Cycling Jobs

We are looking for a Corporate Memberships Manager to join the National Theatre Development Team.

Purpose of the role:

We are looking for a candidate with a strong grounding in relationship management who also has an interest in and enthusiasm for new business. The ideal candidate will understand membership schemes and stakeholder management with an ambitious approach to bringing in new business, alongside exemplary relationship building and customer service skills.

The successful candidate will have the following: 

• Proven success in account management and new business in a target driven environment

• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of customer service values

• An understanding of marketing/fundraising/business with good networking skills

• An aptitude for working with finance with thorough attention to detail

• Excellent administrative and multi-tasking skills with experience of balancing a high volume of requests and a confident, tenacious outlook and can-do attitude

Working with us will give you...

• Complimentary staff tickets for shows and backstage tours, subject to availability and policy

• 25 days annual leave increasing up to 32 with length of service (plus bank holidays)

• Training and Development Programme via e-learning platform, and specialist in-person training relating to role

• Hybrid and flexible working, subject to agreement and policy

• Access to interest-free season ticket loan and cycle scheme partnership

• Generous sick pay

• Family-friendly employer – we are a member of Parents and Carers in the Performing Arts (PiPA)

• Pension schemes with Legal & General and NEST

• Sabbatical option, subject to agreement and policy

• On-site staff canteen and social facilities

• On-site Occupational Health support

• In-House Mental Health and Wellbeing Advisors providing workplace counselling and support

• Wellbeing programme of events including mental health awareness, financial wellbeing, skills sharing and opportunities to get active

• Exclusive staff talks to hear more about NT productions, past and present, from some of the world’s leading practitioners

• Discounted access to NT at Home

• Volunteer Leave – paid day a year to volunteer for your chosen charity

• Discounts in the NT’s bars, cafes, restaurants, and bookshop, as well as in local businesses (from Wagamama to gyms, on and around the South Bank)

• Access to retailer discounted gift cards and a cash-back-on-spending card.

About the Brent Centre for Young People (BCYP)

The Brent Centre for Young People is the leading mental health charity for young people in Northwest London, helping over 700 young people a year with a wide range of issues. We offer specialised treatment in the areas of depression, suicide prevention, tackling self-harm, eating disorders, exam anxiety and more. Our approach is rooted in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. We aim to reach significantly more young people in the years ahead, drawing on our heritage that combines specialist treatment in-house and outreach into communities. The Brent Centre is also an important Research Centre on Adolescent Breakdown and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

Fundraising at BCYP

BCYP has historically been very successful in raising funds from non-statutory sources, particularly trusts and foundations, and is grateful to hold a number of established relationships with grant- makers. We work hard to ensure that we submit excellent, data-driven applications and evaluations. Until now, applications have largely been submitted by our Fundraising Manager- Trusts & Foundations, with occasional support from a freelance bid-writer. We now want to recruit a new member of the team, to help us to grow our income stream in this area and help us to steward these key relationships.

In this exciting newly created role, you will be responsible for helping to grow our income from grant- makers to design and promote funding opportunities, and to steward relationships with supporters through the giving cycle. We are looking for a fundraiser with at least three to four years of experience in identifying prospects and grant-writing, and who has experienced success in securing funds. Vitally, we want to recruit an individual who is as committed to Brent’s vision, and who will work with us to help us be there for young people in the coming years.

Battersea’s Income Generation department works across the organisation to provide members of the public and organisations with opportunities to engage with Battersea and to support our work. Through our hard work, Battersea is able to make sure we can be here for every cat and dog, now and in the future. Our talented and award-winning team is vibrant and ambitious, and it’s an exciting time to work at one of the country’s most loved and best known animal charities.

We are looking for someone to join our Public Fundraising Team as a Senior Challenge & Public Events Officer, to independently manage and have overall responsibility for leading on the planning and delivery of a pilot bespoke running event happening in May 2025. 

The ideal candidate will have experience of project managing large-scale events with exceptional organisational skills; developing multi-channel marketing plans; developing and delivering complex stewardship journeys, and have strong relationship management skills. 

Please note that this is an 8-month opportunity, of 21 hours per week. Due to the time-sensitive nature of planning this event, we are looking to have someone in post by mid-October. Please take this into consideration when submitting your application.

