2021 is shaping up to be a significant year for climate action. With major international climate talks planned for November and governments and businesses alike making big announcements, change is in the air.

Bioregional’s communications team is vital to ensuring that we play our full part in maximizing the opportunities of unprecedented environmental awareness and action, and helping set the world on a path to net zero emissions.

We are looking for a strategic communicator. Someone who can help us cut through the noise to reach our target audiences within the built environment, retail and local government sectors, and to lead our small but mighty communications team in raising our profile, promoting our services, and sharing our brilliant stories. Our aim: to show others that a better future is still within our grasp, and inspire them to take bold action now.

Responsibilities and experience required

Our Head of Communications oversees all communications and marketing activities. This includes working with our advisory teams to promote their services and expertise through digital communications and PR, overseeing a programme of events, and supporting our CEO to add our constructive voice to relevant policy debates.

They are also responsible for promoting wider use of our internationally recognised sustainability framework, One Planet Living®.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A strong track record of achievement in a communications, marketing or PR role
• Excellent writing and editing skills for a range of audiences
• A good working knowledge of a broad range of digital communications channels and tools
• Experience in leading teams, able to bring out the best in people
• Experience of working within a sustainability or purpose-led organisation
• Strong interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills
• A deep personal commitment to sustainability

About Bioregional

Bioregional has been winning awards and creating cutting-edge solutions to sustainability for over 25 years. Our ambition is simple. We want to inspire people to live happy, healthy lives within the natural limits of the planet, leaving space for wildlife and wilderness. We call this One Planet Living.

Bioregional is known for being an exceptionally friendly place to work, with a strong team culture that continues to thrive even during the pandemic.

Diversity and inclusion

Bioregional is committed to increasing diversity within our organisation, and the environmental sector as a whole. We welcome job applications from everyone, and treat all applications equally, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other equality characteristic. We expressly welcome applications from people of a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background.

More information

The post is permanent and full-time and is normally based at our offices at BedZED in South London, on the mainline Victoria and Thameslink train lines.

Salary: £49,000 to £55,000 depending on experience, plus 6% employer’s ethical pension contribution and 25 days of annual leave, rising by one day a year up to five years’ service.

Deadline for applications

9am, Monday 24 May 2021

We aim to hold interviews on either 3 or 4 June 2021. We regret that as we have limited resources, only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

We are recruiting for a part-time HR Business Partner (12 Months FTC).

• Are you an experienced HR Business Partner with a history of working in a unionised environment?
• Do you have solid experience as an HR Business Partner and can work strategically?
• Do you have strong stakeholder management, partnering, influencing and communication skills?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

 Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Head of HR Business Partners, The HR Business Partner will work in partnership with the Executive Director for the division with whom you partner and their senior leaders as an integral part of their leadership team. You will be accountable for the creation, development and delivery of People Plans in partnership with the division that meet their strategic needs.

Key accountabilities

This role will support the HR Leadership Team to contribute to the delivery of the organisation's People and Culture Strategy, providing divisional and organisational insight into how the strategy is deployed to establish a long-term approach to improving our culture and supporting our people.

As HR Business Partner you will work with the Head of HR Business Partners to foster constructive working relationships with the trade union on a range of employment issues, including negotiations and consultations to guarantee a positive employment relations climate.

In addition to the above, you will:

• Resolve complex employee relations issues
• Line manage an Associate HR Business Partner
• Provide guidance on people practices such as restructures and succession planning
• Bring people expertise and develop solutions to help the business area to deliver its strategy
• Influence and build relationships with people around the business

To be successful:

• The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working with trade unions including consultations and negotiations
• You will also be capable of building a wide network of trusted and constructive relationships using your excellent influencing, facilitation and communication skills
• Excellent leadership qualities, with an emphasis on delivering through others, and evidence of coaching, developing and performance management of others
• A solid understanding of employment legislation generally is needed as is a deep understanding of employee relations related legislation. 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Please note - whilst this role is advertised as office based, Save The Children UK will remain a remote-working organisation until at least 30 June 2021.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as these are underrepresented at Save the Children UK.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join SSAFA’s ambitious and dynamic Commercial & Corporate Partnerships team.

