309 Jobs in Greater Manchester or Manchester

ALDER HEY CHILDRENS CHARITY 

Job title: Individual and Legacy Assistant 

Salary: £26,848 - £31,439 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Mix of home working and office based (office is at Alder Hey, Liverpool). Hybrid working available. 

About us 

Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey Children’s Hospital a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 450,000 patients and families we care for every year. 

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

About this role 

This is an exciting opportunity for an Individual Giving and Legacy Assistant to join the Charity team here at Alder Hey, the UK’s busiest Children’s Hospital.

This role sits within the Individual Giving and Legacy team which includes an Individual Giving Fundraiser and a Legacy and In Memory Fundraiser. The role also works closely with colleagues across the community, marketing and finance teams to deliver supporter journeys, website content, and the smooth running of fundraising campaigns.

The post-holder supports the generation of income and delivers an excellent supporter experience. They ensure supporters and enquirers receive a prompt, warm, and appropriate response at every stage of their journey with the Alder Hey Children's Charity. 

The role is responsible for maintaining accurate supporter records on the Charity's CRM system (Salesforce), helping supporter administration (including Gift Aid, tribute pages, and regular giving processes), and assisting with the coordination of legacy enquiries, pledgers, and the free Will Writing service.  
 

Key Responsibilities will include: 

Administration, Processes and Data 

• Ensure supporter records are kept accurate and up to date on the charity's CRM (Salesforce). 

• Complete supporter administrative processes such as tracking and take actions on the cancelation of regular donations/lottery, setting up of tribute pages, and Gift Aid administration. 

• Provide administration support for the management of legacy enquirers, pledgers and actively track the progress of live legacy cases. 

• Provide administration support for the management of the free Will Writing service. 

• To help ensure pages on the charity’s website are kept up to date and work with the wider team to enhance those pages. 

• Monitor marketing resources, such as leaflets, to ensure stock levels are maintained. 

• Diary management, minute taking and meeting organisation. 

Stewardship 

• Deal with incoming enquires prioritising, re-directing, or responding in a timely, sensitive and appropriate manner. 

• Help deliver exceptional supporter care, ensuring that everyone who responds to the Charity's campaigns and appeals receives a warm, timely and meaningful thank you, helping to build long-term relationships with Alder Hey Children's Charity. 

• Process and action established supporter journey and activities across a variety of programmes. 

• Support the development and enhancement of supporter journeys. 

• Support the planning and delivery of all campaigns and activities, helping to inspire supporters to make a difference. 

• Assist with the arrangements for events to ensure that all supporters receive outstanding stewardship to establish long term commitment to the charity. 

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information. 

Our Values 

At Alder Hey Children’s Charity, our values guide how we work. Being courageous, working together, showing passion and embracing creativity enables us to support the hospital in delivering the very best care for young patients and their families. 

Courage 

We try new things, take risks and innovate. We speak up, take accountability and act with responsibility. 

Together 

We work as one team, sharing knowledge and learning. We partner with patients, families, supporters and colleagues. 

Passion 

We are passionate about what we do and inspire others. 

Magic 

We are creative, fun and child-led, creating special moments and going the extra mile. 

Additional Information 

In April 2025, the charity adopted a four-day working week policy. Staff previously working 37.5 hours now work 30 hours across four days, maintaining full pay while supporting a better work-life balance. 

This job description outlines the general nature of the role and is not exhaustive. It may be subject to change in line with organisational needs. 

Alder Hey Children’s Charity will make reasonable adjustments where required and is committed to equal opportunities and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. 

The post holder will be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure check. 

How to apply 

You can apply by clicking the link below. Applications must include your CV and a covering letter (no more than one side of A4) which answers the following questions: 

• How do you meet the person specification? If you don’t exactly meet all of the role requirements but have transferable skills please do consider applying and provide details as part of your answer.

• Why do you want to work for Alder Hey? 

Additional information is included within the Job Description and Person Specification. 

Closing date: Monday 19th October 2026, 12pm 

Interviews will be held in person at Alder Hey on Monday 2nd November 2026

Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP) Adviser for East Anglia and the Midlands

Overview of the role

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in helping to change England’s relationship with alcohol starting with young people. Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP) is looking to engage the services of a results-oriented consultant with great people skills to set up CAP projects in high harm areas.

