Events / Activities Jobs
We are looking for a Conference Organiser who is highly skilled and experienced in delivering large scale conferences, exhibitions, and events and who will be responsible for designing, planning, delivering, and evaluating several complex and high-end conference for the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), a charity that that focusses on supporting doctors to deliver medical imaging and cancer services.
You will be required to work closely with the RCR Learning team and directly with the Events and Operations Manager, the Marketing Manager and the Corporate Partnerships Officer as well as working with a dedicated group of subject matter experts (SMEs) who will lead the clinical aspect of the programme creation. In addition to this you will also actively participate in an internal working group of key stakeholders and 3rd party providers to ensure the smooth running of the conference.
During the term of the role, effective evaluation and review will be required at all stages of the project including future proofing for the next event and supporting the identification of venues.
Strong financial knowledge and experience is essential, and we are seeking someone who has strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills to ensure our conferences are delivered on time, with in budget supporting the organisational goal of financial sustainability.
The post holder will join our dynamic team at a pivotal time as we develop new and existing learning products for our membership and allied healthcare professionals and drive forward our global ambitions by creating and delivering an exciting programme of annual events.
The ideal candidate will be proactive, have strong verbal and written communication skills and bring expertise and market knowledge to advise on latest trends to support event delivery.
What you’ll do:
- Develop and deliver from conception to completion a high level, complex event for audiences based in the UK and globally.
- Lead on all operational and logistical delivery of the event.
- Work closely with subject matter experts to generate an inspiring and up-to-date programme, streams, and content.
- Manage end to end experience for our delegates, guest speakers, staff, volunteers, and VIPs to ensure relevant information is produced to support their attendance, pre-event, during the live event and post-event, which is clear, accurate and accessible.
- Produce an accurate budget for live products, including direct costs, as well as forecast delegate and sponsorship income.
- Design, deliver and co-ordinate a substantial exhibition, managing expectations and ensuring customers and partners experience a high-quality service.
- Pro-actively contribute to the evaluation, feeding back on logistical and operational learning and recommending next steps.
- Develop and deliver an abstract competition, which aims to provide a platform for those who wish to share their research.
- Support the team in event delivery throughout the year.
What you’ll need:
- Experience of delivering end to end event management across in-person, online and hybrid formats using interactive technologies and facilitation techniques.
- Experience collaborating closely with external stakeholders to develop and deliver content.
- Experience in data collection and analysis to evaluate activities, generating reports containing actionable recommendations.
- Experience creating and managing robust budgets for a variety of activities.
- Experience providing high-quality customer service to stakeholders.
- Experience in process development and improvement.
- Proficient user of Microsoft packages
- Effective interpersonal skills
If you are looking for an exciting and impactful role that supports doctors' learning and development, find out more in the Conference Organiser, the RCR and instructions on how to apply in the candidate pack.
Why join us:
- Make a difference to the lives of Doctors and the specialities they work in every day!
- Hybrid working (40% working week can be done remotely)
- Modern working environment
- Equipment provided to work from home
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Excellent pension scheme
- Interest free season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
We are looking for an experienced Learning Events and Courses Officer to join our Learning team. This is a great opportunity for a creative and innovative events professional looking for their next defining role to join the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), a charity that focusses on supporting doctors to deliver medical imaging and cancer services.
The Learning Events and Courses Officer will be joining our dynamic team at a pivotal time as we redesign and develop new and existing learning products and drive forward our global ambitions by creating and delivering an exciting programme of annual events.
The postholder will be responsible for developing and delivering new and complex products (events and courses delivered in the UK, globally, online and in person) which are part of the wider RCR Learning Offer for RCR members and Fellows at all stages of their careers as well as delivering complex events and courses that feature as part of our annual programme.
This role is also vital in enabling and facilitating collaborative working with our learning faculity groups and Strategic Board as we continue to establish and evolve working relationships with key stakeholders, subject matter experts and clinicians.
The ideal candidate will be proactive, having strong verbal and written communication skills and bring expertise and market knowledge to advise on latest trends to support event delivery.
What you’ll do:
- Develop and deliver from start to finish several complex events and courses annually.
- Lead the delivery of pilot products and events end to end.
- Work closely with subject matter experts to generate inspiring and up to date programmes.
- Produce accurate budgets for live products, including direct costs, as well as forecast delegate and sponsorship income.
- Pro-actively contribute to evaluation of pilot products, feeding back on logistical and operational learning and recommending next steps.
- Lead secretariat responsibilities.
- Monitor and respond to queries about the overall RCR Learning activities via telephone and email.
What you’ll need:
- Experience of delivering end to end event management across in person, online and hybrid formats using interactive technologies and facilitation techniques.
- Experience collaborating closely with external stakeholders to develop and deliver content.
- Experience in data collection and analysis to evaluate activities, generating reports containing actionable recommendations.
- Experience creating and managing robust budgets for a variety of activities.
- Experience providing high quality customer service to stakeholders.
- Experience in process development and improvement.
- Proficient user of Microsoft packages
- Effective interpersonal skills
If you are looking for an exciting and impactful role that supports doctors' learning and development, find out more in the Learning Events and Courses Officer candidate pack.
