Strategic Planning Manager Jobs in Birmingham, West Midlands
Sightsavers is looking for a Head of Institutional Funding - a vital role within our expanding institutional funding team to lead the development and implementation of a portfolio of work currently focused on West Africa and lead on the development of strategic partnerships with individual institutional donors
Salary: £58,000 - £65,000
Location: UK remote - with very occasional travel to Haywards Heath, when required
Contract: Permanent
Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked and lots of home working
We are looking for an experienced institutional funding expert to lead and manage a busy portfolio. This is a role in which the successful candidate will need to juggle multiple and complex projects. Key duties will include:
- Leading the development and implementation of a portfolio of work within the institutional funding team (IFT) currently focused on West Africa (17 Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone countries), and lead on the development of strategic partnerships with individual institutional donors as prioritised.
- Providing direct line management and strategic support to a sub-team within IFT, that will support continued income growth and contract management, in line with the Institutional Funding strategy.
- Managing existing grant / contracts falling within the remit of this role and secure new income to the organisation.
- Supporting programme learning and capacity building of country office teams and partners and to deputise for the Director of Institutional Funding
This role is involved and multi-faceted with regular meetings across the organisation. This is a full-time role that may be worked from home for the majority of the time however some visits to our offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW) will be required. On average this is likely to be twice per year. If you prefer to work from or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London. Programme travel to West Africa and other locations will also be necessary - we anticipate approximately three trips per year, usually of one week each.
Further information about the role.
This is a varied role, please read the for further details. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced individual with great multi-tasking skills from an INGO or consultancy background. To succeed in this role, you will need
- Extensive experience of working in government or statutory funding for an international development organisation
- Proven track record of having raised and managed significant funding from a range of institutional donors e.g. DFID, USAID, EC, major foundations
- Experience of support and capacity building of non-programme funding specialists in grant application and grant contract management
- Line management experience
- Demonstrable strong organisational and multi-tasking skills
- Established relationships with major multilateral and bilateral donors
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Project coordination skills
- The ability to train and develop others' understanding
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for disabled people
- Willingness and ability to travel overseas regularly for proposal development, workshop delivery and donor visits
- Strong spoken and written French would be of particular benefit
To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please submit a CV and covering letter via our recruitment portal. We anticipate that remote interviews will take place in late June/ early July and the evaluation process will include an initial timed, written task to be completed by shortlisted candidates in advance of this and a presentation at second interview stage. We are keen for the successful candidate to be in post as soon as possible but encourage applications from all candidates with the relevant skills and experience.
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency (MDS) administered by the . Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.
Are you looking for an exciting and challenging role which will help to shape the future of a national charity working on a key social justice challenge? Are you excited to take on a role which will fuel the charity’s work with its service users, supporters and other key stakeholders?
Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic partnerships, fundraising or communications professional who wants to use your talents to improve the lives of people across the UK? If so, then we’d love to hear from you.
As our Partnership Officer, you will have the exciting opportunity to make a huge difference in improving the lives of people living in hygiene poverty. Reporting into the Head of Brand and Corporate Partnerships, the Partnership Officer plays a pivotal role in the brand and corporate team and is responsible for supporting, stewarding, renewing, and growing our brand and corporate partners to meet our income targets. Our partners range from emerging brands to strategic corporate partners and reflect a combination of financial support, skills-based support, brand donations and volunteering. The role is varied and requires strong time management, excellent written and verbal communication skills, meticulous record keeping and relationship management. You will be required to engage and influence a wide range of partner stakeholders plus collaborate across our teams to meet the needs of our partners.
If you fit this profile and want to use your talents to improve the lives of people across the UK and are interested in remote working opportunities in a flexible organisation with a values-led ethos, we would love to hear from you!
Job Description
The Partnership Officer will be a key member of The Hygiene Bank’s income generation team and wider central team, with a responsibility to help meet the needs of our existing partnerships and support in fulfilling the charity’s income generation plans and strategy.
Key Responsibilities
You will support the management of our brand and corporate partners, working with the Head of Brand and Corporate Partnerships. Your role will be to develop and deliver partnership strategies and stewardship plans for each account, to deliver against our objectives and meet income targets.
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Work closely with the Head of Brands and Corporate Partnerships and to ensure the collaborative transition of new partners into account management, liaise with (Brand Coordinator/ Product Donation Manager) and Head of Fundraising, Communications and External Awareness and Head of Operations.
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Identify and outreach to target brands and corporate partners, working to engage their support for the charity
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Accurately forecast and manage expenditures for our partners, working with the Head of Brand and Corporate partnerships to create mitigation plans when necessary.
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Meticulous record keeping, ensuring the pipeline and the opportunity database are current and up to date.
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Contribute to the organisation and team's annual plans, strategies, and budgets.
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Develop, monitor, and maintain systems and processes including Smartsheets and account management plans.
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Assist with the creation of marketing materials, such as newsletters, brochures, and partner impact reports.
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Understand and support the vision, mission, and values of The Hygiene Bank.
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Reflect our inclusive culture in your day-to-day work and support a values-led, positive, health & safety and safeguarding culture in your interactions with colleagues and the volunteers.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
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Excellent relationship management and stewardship resulting in demonstrable account growth.
