You don't become any less important as you get older, and yet, all over the UK people are suffering as they age because of poverty, lack of support and ageism. Age UK aim to improve later life for everyone and has a vision of a world in which older people flourish.

To achieve our goals we need great people throughout the Charity and are currently recruiting for an IT Procurement Manager to join our team, and take overall responsibility for the procurement of all of our IT requirements including hardware, software and digital.

This is a new role in the organisation, and the successful candidate will provide procurement expertise and oversight, ensuring the IT category performs efficiently, cost effectively and ethically.

You will develop, implement and maintain an effective strategy for continually improving IT procurement and spend performance, and provide subject matter expertise to all internal stakeholders who need to purchase IT goods and services.

About You

* You should be a subject matter expert on IT procurement.
* You will have great experience within IT Procurement and you will have a thorough understanding of IT and Digital suppliers and markets.
* Your excellent relationship management and negotiation skills with both internal stakeholders and external suppliers will be essential to your success.
* Your good data analysis skills particularly within excel are highly important.

What we can offer

In return we can offer a competitive salary up to £51,000, and excellent benefits package including 26 days annual leave + bank holidays, great pension (we will pay in up to 9%), life assurance, healthcare cashback plan, season ticket loan, flexible working options and much more.

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Director of Operations
Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People (QEF)
Salary: c£70,000 + benefits
Location: Leatherhead, Surrey

Are you an exceptional people leader within a health or social care environment, with a passion to drive quality and growth in a person-centred multi-disciplinary organisation? If so, this could be just the role for you.

QEF is a reputable Surrey based charity that provides a range of services supporting and enabling disabled people to live as independent lives as possible. We have a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team who care for over 5,000 disabled adults and children with a range of physical and learning disabilities every year.

This is an exciting time to join QEF as we head towards the opening of our brand new, state-of-the-art Care and Rehabilitation Centre in April 2020. This transformation process, with the assistance of technology and strengthened partnership working, will develop greater integrated care by bringing together our two residential services to form one combined multi-disciplinary service.

We are now looking for a Director of Operations who will be pivotal in driving forward our quality agenda and further enhancing our person-centred services. Using your leadership experienced gained in a health and/or social care setting, you will develop and grow our service provision to reach more disabled people, increase our financial sustainability and steer us towards our ambition to be an outstanding provider.

You will be responsible for our Neuro Rehabilitation, Specialist Care and Mobility Services and deliver exceptional client focused outcomes. You will have strong communication skills and be a credible and compelling external advocate for QEF; liaising with external organisations and developing lasting relationships along the way. Advising and supporting the CEO in policy making, procedures, inspection and accreditation you will seek and support opportunities to grow and develop our service delivery.

You’ll inspire and motivate staff through dynamic leadership; transforming QEF through a pivotal time whilst retaining high quality service delivery.

To hear more about this opportunity please speak to our advising consultants Lucy Mavers or Philippa Fabry.

For access to more information on the role please visit the job page on Peridot Partners' website via the application method.

Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 11th November 2019

We are a Disability Confident Employer and encourage applications from disabled applicants.

What the job involves

We have an excellent opportunity for a confident and motivated senior finance professional to lead our Financial Accounting & Governance team on an interim basis. You will lead the annual statutory year end requirements and oversee financial transaction processing and reconciliations within the charity, ensuring that robust controls are in operation and workloads are managed effectively.

You will oversee banking relationships, review VAT and Gift Aid returns and oversee/authorise monthly payroll. You will work collaboratively across directorates providing timely and proactive advice to the charity.

What we want from you

An ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified accountant, you will have direct experience of year end statutory accounts preparation, as well as leading the year end external audit and managing this relationship. You will also be experienced in reviewing and enhancing robust controls in financial accounting processes. You will be an excellent communicator, confident in managing internal and external relationships and influencing positive change across the organisation.

You will be an experienced team manager focused on developing your team and encouraging them to achieve their best.

Why work for us?

We have a simple ambition – to stop men dying from prostate cancer

We’re investing millions to find better treatments and tests that could save thousands of lives.
We work with the NHS to make sure men get access to breakthrough tests and treatments.
We spread the word about who is at risk of prostate cancer, especially to those at higher risk.
We support people dealing with prostate cancer and provide health information. Be part of a team that will put an end to prostate cancer being a killer.

