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Title: Alumni & Giving Manager (maternity cover)

Reports to: Director of Alumni Relations, with dotted line to Director of Giving & Engagement

Start date: May 2024

Contract type: Fixed-term maternity cover contract, one year

Salary range: £43,000-£45,000 per annum

Overall Purpose:

The Alumni & Giving Manager works with the Director of Alumni Relations and Director of Giving & Engagement to support activities and fundraising initiatives for a broad and dynamic community of former students, parents and employees. As the lead on all alumni, alumni parents, grandparent, and former employee giving, this person implements the strategy for garnering these constituents’ philanthropic support of ASL. As a member of the alumni office and as a part of the advancement team, the Alumni & Giving Manager helps fulfill the school’s priorities for growing an engaged, supportive and inclusive alumni community.

Summary of responsibilities: 

 Supporting the alumni office

• Schedule and conduct alumni tours

• Manage alumni email account

• Oversee Eagle mascot volunteers and costume

• Support events: help staff events, coordinate logistics

  • Founder’s Day

  • Student-facing activities

  • Parents of alumni holiday social

  • London Alumni Social

  • Alumni Quiz Night

  • Class reunions

• Contribute to alumni communications

  • Draft and publish stories for e-newsletter

  • Write posts for social media

Managing  ASL Connects alumni platform

Supporting Grandparent constituent cultivation

• Contribute to Grandparent newsletter content (3 times a year)

  • Pitch ideas

  • Draft posts and captions

Supporting the Annual Fund 

Serve as lead on alumni, parent(s) of alumni, and past staff giving, including creating strategies to achieve these constituents’ financial and participation goals 

• Coordinate appeals for participatory level giving; overseeing the design for participation and giving challenges

• Stewarding donors

• Manage the ASL Giving Committee (AGC) volunteers

• Manage appeal timeline

• Support Grade 12 fundraising program 

Supporting the Planned legacy giving

• Maintain vendor partnerships with FreeWill in the US and with Farewill in the UK

• Oversee the execution of cultivation and stewardship emails 2-4 times a year as it relates to communications and events

• Any other duties that are within the scope, spirit, and purpose of the job as requested by the Director of Alumni Relations or the Director of Giving and Engagement.

Essential qualifications/experience

• Knowledge and understanding of education  or charity environments 

• Highly organized, strong time management skills and detail oriented 

• Self-motivated and must work well on a team

• The ability to interact positively with stakeholders and colleagues

• A positive and flexible attitude toward working

• A proven commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of children

Desirable qualifications/experience

• Experience working in fundraising and alumni relations, preferably working in an American, international and/or independent school environment

• Experience using Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge or similar CRMs

This is a new role to deliver projects to raise our profile, enhance our brand visibility, drive engagement, raise income and help us to develop positive relationships with our key stakeholders and audiences.

Key responsibilities, reporting to the Head of Marketing and Communications:

• General: Provide day-to-day marketing and communications support to the wider organisation and to promote our programme delivery and our philanthropy advice offers.
• Web: Regularly review and update existing website content, including responding to requests from across the team.
• Social media: Manage the social media calendar, including sourcing and creating content, across all platforms – in line with our content and marketing strategy.
• Engagement and evaluation: Grow engagement with our channels and evaluate our social media and web activity as well as manage our Google analytics, producing reports as required.
• E-communications: Create e-newsletters, e-bulletins and deliver other email marketing as needed and manage relevant mailing lists in line with GDPR.
• Storytelling: Build our storytelling resources (case studies, photos, film) to enable us to demonstrate the impact of our work and to inspire more donors to support us and groups to apply for grants.
• Copywriting: Create copy as needed for marketing collateral and publications, reports, campaigns and website.
• Press and PR: Research stories, produce press releases and case studies, maintain media lists and record and evaluate media coverage.
• Brand Management: Manage our library of brand assets. Liaise with grant recipients regarding the acknowledgement of our funding and use of our logo. Review and establish a new online Photo Library, ensuring imagery is collected and stored in line with GDPR.
• Printed materials: Manage the design and production of reports and marketing collateral.
• Events: Support the delivery of organisational events and attend relevant external events to promote our programme delivery and our philanthropy advice offers.
• Video editing and creation: Develop our capacity to produce our own video content to support our marketing and communications activities.
• External suppliers: Liaise with printers, web agency, caterers and other suppliers when required.
• Contribute as a team member to the overall development of the Community Foundation.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties and responsibilities as directed by the Head of Marketing and Communications.

