Flexible location - Our team is dispersed, but our head office is based in London

We’re looking for a talented, creative and experienced Events and Campaigns Lead, to conceive and deliver impactful events and communications that help us to achieve our mission. 

WHY IS THIS ROLE IMPORTANT FOR THE CENTRE’S WORK?

The Centre for Homelessness Impact is the UK’s What Works Centre for Homelessness. We want evidence to become the new normal in the homelessness sector, just as it is in education and public health. After the successful launch of our book, Using Evidence to End Homelessness, we are on the precipice of a new and decisive movement to end homelessness with evidence and need a creative campaigner to support the team to move this work along.  We also have a strong track record delivering quality events, both in person and on-line, including our flagship evident, the Impact Festival. As we navigate our way through the pandemic we are looking for a confident Events and Campaigns Lead to continue this work, curating a varied programme for our audiences at a time of great uncertainty.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN: 

• Develop our existing events portfolio in line with our strategy and our mission
• Raise the profile of our campaign and create engagement opportunities
• Stay organised and keep plans clear, updated and accessible to the team at all times
• Keep abreast of all of the centre’s work and develop creative ideas based on our outputs
• Engage high profile stakeholders and build a network of contacts
• Deliver varied and impactful online, in-person and hybrid events
• Develop clear success measures for the programme

THE EVENTS AND CAMPAIGNS LEAD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Planning, creating and delivering our 2020/21 events programme
• Supporting the growth of our End it With Evidence campaign 
• Delivering our flagship events series - the Homelessness Impact Festival 
• Developing tailored events for different types of audience 
• Developing and maintaining relationships with external partners 
• Working internally to get insights from the CHI team to inform our campaign and events work
• Working collaboratively with Centre associates who support the Centre’s activities.
• Measuring engagement and defining success measures 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIOURS

You will:

• Have a proven track record of delivering successful events 
• Have experience working in a campaigning organisation 
• Learn about our varied audience and the differing needs for each 
• Be able to manage competing priorities and thrive in an agile environment
• Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of our audience 
• Be proficient in coordinating and facilitating online events using Zoom and other platforms
• Work with the Lived Experiences Specialist and the Strategic Communications and Engagement Manager to ensure a diverse range of views and experiences are represented in our work. 

Start date: Immediately.

CLOSING DATE: Midnight, Sunday 31 January 2020

Interviews will take place on Thursday 4 February via Google Meet video call. 

If you are interested in applying please visit our website via the Apply link.

We value optimism, diversity, collaboration, sense of ownership, the ability to embrace ambiguity, a talk-less-do-more attitude, learning from failure, and making each other successful. If you identify with our values and want to help us end homelessness faster, we’d love to have you in. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and particularly welcome applications from people with experiences of homelessness.

Prospectus are delighted to be supporting a brand new not-for-profit called Uplift. Uplift are helping to move the UK towards a fossil fuel-free future. We strategically resource, connect and elevate ideas and voices to set in motion a just transition away from fossil fuel production that is commensurate with the scale of the climate crisis.

We are currently looking for a Head of Research to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to take on an ambitious role that shapes and delivers the ideas, evidence base and partnerships needed to phase out oil and gas extraction in the UK. This role is offered on a full time or 4 days a week.

As Head of Research, you will be responsible for designing and managing a cutting-edge programme of research that supports the broader network of groups working in this field. As a key member of Uplift's team, you will have the opportunity to help to define your role and strategic priorities to maximise our collective impact.

The successful candidate will have significant experience working on climate policy or related fields, with deep knowledge of the UK's policy architecture, processes and key dynamics in climate and energy-related policy-making. You will have a track record of designing and implementing ambitious research projects with excellent an understanding of barriers to and opportunities for advancing a transition away from oil and gas production in the UK. Finally, a strong commitment to Uplift's mission and core values is also required.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Given the unprecedented volume of interest in our roles, consultants are unable to support with general job search advice or specific enquiries before application. Instead please do either register your CV on our website or submit your CV for any roles that interest you to ensure that your application is reviewed in line with the position. Should you be successfully longlisted or we are able to assist in your job search we will be in contact to discuss next steps.

Prospectus is delighted to be supporting a brand new not-for-profit called Uplift. Uplift is helping to move the UK towards a fossil fuel-free future. We strategically resource, connect and elevate ideas and voices to set in motion a just transition away from fossil fuel production that is commensurate with the scale of the climate crisis.

We are currently looking for a Head of Communications and Campaigns to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to help build an ambitious movement to phase out oil and gas extraction in the UK. This role is offered on a full time or 4 days a week.

As Head of Campaigns and Communications, you will collaborate with key partners, including NGOs and grassroots movements, to develop and execute powerful campaign and communication strategies for transitioning away from oil and gas extraction. You will build and support a diverse network of organisations, constituencies and affected communities who are working towards our shared goals. You will also help to create stories that expose industry greenwashing and elevate the urgency of a just transition away from fossil fuel production.

