Business Development Jobs in Europe
Black-and-Racialised groups face many challenges that inhibit their ability to thrive and deliver quality services that meet the needs of their users. These challenges include lack of core sustainable funding and limiting the capacity and financial/governance skills. We are seeking an experienced Deputy Finance Director who will play a pivotal role in establishing a Finance Centre of Excellence - providing infrastructural and financial management support to Black and Minoritised community-led organisations in 8 London boroughs. The Centre of Excellence will focus on increasing groups’ financial literacy, confidence, skills, resilience and will include:
- Bespoke financial management capacity-building support, including compliance with statutory/funder requirements; and support with operational/strategic management and planning resources.
- Support will also include financial health checks, finance strategy development, risk.
- Identification and management, budgeting, statutory/funder compliance training, employer responsibilities training, governance training, budget for funding bids, and annual report.
- Devote significant time to outward-facing activities dedicated to supporting frontline Black and racialised grassroots community groups.
- Development of online learning tools and platforms to cascade the learning and providing 1-to-1 coaching sessions for Senior managers and Trustees.
The Deputy Finance Director will report to and work closely with the Chief Financial officer and will also contribute to Ubele’s overall financial strategy and supporting financial operations within our central hub.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Finance Manager will be providing bespoke financial management capacity-building support, ensuring compliance with statutory/funder requirements, and supporting operational/strategic management and planning resources. The role holder is also expected to support HQ Finance function.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our financial hub, you will be supporting the CFO, Deputy Director of Finance and our senior leadership team to set up the Financial Centre of Excellence dedicated to supporting Black and racially Minoritised community groups.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
A. Support the CFO and Deputy Director of Finance and senior leadership team to set up the Financial Centre of Excellence dedicated to supporting Black and racially Minoritised community groups.
B. Provide bespoke financial management capacity-building support to Black and racialized organisations in 8 London boroughs, including supporting groups to:
1. Conducting financial health checks and developing and implementing action plans.
2. Provide training, and guidance to groups supported on ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory and funder requirements governing the sector, employer responsibilities training, and governance.
3. Support the development and implementation of financial strategies operational/strategic management and planning resources.
4. Provide training and guidance on risk identification and mitigation and annual reports and accounts.
5. Support the delivery of webinars/masterclasses to participants
6. Support developing effective online learning tools and platforms to cascade learning.
7. Support the delivery of a proactive finance service ‘Critical Friend’ providing financial advice, support, scrutiny, and challenge to the organisations.
8. Support groups to plan resources, assess the implications of service proposals, and provide financial modelling and analysis of service options for projects and initiatives.
9. Contribute to the provision of financial support across the Ubele hubs, in forecasting both in-year and future-year income and expenditure, ensuring these are accurate, appropriate, and supported through activity and performance analysis.
10. Support the Deputy Finance Director as required on a range of financial and management accounting, budgetary, reconciliation, reporting, and payment tasks where relevant, for the designated service area.
11.Support the Ubele senior leadership team and staff in the development and updating of the project organisational and annual budget to ensure that it supports the outcomes set out in our strategic plan.
Job title: Senior Partnership Development Manager
Salary: £48,456 per annum
Location: London, E1 (Hybrid working)
Contract/Hours: 35 hours FTE, Permanent
Benefits
- 33 days of holidays including bank holidays plus Christmas office closure.
- Option to buy or sell holiday days.
- Generous pension scheme of up to 10% employer contribution.
- Bike loan scheme for the purchase of a new bike.
- LinkedIn Learning with an extensive number of courses available.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
Fairtrade Foundation are recruiting a Senior Partnership Development Manager to lead our exciting new growth work. The role will be tasked with winning significant new strategic partnerships as well as building strategies that help us innovate and bring in new types of partnership to help diversify our income.
You’ll need to be a proactive and tenacious individual with considerable new business experience and success in a challenging, target-based environment; bring creativity to think ‘outside the box’ and develop new income streams; and the ability to inspire potential partners to work with Fairtrade. If you have experience of working with businesses on responsible sourcing, that’s great, but it’s not essential.
Fairtrade is a global movement for change that works directly with businesses, consumers and campaigners to make trade deliver for farmers and workers, with a strong and active presence in the UK, represented by the Fairtrade Foundation.
