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We are looking for an enthusiastic Nature and Wellbeing Officer to work with the England Nature and Wellbeing Manager to expand our exciting programme of RSPB Nature Prescriptions in the West Midlands.
Nature and Wellbeing Officer
Reference: APR20246734
Location: Flexible in West Midlands
Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 per annum
Hours: Full-time
Contract: Fixed-term, ending 31/03/2026
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days' Annual Leave
A growing body of evidence indicates that individuals with a greater connection to nature experience improved mental wellbeing, greater vitality and happiness, and are more satisfied with life. Research also shows that increasing your connection with nature can positively impact a range of conditions, including stress, anxiety and depression. RSPB Nature Prescriptions are designed to encourage and prompt people to connect to nature.
We believe that everyone, no matter where they live or the challenges they face, has the right to feel this strong connection to the natural world. Inspiring healthcare professionals and others in the NHS and social care, is a key route for the RSPB to enable more people from more diverse communities to access nature. In so doing we hope to inspire people to love nature and work with us to save it. This is a great opportunity to join a friendly and supportive team dedicated to saving nature by strengthening people’s connection to nature and improving wellbeing through RSPB Nature Prescriptions. Through this project we intend to support more diverse audiences to connect to nature, including through the co-design of materials in different formats.
We're looking for someone who is:
Passionate: About connecting people to nature to improve wellbeing
Confident: In sharing this passion to enthuse healthcare and other professionals including through presentations
Inquisitive: A natural curiosity to explore and understand
Bold: Willing to contribute innovative ideas, particularly when addressing health inequalities
Positive and Personable: Fosters a collaborative and enjoyable way of working with our partners.
Comfortable Challenging the Status Quo: Nature Prescriptions offer a way of improving wellbeing outside of the typical medical model of healthcare
Key tasks:
- Develop and deliver a new RSPB Nature Prescriptions project to people living in diverse communities within the West Midlands
- Deliver presentations to a wide range of potential stakeholders with the aim of obtaining engagement with the project
- Engage with local healthcare professionals and community groups to identify ways of ensuring Nature Prescriptions reach a large diversity of people
- Co-design Nature Prescriptions materials with local people, community groups and healthcare professionals
- Facilitate nature connection workshops to improve the knowledge, skills and confidence of people who will be delivering Nature Prescriptions
- Develop a project plan for the delivery of Nature Prescriptions and follow project management principles to ensure a successful delivery of agreed outcomes
- Tap into local environmental networks to build a picture of nature based activities available and identify opportunities for partnership working
- Explore and contribute to the evaluation of the project, including data gathering and collecting case studies from project partners
- Represent the RSPB on relevant local health and wellbeing networks
- Build internal relationships with RSPB employees and volunteers working within the West Midlands and beyond
- Further develop our Nature and Wellbeing Sharepoint site to provide people across the RSPB access to our latest materials
Essential skills, knowledge and experience:
- Skilled in delivering nature connection workshops or training
- Experience of working within the health and wellbeing sector
- Experience of developing and delivering projects with diverse communities
- Experience of developing external partnerships and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
- An excellent verbal and written communicator able to communicate RSPB messages in a way that is understood by a range of audiences and that engenders their support
- Experience of successfully developing and delivering projects
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to manage and deliver a varied workload
- Skilled in using Microsoft 365 suite including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Teams
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:
- Experience of SharePoint management
- Experience of recruiting and managing volunteers
The RSPB reserves the right to extend or make this role permanent without further advertising at the end of the contract term.
Closing date: 23:59, Monday, 13th May 2024
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position on 29 and 30 May 2024.
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.
As part of this application process you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above.
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
No agencies please.
Youth Worker (Qualified)
Reports to: Project Manager
Location: County Durham
Hours: Full Time & Part Time Hours Available (Fixed Term to March 2025)
Salary: £25,965 – £28,847 per annum, pro rata
About us
Groundwork aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver Groundwork’s mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential.
About the role
Working as a member of our dedicated Youth Team you will engage with targeted communities to provide and promote inclusive opportunities for young people and young adults to develop positive working relationships that will enable them to achieve their potential.
You will provide a valuable resource for Groundwork NE & Cumbria to enable it to achieve the Trust objectives. Dealing with a variety of Youth project delivery tasks in a diverse and busy internal and external environment, ensuring deadlines are met whilst maintaining quality.
A bit about you
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Youth Work Qualification at Level 3 or above
- Proven experience of working with either children and young people or other vulnerable groups.
