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Are you passionate about creating healthier, safer communities? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where compassion, collaboration, and innovation are at the heart of everything you do? Then Cranstoun wants to hear from you!
At Cranstoun, we’re not just another organisation—we’re a social justice and harm reduction charity with global ambition. With a powerful vision to be a world-class leader in rebuilding lives, we empower people across the UK to overcome life’s toughest challenges through creativity, compassion, and evidence-based practice.
Now, we’re looking for an experienced People & Culture Advisor to join our growing People team and support our mission to inspire positive change every day.
About the Role
As our People & Culture Advisor, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting managers and colleagues across the organisation by providing expert HR guidance on employee relations, onboarding, performance, and wellbeing. You’ll ensure Cranstoun’s values are embedded in everything we do—from policy to practice—while championing a positive and inclusive workplace culture.
Reporting to a People Partner, you will help shape and deliver strategic people initiatives that drive engagement and organisational success.
Key Responsibilities
What We’re Looking For
Location & Flexibility
What We Offer
Ready to Help Us Rebuild Lives?
If you’re driven by purpose and ready to take your HR career to the next level with an organisation that’s creating real change, apply now to become our next People & Culture Advisor.
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Job Title: Associate Careers Advisers (Schools Team)
Location: Kent and Medway
Salary: Day rate of £152 (inclusive of holiday pay)
Hours: Zero Hours
Contract: Zero Hours
Reports to: Senior Careers Adviser
About CXK
CXK empowers people to succeed in employment, education and training. The charity strives for a fairer society where everyone can grow and realise their potential. “The CXK Way” embodies the following core values:
Ethical – We work with professionalism, honesty and integrity
Passionate – We reach out enthusiastically to all who need out support
Innovative – We inspire, enhance and improve
Collaborative – We engage, support and share with others
Young Peoples’ Careers Service
CXK is the lead provider of Personal Careers Guidance to young people in schools and specialist centres across Kent & Medway, where we provide independent Personal Careers Guidance, via our CXK Young Peoples’ Careers Service.
We provide this through a variety of creative and innovative approaches
The Team
We are a diverse and welcoming team of advisers, who use a wide variety of creative methods to deliver personalised, client centred, personal careers guidance, ranging from one-to-one sessions through to group guidance, parents and options evenings, as well as focused talks and assemblies. We have minimal admin and keep our clients’ experience central to what we do, providing an inclusive service with individualised action plans, including the use of visual career maps, career cards and white boards, alongside more traditional approaches where appropriate.
We follow the CDI code of ethics and best practice for Action Planning (which names and recognises CXKs innovative work in this area):
The team is led by Chris Targett RCDP, who alongside his work at CXK, is the current Chair of the Careers Writers Association and co-author of the recently released Career Development and Inclusive Practice book, published by Trotman Publishing in partnership with the CDI.
The team is small but impactful. Feedback from our young people, that tell us about what our students valued regards our services:
The Role
The Careers Advisers will cover one or more of the following regions: Medway, West Kent and Mid Kent to a broad range of school and college settings, delivering creative and inclusive Personal Careers Guidance, as well as assemblies and drop-in sessions as required.
Each student and each learning environment will be unique, so the opportunity lends itself well to candidates who enjoy traveling and working in varied locations, meeting people from diverse backgrounds, and educating people of all abilities.
You will routinely liaise with Careers Leaders and senior school/ college staff to arrange and deliver activities for students during the school day. Whilst most delivery will take place between 8:30am and 4pm, travel before and after these times will be required and occasional attendance at parents’ and options evenings will also be required, but you will be given time off in lieu where this is applicable.
Skills and Knowledge
At CXK we are proud to be a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. We actively promote diversity within our workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Minimum Criteria
Core Competencies
Employee Experience
A career with CXK is rewarding work enabling you to fulfil your potential. This eclectic and exciting role within the CXK Young Peoples’ Careers team, provides the opportunity for you to travel from home to various education settings, networking with teachers and careers educators across the Kent and Medway area. You will hone specialised skills and knowledge relating to Post 16 and 18 career pathways, including 6th Forms, colleges, study programmes, gap-years, entrepreneurship, university and apprenticeship routes whilst being a positive influence on young people’s lives.
