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Are you passionate about making a real impact through safer, high‑quality environments? Do you want to use your estates, health & safety and compliance expertise to help drive meaningful change across a national charity? If so, Life Charity would love to hear from you.
We are looking for an experienced, proactive, and values‑driven Estates Manager to lead our Estates function and ensure our services, properties, and environments consistently meet the highest standards.
The Role:
As Estates Manager, you will be the driving force behind the quality, compliance and safety of Life’s estate. This role combines strategic oversight with hands‑on management of our property portfolio, ensuring all sites are safe, secure and operating to required standards.
You will:
- Lead Health & Safety and Premises/Facilities Management across the charity
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and internal standards
- Oversee risk management, audits, inspections and safety monitoring
- Manage the Estates Coordinator and foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Work with external partners to ensure checks are carried out (Gas, Fire Safety, Legionella, Asbestos, etc.)
- Manage property acquisition, disposal, leases, maintenance and contracts
- Develop and maintain estates policies and reporting systems
- Drive a positive, proactive health & safety culture across Life
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone wanting to lead meaningful change within an organisation that truly makes a difference.
What You’ll Bring:
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Highly organised, proactive, and able to take initiative
- A strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills
- Confident managing estates compliance, risk, safety and property-related functions
- Experienced in managing a portfolio of properties (minimum 3 years)
- Able to lead others and support their development
- Skilled in identifying improvements and driving change
Qualifications/Experience:
✔ NEBOSH (or equivalent) in Occupational Health & Safety
✔ Evidence of continuous professional development
✔ Experience in data analysis or financial management (desirable)
✔ HND or equivalent in business/charity administration (desirable)
Information about the role:
For further information, please see the attached job description.
Please note, there is a requirement to drive for this role.
Salary: £38,000 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Home Based with travel to Leamington Spa and sites around the UK
Benefits:
At Life we are passionate about providing our employees with a supportive and engaging environment. As well as ongoing development and training, we offer our:
- Generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time hours)
- Birthday Leave (applicable after 1 years service)
- Additional annual leave for long term service
- Company Pension Scheme
- Signed member of the Menopause Workplace Pledge
Safeguarding and Equality:
Life is committed to protecting all staff, volunteers and service users from harm of any kind. Life expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and equality within our organisation by encouraging applications from all backgrounds.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. Life takes its obligation to protect the rights of children and vulnerable people very seriously; therefore, the successful candidate for this post will be also subject to extensive background checking, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) which is paid for by the Charity.
Specialist Health IDVA (Suicide Prevention)
Location: RDUH and Exeter Office
Salary: £24,955 - £28,013 dependent on qualifications/experience
Contract: Fixed term to 31st March 2028 (potential to extend)
Are you committed to supporting people affected by domestic abuse and making a real difference in your community?
Are you ready to make a real impact from within the health system? We're looking for a proactive, trauma-informed Specialist Health IDVA (HIDVA) to support victims of domestic abuse—both patients and staff—within Exeter Wonford Hospital and wider healthcare settings. The IDVA will specialise in suicide prevention.
As part of the Devon Domestic Abuse Alliance (DDAA), you’ll work closely with clinical staff, community teams, and specialist partners to ensure those experiencing abuse are identified early and offered the support they need. You’ll also collaborate with HIDVA colleagues across Devon, including those focused on suicide prevention, and play a key role in improving healthcare responses to domestic abuse.
About You:
You are compassionate, resilient, and experienced in working with victims of domestic abuse—ideally from within or alongside health settings. You understand the dynamics of abuse and the importance of early intervention and cross-sector collaboration.
You’ll also bring:
- Strong risk assessment and advocacy skills
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and multi-agency frameworks
- Excellent communication and record-keeping abilities
- Knowledge of suicide prevention or a willingness to learn
- Experience delivering training or awareness sessions
- Commitment to trauma-informed, inclusive, and survivor-led practice
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a compassionate, progressive alliance, working together to keep families safe and help survivors recover and thrive.
Benefits:
- 24 days annual leave a year, plus day for birthday, rising by 1 day a year until 5 years’ service – maximum 30 days plus bank holidays.
- Employee Assistance Programme
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for NDADA, please do not hesitate to apply.
As we look ahead to our next strategic phase from 2026, we are seeking an exceptional leader to build on this momentum. As Chief Executive, you will guide a skilled and dedicated team, work closely with an engaged Board of Trustees, and shape how the Trust deepens its impact while strengthening its voice in policy and practice. The role calls for strategic clarity, strong and authentic relationship-building, and the confidence to represent the Trust across government, civil society, and the energy industry.
We are looking for a leader of sound judgement and emotional intelligence, with a collaborative and inclusive style. Someone who recognises the dignity and potential of the people we serve, and who believes that lasting change is achieved through partnership, evidence, and purpose.
The Trust has evolved significantly in recent years. We now operate with a strengthened in-house team, a clear and ambitious strategic direction, and a growing reputation as both a trusted funder and a respected voice in the national conversation on fuel poverty. Our work spans direct financial assistance, specialist advice, and community-based programmes, underpinned by an increasingly sophisticated understanding of what truly enables households to build resilience. This combination of practical support and system-level insight places us in a distinctive and influential position within the sector.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the role
The Support Advisor will be at the forefront of our future-focused, one-route-in enquiry model.
As the first point of contact for members and customers, you’ll confidently diagnose needs, triage enquiries to the right services or specialist partners, and deliver a seamless, technology-enabled experience at scale.
Commercially aware and insight-driven, you’ll play a key role in driving organisational growth by identifying opportunities across consultancy, training, events and more—moving beyond reactive support to proactive, high-impact engagement.
Key responsibilities
- Manage high-volume phone and digital enquiries with professionalism and agility, delivering a consistent, high-quality customer experience across all touchpoints.
- Diagnose needs and triage customers to appropriate NCVO services or partners, identifying cross-selling opportunities and contributing to income targets.
- Maintain accurate, high-integrity CRM data to support insight and service innovation.
- Embed and utilise emerging AI tools to resolve routine queries efficiently.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, customer-focused professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to help shape the future of member engagement.
Your background
- Experience in a high-volume customer service, membership or contact centre environment.
- Strong communication skills, with confidence handling phone and digital enquiries professionally and efficiently.
- Proven ability to diagnose customer needs and triage or signpost to appropriate services.
- Commercial awareness, with experience identifying cross-selling or income-generating opportunities.
- Experience using digital and CRM systems, with a strong commitment to data accuracy and integrity.
- The ability to work at pace, manage competing priorities and maintain a consistently high-quality customer experience.
This is a great time to join an evolving team at NCVO and gives you the chance to experience member and customer engagement at a leading civil society organisation.
This role offers exposure across the organisation, opportunities to drive meaningful impact and the chance to contribute directly to our growth and influence.
About the team
Membership and Customer Services is a newly evolved team that exists to grow, connect and convene NCVO’s membership. The team acquires roughly 1,400 new members a year and offers care and support to retain 90% of its current 17K members.
We may close applications early if we receive a high volume of interest, so apply as soon as you can.
Why join us
With members at the heart of everything we do, we champion the charities and volunteers who make a daily difference to our communities across England. Join us and help us make communities stronger and support us making a bigger difference!
Some of NCVO’s great benefits include:
- 25 days’ annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff), increasing based on years of service
- five days’ volunteering leave (pro rata for part-time staff)
- enhanced pay for maternity/adoption leave
- generous employer pension contribution of up to 8.5% of salary.
Find out more about the benefits of working at NCVO.
Strategic Projects Accountant | 6 - month FTC | 60,000 - 63,800 | London | Hybrid
For a charity in London, we're recruiting an interim Strategics Project Accountant to focus on delivering a portfolio of key finance projects over a 6-month period to strengthen financial management and support strategic decision-making. This role focuses on high-profile strategic finance projects to ensure strong financial governance, improved systems and processes, and robust financial analysis across fund accounting, investment appraisals, and the implementation of improved finance tools and methodologies.
Main Duties:
- Delivery of Strategic Finance Projects: lead and deliver a programme of high-priority finance projects, ensuring delivery and engagement to a range of stakeholders
- Strengthening Finance Systems and Processes: reviewing existing financial processes, controls and systems usage to identify gaps and inefficiencies
- Work with Finance team to embed best practice and ensure system integrity and support improvements across Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Financial Analysis, Modelling and Reporting: produce financial modelling, costings and analysis to support bids, business cases and strategic projects
- Prepare high-quality financial information for senior leadership and Board-level reporting
- Provide fund accounting expertise, ensuring correct reporting of restricted and unrestricted funds
- Partner with project leads and senior stakeholders to provide robust financial advice
Person Specification:
- Fully qualified (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
- Experience in restricted and unrestricted funds
- Ability to deliver finance projects and process-improvement projects
- Experience in financial systems audit, process review and strengthening financial controls
- Experience providing financial support for bids, business cases and projects
- Experience in charity, not for profit or public sector organisations
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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.
Salary: £41,063 to £45,626 per annum
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Benefits: 27 days holiday bank holidays (pro rata for part time roles), perk scheme access, life assurance, paid compassionate leave, enhanced sick pay, Cycling UK membership plus many more staff benefits.
We are almost two years into our ambitious organisational strategy, and this is an exciting moment to join Cycling UK as our Philanthropy Manager. Cycling UK’s public fundraising programme is at a pivotal stage of development. The Philanthropy Manager will play a central role in shaping and accelerating this next phase, leading the growth of major gift and legacy income through strong donor relationships, compelling propositions and high-quality stewardship.
You don’t need to be a cyclist to work at Cycling UK, but you do need to have a strong commitment to our work. This is a senior role with real opportunity to influence direction, build capability and embed philanthropy at the heart of the organisation. Working closely with the Head of Fundraising and colleagues across Cycling UK, the postholder will help transform a developing philanthropy programme into a mature, relationship-led income stream that delivers sustainable growth over the long term.
We are an inclusive organisation and would particularly welcome applications from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds. We strongly believe that diversity strengthens our work. If you are already passionate about cycling, that’s great, many of us are too! But if you are simply really excellent at what you do, no matter what your background, that is what matters most to us.
Explore the attached job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening. Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to the person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.
The role is home based in the UK, with regular meetings in London and travel across the UK as required.
Applications close at 9:00am on the closing date shown
Closing date: 23-03-2026
You may have experience in the following: Philanthropy Manager, Major Gifts Manager, Major Donor Manager, High Value Giving Manager, Fundraising Manager, Senior Fundraiser, Development Manager, Partnerships Manager, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Individual Giving Manager, Legacy Fundraising Manager, Legacy Giving Manager, Trusts and Foundations Manager, Grants Manager, Donor Relations Manager, Stewardship Manager, Relationship Fundraiser, Income Generation Manager, Strategic Fundraising Lead, etc.
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Pantries and Community Engagement Coordinator
Applications Close: 27th March
Interviews: 2nd or 3rd April
£31,000 (pro rata) | 0.6 FTE (3 days per week) | Lambeth | 6-month fixed term
Healthy Living Platform is looking for a confident, organised and values-driven Pantries and Community Engagement Coordinator to help strengthen and coordinate our community food work across Lambeth.
This is a hands-on role at the heart of our food pantry network - supporting volunteers, coordinating delivery across sites, and ensuring our work is rooted in dignity, inclusion and community leadership.
You’ll play a key role in:
· Strengthening pantry delivery and volunteer support
· Coordinating corporate volunteer days
· Supporting pathways for community-led food activity
· Embedding safe, inclusive and culturally responsive practice
We’re looking for someone with experience in community-based work and volunteer coordination, who is passionate about reducing health inequalities and supporting community-led solutions.
We warmly encourage applications from individuals whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diverse communities of Lambeth.
If you’re motivated by strengthening communities through food, connection and collaboration, we’d love to hear from you.
Job Description
See attached
Salary: £36,500 – £38,000 (Full-Time Equivalent)
Location: A short walk from Green Park
Flexible working
A respected and growing charity is seeking a Finance Officer to support the delivery of
The Role
Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Finance Officer will play a key role in maintaining effective financial controls and ensuring accurate financial records. The role will work closely with another part-time Finance Officer to support day-to-day finance operations.
Key Responsibilities
Bookkeeping and Accounting
- Record and maintain financial transactions within Sage 50 Accounts
- Process and review staff expenses using SAP Concur
- Maintain organised digital financial records and documentation
- Manage and reconcile accounts payable and receivable
- Process income and transactions across multiple currencies
- Process supplier invoices and staff expense claims
- Act as a point of contact for supplier queries and remittance advice
- Conduct monthly supplier reconciliations
- Reconcile monthly bank statements across multiple currencies for review
- Maintain petty cash accounts and expenditure
- Support the annual audit process
- Respond to finance queries from colleagues and assist with expenditure processing
- Support the wider finance function to ensure smooth day-to-day operations
- Undertake additional tasks as required
Essential
- Previous experience using Sage 50 accounting software
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables
- Experience in a comparable finance role within the charity sector
- High level of accuracy, attention to detail and numeracy
- Understanding of charity finance, including processing donations
- Experience managing accounts payable efficiently
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage multiple deadlines
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Experience using SAP Concur
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
About the role
RCOG Events is entering an exciting phase of transformation as we strengthen and expand our global education portfolio. Aligned to our new five-year corporate strategy, we are evolving our courses, skills-based workshops, and webinar programme to ensure they remain innovative, financially sustainable, and globally accessible.
To support this growth, we are seeking a Course Franchise Lead to manage and scale our franchise courses across the UK and internationally. This is a pivotal operational role with the opportunity to ensure that our courses are delivered consistently to the highest quality standards while supporting the global expansion of RCOG’s education portfolio.
You will combine operational expertise with commercial insight, overseeing franchise centres, embedding standard operating procedures and quality assurance processes, and supporting scalable delivery models to extend our reach worldwide. Working closely with the Head of Course Development and Delivery, internal teams, and franchise partners, you will ensure operational excellence, maintain financial sustainability, and deliver outstanding experiences for delegates and faculty.
Collaborating with senior stakeholders, faculty, education partners, and internal teams, you will act as the key operational contact for franchise centres, driving consistency, quality, and performance while supporting the College’s wider strategic ambitions.
This is a unique opportunity to influence the global reach and impact of RCOG’s education portfolio, ensuring that high-quality learning continues to contribute to improving healthcare for women and girls worldwide.
Responsibilities:
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Oversee the operational delivery and scaling of RCOG franchise courses, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with College standards.
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Onboard and support franchise centres, providing guidance, training, and quality assurance to maintain high standards across all locations.
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Manage contracts, monitor financial performance, and identify opportunities to grow the franchise portfolio sustainably.
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Collaborate with internal teams, faculty, and external partners to streamline processes, resolve operational challenges, and enhance the delegate and faculty experience.
For the full list of key responsibilities, please check the recruitment pack.
About you
We are seeking a proactive and results driven professional, with a proven track record of developing and scaling multi-site or franchise education programmes, courses, or workshops. The ideal candidate will be skilled at embedding consistent processes, driving operational excellence, and ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple centres. You will be commercially aware, able to influence and build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners and experienced in supporting and motivating others to achieve high performance.
Requirements
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Proven experience managing multi-site, franchise, or partner-delivered education programmes, courses, or workshops.
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Strong operational and project management skills, including developing and implementing processes, standard operating procedures, and quality assurance frameworks.
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Commercial and strategic awareness, including managing budgets, monitoring financial performance, and ensuring the sustainability of franchise courses.
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Demonstrated ability to influence, collaborate with, and manage complex stakeholders, including internal teams, faculty, committees, and external partners.
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Experience driving operational improvements and continuous enhancement of course delivery, delegate experience, and partner support.
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We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who are collaborative, solution-focused, and motivated to ensure consistent, high-quality global delivery of RCOG’s education portfolio.
Requirements:
Please note that while we are looking for someone who has experience leading the development and delivery of franchise, licensed or multi centre education programmes or courses, we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, especially those who are collaborative, and motivated by leading positive change in education.
If you are excited about joining the RCOG at a pivotal moment of transformation, with ambitious goals for growth and a supportive, inclusive culture, we would love to hear from you. We will support you to get up to speed, but confidence in influencing stakeholders, developing quality assurance processes, and the ability to work both operationally and strategically whilst embedding new ways of working from the outset will be important.
Our culture and benefits
As a key member of the team, you will be located in our offices in London Bridge. We offer a friendly, values led working culture with an excellent benefits package that includes:
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Agile and flexible working environment and free lunch onsite
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25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and office closure from 25 December to 1 January
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10% pension contribution after probation
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Enhanced wellbeing and family support
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Interest-free season ticket loans after probation
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Tailored Learning and Development and study leave
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Affinity staff networks
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Life assurance and income protection schemes
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Lifestyle discounts
For a full list of the benefits we offer, please visit our careers site.
How to apply
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Click on Apply to be taken to our recruitment platform, Applied. Please visit our careers website to download the full Job pack.
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Applications close at 10.00am on Monday 18 March 2026
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We encourage candidates to apply early and reserve the right to close the advert and appoint before the closing date.
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Interviews are likely to be held in person at our offices in Union Street on Thursday 26 March 2026
We believe that diverse teams will deliver the best outcomes for women's healthcare and we strive to be an inclusive employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage candidates from underrepresented groups, including those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. To find out more, please see our Diversity Policy and Equal Opportunities Policy.
Please note: We are only accepting applicants with a right to work in the UK; we are unable to sponsor people requiring a work visa.
About us
The RCOG is a professional membership association dedicated to improving women’s health care across the world. We do this by setting standards for clinical practice, providing doctors with training and lifelong learning, and working with partners to advocate for women’s health and health care across their life course. We are a global leader in this specialist area, supporting 18,000 members in the UK and internationally.
We are a values-led organisation placing high standards, innovation, openness, inclusiveness and trust at the centre of all we do.
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Refuge is one of the UK’s largest and most experienced specialist providers of services for women and children experiencing domestic abuse. For over 50 years, Refuge has been at the forefront of delivering life-saving and life-changing services, supporting thousands of survivors every day through safe accommodation, community services, independent advocacy and their National Domestic Abuse Helpline.
Behind every service they deliver is a strong, resilient organisation. High-quality financial management is critical to ensuring their resources are used effectively and in ways that maximise impact for survivors. Refuge is transforming the way they manage their finances by implementing new technology to modernise financial management and deliver high-quality, timely insight to support decision-making across the organisation.
As the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will work closely with the Head of Finance, the wider finance team and colleagues across the organisation to deliver expert business partnering. You will combine strong financial expertise and analytical insight with a collaborative, supportive approach.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of timely, accurate and insightful internal and external financial reporting.
- Drive in-year forecasting, annual budgeting cycles, and longer-term financial planning and modelling.
- Provide high-quality business partnering across directorates, constructively challenging assumptions and strengthening financial capability.
- Support the implementation of our new finance system, Sage Intacct, ensuring stakeholders fully engage with new processes.
- Develop clear, compelling financial reports and dashboards within the system to improve financial understanding and enable effective management.
- Manage, coach and develop a team of four direct reports, empowering them to perform at their best.
About You
We are looking for a strategic and hands-on finance leader who thrives in change environments and is motivated by purpose as well as performance. You will bring:
- A relevant professional qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
- Significant experience in senior finance business partnering roles in the Not-for-Profit sector
- Strong financial modelling, forecasting and budgeting expertise
- Experience leading teams and developing high-performance cultures
Working at Refuge
Refuge undertakes basic DBS checks for all roles in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice.
Refuge recognises that talented people deliver their best work when they can balance their professional and personal responsibilities. They are proud to be a genuinely flexible employer.
This role can be fully remote, with only occasional travel to our Vauxhall Head Office if required. We are also open to discussing part-time arrangements, condensed hours, and other flexible working patterns to support the right candidate.
Recruitment Timetable
Application deadline: Sunday 15th March
Interviews: 23rd March
To apply please submit your CV via the link. For an informal conversation about the role, please contact our exclusive partner, Beth Young, via the Allen Lane website.
Senior Project Officer (Community Development and Training)
Reference: SPOCDT26
Location: Home-based within or near Devon (with travel across the county)
Contract: Fixed term until December 2026 (10 months)
Hours: 15 hours each week
Salary: £28,000 FTE per annum (£11,200 actual for 15 hours per week)
Groundwork South is seeking a motivated and experienced Senior Project Officer (Community Development and Training) to support delivery of our National Lottery-funded Communities Prepared programme in Devon.
Communities Prepared works with volunteers and communities across England to help them build the skills, confidence and knowledge needed to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies. This includes supporting communities to plan for climate-related risks such as flooding, storms, heat waves, and severe weather.
This role will play a key part in delivering the final stages of the Devon Resilience Innovation Project (DRIP), a £7.3 million programme funded through the UK Government’s Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme and administered by the Environment Agency.
Working closely with partners including Devon County Council, you will engage with communities across Devon to increase awareness of flood risk and support them to strengthen their resilience.
About the Project and the Role
The Devon Resilience Innovation Project (DRIP) is testing innovative ways to improve flood resilience in communities across Devon. This role will focus on engaging 28 priority communities to assess uptake of support for community emergency planning and Flood Warden training.
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Project Officer, you will:
- Design and deliver a targeted community engagement plan across Devon.
- Raise awareness of local climate and flood risks.
- Support communities to develop emergency and flood plans.
- Help establish and support Flood Action Groups and Flood Wardens.
- Deliver training and workshops both online and in person.
- Work collaboratively with programme partners and stakeholders.
- Monitor and report on community engagement and participation.
- Track and evidence engagement activity and outcomes.
- Contribute to project meetings and programme reporting.
- Share learning with the national Communities Prepared team.
We are looking for someone with:
- Experience in community engagement or community development.
- Experience delivering training or workshops.
- Strong organisational and project management skills.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders or partners.
- Confidence working independently in a remote role.
- An interest in climate resilience, emergency planning or environmental issues.
- A willingness to travel across Devon.
Not all communities will take up the offer of support, so an important part of the role is ensuring engagement is clearly tracked and reported.
The role involves regular travel across Devon and occasional travel to Bristol for team meetings.
Knowledge of community emergency planning or flood resilience would be an advantage but is not essential.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 22nd March 2026
Interview date: Tuesday 31st March 2026
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Groundwork South is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.
No agencies please.
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£34,893 - £41,050 + Vehicle + Benefits
Homebased with regular travel throughout the region
Ref: 21287
About us
Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.
Volunteering is at the heart of the RNLI and we have over 35,000 volunteers in a variety of roles from operational crew and lifeguards to water safety and fundraising volunteers. This is a great time to enjoy the RNLI People Team as we regionalise the delivery of HR and volunteer service to the 6 RNLI regions.
Home based within the region, with regular travel to the regional office in Saltash and other sites across the area, you will report to the Regional People Lead and work closely with the People Adviser. Understanding the opportunities within your region, working with the local leadership team and your peers in the wider People Team you will be responsible for supporting great ‘people’ service and delivery.
Some of the benefits
Flexible working
26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
Outstanding pension scheme
Life assurance
Your role
We are seeking to recruit a Volunteering Adviser to join our team in South West. As a Volunteering Adviser, you will work closely with a range of stakeholders across the organisation, supporting the development of volunteering across the South West region and the wider RNLI.
This will include:
- Implementation of initiatives to improve the volunteer experience.
- Developing sustainable opportunities along with taking a proactive approach to how we support and manage volunteers.
- Providing staff and volunteers with expert advice and guidance in all aspects of volunteering including areas such as recruitment, retention, problem solving and recognition.
- Supporting local implementation of the volunteering strategy.
- Assisting with the development of volunteer management toolkits and support managers in the use of these.
- Delivering volunteer management training workshops to diverse groups of volunteer managers both in person and virtually.
- Being an ambassador for volunteering and ensure it is championed at all levels.
- You will also be required to support a volunteering helpline service for approximately 2 weeks a year (until 8pm weekdays and 10 am – 4pm weekends).
About you
To be our Volunteering Adviser, you will need:
- Extensive volunteer management experience.
- Confidence in delivering face-to-face and virtual workshops.
- The ability to manage a complex workload.
- Experience in handling volunteering problem solving issues is desirable. In this role you will need to be able to work and plan autonomously. You will also need to have a proactive and flexible approach to work along with excellent interpersonal skills.
This role is home-based and includes extensive travel across the region, and occasionally to the Regional Base in Saltash, often outside of normal business hours. This post requires a valid driving licence.
For more information and to apply, please visit our jobs page.
Closing date: 15 March 2026.
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One.
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Carers Together Foundation is an organisation dedicated to improving Carers’ quality of life. We listen to Carers, give them a voice, provide information, practical and emotional support and promote Carers’ rights across the South Tees area.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Executive Assistant to provide administrative support to the Chief Executive and the Senior Management Team. The post holder will also work directly with colleagues across the organisation and the Board of Trustees.
To succeed in this role, applicants will have experience of working to deadlines within an organisation, knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, strong verbal and written communication skills and excellent organisational skills.
This role is based at our office in Redcar and Cleveland and the postholder will be required to travel to and from other community settings.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an exciting opportunity to engage in parliamentary, policy and civil society engagement work. We are looking for a Public Affairs Officer to support the implementation of the Trust's Public Affair's strategy. Working closely with the Public Affairs Manager, the role helps to build understanding and commitment among policy-makers ensuring that the Holocaust remains a central part of the UK's national consciousness. The successful candidate will provide meaningful support to activity that influences decision and policy makers; develop strong relationships with stakeholders; and provide ongoing political support for Holocaust education and antisemitism education across the UK.
Over the course of our history, the Trust has created and delivered innovative and meaningful learning experiences and educational programmes which reach over 100,000 young people each year, teaching them about what the Holocaust was, and its relevance today. The school programmes we deliver include our Outreach Programme, our Lessons from Auschwitz Project; The Youth Advocacy Programme; Testimony 360: People and Places of the Holocaust; and Teacher Training.
The successful candidate will provide meaningful support to activity that influences decsion and policy makers; develop strong relationships with stakeholders; and provide ongoing political support for Holocaust education and antisemitism education across the UK.
The Officer contributes essential research, coordination, written and logistical support to the Public Affairs Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
- Parliamentary and Public Affairs Support
- Political and Policy Monitoring
- Events and Engagement
- Team and Organisational Support
To find out more, and for details on how to apply, interested candidates should read the full application pack and head to our website to apply.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a proactive, positive and team-oriented Schools Coordinator to work within our busy and fast-paced team. You will need to use your initiative and have a willingness to adapt to changing demands and priorities. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a high level of organisational skills, integrity, problem solving and people skills. Your remit will be to ensure the effective and timely onboarding of schools who have registered to our programmes. Ensuring that once they have registered, we provide a seamless and efficient user journey, ensuring maximum school participation once registered, and encouraging further engagement across the organisation. You will need to use your initiative and have a willingness to adapt to changing demands and priorities. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a high level of organisational skills, integrity, problem solving and people skills.
Key Responsibilities
When a school registers for one of the Trust’s programmes, the Schools Coordinator manages the logistics and organisation of each school’s engagement, working closely with the schools and link teachers to ensure the smooth delivery of our programme. This includes:
- Coordinate booking dates/times – working with schools to ensure we fulfil their application to join one of our programmes.
- Handle enquiries and maintain accurate booking records.
- Staff allocation – Secure a freelance educator to deliver content.
- Direct communication – building relationships with schools, teachers, and school staff, ensuring a smooth user experience for our clients. This includes, but is not limited to, answering queries from teachers / staff as received, linking schools with respective freelance educators as necessary, sharing all relevant updates and information ensuring teachers/staff are fully informed about the delivery plans.
- Courier booking – to ensure all hardware is onsite for respective delivery.
- Monitoring – logistics plans and raising any issues with senior logistics staff as they arise.
- Maintain strong relationships with new and existing clients.
- Manage office communications, including phone calls and emails.
- Assist with general administrative tasks to support the teams objectives.
For more information and details on how to apply, please see the full application pack, and head to our website to apply.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.