We are looking for an experienced and highly proactive Corporate Partnerships Manager to secure new strategic, commercial, and charity-of-the-year partnerships, with a focus on those with a high return value.

SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, supports the person behind the uniform; any time they need us, in any way they need us, for as long as they need us. Every year, SSAFA helps more than 82,000 people from the Forces family to get back on their feet: those currently serving, reserves, veterans, and their families. Support is there for people at any stage in their military career; from the youngest recruit to the oldest veteran – no one’s service is ever forgotten. We give hope, help and personal support for as long as it takes to get that person’s life back to where they want it to be.

About the role

You will have the opportunity to work on the development of a new and ambitious business strategy, that seeks to achieve ambitious income growth through commercial activity and corporate partnerships.  You will research, secure, and develop high value, national partnerships, including strategic and charity-of-the-year partnerships, involving employee fundraising, cause-related marketing and high-profile events and campaigns.  You will also manage several existing, higher value partnerships and develop these important relationships.   

You will work closely with the Head of Commercial & Corporate Partnerships and be an experienced member of the partnerships team, managing your financial budget and will have the opportunity to recruit and support the development of a Partnerships Officer role, once established.

About you

You will have experience in the charity sector, as we are seeking a candidate who brings significant experience and is target driven, a self-starter and has a record of achieving financial objectives. 

You will be an excellent relationship manager, who can comfortably engage with senior stakeholders to deliver the highest possible supporter journey and experience. Demonstrable experience of successfully cultivating a pipeline to generate new, substantive commercially viable partnerships, along with excellent project management capability and interpersonal skills are all essential to succeed in this exciting and challenging role. You will be able to write passionately and put forward a compelling case for support, can successfully pitch, present, and tell a story that moves others to act.

SSAFA is an employer that values the diversity of its workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

No agencies please. Any unsolicited submissions from agencies will be accepted as a direct application from the candidate and no fees will be payable.

Interviews: Beginning 10th May- 12th May. If you are invited to attend an interview you will be required to undertake an aptitude test

SSAFA is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to using the Disclosure & Barring Service.

We are looking for a Proposition Development Manager to empower our Philanthropy and Corporate Partnerships fundraisers to attract, engage and retain the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) highest value supporters through the development of strategic funding propositions that reflect these supporters’ and BHF’s priorities.

Philanthropic and Corporate Partnership activity is growing rapidly at the BHF. Our teams are securing six- and seven-figure donations from individuals, trusts and foundations, winning high-profile corporate partnerships, opening up income in new markets, domestically and internationally, and offering first-rate engagement opportunities for supporters. 

We've achieved this amidst the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring the BHF can continue to fund lifesaving research and work with patients and the public to improve and saves lives from heart and circulatory diseases.

About the role

Working in our Proposition Development Team, a function supporting both Philanthropy and Corporate Partnerships teams, you'll empower fundraisers to attract, engage and retain the BHF’s highest value supporters through the development of strategic funding propositions that reflect these supporters’ and the BHF’s priorities. 

As every high-value supporter is unique, this is a varied role. Working collaboratively across the BHF, you'll provide bespoke support to build narratives and write proposals, funding applications, updates and ‘impact reports’ as well as advise on funding priorities and develop and evolve compelling high-value fundraising ‘cases for support'.

Our success comes from the strength we draw from colleagues across our teams, directorate, and the organisation. The fundraiser does not face the prospect, donor, or corporate alone; they are supported and prepared for the challenge by those who have identified the opportunity right through to others who have shaped their case for support or proposal. 

As our upward trajectory continues, we must build capacity and capability to support the evolving needs of our expanding philanthropic and corporate supporter base. 

About you

You'll have knowledge and understanding of all high-value fundraising audiences and the landscape. With proven experience developing and delivering successful funding propositions, ideally in a similar role, you'll be able to work autonomously and manage projects across teams in a large, complex organisation.

You'll be able to identify and package up project funding opportunities, existing and future-facing, for high-value audiences. In addition, you'll have previous experience writing successful funding proposals and application from start to finish, preferably within the medical research space for at least six-figure gifts.