The international Fairtrade system (of which the Fairtrade Foundation is a member) works on behalf of farmers and workers to drive sustainable livelihoods, empower producers and workers, and make trade fair.
The Fairtrade Foundation is an equal opportunities employer, offers flexible working and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
We particularly welcome applications from candidates with ethnically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQ+ candidates and from candidates with disabilities, because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at this level. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to greater results for producers and farmers around the world.
Closing date: 10 June (10am)
1st Round Interviews will take place w/c 17th June; 2nd Round Interviews w/c 24th June 2024
Contract: Full-Time, Permanent
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page
Travel: Some travel will be expected on an ad hoc basis to our Chesterfield office
Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.
Are you an experienced and confident HR professional, customer-focused and practical in your approach? At Versus Arthritis we are committed to developing and supporting our people, using a business partnering approach to enable us to do this. This is an exciting time to join us as we continue to make our charity a brilliant place to work and volunteer.
About the role
This role is about building key relationships with organisation leaders to support and advise on delivering the people agenda and improving organisational performance to push back against arthritis.
The People Business Partner will work closely with key stakeholders across the charity to provide advice, support and guidance, developing our workforce to enable delivery of strategic goals and to positively impact people with arthritis. It’s about:
- effective workforce planning
- influencing, coaching and advising
- learning, evaluating and improving
- building key relationships, and supporting and advising on all people-related activities.
About you
If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you:
- Qualified to CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience.
- Experience of supporting organisational change.
- Significant generalist HR experience, including managing complex employee relations cases.
- Strong and effective communicator, with the ability to engage stakeholders.
- A flexible, pragmatic and creative approach, redefining problems in light of information gathered or changes of context.
- Evidence of effectively working with ambiguity and comfortable working at pace.
- Strong advising and coaching skills, enabling managers to develop their knowledge, confidence and capability in managing people whilst taking a balanced approach to risk and reputation.
*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.
Application deadline and shortlisting
- We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of this date.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales.
Interview
First interview expected on Wednesday, 19 June at our London office - Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London, EC1N 8TS.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
In addition to your salary of £30,000 + £4,680 per annum Car Cash allowance, you will benefit from a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, great holiday entitlement and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits, all of which can be found here
- 25 days paid holiday, plus paid Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days plus Bank Holidays after 3 years
- Home working status with ‘hub’ facilities available if a need to work outside of home – flexibility.
- Annual £200 personal learning & growth award to spend on any learning related activity – hobbies; aspirations etc.
- Free access to specialist counselling on a range of issues – health; financial; lifestyle; well-being; domestic & neighbourly matters.
- Access to a range of employee benefits including – store discounts; boating holiday discounts; holiday purchase scheme.
- 2 days paid volunteering leave, volunteering for local community project work.
At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.
All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job.
When you join the Canal & River Trust you become a member of an engaged team working to preserve our heritage for future generations. Come and share your passion and knowledge with a team that makes a difference to millions of people every day.
The Head of Programmes, forming part of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and reporting directly to the CEO, is a critical role holding overall responsibility and management of Youth Realities’ programme delivery and development.
Youth Realities currently runs four core programmes, underpinning our three outlined priority pillars: prevention, intervention and healing.
- Deepin Relationships - healthy relationships education in communities and schools
- Young Women's IDVA Support - specialist, long term support for young survivors of abuse and violence in their close relationships
- Deepin Dance - a weekly dance space for young women aged 16-25 who have survived relationship violence
- Wellbeing Activities - regular community-based wellbeing workshops, trips and creative days for young people aged 11-25
The charity currently engages over 100 young people each year in intervention and healing activities, with an additional target of 1500 young people per year to be engaged in the Deepin Relationships programme through funding awarded from May 2024 - May 2026.
The primary role of the Head of Programmes is to oversee the delivery, development and evaluation of all programmes, which will include direct line management of all delivery staff (currently seven).
Youth Realities is currently going through an exciting transitional period, as the current Founder and CEO is leaving the charity in August 2024 and a new CEO will be joining our excellent team. With both SLT members being new to the charity, this is a brilliant opportunity to bring fresh perspectives, energy and passion to Youth Realities, taking guidance from the knowledge and experience of the serving staff team.
