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Are you a self-motivated and ambitious individual with experience of building lasting relationships that make a meaningful impact?

We have ambitious growth plans for community fundraising and regional partnerships at British Heart Foundation (BHF), and we are recruiting a Fundraising Manager to support our work in Merseyside.

We offer sector-leading benefits including private healthcare, excellent pension, and 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.

BHF’s vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory disease, conditions that will impact more than half of us in our lifetime. It’s more important than ever that we build on our fundraising expertise to raise vital funds to save more lives.

We're looking for a talented person to join our team from the private, public or third sector, who can demonstrate:

• Knowledge and experience of building relationships with a variety of diverse audiences to achieve financial targets.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to motivate and inspire supporters.
• The ability to effectively manage multiple and competing priorities to meet deadlines.
• Excellent organisational skills with firm understanding of KPIs, targets, budgeting, and risk mitigation plans.
• Curious and data driven to provide insight and analysis to identify and nurture opportunities.
• Creative thinker with exceptional problem-solving skills.

About the role

Across your geographic area of Merseyside, you'll:

• Identify, develop, and steward supporter relationships with businesses, fundraising groups, and high value prospects.
• Understand supporter motivations, identifying opportunities across the Charity that inspire and engage, enabling them to achieve their fundraising goals and reach their potential.
• Identify and steward corporate prospects using a pipeline process resulting in applying for and converting opportunities.
• Be proactive within your area to identify opportunities for fundraising and raise awareness of the Charity.
• Manage supporters effectively using our CRM system (OneCRM) to provide excellent stewardship.
• Meet agreed financial targets, provide monthly financial progress reports, and put mitigation plans in place for any shortfall.
• Promote BHF’s activities and campaigns to raise awareness and drive income.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced growing team, in an organisation that supports the nations hearts from their first heartbeat to their last.

Working arrangements

This is a field-based role covering Merseyside. You'll need to live in Merseyside or be able to relocate to this region.

Regular travel within the area, and occasionally to other parts of the UK.

You must have a full UK driving licence at the time of application with access to your own vehicle.

There will be a requirement for flexible out of hours working to support occasional evening and weekend activity. You will be compensated for this with time off in lieu.

What we can offer you

Our generous staff benefits include:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Private dental health cover
• Contribution towards gym membership
• Pension with employer contribution up to 10%
• Life assurance

We have been recognised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) for our Live Well. Work Well. Programme. Heart health is central to our mission, and that starts with you. We provide a programme.

Home-Start Merton is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support, helping families with children pre-birth and up to 5 years. This role is central and critical in securing the mid to long term future of our organisation. Our trustees at Home-Start Merton are keen to prioritise fund raising amongst the several competing demands on our limited resources because we believe in the impact we have in our community and have ambitious plans for the growth of the organisation. 

The role will include working alongside our Managing Director in the following areas:

• Strategic planning and operational delivery 
• Internal & External relationships
• Marketing & Brand
• Compliance
• Reporting & Finance

About you:

• Experience of directly securing charitable income from a variety of sources, in particular grant funders and individuals OR demonstrable business development experience and an appetite to learn.
• Experience of monitoring and reporting against targets and managing budgets.
• High level of motivation, initiative, and demonstrable desire to achieve results.
• Proven ability to build relationships across all levels.
• Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrating diplomacy, discretion, tact, and persuasiveness.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills with the ability to work on a wide range of competing demands and deliver to deadlines.

Closing Date: 23 June 2024

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We are looking for 2 proactive and collaborative individuals to join the People Team as Service Design Leads.

These roles present an exciting opportunity to work with the People team, Organisation of the Future team and cross-organisationally on our transformation programme, shaping a new approach to Service Design at Save the Children UK.  

Please Note: We have one permanent post and one 16 month contract post available. 

 About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the role

As part of our organisation wide transformation programme, Organisation of the Future (OoF), the People Team at Save the Children has been on a journey to be more agile, data driven and customer experience oriented. We are now looking to bring this approach to all our central services and are looking to redesign the way we offer services internally. We hope that this will help build our muscle as a human-centred organisation from the inside out.  This will also help us realise our ambition of becoming an Agile organisation.

These new Service Design Leads will be key in ensuring that we align and embed design thinking and a customer centric approach into all our colleague-facing products and services. The role-holders will collaborate closely with all Central Services Teams and lead on service design of products and services that impact the employee experience, ensuring that colleagues' needs are understood, and solutions are designed with our people at the heart.

