide timely updates to Operational Support Manager and Strategy & Planning Manager

• Supporting both short and long-term departmental objectives/outcomes relating to Tech, maintaining a strong understanding of the strategic and performance objectives of Trading

• Working proactively with the Operational Support Manager to support the day to day management of EPOS technology in Trading, ensuring a high level of supporter experience. This includes engaging directly with shop and regional Trading staff to gather more information about, and provide advice on, issues/problems.

• Building a detailed level of Technical knowledge of Trading's systems and processes to support Trading teams with system changes or operational activities throughout the year.

To be successful in this role, you will need to bring your…

• Practical knowledge of project management techniques

• Good knowledge of retail technical requirements and EPoS systems

• Experience in building collaborative and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• In depth of working with data sets and building data gathering and reporting functions.

• Commitment to new approaches driving new ways of working showing resilience and stamina

• Good knowledge and/or experience of retail operations and support functions would be beneficial for this role

What's in it for me?

• 25, days annual leave (plus bank holidays and the ability to buy up to 5 days per annum) and 1 CRUK day.

• Pension (employer contributions of up to 10%), life insurance and a great benefit discount platform.

• A brilliant learning and development environment

If this describes you, you can enjoy a phenomenal career with us as, together, we bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.

Please apply by submitting your CV and answering some short application questions.

Title: .Net Developer

Salary: £39,034 - £44,000 negotiable (plus London Allowance if applicable)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Based: UK Flexible - home and/or office

Closing date: 10th November 2021

Interview date: TBC

With some exciting new projects in our sights, we are looking for a talented .NET Developer to join our committed team, where you will be instrumental in helping us to achieve our goals. This is a time when the Digital team will be pushing boundaries so we're looking for someone who likes to think big and act on delivering it.

Operating within an Agile culture and methodology, you will be working closely with and supporting the lead .NET Developer to implement a range of innovative web and product development projects.

What we are looking for:

• Experience of both front end and back end development
• Proven experience of working in a dynamic, fast phased environment with the ability to manage multiple projects and changing priorities
• Knowledge of contemporary web & software development methodologies & toolsets
• Suitably qualified, ideally with a systems, multimedia or technology focus
• Highly numerative with the ability to produce good quality technical documentation
• Experience in Programming C# using ASP.NET, MVC
• Agile / Scrum development environment

What's in it for you:

• Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Continuous development
• Industry leading training programmes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Working

For more information or an informal chat please contact our Delivery Manager , Seem Alsasa -

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

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.

Title: User Interface Developer

Salary: £39,034 - £44,000 pa plus London Allowance if applicable

Hours: 35 Hours a Week

Contract: Full Time Permanent

Based: London / Home

Closing date: 10th November 2021

Interview date: To be confirmed

Marie Curie is searching for a talented front-end developer to work within the development team, part of our digital centre of excellence. You would support the charity by continually improving the usability and development of its website, working on key areas such as the continuous improvement of our donation journeys, developing and maintaining our component library, developing our ecommerce platform and enhancing our memorial sites such as Memory Cloud.

This is an exciting time to join the team with plenty of opportunity to make your mark as we look to improve our digital tools and services and support ongoing improvement of our digital maturity.

Familiar with .NET and Episerver environments and operating within an Agile culture and methodology, the User Interface Developer works closely with and supports the technical team to implement a range of innovative web and product development projects in support of the strategic outcomes of the charity. They will work closely with the Digital Manager's team to ensure high standards for usability, optimisation and accessibility. This role requires a knowledge of CMS systems and the Microsoft technology stack and is the engine room of the development team.

What we are looking for:

The ideal candidate will have proven experience working with Sass, JavaScript (ES6+, Babel) and jQuery, CSS, HTML as well as build tools such as Npm and Gulp. They will know SVG, Razor syntax (ASP.NET framework) and have excellent skillsets in building websites with responsive design.

Also essential is a good understanding of web content accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1), best practices in site performance and optimisation as well as excellent skills designing for and testing compatibility across browsers and devices

Attention to detail is a must, along with an ability to work in a fast paced environment on multiple projects. We have a good collaborative approach and are looking for a self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills who is proactive, patient and with a diplomatic approach.

Highly numerate and literate, the candidate needs to have the ability to produce good quality written technical documentation

What's in it for you:

• Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Continuous development
• Industry leading training programmes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Working

For more information or an informal chat please contact our Delivery Manager , Seem Alsasa -

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

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.