The successful applicant will have a track record of building effective partnerships, the people and communication skills to involve and engage a wide range of local stakeholders and the leadership and project management skills to support projects through each phase of their lifecycle including baseline evaluation, action plan delivery, post intervention evaluation and maintenance/sustainment. After a short familiarisation period the successful applicant will be expected to oversee fast-track development of new CAPs in priority areas and take responsibility for all aspects of their management with minimal supervision.

A key requisite of the role will be the ability to forge effective public/private sector partnerships between statutory agencies, schools, youth charities and retailers following the CAP model and evaluation framework. The successful applicant may come from a police, public health, education, local authority or other relevant background.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively identify opportunities for new CAPs and facilitate set up of new CAPs in priority areas.

• Maintain and oversee the workstreams of pre-existing CAPs across the East of England and East Anglia.

• Ensure that all CAP projects carry out appropriate and timely interventions and evaluate all activity in line with the CAP evaluation toolkit – including a baseline and post intervention evaluation.

• Raise the profile of CAPs in East Anglia and the Midlands and ensure that their impact is recognised by key stakeholders.

Specific duties to include the following:

• Represent CAP at all operational meetings.

• Ensure that Retail of Alcohol Standards Group (RASG) member companies play a full delivery role in each CAP where they operate as businesses.  

• Liaise as appropriate with strategic leads within local enforcement authorities and other partner organisations to initiate and complete agreed actions

• Encourage all projects to achieve positive local media coverage including via social media and regional news/broadcast media.

• Ensure that all projects carry out as a minimum a baseline (pre-CAP) evaluation and post intervention evaluation following the CAP evaluation framework and project management survey tools.

• Produce a monthly progress report on all schemes and pipeline activity

• Attend and participate in regular CAP update meetings on Microsoft teams (x12 pa).

• Assist with event planning and profile-raising opportunities such as MP visits to CAP projects.

Skills, attributes and experience

Essential to the role will be the ability to persuade key stakeholders at local and national level of the need to address underage drinking problems and to facilitate effective and dynamic local partnerships involving any/all of the following sectors: local authorities, education, child protection, social services, public health, Alcohol and Drug Partnerships, police, retailers and licensing.

• Excellent organisational and sound project management skills

• Great people skills with the ability to build consensus and motivate partners to play a role in timely delivery of an agreed action plan.

• Act as an ambassador for CAP at meetings and events including parliamentary events.

• Excellent presentation and all-round communication skills.

• Capable administrator with the ability to keep accurate records including data collection around outputs and impact evaluation.

Remuneration

Consultancy fee of £320 per day depending on experience. Work will depend on ability to generate interest in setting up new CAPs but we anticipate as a guideline engaging a minimum of 2 days of consultancy per week or around 90 days per annum. All reasonable and agreed travel expenses will be paid in line with invoice arrangements.

For more information on Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP), please see our website. 

Deadline for applications : 21 October 2026.

Team: Finance 

Location: Remote

Work pattern: Monday-Friday, 35 hours per week 

Salary: Up to £56,655.95 per year 

Contract: 18 month fixed-term contract 

We are the UK’s largest cat welfare charity. All over the country, our passionate employees, volunteers and supporters are using their kindness and expertise to make life better for millions of cats and the people who care for them. 

Responsibilities of the Senior Management Accountant: 

- Facilitate and manage the budget and forecast process for your assigned Directorate 

- Produce and review the monthly management accounts and reports for your Directorate, providing insight and analysis on key variances, risks and opportunities affecting the charity 

- Utilise financial and non-financial data to provide timely reports giving insight and expertise to support well-informed financial decision-making and delivery of the charity’s plans 

- Responsible for the budgeting, reporting and analysis for capital and change projects across the charity, developing processes to enhance this 

- Develop strong working relationships across the charity, building business partnering capability in the team and ensuring high quality support and expertise is provided to your Directorates 

- Managing two members of the Management Accountant team, supporting ongoing individual and team development 

- Work constructively with the Senior Financial Accountant to ensure processes and priorities are aligned across the whole of the Finance team 

About the Finance team: 

The Finance team plays a vital role in the organisation’s success by ensuring sound financial management and a greater level of informed decision making to support the delivery of the overall strategy of the charity.  The Management Accountant team are a team of five reporting into two Senior Management Accountants, all of whom support the Head of Budgeting and Reporting. The wider Finance team includes Operational Finance consisting of Financial Accountants, Accounts Payable, Systems, Payroll and Branch Finance. 