It will be critical that the first few months of this role are spent learning, exploring, listening to and working closely with staff and young people supported. Building strong staff relationships is crucial to the success of this role, to be able to truly understand how the charity operates as a small, grass-roots community provision.
The Programme Officer is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of the annual member programme and conducting research to ensure the Association of Chief Executives and the Public Chairs' Forum continue to provide a compelling and responsive offering to its members.
The Programme Officer ensures ACE and PCF remain in step with changing member needs and interests.
1. Manage delivery of a wide range of community activities
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Shapes proposals for events and sessions, based on member insight and desk research.
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Promotes activities through fortnightly member updates and a variety of communications and media tools to reach different target groups.
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Supports improvements to membership offering, based on feedback and data intelligence.
2. Secure a sustainable future for PCF and ACE
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Provides support to the development and delivery of membership engagement campaigns.
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Maintains membership programme engagement records.
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Manages resources effectively.
3. Secure the reputation of PCF and ACE as a credible voice for public bodies.
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Contributes to relationships with key stakeholders, including Cabinet Office, government departments, public bodies and Institute for Government.
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Plays an active role in contributing to research projects which stimulate debate and inform improving practice.
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Contributes ideas and content for circulation across communication channels - web, socials, trade press - to increase the profile of PCF and ACE.
4. Ensure smooth and effective operations of PCF and ACE.
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Contributes to regular reporting to the Chairs and Boards of both PCF and ACE.
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Contributes general administration and operational support as required.
If you’d like to apply for this post, please send your CV and a covering letter by Friday 7 June 2024, describing in under 500 words how you meet each of the criteria listed in the job and person specification.
In addition to your salary of £47,000 + Car Cash Allowance, you will benefit from a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, great holiday entitlement and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits.
- 25 days paid holiday, plus paid Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days plus Bank Holidays after 3 years
- Home working status with ‘hub’ facilities available if a need to work outside of home – flexibility. Monday to Friday working, no weekend working.
- Annual £200 personal learning & growth award to spend on any learning related activity – hobbies; aspirations etc.
- Free access to specialist counselling on a range of issues – health; financial; lifestyle; well-being; domestic & neighbourly matters.
- Access to a range of employee benefits including – store discounts; boating holiday discounts; holiday purchase scheme.
- 2 days paid volunteering leave, volunteering for local community project work.
At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.
All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job.
When you join the Canal & River Trust you become a member of an engaged team working to preserve our heritage for future generations. Come and share your passion and knowledge with a team that makes a difference to millions of people every day.
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Corporate Partnerships Account Manager
FTE £32000 - £35000, 25hrs pw PR, flexible and hybrid, plus opportunities for ongoing L&D and training for sector related qualifications
About Us
The Upper Room (TUR) works with a wide range of financially and socially disadvantaged groups including homeless people, people with long-term mental health conditions, asylum-seekers, refugees and ex-offenders – helping them to improve their lives and become productive members of society. Central to our offering is our UR4Meals service, providing free, home-cooked food to people who cannot afford to provide for themselves. We are also very proud of our UR4Driving programme, which supports people recently out of prison with free driving lessons in exchange for community volunteering. Gaining a driving licence greatly enhances their future employability prospects and helps break the cycle of re-offending. Additionally, our UR4Jobs project focusses on both client wellbeing and breaking down the many barriers to employment faced by disadvantaged people every day.
The role
Is an exciting new edition to the TUR team, created to capitalise on the fact that the number of businesses in our catchment area is 45000+, but we’re not trying to talk to all of them, just target a few – ideally by gaining referrals and recommendations. So the job is to proactively find those local businesses happy to talk to us, understand what they might be looking for by partnering with a charity, share our brilliant story along with the business case (which is strong) for them to get involved with us in some way. We have made an excellent start, we already have a small number of great corporate partners, and this job is about taking it all on to the next level. As you would expect the role is about creating contacts, networking, maximising the face-to-face time with prospective partners and where possible gaining referrals. And, ultimately this is all because, the bigger our portfolio of corporate partners all feeling great about their involvement with us, the more able we are to raise the funds we need to keep up with an ever-increasing demand for our services.