Why join us:
- Make a difference to the lives of Doctors and the specialities they work in every day!
- Hybrid working (40% working week can be done remotely)
- Modern working environment
- Equipment provided to work from home
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Excellent pension scheme
- Interest free season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
The Froebel Trust's Administrator is at the very heart of our charity's work - involved in governance, grants, events and more. Working with trustees, committees, members of the Executive Team as well as tutors and grant holders, this job is varied and sometimes fast-paced and pressurized. It involves a large degree of autonomy as well as lots of opportunities to collaborate with colleagues.
The Froebel Trust funds research into children’s learning from birth to eight years and supports high quality early education.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Us
The Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine (FFLM) is a Faculty of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and a registered charity established in 2005. Our mission is to advance education, knowledge, and good practice in forensic and legal medicine. We are dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of competence and professional integrity in the field, working closely with professionals, policymakers, and organisations to promote tolerance, equity, and excellence.
The FFLM also houses the Institute for Addressing Strangulation (IFAS), reflecting our commitment to tackling key societal challenges and supporting professionals in this critical area.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the strategic and operational delivery of the FFLM’s aims and objectives. Reporting directly to the Board of Trustees and working closely with the President and senior officers, the CEO will play a pivotal role in driving the organisation forward, ensuring its long-term sustainability and impact.
The CEO will:
- Develop and execute a strategic vision for the FFLM, including 3–5-year plans to enhance our reputation and influence.
- Strengthen internal and external relationships with stakeholders, including professional bodies, government agencies, and policymakers.
- Oversee the organisation’s financial management, ensuring sound budgeting and sustainable income streams.
- Represent the FFLM publicly, managing media relations and acting as an ambassador for the organisation.
- Support and manage the FFLM’s office team and senior officers, fostering a culture of respect, inclusivity, and continuous improvement.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of a highly respected organisation at the forefront of forensic and legal medicine.
About You
The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader with excellent communication and organizational skills. You will have a strong understanding of the healthcare or forensic/legal sectors and be passionate about advancing education and professional standards.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Proven leadership experience, ideally within a charity, healthcare, or professional body.
- Strong networking and relationship-building abilities, with a track record of working effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Excellent financial acumen, including budget management and income generation.
- Exceptional public speaking and media handling skills.
- Ability to manage and inspire a team, fostering collaboration and professional growth.
- Experience in developing and executing strategic plans.
- Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.
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There has never been a more exciting time to join the Corporate Partnerships Team at Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK). Recent breakthroughs in dementia research mean we are on the cusp of the first generation of dementia treatments in the UK. There has never been more optimism around our mission to find a cure for this devasting condition and critical moment for organisations to partner with us.
You’ll be joining a high-performing team that has a large portfolio of high-profile corporate partners including but not limited to Omaze, The Perfume Shop, Slimming World, Bloomberg, TP ICAP, and Dyson. Alongside having just secured brilliant new partnerships with Cadbury, and John West.
We’re looking for a New Business Officer to join our team, to secure new partnerships that will grow income and take us one step closer to a cure.
This is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract to cover a period of maternity leave.
Main duties and responsibilities of the role:
Identify and build strategic relationships to generate income from new corporate supporters.
· A focused and strategic approach to identifying, researching, and targeting prospective corporate partners.
· Work closely with Corporate Partnerships Manager (CPM) to deliver our successful new business strategy.
· Build and manage a pipeline of new business opportunities to include strategic partnerships and charity of the year partnerships.
· Develop engagement plans for prospects, with innovative, commercially minded ideas, to maximise the chances of securing successful partnerships.
· Create innovative and creative applications/proposals for charity of the year and strategic partnerships.
· Actively network with potential corporate partners through warm contacts, events, conferences, and other available media.
· Ensure effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of new business approaches in liaison with CPM, communicating progress regularly.
· Take full personal responsibility for the timely recording of prospects, actions, updates, and notes within the CRM (Salesforce).
· Work alongside the Partnership Development Officers on new partnership set-up, including establishing legal agreements with corporate partners.
· Work closely with the Philanthropy team to leverage support from major donors and assist the Philanthropy team with their prospects where possible.
· Achieve agreed financial and non-financial targets, including income generation and meetings.
· Support the CPM in the development and implementation of the corporate fundraising strategy for ARUK, to increase the team’s income, to ensure that the best use is made of internal and external contacts
Represent the charity professionally in a high-level corporate context.
· Organise and attend networking and cultivation events as required, influencing, and engaging high-level external contacts.
· Deliver high-quality and creative presentations and proposals to help target and engage prospects and convert them into partners.
· Organise tailored face-to-face meeting opportunities to initiate and build relationships.
· Maintain up-to-date knowledge of current ARUK activities, including research being funded, and be an advocate of ARUK at all times.
What we are looking for:
· Corporate fundraising experience, or business development experience in a corporate role.
· Evidence of delivering high-quality and creative presentations and proposals to help target and engage potential partners/clients.
· Experience in creatively building new strategic partnerships/clients from scratch within a fundraising and/or corporate environment.