What we’re looking for in our Senior Management Accountant: 

- Fully qualified CCAB accountant 

- Experience leading a team of qualified Management Accountants 

- Experience in project accounting, specifically capital and change projects 

- Experience working in a Senior Management Accountant role in a large organisation (250+ employees) working with budget holders as well as providing support and advice around financial management issues 

- Excellent people management, communication and organisational skills with the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships 

- Experience using appropriate accounting software and systems/ERP systems 

- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office – particularly in Excel 

What we can offer you: 

- 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service

- A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance for peace of mind 

- Health and wellbeing support to help you stay well while working remotely 

- Flexible working options to support a healthy work–life balance

- Financial wellbeing support, including access to Salary Finance

- Additional support such as eye care vouchers and confidential employee advice services

- Access to discounted pet insurance to help care for your pet’s health

Learn more about our full reward package  

Application closing date: 4th October 2026 

Virtual interview date: w/c 19th October 2026 

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment. Please note, applications received after the closing date may not be responded to. 

If successful, your recruitment journey will include: 

1. anonymised application form 

2. virtual interview 

Please note, the process may change slightly dependent on application numbers. We will inform you of any relevant changes. 

Please email [email protected] if you require any adjustments to be made for you to complete your application or to participate in the recruitment journey. 

Are you ready to make a lasting impact on the lives of dogs and the people who care for them?  
We're looking for a Welfare Manager to take charge of the welfare journey for every dog in our centre. In this pivotal role, you will drive timely, compassionate decisions through expert behavioural and veterinary rehabilitation, ensuring each dog progresses toward their forever home.

What does this role do?

As Welfare Manager, you'll: 

• lead, coach and develop a small team to deliver high-quality veterinary care and behaviour modification for dogs in our care,
• act as a balanced advocate for both behavioural and veterinary needs to achieve the best outcomes for each dog,
• oversee staff and volunteer training in behaviour and dog handling, ensuring all colleagues work within SOPs, legal, and health and safety guidelines,
• develop and implement tailored behaviour modification plans for dogs with complex needs and monitor progress towards successful rehoming,
• support professional development of Behaviour Officers, Dog Welfare Assistants, and Supervisors through mentoring, assessments, and workshops,
• collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure consistent, informed behavioural support before, during, and after rehoming. 

Could this be you?

As an accredited clinical dog behaviourist (CCAB, CAB) with extensive experience in canine behaviour and welfare; including behaviour modification, clinical assessment, and risk management, you will have proven expertise in safely handling and rehabilitating dogs across a range of breeds and behavioural profiles. With a strong track record of leading, developing, and managing high-performing teams, you will also be a skilled communicator, who is able to influence and engage a variety of audiences. Above all, you'll be passionate about rehoming, and have a commitment to the aims and objectives of Dogs Trust.

What does this team do?

Our rehoming centres house thousands of dogs each year until they can find a loving new home and the success of our centres wouldn’t be possible without our dedicated team of staff and volunteers; there is a real family-community within each of our centres. Come rain or shine, our team are out in all weathers to make sure the dogs have the best possible life. Dealing with thousands of visitors each month, our rehoming centres are the face of Dogs Trust, and we pride ourselves on our staff providing the very best in customer service. 

Interviews will be provisionally held on the 1st and 2nd October 2026 at our Merseyside Rehoming Centre.

About Dogs Trust

We love dogs. That’s why we do whatever we can to make sure every four-legged friend gets the love they deserve. We’ll never put a healthy dog down, so our work is focused on helping dogs in need, supporting owners every step of the walk, and creating a better world for dogs in the future. It’s what we’ve been doing since 1891 and how we’ve grown to become the UK’s leading dog charity, helping 12,000 loyal friends find their forever homes every year.

