About MicroLoan Foundation

MicroLoan Foundation is a poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment organisation. We support women in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa to work their own way out of poverty. Since 2002 MicroLoan Foundation has supported over 240,000 women and their families in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Our vision is a world where all those living in poverty have the opportunity to build better lives for themselves and their families.

Our mission is to provide the poorest women in sub-Saharan Africa with the tools and skills to enable them to work their own way out of poverty.

At MicroLoan Foundation, we believe that the best way to achieve our vision is to enable the poorest and most vulnerable people to work their own way out of poverty, building independence and resilience as their financial situation improves. By providing them with financial literacy, business training, ongoing support and small affordable loans, we help these women to start small businesses for themselves. Over time, the money they generate from their small businesses helps to ensure food security, improved housing, access to healthcare and an education for their children. We encourage them to make modest savings as insurance against future crop failure, family illness and other unexpected circumstances; giving them confidence in their ability to weather whatever life throws at them.

This is an exciting time to join the team as we are looking to grow our income and have a pipeline of high profile campaign opportunities in 2020 and beyond.

The fundraising and communications team 

MicroLoan Foundation has a small and dynamic fundraising and communication team in London. The team is responsible for generating income and driving engagement from new and existing supporters. This is done by developing high impact long-term relationships with individual donors, companies and institutions and by engaging mass support through events, direct marketing and fundraising campaigns. The Fundraising & Communications Lead plays an important role in the organisation and we are looking for a driven and talented individual to join the team.

To apply for this role please submit CV and cover letter. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

The role and responsibilities

Individual Giving

• Managing the individual giving function to drive donations into the individual giving programme from new and existing donors. You will do this through managing direct marketing campaigns both in print and through email, taking immediate responsibility for the current cash appeals and e-newsletters with a focus to maximise return on investment.
• Developing and managing social media campaigns to maximise income generation.
• You will help develop a strategy to grow the income from individual giving through direct marketing and online channels. 
• Identifying, applying for and implementing media appeals (such as BBC Radio 4, BBC Lifeline, Financial Times Appeal, Creative Vison Awards and UK Aid Match Appeal).
• Managing CRM data queries and analysing data to maximise income from campaigns.
• Donor stewardship and communications – responding to queries and keeping donors informed about the difference their support makes.

Digital Management and Social Media

• Managing the website, this includes all aspects of website management including functionality, copy and visual content. Monthly reporting and analysis on website views/bounce rates etc to ensure pages are performing correctly.
• Liaising with the MicroLoan USA and MicroLoan Australia teams to ensure all respective websites are updated and accurate.
• Working with pro-bono agencies to maximise use of Google AdWords.
• Manage the day-to-day creation of social media content using the Marketing & Communications plan ensuring posts drive engagement and traffic to the website.
• Grow social media outreach and ensure all social media content is in line with MicroLoan’s core messaging and brand.
• Provide regular updates on the effectiveness of social media marketing and ensure MLF keeps ahead of new innovative ways to engage.

Content creation

• Use raw data and information provided by field staff to create engaging direct marketing campaigns, success stories, monthly content updates for MicroLoan USA and MicroLoan Australia, operational quarterly reports, visual content, articles and infographics for all MicroLoan’s platforms and materials.
• Creating marketing collateral including donation forms, business cards, t-shirts, brochures, fundraising packs, event invitations, other event collaterals, challenge event recruitment emails etc. using design software (InDesign).
• Proofreading and editing presentations, proposals and all external communications before it is published/is sent to printers.
• Liaising with designers, print houses, pro-bono proof readers and media volunteers.

Brand Management

• Ensuring the MicroLoan brand is cohesive and consistent across all communications and platforms. This means creating templates for the team to use and branding any new documents they need creating. You will also work with pro-bono creative agencies and volunteers to ensure that all communications they create are on brand (this includes design and content across digital and print).