· Experience in engaging and building relationships with key external stakeholders and decision-makers to deliver positive outcomes.
· Experience in securing new partners/clients within a fundraising and/or corporate environment.
· Confidence working with computers – good knowledge of Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
· Excellent personal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with people at all levels face to face and on the phone.
· Ability to write professionally, with an ability to adapt communications for different audiences.
· Ability to work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
· Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
· Ability to articulate complex issues to supporters in a compelling manner.
· Strong negotiation skills and the ability to make financial asks.
· Strong business development and relationship management skills, ideally from a charity background.
· Ambitious, professional, and hard-working team player.
· Outgoing, enthusiastic, and able to remain calm in a fast-paced environment.
· Ability to give and receive feedback.
· Ability to try new ways of working and be resilient.
· Willingness to work outside of regular office hours during busy spells, as well as occasional travel within the UK when required.
Additional Information:
Ways of working: As part of our Agile ways of working you will be required to work approximately 2 days a week from the office, which is subject to the requirements of the role and the business needs. Flexibility on where you work can be split between working from home and our office.
Roles that are classed as part of the Agile ways of working are not able to claim any costs for Mileage/Travel on Public Transport, Accommodation and/or Meals. This includes when attending the office for various meetings/events.
Our Office: Our office is at 3 Riverside, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, CB21 6AD.
Salary: Circa £34,000 per annum, plus benefits
Please download the Vacancy Pack for more information.
The closing date for applications is the 2nd February 2025. Due to the urgent requirement of this role, we will be actively speaking to and interviewing suitable candidates as they apply. With that in mind, we would encourage you to submit your application at the earliest opportunity as the closing date may be brought forward at any time. Please indicate in your covering letter if you are unable to attend an interview on a certain date.
As part of our commitment to being an inclusive employer and ensuring fairness and consistency in our selection process, we will handle your CV and application with the utmost confidentiality. While we strive to anonymise your CV where possible, there are certain sections, such as the application question, that cannot be fully anonymised. We kindly ask that you remove any personal information, including your name, when answering the application question. The hiring panel will not have access to your personal details, such as your name and address, until you are invited for an interview. Should you require any adjustments at either the application or interview stage, please contact us via our website.
How to apply: Please create an online account using our Online Recruitment Platform which can be accessed through our Job Vacancies page. You will be able to attach your CV to your application and track the status of your application.
About Alzheimer’s Research UK: Alzheimer's Research UK is the UK's leading dementia research charity. Our mission is to accelerate progress towards a cure. Today 1 in 2 people will be impacted by dementia, either through caring for a loved one, developing it themselves or tragically both. But there is hope.
There has never been a more important and exciting time in dementia research. With promising new drugs in clinical trials that slow the progression of the diseases that cause it, and revolutionary new ways to diagnose them on the horizon, we are now at a tipping point. Working with the smartest minds globally and across the UK, with industry and academia, Alzheimer’s Research UK is uniquely placed to invest in the very best research identifying barriers to a cure and knocking them down so that there are more and better treatments for everyone with dementia. For the first time in history, we can see a future where people with dementia can get a swift and accurate diagnosis, and effective treatments that could slow or even stop their disease. We stand for everyone affected by dementia. We stand for a cure.
In 2022, we were incredibly proud to be awarded a 3-star accreditation by Best Companies which recognises ‘World Class’ levels of workplace engagement and were also listed in the prestigious Best Companies lists:
• 48th in the 100 Best Large Companies to Work For in the UK.
• 19th in the 100 Best Companies to Work For in the East of England.
• 3rd in the 50 Best Companies to Work For in the Charity Sector.
In addition, we were also shortlisted for a special award recognising the work undertaken on reducing our environmental impact.
In 2021, we were awarded the HR Management award by The Charity Times for our Wellbeing initiatives throughout the pandemic.
In 2020, we demonstrated our commitment to changing the way we think and act about mental health in the workplace and signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge.
ARUK really does look after its people, where you will be able to add value and make a difference.
To view further details about working for us and the benefits we offer, please visit Alzheimer’s Research UK
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
ID: 1378 Young Carers Personal Budgets Practitioner, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Service: RBKC Young Carers Personal Budgets Service
Salary:
- starting at £28,799 FTE per annum, rising to £31,332 (£11,519.60 – £12,532.80 pro rata)
- inclusive of £3,827 Inner London Weighting FTE per annum
Location: Kensington and Chelsea Change4Life Service office (W10, London)
At least one days a week in the office for home visits and there is flexibility to work from home remotely.
Hours: Part-time 14.8
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Permanent
Are you a highly motivated, passionate self-starter with excellent communication skills? We are looking for an experienced Young Carers Practitioner with an impressive track record of delivering high quality 1 to 1 services to deliver the RBKC Young Carers Personal Budgets service. You will strive for excellent standards, robustly ensuring a quality, outcomes driven and accessible service. By joining Family Action’s Young Carers Personal Budgets Service you will ensure holistic health promotion and a community-based approach to improve and promote the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of young carers by awarding a personal budget for a physical activity of their choice.
