Central London Healthcare CIC is the GP Federation covering the Central London CCG area. The organisation supports 34 General Practices and 4 Primary Care Networks (PCNs). We operate a number of NHS contracts including a Care Navigation Service, a Clinical Pharmacy Service, a Community Dermatology Service, and Partnership in Practice (PiP) - an out-of-hospitals provision which is sub-contracted to its 34 General Practice members. Our vision is to be recognised as a leading GP provider network, run by clinicians for the benefit of our local population. We will achieve this by working with patients and partners to ensure that general practice remains sustainable and independent. Our approach is to deliver exceptional assistance to our 34 General Practice members and to operate our NHS contracts in a manner that supports our Practices and their patients by providing services economically, locally, promptly, and in a familiar environment.

A primary responsibility of this role will be to provide effective oversight, management, and coordination of the integration of the Network Contract DES Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) within PCNs as well as enabling the timely and efficient recruitment and allocation of new roles within this scheme, ensuring roles are successfully embedded into PCNs.

This combined PCN and CLH post is a vital role within a complex environment of primary care management. The role will deliver on a wide range of business, data submission, transformation, and improvement initiatives across the four PCNs in Central London, providing strategic transformation support and leadership.

This post holder will be instrumental in advancing our PCN development plans and promoting sustainable services for delivery via CLH. The post holder will also work with member practices to break down challenges to implementation across our population.

The post holder will need to be extremely well organised and possess excellent time management skills. A highly motivated individual with initiative is key to take ownership of the role. You will be a team player, professional at all times and able to develop strong relationships and engage with a wide range of stakeholders across the PCNs to ensure collaborative approaches to service development and delivery. In doing so the post holder will improve integration with the broader community services as our networks mature. The post holder will be responsible for managing agreed projects with a focus upon developing the partnerships across primary care, community services, social care, mental health, the voluntary sector and secondary care that are enabling on-going MDT development.The post holder will actively support integrated ways of working whilst promoting standardisation and efficiencies for each network.

Job Summary

To build on the foundations of Student Social Work Placements, Volunteering (and other meaningful involvement) and Cross Organisation Induction programmes to provide stability, consistency and to ensure Gaddum over-delivers its organisational objectives. Responsible for monitoring systems and processes in relation to placements, volunteering and inductions; developing areas of improvement to enhance our offer and embedding placements into the day-to-day work of the charity.

Job Purpose

The postholder will be responsible for three key organisational areas:

-Student Social Work Placements: 60% of workload
-Induction Plan Coordination: 10%
-Volunteering Programme: 30%

The postholder will be responsible for coordinating, monitoring and reviewing the above functions. This will entail stakeholder engagement both with internal leaders and external partners. The role will involve a close working relationships and crossover workstreams with HR department, Health & Safety systems and compliance responsibilities.

Job Summary

Gaddum is seeking a dedicated and engaging leader to oversee elements of client services for those aged over 18. The post holder will ensure people who need support can access it, when they need it and hold all of us to account against our Clinical Governance requirements. Qualified in Social Work, or other relevant community, health and social care qualification, the post holder will have a demonstrable history of delivering or overseeing community programmes in diverse populations.

Join Britain’s biggest walking charity to help more people enjoy the benefits of walking.  This is an exciting time to join the Ramblers team and a great opportunity to make a lasting and tangible impact on the future success of the charity.

The Ramblers is undergoing an exciting time of transformational change - and the Membership and Fundraising team is at the center of the action!At the heart of the Ramblers lies our wonderful community of over c100,000 members, enabling us to fulfill our mission across the length and breadth of Great Britain.  We have an incredibly loyal base of members, but we cannot afford to stand still.  If we are to thrive, grow and remain relevant in a changing landscape, we need to evolve and connect with more of the UK’s 9 million walkers.

We are looking for an insight-driven Membership Product Innovation Manager. This role is based within the Membership and Fundraising Team, reporting to the Head of Membership.

