Brand & Creative Designer

• Home based with some travel to Head Office as and when required
• Up to £34,000 based on experience
• 35 hours over 5 days per week

Our exciting job role:
As Digital Contents Executive you’ll be an integral member of the Digital Engagement Team and will be responsible for creating and managing various content to support the delivery of Ben’s Health & Wellbeing content strategy.

What we'd like from you:
It’s simple – we’re looking for the people who ‘can’. We want the talented, the energetic and the ambitious. We need the inspired and the inspirational – the people who completely embrace our values, offer a great cultural fit and who are determined to make real and lasting change for our community.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic individual to join our team. You must be able to demonstrate 2+ years in a similar role and have exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage a varied workload. You will be vital in ensuring we deliver an exceptional service experience, putting our brand at the heart of everything we do.

To succeed in the role, you’ll be a team player and creative thinker who is imaginative, pro-active and driven. Someone who is passionate about success and delivering consistently excellent results to drive engagement.

If this is role is for you, we’d love to hear from you!

Key responsibilities:

• Be positioned as a champion and advocate for the Ben brand across all communications channels and programmes
• Evolve and develop the Ben brand and guidelines to ensure Ben remains relevant, fresh and adaptable while maintaining consistency at all brand touch points
• Provide guidance and advice on the creative development of additional identities for products and services across Ben to ensure that they fit within and work with the main Ben brand
• Administer the visual consistency of the brand identity, monitoring internal and external adherence to the guidelines and challenging incorrect application of the guidelines through appropriate channels
• To keep up to date on new trends within branding (especially within the charity sector) and make appropriate recommendations
• Adhere to required admin processes ensuring accurate and accessible records and files are stored and archived as directed
• Produce regular reports (verbal and written) on all allocated workflow ensuring early communication of any issues with agreed deadlines
• Ensure that all creatives are on Brand and within guidelines
• Ensure when using licensed / copyrighted artwork that the correct licensing is in place

What we can offer you:

• A minimum of 33 days, inclusive of Bank Holidays and subject to increase with the length of service
• Contributory pension scheme – matched at 4%
• Life assurance 3 x basic annual salary
• Access to Perkbox, employee benefits platforms, offering free perks and discounts with hundreds of companies and deals available
• Enhance Maternity/ paternity Pay
• Employee Assistance Programmes
• Wellbeing support including access to mental health digital platforms
• Long Service Recognition
• Personal Development
• Rewards and Incentives
• Free car parking

About Ben:

Ben is an independent charity and dedicated partner to the automotive industry, providing support for life for its people and their family dependents. Ben is focused on delivering care and support to enable total health & wellbeing through working and later life.

Ben provides free and confidential advice and support focused on the main areas of peoples’ health and wellbeing: financial, physical, mental and social, supporting people at whatever stage of life. Everyone who works, or has worked, in the automotive industry can access Ben's support.

By working in partnership with automotive industry companies, Ben can help them to support their people through life’s challenges and build a stronger, more resilient automotive industry. Ben is dedicated to working closely with employers to help support their people, and therefore the industry as a whole.

Apply now

If this describes you, and you are ambitious and motivated and want to make a positive difference to people’s lives, get in touch with us.

Community Engagement Coordinator x 3

Location:

1x role in the south of England

The role will be home-based with extensive travel across the south of England, the London office and regular travel to other regions and BookTrust offices in England.

1x role in the central England

The role will be home-based with extensive travel across the central England and regular travel to other regions and BookTrust offices in England.

1x role in the north of England

The role will be home-based with extensive travel across the north of England, the Leeds office and regular travel to other regions and BookTrust offices in England.

Contract: 2 years fixed term, extendable for a further year

Salary: £30,000 p.a.

BookTrust is the UK's largest children's reading charity. Working with every local authority and across every region in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and supported by Arts Council funding, we reach over 3 million families a year through schools, health visitors, libraries and other partners. This incredible network helps us to get children excited about reading from an early age. We know that children who read are happier, healthier, more creative and do better at school.

This is an exciting time to join us; Book Trust is investing in the expansion of the Partnership Team that supports our work across England. Building our capacity in all regions of England will offer greater opportunity to work with our partners in a place-based way, working in and with local communities and the children and families most in need of support.

As a Community Engagement Coordinator, you will work within the regional partnerships team to support projects, pilots and pieces of learning to build greater place-based working with the BookTrust partner network.