Your impact
Collaborating with young people and their families, referrers and physical activity providers and promoting co-production with young people, you will provide 1:1 personalised support to young carers to access a physical activity of their choice which will positively impact their physical health and emotional wellbeing. You will manage existing partnerships and provide outreach to other RBKC young people’s services to support regular referrals into our service and will also sign-post the young people to relevant services when wider issues that impact safeguarding, health and wellbeing are identified.
Your skills
You will bring your knowledge and experience of working with families and young people to complete a brief young carers assessment and collaboratively identify the physical activity of their choice to access through the small grant service. The post requires an ability to manage your own caseload and support the deputy team manager in completing the data monitoring. Multi-agency working, excellent communication, empathy, safeguarding knowledge and system recording skills are vital for this role. With a client-facing approach you will be passionate about engaging our service users in all aspects of our work including co-production.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
What will we offer you?
We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. All roles in Family Action are open to a discussion about possible flexible working options, subject to business needs, and all new starters will have the right to make a flexible working request from day one of employment. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. You’ll join an established, supportive and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning and has the needs of children and families at its core.
Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced DBS with barred list for adults and children.
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
· Download and submit a completed Application Form linked (link in advert document) to the Family Action job advert
• Closing Date: Sunday, 19th January 2025 at 23:59
• To learn more about Family Action: Careers
• To help us fulfil our commitment to diversity and promoting equal opportunities: complete our anonymous Equality & Diversity Monitoring Information survey
Interviews will be arranged in the second week of January, can arranged face to face or virtually, with slots throughout the working day and early/late slots available.
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Austra Welburn (full email located on advert document)
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reason
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Location: Based near Salisbury, Wiltshire
Salary: £23,500 - £25,000
Full time, permanent
Reporting to Community Fundraising Manager, Events Manager, Head of Events
Interviewing on a rolling basis
Closing deadline Friday 14th February (may close early if a suitable applicant found)
Are you highly organised, self-motivated and enthusiastic? Are you looking to build your experience in the charity sector and in special events?
Horatio’s Garden is looking for an Events Assistant to join its friendly and growing team which creates, organises and implements a wide range of special events.
Horatio’s Garden is an independent charity that nurtures the wellbeing of people after spinal injury in beautiful, vibrant sanctuaries within the heart of NHS spinal injury centres. Leading designers create the accessible gardens where the charity’s team, alongside volunteers and creatives, care for people and plants alike.
The charity is growing. With seven garden projects open, we have an eighth garden under construction in Sheffield due to open in 2025. After winning ‘Best in Show’ at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2023 with a show garden designed for people with mobility needs, the charity’s profile was significantly increased and there are major plans to expand the special events programme to raise awareness and generate sustainable income.
We are looking for someone who has
- A passion for the charity sector
- Strong administrative and organisational skills
- Flexible, can-do attitude, with the ability to remain calm and professional when under pressure
- A willingness to learn new skills and to develop existing skills
- An ability to self-motivated and work independently, as well as part of a team
- An ability to prioritise and deal with multiple requests
- Strong verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with people of all levels
- Good IT skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
Key responsibilities
· Assist with the administration and coordination of fundraising and stewardship events
· Assist with communications, mailings and guestlist management
· Set up event ticketing
· Update supporter details on the fundraising database
· Support with third party fundraisers including responding to queries, sending out fundraising packs and monitoring income
· Attending events where required including some evenings and weekends
· Perform general office administration tasks
As a Charity we are committed to creating and promoting a culture that protects and preserves the welfare of the vulnerable people in our care. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining and evaluating information from and about candidates including criminal record checks, to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work for our Charity.
How to apply
Please read the full job description before applying. Please send your CV and cover letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) outlining why you are suited to the role by selecting Quick Apply. The closing date for applications is . We look forward to receiving your application.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Communications and PR Manager
St Austell, Cornwall
£43,250 per annum
Full Time, 37 hours per week
Our client has an exciting new opportunity for a Communications and PR Manager who will promote the company's mission, values and business and enhance the company's brand image and reputation.
As the Communications and PR Manager you will act as their link for Communications and Public Relations with their Head of Standards and Performance and the Gilbert & Goode's website and social media content creator.
The role would involve the creation of engaging content for various channels, including corporate documents, press releases, articles, blog posts, social media posts and website content, along with promoting the Company values and behaviours, the role will create productive networks and develop positive working relationships with partner organisations and agencies.
It is the responsibility of the Communications and PR Manager to ensure the operational management of the following:
- Design and develop a Communications and PR Strategy working with the Group Director of People & Culture and the Head of Standards and Performance
- Pro-actively develop an annual external and internal communication Action Plan and Policies for multi-channel key business messaging
- Lead the management and development of their brand guidelines, ensuring consistent use of the guidelines and promotion of their use
- Have responsibility for the creation and management of a media library, with stock photos/images and the central management of all key company and performance data for consistent use in corporate communications
- Develop and manage internal communications to ensure consistent, clear, unified and positive messaging and alignment across all communications and departments
It is essential you hold a Foundation Degree or equivalent Level 5 qualification and have experience of leading and managing communications and PR service delivery.
You will have experience of managing communications and PR strategies in a fast paced and pressured situation and have an understanding of media relations and social media management on different platforms and channels and their respective audiences.
