Our partner is women’s health and empowerment organisation. They are seeking an exceptional business partner to manage the portfolio of grant funding from institutional donors in the UK and Europe. The role is quite broad in its scope – providing financial management support through the full project cycle, and acting as a business partner to country office teams, implementing partners, and donors.

Key Responsibilities

• Support in developing budget for donor proposals (including payment by results), working with country offices and implementing partners, that these are developed on a full-cost recovery basis.
• Responsible for grants compliance – ensuring that new projects are set-up accurately, invoices are submitted on time & in the correct format – and reporting – ensuring that reports are submitted in a timely manner, any changes in financial guidelines are understood and adhered to, and projects are closed out in a timely manner.
• Provide analysis & information to ensure accurate cashflow forecasting, and on the life of a project.
• Act a business partner to the programmes team, country offices & implementing partners, providing advice and training on donor reporting & compliance issues.
• Responsible for programme accounting.
• Lead in the preparation for donor audits, and support the year-end audit process.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant, or finalist, with experience in project accounting & the financial management of complex institutional grants that cover multiple regions & partners.
• Experience of grants compliance, management and reporting of UK & European institutional donors including DfID, EU, Danish, German & the Dutch government. This includes experience of PBR grants.
• Exceptional business partner, able to work effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in working in an INGO across cultures.
• Fluency in French is desirable.  

This role is only open to candidates with the right to work in the UK. 

Senior Development and Performance Specialist

Salary: £49,646 Gross per annum
Location: UK
Level: HR
Deadline: 19/07/2020 23:59
Hours: 35.00
Benefits: UK benefits
Job Type: Indefinite

Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Senior Development and Performance Specialist to join our team in London, UK.

The Senior Development and Performance Specialist is responsible for the development and implementation of a learning and development strategy. This strategy supports the development of competences and capabilities of all employees with the view of strengthening work related performance and enhancing quality of work across the organisation.

The successful candidate will have:

- A degree level qualification with full CIPD qualification or specialist training qualification
- Substantial experience of developing and implementing a learning & development strategy and plans
- Extensive experience of successful training design, delivery, and evaluation to meet organisational requirements
- Extensive experience of the evaluation of learning and development needs across a multi-site organisation
- Strong experience in HR project implementation in multi-site organisations of at least 200 employees
- Significant experience of working with employment laws and practices in countries where Malaria Consortium operates (in Europe, Africa and Asia)
- Experience of delivering coaching and training
- Experience of working as the system administrator of an LMS, preferably Totara
- Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritising a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
- Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues
- Good IT skills – MS Office, Outlook and Internet
- Right to work in the UK

We reserve the right to close the position early if we receive a high number of applications, therefore we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, to avoid disappointment.

We need to keep beneficiaries safe, so our selection process reflects our commitment to safeguarding. Please find our Code of Conduct, Safeguarding Policy and Privacy Notice here.

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Other organisations may call this role Personnel Development Specialist, HR Business Partner, HRBP, Human Resources Business Partner, People Performance Specialist, Learning Manager Officer, or Learning Development Manager.

Head of Development and Sustainability, West Kent Mind

NJC Pay Points 41-47 (£37,107-£42,806)*

37 hours a week

This post is based at Sevenoaks Wellbeing Centre, 34 St John’s Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 3LW although we would consider flexible working options.

We are looking for a creative person to provide the strategic lead on driving business development, income generation and associated strategic engagement to enable West Kent Mind to continue to provide essential mental health support services within the community.

The post holder will lead on income generation strategies and will also take a strategic lead on driving innovation and best practice, increasing audiences as both beneficiaries and as donors and building partnerships.

Are you a strategic thinker, a good income generator, a great collaborator and someone who is committed to excellence?

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Closing date: Monday 3rd August 2020, 9am

Interviews: Monday 10th August 2020

*2018 NJC pay Scales

We have an exciting opportunity for a Full time Branch Development Manager to join the team at RSPCA Cornwall. The RSPCA is dedicated to finding unwanted, mistreated and abused animals loving permanent homes. This is a newly created senior role, responsible for all staff and volunteers within the branch, our fostering and outreach programmes, plus retail and other income generation activities. We are looking for an outstanding leader with senior management experience, ideally gained in a variety of roles. You will share our passion to promote animal welfare, and drive changes to our operation that build financial sustainability whilst improving the services we provide to the community and to animals, and developing our people.