To succeed in the role, you must be:

• An exceptional relationship builder, able to demonstrate emotional intelligence and empathy when working with others
• An exceptional writer with the ability to transform complex project information into compelling stories and content for high-value fundraising audience
• An articulate and confident communicator
• A strong project manager
• A strong influencer and negotiator, especially when gaining buy-in across the organisation
• Adaptable and resilient

About us

The BHF is working towards a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. As a world-leading research funder, we have supported significant advances in the fight against heart and circulatory diseases. But these diseases still cause heartbreak for millions of families. They are the world’s biggest killers; nearly one in three people globally die from them each year and more than one in four in the UK.

Help beat heartbreak forever by joining the BHF as a Proposition Development Manager.

Here at the BHF we understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life.  Many of our people work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.
 
Interview process 

The interview process will be held over MS Teams. 

We are delighted to be working with a well-known health charity who are going through a period of growth and development, the charity is investing in its technology and is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join their team. You will be working to improve IT and data processes, as well as mentoring a team of developers. This opportunity will suit someone who has a creative mindset and the willingness to learn and adapt to emerging technologies

Main duties for the Senior Data Engineer:

Support the design and direction of the data strategy

Lead the development of organisational data modelling

Integrate external data suppliers and internal database systems

Data profiling and analysis to present insights to a range of audiences

Work within a DevOps environment and ensure security is a high priority across all stages

Review, test, identify risks and issues, supporting partners and developers

You will have:

Demonstrable experience leading fast-paced deployment of data solutions across a range of settings

Knowledge of object orientated programming, to enable bulk data manipulation and import procedures

A passion for data quality

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to lead on large/complex developments

Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call Chloe on 02030 062787 or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable roles. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically, supporting people to find their perfect role within the not-for-profit sector.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

If enough applications are received the charity reserve the right to end the application period sooner.

• Can you contribute to the transformation of health and care locally?
• Do you have experience of driving system change and of empowering communities?
• Are you a skilled, values driven and ethical negotiator who can ensure the needs of communities are central to system thinking?

Hackney CVS is looking for a new Director of Health Transformation & VCS Networks. You will oversee the development of a new Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Assembly which will meet quarterly to discuss the big issues, then work with the Assembly Executive and our public sector partners to develop plans and strategies.

You will be able to operate at all levels – whether that be supporting the voices of frontline organisations or negotiating resources from health & care system leaders – to maximize the role that community and voluntary organisations can play in long term change.

Conditions of work

Salary: £50,000pa

Contract: Fixed term until 31.03.22.  Continuation funding will be sought. Role subject to a 6-month probationary period and a 3-month notice period

Hours: full time

The deadline for applications is 9.30am, Thursday 6 May 2021.

Interviews will be on Tuesday 18 May, and successful candidates will also be asked to attend a more informal meeting with staff and VCSE TLG members on Monday 17 May.

Hackney CVS positively celebrates diversity and welcomes applications from people from all backgrounds.

The job of a Save the Children's UK Head of Brand is busy and varied.

• Are you a highly experienced brand marketeer with track record of leading and delivering successful brand campaigns?
• Do you have strong leadership skills?
• Do you have a real passion for translating brand positioning into action?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

 About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

The role of Head of Brand plays a critical role in our journey of becoming a more brand inspired organisation and help us to meet our objective of becoming a loved brand. We've made great progress in the last few years to develop a compelling new positioning with a distilled articulation to help everyone understand the role they can play in building our brand, and have seen some really positive shifts. We've also used our brand articulation to develop a new three-year integrated campaign platform, to ensure that everything we do is consistently and distinctively building our brand. This role comes at the critical delivery stage of our new direction.