To apply, you must complete all elements of the process below and submit by the closing date. To find out 'How to Apply', please go to our website. The selection process will take place in June 2022.

1. Submit a written answer in no more than 750 words to the question below:

“Can you tell us about a time when you worked to support local communities, tell us what you role was, what was important to ensure a successful outcome and how you used your skills, knowledge and or experience to deliver a successful outcome.

1. Please submit your CV, comprising of no more than 2 sides of A4.
2. Please submit a covering email stating only the attachment of the documents set out in points 1 and 2 and confirming which role and region you wish to apply for. Lengthy covering emails will be disregarded.

Closing date: Friday, 3rd June, 12pm

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity

We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: BAME candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from underrepresented communities.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team (contact details can be found on our website). 

BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflect our commitment to safeguarding therefore, the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, and pre-employment checks.

Salary: circa. £30,000 per annum plus benefits

Location: Northampton Office with Hybrid-Working

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Can you create and deliver engaging and effective Direct Marketing campaigns?

Are you an excellent communicator who can build and develop key relationships?

If you have a direct marketing background with project management experience, we would love to hear from you!

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association has a creative opportunity for a Direct Marketing Officer to join our wonderful Fundraising Team.

This role is based at our national office in Northampton with a trusting, collaborative, and hybrid working policy which enables the flexibilities of splitting your working time, between the workplace and your home.

About the role

As a Direct Marketing Officer, you will develop and deliver the Direct Marketing programme, growing the supporter base and the income generated. Your responsibilities will include planning and delivering direct marketing campaigns to recruit, develop and build relationships with supporters through a variety of channels.

By recruiting new supporters and developing the relationship with these supporters through engaging and creative direct marketing activities, you will maximise income for the Association. As part of a friendly and dynamic team, you will source information to produce appeals, newsletters, and other information for supporters as appropriate.

As an excellent communicator, you will cultivate strong relationships with key external agencies and suppliers including direct marketing agencies, printers, fulfilment houses and telemarketing agencies.

An important aspect of this role will be to track and monitor income and expenditure for campaigns to ensure all commissioned activity is carried out on time, within budgets and to agreed standards. You will also be reporting on the results and analysing key activities against KPI's and targets, from this you will be making recommendations for future activity.

This is a busy and varied role with plenty of exciting fundraising projects to get involved with at an exciting time to join the MND Association.

What are we looking for?

A direct marketing background with experience of direct marketing campaigns both online and offline, ideally within the charity sector.

Excellent project management skills and knowledge of direct marketing principles and experience of working with and managing direct marketing agencies creating engaging and persuasive materials.

You will be working with a range of direct marketing channels including direct mail, inserts, door drops, telemarketing and online, knowledge and experience with these is crucial.

Excellent communication skills are essential as you will be working closely with external agencies/suppliers and key internal stakeholders as well as working with teams across the Association.

Your key skills will include excellent attention to detail, proof reading, understanding of CRM databases for direct marketing, strong interpersonal skills, excellent numeracy, analytical and Excel abilities.

For full role responsibilities please view the job description.

How to apply?

We would love to hear from you and encourage early applications.

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, apply online now and submit a supporting statement and CV.

About Us

The MND Association was founded in 1979. Our mission is to improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We also fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments and brings us closer to a cure for MND. The Association also campaigns and raises awareness so the needs of people with MND, and everyone who cares for them, are recognised, and addressed by wider society.

We operate a hybrid working environment within a flexible office space using the latest technology and digital infrastructure. This, together with a high level of trust and performance driven culture, gives staff the freedom and flexibility to work in the best way for them, the Association and, most importantly, people with MND.

We are committed to equality and value diversity. We are working hard to remove perceived and actual barriers to participation for people with and affected by MND, current and future staff, volunteers, and stakeholders.

Important Notices

The MND Association operates a hybrid working culture and therefore we are open to discussing the possibility of variable hours, remote or home working, flexible start, and finish times etc.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Our selection process will be multi-stage; this may include video call screening, and competency-based interview/s.

We request that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this role. We work hard to fill our roles directly and if assistance is required, we operate a PSL, which currently closed for review. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies/ head-hunters.

Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century?  As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as ‘everyday’ health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives.

