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Head of Corporate Development

Location:London (Hybrid, with1 day per week in the office on Monday)
Salary:£60,000 - £65,000per annum, commensurate with experience
Hours:Full-time, 35 hours per week
Travel:UK and international travel required (approximately6-7 weeks per year), plus some evening and weekend commitments.

Lead strategic partnerships that change lives around the world
We are seeking an experienced and ambitious fundraising leader to join an international charity that supports a global workforce often operating far from home and their support networks. Through practical assistance, advocacy, emergency response and wellbeing services, the organisation makes a tangible difference to the lives of people across more than 50 countries.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver a growing corporate fundraising strategy, build high-value partnerships with national and international organisations, and play a key role in achieving ambitious income growth targets. Working closely with the Director of Development, you will lead corporate fundraising activity, oversee a talented team, and help maximise opportunities across a diverse programme of fundraising events and partnerships.

Why this role?
In this position, you will:

• Lead and develop corporate fundraising strategy to secure sustainable, long-term income growth.
• Build and strengthen relationships with corporate partners, sponsors and senior industry stakeholders globally.
• Manage and grow a portfolio of key corporate accounts, identifying new opportunities for support and engagement.
• Develop compelling proposals, presentations and partnership opportunities that align organisational priorities with corporate objectives.
• Work collaboratively with events colleagues to maximise sponsorship, team participation and fundraising outcomes.
• Lead, support and develop a small fundraising team, fostering high performance and collaboration.
• Represent the organisation at meetings, events and presentations in the UK and internationally.

What we're looking for
We are interested in speaking with candidates who can demonstrate:

• A strong track record of success in corporate fundraising and partnership development.
• Experience developing and delivering strategic fundraising plans and income growth initiatives.
• Significant experience managing corporate relationships and securing high-value support.
• Experience leading and developing teams within a fundraising environment.
• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders confidently.
• An innovative and creative approach to identifying mutually beneficial partnership opportunities.
• Strong financial, reporting and budget management skills.
• Confidence using CRM and supporter database systems, with strong data literacy and Microsoft Office skills.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
• 7% employer pension contribution
• Life assurance (3x salary)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Retail discount vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye tests
• Access to learning and development opportunities

Join a values-led organisation

This organisation is committed to being pioneering, inclusive, collaborative, accountable and caring. We welcome applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences who are motivated by the opportunity to create meaningful global impact through outstanding fundraising and partnership development.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

Director, RSPB Scotland
Reference: AUG20269233
Location: Edinburgh – Flexible Working + Travel
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £88,641.00 - £94,638.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days' Annual Leave

Lead the future of nature in Scotland

We’re looking for an inspiring and strategic leader to take on the role of Scotland Director at RSPB.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of nature recovery, influence policy at the highest levels, and lead a passionate, purpose-driven team delivering real impact across Scotland.

As Scotland Director, you will play a central role in shaping RSPB’s overall direction while ensuring delivery of ambitious, evidence-based programmes that protect and restore nature.

Working closely with the Chief Operating Officer (to which this role reports) and the Management Board to shape RSPB’s vision and translate strategy into impactful action across Scotland you will:

• Lead the development and delivery of aligned, prioritised programmes that achieve measurable outcomes for nature
• Provide strategic senior leadership within organisational governance structures and contribute to UK-wide strategy and decision-making
• Build and maintain influential relationships with government, partners, funders, and stakeholders
• Represent RSPB at national and on occasion international levels, including media work Inspire and develop a high-performing, inclusive team
• Ensure effective systems are in place to manage risk, maintain compliance, and support strong organisational performance
• Play a significant role in leading the implementation and ongoing delivery of the organisational structure, re-design and priorities within the One RSPB transformation programme including vision, principles and strategic delivery programme for Scotland and RSPB
• Provide strategic support for the development and delivery of major projects, including at present the Orkney Native Wildlife Project, the Cairngorms Connect partnership and the Peatland Programme.

This is a permanent full-time role. While working flexibly, the successful candidate will be expected to be based in Scotland and there will be a significant element of travel required.

The closing date for this position will be Sunday 13th September 2026 with interviews being conducted in person in Edinburgh on 30th September and the 1st October 2026.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.

The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This role is eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship. If you require UK sponsorship please tick yes to the right to work screening question at application stage. 

No agencies please.