You will be working on a strategic project to increase the relevance of the Ramblers membership proposition, promise and package to more walkers, particularly for those who walk by themselves or with friends and family rather than in walking groups. This is a really exciting opportunity to make your mark, and help the Ramblers grow our reach and relevance.

In the role you’ll be responsible for enhancing the Ramblers’ understanding of the needs, wants and behaviors of Britain’s self-guided walkers to inform how we can best adapt our membership proposition, promise and package to meet these needs. You will be taking to market a new membership proposition, including key creative assets as part of this.

You’ll also evaluate our current membership product and the external competitive marketplace, providing recommendations for evolving our membership product.

This is an exciting time to join the Ramblers team and a great opportunity to make a lasting and tangible impact on the future success of the charity.  If you think you’ve got what it takes to be our new Membership Product Innovation Manager, we’d love to hear from you. 
 

Essential requirements include:

• Experience of working with research and/or creative agencies. Insight-driven.
• A team player, able to develop collaborative, strong and effective working relationships.
• Digitally savvy, with knowledge and experience in testing new ideas through digital channels and an early adopter of new technology and digital products and platforms.
• Innovative and solutions-focussed with the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• A flexible and resilient approach to product development and innovation, with a curious mindset to explore opportunities and overcome challenges.
• Development and ongoing evolution of an income-generating membership, fundraising, product or brand proposition to attract new audiences
• Ability to negotiate and influence effectively, with strong written and verbal communication skills, to influence a range of audiences and stakeholders including external partners and suppliers.
• Experience of innovation process, methodologies and approaches across product and/or service development to drive audience and financial growth
• Ability to negotiate and influence effectively, with strong written and verbal communication skills, to influence a range of audiences and stakeholders including external partners and suppliers.

The Ramblers are an equal opportunities employer.  We promote diversity and warmly welcome applications from appropriately qualified people from all sections of the community.

We are looking for a Business Development Manager with significant experience in Trusts, Foundation and Statutory Income to join our thriving Business Development Unit and play a leading role in securing new income for our growing organisation.

We are a legal and environmental charity that uses the power of the law to fight against climate change and to protect nature and the environment. Our Development Department is responsible for raising funds that enable us to deliver our mission. The Development department is formed of several fundraising strands: an established Grants programme, securing funding from trusts, foundations and institutional donors; a newly formed Digital Fundraising stream, raising income from the public; and a Philanthropy team, working with a wide range of individuals and organisations to raise primarily unrestricted gifts to support ClientEarth’s work.

In this role, you will be working across our programme areas and geographies to cultivate new funder relationships, developing winning proposals, and ensuring a growing and diverse funder base.As a representative of ClientEarth, you will be liaising and building relationships with funders internationally and will be the primary point of contact and key relationship manager for new donors. You will also have line management responsibility, overseeing the work and professional development of a Business Development Officer who is expected to both support the Manager with their accounts and lead on their own portfolio.

Meet your Manager

In this role, you will be managed by Catherine Sweeney, our Head of Business Development. Catherine has over a decade of experience driving income generation from Trust, Foundation, and institutional/ statutory sources, most recently leading the income stream at the British Refugee Council. Catherine started her fundraising career at an environmental/ sustainability social enterprise and has gone on to work in a wide range of sectors including international development in Kenya and human rights in the UK before returning to the environmental movement with ClientEarth in December 2020.

Main Duties

• Prospect research and pipeline development, including identifying and establishing new funding contacts, undertaking prospect research and representing ClientEarth at high-level events.
• Business Development and Income generation, including leading on aligning our priorities and budgetary needs with funders’ interests and criteria and establishing and leading proposal development teams, steering input into fundraising activities by colleagues/stakeholders.
• Staff Management, including defining individual work priorities, assessing the performance of line-managed staff members, and supporting the professional development of your line-report. 
• Working with the Head of Business Development and other Business Development Managers to develop and implement the team’s strategy
• Systems and processes, including providing timely and accurate information on team performance metrics, and supporting the development and improvement of team systems and processes. 

