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Our ambitious and creative team has been working hard over the last year to expand our work to help more people in need across Sussex and Surrey. FareShare is the UK’s biggest surplus food charity and today we find ourselves on the front line of the Cost of Living Crisis. As our work grows, so does our need for strong financial management.
We are looking for a talented, passionate person to join our Senior Leadership Team to oversee our finance operations. With more growth planned over the next 2 years we want to find someone who has the experience to oversee the day to day finances of a large regional charity and to lead and nurture our finance staff. This role will provide a stable platform for growth.
Using your can-do attitude, mixed with excellent communication, organisational and administration skills, you’ll focus on supporting our CEO and Trustees across our sites. The role includes tasks such as producing monthly management accounts, oversight of payroll, management of our internal financial controls, Year End reporting preparation and leading our small team in the general smooth running of finances. This is a part-time role with the potential to increase as we expand.
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Elephant Family is an international conservation charity that works to protect Asia’s magnificent wildlife in the most joyful and engaging way possible. Since their inception in 2003, Elephant Family have powered 150+ projects across India, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Sumatra and Borneo that have reconnected forest fragments, restored migratory routes, stamped out illegal trades and found ways for humans and wild animals to successfully live closer together than ever before.
In 2021, Elephant Family merged with British Asian Trust, an alliance that marked an exciting step in the evolution of both charities, bringing together the best minds in conservation, management and philanthropy.
Elephant Family is renowned for their unique and high profile events, which have been the foundation of the charity and will remain a key part of fundraising activities. Through these events, and their loyal HNWI supporters and corporate partners, Elephant Family have raised more than £20 million since its inception.
There is significant potential to be realised within the existing donor base of philanthropists and corporate supporters. As Fundraising Manager, you will support the team to develop meaningful and sustainable relationships with supporters, managing a small portfolio of your own donors and leading on the day-to-day contact with corporate partners and event sponsors.
As Fundraising Manager, you will:
- Manage a pool of HNWIs, corporate partners and event sponsors focusing on delivering compelling stewardship plans to deepen relationships with supporters and secure income
- Proactively identify and research major donor and corporate prospects, and develop individual cultivation plans to move along the pipeline
- Create high-quality and innovative pitches and presentations to engage prospective donors/partners
- Manage relationships with event sponsors ensuring key deliverables are met
- Support the delivery of Elephant Family’s renowned events, primarily focusing on managing the relationships with guests, event partners, and sponsors
- Work with the Programmes team to identify funding opportunities aligned to donors’ interests and current funding needs
- Take ownership of the database (Salesforce) ensuring donor records are up-to-date to allow for effective supporter communications and engagement
Ideal skills and experience:
- Demonstrable experience of managing relationships with HNWIs and corporate partners at the 5-figure+ level
- Proven experience of soliciting and securing support from prospects
- Strong writing skills with ability to create engaging content, proposals, pitches, presentations, reports and other donor communications
- Exceptional organisational skills, attention to detail and proven ability to manage a varied workload
- Strong communication and networking skills with the confidence to engage stakeholders of all levels (SMT, Trustees, senior volunteers, donors, partners, colleagues)
- Database management skills
- Team player, creative, trustworthy, target-driven and proactive
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CPRE Oxfordshire is looking for a Director to develop campaigns and co-ordinate our volunteer network to protect the countryside of Oxfordshire. Work with us towards a beautiful and thriving countryside that’s accessible to everyone.
CPRE (the Countryside Charity) was set up 100 years ago with the aims of the ‘conservation of what is beautiful and interesting in our countryside and towns and villages; and the encouragement of the right type of development’. Today these words are just as relevant as when they were written in the 1920s and we campaign for good planning, protection from speculative development and the enhancement of nature and accessibility of our green spaces.
CPRE Oxfordshire is an independent charity, federated with 40+ county charities and a national office, giving us local, regional and national reach. The Director will work with our Trustees and network of volunteers to formulate local strategy, run local campaigns and liaise with the National Charity. The Director is assisted by a small staff team.
We are looking for an exceptional individual who can work with and motivate volunteers, take a strategic view on issues affecting the Oxfordshire countryside and represent CPRE at County and National forums. The role also involves management of the small staff team, the oversight of our finances and fundraising.
We’re committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace at CPRE, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because diverse workplaces can make better and more creative decisions. Whatever your background, we welcome your application. However people from ethnic minority backgrounds and disabled people are underrepresented in the environment sector. So, if you identify as either, we’d love to hear from you.