We will recruit for this position based on attitude and potential as well as knowledge and skills gained through direct experience. We also welcome experience from outside of traditional full-time work. If you don’t meet all the requirements, please don’t be put off applying.

• A natural storyteller with excellent written skills. Experience of writing engaging and inspiring copy for different audiences, channels and functions desired.
• Social media savvy. Experience in managing content and growth across multiple channels desired.
• A good eye for design with a strong understanding of brand. Experience of using software packages to create basic print materials as well as digital and video content desired.
• Embraces technology. Experience of using a range of digital communication channels and tools, and comfortable with content management systems, email management software and social publishing tools desired.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders and supporters.
• Excellent administration skills and attention to detail.
• Highly organised and happy to juggle projects and activities and respond swiftly to circumstances when required.
• Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously but also as part of the wider team.
• Flexible and open, excited to take on new challenges and learn new skills if the role requires.
• Creative and enthusiastic with the ability to bring fresh ideas to our work.
• Passionate about using your skills and knowledge to help us transform the lives of local people.

This is a full-time (Monday - Friday working 9am - 5pm) position and with opportunities for hybrid working with some time each week in our office in central Devizes. (Please note during the probation period the successful candidate will be expected to be in the office up to four days a week). Occasional travel throughout Wiltshire and Swindon will be required so the ideal candidate will be based in the county and therefore a driving licence is desirable.

Salary £23,400 - £27,000 depending on experience. If you are interested, please visit our website and download the application pack below for further information about us, the role and how to apply. 

The Position:

You will be joining our small, passionate NGO to coordinator our digital presence. Reporting directly to our Head of Programmes and working with our Digital Growth Lead, you will be tasked with growing our digital presence on social media. This will involve organising and coordinating creative digital campaigns, creating assets for use on social media and updating our website and landing pages to support digital presence building.

The applicant needs to be witty, creative, motivated, interested in counter-extremism and passionate about political and media literacy.

Location: London

Salary: £26,000 – £27,000 p/a depending on experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and grow SOUK social media profiles across multiple platforms, including responding to related comments.
• Create dynamic (e.g. Reels) and static assets for use on social media, including viral campaigns and initiatives.
• Plan and implement a yearly content calendar, coordinating with the wider team to ensure active participation.
• Manage and support the updating of SOUK Websites.
• Write and support the edit of website related content.
• Acting as first point of contact for inbound general communications from externals (e.g. DMs or enquires through website)
• Fulfil other duties as reasonably requested.
• Occasionally travel nationally and/or internationally, if required.

Requirements:

• Witty
• Creativity
• Good writing skills.
• Experience in using Capcut, Canva or similar.
• An understanding of and interest in Media Literacy and Counter-Extremism (PCVE / REMVE)
• Publicly impartial
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage a diverse workload.

Benefits:

• Unlimited holidays (we have no cap on paid leave).
• Monthly £80 Corporate UberEats account to subsidies grocery / food costs.
• Being part of an innovative, forward-thinking and engaged workforce.
• Small team, meaning you will be able to get involved in a number of different aspects of work.
• An important, varied, decision-making role in which you have the power to make positive change.

Raising Futures Kenya is an award-winning small UK charity, working closely alongside a wonderful partner NGO in Kenya to deliver a hugely successful vocational training and business skills programme called Seed of Hope.

Since 2002 Seed of Hope has supported over 4,000 disadvantaged young people aged 14-25 in Kenya with the opportunity to learn a skilled trade, computer skills and business skills. Many of these young people are unable to finish their formal education as they are experiencing poverty, so our courses are completely free, to ensure no-one is excluded from the opportunity to learn.

Our free training courses also address any of the barriers which may stop a young person from being able to learn. We offer the Seed of Hope students in Kenya;

• free lunches everyday, you can’t learn when you’re hungry.

