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Within this role you will boost member engagement with the YHF website, improve in-bound website traffic to member programmes and to promote it as a key search engine for children and young people, parents/carers, professionals and stakeholders looking for support locally.
We are looking for someone who is genuinely passionate about making a difference to the lives of children and young people. In joining YHF you are also joining a wider movement of growing Young People Foundations making a massive positive impact across the country. This role is integral to the growth and development of our work with our members.
Please submit a CV and covering letter along with the attached person specification form which needs completing and returning.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Philanthropy Officer
Salary: £29,355 per year + benefits
Contract: Permanent
Location: London Office – We encourage flexible working and therefore do not require you to work from our London office full time.
Closing date: 12 July 2022
Interview Dates:
• W/C 18 July 22 – First round interviews will be based in our office (SE1).
• W/C 25 July – Second round interviews (remote)
The role:
We are looking for a Philanthropy Officer to join our fantastic Philanthropy and Partnerships team on a permanent basis. The P&P team consists of six members of staff, and together we want to raise £2.6m this year. This role is all about great relationship management and organisational skills to ensure that supporters of Pancreatic Cancer UK (PCUK) feel valued and inspired.
We’re a small and ambitious team that works closely together to maximise our collective impact. As Philanthropy Officer, the post-holder will support and engage high-value supporters and deliver stewardship at the highest level. The role is varied and requires a proactive, resourceful individual with a love of relationship management and the ability to work across the donor journey.
Some of the main responsibilities of this role include:
- Managing a portfolio of high-value supporters and prospects, providing an outstanding supporter experience, and maximising the impact of their support
- Working with members of our Development Fund Board to maximise their income potential individually and through their networks
Supporting the Director of Fundraising, Head of P&P, and Senior Relationship Manager in the management of DFB member relationships and their networks as appropriate (ensuring the provision of briefings, preparation of compelling proposals, and reports). - Supporting the Senior Special Events Manager with key fundraising events in the calendar that deliver a strong net income
About you:
We are looking for someone who wants to begin or grow their career in high-value fundraising and is inspired by PCUK’s mission. You’ll be passionate about people and always put our supporters first. You’ll have great communication skills, both verbal and written. You’ll be confident articulating Pancreatic Cancer UK’s mission and be able to build relationships and inspire confidence with high-net-worth individuals.
You will have a proven ability in the following areas:
- Managing positive relationships with supporters, donors, or other stakeholders
- Cultivating positive relationships both internally and externally
- Communicating sensitively and compassionately with our supporters who have been affected by pancreatic cancer
- Project management skills with demonstrable ability to work well under pressure, handling multiple demands, planning ahead and prioritising own workload with minimum supervision
About Us
Pancreatic cancer is a tough one but we’re taking it on. It is tough to diagnose, tough to treat and tough to research. For too long this disease has been side-lined. We want to make sure that everyone affected by it gets all the help they need. Together we are taking on pancreatic cancer. Underpinning this vision are our four values:
- Pioneering
- Compassion
- Determined
- Integrity
We cannot achieve our vision without employing staff who are committed to our vision, strategy, and values.
At PCUK our ambition is to create an inclusive working environment that reflects the communities and audiences that we engage with and, where everyone can be their true selves, where they feel respected, championed, heard, and supported. We want our workforce to achieve their potential, understand their contribution, and feel proud of their impact by creating a culture and organisation that is genuinely inclusive by advancing equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging through our policies and practices.
We believe diversity drives great outcomes through encouraging the different points of view that come from a diverse workforce. We know people from different backgrounds can bring fresh ideas, thinking, and approaches which make the way we work more powerful, more innovative, effective, and more collaborative.
We have an exciting future, with a clear purpose and we’ve started the journey to realise our ambition to be a fair, compassionate, and inclusive organisation that can celebrate the fact that we are all equally different!
If this sounds like you – we’d love to hear from you! Please see the job description and person specification for full details of the role on our website. If you wish to discuss the role informally, before applying, please contact Victoria Hurwood, Senior Relationship Manager (details are on our advert on our website).
How to apply:
- You can download the Job Description, Person Specification, and application form on our website.
- You must have the right to work in the UK when you apply.
Pancreatic Cancer UK is taking on pancreatic cancer through research, support and campaigning to transform the future for those affected.
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Your role
Working alongside the Senior Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager within the fundraising function of Seeability, you will support the development of partnerships with companies and high net worth individuals, as well as managing your own portfolio. Working with a high level of autonomy, but within a supportive and experienced team, you will identify and nurture your own prospects and donors who will deliver long term and sustainable relationships for SeeAbility.
Your responsibilities within the Fundraising Function
- Develop and grow SeeAbility’s strategic partnerships fundraising income by identifying and cultivating new donor prospects, submitting appropriate and timely proposals to secure agreed annual budget
- Manage and develop a portfolio of existing corporate and high net worth donor relationships, delivering first-class stewardship, and ensuring that all reporting is completed in line with supporter expectations.
- Conduct prospect research and develop the prospect pipeline.
- Work across the organisation to generate new and innovative ways to package up SeeAbility’s work to secure funding.
- Plan and deliver cultivation and stewardship events for prospective and existing supporters.
- Support the delivery of income and expenditure budgets, key performance indicators and annual work plans.
- Ensure all supporter records are kept up-do-date on the database.
- Work closely with fundraising colleagues to cultivate a supportive and collaborative fundraising team.
- To strive to produce high quality outputs and interactions both for the people we support and each other.
- To provide support and input, where appropriate, for other wider fundraising activity. Work in close partnership with other Partnerships team members to develop opportunities across different fundraising areas.
Other:
- Assist in maintaining a safe working environment and follow the requirements of SeeAbility’s Health and Safety Manual (policies and procedures) and any codes of set working practices.
- Carry out other duties commensurate with this post as requested.
- Liaise effectively and efficiently with other departments and SeeAbility locations, undertaking tasks as required to support requests.
