Link Age Southwark is looking for a new Director. This is an exciting chance to join and lead a thriving local charity at a time of growth. You will inspire a small staff team and work with over 450 volunteers to make a difference to the lives of over 700 older people in the local community.

Link Age Southwark is a vibrant local charity which provides friendly volunteer support to enable older people across Southwark to thrive. We help older people stay connected with their communities, reducing isolation and loneliness and working with our volunteers to bring joy to people’s lives.

The charity is passionate, hard-working and committed to our cause. The staff team need someone who can support, lead and inspire them and the charity’s volunteers to further success.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong leadership and management skills
• A desire to make a difference to the lives of older people
• The skills to plan and deliver sound strategies and manage organisational change
• A capacity to relate quickly and easily to people in all walks of life
• A natural ability to recognise and seize opportunities

Please download the Information Pack below for further information about this role. Apply by filling in the application form available here or on our website.

Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 11 November 2019

Interview date: Thursday 21st November 2019 

Free Word is looking for an inspiring leader to play a key role in our next phase of development.

We are an arts venue that explores the power and politics of words and a home for other organisations who care about who gets to speak and be heard in society.

Working closely with the CEO / Artistic Director, the Executive Director will be responsible for developing the culture and sustainability of Free Word, using existing resources imaginatively and finding new ones to support our work.

We are a people-focused organisation and collaborative work-space as well as a public arts venue.  If you care deeply about Free Word’s vision, and are skilled at developing organisations in ways that create productive, enjoyable working environments, we would love to hear from you.

Full details of the role and how to apply on our website.

Deadline for applications: 10am, Monday 11 November 2019

The Cares Family is seeking a Director of Development (Maternity Cover), to drive and adapt our fundraising strategy, to lead our Development team across our national group of charities, and to raise at least £300,000 of new income between the end of 2019 and March 2021.

In this role at the heart of our senior leadership team, you will work closely with our Founder/CEO, Managing Director and Director of Programmes to set and drive The Cares Family's fundraising strategy and potential, and to help execute our broader strategic priorities. You will line manage our national Head of Development as well as two of our Development Coordinators. And you will inspire our Development team of seven across five city locations to drive community fundraising at a local level.

So we're looking for a real leader – someone who can lead by example, inspire confidence, deliver strategy, and identify and mitigate risk. That requires communication, personal warmth, determination, planning, listening skills and a keen eye for detail. With your team working hard to drive local income, you will be responsible for generating income for The Cares Family at a national level. 

That's why we need someone with a track record in securing gifts from major donors; someone who has the desire to get out of the office to build external relationships; who knows the importance of stewardship, and has secured six figure gifts as a result. You will also work closely with our growing Development Board to establish new networks and gifts for The Cares Family. And you will drive our corporate relationships and accounts. 

With so much of this role depending on relationships, we need a real people-person. You will have excellent cultivation and negotiation skills, but also the tenacity and hunger to create new opportunities. We need someone who is dynamic, passionate about people and who can clearly promote our vision for building friendships across deepening divides. 

To do that, you will work predominantly from one of our five offices in London, Manchester or Liverpool, and will be required to travel between them on up to 30 working days of the year. In return, you'll be trusted to work independently across these exciting charities, with a growing profile and backing from major local and national supporters. You'll also be provided with all the professional support, accelerated personal and professional development opportunities and networks to play a lasting, transformative role in the development of the “Cares” vision and family.

If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Chichester Festival Theatre is looking for an individual with a passion for theatre and an understanding of Development for the performing arts, as well as a proven track record in raising funds from Individuals, Trusts and the Corporate sector. You should have experience of managing a team and developing strategy whilst also being the ‘face’ of fundraising at the highest level to both internal and external audiences. 

The Development Department has been hugely successful in capitalising on the support for the Theatre’s inspirational work on stage and in our community, doubling income from £600k to £1.2m over the past three years.

You will be joining an organisation which has proven its ability to attract significant funds. With a committed Executive team and Board of Trustees, you will have the opportunity to shape the fundraising strategy to create new opportunities for the future and take Chichester Festival Theatre forward into a new era of fundraising.

If you are interested in playing a key role in the future growth and success of our unique theatre, please review the Job Pack featured in the job page of the website. 

Empowr-U CIC are looking for a Development Director to enable us to Engage, Inspire and Empower children, young people and their communities through our life changing work. The person will help us increase the impact, scale and sustainability of our work, working directly with the CEO in this exciting new role.