The support we’ll provide

Join our team and you’ll be working at an award-winning charity that will help you learn, develop your skills and expertise, and achieve your highest aspirations. We provide everything you’d expect from a professional organisation – competitive benefits package, contributory pension scheme, life insurance and a season ticket loan – but much more besides. Work with us and you’ll see your efforts pay off as we fight for a better future for men.

At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.

Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.

Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.

Position: Programme Manager – Project Orange
Reference: DL38
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), fixed term contract for 12 months
Location: Working a significant amount of time at the MS National Centre, NW London although there is otherwise considerable flexibility with the location
Salary: £51,706 - £56,938 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Grade H, Level 2

About this job

The MS Society is in the process of implementing a transformational change programme known as Project Orange.  Through the implementation of Project Orange the MS Society will become a more efficient, agile and innovative organisation, better using data, technology and digital to have scale, improve quality and meet the changing needs of people living with MS.  In doing so, we’ll operate and work in ways that enable us to make more of a difference; achieving more with people living with MS and moving us closer to our ultimate goal to stop MS. 

We are now looking for a Programme Manager to ensure oversight of the multiple strands of this significant programme of work; reporting regularly on the progress against plan and budget, ensuring the quality and objectives of the programme are achieved and managing issues and risks as they arise.

In addition to the oversight of Project Orange, the post holder will play a key role in designing and helping to lead some of the implementation of cross organisational change activities and projects including ensuring our accommodation reflects our desired culture and ways of working and process review and organisational design.

We offer 27 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a 35 hour working week, travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.

Closing date: 9am on Monday 28th October 2019

How to apply

In order to apply for this role, please submit an updated CV and supporting statement indicating how you meet the criteria as set out in the person specification in the attached job description.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity.  We would be grateful if you could complete our equality and diversity monitoring form on our website and submit it with your application.

No agencies please.

St Luke’s Hospice provides specialist palliative care to people whose illnesses are no longer curable, helping them to live well, know that their family are supported and that they are able to die with dignity in the place of their choice.

We are currently seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Head of Retail, to provide strategic and operational leadership and business acumen to maximise income generated from our existing High Street Shops and E-Commerce activity. The post holder will also be expected to identify new opportunities thus driving growth in the business to support the strategic aims of the charity.

We have recently reviewed our current operation and would also expect the post holder to implement the recommendations.

To request a job pack and to register your interest please email.If you wish to have an informal chat or visit, please ask the HR team to arrange this.

Head of Fundraising 

£58k+ pa + benefits

12 Months Maternity Cover

London or Johannesburg or Nairobi

(Local terms and conditions of employment of the Country Office will apply)

Where better to use your experience of successfully leading fundraising teams in the development sector to good use than with one of the world’s leading international NGO’s. We want you to become part of the global movement of people fighting for women’s rights, social justice and an end to poverty. Your challenge will be to provide overall leadership for our global voluntary funding strategy, inspiring our global fundraising community to deliver innovative approaches to income growth.

Join us and you will mobilise people and resources across the ActionAid federation to deliver highly innovative strategies and tactics to sustain and increase our global voluntary giving income. We will look to you to manage and develop relationships with key stakeholders as well as use your expertise to develop systems, processes, practice and culture across the organisation to ensure that we work to the highest standards. You will also design and implement the Global Fundraising Skills Share and other initiatives to increase our ability to grow and evolve our fundraising methods. You will ensure compliance as well as monitor and evaluate effectiveness of our global strategic fundraising investments too. Important will be the ability to provide oversight of the strategic direction for fundraising trends and their implications to ensure we continue to meet ambitious income targets today and in the future.

You will have operated at a senior management level within the fundraising sector and gained an extensive understanding of individual giving operations. You will also have significant experience within a large INGO, a record of overseeing the successful delivery of complex change projects and a solid understanding of fundraising regulation and best practice. Important too, will be a detailed awareness of key trends in voluntary fundraising.

Excellent at developing partnerships you will be a real team player who enjoys working in a collaborative way and delivering highly creative ideas. Good at managing stakeholder relationships, you will possess strong communication, diplomacy, coaching and presentation skills too. You will also be effective at developing high performing and highly motived teams.

If you have the right skills and experience, please send your CV and motivation cover letter to us via the link by Midnight Sunday 27th October 2019, in the subject line please write ‘Head of Fundraising – Your Name’. Interviews will take place on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th November 2019.

You are requested to highlight in the motivation letter how specifically you meet the criteria for this role. To be considered for this role, you must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in UK or in another ActionAid Country Office. 