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Effective account management or sales experience with brand and corporate partners across a variety of sectors.
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Experience using creativity and innovation to diversify income from partners, resulting in growth.
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Outstanding communication skills and polished presentation and people skills to champion, and act as an ambassador for The Hygiene Bank in the business world, including preparing and leading presentations.
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Detail-driven, strategic, motivated, with a forward-leaning approach to business.
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Ability to work independently, multi-task, and prioritise a busy workload.
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0utstanding written communication skills and experience in developing compelling proposals and collateral.
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Experience working with internal stakeholder teams to help ensure partnership deliverables are met.
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Passion for personal and professional development, as well as a proven can-do attitude to get involved in various aspects of fundraising delivery, as needed.
Attributes and behaviours:
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Passionate and demonstrably committed to improving the lives of people experiencing Hygiene Poverty and strong alignment with the charity’s values
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A commitment to quality and attention to detail.
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Ability to work on your own initiative.
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A highly competent and collaborative team worker.
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Discretion and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
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Willingness to learn new skills.
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Ability to work in a growth mindset, changing and flexible organisation.
This job description and person specification represents an outline of the major components of the job and is not intended to be exhaustive.
Individual Giving Manager
Remote working
£36,000 - £38,000 pa plus excellent benefits
35 hours per week
The Individual Giving Manager in the Mass Fundraising team will work closely with the Senior Individual Giving Manager and Mass Lead to develop the programme across membership, lottery, raffle and digital fundraising.
As Individual Giving Manager you will:
- Lead on the RNID weekly lottery, which this year will be launching private site face to face recruitment
- Manage our two annual raffles
- Support the Senior Individual Manager with the review of our Membership programme and deliver the recommendations
- Support the Senior Individual Giving Manager and Mass Lead to set budgets and conduct regular reforecasting of your area
- Develop, test and improve new digital fundraising channels
You will be an experienced Individual Giving fundraiser with a strong track record of marketing and generating income. You will have excellent project management skills and enjoy working across teams to meet shared goals and objectives.
You’ll work closely with the Marcomms team on marketing plans and concepts that will inspire donors to give and stay to our case, allowing us to grow a sustainable programme. You will use evidence and insight to deliver an audience led programme, driven by a test and learn culture. You will create, test and iterate new products and be comfortable in developing audience profiles and propositions to support these products. You will have experience in managing supporter data to ensure compliance and maximise effectiveness of our campaigns.
Fundraising at RNID is going through exciting change, we are making record investment to our team to drive income growth and support the wider team to achieve its potential and deliver our strategic aims.
We are RNID: the national charity supporting the 12 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.
Together, we will end the discrimination faced by our communities, help people hear better now and fund world-class research to restore hearing and silence tinnitus.
We work with our communities and partners across industry, government, charity, education and more to change life for the better.
RNID has a proud history and big ambitions. We’re focused on making the greatest impact possible across the whole of the UK. We champion the latest technology and the opportunities it brings. We also know the value of a friendly face in local communities to support people where they need it most.
We champion the value of difference and equality and celebrate our diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively encourage applications from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds or who are deaf or hard of hearing. With almost 20% of our employees having a disability we proudly hold Disability Confident Leader status and guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum essential criteria.
Closing date: 9 June 2024.
Interview date: w/c 17 June 2024.
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Rainforest Trust is a leading global organisation sponsoring the creation and expansion of protected and conserved areas, playing a central role in combating biodiversity loss and fighting climate change. We have already placed over 50 million acres under permanent protection across 72 countries, and recent surveys show that 99% of the rainforest we have protected since 1988 remains intact.
Rainforest Trust UK (RTUK) is set up as a separate charity to tax-efficiently raise funds from donors here in the UK for Rainforest Trust’s conservation projects. We are currently a team of 8 (part-time) people, but we are affiliated to, and supported by, the Rainforest Trust team in the U.S., which has a team of about 45 staff.When asked what they love most about working at Rainforest Trust UK our staff say it is feeling they are making a difference and taking direct action on some of the biggest issues of our time - climate change, biodiversity loss and Indigenous Peoples' rights. They also like being part of a small, friendly, and supportive team, where they feel they can have a direct input into decisions and our direction.
In 2023 the global charity raised $46 million for conservation projects in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The UK charity contributed £2.2m of this, and we are confident there is significant potential to increase our income from donors here. So, we are looking for an experienced, passionate, and highly personable fundraising professional to join our UK team, to help us identify, approach and cultivate relationships with new private individuals with the potential to make major contributions to our work.
This is a maternity cover contract so the successful candidate will need to get up to speed quickly, taking over responsibility for delivering the new Major Donor fundraising plan. The successful candidate will have previous experience of managing high level relationships and a track record of securing high value (5 and 6 figure) donations or new business. You will have outstanding interpersonal skills and be a confident communicator and able to build trusted relationships swiftly. As this is still a new role, in a relatively young charity, your ideas will help shape this work and you will play a crucial part in driving the growth and sustainability of our fundraising in the UK.