As Head of Brand, you will lead and develop an outstanding team of brand specialists who are focused on successfully building the Save the Children brand in the UK. You will be expected to apply deep expertise on brands and branding to help shape the overall brand strategy and ensure successful implementation across the organisation. You will head up a team of 2 Senior Brand Managers and 1 Brand Manager and play an essential leadership role on the Brand and Creative SLT and F&M extended SLT (ESLT), making sure teams have knowledge and skills to become more brand inspired and helping them to achieve our brand objectives. You will also play an active role in the Global brand team, providing expert insight and helping to shape the direction for the Save the Children movement.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will visibly lead our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

 Main Accountabilities

• Lead the implementation of our brand proposition and strategy within the team and by internal stakeholders
• Prioritise and define brand-building activity to feed into the annual and quarterly planning process, working closely with the Head of Strategic Marketing Planning, and lead on the scoping and development of brand-led initiatives.
• Work closely with ESLT to ensure brand remains a key priority within their business areas and clear brand KPIs are set and monitored so that all activity is brand-inspired.
• Identify opportunities for our brand through trends, data, insight and market analysis, to scope and define new ways to achieve our objectives and provide a clear pipeline to feed into our planning process and refine our brand strategy.
• Lead and develop a team of highly skilled brand specialists, providing clear direction and all-round branding expertise. Ensure the team have a clear vision and manage their training and development programme, working with Squad leads to identify areas for development.

Person Profile

Essential Technical Skills:

• Deep expert knowledge of brands and branding with a strong track record of in working on brand development and a real passion for shaping brands. 
• Highly experienced brand marketeer with track record of leading and delivering successful brand campaigns.
• A strategic thinker with experience of successfully influencing and directing strategic brand development in a complex stakeholder environment. Ability to provide expert advice and shape strategies.
• Strong creative credentials with a real understanding of the importance of creative excellence, and the components of the brand’s visual and verbal identity.
• Ability to set clear direction, prioritize ruthlessly and manage expectations of multiple stakeholders.

• Strong leadership skills with experience in leading a high performing communications team.

Personal Skills:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills including the ability to build rapport and credibility across multiple stakeholders, internally and externally at all levels.
• Energy, drive and initiative; will push self and others to achieve; a positive and proactive team player.
• Commitment to Save the Children’s mission, values, and brand behaviours.

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Background information

Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust is the UK's leading charity dedicated to those affected by cervical cancer and cell changes (abnormalities). The charity was established in 1999 by James Maxwell following the death of his wife Jo, aged 40, from cervical cancer.

Since then we have provided advice and support to thousands of women and their families.

We offer a range of online and face-to-face support and information including: information materials, a free helpline, online forum, national and regional support days and an ‘ask the expert’ service. Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancer amongst young women (under 35) in the UK and Europe.

Two women a day in the UK will die from cervical cancer whilst over 3,000 women are diagnosed each year. In addition, some 220,000 a year are told they may have a cervical abnormality that may require treatment. Thanks to the NHS Cervical Screening and HPV vaccination programmes cervical cancer is a largely preventable disease. However, for those affected, the impact of cancer on a woman's life and that of her family cannot be overstated.

This is an exciting time to join the charity. In recent years awareness of our work and cervical cancer has grown significantly with annual income from £288k to £1.8m. The staff team has also significantly grown to 23 enabling us to reach more women than ever before.

Over the past few years our work has been recognised a number of times including winning a prestigious GSK IMPACT Award, Best Communications Campaign at the Third Sector Excellence Awards and a Plain English Osborne Memorial Award for our website, we have also achieved Investing in Volunteers accreditation.

Overview of the role

The post holder will have the opportunity to help the charity make a real difference by providing excellent administrative support to the Head of Finance and Corporate Services. You will be working across the teams and undertake a range of administrative functions including general administrative duties and finance support. The person should be highly organised and have at least two years of administrative experience.

The role will sit in the Finance and Corporate Services Department. It is a crucial role in sustaining and growing the charity’s income, and the person who fills this role should be comfortable with a range of administrative tasks.

Overall

To provide administrative support for the Head of Finance and Corporate Services

To apply for this role please send a CV and a covering letter to Julie Bradley, Head of Finance and Corporate Services

Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Closing date for application:  5pm on the 30th April 2021

Virtual Interview date:  Friday 7th May 2021

Are you passionate about the oceans? Do you want to work with like-minded individuals to ensure the traceability and integrity of MSC eco-labelled products?