Team: Individual Giving 

Location: Homebased with occasional travel for meetings 

Work pattern: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday 

Salary: Up to £36,327.99 per annum 

Contract: Fixed term until 30th June 2027 

We are the UK’s largest cat welfare charity. All over the country, our passionate employees, volunteers and supporters are using their kindness and expertise to make life better for millions of cats and the people who care for them. 

Will you join us and make life better for cats? 

Responsibilities of our Individual Giving Officer: 

• The successful candidate will be responsible for leading on projects across multiple communication channels to recruit and steward our wonderful supporters. This includes everything from leading creative development, building engaging and thoughtful supporter journeys, and project managing campaigns – all of which feature cats at the heart, of course!

• You will work closely with agencies to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget, and monitor and report on campaign performance.

About the Individual Giving Team: 

• We sit within the Marketing & Income Generation directorate 

• Our team is responsible for the recruitment and retention of individual supporters to generate over £21 million each year and provide leads for the other teams in the directorate 

• We currently have a team of 14 working across Acquisition and Retention on our Cash Appeals and Raffles, Membership, Sponsorship, Lottery and regular giving programs using Mail, Telemarketing, Face to Face, DRTV, email, Digital, Social and other paid media 

What we’re looking for in our Individual Giving Officer: 

• Experience in an Individual Giving role or similar, ideally working with agencies in the third sector

• Proven track record of achieving income against agreed financial targets

• Experience in leading projects and managing schedules 

• Proven ability to multi-task and work on own initiative, accurately and under pressure

•  A good working knowledge of transaction and contact databases

What we can offer you: 

• Health and wellbeing support to help you stay well while working remotely

• Flexible working options to support a healthy work–life balance

• Ongoing learning and development to help you build your skills and grow your career

• 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service

• A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance for peace of mind

• Financial wellbeing support, including access to Salary Finance

• Access to discounted pet insurance to help care for your pet’s health

• Learn more about our full reward package:  

Interested? Here’s how to apply: 

Application closing date: 27th September 2026 

Virtual interview date: 5th & 6th October 2026 

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment. Please note, applications received after the closing date may not be responded to. 

If successful, your recruitment journey will include: 

1. Anonymised application form 

2. Virtual interview via Microsoft Teams 

Please email if you require any adjustments to be made for you to complete your application or to participate in the recruitment journey 

Financial Accountant- 12 month contract

Manchester (1 day per week in office)

About Salix

Join us. Help deliver a greener future. At Salix, our aim is to deliver decarbonisation, create clean power and lower energy bills for consumers.

We enable people to live in warmer and healthier homes and we help deliver resilient public buildings which are better places to work, visit or use.

Our work means homes and buildings are cheaper to run as they benefit from cleaner and more sustainable energy.

We deliver and administer the government funding that unlocks greater energy efficiency and lower costs for councils, schools, housing associations, hospitals and universities.

We are a trusted delivery partner to the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments, regional combined authorities and public sector organisations across the country. We are a Non-Departmental Body of DESNZ.

But our role goes beyond funding and our impact through the Warm Homes Plan.

We provide practical expertise, support and insight throughout every stage of delivery, helping organisations turn ambition into real-world impact while shaping future policy and best practice along the way.

Driven by purpose and backed by decades of technical and delivery expertise, our teams work collaboratively to make complex programmes happen at scale.

If you want to work somewhere where your ideas are valued, your development is supported and your work contributes to a greener future, we’d love to hear from you.

The role:

Reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant, this is a broad financial accounting role with responsibility for supporting monthly and annual reporting, financial controls, statutory accounts and audit. You'll also work closely with colleagues across Finance and external stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely financial information.

This would be a great opportunity for a part-qualified or newly qualified accountant looking to develop their technical accounting experience within a complex and purpose-driven organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the monthly financial reporting cycle, including trial balance reporting.
• Maintain accurate financial records and ensure assets and liabilities are appropriately reconciled and reviewed.
• Support the preparation of statutory financial statements and returns.
• Work closely with internal and external auditors.
• Support the production of management accounts and the annual budget.
• Provide technical accounting and budgetary advice across the organisation.
• Support improvements to financial controls, processes and systems, including future finance systems projects.

