International Peacebuilding Charity seeks an experienced Director of Operations to join the senior management team at a time of organisational growth.  Based in London, s/he will develop this new role to make it her/his own, working with the Chief Executive and Finance Director to provide leadership and strategic direction to our work.

Concordis International is a UK registered peacebuilding charity with programmes in Central African Republic, Mauritania, Sudan and South Sudan, plus some new work in the pipeline. 

We work alongside those involved in or affected by armed conflict, helping them find workable solutions that address the root causes of conflict and contribute to lasting peace and economic development.  We’re committed to finding solutions that benefit women as well as men, those in armed groups as well as those who chose not to take up arms, national governments as well as civil society.

Conflict is always complex and exists at multiple levels with numerous parties and a range of different drivers.  Concordis has particular expertise in conflict management and security issues across fluid borders, particularly involving cross-border seasonal migration and trade.  Independent evaluation of these dialogues found that the work was “unprecedented” and achieved “highly successful results” in mitigating conflict arising out of cross-border migration.

Concordis’ UK footprint is intentionally small; we focus our resources on the countries where we work.  We’re therefore looking for a highly adept Director of Operations who will bring a range of skills and experiences to the post and to our organisation, from high level organisational management, through staff care for our teams around the world, to the ability to communicate our work more effectively to donors and supporters.

Above all, our organisation is founded on the belief that strong relationships are key to both peaceful societies and healthy teams.  As Concordis grows, we need someone who will help maintain a strong team dynamic, wherever staff may be based.

Job Title: Director of Operations

Location: London

Duration: Permanent (subject to probation)

Hours: Part time: 20-25 hours per week (negotiable); flexible and some off-site working available

Salary: £40,000-45,000 pro rata (i.e. £21,400 – £30,000 pa depending on agreed hours and experience)

Reporting to: Chief Executive, based in the UK

Application: Applications will only be accepted if submitted on the application form available on website

Deadline: Sunday 20th October 2019 at 23.59 hrs

Key Areas of Responsibility

Working with the board of trustees, the chief executive and the finance director to develop strategic direction for the organisation that will enable us to make a measurable impact for peace in the places where we work.

Sharing responsibility for implementation of that strategy, ensuring Concordis has the financial, human and organisational resources to deliver it.

Leading on the operational aspects strategic delivery, with particular responsibility for:

Our people:

• Making Concordis a great place to work, maintaining a positive and supportive culture, with clear unity between our offices in London, Nouakchott, Paoua and Abyei, even as the organisation grows
• Supporting the staff team, helping to ensure that their passion and dedication to the work doesn’t jeopardise their own health and wellbeing
• Retaining the culture in which staff remain with the organisation for the long term, recognising that peacebuilding depends on building relationships of trust, which take a long time to develop
• Leading on the recruitment of excellent new team members when the need arises and means permit

Our supporters

• Helping us to be better at explaining what we do to those who support us and who take a personal interest in our work
• Growing our supporter network, identifying and securing donations from new people and trusts who may be interested in partnering financially in our work for peace

Our partners

• Taking a direct and informed interest in the wider community of peacebuilders and humanitarians, particularly in the UK, helping to ensure Concordis promotes a joined up and collaborative approach between different disciplines in addressing the complex challenges faced in fragile states
• Representing Concordis in meetings of partners, funders and other stakeholders as needed
• Providing editorial supporting to the programme teams in ensuring production of high quality reports on our work, then helping to disseminate these reports and their recommendations to a global audience through peer networks and via social media

Our resources

• Ensuring the teams around the world have the resources they need to do their work, including logistical, insurance and IT support
• Supporting the programme team by proof-reading funding proposals to help ensure sustainable programme finances

Our governance

• Reporting directly to the board and its sub-committees, particularly to the risk, human resources and fundraising / communications sub-committees
• Supporting with the chair of the board and the chief executive by ensuring board minutes and other papers are in good order, action points are followed up and the board have the best information available to help them make informed decisions
• Ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the London office in compliance with current legislation governing employment practice, safeguarding, data protection, charity and company law, ensuring Concordis’ policies remain up-to-date and workable, that they are followed by the staff team, and that they enable Concordis to work safely and securely
• Taking stewardship of the organisational risk register, using this as an operational document that ensures risk is properly managed