The successful candidate for this position will have significant experience in a similar role with a track record of guiding and implementing effective campaign and communications strategies. You will have excellent analytical skills and a demonstrable ability to analyse changing political and social contexts with strong communication skills to influence and persuade. Finally, a strong commitment to Uplift's mission and core values is also required.

Given the unprecedented volume of interest in our roles, consultants are unable to support with general job search advice or specific enquiries before application. Instead please do either register your CV on our website or submit your CV for any roles that interest you to ensure that your application is reviewed in line with the position. Should you be successfully longlisted or we are able to assist in your job search we will be in contact to discuss next steps.

Prospectus is pleased to be partnering with Home-Start UK to appoint their new Corporate Partnerships Manager. Offered on an initial twelve-month contract, this role will help achieve Home-Start UK's aim to support more families across the UK.

The Corporate Partnerships Manager will develop and implement a corporate partnerships strategy to capitalise on the amazing effect of the sector-leading partnership with John Lewis and Waitrose. Working with the Head of Corporate Partnerships, you will develop a robust pipeline for new business corporate prospects to ensure financial income targets are met and will also enhance current stewardship plans for corporate accounts. The Manager will also ensure there is a suite of high quality proposals and presentations available to help engage corporates too.

The selected candidate will have a clear track record of managing corporate partnerships between business and charities and will understand the importance of adaptable, values-led business development. To be successful you will be an effective planner and will have good organisational skills and enjoy presenting to different audiences.. You will ideally have experience of negotiating partnership agreements and will be up to date on the latest trends and best practice in fundraising in the UK.

We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply.

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.

A child's earliest years are irreplaceable. Without a stable, loving and nurturing environment, a child will not develop the vital foundations they need. Yet today's families are facing considerable challenges, such as mental health difficulties, financial pressures, loneliness, language or cultural barriers, or a lack of any support networks.

The Home-Start network is there for parents when they need us most, because childhood can't wait. Home-Start UK supports nation-wide local Home-Starts to provide a community network of trained volunteers and expert support to help families with young children through their most challenging times and ensure the best possible start for their children.

Assistant Director of Fundraising and Supporter Engagement

Home-Start UK

Flexible, with travel to Leicester office

C.£58,000

The Assistant Director of Fundraising and Supporter Engagement will be primarily responsible for the development of Home-Start UK's fundraising and supporter engagement activities, ensuring that more people are inspired to connect and contribute to making a real impact to the lives of children and families across the UK. Reporting to the Deputy CEO, the postholder will work at a national scale, ensuring local Home-Start's can contribute to wider fundraising plans and activities.

The role is an exceptional opportunity for a skilled fundraiser to join and strategically plan new fundraising opportunities. Focusing across all revenue streams and with a particularly focus on the supporter engagement experience, the role will lead all supporter engagement, individual giving and public fundraising activity. Leading a team of three strong fundraisers, you will be responsible for evaluating and monitoring performance against income targets as well as professional development of the team.

We are looking for an innovative fundraiser with in-depth experience of the fundraising environment across a range of disciplines. You will understand the importance of both placed-based and national fundraising and will be keen to learn all the aspect of Home-Start UK's approaches to fundraising. Ideally, you will also have a strong track record of personally leading change and driving significant income growth and supporter engagement in a fundraising environment.

Home-Start UK is committed to equality of opportunity and particularly encourages applications from candidates from under-represented groups in charity senior leadership. We welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of family support. As a charity working to support families in all their shapes, we are deeply committed to flexible working and juggling the demands of individual circumstances to make this job work for you.

Prospectus is working with a brilliant environmental charity that is seeking to plant the largest continuous forest in England near Stratford-upon-Avon. The charity is called the Heart of England Forest and so far they have created 4,000 acres of new woodland. That's more than 1.8 million trees. And their dream is for it to become 30,000 acres.

They are looking to bring on a permanent part-time Development Manager to work three days a week or 24 hours per week on building their major donor programme. They have some great buy in from the community around South Warwickshire and have a famous news presenter as the Chair of their Trustee Board who has opened up his contacts for the organisation to develop. The team are realistic about the time it will take to develop the programme and build the income stream so you will not be expect to deliver income until you're well established.

The role is paying a full time equivalent salary of £46,875 per annum or £30,000 actual for the 24 hours per week. This role can be permanently home based but the post holder will need to get to the office in Dorsington for occasional meetings when restrictions allow in the future. When the role develops in a year or two with a more established income stream there could be the option to do more hours and/or make hires into the team.

We are reviewing applications on a continuous basis so please do apply now and we'll be in touch!

As a specialist Recruitment Practice we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role.

Prospectus has been appointed as an approved supplier for the London and Southern universities purchasing consortium, which includes over 100 organisations in just London alone. As a result of this, we anticipate an uplift in the amount of exciting temporary opportunities we will have available to offer candidates in the higher education space, also including arts and heritage and membership bodies.

With over 60 years' recruitment experience in the higher education and non-profit sector, we have worked alongside many large, well-known universities in London, making placements on a variety of roles such as:

Student Services Officer, Departmental Administrator, Enrolment/Admissions Officer, Programme Administrator and Course Administrator to name but a few.

