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The Woodland Trust is looking for a Support Services Administrator to join our team. This is a 12 month fixed term contract.
The Role:
- In this role, you will be primarily responsible for handling calls, emails, and written responses, providing exceptional support to our members and supporters.
- You will work in a dynamic administration and customer service environment where your ability to address complex queries and handle complaints with professionalism will be crucial.
- This role is based in our Head Office based in Grantham, Lincolnshire with some flexibility to work from home.
The Candidate:
- You will have strong telephone and written communication skills and can build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
- You will have experience in customer service or public relations roles and a passion for conservation and environmental values that align with our mission.
- You will have accurate data entry skills as you will be processing payments using our secure payments platform
- You’ll have a keen eye for detail and be highly organised.
- Most importantly you will be just as capable working in a team as you are completing your tasks independently.
Benefits & Wellbeing: Joining our team means you'll be a big part of tackling environmental and climate issues. We take good care of our staff, offering support and training opportunities. We also offer:
- Enhanced Employer Pension
- Life Assurance
- Flexible & Hybrid Working Options
- Generous Annual Leave
- Enhanced Parental Pay
- Employee Assistance Programme
About Us: The Woodland Trust is the UK's leading woodland conservation charity and is dedicated to creating a world where trees and woods thrive for both people and nature. Our mission involves engaging and inspiring individuals to contribute toward tackling the nature and climate crisis through the protection, restoration, and creation of essential woodland habitats.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: To achieve our vision of a world where woods and trees thrive for people and nature, we need to better reflect society and the communities we work in. All people, no matter their background, identity, ability, or circumstance, should benefit from trees.
People of colour and disabled people are currently under-represented across the environment and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we particularly encourage you to apply.
Please contact us to discuss any additional support or adjustments you may need to complete your application.
Application Advice: For fairness we keep our candidates’ personal details hidden from the hiring managers. We do not ask for your CV at application stage.
Make sure that you answer the Application Questions to show your relevant skills and passion for the role.
Apply Now: If you're ready to make a difference and grow with us, send in your application today. We might close the job opening early if we get a lot of applications, so it's a good idea to apply soon. If we do close the advert early, and you have an application in process, we will email you prior to closing to give you time to complete.
Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
As our Corporate Communications Lead, you’ll be responsible for leading the British Heart Foundation’s corporate communications in support of its ambition to be the UK’s leading charity to work for and partner with.
You will be integral to inspiring this support, working with the Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs on BHF’s corporate communications strategy, with a focus on promoting the charity’s strategy, purpose and employer value proposition.
Responsible for supporting the Chief Executive in a broad range of communications that inspires support of BHF’s strategic agenda and mission to save and improve lives.
You will be making high-level decisions with significant risks due to the nature of the work, interacting with the CEO and wider senior leadership team. You will have responsibility for leading on projects and campaigns that will have a substantial influence on the reputation of BHF.
An integral member of the team responsible for developing integrated communications strategies and tactics to support the Charity’s objectives, you’ll work in partnership with the Head of Media and Head of Internal Communications and Engagement in delivering BHF’s communications objectives.
Working arrangements
This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
About you
As our ideal candidate, you bring experience developing communications strategies, narratives, and key messages and in-depth knowledge and experience in public relations, communications and/or journalism.
With a good understanding of UK media and an awareness of the UK’s charity, healthcare and policy landscape, you have experience of working across a broad range of communications channels – including media, internal communications, and social media.
A strong writer and storyteller with the skills to create compelling content for a range of audiences, you have experience of writing comment pieces and other forms of communications for senior leaders, capturing their tone of voice.
With strong communication and stakeholder management skills, you have experience of building and maintaining relationships with senior directors, stakeholders and partners.
About us
Our vision is a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer. We'll get there by funding cutting-edge research and innovation, which hold the keys to saving and improving more lives.
We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.
Benefits
We offer our staff generous benefits, such as:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Private medical insurance, dental health cover, and money towards gym membership.
- Pension scheme with employer contribution up to 10%.
- Full pay for 12 weeks for family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
- Life assurance.
- Extra paid leave of up to 10 days to support colleagues who may need more time off work to look after themselves or others close to them.
Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.
Interview process
The interview process may take place in-person or virtually via MS Teams.
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

Administrator
Are you an experienced and competent administrator who could bring your skills and expertise to support a growing, inclusive, evangelistic and justice-seeking Church? Is doing a job that makes a difference important to you?