About This Vacancy

Barnabas Aid is recruiting an exceptional leader to serve as Regional Director for Asia. This is a senior leadership role within the International Programmes Team, sitting on both the Programmes Leadership Team and the Strategic Leadership Team, and offering an outstanding opportunity to shape how BAI serves persecuted and suffering Christians across one of the world’s most complex and spiritually significant regions.

The Asia region spans South Asia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia — some of the most sensitive and complex contexts in which Barnabas Aid works. Many of the communities we serve face active persecution, operate in restricted environments, and depend on the careful, sensitive stewardship of their relationships with BAI and our partners.

This is an extraordinary opportunity for a strategically minded, relationally gifted Christian leader to shape how BAI serves the persecuted Church across one of the world's most complex and spiritually significant regions.

The Role

The Regional Programme Director — Asia will provide strategic leadership for the development and delivery of Barnabas Aid's grant making and project management across the Asia Region. You will lead and develop a team of Programme Managers, build and sustain a strong partner network, and oversee a portfolio of high-quality, biblically grounded projects that deliver measurable impact for persecuted and suffering Christians.

As a member of both the Programmes Leadership Team and the Strategic Leadership Team, you will contribute to BAI's global Programmes strategy and to organisational strategy, culture, and effective cross-departmental working.

Key Responsibilities

Regional strategy and portfolio leadership

• In collaboration with the International Chief Programmes Officer, lead the development, review, and implementation of the global Programmes strategy within the assigned Region, translating strategic priorities into a clear regional plan and pipeline.
• Maintain a balanced regional portfolio aligned with organisational priorities, donor intent, and restricted fund requirements.
• Identify emerging needs, risks, and opportunities in the Region and recommend strategic responses, including new initiatives and partnerships.
• Ensure that the Region is balancing its portfolio of Programmes according to the Country Classification framework.

Grant making and programme cycle management

• Oversee the end-to-end grant making process for Programmes in the region, ensuring proposals are assessed, costed, and approved in line with delegated authority, Gate processes, and Programmes Subcommittee requirements.
• Take lead responsibility for one sub-region and/or a portfolio of countries, leading on partner engagement and the whole project management cycle.
• Ensure robust needs assessments, project design, logical frameworks (where applicable), budgets, partner due diligence, risk assessments, and monitoring plans are in place before grants are committed.
• Oversee project implementation across the regional portfolio, including milestone tracking, reporting, learning, and close-out, ensuring records are maintained accurately and on time.
• Proactively identify project delivery issues and work with team members and partners to resolve them promptly.
• Maintain proficiency in the use of all systems and processes used to manage the workflow of the team.
• Work closely with the Programme Quality Team to ensure best practice standards, continuous improvement, and consistent application of policies, processes, and templates.

Leadership and people management

• Support the staff in the regional team by providing clear leadership, coaching, and line management, including goal setting, supervision, performance management, and development.
• Ensure capacity planning across the Region so that project management workloads are realistic and risks are appropriately managed.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning for the regional team, contributing to wider Programmes Team workforce planning as required.
• Deputise for the international Chief Programmes Officer when requested to do so during their absence
• Ensure Regional team members plan overseas trips appropriately and adequately, always factoring in security and safeguarding risks.

Partner engagement and external representation

• Ensure the regional team builds and sustains a strong partner network, with relationships that are effective, mutually accountable, and aligned with Barnabas Aid's mission and values.
• Develop and implement a plan for regular partner engagement and capacity building (including visits where appropriate and safe) to strengthen project delivery, monitoring, and safeguarding.
• Represent Barnabas Aid professionally with partners and other stakeholders, managing sensitive information and security considerations appropriately.
• Engage proactively with peer organisations and networks to bring insight on sector best practice into BAI's work.

Cross-organisational collaboration and governance

• Work closely with Outreach and Support departments to provide timely, high-quality project information and updates that enable supporter communications, fundraising, and reporting.
• Contribute to organisational planning and decision-making through active membership of the Programmes Leadership Team and the Strategic Leadership Team (as applicable).
• Prepare quality papers, dashboards, and narrative updates for internal decision-making meetings and governance forums as required.

Compliance, risk, and safeguarding

• Ensure compliance with Barnabas Aid policies and external requirements relevant to grant making and project delivery, including data protection and information security.
• Maintain effective regional risk management, including project, partner, fraud, security, and reputational risks, escalating issues promptly and recommending mitigations.
• Champion safeguarding and ensure safeguarding considerations are integrated into partner due diligence, project design, implementation, and reporting.