Role requirements

• Significant and demonstrable experience of working in a fundraising or business development role for a charity, NGO, private or public entity
• Significant experience of drafting complex proposals for trusts, foundations and statutory institutions (including EU) and securing multi-year, six and seven-figure grants
• Experience of successfully managing the relationship development process with a new donor, from prospect identification through to cultivation encompassing both personal engagement with prospects and/or coordinating the input of colleagues from across the organisation
• Fluent (CEFR level C2) in English 
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, with ability to foster positive working relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders, including and especially with funders 
• Excellent writing, editing and verbal communication skills 

Further Information

Salary ranges as follows:

• London: £40,800-£43,350 depending on experience
• Berlin: €46 920 - €50 490 depending on experience
• Brussels: €48 960 - €51 510 depending on experience

Please note we are also currently recruiting for a Business Development Officer.

Flexible working: Post-covid, we are giving our staff the choice to decide where they want to work for 80% of their week, with the other 20% of their week being office-based. See our Benefits page for more.

ClientEarth values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We aim to appoint the most suitable candidate at all times and welcome applications from people from all different backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are currently under-represented in our organisation.

Please note that ClientEarth is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in the UK/Germany/Belgium.

Home-Start London Partnerships & Fundraising Manager

Home-Start trains and supports volunteers to work alongside parents in their own home giving compassionate and confidential support, tailored to each family. 

Home-Start London is a consortium of 13 local Home-Starts operating across 24 London boroughs.

We are currently recruiting for a Partnerships & Fundraising Manager to join our small team. Working alongside the Home-Start London Director, you will develop a partnership plan that aims to establish new relationships and generate income to benefit the London Home-Start network. In doing so, you will maximise the value of these new partnerships and meet agreed targets.

As our ideal candidate, you will be able to work independently and bring enthusiasm and a clear vision to your work.  Experience of Fundraising, sales or account management in a charity or commercial sector is essential. You will need to be flexible and able to work with different audiences as required.

Please send a CV and covering letter outlining how your experience and how you meet the person specification. Interviews will be conducted via Zoom.

Home-Start is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff working with children and vulnerable adults to share this commitment. The offer of employment is subject to satisfactory references.

Place of work: Working from home with travel across London for meetings

Probation period: 3 months

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days per annum + bank holidays

Responsible to:  Director, Home-Start London  

This post is funded until 31/03/22, extension is subject to the availability of funding.

Job Description

Main responsibilities:

Researching potential partners to benefit the work of Home-Start in London

• Work with the Director to develop a strategic programme of building strong, long-term relationships with potential partners/funders. Partners are likely to include:
  • Corporates
  • Foundations / Trusts
  • Housing associations
  • Delivery partners (statutory and non-statutory, directly or indirectly related to family support, health & wellbeing).
• Understand key issues affecting Home-Start London members’ operations and how partnership opportunities would be beneficial. 
• Identify and research opportunities to build new partnership links to secure new partners at a range of levels and collate findings into a partnership plan.

Establishing and maintaining relationships with partners

• Meet with potential partners to present the overall work of Home-Start in London and the benefits of partnership working.
• Managing contact and developing leads with partners.

Fundraising  through applications/ bids to statutory and non-statutory sources

• Research and identify potential funding opportunities that sustain the work of Home-Start in London.
• Work with the Director, to develop tailored partnership proposals for partners, including service delivery, volunteer engagement opportunities and funding requests.
• Work with the Director to ensure that bids are adequately costed and risk assessed.

Promoting the work of Home-Start London

• Liaising with the Marketing & Communications Freelancer to ensure key messaging relating to partnership development and fundraising campaigns is embedded in the monthly Communications Plan.

Networking and representing Home-Start London via relevant groups/networks

• Identifying relevant pan-London and sub-regional networks to attend.
• Representing Home-Start London on London networks/forums, raising awareness of the issues experienced by Home-Start families (from across the Capital).