The Development Director will take overall responsibility for income generation, working with the CEO to devise a strategy for long term success. The role reports directly to the CEO, and is responsible to raise funds for Empowr-U and partner organisation Energise Ltd. The role function will be to work with the CEO to develop a strategy, alongside programmes and initiatives generate new business, effectively generating leads and developing income opportunities, before passing the secured new business to the Programmes/Operational Director for them to develop an established relationship.

The role will start at £20,000 per annum, rising after a six month probationary period is confirmed, and after a year in post consideration will be made in adding the candidate to the board of directors, alongside other benefits.

We will consider part time or job share options. Please specify in your application.

Person Specification

• Setting a positive example at all times and in all scenarios.
• Able to manage the balance of being Strategic ‘Do-er’, applying strategic thinking to operational work.
• Having an entrepreneurial flair, and an ability to finds gaps, ideas and advantages in a competitive marketplace.
• A growth mindset, that includes confidence, determination, resilience and the communication skills that come alongside this.
• A passion for self development and empowering others.
• Flexibility in working hours or time, and an attitude to ‘get the job done’.
• Able and keen on delivering activity.
• Able to manage a small team.

Roles and Responsibilities

Funding

• To develop an ambitious funding strategy.
• Develop and engage a fundraising team of volunteers and staff that can contribute.
• Develop a funding income stream.
• Confirm substantial sponsorship with an appropriate organisation.
• Developing Corporate Partnerships that support our programmes.
• Write funding bids for ourselves and third party organisations.
• Broaden streams of fundraising income to reduce the reliance on grant funding.

Sales

• Develop a sales strategy, that enables all team members to sell and promote the organisation effectively.
• Develop effective sales systems that promote sales and funding pipelines.
• Develop new leads through networking, prospecting and cold calling.
• Sell programmes and products to other organisations.
• Initiate new ideas of raising income and developing new streams.
• Work with the Operations Director to improve and design future service provision/products.
• Develop new partnerships that help create leverage for Empowr-U

Marketing and Branding

• Develop a Marketing and Branding Strategy, with guidelines for staff.
• Create a strong brand around the positive work that we deliver.
• Develop content that captivates audiences, and engages people into the work that we deliver
• Maintain an up to date, engaging and insightful Social Media for our followers
• Develop strong IT Systems and CRM’s.
• Design, or work with website/graphic designers to add to our brand.

Communications

• Deliver weekly progress reports and formal monthly board reports.
• Regular communication with the Managing Director and Operations Director over new business.
• Working with board members to continually develop strategic plans.
• Maintain a strong rapport with prospective, new and existing customers.
• Design and implement Service Level Agreements with all of our partners and cliental.
• Uphold a strong personal brand, acting with proffessionalism, courtesy and integrity.
• Design and deliver Documents, Presentations, Pitches and other preparation materials.

Deputy Director of Development

Based at Head Office, Preston (travel across the North West as required)

37 hours per week

£40,000 gross per annum

If you would like to apply for this vacancy you will need to submit your CV along with a two-sided cover letter outlining how you meet the Job Description & Person Specification.

For more information, please find attached a copy of our Recruitment Pack including the Job Description and Person Specification.  

The closing date for this vacancy is Monday 21st October 2019 at 12 noon. Interviews are scheduled to take place on Wednesday 30th October.

About the role

This role will be responsible for engaging with external agencies, new and existing stakeholders, including commissioners, key local and regional decision makers, including elected members and MP’s, to build strong partnerships, maximising our chances of successful tenders and wider business development activities. The role will work closely with, and when required deputise for, the Business Development Director. The role will ensure local intelligence is embedded in tender responses; actively contributing to content development and supporting our continued drive for organisational growth.

About you

We are looking for someone with experience of working in a senior Partnership Development role, including working in partnership with agencies from a range of sectors, creating and maintaining partnerships across wide geographic areas, instigating and leading partnerships / consortia and/or alliances with a view to joint tendering and leading on the tendering process; from response development through to submission.

About us

n-compass Northwest was established in 2009 and is a not-for-profit organisation determined to improve the lives of vulnerable people across the region, delivering a range of Advocacy, Health and Wellbeing, Carers and Counselling services. N-compass’ values are what inspire us to make a difference and enhance life opportunities for adults and young people across local communities by being, professional, responsive, innovative, dynamic and empowering. They determine what we do, how we do it and what we are trying to achieve.

Benefits

• A local employer working with local people
• 25 days holiday entitlement and bank holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday!
• 5% Employer Pension contribution
• Health Plan Scheme
• A protected companywide learning and development funding pot
• A wide range of discounts and salary sacrifice options for a host of products such as childcare vouchers, eye care vouchers and a whole range of discounts at high street retailers
• Buy and Sell annual leave scheme

n-compass is an equal opportunities employer.

Successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check (formally CRB)

Registered Charity Number: 1128809

A great opportunity for an experienced Director to take fundraising into new territory while managing a successful multi-income stream team.

A fantastic SMT level role for an experienced, senior fundraiser with multi-income stream experience. HNWI expertise and a background in successfully leading teams essential.

If you have the right experience and would like to know more please fill in the form or get in touch at naomi [at] quarterfive [dot] co [dot] uk

To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Naomi Carruthers at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.

Liberty is an independent membership organisation. We challenge injustice, defend freedom and campaign to make sure everyone in the UK is treated fairly.

We are campaigners, lawyers, investigators and policy experts who work together to hold the powerful to account. We empower people to defend their rights and the rights of their family, friends and communities.

Our principles are guided by evidence and expertise – not political agenda, profit or popular opinion. We’re not afraid to speak uncomfortable truths or confront intolerance and abuse of power wherever we find it.

Together, we use our voice in courtrooms, in the news, on the streets and in politics to demand and deliver lasting change to benefit the many and the most vulnerable.

The Development Director plays a vital role ensuring Liberty has the diverse and sustainable income it needs to meet these challenges.

Reporting directly to the Director as part of Liberty’s Senior Management Team, the post-holder will take responsibility for implementing our ambitious fundraising and membership strategy, with the help of a team of talented, experienced and creative fundraisers. They will work with the Development Team and Liberty’s wider staff to build relationships and meet income targets from trusts and foundations, major and mid-level donors and members to fund Liberty’s vital work on human rights in the UK. 

They will be innovative and strategic, with substantial experience in a senior fundraising role. They will be nimble and creative as opportunities for fundraising arise, while ensuring the team works in a planned and proactive way to further Liberty’s strategic goals. 

Are you values driven and passionate about wildlife? If you can bring your strategic vision and business acumen to secure our vision for nature’s recovery in our three counties, this could be the role for you.

Business Development Director
Salary: £31,980 - £42,640 per annum, actual depending on working hours (FTE £53,300)
Contract: Permanent, part-time (21 - 28 hours per week, to be agreed with successful candidate)
Based: The Lodge, Littlemore, Oxford with travel to other sites as required

With 150 staff and 1,800 volunteers and supported by 52,000 members, the Berks Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust is embarking on a new phase as it pursues its strategic plan Be Part of Nature’s Recovery. In the face of the growing challenges facing our beautiful countryside, real leadership is needed at all levels in the organisation combined with courage and urgency.

We are looking for a Business Development Director with great team leadership skills and a demonstrable record of success in generating substantial income and impactful brand and messaging. Working closely with our Chief Executive and wider team, the post holder’s work will support our goal that everyone should have the chance to experience local wildlife and the benefits of encountering nature first hand.

This is a new role and we want the best person with the best fit for us at a pivotal time so we can be flexible about your hours. Initially we estimate 21-28 hours per week will work for us.  We are particularly keen to receive applications from under-represented groups in our society.

The Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust is a membership-based voluntary organisation, managing over 80 nature reserves, influencing land management and educating and encouraging all sectors of the community to care for local wildlife.

The closing date for applications is 9.00am 28th October 2019.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 5th November 2019 at The Lodge, Littlemore, Oxford.

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can download the job pack and application form.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

CVs will not be accepted. 

No agencies please.

Offering flexibility and opportunity to work from home, we are looking for a Deputy Director of Business Development for an award-winning North West charity looking to expand its remit nationally. Highly respected in its specialist field, the charity supports people to regain control of their lives with a range of people-centred services including counselling, advocacy, wellbeing, volunteering and support for carers.

We're looking for a business development and income generation specialist to engage with external agencies, new and existing stakeholders, commissioners and key local and regional decision-makers including elected members and MP's. You'll build strong partnerships, maximising tender opportunities and wider business development activity. Ensuring local intelligence is embedded in tender responses, you'll actively contribute to content development and support a continued drive for organisational growth.

You'll come with experience of working in a senior Partnership Development role, including working in partnership with agencies from a range of sectors, creating and maintaining partnerships across wide geographic areas, instigating and leading partnerships / consortia and/or alliances with a view to joint tendering and leading on the tendering process; from response development through to submission. A background in health would be hugely beneficial too.

