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About Us
We are an environmental charity with science at our heart. We help people to take action to protect the nature around them; by connecting them with it and giving them the tools they need to do so. We passionately believe in citizen science and are leaders in it. Our current focus areas include helping to create nature-friendly urban spaces, growing the impact of internationally known citizen science programmes such as Freshwater Watch, developing early career scientists and sharing learning internationally, and working with partners to advance the science, tools and thinking behind citizen science.
Role purpose:
To drive the growth of income from businesses, local authorities and public sector funders by identifying, developing and securing strategic partnerships. The role will build high-value relationships, generate new funding opportunities, and lead the development of compelling proposals, working closely with colleagues across Earthwatch to convert opportunities into longterm partnerships and sustainable income. This role will focus on building connections and opening doors, working closely with the Director to convert opportunities into funding to meet organisational targets.
Key deliverables:
Partnership Management and Development
- Lead on building and maintaining positive relationships with existing contacts in businesses, local authorities, and other partners in line with organisational priorities.
- Carry out excellent stewardship and management of partnerships, overseeing delivery plans, strategic activities and routine partnership activities.
- Lead all aspects of the partnership development process, including prospect research, proposal development and pitching, ensuring a seamless pathway from opportunity identification to funding secured.
- Cultivate relationships with other charitable organisations to expand Earthwatch’s network of partners and collaborate on joint environmental initiatives.
Proposal Writing and Project Development
- Lead the preparation of compelling funding proposals, tailored to meet the specific interests and priorities of potential partners.
- Ensure proposals are timely, impactful, and demonstrate clear outcomes.
- Work closely with the Finance team to develop accurate project budgets, ensuring all proposals are cost-effective and financially viable.
- Manage a portfolio of prospects and funding opportunities, contributing to agreed annual income targets.
Sector Awareness and Marketing
- Monitor plans and strategies from businesses, local authorities and government bodies with a view to spotting opportunities for partnership working.
- Collaborate with the Communications teams to create high-quality marketing materials that support partner engagement and public relations.
- Represent Earthwatch at partner and networking events.
Monitoring and Reporting
- Oversee the end-to-end grant management process, including timely submission of progress reports and financial narratives to ensure full compliance with donor requirements.
- Maintain a comprehensive reporting process via the CRM, providing accurate income generation updates, dashboards, and pipeline forecasts.
- Monitor environmental and sustainability issues in the media including emerging policies, trends and the performance of organisations with whom we have relationships.
Collaboration and Team Support:
- Work closely with colleagues across the organisation, particularly the Income Generation, Programmes, Communications, and Finance teams, to ensure that funding proposals and reports are aligned with Earthwatch’s programs and objectives.
In undertaking these roles, the postholder should also have regard to:
- Acting as an ambassador for the work, vision and values of Earthwatch Europe.
- Ensuring continuous development of skills and knowledge required for the post, undergoing training and performance review as required.
- Working within all the policies and procedures of Earthwatch Europe, ensuring compliance with health & safety policies and all legal and contractual obligations associated with the post.
- Collaborating with other Earthwatch teams to ensure effective delivery of partnership programmes.
- Carrying out any other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of responsibility of the post, as requested by the postholder’s line manager.
Please see the full job description attached.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK; Earthwatch is unable to support visa applications.
Earthwatch is committed to making any adjustments we can for short-listed candidates, to facilitate participation in our interview process. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We can’t fix issues like poverty, inequality, health and climate change alone. We are fully conscious of the scale of the challenge that faces the country and the urgent need to respond. That’s why the School for Social Entrepreneurs exists, to empower and equip people with entrepreneurial ideas and solutions to grow the social economy. The social economy is a movement of organisations and enterprises that prioritise people and planet. Together, we are committed to tackling the greatest social and environmental challenges of our time.This is a new and exciting role at a significant time of growth for the School for Social Entrepreneurs. In the coming year. we are developing new programmes, working with leaders who are developing small community led social and environmental projects as well as leading larger charities and social businesses developing social investment and housing solutions.
We’re not a traditional funder. Our grants tend to be small, but they punch above their weight, helping social and environmental entrepreneurs take the next step to grow their organisations. Our grants run alongside learning programmes, challenging and supporting leaders. We’re innovative in how we do this, through both traditional and enterprise grants. We lead on Match Trading™, a grant that challenges leaders to grow their trading income, and we are working on further grants innovations.
You will work with our Grants Team, Project Co-ordinators and Assessment Lead to develop and support grant management across a range of programmes. Your role will be to lead on specific programmes, including supporting assessment, onboarding and grant management. You will ensure that grantees are fully supported to manage their grants and ensure that grant management is compliant, auditable, efficient, and timely. You will support the development of grant policies and processes, writing grant paperwork and documentation, overseeing payments, and reporting to the wider Programmes Team and others about our work.
You don’t need to have managed grants before, but you do need to have a good understanding of a wide range enterprises and charities, gained through experience of training, business consultancy or development support. You will have a good understanding of business models, legal structures and financial systems that social and environmental organisations and community run and owned businesses may use. You will need to understand social enterprise finances, be able to read accounts, budgets, cashflows and have a good knowledge of social enterprise income streams.
We need someone who understands how hard it is to start up and grow social and environmental enterprises and can support people from diverse backgrounds in managing their grant, finances and growing their business.
Are you up for the challenge?
Interviews: Friday 18th and Friday 25th September (online)
To equip people with skills, funding, and networks to realise their potential, improve lives and protect the planet.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Purpose of the Role
The Youth Insights Programme Lead is responsible for leading the effective design, planning and delivery of assigned Youth Insights panels and projects. The role bridges strategic leadership and operational delivery, ensuring that panels are well designed, well facilitated, well coordinated and deliver high-quality insight for partners.
The Programme Lead manages day-to-day partner relationships, leads delivery planning, supports facilitators, oversees programme outputs and ensures young people have a positive, inclusive and meaningful experience.
The role contributes to insight generation and reporting, working within the frameworks and quality standards set by the Programme Manager.
Key Responsibilities
1. Programme Design and Delivery
- Lead the design and delivery of assigned Youth Insights panels, within the methodology and standards set by the Programme Manager.
- Translate partner objectives into clear delivery plans, session structures and participant journeys.
- Develop and adapt session plans, materials and activities for assigned panels.
- Ensure sessions are engaging, inclusive, purposeful and appropriate for young people.
- Lead or support facilitation of Youth Insights sessions as required.
- Ensure delivery remains aligned with agreed outcomes, quality standards and partner expectations.
- Identify practical improvements to delivery and share learning with the Programme Manager.
2. Operational Partner Management
- Act as the primary day-to-day relationship manager for assigned partners.
- Lead operational planning meetings, delivery updates and routine partner communications.
- Manage partner expectations around timelines, outputs, session planning and reporting.
- Maintain strong working relationships with operational partner contacts.
- Identify risks, issues or opportunities in partner relationships and escalate appropriately to the Programme Manager.
- Support strategic partner conversations by providing delivery insight, evidence and learning.
- Where a partner contact holds both strategic and operational responsibilities, act as the primary day-to-day contact while ensuring the Programme Manager retains senior oversight.