Administration tasks relevant to the role

• Developing individual partnership agreements and ensuring they are appropriately stewarded.

• Identify and facilitate volunteering opportunities to increase engagement with existing and new corporate partners.
• Maintain accurate paper and electronic records relating to/for all partners.
• Keep partners updated on Home-Start London’s work, both through in-person meetings, regular updates and timely reports.
• Update progress reports to feed into Home-Start London board reports.

The post holder may be required to undertake any other duties that fall within the nature of the role and responsibilities of the post as detailed above.   Any substantial or major changes will be negotiated.

Person Specification

Knowledge, skills, ability and experience

• Experience of partnership working. (Essential)
• Experience of Fundraising, sales or account management in a charity or commercial sector. (Essential)
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to build a strong rapport with a range of different stakeholders. (Essential)
• Confident communicator - both in writing and verbally. (Essential).
• Research skills, ability to analyse information, have an eye for detail and present information  logically and cohesively. (Essential)
• Ability to interpret data, analyse numbers and present numerical information accurately. (Essential).
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail to produce work of a high standard. (Essential)
• Understanding of the key issues affecting young families, particularly those with multiple and complex needs living in deprived areas. (Desirable)
• Knowledge of health and wellbeing services, including perinatal infant mental health. (Desirable)
• Understanding of the role of social media to support partnership working and fundraising. (Desirable).

Introduction

Are you interested in finding new ways to raise money for a charity?
Are you passionate about being led by audience insights and market trends?
Are you a target-driven individual who loves a challenge?
Are you passionate about achieving everyday equality for disabled people?
Join an amazing group of Disability Gamechangers and make a lasting impact for disabled people.

We are looking for an experienced direct and digital marketing professional to join our Public Fundraising team. The primary focus of this role is to lead on the diversification of Scope’s income generation programme.

Audience-focussed and digitally savvy, you will have a proven track record of delivering engaging direct marketing campaigns to generate income, increase value and develop loyalty.

Over the next four years Scope’s services will directly reach two million people, driving change for many of the 14 million disabled people in the UK.

Scope depends on support from many hundreds of thousands of people to achieve strategic goals. In order to achieve these ambitions, Scope needs to diversify income streams to drive financial supporters from a wider portfolio.

An example of this is the multiple award-winning Mindful Monsters subscription product which connects Scope supporters and the cause through mindfulness play for children and their families.

We are investing in an innovation project to improve the profitability of this product. In addition to managing the retention of existing customers, this role will be responsible for leading on this project and all other new product development at Scope.

The Role

• • Project managing an innovation project to increase profitability of Scope’s subscription product, exploring new and existing options for target audience, brand, creative development, supporter journey and infrastructure. 
  • Managing the relationship with innovation partners and creative agencies. 
  • Mapping out and testing supporter journeys and building communication plans to support this.
  • Ensuring the timely fulfilment of regular communications via mail, email and social media.
  • Evaluating work/progress on a regular basis, reporting to the team and managers as appropriate
  • Ensuring that KPIs are met, and costs are all within agreed targets.
  • Working closely with the supporter care, social media, and the community fundraising teams to grow engagement and ensure positive supporter service through existing social media, digital, and offline channels. 
  • Keeping up to date with news and trends relating to the external market and opportunities for NPD.

Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months

35 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Full job description

About you

An innovator. We are looking for someone with a keen interest in the charity market who is open to new ideas for raising money, driven by audience insights and market trends. Someone with a passion and good understanding of developing and managing retention activity including; supporter journey development and optimisation, retention modelling, campaign/account/project management, and content management to engage and inspire supporters.

An inspiring project manager. We are looking for someone who can build relationships and work effectively across numerous teams, stakeholders and external agencies.
A target driven and creative individual who loves a challenge and is focused like we are on Everyday Equality.

Disabled candidates

Equality and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We want to seize every opportunity to build a truly diverse and inclusive workplace.