You might have existing experience working with high-value donors, however we also welcome applications from candidates who have transferable experience from other areas - for example a sales or account management background.
Key Responsibilities (see attached job description for full list)
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Proactively research, identify, and cultivate a list of new potential donors (high-net-worth individuals), building a pipeline of people to approach for support.
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Build and strengthen relationships with both existing and new supporters - developing and personally managing and inspiring a portfolio of individual donors and prospects, soliciting 5 and 6-figure gifts.
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Lead a programme of relevant cultivation and networking events, including receptions and lunches, creating engaging opportunities for donors to increase their giving to a higher level.
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Develop inspiring and compelling ‘case for support’ literature
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Regular stewardship including personalised updates, donor touches, invites to webinars/events etc
Person Specification - see attached job description document
Working Arrangements and Travel Requirements
Rainforest Trust UK staff work remotely and you will be expected to work primarily from home with an excellent internet connection. You may be based anywhere in the UK but you will be expected to work from a shared team space in London once a month, and your donor meetings/events are most likely to take place there.
The postholder will be required to host networking events and attend some online meetings with our partners in the U.S so some (early) evening working is required. We are also flexible as to how many hours this postholder works, and will consider a 3-5 day per week arrangement, depending on experience.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Rainforest Trust UK is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to developing a diverse and inclusive working environment. We recognise that promoting diversity and eliminating discrimination in our work will bring benefits for our people, our organisation and our charitable purpose. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief or any other protected characteristic.
Thank you for your interest in this role. If applying, please take time to submit your CV and covering letter, as well as completing the two additional questions. Please also send us a completed Diversity Monitoring form which you need to send to us separately. If you are shortlisted we will contact you by 26th June, and first interviews will take place on 3rd and 4th July. We look forward to hearing from you.
Rainforest Trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves for the benefit of species, people and the planet.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Closing Date: 14th June
Contract: This is a fixed term contract for 2 years.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Are you an experienced change practitioner who can work with a range of views to solve problems and support front-line delivery of services?
Can you build key relationships with a diverse range of partners to support project delivery at pace?
We are looking for a service mobilisation project manager to help us deliver an ambitious new project to support people with dementia in their homes with energy efficiency strategies, income maximisation and gas safety advice. This project will help people with dementia live at home comfortably and more independently for longer. You will also work closely with our Services Leadership Team to ensure that new voluntary income funded service developments have a robust project management approach in place at the outset.
Alzheimer's Society has recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023! We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. We would love to welcome more outstanding people to join our exciting journey to make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.
About you
- Excellent project management skills with demonstrate success
- Experience of strategic and operational planning at a senior level, with advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead change initiatives and take responsibility for delivering change and improvements across teams
- Experience of working collaboratively and delivering milestones at pace and scale whilst being able to actively listen and empathise with colleagues when required.
- Experience of managing relationships with key stakeholders both internal and external to an organisation
- Be confident in analysing data and processes, using your skills to identify recommendations and presenting the evidence to back them up.
- Ability to break down complex messages to make sure they can be understood.
- Be confident in influencing and constructively challenging others and acting as a critical friend.
Person specification
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Experience in achieving targets.
- Strong interpersonal and interpretation skills
- Highly organised and can manage multiple tasks and priorities
- Excellent attention to detail
- Be a team player, supporting colleagues when there are deadlines, and who knows when to ask for help themselves
- Ability to collaboratively, develop strong relationships and influence to ensure effective fit-for-purpose business solutions
- Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
Our Values
We are Determined to make a difference when and where it matters most, by being passionate, focussed and making a lasting impact for people affected by dementia.
Every one of us is a Trusted expert, listening, learning and using evidence and experience. We are Better together by being open, combining our strengths, helping us to achieve more together. We are Compassionate, we are kind and honest, and we don’t shy away from challenges.
Through our values we will make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.
Equal Opportunities
We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society.
We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do. During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and be at your best.
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis (APF) is the UK’s leading health and research charity for Pulmonary Fibrosis. We are seeking an excellent relationship manager to develop new and existing Corporate Partnerships for APF, driving growth in income to help us fund vital research and support more of the estimated 70,000 people living with pulmonary fibrosis in the UK.
APF supports people affected by Pulmonary Fibrosis - a cruel and terminal lung scarring disease that cuts thousands of lives short in the UK each year. There’s no known cure, and it’s on the rise. We want to stop lives being lost to Pulmonary Fibrosis, and as we enter a new five-year strategic period, income growth underpins our ambitious and exciting plans to grow research, support and influencing.
As Senior Partnerships & Philanthropy Manager, you will grow income from corporate supporters and other partners (including pharmaceutical companies). Providing supportive line management to the Trusts and Grants Coordinator, you will drive our trusts and statutory funding income streams, working collaboratively across APF teams and with our supporters.
We are looking for a people-person who is confident in stewarding relationships and partnerships to drive growth in income. You will need to be an ambitious team-player with fundraising experience.
Why join us?
As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, we support personal development and offer a range of benefits:
·25 days holiday plus bank holidays (plus additional discretionary days around Christmas)
·Company Pension Scheme
·Flexible, home-based working
·Access to an Employee Assistance Programme including retail discounts, access to emotional support.