CXK employee benefits include:
Recruitment Timeline
Vacancy closing date: Ongoing
Application review date: Ongoing
Interviews dates: Ongoing
Useful Information
Should you wish to have an informal conversation before submitting your application, please contact recruitment @ cxk. org
Please note: Applicants will need to complete an enhanced DBS check and provide employment references before any offer of employment can be made.
All applications must be submitted online via our online portal.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Work with us
For pregnancy, parents and progress.
At NCT, what we do every day has a real impact on people’s lives.
We’re the UK’s charity for pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. For nearly 70 years, we’ve been alongside women and parents, offering trusted information, practical support and building communities.
Today, we reach hundreds of thousands of new and expectant parents every year. We provide antenatal and postnatal education, local and national support for infant feeding and mental health, and we campaign for fairer, safer maternity care. We listen to parents’ experiences and act on them - tackling health inequalities, challenging systems that don’t work, and pressing for progress.
About the role
Join our passionate team and contribute to the meaningful work that transforms the lives of parents and families. Your role will include:
About you
Why work at NCT?
Whether you’re supporting services, shaping policy, delivering programmes, raising funds, running operations or telling our story, you’ll be contributing to something bigger:
a society where everyone who becomes a parent feels confident, connected and safe.
People join NCT because they want to make a difference - and stay because they believe in how we do it.
How we work
We’re guided by a simple principle: no judgement, no exception. That shows up in how we support parents - and how we work with each other.
At NCT we are:
We deal with complex issues, make tough decisions, and work in environments that can be challenging. But we do it with honesty, care and a shared sense of purpose.
When you work at NCT you’ll get fantastic benefits to support your well-being and professional growth:
Join us
At NCT, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within your role, please let us know - we’re here to support you. If you want your work to contribute to lasting change - for generations of parents to come - we’d love to hear from you.
Together, we are NCT.
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
At NCT, we believe everyone should be able to shape their own journey - as parents, and as colleagues.
We are taking positive action to increase diversity across our organisation, at all levels, and to nurture a culture of inclusion and belonging for all our people and for the parents and families we support. You can read more about our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion action.
We are committed to zero discrimination, both internally and externally. This commitment applies regardless of visible or invisible difference, including (but not limited to): sex, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, disability, impairment, learning difference or long‑term condition, religion or belief, gender identity, economic class, marital or civil partnership status, family status (including single parents), socio‑economic background, pregnancy and maternity.
We actively welcome applications from people from communities who are under‑represented in our organisation and the charity sector more widely.
We are the charity supporting people as they become parents. Here through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.



We’re continuing to develop our Welcome and Access Services so that more people can ask for help. As part of this, we’re strengthening the role of volunteers with lived experience across everything we do. This role brings together direct support with volunteer engagement. You’ll help deliver our telephone access and Listening Ear services, while also playing a key part in welcoming, training and supporting volunteers involved in the Welcome and Access Team.
Position: Welcome Team and Volunteer Supervisor
Salary: £30,435 (£26,087 pro rata)
Hours: 30 hours per week
Base: Manchester Mind, Victoria House/Hybrid
Reporting to: Welcome and Access Service Manager
We value someone who:
· Is able to offer a warm, trauma‑informed response - providing calm, clear guidance when things feel uncertain and help keep our information and systems running smoothly so people can easily find what they need.
· Understands the value of volunteering and is able to guide development and create a space where volunteers feel valued, confident and well supported. An understanding of boundaries, safeguarding and reflective practice is important to this.
The skills and knowledge that matter to us:
· Building kind, trusting relationships where people feel heard and able to contribute.
· Working in a strengths‑based way that recognises potential and supports resilience.
· A commitment to working collaboratively to help bring about positive change.
All application documents can be downloaded from our website.
The deadline for these posts will be 12 noon on Friday 8th May 2026.
We know some people use AI and, whilst we would never say don’t use it, we just want to let you know that when people have used AI to help with their application, it can make applications very similar to each other. This makes it difficult when we are looking for a sense of who you are.
Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.
Our purpose is to create a space where mental health comes first.



The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Harris Hill is delighted to be partnering with Maudsley Charity to recruit a Finance Officer. This is a strong opportunity for a part-qualified or early-career finance professional looking to gain broad exposure across financial accounting, reporting and business partnering within a purpose-driven organisation.
As Maudsley Charity continues to invest in innovative projects that improve mental health care for those who need it most, they are entering an exciting phase of growth and operational development.
To support this, they are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Officer to play a key role in strengthening financial processes, supporting robust reporting, and enabling effective stewardship of funds. Working closely with the Finance Lead, this role will help ensure the organisation’s finances are managed with accuracy, integrity and insight, supporting informed decision-making and maximising the impact of every pound invested.
Location: London, UK (hybrid working)
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000
Contract: Full time, permanent
About the role
A varied, hands-on position within a small, collaborative Finance team. You’ll support day-to-day finance operations while contributing to reporting, budgeting and project work.
Key responsibilities include:
About you
This role would suit someone looking to step into a broader finance position with real variety and progression.
Closing date: 18th of May
interviews: Week commencing 1st of June (likely 4th of June)
Join our ‘Ask Us Anything’ webinar on Wednesday 13th of May at 12pm – 1pm. Link can be found in the information pack page 8.
Harris Hill is a certified B Corp™ and leading charity recruitment agency, committed to equitable and inclusive recruitment practices. Applications from all sections of the community are actively welcomed, regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality or other protected characteristics.
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An exciting oppourtunity to lead compassionate, community-driven perinatal services that make a real difference to families every day. Shape how frontline support is delivered across our Baby Bank, Community Doula service, infant feeding support, and volunteer programmes in Birmingham. Ensuring safe, trauma-informed care reaches those who need it most.
As Head of Service at Elayos, you’ll turn strategy into meaningful action. You will lead staff and volunteers, strengthen safeguarding practice, embed reflective learning, and champion lived experience at the heart of everything we do. This is a rare opportunity to combine operational leadership with purpose, impact, and values-led service development in a growing organisation supporting mothers and birthing people, who find themselves disadvantaged, during pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Work with us
For pregnancy, parents and progress.
At NCT, what we do every day has a real impact on people’s lives.
We’re the UK’s charity for pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. For nearly 70 years, we’ve been alongside women and parents, offering trusted information, practical support and building communities.
Today, we reach hundreds of thousands of new and expectant parents every year. We provide antenatal and postnatal education, local and national support for infant feeding and mental health, and we campaign for fairer, safer maternity care. We listen to parents’ experiences and act on them - tackling health inequalities, challenging systems that don’t work, and pressing for progress.
About the role
Join our passionate team and contribute to the meaningful work that transforms the lives of parents and families. Your role will include:
About you
Why work at NCT?
Whether you’re supporting services, shaping policy, delivering programmes, raising funds, running operations or telling our story, you’ll be contributing to something bigger:
a society where everyone who becomes a parent feels confident, connected and safe.
People join NCT because they want to make a difference - and stay because they believe in how we do it.
How we work
We’re guided by a simple principle: no judgement, no exception. That shows up in how we support parents - and how we work with each other.
At NCT we are:
We deal with complex issues, make tough decisions, and work in environments that can be challenging. But we do it with honesty, care and a shared sense of purpose.
When you work at NCT you’ll get fantastic benefits to support your well-being and professional growth:
Join us
At NCT, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within your role, please let us know - we’re here to support you. If you want your work to contribute to lasting change - for generations of parents to come - we’d love to hear from you.
Together, we are NCT.
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
At NCT, we believe everyone should be able to shape their own journey - as parents, and as colleagues.
We are taking positive action to increase diversity across our organisation, at all levels, and to nurture a culture of inclusion and belonging for all our people and for the parents and families we support. You can read more about our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion action.
We are committed to zero discrimination, both internally and externally. This commitment applies regardless of visible or invisible difference, including (but not limited to): sex, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, disability, impairment, learning difference or long‑term condition, religion or belief, gender identity, economic class, marital or civil partnership status, family status (including single parents), socio‑economic background, pregnancy and maternity.