General

• Developing the communications strategy and planning content across print and digital based around internal and external events across whole organisation, with support from the Director of Fundraising & Communications.
• You will be required to offer support at MicroLoan events some of which may be at weekends and evenings. You will be expected to act as an ambassador of MicroLoan’s vision and ensure that the charity’s profile and reputation are enhanced.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records for all supporters and prospects using MicroLoan’s database eTapestry in-line with Data Protection regulations.
• Support and deliver other projects and tasks, in line with your skills and experience that might occur beyond your role and that contribute to our overall organisational objectives.

Person specification

We are looking for an ambitious person with a proven track record of delivering successful Individual Giving or direct marketing campaigns and very strong copywriting skills. This role requires solid understanding of marketing and the use of digital channels and website management. The Fundraising & Communications Lead should have demonstrable experience of implementing a communications strategy to increase outreach and income. Experience from the international development sector or a degree in related fields would be beneficial and a passion for reducing poverty and inequality would be expected. You will be joining a small team and should be prepared to assist on projects outside of your immediate role in order to support your colleagues and MicroLoan’s overall objectives. You preferred working style will be collaborative, proactive and practical.

Knowledge, experience & skills

Essential

• Strong copywriting skills - excellent grammar, proofreading, attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience of using Content Management System (preferably Word Press).
• Good understanding of website processes and functions (back end).
• Demonstrable experience of implementing successful income generating individual giving campaigns/direct marketing campaigns – print and online.
• Proven ability to manage social media channels to increase engagement and income.
• Exceptional communication skills both written and oral.
• Attention to detail.
• Self-starter with the ability to juggle a number of assignments at the same time, to react quickly, to meet deadlines, to organise a busy workload and to prioritise tasks.
• Experience of managing projects independently or with minimal supervision - preparing schedules and plans and delivering against them.
• Proven ability to maintain effective stakeholder relationships both internally and with suppliers.
• Interest in international development issues.

Desirable

• Experience of using and analysing data from CRM database such as eTapestry or Raiser’s Edge.
• Experience of implementing brand consistency across multiple mediums and channels.
• Experience of liaising with external agencies and suppliers.
• Good understanding of using Google AdWords and Google Analytics.
• Knowledge of using Adobe Creative Cloud applications (preferably InDesign and Photoshop but Premiere Pro and Illustrator would also be beneficial).
• Understanding and experience of SEO.
• Experience of working with international development issues or degree in related field.
• Press or PR experience.

Full-time, fixed term (3 years)

Location: Dar es Salaam with significant national travel and some international travel

Effective agriculture has the power to change lives. It underpins prosperity, food security and stability the world over. Farm Africa focuses on transforming agriculture and managing natural resources sustainably. We champion a holistic approach that boosts yields, protects the environment and connects smallholder farmers to thriving markets.

We have the ambition to be the leading international NGO specialising in Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Market Engagement. We are looking for someone with the drive and ability to engage with donors, the private sector and other agriculture sector stakeholders, to create and lead on opportunities to build on existing initiatives, grow the pipeline and expand both our geographical and technical footprint.

The Country Director, Tanzania plays a key role within Farm Africa’s global senior management team and you will be responsible for setting the strategic direction for Farm Africa’s Tanzanian country programme, in line with our global strategy of becoming the NGO of choice for donors and businesses.

You will have a successful track record of working at Country Director level within the NGO sector and a strong understanding of donor environments, working closely with communities, government and the private sector. You will have excellent hands-on programme, financial, strategic and human resource management experience. Exceptional multi-tasking, networking, relationship-building and financial management skills are pre-requisites.

If you are interested in this role, more information can be found in the job description. If you would like to apply, please submit your CV and a cover letter that explains how your experience fits this role.

The deadline for applications is 9:00am BST on 21 August 2020.

Note: Farm Africa will not accept third party application and recruitment consultants are respectfully asked to not get in touch with regards to this role.

Finance Assistant

London

3 months - temporary

• Do you have gift aid experience?
• DO you have income and finance experience?
• Are you a part qualified accountant or AAT?
• Do you have chairty or NGO experience?