You will:

• Be a part-qualified or newly qualified ACA/ACCA accountant.
• Have experience supporting the production of year-end accounts and statutory financial statements.
• Have strong experience completing balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring financial records are accurate and appropriately reviewed.
• Have a strong understanding of financial accounting processes and reporting.
• Ideally have experience supporting internal and external audit processes.
• Possess strong Excel skills and excellent attention to detail.
• Be comfortable working independently while collaborating effectively across teams.
• Have strong communication, organisation and stakeholder management skills.

What's on offer:

• Hybrid working with a minimum of one day per week in the Manchester office
• 28 days' annual leave
• Contributory pension and life assurance
• Flexible working
• Supported training and development budget
• Study Support

Are you an ambitious, creative and influential practitioner who is passionate about reducing the number of children being removed into care by supporting women to bring about change in their lives?

Pause works with women who have experienced - or are at risk of experiencing - repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care.

Through an intense programme of support, it aims to break this cycle and give women the opportunity to reflect, tackle destructive patterns of behaviour and to develop new skills and responses that can help them create a more positive future. In doing so, we aim to prevent the damaging consequences of the repeated removals of children into care.  

The role:

 As a Pause Practitioner, you will be responsible for implementing a range of interventions and support measures as part of an integrated package of health, therapeutic and social support. This will be in the form of one to one and group work. Pause is specifically designed to address the complex needs of women, through intensive support, to enable change in their lives, and ultimately reduce the numbers of children being removed into care.

Please see Job Description and Additional Information document for more information.

At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.

When completing your application it is essential to refer your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document . This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently until August 2029 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire in August 2029.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible. In addition, this is a full-time position, and therefore we are unable to offer part-time opportunities.

Fixed Term until 31st July 2027

35 hours/week

Up to £70, 000 per annum

Location: Remote with some travel to Whitecross Studios, London

Benefits include but not limited to:

-36 days' annual leave, inclusive of flexible bank holidays, increasing with length of service

-Flexible working

-Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

-We match up to 8% pension

-Free counselling service

-Opportunities to develop and widen your skills

-2 days of paid volunteering time per annum to support another part of the organisation

About us:The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We deliver essential local services that provide safe, trusted support to children and young people during times of significant need.

Our People, Culture, and Transformation domain is dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for our people and volunteers. We bring together strong people practices, modern digital tools, and meaningful data insights to build the skills, systems, and culture that help everyone thrive. By joining us, you'll contribute to shaping an organisation that is supportive, forward-thinking, and empowered by both people-centred approaches and smart, connected technology, enabling The Children's Society to grow its impact and deliver on our mission.

About the role:Reporting to the Executive Director of People Culture and Transformation, you will play a key role in working alongside the Executive and Senior Leadership Teams, helping us to transform our work creating opportunity for organisational effectiveness and sustainability and enabling us to deliver even greater impact to children and young people.

We're looking for someone who has extensive experience, knowledge and skill in leading and delivering organisational transformation. It is crucial that you can build relationships with senior level stakeholders quickly, are able to critique and influence and can produce a plan and approach that enables us to transform our systems, processes and ways of working. The outputs of this work will sit alongside our strategic framework and will support the work that we already have underway in enabling a thriving organisation.

This role is for a defined period of time, therefore it will also be important that you can demonstrate experience in enabling internal teams to continue with the work delivery at the right time.

We are excited to be embarking on this journey and look forward to receiving applications.

Key skills and experience:

-Experience of leading and delivering organisational transformation

-Creating the right conditions for organisational effectiveness through design and practices

-Proven track record in achieving transformational change and bringing the organisation on the journey

-Ability to work with all key stakeholders, influencing and helping to impart knowledge and skill

-Enabling internal capability to hand the baton over at the right time

Closing date: Midnight on 11th October 2026Interviews: 19th and 23rd October 2026

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protection of the children and young people we work with. As such, our safer recruitment process includes a Basic or Enhanced DBS check, 2 years of employment references, and additional vetting checks relevant to the role. We have a comprehensive range of policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices across all areas of our organisation.

In support of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, shortlisting is carried out on an anonymised basis. Personal details are hidden from the shortlisting panel, and candidates are referenced by a candidate number only. As part of this process, we ask that your CV is anonymised before submission - this means removing personal information such as your name, contact details, age, and any other identifying details.