This is a new and exciting opportunity to join the My Support Services (MSS) in providing the administrative support for a broad range of essential day-to-day transactional activities of St John, including Finance, People, Property, Fleet, etc. This role will be working closely with the SJA systems team and the wider MSS this role will ensure all key data for the directorate is centralised, managed, updated, stored correctly.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. The role benefits from a competitive salary, generous pension, hybrid, flexible working & TOIL, 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, free first/mental aid first aider courses, Blue Light and NHS online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, flu jab, eye care, mental health and wellbeing tools and volunteering days. 

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

About You:

• Experience of providing analytical services within an operational department or a shared services environment
• Knowledge of Finance systems such as SAP
• Significant experience managing large volumes of data with knowledge of Microsoft products, specifically Power Query, SQL and Power BI.
• Experience of developing, planning and delivering a complex operational model across multiples sites and multiple customer groups

About the Role:

• Working closely with the Controls & Risk Manager and MSS leadership team to ensure that all data is stored correctly following all regulatory requirements.
• Define, create and maintain a robust data set as the “single truth” evaluation of performance and forecasting, measuring status, service delivery, supporting resource planning and scheduling, KPI data sets and dashboards for all key service areas
• Produce, review, analyse and act on management data, highlighting exceptions and ensuring appropriate actions are developed and implemented to address adverse variances
• Support resolving issues relating to data through to resolution or error identification, and coordinate the actions of other technical and business teams as necessary to assist with analysis and resolution action. 

About Us:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equity, diversity and inclusion.

                                                                                             

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only.

Support Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke. We are looking for an innovative, passionate and professional individual with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills to join our Stroke Recovery Service based in East Berkshire.

Position: Stroke Association Support Coordinator

Location: Home based, East Berkshire with extensive travel across the service area

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: Circa £24,370 per annum (inner London weighting £3,299 per annum or outer London weighting £1,755 per annum may be applied in accordance to where you live) FTE is £30,450 per annum

Contract: Permanent. Our services are contracted; we currently have funding for this contract until 31 March 2023

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

Closing Date: 12 June 2022

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.

The Role

The service aims to identify and address the needs of stroke survivors and carers across the stroke pathway, by providing a range of innovative support solutions, supporting them to meet their desired outcomes. A key part of the role will be to support service users and the delivery of the service.

Reporting to the Stroke Association Service Delivery Coach, the Stroke Association Support Coordinator will:

• Support new stroke survivors and their carers from hospital discharge into the community.
• Provide personalised information, advice and support.
• Support clients to make informed lifestyle changes which will help them to prevent further strokes
• Be accountable for volunteers, so experience of recruiting, training and managing volunteers would be an advantage.
• You will have excellent IT skills and demonstrate a flexible approach to your role.

About You

The post holder will have experience/background in:

• A caring profession ideally with experience of supporting people with disabilities.
• Setting up and running virtual groups.

This role is home based, but extensive travel is required across the local area and occasionally further afield.

This role requires extensive travel across a large geographical locality to visit people at home and in community settings.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role.

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

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.

We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.

We’re working to improve the diversity of our team.  Because we know that individuality leads to a richer experience for our people and better support for those affected by stroke.

We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities. 

Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

In 2019, we developed a bold new corporate strategy so that we can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people’s lives. To help us deliver our strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of new roles. If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you!

You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Carer Support, Support Service, Vulnerable Adult, Social Care and Support Officer, Rehabilitation Coordinator, Volunteering Manager, Care and Support Officer, Social Care Worker, Health, Health Care, Support Worker, Care Worker, Social Care Support Worker, Residential Support Worker, Relief Support Worker, Support Worker Disabilities, Day Centre Support Worker, Rehabilitation Support Worker, Night Support Worker, Stroke Support Worker, Disability, Disability Support, Stroke.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

Technology Portfolio Manager

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Home Worker (England, Wales and NI)
Salary: £33,438 - £36,515 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience) + London allowance of £3,600 (if applicable)
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 05 June 2022
Interview Date: TBC (via Zoom or Teams)

Please note, the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is 23:59pm on the closing date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

About Alzheimer's Society

We are Alzheimer’s Society, the UK’s leading dementia charity. We are a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia. We provide help and hope.

Dementia can devastate lives, but we won’t stop until we improve everyone’s experience. By 2025, 1 million people will be living with the condition in the UK, and many millions more carers, partners, families and friends are affected.

We provide help - we support people affected by all types of dementia through some of the hardest and most frightening times. Whoever you are, whatever you’re going through, you can turn to us for practical advice, emotional support, and guidance to the best next step.