3. Insight Generation and Reporting
- Analyse youth feedback and identify key themes, patterns and insights from assigned panels.
- Draft reports, summaries, presentations and recommendations for partners.
- Ensure reports go beyond description and begin to translate youth feedback into meaningful insight.
- Work within the reporting frameworks, standards and templates agreed by the Programme Manager.
- Incorporate quality feedback from the Programme Manager and strengthen outputs accordingly.
- Support the development of case studies, impact stories and evidence of partner value.
- Contribute learning from assigned panels into wider Youth Insights service development.
4. Delivery Quality and Facilitation
- Ensure all assigned programmes are delivered to a high standard.
- Brief, support and coordinate freelance facilitators for assigned sessions.
- Ensure facilitators understand the purpose, method, safeguarding requirements and desired outcomes of each session.
- Monitor delivery quality and participant experience.
- Provide feedback to facilitators and escalate quality concerns where needed.
- Ensure session materials, resources and activities are prepared and appropriate.
- Support consistency of delivery across panels, while adapting appropriately to different partner contexts.
5. Youth Engagement and Inclusion
- Ensure young people are meaningfully involved, listened to and supported throughout their participation.
- Work with the Programme Coordinator to support recruitment, onboarding, retention and engagement.
- Monitor participant experience and respond to issues or barriers to participation.
- Identify gaps in representation within assigned panels and work with the Programme Coordinator and Programme Manager to address them.
- Ensure delivery is inclusive, accessible and responsive to young people’s needs.
- Support young people to build confidence, skills and understanding through their involvement.
6. Programme Coordination and Project Management
- Develop and maintain delivery plans for assigned Youth Insights panels.
- Coordinate timelines, milestones, partner inputs, facilitator availability and reporting deadlines.
- Work closely with the Programme Coordinator to ensure logistics, communications and records are well managed.
- Ensure risks, actions and dependencies are tracked and communicated.
- Support effective use of HubSpot and other systems to manage participant journeys and partner activity.
- Ensure programme information is accurate, up to date and accessible to the team.
7. Team Support and Development
- Support and mentor the Programme Coordinator in relation to assigned programmes.
- Delegate appropriate tasks clearly and support effective workload management.
- Share learning, tools and good practice across the Youth Insights team.
- Contribute to training, reflection sessions and process improvement.
- Support a positive, collaborative and values-led team culture.
- Help build team confidence in delivery, facilitation, insight generation and partner communication.
8. Safeguarding, Compliance and Risk
- Ensure safeguarding, consent, data protection and risk processes are followed across assigned programmes.
- Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns or risks in line with S4TP policies.
- Ensure facilitators and delivery contributors understand relevant safeguarding and compliance requirements.
- Support accurate record keeping and documentation.
- Contribute to risk assessment and mitigation for sessions, panels and partner activity.
Key Relationships
Internal:
- Youth Insights Programme Manager
- Youth Insights Programme Coordinator
- CEO where required
- Wider S4TP team
- Freelance facilitators
External:
- Operational partner contacts
- Strategic partner contacts where appropriate
- Young people and alumni
- Schools, colleges and youth networks
- Delivery partners and stakeholders
Success Measures
Success in this role will include:
- Assigned panels are delivered effectively, safely and to a high standard.
- Partners receive timely, useful and high-quality reports and outputs.
- Young people have a positive, inclusive and meaningful experience.
- Operational partner relationships are well managed.
- Programme delivery runs smoothly, with clear plans, timelines and communication.
- Insight reports demonstrate analysis, themes and recommendations, not just summaries.
- Facilitators are well briefed, supported and consistent in delivery.
- Learning from delivery contributes to wider Youth Insights improvement.
A covering letter explaining your interest in the role and how you meet the criteria in the person specification (no more than 1 x A4 page).
An up-to-date relevant CV (no more than 2 x A4 pages).
Please indicate where you are based on your application.
A short selfie video saying why you want to work with Solutions for the Planet and what you think your superpowers are (max 2 minutes).
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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PIN is an international non-governmental organisation providing humanitarian assistance, supporting human rights, and driving sustainable development in more than 30 countries worldwide.
In the UK, we are planning to launch the One World Film Festival as well as our flagship education programme, One World in Schools. Through this programme, young people develop greater awareness of global issues, build empathy and understanding of different lived experiences, and strengthen their ability to question information, bias, and narratives.Through innovative educational resources, school partnerships, and film-based learning, One World connects students with real-world challenges and solutions from around the globe.
About the Role
We are seeking an ambitious, entrepreneurial and relationship-focused Partnerships & Engagement Manager to lead the development of new income streams from philanthropists and the wider public.
This is an exciting opportunity to build and grow a fundraising portfolio that will support One World in Schools in the UK, while also generating funding for PIN’s broader humanitarian and development programmes internationally.
The successful candidate will cultivate and steward major donors, develop compelling fundraising propositions, and identify innovative ways to engage supporters with the impact of our work. They will also play a leading role in establishing and delivering the organisation’s One World engagement strategy, leveraging film screenings, festivals, partnerships, and events to strengthen stakeholder engagement and create new fundraising opportunities.
We welcome applications from candidates both within and outside the charity sector. If you have experience in sales, business development, marketing, client relationship management, partnerships, or other commercial roles and believe you have transferable skills relevant to fundraising and stakeholder engagement, we encourage you to apply. We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate a track record of building relationships, influencing decision-makers, and generating income or support for a cause, product, or service.
Key Responsibilities
Fundraising Strategy & Income Generation
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Develop and implement a fundraising strategy focused on securing support from philanthropists, trusts, and members of the public.
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Build and manage a pipeline of prospective major donors and philanthropic partners.
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Create meaningful supporter journeys that deepen engagement and encourage long-term giving.
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Develop compelling cases for support and fundraising materials that communicate the impact of One World in Schools and PIN’s global programmes.
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Work closely with programme colleagues to translate programme outcomes into engaging donor propositions.
Stakeholder Engagement & Partnerships
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Build and maintain relationships with influential stakeholders, ambassadors, supporters, and partners who can advance fundraising objectives.
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Represent PIN at networking events, donor meetings, conferences, and public engagements.
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Develop opportunities for strategic partnerships with organisations, institutions, and individuals aligned with One World’s mission.
One World Engagement Strategy
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Lead the development and implementation of the fundraising stakeholder engagement strategy for One World engagement strategy in the UK.
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Identify opportunities to use documentary film and storytelling as tools for audience engagement, awareness raising, donor cultivation, and fundraising.
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Support OWIS UK Coordinator to build relationships with filmmakers, cultural institutions, schools, venues, and festival partners.
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Plan and deliver film screenings, events, and related engagement activities that support fundraising and stakeholder development goals.
Communications & Collaboration
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Work closely with staff from PIN UK staff as well as PIN’s international offices to develop engaging fundraising campaigns and donor communications.
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Build partnerships with marketing and media channels.
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Monitor fundraising performance, analyse results, and identify opportunities for improvement.
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Maintain accurate donor records and ensure compliance with fundraising regulations and GDPR requirements.
