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Check my CVLocation: Home-based in the East Midlands
Salary: £26,000 per annum
Contract: Full Time (37.5hrs), Fixed Term Contract until end of March 2022. This role is funded externally, with the option to extend subject to funding availability.
We are looking for a highly self-motivated, driven, and creative individual to join our innovative and engaging organisation. Seize this opportunity to develop our Big Bike Revival programme and engage with local community cycling clubs, initiatives which are integral to helping us achieve our goal of getting millions more people cycling.
Cycling UK is the national cycling charity delivering community-based behaviour change programmes to increase cycling participation levels in traditionally hard to reach groups across the country. As part of our Behaviour Change and Development Team, you will be helping run these projects and engaging to help more people cycle, more often.
Tell us why you are the person to drive impact in this capacity and change lives.
Head to our website and explore the individual job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening and send to our recruitment team.
Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to both the job description and person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.
Apply before 09:00 Thursday 22 April 2021
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Purpose of the role:
We have a new and exciting role for a Health and Social Care Tutor to teach courses to different groups of students in the East Midlands region. This will include Leicestershire.
The Workers` Educational Association is a unique charity and the UK`s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education. With a clear vision and a strong social purpose, we bring great teaching to local communities, with life-changing courses held in clubs, pubs, workplaces, schools and almost anywhere else you can think of. Since 1903, we have been offering disadvantaged adults the opportunity to return to learning - inspiring them to realise their full potential and become active, engaged citizens. We deliver courses to 50,000 people in 2,300 locations across England and Scotland. Our focus is on social purpose and change and we achieve this by bringing great teaching to local communities.
Key areas of responsibility:
As one of our Tutors, you will be so much more than just a teacher. Forming true partnerships with your students, you will go the extra mile to build their confidence, develop their knowledge and skills, and empower them to define and achieve their life goals. In short, you will be a catalyst for profound change, and you will enjoy considerable autonomy as you prepare course materials, identify students` needs, adapt courses and continually assess the effectiveness of your approach.
About you:
As a qualified, experienced and capable Tutor, you will use blended learning techniques to include digital learning through our Canvas platform and have the skills to utilise Zoom.
You will be keen to engage with people from a range of disadvantaged backgrounds and rekindle their love of learning, and you will share our passion for egalitarianism and empowerment. Because we serve people from all walks of life, we are keen to develop a diverse workforce and particularly
We are currently seeking an experienced Health & Social Care Tutor to deliver and coordinate the successful completion of Healthcare qualifications.
You will hold a relevant Level 5 qualification within Health and Social Care and a relevant Assessor qualification (A1, TAQA or equivalent) is desirable.
A leading housing association in the UK are undergoing lots of change this year and would like a Business Analyst to join them to inform business change decisions and solutions. Your focus will be on requirements, utilising expert business knowledge, and specialist analysis skills to ensure that the right business decisions & subsequent change is implemented.
Key responsibilities:
- Analyse and clearly document business processes, information flows and data structures, working with colleagues to ensure all elements are captured to support wider service improvements and project delivery
- Capture interpret and document business requirements through appropriate methods, and utilise user and performance data insight to inform decisions around system and process solutions
- Plan and facilitate workshops, document the outcome actions and process / requirement documents in an appropriate format, with identifiable links back to the information source
- Facilitate and lead discussions with business leads around business process change, providing appropriate challenge and analytical input and steering appropriate decision making
- Proactively identify business process gaps, working with appropriate leads investigate and analyse operational issues and problems. Support the business to identify solutions through process improvements.
- Support project managers and business leads to identify business benefits and create business cases for proposed changes, clearly identifying measurable savings which can be tracked to delivery.
- Understand the goals and future vision of business areas and provide analytical input on projects or proposed changes to support delivery against wider business goals
- Communicate effectively to business areas and IT to make sure business requirements are understood and acted upon appropriately
- Manage delivery for specific business change initiatives or workstreams within major projects, documenting process change and working with business leads to ensure changes are implemented
What do you need to apply for this role?