·Death in Service scheme.
·Company related sick pay when 6-month probation is complete.
·A focus on personal development including access to training opportunities and coaching.
Application Details
If you are interested in applying for this role, please visit our website to view the job description and person specification.
·Your CV
·A supporting statement outlining how you meet the knowledge and experience criteria in no more than two sides of A4
Closing Date: 9am Monday 24th June
Interviews: Teams call Friday 28th June. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to an in-person interview w/c1st July.
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis is committed toa culture that is both diverse and inclusive and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
About you
The successful candidate will have proven campaigning and influencing success with a track record of delivering change. You will be an experienced people manager and able to lead multiple projects with limited supervision, as well as have an expert understanding of the political environment in Northern Ireland.
The right person will have a strong network across Northern Ireland’s political parties, including elected representatives, and Government departments, as well as good media connections, which they are able to use to support the delivery of the charity’s public affairs strategy.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced public affairs manager looking to progress their career in a high-profile charity. You will manage the Policy and Public Affairs team in Northern Ireland and lead the delivery of evidence-based and carer-led public affairs, campaigning, media and research activity across Northern Ireland.
With your team you will lead on a wide range of activity including Carers NI’s policy, research and campaigning work; as well as being responsible for the delivery of awareness campaigns like Carers Week and Carers Rights Day; fronting media and social media activity and representing the charity at the highest level of decision-making in Northern Ireland.
Carers NI’s Policy and Public Affairs team also leads on the Carer Poverty Commission in NI, as well as the Advocacy and Voice Project for unpaid carers, which you will be responsible for delivering.
Remote and flexible with regular travel throughout Northern Ireland and some travel across the UK will be required
This is a role we are looking to expand and grow in the coming years, so there will be opportunities for the right candidate to progress in their career at Carers NI.
Diversity and inclusion
Carers UK is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard.
To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.
As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.
At Carers UK we want our application process to be as accessible as possible. If you need any adjustments to apply please email the recruitment team to discuss.
The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 28 June 2024.
First interviews will be held on the Monday 8 July. This will be a two-stage interview process.
Carers UK anonymises all applications prior to shortlisting.
Carers UK reserves the right to appoint at any stage, should an outstanding candidate emerge.
Carers UK may carry out online and social media checks as well as seek references before a formal offer is made.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Network Systems Manager maintains an overview of all DCS (Data Collection System) related activity and is responsible for ensuring that the development, maintenance and technical changes are conducted succinctly and delivered successfully in line with strategic goals across the entire organisation.
Role responsibilities
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To design and deliver a roadmap for the development of the Data Collection System, in line with the Trussell Trust’s strategic goals, and in collaboration with key stakeholders.
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To manage the acquisition of DCS projects/changes, assessing value to different user groups using qualitative and quantitative analytical data to plan future support and development requirements of the system
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Project management of large scale changes to the DCS and related systems, including the creation of project documentation, providing a consistent and accessible monitoring process for internal stakeholders.
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To maintain and provide expert knowledge of the DCS across the organisation monitoring and reporting on key changes and development, user performance, stakeholder feedback and data requests.
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To work closely with the Network Services Manager in; providing a point of escalation for user and team technical support; offering support to project leads in the communicating of changes, development, testing and implementation of DCS-related activity.
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Manage the day to day relationship with the system developers (Bit Zesty) to ensure support hours are appropriately used to maintain, update and fix bugs, and that all work (including projects) is delivered within budget and in a timely manner.
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Provide leadership, direction, support and line management. This will include regular 1:1s and annual reviews to ensure objectives and key results are met.
Person Specification
Technical skills and minimum knowledge:
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Cloud hosted database systems
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Technical support
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Excellent at communicating technical requirements and changes to different audiences
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Project management experience
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Ability to manage multiple projects and work to tight deadlines
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Knowledge of requirements under UK GDPR
Behaviours and competencies:
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Demonstrate a commitment to the values of the Trussell Trust
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Role models inclusive behaviour, values and leadership
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Demonstrates empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially- excluded backgrounds
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Excellent verbal and written communicator
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Ability to work effectively with different people and teams of people
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you an experienced relationship fundraiser who wants to have a direct impact on approximately 7 million people in the UK who live with Tinnitus? If you want to generate income that supports research to drive progress towards a cure, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Position: Major Donor Fundraising Manager
Location: Remote working options (1-3 days per month in Sheffield office)
Salary: circa £38,000
Contract Type: Permanent and full time; 35 hours per week (may include longer hours depending on requirements)
About Tinnitus UK:
Tinnitus UK is a Sheffield based charity dedicated to providing support services, research, and prevention advice for individuals living with tinnitus. As the world's leading provider in this field, they aim to alleviate the burden of tinnitus for the one in seven adults affected in the UK.
Their mission is a world where no one suffers from tinnitus. They provide free support services, lead in tinnitus research, connect the research community with tinnitus sufferers, and collaborate with healthcare professionals to ensure effective management of tinnitus.