- Provide confidentiality at all times, working appropriately with sensitive documentation.
- Adhere to all relevant legislative and regulatory obligations relating to fundraising.
**For Full List of requirements. please see the job description attached.
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Starting Salary: £32,019 - £33,526 p.a.
Full Salary: £32,019 – 37,245 p.a.
Other Benefits include: 10% Mobility Allowance +10% Pension + Hardship Allowance (£3,000 per annum) and Rest and Recuperation every 8 weeks
Contract: 2 years fixed term
Location: South Sudan, Juba
Job Profile
The Programme Development and Funding Officer (PDFO) plays a key role in securing institutional funding for the South Sudan joint office of CAFOD and Trocaire in Partnership (CTP) and supporting development of programmes for the country programme including management of grants contracts and liaison with funding partners. The PDFO works closely with the Country Representative and programmes team led by the Deputy Country Representative in devising funding strategies in line with the country strategies and CAFOD guidelines. In close cooperation with the programme team, finance team, HQ colleagues and partners, the role supports the development and design of programmes and projects as well as prepare funding applications to donors. The post holder will manage institutional donor grants contracts. The incumbent will be part of different cross organisational working groups including the International Programme Funding Unit. The post holder has skills to develop programmes and writing winning project proposals, engage with donors, management of grants contracts, work with partners, and work with various work teams in executing the functions of this role.
The role is based in the CAFOD and Trócaire in Partnership (CTP) office in Juba, South Sudan. Some additional local and international travel may be required as part of the post.
Accountability
The post-holder reports to the Country Representative. He/she is not a budget holder but may carry out some supervision tasks for staff members.
Key Responsibilities
Programme funding and partners’ fundraising capacity 40%
- As guided by the Country Representative monitor, identify and map potential funding opportunities and calls for proposals that are aligned with CTP Strategic direction.
- Identify funding opportunities for CTP with donors and major trusts and Foundations such as ECHO, DEC, FCDO, EU, UN agencies, Comic Relief, Big Lottery Fund, FORGE, Caritas Agencies and other donors and support programme colleagues and partners to access and apply for the funding opportunities.
- Monitor and advise the Country Representative and programme teams about new and innovative approaches to funding development and humanitarian programmes, keeping up to date with funding trends, donor policy development and appraise the country teams of the developments, opportunities, and requirements.
- Contribute to the development of South Sudan Country Strategic plans and lead resource development plans to fund the strategy and programmes.
- In agreement with partners and programme staff, assess existing partner capacities and systems to manage and implement institutionally funded programmes including training on compliance requirements, audit requirements, quality programming, reports writing and programme management.
- Support partners in strengthening their own capacity to mobilise resources, donor mapping and developing donor engagement strategies and support partner organisations to access funding themselves directly.
Programme development (30%)
- In close collaboration with the Deputy Director work with and coordinate programme staff, finance teams, HQ teams and partners in the design, development- including proposal writing (and where appropriate, implementation) of high-quality programmes and projects in line with country CTP strategies and programme frameworks.
- Coordinate the design and advise on narrative proposals, proposal budgets, Logframes, accounting frameworks, work plans, Theory of Change documents and M&E frameworks, and lead the development of resource plans.
- Where necessary, and to a reasonable extent, support other PDFOs or country programmes in programme development and funding.
- Engage, support or lead on regional or joint programme funding opportunities, including contributing to proposal development for corporate or multi-country proposals. (e.g., UK Aid Match Fund).
- In discussion with his/her line manager, participate in surge requests from other International Programmes.
Contract Management and Quality Control 20%
- Manage donor contracts ensuring compliance with agreements, regulations and all requirements attached to donor contracts including CTP programme management requirements.
- Provide orientation sessions for staff and partners entering into new donor contracts and do follow-up on grant reviews and close out meetings, with specific reference to compliance and quality.
- Work with programme and finance teams to develop efficient financial tracking and reporting systems for all donor contracts.
- Keep up to date with donor regulations and advise on any changes to relevant staff. Keep all relevant staff informed about the progress of contracts throughout the grant cycle.
- Facilitate evaluations (both internal and external) of institutionally funded programmes, in line with jointly agreed standards Programme Cycle Management, donor requirements, and CTP’s value of stewardship.
- Effectively use CTP’s programme management information systems to ensure programme and project information and documentation is up to date. This will include producing management information to support decision making.
- Lead on producing various donor reports and other required documentation and ensure quality of reports in line with CAFOD and donor standards. Ensure their timely submission as per agreed timelines.
Internal and external representation (10 %)
- In agreement with the Country Representative and Deputy Country Representative/Programme Managers engage with funding agencies to develop, nurture, and manage relationships with donor organisations.
- Represent CTP in funding review groups/networks in the South Sudan and HQ (both CAFOD and Trocaire) as appropriate.
- Communicate with other teams within CAFOD, with supporters and donors to ensure that the programme is well understood, and that information is available for fundraising and communication needs.
- In agreement with partners, contribute to raising the profile of partners’ work with relevant donors in the region and/or globally.
This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.
Safeguarding
All CAFOD staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities. Your role is responsible for ensuring that the programming work you are accountable for is safe, accessible, dignified, and inclusive, providing ongoing support and follow-up to our partners in this area.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people, and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post involves contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, or has responsibility for people who will do, and applicants will be subject to specific checks related to safeguarding issues. If based in the UK, the post holder is required to present or obtain a Disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service). If the post is based outside the UK, the post holder will be subject to a different checking process.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Understanding our context
A. Understanding Catholic identity; Understanding of the role of the Catholic Church and agencies in the context of South Sudan
B. Understanding CAFOD; Demonstrate and actively support CAFOD’s vision, mission and values and understanding of CAFOD approach to partnership, and advantages of operating as CAFOD and Trocaire in Partnership in South Sudan
C. Understanding international development: Understanding and experience of international development and programme management and quality standards within protracted crisis contexts.