We are always looking for applications from disabled people. If you are disabled and you have the skills and, or the experience to do the job, we really want to interview you. Just let us know in your application that you are applying under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

The role

Our vision is that every child and young person in the country has a safe and happy childhood and the foundations they need to thrive. We protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. In 2019/2020 we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK. 

We are looking for a New Business Manager to build relationships with organisations that will result in long-term, high-value partnerships that raise both significant income and brand visibility for Action for Children.

You will make a difference by:

-Developing excellent relationships with key internal and external stakeholders in order to drive positive outcomes for the Partnership Development team

-Identifying potential partnerships across all industries, undertaking the research and qualification of strategic opportunities

-Creating top-quality proposals and pitches tailored to the opportunity

-Leading on the full sales cycle concerning prospect approaches, from identification and initial approach to ask and close

-Supporting more junior members of the team

You will need:

- Experience of building excellent relationships with high-level stakeholders, internally and externally

-To be tenacious, self-motivated and high achieving with a passion for new business

-The ability to think creatively and strategically when prospecting, using a solutions-focussed approach

- Two years’ worth of experience in securing partnerships involving a range of activity, including sales promotions and employee fundraising

-Excellent verbal and written communication skills (including inter-personal and presentation skills) to communicate propositions in a compelling and engaging way

-The willingness to work flexibly and travel the UK when necessary

-To be computer literate, including knowledge of MS Office packages and CRM databases

The way we work

We work to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. Have a look at our behaviours and values to understand more about the way we work here.

Rewards

We want our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, a comprehensive employer-matched pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts on our dedicated benefits portal. Find out more about our exclusive Action for Children benefits here.

For safe and happy childhoods

At Action for Children, we protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. Last year, we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Action for Children is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with Disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.

We are working with a wonderful children’s charity who are looking for a Corporate Account Manager to join their fundraising team on a fixed-term contract for 11 months.

As part of your role, you will be managing and developing an existing portfolio of corporate partners worth 5-6 figures, contributing to the overall income of  the corporate partnerships team. You will also be assisting the new business team wherever necessary and line managing a Corporate Relationship Executive.

The successful candidate will need:

• Experience of account managing for high value existing corporate partners
• Line management experience
• Excellent relationship building skills in a fundraising capacity
• Great communication skills

Closing Date: ASAP
Salary: £30,298 plus Outer London Weighting (£1885.27)
 

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call Ashby on 02030 062787 or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable roles. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically, supporting people to find their perfect role within the not-for-profit sector.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

If enough applications are received the charity reserve the right to end the application period sooner.

A global international development organisation is seeking a qualified finance professional to join their central team as Programme Finance Manager for Financial Accounting on a long term fixed term contract (12 - 24 months). The role will develop and deliver on a comprehensive finance year end improvement strategy (to be delivered centrally and globally). Duties will include (though may not be limited to) the following: 

• Develop and implement new KPI strategy in relation to year-end goals
• Develop and implement new financial processes and financial accounting controls and governance
• Develop and lead on a strategy to enhance staff capability (both finance and non-finance) to deliver on year-end
• Lead on review against performance metrics for implenentation financial accounting processes and controls
• Roadmap longer term programme and liaise with a range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver regular reports on progress

You will be a qualified financial professional, who has a strong knowledge of financial accounting reporting, processes and controls. Given the nature of the technical requirements of the role, a background within accountancy practice and audit is strongly desirable. You will also have dealt with programme management elements of risk reporting, assessment and review, and roadmapping. 

This role is a high profile position within a well-known global entity, as such you will be capable of business partnering with a range of stakeholders from junior to global board level. 

The role is based in Surrey though can be undertaken remotely. 

London SE1, with flexible home working

All young people face challenges. At Whizz-Kidz we know that for a young wheelchair user society can be that bit more challenging to navigate. Whizz-Kidz changes and transforms lives because the right kind of wheelchair is more than just a set of wheels. It can be the key to unlocking a young person’s potential. But we do much more than just ensure children get the right wheelchair – our services give young disabled people the chance to lead a fun and active childhood while gaining skills and developing confidence. We believe every young disabled person deserves the best opportunities in life. If you do too, and you think you have the skills to help us – then read on.

