Job Purpose

We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and experienced administrator to join a small but successful team delivering community led approaches to tackling the climate crisis.

The postholder will be responsible for admin support for BWCE’s small staff team and board, as well as supporting the further development of BWCE’s organisational systems and maintaining them on a day to day basis. The postholder will have a specific role providing admin support for a three year, EU funded project developing a community approach to home energy demand management.

For a full job description and application form, click the 'Apply on website' button that will take you to our website where you will be able to download more details.

Bath & West Community Energy (BWCE)

BWCE is a not for profit, Community Benefit Society. Since launching in 2010, BWCE has built over 12 MW of community owned solar power systems and one small hydro scheme, enough power to meet the equivalent annual electricity demand of around 4,000 homes. For more information see www.bwce.coop. 

BWCE is working to put people at the heart of the energy transition, placing ownership and control of energy in the hands of consumers via clean energy projects that actively involve and benefit local communities. 

We are an equal opportunities employer and are keen to develop a team that is more representative of the communities we serve.

Location flexible: London, Brighton, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Belfast, Cardiff, Manchester or home working

Regional based: £38,890-£40,690 per annum

London based: £41,770-£43,770 per annum

Are you an experienced Project Manager with a track-record of steering complex cloud-based projects? Can you drive the delivery of a CRM project that enables us to better coordinate all our activity and strive towards continuous improvement in our work?

A great opportunity has arisen for an experienced end to end Project Manager to lead on the delivery of our new CRM project.

We have invested in strategic data management and reporting over the last few years and have an exciting project to replace our existing CRM and associated software with a modern, cloud-based integrated CRM.

As Project Manager you will be responsible for leading the delivery of the project throughout the entire project cycle. You will enable effective operational and strategic input into all key decisions through effective engagement with stakeholders and subject matter experts. You will be holding stakeholders to account on delivery, quality, time and cost as well as reporting against milestones, financials, resourcing, and change management.

This role requires an experienced project manager with a track-record of steering complex cloud-based projects, from requirements gathering, through to implementation and delivery. Experience of successfully managing complex, large scale, digital / CRM and marketing projects, with substantial budgets and multiple stakeholders is essential, as well as the ability to lead a diverse team.

Closing date: Sunday 3rd January 2021

Interviews: w/c 11th January 2021

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Supporter Engagement Assistant

You will join us as part of the Central Supporter Engagement function working across fundraising to engage and steward fundraising supporters in order to maximise value, retention and engagement with CLIC Sargent.

Supporter Engagement Assistant Responsibilities:

- You will provide exceptional 1st tier / frontline customer service and fundraising support on the phone, via e-mail, digitally (webchat and social media), letter and by fulfilling supporter requests, primarily at supporters’ initial stages of their relationship with the charity.
- Identify opportunities to deepen engagement and drive income generation by being the primary point of triage in assessing the appropriate stewardship levels for our supporters.
- Provide outbound stewardship and telemarketing calls to audiences including direct debit givers and donors.
- You will be an ambassador for the cause, deepening supporter engagement, trust and loyalty with each interaction.

Supporter Engagement Assistant Requirements:

- Demonstrable experience in and passion for delivering exceptional customer service
- Experience in working with customers or supporters on the phone and in writing, with outbound calling experience.
- Proven achievement of working to targets

About CLIC Sargent:

Today, 12 children and young people in the UK hear the shocking news they have cancer. CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families, and provides them with clinical, practical, emotional and financial support. You can be a part of helping them cope with cancer and get the most out of life.

Location: Bristol

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £18,914 per annum

Benefits: In return for your commitment, we offer a great reward package, which includes generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme.

You may have experience of the following: Supporter Engagement, Customer Services Officer, Volunteering, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Social Media, Customer Services, Account Manager, Events Assistant, Administrator, Customer Service Executive, Administration, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, Third Sector, Customer Support, etc.