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Chief Executive Officer (Nature Conservation)
Location: Guisborough, North Yorkshire, at the edge of the North York Moors National Park. - some flexible / hybrid working
Contract: Permanent, subject to a 6 month initial probationary period
Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week) with occasional evening or weekend work
Benefits: A contributory pension scheme with employer contributions. 22 days annual leave per year pro rata (rising to 24 days through service) in addition to bank / public holidays
Closing Date: April 15th 2024
Interview Date: April 24th 2024
Are you looking for a senior opportunity in a renowned charitable organisation?
This is an exciting opportunity to lead nature recovery in the Tees Valley
Based in Guisborough, our client are involved in the conservation and restoration of a variety of habitats including woodland, freshwater, marine, moorland, and meadows. They work with local landowners, resident groups, schools and local communities to achieve their objectives.
The Chief Executive Officer leads the delivery of their strategy and operations. You will be responsible for all operational activities and financial management.
Working closely with the Chair and Trustees you’ll ensure the smooth and efficient management of the Trust, leading an innovative but respected and financially sustainable organisation. As the principal external ‘face’ of the Trust, you'll be expected to play a leading role in strengthening relationships with partners, supporters, agencies and other organisations, and to foster and enhance the reputation of the Trust.
What they’re looking for:
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Sound knowledge and understanding of wildlife, nature conservation and environmental matters
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Significant leadership and senior management experience of an organisation or department and an understanding of the principles of strategic leadership.
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Experience of leadership or management in charitable or not-for-profit organisations
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Experience of writing and delivering impactful strategic plans.
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Experience of working collaboratively with Trustees or non-executive Directors and stakeholders
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A track record of supporting or leading income growth strategies.
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Knowledge of relevant Charity Law
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Experienced in the development of operational plans, financial budgets, and staff development plans.
Please note a valid UK driving licence and use of your own vehicle is required for travel and occasional overnight stays.
About our client:
Our client are part of a network of 46 Trusts around the UK. Although our client operates as an independent charity focused on valuing nature in Tees Valley, working effectively within the wider federation is a critical part of the role.
Equal opportunities: our client are committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among its workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation. The client’s policy is to provide equality, fairness and respect for all staff, whether temporary, part-time or full-time.
Nene Park Trust is the registered charity which looks after Nene Park in its entirety. Established in 1988 to ensure that the Park would be managed and protected forever, the Trust looks after all maintenance, coordination of the Park's activity programme and administration of commercial properties in the Park.
Working at the heart of the organisation, the Executive Officer plays an important part in supporting the Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive with high level personal assistance support - providing essential diary and email management, ensuring they are fully prepared for meetings, writing papers and reports, and handling a variety of correspondence on their behalf.
The Executive Officer will also have the opportunity to support the wider Senior Leadership Team with various projects and administrative tasks and will support the Company Secretary with administrative duties required for our Board of Trustees, including minute taking and agenda preparation.
This role sits within the People Team, who ensure the Trust’s head office is a welcoming space for employees and visitors. The Team also provides organisation wide administrative support. Your role will include providing additional support to the wider People Team, covering absences and helping out during busy periods.
We are looking for somebody with a positive, can-do attitude and an excellent approach to changing workloads and priorities.
Please visit the 'Work with us' section of the Nene Park website for more information and to download a copy of the application form.
Applications must be submitted by 5pm on Sunday 14th April.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Start Date: As soon as possible
Duration of Contract: Permanent
Probation Period: Six months
Gross Salary: £49,200 per annum
Location: Fauna & Flora, Cambridge
Over the next five years, Fauna & Flora aspires to enhance its global impact through investment, growth, visibility and influence. An essential part of this will be through greatly expanding awareness and visibility of its programmes among UK and global target audiences and by exponentially increasing its fundraising efforts and results.
A key and growing audience for Fauna & Flora in the UK and globally is high net worth individuals and corporates, and specifically those who are willing to give high value unrestricted support to our global conservation work. As a result, we are launching a transformational fundraising plan to 2030, and we are seeking an experienced Senior Philanthropy Adviser to help us meet our ambitious targets, securing high value donations from our existing networks and helping us to reach out to new contacts and networks to build our pipeline for support.
You will be focussed on developing a portfolio of high value supporters in the UK, but you will also develop strong working relationships across high value fundraising activities in the USA and Australia, as well as more widely across the fundraising communications teams, and also with senior leadership including the CEO and with our volunteers including trustees.
