We are working with a membership body who are looking for a Membership Director to join their team, this is a remote, home based role and you can be based anywhere in the Midlands.

As Membership Director you will lead the Member and Customer Service teams of the organisation, developing a strategy to enhance member experience.

Working closely with the organisations member communities who are based across the UK, you will drive improvements in member engagement and ultimately be responsible for maintaining and developing individual and corporate retention revenue.

Their ideal candidate will;

• Have strong experience at a senior level within membership.
• Excellent networking skills, with a track record of building and maintaining relationships internally and externally.
• Experienced in leading remote teams.
• Experience of strategy development and implementation.

The Waterways Ombudsman Scheme is in place to ensure the independent handling of complaints made against the Canal & River Trust and other navigation authorities. The Waterways Ombudsman is appointed by a Waterways Ombudsman Committee (WOC) who oversee the working of the Scheme and the remuneration of the Ombudsman on an independent basis. The Waterways Ombudsman is a certified Alternative Dispute Resolution entity and a full voting member of the Ombudsman Association.

The Waterways Ombudsman Committee currently has two vacancies for Waterways Ombudsman Committee members to continue the important, independent work of the Scheme. These vacancies, including future Chair for WOC, have arisen as the natural terms of two committee members come to an end. The start date is late 2020. 

You will be responsible, along with other committee members, for ensuring the ombudsman scheme meets its purposes and is adequately funded. This includes responsibility for appointing the Ombudsman or removing them from office. You will be required to attend two to three formal meetings per year, usually in London, and will also need to spend some time contributing to the publication of the annual report.

It is important that independent members have had no direct or significant involvement in the waterway sector for at least five years.

We are interested in hearing from you if you can demonstrate previous experience of dispute resolution, and you can offer the committee your sound judgment and integrity.

Although the role is unremunerated, reasonable expenses will be paid.

The role of Chair for Waterways Ombudsman Committee will be appointed from among the independent Members.

To apply

Please submit a CV and a letter of application outlining how you believe you meet the requirements of the role you are applying for, via the “Apply” button by 6 February 2020. Applications should be marked “WOCM-Jan2020 “.

Interviews will be held by the Waterways Ombudsman Committee in central London on 9 March 2020.  We aim for a start date in late 2020, dependent upon receipt of satisfactory references.

We are looking for a Community Fundraiser to join a thriving team of 6 based in a wonderful Hospice near Solihull.

The Charity This incredible charity provides care and support to people with terminal illnesses and their families all over the UK.

The Role
As a successful Community Fundraiser you will use your in depth knowledge of fundraising principles, methods and procedures to build and develop relationships in the communities of your defined fundraising patch by providing excellent stewardship and support.

You will provide excellent stewardship, ongoing support and motivation to a network of fundraising groups and volunteers.

In liaison with the regions Fundraising Volunteer Development Manager, identify, research and form new fundraising groups in the community by organising community days and meeting potential volunteers face to face.

Create and deliver an annual volunteer recruitment plan to grow numbers of volunteers in dedicated roles.

Manage the agreed community fundraising element of large, national campaigns.

Contribute to and deliver against annual budgets, targets and plans for income and volunteer recruitment, monitoring ongoing performance.

The Candidate

You must have your own car and driving license.

Good experience in a community fundirasing role for another chairty.

In-depth knowledge of fundraising principles, methods and procedures.

Able to provide good stewardship to supporters.

Able to understand volunteer needs and motivations and develop them.

Knowledge of how to use media to promote fundraising.

Excellent interpersonal and networking skills.

IMPORTANT NOTE

PLEASE NOTE THIS CLOSES ON 3RD FEBRUARY.

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Administrator – Apprenticeship Programme

You will join our friendly Birmingham based team as an Apprenticeship Administrator.

Administrator Responsibilities:

- Manage the administrative arrangements relating to apprenticeship documentation, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations.
- Respond to learner enquiries / problems, offering information, advice and guidance on a timely basis and to satisfactory resolution in line with the apprenticeship framework. Follow up on enquiries from prospective and current learners and employers.
- Liaise with CIPFA’s delivery partners to ensure apprenticeship data is complete and validated.
- Use DAS and other government systems to manage data entry initiating apprentice starters and managing ongoing learning administration with careful attention to data protection requirements.

Administrator Requirements:

The role of an Apprenticeship Administrator plays an important part in providing efficient and effective administrative support for all learners and apprenticeship training activity for CIPFA’s level 7 professional accountancy qualification and our delivery of AAT at levels 3 and 4.