You will have exceptional writing and editing skills with the ability and a keen eye for detail and accuracy.
You will be organised and able to prioritise your workload, set work programmes, meet tight deadlines, budgets and use your own initiative.
Your benefits include:
- 27 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) (pro rated)
- Occupational Sick Pay at 3 months Full Pay and 3 months at Half Pay
- Company Pension: 4% Employer Pension Contribution (includes Death in Service Benefit of 3x annual salary)
- Health Cash Plan (inc Dental and Optical cover)
- Health and Wellbeing initiative includes yearly Flu Jab
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Family Friendly Policies
They offer a dynamic work environment offering hybrid working. They believe work is what you do, not where you go and therefore colleagues deliver their work where it best suits the need, whether that be in the office, home or around a local area or site using local facilities. Colleagues are agile and work or have meetings in any place to suit the need and task
Closing date: Wednesday 5th February at 12 noon
1st stage interviews to be held on 13th February via Teams
Our client reserves the right to close this vacancy early if they receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible
Role:
Scottish Women’s Aid has an exciting opportunity to join their communications team. This is an influential and dynamic position, reporting directly to the Chief Executive, the Communications Lead shares responsibility for leading SWA’s communications work, campaigning, messaging, and delivering a media strategy in line with our strategic objectives.
Working collaboratively across Policy, Fundraising, member, and training teams at SWA you will co-develop and deliver a communications strategy, identifying the best ways to lever change through media campaigns around key issues for women, children, and young people experiencing domestic abuse. You will shape a wide variety of materials and outputs that support SWA’s broader advocacy and campaigning aims. You will devise engaging communications approaches and craft compelling content. This will include media responses, PR, press releases, and briefing notes as well as articles for a range of audiences comprising our network, partners, stakeholders, the media, government, and wider civil society. You will also co-curate our online presence, creating engaging content across a range of platforms, and be adept at analysing engagement metrics and evaluating impact.
Background
Scottish Women’s Aid is the lead organisation in Scotland working to end domestic abuse. We are both a children’s rights and a women’s rights organisation.
- We directly campaign to institutions and leaders for policies and laws that address the drivers of women’s inequality and improve responses to domestic abuse. This work makes women and children safer and helps them disentangle themselves from their abusers.
- We provide training to public and private bodies from the police and judiciary to child welfare systems, to effectively respond to survivors.
- We raise the profile of domestic abuse nationally and internationally so that domestic abuse is treated like the critical threat to human rights that it is.
- We host Scotland’s 24-Hour Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline to ensure help is always available while actively supporting a network of 33 specialist local Women’s Aid services that directly support and provide refuge to women and children of Scotland affected by domestic abuse
- We are the umbrella organisation for 33 autonomous Women’s Aid groups delivering direct services to women, children and young people across Scotland, providing guidance, support and training to our members
What We Need
We’re looking for someone who can fulfill the above description and has:
- Relevant experience in a communications role (of at least 4 years)
- Understanding of social justice communications principles and best practices
- Excellent written communication skills and experience producing content for key audiences
- Experience of campaign work within a VAWG, political, parliamentary or public affairs context.
- Experience of working with or in the media
- Experience coordinating digital communications, including websites, and social media and how to utilise their potential.
- Competent in using own initiative, managing work, and responding to opportunities effectively.
- Experience of Canva or similar graphic design software, and video editing platforms to create quality on brand social media and other related design content
- Experience of evaluation and monitoring impact
- Ideally, we would also like
- Experience of communicating a gendered message
- Understanding of the media and culture sectors in Scotland
- Experience of translating detailed and complex information into compelling and accurate information for use in the media
What we offer
There are many reasons to work for Scottish Women’s Aid. We have a inclusive, collaborativeworking culture and our mission and vision attract a brilliant staff team. Your hard work is rewarded with a package of support and benefits including:
Flexible working
We offer flexible hybrid working options for the majority of our employees. Some posts are eligible for full-time homeworking.We also offer flexibility for staff and work/life balance through a number of flexible working options such as flexi time, condensed hours, job sharing.
Pay
SWA are a Living wage employer, our pay and grading system offers a competitive starting salary and yearly progression.
Annual Leave
We offer a full-time annual leave entitlement of 30 days (210 hours) per year plus 10 Public Holiday days (70 hours) per year. Leave is accrued at the rate of 3.33 days (23.3 hours) per month.
Pension
SWA believes it’s important that we help you save for your retirement so access to Nest pension scheme is given to all eligible employees. SWA contributes 10% of gross contractual earnings on the provision that the employee contributes a minimum of 3% towards their pension contributions.
Learning and Development
SWA supports and develops staff to ensure they have the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities. There is an internal schedule of training on key skills and knowledge relevant to all staff. There is also scope to attend ad hoc training for employees who are working to develop specific skills.
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
SWA offers staff who meet the criteria for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) an enhanced maternity pay of 20 weeks on full pay and 20 weeks on half pay.
Wellbeing
As part of SWA’s commitment to staff wellbeing, staff are offered access to a confidential 24/7 health and Wellbeing service with AIG which provides confidential advice, counselling and legal support to all staff, and where applicable, immediate family members.