What we can offer you:

In return for your commitment to our cause and to recognise the value of our employees, Battersea offers a range of benefits to support the wellbeing of our employees. These include:

- 28 days of annual leave (plus 8 days paid public holidays) per year
- Discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme and access to Wellbeing Resources.
- Generous pension contributions – up to 10% employer contribution
- Free healthcare cash plan, where you can claim for a range of treatment including dental, optical, physiotherapy, chiropody and acupuncture every year.
- Annual interest-free season ticket loans

We are also committed to providing learning and development to our employees. During your time with us, we provide support for your professional and career development, including access to digital and in-person training programmes, leadership and management training, mentoring and much more.

Our hybrid working model:

We operate a 50% onsite hybrid working model, with our office-based staff splitting their time between site based and home working. This enables our office-based staff to balance the benefits of home working with onsite collaboration and maintaining a connection to our cause.

Diversity and inclusion:

At Battersea, we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse workforce and inclusive culture in all aspects of our organisation. We aim to ensure that this pledge, reinforced by our values, is embedded in our day-to-day working practices and our work together.

By hearing from and valuing different experiences, perspectives, and contributions, we know we can provide the best expert care for every dog and cat who needs us. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from diverse ethnic communities and people with disabilities, who we know are currently underrepresented in our workforce.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we will ask about any adjustments you may need at application and/or interview stage, and if you are offered a role with us, we’ll talk to you about any workplace adjustments you may need to help you perform at your best.

More about us:

At Battersea, we aim to never turn away a dog or cat in need of help. We give each one lots of love, expert care and get to know their characters and quirks so we can find them a new home that’s just right for them. Join us and help us be here for every dog and cat, wherever they are, for as long as they need us.

Closing date: 2nd October 2024

Interview date(s): Rolling basis - Early applications are encouraged as the role may be closed early if the opportunity is filled. 

For full details, please download our recruitment pack.

To apply for the role, please click the button below. All applications must be submitted before the closing date advertised. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications is received.

Battersea’s Finance and Corporate Services incorporates a range of functions that support the rest of the organisation, working strategically and collaboratively to ensure that Battersea can be here for every dog and cat. 

We are looking for someone to join our team as a Risk Manager, to manage and improve Battersea’s existing enterprise risk management approach at a strategic and operational level. 

To be successful in this role, you will have strong experience of being a risk leader, a comprehensive understanding of enterprise risk management, and practical application of risk management across a similarly sized organisation, with significant analytical skills. 

More about Battersea:

At Battersea, we aim to never turn away a dog or cat in need of help. We give each one lots of love and expert care and get to know their characters and quirks so we can find them a new home that’s just right for them.

All the knowledge we gather in our centres helps us to improve the lives of the animals we’ll never meet, through our work with other rescue organisations and charities. We also help people make informed choices when getting a pet, we provide training and welfare advice, and we campaign for changes in the law when we see that dogs and cats or their owners deserve better.

Join us and help us be here for every dog and cat, wherever they are, for as long as they need us.

What we can offer you:

We offer our employees a wide range of benefits to reward them for the value that they bring to Battersea, to support them in their work, to help improve their health and wellbeing, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. These include:

- 28 days of annual leave (plus 8 days paid public holidays) per year
- Generous pension contributions – up to 10% employer contribution
- Free healthcare cash plan, where you can claim for a range of treatment including dental, optical, physiotherapy, chiropody and acupuncture every year
- Annual interest-free season ticket loans
- Discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes
- Life insurance
- Support for your professional and career development, including access to digital and in-person training programmes, a wide range of tools and resources, leadership and management training, mentoring and much more.

Our hybrid working policy:

We operate a 50% onsite hybrid working model, with our office-based staff splitting their time between site based and home working. This enables our office-based staff to maintain the benefits of home working, while allowing for collaboration and maintaining a connection to our cause. In addition to this, our offices are in a great location within London, have modern facilities, offer great employee socialising spaces and a discounted café. Best of all, coming on site offers you the opportunity to meet our lovely rescues with lunchtime cat socialising and the occasional office dog!

Equality, diversity and inclusion at Battersea:

At Battersea, we are committed to providing equality of opportunity, and developing and supporting a diverse workforce and inclusive culture in all aspects of our organisation. We aim to ensure that this pledge, reinforced by our values, is embedded in our day-to-day working practices and our work together.

By hearing from and valuing different experiences, perspectives and contributions, we know we can provide the best expert care for every dog and cat who needs us. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and from members of minority ethnic communities, who we know are currently under-represented at Battersea.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we're happy to discuss any support or personalisation you may need during your application and/or interview process as part of our workplace adjustments. 