If you do not meet all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only invite candidates for an interview if they meet all of the essential criteria listed on the job description. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria.

Due to high volumes of applications received, should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

ActionAid is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. We value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community in particular women who are currently under represented in senior positions. We regret that agency candidates will not be considered.

Reg. Charity No: 274467

WANTED! Senior CRM Manager to establish and run the CRM team in a busy and complex organisation

Head of CRM - Up to £55,000 - London

THE COMPANY
Our client is one of the leading UK charities tackling social issues around homelessness and housing.

THE ROLE
As Head of CRM you will be responsible for developing the CRM function and defining the CRM vision and strategy for the organisation.

In particular you will
- oversee the development of robust CRM processes across the organisation
- provide advice and work closely with senior colleagues across all areas of the organisation to help them maximise the result of their CRM campaigns
- leverage and maximise the automation expertise to deliver communication campaigns which deepen the engagement with supporters and potential supporters
- manage a small team which supports the delivery of CRM campaigns

YOU
The successful candidate has

- extensive experience in CRM and marketing automation with a strong track record of delivering successful integrated marketing and communication campaigns at scale, from planning through to delivery and evaluation
- a track record of setting a multi-channel CRM strategy in an industry where customer retention is key
- demonstrable expertise in all aspects of automated marketing delivery ideally with hands on experience of Adobe Campaigns
- ability to analyse large quantity of data and condense into key insights

If you can tick all of these boxes we'd like to hear from you NOW!

Head of CRM - Up to £55,000 - London

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Senior New Product Development Manager

£46-£50,000pa

Living Planet Centre Woking

Woking, Surrey GU21 4LL

Experienced in managing New Product Development projects you are ready for a new challenge and the opportunity to deliver NPD projects that have momentous impact. That is exactly the opportunity we can offer you at WWF UK.  We are working to find solutions to the greatest environmental problems facing our planet and you can be a part of the team.

As a member of the world’s principal independent conservation organisation we want you to play an important role in helping bring our organisation closer to our supporters and the broader public through new product development that will help unlock the potential and drive impactful delivery of our audience engagement.

We have ambitious goals to increase our support and income over the next few years, and as Senior NPD Manager you will collaborate with colleagues to design new ways to engage with our audiences and to increase our impact. You will lead NPD, consulting with teams to help shape and build the portfolio of NPD that will best support our work. You will take responsibility for delivering new products that will grow income and non-financial engagement. Employing a hub and spoke approach you will support new product scoping, planning, testing and delivery by providing centralised strategic and practical aid. You will also provide guidance to colleagues, helping develop briefs and proposals and working to get projects off the ground and running. Important will be the ability to create a strong overall portfolio of development work that is strongly grounded in insight and supporters’ needs. Overall, you will help to foster and embed a culture of innovation at WWF.

You must have extensive experience in managing innovation and NPD projects and a proven track record of establishing, coordinating and managing pipelines of new product development. This will have given you a strong grasp of effective process, financial modelling and risk management. An advocate of good design thinking you relish the opportunity to be creative and innovate within the guidelines of a brand identity. Used to working with fundraising, insight and communications teams, you enjoy managing a large portfolio of projects and are adept at controlling budgets and overseeing relationships with suppliers and partners.

Calm under pressure you will possess good communication and presentation skills, an eye for detail and the ability to multi-task. You will also be an effective project manager too. You are also highly organised and able to manage relationships with multiple stakeholders.

How to Apply

If you have the creative flair and passion for nature we would love to hear from, so please visit our website via the link and complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up to date CV with cover letter highlighting why you are interested in this role as well as why this role is for you.

At WWF-UK we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and there is equality of opportunity. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community and we offer a range of benefits to encourage a work life balance.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.

The Organisation

The Access Project (TAP) is an innovative education charity that helps bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds beat the odds and secure places at top universities. A dedicated school-based staff member mentors students so they have the knowledge and support to make strong university applications. TAP also trains and supports volunteers to be exceptional tutors who work with a student for an hour a week to raise their grades. Their results show this approach works. A young person who has participated in The Access Project's programme is more than twice as likely to go to a top university than another student with the same academic track record and background.

This is an exciting time for The Access Project as they are looking to increase their impact significantly over the next 5 years to create even more change.