Person Specification
Essential
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Excellent communication, presentation, and networking skills.
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Demonstrated success in cultivating and managing stakeholder relationships.
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Ability to develop compelling fundraising or sales propositions and cases for support.
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Experience managing multiple projects and priorities in a dynamic environment.
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Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
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Commitment to humanitarian, development, education, and social justice values.
Desirable
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Experience working with philanthropic and corporate networks in the UK.
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Experience of fundraising for international development, humanitarian, education, or cultural organisations.
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Understanding of fundraising principles and good practice in the UK.
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Experience using storytelling, events, cultural engagement, or creative content to build relationships with supporters and drive fundraising outcomes.
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Knowledge of documentary film, film festivals, cultural engagement, or arts-based fundraising.
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Familiarity with CRM systems and fundraising data management.
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Based in London.
What We Offer
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The opportunity to help shape and grow an innovative fundraising function with significant potential for impact.
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A chance to support transformative educational programmes in the UK and life-changing humanitarian and development work globally.
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A collaborative and mission-driven international organisation.
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Professional development opportunities and engagement with global programmes and partners.
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Work from home and flexible working hours.
We are locally-led and present in hard-to-reach areas helping people recover from crisis and build more inclusive and climate resilient societies
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Help us ensure that no amputee needs to cope alone.
Fixed term contract for 2 years starting from the contract start date with the possibility of extending subject to funding.
The Limbless Association is looking for an experienced and passionate Regional Development Manager (one in the North including Northern Ireland and one in the South including Wales) to help expand our reach and strengthen support for amputees and their families across the UK.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing national charity and play a key role in developing partnerships, increasing engagement and ensuring more people can access life-changing support services.
You’ll work with rehabilitation centres, healthcare professionals, service users, volunteers, supports and sponsorship partners to strengthen referral pathways, grow regional outreach and ensure amputees feel informed, connected and supported throughout their journey.
We are looking for someone who:
- Builds strong relationships quickly
- Is passionate about community engagement and inclusion
- Understands partnership working
- Can work strategically whilst remaining hands-on
- Wants to make a meaningful difference
In return, we offer flexibility, autonomy, supportive leadership and the opportunity to shape services that have real impact.
We are looking for a Safeguarding Lead to provide dedicated safeguarding leadership as our flagship Drive Project working with high-harm, high-risk perpetrators of domestic abuse, scales across England and Wales. Acting as a Safeguarding Lead, you'll hold oversight of safeguarding governance across our network, lead a shift from compliance towards collaborative, relational learning, and support delivery partners as a trusted peer and source of expertise. This is a pivotal, newly created role for someone energised by culture change, skilled at holding both accountability and compassion, and comfortable working in complexity.
Closing date: Tuesday 25th August, 9am. Please refer to the job description for further details.
To apply, please visit Respect UK website
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Amputee Network Development Officer – South West
Fixed term 12 months from starting date with potential to extend
Ensure that no amputee need cope alone
The Limbless Association is seeking a proactive, creative and resourceful Development Officer to enable the charity to extend its reach across the south west.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting individuals and their families experiencing amputation, through their rehabilitation, recovery and life beyond limb loss.
The Amputee Network Development Officer will play a pivotal role in the LA realising its outreach aims in the region. This role will build capacity across a range of outreach support activities, working closely with the Regional Development Manager (South), Services Development Lead and Volunteer Coordinator, to realise increased multi- stakeholder engagement, project reach, awareness of the charity and its services as well as working with the team to realise regional financial support of the LA’s work.
We’re looking for someone who:
· Is passionate about building strong outcomes focused relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
· Enjoys turning ideas into meaningful opportunities and actions.
· Can think strategically whilst remaining practical
· Understands the importance of lived experience and co-production
· Has a strong geographical knowledge of the south west of England.
· Wants to make a genuine difference
If you are motivated by improving lives with purpose and compassion, we would love to hear from you.
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Location: Remote with regular travel to multiple locations (including Head Office in London)
Contract Type: Full-Time, Standard Contract
Reports to: Executive Headteacher
Responsible for: Curriculum Leads and Teaching Staff
Start Date: 4th January 2027
Please note: Applicants who successfully pass the initial CV screening will be required to submit a full Equal Education Academy application form in line with KCSIE statutory guidance prior to formal shortlisting and interview.
Interview schedule:
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Online interview (45mins) - Friday 28th August 2026.
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In-Person Assessment Day (London) - Friday 11th September 2026.
About Equal Education Academy (EEA)
Equal Education is excited to launch a new online academy for Key Stage 4 students, accredited under the DfE’s Online Education Accreditation Scheme (OEAS). We deliver high-quality alternative education tailored for learners facing barriers to education or with complex needs. This includes young people with SEND, SEMH needs, interrupted schooling, Children Looked After, and those requiring specialist or alternative provision.
Guided by our values of Belong, Empower and Aspire, we provide a safe, inclusive, and aspirational environment. We align with DfE guidance and aim to meet OEAS standards, ensuring that safeguarding, particularly online, is the foundation of our culture.
Purpose of the Role
The Head of Centre will provide strategic and operational leadership for Equal Education Academy, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, inclusive, and trauma-informed online provision. Serving as the Academy’s Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), the postholder will embed safeguarding, inclusion, and wellbeing into all organisational decision-making.
Key responsibilities include leading SEND and safeguarding strategy (including overseeing the Single Central Record) delivering high-impact staff training, and driving rigorous quality assurance by monitoring and reviewing teaching and learning practices.
Working collaboratively across the Academy and the wider Equal Education Limited group, the Head of Centre will serve as a vital operational bridge, facilitating seamless collaboration and synergy between Equal Education Academy and Equal Education Limited. Operating at the intersection of both entities, the post-holder is uniquely positioned to identify and leverage cross-group resources, optimising them to drive the growth and development of the Academy. By championing alignment across the ecosystem, this pivotal role ensures that the Academy’s functions, team, and strategic objectives are seamlessly integrated within the wider organisation.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership & Quality of Education
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Support the Executive Headteacher in setting the Academy’s strategic direction and ensuring compliance with OEAS/DfE standards.
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Monitor and review teaching and learning across the Academy, using lesson observations, work scrutiny, and data analysis to drive pedagogical improvement.
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Contribute to the Academy Improvement Plan and lead on inspection readiness and quality assurance activities.
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Lead on developing and implementing a program of CPD and training for new staff. Ensuring the team is aligned under the vision and values of the EE Academy.
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Facilitate operational synergy between Equal Education Academy and Equal Education Limited, leveraging group resources to optimise performance.
2. SEND Leadership (SENCO)
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Coordinate all SEND provision, ensuring the identification, assessment, and effective support of learners with complex needs.
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Oversee EHCP management, annual reviews, and the development of targeted Individual Learning Plans (ILPs).
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Oversee PEP management for Looked After Children
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Champion inclusive pedagogy, ensuring all staff adopt trauma-informed and adaptive teaching strategies.
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Manage multi-agency collaboration with families, local authorities, and external professionals to secure positive learner outcomes.
