Our new HoD will lead Talawa’s Development Team and be an active and contributing member of Senior Management helping shape and drive Talawa’s development strategy as we approach our 40th anniversary in 2026.

You will develop and implement an ethical fundraising policy to ensure that relationships with our funders benefit Talawa financially and creatively, and further our reputation and mission.

Working closely with the Joint CEOs, you will build Talawa’s fundraising reach to support our exciting growing artistic ambitions by creating innovative individual wealth networks within the Black community. With the Executive Director, you will shape Talawa’s approach to Arts Council England and major trust and foundation supporters both existing and new, to build on our position as the UK’s outstanding Black theatre company. Using leverage from Talawa’s outstanding artistic work and its relationships with young and ethnically diverse audiences, you will create plans for corporate and commercial support and longer term, explore the potential for legacy giving.

You will contribute to Talawa’s overall business and strategic planning, bringing a development perspective to the Senior Management Team by leading and managing the Development function, including management of our Development Officer and ensuring that our collective, organisation wide fundraising approach is maintained and nurtured. You will enable our Board and ambassadors to act as effective fundraisers for Talawa, particularly with regards to building individual wealth networks.

Working with the Executive Director, you will assist with our next National Portfolio funding application to be written January to March 2022. You will create and deliver fundraising events, both in person and online, bringing together new and prospective individual and corporate supporters for our work. Your role will include: shaping compelling approaches and accompanying budgets, creating and delivering donor communications; bringing insights from our company and artists to our supporters; identifying and engaging with future philanthropic trends to maintain a strong overview of the fundraising landscape and ensuring that Talawa can leverage new opportunities. You will also carry out any other duties that may arise to fulfil the main objectives of the post and Talawa’s mission.

You will contribute to the embedding of evaluation across all our programmes to support fundraising and strengthen our case for support. At all times, you will ensure that Talawa’s fundraising activities are compliant with all relevant regulations, including GDPR and Fundraising Regulator guidelines.

This work will uphold and embody Talawa’s company policies, including but not limited to our Equality, Diversion and Inclusion policy.

Director of Airwars

Do you have what’s needed to lead and grow our world class organisation, by leveraging our high quality research findings towards better protections for civilians on the battlefield? Can you inspire and direct our outstanding international team, as we seek to hold belligerents better to account?

Seven years after our founding, Airwars is seeking a new full-time, self-motivated Director to play a pivotal role in shaping our organisation as we continue to grow and thrive.

Applications are welcomed from candidates from diverse backgrounds who have passion, compassion, drive, commitment, tenacity, resilience, and integrity - and who can demonstrate the following:

• Commitment to the aims and ethos of Airwars as a values-led organisation, with a clear and enduring focus on our work towards better protection of civilians in conflicts, based upon our research-led findings;
• Strong team leadership skills, with a proven record of recruiting, motivating and retaining a diverse team of exceptional staff, contractors, managers and volunteers around the world;
• Excellent communications skills, both external and internal - and demonstrable experience of effective public speaking and organisational representation;
• A clear vision of how to evolve and grow Airwars, as it enters its next critical development stage;
• Direct experience of working in the human rights field - preferably on Protection of Civilians issues - to be able effectively to champion our research, investigations and advocacy work towards better protection of civilians in conflict, with both credibility and expert insight;

• Senior leadership experience, and a track record of achievement in the sector, either from leading a not-for-profit organisation, or running a significant NGO department;
• Sound financial, governance and risk management experience and ability;
• Ability to work with a proactive and dynamic Board in supporting good governance, and  oversight of operational matters.

Our new Director is also expected to help us strengthen and diversify our current funding model; to effectively and organically expand Airwars research towards new conflicts and activities; and to work - both independently and with partners - to best amplify the critical work of Airwars to both global and specialist audiences.

This is a full-time, London-based, direct employment post, expected to begin no later than January 2022. As an organisation committed to diversity, we encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds - including candidates from conflict-affected nations - who are entitled to work full time in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, as a small NGO we are not able to provide support with relocation costs and UK work visa sponsorship.

Our full information pack on the Director’s role and responsibilities are attached

 Please send your comprehensive CV, along with a detailed cover letter explaining your suitability for the role,  no later than Wednesday November 17th 2021.