Other duties

• Carry out any other reasonable duties as the organisation requires.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Finance Director with a social enterprise on a full-time, permanent basis. As Finance Director, you will lead the Finance function, providing high-quality financial planning, reporting, control, technical accounting and decision support that enables the COO, CEO, Leadership Team and Board to manage financial sustainability, risk and performance across the organisation.

The role has a particular focus on property finance, including the financial stewardship of the organisation’s mixed-use estate property portfolio, service charge arrangements, long-term asset planning and accounting for land and buildings, alongside senior oversight of charity / and social enterprise accounting and long-term financial sustainability. Please note, the COO retains senior executive ownership of financial strategy, capital allocation and organisation-wide financial sustainability.

Please note, there is hybrid working in place with this organisation with 3 days per week required in their London office.

As Finance Director, you will:

- Lead on organisation-wide budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes, balancing operational requirements with long-term financial resilience and sustainability

- Maintain an effective framework of financial governance, delegated authorities and internal controls that protects organisational assets and supports sound decision making

- Lead on the performance, capability and continuous development of the Finance function, ensuring effective delivery of finance services across the organisation with a business partnering ethos

- Provide strategic financial advice, challenge and recommendations to the COO, Leadership Team and Board on organisational performance, investment decisions and financial risks

- Contribute to organisational strategy, performance management and transformation initiatives

by ensuring financial considerations are embedded within major decisions and change programmes

- Lead a team of 3

The successful applicant will:

- Have significant demonstrable experience in finance within the not-for-profit sector, in a similar role (evidence of continuing professional development in charity / social enterprise finance, property finance, VAT, audit, treasury or systems improvement)

- Be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA etc)

- Have more than 3 years’ experience leading a finance function or senior finance team in a complex organisation

- Be able to work confidently across multiple entities with property ownership within the group (knowledge of, or experience working with asset-owning, organisations and that own, manage or account for mixed-use property subsidiaries assets, including commercial, community or residential elements)

- Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

If this sounds like you and you're keen to hear more, please do get in touch ASAP!

Please note, only successful applicants will be contacted with further information.

As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.

This role is responsible for strengthening the Church of England's approach to racial justice learning. Working across the Church, you will review existing learning resources, identify gaps and opportunities, and develop a clear strategy and workplan to support future provision.

You will ensure that learning is aligned, high-quality and accessible across different contexts, including national, diocesan and parish settings. Working closely with the Director, Deputy Director and wider stakeholders, you will coordinate delivery of the Unit's learning and development work, ensuring programmes are well designed, appropriately targeted and delivered effectively.

Executive Assistant to the Operations Director, Head of Legal & Risk and the Head of Internal Audit

Are you an experienced Executive Assistant looking for an opportunity to work for a Christian humanitarian and development charity witha heart for seeing an end to extreme poverty? Do you have proven experience of providing EA support at Director level in a demanding environment? Then this may be the perfect opportunity for you!

As Executive Assistant you will provide strategic administrative support to Tearfund's Operations Director to enable them to operate effectively and meet the global objectives of Tearfund. This role also supports the Head of Internal Audit and the Head of Legal & Risk with timely and proactive administration of confidential and sensitive information. You will need to be able to work across different cultures, functions and time zones, being flexible and creative.

This role requires:

• Excellent organisational and administrative skills 
• A natural relationship builder with exceptional communication and intercultural skills
• The ability to prioritise and work under pressure with high attention to detail
• Proactivity and ability to coordinate across multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to work with confidential and sensitive information
• Competency in travel planning
• Experience of Project Management
• Experience of managing the administration of organisational policies

All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and those from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds (in our UK workforce) as these groups are currently under-represented at Tearfund.

Hybrid working: This role is eligible for hybrid working and you will be required to work from the Teddington Tearfund office and from your home by agreement with the line manager.

Please note: This is a Full time permanent role - with some flexibility over the working hours/days.

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.

Grade 4 Salary £37,160 per annum

Interviews will be scheduled for 10th and 11th September. 

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and those from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds (in our UK workforce) as these groups are currently under-represented at Tearfund.

Applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs

The BNSSG VCSE Alliance is a collaborative network of over 200 voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations working across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG). Its mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of people and communities by enabling the VCSE sector to influence decisions and work alongside the BNSSG Integrated Care System.

This role, the VCSE Alliance Director, will provide strategic leadership for the BNSSG VCSE Alliance, strengthening the influence of the VCSE sector within the Integrated Care System. You'll lead strategic partnerships, influence policy developments, and provide oversight of the Alliance's priorities.