3. Safeguarding and Wellbeing (DSL)
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Serve as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), maintaining oversight of all safeguarding systems, referrals, and online safety protocols.
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Ensure policies remain compliant with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and best practice.
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Promote a culture of vigilance, ensuring learner wellbeing, attendance, and emotional safety are central to all Academy functions.
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Lead on multi-agency safeguarding processes and provide expert advice to the leadership team.
4. Leadership & Staff Development
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Design and deliver high-impact staff training programs, specifically focusing on safeguarding, online pedagogy, SEND frameworks, and inclusive, trauma-informed practice.
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Lead staff appraisal, coaching, and professional development to ensure high standards of accountability and growth.
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Foster a collaborative, reflective culture, supporting recruitment, induction, and retention.
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Support learner engagement, attendance and successful transition pathways
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Contribute to self-evaluation and school improvement activities
5. Partnership Working, Influence and Professional Representation
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Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders to drive seamless integration between Equal Education Academy and the wider Equal Education Limited group.Work closely with the Executive Headteacher, Group CEO and relevant members of operational teams to ensure effective collaboration across the group.
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Develop and sustain effective partnerships with families, schools, local authorities, virtual schools, and external agencies.
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Support policy development, implementation, and review.
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Represent Equal Education at professional meetings, conferences, and external forums.
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Undertake any other duties reasonably directed by the Headteacher or Executive Headteacher.
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Contribute to strategic planning and organisational development, effectively pitching ideas and challenging the status quo.
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Ability to constructively and professionally challenge colleagues and stakeholders at all levels, including leadership as necessary, in the interest of managing risk and developing a quality service offering.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications and Experience
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Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
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National Award for SEN Coordination (NASENCO).
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Significant (3 years minimum) senior leadership experience in a school, AP, SEND, or online setting within the last year.
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Proven experience in designing and delivering whole-school staff training.
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Extensive (1 year minimum) experience as a DSL (safeguarding) and SENCO (SEND provision).
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Deep understanding of KCSIE, the SEND Code of Practice, and OEAS/DfE requirements.
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Experience in reviewing teaching and learning to drive quality improvement.
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Significant experience supporting children and young people with barriers to learning and/or emerging or complex needs, including those with SEND, SEMH needs, interrupted education, Children Looked After, and learners requiring specialist or alternative provision.
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Significant experience supporting learners with EHCPs and complex needs, while coordinating multi-agency support and collaborating effectively with local authorities, schools, and external agencies.
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Experience contributing to quality assurance, school improvement or inspection readiness activities.
Skills and Attributes
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Strong strategic, operational and project management skills
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Ability to manage complex projects in an organised manner, develop project plans with effective tracking (e.g. Project Initiation documents, gantt charts, reporting on key metrics, meeting key milestones and working to budgets).
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Ability to lead projects and processes in a collaborative way, identifying and engaging key stakeholders to ensure efficiency and avoid duplication of work across a group business structure.
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Demonstrates a commercial mindset, with the ability to articulate business cases, work effectively with budgets and interpret information effectively.
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Excellent communication: capable of building high-trust relationships with staff, families, and local authorities.
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Resilient, reflective and adaptable. A champion of inclusion: deep commitment to supporting vulnerable learners and EEA’s values.
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Strong organisational skills, data-literate and improvement-focused with the abilities to support and develop colleagues.
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Analytical mindset, able to challenge own assumptions and adapt based on learnings.
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Up to date educational landscape knowledge and a desire to remain informed of sector shifts and updates.
General
The post-holder will be provided with the technology required to complete their role. Equal Education works exclusively on Apple devices using Google software.
Equal Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All colleagues are expected to share this commitment. The post is subject to Enhanced DBS clearance, right to work in the UK, and two satisfactory professional references (one from the last employer).
Every young person we support is unique and our team isn’t any different. Our differences are our strength when it comes to providing a tailored, human approach to education. We are proud of our people and provide an environment where everyone can bring their most authentic self to work.
Our recruitment practices are carried out in line with equal opportunities and all candidates will be reviewed fairly regardless of age, gender reassignment, sex, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This role will join an ambitious programme developing the capacity of the Libraries Connected public library networks. We want to help them evolve as strategic partnerships able to deliver social impacts at scale and to secure resources and investment from national, regional and sub-regional government. Be key to the development of libraries as essential social infrastructure, and help them secure the resources they need to make an impact.
The role is part of a small team of two Regional Managers, supported by an Administrator.
By developing our existing regional networks into formal, resourced structures we can enable the regions to:
- Secure investment for the service and for the libraries from regional and devolved / combined authority funds.
- Create unique regional offers to meet specific needs across and within the regional areas.
- Deliver at scale. For example, the Yorkshire & Humber regional network has 15 library services, and 348 library buildings.
- Create opportunities for cost saving – through joint procurement and shared / collaborative services.
- Share good practice and experience on a formal and integrated basis.
We have 9 regional networks in England, covering all library services and ranging in size from 9 to 33 services. Within each region they provide hundreds of library branches, thousands of staff, and serve millions of service users. They have a long tradition of working together as peer support networks and to deliver activities such as festivals, marketing, and staff training.
Please see the attached job description for a full description of the role, including person specification.
Frequent travel within the UK may be required for the role.
About Libraries Connected
We are an independent charity that supports, promotes and represents public libraries. Our work is driven and led by our membership, which includes almost every library service in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man).
Across the areas we serve there are 176 individual library services with around 3,000 library branches serving over 61 million people.
Our unique approach is to bring these services together to share experience, expertise and evidence – driving innovation and impact across the public library sector.
While senior library leaders sit on our board and committees, we work with library staff at all levels.
As well as providing practical support, training and advice to libraries, we represent them to government and raise their profile in the media. We also develop and lead national library projects with cultural, academic and corporate partners.
We work to a strategic plan that runs until 2027, organised around four themes: drive, grow, connect and engage.
We generate income from membership subscriptions, commissioned services, events and grants. As an Arts Council Investment Principle Support Organisation, part of our core funding in England comes from the Arts Council to help embed their Investment Principles across the library network.
Our values
- We are supportive. We respond to the varied, emerging needs of our members and their communities to enable libraries to learn from each other, and other sector leaders, so that they can safeguard and improve their services.
- We are inclusive. We work with our members and partners to design and deliver our work and to determine our strategic priorities because we are committed to representing the diverse communities and libraries which we serve.
- We are open. We are in constant communication with our members and partners on all levels to learn from their experiences, reflect on our practice and develop our services. We welcome challenge and new directions for our work.
- We are ambitious. We believe that libraries are an essential part of the solution to a range of society’s needs. We promote innovation and collaboration to ensure that libraries are recognised locally and nationally.
Working at Libraries Connected
We are a friendly, collaborative team of around 20 staff based all around England and Wales.
We value diversity and are committed to promoting an inclusive working environment. We strongly believe that inclusive and diverse organisations are not only better places to work, they are more innovative, make better decisions and are more successful. We value people who bring unique perspectives and knowledge to our team.
We want to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To reduce bias, we shortlist candidates based on their responses to up to six application questions. These are designed to tell us about your values, experience, attitudes to work, and transferable skills. We do not ask for a separate cover letter or supporting statement.