Main duties include:

• Working closely with the trustees to provide the strategic leadership and delivery necessary to ensure a sustainable future for the charity.
• Providing leadership to the staff and volunteer team to motivate, energise and enthuse, to seek continual improvement in service delivery and individual personal development.
• Overall responsibility for the Animal Centre, retail units, income generation, fostering and outreach.
• Ensuring compliance with RSPCA standards & policies, relevant legislation and best practice in the provision of branch animal welfare services
• Ensuring that appropriate policies and procedures are developed, implemented and adhered to in compliance with the relevant legislation seeking guidance from Society staff as required.
• Preparing in conjunction with the Trustees, the annual branch budget and report; monitoring progress against branch objectives, ensuring that expenditure is within agreed limits and that income generation targets are achieved.

You will be based at the RSPCA Cornwall Animal Centre, but with regular travel throughout the branch area.

We would like to hear from candidates who can offer the following skills and experience:

Experience:

Essential:

• At least 3 year’s experience working at a senior management level
• Experience of managing budgets
• Experience of fundraising
• Extensive experience of managing teams of people
• Experience of leading team meetings
• At least 2 year’s experience of conducting annual appraisals and performance reviews

Desirable:

• Management experience at a senior level
• Ability to interpret financial statements
• Awareness of fundraising techniques
• Experience of managing teams of people
• Experience of actively contributing to meetings

Education and Training

Essential

• Level 4 or equivalent qualification in Business or Management
• GCSEs in English and Maths

Desirable:

• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills appropriate to a Level 4 Business or Management qualification

Special Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent communication skills at all levels using a range of different communication media
• Proven ability to write reports suitable for the target audience
• Ability to analyse data and draw conclusions
• Excellent IT skills at user level

Desirable

• Ability to interpret data
• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety
• Experience of working in the Charity sector

Personal qualities

Essential

• Good business acumen
• Creative thinker
• Honest, trustworthy and reliable
• Able to work under pressure

Desirable

• Understanding of the aims of the RSPCA
• A passion for animal welfare
• Ability to network with others
• Keen to learn and further develop

Other

• Possession of a full UK driving licence

Salary £35,000

Please contact for an application form and job description.

Closing date: Friday 10th July 2020

Organisation Development Consultant

Location: London
Application Deadline: 13th July 2020
Salary: £45,900 per annum
Region: Ealing

Job Summary

Are you interested in a career that makes a difference? At Certitude, we are proud of our history of supporting people with complex mental health needs and learning disabilities. We support more than 1500 people in a diverse range of services across London. We employ more than 1000 staff and are committed to their development. With Certitude you have the opportunity to work with incredible people, develop your career and support others to have a good life.

Certitude is undergoing significant change as it grows and wishes to ensure it has the capacity and capability to meet the complexity of needs of the people we support. In order to do so we wish to realise and embed the benefits of cultural and technological change programs and initiatives across the organisation.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Organisation Development Consultant to develop and implement HR and OD strategies that will support Certitude’s strategic objectives. Building on our comprehensive leadership and staff development provision, the successful candidate will work in partnership with HR and operational colleagues to build integrated high performing services and teams.

This is a highly influential role, central to the way in which we develop our best asset – our leaders and staff. You will have a track record of leading successful strategic staff development projects and organisation development initiatives, as well as change programmes. You will have outstanding interpersonal skills which will enable you to establish immediate credibility with senior managers, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, which will underpin a strong track record of influencing change at all levels. An understanding of the issues facing the Social Care sector and their impact on the organisation and staff agenda, as well as experience of psychometric tools are required.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact Cheryl Newsome, Director of HR.

If you are interested in enriching the lives of the people we support, please take a look at the job description and person specification for further information and apply now!

Benefits:

- A competitive salary
- A stimulating work environment full of opportunities to learn and develop
- An attractive package of 25 days’ annual leave, pension scheme, access to a 24 hour Employee Assistance counselling
- We will pay for your Enhanced DBS
- Eye care vouchers
- Travel season ticket loan & Cycle to work Scheme (after 1 year’s service)

All our posts are subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure as well as a need for full employment history from time of leaving compulsory education and up to date employment references. We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. We guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the job vacancy and to consider them on their abilities.

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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to join the recently formed Young K&C as a Development Manager. A varied role, you will be helping create an innovative new organisation and make a real difference to young people’s lives.