If so, our client an international NGO may be interested in speaking to you about a 3 month interim role. Please only apply for this role, if you have the experience listed above. Thank you

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Regional Portfolio Manager (maternity cover)

Salary: £30,763 (pro rata) per annum + good range of benefits

Contract: Up to 10 months fixed-term contract (maternity cover) – 15 hours per week (41% FTE)

Based: Flexible location with travel to Milton Keynes office

World Vision is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries.

Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

Job Purpose

This is an exciting role for someone to manage World Vision UKs (WVUK) portfolio across World Vision International (WVI) partner organisations – Field Offices and Regional Offices. The purpose of this position is to achieve change for the world’s most vulnerable children and support WVUK’s key stakeholders to deliver effective and strategic programme impact, income, and advocacy.

Experience of portfolio and matrix management, cross-cultural and cross-functional working is essential. Proven experience of successful programme management in developing countries and understanding of development theory policy and practice are all key requirements. Ability to function in French or Spanish language would be an advantage but not essential.

Some of the key responsibilities you will have as Regional Portfolio Manager include:

1. Manage WVUK relationships with WV Regional Office (RO) and Field Offices (FO); represent WVUK’s strategic intent and influence the RO & FO in implementing their own strategies.

2. Using your knowledge of Regional and National contexts, programming, trends, risks, and relationships; advise and coordinate multiple WVUK stakeholder interests and engagement with the ROs and FOs.

3. Lead WVUK engagement with FO through programme and strategy support teams; engage with other Funding Offices to ensure coordinated support to RO & NO strategy implementation.

4. Work with WVUK marketing and campaigns teams to develop and review material.

5. Contribute to financial planning and process financial commitments; balancing RO & FO investment plans with WVUK income budgets.

6. Work with Key Relationships Team to support donor engagement, project identification and reporting.

7. In coordination with other teams build WV’s reputation; key relationships and policy influence with external institutions, coalitions, and donors; including but not limited to Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

Dependent on international travel guidelines, international travel up to 25% of the year will be necessary.

Other than the Regional Programme Unit, you will also be operating with other teams within the Policy and Programmes Directorate and cross organisationally with teams in the Public Engagement Directorate.

Externally you will engage with peer NGOs, donor institutions such as the Department for International Development (DFID), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and organisations who are operating within your designated region.

As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).

Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description provided. 

Closing Date for applications: Monday 31st August 2020

Interview Dates: w/c 7th September 2020

World Vision UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people representing all sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK - Job Applicant Privacy Notice is available on our website.

No agencies please

Act4Africa, a UK charity with a 19-year history of providing holistic care and support to women, girls, and their communities in sub-Saharan Africa, is looking to recruit a Programme Manager as the charity heads into an exciting new phase.

Taking responsibility for the day-to-day management, support and facilitation, of Act4Africa’s in-country partners, the successful candidate will also be required to create and interpret detailed project planning, tracking and feedback mechanisms, as well as to play an active role in the overall direction and development of the charity. S/he will be comfortable working towards agreed targets, creating, and adhering to strategic plans, and negotiating relationships between different stakeholders and partners.

Starting Salary: £39,396 - £40,745 p.a.

Position Description

Job Profile

(Previous applicants need not apply)

Working as part of CAFOD’s Campaigns team, you will play a pivotal role in planning and delivering hard-hitting campaigns that tackle the root causes of global poverty and injustice. You will lead on engaging CAFOD supporters with our campaigning activities and keeping key audiences fully informed and updated on the issues we are campaigning on. You will also play a central role in engaging Parliamentarians as part of our campaigns, ensuring that our supporters are having a meaningful impact on decision makers. 

Key Responsibilities

Developing and overseeing campaigns engagement strategies

• Develop and deliver campaigns engagement plans which form part of CAFOD’s campaigns strategies.
• Ensure that CAFOD’s supporters play an active role in winning campaigns and influencing decision-makers.
• Develop and deliver supporter journeys for new and existing supporters.

Managing supporter communication outputs

• Ensure that public campaigning materials and tactics are being used effectively to bring about political change in support of CAFOD’s campaigns.
• Ensure supporters receive regular updates about CAFOD’s campaigns, including management of the Campaigns Updates and Campaign E-alerts.
• With the Campaigns Manager, lead on the production of regular communications content for campaigners (print and online), both writing content directly and overseeing the delegating and outsourcing of communications materials for CAFOD campaigns.