These roles will be a highly visible and an integral part of the People Team and Organisation of the Future team. The change in the People Team's way of being and working is a pilot for the wider Organisation of the Future Change Programme and so it is crucial that these roles are Champions for the People Team across the Organisation and role model the design principles of the Programme (Agile, Adult, Experience, Iterative).

In this role, you will:

• Work across multiple projects and complex systems to design/redesign colleague facing services, providing expertise in design thinking, guiding the team to see and think about the service as a part of an end-to-end journey.
• Undertake user research to ensure that all services and related products are intentionally designed based on a deep understanding of the needs of the people using them, ensuring inclusion and accessibility at all stages.
• Research and analyse data and internal processes to give a full understanding of existing challenges (the ‘as is').
• Design and deliver service design workshops, customer journey mapping, prototyping, and testing; bringing Service Design expertise to Agile teams/squads and making sure that solutions are designed with users at the centre.
• Mentor, train, and develop the People Team and wider Central Service teams and colleagues in Service Design and Design Thinking methodology, tools, and practices.
• Work with Organisation of the Future team to define, implement, and embed an Organisation of the Future Service Design approach including establishing Service Design Communities of Practice.

About you

With high levels of self-management, you'll be committed to continuously learning, adapting, and responding to change, and working with others in an agile way.

Joining us during an exciting period of organisational transformation, you'll be open-minded and comfortable working in an agile and emergent way.

To be successful, you'll bring:

• Service design expertise in designing customer-centric end to end solutions.
• Experience in mentoring and developing other people's capability and confidence in design thinking customer/human centred service design.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary project team, with the ability to engage people meaningfully in customer-centric service design and drive forward the delivery of a user centred design solution.
• Experience of working in Agile teams and participating in/facilitating discovery, design, and development sprints
• Effective at communicating design ideas using a variety of techniques, including service models, story boards, user journeys and service blueprints and the ability to create service design documentation, communication, and prototypes utilising online tools (e.g. Mural).
• Excellent facilitation skills and experience - able to elicit desired outcomes from end users through workshop facilitation and user research and able to facilitate engaging and impactful meetings and learning sessions.
• Self-awareness and excellent relationship building abilities.
• Willingness to constantly learn, including from feedback and to flex approach as needed to deliver impact with others.
• Good written and spoken communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with multiple audiences, in multiple formats and on multiple platforms.
• An agile mindset: able to adapt, learn and collaborate to achieve impact.
• A deep understanding and awareness of diversity, inclusion and belonging/ EDI and a proven ability to bring that awareness and understanding to life in your work.
• We would love it if you were familiar with an adult mindset (see here). However, being keen on learning about this is equally great, and we will support.

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. 

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

Who are we? We’re The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice. We’re a well-established charity located at 20 Dumbreck Road, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow G41 5BW. The hospice provides specialist palliative care for people with a life-limiting, progressive illness, and support for their families and carers. 

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to join our team as Head of Fundraising. This pivotal role is responsible for spearheading our fundraising efforts, nurturing key relationships and driving and growing income generation to support our strategic and operational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

· Lead and grow our diverse fundraising team, covering areas such as Community, Key Events, Key Relationships, Business Development, In Memory, Legacy, Individual Giving, and Trusts.

· Collaborate with the Director of Income Generation and Digital to develop and implement a robust fundraising strategy.

· Foster a culture of excellence, cooperation, and innovation within the team to exceed financial targets and KPIs.

· Engage with high-profile individuals and businesses, expanding our donor base and securing support for fundraising initiates. 

· Represent the hospice at networking events, delivering presentations to enhance our public image and brand awareness.

· Transition the team away from traditional fundraising methods through event delivery, pivoting into stewardship and relationship based fundraising methods. 

 Ideal Candidate:

· Proven experience in fundraising and team management.

· Excellent relationship-building and communication skills.

· Strategic thinker with a track record of meeting and exceeding targets.

· Passionate about palliative care and the hospice mission.

Please note, we do not hold a Sponsorship Licence and are therefore unable to accept applications from candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK.

Join us in our mission to provide exceptional care for our patient and families whilst making a lasting difference. Apply now to become the Head of Fundraising at the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.