To this end we are seeking a self-motivated individual to join our Philanthropy team in this role. The role requires an individual with passion and drive to inspire and motivate donors to give significant funding to our cause, but also with the ability to listen and understand prospect motivations, in order to build lasting relationships. You will have expert technical and professional skills in major donor fundraising and a proven ability to develop fundraising strategy for high level donors.
Your key focus in this role is on building and maintaining high-value donor relationships, and you will be supported in this by our expert Research & Insight team, providing donor and prospect research and briefings and inputting into strategy, and our expert Philanthropy Engagement team, who develop and manage various engagement opportunities for major supporter and prospects, from events, trips and newsletters to bespoke proposals and reports.
You will enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, where the ability to respond swiftly to changing organisational and team needs is paramount. In return, we offer the opportunity to work for a ground-breaking organisation at the forefront of global conservation, with generous pension contribution, attractive annual leave allowance, and life insurance.
Our offices are located in The David Attenborough Building in central Cambridge, just a few minutes’ walk from glorious historic buildings and museums, the picturesque River Cam, the central market and shopping centre, and a host of cafés and restaurants
Please visit our website for further details of the position and how to apply
The closing date for applications is 7 April 2024.
About this role
Director of Policy and Advocacy is a senior leadership role within Sustain, working across a range of policy, project and campaign areas. We are seeking a strong leader, with management experience and a keen interest in promoting solutions to many of the biggest challenges currently facing us: climate change, restoration of nature, and achieving a healthy, fair, diverse and sustainable system for food and farming. Leadership includes senior oversight:
- On ‘policy’, of the priorities, coherence and cross-fertilisation between our various projects and campaigns and the priorities identified by our alliance members, expert working parties and project/campaign leads.
- On ‘advocacy’, of Sustain’s range of approaches to achieving change – e.g. campaigning, partnership working, standards-setting as well as soft influence, at national and local level.
The Sustain alliance – members and colleagues – represent a rich source of expertise and well-proven, viable solutions to many of the challenges that face us. These need to be supported and replicated at scale, with barriers to adoption removed. It is the job of the Sustain alliance to cultivate the movement, win the policies and other support for solutions, and accelerate the process of change.
As a Director, you will have a key role in supporting the development of new and fundable areas of work, as well as contributing to organisational strategy and decision-making for Sustain. You will also hold strong people leadership skills, as the role oversees key teams at Sustain with five direct reports, and will support the delivery of our organisational plan.
Tasks and responsibilities
The Director of Policy and Advocacy for Sustain will have a varied and stimulating workload, working closely with the Chief Executive and in collaboration with Sustain’s senior management, project and campaign leads, project partners, Sustain alliance members and associates, and strategic funders. The postholder will provide strategic leadership on a range of policy, campaign, influencing and communications matters relating to advocacy for healthy and sustainable food and farming. The work will include:
Policy, advocacy and campaign development
- Creating an advocacy strategy for Sustain, working with colleagues and members, and building productive relationships with key audiences and partners, including an annual programme of activities and events.
- Leading on publishing policy reports, evidence submissions, statements and press releases, and overseeing those generated by Sustain colleagues and/or wider alliance activities.
- Overseeing key policy, advocacy and campaign themes, to ensure these are pursued effectively and prioritised within advocacy and campaign work, with line-management responsibilities in relation to relevant campaign coordinators and their teams.
- Providing everyday advisory and/or skills-building support or other opportunities for colleagues to develop their policy, influencing and communications work.
Stakeholder relationships
- Ensuring that members of the Sustain alliance are engaged in policy and advocacy and benefiting from the opportunities provided by their alliance membership.
- Building trusted relationships with a range of alliance members, government departments, elected representatives, project and campaign partners, journalists, media outlets, funders and opinion formers; and cultivating opportunities to work together to achieve positive change, including potential partnership initiatives.
Leadership in organisation management
- Working with the core team to ensure that this work is adequately resourced, and budgets are managed effectively, understanding and contributing to how this fits within Sustain’s overall financial management, resource use and fundraising needs.
- Developing compelling and impactful activities, evidence-gathering, partnerships and funding bids and feeding into development of impact reporting and theories of change.
- Leading on one or more operational priorities, working with the senior team and other key members of the staff team to ensure that tasks happen in a timely and effective way.
- Maintaining excellent financial records, contact databases and mailing lists, in line with good governance, data protection and accountability.