Girlguiding is the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK, with nearly a third of a million members. We’re active in every part of the UK with more than 25,000 groups meeting weekly, powered by over 80,000 volunteers. We offer girls and young women a space where they can be themselves, have fun, build brilliant friendships, gain valuable life skills and make a positive difference in their communities.

We are looking for a new Director of Membership Services to lead a large team with responsibility for our front-line services to our members, including safeguarding.  An effective member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will develop an engaging and inclusive experience for all of our girls, with programmes and activities that are fun and suit future needs, as well as a volunteer experience that ensures we continue to attract and retain the leaders and helpers who are so fundamental to what we do. 

You will be a strategic and inspiring leader with a strong operational background who is used to working within dispersed and complex organisations.  You will ideally bring direct experience of volunteer management, or transferable knowledge of membership management.  With excellent relationship management skills, you will be able to build strong, effective partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders, including the Chief Guide, trustees and senior volunteers.  Enterprising, you will also be able to demonstrate a track record of developing innovative services that are fit for the future and embrace technology.  Whatever your background, you will be inspired by what we do and will be committed to our values.

We are committed to making Girlguiding a place where everyone is welcome, free to be themselves and has an equal sense of belonging. We appreciate and value the different experiences and skills of everyone who works for and with Girlguiding. Girlguiding is proud to be part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a member of Time to Change. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, and we particularly encourage applications from people from marginalised and underrepresented backgrounds. This includes people of colour, LGBT+ people, people from minority faith groups, disabled people and those facing marginalisation based on their social class.

This appointment is being handled by our advising consultants, Starfish Search.  To find out more about the role please visit their website via the link below, where you can download a full copy of the candidate pack and apply.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Development Manager: Trusts, Foundations and Government to steward and grow Serpentine’s relationships with trusts and foundations.

The current portfolio is made up of regular funding through Arts Council England, as well as a diverse range of charitable funders, embassies and cultural institutes. The role is solely responsible for driving income growth in this particular area of fundraising and reports to the Director of Development. The position requires a high volume of ongoing task management and is also scoped to develop into a role that carries significant strategic influence within the organisation.

To succeed in this role you will have experience of:

• identifying compelling proposals that satisfy funders’ criteria;
• drafting persuasive, successful funding bids,
• prioritising funding to cover core costs;
• generating an active pipeline of grant prospects;
• building strong relationships internally and with donors through creative cultivation and stewardship.

Closing date for applications: midday Monday 25 October 2021.

Ambitious about Autism's Service Development team is currently looking for a Programme Director who will act as project lead for the development and delivery of a new free school in London alongside the Development and extension of our existing education services.

Ambitious about Autism has achieved and developed so much since it was founded in 1997. Our services continue to grow and develop. Our (Ofsted outstanding) TreeHouse School continues to innovate to meet the needs of autistic young people. The Rise School, developed as part of our multi-academy trust, opened in 2014 co-located within a mainstream school and is thriving in its purpose-built building. Ambitious College is an autism specific registered day college serving young people with complex autism aged 16 to 25 years. It now has two permanent campuses co- located and developed in partnership with mainstream further education colleges.

Both services are rated Good by Ofsted. Through these services we educate and support over 300 autistic children and young people and we work with thousands more through our work on employability, participation and our national policy and practice influencing work.

We are all passionate and driven by our mission to support autistic children and young people and to improve their life chances. Our new strategy sets out our plans to have an even greater reach and impact. As part of this, we aim to further develop our existing and new education services, including opening a new free school in the London Borough of Kingston, and looking for opportunities to open further new services. 

We are also planning to significantly develop our existing schools and college, with potential options including significant growth in pupil and learner numbers and potentially new locations and major capital investment.

We are looking for a person who has experience of service development, ideally in the context of SEN education.  You will have strong relationship building, project management, and analytical skills. Above all, you will share an absolute commitment to our mission and values. 

You will work closely with the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Education in research and develop of new education services for autistic children and young people including:

• Development and extension of our existing education services, including Centres of Excellence and establishing a cross organisational employability forum
• New free schools;
• Transfers, partnerships or mergers of schools and colleges.

This is a fantastic opportunity to help develop and support the work we do within our services. In return, you will have access to continued professional development (CPD), excellent benefits including support for wellbeing, generous holiday allowance and a friendly and supportive team. Please see our recruitment pack on the link below.

If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential call, please contact Stephen Vickers.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. 

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.

Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

BACKGROUND

Together for Girls is a global partnership working to end violence against children and adolescents, particularly sexual violence against girls. The partnership pays special attention to the gendered dimensions of violence, and its impact on health, education, and human rights. We envision a world where every young person is safe, protected and empowered.

Founded in 2009, the Together for Girls partnership includes more than 20 national governments across sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and Europe, as well as civil society organizations, UN entities, development partners and the private sector. Our collective work uses an innovative three-pronged model based on data, advocacy, and action.

The partnership is supported by a small secretariat team of eight U.S.-based team members, and three international team members. To further our work, we are seeking to recruit our first ever Director of Development that will join a team of people deeply committed to the cause of ending violence against children and lifting up survivors’ voices.

Role Context

The Director of Development will report to the CEO and will be a key member of the senior leadership team. The incumbent will plan, organize, and lead global fundraising from foundations, trusts, major donors and bilaterals and will set and meet global fundraising targets with the aim of raising at least $2 million each year through new funding opportunities and by working with our existing donor network.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a multi-year global fundraising strategy to diversify and grow income streams supporting Together for Girls’ mission and its long-term goals, fiscal health, and organisation-wide priorities.
• Develop and nurture relationships with existing and potential donors and secure contributions from global foundations, trusts, major donors, and bilateral donors.
• Analyse and map existing prospect research to develop a robust donor pipeline.
• Manage a resource development prospect pipeline to provide accurate revenue projections and utilize performance benchmarks and data to drive business intelligence, analysis, and forecasting.
• Collaborate with Together for Girls team members to package Together for Girls’ work in a way that aligns the organizations’ core organizational strategies with changing donor strategies and landscape.
• Create and maintain the operational systems required to manage donor cultivation, stewardship, and research to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and alignment with grant/funding guidelines.
• Help to position and raise awareness of Together for Girls among peers, donors, and other audiences by representing the organisation and participating in sector networks.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be a passionate and effective senior fundraiser who can engage with donors at all levels and is driven by the opportunity to further develop Together for Girls to end violence against children and adolescents. The successful candidate will be responsible for enabling the organisation to achieve its ambitious income targets to help protect our life-changing work.

Desired Skills and Knowledge:

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum 10 years of experience in increasingly responsible positions in fundraising and non-profit management building new donor bases and directing and coordinating the identification, solicitation, and stewardship of funds.
• Demonstrated success in raising significant gifts ($100,000+) from foundations, trusts, major donors, and institutions, from USA and international sources.
• Demonstrated experience in gauging organizational capacity to implement and successfully achieve donor deliverables and desired impacts.
• Institutional knowledge and experience working with Together for Girls’ partners is a huge plus given the complexities of the partnership.
• A deep understanding and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and the ability to work effectively with people from diverse racial, ethnic, class, age, abilities, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
• High level written and oral communications, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Entrepreneurial approach to building fundraising programs.
• Highly sophisticated and enthusiastic relationship and network-builder that is diplomatic, analytical, trustworthy with personal and professional integrity.
• Experience of developing, networking, and enhancing philanthropic relationships at high giving levels.

Languages:

• Must be fluent in both verbal and written English.
• Language proficiency in Spanish, French and/or Swahili is a plus but not required.

Culture and Values

Together for Girls team seeks to create a courageous, inclusive, and flexible culture that empowers our staff to have the capacity and ability to deliver change. We strive to build and maintain psychological safety, trust, and accountability among team members in order to foster honesty and openness about our needs and challenges while also prioritizing self-care. We are a small, ambitious team that punches way above our weight and are proud of our work environment that is based on the values of respect, courage, empathy, agility, and collaboration. This is coupled with a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion that underpins our work.

Location:   Remote flexible location in the USA, Canada, or Europe.

Hours: Flexible work environment. 20 hours per week arranged according to candidates’ preference with availability for core office hours to be confirmed. Also potential for full time role.

Contract Type: Part-time/full-time, permanent or consultants’ contract.

Salary: The base salary for the position is $150,000 - $180,000 (pro-rata for part time), which will be adjusted based on the candidate’s cost of living in the city/country in which they reside.

Work Permits: While the Together for Girls secretariat is headquartered in the United States and the majority of the team resides in the U.S. at this time, it does not have the ability to offer work visas or other visas to any non-U.S. citizen team members. The candidate must have the ability to legally work in the country where they reside, either as a consultant or as an employee for Together for Girls.