You need the ability to interact well with people at all levels within the organisation and be proficient in the use of MS, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Email. Knowledge and understanding of apprenticeship programmes and insight into the Skills Funding Agency and Ofsted audit requirements would be a distinct advantage.

About CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy:

The Chartered Institute of Public Accountancy (CIPFA) is the world’s only professional accountancy body to specialise in public services and is a strong advocate for sound public finance management and innovative public service delivery.

Our members work in public services such as local government, the NHS and Whitehall departments as well as in national audit agencies, major accountancy firms and other organisations around the world where public money needs to be effectively and efficiently managed.

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands

Job type: Full Time, Permanent, 36 hours per week, normally between the hours of 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

Salary: £20,000 per annum

Benefits: 25 days annual leave, up to 10% employer's pension contribution, Season ticket loans, Employee Assistance Helpline, Exclusive employee discount and rewards at many major brands including health & wellbeing, retail, restaurants and mobile technology providers.

Closing date for applications: 28th January 2020

You may have experience of the following: Office Administrator, Office Assistant, Apprentice Administrator, Admin Assistant, Administration Apprentice, Administration, Office Administrator, Administration Assistant, Administrator, etc.

Ref: 91536

TPP Recruitment are proud to be supporting a Wolverhampton based health charity on their hunt to recruit an Individual Giving Fundraiser to support within their in their successful team. This is a great time to join this organisation as it goes through a significant period of growth, seeing new campaigns and products being created. The role on Individual Giving Fundraiser will cover a maternity leave for 12 months and focus on managing their regular giving campaigns. A lot of these campaigns work across a number of teams within fundraising meaning communication skills are key.

Job Title: Individual Giving Fundraiser
Location: Wolverhampton
Salary: £19,000 to £30,000
Contract length: 12 months

Within the role you will manage two of their major regular giving campaigns as well as take a lead on their supporter journey and ensuring this is delivered to all regular givers. The role will also see you manage their In-Memory Fundraising, this is a key area to their growth as a charity as they are looking to engage with a new audience.

Essential experience needed for the role:
* You must have experience working on individual giving campaigns within a fundraising team.
* Experience managing over income and expenditure budgets will be key.
* Ability to analyse and segment date in order to be approaching the correct audiences with your campaigns.
* Up to date knowledge of relevant fundraising codes of practice.

This is a great opportunity to work for a charity on the growth, who are looking to create new products and attract a new audience. If you are interested in a role that will support in developing your career further than we would like to discuss the role with you in some more details.

Job Title: PA to CEO

Salary: £9.52 per hour

Number of posts: 1

Type of contract: Permanent

Start date: Mid February or as soon after interview as possible

Hours of work: 24 hours per week including Mondays and Thursdays to overlap with CEO.  There may also be a requirement to work additional hours at peak times and close to deadlines.  Some weekend and evening work will be required, including attendance at Board face-to-face meetings typically held on Saturdays.  Board meetings typically take place in Birmingham or London.

Work location: Home based, ideally in the West Midlands area, with some travel throughout the UK.  Candidates willing to travel and who reside outside of the West Midlands area will also be considered.

Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer

Closing Date: 06/02/2020

Interview Date: Wednesday 12th February in Birmingham

Job information:
The Personal Assistant (PA) will provide high calibre administrative support to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Breastfeeding Network (BfN). 

The post holder will be required to be the meeting secretary for all Board meetings, organise, prepare for and attend meetings at locations throughout the UK.  In addition, the PA will produce reports including support for annual review documents and carry out a range of administration duties to a high professional standard whilst maintaining confidentiality.  The role will be key to helping BfN achieve the Good Governance Award in 2020.  The post will involve frequent contact with the CEO either face to face, by telephone and email as well as regular contact with a remote team of BfN Directors (trustees), managers and volunteers.

Job Overview

We are looking for a Digital Marketing Manager who is a creative visionary with strong leadership capabilities.

The Marketing Manager needs to be a person who masters the tools of digital marketing and finds new opportunities for improving the effectiveness and awareness of our projects in the UK and across Europe, to achieve the mission and goals of Christian Vision, a nonprofit organisation.

