Fixed term contract to 31st December 2020

Based in London

£39,492 - £45,900 per annum / Full-Time

The Role

The Greenspeaker programme focuses on quality conversations that aim to really connect and inspire people to act. The focus is on relating to the audience as individual agents for change in their community - and that’s what sets Greenpeace Speakers aside from typical school or community talk-givers.

This year, Greenpeace will grow this programme to include over 100 volunteers, all trained and supported to deliver engagement all over the country. We will develop resources to support school and universities, youth, business and community groups which inspire action at a community level. The team will work to inspire action and support individuals and groups to develop their skills, knowledge and passion for overcoming environmental issues at a community level, with an onus on reaching out to marginalised communities.

Requirements

We’re looking for someone with significant experience of coordinating, inspiring and supporting volunteers. You will be an extremely effective communicator, with experience of delivering events and training, with excellent inter-personal skills, a preference for team working and be able to maintain strong, trusting relationships. You will have a good knowledge of campaign strategy and tactics and a desire to affect change.

We are looking for someone who can start the role by 1st July 2020 or shortly after.

What we offer

We can offer you a friendly, fast-paced, immensely rewarding working environment where creativity is encouraged and ideas are supported.

You will have the opportunity to develop both personally and professionally, as you are able to take advantage of the wide range of learning and development opportunities available to our staff.

We offer great benefits such as a generous pension scheme, subsidised lunches, free yoga, a wealth of well-being resources just to name a few. Take a look at our Work for Greenpeace pages to find out more about what it’s like to work for us and why you should apply!

CLOSING DATE : Thursday, 11th June 2020

INTERVIEWS: Friday, 19th June 2020

Greenpeace UK is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or any other category protected by law. Greenpeace UK was recently awarded the National Equality Standard, one of the UK’s most rigorous accreditations for equality, diversity and inclusion.

Do you have experience of developing campaign strategies that mobilise communities and increase campaign engagement?

Would you like to co-lead Friends of the Earth’s climate campaign team to shape and deliver plans for national and international change?

We have an amazing opportunity for a Campaign Lead to join our climate team on an initial 2-year fixed term contract. As Campaign Lead you will work in collaboration with the team co-leads to ensure cross-organisational input into the climate campaign including emerging just recovery activities.

This role requires an exceptional leader with experience of delivering successful campaigns and the ability to adapt to fast changing situations. A demonstrable understanding of how change happens politically and socially, and how to design, develop and run community-led campaigns that will make a real difference to people is essential.

For more details please visit our website.

Closing date: Monday 15th June (23:59)

*Following this fixed term contract, a permanent Campaigner role is available. Details will be discussed at interview stage.

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your fundraising skills and make a real impact towards our aim to reverse the rise in people forced to sleep on the street?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Philanthropy Officer to join our supportive team of experienced fundraisers. This is a fantastic time to join us at St Mungo’s.

As Philanthropy Officer, you will provide valuable administrative support to the Major and High Value Donor team to ensure that we provide an exceptional experience for our supporters. You will also manage a portfolio of relationships with our supporters, including planning events and visits to projects and writing letters, proposals and reports to connect in a meaningful and effective way with those engaged with our cause.

To ensure we are effectively engaging potential supporters of our work, you will collaborate with our teams delivering vital work in services to develop engaging ways of talking about their work and its impact, and deliver communications to new and existing audiences.

The team is going from strength to strength having over-achieved on fundraising targets last year and are now building on this success to enable the charity to transform and expand services to meet the growing need in the current housing crisis. As a department focussed on progression and career development, this role has arisen due to positive changes elsewhere in the team.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills at all levels, including both internal and external stakeholders.

If you are able to prepare and deliver compelling engagement and effectively manage processes and projects for a team, we will support you to develop the skills needed to personally secure income and manage relationships that will impact homelessness. We would welcome applications from people with transferrable skills wanting a first step in the charity sector or those wanting to step up their experience in fundraising.

What we offer

• Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities

St Mungo’s employees are encouraged to consider opportunities to develop new skills or progress including; secondments, internal transfers, application to new roles in the organisation or just to get involved in various projects happening within the organisation.