Daryl Upsall International actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. In recruiting candidates, we seek candidates with the proven skills required, irrespective of race, gender, religion or belief, age, disability, or sexual orientation.

Reprieve is a UK charity founded in 1999. Reprieve uses strategic interventions to end the use of the death penalty globally, and to end extreme human rights abuses carried out in the name of “counterterrorism” or “national security”.

Reprieve works with the most disenfranchised people in society, as it is in their cases that human rights are most swiftly jettisoned and the rule of law is cast aside. Thus, Reprieve promotes and protects the rights of those facing the death penalty and those who are the victims of extreme human rights abuses carried out in the name of “counterterrorism” or “national security”, with a focus on arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial executions.

Reprieve’s main office is in London, UK. Reprieve also supports full-time Fellows, who work as lawyers, investigators and campaigners in the countries in which we work. We work closely with a number of partner organisations in jurisdictions all over the world, who provide access to clients, expertise, knowledge and guidance on specific issues or regions. We work in cooperation with relevant government officials, individual lawyers and human rights defenders, as well as individual, corporate and foundation funders to further the cause of our shared goals.

A member of the senior management team at Reprieve, the Deputy Director of Development will help shape, develop and implement the strategy to raise the funds Reprieve needs to fulfil its mission. You will be responsible for leading a talented team responsible for securing funds from trusts and foundations, statutory bodies, major donors, events, corporate sources and the general public through digital campaigning. You will also be responsible for coordinating across teams to ensure Reprieve has effective systems in place for managing and reporting on grants, and identifying areas of work that could attract or benefit from additional funding.

You will have vision and be creative in how Reprieve can raise funds. You will be excited by ambitious targets and you yourself will be ambitious for what the team can achieve. You will be able to think strategically about long-term goals and targets. You will have at least five years’ experience at a senior fundraising level and have experience of managing individuals and teams. Together with the Joint Executive Directors you will take responsibility for the team achieving their targets and for ensuring Reprieve has the money it needs to do its work and the systems in place to ensure we managing grants and donor relationships effectively.

Fundraising is essential to what we do and the Joint Executive Directors and Trustees are all committed to success. We know that raising money is the backbone to the organisation. Quite simply we cannot do our life-saving and life-changing work without money.

You will have an excellent understanding of how budgets work and how to connect finance and fundraising. You will ensure that the Development Team, Finance Team and Casework Team take a coordinated approach in ensuring that our funded projects are properly financially managed; that there are processes in place to ensure the teams leading these work areas are well supported in their financial reporting obligations; and that there is organisational understanding around our financial situation and funding requirements. You will understand how we can use our restricted income and maximise opportunities for securing funds for specific projects. You will be able to lead the team in producing financial reports for funders and ensuring that we accurately and professionally report on restricted income. You will be creative in how you approach maximising support from existing and future funders.

You will lead on a number of areas of work and will not be afraid to roll up your sleeves and muck in where needed. You will be a strong manager who is committed to developing the skills and capacity of individuals in your team, and identifying ways to build and strengthen the teams you manage.

Working with one of the Joint Executive Directors, you will oversee our programme of engagement with Major Donors. You will help her in researching and identifying new potential major donors and helping her manage relationships with existing funders. You will be responsible for planning and delivering the annual Gala dinner and any other fundraising events alongside one of the Joint Executive Directors. You will manage the development committee, a sub-committee of the board, and who support on the areas of events and high value donors.

You will support the institutional donor team on funding applications. You will have an excellent knowledge of raising money from Trusts and Foundations as well as statutory institutions. You will support the Project Lead in identifying new sources of income from these areas.

Reprieve’s income from the general public, through regular giving and one off gifts (largely delivered via our digital campaigns work), has grown significantly over the last five years with an ambitious target of raising over £900,000 from the general public in 2021, accounting for a projected quarter of our income. This is an area we want to grow further and you will be expected to provide leadership and guidance to the Head of Campaigns and Digital and the wider team in achieving these targets and ensuring they have the information they need to ensure high quality campaign materials which are sensitive to the complex cultural and political environments in which we operate.

Reprieve has undergone a period of growth over the last five years, doubling our income. We continue to have ambitious income targets and there will be a huge opportunity for a motivated and inspiring candidate to further grow our income from new sources as well as stabilise the income from our current donors.