Closing date: 2nd October 2024
Interview date(s): w/c 7th October 2024; w/c 14th October 2024

If you think you’re a good fit for the role, and you’re passionate about dogs, cats and our work, then we’d like to hear from you.

For full details, please download our recruitment pack.

To apply for the role, please click the button below. All applications must be submitted before the closing date advertised; we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications is received.

Join Cycle Sisters as our new Fundraising Lead to help us generate the resources we need to change the lives of more women through our cycling programmes.

Key info: 

Role title: Fundraising Lead 

Contract type: Self-employed (currently exploring moving to payroll in near future) 

Hours: 14 hours per week.   Hours can be worked flexibly but need to include some fixed hours during weekday standard working hours and ability to occasionally attend evening/weekend events

Duration: 2 year contract with opportunity to extend dependent on funding 

Rate: £23 per hour 

Location: Home-working but need to be based in London for travel to events and activities 

Reporting to: CEO

How would you contribute to Cycle Sisters’ mission? 

Cycle Sisters has grown hugely over the past few years, with an expanded range of programmes and activity. We are keen to continue this journey of growth and have just finalised a new strategy for 2024-2027 which prioritises reaching more women and girls, and ensuring our financial sustainability.

The Fundraising Lead will play a critical role in supporting our ‘sustainability' strategic priority to ensure Cycle Sisters can access the resources it needs to keep making a difference.   This post-holder will lead on growing Cycle Sisters’ unrestricted income, with a focus on community fundraising and corporate partnerships.

The post-holder will need to be an excellent networker, confident in representing the organisation externally and able to motivate a range of stakeholders to financially support Cycle Sisters’ work.

What would you be doing?

Below is a list of responsibilities which provide a broad outline of the role.   This is not an exhaustive list as Cycle Sisters is a small team which requires flexibility.

This is a new part-time role and we will work with the successful candidate to develop a workplan which is realistic within the hours available.   There will also be support from other team members on some of the areas of work.

General responsibilities 

• Develop strategies to achieve income targets across the areas outlined below 

• Ensure all fundraising initiatives are properly planned, delivered, monitored and evaluated.   All activities should be conducted in adherence to best practice, Cycle Sisters’ ethical policy and charity law. 

• Represent the organisation externally including networking, delivering presentations and speaking at events 

• Work with the Communications & Media Lead to create compelling fundraising messages and materials for a range of audiences 

• Work collaboratively with other team members in Cycle Sisters to maximise all opportunities for fundraising 

Individual Giving and Community Fundraising 

• Oversee event/challenge fundraising, liaising closely with volunteer fundraisers to maximise income and ensure fundraisers feel valued and appreciated 

• Work with the Communications & Media Lead to ensure donors feel valued and appreciated 

• Develop and implement a regular giving strategy, helping us to progress donors from one-off to regular giving

• Work with the CEO to develop a “membership” scheme to generate regular income from Cycle Sisters’ participant network with incentives and benefits for members 

• Work with an external agency to secure income through digital fundraising 

Corporate Fundraising 

Working closely with the CEO: 

• Develop relationships with existing corporate partners, ensuring partners feel valued and are receiving regular updates

• Research and identify new corporate fundraising prospects.  Develop relationships through networking and representing Cycle Sisters externally.

• Create tailored packages to secure in-kind and financial support from corporate partners 

• Develop ideas for earned income services for corporate partners e.g. led rides 

Who are we looking for? 

Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement.   At Cycle Sisters, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything listed below, we would encourage you to still apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Please note that we are only able to accept applications from female applicants due to the nature of our organisation and cause including the fact that the successful candidate would be required to interact with, represent and work within women-only spaces.

Essential 

• At least 3 years’ experience in a charity fundraising role or similar roles 

• Evidenced track record of personally meeting fundraising targets in previous roles 

• Networking, negotiation and people skills with the ability to inspire, motivate and build relationships 

• Public speaking skills

• Ability to develop and implement strategies as well as be involved with operational delivery, requiring good attention to detail 

• Written communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging, pitches and projects to differing donor needs and requirements 

• Organisational, planning and project management skills, with ability to be self-directed and work independently 

• Research skills, including identifying potential supporters and prospects 

• Experience and understanding of Muslim communities and of the networks and stakeholders Cycle Sisters engages with

• Commitment to the aims and values of Cycle Sisters including inclusion and diversity 

Desirable

• Well networked with corporates including (but not exclusively) within the Muslim community

• Experience of and passion for cycling, active travel or sport in general

Accessibility and further questions

One of Cycle Sister's core values is inclusion and we aim to reflect this in our recruitment processes. We encourage applications from a diverse range of people and are keen that our application process is accessible to those who are neurodivergent or have other access needs.

