Are you passionate about fundraising? Do you have experience of working on sporting events?

We are looking for a Running Events Officer to contribute to an ambitious and friendly fundraising team dedicated to meeting its targets and to providing the best possible supporter care.

The successful candidate will manage our portfolio of running events and as part of this varied role, you will be responsible for the management of our biggest fundraising event, the Virgin Money London Marathon. This is a great opportunity to work on range of running events within a collaborative and supportive team.

You should be able to demonstrate good event management, administration and excellent supporter care experience, have experience of working in events fundraising, as well as some experience of working in a busy supporter facing environment.

Bliss exists to ensure that all babies premature or sick in the UK have the best possible chance of survival and of reaching their full potential.

How to apply

Your application must include the following:

• CV
• Supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria in the person specification
• Equal Opportunities Form

The closing date for applications is 09:00 AM Monday 30 March 2020

• First round of interviews will be held in the week commencing 6 April 2020
• Second round interviews will be held in the week commencing 13 April 2020.
  
  It is Bliss’ policy not to contact applicants who have not been invited for interview so if you have not heard from us by 6 April you should assume that, on this occasion, your application has been unsuccessful.

The London Sinfonietta is one of the world’s leading contemporary music ensembles, having established a world-wide reputation over 50 years.  Resident at Southbank Centre and Artistic Associate at Kings Place, with a busy touring schedule across the UK and abroad, the London Sinfonietta has worked with many of the greatest living creators and interpreters of new music. Our mission is to engage wider audiences in new music, support the growth of individuals and communities, and develop talent. 

The Development Manager works as part of a small team delivering the annual Fundraising strategy for the organisation with annual departmental targets of c. £300,000. The Development Manager has responsibility for fundraising across a range of Individuals, Trusts & Foundations and Corporate Partners, manages systems and processes within the team and line-manages the Development Assistant. 

This role would be suitable for someone with at least 3 years’ experience of fundraising within the cultural or charity sector. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, with excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed writing ability, able to initiate and strengthen relationships with existing and prospective supporters of the organisation. A good understanding of the management and administration of a broad range of fundraising activity is essential as well as a knowledge of fundraising regulations and legislation. An appreciation of the arts and an interest in contemporary classical music would be an advantage.

Further information about this role and the London Sinfonietta is available on our website. All applications must be submitted using the application form. Please note that we do not accept CVs.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Tuesday 31 March 2020. First round interviews: Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th April 2020

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Young K&C is a brand-new charity established to support children and young people in Kensington & Chelsea.  Young K&C is an innovative cross-sector partnership, working with youth clubs, charities, schools, businesses and Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

The Fundraising & Development Manager will help build and manage the membership base and create strong consortia.  You will have tenacity and drive, leading large scale funding applications and working with corporates and individuals to leverage investment.

We are seeking a passionate and highly skilled individual into an exciting and flexible environment which offers excellent prospects as the charity develops.

This is a full time role but part time hours/ job share negotiable for the right candidate/s.

Ecommerce Manager

Across our client's retail network they receive 1000’s of amazing donations to their shops and warehouses. These incredible donations keep helicopters flying and allow them to save lives across the UK. Within these donations they often receive items that they know will generate more income via selling on sites such as Ebay and Amazon. They also look where they can sell new goods when they have received exceptional value from their wholesalers. This role is about managing a large team to deliver this operation by driving activity within the team and looking at processes to see how they can maximise revenue.

Ecommerce Manager Responsibilities:

It’s a really fast paced operation that sells 100’s of items per day, and you will need to drive activity in the team by setting and ensuring stretching KPI’s are achieved. Another key element will be to build relationships within the wide geographically disperse retail teams to ensure products are sold effectively to help them deliver their own targets.

They can give you full accountability and creativity to make this operation as success!

Ecommerce Manager Requirements:

You will be operating at a strategic level so previous experience of managing an Ecommerce operation is critical. You will have knowledge of different selling channels including being aware of whats coming in the future. They need an inspirational leader who has the ability to drive performance within a diverse team. Just as key is your ability to build relationships with people that you won’t see every day, and their external suppliers. Its a huge role with huge potential for growth.