Young K&C is a brand-new charity established to support children and young people in Kensington & Chelsea.  Young K&C is an innovative cross-sector partnership, working with youth clubs, charities, schools, businesses and Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.  

Together we will shape opportunities and create the best services for children and young people in Kensington & Chelsea through supporting and sustaining the children and young people’s sector.

A membership organisation, the Development Manager will help build and manage the membership base and create strong consortia.  You will have tenacity and drive, leading funding applications and working with corporates and individuals to leverage investment.

Young K&C will also be offering small grants to its member charities.  Your role will be to help us develop our grant giving and manage our grant making processes.

We are seeking a passionate and highly skilled individual into an exciting and flexible environment which offers excellent prospects as the charity develops.

Homeworking flexibility - get in touch with us wherever you are located.

Extremely competitive salary dependent on skills and experience (plus 30 days Annual Leave)

Permanent, 35 hours per week (Monday-Friday)

Are you an experienced senior fundraising or income generation leader, looking to grab your next exciting opportunity to shape as your own?

We are looking for a creative outward-facing visionary who will take pride in leading and developing the charity’s income generation streams, aligned to our new and innovative business plan.

You will be an adaptable and effective communicator, relishing in organisational-wide interfacing and stewardship of key stakeholders.

People management should come second nature to you, inspiring, motivating and driving your team and colleagues to meet ambitious targets and bend and shape the culture.

You will have significant success of generating income across a variety of fundraising strands (e.g. Major Donor, Legacy, Corporates and Trusts) and are confident to use these strategic skills to develop all social and commercial enterprise (i.e. Bursary Schemes, Pricing, Charity Shops), identifying new and imaginative partnerships.

If this sounds like your next challenging venture, then we would love to hear from you.

Subject to satisfactory references and an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

To apply, please email your CV along with a covering letter explaining your interest and suitability to the role as outlined in the attached Job Pack. Applications without a covering letter will not be accepted. 

Applicants will be invited to interview on a rolling basis so please submit your application as soon as possible.

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment is an entrepreneurial organisation promoting sustainable development and advancing the use of impact approaches in making philanthropic, business and investment decisions to address the fundamental environmental and social challenges around the world. This is ever more urgent given the current covid-19 pandemic and the economic crisis it generates.

The organisation, which is headquartered in London, and with staff in Paris, Buenos Aires and Rome, brings together leaders from the worlds of business, finance, philanthropy and NGOs. The GSG is now looking to appoint an outstanding Market Development Manager to work with the GSG's Chief Market Development Officer and their growing global communities.

The number of countries around the world working with GSG to expand their national ecosystem for impact has been growing significantly. The GSG needs to ensure that it is equipped to consistently provide high-quality advisory, expertise, capacity building support and other services to the NABs (National Advisory Boards), to enable the impact movement to deliver on its ambitions, unleashing the multiplier effect of the GSG's global community. In times of crisis, the GSG needs to provide even more support, proactively anticipating needs, unlocking barriers for capital flows, and offering solutions to critical issue areas, especially in emerging markets where safety nets may not exist for the most vulnerable.

The Market Development Manager will work to develop and strengthen the NABs, with strong focus on DFID target countries. They will play a critical role to support NABs to become effective market builders, enabling more capital to flow towards impact, measurably benefiting people and planet. Working in emerging markets, they will build capacity and guide local stakeholders from across national ecosystems to work together to set up successful, influential and sustainable NABs. This may include supporting them to design multi-stakeholder engagement plans, preparing trips and engagement for senior global leaders to provide additional guidance and inspiration from across the world to a given country.; implementing the GSG NAB Toolkit or other hands-on support, guidance and advice on strategy, communications, policy, governance, and fundraising, amongst others. Overseeing the coordination and reporting of a DFID grant alongside capturing learnings towards the development of new knowledge, content and tools relevant for the community of 500+ NAB members in 30+ countries are key parts of the role.

The successful candidate will be impact focused and interested in social enterprise, development finance and/or the impact investment sector. With a track record of international experience, ideally in Consulting, International Development or Impact Investment, they will thrive in building long lasting relationships which lead to action. Furthermore, they will be comfortable designing and managing complex projects with multiple stakeholder groups, and ensuring they are executed smoothly and with the desired outcomes. The Market Development Manager will excel in a non-profit setting with limited resources and be able to demonstrate tenacity in delivering ambitious projects with a great degree of autonomy, and in collaboration with experts and stakeholders from around the world. A willingness to travel internationally is essential.