As a result last year 35% of our vacancies were filled by promotions. In 2019 we achieved We Invest in People Gold level accreditation and are one of just 3% of housing associations to achieve this standard; 82% of staff who took part in the IIP survey say St Mungo’s is a great place to work.

• A Diverse and Inclusive Work Place

At St Mungo’s is a Disability Confident Employer, we are in the top 100 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2020 and we are. Equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work.

We are proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion and have 7 great Diversity Networks to support clients and staff from different backgrounds so they are able to be their best selves. Our Networks include: BAME, Carer’s and Parent’s, Lived Experience, LGBTQIA+, Disability Awareness, Irish and Women’s Action.

• Flexible Working and Other Benefits

We are committed to maintaining your work/life balance. We offer 25 days annual leave, and operate a very popular Flexi Time scheme, which allows you to supplement your annual leave entitlement. After 5 years, staff annual leave entitlement increases to 28 days.

St Mungo’s contribute 4% of your gross annual salary, and you are able to enrol in the Defined Contribution scheme following a successful probationary period in which the employer contribution is 6%.

What we do

At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, our clients are at the heart of what we do, and in 2019 we supported nearly 30,000 people who were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.

How to apply

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the document available tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Closing date: 10am on Thursday 11 June 2020

Interview and assessments on: Tuesday 23 June 2020

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

A maternity cover where you can really make a difference for individuals (and their families) across industries and sectors. A great opportunity to lead the Living Wage Foundation (LWF) on reducing in-work poverty. Apply if you have proven leadership qualities and a passion for fairness.

Now is an exciting time to take on the leadership of the LWF working with our dynamic team and diverse network of supporters and stakeholders. Over the past year growth in accredited Living Wage employers was the strongest on record and we have broken new ground by broadening the scope of our work into Living Hours, Making Living Wage Places and our Global Living Wage Initiative. Like all organisations, we are reviewing and adjusting our plans and priorities in response to the impact of the Covid-19 but are clear that the need for a real Living Wage and Living Hours will be a critical component of how we build back better post pandemic.

The successful candidate will be a proven leader who will combine strategy, pragmatism and political nous with excellent relationship-building and team leadership skills. An exceptional communicator and campaigner you will influence and engage with a range of employers, partner organisations, media and other stakeholders to deliver on LWF objectives.

This post can be 4 or 5 days a week, we aim to support working parents\carers and are flexible in our approach. The role is based from our office in Whitechapel.  

We are also open to filling the vacancy with a secondment from a Living Wage Employer or other suitable organisations.

For details on how to apply and the planned recruitment process please go to the Citizens UK website and follow the instructions.

With 10 years to achieve Agenda 2030, the SDG 6 targets are among the furthest behind. Achieving universal, sustainable access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene will require a major mobilisation of resources, public demand and political will. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in driving forward this agenda, positioning WaterAid effectively in the corridors of power, and helping to deliver improvements in the lives of millions of the world's poorest.

We are looking for an exceptional and recognised leader in public affairs, with strong leverageable networks in the global development sector. The successful candidate will have brilliant influencing and lobbying skills, and experience of building relationships at the most senior levels, including with donor governments, the UN system and multilaterals. Great political judgement will be critical, alongside a track record of achieving political change through an array of tactics including lobbying, public campaigning and the media. A talent for framing complex policy issues into simple and compelling messages which will gain traction is essential.

Candidates will need to have experience in matrix, remote or distance management, with the ability to coach, motivate and develop a high performing team to deliver change. You'll be joining a 2020 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

The post can be based in London, New York or Washington DC. In London, WaterAid is currently based in Vauxhall, but will be moving to Canary Wharf in the near future. The New York office is based in Tribeca/The Financial District and our DC office is Downtown.

To see the full job pack, please click 'Apply'. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format.

Applications will close one minute before midnight on Thursday 11th June. The assessment period will be 12th June - 12th July and candidates should be available for interview and assessment within this time. We are unable to provide sponsorship or relocation costs for this post.  In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK or US.

WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct. We will conduct the most appropriate pre-employment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained.

WaterAid is an equal opportunities, disability-confident employer and committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us via the email address on our careers website.
 

We are looking for an immediately available and talented Media & PR Officer to work for this fantastic well known charity! The role is moving quickly so please apply.