The role holder will be based at Daventry with travel to other regions.

They are on a journey to be the organisation of choice and opportunity for the most talented and driven people from diverse backgrounds.

About Our Client:

Our client provides Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) and paediatric transfers across the UK. Their objective is to save lives, utilising specialist pilots, doctors, and paramedics and with their work centred on saving lives, improving clinical outcomes and being able to react quickly and efficiently to emergencies.

They are at the forefront of innovative clinical care and they challenge boundaries. None of this can be achieved without a hugely dedicated team of colleagues, volunteers and the general public.

Location: Daventry, Northamptonshire

Job type: Full Time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £26,000 to £30,000 per annum

You may have experience of the following: Ecommerce Manager, E-Commerce Manager, Ecommerce, E-Commerce, Project Manager, Product Manager, Project Management, Product Management, Marketing Manager, Digital Marketing, Online Marketing, etc.

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This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Individual Giving Officer to maximise acquisition of new supporters and development of existing supporters to grow income, through planning and implementing a wide range of direct marketing approaches

The Role
To work with the Individual Giving Manager to help achieve and deliver key objectives and annual income targets in the Individual Giving Strategy.
Plan and project manage a range of activities/communications from inception (creative brief) to dispatch, on and off-line.
Analyse and manage data to ensure the right targets or potential new audiences are selected for any acquisition, stewardship, conversion or lead generation campaigns.
Oversee copy and design development, print and production or on-line content build, resolving issues and differences of opinion, or escalating as appropriate to keep activity on schedule and on budget.
Proactive responsibility for keeping up to date with competitor activity and with issues affecting the fundraising sector, including changes in regulations to ensure our activities are compliant.

The Candidate
Previous experience of working for or on behalf of a not for profit organisation(s)
Proven experience of developing and implementing supporter acquisition and/or retention fundraising programmes.
A proven track record in planning and delivering successful direct marketing activities across a range of channels, including print, digital and social media.
Previous experience of using databases and/or briefing database teams to provide data selections, segmentation and results analysis.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Wycliffe Hall, a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, wishes to appoint a Communications Officer. A coherent communications approach to key stakeholders both within the Hall and externally, using a variety of printed and digital media is of critical importance to the effectiveness of the Hall’s mission and its ability to continue to attract high quality students and to receive significant development funding. The role of the Communications Officer is to work with the Senior Management Team to develop the Hall’s communications strategy and then to implement it across channels and stakeholders, working with colleagues across all aspects of the Hall’s activities.

Summary

We are looking to recruit a digital analyst, who will help us champion and develop evidence based decision making, enabling us to maximise our digital opportunities and add value to our engagement activities.

This key role in the Engagement and Fundraising Directorate will help us develop and optimise our digital presence. You will facilitate our digital analytics, allowing us to shape, test and grow some exciting digital activities and pilots. Supported by a wider team of insight analysts, we will use the insights gathered to help us drive engagement across both digital and non-digital activity.

This is an exciting time at Diabetes UK, as we work to develop our 2020-25 strategy. We know that becoming a more pro-active, data-driven organisation is key to achieving our ambitions and this role will play a key part of helping us drive the change we want to see. This role would suit someone who is passionate about the role data and insight can play in driving improvement and innovation, who embraces and champions change, and who can balance reactive demands with working towards a long term vision.

We would consider flexibility on where this role could be based

Interview Date: TBC

Package

What we can offer you:

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays
• A Cash Healthcare Plan (giving you up to £1,500 towards a range of out of pocket health expenses like new glasses, dentist, chiropractor or osteopath appointments)
• Early finish Friday and flexible working as part of our approach to activity based working
• Discounts on gym membership
• Employee assistance programme to give you support on any issues that come up in life
• Annual season ticket loan (on completion of your probation period)
• Very active social scene including sport teams, gardening and other activities
• Generous pension provision, life assurance and income protection insurance
• Cycle to work scheme (eligible for scheme if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)

*Some benefits aren't available until you've passed your probation period and are dependent on the length of contract.

