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The US-UK Fulbright Commission is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance education, promote civic engagement and develop compassionate leaders through education exchange between the peoples of the US and the UK. With core support from the UK and US governments, the Commission offers prestigious Fulbright awards for postgraduate study and academic research in the US and the UK, as well as an Advisory Service. As part of the EducationUSA advising network, the Advisory Service is the only official source of US study information in the UK.
As part of our advising mission, we deliver the Sutton Trust Fulbright US programme. Working in partnership with the Sutton Trust, one of the UK’s leading social mobility charities, the ambitious programme gives talented state school students a taster of US culture and higher education through an annual programme of support, including UK-based residentials and a week-long summer programme at a US university campus. Those students interested in pursuing a full undergraduate degree in the US receive one-to-one guidance and application support from the team throughout the admissions and financial aid process in the autumn.
This role supports three programme managers and the director to work with the students, by helping to administrate the programme – including supporting programme selection, residential coordination, US admissions advice, through to pre-departure programming before students enrol at a US institution. The programme is administered by the Fulbright Commission, and the assistant sits in the Advising team within the Commission.
You will offer a passion for higher education and a willingness to learn. You’ll have a great eye for detail, be organised and be efficient. You’ll be able to spot problems before they arise and excel at ensuring processes are followed – all while being sympathetic to our students. Essential for the role will be experience of working with young people either in a professional or volunteering capacity. Given the mission of our organisation and the nature of the Sutton Trust Fulbright US Programme, candidates with personal experience with the US higher education system will be at an advantage.
The US-UK Fulbright Commission offers exceptional opportunities for people interested in international education and who are committed to our mission and vision and values. New staff join a small and friendly team who are highly motivated, entrepreneurial and passionate about cross-cultural exchange. Our staff benefits include 29 days holiday (including 3 US holidays and 3 Christmas closure days) plus bank holidays, pension scheme (employer contribution of 6%), employee assistance programme, flexible working and excellent learning and development opportunities.
Please note, you must have the prior legal right to work in the UK.
Location: Central London office at least 2 days a week, home working the rest of the time. No travel expenses will be paid.
Closing date: Sunday 24 November 2024, 23.59 (GMT)
We are the only US-UK exchange programme facilitating placements on both sides of the Atlantic.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Do you love to enrich the lives of others? Do you think that pets improve our wellbeing? Are you driven by driving income growth? If so, Pets As Therapy (PAT) would love to hear from you.
Pets As Therapy (PAT) is a growing charity that through our volunteers and their pets seeks to improve the lives of those in hospitals, schools and care homes, enriching lives one visit at a time.
Trusts, foundations and corporate partners are central to PAT’s current delivery of its services and to delivering and driving our growth aspirations for the coming years. In recognition of the importance of this area we are recruiting for the exciting newly created role of New Partnerships Executive. We are seeking a candidate with drive and dynamism to lead the identification and engagement of prospective new partners across the UK.
Developing sustainable, long-term relationships that go beyond just income is integral to delivering our fundraising objectives and ensuring that Pets As Therapy can provide more therapeutic pet visits across Schools, Hospitals and Care Homes across the length and breadth of the UK.
If you have the experience and skills for this role, we would love to hear from you. Please take a look at the PAT website for more details.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Dimensions is proud to be one of very few social care organisations that are accredited by the Great Places To Work programme in 2024 – now 6 years in a row!
The role of the L&D Design Coordinator is to support and help enable the ongoing delivery of departmental initiatives, programmes and projects.
The full-time salary for this role is £24,931.15 (The hours being offered for this role are 25 hours with a pro-rata salary of £16,620.67).
Interviews will take place on the 29th November via teams.
About the role - Your main duties will include:
- The Aspire programme – liaising with Best Hopes, taking delegated budget approval decisions, arranging planned events.
- The Roffey Park Leadership Development Programme – arranging events, liaising with participants, liaising with Roffey Park.
- The Management Development programme – working with both internal ‘customers’ and external training providers to ensure the timely provision of required events.
- The Mental Health First Aider network – providing co-ordination and support in terms of arranging further training, supervision webinars or helping to maintain a healthy online peer supervision network.
About you - The successful applicant will have:
- Experience of working with training suppliers and partners
- Possess knowledge and understand of invoicing processes
- Experience of working within social care
- Excellent customer service skills with the ability to develop effective working partnerships
The rewards
- Up to 35 days’ annual leave entitlement (including bank holidays)
- Staff discount shopping scheme ‘Rewarding Dimensions’
- We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you've earned before payday.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme
- Long Service Awards
- Qualification scheme
- Employee recognition scheme 'Inspiring People'
- Discounted health and dental cover
- Life Assurance
- Bike to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
Apply now
- We welcome applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK, and value diversity in our workforce
- As Disability Confident Leaders , we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy - Dimensions has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees
- As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03 003 039 150.
- We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.
We are looking for a solutions focused enthusiastic Business Analyst to join our CRM Project Team. You will play a key role in bridging the gap between the CRM users and the project ensuring that the software developed meets requirements. You will have excellent interpersonal skills to be able to develop relationships across the whole of the organisation.