The Deputy Director will have a strong foundational knowledge of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion best practices within the charity sector, and will seek to ensure that Reprieve’s communications align with best practice.

The ideal candidate will be excellent at building long lasting relationships, thoughtful, sensitive, organised and rigorous with exceptional attention to detail. They will be ambitious and be excited about raising money. They won’t be afraid to take no for an answer!

They will be committed to learning about the complex cultural and political contexts in which Reprieve operates, be flexible and curious, with a passion for the work, for principles of diversity and inclusion, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.

For full details and information on how to apply please see the person specification. 

Sixty Bricks are seeking an experienced Development Director who will be responsible for the programme of New Business and Delivery to hit their target of 4,000 new homes in the next 10 years. It is an exciting time to be joining Sixty Bricks executive team with a newly appointed Chief Executive and Finance and Resources Director. You will be tasked with leading the full development programme and continuing to grow Sixty Bricks presence across the market.

The Ideal candidate will come from a residential housing background, either from the Public or Private sector with a track record in leading teams and successfully delivering of a full cycle development programme. You will be an inspirational leader who can promote innovation throughout the team to build beautiful homes for the residents of Waltham Forest. You will be reporting directly to the Chief Executive and the Board which means you will have a genuine opportunity to impact change and organisational decisions.

Job Purpose

Provide strategic and operational leadership for the company's development portfolio and managerial leadership of the New Business and Delivery functions ensuring successful delivery of Sixty Brick's Mission and Business Plan priorities

• To be the net zero carbon developer of choice in Waltham Forest, maximising the social housing provided in a financially sustainable manner ensuring profits enable housing and community benefits in the Borough
• Delivering up to 4,000 new homes in the next 10 years - with annual investment of c£50m presently, with a planned increase to c£100m within 3 years
• National sector leader, working towards a net zero carbon development business and providing net zero carbon, environmentally positive, social housing schemes throughout the Borough.

Senior executive team lead for:

• Procurement
• Contract Management
• Delivery assurance

Key Responsibilities

Professional Delivery

• Lead the company's end to-end development portfolio from RIBA 0-7, ensuring agreed Business Plan objectives in relation to the delivery of financially sustainable net zero carbon social housing schemes.
• Plan, resource and deliver the company's house building development portfolio, overseeing the building of new homes, identification of sites, securing planning compliance.
• Successful construction delivery phase, practical completion, and successful handover arrangements.
• Ensure strong and effective client and commercial management of all multidisciplinary teams to deliver the Sixty Bricks development objectives re: design, cost, and programme milestones.
• Have Executive oversight of the delivery assurance arrangements for the development programme, including programme, and project management methodologies, risk management, governance.
• Work with the Chief Executive to develop the company's pipeline and growth strategy to ensure the development function is positioned to undertake effective appraisal and assessment of opportunities.
• Working with the Director of Finance and Resources to ensure the financial status forecasts and performance of the development portfolio

Experience

• A sustained track record as a senior housing development professional of leading the end-to-end RIBA 0-7 development cycle to secure tangible financial, environmental sustainability and social value benefits from mixed tenure developments.
• Experience and understanding of professional standards, strategies, and approaches to integrating zero carbon and environmental sustainability into the design and delivery of housing development portfolio, programmes, and schemes.
• Experience of identifying, tracking, and delivering social value contributions generated from housing development investment portfolio and programmes.
• A substantial and well-proven track record of leading the planning, procurement, contract management and successful completion of mixed tenure housing development portfolios and programmes.
• Experience of working as a senior professional with, and being accountable to company Boards, Client representatives, and external stakeholders.

Personal Attributes

• Act with integrity in all matters, and able to build high levels of trust and confidence underpinned by professional transparency with all staff, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Professionally resilient and experienced in managing complex, multiple priorities and embodying high levels of personal drive and energy.
• Committed to the promotion and delivery of diversity and inclusion, particularly as it relates to staff and customers.
• A champion of innovation and proactively encourages creativity, ideas, and new approaches.
• Actively role models and champions company priorities and values in all
• aspects of job performance.
• Committed to making substantial impact on climate change and biodiversity through running a Net Zero carbon company and delivering a net zero carbon
• development programme.