Location: London
Contract/recruitment type: Permanent
Starting salary: £24,000.00 per annum
Hours of work: 37.5 per week

About the role

It's the perfect platform to launch your career in IT

It's being encouraged to take on new challenges. And it's joining the professional business behind the monarchy. This is what makes working for them so different.

Joining their experienced IT team, you'll provide first and second line deskside support to over 1,000 users of network, software and hardware related services, across multiple locations.

As the first point of contact for a vast range of queries, you'll support the wider team and work to resolve issues quickly and to a high standard, learning from those around you.

The volume and scope of queries will be wide-ranging and you'll decide how to best handle each one, either investigating and resolving it yourself, or escalating it to another team.

Although your starting point will be to provide best practice service desk support, as you gain experience and develop your skills, you'll be encouraged to engage in other projects that are of interest to you - whether it be staging events, installing hardware and software additions or building & configuring portable devices.

And as a key part of this team, you'll have a range of opportunities to develop your own skills with scope to make a positive impact on the day to day running of the organisation.

About you

Digitally fluent and with a passion for IT Systems, you'll bring a basic level knowledge of computer components and terminology, and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Microsoft Windows10.

In this customer facing role, equally important are your communication skills and confidence in dealing with a range of people.

To excel, you'll be a natural problem solver with an analytical mind and thrive on the challenges that come your way.

Organised and pro-active, with lots of initiative and an ability to work at pace, you'll juggle a varied workload, effectively balancing priorities and deadlines.

What's more, with a high volume of daily calls, you'll need a keen eye for detail and you will be responsible for ensuring records are accurate and up-to-date.

We're also interested in your people skills. You're at your best working in a team and can quickly build relationships virtually and face-to-face.

But more than anything, you'll be committed to developing a career in IT, bring an enthusiasm to learn and be keen to make the most of this opportunity.

Interview date: October and November 2021

Vacancy Closing Date: 17/10/2021, 23:55

Ref: 103 341

About us
38 Degrees is one of the UK’s biggest campaigning communities, involving over 2 million supporters who campaign to make the UK a better place. We’re united by a set of shared values; to defend fairness, protect rights, promote peace, preserve the planet and deepen democracy.
In the space of a week, millions of members could be campaigning on anything from protecting our NHS and stopping cuts to Universal Credit, to saving local libraries and pushing for laws that welcome more refugees.
38 Degrees is fiercely independent. We don’t take donations from political parties, or big donors. We’re run on hundreds of thousands of small donations from the public. This independence means we never have to hold ourselves back from taking on those with power and can truly listen to our members.

The entire team is currently working remotely and we are open to applicants who would like to work remotely on a permanent basis. 

Why you’ll want to work here 

The 38 Degrees culture is honest, kind, supportive, courageous, and respectful. We move fast, and frequently change plans to respond to events. We work hard but we also have fun. We regularly enjoy team away days and social hours. Benefits include: 

• 27 days holiday per year (plus Bank Holidays)
• Employer pension contribution
• 24 hour employee support line
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free annual flu vaccination
• Rental deposit loan
• Contribution to eye tests/glasses
• Annual Learning and development budget

Special COVID provisions: 

• 9-day fortnight (every other Friday off)
• COVID flex leave 

What’s the role?

As a Campaign Technologist at 38 Degrees, you will design and build software that helps our members and our colleagues campaign to increase fairness, defend rights, promote peace, preserve the planet, and deepen democracy in the UK.

In the last few years we’ve built dozens of new tools, including:

• A custom CRM that holds data on the millions of members who take part in our campaigns
• A second CRM that holds data on MPs and other politicians
• A website that helped hundreds of our members organise their own local picnics and fundraising events to support their local parks
• A tool that guides people through the process of calling their MP to discuss a forthcoming Parliamentary vote

Responsibilities: include the following, (38 Degrees may add, change, or remove responsibilities based on changing priorities).

Together with our campaigning staff, we’re always working on ideas for what to build next.  You’ll need to communicate and collaborate with people across the whole organisation, and across our sister organisations in other countries around the world, to imagine, design, and build new features and new tools swiftly enough to take advantage of fast-moving political opportunities.

We build most of our software in Ruby (mostly Rails), use Postgres hosted on AWS RDS for most of our databases, and use Heroku to host most of our web applications.  If your previous experience is with a different tech stack but you’d enjoy learning ours next, then we’re still interested in talking to you.