The Corporate Partnerships Team plays an integral role in the organisation’s growth. This role provides the exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, ambitious and award-winning team as well as the chance to work on fantastic partnerships with engaged businesses. Our ideal candidate will have experience in a similar role, must have exceptional standards of supporter care and strong attention to detail, along with the ability to be proactive, spot new opportunities and innovate.  

You will create dynamic, targeted and engaging partnerships using your excellent relationship management skills to deliver on the strategic objectives of the charity and our corporate partners. You must be prepared to travel throughout the UK when required, work occasional evenings, with overnight stays and some weekend working.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

Closing Date: 13th April 2021 at 9am.

Committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment.

Whizz-Kidz is the working name of The Movement for Non-Mobile Children (Whizz-Kidz). Registered charity No. 802872.  Company registered in England and Wales No. 2444520.  Charity registered in Scotland No. SC042607.

Job title: Fundraising Manager

Responsible to: Director of Business Development

Salary: £30,000 - 33,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working 

Hours: Full-time 

As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge.  We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

Introduction

Over the last 40 years we’ve built up an impressive track record of improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society through working closely with the local community. This is an exciting time to join us as we are undergoing a period of transition building a new senior management team.

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced, Fundraising Manager to build a diverse funding base and lead a new fundraising team securing our services into the future, for people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.

Key Responsibilities

Working closely with the Business Development Director you will lead the small fundraising team. You will lead on statutory fundraising and large bids and you will line manage a team member who will focus on individual giving and digital fundraising and a consultant who will lead on trust and foundation fundraising. 

Management & Leadership

•  To lead, inspire and motivate fundraising staff and volunteers, providing them with clear direction and sound decision-making and enabling them to raise funds and contribute significantly to organisational development.

•  Work with Business Development Director to review and implement fundraising strategy.

•   Manage Digital & Marketing Officer post contributing to development of Communications Action Plan ensuring key targets are met

•  Assist with developing and scrutinising project plans in collaboration with Project Teams, to ensure they are accurate, deliverable and will achieve their objectives.

•  Lead and directly manage a portfolio of key relationships.

Income generation

•  Research potential grant making organisations and analyse their suitability to feed into the grant prospect pipeline to achieve identified targets

•   Research and develop diverse income generation initiatives including a local Lottery, digital fundraising, individual giving, legacy & in memoriam gifts, major donors.

•  Prepare and submit high quality funding applications and reports to grant making organisations.

• Scrutinise project budgets and financial information for applications and for grant reports.

•  Support the account management of successful applications, liaising with the programme project manager and finance team and ensuring that funding and reporting criteria are fully met and specific challenges in relation to programme objectives transparently communicated.

•   Develop and initiate innovative fundraising ideas

Monitoring & Evaluation

•  Maintain and develop the database of contacts: individual donors, corporates, grant making bodies ensuring the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) are adhered to across all income generation activities and that all data collection is in accordance with these regulations.

•  Review grant agreements

•  Ensure all incoming grants are processed in line with internal procedures and best practice guidelines.

•  Ensure prompt and appropriate acknowledgement of all grant income, ensuring all information relating to each grant is accurate, up to date and well organised.

•  Maintain a timetable of deadlines to ensure grant making organisations receive reports and other correspondence as required.

•  Ensure that all donor communications are handled appropriately, promptly and courteously and that complaints and criticisms are logged, investigated and resolved

• Ensure collection of key data and evidence to enhance Valleys Kids case for support. 

Compliance

• To ensure that Valleys Kids fulfils all its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities adhering to Fundraising Code of Practise and GDPR legislation.