How Can You Contribute

• Build an effective strategy for promoting and increasing of brand awareness;
• Implement an annual planning process of marketing activities (tools, goals, budgets) aimed at achieving planned KPI;
• Develop the projects and products of the organisation;
• Lead and develop teamwork;
• Work with contractors and partners;
• Successfully manage projects of web application development, which involves the development of a project passport, preparation of terms of reference, prototyping, final testing and launch;
• Work with numbers, KPI’s, social networks, conversion
• Ensure the interconnection of the local marketing strategy with the global strategy of the organisation, which implies regular interaction with teams from other offices of the organisation;
• Successfully manage advertising campaigns, which involves the development of media plans, approval of designs, collection and analysis of results;
• Manage the team, which includes participation in the recruitment process and development of team members.

 Essential Skills/ Experience/ Education

• Graduate education is a preferred requirement;
• Experience in digital marketing (3+ years);
• Experience in team management and leadership (3+ years);
• Experience in developing marketing strategies;
• Experience in project management;
• Knowledge of product promotion tools (SMM, youtube, PPC, landing page, content-marketing, PR).
• Knowledge of analytics principles and tools.
• Strong Christian faith is an occupational requirement

Who We Are

Christian Vision (CV) is a global Christian charity with evangelism at our heart. We carry a strong desire to serve and equip Christians, and the local church, in their evangelistic endeavours. 

To this end, we have laboured to develop on-the-ground initiatives and effective media platforms, both of which are outworked in partnership with local churches across the globe to share the Good News of Jesus and mobilise Christians to share their faith. 

Touch-a-Billion projects use effective media platforms to introduce people to Jesus in the world’s major languages, and mobilise Christians to share their faith. 

Impact-a-Nation projects are on-the-ground initiatives that aim to raise the spiritual climate of a nation by significantly impacting local communities through church planting, leadership development, education, skills training, mentoring and humanitarian aid. 

Our teams see thousands of lives impacted each week. From the shores of Madagascar, to the jungles of Sumatra and the cities of North America, God is bringing people into relationship with Him, and we are overjoyed to receive many accounts of people being healed, their needs met, and circumstances transformed.

See more information about us on the Who We Are section of cvglobal.co

What We Offer

CV offers a dynamic and unique working atmosphere, with a lively team focused on using the internet for evangelism and mobilising Christians to share their faith. Teams contribute to a well-funded and resourced global strategy, to use the latest technologies and online best practices, to create demand in Christian faith and connect interested individuals to church networks for follow up and discipleship.

• Work in an international Christian organisation;
• Creative and friendly team;
• Training and opportunities for professional growth;
• State of the art cutting edge office facilities.
• Vibrant office culture / posh coffee and annual hot cross buns and mince pie tasting.

Applicants must send a CV with a covering letter. 

Salary and Benefits: Salary circa £38k, company pension scheme, life insurance, private medical/dental insurance, 25 days holiday, staff parking and gym facilities.

Closing date for applications:  16th February 2020

By submitting a CV for this vacancy, you consent to the use of personal data by the organisation in the framework of the current legislation of the UK. CV EU guarantees the confidentiality of applications and the negotiation process when selecting candidates for the vacancy.

Here at Eden Brown we have an amazing opportunity to join a much loved health charity as a Community Fundraiser in Birmingham. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established, successful community fundraising team which will include supporting and delivering the local running of national campaigns, building relationships with supporters and representing the charity across your area.

In this role you'll be working to make a difference to the lives of others by supporting, developing and inspiring volunteers and groups to maximise income generation in the area. Working on both local and national campaigns you will provide excellent stewardship and support to groups and volunteers. You will have experience working in the charity sector, event marketing or PR.

You will have some insight into how local fundraising works, together with a demonstrable range of office skills. Your excellent communication and customer service skills will ensure you thrive in your new role. The role will be based in the Birmingham office covering the Birmingham area and therefore access to your own transport is essential. To discuss this exciting opportunity in more details please contact Laura Iliff on 01132207542. Please note the closing date is the 3rd February.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

In the UK, currently, there are around 950,000 young people aged 16-24 who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs). Over the past year, we have worked with 68,000 young people across the UK. We are in the middle of an ambitious five-year strategy to increase our reach over the next decade to an average of 100,000 young people a year.

Our growth requires a new funding model for the charity, which delivers additional annual income and creates greater income stability and sustainability. The charity’s growth has been driven by our expertise in relationship fundraising. Now, we are diversifying into engaging and raising money from individuals. We have a head-start in the powerful Prince’s Trust Community which surrounds the organization – the employees of our corporate supporters, our volunteers, our communities of supporters and the young people who have been helped and their families.