Qualifications

• CIOB, RICS, RIBA or equivalent level qualification in related field (e.g. contract, programme, or project management)

Please reach out to Jamie Fitch or Henry Ivall for a discrete confidential conversation about the role.

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering exclusively with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to appoint their new Director of Development. Having celebrated its centenary year in 2020, the CBSO is widely regarded as one of the most influential orchestras in Europe. It performs for over 200,000 concertgoers each year as well as running a sector-leading outreach programme which enriches people's lives through music across the West Midlands.

The Director of Development will primarily be responsible for all aspects of CBSO's fundraising lead personally on the cultivation and stewardship of a portfolio of the orchestra's most significant donors, funders and sponsors. Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will work with the wider senior management team members on preparation of Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council applications and reports. You will ensure appropriate involvement of CBSO musicians, conductors, soloists and senior management team members in fundraising opportunities and projects where appropriate.

The best candidate for this post will have experience in a senior fundraising position, leading the implementation of successful strategies that have achieved increases in income. You will have excellent financial skills and awareness too, coupled with a track record of personally leading the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of high-value donors. You will be an inspiring development leader too, capable of leading and mentoring a high-performing development team.

Do get in touch with Ryan Burdock at Prospectus for an informal discussion about the role.

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.

Do you have a passion for mental health and appreciate the important role nature plays in improving wellbeing? Are you a talented fundraiser with a track record of securing funding from Trusts and Foundations? Are you a self-starter who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment? If your answer is ‘Yes’ to all these questions then this could be the role for you.

About MindFood - MindFood is a small Ealing charity with a big vision: to be the Natural Health Service for the mind in West London. 

Our services help people to tackle stress, anxiety and depression in a natural way, by offering free food-growing and mindfulness courses across 2 sites in Ealing. Our courses are a fun balance of learning how to grow food, combined with tips and techniques to improve your wellbeing. As well as learning lots about gardening, participants are introduced to psychoeducational tools such as mindfulness, 5 ways to wellbeing and nutritional advice. 

About the role

MindFood are looking for an exceptional Fundraising & Development Director to work 1 day a week (or 4 to 5 days a month as a freelancer) to retain existing Trust and Statutory funding, identify & pursue new funding opportunities and to look at innovative ways of generating unrestricted income through corporate and community support. They will share responsibility for MindFood’s budget with the Management Team, and support the Finance Director on financial reporting. 

The successful candidate will be part of a small passionate, proactive and creative team. They must demonstrate flexibility and have excellent communication skills to deal with the demands of working for a charity. They will have a high level of initiative, direction and vision.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Development Director of MindFood is responsible for:

• Researching and identifying trusts and foundations whose interests align closely with MindFood’s vision 

• Preparing and submitting compelling applications, proposals and presentations to funders.

• Managing and developing new sources of revenue, including corporate wellbeing days, individual giving, tendering opportunities, statutory funding and community fundraising. 

• Ensuring we are leveraging our new charitable status including taking advantage of gift aid. 

• Identifying and working with partners on joint funding bids that align with our values and strategy

• Working with the Finance Director to agree to MindFood's budget to ensure minimal disruption to services and staff, and eventual growth.

• Reporting on charity development performance against agreed targets and KPIs and ensuring effective reporting to funders and donors.

• Producing quarterly charity development reports for the board. 

• Long range forward-planning and clear reporting of risk.

• Developing new services including structures, strategies and implementation plans

• Collaborating on service design with Programme Director and participants to ensure that MindFood’s programmes are constantly improving and evolving to better help people with mental health difficulties.

• Managing funders’ requirements, all funding applications, evaluation and reporting in a timely & professional manner.

• Stewardship of donors, ensuring that donors are thanked promptly and that their support is acknowledged in our marketing and social media.

• Attending funding events, workshops and other relevant events.

• Communicating funders’ requirements to the team to ensure all expectations are met.

• Maintaining an accurate record of all grants received, bids made and prospective charitable trusts. 

• Supporting on our marketing plan; providing content for our newsletter, contributing to our social media channels and website.

• Working with the Programme Director to develop and implement a strategy for unrestricted income generation, and trading e.g plants or other MindFood products, workshops or consultancy.

• Working with MindFood’s Finance and Programme Directors and Board of Trustees to set the strategic direction and priorities. 

• Assisting in the coordination of MindFood’s board meetings on a quarterly basis and ad-hoc sub groups.