About the role:
You will play a pivotal role in driving our fundraising efforts to the next level. Your responsibilities will include developing and implementing strategies to engage major donors, leveraging legacy funding opportunities, and expanding Tinnitus UK's membership base. By capitalising on Tinnitus UK's strong communication assets and brand awareness, you'll spearhead initiatives to secure vital funding to support their mission.
As Major Donor, Legacy, and Membership Manager you will:
- Develop and execute a robust major donor fundraising strategy.
- Cultivate and nurture relationships with major donors and philanthropists, leveraging existing contacts.
- Create a pipeline of strategic gift solicitation stages to maximise donor potential.
- Increase awareness of legacy opportunities.
- Develop and execute a plan to significantly increase and enhance Tinnitus UK's individual membership.
About you:
You will demonstrate exceptional relationship and communication skills, including:
- A track record in securing income from major donors and philanthropists including knowledge of membership / legacy fundraising.
- Familiarity with major donor engagement and reporting standards for significant donations.
- Strong understanding of fundraising best practices.
- The ability to work with a board of trustees to develop a portfolio.
- Emotional intelligence and outstanding interpersonal skills.
- Highly organised, able to work with a diverse pipeline of both warm and cold prospects.
Join Tinnitus UK in making a difference in the lives of millions affected by tinnitus.
If you have a fearless personality, boundless tenacity, and a desire to have an enormous impact on the 1 in 7 people who suffer with Tinnitus, we'd love you to get in touch.
Please send a copy of your profile or CV to Ellen Drummond & Priya Vencatasawmy at Charity People as the first step.
Due to the sensitive nature of the role, we are accepting applications on a rolling basis, which means the role can close at any stage, so please do reach out if this impacts you in any way. The provisional closing date for this role will be June the 11th 2024.
Interviews: TBC
Please get in touch as soon as possible if you are interested, we would love to begin conversations with interested candidates.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
We are looking for a Business Analyst to join the Service Design team on a permanent contract. The Fund is committed to growing user-centred design skills and best practice across the organisation, as well as embedding these approaches, tools, and techniques into our everyday work, especially in terms of our funding. As a Business Analyst, you have the ability and vision to deliver changes and improvements that provide lasting added value. You are instrumental in facilitating the design and development of accessible user-centred services, supporting our grant-holders, the communities they serve, and the Fund’s frontline staff. Working with a User-centred Design approach in a multidisciplinary effort you are expected to ensure the pieces fit together.
You’ll join our dedicated Service design team of 14 staff but often working in smaller cross functional teams where you'll be at the heart of the product; driving this forward, gaining insight into users' intentions and behaviours, and utilising this knowledge to create solutions that are accessible and inclusive, and meet customer needs. Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll also maintain strong relationships with our key stakeholders in the business.
Who are we looking for?
· You will have one years experience of Business Analysis, with good understanding of the full design and development cycle from research, analysing complex user and business requirements, to prototyping through to test and launch.
· You’re genuinely interested in and passionate about engaging and communicating effectively with customers and developers to deliver the best possible user experience.
· Critical to your success is your ability to develop an expert understanding of the needs of our users, both internal and external. You champion these needs as you develop prototypes and designs to improve services. ·
· Your role may potentially cover a wide range of organisational challenges – anything that involves a process or an end-to-end service. You’re expected to look for ways to continually improve these services and to be an advocate within for continuous improvement within the Fund.
· Your role requires you to engage effectively with users and stakeholders (including at senior level) to ensure they are clear on the benefits of the products/services, ensuring that their feedback is being used to inform ongoing improvements.
· You need good attention to detail and an ability to cut through large amounts of data and opinion to get to the heart of what matters. You are recognised as a problem solver with the ability to make pragmatic decisions and get buy-in from others.
Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full time 37 Hours per week. Flexible working considered.
Interview Date: W/C 15th July 2024
Location: We have a hybrid approach to working, work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, these are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London and Newcastle.
On application, please align your supporting statement to the criteria below
Essential criteria
- One years experience in business analysis, improving and/or building accessible and inclusive services that provide lasting added value and/or business improvement
- Demonstrate experience in undertaking research and analysis to understand the business and customer needs (external and internal) using the associated techniques and tools
- Experience in communicating user insight and complex business problems to shape requirements and enable effective design, development and testing of service changes
- Experience of working with a range of internal and external stakeholders, managing differing opinions, exploring options and identifying solutions that meet business needs
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate experience of identifying improvements, analysing the effects of change and defining success measures
- Experience in working in agile ways, including an awareness of agile tools and how to use them
- Working with Product Owner, Delivery Manager and/or Service Designer to establish and maintain a prioritised product, programme or project backlog of what needs to be built.
- Advocate for user-centred design, and the use of agile business analysis in particular for the delivery of products or services
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.
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It starts with community.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the team
Kinship is in the third year of delivering the first national peer support service for kinship carers in England. We have created 145 peer support groups and supported and trained kinship carers to create and lead their groups in a way which meets their needs.
With a new contract from the Department for Education, we’re now entering a new phase of our service with a focus on:
- creating 90 new sustainable peer support groups in areas of most need over 21 months;
- sustaining and developing the current 145 existing groups; and
- providing support and help to build a sustainable and welcoming community for all peer support groups across England.