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential Attributes and Qualifications:

1. Extensive experience of organisational management at director level or equivalent, reporting to boards and taking responsibility for delivering results
2. Positive examples of designing and implementing strategies to manage growth and change
3. Experience of recruiting, managing and motivating a multi-cultural team of staff in multiple locations to excel in challenging roles
4. Demonstrable experience of effective and persuasive communication of complex messages, both verbally and in writing, to raise organisational profile
5. Impressive track record of raising funds through private donors, grant making trusts and / or institutional donors
6. Clear understanding of the political landscape around international development and peacebuilding
7. Excellent IT skills including website management, databases, desktop publishing and finding fixes for day to day IT issues
8. Sublimely organised and able to keep calm and prioritise under pressure
9. Clear working knowledge of current legislation governing employment practice, safeguarding, data protection, charity and company law and experience of ensuring pain-free compliance across an organisation
10. Experience of assessing and managing complex risk
11. A passion to help make the world a more peaceful place
12. Commitment to Concordis’ mission, principles, values (available at http://concordis.international/our-mission-and-values
13. Entitlement to work in the UK

Highly Desirable Attributes and Qualifications:

1. Experience of the charity sector
2. Fluency in French
3. Willingness and ability to travel internationally when necessary

Cambridgeshire Hearing Help is looking for a new Chief Executive Officer
We are looking for a new Chief Executive Officer to lead our charity through its next exciting phase of development. Founded in 1979, we have grown from strength to strength. We have a dedicated and passionate team of six Trustees, six part-time staff, and 120+ volunteers who support approximately 6,500 individuals with hearing loss per year, most of whom are aged 80+.

Applicants must have a passionate commitment towards improving the lives of people with hearing loss and a proven track record in financial management and delivering results at senior management level.

Type of contract: Permanent contract
Location: 153 St Neots Road, Hardwick, Cambridge, CB23 7QJ
Hours: 22.5 hours per week, which can be worked flexibly. We anticipate these hours increasing in line with potential future expansion/growth.
Salary: £27,000 per annum (£35,000 pro rata)
Employer pension contribution: 7% of salary
Annual leave entitlement: 25 days pro rata, increasing by 1 day per year after two years of service, to a maximum of 30 days pro rata

Deadline for applications: Midnight on Wednesday 6th November

Interview date: Friday 29th November

About the role

Fight for Peace has experienced consistent and growth in the UK and internationally, and in 2019 Fight for Peace (UK) and Fight for Peace International merged to become one organisation. An experienced finance professional with a proven track record in financial leadership is needed to support the implementation of the merger, ensure robust and sustainable financial management, strengthen finance management processes, support further expansion going forward, provide finance leadership to existing and future FFP subsidiaries, and work with senior management colleagues to ensure strategy is informed by financial intelligence. 

Management

The Head of Finance will be a member of the FFP senior management team, report to the Interim CEO, and provide quarterly financial reports to the FFP Board of Trustees. The Head of Finance will be responsible for:

Development and leadership of a cross-organisational Finance Team, including:

• Review and develop the team structure to adequately meet the financial management needs of the charity.
• Recruit, line manage and develop finance colleagues.
• Support the delivery of the Next Generation strategy within the Finance Team (Next Gen is FFP’s strategy to employ and develop ex-FFP Members).
• Develop a Finance team and functions that can succeed / is sustainable beyond your tenure.