- Business analysis delivery experience within business and project scenario's. Training and/or relevant qualifications in business analysis
- Strong data analysis skills
- Communication and stakeholder management skills
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Home-Start UK is now looking for a fixed term Systems and Reporting Accountant to join our expanding Operations Team.
Systems and Reporting Accountant (Operations)
Salary: £32,000 (based on 36 hours)
Fixed Term, 18 months
Home based with fortnightly attendance at the central office in Leicester
Home-Start works with families in communities right across the UK. Starting in the home, our approach is as individual as the people we’re helping. No judgement, it is just compassionate, confidential help and expert support. It is an exciting time to be part of the Home-Start network as we build on a partnership with John Lewis & Waitrose to help Britain’s struggling families alongside a new strategic framework for a post-Covid world.
This role will take responsibility to scope, tender and deliver a replacement of the current finance system alongside responsibility for delegated funder reporting and reconciliation work.
Key areas of tasks include the delivery of a new finance system, process change and improvement of systems within finance and connection to other parts of the organisation, funder reporting and reconciliation work and cover within the finance team on payroll and other processing.
Closing date for applications: 5pm, Wednesday 12 May 2021
(We may close this earlier if sufficient applications are received)
Interviews will be held remotely on Wednesday 26th May 2021
To Apply and for More Information:
If you would like to apply, please read the attached Job Description in 'additional documents' before clicking the 'Apply on website' button. You will then be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.
Home-Start is committed to Equality of Opportunity and Diversity. We wish to encourage applications from all parts of the community irrespective of gender, race, colour, age, sexual orientation or disability. Appointments will be based on merit, following an open and clear selection process.
Home-Start UK, a charitable company limited by guarantee. Company No. 5382181. Charity No. in England and Wales 1108837 and in Scotland SCO39172. Registered Office: The Crescent, King Street, Leicester LE1 6RX
No agencies please.
JOB DESCRIPTION
NEW ARRIVAL SUPPORT WORKER & RESIDENTIAL VOLUNTEER (Male)
Responsible to: Support Team Manager
Location: Based in Baca main office and at home for newly arrived young people in Loughborough. There will be travel throughout Loughborough and Leicester. The role may require travel to wider areas of the East Midlands and the UK.
Hours: 25 hours per week – evening and weekend work with daytime shifts
Salary Band: £18,500 to £22,000 per annum pro rata
Benefits in kind: Rent-free accommodation, including Wifi, gas, electric and council tax bills.
Contract: Permanent
Overall Purpose
- To provide support and care to the young people who are newly arrived in the country, providing the foundations for them to rebuild their lives with dignity, strengthen their resilience and inspire hope for their futures.
- To partner with social workers and representatives from other agencies, for the benefit of the young people.
This work is essential in enabling us to deliver our therapeutic support for all areas of a young person’s life.
Duties & Responsibilities
- To be a support worker for newly arrived young people who are in the care of Baca in all areas of the young person’s life, supporting them from first arrival through to their move to semi-independence.
- To welcome new arrivals into the accommodation and communicate basic information about the house, making them feel safe and able to rest; with compassion without discrimination of age, race, colour or behavioural issues.
- To enable young people to achieve the following outcomes increased physical wellbeing, increased emotional wellbeing, improved personal safety, increased social engagement and increased engagement with education, employment and training.
- To enable young people to live with positive values and good boundaries.
- To be a proactive role model for the young people, enabling them to learn day to day living skills and helping them integrate positively with the local community.
- Training young people in living skills such as washing, cleaning, cooking and safety, food shopping and budgeting; proactively and intentionally in line with the Baca independent living preparation plan.
- Helping young people settle into a routine which will include education and social activities.
- Work in close partnership with social workers and other professionals and volunteers to provide a holistic development package for each young person enabling them to become independent.
- Maintaining very good communication with relevant members of the Rebuild Team and relevant social workers through regular appropriate reporting.
- To work collaboratively with the rest of the Rebuild Team to ensure all young people are safeguarded and supported to rebuild their lives.