An exciting new opportunity has arisen to join the Mission team within the Connexional Team, providing comprehensive and high-level administrative support, primarily to the Evangelism and Growth and Justice-Seeking teams.
About the Role
You will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of two dynamic teams, supporting their work in helping the Church live out its calling in evangelism, growth, and justice. This is a varied and rewarding role that requires initiative, attention to details, and a passion for supporting meaningful work.
About You
The ideal candidate will be:
- Enthusiastic and hardworking, with a proven ability to manage a varied workload
- Self-motivated, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- A strong team player, who is flexible, adaptable, and highly organised
- Skilled in multitasking and time management skills.
Our Culture, Values and Benefits
Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.
We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.
The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups.
Join us in making a meaningful difference. Complete an application form today!
If you require reasonable adjustments to made at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact the HR team.
Closing date for completed application forms: 13 July 2025
Interviews will be held in London on: 24 July 2025 in Person.
N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.

Summary
Are you a creative and digitally savvy communicator with a passion for meaningful work? Join the National Safeguarding Team as our new Digital Officer and play a pivotal role in promoting awareness, engagement, and best practices across a range of safeguarding initiatives.
As Digital Officer, you'll support the Communications Manager in delivering outreach campaigns, producing high-quality multimedia content, and shaping digital strategies that drive impact and engagement. You'll contribute to both ongoing communications efforts and upcoming campaigns, ensuring our safeguarding messages are delivered with clarity, sensitivity, and reach.
- Develop and deliver compelling digital content across web, social media, print, and video platforms.
- Support safeguarding communications initiatives with creative input and timely execution.
- Act as a digital imaging expert-offering training, managing content workflows, and ensuring quality control.
- Coordinate and deliver digital content projects in line with organisational goals and engagement strategies.
- Ensure all digital material complies with accessibility, copyright, and data management requirements.
- Collaborate with IT colleagues to maintain and optimise multimedia tools and equipment.
- A basic DBS check will be required as part of our pre-employment checks.
- This is a hybrid role with the expectation to work from the office location 1-3 days per week.
What We're Looking For
- A proactive, detail-oriented individual with strong digital content creation skills.
- Experience in web content management, graphic design, or multimedia production.
- A team player committed to professional development and adaptable to evolving communication needs.
- Knowledge of copyright law and best practices in digital media and safeguarding communications is highly desirable.
You will need to be/have:
- Strong IT skills, including proficiency in image creation, publishing, and photo editing software (e.g. Capture One, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge or similar), as well as general applications such as Microsoft Office.
- Attention to detail and care in handling sensitive digital content, ensuring accuracy, security, and compliance with relevant guidelines.
- Proficient in creating high-quality visual and written content for digital campaigns, with strong technical knowledge of web technologies, HTML/CSS, SEO, and UX design.
- Experienced in using content and digital asset management systems, working within agile environments, and delivering user-focused solutions.
- Demonstrated solid editorial, customer service, and copyright compliance capabilities in digital communications.
- The ability to work unsupervised and as a member of a team.
- The ability to organise your own work and prioritise duties across a range of work areas and projects.
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- A salary of £40,572 per annum, plus age-related pension contributions between 8-15% of salary. We will also match any pension contributions you make up to an additional 3% of your salary.
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30 days within 5 years) plus eight bank holidays and three additional days (pro-rated if working part-time).
- We welcome all flexible working arrangement requests. This is looked at in a case-by-case scenario and if this fits within the department's needs. We try to be as flexible as we can in your work pattern to support you with other commitments, and to give a good work-life balance.
- We offer many services and initiatives under our Family Friendly Programme, some of these include enhanced Maternity Leave initiative, Adoption Leave, Paternity Leave, & Shared Parental Leave. Structured induction programme and access to a range of development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Automatic enrolment and access to Medicash (one of the UK's leading health cash plan providers), providing you with many services including reimbursements of routine dental treatment, optical, specialist consultations, and therapy treatments. Unlimited access to virtual GP & Private prescription service and health & Stress related helplines.
- Access to Occupational Health, and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to the Department of Education Restaurant and Westminster Abbey with a plus-one guest.
- Apply for eligibility for an Eyecare voucher.
- Opportunity to join the Civil Service Sports & Social Club, and get involved in a range of staff networks, groups and societies.