Reporting to the Director of Development, this is a career development role and will appeal to someone who may already have some experience of fundraising, who is passionate about higher education and wishes to advance their skills in a highly successful college development and alumni relations office.  The role is varied but in general the appointee will assist the overall purpose of the office of fostering and deepening relationships between the Hall and its alumni and in securing financial support from those alumni and other friends but will also take the lead in some smaller discrete projects and responsibilities.  This will include some general administrative support for the team (the Director of Development, the Alumni Relations Manager, the Development Manager and the Campaigns Operations Manager) whilst also being the first point of contact for all visitors to the office.

Whilst each member of the team has specific responsibilities considerable teamwork is also expected.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) usually 09:00 to 17:00 (some flexibility is negotiable in regard to the start and finish time).  The role is based in the centre of Oxford but we are can offer the possibility of working one day per week at home if you wish so please get in touch to discuss.

You will have excellent organisation skills and be confident in your ability to work across a range of internal and external audiences.  You will have excellent relationship building skills with a strong commitment to supporting the delivery of the highest level of donor engagement and care.

In return, the College offers excellent benefits which include a competitive salary, 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) with further leave at Christmas and Easter when the College is closed, a free lunch and membership of the University of Oxford’s Staff Pension Scheme.  Travel and cycle loans are also available.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced business development professional to help us realise significant growth through securing new contracts and the development of our products and services

They will help to deliver the Charity’s five year strategy to develop our work with young people in schools, those who are NEET and our work with offenders in prison and the community. We are looking for candidates with at least five year’s experience of working in business development, ideally leading successful large bids (worth £500k+ p/a), business analysis of opportunities, development of service solutions and project management. Candidates will be able to demonstrate the ability to build relationships, negotiate with and persuade a wide range of commissioners/funders/partners. They will have the ability to motivate and influence across a range of levels internally, including with senior leadership team members and trustees. Context. In return we offer a generous package which includes Perkbox, Green Cycle to Work scheme and flexibility in your working pattern. 

Your place of work will be Walker house exchange flags Liverpool L2 3YL (Flexibility for home working). This is a permanent position within our organisation.A full job description please see attached. 

Interviews will be 4th November via MS Teams or Face to Face. Successful candidates will be invited to a 2nd stage interview which will include a test to follow of which further details will be given to the successful candidates at the time.

Help us shape the future of Manchester for children and young people.

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic third sector leader who is passionate about securing great outcomes for children and young people and can develop a programme of activities and support that consistently delivers meaningful and sustainable impact across the city.

The successful applicant will oversee the development and implementation of Young Manchester’s work supporting the youth and play sector in Manchester, focused on supporting our membership offer, grant making and network support across the city and building strong and strategic partnerships locally and nationally.

The postholder will ensure that children and young people are shaping Young Manchester’s work, in order to maximise opportunities for young people.

There is ample scope for an ambitious, creative and organised person to develop this post and be part of an exciting new chapter for Young Manchester.

Talitha Arts is an integrative creative arts charity that offers creative arts workshops to those who have experienced trauma (through trafficking, living with dementia, domestic and sexual abuse, and homelessness).

If you are a passionate leader who believes in the power of the creative arts to transform lives, are a natural team leader who loves to work with others, have experience working with vulnerable people, love to devise and develop creative arts workshops and training sessions, and are willing to work flexibly with therapeutic intent but outside a clinical framework, this may be the role for you.

We are seeking an artist and/or arts therapist (from any creative arts background) with experience in integrative arts practice to steer Talitha’s therapeutic arts workshops and training. The ideal candidate will have a qualification in a therapeutic arts field such as Art, Drama, Dance, and will be passionate about the power of the creative arts to bring healing, restoration and transformation. The role is home-based but will require travel into London for all meetings and programmes. 

Creativity is at the heart of everything we do, and therefore we are seeking someone who shares our belief in the transformative power of the creative arts and can reflect our creative and relational ethos in their approach to training and workshops. Talitha is a charity with Christian foundations, and while this position is open to those of all faiths and none, we are seeking someone who is sympathetic to our Christian roots and values. 

At Talitha, we recognise the inequity regarding employment and opportunities brought about by structural oppression and marginalisation. Thus, we encourage and warmly welcome applications from underrepresented groups such as ethnic minorities, those with disabilities and LGBTQI+ candidates. 

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