- Complete and update all admin work as part of the role such as month end reports and support plans on time and in a consistent manner.
- Playing an active role in developing knowledge and understanding in areas relevant to the role and especially in the areas of asylum and refugee law, trafficking, supporting separated children and the cultures of different nations relevant to Baca.
General
- Be a role model, leading by example in practicing the Values of Baca.
- Play an active and supportive role within the organisation
- Take ownership of all administrative aspects of the role.
- Maintain strict confidentiality in relation to work undertaken and ensure all confidential material is stored according to Baca’s Confidentiality statement and Data Protection Policy.
- Treat all staff and young people fairly and without prejudice, in line with Baca’s Equality and Diversity policy
- Be aware of the correct procedures for dealing with any safeguarding incidences or concerns, in line with Baca’s Child, Vulnerable Adult Protection & Safeguarding Policy
- Adhere to all Baca’s policies and procedures.
Further information is available in the recruitment pack on our website.
The closing date for application is the 31st of May 2021. The role will require an enhanced DBS. Interviews will be week commencing the 7th of June 2021.
Start Date for the role is 1st of September 2021.
Specialist Supported Accommodation and Training for Young Forced Migrants 16+
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If you are a skilled dog trainer/behaviourist looking to utilise your skills within the charity sector, this could be the role for you.
To help our client create amazing partnerships, they need amazing people. They have an exciting opportunity for an Aftercare Instructor to join their aftercare team. You’ll be working directly with their clients (partners) who have been partnered with a dog, supporting them with the on-going training of their dog. Using positive training methods, you will give advice on behavioural and training issues.
Dog Behaviourist / Aftercare Instructor Responsibilities:
You will be part of their busy Aftercare team, providing training and support to their partners in their homes once they have been matched with their canine partner. They give on-going support to every partnership, ensuring they are long-lasting, happy and healthy. Each partnership receives a minimum of 9 visits in the first year and at least 2 visits annually, until the dog retires.
You will travel throughout the Midlands (Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire and Isle of Man) visiting partners to provide training and support in and around their homes and outside including work routes & free-running exercises. This includes providing refresher training to ongoing partnerships.
Working together with the Aftercare Manager and Team leaders you will mentor and train casual part-time Aftercare Assistants and attend and run training days at either training centres.
Dog Behaviourist / Aftercare Instructor Requirements:
• Knowledge of dog training behaviour
• Ability to communicate at all levels with a wide range of people
• Effective record keeping, ICT and report writing skills
• Full UK driving licence and use of appropriate vehicle for work purposes, or ability to travel significant mileage in line with the requirements of the role
Ideally you will have an understanding of human medical conditions as they relate to canine partnerships and experience of providing training to others.
You will be customer focused with the ability to be tactful, diplomatic and sensitive. Along with a flexible and adaptable approach, you’ll have a critical eye for detail with the ability to champion our client’s charity values and interact with their partners, volunteers and supporters in a positive and enthusiastic way. Most importantly you will be passionate about the transformative impact that assistance dogs provide to their beneficiaries.
Ideally, you will have experience of training dogs using positive reward-based methods and will have empathy for a wide range of people, including those with a disability.
This role is based from their Midlands Training Centre (near Osgathorpe, Leicestershire) to travel to the surrounding counties including Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire and IOM to visit partnerships in those areas. Our client will provide the use of a charity vehicle, a laptop and phone for use in this role.
About our client:
If you are looking for an inspirational challenge, join their amazing assistance dog charity and contribute to their life changing work.
Their mission is to transform the lives of adults with physical disabilities through partnership with their specially trained assistance dogs.
Location: Homebased covering Yorkshire, Humberside, Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 per week
Salary: £20,065 - £25,082 per annum depending on experience
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life assurance, Annual Leave, wide range of discounts at high street shops
Closing date for applications: 9th May 2021
1st Interview: Week commencing 24 May 2021 (via video call)
2nd Interview: Week commencing 31 May 2021 at our Midlands Training Centre (Covid-19 restrictions dependent)
You may have experience of the following: Behaviourist, Dog Trainer, Puppy Trainer, Behavioural Consultant, Dog Behaviourist, Assistance Dog Trainer, Animal Trainer, etc.