Engaging Parliamentarians with CAFOD’s campaigns

• Support CAFOD’s engagement with parliamentarians to ensure that supporters are having an impact on decision makers. Including, but not limited to, organising political events and attending lobbying meetings or parliamentary events.
• Oversee CAFOD’s relationship with the Parliamentary Friends of CAFOD All Party Parliamentary Group, ensuring the group are utilised to help win CAFOD campaigns.
• Work with the Campaigns Manager to coordinate the CAFOD’s MP Correspondents programme.
• Coordinate and record CAFOD’s engagement with Parliamentarians

Managing audience development & oversight of key supporter groups

• Work closely with the Catholic community to maximise their engagement with CAFOD’s campaigns.
• Ensure the Campaigns team has a clear understanding of our key audiences in the Catholic community and that this knowledge is applied to campaign strategies.
• Develop and maintain clear profiles for these audiences to ensure they are effectively engaged.
• Ensure that input from key Catholic audiences feeds into planning, development and implementation of campaigns.

Representing CAFOD in external meetings

• Play an active role in NGO coalitions to ensure the best ways of reaching CAFOD’s supporters are included in any coalition plans.
• Work with the wider sector to maximise supporter engagement in campaigns.
• Act as a spokesperson for CAFOD on our campaigns with supporters or the media.

Managing the Campaigns Outreach Co-Ordinator and other staff as required

• To provide effective management for the Campaigns Outreach Co-ordinator in line with CAFOD standards.
• This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.

Person Specification

*We appreciate that any one candidate might not meet all eight criteria, but do require candidates to meet a minimum of five of the below criteria*

• Proven experience of working on successful campaigns for social change, ideally on international issues.
• Strong grasp of international development and global justice issues, including an understanding of the causes of global poverty and inequality.
• Familiarity with the UK Parliamentary system and knowledge of how to influence decision makers, including experience working with UK Parliamentarians and/or civil servants.
• Understanding of the Catholic church and knowledge of the Catholic community in England and Wales.
• Proven written and spoken communications skills, including the ability to translate complex ideas into accessible materials for a wide variety of audiences.
• Track record of bringing creative ideas to campaigns and communications outputs.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with experience of working with multiple stakeholders, and as part of a team.
• Leaderships skills, with experience of project-management and/or people management.

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect.  CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse.  CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount.  Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

Come and join us and help make a real difference in the lives of the world’s poorest communities.

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

A4ID is a global charity with a vision to see the law and lawyers play their full part in the global eradication of poverty. The mission of A4ID is to be an authoritative voice of the legal community, to inspire and enable lawyers to join the fight against poverty, and to ensure that legal support is available for those engaged in that fight.

The Communications Lead will be responsible for the management and strategic oversight of all A4ID communications activity, working closely with the A4ID Chief Executive and the wider team. Communications is an exciting and evolving area of A4ID’s work, as it seeks to demonstrate to lawyers and development professionals the potential of the law to change lives.

The Communications Lead is responsible for generating interest in A4ID’s work, promoting the organisation’s activities and continually finding ways to bring the legal and development sectors together. The Communications Lead will be responsible for the quality control of all A4ID outputs and liaising/coordinating across the wider staff team for delivery of communications work.

The Communications Lead is also responsible for the development of core communications material (brochures, annual partnership reports, A4ID’s knowledge papers and other publications); building A4ID’s media relations; improving the team’s internal communications; and management of the Communications Volunteers, as well as external communications consultants/editors/designers.

For further information and an application form, please visit our website.

In addition to completing the application form, please provide a portfolio of work samples, including examples of blogs, press releases and other drafted digital content that you have drafted (please provide 4-5 work samples).

Applications and portfolios of work should be submitted no later than 10:00 (GMT) on 10th August 2020.

Applications received after the closing date may be considered at the discretion of A4ID. Interviews will take place remotely via Zoom call on Thursday 20th August 2020.