- Strive for Excellence
- Show Compassion
- Respect others
- Collaborate
- Act with Integrity
Location: Head Office (Camden)/Hybrid
Salary: £65,968 per annum (Fixed Salary)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 31st July 2025
Closing Time: 00:00am
Are you looking for a rewarding role working for an intersectional feminist organisation? If so, we have an incredible opportunity for you to join our team as the Director of People & Culture at Solace Women's Aid.
You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.
Our core values reflect our history and were developed in consultation with staff and service users. Feminism and intersectionality are key to our work and we are committed to the principles of being survivor-led, trauma-informed, empowering, diverse, anti-racist and anti-discriminatory.
About Us
Solace Women’s Aid is dedicated to ending the harm caused by gender-based violence. We work with women and children, offering services that are tailored to the unique needs of survivors. Our approach is holistic and empowering, partnering with survivors to help them achieve independent, abuse-free lives.
About the Role
Reporting to the CEO, Solace is looking for someone who is an impactful ambassador, passionate about the women’s sector and the opportunities available across London and wider UK. We are looking for an individual who is dedicated to our cause and who can lead a team to deliver our strategic aims. The best candidate for this role will a visible and inspirational senior leader with experience of leadership and management at this level and relevant professional qualifications. They will be able to build effective relationships across a network of stakeholders and deliver projects on time, due to the nature of the charity, within a restricted budget.
About You
You'll be a strategic and people-focused leader, passionate about shaping workplace culture whilst driving organisational success through its people. You thrive in environments where you can foster inclusivity, with a proven ability to work closely with Executive teams and Boards.You'll also be committed to developing talent, building strong and purpose-driven relationships and company culture across Solace.
What we can offer you
We provide a comprehensive benefits package to all our employees, including:
- Flexible working
- Focus on learning and development (internal career progression and training)
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Employer pension contribution
- Family-friendly leave and enhanced maternity pay
- Access to Inclusion Networks
- Daily clinical debriefing
- Employee Assistance Programme providing free 24/7 support and advice
- Employee Benefits Platform offering staff discounts, benefits and savings
- Flow & Restore yoga classes
- Meditation sessions
- Cycle to Work Scheme
How to apply
When applying for this role, kindly highlight in your Supporting Statement how your values, knowledge, transferrable skills, and experience align with each point within the following sections of the Job Profile Document:
- Values, Behaviours & Competencies
- Knowledge, Experience and Skills
Solace Women's Aid values diversity, promotes equity, and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, abilities, perspectives, and lived experiences. We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay, and benefits. Our Inclusion Networks support staff with protected characteristics and offer inclusive spaces to connect.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments as needed and support employees who acquire a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
This service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to female applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2) e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 apply. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
As part of safer recruitment practices, we carry out pre-employment checks including references, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and right to work in the UK checks.
No agencies.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for an ambitious and strategic Development Director to shape the future and income streams for our museum & mill . This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to build a ground up strategy and lead the development of an ambitious organisation.
Thanks to generous funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Pilgrim Trust, The Headley Trust, Granada Foundation & Arts Council England, The Silk Heritage Trust is embarking on an ambitious 18-month development programme Strengthening The Future of Macclesfield's Heritage.The Trust is working to establish The Silk Museum and Paradise Mill as a national centre for silk heritage and heritage textile crafts. Strengthening The Future of Macclesfield’s Heritage moves the Trust towards this vision, strengthening fundraising capacity plus staff and board skills, to provide a solid foundation for the future.
The Trust has achieved a great deal over the last 5 years, securing funding from public sources, trusts, and foundations. This newly created role will build on this success and attract substantial support from individuals and corporate sources. It involves working with internal and external stakeholders to raise funds for core funding, projects, and capital campaigns. It is envisaged that the post-holder will work with Trustees and staff to establish a Development sub-group to inform and drive this work. Strategic planning and communications are key to this. This role will drive forward new plans for individual giving, philanthropy and fundraising to significantly rebuild the Trust’s reserves.
Role:
To lead the Trust’s work towards financial resilience through broadening its income streams
To increase voluntary income from funders and philanthropists by 50%, reflating free reserves, through an ambitious Development & Fundraising Strategy
To initiate, lead, and deliver projects to develop and transform the work, premises, and staff of the Silk Museum & Paradise Mill, working with consultancy support to:
· Develop a 3-5 year business plan
· Cost and plan options for tackling the site:
o Limitations to accessibility and visitor welcome
o Constraints to income generation
o significant challenges to building maintenance, environmental sustainability, care, and display of our collections
o rising energy costs
· Secure funding for major conservation, building repairs and organisational development.