Ref: 98173
Responsible to the Housing Advice Specialist Caseworker and Project Leader for the provision of a housing advocacy and advice service to members of the public experiencing housing difficulties as a result of Covid 19.
Please note this Temporary Post is funded by the National Lottery for 6 months only.
Client Advice Duties
Providing information, advice, advocacy, and assistance to clients with housing, and housing related problems.
Acting as a lay advocate for SHARP clients, when appropriate in the courts and at Tribunals.
Maintaining accurate client files and casework monitoring records using the Advice-Pro casework recording system.
External Liaison
To negotiate regularly with Local Authorities, the DWP, Housing Associations, Solicitors, and other bodies, deciding the relevant level of officer to contact.
To provide advice, information, and guidance on housing related matters to other workers within statutory or voluntary agencies.
Training and Information
To offer appropriate training either alone, or in conjunction with other members of staff to external agencies to promote a better understanding of housing legislation, policy, and practice.
Policy and Development
To participate in meetings relevant to the running and development of SHARP.
To maintain an up to date knowledge of housing law and an awareness of current legal issues.
To implement and develop the SHARP's Equal Opportunities Policy.
To observe the SHARP's Health and Safety policy and procedures.
To report to the Board on the operation of the service as appropriate.
Financial Duties
Is a signatory to the SHARP office cheque account.
Makes decisions regarding payments to clients from this account and ensures that all such payments are properly recorded.
Makes petty cash payments in accordance with guidelines established by the Board and ensures that all such payments are properly recorded.
Other Duties
The post holder will be self-servicing in the production of letters and reports.
To undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We’re Anthony Nolan and we save the lives of people with blood cancer who need a stem cell transplant.
We’re unique. Thanks to the incredible donors on our register, our pioneering research and our passionate fundraisers, we give the chance of life to three people a day.
But we won’t stop there. We want to be there for everyone who needs a transplant; from finding a match, through every step of a patient’s transplant journey. And together we can reach the remarkable day when we can save the lives of everyone with blood cancer.
And now we want you to join our lifesaving team. We are looking for an experienced Dedicated Cord Blood Collector to join our Cord Blood Team as part of Operations Division
Title: Dedicated Cord Blood Collector
Salary:£17,413.50 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Hours: 35.25 hours per week, weekend and night-time working are a requirement of the role
Location:Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester, LE5 4PW
Based within a maternity hospital, you will be working closely with healthcare professionals to maximise the number of cord blood samples collected and ensure they are clinically fit for transplant wherever possible. As part of your role, you will assist with educating the potential mothers and donors about the Anthony Nolan Cord Programme to enable them to make informed choices regarding the voluntary donation of cord blood. Additionally, you will safely collect maternal and cord blood samples according to standard operating procedures and organise couriers and safe transportation of cord blood units with completed documentation to the cord blood bank for processing and storage.
For more information, please also check out our day in the life of
Release your remarkable, join our team and give someone a chance of life.
Anthony Nolan is an equal opportunities & living wage accredited employer
All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK
Please make sure to check out the job description, available on our website when you click to apply.
What’s in it for you?
Financial
- Pension (employer 5% when you contribute 3% or more),
- Travel Insurance
- Interest free Travel Loan
- Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
- Life Assurance (4x annual salary)
Wellbeing & Health
- 27 days annual leave in addition to normal public holidays
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Hotline
- Medical Cash Plan
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Gymflex
Family Friendly
- Paid dependants leave
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay
- Flexible start/finish times (role dependent)
And more! (full list of benefits available on website)
This is not a driving job
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Are you looking for a career where no two days are the same, where you’ll be working with a friendly, supportive and caring team? If so, we’ve got the perfect role for you! Each day you’ll be helping us go the extra mile to be here for the children, young people and families who rely on us.
This is a great opportunity to work for Rainbows, the only hospice in the East Midlands for life-limited children and young people. We are here to make life brighter with amazing care and support for them and their families – you can be part of it too. Come and be part of something amazing.