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in analysing business processes, gathering and eliciting requirements, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing CRM solutions that enhance overall operational efficiency and customer engagement.
London’s Air Ambulance Charity continues to develop a supportive and enabling environment that gets the best out of our people.
We promote a culture of progression and professional advancement offering a range of learning and development opportunities. In addition, we offer flexible working options, wellbeing packages and family friendly employment policies.
The role is offered on a full-time 1-year fixed term contract basis. Although the post is based at our office in Mansell Street, London, E1 8AN, we offer a hybrid working arrangement.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Circa £43,000 per annum
Fixed term – until June 2025
Part home/Part office (London) based
UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a better place for every child.
This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as an Account Manager in the Creative Team.
The mission of the Creative team is to collaboratively plan, produce, and deliver creative content across editorial, design, video and photography, that results in greater income, influence, and the growth of the UNICEF brand in the UK.
As an Account Manager you will work with teams across the organisation to collaborate on creative briefs and develop creative project management best practices, tools, and documents to facilitate efficient workflow on the creative processes. You will also represent the UNICEF brand and the Creative team’s skills, processes, and ways of working to the rest of the organisation.
We are looking for someone with expert account management skills, who is adept at collaborating with commissioning teams to produce effective creative briefs to deliver to the organisation’s strategic objectives.
Act now and visit the website via the apply button to apply online.
Closing date: 5pm, Thursday 21 November 2024.
Interview date: Tuesday 10 December 2024 (via video conferencing (MS Teams).
In return, we offer:
· excellent pay and benefits (including flexible working, generous annual leave and pension, big brand discounts and wellbeing tools)
· outstanding training and learning opportunities and the support to flourish in your role
· impressive open plan office space and facilities on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
· an open culture and workplace with colleagues who share our values, enjoy their work and are motivated to do their utmost for children.
· the opportunity to work in a leading children’s organisation making a difference to children around the world
Our application process: We use a system called "Applied" that anonymises your responses and focuses on your actual skills that are relevant to this role. This benefits you by giving you a greater chance of expressing your skills in this objective selection process.
We anticipate most colleagues will work one or two days a week in the office on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, and the rest of the time from home. We will happily discuss other flexible options to suit your circumstances.
We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, disabled candidates, and from men, because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at this level at UNICEF UK. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for children.
UNICEF UK promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business 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 welcome a conversation about your flexible working requirements, personal growth, and promoting a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
The successful candidate will be required to apply for a criminal records check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.
We only accept online applications as this saves us money, making more funds available for us to help ensure children’s rights.
If you require support in completing the online form or an application form in an alternative format, please contact the Supporter Care line during office hours.
If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates.
Registered Charity Nos. 1072612 (England and Wales) SC043677 (Scotland)
Team: Finance
Location: Remote
Work pattern: 35 hours per week, Mon-Fri
Salary: Up to £53,353 per year
Contract: Permanent
We are the UK’s largest cat welfare charity. All over the country, our passionate employees, volunteers and supporters are using their kindness and expertise to make life better for millions of cats and the people who care for them.
Will you join us and make life better for cats?
Responsibilities of our Senior Management Accountant:
- Responsible for the provision and development of management reporting
- Provide financial insight and expertise to support well-informed financial decision-making and delivery for the charity’s plans
- Facilitate and manage the budget and forecast processes, produce monthly management accounts and reports
- Develop strong working relationships across the charity, building business partnering capability in the team and ensuring high quality support and expertise is provided to all directorates
- Manage the Management Accountant team of five management accountants
- Work constructively with the Senior Financial Accountant to ensure processes and priorities are aligned across the whole for the Finance team
About the Finance team:
- Responsible for managing the financial operations of the Charity
- Plays a vital role in the organisation’s success by ensuring sound financial management, better informed decision making and supporting delivery of the overall strategy
- Responsibility for key tasks such as budgeting, financial reporting, forecasting and analysis
- The Management Accountant team are a team of five, reporting into the Senior Management Accountant, all of whom support the Head of Budgeting & Reporting
- The wider Finance team includes the Operational Finance team, including AP, financial accounting and payroll
What we’re looking for in our Senior Management Accountant::
- CCAB qualified accountant
- Experience working with accounting software and systems
- Experience working in a senior Management Accountant role in a large organisation (250+ employees)
- Experience working with budget holders as well as providing support and advice around financial management issues
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office – particularly in Excel
- Excellent people management, communication and organisational skills
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships
What we can offer you:
- Range of health benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service
- Salary Finance, which empowers you to take control of your financial wellbeing
- and much more
Application closing date: 21st November 2024
Virtual interview date: w/c 2nd December 2024
Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment. Please note, applications received after the closing date may not be responded to.
If you’re enthusiastic about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway and demonstrate how your experience is transferrable. You may be just the right candidate.
If successful, your recruitment journey will include:
- Anonymised application form
- Virtual interview
Please note, the process may change slightly dependent on application numbers. We will inform you of any relevant changes.