To build a new supporter community and membership offer to attract supporters and philanthropists for the Trust’s development plans
To build and lead strong relationships with partners for collaboration, fundraising, and sponsorship
To drive strong working relationships and communication with Museum staff, volunteers, and Trustees, to develop a broad fundraising ethos, including training and mentoring to Trustees and Museum staff
To keep current with fundraising sector developments, approaches, and opportunities
Specific Responsibilities and Duties:
Development
· Review and develop the Trust’s Development & Fundraising Strategy, identifying and pursuing fundraising opportunities, campaigns, and funding applications in line with this strategy, including:
o Trusts and foundations
o Statutory funders
o Corporate support and partnerships
o a new legacies programme, Supporters, and individual giving programmes
· Maximise income and in-kind support through fundraising activities onsite and online, including events and sponsorship, to engage current supporters and cultivate new relationships.
· Ensure that all fundraising activities are delivered professionally and timely to ensure maximum and meaningful engagement
· Manage the evaluation of fundraising activities and prepare and submit reports to key stakeholders.
· Deliver reporting for statutory funders, ensuring that the museum delivers on its reporting requirements in a timely manner.
General responsibilities and duties
· Oversee the work of the Programming Team (Senior Curator, Paradise Mill; Museum Curator; Community Engagement Programmer) in delivering, evaluating, and reporting on existing funded programmes, including Arts Council CIP, Pilgrim Trust, Granada Foundation, Foyle Foundation, and Macclesfield Town Council.
· Contribute to the success and culture of The Silk Heritage Trust
· Interact and cooperate proactively with all employees, trustees, and volunteers, ensuring good teamwork.
· Manage performance of staff, volunteers, and researchers as appropriate and in line with the Trust’s performance management processes.
· Make best use of technology across our activities.
· Support effective communications and promotion of The Silk Museum and Paradise Mill
· Work flexibly at times and on occasions that connect with the needs of audiences and communities.
· Ensure we are adhering to and compliant with our policies, processes, and statutory obligations.
· Help to ensure any barriers to equality of opportunity are removed and to eliminate unfair and unlawful discrimination, giving everyone an equal chance to learn, work and live free from discrimination and prejudice.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and target driven individual with experience of delivering investment from wide range of funding streams. The successful candidate will have a passion for storytelling, relationship building and strong negotiation, networking, and stewardship skills. You will know the complexities of working with funders and stakeholders and are able to develop strong long-term relationships, resulting in investment.
Diversity and equality within our workforce, programmes and approaches is crucial to our mission of being inclusive and relevant to our communities. We want everyone to feel welcome. We, therefore, particularly welcome applications from candidates under-represented at The Silk Museum and within the heritage sector, including Global Majority candidates and/or candidates with disabilities.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Prospectus are delighted to working exclusively with our client in their search for a Senior Finance Officer.
The organisation is a leading local conservation charity dedicated to protecting and restoring nature, inspiring people to connect with wildlife, and tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. The charity manages nature reserves, delivers habitat restoration projects, and advocates for wildlife across counties.
This Senior Finance Officer role is available on a permanent contract and full-time basis. The salary banding for this role is between £35,000-£38,500, dependent on level of experience. This is also a hybrid role where they would like the postholder to attend the Leicestershire office 3 days a week.
The charity are looking for a self-motivated and communicative finance professional to support with ensuring smooth running of financial operations and support with decision making. You will also ensure to maintain accurate records and ensure compliance with relevant charity, financial, and tax regulations.
You will prepare monthly management accounts and financial reports for senior management and trustees. You will monitor budgets and forecasts, process invoices, expenditure, and bank reconciliations. You will manage and maintain the Trust’s finance system (Sage). You will look to continuously evolve financial processes and procedures. You will also support with the administration of restricted funds, grants, and project budgets, including reporting to funders.
To be successful in this role, you will be AAT qualified or part-qualified ACCA/CIMA, or equivalent finance qualification. You will have experience in a similar finance role, ideally in the charity or non-profit sector. You will have a strong working knowledge of accounting software (e.g. Sage, Xero, or similar packages). You will also have demonstrable experience using Microsoft Excel and excellent attention to detail.
