NEF are looking for a highly skilled and talented Senior Researcher (maternity cover) to join its Environment & Green Transition team. The role holder will lead the delivery of the team’s priority program on Just Transition. This will be a fantastic opportunity to work with unions, businesses and civil society groups to research, co-create and advocate a fair transition for workers in high carbon and other disrupted sectors.
You will be passionate about NEF’s commitment to delivering research that helps build movements and make change happen on the ground, as well as at national policy level.
Senior Researcher, 9-month maternity cover (Environment and Green Transition)
Full time
Salary: £39,600- £44,300
You will work closely with colleagues in your team to take NEF’s Just Transition programme to new heights through fast paced and relevant research, political strategy and policy development.You will bring strong interpersonal skills to engage a variety of stakeholders effectively. You will also bring strong research skills – ideally, an aptitude for both qualitative and quantitative methods – and the proven ability to manage a varied workload while working both independently and as part of a team. You will also have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present complex ideas clearly and for a number of different types of audience.
Deadline for applications: 22nd September 2020, 9 am.
Interviews: 29th September 2020
Start date: 2nd November 2020
Location: flexible. We encourage applicants from outside of London and the South East but requiring occasional travel to our London offices.
To apply and to see more details see the ‘about us/job vacancies’ section of our website.
NEF is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in research and policy making and we’re committed to doing what we can to correct this. We are particularly keen to receive applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic people; people with disabilities; people who identify as being LGTBQIA; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working class or have done so in the past. We are also aware that many highly capable prospective candidates nonetheless rule themselves out of work in research and policy because they underestimate their own ability to do the role. With this in mind, we strongly encourage applications from anyone who is prepared to learn and grow on the job and would like to stress that past experience of working in think tanks is not required.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. We make use of positive action to select between candidates of equal merit as a way to address under-representation in our workforce.
NEF believes in diversity
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Senior Manager: Transparency and Reporting
£45,000 - 49,000
London, currently remote
The Senior Manager: Transparency and Reporting champions transparency regarding Comic Relief’s Social Change Strategy. This involves driving forward a clearly articulated understanding of transparency, consolidating and synthesising data and learning, and preparing reports and other content to communicate our social change work to a range of internal and external audiences.
Key responsibilities:
- Create communications about our social change work, championing the value of openness and providing support and guidance to the wider Impact and Investment Department and the rest of Comic Relief.
- ·Advise on how transparency is incorporated into key Comic Relief policies and procedures
- Develop reports and content on the Social Change Strategy for a range of internal audiences, including the Board of Trustees, the Social Impact Committee, Executive Directors, and Impact and Investment Leadership Team
- Prepare, oversee and gather content for reporting and communicating our Social Change Strategy and learning to external audience through annual reports, website content, social media content, films and reports for key stakeholders
- Work collaboratively with the Evidence and Learning, Fund Design and Systems teams to make sure data systems and processes are effective for understanding progress towards social change, reporting, fundraising and communication purposes.
- To work closely with all other departments and teams, including Story Hub, Corporate Partnerships, Media and Marketing, agreeing information flows and identifying appropriate information to evidence impact
- Line management of the I&I Data Analyst
Essential Experience and Competencies:
- Significant experience within the charity and funding sector, specifically with respect to monitoring, evaluation and learning within social change programmes and effective communication of social change content to different audiences
- Critical understanding of the role of data in understanding and fostering diversity, equity and inclusion
- Significant experience of data management and analysis experience to generate insights and evidence for strategic and operational decision-making
- Experience of organisational planning and reporting
- Effective relationship builder, with strong emotional intelligence and experience of working in collaborative, cross sector environments to facilitate conversations and alongside individuals and organisations with diverse perspectives
- Exceptional analysis and sense-making skills, underpinned with sound judgement under pressure, and the ability to identify solutions to address delivery risks and issues
- Ability to listen deeply and communicate well with colleagues, with an expertise in conveying conceptual and sometimes complex information to a variety of audiences
- Proven leadership skills with experience of line-managing high performing colleagues
To apply please visit our website via the link.
Role closes - 12:00pm, 24th Sep 2020 BST (Europe/London)
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
Barnardo's is running an ambitious transformation programme covering infrastructure , security and new system deployments. As a result we need an experienced Infrastructure Specialist to lead the infrastructure and server team.
This is a lead technical position where leadership, mentoring and support of the infrastructure and servers team are equally as important as highly developed technical capabilities . In addition, political astuteness , a customer-centric service ethic, commitment to quality delivery and an open, engaging, "can do" style are also essential.
Working hands-on, at all levels from concept through design to full service and post implementations support & configuration , the individual will architect, manage, and deliver new technology solutions into service in addition to care and maintenance activities for existing systems in collaboration with other technical and operational teams.
Barnardo's is a 150-year-old charity on a journey to transform children's social care . As part of our 10-year corporate strategy, Barnardo's has committed to becoming a digital organisation .