Making a better life for cats, because life is better with cats
Are you passionate about creating memorable experiences that inspire and engage? Do you have the creativity and organisational skills to design events that build strong connections with high-value supporters? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
In this impactful role, you’ll be at the forefront of designing and delivering an exciting portfolio of engagement and stewardship events aimed at maximising support for the charity.
Working closely with our Major Giving and Partnerships teams, you’ll identify events that will resonate most with the charity valued supporters, giving them a unique opportunity to witness firsthand the life-changing impact of their contributions.
Key Responsibilities
- Event Management: Design and manage engagement and stewardship events, handling all logistics and ensuring a seamless experience for attendees.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Build and nurture positive relationships with both internal teams and external suppliers (venues, AV providers, etc.).
- Creative Event Design: Innovate by researching and selecting top venues, caterers, and elements that make each event exceptional and memorable.
- Team Collaboration: Work closely with the Engagement and Stewardship Manager and other teams to ensure events align with broader fundraising objectives.
- Budget Management: Oversee event budgets, ensuring all spending is cost-effective and meets financial guidelines.
To be successful, you must have experience:
- Event Expertise: Proven track record of success in managing high-impact events.
- Relationship Skills: Ability to build and manage relationships with stakeholders and suppliers to achieve objectives.
- Analytical Skills: Competence in gathering, analysing, and presenting data to identify new opportunities.
- Project Management: Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines amidst competing demands.
- Creativity and Initiative: A proactive approach to designing unique experiences that inspire support.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to manage details meticulously while keeping strategic objectives in view.
- Budgeting Experience: Skilled in managing and adhering to financial constraints, with the foresight to anticipate and resolve budget variances.
Salary: £31,703 - £34,851 inc. LW per annum
Contract type: Full-time, permanent
Location-London, hybrid working with 1 day a week in the office
Closing date: 28th November
Recruitment process: Cv and Supporting Statement to [email protected]
If this sounds like you, then please do get in touch ASAP!
Unfortunately, due to resource capacity, we will only contact candidates that are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date please note your application has been unsuccessful.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
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With ambitious targets to support thousands more children by 2029, Chapter One is seeking a passionate, energetic Corporate Fundraiser to be an integral part of our Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising team.
The team comprises a Business Development Manager, Corporate Partnerships Manager and Corporate Partnerships Officer who are focussed on recruiting and supporting the 140 plus partners who provide volunteers and funding for the reading programme, and a Trusts & Foundations Fundraiser with a focus on raising funds from family trusts and foundations.
Reporting to our Chief Executive and working closely with the Corporate Partnerships team (CPT), Trusts & Foundations Fundraiser and Communications team, you’ll generate income from existing and new corporate trusts and foundations and develop and manage our fundraising plan for corporate fundraising, including charity of the year and employee fundraising/giving. You will generate income from these sources to contribute towards the 2024-25 fundraising target of £278,000, rising to £348,000 in 2025-26 in which you’ll have an individual target.
This is a new role within Chapter One and is an opportunity for you to make your mark in a fast-growing charity which is flexible and agile. You’ll be a proactive, determined self-starter, have high standards for yourself and others and will thrive in working with a range of funders and partners on a daily basis.
For details of the key responsiblities of the role, and the kinds of expereince, skills and attributes we're looking for, you'll need to download and read the attached job description.
About Chapter One
Chapter One is a growing charity dedicated to ensuring every child has access to one-to-one reading support at the time they need it most.
Our innovative Online Reading Volunteers Programme aims to support 3,300 children facing disadvantage during the 2024-25 academic year, pairing five to eight-year-old children with reading support volunteers from over 140 local and national businesses. Our unique approach requires volunteers to commit just 30 minutes a week for an entire academic year, using our bespoke digital platform. The results are transformative, significantly boosting children's reading confidence and ability. Our ambitious five year plan targets growth of 20% year on year.
You can learn more about our work by visiting our website, and looking at our videos and social media channels. Do also have a read of the About Chapter One recruitment pack that is posted with this ad.
Chapter One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value and celebrate diversity in backgrounds and experience and are deliberate about the kind of teams we are building. Literacy is a universal concern, and we need people from all backgrounds to maximise our innovation, creativity and impact. We especially welcome applications from persons who have experienced disadvantage and/or from those who are of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities who are currently underrepresented in the organisation.
Chapter One is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All postholders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure. Copies of our Safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy are available on request.
Please submit a CV (maximum 2 A4 sides) and covering letter. Your covering letter (maximum 1 side of A4) should:
1) Detail your relevant experience, including clear examples.
2) Tell us about a relationship or partnership that you have initiated or been involved with and what you did to make it succeed.
3) Tell us about how our organisational mission is in line with your values.
Applications that fail to meet these criteria will automatically be discounted. We want you to have every opportunity to shine and to show us your talents - please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the assessment process works for you.
Recruitment timeline:
First round interviews: Friday 29th Nov
Second round interviews: Thurs 5th Dec
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Kensington + Chelsea Foundation is an independent local charity which was founded in 2008 and is now in an exciting phase of growth. Our vision is of a borough where every resident has the opportunity to live a happy, healthy, fulfilled life. We identify and support impactful local projects which improve the lives and life chances of our most vulnerable and disadvantaged residents.