About You
You live within - or know well, West/Central London, you probably need a job with some working flexibility and want to have genuine belief in the product or service you’re talking about. You have a CV that demonstrates solid experience in a comparable role in a ‘business-to-business’ environment, a role - the success of which, is dependent on the levels of energy and proactivity you provide. This could be in another charity, CIC or other Non-Profit organisation. However, if you have a solid B2B background and want to explore a change of direction you are also very welcome to apply. You are comfortable and confident with working autonomously, you can articulate and ‘bring to life’ your story through your presentation skills. You also need great listening skills so you can build a picture of what each new corporate partner is looking to achieve by signing up to our cause. You have used Microsoft suite products before – including PowerPoint. A driving licence and use of a car is desirable as the role requires regular client visits, some of whom may not be accessible by public transport.
If this is you, please send you CV (max 2-3 pages please) and a covering letter (just a one-pager please) to our CEO telling us why you thin you are a fit for this role
Making sure nobody, socially or financially excluded in West London goes without help, supporting those in need, enabling those with potential
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
St. Margaret's House (SMH) are looking for a dynamic Executive Director (ED) to join our senior leadership at an exciting time in the organisation's development.
The ED will work collaboratively with the Arts and Wellbeing Director to fulfil the vision, mission and strategic objectives of SMH, taking on the role of Co-CEO following the departure of our long-standing CEO.
We are looking for someone with varied fundraising, finance, human resources and business development experience to implement a vision for the future growth of the charity with particular reference to improving our buildings and directing the retail and hospitality areas of work.
Application Deadline: 9am, Monday 17th June 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Plan International UK is a global children’s charity striving for an equal world. One where every child can reach their full potential and every girl can choose her own future. Girls experience inequality everywhere. The threat of gender-based violence and harassment follows them through every stage of their life. Millions of girls are robbed of their childhood because of child marriage. And it is much harder for girls to access their right to education and learn skills for the future. Plan brings people together to protect children’s rights and keep girls safe, in school and in control of their bodies – even when disaster strikes. They won’t stop until we are all equal.
The Corporate Partnerships Lead will lead, manage and develop the team of 7 raising c.£4m pa, personally spearheading the new business strategy and major approaches.
Overseeing the account management team of four, you’ll strategically guide the development and growth of key partners. Leading the team of two in new business, you’ll personally lead on the biggest approaches while supporting the team to develop their own pipelines.
There will be a large focus on cross-team collaboration, working closely with your colleagues across the Major Partnerships Unit (trusts, foundations, major donors and corporates), for shared leads, pipelines and approaches.
About the role
As Corporate Partnerships Lead, you will:
- develop and implement a corporate partnerships growth strategy ensuring a focus on new partnerships;
- develop, lead and motivate your team of talented corporate fundraisers;
- provide strategic oversight to account management, working with the Corporate Partnerships Managers to create development and growth plans;
- personally secure 6+7-figure corporate partnerships whilst working with and leading the new business team;
- produce monthly reports detailing results and activities, flagging trends, issues and recommending solutions;
- develop a deep knowledge of Plan and the development sector in order to identify new market opportunities and produce compelling propositions;
- lead by example to promote and action Plan’s anti-racism plan within the Corporate Partnerships team.
About you
- Ability to secure new six figure corporate partnerships as well as retaining and developing existing partnerships.
- Experience of developing and managing people and high performing teams – able to coach and inspire teams to succeed.
- Able to deal confidently and diplomatically with colleagues (including CEO and Board) and donors at all levels.
- Experience of strategic planning – initiation, development and implementation of strategic processes.
- Experience of setting targets and objectives, delivering against these and monitoring and evaluating performance.
- Creative approach able to generate innovative ideas and deliver effective pitches and partnerships.
- Analytical, budgeting and financial management skills.
- A collaborative approach to working cross-organisationally and embedding effective ways of working to deliver shared objectives.
To apply, please submit your CV to Emily Birch at QuarterFive in the first instance. After a discussion with you, we will require a supporting statement that covers specific questions/areas.
Expert recruitment for fundraisers and charities.
KTP
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are a unique UK-wide activity that help businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity by making better use of the knowledge, technology and skills within universities, colleges and research organisations.