The Marine Stewardship Council is looking for a Senior Supply Chain Standards Officer to join our Supply Chain Standards team. You will play a vital role in ensuring the quality and credibility of the MSC Chain of Custody Program through the management of databases and systems, data analysis and reporting, supporting policy development, and impact testing and relationship management.

If attention to detail and working with in-depth data and analysis is your passion, then please keep reading as this could be the role you are looking for.

• We’re looking for someone who is:

• Qualified to degree level, or with equivalent experience, in business or economics, sustainability, environmental/food/seafood science or another relevant discipline.
• A dedicated team player, with a collaborative approach to work.
• Knowledgeable about supply chain traceability and developments in this area.
• A skilled writer with excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English (proficiency in a second language is desirable but not essential).

If this has inspired you, please apply.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Working at the MSC

The MSC’s vision is for the world’s oceans to be teeming with life, and seafood supplies safeguarded for this and future generations.  Through our internationally recognised certification and ecolabeling program, well-managed sustainable fisheries are recognised and rewarded in the marketplace, through the leadership of our partners.  Over 400 fisheries around the world, representing more than 17% of the annual global marine catch, are now engaged in the MSC program and MSC certified and labelled seafood products are now available in over 100 countries.

 The MSC is committed to the principles of equality and fairness and we welcome applications from all communities. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, ethnicity, race, colour, religion or belief, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or disability.  If you consider yourself to have a disability and need reasonable adjustments made during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know how we can help you.

Closing date: 21 April 2021, 9am BST

Cloudesley is seeking two experienced and motivated Grants Managers to join its small team as it increases its grant-making over the coming period.

Cloudesley is an independent charitable trust, working in Islington to support people, organisations and churches. As a local relational funder, we aim to add value to our funding by using our knowledge, sharing information, facilitating networking, learning from our grants and working with other organisations.

About the roles

These are interesting and varied positions which involve forging strong relationships with many different partners, helping to develop new initiatives and supporting a wide-ranging portfolio of funded organisations.

For 2021/22, we have a grants budget of £1.6 million, including additional funding to help respond to the ongoing impacts of Covid-19. Our Grants Managers will oversee our grant-making activity and other support which is delivered through two main programmes:

• Health Grants to support Islington residents with health problems or who are disabled and struggling financially, as well as for local organisations.
• Church Grants to support Islington’s Church of England churches to help them maintain their church buildings and the services within them.  

The Grants Managers will support the work of the charity by:

• Developing and implementing our grant-making programmes, procedures and policies
• Continuing to develop good relationships and work collaboratively with local voluntary organisations, churches and other agencies
• Researching the needs of Islington residents, local voluntary organisations and eligible churches and developing appropriate programmes in response
• Producing written grants, policy and other reports
• Deputising for the Director as required

We are advertising these as full-time posts (37.5 hours per week) but are also open to considering applications to work four days per week. Occasional evening work will be required, particularly for Board and committee meetings which usually finish around 6.30pm, and for other events.

Cloudesley operates a pension scheme into which it makes a contribution equivalent to 8% of the employee’s salary.  Employees are required to make a minimum contribution of 3% of their salary, with the option to make additional voluntary contributions. Cloudesley staff also have access to a range of benefits available through an employee assistance programme.

Cloudesley is committed to valuing diversity, promoting equity and equal access, and ensuring inclusion in all it does. We recognise that we need to do more but are strongly committed to combatting racism, discrimination and inequality and ensuring that we work in order to achieve this.  We recognise the power, resources and advantages that Cloudesley has as an independent, endowed charitable trust and strive to act responsibly and fairly in line with our stated values.  We seek to develop and retain a staff team and Board that reflect the Islington community within which we work. We will identify and take positive steps to remove any barriers to participation and recruitment of people who are currently underrepresented as staff or Trustees.

Person specification

Essential

• A minimum of two years’ experience in a comparable role
• Experience of grant programme management
• Excellent relationship skills management and the ability to work professionally with a wide range of people
• Excellent written English and attention to detail, with research and report writing experience
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to interpret accounts, financial data and complex information
• Ability to think and plan strategically
• IT literate, including experience of grants management software, preferably Salesforce
• Experience of organising and managing meetings and events
• Self-motivated with experience of managing a diverse workload  

Desirable

• Knowledge of issues faced by inner city communities
• Knowledge of current welfare benefits system and/or health inequalities
• Knowledge of the Church of England and the work of churches

To apply

If you are interested in finding out more about these roles, the charity's work and how to apply, please see the recruitment pack below and our website.