AI tools can support your application but only when used appropriately. You're welcome to use them to improve clarity, structure, and research. However, overuse or misuse (e.g. inventing experience or using AI during assessments) may lead to rejection at any stage. We want to hear the real you - authenticity matters.IN3

Fire Safety Manager - Social Housing 

Greater Manchester
Up to £66,000 per annum 

The Role 

We are working with an established housing provider to appoint an experienced Group Fire Safety Manager to take a lead role in the organisation’s approach to fire safety.
This is a senior position within the Building and Fire Safety function, with responsibility for providing technical leadership, managing a specialist team and ensuring fire safety arrangements remain robust across a large property portfolio.

You will work closely with senior leaders, asset management, development, repairs and external partners to identify risks, strengthen compliance and continually improve fire safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the organisation’s Fire Risk Assessment programme, ensuring actions are effectively managed through to completion.
• Provide technical advice on fire safety legislation, regulations and best practice across the organisation.
• Ensure statutory inspections and fire safety checks, including fire door inspections, are completed within required timescales.
• Oversee fire safety audits, incident investigations and relevant statutory reporting.
• Develop and review fire safety policies, procedures, strategies and guidance.
• Produce management information and reports for senior leadership and governance groups.
• Deliver fire safety training, briefings and guidance to colleagues.
• Work closely with Asset Management, Development and Repairs teams to ensure fire safety is embedded across projects and property management.
• Manage relationships with contractors, consultants, regulators and external stakeholders.
• Lead and develop a small team of Fire Safety professionals.
• Deputise for the Head of Building Safety when required.

About You 

• Significant experience within fire safety, ideally gained within social housing.
• Strong knowledge of current fire safety legislation, guidance and standards.
• Experience overseeing Fire Risk Assessment programmes and managing associated actions.
• Previous experience managing or developing a specialist team.
• Experience managing external consultants and contractors.
• Strong analytical, reporting and IT skills, including Excel and compliance databases.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• A relevant Fire Safety qualification, such as NEBOSH Fire, Fire Safety Diploma or equivalent.
• Membership of a relevant professional body such as IFE or IFSM is desirable.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Apply

If you're an ambitious fire safety profesisonal looking to make a lasting impact within a values-driven housing association, we'd love to hear from you.
For a confidential discussion and further information, please contact [email protected]

The Belay Foundation supports adoptive, kinship and special guardianship families raising children who have experienced early developmental trauma, often alongside neurodiversity. Founded in 2020 from lived experience, Belay offers something many families struggle to find elsewhere: practical, in-home support and expert guidance that’s genuinely trauma-responsive, delivered by people who understand what these families are living through.

This is an exciting opportunity to join us at a pivotal stage in our development. Over the past year, we have strengthened our services, systems and organisational foundations and developed ambitious plans for the future. As we continue to grow our reach and impact, we're looking for a Services Manager to organise and deliver our services such as guidance on trauma responsive respite and disability benefit expertise to our families.

Working closely with our Services Director, you'll use your lived or professional experience of our adoptive and kinship families to develop and deliver valued, practical and trauma-responsive support to families across England and Wales. This is key role, working directly with parents and carers, and an opportunity to really make a difference in our families’ lives.

This is a home-based role for two days per week (0.4 FTE), offering flexibility alongside the opportunity to shape a growing national charity. There may be potential to increase the hours over time, subject to funding, making this an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to grow with the organisation. This is a home‑based role, but applicants must be permanently based, and have the right to work, in the United Kingdom. For legal, tax, and operational reasons, we cannot consider applications from outside the UK.

If you're someone passionate about making a difference to adoptive and kinship families with the experience of delivering family support, we'd love to hear from you.

Please see the Candidate Application Pack for further details, including the full job description, candidate requirements and the application/ interview process. Please note that we reserve the right to close applications one week early should we receive a very high number of candidates. 

Ready to shape the future of the UK's nuclear profession? Come and lead our events programme, volunteer communities and income-generating partnerships.

The Nuclear Institute is looking for an ambitious and commercially minded Events and Communities Director. This is a unique opportunity to combine strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, driving member engagement, growing income and strengthening the professional networks that support nearly 6,000 members across the nuclear sector.