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. As we are also currently experiencing high volumes of interest in vacancies so it may not be possible to answer any individual queries on positions prior to an application.

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Young H & F in a new role as we develop and embed our fundraising strategy.

The focus will be on collaboration and fundraising; the Partnership Director will be responsible for building cross-sector relationships with businesses for the purpose of investment that support opportunities for young people in the borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

This is a new role for the charity and as such the manager requires the skills to confidently lead on developing the strategy, nurturing new relationships with businesses, and operating within an evolving and collaborative environment.

This role is crucial in supporting Young H&F to bridge the gap between young people, the youth sector, and local, national and global businesses; supporting businesses to maximise their social purpose in response to what local young people want & need. A key priority is advocating the work of Young H&F members and their positive impact with children & young people aged up to 25

Responsible to 

Young H&F CEO

Salary

Upto £40,000 (pro rata)

Hours

0.6 (22.5 hours) hours with potential to increase dependent on access to funds. (We are flexible and willing to work flexibly with the right candidate, including remote working). 

Location

Based remotely with travel to Hammersmith & Fulham, as well as other London locations.

Key relationships

Young H&F CEO.

Local Small/Medium Enterprises and Corporates.

Organisations delivering opportunities to Children and Young People in H & F. 

Contract

12-month fixed term contract with the opportunity to increase following a successful review. Reasonable expenses are offered, as well as ad-hoc training/development opportunities,role flexibility and other benefits.

Employer’s pension contributions are offered at 6%.

Roles and Responsibilities:

General

• Support the CEO to develop a grant making strategy and lead on fundraising strategy to meet these objectives.
• Lead on corporate fundraising activity, including developing and nurturing relationships with local businesses.
• Develop new unrestricted and core fundraising opportunities (Spacehive, Local giving, Crowdfunder etc).
• Support the CEO in fundraising for Young H&F / Young People’s Foundation joint programmes.
• Ensuring Young H&F members are aware of fundraising training events or ‘meet the funder’ opportunities.

Skills and Experience:

Essential

Leadership and strategic skills

Effective and innovative stakeholder management skills

Effective business planning skills, including finance, marketing and corporate objectives

Effective communication, networking and influencing skills

Desirable

Good understanding of issues and challenges facing 0-25 and the role of the children and young people’s sector in addressing these

Good understanding of the youth sector

Good understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility & Social Value

Experience

Experience of building and managing relationships across a range of diverse partners

Experience of working at a strategic level both internally and externally on behalf of an organisation

Experience of delivering against income generation targets

Experience of working to tight deadlines with minimal supervision

What does success look like for this role?

Specific targets:

• Raise more than £55k of new funding for H&F youth services and organisations through local partnerships and fundraising opportunities.
• Developing and implement a Fundraising and Grant Making strategy.
• Encourage one to four new corporate fundraising partnerships.
• Develop access to alternative sources of income and diversify opportunities through online platforms and a range of other mediums to secure a minimum of £10k

Young H&F is an equal opportunities employer.

Young H&F will ensure that none of its policies or practices discriminates directly or indirectly against our employees in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

Recruitment and selection practices are free from unlawful discriminatory criteria and we encourage applications by people from a range of backgrounds. Job applicants are considered objectively based on merit.

How to apply

We run an anonymised application procedure to ensure our hiring process is as fair as possible. So please remove your name and contact information from your CV before uploading it, and only enter these details on your Charity Job profile. 

To apply, you will need to include:

• your CV (with name and contact details removed)
• cover letter (2 sides of A4 approximately) 

Applicants without a cover letter will not be considered.

Closing date: 17th July 2020 at 9am

Interviews will be held in the commencing week of 27th July 2020

The ideal candidate should commence to start the role in September 2020 but we can be flexible with start date. 

Do you want to play a key role in the only organisation which supports disadvantaged young people of Irish heritage in the UK?  Despite the current scenario we all find ourselves in, we are still hiring. With event-based fundraising on hold for the foreseeable future, the Irish Youth Foundation (UK) is seeking a dynamic, self-starting individual who will relish the opportunity to lead our fundraising efforts as it celebrates its 30th anniversary and plans for the next 30?

More information on the organisations we support can be found on our website.