Some of the responsibilites include:

• To deliver cost effective and class-leading media communications to enable the organisation to reach its objectives by achieving high quality and effective profile for the charity in the media. 
• To Identify and act on opportunities to grow the charities media profile
• To help deliver the charity's PR output, including devising supporting materials and both leading and assisting coverage on different media.
• To work with the Head of Media and PR and the digital team to help contribute to the charity’s social media agenda.
• To develop advice and plans and appropriate responses to potentially negative stories;

The ideal candidate will have the following experience:

• Previous experience in a media team, including the voluntary, public or commercial sector, and/or in a news/media environment or an understanding of that environment. Ideally charity sector experience would be great.
• Experience initiating and planning media launches and campaigns.
• A creative flair and proven ability to initiative new ideas.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision to drive forward media and PR plans from start to finish.
• Be available to start immediately or within a 1 week notice period

Please get in touch and apply as soon as possible.

Position Title: Digital Organiser [initial 9 months fixed term]

Location: London preferred, but we welcome applications from anywhere in the UK with the flexibility to travel to London when needed

Hours: 37.5 hrs

Start date: As soon as possible

Compensation: £27000 pro-rata

Application instructions: Email your CV and a supporting statement no longer than 500 words setting out in brief why you would like to join Green New Deal UK, how you meet the requirements below and what you would bring to the campaign for a Green New Deal. Give specific and relevant examples of past work and achievements to illustrate your skills and experience.

Application Process: Successful candidates will be sent a small exercise, and progress onto an interview over video conference using Zoom.

Application Timeline: Applications will be accepted for this position until 17th June 2020 and interviews will be conducted 1st-3rd July 2020. 

Introduction

We’re an independently registered non-profit organisation that campaigns for a Green New Deal in the UK. We strive to be a movement led organisation that provides an ‘organising hub’ to facilitate the efforts of ordinary people around the country who want to help campaign for change. We’re dedicated to stopping climate change in a way that improves peoples’ lives and builds a fairer, more democratic society and economy. 

We have a small but nimble team made up of two part-time Executive Directors, the Head of Organising and the National Organiser with the support of a coordinating group made up of volunteers.  This is very much a start-up and it’s hoped that any new addition to the team would help shape the direction, culture and vision of the organisation.

Position

We’re hiring a full-time Digital Organiser to develop and deliver a powerful digital organising and communication strategy to meet our campaign aims.

This means designing effective tactics and strategies that build our communication channels and activate people into local organising and mass mobilisations. It means working with our Hub Support team to empower local organisers to run effective digital strategies. And working within the comms team to amplify this work, to shift the Green New Deal conversation and inspire further action.

As a small organisation, this role will sit across our team and campaigning. We’re looking for a savvy digital campaigner, able to think strategically, respond to political developments and deliver, which can include managing teams of volunteers and directly producing content. 

Responsibilities will include: 

• Developing and delivering digital campaign strategies and tactics that support our campaign goals and objectives - activate a broad base of people to organise locally to build public support and socialise a  GND 

• Producing creative communications and digital tools to support a variety of campaign tactics online and offline, local and national 

• Management of the campaign website, digital tools and social media channels including:

  • Social Media Calendar: Maintain a content calendar for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Keep these channels up to date with fresh, relevant content, and keep on top of daily news cycles

  • Email lists and digital tools: designing and managing online user journey, using email and other tools to convert awareness and interest into active participation 

  • Maintaining and updating the Green New Deal UK WordPress site 

  • Content Creation: drafting and publishing social media content.

  • Testing and Improvement: Monitor and report on digital campaign performance 

• Supporting local hubs to implement coordinated digital strategies and tactics

  • Providing tools, information and training to local Hubs to support their local organising 

  • Managing digital tools to ensure their effectiveness for local Hubs 

  • Creating the digital user journeys that funnel people into local action

Required:

1. Demonstrated success in digital organising and campaigning 

2. Great at problem-solving, implementing new ideas quickly with solid project management skills and great attention to detail. 

3. A skilled writer, storyteller and visual communicator who also loves digging into the data to understand what’s driving target audiences to act.

