Position: Business Intelligence Partner
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent
Location: Flexible (currently home-based up to August 2021)
Salary: £46,364 - £50,909 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band G, Level 3
Department: Strategy and Business Intelligence

At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.

Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.

Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.

About this job

Reporting to our Head of Strategy and Business Intelligence, you’ll provide valuable and important insight to broaden and deepen our understanding of our community and help improve the MS Society’s data and insight maturity.

With a key focus on modelling and visualisation, you’ll use data and insights to help drive impact and performance across our organisation and community. You’ll have excellent data analysis, data extraction and data manipulation skills.

Using Microsoft PowerBI, you’ll deliver and maintain our organisational business intelligence hub, and develop key business intelligence resources and reporting that maximise the value we derive from our data. You must have excellent knowledge of BI and analysis tools.

You’ll be a proactive, insight-led person, able to identify opportunities where the organisation and business areas can better use data and analytics for decision-making, innovation, and continuous-improvement.

You’ll have a track record of success in delivering high quality results to deadlines and substantial experience of improving outcomes through provision of analysis and insight, particularly in a marketing or service delivery context.

We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.

The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our Every MS Story strategy.

As part of this exciting transformation, we’ll be moving from our current National Centre based in Cricklewood, London to Finsbury Park, London later this year. We’re expecting to be moving into our new office from August 2021.

Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 10 August 2021

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We’re a Disability Confident Employer. We’re committed to promoting equality and diversity. 

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and/or from ethnic minority backgrounds, where we’re looking to build stronger and better representation among our staff.

No agencies please.

The National Deaf Children’s Society is the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people.

Policy Analyst 

London, Birmingham, Belfast or Glasgow office or home-based (UK)

Salaries for this role start from £23,940 (or £27,454 if based in London office) 

28 hours per week

Permanent 

Are you someone with strong analytical skills, able to pick out key points and trends from complex policy documents and provide high-quality advice and insight to colleagues? Are you interested in using these skills to drive policy debates and make a difference for deaf children and young people? 

We’re looking for a Policy Analyst to join our friendly and growing policy team. As Policy Analyst for the National Deaf Children’s Society, you’ll work closely with experts on childhood deafness to turn policy insight and analysis into briefings for key decision-makers. You will also play a key role in keeping us up to date with the latest wider policy developments, providing advice on implications for deaf children and young people. 

This role is a great opportunity to work with a high degree of autonomy and help drive our policy and influencing work to ensure that deaf children get the high-quality support they need. 

To apply for this role, you will have to complete an online application and specify how you meet the person specification criteria, as outlined in the job description. To do this, we suggest that you download the job description from our website prior to starting your application.

Currently, the application process works best on desktop / laptop devices. 

The closing date for applications is on Sunday 15 August 2021 at 23.59.

We expect interviews to be held on Teams on Thursday 2 September 2021. 

Candidates selected for interview will be asked to complete a written test in their own time prior to the interview.

We strive to provide an accessible recruitment process. If a disability or long term condition makes it difficult for you to complete our application form, please contact us to discuss alternative formats. If you require reasonable adjustments for taking part in the interview, please indicate this in response to the corresponding question in the application form. 

Additional information about the support we offer is on our jobs page. 

We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to offering interviews to candidates who request to be considered under the disability confident scheme and meet the minimum requirements of the person specification.

The National Deaf Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young adults and expects staff and volunteers to share that commitment. 

We are also committed to promoting work-life balance amongst our staff.

PAPYRUS is the national UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.

Parliamentary Engagement Officer

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide is the national charity for the prevention of young suicide, founded in 1997. We have grown very successfully since then and currently have bases in Warrington, Birmingham, London, Cardiff and Belfast.