The Role:

As Head of Fundraising and Development you will identify, develop and nurture relationships with new and prospective supporters for the IYF whilst maintaining the valued support of existing philanthropic and corporate donors.

You will have the support and expertise of IYF’s newly appointed Patrons, Board of Trustees and development advisors.

The office is London based, but this position affords considerable flexibility in hours and location of work.

The Organisation:

The Irish Youth Foundation (UK) was established in 1989 and is the only national charity in the UK specifically aimed at helping disadvantaged young people of Irish heritage and their families.

IYF has awarded more than £5 million to help improve the lives and opportunities of young Irish people in Britain and Northern Ireland. Grants are awarded annually to a wide range of organisations and community groups, along with Irish students at UK colleges and universities.  The IYF (UK) supports charities tackling poverty, mental health issues, education and a variety of other needs. Recipients include Artillery Youth Centre in Belfast, Irish Community Care in Liverpool and Irish Film London.

At the IYF (UK) we are proud of our reputation as a lean and nimble foundation where the vast majority of the funds raised go where they are most needed:  projects supporting the young people themselves. Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the IYF (UK) is well funded and will maintain it's 2020 grant awards as well as making an emergency fund available for organisations and community groups most affected.

Remit:

• Work with the Board of Trustees to develop the Strategic Fundraising Plan, targets and KPIs
• Income generation from new revenue streams: particularly focused on corporate philanthropy and CSR.  Consolidate existing philanthropic sources, including revenue from the extensive support base
• Devise and implement donor acquisitions strategies and, in consultation with the Board, develop a committed group of financial supporters
• Manage the fundraising budget and ensure industry guided ROI
• Enhance the charities digital presence (including social media) to raise profile and support fundraising efforts
• Have regular interaction with the Development Group alongside strategic support from the IYF Chair

Person Specification:

• An affinity with IYF’s mission, belief in the power of philanthropy
• Strategic capability and commitment to increase charitable income generation from private sources
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with staff, companies, high level donors, volunteers and the public
• Confident presenting to senior people
• Strong self-motivation and ability to work independently and attend evening events as required

Part time – 28 hours per week
3-month fixed term contract with possibility of extension at reduced hour
Based remotely

We are looking for an experienced and committed individual to join our team as Grant Manager.

At Refugee Action, we have a vision of a UK in which refugees and people seeking asylum will be welcome, can get justice, live free of poverty and successfully rebuild their lives. We empower refugees and people seeking asylum to influence both our work, the issues that matter to them and decisions made by government and we are a trusted partner for others who share our vision.

Over the last 3 years, we have provided life-changing support to more than 3,000 resettled refugees and 8,000 people seeking asylum, strengthened the work of more than 140 charities, and secured important changes in government policy and practice on English language provision and support for asylum seekers at risk of destitution. We want to do far more to learn from and shift power to refugees and people seeking asylum. It’s an exciting time to be part of Refugee Action as we work towards achieving our 3-year strategy objectives (2019-22) through securing systemic change through our campaigns to change government policies, our direct services, and our work to strengthen and connect other service delivery organisations.

The Respond and Adapt Programme (RAP) Grant Manager role is the grantee management lead for our COVID-19 grants programme. Sitting within the Business Development Team, and working closely with the Good Practice and Partnerships and Finance Teams.

The RAP is a 12-month initiative, delivered in partnership with Migration Exchange and NACCOM (The No Accommodation Network). It aims to help frontline organisations in the UK migration and refugee sector to respond and adapt to the current coronavirus crisis, and to support them to work together to build a foundation for longer-term recovery. It aims to support organisations to sustain their response to the crisis by providing grants to around 140 charities across the UK, link them to sources of support to adapt their approach, and to inform wider responses to Covid-19.

The RAP Grant Manager is to:

a) administer and manage grants made to organisations by the RAP via Refugee Action or via NACCOM
b) monitor and capture learning from the programme delivery
c) identify areas of need and help communicate these to partners and contributing funders
d) link grantees to sources of organisational and thematic development support.

To succeed in this role you will have:
• Knowledge of grant fundraising and the associated administration.
• Experience of either applying for or making grants, managing grants (either as grant holder or a grant maker) and ensuring grant reports are submitted and meet grant conditions.
• Experience of supporting a complex programme of work, and able to multi-task, plan ahead and to meet deadlines.
• Experience of organising and servicing meetings.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and experience of using a database.
• Commitment to the values of equality and human rights, and demonstrable skill in working inclusively and building engagement and trust.
• Ability to work on own initiative and collaborate as part of a team and with external stakeholders and the ability to listen to and support others to identify areas of learning and support needs.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Those with lived experience as a refugee are encouraged to apply.