4. A strong understanding of the role compelling communications plays in delivering social change.

5. Can effectively manage volunteers

6. Committed to climate justice and building an equitable movement; has a passion to help create content that is reflective of diverse communities; willingness to have real talk about race, class, and other layers of oppression in a climate justice movement 

7. Brings a spirit of positivity, flexibility, and resilience to situations with a lot of uncertainty 

Nice to have: 

• Experience working with either Action Network, Nationbuilder or CiviCRM software

• Experience working with Wordpress and basic HTML skills

• Demonstrated success in growing support for campaigns online using paid and organic methods

• A track record of creating impactful written and visual communications, including basic graphic design skills

• Solid experience managing and analysing data to inform campaign strategies and rapid response campaigning

We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in progressive movements and we’re committed to doing what we can to correct this. We are particularly keen to receive applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic people; people with disabilities; people who identify as being LGTBQIA; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working-class or have done so in the past.

World Literacy Foundation UK is looking for a highly-skilled and motivated part time fundraising professional. You will have experience and a proven track record in managing our corporate relationships as a key focus.

You will also need to have experience in running charity events, grant writing, trust/foundation applications and general community & school charity fundraising.

You will be our UK person and join a global fundraising team of people who are working in Africa, South America, United States and Australia – helping the 770 people on the globe who can’t read and write a single word and the 2 billion people who struggle to read a sentence.

We are an international NGO, comprised of 6 charitable organisations across the world striving to eradicate illiteracy.

What we do

Established in 2012, we have built a number of key innovative projects to improve literacy rates amongst high disadavantgted children.

Also, as a peak international organisation, we facilitate a bi-annual global conference at Oxford University to foster collaboration and improved dialog in the literacy sector. 

We reach 500 million people from 52 countries each year with education and awareness about the importance of literacy

Our vision is a world in which every child has the opportunity to read and write and reach their full potential.

About the role

We are at a crucial time in its development, and we have exciting plans to build We are seeking a highly-skilled Fundraising professional with at least 5 years experience who has significant fundraising skills and networks, including proven track record of writing successful proposals, negotiating, winning and delivering partnerships,  funds from, charitable trusts and foundations, companies, individuals, and major donors. Experience of delivering successful fundraising campaigns like the Big Give would be an asset.

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to play a significant role in shaping the organisation’s impact in the UK and beyond. If you have a passion for literacy and international development work, we would love to hear from you.

1-2 days per week,

Long term commitment required,

Work from home,

Operate independently,  

Min 5 years experience

US: Hi, we’re Possible – we bring people together to create bold, beautiful solutions in response to the climate crisis. Whether that’s connecting the world’s first solar railway, mining renewable heat from underneath London’s parks, leading calls for a televised climate debate or launching a ground-breaking employer scheme to incentivise clean holiday travel - we’re always thinking of new ways to cut carbon that involve and benefit the public. 

YOU: Are you someone with a passion for tackling climate change in a way that gets everyone involved? Are you a creative thinker with a positive, practical attitude able to turn ideas into reality? Do you get fired up by working with communities to breathe life into innovative climate solutions that improve lives today? Does solving difficult problems float your boat? If so, we should talk.

The world’s recent social and political awakening to the climate crisis has been overtaken by the much more immediate crisis of the pandemic, but in the background the climate emergency continues to demand urgent action. In this turbulent and challenging time, Possible’s work on inspiring climate solutions that everyone can contribute to is needed more than ever. Transport is a key area where the UK has veered a long way off track, with carbon emissions actually rising in recent years instead of falling. But with travel patterns turned on their heads by lockdown, new futures are now becoming visible where the car is no longer king.

Possible have secured funding for a major new campaign to reduce private car dominance in cities, showing how achieving the big reductions in motor traffic needed to meet climate change targets will also dramatically improve health outcomes and quality of life for people living in cities. The ‘new normal’ post-covid cannot be one where people shun public transport for private cars, or our climate goals will be impossible to meet. 

We need a senior campaign manager to lead the team delivering this landmark programme to kickstart the process of making private cars obsolete in our cities - accelerating the move to a zero carbon Britain built by and for everyone. We need an experienced leader who knows how to support local community changemakers as well as working with city authorities and local political leaders, leveraging bottom-up grassroots activism to drive city-wide transformation. Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record in campaigning and experience of successfully leading a team, including project management oversight and multiple line management responsibilities.