Voscur is a co-founder and host of the BNSSG VCSE Alliance and plays a key leadership role through the Alliance Steering Group. The VCSE Alliance Director will be employed by Voscur and report to the Voscur CEO. The role will line manage the VCSE Alliance Partnerships Manager and hold oversight of Alliance programmes, contracts and budgets, including current grant-funded activity.

The post is based at Voscur's office at Royal Oak House, Bristol, with presence required at community venues across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and occasional travel to Gloucestershire. Voscur operates a hybrid and flexible working approach, with a shared office day on Tuesday and a strong emphasis on support, supervision, wellbeing and collaborative working.

This role is initially offered as a nine month fixed-term contract, with the possibility of extension subject to funding and contract procurement.

Please download and read the information pack in full before applying to this role. Note that we do not accept CVs in our application process, and all applicants will need to complete our application form. The form will be anonymised prior to shortlisting to ensure a fair and balanced recruitment process.

Equity and diversity are very important to our diverse VCSE sector and population, and we're keen to increase the diversity of the Voscur team. We particularly welcome applications from people whose communities are currently under-represented - particularly people with lived experience of poverty and people from global majority communities. As part of our commitment to inclusion, all candidates who disclose that they are from those communities and meet the essential criteria will be invited to interview.

Director of Strategic Asset Management

The Opportunity

Goodman Masson is delighted to be partnering with Moat Homes on the appointment of a Director of Strategic Asset Management.

This is a high-profile strategic leadership position, responsible for shaping and delivering Moat's long-term approach to asset management, investment, sustainability and planned works across its property portfolio.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Existing Homes, you will provide expert leadership across strategic asset management, ensuring Moat's homes are fit for the future, meet regulatory and quality requirements, deliver value for money and ultimately provide excellent outcomes for customers.

This is an opportunity for an established senior housing professional to play a central role in determining how Moat invests in, manages and optimises its assets over the short, medium and long term.

Your Role

As Director of Strategic Asset Management, you will lead the development and delivery of Moat's asset strategies and investment plans across three key horizons:

• 30-year long-term asset strategy
• 10-15 year medium-term investment planning
• 1-5 year short-term delivery programmes

You will ensure these strategies are aligned with Moat's wider Existing Homes strategy and organisational objectives, while ensuring the portfolio is positioned to meet future housing quality, building safety, sustainability and customer requirements.

You will provide visible leadership across the Strategic Asset Management team, creating a culture of high performance, accountability and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Asset Management & Investment

• Lead the development and implementation of Moat's asset management strategies and investment plans.
• Drive asset optimisation and portfolio modelling to ensure investment decisions are based on robust data and intelligence.
• Develop property investment proposals and stock rationalisation options for consideration by the Investment Committee and Board.
• Oversee the management and investment strategy for non-domestic assets.
• Ensure investment programmes are coordinated, deliverable and aligned with Moat's strategic priorities.
• Lead the development of strategies that ensure homes meet Decent Homes, building safety and net zero / MEES requirements.

Major Works, Planned Investment & Sustainability

• Oversee the delivery of major works and stock improvement programmes.
• Provide strategic leadership for retrofit and sustainability programmes.
• Ensure annual investment programmes are delivered effectively against agreed budgets, timescales and KPIs.
• Work collaboratively with investment, major works, responsive maintenance and compliance teams to ensure programmes are coordinated.
• Ensure customer insight and engagement are embedded into programme design and delivery.

Commercial & Financial Leadership

• Lead the strategic approach to procurement for major works and investment programmes, working closely with Procurement and the Executive Director of Existing Homes.
• Challenge existing approaches to contract and programme delivery to drive improved performance and value for money.
• Embed strong commercial approaches to contract management and cost control.
• Take overall responsibility for financial management and cost control across investment and compliance budgets.
• Work closely with Finance and Insight on performance analysis, budgetary controls and financial reporting.
• Identify and pursue relevant grant opportunities to maximise Moat's investment capacity.

Data, Performance & Assurance

• Ensure Moat's asset management databases are accurate, current and reflective of the condition of its property portfolio.
• Lead programmes of data collection and improvement to ensure the organisation has reliable and actionable asset intelligence.
• Oversee relevant regulatory and external data returns.
• Develop and monitor KPIs, with a particular focus on areas of customer and business risk.