- Ensuring that monitoring, evaluation and learning is undertaken in relation to the campaigns and advocacy work, to help shape the way these develop, and to ensure that this informs reporting to funders and Sustain’s Council of Trustees, organisational learning and development of future activities.
Oversight on public communications
- Overseeing public communications in service of advocacy goals, working with expert project and campaign coordinators at Sustain. This will include representing the Sustain alliance externally – for example, with journalists, in the media, at high-level political opportunities such as giving oral evidence to parliamentary enquiries, chairing or speaking at panel events, organising roundtables or conferences, pitching or reporting to funders, etc.
- Overseeing the work of Sustain’s colleagues who lead on communications, social media, digital and design and parliament/public affairs to enable effective delivery of the policy and advocacy strategy.
- Editorial oversight and senior sign-off for Sustain’s political, campaigning and public communications activity, ensuring consistency of tone and approach and cultivating helpful cross-fertilisation of ideas and joined-up policy responses across the range of Sustain activities. Also ensuring that communications and public affairs activities serve and respect the alliance’s strategy, agreed tone, opportunities to influence, political impartiality, legal boundaries and our charitable objectives.
The Head of Policy and Advocacy will also:
- Undertake other tasks and responsibilities that may arise from time to time.
This is a Hybrid Role however the succesful candidate will be based On Site for the duration of their probation period.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Bore Place is looking for a new Finance Director to help us achieve the next stage in our development. Reporting to the Chief Executive, the Finance Director will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day financial management of the Trust, financial compliance, and the development and oversight of our Financial Strategy. The successful candidate will provide commercial focus, lead on financial compliance and governance and oversee strong and effective financial administrative functions and reporting. Ideally, you will have experience of providing this function for non-for profit organisation in the charity sector.
Who we are: Bore Place is situated on a 500-acre organic farm estate in West Kent. Our mission is to enhance the planet in all that we do, to inspire people to live and work sustainably and lead happy and fulfilling lives. We provide a unique venue, educational programmes for young people, public activities and courses, and a site that is open to all.
We are now at one of the most exciting stages in our development. You will be joining the organisation at a pivotal moment as we approach our 50th birthday in 2027. Our 5-year Strategic Plan is in place to guide and focus our work, we have strong cash flows and have recently invested significantly in our infrastructure. Your success will help shape our future – a future focused on creating a paradigm shift in the UK in its approach to nature, farming, climate, and the education of children and young people and our most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.
Your role: The role will be instrumental in finding financial solutions to enable the Trust to deliver its Vision and Mission. You will line manage the Accounts Administrator who will deliver the day-to-day financial administration and finance system, draft reports and will support the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee and the auditor. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant, with strong technical and strategic financial skills, experience in charity accounting, the financial and commercial acumen to support our development and a commitment to our mission and vision. Above all, you will have the attention to detail required to ensure organisational compliance, coupled with a desire to enable sustainable growth.
We would love to hear from you if you have:
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Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with 3 years post qualification experience;
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Experience of managing the finance function of an organisation, reflecting the key duties of this role;
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Experience of managing audits and reporting statutory accounts;
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Proven track record of leading, managing and motivating people;
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Ideally, experience of managing the finances of a Charity (including a trading arm);
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Commitment to our vision and values.
What we offer: As an organisation, we seek to be an inclusive and fair employer. We are a happy and supportive team and recognise that people are the heart of our organisation and value them accordingly. This is an opportunity to use your skills and experience to support the organisation to reach its full potential.
We aim to be an organisation with a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society. We strongly encourage and welcome applicants across all identities and backgrounds.
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flexible working
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opportunities to learn and develop
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free parking at our beautiful rural location
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staff discounts on events and organic vegetables when in season
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a pension
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life insurance and an employee assistance programme
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30 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays (pro-rata)
You can view the Job Description and our Strategic Plan, and download an application form from our website.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm on Wednesday 10th April 2024.
First interviews are planned to be held at Bore Place on Wednesday 24th April 2024, with second interviews on Wednesday 1st May 2024.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Executive Assistant
Salary: £35,280 per annum
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 hour’s system of working and enhanced family friendly policies
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: London
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.
We are seeking an individual who is passionate about the environment to join as Executive Assistant. This isn’t your usual Executive Assistant role - in addition to providing high-level administrative support to our Chief Executive and Trustees, you will help to support our parliamentary and policy work.
To be successful in this role you will be highly literate, IT savvy, creative and highly organised with the ability to manage a diverse workload and competing set of priorities.
This is an exciting role within a fast-paced charity where you will have the opportunity to support our growing campaign work.