Person Specification

• At least 5 years experience of fundraising in the Charity/Social enterprise sector 
• Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundation, trading income and individual giving.
• Experience of managing an effective team, with ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account.
• A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.
• Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities
• Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.
• A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships with a wide variety of funders
• An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well. 
• Experience of budget and financial management
• An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully.
• Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation.
• Awareness of Welsh language, culture and the public services context in Wales or a willingness to learn.
• Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.

You will be responsible for coordinating and managing VSO's partnerships with major global foundations, institutional donors and their key implementing partners in order to grow VSO's secured programme funding. The role's purpose is to secure programme funding by building strong relationships with major global foundations, institutional donors and their key implementing partners in the UK and priority VSO countries.

The role is based in the UK.

Job description

Relationship Coordination and Management

Manage VSO's relationship development and proactive positioning with major global foundations and other priority institutional donors.

1. Develop and deliver a focused engagement action plan to strengthen VSO's positioning and relationships across a small number of major global foundations centrally and globally.
2. Manage VSO's Global Foundations and implementing partner engagement building strong relationships with major global foundations, other donors and their key implementing partners. Proactively

• Ensure that priority global foundations centrally and globally understand how VSO can help deliver their priorities
• Influence priority global foundations on issues of mutual interest

1. Work directly and proactively with Practice Area technical leads, Country teams, Programme Design, Knowledge for Impact, and others to ensure proactive and widespread engagement with priority global foundations centrally and in-country
2. Grow VSO's new global foundations programme funding by identifying and creating opportunities, building winning partnerships with implementing partners, developing and submitting outstanding proposals and negotiating successful new VSO programmes.
3. Proactively build VSO's understanding of major global foundations and key implementing partners in order to inform programmatic direction and content and ensure decision making is based on sound market knowledge and business intelligence.
4. Relationship development and opportunity response for other priority donor donors and their key implementing partners as may be required in the pipeline.

Strategic Partnership Team

1. Proactively coordinate with VSO's other Strategic Partnership Leads, Country Representatives and the Business Intelligence Unit, acting as part of a single, unified global team and sharing knowledge and learning to effectively respond to new business opportunities across our geographic and programmatic portfolio.
2. Coordinate, manage and deploy VSO's and the Strategic Partnership Team's resources to secure new programme funding, ensuring effective, high quality and timely response to agreed priority opportunities.
3. Contribute to and help drive VSO's Project Magenta proposal development process and stage gate decisions to continuously improve VSO's ability to prioritise, develop and win outstanding, professional new opportunity proposals.
4. Engage with the Business Intelligence Unit, ensuring provision of ongoing, high quality research and funding intelligence for new business pursuit activities across the organisation

Safeguarding, Security and Risk Management

1. Commit to VSO's vision and values, including safeguarding and taking a zero-tolerance approach to abuse and harm. Ensure plans are developed and being implemented with the programme's Duty of Care Lead team and stakeholders (staff, volunteer, primary actors, etc.) are aware and comply.

The Charity

The Youth Adventure Trust is a youth development charity working with vulnerable young people aged 11 to 16 years old from Wiltshire and Swindon. Our outdoor activity based Youth Adventure Programme enables young people to challenge themselves, experience success, learn to go beyond their own expectations and grow in confidence. Through a series of residential camps and day activities they are able to build resilience, self esteem and develop social and life skills. The Mentoring Scheme is an additional offer for those young people identified as in need of some further individualised support at the end of the main programme. Volunteer mentors work with a young person for up to a year, supporting them with issues they are experiencing, continuing to develop their confidence, resilience and life skills, and working towards the outcomes the young person has identified for themselves. The Trust’s Bursary Scheme is open to all those young people who have completed the main programme to assist their next steps into further activities.  All our services are provided completely free of charge to the young people who are nominated to take part. Our aim is to make a lasting improvement to the lives of vulnerable young people.

The Role

We are looking for a motivated and dynamic individual to support the delivery and expansion of our Mentoring and Bursary Schemes. You will be involved in all aspects of the schemes, ensuring they run effectively and meet the identified needs and requirements. You will need experience of direct work with young people, as well as experience working with or managing volunteers.