Closing date: 09:00am, Monday 6th July 2020

Interviews: Tuesday 14th July 2020

Start date: Monday 20th July 2020

The IRC is on the ground in more than 40 countries, providing emergency relief and rebuilding lives in the wake of disaster. Through 28 regional offices in cities across the United States, the IRC also helps refugees resettle in the US and become self-sufficient. The IRC is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships and, most crucially, accountability to those we serve. The IRC is a tireless advocate for the most vulnerable. 

The Purpose of the Role

The Senior Program (Business) Development Advisor will lead IRC’s new business development efforts by engaging with global, regional, country, and technical staff through the proposal development cycle from opportunity tracking and capture planning to proposal development, and submission. The SPDA will primarily serve as proposal manager, s/he will also train and mentor staff throughout the department on topics relevant to business development. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record of leading new business efforts in international development with USAID, DFID, ECHO, and other multilateral and bilateral donors. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Manage the process of development of concept papers, project proposals and responses to key RFA/Ps. This includes writing and coordinating proposal elements (e.g. past performance, management plan, etc.), ensuring appropriate technical review and quality assurance.
• Lead proposal development in response to requests for proposals, including those for field based projects and large global opportunities. This will involve management of proposal teams, calendars, and deadlines; strategy development with technical staff; partner identification and negotiations; recruiting; writing; production; and after-action reviews.
• Lead on advising other IRC departments when required on USG contract terms and implication for structuring proposal budgets, targets, and deliverables.
• Build the capacity of other IRC staff—including IRC country and regional teams—to identify opportunities and develop strong program designs and proposals.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of USG and other donor funding priorities, geographical interests relevant to IRC’s area of work.
• Build and strengthen relationships with internal stakeholders (HQ-based regional and technical units, as well as IRC country offices).
• Provide IRC’s country, regional, and technical teams with guidance on USG, DFID, EU, and other donor policies and prepare standard language for proposals to ensure alignment with donor policies.
• Contribute to business development systems, tools, and process improvement initiatives.
• Supports performance management and professional development of direct reports, including ongoing feedback, coaching, and career support.
• Participates in developing proposal training for the organization.

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years there has been a significant increase in violent crime. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. For children and young people, there have been particularly large increases in those who are both the perpetrators and victims of offences involving knives. We believe it is vital to intervene early in children’s lives to tackle the root causes of crime and violence, and to stem this worrying trend.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the best ways to prevent youth violence, funding promising initiatives and working to scale them up.

Some of the most successful work to reduce violent crime has been when local partners work together, share information and coordinate action. We want to establish the very best approaches to doing this, show clearly why they work and then support them being copied elsewhere. We call this our place-based work.

Key Responsibilities
 

You will lead our place-based work, making sure we do everything possible to find and spread the best ways to help local bodies to work together, sharing information and working in a coordinated way to make change happen. We are excited by the possibilities here, but realistic about the challenges and complexities involved.  You will make sure we navigate these challenges, finding the best ways that local partnerships can succeed.

To do this you will:

• Finalise our place-based strategy and put it into action. This means making sure that we have a ready-to-go plan for finding the most effective ways of getting local bodies to share information and coordinate activity so that youth violence falls.

• Build and nurture strong partnerships in places across England and Wales that are ready to share information and work together to reduce crime.
   
• Find the best way to ensure that partners get the help and support that they need to make our work a success. This could be direct support from you, the wider YEF team / our partners, or by bringing in external help.

• Once we know more about what works in place-based crime reduction, help local partnerships across England and Wales know what works and learn about how to make it happen. 

• Ensure that we learn what works really effectively. Working closely with our Knowledge and Evaluation teams you will make sure we learn what, why, how and where things work (and don’t work).

• As a senior staff member, you will also:
  • Help build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
  • Help to inform the strategy, deliver results and build and model the culture that we need to succeed.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience. You have a good understanding of how the youth sector, public sector and schools operate.

• You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.

• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are comfortable talking to a Secretary of State, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and an 11 year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
   
• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You are a great and supportive team player.