We actively welcome applications from people from communities who are under‑represented in our organisation and the charity sector more widely.
We are the charity supporting people as they become parents. Here through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.



Community and Events Fundraiser
Hours: 30 hours per week
Salary: £29,003.00 - £31,214.00 per annum (pro-rata) - salary dependent on skills, experience and knowledge
Contract: 9 - 12 Months Fixed Term/Temp Contract
Base: Osney Mead, Oxford OX2. Frequent travel within Oxfordshire and Berkshire will be required. Some home working possible.
Who we are, and what we do
We’re Oxfordshire Mind, the mental health charity, operating across Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
Our passionate employees and dedicated volunteers are helping people with mental health issues find somewhere to turn for advice, information, and support.
We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health issue gets both support and respect.
Like all local Minds, we are an independent charity that is proud to be affiliated with the national Mind association.
About the Role and the Team
The Development Team generates funds to enable everyone experiencing a mental health issue to get both support and respect. We fundraise from corporates, major donors, trusts, events and in the community as well as providing paid-for workplace wellbeing training and consultancy services. We thrive on delivering an excellent experience for all our clients and supporters to build a valued community.
This role will provide support to existing supporters and proactively expand community and event fundraising initiatives through groups, organisations, individuals, community-based events and 3rd party sporting events.
The post-holder is responsible for building relationships with community-based groups, individuals and event participants to ensure they reach their fundraising potential/target for the charity, whilst being an excellent ambassador for the organisation.
The post-holder will provide a physical presence at events, meetings and engagement opportunities.
This is an income generating role, but it is also about connecting with our supporters and creating long-term relationships for the future
About You
We are currently looking to recruit a Community and Events Fundraiser and would really welcome applications for it.
We would really like to know how your skills and experience match our requirements. If you feel they do, please tell us how you meet the below requirements:
Closing date: Monday 11 May 2026
Shortlisting date: 14 & 15 May 2026
Interview date: 18 & 19 May 2026
Interview location: In Person - Osney Mead, 2 Kings Meadow, Osney Mead, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 0DP
Interested?
For more information and to complete your application, please click the 'Apply on Company website' button. You will be taken to the next stage where you can find out more information, download the full job description and complete your application by following the instructions (you may need to scroll down).
Please ensure that you match your skills and experience against the above and provide details and evidence of this in your application. If you don't provide this you may not be shortlisted for the role.
We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief. We are unable to provide sponsorship for visa applications.
Oxfordshire Mind is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We therefore require a Disclosure and Barring Service check, for all our roles. The level of which will vary depending on the nature of the role.
No agencies please.
Job Title: Multiple Disadvantaged Worker
Location: Derby City
Salary: £26,701.36 per annum
Contract type: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Multiple Disadvantaged Worker to provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children living in Derby City.
The Multiple Disadvantaged outreach Worker will provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse, with additional complex support needs, in accordance with Refuge’s philosophical principles. The post holder will inform the survivor on the options and support available, empowering the survivor to make decisions and achieve their goals to increase their safety, confidence and independence. The role involves working with a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies to advocate on behalf of survivors and promote access to services to meet their needs. The Multiple Disadvantaged Outreach worker will work within Derby City.
Please note that this post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Closing Date: 09:00am 5 May 2026
Interview Date: 20 and 21 May 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you an organized, creative professional looking to make a tangible difference in the lives of refugees and vulnerable children? HealthProm is looking for a Programmes and Development Officer to join our small but mighty team in London.
For over 40 years, we’ve been a lifeline for those disadvantaged by poor health, disability, and forced displacement. From supporting 3,000+ Ukrainian and Afghan refugees in London to delivering community health projects in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, our work is diverse, urgent, and life-changing.
In this hybrid role, you will:
Coordinate: Provide vital administrative backbone to our UK and international projects.
Fundraise: Research new opportunities to help us grow our reach and sustainability.
Tell Our Story: Transform technical reports into powerful narratives for our website and social media.