This role includes responsibility for:

• Supporting the young people’s transition from the main programme into the Mentoring Scheme including attending their final activity days, and acting as a key point of contact for young people and their parents.
• Recruiting volunteer mentors including fulfilling our commitment to Safer Recruitment.
• Organising, preparing and information sharing with volunteers to ensure they are ready to fulfil their role.
• Facilitating the matching process to establish the best fit between young people and mentors.
• Acting as a key point of contact and support for volunteers throughout their time as a mentor, including being available on-call during session times which may sometimes occur in the evening or at weekends.
• Working in partnership with the young people’s families, schools and other organisations to maximise the benefits for the young people involved.
• Creating and delivering training opportunities for new and existing mentors.
• Administrating all aspects of a volunteer and young person’s involvement with the Mentoring Scheme, including completing the relevant checks and references, record keeping and database maintenance.
• Facilitating young people’s access to the Bursary Scheme including promoting the scheme, assessing applications, identifying and acquiring items and requesting follow up feedback.
• Supporting the effective monitoring of the schemes and measurement of young people’s outcomes.
• Participating in networking and awareness raising on behalf of the Youth Adventure Trust.
• Acting as an ambassador for the Youth Adventure Trust at all times.

The post is subject to a six months’ probationary period.

The Candidate

To be up to the challenge you will need excellent understanding and a proven track record of working with vulnerable young people. You will need comprehensive knowledge of volunteering, and demonstrable skills at building effective relationships with volunteers, parents/carers, and professional organisations. You will need strong engagement skills to effectively support both the young people and volunteer mentors. You’ll be an excellent communicator, a strong team player and an exemplary role model.

We need someone with:

• Experience of direct work with vulnerable young people, ideally within a mentoring context.
• Experience of recruiting, supporting and working with volunteers.
• Experience of working in partnership with parents/carers and other professionals.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A positive attitude, commitment and enthusiasm for the work of the Youth Adventure Trust.
• Self-motivation and the ability to work on their own initiative to plan and manage their workload. Excellent time management and prioritising skills.
• Excellent administrative skills and a methodical and thorough approach.
• The ability to perform well and problem solve in high-stress and changing situations. A flexible and dynamic approach.
• Strong IT skills including experience of MS Office, databases, social media and other digital platforms.

In addition:-

• The ability to work flexible hours, evenings and weekends as required, is essential - if you are looking for a predictable 9-5 work environment, this won’t be the right fit.
• A full clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle is required.

Safer Recruitment

The Youth Adventure Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all employees to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. Therefore;

· a satisfactory Enhanced DBS Disclosure will be required for this post;

· we will seek references on shortlisted candidates before interview, and may approach previous employers for information to verify particular experience or qualifications;

· if the applicant is shortlisted, any relevant issues arising from his or her references or application will be taken up at interview;

· if the applicant is currently working with children, on either a paid or voluntary basis, his or her current employer will be asked about disciplinary offences relating to children, including any in which the penalty is “time expired” (e.g. where a warning could no longer be taken into account in any new disciplinary hearing), and whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns, and if so, the outcome of any enquiry or disciplinary procedure. If the applicant is not currently working with children but has done so in the past, then contact will be made with that employer who will be asked about these issues; and

· applicants should note that providing false information is an offence and could result in the application being rejected, or dismissal if the applicant has been selected, and possible referral to the police.

Please review our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy available from our website.

How to Apply

Please complete the Application Form which includes the opportunity to outline why you think you are suitable for this role, making specific reference to the Role and Candidate descriptions above.

Applications Closing Date: Wednesday 5th May 2021 at 9am

Interview Date: Monday 10th May 2021

A second interview will be held for selected candidates on Saturday 15th May 2021 in Wiltshire.

Unfortunately we are unable to reimburse interview expenditure incurred.

The Youth Adventure Trust sincerely thanks all those who apply, however only those considered for an interview will be contacted.