We offer flexible working as standard, helping work fit around family and caring responsibilities. Many of our staff work their hours in different ways, including flexi time and compressed hours. We are open to discussing what would work for you and be possible for the role.
All roles are remote and are open to applicants who live anywhere in the UK. We provide staff with a home office set-up including laptop, monitor and phone. There is the option to work from our central London office or use a co-working space if it is not possible to work from home.
We welcome requests for adjustments to our standard recruitment processes for anyone who needs them.
Our vision is an inclusive, modern, sustainable and high-quality public library service at the heart of every community in the UK.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Ready to shape how thousands of fundraisers learn, connect and grow?
Charity People is proud to be partnering with Fundraising Everywhere on the search for a new Email Marketing Manager. Fundraising Everywhere believes every fundraiser deserves access to learning, support and community, no matter where they are in their career.
Salary: £37,000 / €44,200 per annum, depending on location
Location: Fully remote, UK or Ireland, with occasional travel for team meetings and sector events. This will be around twice per year and travel will be paid by the organisation.
Contract: Permanent, 30 hours per week, worked flexibly between 7am-7pm UK/Ireland time
Closing date: 11.30pm on Thursday 6th August
First round interviews: 19th and 20th August
Second round interviews: 26th and 27th August
More about Fundraising Everywhere:
Fundraising Everywhere exist to make professional development accessible, affordable and genuinely useful, helping fundraisers build the skills, confidence and connections they need to create lasting impact. Through virtual conferences, workshops, webinars and membership, the organisation supports a thriving community of more than 20,000 fundraisers across the UK, Ireland and beyond.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a purpose-driven organisation that is reshaping how the charity sector learns and develops. As Email Marketing Manager, you'll play a central role in helping Fundraising Everywhere grow its reach, deepen engagement and strengthen member retention through its most important marketing channel.
What you'll do:
We're looking for an experienced email marketer to take ownership of Fundraising Everywhere's email strategy from end to end. You'll shape how audiences discover events, engage with content and become long-term members of the community.
Your work will include:
- Leading email strategy across acquisition, conversion and retention
- Building and optimising customer journeys, automations and nurture sequences
- Using segmentation, testing and analytics to improve engagement and performance
- Managing partner and sponsored email campaigns with care and commercial awareness
- Working collaboratively across marketing, customer experience and membership teams
- Using data and insight to recommend improvements and spot new opportunities
What we're looking for
We'd love to hear from someone who combines strategic thinking with strong hands-on delivery. You'll likely bring:
- Strong experience in email marketing, automation and segmentation, ideally using Mailchimp
- A proven track record of building high-performing email journeys and conversion funnels
- Confidence analysing campaign performance and translating insight into action
- Strong communication skills and excellent attention to detail
- A collaborative, proactive and organised approach to work
- Experience managing internal and external stakeholders, including partners or sponsors
You don't need experience in virtual events to succeed in this role. What matters most is curiosity, adaptability and a genuine passion for creating meaningful audience experiences.
What can they offer in return?
Fundraising Everywhere is committed to building a culture where people can do meaningful work sustainably and continue to grow professionally. Benefits include:
- Flexible, fully remote working
- 21 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays
- Christmas shutdown
- Training and professional development budget
- Health insurance
- Innovation budget for testing and learning
- Sabbatical leave for long-term staff
- Direct support and learning from the co-founders
If you're excited by the opportunity to use your marketing expertise to support the people helping change the world, we'd love to hear from you.
To apply
Charity People is the chosen recruitment partner for this appointment. All you need to do is send a copy of your CV to Alice at Charity People in the first instance. We'll then be in touch with full application details if your experience is a strong match.
Charity People is a forward thinking, inclusive organisation that actively and deliberately promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We know organisations thrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment by matching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespective of background e.g. age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we believe that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we work with.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
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Permanent | 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (no evenings, bank holidays or nights)
Occasional Saturday cover required.
As a Clinical Services Matron at MSI Reproductive Choices UK, you'll have the opportunity to shape how care is delivered across your region, leading talented clinical teams, developing future leaders and ensuring every client receives safe, compassionate and exceptional care.
This is more than an operational leadership role. It's an opportunity to influence clinical excellence, inspire others and make a lasting difference to both colleagues and the people who rely on our services every day.
Lead people. Improve services. Drive change.
You'll provide leadership across multiple treatment centres, supporting Clinical Team Leaders and multidisciplinary teams to consistently deliver outstanding clinical care.
From coaching and developing colleagues to strengthening clinical governance and identifying opportunities for service improvement, you'll be trusted to create an environment where people can thrive and high-quality care is the standard, not the exception.
Working collaboratively with operational and clinical leaders, you'll help shape the future of our services while ensuring compliance, quality and client experience remain at the centre of every decision.
The impact you'll have
As Clinical Services Matron, you'll play a vital role in:
- Leading and developing high-performing clinical teams.
- Promoting a culture of safety, accountability and continuous improvement.
- Maintaining excellence in clinical governance and regulatory compliance.
- Supporting service innovation and quality improvement across multiple sites.
- Coaching and mentoring colleagues to reach their full potential.
- Ensuring every client receives compassionate, person-centred care.
Travel across regional treatment centres forms part of this role, giving you the opportunity to build relationships with teams and provide consistent leadership across the region.
We're looking for a leader who...
You'll be a registered healthcare professional with significant leadership experience and a genuine passion for developing people.
You'll bring experience of leading clinical teams, a strong understanding of governance and patient safety, and the confidence to influence, support and inspire others through change.
Experience within sexual and reproductive healthcare or leading across multiple sites would be advantageous, but most importantly, we're looking for someone who shares our commitment to delivering exceptional care and creating positive outcomes for both clients and colleagues.
Why Join Us?
We offer a supportive, values-driven environment where your contribution is recognised and rewarded:
Financial & Rewards: Aviva pension (up to 5% employer contribution), Blue Light Card discounts (4,000+ perks), Cycle to Work scheme, season ticket loan, and long-service recognition rewards.
Wellbeing & Work–Life Balance: Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave, 24/7 GP access and EAP via Westfield Health, an extra day off for your birthday, accredited Mental Health First Aiders, family-friendly policies and a national employee recognition programme.
Learning & Career Development: Clear career pathways, paid training and development, accredited apprenticeships, and learning agreements to support your professional growth.
We have been providing NHS-funded and private abortion and vasectomy care through our network of local clinics across England for over 40 years.



The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job role:
The Digital Engagement Lead will play a pivotal role in shaping how people discover, experience and connect with Ronald McDonald House UK.
Working closely with the Head of Brand, Communications and Digital Engagement, you'll lead the development and delivery of an audience-led digital engagement strategy that helps us reach more people, build stronger relationships and create meaningful opportunities for support. You'll bring together social media, email, website content and user experience, paid social media and analytics into a clear, joined-up approach that delivers measurable results.
This is a role for someone who can see the bigger picture whilst remaining close enough to the detail to make things happen. You'll lead and develop a talented digital team, set clear direction and priorities, and create an environment where people feel supported to do their best work. At the same time, you'll work across the organisation to build understanding, confidence and enthusiasm around digital engagement, helping colleagues see how it can support their goals and strengthen our impact.