Finance & Resources Senior Manager | Full-time 35 hours per week | £46,749 - £51,184 
Based at our offices in Clapham, near Settle, with flexible home working. Will consider part time at four days a week. 

An impending retirement has opened up an exciting opportunity for an experienced, qualified Senior Finance Manager to help shape the future of YDMT and it’s subsidiary YDMT Consultants Ltd. We are a growing organisation with a current annual income of c£2million and a staff team of 36 FTE. 

Leading our finance and central support teams you'll play a crucial role in safeguarding the financial health of YDMT and maximising our resources in order to deliver the greatest charitable impact.

About Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust 

Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) is a small Charity doing big things for People, Landscape and Wildlife in the Dales. 

For 27 years we have delivered diverse and inspirational projects, helping to plant 1.5 million trees and securing the future of more than 750 hectares of wildflower hay meadows, creating habitats for our wildlife and helping to tackle climate change. We are passionate about inspiring disadvantaged groups and future generations to care for this special area.

About the role 

Leading on financial management processes across the organisation you will provide high quality, meaningful financial information to support the decision making our Board of Trustees.

You will support YDMT's fundraising, grant-giving and project delivery - leading the central support team to develop and manage robust HR, finance, IT and facilities systems and procedures.

As a member of the YDMT Executive Leadership Team, you will also support our Chief Executive in shaping the future of YDMT's work. You'll provide support and information to the Board and contribute to our vision and direction. 

About you

We are looking for a qualified Senior Finance Manager who is business orientated, with excellent leadership skills and delivers results. A proven background working within the charity sector or similar would be desirable, but isn't essential. You will be passionate about our work and can confidently lead on our financial management processes across the organisation, providing high quality meaningful financial information to support the decision making of the Board of Trustees.

Underpinning all of this is your ability to work within our culture – which means sharing our values of being creative, caring, honest and enabling

We are Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking. 

We want to create a nation where walking is the natural choice for everyday, local journeys; free from congested roads and pollution, reducing the risk of preventable illnesses and social isolation. We want to achieve a better walking environment and to inspire people of all generations to enjoy the benefits the simple act of walking brings.

Join us and together we will create a walking nation.

We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Application Support Specialist to join our team. This role is perfect for an up-and-coming professional with a passion for digital transformation and for supporting business critical applications. You will be instrumental in configuring, maintaining, and optimising our business applications, including CRM, Finance, Project Management, and data analytics tools, to help us achieve our strategic objectives and enhance our operational efficiency.

In this role, you will excel in troubleshooting, business analysis, and stakeholder management, ensuring smooth application performance and seamless data integrations. Your expertise in supporting third-party applications and developing low-code/no-code solutions using Microsoft Power Platform will be key to driving our digitalisation journey. You'll work closely with various stakeholders to gather requirements, manage changes, and provide comprehensive user support and training to maximize application utilization across the organization.

We are looking for someone with a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a proactive approach to continuous learning and improvement. If you are passionate about making a real impact and have experience in application configuration, data management, and performance optimisation, we would love to hear from you. 

Living Streets is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk; and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be subject to background and criminal records checks as relevant to the job role. 

Closing date: 24/06/2024 (midnight)

Interview(s): 02/07/2024

These unique and rewarding freelance audit opportunities would suit experienced experienced audit professionals that are flexible, love diverse travel experiences, supporting worthwhile causes and inspiring people. AfID is recruiting on behalf of a leading specialist in international NGO grant audit services for development donors such as the UN and the World Bank. Assignments would suit experienced qualified audit professionals with grant audit / management experience, ideally in a not-for-profit/ international development context

Role overview.

Complete international grant expenditure audits for a diverse range of projects (grant recipients) funded by international donor institutions ranging from emergency aid, to long term development in areas such as agriculture, health or infrastructure or technical research. Assignments are 1-3 weeks in length and based across the European mainland and the developing world. These are offered on an assignment by assignment basis, one to two months in advance.