The Role

TAP are looking to recruit an Operations Director to contribute to strategic decisions on how they operate, ensure effective planning, and put in place the operational support needed to ensure continued growth and success. The Operations Director will play an important role in making TAP a leading example of a learning organisation, and will work closely with the Executive Team to provide leadership throughout this period of change. The Operations Director will ensure the organisation recruits great staff, supports development and will have oversight of a number of functions such as HR, technology, facilities, governance and compliance.

The Person

Experience and attributes to include:

- Confident line manager, with experience of building, leading, motivating and developing a team

- Experience of managing small and medium-sized offices

- Clear communicator of legal and HR issues clearly to non-expert audiences

- Proficient in employment law and HR best practice

- Experience of staff recruitment and training

- Understanding of principles behind IT systems development

- Experience of negotiating and agreeing contracts with external partners

- Outstanding project manager, meticulously well organised, proactive and reliable

- Passionate about educational disadvantage and The Access Project's mission

To Apply

To apply, please upload your CV in Word format and include a supporting statement as part of your application, addressing your experience in relation to the key points on the person specification, which should be no longer than 2 sides of A4.

A Prospectus consultant will review and assess all submitted applications. As part of the selection process candidates may be invited to meet with a consultant at our offices.

Partnerships Manager

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia charity. We provide information and support, improve care, fund research, and create lasting change for people affected by dementia.

Position: Programme Partnerships Manager
Location: South East England
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 35 per week
Salary: £41,585 -to £53,495 (+London Allowance of £3,600)

Closing date: 27 October 2019
Interview date: 5 November

About the role:

The Programme Partnerships Manager will lead a high performing team to deliver partnerships across a range of sectors to deliver change in communities. You will drive a team to engage hundreds of thousands of people each year and work with national stakeholders, including Directors and CEOs, to product best practice guidance on how organisations nationally and in the community can include people with dementia.

We have hundreds of supportive partnerships across youth, housing, utilities, sport and leisure, finance and many more. We need someone special to drive further reach and impact. We’ve been running our programme of work for 6 years now and it’s time to make some exciting tweaks. There are some incredible foundations but we know we can do more and faster. We have a new strategy and new buoyancy and we need an exceptional leader to take it to the next level.

You will not only lead a team but will need to network at a very senior level. You will be responsible for boards such as the Prime Ministers Champions Group that support the delivery of our ambitious strategy. You will need to be an exemplary communicator with experience of working at board level.

About you:

Inspiring leader? Passionate about securing and working with partners across all sectors to deliver change? Experienced at leading results-driven partnerships teams (be it fundraising, programme or other) to be the best that they can be?

We need an outstanding communicator across a range of levels – you will bring the strategy to life with your team and inspire them to drive our partnership work, as well as network and acquire senior level buy in / new business at a very high level.

We need someone who has secured and delivered high impact partnerships. We want you to be able to talk housing one minute, and then golf the next. It’s a fabulously diverse team and you’ll be someone who’s excited about this range and diversity, can prioritise effectively and work hard to ensure the priorities for people affected by dementia are being met.

Experience in product / programme development? Transitioning to our new strategy means we will be making some exciting changes to the programme and we are looking for someone to lead this so experience in this area would be beneficial.

We don’t mind where you are based in the South East – we endorse agility. We want an experienced people manager and inspiring leader. You’ll be based in the South East because a lot of the head offices of our partners are London based.

You will have empathy for the rights and aspirations of people living with dementia and those who care for them and the ability to turn that into change.

If you have the relevant experience and expertise, and a belief that we can make a real and lasting change for everyone affected by dementia, working with them to make this happen, then we’d love to hear from you.

You may have experience of the following: Programme Partnerships Manager, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Business Development, Account Management, Partnerships Manager, Business Development Manager, Charity, Account Manager etc.

Estate Director

(Reference:  SUS2777)

£50,134 per annum

37.5 hours per week - based in Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester (other Sustrans office locations may be considered)

We are looking for a highly motivated Chartered Surveyor to manage our estate.  This estate comprises a broad portfolio of primarily former railway land across the UK, in both urban and rural locations.  It also includes Sustrans’ office premises across the UK and other premises to support projects, together with a small number of tenanted commercial and residential properties.

This role will be responsible for the overall strategic-level management of Sustrans’ estates work including managing staff, resources and budgets.  In addition to overseeing day-to-day management of the estate this role will include proactively strengthening the organisation’s financial positions by increasing rental incomes, seeking out sales opportunities and reducing liabilities.