All our roles benefit from generous holiday entitlement and pension contributions, including the opportunity to join the UK’s first net zero carbon pension scheme and to receive extra days leave for using alternatives to flights. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, you just need to 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 and apply, please apply via the link held.
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 08 April 2024
Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on Thursday 25 April 2024 and Monday 29 April 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.
Are you passionate about the power of volunteering to protect, promote and enhance our countryside?
CPRE’s Volunteering Development Officer will help us to ensure we deliver the best possible experience to people who volunteer with us.
Volunteering Development Officer
Job ref: VDO
Location: Homeworking or office based in London, N1 7NH/Hybrid 2-3 days from home
Salary:
- £22,869 (£38,115 full-time equivalent) - office-based (London)
- £19,617 (£32,695 full-time equivalent) - home-based (out of London)
CPRE’s Volunteering Development Officer provides excellent advice on best practice in volunteer engagement so we ensure people from all walks of life can volunteer with us. You’ll work with the network of 40 county-based charities and with our national CPRE to expand how we campaign for the countryside through volunteering.
You’ll be working part-time (three days a week) in our Volunteering & Participation team, with the Volunteering and Participation Manager and Volunteering Development Assistant. You’ll also work closely with our Director of Communities and Participation and the Network Engagement team, who are part of the wider Communities and Participation Directorate.
This varied role helps to deliver CPRE’s volunteering strategy, to find a way in for everyone to care for the countryside. You’ll be supporting volunteer coordinators, trustees and others to identify priority volunteer vacancies and assist in driving the recruitment of a diverse range of new volunteers.
You’ll encourage peer to peer networking with Volunteer Coordinators, welcoming new volunteer coordinators into the group and hosting network meetings. Working closely with the Volunteering Development Assistant you’ll be key to the delivery of both our national online volunteer induction programme and our national volunteer awards programme. These initiatives aim to give volunteers a warm welcome to the charity, and recognise and celebrate volunteer achievement.
You’ll receive training to use our volunteer management system Assemble and you’ll support others to make the best use of the system. You’ll be adept at collaborative working, and you’ll be supportive of increasing the diversity of people who volunteer for CPRE. You’ll also have the opportunity to work with the team to deliver training, and you’ll be able to develop interesting, impactful new volunteering roles with national and local teams.
CPRE places high value on equality. We treat everyone with respect and consideration because we know it’s the right thing to do. We also know that diverse teams make much better decisions, are more creative and more stimulating to work in. So, if you join us, you will be able to help us put equality, the environment and diversity at the centre of everything we do. We hope you like the sound of the job and will take the time to apply!
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse CPRE in which everyone feels supported, valued, and always able to be themselves at work, because we recognise that a diverse and inclusive workforce is important in achieving our vision of a thriving, beautiful countryside for everyone. We therefore welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. People from ethnic minority backgrounds and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sectors. If you identify as a person of ethnic minority background and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application.
Closing date: Midday Monday 22 April 2024
Interviews: Wednesday 8 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.
CPRE is an equal opportunities employer.
No agencies please.
Job Purpose
Your legacy will be a tangible impact on slowing down climate change and helping nature recover by overseeing and leading on financial strategy and income generation and sustainability, across Avon Needs Trees (ANT) at the organisational level and for our projects.
You will secure ANT financially and oversee good fiscal management of all its affairs, helping to deliver on our goals to plant hundreds of thousands of trees and complementary habitats. You will join a fast-growing organisation that started in 2019 with four volunteers and has grown to a staff team of thirteen (which will double over 2024), over 1,000 volunteers and ownership of 170 acres (soon to be 600 acres) of land that will grow woodlands of over 160,000 trees.
We are looking for a positive people-person with commercial development experience, exceptional financial acumen and the ambition to help take ANT to our next level of impact, as we prepare for exponential growth over the next year. As a fast-growing, high impact charity all of our roles have direct operational responsibilities in addition to managing teams and thinking strategically and with vision.