Working together
D. Managing ourselves; Good self and time management skills, able to keep to donor and other deadlines
E. Working with others; Able to hold relationships with internal and external colleagues across varying roles
F. Communicating; Able to communicate with colleagues and partners at a distance
G. Looking outwards; Understanding of effective and values-based partnership work between northern and southern organisations and communities.
Making change happen
H. Managing resources: the ability to prepare and monitor budgets, contribute to assessing the appropriateness of partner financial systems, and ensure compliance with, knowledge and understanding of financial systems
I. Achieving results; experience of developing successful funding applications for institutional donors; experience of participatory project design, and use of analytical tools.
J. Managing our performance: experience of developing and implementing monitoring systems to track the effectiveness of programmes.
K. Taking the lead: Ability to coordinate staff to work together on proposals, reporting and other tasks.
Job-specific competencies
I. Understanding and first-hand experience of institutional funding work/projects, priorities, trends and donor conditions within the international development and humanitarian sector.
II. Experience of using programme cycle management tools effectively to deliver work within an agreed programme framework.
III. Able and committed to working with and strengthen or complementing the capacity of partner organisations and colleagues; and experience of applying them when working with individual partners or groups of partners
IV. Finance management and budgeting understanding and experience.
V. Ability and willingness to travel within the region and/or to the UK, sometimes at short notice and to areas of potential risk.
VI. Computer literacy skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
Desirable Criteria
VII. First-hand work experience with a values-based partnership approach (between northern and southern organisations and communities).
VIII. Familiarity with gender analysis tools, knowledge of the gender programme area
IX. Previous work experience in the country/sub-region.
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Role: Trusts & Major Donors Consultant
Reports to: CEO & Founder
Location: Remote working
Days: 8 days / month
Payment: £250 / day
About Abram Wilson
Inspired by the critically acclaimed and award-winning musician Abram Wilson, we are here to champion underrepresented and unrecognised talent. We provide visibility, access and opportunity within an industry which is often closed to all but the most privileged.
We meet young people exactly where they’re at – whether that’s at school, in the community or online – and encourage them to find their unique musical identity.
And we offer practical support to emerging musicians and music professionals by sharing valuable connections and opportunities.
We’ve worked with +200 performing artists, providing strategic support to 45 and delivered 72 gigs to nearly 10,000 audience members.
Since 2015 we’ve reached over 10,000 YP in deprived areas with performances and 650 participants with +550-hours of participatory arts workshops in London and Birmingham in partnership with Hackney Empire, Church of Sound, Premises Studios, National Maritime Museum and THSH Birmingham.
Our purpose
We inspire, connect and open doors to the music industry so that young people from disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds have an equal chance to realise their creative potential.
Our vision
A music industry that genuinely reflects the best image of our society so any young person is able to see it as a place for them and can participate in, and collectively contribute to the next generation of talent.
Our values
- We challenge inequality
Promoting inclusivity and equity in music.
- We pay it forward
Sharing our knowledge, skills, and networks with the next generation
- We work tirelessly
To encourage young people to find and use their creative voice
- We are champions
Of untapped, undiscovered and unrealised talent
What’s the role?
We’re looking for a Trusts & Major Donors Consultant to work with us on maintaining relationships with current donors and securing new major donors for Abram Wilson.
Am I someone you might be looking for?
Are you self-motivated and passionate about securing income from trusts and foundations and major donors?
Do you have a can-do and confident attitude with strong experience in managing your own portfolio of trusts and foundations?
Do you have experience in securing new grants, increasing funders’ grants from previous years, securing multi-year grants and stewarding trust and foundations relationships?
Do you also have experience in managing your own portfolio of high-net-worth individuals including securing new major donors, increasing donors’ gifts and stewarding major donor relationships?
Are you proud of your written and verbal communication skills?
Do you have excellent attention to detail and can you anticipate problems before they arise?
Are you happy with the idea of working remotely, and as part of a small virtual team?
Can you work independently and prioritise a varied workload?
Are you organised, proactive and dedicated to putting in the work and building relationships with both our current and prospective funders and major donors?
If you can answer yes to the majority of these questions, then we’d love to hear from you!
Please note, that we are actively seeking candidates who are from minoritised backgrounds.
That sounds like me! What exactly is the role though?
You’ll work with our founder to agree on targets before:
- Undertaking research and becoming the lead point of contact for increasing our income from trusts and donors through research and relationship building
- Creating a strategy for identifying, cultivating, securing, and stewarding new trusts and donors
- Creating pitches, proposals, and cases for support as part of your approach and adapting as needed
- Securing multi-year financial commitments from trusts and foundations
- Securing annual gifts of £1,000 or more from individuals
- Reporting back to funders and donors in a timely fashion
- Regularly liaising with our Impact and Programmes team to:
- collate information for proposals and pitches
- collate qualitative and quantitative data for reports
- Regularly liaising with our Marketing and Comms team on:
- our communication plan with donors through socials, emails, letters, and reports demonstrating the impact of gifts
- identifying individual donors who have the potential to connect us to trusts and foundations and increase their donations
- Pro-actively keeping our trust pipeline, an internal filing system for trusts and donors, and database updated
- Liaising with our Founder & CEO regularly on planned applications, projected income and any deadline changes
Sounds like a job for me! How do I apply?
Please send a 1-2 page CV and cover letter of 1-2 pages OR a five-minute video explaining the following:
- Why you’re interested in the role
- Why do you think you’d be good at the role with examples of where you have excelled in the areas we’ve listed above
- What is it that attracts you to Abram Wilson the charity and the programmes we deliver
When is the deadline?
Deadline to apply: 4th July 2022 at 10 am and we anticipate interviews will be a couple of weeks after that via Zoom.
When are the interviews?
We have blocked the 20th, 21st and 22nd of July for interviews.
Can I find out more before I apply?