We are looking to recruit a Parliamentary Engagement Officer to develop and maintain effective relationships with UK parliamentarians to further our policy and influencing aims and increase awareness of the charity’s work.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Recent experience of engaging with parliamentarians within Westminster and devolved governments
• Understanding of UK governments and parliaments, and how to influence on both devolved and reserved issues
• Experience representing an organisation with senior external stakeholders
• Experience of working productively with a range of multi-disciplinary internal teams
• The ability to work within a matrix management system working with Heads of Nations across the UK

Salary: NJC Scale SCP 13-17 (£22,627-£24,491 per annum)

Hours: 36 hours per week

Location: The successful candidate will be based at our Warrington, London, Cardiff, Glasgow or Belfast office and will be required to work flexibly and travel to across the UK as required.

Please visit our website to review the full job description and person specification for the role. To apply for the position please complete the application form on our website detailing how you meet the criteria for the role. Please return your completed application to HR email or to HR, PAPYRUS, Unit 1 Bankside, Warrington, WA1 1UP.

Closing date: 22nd August 2021 Interview date: week commencing 30th August 2021

PAPYRUS is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and its employment policies for recruitment are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

PAPYRUS is committed to safeguarding all children, young people and adults at risk that interact with the organisation. The organisation recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of these vulnerable groups by a commitment to procedures to protect them. The group expects all staff and volunteers to fully support and promote these commitments.

Senior Developer
Reference: JUL20211445
Location: Flexible
Salary:  £36,604.00 - £48,615.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Annual Leave, Life Assurance

The RSPB has always been here to save nature - from our origins as a campaign to end the use of feather in women's hats right through to our present-day ground breaking research, saving species from extinction, protecting some of wildlife's finest sites in the UK and beyond and engaging millions of people in the wonders of wildlife. We've been successful because we've always adapted. We've never stood still. We have and continue to evolve.

About the role

The RSPB’s digital estate is vital to our mission to give nature a home – from rallying people together to speak up for nature, to inspiring a love of wildlife, to raising the income that pays for our conservation work in the UK and around the world.

We’re looking for a Senior Developer to demonstrate excellence and lead development teams by example, delivering a fundamental role within the Technology Design and Delivery team.

What we need from you:

• You will bring the highest level of development expertise to the team and work both individually and collectively to support new and existing platforms. Contributing to making well-founded choices in technology selection for a variety of tactical and strategic projects.
• You will be able to communicate effectively with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders, demonstrating initiative with a positive and proactive attitude. Be able to respond to business requirements with innovative solutions and present creative lateral thinking to technical roadblocks.
• You will provide inspiration and encouragement to colleagues, mentoring others to learn & grow, promoting a supportive and collaborative team ethic, championing change and innovation.
• Your rich experience and broad skillset will mean you are a multi-faceted engineer, commercially competent in many languages and comfortable with the architecture they run on. You won’t be bound by back/front end labels and thrive in dynamic teams exhibiting agility and capability with high frequency delivery cycles.

The Technology Design and Delivery Team work with a range of technologies and are always looking to develop solutions in the most suitable for each project. You may be working with a range of these including .NET Core, Angular, Node and JQuery.

As part of the Technology Design and Delivery team this is an exciting opportunity to help shape our digital landscape. We support a healthy work-life balance and full remote working to help save nature through people.

This is a full-time, permanent position, and covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Due to the critical nature of this role we will screening completed applications as they are received and contacting candidates to interview.  We will close the post once an appointment is made.

Closing date: 23:59, 15 August 2021

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.

No agencies please.

Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer

We’re looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the Policy and Influencing team as our Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer in Northern Ireland.