You will have an understanding of charity finance, in particular restricted and unrestricted funding. You will be a strong communicator, who can work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders and present financial information in a clear manner.
Desirably, you will have experience supporting financial reporting for externally funded projects (e.g. National Lottery Heritage Fund). You will also have knowledge of SORP and charity accounting standards.
At Prospectus, we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.
We are reviewing applications for this position on a rolling basis, so please submit your application as soon as possible, to ensure you do not miss out!
Bookings Team Executive
Contract: Temporary / Fixed until November 2025
Location: Hybrid – United Kingdom (Multiple Office locations)
Offices: Cardiff, Belfast, Salford, Edinburgh, London
Salary: £28,000 per annum, pro rata
About Into Film
Into Film is the UK’s leading charity for film in education and the community. We provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers, and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching.
We also run the annual Into Film Festival which enables more than 400,000 pupils to visit the cinema for free, and the Into Film Awards – the UK’s leading showcase for young filmmaking talent.
The core Into Film programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery good cause funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.
Our vision – Film enriches the life of every child and young person.
Our mission – To inspire and support young people to learn, and to realise their creative, cultural and career aspirations, through film and the moving image.
Role Summary
The main function of the Bookings Team Executive role is to provide high quality customer service for the Into Film Festival. This will mean receiving calls, processing bookings and liaising with educators through email and by phone. It will also involve making outbound calls to drive bookings, speaking to attending teachers and liaising with cinemas to ensure the festival runs smoothly. This is an exciting, front-line, varied role requiring high level communication skills and a solution focused attitude. It is an opportunity to develop customer service and CRM (Salesforce/Aerian) skills and to work for the world’s largest film festival for young people. This role is offered on a fixed term, three-month basis.
Main Responsibilities:
- To be the first point of contact for public festival enquiries; answering calls and emails, processing bookings and problem solving.
- Proactively reaching out over email and phone to educators/bookers, aiming to sign them up to the festival.
- Liaising with the festival team to ensure all enquiries and issues are resolved.
- Checking, updating and uploading booking information onto our festival website (via Aerian - training available).
- Updating the daily incident log (via Excel) - this is used for tracking all enquiries/issues from cinemas.
- Liaising with exhibitors as and when required and as directed.
- General support in relation to all aspects of the festival.
- Any other reasonable duties assigned by Into Film.
General Responsibilities:
- Commitment to quality internally and in all dealings with Into Film’s stakeholders including teachers, children and young people, industry partners, funders, supporters, parents and carers, and members of the public.
- Commitment and active participation in helping Into Film live its EEDI values and ethos through everything it does.
- Contribute to long term planning to ensure growth in line with demand and resources.
- Contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of Into Film’s work.
Person Specification:
Minimum Requirements:
- Experience of a customer service role.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to convey ideas persuasively.
- Strong organisational capability.
- Base level Excel or equivalent skills.
- Experience of working under pressure while handling a high volume of public enquiries.
Desirable:
- Experience of using Teams.
- Experience of using a CRM.
- Experience of talking to teachers/schools.
- Understanding of the education sector.
- Familiarity with the Microsoft Office suite.
- A love and knowledge of film.
Into Film employees enjoy the following benefits:
- Annual Leave – 28 days (pro-rata).
- Pension – matched up to 5% of salary (2% above statutory employer contribution).
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – 24/7 confidential wellbeing support, advice and guidance.
- Wisdom health cover – including £75 annual eye care cover, as well as health insurance (non-contributory, apart from employee tax contribution).
- BenefitHub portal – offering discounts on healthcare, wellbeing products, and lifestyle products and services.
All employees regularly working with children and member data are required to undertake and maintain enhanced DBS clearance (and/or Access NI check or Disclosure Scotland check, depending on working location), acquired at Into Film’s expense; employment is dependent upon this.
Closing: 9:00am, Tuesday 29th July 2025
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to Applied to complete your application for this position.
At Into Film, we use Applied for our recruitment. Applied aims to overcome unconscious bias in recruiting. The responses are anonymised, and reviewed in a random order by members of our team.
No agencies please.