• You believe evidence and research have an important role to play in improving local practice. You are passionate about making sure local planning and change is informed by the best available evidence.

• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

• You make things happen. You have experience of getting to the heart of a strategy and turning it into operational plans. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work. You know attention to detail, clarity of purpose and strong project management matter.  

You must have this sort of experience:

You have…

• Built Partnerships:  You have significant experience in building strategic, long lasting partnerships. You can show how these have been effective in delivering impact for children and local communities.

• Developed and Delivered Strategy:  You have significant experience of developing strategies. You can then translate them into great ideas and actions.

• Managed complex projects:  You have significant experience of managing projects with a diverse range of stakeholders. 

• Managed senior stakeholders: You have experience of working with local leaders, youth practitioners and/or commissioners on strategy development or programme design.

You might have this sort of experience

It’s not necessary but it would be an extra bonus if you have…

• Experience of turning evidence into credible messages, tools and advice relevant to local practice.

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

To apply, please go through  this link by midnight, 12th July, 2020.

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27th July

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3rd August.

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime.

To succeed we must do two things brilliant. Firstly we must: ‘Find what works’. We have a team of expert grant makers and researchers funding and evaluating programmes to find out what works. By itself though this won’t matter. We have to be just as good at: ‘Make change happen’. To make change happen, we will have to take people with us. This is where you come in. We won’t change anything unless we can build a powerful coalition of schools, teachers, heads, unions, and more who want to see knife crime reduced. It is your job to build this coalition and make sure that change happens.

Key responsibilities

Most fundamentally, you lead on ensuring that the Youth Endowment Fund successfully makes change happen in the world of education. You will do this by:

• Building fantastic external relationships and coalitions: If we are to have a chance at changing practices in the world of education, we will need to build deep and trusting relationships. Every time we run a themed round of funding (from exclusions to mentoring) we will want to build a coalition of engaged supporters in the education sector who care about our area of focus. It will be your job to build and strengthen these relationships.
• Overseeing the change process when the theme is linked to education: Twice a year we will launch a change process made up of a number of stages. It is your job to ensure this process is followed and that all parts of the organisation play their part:
  • Selecting an area of focus for a grant round, e.g., exclusions, alternative provision, mentoring.
  • Preparing for a grant round, which includes building coalitions, engaging young people, summarising the existing evidence, mapping power and influence.
  • Delivering the grant round, which includes selecting high quality applications, supporting and improving them and selecting the best.
  • Evaluating the outcomes, which includes finding what works and why it works.
  • Delivering impact, which includes scaling up great charities, spreading great practice and pushing for system changes.
• Identifying and delivering the best way to achieve change: In each theme-based grant round related to education it is your job to ensure we find the best way to achieve change. You decide whether there are particular practices we should look to spread or systems that we should look to change. In all of this you will be looking to work with the coalitions that you have built.
• As a senior member of staff in the organisation you also:
  • Build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
  • Contribute to setting the strategy, delivering results and building and modelling the culture that we need to succeed.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You make change happen. You have experience of finding ways to make things happen. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work.
• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are good at chairing meetings, connecting people and having good introductory meetings. You are comfortable talking to a government minister, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15 year old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
• You understand teachers and the education sector: You really understand how teachers and heads think – perhaps because you were a teacher. You might ideally have some experience working with the teachers’ unions, Ofsted and other key organisations that influence teaching. (It is a huge unexpected bonus if you also understand either policing, the youth sector or children’s social care).
• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
• You write very well: You write clearly without using jargon. You are good at being brief. Your writing is persuasive when you want it to be.
• You are both organised and flexible: You are a very organised person who can juggle multiple things while always being clear what the overall goal is. People comment on how well organised you are. But you are also highly flexible. When the situation changes, you are happy to change your plan.
• You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.
• You are an excellent strategic thinker. People say that you are good at seeing the big picture. You have experience of wrestling into place a strategy for a project or organisation. You are good at thinking logically but you are also creative. You have ideas but are happy rejecting a lot of them. You like seeing things from different points of view.
• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
• You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

You must have this sort of experience

You have …

• Built Partnerships or Coalitions: You have significant experience in building partnerships or coalitions. You can show how these have been effective in delivering change.
• Worked in the education sector: You have worked in the education sector, this might be as a teacher but doesn’t have to be.

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

Apply by 9am 12th July, 2020.

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

Interview week commencing 27th July

Panel interview week commencing 3rd August

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.