The Ancient Tree Forum (ATF) is seeking a motivated and organised Technical and Engagement Officer to join our small, friendly and flexible team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a charity dedicated to safeguarding the UK’s ancient and veteran trees, along with their wildlife, heritage and cultural values.
This role is vital to achieving our strategic outcomes by providing expert technical advice, supporting and collaborating with the Technical Advisory Panel to develop authoritative guidance and publications. You will act as a key contact for public and stakeholder enquiries and contribute technical expertise to ATF’s communications across our website, newsletter, social media and press activity.
You will engage with sector networks, collaborate with partners and support strategic messaging. This role will help strengthen the charity’s visibility and impact in ancient and veteran tree conservation and protection.
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Diverse disciplines. Varied challenges. One unique opportunity.
VOLUNTEERING OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE
Salary: £24,000 - £26,000 per annum pro rata
Reports to: Volunteering Operations Manager
Department: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part-time 14 hours per week
Location: Home-based in England with regular national travel (team meetings/away days)
Closing date: Sunday 15 June 2025, 23:55*
* We'll be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and may close early should we receive enough interest, therefore early application is encouraged to avoid disappointment.
Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Volunteering Operations Executive who will be joining the Volunteering Team at an exciting time as we deliver an org wide strategy to improve volunteer experiences and provide meaningful and rewarding ways for everyone to use their time to make a difference in our mission to beat cancer.
What will I be doing?
Manage internal enquires from CRUK staff about Volunteering. This includes answering queries, triaging queries and keeping a log to identify themes.
Manage, analyse and improve business processes to meet the changing needs of the organisation
Support team members to deliver programmes of work or projects through a variety of tasks including research, preparing information, tracking and identifying themes
Responsible for keeping the Volunteering Team SharePoint up to date, collating regular team updates and supporting on the organisation, administration and delivery of meeting and events
Provide expert advice on the subject matter of Volunteering to colleagues across the organisation.
What skills are you looking for?
IT literate, with a very good understanding of Microsoft Office
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal and to a variety of audiences
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy, well organised and a strong ability to prioritise
Proven experience of supporting a team
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Strong presentation, proposal and report writing skills
Excellent time management skills
Ability to build strong relationships with both Internal and External stakeholders.
Thanks to our dedicated supporters and volunteers, we've been at the heart of progress that has seen cancer survival in the UK double over the past 40 years. Thousands of others volunteer their time and skills or fundraise to help us beat cancer. We're hugely proud of our volunteers, and we're delighted to be Investing in Volunteers accredited, the UK quality standard for good practice in volunteer management.
What will I gain?
Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.
In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.
Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.
We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.
Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.
How do I apply?
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.
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Sands exists to save babies’ lives and ensure that anyone affected by pregnancy loss or baby death receives the support and care they need.
Bereaved parents and families are at the heart of why Sands exists. Sharing their experiences of pregnancy and baby loss, and what connects and involves them with our work, is both an important part of their bereavement journey and a way to demonstrate the need for our vision and mission to succeed. This role will help us to show in a real and human, authentic way, what Sands is doing to save babies’ lives and support bereaved families.
Sharing these personal stories in external communications will help us reach more people, bringing to life the work we do in a way that engages diverse audiences, and increasing the likelihood of their taking actions in support of Sands.
This new role has been developed to support the Communications & Engagement team to develop our story-telling function, build our real stories library and ensure the associated consent and stewardship processes are compassionate, efficient and effective. The Stories Officer will ensure wherever possible, that external communications assets and content created by teams across Sands includes the voices of people touched by pregnancy and baby loss – including those who have been personally affected, and those who are allies of Sands, such as healthcare professionals, corporate partners, research partners, fundraisers and more.
You will have experience of working in a charity stories or communications team, or in a stories-led environment such as journalism.
A good knowledge of compliance and safeguarding issues, including experience of working with vulnerable people in a communications context is required.
With excellent written communication and creative skills, you will be able to produce work that captures and conveys real life experiences in a sensitive and compassionate tone.
You will be highly organised with the ability to multi-task and work across more than one project simultaneously.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.