This role will mobilise, develop and innovate our existing offer into a new Peer Support Hub with the focus on supporting sustainability and building resilience of peer support groups and their leaders. You will support and build our Kinship peer support community.
You’ll work with group leaders to develop a central hub of accessible and useful resources to help them to sustain their groups, working with colleagues right across Kinship to promote consistent access to services and activities (training, programmes, information, advice and campaigns), building a joined-up user experience.
About the role
The role of the Peer Support Hub Lead is to oversee and take accountability for sustaining kinship peer support groups across England in priority areas as part of a new hub and spoke delivery model.
In this context, your team is the centralised ‘hub’ of the service, delivering an exciting programme of training, speakers, toolkits and resources to help peer support group leaders develop, build and sustain their group well.
Your national team of three will make sure groups feel connected and supported, learn from each other and build a powerful and resilient peer community.
The type of person we’re looking for:
Dynamic and people-centred, this role is about developing a supportive community of peer support groups nationally. You’ll understand the power of relationships and be an excellent communicator. You’ll understand how communities hold their own power and your team will help unlock that. Innovation is key to the success of the Hub and you’ll ensure you’re using best practice and learning to develop it.
An excellent communicator, you’ll develop external partnerships to support group sustainability. You’ll ensure through the National Peer Support Connector role that peer communities are connected and engaging with the new National Kinship Care Ambassador.
You’ll be comfortable with using digital technology and tools to build communities and develop resources.
Key responsibilities include:
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Ongoing innovation of the Hub service, embedding best practice, digital innovation and learning to develop a thriving peer community.
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Develop, deliver and take accountability including strategic oversight for an annual operational plan for the peer support hub.
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Work with Head of Marketing to develop an integrated promotional plan.
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Work with Head of Network Development to coordinate national partnerships.
Essential requirements include:
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Experience in delivering a high-profile national service or programme. This includes overseeing delivery, operational planning, monitoring, budgeting, managing delivery, meeting KPIs, stakeholder engagement and reporting to funders.
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Experience of effective budget management.
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Experience working in a role focused on one or more of the following areas; communications (including digital communications) or marketing.
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Significant experience of developing and delivering successful community engagement strategies.
Key Dates:
Deadline: 12pm on Friday 7 June 2024
Interviews: Thursday 13 June 2024 (online)
How to apply:
We will ask you for your CV and to respond to the following five questions via the Applied platform. Please note that all answers will be viewed anonymously by reviewers and CVs will not be viewed until after this sift has happened. This is the first opportunity to demonstrate your experience and to stand out in the recruitment process. Reviewers will not see all your answers together and will be marking on the strength of the response to each question.
Questions for application (along with CV):
- Why you want to work at Kinship in this role, and how do your values align to the Kinship ones? Please include a bit about your experience in this section.
- Please give one example of when you have had to develop from scratch OR innovate a national service. Please include what the service budget was, what you did and what the outcome was. Please relate to this job role where possible.
- You’ll be leading the new ‘hub’ team within the Peer Support Service, developing and innovating our model for support group leaders (who are also kinship carers). You will need to work at pace, while providing strong leadership and clarity to the team. How would you approach the first three months, what will you prioritise and what will you need?
- Please give one example of where you have previously built or innovated a powerful and resilient peer community including in person and digital delivery. What was key to your success?
- We’re building a thriving community of kinship carers across our peer support service. Looking at the job description and job pack, what would be your ambition for our national peer support hub?
We support kinship carers in their homes and communities, giving advice and helping them work through problems to find the best way forward.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Home based within Northern Ireland, with travel to UK team away days, staff conferences and 1-2-1
Through management of the policy and public affairs function in Northern Ireland, the Policy & Public Affairs Manager will ensure the Trussell Trust strengthens its influence in Northern Ireland and helps bring about the policy changes required to end the need for food banks.
Using specialist policy knowledge about the structural causes of poverty and hunger in Northern Ireland and the UK, and sound political and procedural knowledge, the Policy & Public Affairs Manager will ensure our policy influencing has a robust evidence base and manage advocacy strategies to achieve policy change at different levels of government, with a particular focus on national government in NI (Stormont) and ensuring close alignment with the Trussell Trust’s work to influence the UK Government (Westminster).
Role responsibilities
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Strategy: Support the Northern Ireland Network Lead in the development and delivery of the Changing Policy strand of the Trussell Trust’s organisational strategy, with a specific focus on the role of key stakeholders in NI in ending the need for food banks, and supporting the alignment of policy advocacy across the UK nations and regions.
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Policy advocacy plans: Establish and maintain momentum in policy advocacy plans for the Trussell Trust in NI, and inform wider influencing across audiences, through strong internal networks.
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Policy and public affairs: Support the Northern Ireland Network Lead with developing and implementing the Trussell Trust’s policy positions on priority issues and public affairs activity in support of our changing policy goals, including impact measurement.
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Research and analysis: Undertake research and analysis and disseminate research findings to a range of audiences through written and verbal briefings, working collaboratively with the Research and Operations teams to build a robust evidence base for the organisation’s policy and public affairs activity in NI.