Organisational and team leadership: 

• Bring a skilled and adaptable style of leadership to the team, leading others in the way best suited to the group and task, and empowering and developing others. 
• Lead continuous improvements to the way 38 Degrees works to make us more effective.
• Responsible for predicting and planning future resources. 
• Responsible for identifying and managing risks to the performance of their area of responsibility. 

Effective line management of your direct reports and oversight of others who report to them: 

• Support those who report to you to develop into effective line managers themselves.

Key skills/experience:

• Problem analysis and problem solving
• Idea generation
• Project management
• Able to work independently
• Quick to seek help when stuck or uncertain
• Can cope with context-switching to juggle multiple fast-changing projects and priorities
• Able to communicate effectively and work well with a diverse range of non-technical colleagues
• Experience of leading and managing people
• Open-minded and willing to learn new approaches to your role and our culture
•  Good experience of commercial web development
• Strong experience with Ruby on Rails or another web framework

Desirable:

• Interested in politics/social justice, any experience of political campaigning/activism
• Project management skills
• Experience of and willingness to support a culture of honest constructive feedback and challenge
• Exposure to Padrino, Postgres, React, AWS (RDS, Redshift, SES), Heroku

There are no formal education requirements for this role. As long as you can show us you have the skills we don’t mind where you got them from! Also important to us is your potential to learn and grow in the role so even if you don’t have 100% of the skills listed we want to hear from you.

38 Degrees is striving to build a team that reflects the diversity of our membership and our locations, and is truly inclusive. We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non-binary people, and disabled people.  For this role we would also like to strongly encourage applications from women, who are currently underrepresented on our tech team (although well represented in the rest of the organisation).

Your commitment

You will have a commitment to 38 Degrees’ mission and values and will work as part of our wider team to drive and support change initiatives to achieve a sustainable culture.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

38 Degrees wants to make democracy work for everyone. That means living up to that mission by having a team that represents our membership and our location, making 38 Degrees a genuinely inclusive space to work. We are currently under-represented by people of colour, trans and non-binary people, older people and disabled people. We welcome applicants from these groups.

38 Degrees is deeply committed to inclusive working practices, so during the application process we commit to:

• Paying for childcare whilst you’re at 38 Degrees interviews or tasks
• Paying for your travel costs to the office and back
• Paying you for any trial days
• Making any reasonable adjustments – for example ensuring we have BSL interpreters organised in advance if you’d like them
• If there anything else you’re concerned about or think we could provide, please let us know

The first step of our recruitment process is for you to answer a few questions, including a very simple programming problem – it shouldn’t take you more than 30 minutes in total:

Programming exercise (should take 10-15 minutes at most):

Please write a Ruby programme which will print the numbers 1 to 100 on separate lines, except for if the number is divisible by 3, in which case it should print ‘People’, or if it is divisible by 5, in which case it should print ‘Power’.  If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5 then it should print ‘People Power’.

Replies to the following should be somewhere between 1 or 2 sentences and 1 or 2 paragraphs:

1. Of the projects you’ve previously worked on, which was your favourite, which was your least favourite, and (in each case) why?
2. What are the key skills and lessons you’ve learned from them that would help you in this job?
3. Describe to a non-technical person what an API does
4. What does the proverb “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” mean to you in the context of software development?
5. What do you think are the key ethical responsibilities of a software developer?

Prospectus is delighted to be working with The Health Foundation to recruit a IT Project Manager to lead the management and delivery of a variety of improvement system and process implementations as identified in the organisation's strategy and business plan.

The Health Foundation is currently engaged in a large change portfolio of programmes and projects, the scope of this work will include implementing new technology, changes to their organisational design and business processes and all involve an element of culture and behaviour change.

Please note this role is offered on a hybrid basis where you will be expected to be in the London office (Blackfriars) 3 days a week.

Key responsibilities for this role include developing and maintaining project management plans with the appropriate level of detail to ensure the tasks and milestones within the project can be accurately tracked. You will also identify risks, issues and timeline clashes and managed them effectively, develop stakeholder management and communications plans, and manage all project governance and documentation, ensure meetings, actions and decisions are managed and documented appropriately.

To be successful as an IT Project Manager you will have previously managed projects for digital transformation or organisational change. You will have a proven ability and track record of delivering projects on time / on budget to tight timescales using project management processes and tools including risk management, benefits management, financial management and quality assurance. Having sound judgement, excellent relationship-building skills and the ability to manage multiple complex and completing deadlines is also vital.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

In order to apply, simply submit your CV, cover letters are not required for this role. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and arrange for a call to assess your suitability and discuss the role further.