You will have substantial managerial experience of estate management of both urban and rural land and property including letting, sale and development processes. You will also have extensive experience of line management and leadership. The nature of our portfolio requires an imaginative problem solving approach to challenges and a keen eye for detail.  You will be able to work flexibly and independently and enjoy regular travel around the UK.  You are likely to have either a commercial property or rural surveying background although other disciplines with the appropriate experience will be considered.

Closing date for completed applications is 17:00 on Monday 11 November 2019.  Interviews will be held in Bristol on Thursday 21 November 2019.

Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion.  We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.

Founded under the Patronage of Nelson Mandela, Laureus Sport for Good uses sport as a powerful and cost-effective tool to help children and young people overcome violence, discrimination and disadvantage in their lives. Over the past two decades, they have developed a global network of grantee partners and a worldwide charitable infrastructure.  They have also developed a depth of understanding and corresponding credibility in their field and are recognised as a leading organisation in the fast-growing Sport for Development community.

Trustee

Unremunerated

London

Laureus Sport for Good now seek an established social sector leader to join their high performing board to support and provide governance of the highest quality and rigour as the organisation enters a phase of increased impact and growth.

The new Trustee will share the motivation and values of Laureus Sport for Good, be willing to make a strategic contribution as a learning partner to a board and will bring a background in and strong understanding of the issues affecting the international development sector.

You will bring considerable senior leadership experience within a charity or social sector organisation of some scale and complexity along with a strong impact focus.

Laureus Sport for Good is committed to achieving greater diversity in its board, and welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief or disability.

For  further details, and to find out how to apply,  please read the detailed Appointment Brief attached on the Prospectus website which can be reached by clicking on the apply button.

If you wish to have an informal and confidential conversation, please contact Børge Andreassen or  Camille Revuelta at Prospectus.

Closing date: 11 November

Initial Interviews with Prospectus: w/c 18 November

Panel interviews with Laureus Sport for Good: w/c 2 December or w/c 9 December

Finance Director, London, £70,000 per annum

The Organisation
St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) is a Charity whose aim is to tackle poverty in all its forms through the provision of practical assistance to those in need. Their 10,000 volunteer members, motivated by their faith, are committed to meaningful and long-term befriending. The core service is complemented by additional areas of activity - community support projects including community shops, furniture stores and advice centres, youth work, holiday provision and overseas aid. The current total income of the organisation is £10m but there is complexity due to the high number of projects the organisation manages.

Your role
A newly created opportunity, the Director of Finance will lead the finance team and provide strategic support to the senior management team and trustees. You will report to the CEO and manage two staff directly including the Financial Controller based in Bradford and the Head of Technology. This role will be based in London and provide a strong link between the finance team and the management team. You will be required to travel regularly to Bradford and some of the project offices. The ability to communicate and build relationships remotely and in person will be essential to success in this role. The Director of Finance will be tasked with tackling some of the organisation's challenges including the formation of a strategic plan, a review of systems, policies and procedures and the provision of reports to stakeholders. This role will be key to ensuring that the organisation has a sustainable plan for the future that allows the organisation to continue with its good work.

About you
The ideal candidate for this role will be a senior level qualified Accountant with previous experience of working within the charity sector. You will be a strong communicator with the ability to engage with stakeholders in various locations and you will have the ability to liaise with them both remotely and in person - this will include travel to locations including Bradford. You will be a strategic thinker with a strong alignment to SVP's mission. It is important that you understand and have a commitment to equal opportunities. You will have sympathy with the Christian aims and purposes of the society and will be able to value people of all faiths or none. You will understand and empathise with the Vincentian ethos, values and the work of the society.

What you'll get in return
The SVP offer a competitive salary and benefits. You will be working with a fantastic team and the role also offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with stakeholders to have big strategic impact.

What you need to do now
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button.
The closing date for applications is Monday 4th November.
For an informal conversation please contact Peter O'Sullivan at Hays.

The organisation has seen significant fundraising growth and is now looking to establish statutory income as a significant income stream.

As an experienced statutory fundraiser you will help to establish a significant source of income for the organisation, leading on new business and increasing statutory income from a relatively low base.

You will have experience of six- and seven- figure grants, ideally within international development. This position is crucial to the organisation, allowing them to diversify an already successful fundraising team in order to further support their development.

If you have the right experience and would like to know more please get in touch, naomi [at] quarterfive [dot] co [dot] uk.

                                   

To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Naomi Carruthers at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.