Contractors can be based outside the UK 

Requirements

• Qualified ACA / ACCA or equivalent – 5+ years post qualified experience
• Grant management and audit and reporting experience with international institutions. Preference given to individuals that have worked on UN or EC grant assurance assignments
• Diplomacy and cultural sensitivity while working with a hugely diverse range of clients and beneficiaries
• A real interest in international development and associated funding structures
• Ideally but not essential fluency in a second language such as Spanish, German, French, Arabic & Portugese
• Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills in English.
• Resilience and adaptability

​ Personal attributes:

• At least 5-10+ years of relevant audit experience
• Ability to work under pressure; Strong planning, organisational and time management skills
• Sound technical and analytical skills, report writing and presentation skills

Passionate about international travel and development and willing to work in international locations. Individual must be prepared to travel to challenging locations when it is deemed safe to do so. Individuals must also be able to demonstrate effective past working practices when working remotely with a range of clients. 

Leading international development grant assurance specialists seek experienced French speaking audit professional for exciting management opportunities. 

Responsibilities
• Travelling internationally to a wide range of locations, on a regular basis, conducting audits or special assignments; working with, and supporting NGOs, public sector organisations & institutional donors such as the UN.
• Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of public sector audit issues and techniques and provide guidance to other team members based on previous experience;
• Demonstrate a detailed understanding of public sector structures and the legal and contractual frameworks in which the assignments are performed and provide guidance to other team members based on previous experience;
• Demonstrate a detailed understanding of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) and provide guidance to other team members based on previous experience;
• Be involved in the assignment process from planning to finalisation;
Prepare a tailored plan for large or complex assignments based on an understanding of the terms of reference;
• Lead assignment fieldwork teams including locally based staff for large or complex assignments;
• Demonstrate the ability to identify the findings on an assignment and write them up in a detailed, precise and clear way in the assignment report;
• Lead opening meetings and present the audit findings at closing meetings;
• Conduct assignments in a sceptical but constructive manner;
• Draft a report for each assignment on a timely basis;
• Be responsible for completing the audit programme and audit file;
• Be aware of assignment deadlines and work with the team to ensure deadlines are met;
• Monitor the time spent on assignments against budget and discuss with the Manager if budget overruns are anticipated;
• Prepare proposals for specific assignments within a framework contract
• Contribute to drafting tenders;
• Identify potential opportunities for obtaining new work. Take action to follow up such
opportunities with a manager/partner;
• Develop internal contacts and demonstrate an awareness of the services offered by other
departments in the firm;

Internal development 
• Provide on the job training and guidance to more junior team members throughout the
assignment process;
• Contribute to office-based training sessions including development of training material;
• Conduct induction training for new staff members;
• Do job appraisals for more junior team members;
• Check that the staff planner is kept up to date for each assignment;
 

Please note, if you are not a fluent French speaker similar opportunities may be availabe - so please apply. 

Intro

Our Head of Comms has made the difficult decision to move on after 17 years at CAT so we need a passionate, enthusiastic and motivated Comms professional to step in to her shoes.

About CAT

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) is an internationally renowned environmental charity, a world-leading eco centre, and one of the foremost providers of postgraduate environmental education in the UK, based near Machynlleth in Mid Wales.

CAT provides inspiration, education and training in solutions to the climate and biodiversity emergency.

Key activities include residential short courses, vocational training and postgraduate degrees in a wide range of sustainability-related topics, with online courses and events offered alongside in-person learning.

Our Zero Carbon Britain team publishes research and works directly with councils, communities and other organisations to help transform complex economic, social and political systems

Job details:

HOC240603

Area of Responsibility:

Marketing, communications and policy

Responsible to:

Co-CEO

Responsible for:

Marketing and communications staff

Contract type: Permanent

Responsibility Grade: 7

Location: Flexible location, in travelling distance of CAT with regular visits to the CAT site near Machynlleth, Mid Wales

Hours: Full-time: 37.5 hours per week.

Working Days: Normally Monday to Friday, with occasional evening/weekend working

Salary and employee benefits:

£35,898 p.a.

CAT offers a generous annual leave allowance of 25 days p.a., plus bank holidays (usually 7- 9days), plus additional allowance at Christmas (usually 3 days), plus 1 extra day for every year worked (up to 5 days).

CAT also offers an attractive package of employee benefits, including:

· a free cooked lunch and free hot drinks from the café whenever working from the CAT eco centre

· 40% discount on retail goods purchased from CAT

· Opportunities for CPD training, qualifications & professional memberships to be funded by CAT

· Opportunity to take 2 CAT short courses per year free-of-charge

· the opportunity to purchase additional holiday days

· a ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme (planned)

· 5% pension contribution

· generous maternity and paternity entitlement and Death In Service benefit

· 2 hours per month for general health & wellbeing & 2 hours per month for Welsh language tuition.