Bike 2 Work
An interest-free loan to purchase a bike, can be arranged up to the value of £1,000.
Edinburgh Leisure Gym Subsidies
Edinburgh based staff are able to access Edinburgh Leisure facilities for the reduced price of £1 per session.
Equalities Statement
SWA exists to end violence against women and girls, we are committed to opposing and eliminating all forms of intersectional discrimination at the system, institutional, and individual level. This includes challenging barriers that prevent women’s equal participation in the workplace. To achieve this, our workforce must reflect a diversity of identities and perspectives. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented women, including but not limited to, women from minority ethnic communities, women with disabilities, LGBTI communities, carers, and women who have experienced economic deprivation.
To ensure that all of our staff thrive and succeed, we work to continuously improve the inclusivity, accessibility, and fairness of our workplace to create a working environment that promotes dignity and respect to all, where differences in background, culture, identity and lived experience are recognised and valued.
We offer disabled women the option of requesting that their application be considered under the terms of our Guaranteed Interview Schemes. You will be asked if you’d like to be considered on the application form.
Salary: £36,622 – £42,024 per year (pro rata).
Hours: Up to 25 hours (to be worked flexibly).
Location: Blend of home working and office, based in Rose Street, Edinburgh. There will be a requirement to attend in-person events and meetings, based predominantly in Edinburgh. Please talk to us about your flexible working requirements!
Closing Date: The recruitment panel will be appointing for this role on a rolling basis. After considering your application, the panel will be in touch if they would like to invite you to interview, please don’t delay in applying as the post will close once the position is filled.
Scottish Women’s Aid is an equal opportunities employer, applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
About Cosmic Charity
Cosmic supports the work of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Hammersmith. We fund vital equipment, staff training, research, and support services for patients and their families.
Join our dedicated team as Senior Fundraising Manager during this exciting period of growth and opportunity for Cosmic. Cosmic is expanding both our service delivery and team, offering a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of this much-loved organisation.
This pivotal role will lead the strategic direction for Cosmic’s community and challenge event fundraising. You will be responsible for growing income through a portfolio of sports and challenge events, treks, community fundraising activities, supporter-led initiatives, campaigns, appeals, legacy, in memory and mass participation products.
You will work directly with the CEO and line-manage the Senior Fundraising Executive to deliver and expand our fundraising portfolio. This includes reviewing and improving existing activities, identifying new opportunities, and creating engaging supporter journeys to maximise fundraising efforts.
As a key leader, you will set and manage significant budgets, oversee operational delivery, and ensure exceptional stewardship of supporters. You’ll proactively monitor trends, conduct competitor analysis, and trial new products and platforms to keep Cosmic’s fundraising portfolio competitive and appealing to supporters.
We’re looking for someone with significant fundraising leadership and strategic experience, a proven track record in delivering successful community and challenge event programmes, and a strong understanding of budget management and fundraising best practices.
This is a unique opportunity to join a growing charity and play a critical role in delivering our three-year growth strategy, ensuring that Cosmic continues to provide life-changing support for children, babies, and their families.
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Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of older people? We're seeking a dynamic individual to join our Ageing Well Team at Impact Initiatives.
As the Ageing Well Single Point of Contact Team Leader, you will be a vital part of the Ageing Well service managing a team of information and advice workers and working in collaboration with our wider partnership to ensure Brighton and Hove.
Responsibilities include:
Ensuring the smooth running of the Ageing Well Single Point of Contact and the activities it delivers and contributes to, through:
- Maintaining good links to both Ageing Well partners and other stakeholders
- Accurate and timely Data management
- Working closely with the Communications and Marketing Assistant
- Supporting the planning and delivery of the Ageing Well Festival
- Publicising and supporting Health Promotions and Campaigns
- Creating a timetable for delivering outreach/pop ups sessions across the city
For more information and to apply, please visit our jobs page.
In your cover letter, please think about how your experience, skills and abilities help you to meet each criteria specified in the person specification. Address each of the criteria in turn. It is important to provide evidence of what you say with examples. Specify your own experience and not the general work of your office or project. If not already covered in your CV, please tell us about other relevant experience such as community, voluntary, leisure and other interests. Please include any other skills and abilities that could help you do the job. We place a great deal of emphasis on equal opportunity, so it is therefore vital throughout your answers that you incorporate relevant equal opportunity issues.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Please note: other UK based locations will be considered.
The King’s Trust International (KTI) (formerly Prince’s Trust International) has been supporting young people worldwide since 2015. Founded by HM The King, our Royal Founding President, to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment, our vision is that every young person should have the chance to succeed, and our mission is to empower young people to learn, earn and thrive.
Our programmes and interventions are now present in 20 countries within the Commonwealth and beyond, across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East.
We are committed to amplifying the voices of young people on the global stage and putting their needs at the very heart of the design and delivery of our work. This complements global efforts to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those relating to quality education and decent work.
The King’s Trust International is committed to representing, at all levels, the global communities and young people that we serve.