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Partnerships and networks: Build collaborative external partnerships and develop networks to strengthen policy and public affairs activity in NI and represent the Trussell Trust and promote the organisation’s policy positions to external stakeholders and audiences, including NI Government and the media.
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Campaigns: Work with OLM colleagues and the Northern Ireland Network Lead to ensure campaigning activity supports and strengthens policy and public affairs work, and the organisation amplifies the voice of the food bank network and people with lived experience of poverty.
Person Specification
Technical skills and minimum knowledge:
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Policy expertise: Demonstrates a detailed understanding of policies that affect poverty and hunger in NI and the UK. Can explain policy motivations of the main political parties and can advise on how most effectively to influence them. Track record of developing policy positions and recommendations based on robust evidence, and delivering strategic policy and public affairs activity from development to evaluation.
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Public affairs expertise: Can explain components of effective political influencing, including detailed knowledge of the machinery and structure of government (UK, NI, local) and experience of informing campaigns activity to mobilise support for policy change. Track record of successfully influencing politicians and key decision-makers across the political spectrum, building broad based support to achieve strategic goals at different levels of government.
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Managing projects, particularly for policy and public affairs purposes, with a clear understanding of key steps in the project cycle.
Behaviours and competencies:
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Demonstrates a commitment to the values of the Trussell Trust.
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Demonstrates empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially-excluded backgrounds.
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Role models inclusive behaviour, values and leadership
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Shows outstanding interpersonal skills; is communicative and approachable; written communication is succinct and convincing.
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Ability to manage multiple projects, identifying conflicting demands and establishing clear priorities in order to meet agreed objectives demonstrating excellent decision-making ability.
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Demonstrates resilience, resourcefulness, flexibility and perseverance.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are working with an inspiring international medical charity to find their next Institutional Trusts and Fundraising Manager.
The charity have fully embraced flexible working and the role can be either fully remote, hybrid or fully based at their office in Colchester.
It is an exciting time to joining them as they have just completed developing their new multi-year global strategy to take them through to 2030, and to guide their work into the future. They are using their Centenary year in 2024 as a springboard to launch them into the new strategic period. 2024 is very much a year for looking and planning ahead!
The Role
You will provide strategic oversight and direction for the institutional fundraising function to deliver on the restricted and unrestricted income targets and line managing and leading the Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser in the delivery of the trust fundraising target.
Provide the prime bid writing function for institutional funders and Trusts and Foundations.
Work closely with the programmes team, both in the UK and overseas to provide leadership of high-quality bid production.
Research new possible funding opportunities and develop a strong pipeline of potential opportunties.
Manage relationships with key funders and be the lead contact for trust and institutional funders.
Keep up to date with the latest trends in institutional, statutory and trust fundraising.
The Candidate
A natural relationship based fundraiser able to build strong working relationships with inteternal and external stakeholders.
Strong experience of working in statutory and/or trusts fundraising, including successfully applying for grants in excess of £50,000+
Substantial experience interpreting and translating material into compelling content for successful proposals.
Demonstrable strong project and account management abilities.
Confident in the development of budgets to meet proposal requirements.
Strong problem solving ability and confidence to bring in new ideas and drive them forward
Experience of writing and communicating for different mediums and channels and applying writing and branding requirements to reports and documents.
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Head of Fundraising & Communications
EDUCATION FOR ALL MOROCCO transforms the lives of marginalised girls, in the High Atlas mountains, enabling them to fulfil their potential, reducing social injustice and inequalities, improving the quality of life for women, and their communities.
Prior to the Al Haouz earthquake in September 2023 EFA funded six boarding houses, enabling young women to access senior school education. Five boarding houses were destroyed. Astonishingly, no girls or staff were in them at the time.
We are unashamedly ambitious to build on EFAs transformational work over the last two decades. Our Covid Recovery Strategy focussed on widening our impact, and the earthquake has just made us even more determined to deliver on our promise, because we have never been more relevant.
Due to the extraordinary generosity of donors, we have funding in place to support a major rebuilding programme. However we don't want to simply rebuild. Due to covid and the earthquake there is a lot of catching up to do.
As Head of Fundraising & Communications you will work with the trustees to deliver the strategic vision, by developing and implementing a successful fundraising and communications strategy. A new website is under construction and the successful applicant will play a leading role in determining its fundraising functionality, content, and messaging.
This job is for you if you are:
- Authentic in your desire to improve the lives of marginalised girls & young women.
- Self-motivated, flexible, proactive, and enjoy working independently.
- Analytical; can identifying aspects in our service impact, which can become new funding opportunities for donors.
- At ease with and understand the challenges inherent to a small organization.
If you have
- Really great communication skills (across a range of media, types of donors), and can do so with clarity, decision, focus.
- Developed successful fundraising and communication strategies before, or relevant strategies in other contexts.
- The character, personality and self-confidence to become the public face of EFA.
- A confident understanding of relevant compliance legislation, and financial and budgetary management experience.
In a typical month you’ll:
-Plan, execute, fundraising events and campaigns, attend conferences, develop compelling social media stories.
-Undertake research, identify new funding opportunities, write donor proposals, complete donor grant applications.