Main responsibilities
● Lead from the front in the development and implementation of a Commercial Trading Arm for ANT and spearhead new sources of income including green finance
● Ensure development of finance models and plans to support Landscape Recovery, including natural capital frameworks and administration of government agriculture subsidies
● Line-manage and oversee the work of our finance and commercial teams to ensure our people are well-supported and our work is impactful
● Direct operational responsibilities to advance our work at pace
● Work with the Chief Executive and other Heads on organisational strategy, finance, accounting and organisational sustainability
● Work with the Chief Executive to ensure trustees have appropriate information and understanding of our finances
● Ensure the production of internal reports, annual accounts, and reports for funders
● Identify, seize and support new income, funding and fundraising opportunities, and help guide ANT through a period of business and transformation and growth
● Lead the development and implementation of ANT’s finance strategy including:
○ Forecasting models
○ Assessing risk in financial decisions
○ Ensuring all accounting activities comply with regulations and our governed by robust and appropriate policies
○ Cost saving opportunities
● Oversight of all ANT budgets, managing cashflows and profit/loss analysis
● Ensure compliance with laws and regulations in agreed areas of responsibility
● Identify and implement opportunities for ANT to continually improve, using your influencing skills to create opportunities
● As with all Avon Needs Trees roles, contributing to grant writing and fundraising activities
● Other duties and opportunities as required
Working relationships and expectations
● As a member of the senior leadership team, you will work closely with the Chief Executive and other Heads, helping to lead the organisation in an exciting period of change and growth
● You will have a number of direct reports, which will grow as ANT takes on more staff
● Hybrid working between home and our office (currently on Gloucester Road, Bristol)
● Occasional evening and weekend working will be required but this is not a substantial feature of your role
● Our staff maintain an appropriate level of confidentiality, professionalism and discretion at all times
● Our staff comply with organisational policies, procedures, and guidance, and external regulations and laws
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Community Empowerment Manager
Salary: £18,471 - £19,294 pro rata (£30,785 - £32,158 FTE)
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire - some flexible working offered
21 hours per week (usually worked over 3 days)
Maternity Cover - 6 Months FTC
Closing Date: 9am on 17th April 2024
1st Interviews: 26th April 2024
Do you have a passion and enthusiasm for work with communities?
Are you experienced in managing staff and volunteers delivering community engagement activities?
Our client are looking for a Community Empowerment Manager to join their team in Shrewsbury. They will manage a small team that brings people together to take action on shared goals. These facilitated and sustainable activities will lead to a ripple effect of people acting for nature and the climate.
You’ll successfully close the Trust’s Nextdoor Nature Project in Telford, providing all required achievement, impact and financial reports as well as fully contributing to national evaluation. Managing staff and volunteers delivering community engagement activities will also be a key part of the role, ensuring they fit with the Trust’s three-year strategic goals (and associated budget) for community development. Another, exciting part of the role will be supporting staff to review and modernise our volunteer management systems and implement changes to the wider organisation.
Further Activities:
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Oversee the dissemination of key learnings and impact stories to trustees, staff and other organisations.
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Manage the community listeners’ network.
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Support monitoring, reporting, evaluation and communications activity.
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Scope, develop and facilitate work within identified communities.
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Support the empowerment of under-represented and disconnected groups within their local communities, working with them to enhance community cohesion and collaborative working.
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Champion the community organising approach, sharing skills, experience, knowledge and learning.
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Promote both local and national campaigns through community networks, liaising with communications contacts to maximise their reach and impact.
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Build positive relationships between the Trust and community-based organisations and Local Authorities to support objectives.
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Support the Nextdoor Nature resource hub by working with your team and relevant partners to collect and collate any successful resources.
What they are looking for:
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Strong people and project management skills.
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Outstanding organisational skills to prioritise and manage a varied workload.
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A passion and enthusiasm for working with communities and an understanding of the principles of community organising.
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A proven track record in developing strong relationships with key individuals/stakeholders from diverse audiences.
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High level of IT competence & excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications is essential.
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Excellent written communication skills for producing reports / sharing impact.
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Experience of voluntary sector organisations is desirable
Why work for our client - benefits they offer:
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Flexible working
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Home working
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Salary sacrifice scheme
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Generous pension
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Employee Assistance Programme
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Support with training and development to assist career progression
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Inclusive & supportive work atmosphere
Our client value passion, respect, trust, integrity, strength in diversity, and pragmatic activism. Whilst they are passionate in promoting their aims, they are not judgemental and are inclusive. They want their people to be as diverse as nature, so they particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within their sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. They are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let them know if you require any adjustments to make their recruitment process more accessible.
No enquiries from agencies or for further advertising will be taken.