THE PROJECT
The University of Essex in partnership with We are the Minories (WATM), an arts charity and gallery in a historic townhouse in Colchester, offers an exciting opportunity to a graduate with the relevant skills and knowledge to develop a data led and long-term strategic plan, to enhance WATM’s growth.
The associate will work with WATM’s managers and University of Essex academic supervisors to ensure WATM's sustainable and prosperous future while keeping their community ethos and values at the heart of their activities. This will be achieved through four key strategies:
- Developing innovative solutions to evaluate and measure the social impact of WATM’s activities to enhance its success rates in funding applications.
- Introducing business model innovations to support WATM in improving its income generation, such as through new product/service development (e.g., consultancy) and exploring additional income-generating activities like leveraging its physical space.
- Enhancing WATM’s capabilities in managing both social and economic missions and supporting them in sharing their knowledge through consultancy to third-party organisations.
- Developing marketing, operational, and financial plans to foster the sustainable growth of WATM.
This post is fixed term for 18 months.
DUTIES OF THE POST
The duties of the post will include:
- Conduct literature reviews and summarise findings for a non-academic audience.
- Design and develop a framework to measure social output, outcomes, and impacts of WATM's activities.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
- Develop and design data-driven and customer-driven strategies to improve the sustainability and growth of WATM
- Develop strategies for augmenting earned and grant income.
- Formulate and implement robust and well-informed marketing, operational and financial plans based on the collected data and selected strategies.
- Develop a comprehensive knowledge management plan, encompassing strategies for disseminating insights and best practices derived from the project.
- Manage activities, stakeholders and relationship building across diverse groups, including WATM’s board of trustees, art gallery/café visitors, artists, employees, volunteers, and wider community.
- Disseminate findings in scientific articles and conferences.
These duties are a guide to the work that the post holder will initially be required to undertake. They may be changed from time to time to meet changing circumstances.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- A first/undergraduate degree in Management, Business Studies or a related discipline, OR a first/undergraduate degree in a subject related to Arts and Humanities or nonprofit sector with business development experience.
- Excellent market research, analytical and problem-solving skills to generate insights and support evidence-based decision making.
- Knowledge and experience of qualitative and quantitative data analysis and proficiency with data analysis tools and methodologies.
- Experience of producing written reports in an academic context.
- Proficiency in strategic planning, business development and consultancy.
- Ability to formulate and implement robust and well-informed marketing, operational and financial plans.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships and facilitate training sessions.
- Excellent time keeping, budget management and project management skills.
BENEFITS
As a KTP Associate, the post will offer the following benefits:
- A personal development budget of £3000 (exclusive of salary).
- Management training and mentoring by an Innovate UK KTP Adviser.
- An interesting and challenging role, with exposure to a variety of stakeholders.
- Full access to university resources to complete the project.
- World-leading Academic and Company project supervision, with project support by a dedicated, sector leading KTP Office.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Come and join the University of Cambridge Development and Alumni Relations office!
Associate Director, London
Ref: DH41255
Location: Central Cambridge with frequent travel to London
Salary: £45,585 - £57,696 per annum
Development and Alumni Relations is expanding, and the Associate Director, London is a key appointment. You will work to build and strengthen our networks of alumni and supporters in London, where many of the University's most important and longstanding supporters are based. You will have the opportunity to work on six- and seven-figure gifts, securing philanthropic support for priorities across the Collegiate University, such as building a new Children's Hospital, ensuring global food security, powering a zero-carbon future, protecting endangered ecosystems, understanding the implications of AI, and ensuring everyone has access to world-leading education, regardless of background.
You will be part of the International and Regional Team, reporting to the Head of Development, London. You will work with academics across the full breadth of the Collegiate University, giving you an opportunity to pursue truly donor-led major gift fundraising. In a team and University characterised by ambition and the pursuit of excellence, you will find yourself among academic and development colleagues who are among the very best in the business.
You will be a talented major gifts fundraiser or equivalent who wants to secure gifts at the transformational level. You will be a self-starter, collaborative, robust, innovative in approach and a great communicator. Key to your success will be the ability to engage with high-net-worth individuals and senior academic and administrative staff across Collegiate Cambridge.