Help us shape the future of community funding across the West of England

Quartet Community Foundation is looking for an experienced, collaborative and forward-thinking Head of Programmes to lead our grant-making and programmes work across Bristol, Bath & North-East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

This is an exciting time to join Quartet. We recently launched our new three-year strategy 2026-9, containing ambitious plans to increase our impact through grant giving, strengthen our understanding of local communities and raise the profile of place-based giving. The strategy outlines how we aim to diversify and strengthen our donor base, driving increasing philanthropic giving, so that we can distribute £6.5 million in grants annually by 2029. As Head of Programmes, you will play a key role in turning that ambition into action.

You will lead and develop our grant-making programmes, ensuring they are informed by community need, insight and evidence and reflect best practice in equitable and accessible funding. You will work closely with local communities, voluntary and community organisations, funders and partners to understand emerging needs and identify opportunities for collaboration and innovation.  You will be able to administer funds directed by local authorities and other partners to their specification, bringing a high quality service and repeat “business” to our revenue funding through high quality grant assessment and distribution.

You will also manage and support our experienced Programmes Team, three direct reports, ensuring an environment where they can develop, perform at their best and embody a culture of continual improvement (please see attached staff plan).

Could you jointly lead an organisation with bold ambition to end homelessness in Bristol - and put inclusion at the heart of how you lead?

This is a rare opportunity to share leadership, accountability and impact for Caring in Bristol - an ambitious, independent charity working towards a simple but powerful vision: 'No one is homeless in our city'.

We're looking for a Co-Director to take the lead on Finance, Fundraising and People functions.

Location: Hybrid, Bristol (60% onsite, open to negotiation where adjustments may be required)
Salary: £54,550-£61,245 FTE, depending on experience
Contract: Permanent, 0.8-1.0 FTE (30 or 37.5 hours)
You'll also receive 33 days' annual leave including bank holidays (pro rata if part time), flexible working, an enhanced 5% pension contribution, an individual learning and development budget, clinical supervision and group reflective practice.

Caring in Bristol believes everyone should be treated with dignity, respect and fairness. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation where people feel they belong and can thrive.

We're looking for a Co-Director who will champion equality, diversity and inclusion through organisational culture and practice - someone who values lived experience, listens to different perspectives and creates a safe, supportive environment where people can do their best work.

You'll join at an exciting point in Caring in Bristol's development, sharing leadership of an organisation that believes homelessness is not inevitable and is working across the city to prevent it, respond to housing emergencies and create lasting change.

About the role

This definitely isn't your everyday, run-of-the-mill Director or CEO role. You'll have a unique opportunity to co-create and collaborate on your own leadership model, alongside the existing Co-Director, with joint responsibility for strategy, performance and culture.

Taking a lead on finance, fundraising, people and HR, internal operations and governance, you'll make sure people, systems and resources are working effectively to deliver on mission and maximise impact.

Together, you'll make co-leadership work by building trust, challenging each other constructively, bringing complementary strengths and sharing accountability. Alongside the Board, team and people with lived experience, you'll build the confidence, capacity and resources Caring in Bristol needs to deliver its ambition and create lasting change.

We're looking for a different kind of leader

You might be an experienced charity leader, or have come up through finance, operations, organisational development, HR or income generation. You may have taken a less conventional route into leadership. We really don't expect you to tick every box.

We're looking for senior leadership experience, the ability to build a sustainable organisation with strong income and people foundations - plus a genuine passion for developing inclusive, high-performing teams. But just as importantly, we want to understand how you lead.

You'll be someone who:

• champions equality, diversity and inclusion and values lived experience
• embodies curiosity, collaboration, creativity and tenacity
• listens, communicates openly and brings people with them
• balances collaboration with clear, accountable decision-making
• builds trust and is committed to learning and continuous improvement

Knowledge of homelessness, housing or Bristol's voluntary sector would be useful, but it isn't essential. What matters most is your leadership style, values and desire to end homelessness.

Inclusion really matters

We know some groups are under-represented in our workforce, and we're committed to changing that. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness and those from backgrounds under-represented in the charity sector.

We're committed to making recruitment inclusive and accessible. We can offer flexible working and reasonable adjustments throughout the process, and if written applications don't allow you to show your strengths, we're happy to accept audio or video responses too.

Interested?

If you're excited by the chance to help create a Bristol where no one is homeless, we'd love to hear from you. And if you're thinking "I'm not sure I'm the typical candidate" - please don't let that stop you getting in touch.