We are committed to understanding local needs and empowering our charity partners to respond effectively. With a focus on participatory grant-making, we believe in involving local residents in funding decisions to ensure that our resources are directed where they are needed most.
As the Community Engagement & Grants Manager, you will play a vital role in our mission by managing grants specifically focused on Children and Young People. You will work collaboratively with your counterpart in overseeing our Skills & Employment and Community Spirit Funds. Your expertise will help foster and maintain strong relationships with local voluntary organisations, ensuring our grants align with community needs and priorities.
To apply for this position, please submit your CV and a supporting statement that fully addresses the appointment criteria (maximum 2 pages of A4). Please also include the names and contact details of two referees who will only be contacted once your permission has been granted.
To identify and support impactful local projects which improve the lives and life chances of some of the most vulnerable in our community.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
A world class drama school and educational charity, LAMDA – the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art – delivers exceptional vocational training in the performing arts. LAMDA’s core aim is to train and develop the best artists regardless of social or financial background. The Academy is at an exciting time in its evolution, paving the way for drama school training in the 21st century and developing multi-skilled creative artists and technicians. In order to ensure that its work is accessible to all, LAMDA is passionately committed to widening participation and operates a robust scholarship scheme, awarding significant support to one in five full-time students each year.
The Role
An exciting new role has arisen, where we are seeking a pro-active, solutions-focused, team player for the role of Development Officer (Operations) for our Development department. As Development Officer (Operations), you will lead the implementation of LAMDA's new fundraising database system of Raiser’s Edge, including data migration, system optimisation, and creation of comprehensive documentation.
Working closely with the Development Manager, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and developing the CRM, to support fundraising and alumni relations efforts, while ensuring compliance with data protection laws and establishing best practices for system usage.
The successful candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, excellent attention to detail, with a good understanding of CRM systems and fundraising processes. You will also have experience in financial processing, have keen database management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Application Process
A full job description can be found on our website via the apply button.
We want you to have the opportunity to really tell us about yourself and explain to us why this opportunity is right for you. All applications will be judged on content, not on format.
To apply, please provide:
- A covering letter to tell us a little about yourself and why this position interests you
- Tell us what experience, knowledge and skills you have that meet the person specification outlined in the job description, include any practical examples that you may have
- CV
- Completed Equality and Diversity monitoring form
To be considered for this role, please send the above information by email to our HR department.
Application Deadline
Closing date for applications: 5pm on Sunday 24 November 2024.
Interviews will be held w/c 2 December 2024.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are essential values at LAMDA and we are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to have a diverse and inclusive workforce and value the benefits that a diverse workforce can bring to the Academy. We welcome applications from the Global majority, those with disabilities and from other under -represented groups. we are happy to provide recruitment information in accessible formats and a provision to accept applications in alternative formats.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
LAMDA is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and adults that use our services and expects all employees and contractors to share this commitment. All LAMDA posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including background checks and the disclosure of criminal records where applicable. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across all of our activities and services.
About us:
For thirty years, the Rory Peck Trust has been empowering freelance journalists with the knowledge, resources and resilience they need to remain safe while providing us with the facts.
The Trust’s vision is to ensure free and reliable information is accessible to everyone, with journalists reporting safely and without fear, empowering freelance journalists through grants and the resources, resilience, and knowledge needed to stay safe while gathering the facts essential for shaping our future.
By protecting freelance journalists, the Rory Peck Trust protects freedom of expression and democracy. We have supported more than 3,000 individuals over the last three decades, 300 in the last year alone, and more freelance journalists need our help than ever before so they can continue reporting from places as diverse as Myanmar, Haiti, Sudan and Gaza. The Trust is entering an exciting time in its development, with a new Fundraising Strategy and a focus on securing high-value funding over the next three years. This pivotal role is an inspiring opportunity for the right person, both in terms of the objectives of the role itself, and the opportunity to interact with a progressive donor community in the UK, US and beyond. The role will play a key part in the implementation of the fundraising strategy.
Working hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week.
Flexible working from 0.7 FTE to full-time considered
Reporting to: Executive Director
Job description:
The Fundraising and Development Manager will be a member of the leadership team, implementing the fundraising strategy by working closely with the Executive Director, alongside colleagues across the organisation and external consultants.
You’ll bring a passion for what we do, and the importance of independent journalism – and the contribution it makes to protecting everyone’s human rights.
We are looking for someone with experience in leading donor relations, with confidence and a strategic approach to high-value fundraising. This role will deepen RPT’s understanding of our supporter base, build on existing and new donor networks and produce impactful reports to donors including foundations and trusts, so they understand RPT’s impact and commit their support over the longer term.
You will work closely with other roles in the organisation, rolling out funding campaigns to attract new donors, whilst providing high-quality stewardship to existing ones. You will bring excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands.
Key tasks:
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Generate income, bringing new revenue into the organisation.
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Lead the writing and submission of proposals to trusts, foundations and philanthropists.
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Implement the fundraising strategy including donor outreach, cultivation, and partnership development.
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Develop & manage donor relationships and partnerships bringing hands-on knowledge of how to successfully secure support from trusts, foundations and philanthropists.