Who our client are
Our client has a vision of a thriving natural world, where Shropshire's wildlife and natural habitats play a valued role in addressing the climate and ecological emergencies, and people are inspired and empowered to take action for nature. They combine projects across Shropshire (including Telford & Wrekin) with advocacy and campaigning to restore nature and to engage people. They manage over 40 nature reserves and have almost 50 staff, 300 volunteers, and over 9000 members. Our client are an autonomous charity, but they are increasingly working collectively, as part of The Trusts, to ensure that their local actions have a national impact and help to address global issues.
An opportunity to work for an inspirational Welsh charity which is restoring nature and connecting people to this wild place, in a magnificent geographical area.
Coetir Anian (Cambrian Wildwood) manages a 142 hectare site near Machynlleth, restoring habitats and species to establish a flourishing, natural landscape and engaging a diverse range of people through education, well-being, and nature connection programmes.
Coetir Anian is seeking a new Fundraising Manager as the charity enters an exciting new phase in its nature restoration and people-land connection work. Much of the funding for the next financial year is in place and the focus is on financing the delivery of our new strategy, which will emphasise inclusive community engagement and storytelling alongside practical nature restoration. Experience with Heritage Lottery or similar applications would be an advantage.
The post holder will work with the Director and other staff to implement an income generation strategy which supports the work of Coetir Anian through unrestricted and restricted income streams.
This role would suit someone with experience of leading grant applications, especially in a small-medium sized charity. Community and major donor fundraising experience will also be advantageous, as will knowledge of funding in the environmental sector. You will need to be flexible, well-organised, a fast learner, have lots of initiative and be a strong team worker.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This role will support the head of marketing and communications to deliver communications and marketing plans and activity that build ACF’s brand and reputation and improve reach and impact across all platforms.
Assist colleagues to ensure they have good understanding of ACF’s marketing and brand and all communications meet organisational needs.
Regular website maintenance, including adding, editing and archiving website content (eg blogs, news, briefings, infographics, photos, videos, adverts and guides) in line with house style guides, updating phrasing in line with key messaging, and supporting the head of marketing and communications with ongoing improvements to accessibility, layout and performance of the ACF website.
Support the effective operation of all ACF communications channels to maximise audience reach and brand awareness, as well as ensuring organisational objectives are met. This includes:
- Leading on the content, delivery and evaluation of our email communications
- Support the management of ACF’s presence on social media by drafting, posting and analysing content
- Manage the production of analytics reports to evaluate the efficacy of these channels and contribute to ways to develop and improve them.
Support the head of marketing and communications by monitoring ACF resources, publications and information to ensure they are up to date, accessible, on brand and in high quality format for all ACF website and social media users.
Assist with maintaining a comms planner. Support colleagues to resolve scheduling jams or gaps to ensure all communications are sent on time and on brand, helping create a culture of forward planning.
Support colleagues with tailored comms and marketing plans for organisational activities and events.
Support the production of reports and publications; liaising with external designers and internal colleagues; proof reading, and coordinating schedules and amendments.
Designing straightforward graphics in Canva for use in email communications and on social media.
Actively contribute to developing the ACF brand by championing the use of house style guides and sharing marketing and comms knowledge to support colleagues.
Support the head of investment practice and partnership with communications, performance reporting, and visibility of our Official Partners
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Description – Corporate Partnerships Manager - New Business
Reporting to: Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager – New Business
Location: London/Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours / Week
Salary: £38,266 - £40,208 (We normally offer a starting salary at the start of the range)
We welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident Employer that welcome disabled applicants and provide reasonable adjustments.
About FareShare
FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to nearly 8,500 frontline charities and community groups.
The food we redistribute is nutritious and good to eat. It reaches charities across the UK, including school breakfast clubs, older people’s lunch clubs, homeless shelters, and community cafes. Every week we provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people.
Every year, more than three million tonnes of food go to waste in the UK, enough for 7 billion meals. Meanwhile, the cost of living crisis is driving millions into food insecurity.
We are fortunate to benefit from the support of major retailers, the media, ambassadors and a groundswell of public engagement. As a result, there has never been a more exciting time to join an organisation at the heart of public consciousness.
FareShare’s Strategy & Vision
Our vision is of a UK where ‘No good food goes to waste’.
Our mission is to use surplus, fit-for consumption food to feed those who are vulnerable in the UK by supporting frontline charitable organisations that tackle the cause and not just the symptoms of poverty.
Our values run through everything we do and set out a clear framework for us to approach our work: passion, ambition, respect, collaboration, and focus.