If you require any particular adjustments during the recruitment process or would like to understand any elements of this role's structure, contracting arrangements, responsibilities or anything else related to this role, please contact us.

What is Cycle Sisters? 

Cycle Sisters is an award-winning charity which supports Muslim women and girls to change their lives through cycling.  We are passionate about ensuring everyone has access to cycling without having to compromise cultural or religious values.

We have a thriving network of over 1500 women and operate women-only cycle groups across 10 London boroughs, led by a team of nearly 100 volunteer Ride Leaders.  We also have activities for teenage girls and our Tri Sisters project supports Muslim women to take on triathlons.

Our work is changing lives.  In our most recent impact survey,  92% of our participants reported improved physical and mental health, 85% felt more connected to their local community and 90% felt more confident in general.
 

Why join Cycle Sisters? 

• We offer a flexible working opportunity which can fit around other work and life commitments.   Many of our team are mums who work part-time at Cycle Sisters. 

• We offer the autonomy to shape both the role and Cycle Sisters’ future development and be part of making a real difference to the lives of women and girls. 

• We offer access to free/discounted places for exciting cycling events and challenges. 

• We are an inclusive and supportive organisation which values diversity. 

Interim Head of Policy and Public Affairs

There’s never been a better time to join the team! Ouor client have launched an ambitious new strategy – and they want you to be part of it. There are loads of reasons to love cycling, even if you’re not someone who cycles. From cutting pollution, to making us healthier and happier, cycling can help us all thrive.

Our client want everyone to enjoy the benefits cycling offers to people and the planet. Their new strategy focusses on encouraging more short journeys by bike; promoting cycling as a popular, enjoyable, and safe activity for everyone; and striving to make every cycling experience a great one. Come with them on their journey and help them have more impact than ever before!

This role will work to build and lead their new policy and public affairs team, which has been established as part of their exciting new strategy. You'll have responsibility for raising their profile, improving their reputation and increasing their influence among key policy makers right across the UK. You'll be developing and implementing evidence-based political strategies in line with the charity’s strategic objectives. This is a maternity cover role with a fixed term contract until 31 December 2025.

Tell them why you are the person to drive impact in this capacity. Explore the attached job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening. Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to the person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.

They are an inclusive organisation and would particularly welcome applications from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds. They strongly believe that diversity strengthens their work. If you are already passionate about cycling, that’s great, many of them are too! But if you are simply really excellent at what you do, no matter what your background, that is what matters most.

Applications close at 9:00am on the closing date shown.

Location: Home-based
Job Type: Full time, 37.5 hours
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £46,683 - £51,870 per annum
Benefits: 27 days holiday + bank holidays (pro rata for part time roles), perk scheme access, life assurance, paid compassionate leave, enhanced sick pay, Company membership plus many more staff benefits.

You may also have experience in the following: Head of Policy, Public Affairs advisor, Head of Publics affairs, Policy Adviser, Policy Officer, Policy Advisor, Policy Research Officer, Regulatory Officer, Policy Executive, Research Officer, Policy Research, Senior Policy Adviser, Project Management, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.

REF-216 869

Job Description

Job Title:                   Community Coordinator 

Reporting To:            Community Engagement Manager

Salary:                      £28,000 - £34,000 (Dependant on experience)

Location:                    Across Felix’s locations and field-based

Contract type:         Full-time, Permanent.

About The Felix Project

The Felix Project is London's biggest food redistribution charity and the largest end-to-end food redistribution charity in Europe.  

Our vision is a London where no one goes hungry and good food is never wasted. 

We rescue surplus food from businesses, supermarkets, restaurants and farms. This food is nutritious, in-date, and safe and includes a high proportion of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and fish. If we did not rescue this food, it would be at risk of going to waste. Instead, we deliver it free of charge to London charities, schools, food banks, COVID food hubs and other organisations serving people in need. Our food is a vital lifeline for children and families, people on low incomes, people who have lost their jobs, the homeless, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, the elderly and keyworkers.  