We provide hope - we are, and we empower people affected by dementia to be, a leading force for change - using cutting edge research and influencing?to push for breakthroughs that’ll change the lives of people affected by dementia, now and in the future.?

Together, we will make sure people living with dementia and their carers live more fulfilled and less fearful lives, free from stigma and inequality.

About the role

We have a fantastic new opportunity available for a Technology Portfolio Manager to join our incredibly talented IT team.

Sat within our Finance & Corporate Resources (FCR) division, the team enables our people, and sustains the organisation, through their processes, infrastructure, and expertise. Trusted experts in their field who are business focused and enable better outcomes for people affected by dementia.

The post of Technology Portfolio Manager will make a significant contribution to our effectiveness as they enable the top-level view and management of resource and scheduling conflicts across the full range of proposed and inflight Technology (IT and Data) projects and initiatives. They will enable us to critically review and rationalize or reschedule work.

The Technology Portfolio Manager will be responsible for co-ordinating the Technology Impact Assessment Group and the change requests that are made to the group.

About you

- Excellent communication skills both written and verbally (essential)
- Possess a passion for good organisation, with an ability to develop resource schedules and see where there might be future clashes or issues with different pieces of work.
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to negotiate and agree a way forward across a range of people with competing requirements to achieve the best win-win outcomes possible.
- Demonstrate an excellent level of IT knowledge with the ability to use Microsoft 365 suite
- Demonstrate experience working in a structured project environment with an awareness of the different methodologies and techniques organisations use to deliver change.
- Experience in producing reports and charts that enable good decision making and that demonstrate performance
- Experience in the charity sector (desirable)

Ref: 133 149

Location: Home based, with occasional travel to London and other parts of the UK as needed.

The Position:

Are you an experienced Public Affairs, Policy and Campaigning professional with a passion for social change and an interest in health and the impact of environmental chemicals on our health? This exciting opportunity will play an important role in shaping and driving our client’s policy, public affairs and campaigning activities in support of an ambitious new strategic plan.  This is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your career as part of a  diverse and dynamic team committed to growing a highly engaged community.   

Requirements:

• You will be a highly motivated individual and an engaging communicator with strategic leadership experience and excellent knowledge of the UK government and policy environment.
• You’ll have significant experience in engaging with decision-makers and planning and implementing advocacy campaigns preferably public health or environmental.
• You will have an interest in the links between harmful chemicals and human health.
• You will be a self-driven team player, content to work remotely and ready to get going with a busy programme of work.

Senior Supporter Development Manager
Children's Charity, Central London
£46,000 - £52,000

This role offers hybrid working or home based and we welcome applications from across the UK.

Charity People are delighted to be working in partnership with a Children's Charity to recruit a Senior Supporter Development Manager.

Working with the Head of Individual Supporters, you will work to create and deliver a strategic approach to managing and developing supporter journeys and experiences to meet income targets and increase the life time value of supporters. You will deliver a marketing communications programme which ensures the retention of existing supporters, engage them so they stay longer, give more and get involved.

The role is responsible for a diverse programme of work including loyalty, welcome, raffle and lottery, legacy stewardship, cash and product journey development and delivery. You will play a leading role in maximising income from existing supporters through the proactive and planned management of supporter communications journeys. In addition to this, you will line manage 3 members of staff.

We are looking for someone with extensive direct marketing experience in a senior role either in the commercial or charity sector along with substantial experience of success in developing, delivering, and monitoring strategies and plans and finding new ways to drive growth. You should have knowledge of budget management, financial planning and staff management experience and leading a team to deliver results including an ability to empower and support those who work with and for them.

Charity People are managing all applications for this role; interested applicants should send their CV in the first instance.

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 want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Senior Acquisition Manager
Children's Charity, Central London
£46,000 - £52,000

This role offers hybrid working or home based and we welcome applications from across the UK.

Charity People are delighted to be working in partnership with a Children's Charity to recruit a Senior Acquisition Manager.

Reporting to the Head of Individual Supporters, your role will involve creating and delivering a strategic approach for supporter acquisition using an integrated plan to ensure targets of new supporters are met. You will lead a skilled and dynamic team (3 direct reports) responsible for the strategic development, delivery and growth of the Charity's supporter acquisition programme, and the team responsible for the innovation and development of their fundraising products.