As universities across London start to prepare for a new academic year, we are looking to increase our temporary pool of higher education candidates who are interested in registering for future opportunities. Candidates will have had previous experience in a similar post within higher education.

Please note that due to the current climate for temporary work across the HE sector, we are initially looking to engage with potential candidates and carry out registrations online with those that demonstrate suitable experience.

Given the unprecedented volume of interest in our roles, consultants are unable to support with general job search advice or specific enquiries before application. Instead please do either register your CV on our website or submit your CV for any roles that interest you to ensure that your application is reviewed in line with the position. Should you be successfully longlisted or we are able to assist in your job search we will be in contact to discuss next steps.

Please register your interest below and submit your CV by clicking 'apply now' below. You must be available immediately to be considered.

Our client is a leading medical and dental school offering international levels of excellence in research and teaching. This role is based within one of the main departments in the school and will contribute to the aims of the unit through providing senior health data science support for the researchers accessing data from large electronic health record databases for research studies.

In this post you would provide senior health data science support for the maintenance and support of a large SQL database containing health care records. You would need to understand the related metadata, codes, concepts and table structures relating to this data and manipulate, extract and analyse these data for subsequent use in data visualisation software and research.

You would provide senior health data science support to researchers and students for funding and fellowship applications and, where appropriate, provide health data science supervision of projects.

To be considered for this post you will have worked in a similar post previously and have a Higher degree or Undergraduate degree in the relevant field or subjects. You will have prior experience of using T-SQL to manage data using CTE and Dynamic SQL techniques. Experience of SQL Server triggers, stored procedures and functions and experience of data migrations and transformation packages using SSIS.

This post is being offered on a temporary basis for 3 months initially, and to be considered you will ideally need to be available to start as soon as possible.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role.

*Please note, we are currently experiencing high volumes of interest in vacancies so it may not be possible to answer any individual queries on positions prior to an application*

LIFEbeat was formed in 2009 with the mission to improve the wellbeing of young people through building creative communities and a sense of belonging. This is achieved through personal development programmes which give skills and inspiration to overcome the challenges young people face, navigate the divisions in society and lead confident, healthy and purposeful lives. LIFEbeat's approach weaves together key different essential practices: creativity and arts practice, focus on relationships and group/community work, personal storytelling, and reflective practice. LIFEbeat also offers professional training for youth workers, teachers, coaches, trainers and therapists.

Founder led until now, LIFEbeat are at a pivotal point in their development and growth and are looking for an accomplished, passionate leader to help take the organisation to the next level. The role will be responsible for taking over the day to day management of the organisation, whilst looking at opportunities for strategic growth, developing partnership opportunities and acting as an Ambassador for the organisation.

To be successful in this role, you will be naturally entrepreneurial with the ability to see and take advantage of opportunities. This is a small, agile and responsive charity so may suit someone who has worked in a start-up or fledgling business. As an ambassador for the organisation and its work, you will need to be comfortable selling an organisation to raise money, and you may benefit from understanding income generation within a commercial setting.

To learn more about this unique opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please read the full job description, on the Prospectus website, which can be reached by clicking on the “Apply on Website” Button.

Closing date - 31st January

Prospectus Interviews - 1-5 February

Client 1st Round Interviews - Date within 10th - 16th February (tbc)

Client 2nd Round Interviews - Date within 16th - 23rd February (tbc)

Our client provides a range of innovative services to help vulnerable women avoid, survive and exit the criminal justice system. They are now recruiting a dynamic Service Manager to oversee their South London-based services including their innovative pilot programme, aiming to reduce female reoffending rates through targeted intervention, as well as their Lambeth-based 'Hub', delivering one to one support and advocacy, group work, counselling, specialist substance misuse and domestic abuse services for women who are in contact with, or at risk of being in contact with, the criminal justice system.

The Service Manager will provide strategic oversight and operational management of our client's South London projects, ensuring quality standards are consistently met, staff are effectively managed, partnerships are established and maintained and budgets are appropriately managed. The Service Manager will oversee at least 11 members of frontline staff, and will work to develop and manage service delivery plans for all services, incorporating key milestones and ensuring the delivery of project outputs and outcomes. The Service Manager will act as an ambassadorial figure for the organisation, and will consistently work to represent the needs and experiences of women affected by the criminal justice system.

To apply for this role, you must be an experienced Manager with significant experience of developing, managing and delivering services supporting women with experiences of the criminal justice system (including trauma, exclusion, mental health and substance misuse issues). You must have extensive experience of managing multiple staff within complex staffing structures, and will have significant experience of producing monitoring and evaluation reports for funders and key stakeholders. You will have demonstrable experience of working collaboratively with external agencies and partner organisations at a strategic level.

Please note this role is interim for a minimum of 3 months (initially working from home due to Covid-19 restrictions).
To be considered, you must be in possession of a fully enhanced DBS check, issued within the last year or registered to the online update service.

Please also note, this post is restricted to women only as a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9 paragraph 1, Equality Act 2010