- An ability to set up and run groups and to record the progress of individuals within the groups.
- Some understanding of, and a sensitive approach towards the situations, needs and difficulties faced by young people and particularly by young carers.
- An ability to work positively as part of a team and independently, seeking support from colleagues where required
- Excellent communication skills
Closing date: Noon on Friday 3rd May 2024
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.
Make yourself at home
We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.
No agencies please.
Project Manager
Salary: £25,200p.a. pro-rata (£31,500p.a. FTE) Wigan office or remoted based
£26,800p.a. pro-rata (£33,500p.a. FTE) London office based
We also offer 27 days of annual leave (pro-rated for hours worked) plus bank holidays and a birthday day off, 8% employer pension contributions, a core hours system of working and enhanced family friendly policies.
Contract: Fixed term until 31 December 2024 with the potential for extension.
(The funders have committed to funding the programme until December 2026 with annual extensions confirmed by 31 October each year).
Hours: 30 hours per week
Location: Wigan or London (with hybrid working available), or remote-based, with occasional travel across England
Keep Britain Tidy is one of the UK’s leading environmental charities. At a time when we are living in a world that is facing its greatest environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or more urgent.
As we’re moving forward we recognise that a diverse workforce yields the best results. We embrace all the different identities in the UK and we want our workforce to reflect that. Environmental change is affecting us all and we want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution and help us make the changes that cannot wait. It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all our staff, and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
Keep Britain Tidy has a new opportunity for a Project Manager to manage the Chewing Gum Task Force programme. The Chewing Gum Task Force is a partnership between Defra, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland, Scottish Government and Welsh Government and chewing gum producers including Mars Wrigley and Perfetti Van Melle which aims to clean up historic gum staining from UK high streets and change behaviour so that more people bin their gum.
The Project Manager will lead on overall administration of the scheme and manage the cleansing grant programme for councils, working alongside partner organisation Behaviour Change. In Years 1 and 2 of the scheme, participating councils have seen reductions in gum littering of up to 80% in the first two months. Now in Year 3, we will shortly distribute more than £1.2m funding to councils across the UK.
This is an exciting role within a fast-paced charity. You will have a proven track record in project management, ideally in environmental projects and/or grant schemes. Excellent organisational and record keeping skills are a must, along with the ability to form good working relationships with Chewing Gum Task Force stakeholders.
All our roles benefit from generous holiday entitlements and pension contributions, including the opportunity to join the UK’s first net carbon pension scheme and to receive extra days leave for using alternatives to flights. If you have any special requirements for interview just let us know.
If you are interested in this job and want to help us make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description found on our website. After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us, please continue to apply.
As part of the application process you will need to answer 3 questions, submit your CV and complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population and we are not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately.
Please submit your application before the closing date.
The deadline for applications is 09:00, Monday 29 April 2024.
For successful candidates, interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 7th or Thursday 9th May 2024.
If you require an in person interview, please let us know.
We have signed the pledge to always #ShowTheSalary for the roles that we advertise.
We are proud winners of the Working Families’ Best Small Employer Award 2021.
No agencies please.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Conservation Collective (CC) funds solutions to protect the environment, restore nature, and safeguard against climate change. The CC UK charity incubates, launches, and supports locally focused foundations which open new channels of funding to support the most impactful environmental grassroots projects. Our network comprises 20 members, based all over the world, and is growing steadily.
As the demand for our model increases around the world, our income and expenditure are growing in volume and complexity. We are looking for a Finance Officer to support our financial operations through this expansion: recording financial transactions, monitoring internal controls and coordinating with our local foundations about financial management. The role will report to the Finance Director and will work closely with the rest of the team. This is a critical role that is central to the success of building a robust organisation, and there is opportunity for an ambitious candidate to grow in responsibility with it.
Key Responsibilities:
Carry out day-to-day financial transactions
· Process invoices to support fundraising efforts of local foundations in the network.
· Review vendors invoices as per internal controls and update them to the purchasing ledger for authorisation.
· Conduct on-going reconciliation of bank accounts and donor due diligence.
· Reconciliation of merchant accounts (Just Giving, Donorbox or Paypal) and prompt communication to local foundations and fundraising team.
· Setting up systems to process event, auction or other ad-hoc fundraising campaigns.
· Preparation of Gift Aid reporting on quarterly basis.
· Weekly payments administration using online banking.