Link is looking for an experienced, multi-disciplined fundraiser to help deliver our mission of bringing quality education to all children. If you are an accomplished team player with excellent stewardship skills and want to help us build long-term relationships with a diverse range of supporters then we want to hear from you!

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in developing fundraising strategies, managing a diverse portfolio of supporters, particularly trusts and foundations, and writing engaging technical proposals.

We’re looking for someone who has a genuine passion and dedication to making a difference. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, in particular those with a right to work in the UK who come from the Global South, and offer a variety of flexible working options to help accommodate our staff’s needs.

For the full job description and applicatio form, please visit the Link website.

Director of Finance: £65,000 - £70,000 + Benefits: London

For a small (but mighty) international NGO based in London, we are recruiting their new Director of Finance. Reporting to the COO, this pivotal role will strategically and operationally lead the finances through an exciting period of transition and renewal. The director of Finance will manage the team in London and coordinate the Global Finance Team across the regional branches and partners. The Director of Finance will have strong strategic financial skills and the ability to provide hands-on support to staff. Success will come from experience operating in complex international organisations, leading teams through change, embedding new ways of working and building capacity to produce long-term deliverables.

Main Duties:

• Leadership for a team of 4 across finance, grants, and systems
• Oversee the global operating budget and production of monthly management accounts and quarterly / long-term forecasts and performance
• Implement forecasting and cash-flow management
• Implement financial policies to ensure full compliance
• Develop and implement Internal Audit Plan whilst strengthening the controls environment
• Ensure risk and treasury management policies are in plan and oversee the production of Year-End accounts liaising with external Audit
• Ensure compliance with budgeting and reporting requirements for Donors
• Working with the Project Team and COO, lead on budget creation, bid / proposal budgets
• Work with Regional Directors and Finance Teams to implement financial management and global controls for Partners and Donors

Person Specification:

• CCAB qualified with strong finance senior management / leadership experience
• Strong experience of international organisations and a national / regional structure
• Strong experience of implementing and improving systems internationally
• Strong experience of financial reporting to donors including DFiD, FCO, USAID
• Charity or International Development / NGO experience
• Proven experience of developing and presenting high-level reporting to Board

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About us

Christian Aid has recently launched its new organisational strategy and Fundraising & Supporter Engagement Strategic Plan. This is a wonderful opportunity to help transform the growth and impact of which will inspire more people to leave Christian Aid a gift in their Will. As Legacy Training Specialist, you will be responsible for developing an effective training programme that builds and develops a legacy fluent culture across Christian Aid. Of particular importance will be to inspire staff, trustees and volunteers to have the confidence and desire to talk about legacies to enable Christian Aid to maximise legacy income. This role reports to the Legacy Marketing Manager.

You will be a pivotal member of the Legacies and Fundraising & Supporter Engagement teams, and the wider CA.

About the role

Legacies are Christian Aid's largest source of income, are one of our key fundraising priorities and have great potential to grow further. This new role, a leader within the Christian Aid Legacies team, will grow our legacy income by inspiring, training and equipping people across Christian Aid, at all levels to feel confident and motivated to speak about legacies. The training and equipping staff and volunteers is a key component of a sector leading legacy strategy that you'll need to help develop and implement, increasing the number of people who leave Christian Aid a gift in their Will while maximising the impact of the brilliant bequests from our legators.

The post holder will need to have excellent presentation skills and be hugely passionate about legacies. Working closely with the whole of the legacy team, they will develop and deliver an inspiring legacy training plan, along with associated materials and, where appropriate, events. By doing so they will help to lead a step change in legacy income in order to further Christian Aid's mission to create a world where everyone can life a full life, free from poverty and enhance our ability to deliver our 2019 - 2026 Global Strategy “Standing Together”.

About you

You are an inspirational team player who can engage with stakeholders and motivate external partners, staff and volunteers. You will need to have excellent communication, influencing and negotiating skills.

Knowledge:

-In depth knowledge (both practical and academic) and a current and sophisticated understanding of legacies

-Knowledge of the church and denominational structure preferred.

-Understanding of latest training and engagement theory and practice.