 We were founded in 2016 in memory of Felix Byam Shaw, by his father, entrepreneur Justin Byam Shaw. 

Purpose of the Job

Based for a minimum of 3 days per week in one of our operational warehouses you will help support Felix’s mission through the development of a network of charities, community groups and other key stakeholders involved supporting vulnerable Londoners across London. Your work will help to build the network’s capacity to accept and distribute food through our depot operations, Green Scheme & Felix Connect and non-food items through Felix’s Multibank. 

Reporting to the Community Engagement Manager the Community Coordinator’s role will focus on Felix’s school holiday provision. You will be involved in the set-up, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of the different programmes throughout the year that provides more than 10 million meal equivalents to families across the 13-week school holidays. Developed from Felix’s regular food delivery models to operate at scale innovation has been part of the development of these programmes. As the Community Coordinator you will be expected to help drive the evolution of the provision and where relevant help deploy as part of our business-as-usual delivery.

You will support your peers, the depot and operational teams, responding to enquiries from the community network to help ensure the smooth flow of food and non-food items whilst delivering excellent customer service. This will include ensuring recipients of our food are compliant with all relevant legislation and guidance as required by our food partners and food business operators. 

You will also help us to effectively monitor and evaluate our growth against our strategic objectives through robust data collection, monitoring and updating using our CRM system.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per annum (+ bank holidays) plus up to 5 days additional leave for length of service.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave.
• Birthday day off.
• Access to benefit platform for a wide range of discounts on everyday spends plus gym discounts.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Employee assistance programme including 24 Hour GP helpline.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Opportunity for free meals whilst working at our depots.
• After work activities such as Felix’s softball team, running club and cycling club 

Project Officer, Cornwall 

(England South-West)

£28,831 per annum 

(Ref: SUS4324)

Full Time 37.5 hours per week – happy to talk flexible working

Contract: Fixed term until 30 June 2025

Base: Authority Office in Cornwall with an opportunity to work from home

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our team to work in Cornwall to promote and enable - walking, wheeling, cycling, and public transport as the sustainable way of travelling to schools, workplaces, and for journeys in the local community.

As the Project Officer, you will be innovating, developing, and delivering tailor-made packages of activities and promotional material to encourage and enable active travel. 

You will work in close partnership with Cornwall Council, public transport providers, Sustrans’ Behaviour Change & Engagement team and colleagues to support the development and delivery of a countywide Workplace Travel Challenge. This will help ensure that as many people as possible can benefit from the project and that more local journeys can be travelled actively. 

Due to the nature of the role, a full DBS is required. 

We offer true hybrid working, with a mix of working from the Authority office 1-2 days a week and the opportunity for home working. 

This role will require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake the project on behalf of Sustrans. You will be occasionally travelling across the Cornwall region.

About you

You will be passionate about active travel and supporting and motivating others to make positive changes to everyday journeys, to benefit themselves, their local community, and the environment. You will be self-motivated and able to work independently to manage a varied workload. 

You should have experience in building relationships with wide range of organisations, groups and individuals ideally having worked on physical activity, behavioural change projects, a wide range of people including young people. 

You will be a skilled communicator, able to adapt your approach to engage and meet the needs of diverse audiences and have experience of planning and delivering engagement activities and promotional events. 

Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone - reducing inequality, valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups. 

What we offer

In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment. 

Wellbeing

• 28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working
• Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Staff volunteer days
• 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service
• We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes

Financial

• Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans
• Bike, computer and season ticket loans
• Discount benefits
• London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32 local authority districts plus the City of London)
• Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary

Family Friendly

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday)

Additional information

• Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 23:59, 08 October 2024. 
• Interviews will take place via MS Teams on the 16th or 17th October 2024

About Sustrans

At Sustrans you'll be part of a movement to make it easier for people to walk and cycle. 

We're all here to change things! You’ll be part of an incredible community of talented, passionate, creative, problem solvers all working together to change things for the better. We act locally and think big - we have a vision of a society where the way we travel creates healthier places and happier lives for everyone.

You'll be questioning the status quo and daring to imagine a different world. You'll work on exciting, impactful projects that will stretch and empower you and you'll be rewarded by seeing the difference you make to people, communities and the planet. 

 We believe including everyone is central to who we are and what we want to achieve, we welcome difference and pride ourselves on creating a culture where you can be yourself and where your wellness is supported. 