The role
FareShare’s recent increased brand profile and consumer awareness, along with our dual purpose in creating both social and environmental impact, gives us a strong proposition for Corporate Partners. We currently have partnerships with a large variety of exciting brands from Tesco to Oliver Bonas, McDonalds to Subway, Kellogg’s to Pink Lady apples and Bloomberg to Burberry – our partnerships are many and varied.
As a Corporate Partnerships Manager (New Business) you will be responsible for securing new innovative collaborations with a wide variety of corporate companies to support the important work of FareShare including: charity of the year partnerships; commercial brand licensing deals; and multifaceted sponsorships/partnerships. You will work closely with colleagues across the whole of FareShare to create transformational and mutually beneficial relationships.
To be successful in this role, you will have a proven track record of securing income/partnerships, within a fundraising/sponsorship/commercial sales environment, as well as experience of working with a broad range of stakeholders to create high-quality proposals. You will be self-motivated with strong organisational skills and an ability to set priorities, manage a prospect pipeline and meet deadlines. We’re looking for a creative relationship builder with strong commercial awareness and an eye for spotting income generating potential. You will be comfortable pitching to potential partners and will lead on negotiating bespoke deals and benefits packages.
You will work closely with the Senior New Business Manager and Officer to improve our ways of working, manage and diversify our pipeline and deliver our ambitious growth strategy.
Main areas of responsibility
- Ensure financial and non-financial targets are achieved by securing new corporate supporters
- Work with the Senior Partnerships Manager and other Corporate Partnerships Manager to develop and deliver the wider corporate partner strategy
- Manage and lead a strong pipeline of identifying, researching, prospecting and cultivating potential corporate support
- Working proactively to lead the approach on prospective partners who have the capacity to give £50k and engage them in FareShare and our work
- Create and deliver inspiring and compelling pitches tailored to prospective high value corporate supporters for opportunities such as Charity of the Year, cause related marketing, sponsorship and strategic partnerships
- Deliver cultivation strategies for prospective corporate supporters and monitor their effectiveness
- Devise compelling collateral for prospective corporate supporters including engaging proposals, cases for support and captivating stewardship resources
- Collaborate with Food Team Senior Managers and Commercial Managers on pitches to convert food partners into income generation partners
- Work with the Marketing and Volunteering teams to identify new opportunities and ensure proposals include appropriate levels and timely planning of communications support
- Work with the Senior Corporate Partnerships Managers and Corporate Partnerships Managers on identifying and packaging new funding opportunities across the business
- Instil partnership excellence in the transition of partners from new business to account management
- Nurture relationships with marketing, PR and promotional agencies by demonstrating FareShare’s impact and consumer appeal
- With colleagues across Fundraising, undertake extensive horizon scanning and deploy innovative techniques to ensure our pipeline is diverse and sustainable
- Maintain accurate cultivation plans and reporting for new business approaches
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of relevant legal and charity guidelines and ensure these are implemented across new partnerships
- Efficient and effective management of commercial income activity ensuring compliance with GDPR, charity regulation and FareShare’s own Ethical Gift Policy
- Manage all legal and financial aspects of partnership agreements prior to account management transition
- Work with the Corporate Partnerships Team to regularly update and continuously improve new business materials, processes and ways of working
- Attend and provide regular updates in 1 to 1 and team meetings
- Manage and work within FareShare’s IT systems and data guidelines
- Represent Fundraising where required on internal working groups
- Undertake other duties as required
Person Specification
As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable in this role.
Essential
- Significant track record of securing new high value income/partnerships in either a charity or commercial environment
- Target driven, proactive and creative with the ability to create and deliver compelling pitches and proposals tailored to corporate audiences and their varied business objectives
- Commercial awareness with knowledge of various corporate sectors and relevant VAT considerations
- Experience managing a new business pipeline, qualifying new business leads and establishing new relationships
- Demonstrable experience of negotiating partnership deals and redrafting commercial participator agreements or similar legal contracts
- Ability to communicate effectively and inspire corporate partners with excellent writing and presentation skills
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills with a creative approach to working
- Experience of building strong relationships with key external and internal stakeholders to work constructively and collaboratively
- Experience with commercial brand licensing/cause related marketing
- Experience working on and utilising a CRM system to better deliver your work
Desirable
- Experience of working with FMCG brands and retailers
- Understanding of the Institute of Fundraising’s Code of Practice, data protection and other relevant legislation, guidance and good practice
Values and behaviours
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- An understanding of, and sympathy with FareShare’s mission
- Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team and across other internal teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid / Flexible working, with regular UK travel
- 28 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays
- Employers pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme
- Season ticket loan