-Graduate equivalent with ideally a professional qualification

-Appreciation of the possible issues/challenges facing a leading UK charity

Experience:

-Extensive experience, and a proven task record, in training and inspirational roles, ideally legacies.

-Significant experience in the development of training materials in a variety of organisations.

-Experience of working in high calible teams and cross-organisational functions.

Skills & attributes

-Proven skill in planning, complex problem solving, negotiating and influencing at senior levels within an organisation.

-Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, able to adapt to changing workloads and ensuring key deadlines are met

-Excellent presentational and communication skills, both verbal and written

-Ability to establish and retain strong working relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external

-Strong influencing and negotiation skills

-Organised approach to project based work

-IT literate and proficient in Microsoft Office - includes database skills and Microsoft Word and Excel

-Ambition, drive, energy and enthusiasm to inspire partners in this critical area - future-proofing vital income streams

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Community Manager - SMEs

Our client seeks a Community Manager (SMEs) on a permanent full-time (35-hour week) basis. You can be based at their Cambridge Science Park office or home-based within the UK, if you are able to travel to their Cambridge office as necessary.

Position: Community Manager (SMEs)
Location: City of Cambridge (commutable from Alconbury, Bedford, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge North, Cherry Hinton, Chesterton, Ely, Fen Drayton, Fenstanton, Histon & Impington, Hitchin, Huntingdon, Longstanton, Milton, Newmarket, Northstowe, Oakington, Orchard-Park, Royston, Saffron Walden, Somersham, St Ives, St Neots, Stevenage, Swavesey, Waterbeach, Wyton and surrounding areas)
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 35 hour per week
Salary £40,828 - £45,363 per annum plus benefits
Benefits: Excellent contributory pension scheme, generous paid holidays, 35-hour (for full-time staff) working week, learning and career development, subsidised staff restaurant (Cambridge office), staff sports and social club, free private healthcare plan, income protection scheme, critical illness insurance, life assurance, free on-site parking (Cambridge office), season ticket, car/motorcycle and cycle to work schemes, membership subscription, employee assistance programme, eye-care at work scheme, wellness initiatives, flexible work environment, employee recognition, long service awards, membership subscription to professional body and their organisation, two discounted staff flats on-site (Cambridge office) and more.

Closing Date: 31 August 2020

About the role:

The Community Manager (SMEs) is an outward-looking role, suited to somebody who enjoys developing and growing business communities and building relationships.

You will join a friendly, open and entrepreneurial team passionately supporting science, collaborations and skills in the chemistry-based industries. The role reports to the Senior Manager – Industry and is part of community management, part project management.

As Community Manager (SMEs) you will develop a bird’s eye view of the needs, gaps, and opportunities for companies, and be the voice for hundreds of high potential SMEs. As a result of the excellent understanding of our companies, the role holder will play a crucial role in facilitating interactions between businesses and help inform future initiatives to increase the impact, visibility and support for our chemistry-based SMEs.

Essential knowledge and skills:

• Experience working in one or more chemistry-based industries, or experience working with business communities.
• Educated to degree-level or higher, in chemical sciences or other science subjects.
• Knowledge and ability to talk confidently and passionately about topics relating to business and technology to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Understanding of the needs of small companies and the environment, they operate in.
• Demonstrable relationship management and influencing skills.
• Strong communicator, written and oral, able to produce clear, concise and accurate documents, presentations, blogs.
• Highly organised, objective and deadline-orientated with a clear ability to manage and prioritise a workload in order to meet tight deadlines
• A team player, who thrives in fast paced and changing environment.
• Initiative and ability to develop new ideas and approaches.
• Strong IT skills.
• Excellent project and financial management skills.

Desirable knowledge and skills:

• Community management experience.
• Experience of using CRM systems.
• Experience organising events, workshops, roundtables.

Our client supports development and offers excellent benefits.

If this sounds of interest, please apply before the end of their closing date.

You may have experience of the following: Marketing, Recruitment, Stakeholder Management, Client Relationship Manager, Account Manager, Tender Management, Project Manager, Project Management, etc.