Why join us? If you have a background in International Development, a flair for communication, and a desire to work with migrant and refugee communities, we want to hear from you. We offer a supportive, flexible environment near King’s Cross where your contribution is seen and felt every day.
Help us ensure no child or family is left behind. Apply now.
How to Apply
To apply for this role, please submit your CV and a cover letter (maximum two pages) to Tanya Buynovskaya, Director of Operations.
In your cover letter, please clearly outline:
-Why you are passionate about HealthProm’s mission.
-How your specific experience meets the essential criteria in the person specification.
-Your availability and preferred working days (2-3 days per week).
About the role
Our exciting three year strategy sets out our ambitious goals to drive impact at scale for victim-survivors. We are now looking for an exceptional candidate to lead some of our financial services relationships and consultancy work and support SEA in its mission to raise awareness of economic abuse and transform responses to it within the financial services sector.
Working closely with colleagues across SEA, you will foster and maintain relationships across the financial services sector, seeking opportunities to generate income for the charity and supporting our Head of Financial Services to deliver lasting change and impact.
Together we can transform frontline financial services, in practice, product and process, and save lives.
About you
At SEA we put the lived experience of victim-survivors at the heart of all that we do, including our work with financial services firms. You will be a subject matter expert on customer vulnerability and financial services firms’ regulatory requirements, as well as having a thorough understanding of industry rules and good practice. You will combine this with experience of working with vulnerable customers, including victim-survivors and bring expertise on economic abuse to ensure this is embedded within financial services’ firms’ responses.
About SEA
We are the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. We work to save lives and stop economic abuse forever.
Our vision is a world in which all women and girls achieve economic equality and can live their lives free of abuse and exploitation. Not only surviving but thriving.
Our mission is to raise awareness of economic abuse and transform responses to it.
To achieve this, we must ensure that the policies and practices of financial services firms, domestic abuse support services, public services and government reflect the needs of all victim-survivors of economic abuse.
We are committed to centring victim-survivors in all that we do and broadening our understanding of the needs of survivors, particularly those who are marginalised within society. We work alongside the Experts by Experience - a group of victim-survivors whose voices and experiences shape our work.
Our primary focus is on influencing the women’s, public and financial services sectors, to create a model for improved support for victim-survivors of economic abuse, calling on government to facilitate these changes and work with them to improve their systems and practice.
What we offer
To apply
Please apply via our website
Applications open from 9 April and close at 11.59pm on 7 May 2026. Interviews will take place virtually, week beginning 1 June.
Direct applications only – no agencies please.
Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is committed to developing an inclusive team which reflects the diversity of the communities we support. Our culture celebrates diverse voices, and we particularly encourage applications from Black and minoritised applicants and disabled applicants who are under-represented at SEA.
SEA is a Disability Confident Committed, and Kinship Friendly Employer.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Due to the frequency of travel required, applicants should be based within reasonable travelling distance of Greater Manchester, ideally within the North West, and must have access to a vehicle.
Do you want to make a difference in the lives of others?
Do you want to work with like-minded professionals in a supportive team?
Rees supports people who have experienced foster care or residential care at any stage in their lives, including those with custodial experience. We recognise the importance of lifelong support networks and aim to help care experienced people thrive in all aspects of their lives.
We listen and offer help and advice across a wide range of areas, working with public and voluntary sector partners, businesses and other organisations.
Overview
The Regional Project Co-Ordinator will support the planning, coordination and delivery of programmes and initiatives for care experienced people.
