About the role
We are excited to recruit a Community Organiser for our East London Parent Power project. This role offers a meaningful, paid professional development opportunity. The Brilliant Club will work in partnership with Northeastern University London to engage with parents in East London. East London Parent Power is an established project which utilises the community organising-based model first created by King’s College London and Citizens UK with South London Parent Power.
Parent Power supports parents and carers to develop skills in community organising and to gain knowledge on accessing higher education, empowering them to make change in their local community that supports young people and ensures they have a fair chance in education and their future careers.
Working with us, the Community Organiser will:
- Support local pupils from underrepresented backgrounds by empowering their parent/carers to become higher education experts;
- Receive community organising training from Citizens UK and develop transferable skills;
- Build campaigns to combat local educational barriers with parent/carer communities;
- Join a nationwide team of community organisers making a significant impact on university access.
About you
The role will best suit someone who:
Essential
- Has knowledge of challenges faced in East London’s communities.
- Has a demonstrable passion for furthering The Brilliant Club’s mission.
- Can adhere to information security policies included in the charity’s ISO 27001 manual (information security training provided).
Desirable
- Has prior experience of community focused work.
- Understands the current climate in the UK school system and some of the challenges young people and parent/carers might be facing.
- Understands the barriers young people face to university access and some of the ways these might be overcome.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
We support less advantaged students to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Overview
Afield Environmental is a brand new charity responding to environmental injustice. We do this by working with communities to rewild disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods; and bysupporting artists to undertake ecological research. This exciting and challenging role will beright at the heart of making everything happen.
We are looking for a creative and community-minded Communications and OperationsCo-ordinator to help develop Afield over the next 12 months. This is a varied roleencompassing communications and operational support for the grants programme and thecharity more generally. You will help us develop our communications strategy, support our grantees, and develop our systems and processes as a new charity.
As we are a new charity we have created this as a fixed-term appointment - we are still working out the longer-term roles for the charity.
We are looking for someone who is organised and self-sufficient, a skilled communicator, and a connector of people and ideas. We welcome applications from those early in their career. Where a candidate needs time to grow into aspects of the role, they will be helped to do so through management support and training.
Key Responsibilities
Communications
● Help deliver Afield’s communications strategy aligned with our mission
● Make Afield’s Wilding and Arts grants visible, accessible, and compelling to key
communities and audiences
● Manage Afield's digital presence across website, blogs, and social media, creating
compelling content written, visual and including graphics
● Monitor, evaluate, and report on Afield’s communications activity, to continually
improve our reach and resonance
● Help document Afield-related events through photography and video.
Support for grants programmes
● Support grantees in documenting, editing and communicating project outputs and
outcomes, including video content, for a variety of audiences
● Support the Grants and Cohorts manager as required, including setting up cohort
meetings, helping manage selection panels and providing event support, preparing
materials etc
● Provide communications skills support as appropriate to grantees / cohorts.
Other
● Provide administrative and operational support to the founders as required
● Provide support to the organisation’s broader evaluation activities
● You might occasionally be asked to support our grantee programmes in other ways
such as helping at events or workshops
Requirements
Essential
● An excellent communicator, with experience of running workshops, presenting
information to audiences, or developing relationships with partners
● Proven experience running and creating content for social media channels or websites
● Excellent writing and editing skills for different audiences, with examples of published
content (including for example social media posts)
● Empathetic, with a positive attitude and a desire to help our grantees. You should be
able to provide evidence of supporting a group of people
● Organised and energetic with a self-sufficient attitude, and with the ability to
independently manage a busy workload, multiple deadlines and priorities
● Demonstrable commitment to ongoing development and learning
● Evidence of an interest in arts and/or the environment.
Desirable:
● Strong understanding of digital content strategy, with experience of using a CMS
platform, and social media analytics
● Experience of arts-related documentation and/or archiving
● Ability and comfort in creating structure out of ambiguity
● Ability to identify challenges and opportunities, and express proposals for change
● Experience working with or supporting artists, grantees or cohorts.
● Video editing.
For more information, please see the Job Description attached.
Registered Charity
1 - 5
Afield responds to environmental injustice by rewilding disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods and supporting artists to undertake ecological research.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Vice Chancellor's Office
Development, Alumni and Campaigns Office
Prospect Research Officer (Health)
Ref: SC4983
Salary on appointment will be £31,236 per annum (pro rata), with an annual increment up to £37,694 per annum (pro rata)
UEA is driving forward with its bold and inspiring £100 million Dare to Do Different Campaign, and our prospect research function sits right at the heart of this momentum.
One of the key themes is Health UEA. This role is an opportunity to be a key player in driving transformational change, working hand in hand with our Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and as part of a dynamic fundraising team to uncover and engage high quality prospects. Your insight will help build a strong pipeline of potential major donors, supporting strategic health related fundraising that advances the University’s most ambitious priorities.
The successful candidate will apply advanced prospect research methodologies and relevant technologies to identify high net worth individuals with both the capacity and the motivation to donate, helping us drive forward our ambitious health priorities whilst upholding the highest ethical standards.
We’re a collaborative, supportive team that takes pride in working together to achieve exceptional results. This role offers the chance to make a tangible, lasting impact playing a pivotal part in helping us reach our campaign goals and shape the future of UEA.
This part-time (0.5 FTE/18.125 hours per week) post is available from 1 August 2026 on a fixed term basis for two years.
UEA offers a variety of flexible working options and we encourage applications from individuals who would prefer a flexible working pattern including annualised hours, compressed working hours, part time, job share, term-time only and/or hybrid working. Details of preferred hours should be stated in the personal statement and will be discussed further at interview.
Please note, this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship and the successful candidate must have right to work in the UK.
Further information on our great benefits package, including 39 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays and additional University Customary days (pro rata for part-time), can be found on our benefits page.
Closing date: 15 June 2026
The University holds an Athena Swan Silver Institutional Award in recognition of our advancement towards gender equality.
Non Charity Employer
More than 1000
At UEA we’ve got the vision, the drive and some of the best, most innovative minds ready to solve the planet’s most pressing challenges.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.