This is a leading role in developing an audience led marketing approach to maximise the recruitment of new supporters to the Charity using mass media channels, both on and offline. You will optimise the Charity's portfolio of fundraising products, through new product development and innovations in existing products, ensuring the Charity is maximising their reach to new and existing audiences with relevant fundraising asks.

You will have substantial experience of managing large scale integrated acquisition campaigns including DRTV, direct mail, door drops, inserts, digital and outdoor media. You should have evidence of commercial success in launching new products, propositions or messaging using
audience insight to drive growth either from the Charity sector or commercial sector. In addition to this, you will have experience of multimillion-pound budget management and financial planning.

Charity People are managing all applications for this role; interested applicants should send their CV in the first instance.

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 want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

We have an exciting new opportunity for an Events Fundraiser to support the Hospice’s Programme of fundraising and supporter engagement events to raise vital income for Willen Hospice.

The Events Fundraiser will work with the Events Team to ensure all events are planned, delivered and anlaysed to a sector leading standard, achieving maximum profile and income, whilst providing high quality donor services.

To be successful, you will ideally have previous experience of Event Planning, and will be highly organized, proactive and motivated to inspire the community to participate in our Fundraising Events. You will be a flexible team player who is available to work some evenings and weekends when our events are live. You will have excellent supporter facing skills, have an outgoing, friendly personality and a passion for fun and success.

You will need to be physically fit and able to safely move and handle event equipment, some of which is heavy. You will also need a driving licence (category B+E), access to a vehicle and be over 25 (an insurance requirement to drive the Hospice van).

You will be supported in your role to develop your skills by an experienced team who are passionate about what they do.

The role will be based at Willen Hospice in Milton Keynes and in return for your skills, you can expect to join a caring team with generous annual leave entitlement starting at 35 days pro rata (inclusive of statutory and bank holidays), free onsite parking, NHS or employer enhanced auto-enrolment pension scheme, enhanced maternity, adoption and sick pay provision and excellent catering facilities at the Hospice.

Fundraising Manager

Plant Your Future is an international grassroots environmental charity with the vision of a restored Amazon Rainforest. To achieve this, we’re working to promote sustainable farming with Peruvian smallholder farmers, empowering them to adopt agroforestry and generate sustainable incomes through sale of sustainably harvested fruit, timber and carbon credits. Our work is not only an effective way to tackle climate change, but it also reduces the deforestation pressure on the rainforest and helps protect irreplaceable high conservation value rainforest biodiversity, including threatened animal and bird species. To date, we have helped 17 rural communities in the Loreto and Ucayali regions of the Peruvian Amazon to plant over 150,000 trees. Right now, we’re in the middle of a significant scale-up, with a plan to plant one million trees by 2025 

This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated self-starter with a successful track-record in fundraising to help Plant Your Future continue to grow and achieve its goal of planting a million trees and beyond. 

You will be working closely with the Board of Trustees, as well as other volunteers. The role is home-based, although ability to travel to donor meetings, events and to meetings with the PYF Trustees is expected.

Apply online through charityjob with a cover letter and CV explaining why you want to work with Plant Your Future and the expertise you bring.

For further details, please see the attached job specification.

Civitas Recruitment are proud to be working with a fantastic charity that promotes responsible investment. The charity campaigns and works with organisations and companies to tackle issues such as climate change, global health and workforce issues. A great opportunity exists for a Campaign Manager to join the charity. As Campaign Manager you will help drive the charity’s campaign work with investors to accelerate corporate decarbonisation in heavy industries. The postholder will deliver corporate engagement campaign activity, including public communications and collaborative investor engagement. You will lead engagement and ongoing dialogue with corporates and share campaigning expertise with immediate and wider team. It is a permanent, full-time role working from home. 

Who are we looking for?

Ideal candidates will have a good understanding of how climate change affects companies in a range of sectors. Candidates will have proven ability to execute effective campaign strategies, identifying targets, considering tactics, and sequencing actions. You will have experience of engaging with companies to drive changes in corporate practises. You will have persuasive communication skills (verbal and written) as well as good analytical skills including the ability to quickly get to grips with new and complex subject areas. Excellent organisational, project and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure are essential for this role. This is a great opportunity to join a talented team within a forward thinking charity.

If the above role description sounds of interest and you feel like you meet the criteria; please apply immediately or for further information, please contact Syed at Civitas Recruitment for a full JD and informal discussion. Early applications are encouraged as we will be reviewing on a rolling basis.