Working closely with colleagues, delivery partners and stakeholders, you will help ensure programme activity runs smoothly and reaches those who may benefit most. The role combines project coordination with hands on delivery, including supporting workshops, events and engagement activity.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to meaningful work that improves wellbeing, connection and life outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project Management
• Coordinate the day to day delivery of programmes and initiatives
• Support the planning and delivery of workshops, events and activities
• Attend and assist with delivery sessions alongside partners
• Maintain project plans, monitor progress and adjust activity where needed
• Coordinate delivery partners to ensure services meet the needs of care experienced people
2. Communication and Stakeholder Management
• Build and maintain strong relationships with delivery partners, commissioners and stakeholders
• Act as a key point of contact for stakeholders
• Address issues promptly and effectively
• Organise meetings and ensure clear communication and follow up
• Prepare and share updates and reports
3. Performance Monitoring and Reporting
• Monitor delivery against agreed KPIs
• Maintain accurate project documentation including reports and risk logs
• Track budgets and flag any issues
• Collect and analyse feedback and outcome data
• Support reporting to commissioners and funders
• Identify opportunities to improve programme delivery
4. Budget Monitoring
• Liaise with the finance team regarding project budgets
• Identify and escalate any financial risks or concerns
5. Quality and Compliance
• Support quality assurance processes to maintain high standards
6. Additional Duties
• Participate in meetings, training and events as required
• Contribute to continuous improvement of programmes
• Work in line with the charity’s vision and values
• Respond flexibly to changing demands
• Act as a positive ambassador for the organisation
• Undertake continuing professional development
• Carry out other duties as required
Qualifications and Skills
Essential
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly across Greater Manchester, with occasional travel across the North West
• Access to a vehicle
• Experience coordinating projects or programmes, ideally within health, social care or the voluntary sector
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work accurately
• Experience analysing data and preparing reports
• Budget awareness
• Problem solving skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and project tools
Desirable
• Local knowledge of the Greater Manchester and North West communities
• Understanding of the challenges faced by care experienced people
• Project management qualification such as PRINCE2
Personal Attributes
• Comfortable engaging with participants and stakeholders in workshops and events
• Empathetic and compassionate
• Proactive and solution focused
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Professional and trustworthy
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from those who are care experienced. The closing date for this role is 8th May 2026. We reserve the right to close this job early if volume of applications is high.
Our aim is to help care leavers thrive. Our projects are available to anyone over 16 who has been in foster care or residential care as a child.



The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
BGCI Vacancy Announcement
Position Summary
BGCI is seeking an experienced, committed and strategic Director of Conservation to provide leadership across the organisation’s policy, conservation prioritisation and conservation action portfolio. The postholder will translate BGCI’s 2026–2030 Strategic Framework into coherent programmes, partnerships, monitoring systems and resource mobilisation, ensuring that BGCI’s work delivers measurable outcomes for plant conservation, ecological restoration and community resilience.
The Director will help position BGCI as the most effective and renowned plant conservation network in the world, working across an expanded global network of botanic gardens and other conservation organisations to bring more plant species under conservation action. The role requires a strong combination of conservation leadership, programme oversight, partnership development, fundraising and people management.
Title of post: Director of Conservation
Job Purpose: To provide strategic direction to the organisation’s plant conservation activities worldwide.
Reports to: Secretary General
Contract Type: Full-time (35hrs/week)
Duration: Permanent
Location: BGCI Offices, Kew, London; Hybrid *
Remuneration: £55,000 - £60,000pa dependent on level of experience within a broad range (experience, required qualifications, training) and performance related to budget management, project management and other measures.
*Please note that our temporary office address in 2026 is in Putney, London
About BGCI
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is the largest global plant conservation network with over 950 member institutions in more than 120 countries. BGCI plays a key coordinating role, facilitating collaboration between botanic gardens and other conservation organisations, and supports the development and long-term functioning of botanic garden networks. BGCI ensures that local expertise contributes to global impact, and mobilises funding and technical assistance for practical conservation efforts worldwide.
Person Specification
BGCI is seeking to appoint an individual with strong track record in strategic leadership in plant conservation, with the ability to translate global frameworks into impactful programmes and partnerships. Candidates will have a proven track record working within a conservation or scientific organisation, ideally in plant conservation, with demonstrable experience delivering complex, multi-partner initiatives at international scale. The post holder will be an experienced team leader with demonstrable success in inspiring and motivating diverse teams. They will bring a sophisticated understanding of the institutional landscape in which BGCI operates, including botanic gardens, governments, NGOs, and multilateral processes, and will demonstrate cultural awareness and political acuity in navigating complex, multicultural and multinational contexts.
Application Process
If you are interested in this role, please send us your CV and a cover letter (two pages maximum), explaining your motivation for the role and providing examples and evidence of how you are suitable for the position. Please also confirm in your letter that you are eligible to work in the UK.