The Prince’s Trust needs a visionary, entrepreneurial and courageous leader to deliver sustainable income streams from individual supporters (£12m) which will transform the income mix of the organization over the next decade. The Director of Individual Supporters will lead the development of this income stream, reviewing and developing our portfolio of fundraising and engagement events, delivering existing fundraising products and building a strategy for new products and income streams aimed at individuals.

In return, you will get a chance to see the impact of your work every week.You will work with exceptionally skilled and motivated people. You will have the mandate to make a real difference to the lives of thousands of young people. We believe this will be the best work of your life.

We now need a leader who can take these assets and develop and deliver a plan to expand our community of supporters, develop products which appeal to them and which build their increasing engagement with the cause over time, so we are looking for an individual who is restless for change and who can lead the whole organization in their part in building relationships with supporters. As our Director of Individual Supporters, you will have demonstrable experience in a senior fundraising or consumer marketing position, as well as, a track record of significant budgetary responsibility (£10m+ income and £2m+ cost). As this is a key role where you will be developing and delivering long term strategy, you must have experience in this. You will also have previously managed large remote and geographically dispersed teams.

The closing date for this role is the 4th February 2020.

Title: Regional Community Fundraiser - Midlands

Reports to: Head of Fundraising

Salary: £24,000 - £26,000 (depending upon experience)

Location: Home based with occasional duties/visits to Head Office in Havant, Hampshire and attendance, from time-to-time, of other charity events across the country

Region: Midlands, covering counties within a 60 mile radius of Birmingham.

Hours of work: 35 hours per week (Full Time) please note that this position includes some evening and weekend working.

We are seeking a passionate, motivated, individual with past, proven, experience in developing Community Fundraising activities to meet defined income targets. The successful canidate will ensure that appropriate community fundraising activities are implemented and managed to deliver budgets, targets and income in-line with agreed plans and strategies.

Who are we looking for?

• A confident self-starter, an experienced relationship builder who is able to identify and nurture opportunities to the benefit of the charity and it’s beneficiaries
• Experience of managing mass participation events and enthusiastic about making new connections
• Experienced in managing income, budgets and meeting financial targets
• A flexible working approach, someone that welcomes the opportunity to help grow and develop community fundraising activities for a small, but dynamic, medical and health research charity
• Homebased, comfortable and confident in remote working, supported by a small team based in Havant, Hampshire
• A confident driver, with own vehicle, able to travel and cover the Midlands area, as defined by the terms of employment, with occasional travel to the charity’s Head Office in Hampshire

*Download the full job description and charity overview below*

Employee Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 25 Days Annual Holiday
• 8 additional Public Holidays
• TOIL for hours over 35 per week
• Mobile phone & laptop
• Business element of private car insurance reimbursed
• Standard Life workplace pension

Check out our website for further information on all aspects of Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation on our website. To apply for this position, please click the ‘Apply Online’ button below.

Grants & Trusts Officer

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week

Hospice Pay Band 5: £22,814 to £29,664 per annum

‘Happy to talk about flexible working’

Are you a highly organised and motivated individual with experience in successfully securing funding from charitable trusts and foundations? Would you like a rewarding role where your work makes a real difference to people living within our local community?

A position has arisen within our Grants & Trust Team for a Grants & Trusts Officer. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering against an annual income target.

This will entail managing their own workload by writing detailed and accurate project based applications to secure funding within strict deadlines, ensuring progress reports are produced for funders in a timely manner; researching new funding opportunities for our exciting projects and building and maintaining strong relationships, both internally, throughout the hospice, and externally with our stakeholders.

If you are dedicated and looking for a project based role that is both challenging yet rewarding, look no further. 

Closing date:  Noon, Monday 17th February 2020

Interview date: Thursday 27th February 2020

Registered charity no 503456

Starfish: Health and Wellbeing provides mental health services across Teesside, Staffordshire and Wolverhampton.  We are part of an innovative and growing group with an expanding range of services.

We are looking to recruit a Wellbeing Worker to cover our GP First service, to promote the development of each clients’ social skills, as well as the ability to draw on their own resources. You will strive to increase the clients’ self confidence and independence, empowering them to live a healthy, proactive and fulfilled life.