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Oversee profile-raising opportunities in high-value donor networks and giving vehicles.
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Research, identify and qualify prospect donors including individuals HNWIs, trusts and foundations with a strong affinity to RPT’s impact.
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Oversee grant, trust income, and donation programs, ensuring the production of high-quality proposals and reports.
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Support organisational programming alignment to communicate impact in diverse donor ecosystems.
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Contribute to RPT’s overall impact reporting outputs.
Key relationships:
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Executive Director
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Business Manager
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Assistance Manager
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Training Manager
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Communications Manager
Our values:
The Rory Peck Trust is committed to inclusiveness, diversity and equality and we strive to ensure we reflect these principles in our policies and workplace culture. We believe that diversity is an essential enabler in engaging those we assist, and in finding innovative solutions in times of crisis. We treat everyone with respect, put people first and we work as a team, building alliances and seeking partnerships to advance our common cause.
Person specification
Skills, knowledge and experience:
Essential:
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You should have a minimum of 5 years of experience and a track record in relevant paid roles within registered UK charities and international not-for-profit organisations.
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Working knowledge and experience of trusts, foundations and major donor fundraising and previous collaboration with other income streams (events, communications and companies).
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Understanding of what makes a strong case for support, developing strategies for donors and experience in partnership and relationship building.
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Understanding of the power of human stories, and how to gather and communicate stories that promote dignity and respect.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Impact reporting (internal and external).
Desirable:
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Experience of working in/dealing with media.
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Public speaking and representing the organisation independently.
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Brand management.
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Team leadership and project management.
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Experience across charities of various sizes.
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An understanding of the issues around media freedom.
Qualities:
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You will have bags of initiative, and the ability to manage a varied workload.
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Willingness to get stuck in and ‘do’ as well as lead.
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Kind and sensitive to the needs of those we support.
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Able to work well with others.
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Organised and efficient.
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Motivated by the cause & a passion to advocate on behalf of the organisation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About CoppaFeel!
CoppaFeel! are the UK’s only youth focused breast cancer awareness charity, and we’re on a mission to get every 18-24 year old checking their chest. We educate people on the signs of breast cancer and encourage them to check their chests monthly, so that if they notice something unusual they are empowered to contact their GP and advocate for themselves.
We do this because when diagnosed early, breast cancer treatments are more effective and survival rates are higher. Early detection can save lives.
Breast cancer does not need to be detected late, and as long as we are here and continue to be supported by people like you, we will do all we can to make sure this doesn’t continue to happen.
The Role
CoppaFeel! is looking for a Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager to lead the organisation’s influencing activity, including the development and delivery of an overarching influencing strategy. This is an exciting time to join the team as we refresh and relaunch our policy and public affairs focus.
The Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager will play a pivotal role in positioning CoppaFeel! as a key voice in influencing policies to improve breast cancer education, awareness, diagnosis, and treatment for young people. Through this work, they will help us achieve our mission: ensuring that all breast cancers in young people are diagnosed early and accurately.
The postholder will ensure that CoppaFeel!'s policy and public affairs activities are data- and insight-driven, centring the voices and experiences of young people, those who have had a breast cancer diagnosis, and healthcare professionals. A key focus of this work will be to highlight the health inequities and unique challenges faced by young people—particularly those from underserved groups—and ensure these are reflected in policy development.
The Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager will be based within the Education team and will collaborate closely across the organisation to achieve these objectives.
This is a hybrid role, with the expectation that you will attend the London office 2 days per week. You will be required to attend the office for quarterly team meetings, department meetings and in person training, we will provide plenty of notice for when you are required to be in for these purposes.
Duties & Responsibilities
Policy
- Lead on the development, implementation and evaluation of CoppaFeel!’s influencing strategy aligning it with our EDI commitments
- Research, develop and update evidence-based policy positions on key breast cancer issues which impact people between 18-35, and seek to influence policy development on these positions.
- Produce high quality, evidence- based policy outputs, including briefings, responses to consultations and policy publications
- Liaise with key influencers, including civil servants, policymakers, other charities and healthcare professionals, in order to influence policy
- Ensure key internal and external stakeholders are updated on policy developments and provide support for senior staff as required
- Support policy input into media responses and act as a media spokesperson on policy related issues
- Represent CoppaFeel! on relevant working groups
- Draft articles and updates about key policy activities for CoppaFeel!’s audiences
Public Affairs
- Develop and deliver impactful public affairs elements of CoppaFeel’s influencing strategy working with the Head of Policy and Engagement
- Research and identify opportunities to engage Parliamentarians in health and education related issues and develop and maintain relationships with key politicians
- Organise and lead CoppaFeel!’s public affairs events, including parliamentary receptions and roundtables and party conference activities
- Lead on the monitoring of legislation and parliamentary activity relevant to CoppaFeel!
- Suggest PQs and prepare briefings for Parliamentarians
- Represent CoppaFeel! at parliamentary events and relevant public affairs working groups
Campaigns
- Lead on the development of campaigning activities that relate to the influencing strategy and resulting policy and public affairs work.