Position: Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer

Location: Homebased, Northern Ireland

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: circa £29,500  per annum

Contract: Contract: Permanent

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application

Closing Date: 11 August 2021

Interview Date: Week commencing 16 August 2021

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application

The Role

Reporting to the Public Affairs and Campaigns Manager, and working very closely with the nation-specific Policy & Influencing Lead, you will deliver our organisation’s integrated public affairs and campaigning activity for Northern Ireland. You will plan, develop and deliver effective and strategic influencing activity to help achieve our team objectives on key issues impacting people affected by stroke.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Delivering public affairs activity and stakeholder engagement to support the organisation’s influencing priorities
• Tracking and logging stakeholder contact and take primary responsibility for the management of political stakeholders
• Providing political monitoring and horizon scanning
• Planning and implementing campaigns and advocacy activity – both online and offline - that help to secure long-term improvements for those affected by stroke
• Attending, and supporting others to attend, meetings and events representing the Stroke Association, including developing high-quality briefings
• Spending a significant proportion of their time supporting UK-wide public affairs and campaigns activity too

About You

The Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer will have experience/background in:

• Some experience of national or local level influencing, campaigning and advocacy

• A solid understanding of the Northern Ireland political and health context
• Experience of undertaking policy analysis and horizon-scanning
• And ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience of developing briefings for a range of audiences

To fulfil the role, you must have the right to work in the U.K.

Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Please state any preferences for flexible options in your covering letter

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there. We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Case, Stroke Recovery, Charity, Carer Support, Support Service, Vulnerable Adult, Social Care and Support Officer, Rehabilitation Coordinator, Volunteering Manager, Care and Support Officer, Social Care Worker, Carer, Stroke, Stroke Rehabilitation, Stroke Recovery, Case Worker, Support, Support and Advice, Health, Health Care, Advice and Support.

Engagement Officer

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Engagement Officer to join the Locality Impact directorate and lead on Engagement in their area.

Position: Engagement Officer

Location: Homebased, Northern Ireland with extensive travel across the locality area

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: Circa £24,300 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 30 July 2021

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application

The Role

Reporting to the Service and Delivery Manager, the Engagement Officer will work with colleagues across the locality to deliver against engagement activity including supporting the development of the Stroke Group Network, build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including groups, partners, stroke survivors and carers in the locality.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Support delivery against the community volunteering strategy for the locality
• Building and maintaining key relationships with key stakeholders
• Enable peer support and self-sustaining stroke communities to flourish in the locality
• Provide management to volunteers and volunteer managers
• Support delivery of a localised approach to addressing health inequalities
• Volunteer recruitment

About You

You will have experience/understanding of:

• Managing and developing volunteers
• Working in partnership with other organisations, ideally in voluntary, health and social care
• Developing support using co-production with service users
• Supporting groups and developing networks

The ability to travel extensively across the locality is essential to be able to fulfil the requirements of the role.

To fulfil the requirements of the role you must abide and have the right to work in the U.K.

Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Please state any preferences for flexible options in your covering letter. 

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there. We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

You may also have experience in areas such as Engagement, Engagement Officer, Stroke, Rehabilitation, Charity, Disability, Impact, Impact and Engagement, Impact Officer, Impact and Engagement Officer, Volunteering, Community Support, Programme, Programme and Impact, Volunteering Management, Community Partner, Health, Health and Social Care, Social Care, Volunteering Engagement, Supporter Engagement, Volunteer, Care, Health, Stroke.

Membership Fundraiser
Location: Belfast or Derry
Salary: £18,250.00 - £22,243.00 Per Annum
Contract: Full Time, Permanent  
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days annual leave

Do you want to make a positive impact on our natural world each and every day? Are you a good storyteller with a love for the outdoors? Then this could be the perfect job for you!

What’s the role about?

Our Membership Fundraisers are the ambassadors for the RSPB; traveling to different venues on most days in their company van, where they set up stands and spend the day actively engaging with members of the public.

Every day our Membership Fundraisers are playing a vital role in our efforts to help give nature the home it deserves. They do this by having engaging conversations with people about our conservation work, educating the public about how they can help wildlife from home, and inspiring people of all ages to become lifelong members of the RSPB so that we can make a difference to our natural world.

What we need from you:

You don’t need to know much about birds, nor do you need to know much about conservation as we run a thorough induction program and offer fantastic training and ongoing support. We do however look for individuals who have a passion for nature and are gifted storytellers.