You'll be joining an organisation with ambition and vision that places values and people at the heart of everything it does. A warm, friendly and dedicated team, inspiring leadership and fantastic working culture.

Flexible, grown-up working policies and happy to consider homeworking.

Please apply with a copy of your CV to our North West consultant, Amelia Lee, for lots more detail and support through the process: [email protected]

Deadline is Monday 21st October and interviews to be held on 30th October.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Are you a passionate leader with a belief in people, who can take a thriving small charity to the next stage of professionalism and growth?

WAND UK is a small charity that transforms the lives of vulnerable women and girls in London through its effective, holistic support. The Trustees are looking for an exceptional leader, motivated by compassion and commitment, who will embrace the inclusive ethos of the charity and take it to the next level of growth, diversifying its income to ensure sustainability.

This is a full time post (35 hours/week)

The new Director will have the full support of a strong board of trustees and a committed staff and volunteer team.

 An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) is seeking a committed, experienced and passionate director to lead and develop the charity, and to ensure its long-term sustainability.  An experienced fundraiser and manager, you will care deeply about providing services for vulnerable people, be experienced working with multi-disciplinary teams, and understand the pressures and opportunities of a small organisation in the voluntary sector. 

AFRIL works to relieve poverty and isolation amongst refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and other ethnic minorities in Lewisham. Our commitment is to ensure we reach the most vulnerable people in our community and help them to access the support they are entitled to and need.

We recognise that we are currently not paying a very attractive salary, but if you come committed to raising the bar on our fundraising, then during your first year in post we can negotiate how the core costs you have helped secure can deliver a higher salary and/or increased hours to reflect the outstanding value you are delivering for AFRIL, its staff, volunteers and service-users.

For queries or to discuss the role, contact the chair of the board of trustees, Gareth Redmond-King.

The Director of HR and Governance is a new and exciting opportunity to join Age UK Croydon’s senior management team. The Director of HR and Governance will be responsible for delivering one of three of Age UK Croydon’s strategic objectives: to be a well-governed organisation, where our systems and infrastructure can support and drive growth.

As part of this role, you will  develop a HR Management strategy which contributes towards the senior management team’s objective ‘to create a culture of continuous improvement’. You will also be the lead senior manager responsible for Governance policies and procedures.

Introduction:

This is an exciting time for Age UK Croydon, in the second year of an ambitious five year strategy. The first year proved largely successful as Age UK Croydon continues to increase its turnover, innovate and expand its services and strengthen its governance. The future will focus on supporting our teams to maximise positive impact for older people and continuing to fills gaps in service provision. 

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for someone who is excited about applying their knowledge and experience to a charity with a strong reputation for quality, with a promising future. We are looking for someone who is confident in the field of human resources, with a strategic mind-set. We are looking for someone who is an experienced senior manager or someone who is aspiring for a more strategic role.  

How to apply: Please click on apply and complete our online application form.

Closing date: Monday 28th Octiober, 2019  at 9:00 am

Summary

Forward Action is looking for a Head of Web Development to join our friendly, fast-moving team.  

As the leader of our development team, you’ll build our strategies, ideas and designs into tools that deliver real-world impact for our progressive clients. As well as managing two developers and a group of freelancers, you’ll take ownership of our technical work right from project conception through to delivery. You’ll map out technical solutions to new briefs, and ensure we consistently deliver high quality development work that helps our clients hit their campaign goals.

If you have a solid development background, great communication skills and are passionate about making the world a better place, this job is for you.

This is a permanent role, with the freedom to work both in our London office and remotely anywhere in the UK. You can work either four or five days per week.

Applications close Sunday 3 November 2019.

Who we are

Forward Action is a full service digital agency for progressive causes. We come up with ideas for campaigns that get results, then do the work to create them. We have been in the engine room of some of the most successful election and charity digital campaigns of the last few years, helping our clients add millions of new supporters to their email lists, raise more money online (from more donors) and create campaigns that have led to real-world change.

Our clients are some of the most exciting and impactful organisations in campaigning, including Greenpeace, Cancer Research UK, Amnesty International, WaterAid, The Labour Party and SumOfUs.

Our development team consists of two developers and a group of freelancers. We mostly deliver front-end development solutions for our clients that work at scale (our work is seen by millions of people each year) and help them hit their campaigning goals. We also do some backend work to integrate our solutions with our clients’ CRMs and occasionally do other larger pieces of backend work.