You can book a call with our CEO & Founder to discuss the role and what we might expect from an application between 22nd June – 30th June. This will be subject to availability.
If you’re successful with an interview, we will make sure you’re clear about what kind of questions we’ll be asking so you can prepare accordingly.
Access requirements
Please let us know if our application process needs to be adapted for your access requirements.
Any Ts & Cs I need to know about?
● This is a self-employed post
● The fee is paid monthly in arrears upon receipt of an accurate invoice
● We work remotely so you’ll need a laptop, access to good wi-fi and Microsoft Office
● If you’re engaged to work with us, you must be able to provide the correct documents as proof of your right to work in the UK
● Having Public Liability Insurance is vital, can be acquired once position has been filled
Please send a 1-2 page CV and cover letter of 1-2 pages OR a five-minute video explaining the following:
? Why you’re interested in the role
? Why do you think you’d be good at the role with examples of where you have excelled in the areas we’ve listed above
? What is it that attracts you to Abram Wilson the charity and the programmes we deliver
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We are recruiting for a donor relationship officer (Trusts) for a high-profile social welfare charity , you will be responsible for donor stewardship and development, fundraising proposals and reporting, finance, and administration.
Hybrid role , minimum 2 days at their HQ in London
The Role
Maintaining accurate and complete records of donor details and communications on the fundraising database (CARE) and using other information systems in line with agreed protocols.
Keep up to date with new trends in the marketplace with the aim of anticipating newTrusts and Statutory fundraising opportunities.
Commission the charitys Prospect Research to undertake additional research and due diligence into Trust and Foundations prospects as needed.
Manage the portfolio pipeline, tracking ask values and chances of success to secure the phased budget.
Manage the portfolio of warm Trusts and Foundations, to maintain long-term, sustainable partnerships.
Optimise the High Value Giving events and engagement opportunities to cultivate and steward the portfolio of trusts and foundations.
Draft the fundraising copy of trust mailings and appeals.
Write bespoke funding applications where appropriate within your portfolio.
Ensure funders reporting requirements regarding the use of restricted grants are met, and that reports are submitted according to agreed schedules and in line with funders criteria.
The Candidate
Experience of grant fundraising from charitable trusts
Experience of report writing
Experience of managing budgets and financial information
Proven ability to undertake effective prospect and market research
IMPORTANT NOTE
Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.
We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.
Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.
We are looking for an inspirational leader to be our new CEO to take the organisation into its next phase of development. Building on a 52-year history which has seen the charity grow to become one of the City’s leading children and youth organisations, our next CEO will lead a skilled and passionate team, focused on improving the life chances of disadvantaged young Mancunians and securing positive transitions to adulthood. The right candidate must be ready to build and continue to develop a great organisational culture, provide inspired leadership to our teams, establish a strong working relationship with the Board of Trustees to build on our track record and lead the organisation forward.
If you share our vision, values and passion for improving the lives of children and young people and believe you have the skills and experience we need, then this could provide you with the next opportunity and we very much look forward to hearing from you.
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Position: Social Policy Officer
Contract: Permanent and full-time
Reporting to: Senior Social Policy Specialist
Location of Work: Sidcup Office with part-time remote working, and international travel up to 3 months per year.
Salary: £24,500 to £27,500 (commensurate with experience) plus benefits.
About the position
The purpose of the position will be to strengthen our engagement in social policy – in particular social protection – supporting and engaging in project implementation, research, business development and communications.
The position will incorporate a strong component of professional development. The successful candidate will work closely with senior members of staff and be given opportunities to learn through active engagement in Pathways’ projects and research, as well as training opportunities.
While the successful candidate must be available to travel internationally for up to 3 months a year, there may be opportunities for longer-term deployments overseas.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities:
- Support the delivery of social policy projects by providing, for example, background literature searches and reviews, desk-based research and data collection, analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, active participation in consultations on field missions and write-ups of reports, potentially leading small projects
- Support the development of funding proposals, including background research, and drafting of technical sections
- Engage in Pathways’ research on social policy, either in support of senior members of staff or by leading on specific areas
- Author blogs and other publications to influence international thinking on social policy and support the drafting and publication of materials authored by senior members of staff
- Lead in developing and maintaining core knowledge centres on Pathways’ website, enhancing its capacity to influence international social protection policy
- Collaborate with the communications team to develop communications products, such as the development of data visualisations and infographics or blogs, including the finalisation of publications
- Support the development and delivery of training programmes
- Engage in other areas as directed by your line manager.
Capacity Building
The successful candidate will be provided with the opportunity to build their capacity in a range of specialisms including in social protection policy and operations, qualitative and quantitative research, governance, human rights and gender. Staff are encouraged to shape the direction of their learning and to take advantage of the wide range of expertise that is within Pathways’ broader team. The successful candidate should show a willingness to learn to use research and analysis software and support further enhancement of the team’s capacity in conducting research projects.
Qualifications and Experience
- At least a Masters’ degree in a social science subject or other relevant discipline
- Good understanding of public policy analysis and research methods
- Capacity to undertake literature-based research and synthesis of information
- Commitment to inclusive social policy
- Ability to work under and commit to strict deadlines
- Ability to work in different country contexts and challenging environments, including working overseas for extended periods of time
- A commitment to being pro-active in their work
- Excellent drafting skills in English and good numeracy skills
- An additional language would be advantageous and
- Experience of working in international development would also be advantageous.
Terms of Employment and Benefits
Recruitment will be at the junior level and is a permanent and full-time post. Along with basic salary, the successful candidate would receive an attractive package of the following:
- Fulfilling work - work directly with end-users in some of the world’s most underserved communities.
- Flexible work - Development Pathways offers employees flexible work hours and part remote work options.
- Generous time off - recharge with 30-holiday entitlement plus standard bank holidays.
- Travel the World - we expect the successful candidate to travel overseas for work up to 3-months in a year (if COVID restrictions permit).