Ref: 93805

Monitoring, Evaluation, Impact & Learning Lead
Flexible UK Location (ideally within a commutable distance of Bristol)

About Us

Development Initiatives (DI) is an international development organisation that focuses on putting data-driven decision-making at the heart of poverty eradication.

Our vision is a world without poverty that invests in human security and where everyone shares the benefits of opportunity and growth.

We provide rigorous information to support better decisions, influence policy outcomes, increase accountability and strengthen the use of data to eradicate poverty.

We are currently seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, Impact & Learning (MEIL) Lead to join our team and take on an engaging office and home-based role.

The Benefits

- Salary of £40,000 - £45,000 per annum, dependent on experience and location weighting
- Pension (5% of salary)
- 25 days’ holiday + option to buy/sell holiday
- Up to five days’ paid leave for charitable work volunteering to address poverty and/or help vulnerable people
- Smart casual dress code policy
- Flexitime and homeworking options
- Cycle to work scheme
- Simply Health Cash scheme with employee assistance programme
- Paid professional fees and study leave
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/sick leave policies

If you are an experienced professional with experience of monitoring the impact of research and policy change programmes and a track record within policy units, think tanks or CSOs, this is an exciting opportunity to help a ground-breaking organisation perform at their best.

Your work will enable us to grow, improve the way we work and support us to achieve our vision of ending world poverty and creating sustainable communities.

The Role

As the Monitoring, Evaluation, Impact & Learning Lead, you will play a vital role in helping Development Initiatives to measure the impact of our work. We seek to trace the cause and effect of our research and data on policymaking and poverty reduction.

Specifically, you will provide expertise and leadership to our organisation, building upon existing MEIL systems and working across all content areas to ensure we deliver on our strategic objectives and make impact through our work.

Specifically, you will:

- Guide and support us to effectively plan for, measure, report on and learn about our outcomes and impact
- Ensure that we embed the concept of impact throughout our projects and portfolios
- Form close relationships with theme leads, engagement leads and project sponsors
- Work closely with our Head of Development to ensure that clear frameworks for impact are created
- Help inform our impact narrative for marketing and branding purposes
- Ensure that the project management systems for MEIL are robust and aligned with our approach
- Identify the impact of research and data on policymaking and poverty reduction

About You

To join us as a Monitoring, Evaluation, Impact & Learning Lead, you will need:

- Previous experience of monitoring the impact of research and policy change programmes
- To have worked with policy units and/or with think tanks, CSOs or similar
- Experience of developing and delivering effective training and capacity building programmes and learning
- An understanding of development processes with experience and knowledge of policies around poverty-related issues and/or open data and development
- Knowledge of best practices and industry standards in monitoring, evaluation, impact, and learning

We would like to hear from you if you have worked as a Project Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation & Impact Manager, MEIL Manager, Monitoring & Impact Manager, Project Impact & Evaluation Manager, or Project Impact Manager.

The closing date for this role is the 21st August 2020.

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About us

Christian Aid has recently launched its new organisational strategy and Fundraising & Supporter Engagement Strategic Plan. This is a wonderful opportunity to help develop and implement sector-leading partnerships which will inspire more people to leave Christian Aid a gift in their Will. As Legacy Partnerships Specialist, you will be responsible for developing an effective legacy partnerships strategy, enhancing our reach and impact. Of particular importance will be to transform our relationships with our churches to enable both Christian Aid and the churches to maximise legacy income.

You will be a pivotal member of the Legacies and Fundraising & Supporter Engagement management teams, and the wider CA.

About the role

Legacies are Christian Aid's largest source of income, are one of our key fundraising priorities and have great potential to grow further. This new role, a leader within the Christian Aid Legacies team, will grow our legacy income by developing partnerships with our sponsoring and other partner churches, with solicitors and more widely across and beyond the sector to maximise the amazing potential legacies have. The forming and expanding of partnerships with organisations and churches is a key component of a sector leading legacy strategy that you'll need to help develop and implement, increasing the number of people who leave Christian Aid a gift in their will while maximising the impact of the brilliant bequests from our legators.