-Liaise with Moroccan partners, co-ordinate marketing, and fundraising activities.
-Work with donors, developing a range of benefits, events, and engagement opportunities.
-Working with trustees, prepare a monthly update report.
-Manage administrative and compliance tasks including a budget, logging donor communications into the database etc.
-Evaluate the impact and update policies and procedures.
Position: Head of Fundraising & Communications
Responsible: to Deputy Chair Finance Committee
Location: remote, withoccasional meetings in London. An annual strategy weekend in Marrakech in November.
Hours: 35 hrs per week (compressed).
Salary: £40,000 £42,000 per annum.
Annual leave and benefits:
28 days annual leave (not including bank holidays)
Pension Scheme with matched contributions of 6% after 3 months
How to apply
Click the Quick Apply button below. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and answer a few short screening questions about your relevant skills and motivations.
First-round interviews will take place in the week commencing 24th June. Final interviews will take place in London week commencing 1st July.
Closing date 19th June 2024.
EFA is committed to safeguarding children. We are looking for people that can bring different perspectives and experiences. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship to candidates living outside of the UK
We want to give girls from rural Morocco the chance of a secondary Education because we believe that everyone has the right to an education.
About the role:
Kinship is in our third year of delivering the first national peer support service for kinship carers in England. We are looking for a new Associate Director of Peer Support and Community to build and develop our model and to take the team to the next phase of growth and impact.
Your first priority will be to oversee delivery of the Department for Education national Peer Support Service contract in England. You will lead the development of our hub and spoke model, with an enhanced offer of national resources and support together with a continued focus on on-the-ground support for kinship carers to set up and sustain a network of peer support groups. You will ensure all members of the team have clarity and are empowered to meet new targets and ways of working.
The role will also lead on the strategic development of peer support approaches in Wales (for which we are seeking funding), ensuring innovation and good practice is shared across the nations.
Kinship peer support groups are powerful levers for change in local, regional and national ecosystems. Your team will ensure that every kinship carer in England and Wales has access to a peer support group, or support to set up and create their own. The team will be purposeful about offering developmental support to all kinship peer support groups, including independent groups, ensuring they remain or become sustainable. And that they have resources, training and peer networks to support this.
Reflecting our strategic focus on developing our Kinship Community of more than 10,000 kinship carers across England and Wales, you will lead a new community strategy, co-ordinating the development of opportunities for community connection and community power. This will include taking leadership for developing the Kinship model of community engagement and integrating across all our ‘in person’ and digital services and activities.
You will ensure a collaborative approach with services, alignment with national and local campaigning activity, and work closely with marketing and communications colleagues to support kinship carer reach and engagement with our community offer.
We’re taking an integrated approach to our services, so you’ll collaborate well across teams to ensure that support groups and their leaders have easy access to high quality advice, information and training. The team will need to work closely with colleagues delivering our new training and support contract, funded by the Department for Education.
Key responsibilities include:
- Innovation of the Peer Support Service.
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Develop and rollout peer support and community strategy and operational plan.
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Implement monitoring and evaluation and impact tools for timely and accurate reporting of activity and engagement.
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Work with the Development team to develop proposals for the community and peer support which are ready for fundraising and business development.
Essential requirements include:
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Substantial experience in scaling a national service or programme with high quality outputs. This includes overseeing delivery, strategic planning, budgeting, managing delivery, meeting KPIs, stakeholder engagement and reporting to funders.
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Experience of governance and managing risk on high profile service delivery.
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Experience of effective budget management.
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Significant experience of leading the development and delivery of peer support services.
Key dates:
- Deadline - 9am on Monday 10 June 2024
- 1st interview - Friday 14 June 2024 (online) - TBC
- 2nd interview - Tuesday 18 June 2024 (in-person) - TBC
How to apply:
We will ask you for your CV and to respond to the following five questions via the Applied platform. Please note that all answers will be viewed anonymously by reviewers and CVs will not be viewed until after this sift has happened. This is the first opportunity to demonstrate your experience and to stand out in the recruitment process. Reviewers will not see all your answers together until the end and will be marking on the strength of the response to each question. You will have max 250 words per answer.
Questions for application (along with CV):
1. Outline why you want to work at Kinship in this role, and how your values align to the Kinship ones? Please include a bit about your experience in this section.
2. Please give one example of when you have had to develop from scratch OR innovate a national service. Please include what the service budget was, what you did and what the outcome was.
3. This service is a high-profile contract, funded by the Department for Education. Targets and SLAs need to be met while providing impact for kinship carers. Please give a previous example of how you’ve delivered and met targets with high quality outputs.
4. You’ll be leading a team who has been through a restructure, with new staff starting and a new model to develop and embed. You will need to work at pace, while providing strong leadership and clarity to the team. How would you approach the first three months, what will you prioritise and what will you need?
5. Given the strategic ambition of Kinship, the context in which we work and this role as Associate Director of Peer Support and Community, where do you see the opportunities and risks for the service in the next 1-2 years? How would you prepare or mitigate them?
We support kinship carers in their homes and communities, giving advice and helping them work through problems to find the best way forward.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.