You'll be guaranteed to make friends for life and work with a team that is incredibly flexible, supportive, ethical and fun.

Project Officer – Behaviour Change & Engagement 

(Reigate & Bansted)

£28,831 per annum (pro rata for part time hours)

(Ref: SUS4322)

Full Time 37.5 hours per week – happy to talk flexible working.

Fixed contract until 31st March 2025

Base: Hybrid with opportunity to work at Reigate & Banstead Borough Council Offices

About the role

An exciting role to deliver a tailored package of support that will help Reigate and Banstead Council to increase levels of active travel in the area. You will engage with schools, workplaces, and communities to support and enable more people to walk, wheel, cycle and scoot for local everyday journeys, instead of taking the car. 

As the Project Officer, you will plan and deliver fun, innovative and engaging activities such as mapping safe routes, leading rides and walks, practical skills sessions, competitions, initiatives and information events. The range of activities, events and resources will be adapted to meet the needs of the different audiences and will be designed to be inclusive so as many people as possible can benefit from the project and more local journeys can be travelled actively. 

This role will require you to work with a range of people across local and diverse communities, workplaces and schools in Reigate and Banstead. Creating relationships with key people and employers, understanding the barriers, challenges and opportunities to actively travel. You will be working closely with others to develop a programme of activities.

You will have the opportunity to give people confidence, enthusiasm and skills to travel more actively, through events and community activities. 

You will build and manage internal and external relationships with key people such as school or community travel champions, local authority colleagues and other Sustrans delivery officers. 

Within the role, there will be an expectation to capture the impact of the project through completing reporting and monitoring, writing case studies, capturing quotes and photos and contributing to an end of project report. 

This role will require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake projects on behalf of Sustrans.

About you

You should have experience of working with children and young people within a community setting and delivering physical activities to groups. Your knowledge of the local area will help you form relationships with a wide range of organisations, groups, and individuals.

You will be a self-motivated and solution driven individual used to working independently as well as part of a team, with the ability to plan and prioritise your workload.

Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone - reducing inequality, valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups. 

What we offer

In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment. 

Wellbeing

• 28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working
• Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Staff volunteer days
• 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service
• We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes

Financial

• Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans
• Bike, computer and season ticket loans
• Discount benefits
• London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32 local authority districts plus the City of London)
• Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary

Family Friendly

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday)

Additional information

• Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 23:59, 03 October 2024. 
• Interviews will take place via MS Teams on the 15th or 16th of October 2024

About Sustrans

At Sustrans you'll be part of a movement to make it easier for people to walk and cycle. 

We're all here to change things! You’ll be part of an incredible community of talented, passionate, creative, problem solvers all working together to change things for the better. We act locally and think big - we have a vision of a society where the way we travel creates healthier places and happier lives for everyone.

You'll be questioning the status quo and daring to imagine a different world. You'll work on exciting, impactful projects that will stretch and empower you and you'll be rewarded by seeing the difference you make to people, communities and the planet. 

 We believe including everyone is central to who we are and what we want to achieve, we welcome difference and pride ourselves on creating a culture where you can be yourself and where your wellness is supported. 

You'll be guaranteed to make friends for life and work with a team that is incredibly flexible, supportive, ethical and fun.

Do you have a passion for supporting community groups to thrive?

We have a fantastic new opportunity to join our Community Investment Team as a Grants Officer. You will facilitate the delivery of an impactful grants programme, investing funding that enables our communities and customers to thrive.

You'll be based out of our Wembley office with maybe some occasional travel in and around the local area. The role will combine both home and office working to ensure a positive work/life balance.

About Sovereign Network Group (SNG)

It's an exciting time to join us as Sovereign have joined forces with Network Homes to form SNG (Sovereign Network Group). Together we provide over 84,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England – our purpose being to provide quality affordable homes and places that people love for generations. We will be creating a Community Foundation, investing £100 million into communities over the next 10 years.

The Role

Reporting into the Funding and Innovation Manager you will lead on contract management, oversight and monitoring and evaluation of our grants and crowdfunding programmes to community groups and customers, with a value of over £350,000 a year. You will be a great communicator and will ensure a high-quality service for applicants and awardees and will track our social impact through robust monitoring.

Responsibilities include:

• Assessing funding applications received, undertaking due diligence and make recommendations to the grants panel.
• Producing high-quality documentation for all panel meetings including providing the panel with accurate and timely data to support decision-making.