Work remotely: See Location

Application deadline:     9am 5 July 2024

Interviews to be held:  Week commencing 15 July 2024 (on site)

Expected start date:  As soon as possible

Overview of Role:

CAT is entering an exciting phase in its development.  In recent years the organisation has achieved significant growth in student numbers, membership and fundraising income.  We have ambitious plans for a transformative project, Cynefin: a flagship, sustainable Welsh visitor attraction and skills hub which is included in the portfolio for the Mid Wales Growth Deal.

The Head of Communications will be a member of the Project Management Team contributing to developing the vision, strategy and business case for Cynefin, supporting the capital fundraising campaign and leading on the engagement and communications.

Main Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership of CAT’s marketing, policy and communications (internal and external).

• Liaise with key stakeholders, represent CAT at events and act as media spokesperson on behalf of the organisation when required.

• Line manage, lead, support and motivate the marketing and communications team.

• Set, monitor and report on team and individual goals and KPIs.

• To procure, brief and manage relationships with external agencies including creative, PR agencies etc in order to deliver strategic objectives.

• Manage the departmental budget and monitor KPIs to:

• • Ensure strong ROI on all marketing activities in support of CAT’s strategic objectives.
  • Deliver on the key aims and objectives of CAT’s policy and communications work.

• Develop and implement communications and marketing strategies, tactics, campaigns and plans in support of key organisational objectives.

• To sit on the Project Management Group for Cynefin contributing to: developing the business case; effective project management; and communication and engagement strategies.

• Oversee/sign off key communications products, such as our supporter magazine, Clean Slate, newsletters, promotional materials, the annual report and press releases.

• Manage the brand to ensure consistent communication of the organisation’s vision, mission and values across all channels and to ensure that the integrity of the brand is maintained and promoted at all times.

• Put in place effective systems, policies and procedures for the effective management of CAT’s policy, communications and marketing work.

• To carry out research and analysis to improve our understanding of our target audiences and develop products to meet their needs.

• Manage crisis communications planning and response.

• Manage media relations and PR.

• Monitor our digital platforms.

• Work with the Head of Statutory Funding to identify other sources of funding for developing CAT’s policy and communications work.
• Any other appropriate duties as defined by the Co-Chief Executive Officer

About CAT

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) is an internationally renowned environmental charity, a world-leading eco centre, and one of the foremost providers of postgraduate environmental education in the UK, based near Machynlleth in Powys, Mid Wales.

CAT provides inspiration, education and training in solutions to the climate and biodiversity emergency.

Key activities include residential short courses, vocational training and postgraduate degrees in a wide range of sustainability-related topics, with online courses and events offered alongside in-person learning.

CAT launched the Zero Carbon Britain Hub and Innovation Lab in 2020 with support from the Moondance Foundation. This was initially a three year project and received further funding from the Moondance Foundation to run the Innovation Lab for a further three years. The aim of the project is to improve the capacity of councils and communities to turn climate emergency declarations into action and create systemic change in order to increase resilience to climate change.

This will be achieved by offering a programme of support aimed at increasing the competence, confidence and effectiveness of policy makers, communities and organisations in developing zero carbon policies and action plans. This support will include: using the Zero Carbon Britain model to provide people with the knowledge to create Zero Carbon Action Plans; delivering Zero Carbon Britain training using a ‘train the trainer’ model to increase the skills and capacity of communities to take action on climate change; supplying the tools to enable people to turn climate emergency declarations into action; setting up a digital resource hub and online network to provide peer support and increase confidence of individuals and communities to take action on climate change. In conjunction with the Zero Carbon Britain Hub, an Innovation Lab will identify key issues, priorities and tasks; develop ideas that impact on these areas; and create routes into larger scale impact or systems change.

Job details:

ZCBILM240216

Area of Responsibility:

Zero Carbon Britain Innovation Lab

Responsible to:

Co-CEO

Responsible for:

Research Assistant

External Trainers and consultants

Contract type: Fixed term – 2 years

Responsibility Grade: 7

Location: Flexible with regular visits to the CAT eco centre near Machynlleth

Hours: 37.5 hours per week. (1.0 FTE)

Working Days: Usually Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Occasional weekend and evening working.