The Digital and Technology team, also known as #futurebarnardos , is part of the Strategy & Performance group. We are responsible for leading a transformation of the whole charity: inspiring it to take a user-centred , data-driven approach to all our operations , products and services, and iterating from small beginnings to big ideas.
Our vision is simple: achieve better outcomes for more children . Along the way we will we equip and empower our staff to provide even better support . We will turn data into insight that leads to improvements in people's lives. We will lead change across health and social care by taking a user-first, evidence-driven approach to problems. And through all this, we will inspire our charitable donors to be even more generous in supporting us.
We are looking for a small group of ambitious , humble visionaries to lead our team, and inspire others across the charity and beyond to help Barnardo's meet its vision. We've written a blog post about our vision, the values we uphold as a team, and the sorts of people we are looking for.
Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers . We welcome applications from women, BAME and LGBTQA+ candidates, candidates with both visible and non-visible disabilities , and neurodivergent candidates, as people under-represented in our sector. We believe it is really important to gather the widest range of views so that we can design and deliver the next generation of products and services for children, families, supporters and staff.
Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore are open to offering flexible working arrangements .
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.
Our basis and values
Documents
* Recruitment of Ex-offenders Policy (Oct 2018).pdf (0.56 MB)
* Infrastructure Specialist - JE2019-091 - D52A.pdf (44.37 KB)
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Evidence and Learning Manager: Co-Funded Investments
£40,000 - 44,000
London, currently remote
The Evidence and Learning Manager is responsible for the design and delivery of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for selected portfolios supported by Comic Relief’s corporate and institutional funding partners. Working internally and with the partners we fund (UK and internationally), the successful candidate will be someone who knows their way around a MEL framework, who has experience of commissioning or undertaking a variety of evidence outputs, and who is familiar with the challenges and opportunities for getting evidence into use. Although you have technical MEL experience, you will also be someone who is interested in the bigger picture, keen to explore what motivates people to change how they behave, to understand sector-level or donor drivers of change, and to design support solutions that are genuinely useful in contributing to systemic change. The postholder is likely to be pragmatic, able to develop practical, accessible support within a restricted budget, and willing to contribute constructive interim outputs to what is a long-term mission.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and manage monitoring, evaluation and learning activities related to issue-specific funding portfolios co-funded by Comic Relief’s funding partners, including corporate partners, institutional donors, and trusts and foundations
- Creatively find ways to unlock the inherent power of communities and organisations by ensuring that people with lived or learnt experience are actively engaged in the way evidence and learning activities are designed and implemented
- Engage with the Investment teams to develop and implement learning ambitions and frameworks for existing funding programmes and that insights generated are used to inform strategic decision making
- Support funded partners collectively to monitor, evaluate and learn from their work
- Prepare inputs to reports, meetings and strategic planning, ensuring that learning is well documented in relation to co-funded programmes and shared internally and externally where relevant
- Support the development of new funding programmes by providing inputs into the overall evidence and learning strategy and advising on MEL options
- Recruit and manage external consultants to deliver specific evaluation and learning projects as required
Essential Education and Competencies:
- Experience and a strong understanding of processes, approaches, tools and methodologies that facilitate formal and informal monitoring, evaluation and organisational learning practice within organisations of different scales and in different contexts. This should include knowledge of large-scale institutional funders such as the Department for International Development
- A deep understanding and critical engagement with the politics of evidence and a proven ability to apply analysis of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and power to evidence and learning
- Understanding and experience of working in one or more of the following thematic areas: early childhood development; gender justice; housing and shelter; refugees and people on the move; and mental health
- Exceptional analysis and sense-making skills, underpinned with sound judgement under pressure, and the ability to identify solutions to address delivery risks and issues.
- Excellent facilitation skills, ability to promote critical thinking and reflective practice and encourage learning
- Experience of successfully supporting organisations to plan and implement quality improvements, including through monitoring, evaluation and learning
- Experience of designing and delivering interventions using at least two of the following: collective intelligence and learning; human centred design; behavioural insights; adaptive management; user participation and co-design.
- Experience of commissioning and managing external consultants to deliver evidence and learning outputs
- Effective relationship builder, with strong emotional intelligence and experience of working in collaborative, multicultural and cross sector environments alongside individuals and organisations with diverse perspectives
- Strong planner with outstanding attention to detail and the ability to manage and prioritise a diverse workload
Occasional Travel may be required within this role.
To apply please visit our website via the link.
Role closes - 12:00pm, 25th Sep 2020 BST (Europe/London)
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
We (Platypus Digital) are looking for a freelance paid search specialist to join our search marketing team.
You will plan, set up and optimise cross-channel Google Ads campaigns for our charity clients across search and display
We want to hear from you if you are:
- super-keen on search marketing and Google Ad Grants
- passionate about making a positive difference in the world through your work
- organised
- lovely to work with
- someone who has worked in-house at a charity or in an agency
About the role
Location: Currently remote.