The role
This role will play a key part in the success of fundraising at The King’s Trust International, both through managing a small portfolio of both philanthropy and corporate donors and more broadly through supporting the fundraising of the wider team. This exciting and varied role will provide key stewardship, reporting and event support as needed to cultivate and progress our funding pipeline. The postholder will work collaboratively across both philanthropy and corporate teams, supporting existing activity as well as helping to establish new areas such as networks and corporate engagement products.
The King’s Trust International’s celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025 and this role will be central to the activity surrounding our celebrations including providing event support, creating engaging communications, and supporting campaign asks and prospecting across the team and senior leadership.
This is a great opportunity to fine tune the core fundraising skills required within the not-for-profit world and a fulfilling catalytic role within an innovative and impactful organisation. There is the possibility to specialise the remit of the role in future years in line with the needs of the charity.
About you
You will be a resilient, enthusiastic, self-starter with a strong understanding of the challenges facing young people, and the ability to deliver results under challenging and varied circumstances. Experience of fundraising and income generation with a sound understanding of the principles of meaningful engagement will enable you to successfully cultivate and steward a personal portfolio of prospects, funders or other clients with a demonstrable track record of your ability to influence and secure sustainable results. You will be a strong, persuasive and confident communicator, both orally and written and possess strong planning and organisational skills and the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with diverse groups of people and with key senior stakeholders. Experience of MS Office and using remote and digital work tools (e.g. spreadsheets, project planning tools) accurately and with good attention to detail is essential.
Perks for working at The King’s Trust International:
- Great holiday package. 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus public holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
- Fantastic Family leave. Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave and pro rata entitlement for shared parental leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
- Flexible and agile working. Where operationally possible, you can work your hours that support a work-life balance including compressed hours and hybrid-working (part office - part home based) or working from home options.
- Benefits platform. Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
- A free employee assistance programme (EAP) to support your mental wellbeing.
- KTI will contribute 5% of your salary to the workplace Pension Scheme
- Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)
- In-house and external training opportunities available throughout the year
King's Trust International is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks (or international equivalents) in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all roles within King’s Trust International, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.
In further support of a Safeguarding First approach we are signatories to the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. The Scheme facilitates the sharing of misconduct data between employers. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her/their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
We are committed to equitable work practices and believe in building a diverse organisation that is representative of and responsive to the needs of our young people and stakeholders. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed and other Ethnic candidates which are currently under-represented throughout King’s Trust International. As a disability confident employer, we will interview applicants that meet the essential criteria who have declared a disability. Please let us know if you need any adjustments at the interview stage.
We believe that every young person should have the chance to succeed, no matter their background or the challenges they are facing.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Permanent Full Time
Circa £40,000 plus competitive benefits
Do you want to make a difference?
The RAF Benevolent Fund is the leading welfare charity for the RAF. Every year we make a real difference to over 40,000 people who benefit from our services, by providing support including:
· Helping to reduce social isolation and loneliness among veterans.
· Supporting ill or injured men and women to have a safe place to call home, a home that meets their specific needs.
· Funding youth services on stations to provide clubs and activities for the children of serving personnel who move every few years.
· Providing grants to help with the cost of living. But this is just a few of the ways we help.
It doesn’t matter how long someone served or when. If they were part of the RAF, they and their family are part of our RAF Family. We will always be here to support them when they need it most. Join the RAF Family and play your part in making a difference.
Do you want to play a part in what we do?
We are looking for an individual who is inspired to meet fundraising goals through investigating, securing, developing and maintaining corporate partnerships. The ideal candidate will work with various sectors and use their corporate fundraising experience to obtain a range of new partnerships and grow existing ones. Supporting the Head of Strategic Partnerships to deliver the team’s business plan and stretching but realistic targets will be a concurrent theme throughout the role.
As one of our Corporate team, you could get to hang out with Spitfires and Typhoons, take part in a Dambusters bike ride, attend events like Royal Ascot, the Royal International Air Tattoo and the Bomber Command Memorial Service. Every day you will make a difference and play your part in changing the lives of others to help people in the RAF Family get through the toughest of times.
The role is based in our London HQ and currently work a minimum of three days in the office per week. The successful candidate for this role will need to prove they have the right to work in the UK.
To apply, please click on this link to apply through our secure recruitment portal, sending your CV together with a covering letter detailing why you believe you are suitable for this role.
The closing date for applications is Thursday 23rd January 2025, 5.00pm.
A copy of the Fund’s Candidate Privacy Notice can be found on our website. As an equal opportunities employer, the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the Fund.
The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund is a Registered Charity (No. 1081009).
Our vision is that everyone in our RAF Family – veterans, serving personnel and their families – gets support in their hour of need.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the Role
We are seeking a creative and driven individual to oversee our events and marketing. Events range from public events to private parties and include all aspects of events design and management. Marketing includes the production of promotional materials, updating our social media accounts and website and managing any related contracts such as SEO. This is an exciting opportunity for someone seeking a chance to establish a career in arts production and marketing, grow within the charitable sector and to bring ideas and creativity to the role. We are excited to be expanding our staff team from one to two members of staff, with thanks to the Heritage Fund and we seek people who look forward to growing the organisation. These posts will work closely together, managed by the Chair of Trustees and supported by skilled trustees and volunteers.