- Excellent health and well-being provision – access to the company private health care scheme (after the satisfactory completion of the probationary period), pension scheme and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Commitment to professional development opportunities - we encourage our staff to participate in professional learning and development.
- Provision of a company laptop and working at home benefit.
How to apply
We invite interested candidates to please apply for the post by including the following:
- A cover letter explaining why you are applying for this position, and how you would be a good fit for the post of Social Policy Officer
- A CV specifying your qualifications, education, and relevant work experience
- A piece of writing (a blog or essay or article that you have previously submitted).
Closing date for this post will be 13th July 2022.
Applications should be submitted to by email.
Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and high quality candidates may be interviewed earlier than 13th July, and we retain the right to close this role without notice.
Due to the high number of applications expected, unfortunately only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Applicants, please note the Privacy Notice on our website.
Development Pathways is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to providing a work environment that is inclusive and free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications and abilities. without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, family or parental status, or disability status.
Please, also submit a piece of writing - can be a blog, report or essay you have already submitted.
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This is a pivotal position within the dynamic and successful Development and Engagement team at Brighton College, United Kingdom’s School of the Decade.
You will be joining us at an exciting time, having just successfully completed an ambitious capital fundraising campaign, as we build on this momentum to raise funds for a new £35m performing arts centre and transformative bursaries for local young people.
The role will demand close involvement in all aspects of fundraising and development for Brighton College, with a particular focus on its major gift fundraising and donor care activity. It will bring the incumbent into contact with parents, staff, Old Brightonians, corporate sponsors and other supporters. High levels of discretion, confidentiality and charm will be essential.
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Starting Salary: £35,703 - £37,210
Contract: 12 Month Contract, full-time
Location: London (Hybrid working option available with a minimum of 40% of your time in the London head Office)
Job Profile
CAFOD is committed to promoting and driving diversity and inclusion. We acknowledge the lack of diversity within our communications team, and we particularly welcome applications from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
Do you have what it takes to drive proactive and sustained media coverage about our work?
Do you understand the national media landscape, including regional media?
Are you passionate about using storytelling to bring to life our social justice work and help drive change?
If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and energetic press officer to join the media team of one of the UK’s largest international development agencies.
Part of one of the world’s largest aid networks (Caritas Internationalis) which has a presence in 193 countries, CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. We stand alongside some of the most hard-to-reach communities across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, working through the Catholic and secular organisations to reach people of all faiths and none and places that others can’t.
We’re a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee, we inspire huge trust among our supporters – which we don’t take for granted – and we’re well known and respected among UK policymakers.
This is a great opportunity as you’ll have the chance to get involved in the full range of our work, long-term development programmes, our emergency response, our campaigning and policy work and major fundraising initiatives. You’ll build relationships with colleagues across the organisation and with the overseas partners we work alongside and come up with ways to put their voices in front of the media and across all our owned channels.
About you
The ideal candidate will have a strong nose for a story, be proactive about hunting out media opportunities across the full range of our work and will be tenacious about seeing your ideas through until coverage appears.
You’ll be comfortable pitching to a range of producers, journalist and editors, will have a sense of what makes a good broadcast spokesperson and be confident helping colleagues to prepare for media opportunities. International development experience is not essential, but you’ll be able to show a strong interest in our work and be passionate about helping deliver our mission.
CAFOD offers a range of flexible working options and there is the potential for this role to be undertaken on a hybrid basis (working 40% of the time in our London head office). Interviews to be held Thursday 21st July 2022 in our London head office.
Key Responsibilities
- Identifying newsworthy media opportunities, crafting and delivering strong media pitches, securing broadcast interview slots and writing press releases, statements and comment pieces which generate maximum impact.
- Organising media interviews, briefing materials and supporting the briefing of spokespeople
- Building media relationships and contacts across broadcast, national, online and regional media outlets
- Crafting a range of content for our social media channels and ensuring media stories are being designed and pitched with our digital channels in mind from the outset
- Collaborating cross-organisationally, influencing teams, and achieving good media outcomes in support of our work
- Building strong relationships with teams across the organisation to gain a full understanding of our work and to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the organisation that might be media-worthy
- Spotting potential story ideas and developing these, using additional resources if necessary, into compelling media pitches for broadcast, print, specialist and online media
- Helping influence and advise colleagues so information and content is gathered and shared to allow the media team to successfully deliver coverage for the organisation
- Contributing to the successful day to day activity of the media team
- Working alongside the Head of Media and other media officers to ensure resources are appropriately focused on CAFOD’s agreed media priorities and key moments
- Providing surge capacity where required to support other media officers’ briefs and working close with teams across the communications department (including digital and creative content colleagues) to ensure media input into overseas content gathering and to help plan other ongoing communications work
- Engaging with our celebrity Ambassador programme providing creative input and ideas for their involvement in key CAFOD fundraising and campaigning moments
- Providing input into the multi- channel planning work on content
- Playing an essential role in the media team and communications team as a whole, ensuring all media coverage is appropriately logged, media databases are kept up to date and helping to ensure essential media team admin is undertaken
Skills and experience
- A nose for a story and a keen insight into news and current affairs
- Experience writing key messages such as press releases, media briefings and opinion pieces
- Experience of managing multiple media briefs across different outlets and able to meet deadlines and make decisions on what to prioritise when working under pressure on several stories
- Strong communication skills, both written (able to produce polished and compelling copy often to tight deadlines and with a good understanding of what works for CAFOD’s digital channels) and verbal (able to be persuasive with pitching media ideas to producers/journalists/media outlets)
- Able to support cross-organisational initiatives integrating corporate objectives into media work and support, motivate and develop staff in understanding what works best for media
- Able to work on issues that are often complex and sensitive to find the best approach for CAFOD’s media engagement
For more information on this vacancy as well as the application process, please visit the CAFOD jobs page.
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The retail marketing officer helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by building awareness of the Guide Dogs Shop across all audiences through the development of engaging marketing activity and campaigns.