Salary and employee benefits:

£35,898 per annum.

CAT offers a generous annual leave allowance of 25 days p.a., plus bank holidays, plus additional allowance at Christmas (usually 3 days), plus 1 extra day for every year worked (up to 5 days).

CAT also offers an attractive package of employee benefits, including:

· a free cooked lunch and free hot drinks from the café whenever working from the CAT eco centre

· 40% discount on retail goods purchased from CAT

· Opportunities for CPD training, qualifications & professional memberships to be funded by CAT

· Opportunity to take 2 CAT short courses per year free-of-charge

· the opportunity to purchase additional holiday days      

· a ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme (planned)

· 5% pension contribution

· generous maternity and paternity entitlement and Death In Service benefit

· 2 hours per month for general health & wellbeing & 2 hours per month for Welsh language tuition.

Work remotely: See Location

Application deadline:     9am 5 July 2024

Interviews to be held:     Week commencing 15 July 2024 (on site)

Expected start date:  To be discussed at offer stage 

Overview of Role

The postholder will manage the Zero Carbon Britain Innovation Lab, to improve the capacity of councils and communities to turn climate emergency declarations into action, identifying key issues, priorities and tasks, developing ideas that impact on these areas and creating routes into larger scale impact or systems change, in order to increase resilience to climate change.

Main Responsibilities

· To work with the Zero Carbon Britain Hub Team and External Evaluator, to clarify aims and capabilities, identifying key issues, priorities and tasks the Innovation Lab could help tackle, assessing current and potential innovation capabilities and gaps

· To design the Innovation Team model

· To manage all staff employed to deliver on the Innovation Lab

· To liaise with the Head of Development to identify other sources of funding for developing the Innovation Team model and building the Innovation team

· To develop and implement Innovation Lab methodology, piloting and delivering innovation Labs

· To put in place effective systems, policies and procedures for the effective management, monitoring and evaluation of the Innovation Lab in order to deliver on the project’s aims and objectives, outputs, outcomes and impact

· To work with the Graduate School of the Environment and contribute to teaching on the Masters in Behaviour Change and other Masters degrees

· To represent the Innovation Lab externally

· To liaise and work in partnership with appropriate external organisations, to support the needs of councils and communities to turn climate emergency declarations into action

· To manage external consultants and staff tasked with delivering training and consultancy

· To prepare marketing material and publicise the project and its activities

Any other appropriate duties as defined by the Co-CEO

Westway Trust are seeking an energetic and enthusiastic individual who will support our vision of putting the community at the centre of everything we do, and will be committed to the value of participative community engagement.  You will also have a great understanding of the needs of diverse communities and commitment to equality of opportunity.

You will have strong influencing skills, and will have the right blend and balance of people skills with excellent communication and project management abilities. You’ll be comfortable in connecting with the wider community, able to listen, gather the views of local people, and feed these back into our wider programme of work. 

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Member Engagement

• Design and implement a community engagement strategy, this is to nurture positive relationships and information flow with different groups including Members, Tenants, Start-Ups, Community Groups and Community Organisations.
• In partnership with the Events Manager, activate an events programme, which creates opportunities for Member Organisations and other community groups and stakeholders to contribute to the Trust’s broader activities and development plans.

Key Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead on the instigation, scheduling and management of the Trust’s relationship with Community Forums and the relevant convenors.
• Be responsible for effective stakeholder management and mapping, to include local residents, local businesses and local voluntary sector groups to ensure maximum reach.
• Attend community meetings on behalf of Westway Trust to listen and engage in conversations about local issues and update them on the Trust’s activities. These meetings are primarily in the evening.

Institutional Racism Report

• Playing a key role with stakeholder groups on dissemination on the Tutu Foundation Report and the progress as the Trust moves towards eliminating ‘institutional racism’.

Grants & Community Investments

• Support the grants and impact manager in engagement with applicants of Westway Trust’s grants programmes, nurturing positive relationships with successful and unsuccessful applicants.

General Duties

• Support the development of new, refurbished, and existing spaces with innovative community development projects and events.
• In time you may be required to line manage at least one member of staff.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience of designing and delivering high quality, proactive and impactful community engagement activities, with a track record of creating innovative solutions to engage with people, particularly seldom heard community groups.
• Clear evidence of sound judgement and of an ability to evaluate options to make appropriate recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ideally with experience of writing Board/Committee papers with the ability to present persuasive arguments to senior stakeholders in a formal setting.
• At least 1 year experience of line management.
• Understanding of the needs of diverse communities and commitment to equality of opportunity

The application deadline is Sunday 30 June when applications will be reviewed and shortlisted for interview.  However, we reserve the right to close the application early.  An early application is strongly recommended.