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Data and Systems Manager
Hours of work: 14 – 21 hrs per week (over 2 – 5 days)
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 FTE
Location: Bristol, BS3 2JH

Great Western Air Ambulance Charity is looking for a Data and Systems Manager to help us understand and look after our supporters even better and make us more efficient in how we work.

This is a new role for us, the first of its kind at GWAAC, so we are looking for someone who can work on their own initiative to make significant improvements in our use of data and systems - helping us take our fundraising to the next level.

Job Purpose: 
Help us achieve our objectives by:

• Improving the data we hold on our supporters, activities and performance, and enhancing our use of it to support our income generation.
• Increasing our efficiency through improving our systems and processes and enhancing our use of databases and other tools.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation to make best use of your skills and help them make best use of theirs.

We need someone who can turn the data in a CRM into insights that inform decisions, who can identify inefficiencies and put in place automation and tools to help, and who can make our systems work as smoothly and reliably as the turning of our helicopter’s blades.

Closing date and time: 13:00 Monday 4th January 2021

Application Process:

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 to download the information pack and complete the application process.

We are keen to represent the diversity of the people we serve, and welcome applications from communities who may be under-represented in our workforce or the type of roles we are recruiting for.

No agencies please. 

The Methodist Church is committed to ensuring its churches are safe spaces for all. We work hard to ensure compliance with legal requirements, develop good practice, provide effective training and give professional advice on individual cases.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team and take forward this work which will include implementing recommendations from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). The post holder will work alongside the Director for Safeguarding in some strategic duties, and will carry specific responsibility for individual casework together with managing the risk assessment process. The post covers the Methodist districts in the south west areas and will involve regular travel.

The successful candidate will hold a relevant professional qualification, or extensive relevant experience and expertise in child and/or adult protection.

For more information about us visit: http://www.methodist.org.uk/ministers-and-office-holders/safeguarding

Interview Date: 18-Jan-2021

Seeking motivated, self-starters who are passionate about supporting young people through relationships education to join our team in Essex, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire and Bristol.

We are a small but established educational charity. We provide young people with the time and space to explore how to create and sustain happy, healthy and loving long-relationships. Our youth-led sessions are facilitated by our specially trained team of Local Development Officers and provide a rare opportunity for young people to ask adults about their experiences of relationships and marriage in order to inform how they might approach relationships for themselves in the future.

The Covid-19 pandemic has put relationships education in the spotlight. With many family relationships being put under immense pressure due to the social and economic challenges created by lockdown and restrictions, it is more important than ever to provide young people with the opportunity to consider what a healthy relationship looks like and what their future relationship ambitions might be.

We are seeking part time (12-18 hours per week during school term time) Local Development Officers for our Essex, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Bristol regions.

Each Local Development Officer role involves:

• Engaging with secondary schools in your region, to promote our mission and offer our sessions
• Engaging with other settings, such as alternative learning settings and youth clubs, to promote our mission and offer our sessions
• Negotiating session pricing with schools, using the guidance provided
• Coordinating, planning and leading on school session days, including facilitating some sessions, with the support of volunteers and other colleagues where needed
• Recruiting high quality volunteers in your region to ensure sessions can run effectively and to a high standard
• Communicating regularly with existing Explore volunteers in your region to keep them engaged in our mission and their role within our work
• Reporting to schools, volunteers and colleagues on the impact of each session using electronic feedback requests developed by Explore
• Providing regular progress reports to your Line Manager, the Operations Manager

Skills, Experience & Qualities we are seeking:

Skills & Experience:

• Essential: Experience of influencing and / or negotiating fees for a product or service
• Essential: Able to talk to those outside the organisation about Explore and bring them on board as partners, customers or volunteers
• Essential: Ability to connect and engage with young people
• Essential: Confident with taking part in video conferencing and leading meetings on virtual platforms
• Desirable: Experience of working in the education sector in some form
• Desirable: Ability to facilitate, coach, mentor and / or teach

Personal Qualities:

• Resilient and patient, with the ability to adapt to unfolding situations
• Always acts with integrity
• Has a good sense of humour
• Strong active listening skills and excellent communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a remote, home based team

Applicants must hold a UK driving license and have access to a car for work.