• Effectively manage contractors for our grant's programmes including Community Grants, Employment and Skills and grants for customers.
• Deliver a good user experience for grant applicants and awardees and ensure there is consistency across grant programmes.
• Work with the Funding and Innovation Manager and Social Impact Manager and leads in each team to ensure monitoring and evaluation requirements are being delivered through the grants programme that demonstrate our social impact.

• Supporting opportunities via our grant programmes to bring in external funding to benefit SNG communities and customers.

• Working collaboratively across the Community Investment Directorate and with other internal teams ensuring grants programmes meet the priorities of their teams and customers in localities.

What we are looking for

You will have experience in a similar role in the grants space, or experience of working within the funding/charity sector. You'll have a passion for supporting community groups, creating thriving communities and delivering social impact. You'll also have:

• Experience in assessing grant applications.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive and proven stakeholder management skills across all levels of colleague and with external partners.
• Contract management experience.
• Understand and interpret budgets and accounts.
• Being able to prepare and present data in a clear and informative way.
• Ability to validate and impact assess, to escalate data issues as required.
• Knowledge of methods to monitor the quality of data and identify issues.

What you'll receive from us

We have some fantastic benefits on offer at SNG, including:

• £450 flex-pot annually, discounted shopping & cycling scheme
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• Company pension scheme matched up to 12%, life cover at 4x your salary
• Flexible working - we're committed to giving people flexibility as widely as possible
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance & critical illness cover

At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG. Take a look at our careers site to learn more about us and our values.

This is a great opportunity to join the team as we progress through an exciting period of change. What we do makes a real difference to people's lives and by joining us you can share the satisfaction of doing something that really matters.

Exams Assistant
£32,642 pa plus excellent benefits
Aldgate, London
35 hours per week

As Exams Assistant you will support the day to day running of the examinations with a particular focus on question bank management. You will be working with the Examinations Team and examiners across all specialties. This will include supporting examiner panels to organise and run question writing sessions and ensuring that question banks remain up to date.

You will also have a number of other examination-related duties, including – but not limited to – processing applications, invigilating at examination and collating examination results.

The College offers Fellowship examinations in 17 different pathological specialties, supported by the Examinations Team and a panel of volunteer examiners from the College’s Fellows for each specialty. The examinations are run both online and in person. 

The Royal College of Pathologists is a professional membership organisation dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of pathology. There are currently approximately 12,000 members, all of whom are pathologists based in hospitals, universities and laboratories in the UK and overseas. The College’s main tasks are to set and maintain training standards for doctors and scientists, to advice on the appointment of consultant pathologists, to ensure the membership is kept up to date with current practice through the continuing professional development scheme, and to promote the latest developments in pathology by holding scientific meetings.

The College’s mission is to promote excellence in the practice of pathology and to be responsible for maintaining standards through training, assessments, examinations and professional development.

We offer attractive staff benefits including 25 days annual leave (pro rata) rising with length of service, an employee discount scheme, and season tickets, as well as a cycle to work scheme. The College values diversity, welcoming applications from all members of society. We offer a mix of remote (home) and office working, with hybrid working arrangements in place.

We may close this vacancy early if we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Closing date: 9am Monday 30 September 2024.
Interviews currently scheduled to happen Monday 14 October 2024

The Direct Marketing Manager, Retention, is a newly developed role at the DEC, responsible for shaping and delivering new and existing supporter journeys for DEC individual, community and legacy donors, and leading a programme of improvement across all major contact points between the DEC and the public.

The Direct Marketing Manager, Retention will:

• Contribute to and develop DEC direct marketing strategies, including the refreshing, implementation and analysis of the DEC’s segmentation, to maximise future income and continually improve the retention of individual supporters for future emergency appeals,
• Lead on the production of retention and reporting back materials for individual and community supporters,
• Manage the development and maintenance of specific supporter journeys,
• Develop and oversee the materials and supporter positioning for a light touch and mainly reactive legacy marketing programme for the DEC.

Key responsibilities include:

Strategy and Planning

• Develop and implement the direct marketing retention strategy, ensuring that past learnings are built upon, and new ideas are tested.
• Develop and implement specific audience journeys for segments across both the life cycle of a DEC appeal and between appeals.
• Ensure timely and relevant communications to all direct marketing, community, and legacy audiences on the impact of their donations.
• Build an improved supporter journey strategy for new, repeat, and lapsed donors.
• Lead, design, and monitor the collection of audience insight during appeals.