Lead monthly and annual financial reporting processes for FFP, including:

• Work with key management and delivery staff of both UK and international divisions to design annual operational budgets.
• Monitor expenditure against income and producing reconciled monthly management accounts, quarterly reforecasts, and annual financial statements as required.
• Manage the charity’s reserves in accordance with the Trustee’s Reserve’s Policy.
• Oversight and coordination of annual external audit

Oversight of all ongoing financial and finance-related tasks, including:

• Payroll, pension and other staff benefit schemes.
• Supplier payments, and international transfers.
• Act as the direct liaison with the charities’ bank.
• Re-granting funds to Luta pela Paz and other partners in accordance with FFP’s Grants Protocol and wider sector best practice.
• Work with HR colleagues to check, approve, record the following for budget, management and auditory purposes: issuing of staff contracts, increments, and holidays.

Strengthen and maintain finance management procedures and policies, including:

• Review current financial policies, procedures and systems and where necessary strengthen or create new approaches.
• Maintain all financial policies, procedures and systems ongoing.
• Maintain and develop FFP’s finance manual to share with colleagues and future post holders. 

Support the fundraising team with all relevant strategy and tasks, including:

• Support project planning process to ensure proposals align with financial needs.
• Create project budgets for inclusion in fundraising proposals.
• Create interim and final financial reports for funders.

Oversight of financial relationships with partner organisations who are hosting FFP projects in other countries (Jamaica and South Africa at time of writing), including:

• Design of reporting templates for host organisations and provision of any required training.
• Timely transfer of funds to host organisation to enable local FFP team to carry out their activities.
• Host relationship management on finance matters.
• Ensure processes are robust and compliant with all relevant international development Finance standards.

Oversight of finance operations in FFP subsidiary organisations, including:

• During the set-up phase of an FFP subsidiary, and at other times where necessary, direct management of subsidiary’s finance operations.
• Recruitment and development of subsidiary-based Finance team.
• Adaptation of FFP financial systems and policies for use by subsidiary.
• Ongoing strategic leadership of financial operations in subsidiaries, including: guidelines for, and support around, financial policies, processes, systems and standards that FFP subsidiaries must follow.

Work closely with the governance team to ensure compliance and good governance, including:

• Liaise with external auditors to complete statutory audits.
• Support the filing of annual accounts with Companies House.
• Review and implement post-merger financial integration plan.
• Ensure all finance related staff policies are reviewed periodically and kept up to date.

In addition:

• Work together with to SMT colleagues to ensure financial analysis is considered and included in organisational strategy, planning, resourcing and decisions.
• Support non-finance colleagues to work with the finance function, and create and maintain a Finance-aware culture across the FFP orgs.
• Liaise and exchange regularly with Luta Pela Paz where necessary.
• Support SMT colleagues in accordance with the FFP Group strategic development plan.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential

• CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified.
• High-level charity finance management experience.
• Excellent written and communication skills at all levels.
• Excellent IT skills (e.g. excel) and financial software experience (e.g. Sage, QuickBooks etc.).
• Proven strategic project planning, prioritising and time management skills.
• Experience of internal monitoring and evaluation of staff and project outputs.
• The ability to remain calm when working under pressure.
• Respect and promote FFP values.

Desirable

• Minimum 5 years high level programme management experience.
• Experience in setting up payroll in the UK.
• Experience of human resource management including recruitment, training and development.
• Experience of detailed reporting to multiple funders on all aspects of the programme and services (narrative and financial).
• International finance experience (tax, payroll, currency exchange etc.).

Personal qualities:

• Energetic
• Motivational
• Leadership quality
• Ability to use own initiative and others to achieve requirements.
• The capacity to perform complex tasks under pressure.
• Proactive
• Strong communication skills

Carers in Bedfordshire's next CEO will be a trusted leader with a track record of effective partnership building and an eye for innovation. S/he will also be shrewd with finances and have a knack for spotting – and delivering - a good income opportunity. 

If this describes you, and you also have a big heart for family carers, an open mind and a sense of humour, we’d like to hear from you.

As our next CEO, you will have a key role leading our experienced, committed team of 44 staff and 100 volunteers. You’ll uphold our culture of open communication and collective problem solving. You will be a champion for the quality of our service, ensuring we continue to meet the needs of the 8,500 unpaid family carers of all ages who depend on us for support, and identify more carers to receive our services.