Directly supporting the Head of Community and Events, you will be working with the Community Fundraising Team, colleagues from other departments, supporters and volunteers to maximise participation and income from both Rainbows events, and third-party events. You will be responsible for both leading and supporting on the successful delivery of events - existing and new, and identifying and exploring new fundraising events and current trends.
You will be experienced in planning, promoting and organising events, as well as working with volunteers and committees. You’ll be confident working to budgets and providing financial data.
The successful candidate will also be an exceptional and confident communicator, able to prioritise a sometimes demanding and shifting workload, work well under pressure independently and as part of a team, motivating others to achieve demanding targets.
For more information please visit our website.
The closing date for applications is: 19th April 2021
Interviews are planned for: 7th May 2021
Rainbows is an equal opportunities employer. No agencies.
Registered as a charity no 1014051
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you a fundraising or sales professional ready to help us fund life-saving cancer research? We're looking for an ambitious, confident and engaging Corporate & Community Fundraiser who can:
- Recruit, manage, and support businesses and potential volunteer fundraisers within the local community, helping them to reach their fundraising potential
- Identify and develop new relationships with corporate supporters, community groups and potential high net-worth individuals
- Inspire and bring out the best in supporters, corporate partnerships and community groups, engaging them with Hope Against Cancer’s life-saving work over the long term
- Enable our supporters to set and achieve ambitious fundraising goals
- Engage supporters in Hope-organised and third party events
- Be an ambassador for HOPE in the community, working with businesses, community groups and volunteers to unlock new opportunities.
Have you got:
- Proven experience of exceeding targets and working to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Excellent ability to motivate, inspire and influence people
- Strong networking skills and proven ability to build long-lasting relationships
- Proven ability to track and report on income
- Flexibility and willingness to travel where needed to support events.
We want you to help us build great relationships with our supporters and to help them achieve their fundraising ambitions, allowing us to grow sustainable, annual income. This is a rewarding and fast-paced role, in a small team. No two days will be the same as you'll be working with individuals, trustees, groups and local/regional businesses, supporting them with their fundraising ambitions!
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We have an annual turnover of £5 million and a staff team of 46 FTE’s on service delivery.
We are now looking for a Chief Executive who both shares our organisation’s values and who has the necessary experience, skills, vision, and drive to help us develop and implement a new five-year strategy for the organisation focused on the following five key objectives:
- Strengthening our influence and relationship with key stakeholders at local, regional, and national levels
- Diversifying our funding base and securing additional funding to ensure we have a sustainable operating model with resources well matched to the advice needs of the populations we serve
- Delivering high quality advice to secure successful outcomes for service users
- Demonstrating the positive wider social impacts of our work
- Advocating for relevant changes to institutional policies and practices where these may negatively impact our service users
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £33,000 - £38,000 (Regional salary weighting may apply)
Ref: 21520
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 per week
Location:This role will be working across CPA 1 - Central England - Geographical areas include: Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire, Staffordshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Herefordshire & Worcestershire
Home based with the potential to do some face-to-face activity post COVID-19
The Shaw Trust, in tandem with government and the broader employment support community across the UK is working hard to make sure we support as many individuals as possible to get and keep a job. We believe that everyone who needs help and support to attain their employment goals should be able to access it as soon as possible and that support should reflect their individual needs.
To help us in this mission we are looking to expand our employability services Work and Health Programme Job Entry: Targeted Support (WHP/JETS) and looking for Employer Account Managers.
Reporting directly to the Regional Employer Manager, the Employer Account Manager WHP-JETS role is responsible for winning, developing and retaining key employer partnerships to support the contractual requirements of the WHP-JETS programme.
You will work in conjunction with Operational teams to provide employer relationship management to drive performance objectives, deliver sales tools, manage accounts, support recruitment initiatives, and drive employment outcomes for participants.
Shaw Trust operates on a national level with over 2,000 staff and 1,000 volunteers. We work with the government, local authorities, combined authorities, health service providers, employers, and other stakeholders – including the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Department for Work and Pensions, clinical commissioning groups and NHS Trusts.