JUSTICE is looking to recruit a new Criminal Policy Lawyer to join our policy team. This is a permanent post although there are options for fixed term positions on request (minimum of 12 months), for example if someone is seeking a period of time off from practice but envisages returning. This provides an exciting opportunity for a practising lawyer with a strong research background keen to engage in high-level policy and law reform work. We are looking for a lawyer mainly interested in criminal justice, as well as in cross-cutting issues affecting the functioning of the justice system (current cross-cutting projects include work on the state of the rule of law in the UK and AI, human rights and the law in the justice system).
The JUSTICE team are currently working in a hybrid manner. Staff members have access to office space in London. Attendance is currently non-compulsory, but staff based within a reasonable distance of the office are encouraged to attend at least once a week. Our staff enjoy flexible working conditions, 27 days annual leave plus a wellbeing day, a birthday day, and the days between Christmas and the New Year off, 8% employer pension contribution and access to an Employee Assistance Programme.
JUSTICE is at the forefront of work promoting access to a fair criminal justice system for all. The successful candidate will be building on our recent work on racial injustice in the youth criminal justice system and post-conviction decision making including the parole system and administrative decision making in prisons as well as our cross-cutting workstream on the state of the rule of law in the UK. They will also be scoping and setting up a new criminal justice project relating to fraud.
We would like to a recruit bright, motivated person who is passionate about criminal justice system reform, the promotion of access to justice and fair trial. The successful candidate must be able to work independently and as part of a team. With excellent interpersonal skills, they will be able to work closely with JUSTICE members, who include senior figures in the legal profession. The post holder will work with our Deputy Legal Director to further develop our criminal justice work stream and assist on system-wide proposals for change. This role is focused primarily on England and Wales, though it will touch on UK wide issues and Scottish criminal justice system from time-to-time.
The candidate pack including the Job Description for the role can be found on our website.
To apply, please complete the application form which can be found on our website.
The deadline for applications is 11:59pm on 13 July 2025.
Interviews will be held during the week starting 28 July 2025. Candidates may be required to complete a test as part of the interview process.
JUSTICE is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, but particularly welcome applications from individuals from marginalised groups, those with lived experience of the justice system, as well as those underrepresented in the legal professional including women, people of colour, trans and non-binary people, and disabled people.
Please note that we will not respond to any enquiries from recruitment agencies.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Independent Gender Violence Advocate (IGVA)
Location: The GAIA Centre (Lambeth)
Salary: £28,857.12 per annum (Inclusive of London Weighting, which may not be applicable depending on your home location and any agreed permanent homeworking arrangement)
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as an IGVA supporting women and children who are impacted by different strands of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). The independent gender violence advocate will work closely with victims of gender-based violence from the point of crisis, to provide high quality independent advocacy and support to survivors of gender-based violence at the highest risk and their children.
The role will be part of increasing the ability of partner agencies to recognise, reject and respond appropriately and safely to all forms of gender-based violence (including domestic violence, sexual, financial and emotional abuse, female genital mutilation, forced marriage and honour-based violence). The job involves working within a multi-agency framework consisting of the MARAC and local partnership protocols and procedures that prioritise the safety of survivors. The post holder will empower survivors by providing them with emotional, practical and personal welfare support. The job involves ensuring that women are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment, enabling them to access their rights, make decisions and increase their life options
The job involves working within a multi-agency framework consisting of the MARAC and local partnership protocols and procedures that prioritise the safety of survivors. The job involves informing survivors of the full range of civil, criminal, and practical options that might increase their safety.
Closing Date: 09:00am 5 August 2025
Interview Date: 14 and 15 August 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Policy and Networks Officer
- Internal Job title: Policy and Networks Officer or Senior Policy and Networks Officer (note that there are different requirements listed in the job description & person specification – please state which you are applying for)
- Location: FLEX office, Vauxhall, London – Flexible hybrid working with a mixture of in person and home/office working.
- Salary: £33,500 (Officer) or £38,500 (Senior Officer) per annum subject to deductions for tax and national insurance contributions as required by law, pro-rated if part time.
- Hours: Full time, 5 days, equivalent to 37.5 hours per week. There is also the option to work part time at 0.8 FTE (30 hours per week).
- Pension: 4%, incremental pension contributions.