- Utilise campaign tools to deliver influencing objectives
- Work closely with relevant departments and key stakeholders, such as young people and/or the breast cancer community to deliver co-created campaigns that meet goals successfully
- Future Line Management: as the organisation evolves may take on line management responsibilities, overseeing team members and fostering their professional growth
These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the role.
Skills, experience and qualifications
Essential
- A minimum of four years’ experience in a policy or public affairs related environment, delivering impact and notable change
- Experience of undertaking research and analysing complex data to support policy development
- Experience of managing projects, including producing plans and working across teams to lead their implementation
- Experience of producing evidence-based policy and public affairs related materials, including briefings and reports
- Knowledge of UK political processes and the policy environment
- Strong working knowledge of parliamentary procedure
- Ability to think strategically, with strong analytical judgement and decision-making skills
- Ability to analyse and summarise policy information and assess relevance
- Ability to use own initiative and work independently
- Excellent organisational skills
- A team worker, able to work well with a wider variety of people
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines
Desirable
- An undergraduate degree, preferably with a political, public policy or another relevant component
- Experience of health and/or education policy
- Experience of working in Parliament or with MPs
- Experience of working in, or with, the charity sector and/or campaigning to influence public policy
Application information
Applications will close on the 21st November with the aim to commence interviews on W/C the 25th November.
CoppaFeel! reserves the right to close the vacancy early in the event that we receive a high number of applications before the closing date.
Main benefits, Terms & Conditions
Annual Leave: 22 days pro rata (plus public holidays).
Additional Leave: 1 day of leave on our Founder’s Cancerversary, birthday leave, plus office closure over Christmas.
Flexible working: A hybrid working arrangement, working from home up to 3 days per week (pro rata) and Core hours between 10am and 4pm.
Training: We have a budget each year for employees training and development plans.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Statement
At CoppaFeel!, we support a diverse range of communities and we understand that diversity within our team is central and crucial to meeting the needs of the young people we exist to serve. We strongly encourage applications from Black, and people of colour, LGBTQIA+ candidates, candidates with disabilities, from men, and from those with a lived experience of cancer because we would like to increase the representation of these groups within the charity.
We promote equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace and make recruitment decisions by matching the charity's needs with the 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 recognise the value in encouraging a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge at the charity.
While the successful candidate will be selected purely on merit, in the event of a tie between two candidates with equal suitability, we may select a candidate with lived experience of the issues we are seeking to address through our work.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and we commit to offering an interview for all applicants with disabilities who meet our required criteria for the role. If you have any accessibility requirements or need any adjustments for the interview process please get in touch.
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Fundraising Officer
£31,930 per year + 6% pension contribution
35 hours/week
LRMN is looking for a passionate fundraiser to join our team and work closely with our CEO to fulfil our fundraising strategy. Are you starting out in fundraising with a drive to develop and learn more? If you could help us communicate our values, purpose and impact to drive income generation we’d love to hear from you.
LRMN is a thriving organisation and one of the most established refugee and migrants’ organisations providing services in London but focusing on south and southeast London boroughs. Our services include provision of specialist legal advice and information on immigration, housing and welfare, therapeutic and practical support to women who survived trauma, helping our service users access employment, training and volunteering opportunities, prevention of mental health problems, and helping our clients integrate and engage in their community.
You will play a key role in identifying funding opportunities, developing new project ideas with colleagues, developing funding applications and building relationships with our funders and supporters.
LRMN is an equal opportunity employer and committed to safeguarding and fulfilling its duty of care to people working and volunteering in the organisation and to those we come into contact with. The successful candidate will be required to complete a Basic DBS check.
We work in a hybrid model. You would be expected to work two days from our office in Deptford.
For more information, please see our job pack. Please apply via CharityJob.
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Interim Deputy Director of Programmes - WasteAid
WasteAid is an international non-governmental organisation that works in low and middle-income countries to implement environmental and economic empowerment programmes, focusing on support to nascent green businesses and grassroots entrepreneurs. The work improves the livelihoods of some of the poorest and most marginalised, promotes circular economy innovation and contributes to a cleaner and healthier future for all.
Our programmes focus predominantly on the reduction of plastic, organic, textile and e-waste pollution in areas of the world that have no formal waste management systems.
The organisation promotes and shares locally appropriate, evidence based inclusive practices, supporting and empowering others to take positive action. We partner with public, private and community-based organisations in countries where the lack of waste management systems is harming the environment, economy and society. We achieve our goals through our3 flagship programme approaches, currently delivered in The Gambia, India, South Africa, South Sudan and Uganda.
- Our Wastepreneur programme for those individuals and micro businesses trying to make a living within the circular economy and make a difference in their communities.
- The WasteAid Circular Economy Network which brings together national stakeholders, local authorities and the private sector to tackle local waste challenges through networking, training, infrastructure support and innovation challenges.
- First Step Resource Management Programmes focus on a whole system approach to divert waste from landfill supporting community behaviour change, basic infrastructure, collector group training and end market development.
The organisation is less than 10 years old and has enjoyed unprecedented growth with an annual budget this year of circa £2 million. It is a dynamic organisation with an international team who work in a supportive and collegial environment.