+ About the role

You’ll be a senior member of the campaigns team, working closely with and reporting to the directors, with responsibility for delivering Possible’s Car Free Cities projects for a minimum two year period starting in July 2020. You will be based in Possible’s London office in Camden Town (pandemic permitting), on either a full time or 0.9FTE basis, depending on preference. With the directors’ support, you will be managing annual budgets of hundreds of thousands of pounds and a team of up to six staff, some working remotely from other cities, alongside key relationships with academic partners and overseas consortium members in Paris and New York. 

You’ll work collaboratively with the communications team to spread our key messages far and wide, and leverage the greatest impact possible in our target communities and beyond. You’ll also work closely with the rest of Possible’s senior management team to cultivate and maintain a positive and supportive working culture amongst the whole workforce as well as within your own team. You’ll also work across the campaigns, fundraising and comms teams to develop the most effective mobilisations techniques, building capacity in our supporters to escalate action and bring their communities with them.

Working within strategy and project plans that have been collaboratively developed, you’ll be free to put forward your own ideas for campaign activities, particularly in response to changing events. You’ll be adaptable to overseeing delivery of different tactics based on need, from online petitions to research and report publication, lobbying of city administrations and politicians, grassroots community organising, pioneering innovation and publicity grabbing interventions.

As a key member of the Possible family you’ll be part of a small, passionate, nimble, unique and positive organisation that cares about its people, its projects and, ultimately, the planet.

+ Person specification

Competencies can be demonstrated by both paid and voluntary experience.

Must haves

• Track record of planning and delivering successful campaigns and projects.

• Experience of leading a team, including line management.

• High standard of written and spoken communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with colleagues and project partners such as campaigners, volunteers and funders, internally and externally.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

• Ability to think creatively and generate new campaign and tactic ideas.

• Ability to digest, understand and analyse information independently.

• Adaptability, enthusiasm, appetite for learning and ability to take initiative.

• Passion for working with the public to take action, and for helping increase the capacity of people to act and activate others around them.

• Commitment to Possible’s positive approach to climate campaigning and passionate about achieving climate justice.

• Working knowledge of UK climate and transport context and policy.

Nice to haves

• Experience of public meeting facilitation.

• Experience of working with distributed organising tactics focused on widespread public participation.

• Experience of working with mainstream media and social media.

• Event management experience.

• Community organising experience.

• Contacts in local government and existing networks of transport / environmental activists and NGOs.

• Experience of digital marketing or campaigns.

• Experience of international working.

• Understanding of cultural and behaviour change campaigns and strategies.

• Basic research skills.

• French language skills.

+ About Possible

Here at Possible, we have a vision for a low carbon Britain that has been built by and belongs to everybody.

To get there, we dream up projects, build tools and spread success stories to make sure everyone has the help and inspiration they need to play a role in tackling climate change. Our work cuts carbon, but because we work on cultural as well as technical levels, we get people talking about climate change action too. We want our projects to be infectious, so it is always about more than just a solar panel here, or an LED there - it’s about groups of people working together to change the world.

+ Our Values

Inclusivity  Trust and respect   Creativity   Shared ambition

Positivity  Caring and kindness  Integrity  Openness

Not just buzzwords to make us feel warm and fuzzy, these are the values we are guided by in our actions and our organisational culture. Away days help to keep these values alive and we work together to keep our team as supported, empowered and cared for as possible. We’re run by a team of directors rather than one single CEO, and we’re committed to reducing hierarchy wherever possible.

Workplace benefits include:

• 25 days paid holiday (+ bank holidays and three days at Christmas)

• Flexible working

• Paid volunteer leave

• Bike to work scheme

• Paid journey days for low carbon holiday travel 

• Childcare vouchers

• Good maternity and paternity leave

• Employer pension contribution

Small Axe is a not-for-profit with one goal: to create movements that are progressive, hopeful and powerful, to inspire people to act on the most pressing issues of our time. We bring together bold creative, communications and organising to run integrated end-to-end campaigns. No two days are alike.

Our team campaigns with humility, integrity and passion for the causes we work on. I can attest it's an amazing political project and organisation to be part of. 