What you'll do

· Lead a nationally recognised portfolio of conferences, awards, webinars and events

· Grow sponsorship, partnership and commercial income

· Support and develop thriving member communities and volunteer networks

· Own budgets, forecasts, pricing decisions and financial performance

· Build relationships with senior industry stakeholders and corporate partners

· Lead and inspire a small, high-performing team

What we're looking for

You'll be a confident leader with experience in events, partnerships, membership, commercial growth or community engagement. You'll bring strong commercial judgement, excellent relationship-building skills and a track record of delivering results.

Why join us?

· Fully remote working

· Flexible and compressed working options

· Performance-related pay

· Private medical insurance and pension

· 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

· Your birthday off

If you're excited by the opportunity to grow income, strengthen professional communities and help shape the future of the nuclear sector, we'd love to hear from you.

ALDER HEY CHILDRENS CHARITY 

Job title: Philanthropy Propositions Lead 

Salary: £31,125 - £39,826 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Mix of home working and office based (office is at Alder Hey, Liverpool). Hybrid working available. 

About us 

Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey Children’s Hospital a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 450,000 patients and families we care for every year. 

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

About this role 

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of children's healthcare by developing compelling cases for support and leading fundraising proposition development for one of the UK's most ambitious children's hospital charities. 

The Philanthropy Propositions Lead will be responsible for creating inspiring, evidence-based fundraising propositions that secure transformational philanthropic support from major donors, trusts and foundations. 

Working across Alder Hey Children's Charity and Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation, the postholder will develop and project manage a pipeline of strategic funding opportunities. This will include helping to coordinate the Charity's capital appeal programme, ensuring complex projects progress efficiently from early concept through to successful fundraising and delivery. 

This role combines exceptional writing, strategic thinking, stakeholder management and project leadership, ensuring every fundraising proposition tells a compelling story of how philanthropy can transform children's healthcare. 

Key Responsibilities will include: 

Case for support and fundraising proposition development 

• Write transformational cases for support which demonstrate clear patient benefit, articulate the case for charitable funding and include meaningful outcomes and impact measures. 

• Produce bespoke proposals for major donors and funders. 

• Create compelling donor and funder updates and reports.

Funding opportunity pipeline development 

• Maintain a pipeline of future funding opportunities, ensuring sufficient project information is available before entering fundraising. 

• Ensure proposed projects have clear objectives, realistic budgets, measurable outcomes and defined timescales. 

Capital Appeal Coordination 

• Develop project plans for complex fundraising opportunities and monitor progress across multiple workstreams. 

• Coordinate regular project meetings with clinical, operational and fundraising colleagues. 

Internal Collaboration 

• Build strong relationships with colleagues and clinicians in the Trust. 

• Work collaboratively with the Charity Grants and Impact Team, Alder Hey  clinicians and Trust staff and colleagues across the Charity to develop compelling funding opportunities for agreed projects and areas of work. 

Other Duties 

• Be an outstanding advocate for Alder Hey Children’s Charity in line with the core values of the organisation. 

• Be an active and supportive member of the Alder Hey Children’s Charity team, contributing to the team’s development and working collaboratively with colleagues and volunteers. 

• Attend and support events run by fundraising teams whererequired, including occasional out-of-hours working. 

• Keep up to date with trends in philanthropy, healthcare fundraising and capital appeals, applying learning to strengthen fundraising propositions. 

• Gain andmaintainan in-depth knowledge and understanding of the charity’s work,prioritiesandfuture plans. 

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information. 

Our Values 

At Alder Hey Children’s Charity, our values guide how we work. Being courageous, working together, showing passion and embracing creativity enables us to support the hospital in delivering the very best care for young patients and their families. 

Courage 

We try new things, take risks and innovate. We speak up, take accountability and act with responsibility. 

Together 

We work as one team, sharing knowledge and learning. We partner with patients, families, supporters and colleagues. 

Passion 

We are passionate about what we do and inspire others. 

Magic 

We are creative, fun and child-led, creating special moments and going the extra mile. 

Additional Information 

In April 2025, the charity adopted a four-day working week policy. Staff previously working 37.5 hours now work 30 hours across four days, maintaining full pay while supporting a better work-life balance. 

This job description outlines the general nature of the role and is not exhaustive. It may be subject to change in line with organisational needs. 