Welcome and Congratulations. By getting as far as reading this you have already displayed great judgement- we like you already!

We are really excited about these 3 new Trustee roles. Access Social Care is only 2 years old but we have already built a strong and positive culture on our board. Our skilled Chairperson has been careful to create an environment where everyone’s views are valued. Trust is high. The CEO and the Executive team welcome the Board’s positive challenge.

As an organisation we are proud that we have taken great strides in ensuring that our organisational impact reaches underserved communities with experience of disadvantage. But over the last 6 months, we have taken a good look at ourselves, and we know that we need to do better to ensure that our Board reflects the communities that we serve.

We have made progress in the last year, exploring how we can be more inclusive within our organisation. We have worked on shared language and started to build an environment for people to hold tricky conversations about the things that matter. We have created new network groups, and agreed programmes of work to promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. We have increased training and awareness. We have successfully recruited more people of colour to our staff team, and we are soon to introduce two-way mentoring so that the Board and staff at all levels can learn from each other. As an organisation we are striving to be anti-racist.

At Access Social care, we aren’t interested in tokenism. We know that if we are to make the biggest difference for the people that need us the most, we need to get Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and anti-racism right. Part of this is recruiting greater diversity to our board.

Together we have agreed that the skills we are missing on our board relate to:

• Experience of the social care system and experience of the diverse communities we serve
• Data and technology
• Policy and Strategic Communications 
• Human Resources and People Culture

As a trustee you will be part of an organisation that is working to improve the lives of older and disabled people with social care needs. You will get to work with a passionate team, you will benefit from the support of your colleagues on the Board, and you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in areas you are interested in, including Governance, Finance and Strategy.

If this sounds like you, go on… go for it – apply to be a trustee with us!

Jan Tregelles (Chair and Founder)

Kari Gerstheimer (CEO and Founder

Trustee role description & job specification

Accountable to: Chairperson

Location: UK - board meetings are currently being held remotely.

Type: PT

Hours: Circa 2 away days and ten 2-hour meetings per year plus preparation time

Salary: Voluntary role, expenses paid.

Why Access Social Care Exists  

Everyday millions of older and disabled people are denied the social care they need.  Most local authorities can’t meet the growing demand for care, none are confident they can meet their legal duties in the future. This affects all of us, we will all need social care at some point.

We all have a right to hold public bodies to account. But most of us cannot afford lawyers so rely on legal aid. The 92% drop in legal aid cases since 2010 means we have nowhere to turn. Without access to justice, our rights do not exist. The rule of law is broken.

What we do

Access Social Care provides free legal advice and information for people with social care needs, helping achieve a better quality of life. We work with communities to increase knowledge of the law and our rights. We highlight the gap left by cuts to Legal Aid and provide advice for those who can’t afford it.

With a 98% success rate, our network of lawyers and barristers ensure fair access to justice when things go wrong. We collaborate with social services whilst ensuring legal obligations are met. We are working towards a future where social care is adequately funded, and we all get the support we need.

ROLE DESCRIPTION - Trustee of Access Social Care

The duties of a trustee at Access Social Care are as follows.

• Contributing towards and approving Access Social Care’s objectives and strategic plans.
• Ensuring that the organisation pursues its stated purpose and complies with its governing document, charity law and any other relevant legislation or regulations
• Contributing towards and approving Access Social Care’s financial plans and strategies, both short- and long-term, cash flow management plans and annual report and accounts, and to review its risk management strategy, including its responsibility for safeguarding issues.
• Ensuring financial stability and ensuring that the organisation applies its resources exclusively in pursuance of its charitable objects
• Defining what the Board requires from the Executive to discharge its responsibilities, and to monitor and evaluate the Executive’s performance.
• Safeguarding the good name and values of the organisation
• Ensuring the effective and efficient administration of the organisation, including having appropriate policies and procedures in place
• Following proper and formal arrangements for the appointment, supervision, support, appraisal and remuneration of the chief executive

In addition to the above statutory duties, each trustee should use any specific skills, knowledge or experience they have to help the board of trustees reach sound decisions. This may involve scrutinising board papers, leading discussions, focusing on key issues, providing advice and guidance on new initiatives, or other issues in which the trustee has special expertise.