· Maintain accurate records of financial transactions on Xero.
· Maintain monthly records of bank payments approval for audit purposes.
Coordinate income recognition with fundraising team members
· Notify local foundations about donations received and log required documentation.
· Provide formal receipts on received donations as requested.
· Reconcile Stripe transactions on Salesforce to maintain accurate donor records.
· Support with income reconciliation between Salesforce and Xero.
Support Finance Director on maintaining accurate financial information and developing ongoing internal controls
· Support creation of management accounts materials for trustees meeting.
· Support quarterly reconciliation of funds with our affiliated network member to communicate re-grants of donations
· Feed into the design of a financial manual – a how to guide for best practice in charity finance and governance oversight.
· Support annual external audit.
Supporting CC to deliver network benefits to local foundations
· Support members of the network with any financial queries.
· Communicate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders (Executive Directors, support team, donors) on financial queries.
· Invoice affiliates on cost recovery of services
Essential criteria:
· A recognized accounting qualification or studying towards the qualification, (CIMA, ACCA)
· Knowledge of bookkeeping and generally accepted accounting principles
· An ability to work quickly and accurately
· A proven track record of teamwork with non-technical colleagues
· Stellar communication skills, verbal and written
· A keen eye for detail
· An ability to work to deadlines
· Able to manage confidential information
· Demonstrable ability to work independently
· Energetic approach to work and a desire to learn
· Passionate about nature and the environment
Strongly desirable criteria:
· Fluent in Xero and Salesforce database
· Awareness of GDPR regulations
· Understanding of Gift Aid and its requirements
· Comfortable with using MS Office suite, Stripe, Just Giving, Paypal.
· Familiarity with complex accounting models (affiliates, branches, restricted and unrestricted funding)
· Experience of working in the charity sector and/or fast paced, entrepreneurial company, that is constantly growing and adapting.
· Able to speak Spanish, Greek or Italian would be a bonus.
Benefits: being part of a dynamic, creative, and growing team working to amplify the impact of local grassroots environmental work
· Flexible working as standard (hours and location)
· Flexible holiday allowance
· Private medical insurance
· Discretionary annual bonus
· Salary sacrifice pension scheme
· CPD opportunities
· Possible travel in the UK and internationally
· Saving the world!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Conservation Collective (CC) funds solutions to protect the environment, restore nature, and safeguard against climate change. The CC UK charity incubates, launches, and supports locally focused foundations, which open new funding channels to support the most impactful environmental grassroots projects. Our network comprises 20 members based all over the world and is growing.
We manage and monitor our donor relations, grant giving governance, contacts, and event activities, via a bespoke and customised salesforce system. This was launched in September 2021, and has been developed and configured to meet our growing needs since then. As the demand for our model increases around the world, we need a highly capable systems specialist to support us to ensure our data systems are well managed, users are trained, and we can create accurate reports for our donors and other audiences. The role will report to the Finance Director and will work closely with the rest of the team. This is a critical role that is central to the success of building a robust organisation, and there is opportunity for an ambitious candidate to grow in responsibility with it.
Key Responsibilities:
Oversee Salesforce System: maintenance, training, development, and reporting
Maintenance
· Ensure key objects on Salesforce such as accounts, contacts, campaigns and grants are working effectively (ensure process flows work well).
· Maintain reliable records in all objects on Salesforce by eliminating duplicates monthly, processing user deletion requests and updating records for lists with up-to-date information on key stakeholders (e.g. trustees, contractors etc).
· Weekly data back-ups.
· Uploading ad-hoc batch data from Campaigns e.g. Just Giving or historical data into Opportunities.
· Ensure regular data cleaning to enhance the credibility and adoption of the system. Spot trends with issues and feedback into system development or training.
· Oversee data governance log: maintaining log of changes to review with the team, discussing effect on budget and system usage to inform decision making.
Training and support
· Oversee user set ups, create new user profiles, and share best practices according to GDPR practices.
· Oversee smooth onboarding and training process for new members to ensure effective adoption.
· Keep training materials related to key objects updated, host internal webinars to address new feature introductions or common issues to troubleshoot.
· Promptly troubleshoot any user issues and feeding these into training to prevent it happening again.
· Respond to individual questions from users on Slack and share tips and tricks.
Automations and Development
· Manage the integration of Form Assembly, ensuring all connectors work well and troubleshoot and update individual forms when needed.