The ideal candidate must have an understanding of the local and regional labour market and employment issues within one of two geographical areas – Central England and Home Counties and able to maintain an up-to-date working knowledge of the benefit system and entitlements.
The ideal candidate will need to be inclusive and embrace our culture and values, putting those we support at the heart of everything we do. You will consistently deliver high quality services to support our communities and beneficiaries.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Enhanced Pension Scheme after 6 months
- Life Assurance x 3 of your salary
- Enhanced annual leave
For further information and to apply online, please click the Apply on Website button quoting the reference number 21520.
Closing date: 30th April 2021.
Shaw Trust is committed to a policy of equality of opportunity and inclusion. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived-experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion. If you have accessibility requirements and would like information in a different format please contact our HR Service Centre to make alternative arrangements.
Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
Social Media & Digital Officer
Circa £25,000 per annum
Initially temporary with the possibility of becoming permanent
Loughborough
Having worked in a social media role and gained experience producing multi-media content you are now looking for a bigger challenge and a learning opportunity. This Social Media & Digital Officer role with the Youth Sport Trust offers just that. We are looking for a talented and creative digital marketing and communications specialist to manage our social media presence and produce engaging content for our 100,000 followers, while growing our reach through digital marketing tools like Google Ads.
We are a charity which exists to improve the lives of young people through the power of sport and play. We create, develop and deliver programmes and initiatives that improve wellbeing and equip young people with vital skills for life. In 2020 we were ranked one of the best places to work in the UK by the Sunday Times Top 100 Not for Profit Companies to Work For list.
Join our corporate communications team and you will be responsible for managing our social media presence and campaigns across all of the charity’s platforms. You will lead on developing digital content which drives online engagement with the charity’s priority areas of work – from big national campaigns like National School Sport Week, to promoting our offer to schools and supporting our commercial partnerships. You will be responsible for driving online engagement through impactful Google Ads campaigns and will be adept at using Google Analytics and social media monitoring tools to capture and share audience insights and use these to continually improve engagement.
This is a busy role in a fast-paced environment where you will be working with teams across the charity to support a broad range of priorities.
You must have experience of producing copy content for a range of audiences across a variety of platforms and will be an expert proof reader with a sharp eye for detail
An excellent communicator, you will good interpersonal skills, be committed to contributing ideas and helping to drive forward activity within the overall corporate communications strategy. Critically, you will possess the ability to work creatively and find new and innovative ways of engaging different audiences.
Experience of building email campaigns in specialist email software (especially Pardot) would be an advantage.
In return you will get to join a dynamic and energetic charity passionate about improving young people’s lives where all staff are given the opportunity to engage in the leadership and direction of the organisation. Our values of trust, responsibility, integrity and partnership working underpin everything we do, and we pride ourselves on a work culture which fosters innovation, creativity and personal passion. Benefits include generous annual leave entitlement, health cash plan, employee assistance programme and volunteering days.
If you have the skills to support our work and share our passionate belief in the benefits of sport for young people, we would like to hear from you. Please go to our website via the link and apply online.
Youth Sport Trust positively welcomes and seeks to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment. We encourage applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.
Closing Date: 10am on 19 April 2021
Interviews: 28 April 2021, via Zoom
Registered charity number: 1086915
About the role
We are looking for a Marketing Strategist to join our Marketing and External Engagement team to focus on increasing engagement and income from our individual giving supporter base.
You will be responsible for developing deep audience and channel insights to propose and drive marketing and communications strategies that deliver to Practical Action’s wider mission and specific objectives for your audiences.
You will take the lead on understanding what drives and motivates our existing audiences, why they engage with us, their capacity to support and their marketing preferences.
Increasingly our marketing is a digital and analogue blend, so you will be planning activity that includes mail, email, website content and social media. You will plan expenditure, monitor progress and enact course corrections based on results.
You will work with our Brand and Content team to develop messaging and creative approaches and our Campaigns team who will plan and execute campaigns.