You'll also play an important role in strengthening the foundations that underpin our digital performance, from supporter journeys and content strategy to analytics, testing and optimisation. Through thoughtful leadership, strong collaboration and a focus on continuous improvement, you'll help ensure our digital channels work harder for the charity and ultimately help us support more families when they need us most.
Key Responsibilities:
Operational leadership and team development
- Provide clear leadership across the Digital Engagement function.
- Line manage the Digital Marketing Manager, Social Media Officer and Website Content & UX Officer.
- Set clear objectives, coach through regular one-to-ones and support professional development.
- Build a collaborative, high trust culture that values inclusion, curiosity and accountability.
- Ensure the team has clear backlogs, roadmaps and ways of working that keep delivery smooth and focused.
Digital strategic approach and planning
- Shape and deliver an integrated, audience-led digital engagement strategy.
- Define the strategic role of each channel for priority audiences, with objectives, KPIs and success metrics.
- Set channel-specific plans across paid social, organic social, content creators engagement, email, paid search and website content/UX.
- Lead annual and quarterly planning, translating organisational goals into clear digital roadmaps with budgets, testing agendas and resourcing.
- Monitor sector, platform and audience trends, advising on where to pivot, invest or pause.
- Guide the Digital Engagement team to deliver effective programmes with clear targeting, creative variants and measurable outcomes.
Digital Marketing ownership
- Oversee a balanced mix of paid, organic and earned activity, ensuring they work together to drive reach, community and conversion.
- Set standards for community management, social listening, risk protocols and out of hours response where required.
- Define our approach to engaging content creators.
- Strengthen the organisation’s approach to paid social, building capability, confidence and performance.
- Set the strategic approach for paid social campaigns, with a clear pathway towards delivering a high‑quality, scalable campaign in Q4.
- Oversee paid search and Google Ad Grant activity, ensuring compliance, relevance and strong conversion tracking.
Email and supporter journeys
- Oversee performance and growth across paid and owned channels.
- Lead the development of a clear email strategy, starting with strong foundations for best‑practice journeys
- Oversee the design and implementation of core email journeys
- Ensure email activity is insight‑led, tested and aligned with wider supporter journeys across channels
- Maintain a practical test plan covering audiences, messaging, creative and landing experiences.
Website content and user experience
- Lead the long term development of the charity’s website.
- Set the content and UX strategy with audience needs at the centre, ensuring information is findable, inclusive and persuasive.
- Oversee page governance, templates and information architecture to support both storytelling and conversion.
- Prioritise UX improvements using evidence from analytics, user feedback and best practice.
- Ensure the site reflects our brand voice and values, with accessible content and clear journeys.
Innovation, creative approach, testing and optimisation
- Embed a culture of smart experimentation and continuous improvement.
- Champion creative exploration across formats, storytelling and interaction design, while setting clear hypotheses and guardrails.
- Maintain a cross-channel testing backlog, with transparent prioritisation, timelines and owners.
- Ensure rigorous measurement: define success criteria, document results, share learning and scale winning variants.
- Encourage responsible adoption of new features and tools where they solve real audience problems.
Data, tracking and reporting
- Ensure decisions are grounded in accurate data and meaningful insight.
- Set the strategic direction for digital analytics and performance measurement.
- Oversee GA4 tracking, analytics and reporting frameworks across channels and key journeys, working with external agencies or specialists to establish robust reporting foundations
- Commission accessible dashboards and provide narrative context so stakeholders understand performance and next actions.
- Promote outcome-focused reporting that complements top of funnel/brand metrics.
Stakeholder and partner collaboration (internal and external, including suppliers)
- Lead strong, respectful collaboration that gets the best from people and partners.
- Partner with fundraising, family services, brand, and data & insight teams to shape clear briefs and deliver impactful digital work.
- Manage agencies, creators, platform reps and technical suppliers: set scopes, deliverables, timelines and KPIs, and review performance against objectives.
- Ensure all external output meets brand, accessibility, safeguarding and data protection standards.
- Build constructive relationships with senior stakeholders, presenting insights and recommendations with clarity.
Budget and resource accountability
- Hold responsibility for digital engagement budgets and resourcing.
- Oversee budget planning, forecasting and in‑flight reallocation to maximise value.
- Track spend, approve invoices and maintain strong financial governance.
- Assess capacity and recommend when to use external support, with clear cost–benefit rationale.
Person Specification:
Knowledge and Experience:
- Significant experience leading audience-led digital channels across paid, organic social, email and web within a charity.
- Demonstrable experience of leading digital engagement change projects
- Proven track record developing channel-specific strategies and roadmaps that drive growth, engagement and conversion.
- Experience setting digital strategy and direction while remaining close to delivery
- Experience leading and line managing digital teams through change and nurturing inclusive, high-performing cultures.
- Strong understanding of analytics, tracking and outcome-focused reporting (e.g. GA4, tagging, data governance).
- Experience commissioning and managing agencies, creators and technical suppliers.
- Comprehensive understanding of accessibility, safeguarding and ethical digital practice.
- Desirable: experience with influencer governance, CRM-integrated journeys, or major website and IA projects.
Skills and Abilities:
- Credible, collaborative leader who can inspire confidence and momentum during change.
- Strategic thinker who can translate long‑term ambition and distil insight into clear plans and practical delivery.
- Skilled communicator who simplifies complexity and brings colleagues and partners with them.
- Confident decision‑maker, comfortable balancing creativity with risk and feasibility.
- Strong analytical skills with a disciplined test-and-learn mindset.
- Inclusive leader who sets high standards while keeping momentum and morale strong.
- Comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and translating data into action.
- Creative problem solver who spots opportunities and moves at pace with care.
- Calm and resilient under pressure
Team: Health & Safety and Environment
Location: Remote with regular travel. Approx. A few times a month
Work pattern: Monday-Friday, 35 hours per week
Salary: Up to £75,884.23 per year
Contract: Permanent
We are the UK’s largest cat welfare charity. All over the country, our passionate employees, volunteers and supporters are using their kindness and expertise to make life better for millions of cats and the people who care for them.
Responsibilities of our Head of Health & Safety and Environment:
- Lead the Health, Safety and Environment team
- To be Cats Protection’s H&S competent person
- Collaborate across the charity to align Health, Safety and Environment plans with our strategy
- Lead the development and implementation of value-adding initiatives and activity
- Own and set the strategic direction for environmental initiatives and plans
- Update and modernise our Health & Safety function and policies
- Maintain expert knowledge and understanding of current and future legislation
- Lead the investigation of significant incidents, including cause, learning and improvement
- Develop and oversee a comprehensive Health, Safety and Environmental training strategy
- Lead the team in the attaining relevant H&S and environment quality standards
About the Health & Safety and Environment team:
The team is a multi-tasking team that undertakes most Health and Safety tasks in-house, working closely with most other teams within Cats Protection. The team is made up of a head of department, senior officer, environment and sustainability lead, administrator and 4 regional officers who cover the whole of the UK. The team deal with the Cats Protection retail outlets, Cat Centres, accident investigations, DSE, branch volunteer enquiries and more.