Deadine for applications: Monday 4th May, 10am

We will contact you to acknowledge receipt of your application and will let you know by Wednesday 12th May if you have been shortlisted for interview.

Interviews: Monday 17th and Friday 21st May

Independent Age works to ensure that as we grow older, we all have the opportunity to live well with dignity, choice and purpose. To achieve this we provide information, advice and connection services for older people; campaign on the issues that matter most to them around health and care, poverty and loneliness and provide capacity building support to others working in the sector.

This is an exciting time to join the charity as we embark on our new ambitious strategy for 2021 – 2023 and increase our profile, impact and reach so more people can live a happy, connected and purposeful later life.

We are looking for a social care specialist who can support teams across the charity in their work. You will help deliver our expert telephone advice service. You will provide guidance and training for our advice team on social care issues affecting older people. You will support our information team with the production of social care resources and working closely with our policy teams on wider system change. There is potential to develop this role and you will play a key part in this.

The role sits within a Technical Advice team of four covering advice on social care, money and welfare benefits and health and wellbeing.

With experience in the field of social care and/or delivering social care advice, you should have a good understanding of the legislative and regulatory frameworks relating to social care, the Care Act 2014, and the issues faced by older people. You will have excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to write about social care issues in a clear and concise way. Ideally, you will have experience of supporting staff development.

As well as a competitive salary we offer 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance, learning and development opportunities, season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

We are all currently working from home due to the pandemic, so this role is currently work from home.

We are passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion and creating an environment where we can ALL be ourselves

To apply, please visit our website to submit a covering letter along with a CV, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria within the Job Description and Person Specification.

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 18 May

Community Coordinator

ECHO is seeking a new community-building superstar to join our small but hardworking charity supporting children and young people with heart conditions and their families.

You will play a major role in developing a new community forum on the ECHO website, reaching out to families and professionals across the paediatric cardiology community.

You will act as a link between parents, medical professionals and information providers and be of assistance to them all.

The day-to-day job of Community Coordinator will be to build and improve the way parents/carers can ask questions, find information, and get support from the moment of diagnosis right through to adulthood.

This job will suit someone who wants to make a difference to families, someone who understands the value of high quality and reliable information and someone who can take the time to make someone else smile.

The Job Description gives you an idea of what we are looking for - what we would love is someone who can bring ideas and see them through to delivery on a small budget and in a small team. Someone who values volunteers and who can get things done.

Setting up a new online forum might not be easy, we have some technical support, but you will work with volunteers and partners to get it working and moderated safely, within necessary guidelines and policies. When monitoring and replying to forum posts, you will need to be knowledgeable and professional in your signposting ability.

Much of your work will be online but some will be face to face meeting parents, children, doctors, psychologists, administrators, and charity professionals - you will need to be open-minded and have a positive attitude.

Supporting families as they experience their heart journey can be tough; we support you with a fun and friendly team, regular wellbeing activities and monthly external supervision. As a thank you we gift staff some extra holiday days, and we encourage personal development and training.

We are a small team, there may at times be a need for help with a children’s party, a fundraising letter to a company or presenting to a medical team about the work we do. Our work is based mainly from the ECHO office, but we are flexible and ad-hoc travel to events and activities will be necessary.

ECHO seeks to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious belief, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. ECHO welcomes applications from all candidates, including underrepresented groups and refugees who have the right to work in the UK. ECHO will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job function if appointed to the role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments.

Hours: Part-time, 20 hours per week.