About Us
Cotesbach Educational Trust is a charity established in 2007 set within Cotesbach Estate and the thriving Stable Yard. At its core lies the Marriott archive which documents local and social history over 700 years and consists of roughly 12,000 documents. We draw on this collection to create an educational setting for environment, heritage and arts. We endeavour to use the resources in the archive as well as draw on our surroundings to ‘reconnect with place and land to develop skills for the future’. As well as providing opportunities to engage with the archive, we run talks, courses, events and facilitate bookable spaces and catered parties. Our previous speakers have included Satish Kumar and Baroness Shami Chakrabati and recent courses have been centered on nature including foraging, beekeeping, willow weaving and a dawn chorus walk.
About the Place
Cotesbach Educational Trust is set within Cotesbach Estate, a dynamic place that includes multiple thriving businesses and residential dwellings. This role is an opportunity to be part of this unique community.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Coordinate and manage events including public events and private parties, liaising with practitioners, artists etc as required, overseeing everything involved in set up, moving furniture and packing away, ensuring events are fully equipped and run smoothly, and attending events in the majority of cases
- Market events, the full programme and room hire, online, locally and through contact lists
- Manage and curate social media content to generate and develop audiences
- Design marketing material (event flyers and posters, adverts, etc)
- Manage marketing activities including recruitment and overseeing of contracted work such as SEO, content creation and local circular campaign
- Collate the quarterly newsletter, manage and hone mailing lists
- Develop audience through engagement with onsite visitors to Cotesbach as well as more broadly
- Build relationships with local organisations
- Manage marketing budget
- Support programme design alongside trustees
- Maintain, update and improve the website
- Undertake any other activities that may be reasonably requested by Trustees from time to time
Person Specification
Essential
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Experience of design and delivery events
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Experience of working with members of the public
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Positive and proactive attitude
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Willingness to work ad hoc hours on site
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Working knowledge of marketing channels and social media
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Excellent written communication and ability to adopt an appropriate tone for our audiences
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Experience of managing a budget
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Experience of maintaining and developing a website
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Experience of licensing and contracting
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Experience of successfully marketing events
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Experience of using design software packages including Canva
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Understanding of the cultural and heritage sector and knowledge of networks and building audiences
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Knowledge of search engine optimisation
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Creative and innovative thinker keen to develop a career in the sector
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Passionate about delivering imaginative, high quality events
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £29,291 plus benefits
Mary’s Meals International is recruiting for an experienced Personal Assistant to join our Risk & Governance function. Reporting directly to the Support Services Lead, you will be responsible for providing efficient and effective support to our Chief Growth Officer, Chief Operations Officer and Chief People & Governance Officer, with ad hoc support to other members of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). In this fast paced and varied role, you will work closely with our Boards, Committees and Leadership teams, providing a variety of support including: diary management, attending meetings, taking minutes, managing follow up actions, event coordination, maintaining systems and processes and undertaking specific projects as required.
Key responsibilities & activities:
· Assess ELT priorities and re-directing calls, enquiries and requests as necessary.
· Drafting emails and other correspondence, proof-reading, and writing reports.
· Managing emails, phone calls, post, general correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, forms and compiling address lists.
· Carrying out background research and providing reports on various subjects.
· Attending Board meetings for Programme Affiliates, and MMI Board meetings in the absence of the Support Services Lead, taking minutes at the same and preparing follow-up actions for circulation.
· Organising internal and external meetings and teleconferences, including booking venues, arranging accommodation, preparing agendas and meeting papers, disseminating meeting papers and liaising with board members.
· Organising and preparing complex travel itineraries and making all travel and accommodation arrangements necessary for the ELT and other key personnel as required.
· Undertaking projects from time to time on behalf of the ELT - examples include organisation of events.
· Attending monthly ELT meetings in person in Glasgow.
· Attending sub-group meetings within each of the core pillars, including Senior Leadership Meetings, safeguarding committee meetings and other core committee meetings; taking minutes at the same and preparing follow-action
With fantastic interpersonal skills and robust experience as a Personal Assistant, you will thrive in a varied, fast paced role and will utilise your exceptional organisational skills to manage the balance of scheduled work with provision of unplanned support. With great communication skills, you will work closely with a range of stakeholders across a variety of geographies and cultures. Confident, competent, resilient, with a solution-focussed approach, you will have the ability to take on a variety of projects with a high level of competence and confidentiality.
We offer a flexible work arrangement and are happy to accommodate a hybrid work style that supports a work-life balance. However, due to the nature of the role, regular attendance at our Glasgow office will be necessary, so the position requires proximity for commuting.
About us:
child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.4 million children who today will receive a Mary’s Meals. We are a values driven movement and believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding.
Mary’s Meals is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Mary's Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement.
How to apply:
If you would love to use your skills, talents and experience to be part of positive change in the world, we would love to hear from you. Please click Apply to submit your CV and a short covering note, telling us why you want to work with Mary’s Meals, and why this role is a great fit for you
Our vision is that every child receives one daily meal in their place of education.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.