Community Fundraising Manager

The Mencap Community and Events Team has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, motivated and passionate fundraiser, dedicated to raising as much funds as possible to help make the UK the best place to live for people with a learning disability to join our team as Area Fundraising Manger covering Northern Ireland.

Covering the Northern Ireland the Area Fundraising Manger will be responsible for managing various income streams across the Community portfolio working closely with the wider team. 

Within this role, you will achieve agreed fundraising targets through effective management, support and cultivation of both existing and new regional supporters including: individuals, groups, associations, local corporates and schools whilst maximising the current portfolio of Mencap owned products. You will research, identify and develop new community fundraising opportunities, areas of potential support and build a robust pipeline for restricted grants and corporate partners. 

The role is home based. There will be travel around the areas that the role covers. 

This position is a permanent, full-time role to work 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday. The nature of community fundraising is that there will be evening and weekend work, for which time off in lieu will be given. 

Key skills and requirements (essential): 

· The ability to develop, implement and monitor strategic plans, present budgets and interpret financial information 

· The ability to research, assess and initiate new opportunities within the context of an overall plan 

· Able to recruit, develop and train, motivate and manage individuals and teams of Volunteers to give their very best 

· Able to use interpersonal skills in order to engage effectively with others, understand what motivates them and respond appropriately 

· Written communication skills and a high level of numeracy to be able to produce business plans, monthly reviews, press releases, letters, presentations and other similar documents 

· Excellent verbal communication skills, to be able to deliver presentations and give local media interviews 

· Able to work as part of a team, to see and understand the national picture and to contribute effectively to team plans and goals 

· IT literate – use of word-processing, spreadsheets PowerPoint and databases 

· Experience of working in community fundraising and delivering or exceeding income targets 

Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something really meaningful.Everything we do at Mencap keeps the people we support at the centre of what we do. With us, it’s never ‘just a job’.In return for your hard work and passion you can find real and meaningful work experience, access to some excellent benefits alongside our competitive pay.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and welcome applicants with disabilities to apply for all roles with us. At Mencap, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we intentionally plan for the success of our colleagues in everything we do.We welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join us.Together we are Mencap!

Benefits

As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits as one of our employees.

· 32 days holiday (including bank holidays) increasing to 35 days with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme

· Service related sick pay when 6 month probation is completed

· Eligibility to join Mencap Pension Plan where Mencap matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you start, you will be auto-enrolled after three months with us.

· Membership of Mencap Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary death in service live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness

· Loans for debt consolidation,bikes, computers and phones when you have been with us for 6 months

· Interest free season ticket loans

· Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via Mencap Extras

· Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.

· Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support

· Quarterly award scheme and recognition at every 5 years through our YouRock program

· Access to award winning training and development

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Mencap

We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.

Our work includes;

· providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose

· providing advice through our help lines and web sites

To work collaboratively with Early Help practitioners in delivering on the actions of the family's Early Help plan, with a specific focus on autism

To support families with a child who has autism at an early intervention and preventative level; ensuring their development and wellbeing are supported.

To offer group work programmes to parents with children with autism

To support the development of knowledge and skills in the workforce on issues related to children with autism and their families.

To support the Early Help service with engaging families in early intervention and preventative work, offering good practice guidance related to autism.

To attend Early Help allocations meetings to support with advice and guidance on cases that are coming into the localities and provide specialist advise on cases where autism is a need.

To cover Birmingham locality services.

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31 March 2025 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. 

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Join our vibrant team at a leading Children's Hospital Charity! Work with the Head of Community and Events to drive our fundraising strategies. Lead exciting projects like Christmas Jumper Day, PJ Day, Summer Virtual, Gaming, and more. Expand our supporter base and boost annual income.

An opportunity to also develop In Memory and Schools campaigns, create innovative fundraising products, and enhance supporter stewardship programs. Manage the Community Fundraising team, ensuring top performance and alignment with our strategic goals. Be part of a mission that makes a real difference in children and young peoples lives!