You will liaise with our funders and partners – and develop relationships with new ones - and spearhead our initiatives to build our income streams, including contract funding, fees, trust and grant applications and community fundraising.

For the successful candidate we offer the opportunity to help shape an even better future for this highly regarded, effective local charity, operating in a friendly, supportive working environment. As an employer, we know that family and life outside work is important and we are as flexible as we can to support all aspects of our staff’s wellbeing.

If this appeals to you and you have informal enquiries about the role, please contact Helen Satterthwaite, outgoing CEO.

Further details on the role, the charity and the recruitment process are captured in the Application Pack, downloadable from this page.

Application is through Carers in Bedfordshire's online application form, accessible via our website. Please attach your CV. On submission, you will be asked to complete an equal opportunities form.

The closing date/time is 10am on Tuesday 15th, 2019. A half-day selection process is scheduled for Tuesday, 29th October.

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering Unlocked Graduates, an award winning organisation that aims to change the way we develop society's future leaders, as well as how we think about prisons and prisoners by focusing on rehabilitation, and addressing the damage and cost of reoffending. At the core of Unlocked Graduates is a new leadership's programme that will get top graduates into prisons working as frontline prison officers for two years. At an exciting time for the charity, they are currently seeking a Head of Delivery, a newly created role focusing on the delivery of the programme and partnerships.

As the Head of Delivery, you will form part of the senior management group and will work collaboratively with your peers to lead the day-to-day operations of their graduate programme. Established three years ago and delivering their third cohort of students, the charity is experiencing an exciting period of growth and as such requires an ambitious, hand-on leader to support the logistic of delivery by empowering delivery staff and participants, leading university engagement and relationships, developing the programme as well as maximising impact and scaling effectively.

To be successful, you will be a strong project manager and an ambitious leader, who wants to have a transformative impact on Project and Programme Delivery. You'll be a self-started with a collaborative, entrepreneurial approach combined with experience of managing the full-cycle of delivery programmes with ambitious targets. Finally, you will have strong leadership potential, combining exceptional interpersonal skills with an ability to oversee continual improvements of process, logistic and content.

Please apply with a Word copy of your CV. Further information will be provided to the shortlisted candidates.

With an experienced staff team in place and a strong board behind it, the organisation is seeking to appoint new Trustees, to strengthen the board and move the charity into its next phase.

Trustee
Hours: Bi Monthly Board Meeting, sub committees quarterly
Salary: Voluntary
Place of work: Oxfordshire Mind Office, Osney Mead Oxford

General Background

We’re Oxfordshire Mind, the mental health charity.  We’re here to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for advice and support.  We provide a range of support services across Oxfordshire from an information line to supported housing.  With one in four people experiencing a mental health problem at some point in their lives, people need Mind more than ever.

The services we provide include:

• Transitional Supported Housing Recovery Service as part of the Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership
• Oxfordshire Mind Wellbeing Service
• Talking Space psychological therapy service in partnership with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• ‘Benefits for Better Mental Health’, a welfare benefits advice service
• Information line
• Volunteering & peer support opportunities

We employ over 100 staff and operate in 28 locations around the county, providing support to around 20,000 people each year.

About the Role

A recent review of skill requirements for the Board of Trustees was carried out by the Board. This has identified a need for Trustees who have specialisms in one or more of the following areas:

• Fundraising
• Human Resources
• Experience and management of growing a charity
• NHS or local mental health commissioning
• Children and younger people’s experience
• Lived experience of mental health issues
• Finance and accountancy

Purpose of the Job

This post holder will:

• Work in partnership with other trustees, the CEO and other senior Management Team to ensure that:
• Oxfordshire Mind has a clear vision and that there is a common understanding of this by trustees and staff.
• Oxfordshire Mind has a long term strategic plan which supports the achievement of its vision and sets appropriate strategic priorities and objectives. (Oxfordshire Mind and the CEO must also have shorter term operational plans and objectives which feed into the achievement of the strategic plan).
• The CEO’s annual and longer-term objectives and targets support the achievement of the vision, mission and strategic priorities.
• Board policies support the vision, mission and strategic priorities.
• There are effective mechanisms to be aware and take account of the needs and aspirations of current and future service users;
• There are effective mechanisms to review the external environment for changes that might affect Oxfordshire Mind.
• There are systems to review regularly the strategic plans and priorities and current staff team.