To register your interest, a CV or draft profile is a great first step. You can send this to Amelia Lee at Charity People directly through the application channel on this website, or just get in touch to request the full job pack.

Closing date: 9am on Monday 14th September

Interview dates are currently being agreed, likely to happen early-mid October.

Charity People is a forward thinking, inclusive organisation that actively and deliberately promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We know organisations thrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment by matching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespective of background e.g. 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 believe that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we work with.

Director of Communications, Campaigning and Communities
Predominantly home-based with regular travel to London and locations across the UK
Up to £80,000 per annum
Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)

Closing date for applications: 20 September 2026
Shortlisting: 21 - 22 September 2026
First interview: 1 October 2026 (Online)
Second interview: 7 October (In person in London)

 

Office facilities are available at our Newark office at The Kiln, Waterside, Mather Road, Newark, NG24 1WT for those within easy travelling distance. There may be an opportunity to on occasion work from the offices at a local Wildlife Trust.

 

There is currently a requirement to attend in-person the monthly team meetings at the Newark office.

 

About Us

 

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 945,000 members, over 33,000 volunteers, 4,100 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which is a place-based independent charity with its own legal identity, formed by groups of people getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work.

Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charity in its own right founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN – the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Taken together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.

The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big, bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work, not least in how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities.

About You

 

Are you passionate about designing and delivering bold, strategic campaigns that secure meaningful wins for nature, climate and communities? Do you have the vision, energy and ambition to identify and seize major opportunities, mobilise people-powered action and inspire communities across the UK to create lasting change?

 

Do you have the vision, ambition and strategic leadership experience to lead a people-powered movement to help shape a stronger future for nature and climate, and challenge the vested interests working against this agenda?

The Wildlife Trusts are looking for an inspiring, ambitious and values-driven leader with a proven track record of designing and delivering strategic campaigns that achieve measurable impact. You will bring expertise in campaigning, communications, community organising and movement building, with the ability to identify major opportunities, influence decision-makers and turn ambition into tangible outcomes.

This brand-new role will bring together our skilled campaigns, community organising and media and

communications teams to take our impact in these disciplines to the next level, helping many more people to take action for wildlife.

Whether through embedding community listening techniques, designing and delivering strategic campaigns that secure significant wins for nature, identifying opportunities created by the political, funding and public engagement landscape, or achieving billions of opportunities to hear about The Wildlife Trusts’ work in the media, you will lead a directorate that mobilises people and communities to create lasting impact.

Working collaboratively with colleagues, partners and communities, you will lead initiatives that engage and mobilise diverse audiences, inspire and support community-led action, build grassroots influence and develop future environmental leaders, all as part of a coherent strategy that ensures it delivers greater than “the sum of its parts”.

You will lead the implementation of ‘Wilder’, The Wildlife Trusts’ shared new Communications Strategy, providing strategic oversight for evidence-led communications and brand management, creative content and public relations that strengthen our relevance, influence and reputation among diverse audiences, and drive impact, engagement and income generation.

As a member of our Senior Leadership Team, you will help shape our strategic direction, influence organisational culture, and strengthen the impact of community-led action and communications across the federation of Wildlife Trusts. At a time when nature and climate face unprecedented challenges, this role offers an opportunity to influence the UK’s largest and best-loved nature movement, enabling people and communities to influence decisions and drive lasting change.

We are looking for a highly strategic, collaborative, values-driven leader with the vision, specialist expertise, credibility, energy and emotional intelligence to influence at a senior level. You will excel at developing campaign strategies, building trusted relationships, bringing people together around a shared purpose, and navigating complexity with confidence and empathy. With a strategic outlook and an inclusive approach, you will work effectively with a wide range of colleagues, partners and stakeholders to drive impact and deliver meaningful change for nature and climate through carefully designed and brilliantly executed campaigns that channel grassroot collective action to secure lasting change.

As Director of Communications, Campaigning and Communities, you will provide strategic leadership across a talented and diverse team spanning content creation, social media management and media relations, campaigning, youth-led leadership and community organising. Working alongside 46 independent Wildlife Trusts that form our federated movement, you will help shape and deliver our shared vision that inspires and enables a cross section of society to be proactive about championing nature and its benefits to society.