We are an equal opportunities employer and our Equalities Policy is published on our website. We are registered as an education charity however our organisational values and culture are aligned to a Christian ethos. Applications are accepted and encouraged from individuals of all faiths and no faith. We would expect the successful candidate to share our values of compassion, kindness, treating others fairly, acting ethically at all times, and being respectful.

This role is part time 12-18 hours per week during school term time.

This role is home based however the successful candidate will be required to travel within their region regularly and will be expected to attend occasional team meetings / training days further afield. Hours can be worked flexibly across the week with school hours working possible subject to the need to travel for meetings and school bookings which are essential to the role.

A rare opportunity for a Community fundraiser based in the South West region to join a large national children's charity as their new Community Fundraising Manager has arisen. Harris Hill are delighted to be supporting this organisation in their search. To be considered for this role you will a be a superb relationship builder and have excellent skills in bringing out the best in individuals and groups.

The strategic focus for the Community Fundraising Department is to maximise lifetime value from local community supporters, which this role will help to maintain and grow in the South West. The role will engage, inspire and develop a dynamic supporter network of individuals and local groups to support the organisation's work through the development of a fully researched and engaged prospect pipeline for each audience.

Within this role you will also identify, engage and recruit influential volunteer leadership, and to support and steward individuals in leadership positions too. You will also support and steward their existing volunteer network.

The ideal candidate will have previous relationship fundraising experience (Community/ Corporate/ Major Donor/ Supporter Engagement) and you will have the ability to show how you have delivered and grown income. Ideally you will have Raiser Edge experience and be able to drive.

This role will be homebased, but you need to live in the South West region ideally Bath, Bristol, Gloucestershire or Wiltshire.

If you want to chat more about the role or receive a full job description then please contact Hannah at Harris Hill on [email protected] or call her on 02078207331.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

Closes on the 18th of December.

The Role

DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.

We are looking for an enthusatic individual to join our Supported Housing Team at DHI in Bath. This is an exciting, varied and rewarding role which involves supporting clients to achievce and maintain abstinence from problematic drug/alcohol use and supporting them to move onto live fulfilling and independent lives. As well as supporting individuals the role also includes aspects of housing management.

You will be joining an experienced and enthusiastic team that work hard to support each other, deliver an exceptional service to clients and meet our contract requirements.

If you’ve got experience of working in housing and share DHI’s values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life, we’d love to hear from you. DHI also welcomes applications from those with lived experience.

How To Apply

Please use the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification to complete an Application Form and Skills Form and send to HR  before Midday Friday 18th December 2020. Further information available on the DHI website

IT & Systems Project Manager

(Ref: SUS3021)

£31,369 per annum

37.5 hours per week – based in central Bristol

(initial home working will be expected)

About the role

This exciting new role will be responsible for planning, managing and leading new system and infrastructure IT projects through to successful delivery, using IT best practice and applying agile or other project management methodologies, ensuring the objectives of the projects are completed on time and within budget.

About you

We are looking for an experienced project manager with a recognised qualification and experience in systems implementation and delivering change management.  With practical appreciation of IT infrastructure, information security and IT governance, you will have excellent written and verbal communications skills, the ability to build, facilitate and maintain effective working relationships, a proven ability to work collaboratively with senior colleagues and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential information.  You will also have excellent IT literacy, the ability to present technical problems and opportunities and to deliver training on new systems. You will also be committed to the promotion of sustainable transport.

Please quote reference number.  Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am on Monday 23 November 2020.  Interviews will take place via MS Teams on Monday 30 November 2020.

Should Sustrans receive an overwhelming number of applications for this vacancy, the decision may be taken to close it earlier than the advertised closing date, so please ensure your application is submitted as soon as possible.

Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion. We welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, particularly where we are under-represented. Currently this includes people who identify as having a disability and those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups

We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated and community-spirited individual for a pivotal and exciting role at the Farm, covering for our existing Deputy Manager while she is on maternity leave. As the charity strives to recover from nine months of lockdown, the successful candidate will work closely with the General Manager to deliver the Farm’s vision and strategy, maintain an important and much loved green space, and run a programme of successful and highly-regarded projects and events, engaging those most in need in the local community.  The post holder will take a lead role in the day-to-day management of Farm staff and our youth programme, will oversee the Farm’s income-generating activities, and manage our new  AQA Awards accreditation scheme.

To apply download please visit our website’s jobs page where you will find a job pack with full job description & person specification and an application form. 

External Communications and Impact Manager

Main purpose

• Develop, manage and deliver an effective external communications programme in keeping with CSE’s mission, strategy, and brand values to increase the influence and impact of CSE’s work.
• Manage the external communications activities including overseeing relationships with external stakeholders, working in partnership with CSE staff to support them in fulfilling their representational roles.
• Work effectively in partnership with CSE’s Communications and Publicity Manager to ensure external communication activities are co-ordinated with relevant production processes and with project-specific communications.

Specific responsibilities

• To lead CSE’s strategic communications planning, with the involvement of relevant CSE staff and including regularly reviewing and agreeing external communications priorities and messages, drawing on CSE’s organisational strategy and current work programme and priorities.
• To propose, plan and orchestrate an externally focussed communications and publicity programme, expected to include – though not limited to – events, news stories, blogs, video content, publications, stakeholder engagement activities, policy inputs – delivered through a variety of existing and potentially new channels.
• To lead on developing and maintaining CSE’s communication tools to ensure activities are reaching the right people in our key audiences (e.g. enews list, CSE contacts database, media lists) in line with data protection legislation (including GDPR)
• To coordinate and facilitate CSE’s input into key policy consultations, enabling fast decisions on consultations where CSE voice is considered important, working closely with colleagues to draw out key messages and assisting colleagues in drafting responses.
• To support CSE staff to enable them to fulfil effectively their external representational roles and build positive and influential relationships with stakeholders and target audiences
• To assist in increasing the reach and impact of CSE’s outputs including its newsletter, e-news, annual report, publications and policy inputs (designed and produced by CSE’s existing Communications and Publicity Manager)
• To assist in increasing the reach and impact of CSE’s social media activities (e.g. twitter, facebook, Instagram, Linkedin) at an organisational level.
• To liaise with press and other media, taking a targeted approach to publicising CSE’s work, including drafting and issuing articles, press releases and building and sustaining relations with key media, selectively and as required to meet external communications strategic priorities.
• To monitor and evaluate the impact of CSE’s external communications against appropriate metrics regarding reach and impact.
• To work closely with the Development team and other relevant staff to ensure we are communicating effectively with existing and potential funders.

The Workers` Educational Association is a unique charity and the UK`s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education. With a clear vision and a strong social purpose, we bring great teaching to local communities, with life-changing courses held in clubs, pubs, workplaces, schools and almost anywhere else you can think of. Since 1903, we have been giving disadvantaged people the opportunity to return to learning - inspiring them to realise their full potential and become active, engaged citizens. We see education as a tool for social justice, not just self-improvement, and we pride ourselves on making learning egalitarian and accessible. Support workers play a central role in everything we do, helping us deliver courses to 50,000 people in 2,300 locations - and enabling us to reach 80% of the population.

WEA delivers online and in a variety of community venues in and around the Bristol area forming true partnerships with the community. Dealing with some of the most disadvantaged students, you`ll go the extra mile to build their confidence, develop their knowledge and skills, and empower them to define and achieve their life goals. In short, you will be a catalyst for profound change, and you`ll enjoy considerable autonomy as you prepare course materials, identify students` needs, adapt courses and continually assess the effectiveness of your approach.