Oxfordshire Mind delivers services to people of all backgrounds; we currently have services focussed on women and men; younger and older people; various different ethnic groups and the LGBTQ+ community. We would welcome applicants representative of the diverse community we serve.

These are important roles within the board; and in time you may also be asked to be a member of sub-committees.

Experience as a Trustee would be welcomed but is not necessary.

Closing date: 31st October 2019 (midnight)
Interview date: To be confirmed

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website. 

For more information see the attached job description.

The above position is subject to a current DBS.

Oxfordshire Mind is committed to safeguarding. We are an equal opportunities employer; we value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

No agencies please.

Our ambition is to eradicate domestic abuse by transforming the way organisations and individuals think about, prevent and respond to domestic abuse.

We are looking for a new Chief Executive to provide leadership to our team of 30 highly committed and motivated staff. 

The teams work cover areas including:

• West London Tri-Borough Partnership, including Safety Across Faith and Communities project (SAFE)

• Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs)

• Specialist domestic violence courts

• Pathfinder: working with four expert organisations examining the role of health services in domestic abuse

• Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA)

• Domestic Homicide Reviews

• Consultancy: advice/support/training

A new Chief Executive Officer will continue to raise the representation of the organisation at the national level and drive forward the submission of bids for multiyear projects and other fundraising initiatives.

Application process:

• Please provide a CV and statement explaining how you meet the role profile (refer to person specification).  Maximum 1000 words.
• Closing date: 14th October 2019.
• Preliminary interviews: week commencing 28th October 2019.
• Final interviews: week commencing 11th November 2019.

To apply, please download full information from our website.

For an informal discussion about the role or any questions you can contact Standing Together 

Somerset Counselling Centre (SCC) is at an exciting stage of development.  Established in 1990 and based in Taunton, SCC provides affordable, early intervention, theraputic, counselling service to adults, couples and young people.  The service holds BACP accreditaion and all supervisors, counsellors and trainee-counsellors (paid and volunteer) adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Clinical Lead: 14 hours a week (.4fte) @ £35000 pro rata reporting to Service Director

Benifits incude a generous holiday allowance and a supportive and flexible working environment.

The succesful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent leadership, communication and team working skills.  They will have to demonstrate a track record in building strong relationships with clinical and service delivery staff, volunteers, service users, trustees, partners and stakeholders.

Somerset Counselling Centre (SCC) is at an exciting stage of development.  Established in 1990 and based in Taunton, SCC provides affordable, early intervention, theraputic, counselling service to adults, couples and young people.  The service holds BACP accreditaion and all supervisors, counsellors and trainee-counsellors (paid and volunteer) adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Service Director: 17.5 hours a week (.5fte) @ £45000 pro rata reporting to Board of Trustees

Benifits incude a generous holiday allowance and a supportive and flexible working environment.

The succesful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent leadership, communication and team working skills.  They will have to demonstrate a track record in building strong relationships with clinical and service delivery staff, volunteers, service users, trustees, partners and stakeholders.

Parish Nursing Ministries UK is a national ecumenical charity and the sole provider for the promotion, development and coordination of Parish Nursing Ministry across the UK.We do this by acting as the first point of access for anyone wanting to find out about parish nursing, raising awareness about wider movement, setting standards and providing initial and ongoing education and professional support for Parish Nurses and working in partnership with Churches and Christian organisations to establish and operate high quality and sustainable parish nursing ministries. We are also an international affiliate of the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing and their European Representative.

Parish Nursing is on the cusp of growth and the Chair and Trustees are seeking a dynamic and experienced Chief Executive with a track record of success in faith leadership, and executive level experience in the charitable or public sector to build on the strong foundations that are already in place and to work with Trustees and Staff to take our charity and Parish Nursing to the next level. 