This position is an exciting opportunity to join a team that works at the cutting edge of what we do at an institution where philanthropy has real impact. We have extraordinary aspirations, come and join us in making them a reality.
This role is based in central Cambridge - we are open to hybrid working which can be discussed at interview.
The postholder will need to be able to travel frequently to the London area as well as occasionally travel within the UK.
The closing date for this position is 9th of June 2024.
First round interviews for this position are anticipated to take place the week commencing the 20th of June.
Second round interviews are anticipated to take place the week commencing the 24th of June.
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.
Please quote reference DH41255 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
No agencies please.
Prospectus is excited to be working exclusively with Arthritis Action to help them recruit a Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager. Arthritis Action is the UK charity giving hands-on, practical help to improve the quality of life of people affected by arthritis. They support people living with musculoskeletal conditions through healthy eating advice, mental health resources, pain management techniques, Online Groups, employment support, and exercise advice and resources
This permanent role pays a salary of £40,000 to £47,000 per annum. This is a hybrid role based in London and the postholder is expected to work from the office 2 days a week.
This is a varied role which involves implementing Arthritis Action’s corporate fundraising strategy, with the aim of maximising income from corporate partnerships, sponsorships, and wellbeing programmes. You will be responsible for researching prospective corporate partners and building/maintaining the Charity’s pipeline of existing and potential partners.
Arthritis Action are looking for someone with demonstrable experience of implementing corporate fundraising strategies in line with an organisation’s vision, values, and strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will have a track record of securing muti-year five and six-figure partnerships and be proactive to secure new business.
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process then please contact Ariha Semontee at Prospectus.
If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.
In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a 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.
Church Buildings Officer
Do you have strong administrative skills? Are you interested in historic buildings?
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Church Buildings team and to play a role in supporting parishes in conserving, repairing and developing this very significant collection of buildings.
There are 466 churches within the Diocese, 75% of which are listed, including 181 at Grade I… so if you have relevant experience or are a graduate with a relevant qualification and an interest in this area, then apply today!
Position: Church Buildings Officer
Location: Hove/hybrid
Salary: £18,000 per annum (pro rata of FTE of £30,000 pa).
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week (with the option to work these flexibly through the week)
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 0.6 pro-rata entitlement of 28 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and 2 privilege days per year, flexi-time, free parking, the ride to work scheme, and the Diocesan Pension Scheme with 15.1% employer contribution
Closing Date: 9th June 2024
About the Role
Applications are invited for the role of Church Buildings Officer to work within the Church Buildings team and support the work of the Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches (DAC).
The main duties of the Church Buildings Officer will include:
- Providing guidance, advice and support to parishes, Archdeacons, and others on the care of church buildings, church contents and churchyards
- Assisting the Senior Church Buildings Officer with the preparation for committee meetings, drafting minutes, and progressing applications for permissions for works to church buildings between meetings.
- Assisting parishes with making faculty applications and providing support to parishes to register with the Online Faculty system and submit applications online.
- Arranging and attending site visits to churches across Sussex to discuss major projects, and writing up site visit reports, passing on the DAC’s initial advice
About You
With a relevant degree or equivalent experience, you will have knowledge and an understanding of the historic built environment.
You will also have experience of providing administration support and working with committees and/or volunteers
You will have:
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal
- A high level of organisation and attention to detail
- Full familiarity with MS office 365 (Outlook, Word, SharePoint etc)
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- The ability to work on own initiative and under pressure
The successful candidate will also be required to support the aims and mission of the organisation.
About the Organisation
The vision of the Diocese is to help people within the Diocese to know, love and follow Jesus. Based in Hove and serving the people of the Diocese across more than 360 parishes and 155 church schools and the wider community, this is a great role for someone who supports the ethos, aims and objectives of the Diocese and the Church of England.
The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders are expected to share this commitment and to comply with the relevant safeguarding policy.
Other roles you may have experience of could include Building Officer, Church Buildings Officer, Historic Buildings Officer, Conservation Officer, Heritage, Building Coordinator, Church Buildings Coordinator, Historic Buildings Coordinator, Estates, Historic Sites, Building Conservation, Church, Faith.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.