We're now looking for an experienced campaigner to join our tight-knit team and lead on a variety of exciting projects we've got on. 

Someone with a passion for the work and building a progressive, people-powered politics. With a general election looming, it's a really exciting time to join the organisation and shape the battle to come. 

Deadline: 9am Monday 1st June

Do email if you'd like more information about the role. 

All the best,

Sam

We’re seeking a Policy and Campaigns Manager to support our ambition to influence government policy and decision-makers to recognise and support coaching in prisons as an effective rehabilitation intervention. 

You will develop our policy positions and voice, ensuring that we are listening to those with lived experience. You will initiate and lead our campaigns, helping to position Spark Inside as the number one coaching organisation in the criminal justice system. You will be our lead expert in prison policy and rehabilitation, and ensure there is a strong policy and research basis for all our campaigns. You will work across the organisation to ensure policy developments feed into our work, and to ensure that what we do is presented in an engaging way to policy-makers and relevant stakeholders.

This is an interim role initially for 6 months, with the potential to extend, as we navigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the delivery of our programmes in prison. We believe that more than ever, we need to be advocating for our work, so that those in prison are not forgotten.

Please see JD for details and how to apply.

Nurses United is a new organisation of frontline nurses for frontline nurses which we think you can agree is pretty important right now. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’re recruiting a new Organiser, on a Consultancy basis, to join our team and help us deliver our rapid response COVID-19 activities in 2020.

Location: Preferably London but other locations will be considered
Salary: £30,000 pro-rata
Interview date: 18th June 2020, via Zoom
Hours: 4 days per week (80% FTE), fixed-term contract to start as soon as possible and by no later than 20th July 2020, and end in January 2020 with the possibility of extension
Benefits: 7.5% employer matched pension after probation, flexible working and 25 days holiday pro-rata per year (plus bank holidays and Christmas break)

** DEADLINE – 11:59pm, Sunday 7th June **

Our COVID-19 work will centre around organising nurses and the public to:

• Campaign for protective equipment and safe staffing for nurses to carry out their roles safely 
• Services to support nurses’ mental wellbeing during and after the crisis
• A new deal for nurses and the NHS following decades of attacks to our profession and service

So now we are looking for a skilled and experienced organiser who is able to organise people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and needs; who are committed to building the power of social movements, to help us deliver the next phase of our campaigns. You will be well versed in digital organising, creating engaging social media content and working with the press while also maintaining a commitment to fighting oppression in all its forms.

If this sounds like you, what are you waiting for?

Job Title: Individual Giving & Legacy Fundraiser

Job Ref: 1060

Location: Bugle House

Salary: £38,000 pro rata (25 hours per week, actual salary £25,333)

Hours: 25 hours per week

Holiday: 25 days per annum pro rata (increasing with length of service)

Organisational Context

Everybody should have the opportunity to lead happy, healthy lives. YMCA Fairthorne Group (YMCA) is a community-based charity that brings people of all backgrounds and abilities together in YMCA places to identify and deliver effective programmes that meet their needs. 

We operate throughout Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton, from 30 venues, engaging with over 40,000 people every year. Programmes include multiple early years settings, Daycamps, community activities and supportive housing for young people.

Role Context

YMCA has multiple income streams, the largest of which is fees charged for services, and we have long-term sustainability. We are seeking to grow our fundraised income so we can rapidly grow the programmes we offer in communities, and enable investment into our infrastructure, some of which is over 100 years old. YMCA has a successful record in many forms of fundraising, however individual giving (IG) and legacy fundraising is new to us. We wish to work in a creative and up-to-date way to maximise income available from donors. This role will be part of an integrated fundraising and marketing team but the postholder must be able to lead on specialist technical knowledge and delivery.

Job Purpose

This role will work with the fundraising and marketing team to design, develop and deliver IG and legacy activities, including campaigns. We already work to a community development model, whereby we seek to inspire people to lead in their communities. In addition, our site at Fairthorne Manor generates a particularly strong sense of belonging for those who connect to it. This post will be pivotal in helping us to build upon this and become “legacy minded” in our stewardship of customers, donors and other supporters. Our ultimate measure of financial success is lifetime value across all forms of engagement with YMCA.