This is an exciting opportunity for a digitally savvy retail marketer with a go-to, entrepreneurial approach to put their stamp on a growing online and mail order business for a much loved, well-known brand. Guide Dogs is a top 10 UK charity supporting blind and visually impaired adults and children to live the life they choose. Our shop has recently undergone a major transformation and relaunch and we now have ambitious plans to grow at pace: developing new ranges, building new supplier partnerships, and attracting more customers to our gifting, homeware, pet and Christmas ranges through our upgraded retail platforms. Guide Dogs is privileged to work with some of the best minds in brand and retail, including Mike Wroe, former CFO and founder of Just Eat.
This role is Reading-based and will involve hybrid office and home working. This is a full-time role (35 hours per week). We offer 26 days paid holiday (pro rata, plus bank holidays) a year.
We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.
More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.
Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.
Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.
To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;
Essential
· Degree or equivalent in Marketing / Digital / Business / Retail or equivalent experience.
· Experience of driving growth in traffic, sales and profit through successful digital marketing campaigns
· Experience of managing relationships with external suppliers, agencies and partners
· Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of digital and print marketing techniques and strategies
· Innovative, ideas-focused, and willing to challenge the status quo
Desirable
· Experience of producing mail order catalogues
· Knowledge of relevant systems and software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Shopify, Google Analytics
For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.
If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
How to apply
Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed via the Guide Dogs website.
As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.
The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.
If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.
Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.
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This exciting role will be responsible for the development and execution of a plan to increase the value of partnerships and to explore new markets for two sister charities, Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) and Mission Rabies.
You will explore relationships with new partners and help the team deliver excellent stewardship to our existing partners. You will manage a pipeline while providing guidance and coaching to other colleagues to help build stronger relationships with high-value supporters and work with colleagues to maintain relationships with trusts and grant giving bodies.
Importantly, you will ensure that our partners feel engaged, informed and enjoy an outstanding experience. Your role will build long term commitment and inspire them to do more to support WVS, Mission Rabies and champion animal welfare around the world.
This role offers flexibility between remote and office-based working. The details of this will be discussed with successful applicants.
Other organisations may call this role Fundraising Officer, Partnerships Officer, Corporate Partnerships Officer, Trusts and Foundations Officer, High-value Donor Officer, Fundraising Steward, Fundraising Co-ordinator
About Us
At Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) we champion animal welfare around the world. We send vets where they are needed most, provide expert veterinary training in hard-to-reach places, and ship urgent aid supplies worldwide, every day of the year.
We deploy teams of vets and vet nurses, send equipment and supplies to help struggling organisations on the front line of animal welfare, and train vets at our international training centres in India, Thailand, Malawi and the Galápagos Islands. We also work on one health projects such as strategic rabies elimination campaigns with Governments and NGOs all over the world.
We work synergistically with our sister charity, Mission Rabies. This charity was established by WVS to eliminate the threat of rabies worldwide, protecting dogs and people from this cruel disease. Despite being 100% vaccine preventable, rabies is still the world’s most deadly zoonotic disease. It kills 59,000 people annually, most of whom are children. As 99% of all human rabies cases are caused by infected dog bites, Mission Rabies follow World Health Organization guidelines to run mass canine vaccination programmes in countries like Cambodia, Ghana, India, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, and Uganda. To date we have vaccinated over 1,700,000 dogs and rabies educated over 5,000,000 children since 2013.
Both charities run from the same office and this position will have cross over between the two, offering a varied and exciting role, reporting to the Fundraising & Communications Manager.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Exploration of new markets for the charity, seeking relevant opportunities to deliver creative and inspiring engagement with new partners, ensure high rewards and grow mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Develop acquisition and solicitation plans for a portfolio of prospective partners.
- Write strong, emotive, tailored, and compelling proposals, initiate prospect meetings and confidently pitch to new partnership leads
- Work closely with colleagues across WVS and Mission Rabies to understand project detail, impact and need - in order to deliver the best possible experience for our partners.
- Manage pipelines for corporate and grant fundraising, and guide workflow on this for colleagues across the organisation.
- Working across the wider team to maximise corporate support through activities such as event sponsorship, volunteering opportunities, challenge activities and campaign partnership.
- Effectively network with local businesses and maintain a presence for the charity where appropriate at external meetings, conferences, or other networking opportunities.
- Ensure all activities are compliant with the fundraising code of practice and all other statutory obligations
Essential Skills & Experience
- 3+ years’ experience in a comparable role.
- Excellent copy writing and communication skills – with a willingness to talk to lots of people about the work we do.
- Experience in growing corporate income streams
- Demonstrated ability to proactively generate leads, win new business and successfully convert this into longer-term partnerships
- Understanding of cause related marketing
- A good understanding of the best practice and regulatory frameworks in fundraising
- A strong team player.
- Excellent attention to detail and pride in delivering high-quality work.
- A passion for animal welfare
- Proficient in Microsoft packages - Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- The ability and willingness to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends occasionally when the charity requires.
- The right to work in the UK
Desired Skills & Experience
- Qualified to degree level or with a relevant recognised qualification
- Successful management and delivery of events for high-value partners
- Experience of the veterinary, pet, and equine market in the UK, US, or EU.
- Experience in the charity sector
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Job Title: Head of Strategic Development
Salary: £45k - £55k FTE
Hours: 37.5 hours per week. Flexible hours
Location: Working from home with the requirement to attend weekly meetings across Greater Manchester
Reporting to: Board of Trustees
The Role:
We are looking for an individual with strong leadership skills to develop a strategy and move the Charity into its next phase of growth. With a passion for addressing homelessness across Greater Manchester, you will be responsible for ensuring that the Charity is progressive and keeping pace with change.
Working with the Board of Trustees and leading a small team you will develop the Charity’s strategy to ensure that we deliver innovative and impactful work streams built on insight and collaboration. You will be responsible for co-designing a diverse fundraising strategy that seeks to generate income from a variety of sources.
The Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity values diversity. Dedicated to cultivating and upholding a culture of inclusion, we are committed to equal opportunity and anti-discrimination practices. We seek diversity in our applicants and are particularly interested in attracting applications from candidates from historically marginalised groups.
Main Duties:
Governance and Organisational Development
- Work with the Board and staff to set the Charity’s strategy and business plan, and ensure that it is effectively executed
- Produce papers and reports for the Trustee meetings and ensure effective communication between the Board and Operational Team
- Ensure the Board is continually trained to conduct effective governance
- Ensure that the Charity is fully compliant with all statutory audit and regulatory requirements
- Ensure adherence to the Charity`s values and ethical standards in all Charity business
- Monitor and report on accountability standards and systems that track the Charity’s effectiveness and impact
- Ensure the Charity has all relevant policies and procedures in place and that these are up to date and follow best practice guidance
- Maintain an up-to-date understanding of homelessness issues and policy on a local and national scale to to ensure continuous improvement and development
- Develop the Charity’s convening role, bringing organisations and people together to share learning and build knowledge as appropriate
- Develop innovative and progressive approaches to the Charity’s grant-making that embed our values and are participatory in nature
- Ensure that our funding is invested in line with the Charity's funding strategy and that it is effectively utilised by recipients
Fundraising & Grant Making
- Develop innovative and progressive approaches to the Charity’s grant-making that embed our values and are participatory in nature
- Co-develop a fundraising strategy with the Partnerships Manager that supports the Charity’s aims, includes a strong corporate supporter network, individual givers, campaigns, funder partnerships, and philanthropic income streams such as major donors, legacies, trusts and foundations
- Continuously drive the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Charity’s grant-making strategy
Operational Management
- Take overall responsibility for financial and investment management, working with our external provider and Team Administrator to deliver accurate forecasting and reporting
- Work with our external provider and Team Administrator to ensure that annual report and financial accounts are produced in a timely manner
- Provide leadership and management to the Charity team, ensuring that they are supported, and their professional development is nurtured
- Manage the process for the recruitment and induction of new Trustees and staff
- Hold the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) role for the Charity, ensuring that all major organisational risks are identified and reviewed by the Finance, Audit and Risk sub-committee and the Board, and implement effective actions to mitigate risk
General
- Undertake any other duties as may be reasonably required.
Person Specification:
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in leadership, strategic and organisational development and delivering targets
- Understanding of fundraising strategies and tools
- Proven experience and knowledge of financial management and budgeting
- Relevant experience in Charity governance and working with a Board of Trustees
- Experience setting and executing business plans based on budgets, forecasts and strategy
- Experience of using evidence and impact to steer strategy
- A clear, demonstrable understanding of issues and policies related to homelessness both locally and nationally
Desirable
- Experience managing a team of people
- Knowledge of investment management
- Knowledge of the charity sector
- Knowledge of the Greater Manchester landscape (non-profit, politics, business etc)
- Understanding of modern grant-making
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work with individuals at all levels
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to motivate others towards achieving a common goal and deliver high performance
- Analytical, creative and strategic thinking
- Excellent project management and organisation skills
- Self motivated with the ability to work autonomously
Behaviours
Essential
- Highly credible with a genuine interest in the Charity’s aims and mission
- Self-starter motivated by difficult challenges and tenacious in solving them
- A great team player and naturally collaborative working style
- Open to learning and impact focussed
- Flexible, willing and able to respond to constant change and challenge
- Highest standards of integrity and professionalism
- A strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
How to apply:
To apply for this role please submit a CV and Cover letter, outlining why you are suitable for the role. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Closing Date: 7th July 2022, 11:59pm
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Starting Salary: £32,019 - £33,526 (£35,703 - £37,210 if based in London)
Contract: 12-month contract, full-time
Location: UK-based/flexible location with potential for remote working
Job Profile
Do you have what it takes to drive proactive and sustained media coverage about our work?
Do you understand the media landscape, particularly regional media?
Are you passionate about using storytelling to bring to life our social justice work and help drive change?
If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and energetic press officer to join the media team of one of the UK’s largest international development agencies.
Part of one of the world’s largest aid networks (Caritas Internationalis) which has a presence in 193 countries, CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. We stand alongside some of the most hard-to-reach communities across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, working through the Catholic and secular organisations to reach people of all faiths and none and places that others can’t.
We’re a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee, we inspire huge trust among our supporters – which we don’t take for granted – and we’re well known and respected among UK policymakers.
We’re looking for an experienced press officer to take on a varied Media Officer role with a particular focus on building CAFOD’s public profile through regional media outlets, by spotting strong angles for media stories and by crafting compelling creative pitches that hit the right spot for journalists, editors, and producers.
You’ll be tasked with searching for and developing regional media angles across the full range of our work, including our long-term development programmes, our emergency humanitarian response and our contribution to Disasters Emergency Committee appeals, our campaigning, policy and advocacy work and our major annual fundraising initiatives.
You’ll be responsible for teasing out and building creative media pitches to ensure week in, week out we are pitching stories to the biggest regional outlets that resonate for their audiences. You’ll do this by building relationships with colleagues across the organisation and identifying what we need to bring regional stories to life, whether that’s additional research, a local spokesperson or internal data on how local communities have supported our mission to date, working with the Head of Media where necessary to resource these additional needs.
About you
The ideal candidate will have a strong nose for a story, be proactive about hunting out media opportunities across the full range of our work and will be tenacious about seeing these through until coverage appears.
You’ll have an in-depth knowledge of the regional media landscape across England and Wales and will be comfortable pitching to a range of producers, journalist and editors, have a sense of what makes a good broadcast spokesperson and be comfortable helping colleagues to prepare for media opportunities. International development experience is not essential, but you’ll be able to show a strong interest in our work and be passionate about helping deliver our mission.