Main Responsibilities

From Google Analytics, to testing new digital engagement activities, you will embed insight in everything we do. Working to support the delivery of our Data Strategy, you will enable us maximise our digital insight, as well as ensuring we are reach more of our target audiences and that they have an excellent experience with us.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a motivated individual with demonstrable experience of digital analysis and experience of generating actionable insight to help shape future activities. You will have experience of reporting on digital activities and influencing others to set KPIs and measures of success. We want someone who will be excited about the opportunity around maximising our digital presence and able to work across the organisation to influence and build on our new strategy.

Creative & Cultural Skills, the UK sector skills council for craft, cultural heritage, design, music, and the visual and performing arts is recruiting a Head of Development who will lead the day to day fundraising work of Creative & Cultural Skills. The post-holder will be expected to feed into the development of the organisation’s 3-year fundraising strategy and use this to write and implement an annual fundraising plan.  

The Head of Development will draw on company data and evaluation and monitoring information to make informed funding applications via relevant private and public funding routes.  They will also lead the generation of sponsorship income for agreed programmes, generate and maintain intelligence on funders with aligned interests/ambitions, and establish a database of fundraising contacts.

Full details can be found in the job description below.

Sorry, no CVs - application by application form only.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Fundraising Officer to manage the fundraising activities across the West of England and Wales for an inspiring animal welfare charity.

The Charity
An international animal welfare charity.

The Role
Provide excellent stewardship, training and monitoring to a network of volunteer fundraising groups and individuals to maximise their fundraising potential and ensure they all adhere to the Fundraising code of conduct and remain GDPR compliant.
Manage the income and expenditure budget and operational plan for the region forecasting monthly income against planned fundraising activities.
Provide excellent supporter service to enquiries from members of the public via phone, email and in person and encourage their ongoing support.
Promote legacy fundraising/leaving a gift in your will to supporters.
Proactively use the fundraising database to develop and manage supporter relations.

The Candidate
Proven track record of achieving set income targets and monitoring and reporting against budgets in a community fundraising setting. Experience of successfully setting managing an annual income and expenditure budget.
Demonstrable experience of scoping and managing fundraising campaigns and events. This includes devising and managing marketing strategies, event plans and being fully accountable for the outcomes.
Proven experience of recruiting and stewarding high value volunteer fundraisers or fundraising groups and developing their skills to maximise the success of their fundraising activities.
Demonstrable experience of strong and effective networking skills across various environments to explore potential fundraising opportunities and generate new business.
Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills and demonstrable experience of building and managing successful working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Harris Hill are thrilled to be working with a membership body in recruiting a Corporate Partnerships Officer. This role will be responsible for managing key relationships with existing and potential corporate members, across various financial services. You will liaise with senior professionals keen to engage with the charity and their members, with firms including Natwest, Bates Wells, and Goldman Sachs. You will ensure that members receive exceptional customer service, maximise income generation from a variety of activities, and support the creation of a viable pipeline for new income streams.

This role is a mix of account management and new business, but at its core it is about building relationships. You will work with the marketing team to produce attractive and effective publicity materials in line with the charity's brand and house style.

You will:
- be a natural relationship builder with strong communication skills;
- be innovative, ambitious, questioning and solutions focussed;
- feel comfortable meeting with senior professionals across various sectors;
- be a team player working collaboratively with wider colleagues on cross-organisational projects;
- be open, approachable and a firm believer in continuous development

This is a perfect step for someone who wants to enter the charity sector. If you are keen and want have an informal chat about the role then please do get in touch with Hannah on [email protected] or call her on
02078207331.

Salary is £26,000 and there is flexible working available.

CV and supporting statement required.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

We have an exciting opportunity in the Asda Foundation for an Impact and Communications Advisor. As the Impact and Communications Advisor, you will be responsible for creating a framework to measure, monitor, evaluate and understand the impact the Asda Foundation has on transforming communities and improving lives and the channels of communication we use to support and engage colleagues and the wider community.

The Asda Foundation is an incorporated charity, with its own board of trustees, through grant giving and charitable initiatives the Foundation plays a pivotal role in supporting communities across the UK.  

What you’ll be responsible for:

You will be responsible for developing and implementing a new social impact and evaluation framework to enable the Asda Foundation to capture baselines and outputs to measure how we transform communities and improve lives. Working with the Foundation you will implementing the tools and systems to ensure evidence and data is collected to produce a powerful annual impact report.