You will champion collaboration, co-creation, youth influence and community organising, supporting communities across the UK to make change happen for nature in ways that are locally relevant, accessible and impactful. You will also lead the development of The Wildlife Trusts’ voice, brand, reputation and storytelling, ensuring our communications engage diverse audiences, inspire action and remain audience-led, inclusive and aligned with our values.

You will understand the power of authentic storytelling and lived experience, promoting meaningful representation while avoiding tokenism. Through your leadership, you will help grow a confident and diverse network of advocates for nature.

Working closely with colleagues, partners and stakeholders, you will help influence local and national policy by strengthening understanding of nature’s role in addressing societal challenges. You will champion access to nature, promote nature-based solutions and support efforts to improve health, wellbeing and resilience, particularly in communities with limited access to green space.

We are looking for a highly motivated and ambitious leader with the passion, resilience and determination to win support for nature. With a proven track record of designing and leading strategic campaigns that deliver measurable outcomes, influence decision-makers and create lasting change, you will be skilled at identifying opportunities, understanding the external environment and funding landscape, and bringing together communications, campaigning and community action to maximise impact.

Passionate about inspiring others to take action, you will build a movement that places people and communities at the heart of The Wildlife Trusts and our work. As a champion of The Wildlife Trusts’ unique contribution to addressing the nature, climate and health crises, you will promote locally driven action that contributes to collective impact and lasting change as part of a wider global story.

You will bring a well-developed understanding of the funding, policy and stakeholder landscape, enabling you to proactively identify significant opportunities that accelerate impact. Working closely with fundraising colleagues and partners, you will build compelling propositions, secure support for strategic priorities and ensure campaigns, communications and community action are positioned to attract investment and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Above all, you will be an authentic and inspiring leader with the passion, resilience and determination to win support for nature. Driven by impact and motivated by opportunity, you will combine strategic thinking, creativity and sound judgement to design and deliver outstanding campaigns, communications and community action that place people at the heart of lasting change.

The Talent Set is delighted to be partnering with The Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) to recruit an Assistant Director of Community Fundraising & Engagement, a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving the next phase of growth across the charity’s national and regional community fundraising programmes. 

Assistant Director of Community Fundraising & Engagement
Salary: £69,852 (non-negotiable)
Location: London with hybrid working and regular UK-wide travel

ABF is the Army’s national charity, providing a lifetime of support to soldiers, veterans and their families. With an established regional fundraising network, a loyal volunteer base and ambitious plans for growth, they are now seeking an experienced community fundraising leader to build on strong foundations and enhance fundraising performance across the organisation.

This role offers the opportunity to lead a team of nine Regional Directors, providing strategic fundraising leadership while helping ABF evolve its approach to community and events fundraising. The organisation has a long history of successful regional fundraising activity, supported by passionate teams and volunteers who care deeply about the charity’s mission. The successful candidate will bring fresh thinking and external expertise while respecting and building upon the strengths that already exist.

The Assistant Director will play a key role in shaping the community fundraising and engagement strategy, improving ROI across fundraising activities and strengthening collaboration between regional teams and head office. They will help drive an exciting and scalable programme of activity, ensuring that national initiatives, fundraising opportunities and best practice are effectively shared and implemented consistently across the country.

Alongside leading regional fundraising performance, the postholder will oversee the development of a new volunteer strategy, helping the organisation maximise the impact of its volunteer committees and ensuring volunteers remain at the heart of future fundraising success.

As Assistant Director of Community Fundraising & Engagement, you will:

• Lead, coach and inspire a team of nine Regional Directors, providing clear fundraising leadership and strategic direction.
• Drive the ongoing development and implementation of ABF’s community and events fundraising strategy.
• Identify opportunities to increase income, improve ROI and enhance fundraising performance across the regional network.
• Support the rollout of national fundraising initiatives and campaigns across the UK.
• Strengthen collaboration between regional fundraising teams and head office functions.
• Work closely with colleagues across fundraising, including High Value and Individual Giving teams, to maximise supporter engagement opportunities.
• Lead the development and implementation of a new volunteer strategy, ensuring effective operational delivery.
• Contribute to strengthening ABF’s case for support and fundraising proposition.
• Build strong relationships with regional teams, volunteers and senior stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment around organisational priorities.

The role would best suit:

• An experienced fundraising leader with a strong background in community, regional or mass participation fundraising.
• Someone who has led geographically dispersed teams and understands the opportunities and challenges of regional fundraising models.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to assess existing activity, identify opportunities for improvement and deliver sustainable income growth.
• An individual who is diplomatic, emotionally intelligent and skilled at building relationships across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Someone who can bring innovation and fresh ideas while respecting established cultures and ways of working.
• An individual with knowledge of fundraising regulation, governance and volunteer best practice.