What we’re looking for in our Head of Health & Safety and Environment:
- NEBOSH diploma or equivalent H&S qualification and chartered ISOH membership
- Significant Health & Safety management experience at a similar head of department level
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams
- Experience in a complex, multi-site public sector, facilities or charity organisation
- Strong knowledge of all current and emerging Health & Safety legislation and guidance
- Experience of leading the modernisation of H&S services and activities
- Inspirational leader with the ability to build strong relationships
- Ability to plan, develop and implement key Health and Safety, and Environment policies
What we can offer you:
- 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service
- A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance for peace of mind
- Health and wellbeing support to help you stay well while working remotely
- Flexible working options to support a healthy work–life balance
- Access to discounted pet insurance to help care for your pet’s health
Learn more about our full reward package
Application closing date: 10th August 2026
Virtual interview date: w/c 31st August 2026
Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
If successful, your recruitment journey will include:
1. anonymised application form
2. video screening
3. virtual interview
Please note, the process may change slightly dependent on application numbers.
Please email us if you require any adjustments to be made for you to complete your application or to participate in the recruitment journey.
Making a better life for cats, because life is better with cats
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Job description
Job Title: Caseworker
Reports to: TBC
Line Reports: N/A
Location: London/ Birmingham/ Manchester
Working Pattern: Flexible – hybrid; minimum 2 days a week from one of our offices
Starting Salary: London- £29000 (Salary band:£29,000 - £32,000); Outside London- £26500 (Salary band: £26,500 - £29,500 )
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, with occasional evening/weekend work (TOIL provided)
Contract: Permanent
Language requirements: Fluency in English essential.
Travel: Expectations of travel between BB locations for in person meetings and events
Overall purpose:
Breaking Barriers exists to support refugees and people from forced migration backgrounds into meaningful employment.
The Client Caseworker is integral to delivering that mission. Acting as a client’s primary point of support, you will lead and coordinate their progression toward employment — whether through language development, requalification, training or direct employability support.
This role requires someone who can take ownership of client journeys, drive forward action plans, and deliver both one-to-one and group-based support that moves clients closer to work. Caseworkers may initially focus more heavily on one pathway area, but the role is designed to provide integrated, cross-programme support over time.
Collaboration across programme teams is essential to ensure clients experience seamless, joined-up services and consistent progression. Your contributions are valued, and you can make a meaningful impact on people’s lives.
Key responsibilities:
1. Client casework and support
- Manage a caseload of clients, providing structured one-to-one support in person and online.
- Conduct holistic assessments to understand clients’ qualifications, skills, language levels, aspirations and barriers.
- Co-create clear, outcome-focused action plans aligned to sustainable employment.
- Drive forward client progression across relevant pathways, including:
- Employment readiness and job search
- CV development, applications and interview preparation
- Professional requalification and accreditation routes
- English language progression
- Sector-specific training or volunteering
- Deliver group sessions to help clients build knowledge and skills in a supportive peer-learning environment.
- Maintain regular contact to monitor progress, adjust support and maintain accountability.
- Identify and address barriers to progression, advocating where appropriate.
- Safeguard clients appropriately and escalate concerns in line with policy.
- Refer and signpost to additional support services where required.
2. Stakeholder and volunteer engagement
- Engage with stakeholders and partners to develop networks and identify job, training, education and work experience opportunities for clients.
- Support outreach initiatives by developing and maintaining relationships with partners (e.g. referral partners, training providers, employers and professional bodies)
- Advocate on behalf of clients to address specific barriers to employment or accreditation.
- Collaborate with colleagues responsible for employer and partner engagement to match clients to appropriate opportunities.
- Liaise with volunteers to source additional expertise and mentoring opportunities for clients.
- Represent Breaking Barriers at occasional events or meetings as required.
3. Monitoring, Reporting & Administration
- Maintain accurate, timely and detailed client records on the CRM system.
- Track and report on client progression against agreed milestones and KPIs.
- Ensure documentation and evidence are completed in line with reporting requirements.
- Complete enrolment and administrative processes efficiently.
- Support monitoring and evaluation processes to inform service improvement.
4. Cross-Organisational Collaboration & Integrated Working
- Work closely with colleagues across all functions to ensure seamless client journeys, aligning support, avoiding duplication and maintaining clarity of progression plans.
- Share knowledge of sector pathways, labour market developments and client trends to inform service development and team learning.
- Contribute to service development as the service redesign evolves.
- Participate actively in team meetings, case reviews, reflective practice sessions, appraisals and inductions, contributing to strong team relationships and continuous service improvement.
- Take advantage of training and development opportunities to build new skills and share knowledge across teams.
- Foster a collaborative, solution-focused team culture.
Person specification:
Essential Criteria
Experience
· Experience providing one-to-one advice, guidance or support, ideally within employability, education, refugee support or a related field
· Experience delivering or co-facilitating group sessions, workshops or training.
· Experience working toward defined targets, outcomes or deadlines in a structured environment.
· Understanding of barriers faced by refugees and people from forced migration backgrounds in accessing employment.
· Experience maintaining accurate records, whether using a database, CRM or equivalent system.
· Understanding of safeguarding principles and how to respond appropriately to concerns.
Essential Skills & Abilities
· Ability to support people in planning and taking steps toward a goal, with clarity and follow-through.
· Comfortable facilitating groups and engaging diverse audiences.
· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trust with people from varied backgrounds.
· Good organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
· Proactive and solution-focused approach to problem-solving.
· Clear written and verbal communication skills.
· Able to work collaboratively across teams and with external partners or stakeholders.
· Attention to detail and administrative accuracy.
· Adaptable and open to working in an evolving service environment.
Desirable Experience
· Lived experience of seeking sanctuary or forced migration to the UK.
· Experience in refugee support, employment services, education or a related field.
· Familiarity with UK labour market pathways, sector training routes or professional requalification processes.
· Experience working alongside volunteers, mentors or external partners.
· Ability to speak an additional language relevant to the client group.
Other Requirements
- Commitment to Breaking Barriers’ mission and values.
- Eligibility to work in the UK.
- Willingness to travel between offices and partner locations as required.
- Occasional evening or weekend work (TOIL provided)
If you meet most, but not all of the criteria, we’d still like to hear from you!
How to Apply
To apply for this role, please provide:
· A CV
· A written response of no more than 2 pages, illustrating 3 examples from your previous experience that demonstrate how you meet essential requirements for the role.
Other considerations:
· As part of our safeguarding commitment to our clients, we carry out pre-employment checks to ensure that successful applicants are suitable to work with adults at risk. These include criminal record disclosure, obtaining references and verifying a candidate’s identity and right to work in the UK
· Breaking Barriers is committed to protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect and for their views, wishes and beliefs to be fully taken into account when deciding action
· We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief
· Breaking Barriers particularly welcomes applicants with experience of seeking asylum and/or a refugee background
· Some travel between our different areas of operation will be required.