Fundraising

• Develop the DEC’s donor journeys for individuals and community supporters, monitoring the development of segments and the engagement of repeat donors.
• Provide analysis during and following an appeal of performance to measure and report performance against key indicators and develop recommendations for improving impact in the next appeal.
• Support the stewardship of community fundraisers and groups in conjunction with the Supporter Services team.

Networking and building relationships

• Develop excellent working relationships with the DEC’s suppliers including creative agencies, media agencies, SMS and email suppliers, and the print/mailing house.
• Work with permanent and temporary staff at the DEC during appeals to maximise the success of the appeal.

 

The DEC is an equal opportunities employer and provides opportunities to learn and grow in an inclusive, supportive, and productive environment. We encourage applications from anyone who can meet the criteria, regardless of gender, race, age, disability, sexuality, or religion.

Job Description

Job Title:                  Green Scheme Co – Ordinator (PM) 

Reporting To:           Green Scheme Manager

Salary/Rate:             £30,000-32,000 (dependant on experience) 

Contract Type:         Fixed – Term Contract 12 – months  

Hours of Work:         Fixed hours: 11:30 – 19:30. Monday to Friday

Location:                   Across Felix’s sites in London (Deptford, Enfield, Poplar, Park Royal, Western International Market, Greenford) with hybrid working available and office space at Canary Wharf.

About the Felix Project

The Felix Project is London's biggest food redistribution charity and the largest end-to-end food redistribution charity in Europe. 

Our vision is a London where no one goes hungry and good food is never wasted.  

We rescue surplus food from businesses, supermarkets, restaurants and farms. This food is nutritious, in-date, and safe and includes a high proportion of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and fish. If we did not rescue this food, it would be at risk of going to waste. Instead, we deliver it free of charge to London charities, schools, food banks, food hubs and other organisations serving people in need. Our food is a vital lifeline for children and families, people on low incomes, people who have lost their jobs, the homeless, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, the elderly and keyworkers.   

We were founded in 2016 in memory of Felix Byam Shaw, by his father, entrepreneur Justin Byam Shaw.

Purpose of the Job

The Green Scheme operates point-to-point collection and delivery routes throughout the day and into the evenings (up until approx. 21:30). The purpose of this role will be to oversee out of hours routes in the evening, covering up until the latest route start time of 19:30.

The role will be involved in all aspects of co-ordination for Green Scheme operational activities. The role will be key in ensuring routes (predominantly evening routes) operate as smoothly as possible to ensure we deliver as much food as we are able to. 

You will be a key contact for relevant partners on routes (volunteers, food suppliers, community organisations) and the main point of contact for out of hours routes. You will communicate changes and update all partners where necessary and provide support to volunteers undertaking routes to ensure they have a positive volunteer experience.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per annum (+ bank holidays) plus up to 5 days additional leave for length of service.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave.
• Birthday day off.
• Access to benefit platform for a wide range of discounts on everyday spends plus gym discounts.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Employee assistance programme including 24 Hour GP helpline.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Opportunity for free meals whilst working at our depots.
• After work activities such as Felix’s softball team, running club and cycling club

Main Location : Central London

Hours: 21 hours per week

Salary: £27,583 to £34,479 prorata 

About Future Men: Are you passionate about providing mentoring support to boys and young men? This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a specialist and dynamic charity providing emotional and practical support to boys and young men.

At Future Men, through our practice-led services, we work with boys and men from childhood to 25 to help them become healthy, dynamic, future men. From structured school programmes and youth hubs, to individual one-to-one sessions and outreach work, we provide the vital support and advocacy that changes boys and young men’s lives for the better. We focus our work with boys and men who face structural discrimination and disadvantage, including of race, income, and community.

Facilitator - School Delivery

As a Project Coordinator you will be responsible for delivering group and one-to-one support in primary and secondary schools as part of the Boys' Development team. Our work in primary school is with Year 6 and in the secondary school we work with Year 7 to 11 .  A key element of the work will be to deliver the sessions face to face and maintain good working relationships with the schools and the partner organisations we are supporting. Managing your calendar on a week to week basic and liaising with school staff as part of the support for mentees. 

What we can offer you

• Pension Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• 28 days prorata
• Employee Benefit scheme