Alder Hey Children’s Charity will make reasonable adjustments where required and is committed to equal opportunities and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. 

The post holder will be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure check. 

How to apply 

You can apply by clicking the link below. Applications must include your CV and a covering letter (no more than one side of A4) which answers the following questions: 

• How do you meet the person specification? If you don’t exactly meet all of the role requirements but have transferable skills please do consider applying and provide details as part of your answer.

• Why do you want to work for Alder Hey? 

Additional information is included within the Job Description and Person Specification. 

Closing date: Monday 5th October 2026 

Initial screening interviews will be held via Teams onTuesday 13th October 2026 

Second stageinterviews will be held inpersonatAlder HeyonMonday 19th October2026 

We are seeking a talented Director of Programme Delivery and Operations (maternity cover), fully committed to our widening participation cause, to join the Senior Leadership Team in a pivotal role for a growing and ambitious charity. 

You will have responsibility for ensuring we are providing high quality programme delivery to young people across our centre network, that are centres are functioning effectively, and that targets are monitored and met. And of course, you will need to have a genuine passion and enthusiasm for working with young people and helping them achieve their ambitions.

The Director of Programme Delivery and Operations is a Senior Leadership Team position within the charity and reports into the Chief Operating Officer. The role is responsible for oversight of all centre programme delivery and performance across our network of 44 local learning centres (and growing).

Contract

This is a fixed-term, maternity cover role until at least end of November 2027. This role can be either full-time or part-time (0.8 FTE) - responsibilities will be adjusted proportionally for part-time candidates.

Start date
January 2027 (or as otherwise agreed)

Working hours
Mon and Thurs: 09:30-18:00
Tues, Weds, Fri: 09:00-17:30
We are a delivery organisation providing frontline educational services for young people. We are an organisation with team members at different stages of their career, including many in their first roles: We are committed to nurturing talent and providing a developmental culture for all. Our team works in-person 4 days per week (or 3 days for a 0.8 FTE staff member)
with 1 day working from home. 

Location

The role would be based at one of our IntoUniversity centres in Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, London, Manchester or Nottingham, with regular travel across the network and to our Head Office in London. 

Salary

£62,500 (Plus additional London contribution of £2,800 for London-based candidates). Pro rata for part-time candidate.

Annual leave

This is the full-time staff entitlement and will be pro-rated for part-time staff.

33 days (inc bank & public holidays)
+ 3 closure days (two in December and one in July)
+ additional length of service entitlement
(one day per year of service, up to 5 days)
 

Staff benefits

• Employer pension contributions of 6% (and up to 8% after two years)
• Year round ‘early finish’ Fridays at 4.30pm 
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to medical and legal support 
• Life Assurance scheme with AIG including SmartHealth service with access to 24/7 online GP appointments
• Interest-free new starter loans of up to £1,000 
• Cycle to Work Scheme and Travelcard Loan Scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay and sick pay allowances
• Staff in FOCUS – rewards, competitions and prizes across the year

Application deadline - 9am Monday 28th September 2026.

Interview Day (in-person at our Head Office in London) - Wednesday 7th October. Please ensure that you are available on this date.

We’re hiring: Communications and Marketing Lead

We’re looking for a creative and enthusiastic Communications and Marketing Lead to join the Youth Focus North West team.

This is a great opportunity for someone who loves creating engaging content, telling stories and finding different ways to connect with people.

You’ll help us share the impact of our work with young people and the youth sector across the North West, developing campaigns, creating content for social media, websites and publications, producing graphics and video, ensuring our communications are clear and engaging.

You’ll also help us understand what’s working by using insight and analytics to improve our communications and reach more of the people we want to connect with.

We’re looking for someone with experience in communications, marketing, media or PR who can write well, think creatively and manage a range of projects and priorities. If you are not familiar with the youth sector, dont worry, what matters is that you’re interested in our work, keen to learn and excited about using communications to help us make a difference.

You’ll be joining a small, friendly team, with the tools and support you need to do the job.

Some regional travel and occasional evening/weekend working will be required.

What we offer

• 25 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday

• Contributory pension scheme

• Training and development opportunities

• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing package

• Free parking at our St Helens office

• Flexible working