· Support users with the building of individual Form Assembly forms, updating when needed (ad hoc) and embedding them in their websites.
· Perform developments such as creating new fields, updating picklist values, page layouts, forms, automation configuration, formula fields, and other content. Work with core team to assess where a development is foundation specific, and where it should be applied across all users.
· Act as key point of contact with our external Salesforce consultants on any requests of flow maintenance or improvements and monitoring effective use of credits and budgets.
Reporting
· Build reports and dashboards for each key Object – spot trends and suggest improvements.
o Opportunities - pipeline and income reports for board meetings
o Grants - tracker and applications analysis, extraction of impact data for evaluation purposes
· Provide quarterly diagnoses of user adoption levels across the network.
· Work with exec director to prepare quarterly data for trustee meeting and annual reports.
Manage IT systems with the support of an outsourced consultant
· Act as a key point of contact with our outsourced IT company, overseeing the creation of new users and managing the leavers’ processes.
- Ensure MS365 systems are working effectively for current users, and troubleshoot issues as a first point of contact before liaising with outsourced providers.
· Maintain an up to date ‘how to guide’ for our intranet, ensuring all users know how to use it and find what they need.
· Recommend Cyber Security improvements.
· Procure IT equipment for team with support of external consultant.
· Maintain an up-to-date list of active users, MS 365 licenses and Antivirus license protection.
· Oversee the IT budget by approving expenses on a regular basis.
· To manage website domains – purchasing new ones on request, performing updates or providing access to web designers.
Essential criteria:
· Passionate about nature and the environment
· Understanding of and experience in Salesforce User Management
· Knowledge/skills in improving business processes, overseeing testing; identifying and implementing systems enhancements.
· Experience of being able to communicate well with and support non-technical colleagues.
· Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
· Ability to work methodically.
· Ability to work quickly and accurately.
· A keen eye for detail.
· Demonstrable ability to work independently.
· Energetic approach to work and a desire to learn.
· Experience in not-for-profit sector
Strongly desirable criteria:
· Salesforce Administration Certificate.
· Salesforce Trailhead badges.
· Awareness of GDPR regulations.
· Comfortable with using MS Office suite, Slack and Canva environments.
· Familiarity with complex accounting models (affiliates, branches, restricted and unrestricted funding).
· Experience of working in a fast-paced environment that is constantly growing and adapting.
· Being able to speak Spanish, Greek or Italian would be a bonus.
Benefits: being part of a dynamic, creative, and growing team working to amplify the impact of local grassroots environmental work, as well as:
· Flexible working as standard (hours and location)
· Flexible holiday allowance
· Private medical insurance
· Discretionary annual bonus
· Salary sacrifice pension scheme
· CPD opportunities
· Possible travel in the UK and internationally
· Saving the world!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Energy & Retrofit Partnership Officer
Location: North of Tyne and homeworking
Salary: £27,826 – £31,061 per annum, pro rata
Contract: Fixed term till March 2025
Hours: Full time hours and part time optional (3 days minimum per week)
About us
Groundwork works across the UK helping communities find practical solutions to the challenges they face. We provide training and create jobs, reduce energy use and waste, re-connect people with nature and transform whole neighbourhoods. Step by step we’ll go on changing places and changing lives until everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong enough to shape its own destiny and everyone can reach their potential.
About the role
Working across Newcastle, Northumberland, and North Tyneside this post will support the delivery of the North of Tyne Combined Authority’s One Stop Shop for Retrofit Advice (OSS). The One Stop Shop will help households progress with domestic energy retrofit by offering a trusted end-to-end solution.
You will be a key resource in supporting the marketing and campaigns activities of the OSS to engage partners across our communities. Working with a team of Energy and Retrofit Advisors the Partnership Officer will develop networks and partnerships to help households pursuing domestic retrofit opportunities. They will attend ongoing Steering Group and delivery team meetings to ensure they are aware of all Shop activity and its effective coordination. The post will work closely with Local Authorities and the Combined Authority to ensure that domestic retrofit is recognised and delivered across the North of Tyne Area.
A bit about you
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of community engagement and running community events/activities
- Experienced in successful partnership working
- Highly developed communication skills
- Excellent team player
- Strong motivation and a determination to provide excellent service to customers
- Commitment to equality and diversity
It’s a unique and challenging role that gives you the chance to make a difference to people’s lives every day.
This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 8th May 2024
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.
Make yourself at home
We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.
No agencies please.