INTERIM DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMES JOB DESCRIPTION
This is an interim position, but the position will become permanent in due course through a separate recruitment.
Location: Home based in UK, other European locations considered
Reporting to: Director of Programmes
Direct Reports: Country Managers, Grants Finance Officer
Key Relationships: CEO, Head of Strategy and Impact
Salary: £50-60k per annum
Location: UK Home Based with up to 25% international and UK travel
This role is a member of WasteAid’s Senior Management Team.
Purpose of Role
The purpose of this role is to ensure the effective management and delivery of WasteAid’s global programme, providing leadership, capacity building and support to WasteAid’s international programme team and ensuring effective resource mobilisation. This role reports to the Director of Programmes and supports that role in scaling, trialling and evolving WasteAid’s current programme approach.
Major Responsibilities:
Leadership and Representation
• Provide leadership and supervisory management for WasteAid’s programmes team, including mobilisation and stewardship of resources, programme quality accountability, and performance management.
• Participate actively in country programme management, coordination, and strategy meetings with Director of Programmes and members of the country team.
• Work closely with Finance colleagues to ensure timely budget development, financial planning and cost management.
• Support the Director of Programmes to actively engage with donors, partner organisations and external stakeholders to ensure WasteAid is strongly represented.
• Conduct regular field visits to support programme teams
Supporting Strategic Direction, Program Quality and Growth
• Provide cohesive leadership to WasteAid’s global programme teams ensuring that priorities and opportunities identified are in line with organisational strategy and approach which includes scaling of current programmes and the identification of further areas of intervention.
• Work closely with the Head of Strategy and Impact to support the programme team with regarding tools and strategies to ensure that programming is based on input from communities, local partners and local/national stakeholders, a thorough understanding of the context, and technical best practices
• Work with Director of Programmes and colleagues in the country programme to identify funding opportunities and support the development of competitive, responsive proposals; meet with potential partners (and donors as appropriate) to discuss current and potential funding opportunities.
• Work with the Senior Management Team to develop programme budgets, which reflect a detailed understanding of situational parameters, beneficiary needs, available resources and technical possibilities including partnership capabilities.
• Working collaboratively with the Senior Management Team, support MEAL approaches to adapt and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems that enhance programme quality, increase effectiveness and measure results.
Staff Performance Management and Development
• Supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, establishing a supportive environment while emphasizing accountability, providing regular and timely constructive performance feedback, and leading documented semi-annual performance reviews.
• Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
• Promote and monitor staff care and well-being. Model healthy work-life balance practices. Support appropriate interventions in response to identified staff care needs of staff.
• Work with HR to identify and implement recruitment and retention strategies.
Grant Monitoring & Partner Management
• Supervise the Grants Finance Officer.
• Support and supervise implementation of strong Project Management Cycle processes and tools including budgeting and planning and grant meetings such as Budget vs Actuals Meetings, Grant Opening, Mid-Term, and Closing Meetings, ensuring follow up on action points.
• Through the Grants Finance Officer ensure that all programmes are compliant with their respective donor regulations
• Support the Director of Programmes in having a solid partnership strategy for appropriate programmes.
• Ensure programme staff proactively maintain positive relationships with partners, including ongoing capacity building and mentoring,
Job Requirements:
· Educated to degree level, masters in a relevant subject would be desirable.
· At least 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience managing complex international development programming, ideally with a climate or environmental element.
· Demonstrated successful leadership experience managing a multi-disciplinary team and cross-cultural dynamics.
· Strong diplomatic and coordination skills.
· Demonstrated ability for accurate analysis of complex issues, strong decision-making, and translation of programmatic priorities into operational strategies.
· Proven track record of leading multi-location teams.
· Repeated, successful experience delivering appropriate levels oversight for a portfolio consisting of a variety of complex, donor-funded projects.
· Demonstrated experience in developing successful funding proposals
· Strong oral and written communication skills, with ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
· Established capacity to deal with ambiguity in stressful situations.
· Ability to respond to multiple priorities in a timely manner, producing high-quality outcomes.
· Motivated, positive individual who excels at taking initiative and is able to motive team members to produce results under pressure while maintaining a sense of humour.
About CoppaFeel!
CoppaFeel! are the UK’s only youth focused breast cancer awareness charity, and we’re on a mission to get every 18-24 year old checking their chest. We educate people on the signs of breast cancer and encourage them to check their chests monthly, so that if they notice something unusual they are empowered to contact their GP and advocate for themselves.
We do this because when diagnosed early, breast cancer treatments are more effective and survival rates are higher. Early detection can save lives.
Breast cancer does not need to be detected late, and as long as we are here and continue to be supported by people like you, we will do all we can to make sure this doesn’t continue to happen.
The Role
This is a newly created role to shape impact measurement and evaluation at CoppaFeel! and ensure we meet our objective of being insight & impact driven in everything we do. This role will be integral in supporting us achieve our new strategy and deliver upon our recently refreshed Theory of Change, bringing us closer to ensuring all breast cancers in young people are diagnosed early and accurately.