Title: Wellbeing Worker
Hours: On a rota basis - 22.5 hours per week (over 3 days) 30hrs per week (over 4 days)
Salary: £19,947 per annum (pro-rata)
Based: GP surgeries Stafford and surrounding area
Contract: Fixed Term Contract until 30th September 2020

The post holder will work within GP practices providing needs based service to patients with long-term conditions, comorbid health conditions, low level mental health problems and social problems. The patients will have different levels of vulnerability and risk connected to their specific issues.

The service will be providing high volume low intensity interventions which will be a range of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based skills, Solution Focused therapy and self-management interventions to patients.

The post holder will work within the community to develop links with a range of multi agency services to provide a holistic service to all clients referred by either a health care professional or self referral.

Key areas of accountability and responsibility include:

• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals adhering to the service’s referral protocols
• Assess and support clients with common mental health problems in the self management of their recovery
• Undertake person centred assessments and develop mutually agreed support plans to facilitate the recovery of each client
• Provide a range of information and support for evidence based high volume low-intensity psychological treatments, which could include guided self-help, computerised CBT, or information about pharmacological treatments.
• Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• A Psychology degree, certificate in Mental Health work, Social work diploma, nursing qualification, OT degree or diploma in counselling
• Experience and evidence of working with people who have suffered with a mental health problem
• Demonstrates high standard in written communication and able to write clear reports
• Ability to listen and develop good therapeutic relationships with clients, as well as able to empathise and present a non-judgemental approach
• Ability to demonstrate and understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary care

Closing date: Sunday 2nd February 2020.

Please click the 'Apply Now' button for more information on how to complete your application. 

All Post holders are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure.

Starfish is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We only accept our completed applications. We would kindly request you do not send CV’s for this position.

No agencies please.

We are looking to recruit a Partnership Officer to secure long-term, high value, mutually beneficial corporate and non-corporate partners across a range of disciplines, including Charity of the Year, cause-related marketing and sponsorship.

You will also be responsible for researching key prospective sectors and companies, sector activities and the business marketplace, to compile lists of key targets, as agreed with the Head of Partnership Fundraising.  You will develop and manage an ongoing pipeline of prospects, that have a clearly defined target outcome and value.

The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate experience in corporate fundraising new business or a sales experience within the voluntary and/or commercial sector.

Islamic Relief Worldwide is an independent humanitarian and development organisation, serving humanity for over 35 years. With an active presence in over 40 countries, we strive to make the world a better and fairer place for those effected by poverty, conflicts or natural disasters.

Our head office in Birmingham, UK is currently recruiting for the position of ‘Safeguarding Officer’ to join the Governance Division who supports matters regarding; Legal, Internal Audit and the Policy and Compliance Unit encompassing Security, Safeguarding, Whistleblowing and Complaints. The purpose of the job is to work closely with Safeguarding Lead in the context of IRW by providing technical and programme support to the International Programme Department in the roll out of the safeguarding framework and support the effective operations of the safeguarding projects and initiatives. Support internal and external safeguarding processes by the ongoing development of key processes in relation to the safeguarding assessment, receipt and processing of safeguarding complaints whilst contributing to the reviewing of safeguarding, PSEA and Child Safeguarding policy development and associated processes.

The successful candidate must have or be:

• Proven record of excellent people and interpersonal skills with strong communication skills at individual and group levels, including ability to engage within a multicultural environment
• Significant experience in an INGO setting or equivalent
• Experience of Safeguarding, PSEA and Child Safeguarding
• Previous experience of working within humanitarian and development (third) sector is an advantage
• Demonstrable experience in consultative team approaches to decision making and innovation which motivates and drives teams forward
• Proven ability and experience in analysing data which enables sound conclusion and recommendations to be drawn
• Demonstrates the flexibility and energy that is required for a high level of self-management and awareness
• Substantial experience in managing relationships and challenging situations
• Ability to respond to a dynamic and changing environment
• Ability and motivation to travel within UK and internationally

Islamic Relief promotes equality and meritocracy, and seeks individuals who are sympathetic to the IR values of; Sincerity, Excellence, Compassion, Social Justice and Custodianship together with our policy standards on Anti-Bribery, Child Protection and Code of Conduct. If you would like to be a part of an organisation striving to make a difference in the world and are looking for a meaningful career, we will be glad to hear from you.

Please Note: Interviews are expected to take place early March 2020. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Pre-employment checks:

Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:

• screening clearance
• proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK
• receipt of satisfactory references

For UK based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications which would require sponsorship.

Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer