Are you a skilled organiser and trainer with experience of facilitating effective campaigning?

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Campaign Organiser to join our England Team. The main purpose of this role is to act as the regional lead for Friends of the Earth, facilitating activists and groups to campaign effectively across London.

We are looking for a strong campaigner who is passionate about designing, developing and running campaigns that will make a real difference to people.

If you have practical experience in campaigning and are enthusiastic about the aims and values of Friends of the Earth, apply now!

Closing date: Monday 13th April 2020 (23:59)

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

We are recruiting for an experienced Volunteer Engagement Manager, to lead our highly successful volunteering programme with over 250 volunteers from a wide range of backgrounds who fulfil a variety of different and rewarding roles for the Trust.  You will provide guidance and support to the Trust’s teams that engage volunteers in their work and ensure volunteers make a positive contribution across the organisation, find their roles rewarding, and are just as proud of their association with the Trust as we all are.  The successful candidate will have experience of working with volunteers and be highly organised with strong administrative and planning skills.  You will need to be a self-starter and capable of structuring your own workload and managing multiple priorities. 

Along with an ongoing commitment to development and training, other benefits include excellent contributory pension scheme, income protection and life assurance cover, enhanced maternity and paternity allowances, a great office in a parkland setting in Central Milton Keynes, with free parking, EAP (employee assistance programme), car loan, Cycle to Work and Eye Care Schemes. 

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity across our workforce and welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community.

Job Summary:

Are you passionate about the rights of women and girls and supporting vulnerable individuals to attain better health outcomes and independence? Can you lead a team of dynamic and highly motivated volunteers and sessional staff and effectively collaborate with a range of stakeholders to deliver much needed support to young women and girls?

Africa Advocacy Foundation (AAF) is looking for a Project Manager to oversee the implementation Uzima Project. You will provide strategic and hands on support to project staff and volunteers and ensure effective provision of practical and emotional support to enable project beneficiaries’ access services to remain safe, attain better mental and physical health and lead fulfilling lives.

You will ensure the smooth delivery of the project by coordinating activities, supervising sessional workers, project volunteers, external staff or consultants e.g a counsellor to deliver on project goals. You will also work working closely with frontline professionals collaborating with AAF in delivery of services under the project remit. 

How To Apply
Please see the Job Description, Person Specification and the accompanying Application Form below.Interested candidates are invited to submit their application to reach us no later than Friday April 24, 2020. We will acknowledge all applications but will provide feedback only to shortlisted candidates.

Proposed interview date Monday 27th or Tuesday 28th April 2020​. All interviews will be conducted remotely by Skype or Zoom due to the impact of Covid-19.

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AAF is committed to creating an inclusive work and a work environment that reflects our diversities and the unique characteristics of the beneficiaries with whom we work. AAF is an equal opportunities employer and operates transparent and fair recruitment processes.

AAF takes seriously the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults, and applicants will need to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS Checks.​

About Africa Advocacy Foundation

AAF is a registered charity established in 1996 that promotes better health, education and other life opportunities for disadvantaged people through practical support, advocacy, policy work, campaigns, information, advice, and training. We work with marginalized communities, in particular individuals affected by abuse, violence, sexual exploitation, harmful cultural practices e.g. FGM,forced marriages. We also support people at risk and those diagnosed with HIV, hepatitis, mental health, TB and those in the UK and across the EU/EEA and in parts of Africa

Uzima project is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund

The London Sinfonietta is one of the world’s leading contemporary music ensembles, having established a world-wide reputation over 50 years.  Resident at Southbank Centre and Artistic Associate at Kings Place, with a busy touring schedule across the UK and abroad, the London Sinfonietta has worked with many of the greatest living creators and interpreters of new music. Our mission is to engage wider audiences in new music, support the growth of individuals and communities, and develop talent. 

The Development Manager works as part of a small team delivering the annual Fundraising strategy for the organisation with annual departmental targets of c. £300,000. The Development Manager has responsibility for fundraising across a range of Individuals, Trusts & Foundations and Corporate Partners, manages systems and processes within the team and line-manages the Development Assistant. 

This role would be suitable for someone with at least 3 years’ experience of fundraising within the cultural or charity sector. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, with excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed writing ability, able to initiate and strengthen relationships with existing and prospective supporters of the organisation. A good understanding of the management and administration of a broad range of fundraising activity is essential as well as a knowledge of fundraising regulations and legislation. An appreciation of the arts and an interest in contemporary classical music would be an advantage.

Further information about this role and the London Sinfonietta is available on our website. All applications must be submitted using the application form. Please note that we do not accept CVs.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Tuesday 31 March 2020. First round interviews: Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th April 2020

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Prospectus is excited to be collaborating with London's Air Ambulance charity to support their search for a new Direct Marketing Officer who will plan and deliver the organisation's multi-channel donor acquisition and retention campaigns and will join a dedicated and passionate team.

The London's Air Ambulance are a vital and cutting edge charity that provide emergency trauma care to critically injured people across the capital. The advanced medical trauma team treats on average five people a day in life threatening situations and the individual giving team delivers a vital element of fundraising income for the organisation.

Reporting to the Direct Marketing Manager, the Direct Marketing Officer will be part of a growing and ambitious team. Responsibilities will include planning and implementing multi-channel campaigns including (but not limited to) DRTV, Digital, Direct Mail and developing the supporter journey strategy. There is huge scope within this role to lead on current and new campaigns as well as start new initiatives for the charity.

The successful candidate will have a background in direct marketing and will have proven experience of end-to-end campaign management and creative project management, for example testing and optimising new or improved products. London's Air Ambulance are looking for entrepreneurial candidates to make a real impact at the charity. The postholder will also work closely with lots of internal stakeholders to maximise income opportunities from individual supporters.

Interviews will be conducted remotely with selected candidates as soon as possible, so get in touch today!

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application. In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to speaking with you soon.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. Many organisations have this calling. Our unique role is to identify what works best and to spread the good news. We won’t be able to do this unless we build excellent relationships across government and communicate expertly. The Head of Public Affairs and Comms makes sure we do just that.

Key responsibilities

All of your responsibilities boil down to this, you ensure that we:

• Build and maintain great relationships with some of the most influential people in government. Our work will identify the best ways to reduce knife crime. This won’t matter though if we have no influence on government policy. Your main job is to ensure we build relationships of trust with senior civil servants, ministers and advisers.
• Understand the interests and concerns of different parts of government. If we are to have influence, we must understand how different parts of government think and what matters to them. So many different departments affect young people’s lives including, though not limited to, the DfE, DCMS and the Home Office. You make sure that we understand their interests and concerns better than anyone.
• Ensure that YEF is highly effective at communicating: Together with the Senior Communications Manager, who you will manage, you will ensure that the YEF builds significant profile based on trust and credibility as a lead voice on youth violence. You will ensure that we are regularly and meaningfully in the public eye and that our work is highly visible to people we need to influence.
• Lead well: As a senior member of the team you will play a key role in setting the tone of the organisation. You will bring kindness, a bias to action, wise judgement, a positive supportive attitude, a sense of humility, humour and a desire to make the world a better place than you found it.

Person specification

• You understand how government works – as in really understand: You understand the nuance of how decisions are made within government. You understand that there is no such thing as ‘the department’s position’ (instead there are different views competing) and that while some decisions are very rational, some are more about personalities and politics. You find the process of how decisions get made within government departments, and with Number 10 and the Treasury, fascinating. In an ideal world you will have worked inside government and seen important decisions get made, but this is not an essential requirement.
• You understand how political parties and MPs work: You understand how the political side of decision-making works. You have an up to date understanding of the ups and downs of individuals and ideas within the two main parties. This may mean that you are (or have been) a member of a political party but you won’t be tribal. Ideally you have some existing connections with people working within the present administration.
• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You easily build good relationships with both very senior and very junior people. You can be at ease talking to a senior politician or a 15 year old.
• You are a team player: You work brilliantly in a team. You are not motivated by being the individual winner. You want the team as a whole to succeed. You enjoy coaching other people so that they perform excellently in a meeting. You are not possessive of your contacts. You don’t care who gets the credit as long as things get done.
• You are fantastic at spotting how to get something done in Whitehall or Westminster: You are really good at thinking about how to make change happen. To some, Westminster and Whitehall can seem like a blob but you are brilliant at spotting how to make change happen there. You can think through the intricacies of who to get onside, who to get advice from, who to persuade and how to get the job done. You have a track record of doing this.
• You are interested in designing a strategy to ‘make the weather’ not in passively responding to it: You are a strategic thinker. You love the idea of (for example) being given a blank piece of paper and asked to put together a three year plan for changing the way government thinks about investing in social care or training teachers. This prospect motivates you rather than overwhelms you; in fact, you have worked like this before. Some people prefer reactive jobs where they respond to events at pace - this is not that job. You are interested in doing a job that is about leading on making a long-term difference rather than being overwhelmed by hundreds of daily decisions made at pace.
• You think fast: You very quickly get your head around ideas. You have an track record that shows how quickly you think. You wear this lightly though. It is important to you to be humble. You acknowledge how much you don't know as well as how much you do.
• You have experience leading on communications and talking to journalists: You are comfortable being responsible for our communications. You have experience in putting together a communications plan and talking to journalists to pitch a story. You understand how to get a story to ‘cut through’. You write really well and care about good writing.

Are you a skilled organiser and trainer with experience of facilitating effective campaigning?

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Campaign Organiser to join our England Team. The main purpose of this role is to act as the regional lead for Friends of the Earth, facilitating activists and groups to campaign effectively across Central & East of England.

We are looking for a strong campaigner who is passionate about designing, developing and running campaigns that will make a real difference to people.

If you have practical experience in campaigning and are enthusiastic about the aims and values of Friends of the Earth, apply now!

Closing date: Monday 13th April 2020 (23:59)

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

About the role

Christian Aid is looking for an exceptional individual to lead our global advocacy and our public policy work. The post holder will head our influencing of governments, business and international institutions, to bring about lasting change in the lives of people suffering from poverty and injustice. She or he will ensure that our advocacy is underpinned by strong and credible public policy research, analysis, and positioning, which is rooted in our experience of working with partner organisations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The successful candidate will be adaptable, creative, an excellent communicator and a natural collaborator. They will have a proven track record of advocating for change, and a deep understanding of the social, economic and environmental policy issues on which we work. She or he will have the maturity, judgement and experience needed to lead a dispersed team of 15 staff, within a larger department, providing support and direction in a way that's consistent with Christian Aid's values. We work with people of all faiths and none, to tackle poverty and injustice, and are an equal opportunities employer.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

An exciting new temporary position as an Events Manager has come up with a fantastic client of ours within the charity sector.

The key responsibilities include
Ensure strong financial management of signature events, controlling and monitoring expenditure, delivering income against targeting and managing KPI’s
To identify ways to attract new audiences to the organisations signature events
To work closely with other teams through the organisation to ensure all opportunities surrounding the events are optimised and our key supports receive regular communications.
Maintain good practice in using the data base, ensuring all information is recorded correctly and allow for excellent support care and accurate analysis of event performance.

The ideal person for the role will
Proven experience of project managing several fundraising events including negotiating with external contractors and delivering to budget timely.
Experience of working with senior stakeholders in order to meet income targets and to collaborate in a small hardworking team.
Ability to lead and motivate a team including direct reports and cross-team members to deliver results
Ability to work on several different projects simultaneously.
A brilliant temporary challenge to make some great differences to a wonderful charity – apply soon as this role is moving quite quickly

This is a 9-10 month contract and the client is open to day rate. Please apply asap if this could be of interest.

Marketing & Communications Manager, Norwich Research Park, Norwich

£27,509.00 to £34,004 per annum - subject to skills and experience.

Full Time - 35 hours per week (to include weekend and bank holiday working if required).  

With cancer, everything can change.  At Big C, you can make a difference to local people affected by cancer while being part of a dynamic team.

Working as part of the Income Generation team, you will provide effective leadership to the small but busy Marketing and Communications team of employees, volunteers and consultants, managing team workload and output in addition to managing your own hand on work.

As an experienced Marketing and Communications professional, you will use your skills and experience to actively contribute to the development of the charity’s marketing and communication strategies to support the achievement of Big C’s wider strategic objectives.

Through the planning, implementation and delivery of high-quality activities, you and your team will and meet the needs of the wider Big C team; including; printed materials, e-newsletters, social media and the organisation’s website (including Big C’s Virtual centre); ensuring safe, effective practice and compliance with legislation and internal policies and procedures.

If you are a team player with strong leader skills, heaps of enthusiasm, great marketing and communication skills, and are passionate about directly helping local people affected by cancer, we would love to hear from you.

Please see our website for the full job description.

Closing date for applications:  30th April 2019 - however please note that this is subject to change or may close earlier if enough applications have been received. 

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and motivated Fundraising Support Team Manager to join our Community and Events Fundraising team. The successful applicant will have experience of line management and will be responsible for overseeing the workload of the Fundraising Support team and implement the successful delivery of online and telephone processes while ensuring exceptional supporter stewardship for all supporters, fundraiser and internal teams.

You will be highly organised with an analytic mind, have exceptional attention to detail, with a flexible and innovative approach. You will have experience of using a CRM system and be motivated by knowing you will be making a daily difference to the lives of people with cystic fibrosis and those who care for them. The Cystic Fibrosis Trust invests in cutting-edge research, drives up standards of clinical care, offers support for everyone affected by cystic fibrosis, and campaigns hard on the issues that matter.

Cystic fibrosis is chronically misunderstood, kills thousands worldwide and is carried unknowingly in the genes of millions. We’re here to beat it. We’d like you to join us in our fight.

As a national charity some travel across the UK will be needed in this role. So, a full UK driving license or access to a car is required or applicants must be able to demonstrate their ability to travel.

Closing date: Monday 30 March

Interviews: w/c 6 April

We are recruiting for an Acquisition Campaign Specialist to deliver a number of digital marketing campaigns across a range of channels.

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are ending violence against women and girls and helping change lives, for good. We won’t stop until women and girls are out of danger, out of poverty and on track to create the future they want.

As our Acquisition Campaign Specialist, you will be responsible for delivering a number of digital marketing campaigns across a range of channels. This will involve you setting up and delivering campaigns on time, within budget and ensuring that they are integrated and on brand.

You will be required to work collaboratively with various teams and departments across ActionAid on integrated digital appeals, in order to ensure that acquisition activity is effectively aligned with key external moments.

A key part of this role will be to monitor and report on campaign results, using a range of metrics and KPIs. You will report your findings in various ways, including review presentations to key stakeholders and tracking results in Microsoft Excel.

You will be responsible for managing and running emergency fundraising campaigns across a range of digital channels, as needed. This will include providing out of hours cover when necessary.

It is essential that all applicants have experience of working within a direct marketing or fundraising context within a not for profit organisation.

If you have this skill set, along with a passion to work with an organisation committed to changing the lives of women and girls living in poverty for good, then we look forward to receiving your application.

ActionAid is passionate about supporting flexible working. If you would like to discuss flexible working options, including the possibility of a job share for this role, there will be space to do so during the interview process.

ActionAid is committed to driving improvement through digital channels, tools and ways of working. We will ensure that we provide the technology and the training to enable all staff to perform their roles to the best of their abilities. In return, we ask that all staff are committed to continually improving their digital skills and knowledge within the working environment. Our recruitment processes will evaluate the digital skills of all applicants. 

Are you an experienced fundraiser looking for your next challenge? Are you keen to support your local community?

Using the power of football, Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) worked with over 43,500 people during 2018/19, empowering communities and changing lives. Based on the needs of the community, we work in partnership to deliver high quality programmes that deliver a lasting impact.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Charlton Athletic Community Trust as it grows its fundraising income to support the organisation’s work at the heart of the community, working for one of the largest football community trusts in the country. The role will build on CACT’s excellent track record for events, growing our supporter base and developing new streams of income, focusing on individuals and community.

Our ideal candidate is an organised and motivated individual who is interested in developing their fundraising career, taking on a diverse role within a small team.

For further information please download an application pack.

CACT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Any job offer is subject to satisfactory employment references and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

ChangeStar is a fundraising and social change agency helping good causes to connect with people to do good things. For over a decade, we’ve been helping clients achieve some of the best fundraising and campaigning results in the sector.

This is a great opportunity in an agency that is going places. If you think you’re the right person for it, apply now!

Who we are seeking

We are a busy and growing agency, and are seeking a talented and experienced Account Manager to manage some of our client accounts. You will need to take full responsibility for managing the development of fundraising appeals and other communications for specific ChangeStar clients – from campaign planning to review.

This role is the engine of the agency, managing projects and delivering work within budgets and timescales. The Account Manager will also help to run the agency’s publicity, new business and social media work.

We are seeking someone with the following attributes:

• Fundraising experience – at least 3-5 years’ experience of managing direct response fundraising campaigns across a wide range of media – ideally (but not essentially) with some of this in an agency environment.
• Communications experience – you will have a good understanding of the channels we work with, including direct mail, websites and social media.
• Project management skills – experience of successfully managing complex projects to completion, including scheduling, budgeting and resource management.
• Proactivity and drive – someone with a real sense of energy, drive and ambition, who is willing to proactively take on new challenges, is always one step ahead of the game, and has the dynamism, energy and initiative to push both our clients and agency on to greater things.
• Great communicator – you will be a dynamic, warm and authoritative communicator, able to build great relationships with both clients and colleagues.
• Well-organised – you will be able to manage multiple projects, deadlines, clients and suppliers, and to solve problems calmly and effectively if they occur. Naturally, you’ll also have the ability to work independently.
• Passion for social change – a demonstrable passion for the issues that we work with – including progressive politics, the environment and social justice, complemented by a strong business sense in how to grow and protect our business.

Key duties

• Take full responsibility for managing the development of fundraising appeals and other communications for specific ChangeStar clients – from campaign planning to review.
• Manage suppliers – including copywriters, data analysts, designers and mailhouses – as part of this process.
• Act as the main point of contact for particular clients at ChangeStar, and the primary person responsible for managing and developing these relationships, including leading client meetings.
• Drive growth by seeking more work from existing clients and finding new business leads.
• Communications and PR – aside from managing our client projects, you will also be helping to run the PR and communications activity for ChangeStar itself – to build awareness of the agency within the not-for-profit sector.
• Social media – running ChangeStar’s social media accounts, including producing content, scheduling posts and analysing results.
• New business – managing elements of our new business programme, including cold mail, Fundraiser’s Friend newsletter, ChangeStar Charity Calendar, relationship building and running events for the not-for-profit sector.
• Any other tasks required by the Director – including contributing to the CS business plan.

Reporting to

Account Director

Package

This role will be available on a part-time basis initially, on 3 days per week, spread across 5 days. There may be the potential to increase the hours in future.

We are offering a salary of up to £30,000 p.a. (pro rata), depending on the experience and fit of the candidate.

You will be working from our office in the beautiful town of Lewes, in East Sussex, which is 15 minutes from Brighton and 1 hour’s direct train journey from London.

How to apply

To apply for this great role, send your CV plus a covering letter explaining why you want this role and why you would be perfect for it.

To find out more about ChangeStar, browse our website. If you’d like to chat through the role in more detail, call our Director, Richard Docwra using the contact details on our site.

Closing date – 15th April 2020