• menstrual hygiene packs to ensure girls don’t miss lessons because they can’t afford sanitary pads.

• childcare vouchers to ensure young mothers can learn.

• Life skills lessons addressing sexual and reproductive health, gender based violence, knowing and asserting your rights, advocating for gender equality etc.

• and perhaps most importantly, counselling and mental health support. Many young students are coping with the most unimaginable trauma and mental health conditions.

We’re here to support young people with whatever they need in order for them to achieve their best in their training course and to go on to secure a job, or start a small business.

We are looking for a talented storyteller and writer to join our small team in the UK and create exceptional content. You’ll support with crafting engaging funding applications, which stand out from the crowd and capture the funders hearts. You’ll create bright and positive social media and blog posts to share the uplifting stories of students and graduates from Seed of Hope and grow our online supporter base, in turn increasing our donors.

We don’t mind if you don’t have charity experience, we’re willing to train you and show you what we do. We are looking for someone who can write excellent content and showcase what we do.

Hours: 14 hours per week, to be worked as either full 7 hour days, or spreading the hours across the week. Regular days and hours to be agreed in advance.

Salary: £28,000 (pro-rata for 14 hours a week)

Pension: 3% employer contribution, 5% employee contribution (opt-out available).

Contract: 1 year fixed term contract. With a view to making it permanent if resources allow.

Base: The role will be home-based and require your own computer. Occasional travel may be required for meetings, expenses will be paid in accordance with our Expenses Policy. Our other 2 part-time staff are based in Sussex, but you can be anywhere in the UK. You must have the right to work in the UK.

To apply

Please take a look at the role description and person specification and if this seems like a perfect fit for you, please send us your CV, or download of your LinkedIn profile, along with a cover letter (max 2 pages) telling us why you’d be the best person for the job to Kirsty Erridge, CEO by Wednesday 17th April 9am.

We believe in a fair recruitment process

We won’t bring the closing date forward, so you can plan when you have time to apply. We’ll notify everyone who applies of the result of their application. We’ll share interview questions in advance, so you can prepare. We share the exact pay we can afford, not a scale, so you don’t have to start your role with a negotiation.

Come and join our team! This varied role, uses project management and executive assistant skills to deliver excellent service in a fast paced environment within the Christian sector. The role involves supporting The Maclellan Foundation, one of the largest Christian Foundations in the USA. The successful candidate  will have a minimum of 2 years' experience in administration and will be sympathetic towards the Christian faith and the aims of the organisation.

Please review the full job description and person specification and submit your CV for consideration.

Please note we are reviewing applications regularly and reserve the right to close the post early.

The Commonwealth Foundation is recruiting for its Graduate Internship Programme. We are seeking four Interns for six-month placements across different areas of our organisation.

To be considered, all applicants must have an existing right to work in the United Kingdom and must be able to provide evidence of that right in their application.

Who we are

The Commonwealth Foundation is an intergovernmental organisation established by Member States in support of the belief that the Commonwealth is as much an association of peoples as it is of governments. We are the Commonwealth agency for civil society; an organisation dedicated to strengthening people’s participation in all aspects of public dialogue, so they can act together and learn from each other to build democratic societies.

Our vision is of a Commonwealth of equal, just and inclusive societies. Our mission is to contribute to that vision by:

• Supporting the active and constructive participation of Commonwealth citizens in all aspects of their governance
• Nurturing the growth of vibrant and free civil societies in all Commonwealth countries
• Advancing the principles and ideals of the Commonwealth

We work in accordance with our values to advance the principles and ideals of the Commonwealth as enshrined in the Commonwealth Charter.

The role

Our Graduate Internship Programme provides opportunities for recent graduates to participate in all aspects of the Commonwealth Foundation and gain experience, strengthen their knowledge and develop their skills.

We maintain a team of interns who are recruited together for a six-month period, which may be extended to a maximum of 12 months depending on performance and the needs of the Foundation. Our interns are fully integrated into the Foundation’s staff structure, and we pay close attention to their professional development.