To apply for this role, please provide:
• A CV
• A written response of no more than 2 pages, illustrating 3 examples from your previous experience that demonstrate how you meet essential requirements for the role.
Breaking Barriers exists so that every refugee can access meaningful employment and build a new life.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Description
Reports to: CEO and Board of Trustees
Line management: none
Checks: Enhanced DBS and two references
Purpose
The Project Manager & Systems Implementation Lead will lead a programme of organisational and systemic change across DATUS, supporting the organisation to move from largely paper-based, informal and inconsistent working practices towards a more structured, reliable and digitally enabled system of operations.
The postholder will work with the CEO, senior managers and the Organisation and Governance Consultant to implement agreed organisational systems, processes and priorities across DATUS. This will include supporting the practical development and day-to-day use of systems such as SharePoint, client records, finance processes, reporting tools, action trackers, governance documents and operational workflows.
The role is focused on turning agreed organisational systems into everyday practice. The postholder will support managers and staff to use systems consistently, identify barriers to implementation, ensure agreed actions are followed through, and escalate risks where systems are not being used or delivery is drifting.
This is a senior implementation role. The postholder will have delegated authority to monitor implementation, challenge drift, request updates, support problem-solving and escalate risks. They will need to work with managers constructively and confidently, without relying on formal line-management authority.
The role does not set the strategic direction of services, replace the authority of service managers, or redefine DATUS’s peer-led model of delivery. Responsibility for service delivery remains with service managers and programme leads. The purpose of this role is to strengthen organisational reliability so that DATUS can grow, evidence its work, meet funder and governance requirements, and protect the integrity of its peer-led approach.
Key Responsibilities
Systems Implementation
- Coordinate the design, testing, implementation, embedding and ongoing improvement of agreed organisational systems, operational frameworks and processes across DATUS.
- Work with the CEO, Organisation and Governance Consultant, senior managers and relevant staff to ensure new systems are practical, usable and aligned with organisational priorities.
- Support the implementation of key systems, including client records, finance processes, SharePoint, reporting tools, action trackers, governance documents and other operational workflows.
- Ensure new systems and applications are properly documented, maintained and managed once implemented.
- Develop practical guidance, templates, processes and tools to support consistent use across the organisation.
- Identify practical barriers to implementation and work with teams to resolve them.
Embedding & Adoption
- Work with Heads of Service, managers and staff to embed agreed systems into everyday practice.
- Ensure staff are trained, supported and confident in using organisational systems.
- Reinforce consistent ways of working across programmes and teams, while recognising the different practical needs of each service.
- Gather feedback from staff and managers to identify what is working, what is not working, and what needs to be improved.
- Support a culture where systems are used to strengthen delivery, accountability and learning, not simply to create paperwork.
Delivery Assurance
- Maintain oversight of agreed organisational priorities, implementation plans, actions and milestones.
- Track progress against agreed deliverables and ensure actions are completed, followed up or escalated where necessary.
- Hold short, structured check-ins with managers and staff responsible for delivery to confirm priorities, review progress, identify barriers and agree next steps.
- Challenge drift constructively where agreed systems are not being used or actions are not progressing.
- Maintain clear action logs, risk logs and implementation trackers so that commitments are visible and followed through.
Organisational Coordination
- Maintain visibility of operational activity across DATUS and support clear communication between leadership and operational teams.
- Help managers and teams understand how their work connects to wider organisational priorities, funder requirements and governance expectations.
- Support coordination across programmes so that systems, reporting and operational processes are aligned rather than fragmented.
Reporting & Escalation
- Provide regular updates to senior leadership on implementation progress, risks, barriers, adoption issues and system effectiveness.
- Escalate issues where delivery is not on track, where risks are not being managed, or where agreed systems are not being used.
- Support clear evidence of progress for internal governance, funders, commissioners and organisational learning.
Performance & Systems Integration
- Work closely with the Performance & Finance Lead to align finance systems, client data systems, KPI reporting and organisational dashboards.
- Ensure systems support accurate, timely and useful data capture, including outcome tracking, pathway reporting and recovery intelligence.
- Support the development of dashboards, reports and practical management information that helps DATUS understand performance and improve delivery.
Policies, Procedures & Governance
- Support the development, implementation and review of organisational policies, procedures and governance frameworks.
- Translate policies into practical processes that staff can understand and use.
- Monitor compliance with agreed processes, identify gaps and support managers to address them.
- Ensure governance documents, templates and procedures are kept organised, accessible and up to date.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify where systems are not working effectively and support practical improvements.
- Work with leadership, managers and staff to refine systems and processes based on evidence and feedback.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, follow-through and shared organisational learning.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Relevant management, operations, systems implementation, project management or change management qualification, or significant equivalent experience.
- Evidence of using structured project management approaches in practice, including planning, risk management, action tracking, implementation monitoring and review.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365, including SharePoint or equivalent document management / collaboration systems.
Desirable
- Formal project management qualification or training, such as PRINCE2, APM, Agile, Lean, Scrum or equivalent.
- Training or qualification in change management, business improvement, systems implementation, governance, data management or operational management.
- Training in data protection, information governance, safeguarding systems or quality assurance.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience leading or coordinating the implementation of organisational systems, processes or operational frameworks across multiple teams.
· Experience leading or significantly supporting the move from paper-based, spreadsheet-based, informal or inconsistent working practices into structured digital systems and agreed organisational workflows.
- Experience implementing or improving systems such as SharePoint, client record systems, CRM systems, finance systems, reporting tools, action trackers or workflow processes.
- Experience tracking organisational priorities, actions, risks, issues and milestones, and ensuring agreed work is completed.
- Experience working across teams where delivery depends on influence, coordination and constructive challenge rather than direct line-management authority.
Desirable
- Experience working in the third sector, health and social care, addiction/recovery, homelessness, mental health, criminal justice, community development or other relational services.
- Experience supporting services with funder, commissioner, quality, audit or compliance reporting.
- Experience working with peer-led, lived-experience-led or community-based models of delivery.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to create order, track detail and keep multiple workstreams moving.
- Ability to translate organisational priorities into practical systems, workflows, templates and day-to-day routines.
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft 365, operational tracking systems, case management systems, CRM systems and finance systems.
- Ability to identify where systems are failing, where staff are struggling, and where risks are emerging.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain systems clearly to staff with different levels of confidence and technical ability.
- Ability to produce clear written reports, action logs, process notes, implementation plans and senior leadership updates.
- Good understanding of confidentiality, data protection and the importance of accurate records in services working with vulnerable adults.
- Ability to support dashboard development, management information and real-time reporting.
- Understanding of governance, compliance, quality assurance and continuous improvement in a third-sector or public-service environment.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Organised, structured and methodical, without being rigid or bureaucratic.
- Practical, calm and solution-focused.
- Confident enough to challenge drift, but mature enough to do it constructively.
- Able to work collaboratively without needing formal authority over others.
- Able to simplify complexity rather than create unnecessary process.
- Respectful of peer-led, lived-experience-led and community-based ways of working.
- Non-judgemental, reflective and open to personal change.
- Willing to learn about addiction, recovery, social exclusion and the DATUS peer model