About you
The successful candidate will be educated to degree level with a qualification in or considerable experience of marketing, market research or related discipline.
You will have extensive marketing experience, ideally gained in multi-disciplinary settings and experience of marketing planning, as well as significant current experience of digital marketing planning and execution across major public-facing campaigns. Recent experience of charity marketing and fundraising is preferred.
You will have strong analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills with the ability to clearly and simply communicate insights to a diverse set of stakeholders. You must have a strong marketing planning experience coupled with digital and social media skills.
The successful candidate will be highly numerate, able to assimilate and make sense of complex data and research, with a proven understanding of the skills and methods needed for planning and measuring engagement with target audiences.
Why join us?
You will join a high performing team of marketing professionals, all committed to making the world work better for everyone. You will experience and contribute to a friendly and supportive culture, where we value work life balance and flexible working.
Our brand new open plan offices are located in the centre of Rugby and near to Rugby train station but we also offer free parking.
In addition, we offer the following benefits:
- Full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week.
- Most staff in the UK are currently working from home due to coronavirus and we expect to it be this way for some time. It is however our practice normally that we operate an agile flexible working policy, where flexible working hours are enabled as well as remote working (between 2-3 days per week depending on the role).
- 26 days holiday rising with continuous service, in addition to public
- Pension scheme – employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.
- Enhanced family friendly policies, including maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental
- Life assurance (3 x annual salary).
- Bike to Work
About us
We are an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.
We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.
We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.
Additional information
Please note that should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.
We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.
Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.
The successful applicant must have the pre-existing right to both live and work in the UK.
How to apply
If you want to work for a charity with significant people ambitions, then we would like to hear from you. To apply go to Practical Action to view the full recruitment pack.
Closing date for applications: Thursday 15th April
Practical Action is an international development organisation that puts ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world. Read more
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This charities story spans over 80 years, during which they have made a huge difference to the lives of thousands of former servicemen and their families. From their wellbeing services to pension advice and financial support, this charity delivers a person centred approach to support individuals and they are now looking to reach and help even more beneficiaries.
Charity People are thrilled to be heading up the search party to find this wonderful charity a talented Supporter Insight Analyst. The supporter insight role is diverse, fast paced and purposeful. You will be manipulating large volumes of data from multiple sources, wrangling and cleaning datasets. Shaping forecasting and testing tools to refine and complement the organisations supporter engagement strategy. Collaborating and advancing the use of the CRM/Salesforce platform. Being proactive to find solutions to derive actionable insights and evolving ways for the charity to gain feedback from members/supporters on their experience. You will produce tools and deliver reporting to monitor KPI progress as well as benchmarking and monitoring the external landscape. You will working closely with the Supporter Insight Manager in delivering bespoke supporter data analysis and forecasting to shape their engagement planning and strategy. Working with other teams, you will define the scope of their data requirements, progress accordingly, and ensure all data from all sources can be integrated to provide a 360-degree supporter picture.
On our absolutely 'must haves':
The Supporter Insight Analyst will be an experienced data and supporter champion who is confident, positive, patient and empathetic in your approach. You will have previously worked in designing, producing and communicating strategic insights and recommendations to maximise the potential of an organisations customer or supporter database in order to improve engagement, income generation or sales. You will be a first class communicator, adaptable in your approach to project management and a hands on strategic thinker who has a real passion using data to develop new ideas. You will have a depth of industry experience in either a marketing or business discipline which covers response analysis, customer or supporter segmentation models, profiling and lifetime value models. You will need to have skills and experience in data visualisation skills/story telling using tools such as Power BI or Tableau. An advanced level of computer literacy in SQL, Pivot Tables and Excel, experience of using CRM databases desirably in Salesforce and a working knowledge of current GDPR and PECR legislation best practice.
This charity provides some fantastic staff benefits and has an incredible flexible working policy. The role can be homebased with travel to Leicester for meetings & training when needed.
Closing ASAP
For more information on this exciting opportunity, please contact Ellen Drummond at Charity People
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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