You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to implement our new monitoring and evaluation framework, leading on the management and development of the framework alongside general impact reporting. This role will be at the heart of establishing a data-driven culture, using both our internal and externally commissioned data to provide insights for decision making across all departments. The outputs from your work will support insight generation to shape our strategy development and future investment decisions alongside improving evaluation practices allowing us to better report on our impact.
This is a hybrid role, with the expectation that you will attend the London office 2 days per week. You will be required to attend the office for quarterly team meetings, department meetings and in person training, we will provide plenty of notice for when you are required to be in for these purposes.
You will report into the Head of Community & Engagement and sit within the Education team.
Duties & Responsibilities
Strategy
- You will support the generation of insights to inform our strategy development and future investment decisions.
- You will support the leadership team to use data and insights to inform departmental planning and review current progress against our strategy.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- You will lead on ensuring all departments are implementing our monitoring and evaluation framework where appropriate, with robust data collection processes set up for all areas of our awareness and education work.
- You will be responsible for ensuring that all departments are aligned with and using the monitoring & evaluation Framework to deliver upon our agreed outcomes
- You will take an objective view on how the team is performing in relation to implementing our M&E framework and delivering upon our theory of change across the organisation, providing timely progress reports to the leadership team.
- You will work closely with the leadership team to feed into target setting and reviewing.
Data collection and analysis
- You will make recommendations for streamlining and developing our data collection tools to meet our strategic and compliance requirements.
- You will oversee the implementation of any new data collection processes, supporting team members to complete them successfully
- You will be a skilled evaluation and learning professional with strong skills in quantitative data analysis.
- You will support colleagues with externally commissioning research where needed to gain more data, including translating and analysing results for internal reporting purposes as required
Reporting and communicating impact
- You will be able to prepare reports on the performance of the charity, collating data and presenting it in clear formats for a variety of internal and external audiences including: staff delivering the programmes; the charity’s Senior Leadership and Senior Management teams; Trustees; Funders.
- You will be able to translate data sets for non-technical audiences, clearly communicating important findings and encouraging learnings to be understood and implemented
Learning and development
- You will champion the use of data and insight across the organisation, working closely with all departments to encourage more effective decision making that will benefit our audience
- You will be the first point of contact for all matters relating to impact, evaluation and reporting including the commissioning of research for the whole organisation.
- You will also continue the work that has already commenced in this area to make sure that any data we collect relating to our impact is then used to inform decision-making across the organisation.
- You will encourage the use of insights and data to improve the organisation’s performance and share best practice relating to these matters.
- You will support the leadership team in shifting the culture to be focused on impact, equipping colleagues with the tools and knowledge to understand and communicate our impact effectively and consistently.
- Future Line Management: as the organisation evolves may take on line management responsibilities, overseeing team members and fostering their professional growth
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
Essential
- Proven experience in analysing data and producing reports that communicate information in an engaging and clear manner
- Proven experience of implementing and managing a Monitoring and Evaluation framework
- Ability to focus both on the technical aspects of data analysis and reporting, as well as understanding the strategic thinking that your work will contribute to
- Experience of manipulating and interpreting both quantitative and qualitative data to produce reports for internal and external purposes
- The ability to build relationships with colleagues and present complex information to a non-technical audience.
- Good communication skills to work effectively with colleagues across the organisation
- Experience of collecting, quality assuring and managing data to a high degree of quality within information systems and databases as required
- Experience of working independently with strong attention to detail.
- Data Visualisation experience, ideally using packages such as Microsoft Power BI, or capability to expand data presentation skills with these or similar packages
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methodologies both qualitative and quantitative, or willingness to learn proactively in post
- To lead on developing and delivering Impact training for new and existing staff
Desirable
- Valuing and including the user’s voice and experience in evaluation practices
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience of working with Beacon CRM system
- Experience of delivering Impact training
- Experience of working within a data or reporting role within the charity sector
Application information
Applications will close on the 21st November with the aim to commence interviews on W/C the 25th November.
CoppaFeel! reserves the right to close the vacancy early in the event that we receive a high number of applications before the closing date.
Main benefits, Terms & Conditions
Annual Leave: 22 days pro rata (plus public holidays).
Additional Leave: 1 day of leave on our Founder’s Cancerversary, birthday leave, plus office closure over Christmas.
Flexible working: A hybrid working arrangement, working from home up to 3 days per week (pro rata) and Core hours between 10am and 4pm.
Training: We have a budget each year for employees training and development plans.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Statement
At CoppaFeel!, we support a diverse range of communities and we understand that diversity within our team is central and crucial to meeting the needs of the young people we exist to serve. We strongly encourage applications from Black, and people of colour, LGBTQIA+ candidates, candidates with disabilities, from men, and from those with a lived experience of cancer because we would like to increase the representation of these groups within the charity.
We promote equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace and make recruitment decisions by matching the charity's needs with the 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 recognise the value in encouraging a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge at the charity.
While the successful candidate will be selected purely on merit, in the event of a tie between two candidates with equal suitability, we may select a candidate with lived experience of the issues we are seeking to address through our work.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and we commit to offering an interview for all applicants with disabilities who meet our required criteria for the role. If you have any accessibility requirements or need any adjustments for the interview process please get in touch.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.