Role type: Freelance or fixed term contract. We will also consider part time, full time and job share
Closing date for applications: Rolling applications. We will keep recruitment open until we find the right candidate.
How to apply: Complete the online application form
About us
We believe in using digital marketing for good. That’s why we use our skills in search marketing, social media advertising, data, Analytics and more to help charities.
We raise money for their campaigns, we bring their life-changing information to more people who need it, and we raise awareness of their vital work. That’s what you’ll be helping to achieve in this role.
Responsibilities
Search marketing – 65% of your time
- Help maintain our clients Google Ads and Ad Grants accounts. You’ll work on areas like policies, keyword bids, budgets, impression share and quality score.
- Contribute to detailed keyword research and recommendations based on account structures and goals
- Draft effective, keyword-rich ad copy. You’ll tailor the copy to our clients’ objectives and Google’s best practices
- Use tools like Optmyzr, Wordstream and SEMrush, and information from user and stakeholder research to benchmark Google Ads account activity.
- Communicate with clients about all their paid search activity
Display advertising – 15% of your time
- Liaise with clients to optimise search, display prospecting and remarketing campaigns on Google Ads and the Google Display Network
- Contribute to planning campaign journeys using Google Analytics and platform-specific reporting tools
- Make creative recommendations based on insights from well planned creative and audience tests
Reporting – 20% of your time
- Build reports for clients using Google Data Studio and other third party reporting tools that show how we are meeting their objectives
- Report existing campaign activity, weekly tasks, optimisations and key insights to clients.
- Plan and build monthly insights reports covering important metrics like conversion rate, revenue and cost per acquisition
- Tell clients what they should do with the information in reports
Working with clients and the team – all the time
- Work with our clients to make sure we get the most out of our relationship and they are happy with our work
- Tell colleagues immediately when something goes wrong so they can help fix it
- Talk to colleagues about how projects are going
Essential knowledge and abilities
- Individual or agency Google Ads certifications from Google in Fundamentals, Search, Display, Video and Google Analytics.
- Demonstrable understanding of search marketing
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to look at a set of data, and make recommendations off the back of it
Nice to have
- Experience in a digital campaigning or fundraising role in a charity
- Experience of working in agencies
- Managing projects using cloud-based tools like Asana and Google Drive
Personal qualities
- We only work for charities, so we look for commitment to charities and good causes in our candidates. This can be shown by having worked in charities, fundraising for or donating to charities, or volunteering for charities.
- Desire to live our values through your work and communication
- Ability to set a high standard for yourself and others in quality and efficiency of work
- Manage upward to use the expertise of others and flag concerns at the right times
- Natural curiosity in finding the best solution to problems yourself
- Strong belief and trust in the expertise of colleagues and clients
- Ability to delegate to others where needed
- Desire to help junior colleagues to develop and look out for their welfare
Equality
We are working hard to become an anti-racist and truly inclusive employer.
Our team is friendly, supportive and constantly working to improve its culture. We have a diverse team, and we really encourage applications from people of colour, women, new parents, people with disabilities and anyone identifying as LGBTQ+.
Platypus Digital is a Living Wage accredited employer.
Blind recruitment
We have a blind recruitment process in place for this role to minimise the possibility of unconscious bias.
This means our shortlist will have names, education, links to social media profiles and locations removed to reduce the chance of unconscious bias, so we only take candidates forward based on ability.
Here’s the whole process.
- Applicants complete an online application form
- Personal information is removed by our HR company
- They share the long-list with Platypus Digital
- Platypus Digital shortlists based on application answers alone
- Our HR company contacts the shortlisted candidates to arrange interview times (early and late slots are available)
- The interview will start with a time limited test for the candidate to work through alone.
- The interview questions will test search marketing ability. They will be scored individually by the panel, which will include someone from our HR company.
- After the interview, the panel will gather the completed sheets and calculate scores.
- Finally, we contact the successful candidate.
Interview questions
These will cover:
- how well you would adhere to our values (weighted one third of the total score)
- details of you create and optimise search campaigns (weighted one third of the total score)
- how you would communicate with our clients using email, video call and (when it’s safe) in-person meetings (weighted one third of the total score)
Promotion of this role
We are promoting this role through:
- Charityjob
- Our email list
- Our individual networks via email and social media
- One to one outreach by our staff and clients to reach networks it wouldn’t normally reach
- Umbrella organisations like Black Women in Tech
- One to one outreach
The interview panel will be Matt Collins (MD), Will Cardy (Head of search and data, who will work with the post holder) and Sian Whittington of Bespoke HR (who support Platypus Digital in all aspects of HR).
Decision criteria
The three interviewers will score each answer 1 (not demonstrated ability), 2 (partially demonstrated ability and 3 (fully demonstrated ability).
Interview scores will then be compared across three interviewers
Total scores will be compared to find a candidate who demonstrates ability to do the job
Where ability scores are equal, the candidate with the best values scores will be selected
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