Developing a communications plan for customers and colleagues to story tell the work of the Asda Foundation will be a key requirement in the role. Working with store Community Champions and the Media Relations team to produce compelling content to increase understanding and celebrate the community engagement Asda is involved in.

You will also be responsible for stakeholder relationships across Asda and particularly with stores, ensuring consistent grant making decisions are made and helping to lead the team with training and development. 

About you:

As the Asda Foundation Impact and Communications Advisor, we require a proactive individual with good attention to detail and a passion for demonstrating positive charitable impact. You will have experience of developing and implementing social impact and evaluation frameworks as well as creating and providing compressive reports and analysis to senior stakeholders. It’s also important that you can project manage, bring stakeholders together, drive change and bring people on a journey.

Your benefits:

You’ll receive an excellent benefits package which includes colleague discount off your shopping, share save scheme, free parking, competitive pension and discount off selected gyms.  We also like to share our success; after all you made it happen, so every eligible colleague is also part of the Asda bonus scheme.  The development opportunities are endless and we’ll support you every step of the way

We are looking for a Community Fundraising Officer for a national children’s charity.

This role will deliver the centralised marketing of the community programme across businesses, individuals, collections, education and fundraising groups.

You will also manage a portfolio of supporters in order to maximise fundraising opportunities, increase retention and long-term commitment.

For this role, it’s important for you to demonstrate key experience in:

• Working within a fundraising environment demonstrating a track record of maintaining and growing income for supporters and/or organisations


• Experience of Community Fundraising – working with a portfolio of supporters, volunteers and organisations, to maximise fundraising

Excellent supporter care experience – knowing what is necessary to deliver a high quality service to fundraisers

Salary: £30,000

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787 or email [email protected].

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

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

Main duties and responsibilities

Talk for Health delivers a proactive Community Psychology service funded by the NHS and other funders in Islington and Camden.  We train lay people in our own group peer counselling method, and enable them to set up ongoing groups for psychological wellbeing.

We are looking for a person to fulfil a high intensity position at the centre of our service delivery.  This is a very demanding role and requires someone with both high-level Operational and Psychological knowhow and skills. 

As in any very small Social Enterprise, this person will be at the same time well qualified, skilled and humble. 

The work will span from humble administrative tasks (flyering, photocopying, data entry) to complex problem solving, to training and supporting people in severe psychological distress. 

While Masters Level Psychology knowledge alongside a good grasp of SPSS statistical packages as well as other statistical analisis tools, and hands-on experience of supporting people in crisis is essential, the largest part of your workload will be administrative.  No day is the same in this role. Constant prioritising and a lot of crisis management are constant, whilst ensuring the quality and timely delivery of all our trainings, groups and events.

Duties you will be fully accountable for include (but note we are a small team and there is often the need to help in other areas):

• Co-ordination of trainings, events, and ongoing groups
  At the heart of our service delivery are trainings and ongoing groups – at least 20 a month.  These require:
  • Promotion: the person holding this role is accountable for meeting stringent funder targets around filling all trainings, groups and events
  • Planning and co-ordination:  planning up to a year ahead; co-ordinating during;  following up after. This involves countless tasks  from scheduling, to booking and checking venues, to managing 30+ offsite trainers and volunteers, to dealing with and registering  participants, to ordering stock of training materials and refreshmentss, so that we always run as a “well oiled” machine

• Data management and analytics
  We are required to collect, manage and protect data for all our service users, for reporting reasons and to track our social impact. Processes are strictly followed to capture the data, record it accurately, manage and analyse it. All GDPR policies and compliance are also a responsibility of this role.
   
• NHS and other Funders’ contract management and reporting
  You will be expected to collect, enter and analyse data, write reports and present to monitoring panels at least quarterly.
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• Onboarding and training staff, volunteers and trainers
  You will ensure all staff and volunteers (30+ at the time of writing) are properly inducted  e.g. on our policies, processes and procedures, as well as undergoing Enhanced DBS checks and training in Safeguarding. You must accurately track this process for each and every staff member.  They are a growing community , bringing extra pressure to this role.