Essential skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Enthusiasm and passion for saving nature;
• Enjoy working outdoors -solo as well as part of a team;
• A good story-teller and a confident communicator;
• A resilience to rejection;
• Experience in a customer-facing role;
• Comfortable asking people for monthly donations;
• A full, manual driving licence;
• Access to the Microsoft Office suite at home; and
• Willing to work 3 out of 4 weekends and bank holidays.

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Fundraising/sales experience

Closing date: 23:59, 08 August 2021

We run a monthly induction for all new Membership Fundraisers around the UK and are currently recruiting for a 6th September 2021/11th October 2021 induction.

We are now recruiting for Membership Fundraisers across the UK, to find out more information on the locations available, please click the apply button to be taken to our main job opportunities page where all Membership Fundraising vacancies are listed.

No agencies please.

Fixed term contract for 24 months

Based in any UK office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)

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 post holder 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 BI Developer 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
• Consider 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
• Ensure a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development, supporting our growing number of global users and services
• Work with other developers across the entire technology real estate
• Keep 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

To be successful as BI Developer you will have experience in working with the Cisco Information Server CIS or any data virtualisation platform along with experience in working with Power BI or any data visualization platforms. You should be keen to work with new technologies and have the ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment.  In addition, you will have:

• 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.

Fixed term contract for 24 months

Based in any UK office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)

The job of a Save the Children's UK Lead 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

Reporting directly to the BI & Data Manager, the Lead BI Developer will be responsible for developing robust, reliable reports, dashboards and analytics solutions that helps us to understand opportunities, threats, risks and demand so we are able to make informed decisions that will positively impact children's lives.

The Lead BI Developer will lead on the design, build and delivery of reporting, dashboards and analytics solutions to better enable the Save the Children UK to gain visibility of key management information and insights.

The role holder will be the primary owner of the data warehouse used by the BI & Data Team and take a leading role in ensuring our organisation's data infrastructure is optimised for enabling data-driven decision making. The data managed will drive depth analysis, data visualisation and daily / weekly reporting across the organisation.

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.

Sitting in the BI & Data Team, the Lead BI Developer's role is to support the team's ambition to connect organisation systems and data silos to deliver a joined-up view of our organisation's data. This enables the holistic business analysis and reporting of vital KPIs which is critical to our success.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The Lead BI Developer 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 Lead BI Developer will have responsibility for leading technical assurance for data and associated system solutions within an agile environment. Key duties will focus on:

• Working with BI & Data Manager, the Data Architect and other scrum and operations members to agree, deliver and document technical solutions
• Being responsible for data definitions, source system identification and connectivity. Performing data validation while working with end users to define business requirements and needs
• Reading and interpreting business needs to proactively identify potential issues and problems
• Creating Dimensional Data models from the new requirement and developing Tabular cube using SSAS where needed
• Developing, building and maintaining all aspects of the BI and Data platform, which include Tibco Data Virtualisation platform and MSBI stack including Power BI Reporting
• With the rest of the team, considering how to increase connectivity between our systems. Building automated workflows and data checks to constantly improve the smooth running of the processes, data integrity and accurate reporting
• Reviewing code and data model of other Developers to ensure the overall code quality and to encourage a collaborative development environment
• Ensuring a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development to support our growing number of global users and services
• Clearly conveying the key insights or "story" the data reveals in a visual format that is grouped, summarised, or formatted to be easily understood and actionable
• 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 solution for the business requirement
• Taking a strategic view on suggesting and delivering new services and service improvement
• ting as an enthusiastic and effective champion for our organisation's data

Person Profile

Experience

• Significant experience with MS SQL 2012
• Experience in database management
• Significant MS SSAS Tabular experience with the ability to create cubes from scratch
• Data Modelling – Dimensional / Kimball/Star Schema
• OLTP database development
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Experience of at least one BI reporting or Visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, SSRS, Tableau or any other similar tools)
• Experience creating Logical and Conceptual Data Models
• Experience working with version control like TFS, Git or any other similar tools

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.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced analyst to join Friends of the Earth’s Organisational Insight team on a 12-month fixed term contract. We are looking for candidates across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and this role will be based in our offices or at home.