Please note that the role is UK based so you must be eligible to work in the UK. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role. Please confirm in your cover letter that you are eligible to work in the UK.
Closing date for applications is 10.00am 5th May 2026
The interviews will be conducted online week commencing 25th May 2026
BGCI is committed to putting equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our organisation. We are committed to ensuring a working environment in which all individuals are free from discrimination and in which opportunities are equal to all. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We're looking for a proactive and well-connected Fundraising Coordinator to work closely with SYEDA's management team to shape and deliver our fundraising plans for the future.
This is a unique opportunity to own and develop a fundraising plan, not just to deliver against one that is already in place. You'll play a central role in diversifying our income streams, strengthening our sustainability, and enabling more people to access vital support.
In this role, you will:
Ideally, you'll have experience in a fundraising or income-generation role, and a track record of developing relationships which lead to tangible support. This role will work closely with SYEDA's CEO to explore opportunities to amplify the work that we do, and bolster support to ensure that work can continue, and having strong networks and the confidence to build new ones will be key to the role. We're a small, dedicated team, and so a collaborative mindset and a passion for mission-driven work is key.
An environment where everyone can enjoy a positive relationship with food, their bodies, and themselves.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Philharmonia is seeking a confident, bright and well-organised Co-ordinator to support the CEO and wider Executive Team in their role as leaders, by supporting with research, artistic planning co-ordination, external and internal stakeholder and project liaison as well as diary management.
Ready to fast track your career in concerts or general management for an orchestra? This role will suit an ambitious music or arts administrator, who is both knowledgeable and passionate about orchestral music. This is a phenomenal opportunity for a proactive and highly self-motivated individual to gain insight into all aspects of senior orchestral management.
You will be able to evidence skills at problem solving, project work and relationship management and must show discretion and tact when dealing with matters of a confidential nature. You must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and good technical music knowledge.
Working in a fast-paced, busy environment, the Co-ordinator will have the ability to think outside the box and provide effective solutions to everyday operational challenges swiftly and calmly.
The role is based full-time at our Bankside Office in London, with regular attendance at concerts, board and committee meetings and donor events, which often occur outside office hours.
Key Responsibilities
Acting as first point of contact for the Executive Office, ensuring it functions smoothly and efficiently by liaising and coordinating with other members of the Executive, the Board and external stakeholders
Managing the CEO’s diary, scheduling appointments and arranging travel itineraries; making bookings, arranging payments, maintaining simple budgetary and expenses records
Handling calls and correspondence, preparing briefing documents and presentations, managing annual cycle of concert invitations
Supporting the artistic planning function with research and project work on repertoire and artists
Managing the repertoire clash-checking process, including accurate and up-to-date record-keeping and season co-ordination with Southbank Centre
Supporting the CEO and Board Secretary by ensuring that day-to-day governance arrangements are working effectively; providing administrative support to the Board and other Committees including drafting and checking agendas, collating and circulating papers, professional minute-taking, pursuing of agreed actions, booking and setting up meeting spaces
Leading on specific projects or initiatives for the Executive, under the direction of the CEO
Looking after day-to-day building/office operations as part of a team
Handling a range of conflicting priorities and ensuring the CEO’s office maintains an open and outward-facing approach, while dealing with all matters in a confidential and timely manner, being trusted implicitly with sensitive information
Skills and Qualifications
Graduate level with 2 years’ professional work experience
A background in the arts is desirable, either having studied arts administration/music/ management or with relevant comparable experience working in an arts organisation
Experience carrying out programme, artist and music industry research
Confidence in report writing and presenting is essential, with excellent MS Office skills
Good knowledge of artists, orchestral repertoire and the classical music business
Strong admin talents – this role is admin heavy
Highly organised and process-driven
Meticulous attention to detail
Proactive and solutions-oriented approach, demonstrating a high degree of self-motivation
Excellent communication and relationship building skills
Flexible attitude and enjoys working in a demanding and ever-changing environment
Strong work ethic including time management and ability to work to deadlines
Demonstrates absolute discretion when handling confidential or commercially sensitive information
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.