Our Values

We are a values led organisation with a strong culture that we work hard to protect. Our values have been developed in consultation with our whole team and permeate our work life as an organisation from informing the way that we interact with each other, to driving the way that we make decisions: 

• Trustworthy - Recognisied for excellence, we will be the best we can be in everything we do. We will be truthful, independant and outcome focused.
• Fair - We believe in traeting people with kindness and compassion in a way that is right, reasonable, and just.
• Fearless - We will do whats right, not whats easy. We will bravely challenge injustice.
• Inclusive - Our beneficiaries' voices will be influence our thinking and decision making at all levels of our organisation. Collaborative in our thinking, we will work with others to achieve our goals.
• Positive - We will be constructive and progressive in our challenge. We will optimistically and dynamically drive for change.

We are looking for Trustees who can work to these values and help keep us accountable to them.

Minimum time commitment

• Trustees are expected to attend a range of induction sessions at Access Social Care prior to their first board meeting.
• Trustees are expected to attend all board meetings. Board meetings are held four times a year during normal office hours. These meetings last approximately two hours and are held via Teams/Zoom or if possible, in Central London.
• One additional meeting each year is allotted to strategic planning and is a residential event held over two days. 
• We are in the process of setting up committees and there are also ad-hoc events to attend.
• Papers are distributed one week in advance of meetings.
• Trustees can claim out of pocket expenses incurred in travelling to meetings.

Person specification

To be able to demonstrate skills in one of the areas below:

• Experience of the social care system and experience of the diverse communities we serve
• Data and technology
• Policy and Strategic Communications 
• Human Resources and People Culture

As well as being able to demonstrate:

• A commitment and passion for the organisation’s mission
• A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort
• The ability to think imaginatively and strategically and contribute to effective decision-making.
• Good, independent judgement, and a willingness to speak your mind.
• An ability to work effectively as a member of a team and to take decisions for the good of Access Social Care
• The ability to act as a credible advocate of Access Social Care with key stakeholders and the ability to support our work in building networks and effective partnerships.
• Commitment to championing diversity and ensuring that the benefits of the law are available to the widest range of people.
• A commitment to Nolan’s seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
• An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship

To Apply

We hope that having read this far, you will want to apply!

To apply for a Trustee role, please provide the following documents :

• An up-to-date CV.
• A completed diversity monitoring form
• A covering letter of no more than two pages, which addresses the following bullet points which bring together our values and key elements of the job:
  • Describe how you have personally collaborated with a group of people to deliver successful outcomes
  • Describe how you have inspired and supported others to thrive and excel
  • Describe how have you used insight and evidence to make decisions
  • Describe a time when you had to speak out for what was right
  • Describe how you think your specialist skills in data and tech/policy and strategic communications/ HR/ direct experience of the social care system and diverse communities could help Access Social Care

Applications are welcomed regardless of gender, age, marital status, disability, religion, ethnic origin, political opinion, sexual orientation, or whether or not you have dependents. Appointments are made on merit, following a fair and transparent process.

We are passionate about getting the right people on our board. People who are willing to challenge us and support us to be the best we can be as an organisation. If you don’t have governance experience (or even know what governance is!), then we can help you (and fund you) to develop this knowledge and expertise. To arrange an informal chat about the role, what we are looking for, and whether you should apply, please contact us.

Closing date is 10th June 2022.

Interviews: 1st interview will be held on the 17th June, 2nd interviews will be held on the 23rd June 2022.

Working for this much loved national charity you will be responsible for securing significant gifts of 10k and higher from major donors, and manage a sustainable revenue pipeline

The charity are holding interviews on a rolling basis.

The Role
Build, develop and grow a portfolio of potential philanthropists, securing large (10k+), multi-year financial gifts to meet agreed income targets
Manage a portfolio of existing philanthropists
Lead on the development of the current Giving Circle programme, with a view to recruit further members.
Host engagement, prospecting and recognition events and assist with their delivery.
Provide excellent customer service and stewardship, through regular tailored communications and opportunities to engage with the cause and beneficiaries

The Candidate
Proven ability in major gift fundraising or in a similar role - including soliciting five and six figure gifts through face-to-face asks.
Proven experience of donor management, demonstrating the maximisation of relationships.
Solid understanding of the principles of Major Donor fundraising.
Proven experience of investigating and establishing new networks.
Excellent networking and interpersonal skills that facilitate strong relationships with a wide range of people, specifically HNWIs.

IMPORTANT NOTE

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

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

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