A military background is not required. What matters most is the ability to lead people, bring fundraising expertise and successfully navigate a complex stakeholder environment while supporting ABF’s unique culture and values.

How to Apply
The deadline for this role is Wednesday 2nd September, with 1st stage interviews to take place on 9th September. To express an initial interest, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role by clicking the 'apply now' button (please do not apply via email). We aim to get back to all successful candidates within 48 working hours.

Commitment to Diversity
The Talent Set is committed to inclusive recruitment practices and welcomes applications from all backgrounds. We actively encourage applications from people with diverse experiences and are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments required throughout the recruitment process.

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with an arts organisation that has been the artistic heart and soul of Highland Perthshire, attracting over 100,000 visitors every year. The Theatre has ambitions to increase fundraising capability to improve lives by sharing Pitlochry with the world and the world with Pitlochry. Now, they will recruit a maternity cover Individual Giving Manager and Prospectus is delighted to lead the search. This role is offered on a maternity cover contract basis with hybrid working from the theatre and home to begin no later than November 2026.

The Individual Giving Manager will secure and grow income from private donors and will be responsible for the planning and financial management of fundraising campaigns and the day-to-day delivery of fundraising relationships. You will lead the recruitment, cultivation and stewardship of individuals donors giving up to £5,000, which includes those donors within the membership programme at this level. Reporting to the Director of Development, you will help realise the potential of increased philanthropy for the organisation.

The selected candidate will have demonstrable fundraising experience relating to individual giving and will have experience of working to fundraising targets. You will have experience of building effective relationships and will know how to use data to inform philanthropy strategies and to optimise campaigns.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application then please contact Ryan Burdock at Prospectus.

If you are interested in applying to this Individual Giving Manager position, please submit your CV in the first instance. 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 connecting with you soon.

Full time, fixed term contract with probation period.

Power to Prosper is a national community wealth building programme, delivered by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in partnership with a network of community hubs across the UK. The programme works to build community-owned economic power and challenge racial and economic inequality.

Power to Prosper is in the process of becoming an independent organisation and is currently being incubated within the New Economics Foundation group. During this incubation period, contracts of employment will be offered on a fixed-term basis through NEF Consulting.

Working alongside the Executive Director, you will help design and build almost every aspect of the organisation: governance, finance, people, operations, organisational development and compliance. Equally importantly, you will help shape how those things are done.

Role: Director of Operations & Strategy
Hours of work: 35hrs per week – Monday to Friday
Salary: Starting from £60,000
Location: Hybrid — London/South East with regular travel to the London Office and Hub locations
Contract type: Fixed term contract ending 30th September 2028

How to apply

Deadline for applications: 12pm Tuesday 1st September 2026
Interviews: First stage interviews offered online on 7th September 2026 with second stage in-person interviews on 14th September 2026, please ensure availability on both dates.
Start date: Must be available to start by November 2026

Please answer the following questions on a separate Word document and submit alongside your CV.

1. This is not a conventional Director of Operations role. Alongside leading operations, you’ll help shape the culture, systems and ways of working of a new organisation. What attracts you to this opportunity, and what experience has best prepared you to build an organisation rather than simply manage one? (250 words)

2. Power to Prosper believes organisations cannot address racial inequity simply through good intentions; they must deliberately design their systems, culture and decision-making differently. Tell us about a time when your understanding of structural racism influenced the way you built or changed an organisational system, policy or way of working. What changed as a result? (250 words)

Please also complete the equality and diversity monitoring form.

• Job description
• Equality and diversity monitoring form

You must be eligible to work in the UK, as we are unable to sponsor visas.

Inclusivity at Power to Prosper and NEFC
Power to Prosper and NEFC wants to be an inclusive workplace with a diverse body of staff. We don’t want to conform to the traditional think-tank model where people from certain backgrounds are hugely under-represented. We know we have some way to go in this and are therefore genuinely keen to receive applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic people; women; neurodivergent people; disabled people; people who identify as LGBT+; people with experience of mental health problems; and people who identify as working class or have done so in the past.

Accessibility and Equal Opportunity
We value all candidates and are committed to equal opportunity. As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, or would like information in an alternative format, please let us know.

We actively promote positive action to advance fairness and tackle underrepresentation within our workforce.