The successful candidates will be allocated to one of the following areas of our work:

• Commonwealth Civil Society (home of our major grants work)
• Creative (within the Advocacy & Creative Programme, home of our cultural initiatives including adda and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize)
• Advocacy (within the Advocacy & Creative Programme, also home of outreach, advocacy and the Critical Conversations events series)
• Communications (working across the Foundation as part of the Knowledge, Learning & Communications team)

Responsibilities are tailored to the needs of each team and the intern’s own areas of skill and interest. For more information on our programmes and our work, see our current Strategic Plan. 

Although interns will be based in one of the above programmes, they will be given the opportunity to experience other areas of the Foundation’s work and will also collaborate with their fellow interns on specific projects.

Our responsibility to Interns

We prioritise the professional development of interns, encouraging participation in both internal and external learning opportunities and experience across programme areas to broaden knowledge and skills.

We include our interns in all our activities including strategic and work planning and staff events, and endeavour to ensure that everyone feels nurtured and valued.

Who we look for

The Foundation strives to be a welcoming and inclusive place to work. We aim to ensure that the Graduate Internship programme is as accessible as possible to people from a range of socio-economic backgrounds.

You will have excellent research and administrative skills and ideally have a good knowledge of, or interest in, at least one area of our work: freedom of expression, climate justice or health justice. Experience using technology is important, and knowledge of Microsoft Office and online platforms is required.

We are looking for people who are curious and willing to learn and who will actively promote the values and principles of the Commonwealth and the Foundation.

You must possess and declare at the time of application the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the internship. The Foundation cannot assist in altering the visa status of any applicant.

What we offer

We offer interns a salary of £2,000 per month (equivalent to £24,000 per annum) for a six-month fixed term internship contract. Annual leave is calculated at 30 days per year (pro-rata) inclusive of public holidays and the Foundation’s own designated leave days.

We are currently operating a flexible working policy which requires all staff to work from our central London office at least five days per fortnight including every Wednesday. Applicants must be able to affirm their capacity and willingness to work within our policy.

Our aim is to help our interns to their next position. To that end, we provide guidance on future opportunities as well as assistance with refining CVs and undertaking interviews. There is no expectation of a role with the Foundation at the end of the internship.

Our commitment

The Foundation celebrates diversity, and we are proud of our diverse and welcoming team. All qualified applicants already eligible to work in the UK will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status or pregnancy.

If you need us to make any special accommodation in the recruitment and selection process because of a protected characteristic, please let us know.

The process

Applications should be submitted online via the Foundation website. The application requires you to download and complete an application form, setting out your experience and interests and what you can bring to the role as described, and in the role description provided to download. Your completed application form will then need to be submitted online via the link on the Foundation website. 

The application also requires you to provide evidence of your existing right to work in the UK.

Important note on closing date:

The nominated closing date for applications is Monday 22 April 2024, 1pm BST.

However, we will monitor the number of applications received, and reserve the right to close the application window early any time after Tuesday 2 April, 1pm BST. This is to keep application numbers manageable and to be able to give due consideration to all applications received. We therefore recommend submitting your application as early as possible and before Tuesday 2 April 1pm BST.

Interviews: week of 13 May 2024

Start date: Monday 24 June 2024

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 22 April 2024 12pm BST

We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive individual to join our team as an Entry-Level Communications Officer. You will be responsible for developing engaging and informative content for our website, social media platforms, and other communication channels, ensuring that our message reaches as many people as possible.

You’ll have an active role providing LGBTQ+ affirmative support and empowering LGBTQ+ community members with the opportunity to work innovatively & responsively to current issues & concerns impacting theLGBTQ+ community.  You will raise the visibilty and inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in local decision making and enhance thier voice.You will have the opportunity to work with other organisations and lead the work of our LGBTQ+ community forum.    You will work within our LGBTQ+ community events, forum and group support services.  In this role you will have opportunity to develop, support & deliver community activities & events; design, administer, & facilitate group programmes, sessions and workshops; provide LGBTQ+ affirmative support & awareness raising; support & empower LGBTQ+ community members; promote, market & administer services & events; plus support & supervise sessional staff & volunteers. 

Full time: between 30-37 hours a week subject to successful applicants’ preference

You must be available to work a Tuesday evening, plus occasional other evening and/ or weekends, if required.

N.B. Initially you will work remotely, via online home-based working whilst we relocate to new premises in East London