Influencing key stakeholders within and outside Christian Aid, this role will increase legacy giving by raising the profile of legacies across Christian Aid making everyone a legacy fundraiser. They will need to have excellent communication, influencing and negotiating skills and be passionate about legacies. Working closely with the Legacy team and the Head of Marketing and Fundraising, they will develop sector leading partnerships to promote the opportunity to leave a legacy gift. By doing so they will help to lead a step change in legacy income in order to further Christian Aid's mission to create a world where everyone can life a full life, free from poverty and enhance our ability to deliver our 2019 - 2026 Global Strategy “Standing Together”. .

About you

You are an inspirational team player who can engage with stakeholders and motivate external partners, staff and volunteers. You will need to have excellent communication, influencing and negotiating skills.

Knowledge:

-In depth knowledge (both practical and academic) and a current and sophisticated understanding of legacies

-Knowledge of the church and denominational structure preferred.

-Experience of budget management

-Proficient in financial and supporter data analysis

-Knowledge and understanding of general leadership and management principles and best practice

-Graduate equivalent with ideally a professional qualification

-Appreciation of the possible issues/challenges facing a leading UK charity

Experience:

-Extensive experience, and a proven track record, in partnership roles, ideally legacies.

-Significant experience in the development of partnerships in a variety of organisations.

-Experience of working in high calibre teams and cross-organisational functions.

Skills & attributes

-Proven skill in planning, complex problem solving, negotiating and influencing at senior levels within an organisation.

-Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, able to adapt to changing workloads and ensuring key deadlines are met

-Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

-Ability to establish and retain strong working relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external

-Strong influencing and negotiation skills

-Organised approach to project based work

-IT literate and proficient in Microsoft Office - includes database skills and Microsoft Word and Excel

-Ambition, drive, energy and enthusiasm to inspire partners in this critical area - future-proofing vital income streams

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

We’re on the look-out for a data-driven account manager who has UK and International agency experience,  working on Charity fundraising appeals. At Consider, you'll be responsible for managing and nurturing our key client relationships, as well as producing year on year appeal plans and detailed ROI, response rate and conversion metrics for direct mail and digital campaigns. 

Consider exists to make a difference. We insist the world should be better – and so do our clients. We’re creatives, communicators, fundraisers and planners. Our clients bring us their challenges and we give them strategy and storytelling – and we get them results. Consider: it means thinking deeply, and differently. That’s what we do.

You’ll be responsible for helping us grow our existing clients and developing our expertise in the Charity, Membership and Education sectors. You are commercially aware, with an in-depth knowledge of how charities operate. We are looking for an Account Manager who has worked in a fundraising agency of 10-20 people, who excels in being a team player and pitching in when needed across all aspects of the business, gaining responsibility and valuable experience along the way. 

You're comfortable working on projects such as:

• British Heart Foundation - Legacy cross-organisation advocacy campaign
• London School of Economics - Brand identity for The Marshall Institute
• Save the Children - Legacy pledger stewardship experience
• ACCA - Welcome and stewardship journey to membership

So far so good? Splendid. Have a glance down the final tick-list below and get in touch.

• You have the ability to analyse and distil our client's objectives and make top-line recommendations for future campaigns
• You love data and are able to produce insights from client and campaign data - including market & audience segmentation, personalisation, ROI, response rates and conversion tracking
• You have experience working in international markets, and understand how to flex a campaign across multiple audiences, markets & territories
• You understand the differences between warm, cold, seasonal, legacy, in-mem, low, mid and high-value campaigns, and what the drivers are for each
• You excel at managing relationships and workloads, both externally with clients, partners, suppliers, and internally with a team
• You have strong organisational abilities and are able to wear many “hats”
• You can facilitate projects on time, to budget and in line with expectations
• You are a people person and enjoy working collaboratively in a team
• You are comfortable presenting and articulating your ideas to clients and your peers
• Your attention to detail is exceptional
• You have a head for numbers and enjoy the detail of budgets and quoting
• You know your way around a Gantt Chart and how to schedule multiple projects at the same time

Still sounding like this is meant for you? Great. Drop us a line with your CV, why you'd like to work at Consider.

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