Key Areas of Responsibility: 

• Strategic and cultural leadership
• Leadership of staff and operations. 
• Communications, representation and engagement
• Charity governance and financial sustainability
• Fundraising

Interviews are TBC but expected to take place on week commencing the 25th November 2019.

Please note that location is flexible but frequent attendance at PNMUK headquaters Peterborough wil be required 

Autism Together is an exceptional charity, with the people we support at the centre of everything we do. Having recently celebrated our 50th anniversary we are now looking for a new Finance & Commercial Director to provide financial leadership as we take up the many challenges of the next half century.

As a leading national provider of services to people with autism, you will work with the senior leadership team to take forward our ambitious strategy.

In return, we can offer an excellent remuneration package as well as the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of the people we support.

For more information and to apply, read our attached application pack or click through to our website.

At Autism Together it is our mission to bring richness and joy into the lives of those on the spectrum. No two people with autism are affected in the same way, so we work with every single individual to help them lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.

We started life in 1968, when a group of forward-thinking parents, concerned at the complete lack of services available for their children, decided to stand up and be counted. Since then, we have grown and developed into one of the country’s leading providers of services for people on the autism spectrum, offering a wide range of residential options and day services.

As a highly specialist provider, we recognise that each person has a right to live their life as they determine. Being person-centred is one of our core values and we live and breathe it.

Please ensure that your application details include: your CV, current salary (remuneration) and your notice period.

Closing date for applications is Thursday, 24th October 2019. Interviews will be on Tuesday, 5th November 2019.

Power2 has an ambitious vision to reach more young people to help them to develop crucial life skills, improve confidence and boost self-esteem.  We are most well-known for our Teens and Toddlers programme which sees young people mentor children in a nursery setting and is designed to help young people succeed at school. The Young Leaders programme further develops skills that will enable them to thrive in different environments, such as at school, at work and at home.

Chief Executive

London

Competitive Salary

This is a truly outstanding opportunity for someone who shares Power2’s vision to make a lasting impact to ensure all children and young people can achieve their potential, whatever the circumstances.

Our ambition is to continue to demonstrate the impact of our work whilst ensuring financial sustainability and growth to enable us to reach even more young people.  As we continue to extend our programmes and reach, the need to generate increased and sustainable funding is ever more critical. Power2 offers plenty of opportunity for growth, but there is also a need to ensure that the infrastructure, reporting and impact measurement tools are all fit for purpose.

As Power2’s new Chief Executive you will build on our current success to build an even more impactful evidence base that will prepare the organisation for further growth and long-term sustainability.  You will develop and implement Power2’s strategic plan whilst providing inspirational organisational leadership to ensure a strong focus on delivering impact for some of the country’s most vulnerable young people.

We are looking for someone with leadership experience within an organisation delivering better outcomes for children and/or young people.  Proven experience diversifying and raising funds will be critical alongside an ability to act as a strong external ambassador to help raise our profile and leverage our networks and connections.

Power2 welcomes applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief or disability.

To learn more about this unique opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please read the full appointment brief, on the Prospectus website, which can be reached by clicking on the “Apply on Website” Button. If you wish to have an informal discussion about the opportunity, please contact our retained advisors

Closing Date: 27 October 2019

Initial Interviews with Prospectus: 6 - 15 November 2019

Panel Interviews with Power2: 27 November 2019

Youth Leaders panel interviews: 29 November 2019

Cavernoma Alliance UK promotes and protects the physical and mental health of those with cavernoma through education, research and practical advice. Our longer-term ambition is to improve treatment, find a cure and prevent the condition.

Since 2005 CAUK has grown from a volunteer led organisation based in Dorchester to a UK wide registered charity with 4 part-time staff, 40+ volunteers, 2000+ members and an income of around £150,000 per annum.  We're now looking to take our charity to the next level and are seeking an inspirational and visionary leader to help us grow our impact,  expand are support services, improve awareness and understanding, and deliver on our ambitious goals to improvement treatment and find a cure.