What you’ll do as part of our team

• Manage the development aspects of projects, including:

  • Managing developers working on the projects

  • Making sure developers have assets and support

  • Quality assuring builds

  • Liasing with the clients via email, Trello and video calls throughout the entire process

  • Giving feedback on designs and wireframes from a development-feasibility perspective

  • Contributing to and sometimes leading project evaluation calls with clients

• Come up with technical strategies, specifications and quotes in response to briefs from clients

• Ensure we have the right development skills and capacity to deliver for our clients. That will include:

  • Building and maintaining relationships with freelancers

  • Overseeing training of the development team to make sure we're making the most of modern frameworks and our clients’ technology stacks

• Lead on how we innovate technically to improve results for our clients

• Help make our project-delivery processes more efficient and effective by managing the development of innovative internal tools

• Ensure our development processes and standards are appropriate to the work we’re doing

• Quality assure development work, leading on making sure the quality of our development work is consistently high

• Ensure our development work complies with our own data and security requirements and those of our clients

• Line manage two members of our development team

• Help us communicate about our development work as part of our marketing

Benefits and location

Pro Rata Salary: £50,184 if you live inside London, £44,807 (plus £3,000 travel expense allowance) if you live outside London.

Contract Term: This is a permanent contract. The role can be either full time or four days a week.

Location: In our Hoxton office, with the option to work remotely. Ensuring our team is open to people who live outside London and enabling staff to work flexibly are important values to us, so you’ll have the freedom to work from home regularly. Most of our meetings are held via video conferencing, but you will occasionally need to attend meetings with clients in London - once every two-to-four weeks on average.

Holiday: 25 days/year (pro rata), plus bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year.

Maternity and Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave: Maternity leave - 12 weeks full pay, 14 weeks 50% pay. Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave: 6 weeks full pay.

Why work at Forward Action?

Our values are critical to us: we will only work with causes that make the world a better place. You will get to work with some of the most inspiring and impactful organisations in the sector, and spend your days helping win progress on everything from climate change to clean water.

You will be working at the cutting edge of digital campaigning. We recognise that what we do can always be tested and improved, so we constantly pursue innovation. We are an agile, fast-moving team, and you will have the opportunity to rapidly develop and expand your skills and experience.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to giving equal employment opportunities to everyone who applies for this role. Our team is open, inclusive, friendly, respectful and kind.

Abilities and experience you’ll need to have

• We think you'll probably have 4+ years of experience as a developer building user-focused products, but we're more interested in the quality of your experience than exact timing.

• Excellent frontend development experience using a modern JavaScript framework such as Vue.js or React.

• Backend development experience with modern PHP and/or Node.js and SQL databases

• Knowledge of WordPress development

• The ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing

• Experience managing development projects

• Experience working out a technical solution for a brief

• The ability to balance engineering excellence with tight budgets and timelines

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent organisation and attention-to-detail

• Dedication to helping build a fairer, more progressive society

• Fluency in spoken and written English

We’re also looking for a quick learner. We don’t expect you to know or have done everything when you start - instead, we’ll be looking for you to pick up new skills and knowledge quickly, then run with them.

Abilities and experience that are nice to have

We know it’s not possible for any applicants to have all these skills - it’s likely you’ll be able to bring 3-5 of the following to our team:

• Experience working in the charity sector

• Experience working as a freelancer and/or at an agency

• Experience managing at least one person

• Experience working with email marketing tools like Mailchimp

• Experience working with CRMs that are popular in the charity sector, such as Engaging Networks or Blue State Digital tools

• A solid understanding of online user experience (e.g. how to lay out a web page to improve conversion rates)

• Experience working with a variety of software development approaches (Agile, Waterfall etc)

• Experience working with a variety of software development project management tools

• An understanding of WCAG criteria and experience building accessible web applications

• Experience with cloud hosting services: Google Cloud, Netlify, Heroku

How to apply

To apply for this job, please click the "Apply" button and complete the form you land on.

To ensure our hiring process is as fair as possible, we run an anonymised application procedure. So please remove your name and contact information from your CV before uploading it, and only enter these details in the online form. 

To apply, you will need to include:

• your CV (with name and contact details removed)

• up to 250 words explaining how you’re suited to the role and why you want this job

• links to three examples of your front-end development work. If possible, please provide these in a format that doesn’t include your name.

• up to 200 words describing the most difficult technical challenge you’ve faced on a project and how you resolved it

Applications close on Sunday 3 November.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a written online task from home - this can be any time that works for you between Friday 8 November and Monday 11 November. Selected candidates will then be invited to attend an interview (either in person in London or via a video call) on Tuesday 19 November.

Questions?

If you’re unclear about anything to do with the role, you can contact our team via our website.