CAFOD offers a range of flexible working options and there is the potential for this role to be undertaken on a hybrid basis (working 40% of the time in the office) or to be based at home. At such it is an ideal opportunity for a press officer based outside of London. Interviews to be held on Thursday 21st July online.
Key Responsibilities
- Identifying newsworthy media opportunities, crafting and delivering strong broadcast media pitches, and writing press releases, statements and comment pieces which generate maximum impact; ensuring all media pitches and content is repurposed efficiently for our owned digital channels
- Organising media interviews, briefing materials and supporting the briefing and preparation of spokespeople, including identifying and building the confidence of new spokespeople across the organisation where necessary
- Building media relationships and contacts across all major broadcast, print and online media outlets, predominantly with a regional focus, but providing surge capacity on national media pitching to the wider media team where necessary
- Crafting a range of content for our social media channels and ensuring media stories are being designed and pitched with our digital channels in mind from the outset
- Collaborating cross-organisationally, influencing teams, and achieving good media outcomes in support of our work
- Building strong relationships with teams across the organisation to gain a full understanding of our work and to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the organisation that might be media-worthy
- Spotting potential story ideas and developing these, using additional resources if necessary, into compelling media pitches for regional broadcast, print, specialist and online media
- Helping influence and advise colleagues so information and content is gathered and shared to allow the media team to successfully deliver coverage for the organisation
- Contributing to the successful day to day activity of the media team
- Working alongside the Head of Media and other media officers to ensure resources are appropriately focused on CAFOD’s agreed media priorities and key moments
- Providing surge capacity where required to support other media officers’ briefs and working close with teams across the communications department (including digital and creative content colleagues) to ensure media input into overseas content gathering and to help plan other ongoing communications work
- Engaging with our celebrity Ambassador programme providing creative input and ideas for their involvement in key CAFOD fundraising and campaigning moments
- Providing input into the multi- channel planning work on content
- Playing an essential role in the media team and communications team as a whole, ensuring all media coverage is appropriately logged, media databases are kept up to date and helping to ensure essential media team admin is undertaken
Skills and experience
- A nose for a story and a keen insight into news and current affairs
- Experience writing key messages such as press releases, media briefings and opinion pieces
- Experience of managing multiple media briefs across different outlets and able to meet deadlines and make decisions on what to prioritise when working under pressure on several stories
- Strong communication skills, both written (able to produce polished and compelling copy often to tight deadlines and with a good understanding of what works for CAFOD’s digital channels) and verbal (able to be persuasive with pitching media ideas to producers/journalists/media outlets)
- Able to support cross-organisational initiatives integrating corporate objectives into media work and support, motivate and develop staff in understanding what works best for media
- Able to work on issues that are often complex and sensitive to find the best approach for CAFOD’s media engagement
For more information on this vacancy as well as the application process, please visit the CAFOD jobs page.
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The opportunity
Are you an experienced Marketing Manager that can deliver effective marketing campaigns that help increase Donor and Volunteer engagement at one of the U. K’s leading Charity Retailers?
About the role
As our Donor Marketing Manager, you will lead highly effective donor and volunteer marketing campaigns communications across multiple channels for our extensive retail estate to attract more people to donate their unwanted items & time to the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
From audience insight to campaign development through to execution and evaluation, you’ll develop, deliver, and evaluate integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns in support of the BHF’s strategic objectives.
Working closely alongside our colleagues in Retail as well as our Shopper and Fundraising Marketing Managers within the Commercial Engagement team, this role will play an active role in developing experience and anticipating the next big things for donor marketing within the charity retail space.
We are the leading charity retailer with over 700 stores across the UK and serve 30 million customers each year. Our annual profits fund pioneering research into heart and circulatory diseases. We couldn’t do it without our people who run a seamless operation, get a kick out of finding brilliant products, and delivering a first-rate customer service.
Working arrangements
This is a dual location role, with your working time split between your Home and 1-2 days per week in our London Office (NW1 7AW). This will allow us to unlock our best work for our cause, blending the best of home and office working.
Here at the BHF we understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life. Many of our people work flexibly in many ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.
About you
As our ideal candidate, you will have extensive knowledge and experience of donor and brand marketing, a detailed understanding of in-store and online customer journeys, and knowledge of digital marketing (including search, social media & email marketing).
You have experience leading and delivering donor marketing campaigns and communications through digital, social and traditional channels preferably in large retail organizations.
With a demonstrable track record of successful engagement, acquisition and retention campaign planning and delivery you are able identify and seize opportunities and find solutions.
You bring a wealth of financial and commercial knowledge to the table, including the ability to manage budgets, leading a team to perform against objectives, analysing and evaluating data, and as well a flair for creating buy in with stakeholders and for implementing improvements.
A confident communicator and self-starter with great stakeholder management skills, you have experience of line managing teams and external design agencies.
About us
At the British Heart Foundation, we are focused on the urgent need to fund more research into heart and circulatory diseases like heart diseases, stroke, vascular dementia, and the conditions that cause them, to find answers fit for 21st century challenges. We are independent, have more than fifty years of breakthroughs under our belts and continue to fund life saving research.
We celebrate diversity and make inclusion part of what we do every day. Diversity and Inclusion forms a main pillar in our People Experience Strategy. Our aim is for all our colleagues and volunteers to bring their true self to work, so we can continue to fund life saving research.
What can we offer you?
Our MyBHF Career Academy provides you with support, inspiration, and opportunities to help you unlock your full potential.
Our generous staff benefits include:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Dental health cover
- Contribution towards gym membership
- Pension with employer contribution up to 10%
- Life assurance
We have been recognised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) for our Live Well. Work Well. Programme. Heart health is central to our mission, and that starts with you. We provide a programme of activities, opportunities, and guidance to inspire and support you to live a healthy and happy life, at home and at work.
Interview process
Please note interviews will be held over Microsoft Teams.
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