Community Engagement Officer - Big Local Gateshead
Salary: £25,129 – £27,826 pro rata
Hours: Part time – 30 Hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term until March 2025 – possible continuation
Location: Gateshead
Groundwork aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver Groundwork’s mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential. As an organisation, we are proud of the effective role that our Community Project Managers play in delivering significant social, environmental and health outcomes with communities across the region.
About the role
Big Local Gateshead is a small community lead organisation operating in Teams, Gateshead, governed and operated by passionate local people, with the aim of empowering residents to improve the area in which they live and work.
The 4 key community aims of Big Local Gateshead are:
- Communities will be better able to identify local needs and take action in response to them.
- People will have increased skills and confidence, so that they continue to identify and respond to needs in the future.
- The community will make a difference to the needs it prioritises.
- People will feel that their area is an even better place to live.
We are looking for this role to help expand operations, increase engagement from the local community, and strengthen relationships with other third-sector organisations.
A bit about you
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Experience working in a community setting being confident and approachable to people of all ages, cultures and ethnicities
- Ability to use social media platforms and Office 365, for communication and the promotion of The Big Local Gateshead
- Ability to coordinate activities and motivate others including our network of volunteers
- Ability to work flexibly, including some evenings and weekends
Closing Date: Noon on Tuesday 30th April 2024
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.
Make yourself at home:
We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.
No agencies please.
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Development Officer | Full or Part-Time 3-5 days | £29,566 - £31,783 (pro rata)
Based at our offices in Clapham, near Settle, with flexibility for some homeworking
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) is a small charity doing big things for people, landscape and wildlife in the Yorkshire Dales.
Over the last 25 years we have delivered diverse and inspirational projects. Our vital work has helped to plant 1.5 million trees and secure the future of over 750 hectares of wildflower hay meadows, creating habitats for our wildlife and combatting climate change. We’re passionate about inspiring disadvantaged groups and future generations to care for this special part of the world.
About the role
Our ambitious fundraising strategy has enabled us to grow and maintain our annual voluntary income above £1m. We aim to continue to secure new partnerships to increase our ability to help tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and connect more people with nature. We are committed to providing the highest level of stewardship to our donors and partners, inspiring them to continue to make regular donations and large multi-year commitments.
Our new Development Officer will play a key role in implementing a new 3 year Trusts and Foundations and Philanthropy strategy, aiming to raise £400,000 per annum towards our total fundraising target.
As a small but forward-thinking charity we provide a friendly and supportive culture, with fantastic development and training opportunities, and the opportunity to contribute your ideas at all levels.
About you
We are looking for someone who is passionate about our work and able to build strong relationships with our supporters, including corporate partners, philanthropists and trusts and foundations. You should be able to demonstrate experience of successful business development and/or fundraising.
Underpinning all of this is your ability to work within our culture – which means sharing our values of being creative, caring, honest and enabling.
Closing date is 5pm, Friday 3rd May 2024, with interviews being held week commencing 20th May 2024.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you eager to be part of an organization that plays a pivotal role in a vast global network, driving transformational change to reduce inequality, mitigate climate change, and protect our precious natural world?
A new opportunity has arisen to kick-start your career with the Capitals Coalition, a purpose-driven global collaboration transforming the way decisions are made by including the value provided by nature, people, and society.
Our ambition is that by 2030 the majority of business, finance, and government will include the value of nature, people, and society (natural, human, and social capitals) in their decision-making and that this will propel us to a fairer, just, and more sustainable world.
If you get excited by this mission, we are looking for a multi-talented, dynamic, and engaging Program Officer to support delivery of the Engagement & Education program. The program aims to build, nurture, and educate the Capitals Coalition community of businesses, financial institutions, public bodies, NGOs and other stakeholders to influence the private sector in the transition towards the impact economy. Systems-change is complex and demands effective collaboration, alongside agility in learning and addressing knowledge gaps.
Read the full job description and download the application form, please refer to the "Apply" button which will take you to this vacancy on the Capitals Coalition website.
To apply, kindly follow the instructions on our website to apply by Tuesday 30th April 2024 at 13:00 CEST. Please note that we will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis, and as such, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
About Us:
Capitals Coalition is a purpose-driven global collaboration transforming the way decisions are made by including the value provided by nature, people and society.
Capitals Coalition hosts an open, pre-competitive space for organizations to come together, share best practice, tackle collective challenges, co-create solutions and champion a systemic approach to addressing nature loss, climate change, sustainable development and social inequity.