- Contract: Permanent
- Reporting to: Head of Policy
- People management: 1-2 trainees/interns. If appointed as Senior Officer: up to 1-2 staff members/trainees
- Deadline for applications: 20th July 2025 (11.59pm)
- Interviews: 28-30 July 2025
About the role
FLEX is looking for a passionate advocate with a good understanding of the UK political system, of labour abuse and/or exploitation and human trafficking in the UK, and demonstrable experience of coalition working and building relationships with key stakeholders working in the anti-trafficking, employment rights, and/or immigration sectors. This recruitment comes at an exciting and challenging time for our work at the intersection of employment rights and immigration policy. This role will inform and support our work to influence and improve law, policy and practice affecting worker in high-risk sectors in the UK.
In this role, you will lead on FLEX’s advocacy at the London level and coordinate the joint research advocacy and project work of FLEX networks and coalitions. These currently include the Labour Exploitation Advisory Group (LEAG) and the Taskforce on Victims of Trafficking in Immigration Detention, two networks made of expert organisations directly supporting people who have experienced or are at risk of exploitation. Above all this role requires someone with real passion and commitment to FLEX’s work to end labour exploitation and an excitement for working in a small, dynamic team.
How to apply:
For more information about this role and how to apply, please visit our website
An initial triage of applications is made against the criteria specified in the job description and failure to address how you meet these explicitly will affect your application. Your experience, ability and skills will be further assessed at an in-depth interview if you are invited to the next stage of the recruitment process.
We encourage applications from people who identify as part of marginalised communities or with lived experience of the immigration system.
If you are disabled or become disabled, we encourage you to tell us about your condition so that we can make reasonable adjustments and consider what support may be provided at the interview and task stage.
We are working to end labour exploitation by challenging and transforming the systems and structures that make workers vulnerable to abuse.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
We're Hiring: Play & Youth Work Lead | Doorstep Homeless Families Project
Location: North London
Salary: £28,000 - £33,000 per annum (pro rata)
Hours: 28 Hours per week - 20 hours face to face and 8 hours for admin
About Doorstep
Doorstep is a vibrant community organisation providing inclusive support services to children, young people, and families. Our offerings include creches, stay-and-play sessions, after-school and youth clubs, holiday programmes, adult workshops, and practical help such as laundry facilities and a weekly community bazaar.
Our mission is to help local families thrive — and we’re now looking for a Play & Youth Work Lead to join us in delivering this vision.
The Role:
As the Play & Youth Work Lead, you'll be at the heart of our children and youth services — designing and leading a dynamic, inclusive programme that supports the wellbeing, development, and empowerment of local young people and their families.
You’ll manage our play and youth team, run a variety of sessions and events, and work collaboratively with partners and the local community. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate, experienced practitioner to make a real difference in young lives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead engaging, inclusive sessions across age groups (under 4s to 18s) including after-school clubs and youth programmes.
- Develop and deliver creative, youth-led programmes including play, learning, leadership, and personal development activities.
- Coordinate and support a team of staff, sessional workers, and volunteers.
- Act as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead, ensuring a safe environment for all.
- Develop strategic partnerships and represent Doorstep in the wider community.
- Monitor outcomes, manage budgets, and produce reports for trustees.
- Promote youth voice and participation across our programmes and beyond.
What We’re Looking For:
Essential:
- Minimum Level 3 qualification in Youth Work or related field
- 3+ years’ experience working with children and young people
- Strong safeguarding knowledge and ability to lead a team
- Experience designing and delivering inclusive play/youth programmes
- Passionate about empowering young people and families
- Excellent communication, organisational, and leadership skills
Desirable:
- Play work qualification and/or sports coaching experience
- Knowledge of local support networks (e.g., mental health, housing, education)
- Experience managing partnerships or community engagement projects
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a passionate, close-knit team making real community impact
- Shape and lead innovative programmes that reflect the needs and voices of local children and young people
- Access training and professional development opportunities
- Enjoy a supportive, inclusive, and creative working culture
Community Fundraising and Partnerships Coordinator
Charity People are thrilled to be partnering with All People All Places (APAP) in their search for a new Community Fundraising and Partnerships Coordinator; this is a newly created role that will lead on building meaningful relationships across the local community to generate new income and increase engagement.
"All People All Places is a small, locally focused homelessness charity working across Enfield and Haringey. We provide vital services including a day centre, advocacy and casework, and a small year-round night shelter. We work in close partnership with local agencies and are a trusted gateway service for those facing homelessness. This role is key to helping us grow our reach and impact through community-driven support."
George Dunstall CEO, All People All Places
This is a brilliant opportunity to join a mission-led organisation tackling homelessness as it presents locally. You'll lead on community fundraising and engagement, working with schools, faith groups, local businesses and individuals to inspire support and deliver impactful campaigns.
The Role
- Salary: £34,000-£38,000 FTE (£20,400-£30,400 actual)
- Part-time: 3 or 4 days per week (0.6-0.8 FTE)
- Location: Hybrid between home, office and within the local communities of Edmonton, Enfield
- Contract: 12-month fixed term with view to permanent extension
- 26 days (pro-rata) annual leave plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing fund for hobbies or self-care
- Training and development budget
- Cycle to work scheme and travel card loan
- 5% employer pension contribution
This new role will be at the centre of community fundraising; building relationships, coordinating events, and delivering campaigns that raise awareness and income. You'll also lead on the development of APAP's annual fundraising campaign and support the upcoming rebrand and communications strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and manage relationships with community groups, schools, and local businesses.
- Lead and develop community fundraising activities, events and opportunities.
- Develop and deliver APAP's annual fundraising campaign.
- Create engaging content and stories to showcase impact.
- Steward donors and fundraisers with warmth and professionalism.
- Taking a lead on organisational communications and developing targeted communications to reach existing and new audiences.
- Collaborate with the CEO and wider team to align fundraising with strategic goals.
- Develop a variety of relevant resources for use across different audiences
- Develop, implement and monitor 'supporter journey' processes.
Top 3 Priorities for the First 6 Months
- Develop and deliver a refreshed annual fundraising campaign.
- Build a network of community supporters and local partnerships.
- Embed new branding and messaging into community engagement and communications.
About You
We're looking for someone with proven experience in community fundraising and engagement, someone who can build trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups and communicate with clarity and warmth. You'll be confident managing multiple priorities independently and bring creativity and energy to campaigns and supporter engagement. Experience with Canva or similar design tools is a plus, as is familiarity with fundraising regulations, or a willingness to learn.
If this role inspires you to make your next career move, please get in touch with Kevin at Charity People to find out more about how to apply.
Closing date: Friday 25th July
Interview Date: w/c 28th July
Charity People is a forward thinking, inclusive organisation that actively and deliberately promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We know organisations thrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment by matching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespective of background e.g. age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we believe that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we work with.
Reading Specialist - HMP The Mount
Location: HMP The Mount (Hertfordshire)
Department: Prison delivery
Salary: £28,274 per annum
Hours: Full time (35 hours)
Contract Type: Permanent
Do you want to join an organisation committed to addressing low literacy levels amongst people in prison?
Shannon Trust are delighted to be working with His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) to provide peer-led literacy and numeracy programmes across a number of prisons. We now have the opportunity to provide a service at HMP The Mount. Working closely with the prison and their staff, people in prison, Shannon Trust volunteers and mentors, this post will lead the delivery and development of our prison-based reading and numeracy programme, maximising opportunities for people in prison to learn to read.
Ideally you will have some experience of prison settings underpinned by the ability to build relationships and personal qualities that include resilience, determination and a problem-solving approach.
This role will be prison based. Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme. The biggest benefit though is our culture – our people really want to work for the organisation.
We welcome job applications from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system and do not routinely ask for details of any criminal convictions. These roles do require prison security clearance, so we will need to ask for details of any relevant criminal convictions before an offer of employment is finalised.
Interviews are planned for: 1st August 2025
Benefits: Standard Shannon Trust: Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme.
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Do you want to work for an award winning charity? One that values its colleagues and clients alike? Do you want to have an impact and make a real difference to young people who need a fresh start? Do you have tenacity, resilience and strength of character to guide and advocate for young people?
BACKUP North West delivers support and housing services for homeless and vulnerable young people in Bolton. If you have great written and verbal communication skills, are committed to improving the lives of young people, are motivated and resilient, we need you! Due to growth we are looking for several new colleagues to work in front line service delivery roles across our supported housing provision. Your primary role will be to enable young people to achieve their potential, be safe and secure and move out of (literally) homeless services.
(We are Ofsted registered)
To join us, you will have to demonstrate a commitment to the ethos and values of the charity, be a positive role model for young people and colleagues and be person-centred.
Excellent people skills are a must. We are an Investors in People GOLD employer.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.