The Role

The role of the Chief Executive is to develop and deliver a strategy that helps to grow the charity and promote CAUK’s mission. The CEO has overall responsibility for the day-to-day running of the charity, including management of staff team and volunteers, income generation, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, as well as governance and compliance.  The Chief Executive reports to the Chair of Trustees and is accountable to the Board of Trustees who meet every two months.

Person Specification

• Experience of leading an organisation, increasing reach and impact.
• Experience of successful income generation and fundraising from a range of sources including bid writing and grant applications
• Experienced in financial management and charity governance 
• Track record of leading and managing a team (ideally experience of managing remote/homebased staff).
• Excellent organisational abilities with demonstrable ability to prioritise/balance work load
• Hold a valid Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate (this can be organised if you do not currently hold a DBS certificate – but you must be willing to undertake necessary checks)
• Excellent communication skills, with an ability and willingness to flex communication style and means (e.g. using social media) to meet different target audience needs.
• Experienced in organising events
• Commitment to values based working and adhering to organisational policies and procedures, as required to keep workers and members safe.

How to apply

Send a CV with a supporting statement no longer than 2 sides of A4 setting out how you meet the criteria in the Person specification, in the attached Job Description. CVs without a supporting statement will not be considered. 

Deadline for applications is 9 a.m Monday 4th November 2019

Interview will be held week commencing Monday 11th November 2019 (date tbc)

We are searching for an ambitious fundraiser looking to take a step up in role and responsibilities, to be our Head of Fundraising.

TalentEd is an education charity which partners experienced teachers with able and disadvantaged young people. We have worked with over 1300 disadvantaged pupils, delivering tailored tuition programmes to improve their academic attainment and future opportunities.

Position: Head of Fundraising

Location: London

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week – we are open to flexible hours, working from home and compressed hours.

Duration: Contract length12 months initially, with the expectation of becoming permanent thereafter

About the role:

Our fundraising activities allow us to offer significant discounts to schools for running our programmes while still covering our operating costs. Over the last year we have secured significant grants and investment, and we have clear, ambitious plans to grow. The Head of Fundraising will be critical to TalentEd’s success.

This new role will take the lead on fundraising at TalentEd, reporting directly to the CEO. You will have the opportunity to shape fundraising at TalentEd, and with time grow the team around you. The priority will be to grow support for the expansion of our core tuition programme.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Work with the CEO and Fundraising Trustee to refresh and expand our fundraising strategy
• Refine the existing fundraising systems and processes to build a fit for purpose fundraising operation
• Manage and enhance relationships with current trust, foundation and corporate supporters
• Build a strong pipeline of potential new supporters, and expand TalentEd’s network and relationships
• Submit high-quality proposals for funds, and secure significant new funding
• Produce cases for support, development plans and other fundraising reports and documents
• Manage and develop stewardship systems for all supporters, including recognition, employee engagement, publicity and events

About you:

You will be an ambitious self-starter with a strong track record of successful fundraising, crucially we want to hire someone looking to make a step up in responsibility. The ideal Head of Fundraising will have significant experience in Trusts & Foundations and be comfortable working independently and in close collaboration with colleagues.

Essential skills and experience include:

• Strong knowledge and experience of fundraising, ideally with trusts and foundations, covering both new business development and account management
• Conducting donor mapping and identifying potential new supporters
• Producing high quality funding applications and grant monitoring reports
• Evidence of securing large grants (£20,000+) or other forms of funding
• Experience of managing, delivering, and growing supporter relationships
• A highly developed persuasive writing style with experience of successfully writing professional bid and grant report documents
• Strong communication, presentation and project management skills, with exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent relationship management skills across a diverse mix of people and organisations

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Fundraising Manager, Senior Fundraiser, Trusts and Grants Fundraising, Trusts and Foundations Manager, Fundraising Innovation Manager, Deputy Head of Fundraising etc.