The Organisational Insight team analyses data to help maximise the income that Friends of the Earth brings in and maximise the impact that the organisation has. Our Insight Analysts provide analytical leadership on data selections, evaluation, intelligence, and reporting across the organisation. This role will be focused on driving the development of our Power BI reporting to help Friends of the Earth make evidence-based decisions.

We are looking for someone with demonstrable experience of designing, creating, and maintaining Power BI reports. You will have experience of analysing data to generate insight and help influence stakeholder decisions. You will have skills that enable you to visualise data in compelling ways and be able to communicate your findings to non-technical audiences.

Friends of the Earth is becoming an increasingly technology and data conscious organisation that looks to make values-driven decisions that are informed by data. We have just embarked upon a project to replace our CRM and will be looking at how we shape all our data to help continually improve our effectiveness as an organisation. This role is a great opportunity for you to use your analytical skills and experience to enhance the work that Friends of the Earth do to protect the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it.

Investigations Officer - Northern Ireland
Reference: JUN20214803
Location: RSPB Northern Ireland
Salary: £27,574.00 - £30,590.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Annual Leave, Life Assurance
Duration: 2 years

This is an outstanding opportunity to help ensure a better future for Northern Ireland’s wildlife. Across Northern Ireland, many of our magnificent birds of prey are being illegally persecuted, and some of our rarest species such as hen harriers, peregrines, and red kites are particularly affected.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised and committed individual to join the RSPB Investigations team in the fight against raptor persecution in Northern Ireland. If you could thrive in a dynamic, challenging environment where you will have the opportunity to contribute your own ideas within a unique and specialised team, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

This new role will act as the key point of contact for our investigative work across Northern Ireland and will follow up reports of dead birds, help monitor some of our rarest breeding species and carry out targeted fieldwork in areas with a history of wildlife crime.

The successful candidate will have:

• A degree in ecology or conservation and/or relevant practical experience
• Experience of practical conservation delivery in support of species & habitat conservation
• Knowledge of wild birds particularly raptors, and of wildlife protection legislation
• Knowledge of RSPB's Investigations team priorities and work
• Proven IT skills including MS Office software especially Excel, Outlook and Teams
• A good level of numeracy and literacy with high attention to detail
• A confident telephone manner, able to liaise professionally with enforcement partners, and also to handle reports of wildlife crime with understanding and empathy, sometimes in sensitive situations
• Taxonomic, identification and practical field skills appropriate to the post

The following are desirable but not essential:

• Experience of specialist software eg GIS
• Experience of working with Police standards for information management/best practice, and/or statutory agencies, media, or law enforcement partners
• Confident and capable of being a public face for RSPB to specialist audiences, as well as general audiences via the media.

This is a 2-year contract and we are looking for someone to fill the role as soon as possible.

Closing date: 23:59, 09 August 2021

Interested?

Please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.

The RSPB is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

No agencies please.

We have a number of administrator vacancies across the Cruse network.  These are permanent roles, joining a dedicated team of Hub staff and volunteers. 

• Hub Administrator - Belfast, 20 hours (Wednesday - Friday), Home & Office based

It is an exciting time to be joining Cruse, as we are in the process of improving our processes and services in line with the Bereaved People First Strategy, to strengthen the support we can offer to our volunteers and to bereaved people, and so that we work better together to truly become ‘One Cruse’. 

The post holder will provide administrative support to the Hub Manager and the Volunteer & Training Coordinator, as well as working across the Hub within a team of Hub Administrators, who support our local bereavement services.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 1st August