Duties and Responsibilities

•At all times work within the YMCA Way

•Using market-centric approaches, informed by current research, design, develop and deliver activities leading to IG and legacy income

•Identify opportunities for identifying and stewarding existing and new prospects

•Lead on design and delivery of specific campaigns, with support from the fundraising and marketing team, including Fairthorne’s 75th anniversary

•Maintain and develop relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, working to create a culture whereby we are all legacy-minded

•Help internal stakeholders understand how and when to identify prospects to the fundraising team

•Be the first point of call for legacy enquirers

•Be the main source of technical knowledge on legacy administration, with support from the finance team

•Work with the fundraising and marketing, and community teams in an integrated way to maximise the lifetime value and experience of all supporters, regardless of form of support

•Work with the fundraising and marketing team to establish information systems that promote successful stewardship and prevent the creation of silos

•Maintain records and regularly report on legacy pipeline

•Ensure adherence to brand, ethics and fundraising priorities

•Participate in other fundraising and engagement activities as applicable, including events

•Act in the interests of your own safety & the safety of others at all times

•Anything else reasonably requested by the management of the organisation

Person Specification & Key Competencies

Qualifications / Experience

Essential:

•Success at raising funds through individual giving, and in legacy fundraising

•Experience of developing IG and legacy concepts into successful campaigns

•Experience of using integrated stewardship and supporter journeys

•Excellent IT skills, including Office 365

•Education to level 6 or equivalent professional qualification / professional experience

•Evidence of recent professional development related to IG and legacy trends

Skills / Abilities

•A genuine enthusiasm for helping people to achieve happy, healthy lives

•Ability to think innovatively and creatively, and respond positively to new opportunities

•Outstanding communication skills

•Friendly and approachable manner

•Ability to work under pressure and accurately to deadlines.

This is a 25 hour per week role, actual salary displayed above.

JOB PURPOSE

Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of Amnesty International's (AI's) worldwide campaigning and advocacy strategies on the human rights impact of military, security & police transfers, to deliver impact in relation to agreed priorities, conducting research, and utilising political judgment and analytical, communication and representational skills. Provide authoritative advice to country and thematic specialists in the International Secretariat (IS), sections and structures to support the work of the AI movement and outside networks in order to maximize movement-wide and external impact

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To lead on the development, implementation and evaluation of advocacy strategies on a transnational and global basis, managing and coordinating actions on human rights concerns related to military, security and policing issues, ensuring that advocacy is timely, has clear objectives and plans, targets the right actors, and delivers impact;

• To coordinate with AI membership structures to develop movement-wide campaigning strategies and action; coordinate relevant thematic network/s in order that the movement's resources are aligned and that our campaigning activities start with common objectives, targets the appropriate actors and thus achieve greater impact;

• To provide expert advice on military, policing and security issues to AI staff, sections/structures, and other AI membership bodies in order to ensure accuracy and relevance, and the integration of these issues into AI's work;

• To research the most effective ways to carry out advocacy on human rights concerns and monitor and conduct evaluations of campaigning strategies and plans;

• To originate and contribute to advocacy and campaigning materials, reports briefings, policy position papers, correspondence, action materials, press releases, and other internal and external documents to facilitate the effective implementation of AI's agreed strategies on military, security and policing issues;

• To monitor and analyse legal and policy developments and conduct research as appropriate into military, security and policing issues, including by participating in field research and through contact with partners on the ground;

• To maintain a comprehensive overview of trends and developments on military, security and policing issues and relevant specialist subjects;

• To represent AI at the UN and other IGO meetings, relevant forums and national/international events as an expert and carry out lobbying and targeted advocacy in order to achieve AI objectives in relation to military, security and policing issues;

• To communicate AI's concerns, positions and key messages to AI's membership, civil society organizations and at other forums, including through lobbying at relevant public forums in relation to advocacy/campaigning priorities;

• To contribute to the development of the team and Programme's strategies and plans for research and campaigning, providing input into internal discussions on AI's role, policy, organizational and other issues, in order to increase the effectiveness of AI's work;

• To develop and maintain contacts with national and international NGOs and other external partners in the development and implementation of advocacy and campaigning strategies and plans in order that AI's objectives are also taken up by other organizations;