WEA delivers from a variety of blended learning in community venues in and online. We assume that you will be excited by using digital technology both in the classroom with the student. The ideal candidate will be IT literate and able to support through a blended learning approach including the use of Zoom, and Canvas, our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

You will be an experienced and/or qualified Support Worker. You must be able to use the VLE Canvas to support learners. You must hold an understanding, and experience of supporting students in the key areas of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. You must be able to assess a learner\'s individual needs, and implement a support plan. You must understand the importance of learner confidentiality.

Challenges Events Marketing Manager

You will work with the Sports and Challenges portfolio managers and the Sports and Challenges Manager to strategically develop and manage the acquisition and marketing of the portfolio of sports and challenge and mass participation events including virtual events. You will be part of helping to ensure that CLIC Sargent is recognised as a sector leading events brand.

Challenges Events Marketing Manager Responsibilities:

- Maximise sign-ups and income for CLIC Sargent through the planning and management of the Sports, Challenges and Mass Participation marketing portfolio.
- Work with the relevant stakeholders to identify opportunities for growth for each event and activity in order to produce an overall set of target KPIs.
- Manage key supplier relationships in conjunction with those responsible for front line delivery.
- Use your expert knowledge of audience/s to shape, inform and deliver the marketing activity required to reach agreed targets
- Work with the relevant budget holders to ensure all activity maximises spend and stays within set budgets
- Design creative acquisition and marketing campaigns that will maximise return on investment
- Ensure that post event analysis is conducted to guide your future decision making. Work with the Brand and Marketing team, to ensure consistent and audience-led strategic marketing approaches for the events and activities portfolio, considering all channels and PR to obtain the best possible financial return.
- Ensure all activities comply with appropriate legal, regulatory and fundraising good practice requirements and with CLIC Sargent policies and standards.
- To maximise Gift Aid income and ensure full regulation compliance for designated area of work by identifying opportunity, responding to regulation changes or recommendations, implementing quality control and supporting and developing colleagues.

Challenges Events Marketing Manager Requirements:

- Strong events mass participation marketing experience.
- Experience of coordinating and delivering multi-channel insight-led marketing campaigns.
- Results oriented and experience of reaching/exceeding targets and of interpreting and working
with financial information, forecasts and budgets.
- Experience of successfully liaising and negotiating with external organisations, creative
agencies and suppliers.
- Experience of inspiring and motivating customers /supporters and developing focussed plans.
- Experience of dealing with the public using different media including online, face to face and
over the phone.
- Experience of managing projects involving a range of stakeholders delivering results on budget
and on time.

Desirable

Fundraising, marketing, sales or project/event management qualification or similar.

About CLIC Sargent:

Today, 12 children and young people in the UK hear the shocking news they have cancer. CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families, and provides them with clinical, practical, emotional and financial support. You can be a part of helping them cope with cancer and get the most out of life.

Location: Flexible

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Hours: 35 per week

Salary: £32,365 per annum

Benefits: In return for your commitment, we offer a great reward package, which includes generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme.

Closing Date: 7 December 2020
Interview Date: 15 December 2020

You may have experience of the following: Marketing Officer, Marketing Executive, Marketing Assistant, Marketing Manager, Fundraising Executive, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising, Marketing Communications, Marketing Campaigns, Supporter Marketing, Sports Fundraising, Mass Participation Fundraising, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.

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The Role

DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.

The Client Contact Coordinator are responsible for processing referrals and undertaking holistic triage assessments by phone. Where needed, referral on to appropriate services within agreed protocols and pathways.

Client Contact Coordinator are also responsible for inputting accurate core data in DHI’s client record data system, providing advice and signposting to professionals, partner agencies, families, carers and service users.

Provide a first point of contact for people referred or self-referring for drug and alcohol services.

Ensure a welcoming and motivating initial contact for all service users and carers, especially those who are new to the system.

How To Apply

Please use the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification to complete an Application Form and Skills Form and send to HR before Midday 15th December 2020. Further information available on the DHI website