We sit at the heart of an extensive global network that has united to advance this approach. By working with our many hundreds of global partners, we accelerate momentum, leverage success, connect powerful and engaged communities and identify the areas, projects and partnerships where we can collaboratively drive transformational change for nature, people and economies.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
ABOUT US
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. We want to see a world where trees and woods thrive for people and nature. The Trust engages and inspires people to make their difference tackling the nature and climate crisis helping protect, restore and create our vital woods and trees.
THE ROLE
The Contracts Manager will join our Operations team to represent the Woodland Trust locally, supporting a diverse portfolio of sites within North England, in line with the Trust’s standards and ensuring the safety of our colleagues, visitors, contractors and volunteers. It shall be the Contracts Manager’s responsibility to support Site Managers’ in the preparation and delivery of grant applications, operational contracts and projects including silvicultural operations.
The Contracts Manager will initiate, develop and project manage new innovative projects within and across the woodlands, working with external partner and a cross-departmental team of foresters, people engagement specialists, communications specialists and funders.
They will identify opportunities to streamline services, develop our contractor base and maximise the income and grant aid potential of work programmes. They are responsible for ensuring that all necessary agreements, mitigations and consents are in place in preparation for the delivery of contracts and in accordance with all Woodland Trust Health and Safety policies and procedures.
This is a 2-year fixed term contract until end of April 2026. A company car will be provided with this role.
THE CANDIDATE
With previous experience in land-based management in the forestry, woodland management, or nature conservation sector, you’ll have experience in writing and reviewing site management plans, budget and contract management, and Health and Safety management.
You’ll have experience in the writing and delivery grant schemes across woodland creation and for specifying, instructing, and supervising woodland management operations. You’ll be experienced in planning, monitoring, and delivering multi-disciplinary projects to time and to budget and in engaging with contractors and suppliers on pricing, implementation, and delivery.
You must have a proactive ‘can-do’ attitude, excellent communication skills, be commercially aware and able to build effective partnerships internally and externally. You’ll have experience engaging with external stakeholders, communities and volunteers with a collaborative approach. A working knowledge of the operational, ie Forest Works Management of woodlands would be desirable.
A full driving licence is a must have, along with the ability to undertake travel across a wide area, sometimes to remote locations. Occasional overnight stays will be required and you will be expected to live in the region and within easy reach of key sites in North England.
Our Organisational Nature enables us to better understand what it means to be part of the Woodland Trust, empowering us to make an impact, every day. We want you to be able to role model our values; ‘Grow Together’, ‘Focus’, ‘Explore’ and ‘Make it Count’ to ensure each of us plays our part in helping to protect, restore and create our woods and trees.
WHAT TO EXPECT BY JOINING A TEAM AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE
There’s no other organisation like the Woodland Trust. Joining the team you will be making your contribution to tackling the nature and climate crisis. In return, we recognise and value our people. You'll have our full support, training and opportunities for professional development, along with a contributory pension, life assurance, good holiday allowance and the opportunity to work flexibly from home.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
At the Woodland Trust, we want to reflect and represent the full richness of diversity in the UK. Fewer of our employees are Black, Asian or minority ethnic; disabled; from lower socio-economic backgrounds or under 25; so we are particularly keen to receive your application if you are from one or more of these groups. We can also discuss anything you may need to achieve your full potential at any stage of the process. We assess your application solely on your demonstrated suitability for the job. Nothing else.
To ensure anonymised recruitment, if you have uploaded your CV, shortlisting panels do not see your CV until shortlisting has been completed. Before submitting your application, please ensure you have completed the supporting information section with details of experiences that clearly evidence as many aspects of the job description as possible.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. If you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
Reporting to the Grants Manager, the main objective of the Grants Officer is to secure income for the Wildlife Trust by initiating, managing and developing a portfolio of bids and applications to a variety of funders. Responsibilities will include:
· Crafting well-written persuasive applications to grant-making trusts and foundations, local authorities, community foundations and wind and solar farm funds to secure core income for the Trust
· Researching and identifying new sources of grant funding, mapping out funder criteria, guidelines and potential to fund Trust work
· Developing relationships with new and existing funders to encourage increased support by sending regular reports, updates and invitations to events
· Working closely with administration and finance teams to ensure accurate recording of income received
· Recording all correspondence with funders on our database (Charity CRM), for which training will be provided
We are working to stop nature's decline and make Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire wilder
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