Salary: £27,000 (pro-rata)

Contract: 12 months (potential to extend, based on funding)

Application process: through Charity Job website only

Closing date: 10am Friday 14th May

Interviews: 8/9th June 2021

Flexible location (home, Bristol office or London office) with regular travel across UK 

About Us

We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good. We work with organisations across the UK to transform the response to domestic abuse. We listen to survivors, putting their voices at the heart of our thinking. We want what you would want for your best friend. We look at the whole picture for each individual and family to get the right help at the right time to make families everywhere safe and well. We also challenge perpetrators to change, asking ‘why he or she doesn’t stop?’ rather than ‘why he or she doesn’t leave?’ This applies whatever the gender of the victim or perpetrator and whatever the nature of their relationship. 

Last year alone, nearly 13,500 professionals received our training. Over 70,000 adults at risk of serious harm or murder and more than 85,000 children received support through dedicated multi-agency support designed by us and delivered with partners. In the last four years, over 2,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change by interventions we created with partners, and that’s just the start. 

Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone. 

The Role

Our training programme significantly improves the ability of domestic abuse professionals and other frontline responders and organisations, including police, children’s social care staff, and corporate HR and community teams, to identify and respond to domestic abuse and closely linked issues. We take a holistic approach, looking at the whole family and the connections between them to keep families safe sooner, and offer a whole range of training products to develop people who support them, including accredited professional training (e.g Idva, Ypva), accreditation of specialist DA services (Leading Lights), and bespoke services for public, voluntary and commercial organisations. 

We are looking for a Lead Trainer to oversea our flagship Idva programme covering England and Wales. Since 2006 we have trained over 3,000 Idvas and with increasing demand our Idva course remains one of our core training offers.

As one of SafeLives’ trainers and assessors you will be part of the SafeLives learning and accreditation programme, with shared responsibility for developing, delivering and continuing a range of courses from within our suite. More broadly, you will work to ensure that SafeLives’ training programmes are in line with our strategic priorities and are of the highest quality, including course development and delivery with external partners and associate trainers. 

You will combine teamwork with working independently on a day-to-day basis at home, in SafeLives’ Bristol or London office and at training locations. 

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the performance of professionals within the domestic abuse and related sectors at a national level as well as the response of other frontline or first responders in the public, voluntary or commercial sectors, and thus help address the risks faced by victims of domestic abuse. 

Benefits include a generous package including 25 days’ holiday per year plus public holidays, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, Cycle2Work scheme, 365 days a year Employee Assistance Programme.

If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form.

Closing date: 10am on Friday 7th May 2021.

SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all, please see our job description for full details.

No agencies please.

Fixed term contract for 12 months (Maternity Cover)

We are looking for an experienced Events professional with a high value background and established technical events skills to join Save the Children's Special Events team within the Partnerships & Philanthropy Department as a Senior Manager.

Our Marketing & Fundraising department exists to inspire millions of people – from individuals to large corporate organisations – to support our quest for change. Together, we save children's lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential.

As Senior Manager in the Special Events Team you will lead a range of high-level events and activities.  Working on both existing events and developing new initiatives, you have a high degree of creativity and donor insight, with your aim to secure committed long-term engagement and maximise income.

You will play a key role in supporting new business and leveraging significant gifts within the wider Partnerships & Philanthropy Department. Through developing relationships both internally and externally you will identify opportunities and ways to collaborate on initiatives which support the overall departments strategy.

This role requires you to work proactively and independently with minimal supervision as well as the ability to communicate and influence at a high level, in addition you will:

• Build strong relationships with event committees, senior staff and volunteers, sponsors, companies, Production Directors and suppliers - managing these relationships to ensure high level buy in and support on all events
• Feel comfortable networking with external influential and high-profile individuals, donors, corporate partners, as well as internal senior stakeholders
• Work closely with account managers across the organisation to develop a connection with events and to seek out new opportunities and collaborations to maximise income and generate new prospects
• Significant experience in managing and producing fundraising events, ideally raising £300k+
• Proven senior stakeholder management and negotiation skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey key messages in a clear, effective way and interact with a variety of individuals at all levels
• Exceptional organisational and project management skills specifically related to income generating event management
• Expert knowledge of Charity and Fundraising laws and regulations
• Exceptional organisational and project management skills specifically related to income generating event management
• Experience of working with high net worth and high-profile individuals
• To be successful you will have experience of delivering a range of high value events to exceptional high standards.

At Save the Children our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

Closing date: 2nd May 2021