• Participant management
• ​The entire cycle of recruitment, registration and tracking of participants in all our events and sessions sits firmly under this role’s responsibilities. Our participants - including sometimes highly distressed individuals with diagnoses of severe mental illness e.g. Schizophrenia, often have questions, fears and worries. You need the psychological expertise to respond to them skilfully.

• Service delivery
• You will deliver trainings, interactive events and one to one support amongst our participants - including sometimes highly distressed individuals with diagnoses of severe mental illness e.g. Schizophrenia.  You need psychological expertise including a good grasp of the social model of mental health as well as excellent facilitations skills, self-awareness and – within our model – the willingness to share your own vulnerabilities.

• Marketing and comms
  The success of our programmes relies heavily on us achieving attendance targets and raising our profile amongst the public and funders. Designing and implementing our marketing and promotional strategy - both to health professionals/workers and the general public – is an essential part of this role.
   
• Copywriting
  To support or marketing and promotional activities, both online and offline. A good eye for detail and design is important.
   
• Digital media management
  Digital media is an integral part of our marketing mix. You will be in charge of all our channels: Mailchimp newsletters, Twitter, website and Facebook updates.

• Admin support
  No task is too small at Talk for Health. We expect everyone to get their hands ‘dirty’ and embrace small things as well as big things, ans work according to set protocols. This job includes all manner of administration tasks, such as: manning the company phone, stock taking of materials, ordering stationery, packing cases with training materials and refreshments.

You will be required to work with people at all levels both in and outside the company, and will need to be e.g.

• Trainers, Volunteers, Staff, participants, Local mental and other health professionals (GPs, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, organisations such as Mind)
• NHS and other Funders and sponsors
• Board members and our CEO

The team

It’s a small, entrepreneurial setting and the core team will be you, our Psychotherapist Founder, a second Director and a Service Delivery Manager at our home-based office in NW3. (All office work, trainings and events are being carried out remotely during the Coronavirus pandemic). This is a fast paced and highly demanding environment where you will often need to work on your own under pressure.

Qualifications and experience needed

• Master’s level psychological or mental health training – or the equivalent in experience
• Good grasp of psycho-social/Community Psychology mental health model: on-board with our core premise that lay people can be trained and supported to help each other as effectively as professionals
• 5+ years’ experience of fast-paced and effective operational and project management work, multi-tasking to tight deadlines, ideally in a commercial setting. We need high-level operational efficiency
• 2+ years’ experience managing high volume events or trainings
• Experience working with people in severe distress or crisis
• Experience facilitating groups with complex needs according to a clear protocol
• Masters’ level experience of quantitiave and qualitative data analysis, SPSS and other statistical analisis packages

Skills and abilities

• Administrative effectiveness: able to get a heavy and varied workload done fast, with scrupulous attention to detail
• Psychological skill:  able to train and work with groups of people with very varied and complex needs, whilst owning and sharing your own vulnerabilities
• People and volunteer management: able to delegate, achieve clarity about who is doing what, and ensure the whole team is working to a high standard
• Data analytics: ability to both to produce accuracy in the detail and to analyse ‘high level’ i.e. deduce key points from large and complex volumes of data
• Excellent interpersonal skills: including the ability to remain calm in heated moments
• Self-motivation and drive for excellence
• Ability to be flexible and readjust plans, able to prioritise work within set deadlines.
• Excellent written communication: e.g. for social impact reports, marketing materials, newsletters, and social media.
• Excellent group facilitation skills including awareness of personal strengths and learning edges when leading groups; projection and transference; managing boundaries within a set training format, and dealing with challenging scenarios
• Demonstrated ability in strategizing, producing, and managing marketing and social media campaigns, writing marketing copy, and facilitating edits of ad material
• Excellent IT proficiency in e.g. Apricot (or another CRM), Trello, Monday (or other project management software), Microsoft 365 including Excel, Eventbrite, Wordpress, social media, Mailchimp, Text marketing systems
• Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner
• Resilience: capacity to face adversity, constructive criticism, extremely demanding circumstances and setbacks.
• Ingenious and innovative problem-solver within tight time and financial constraints
• Ability to consistently meet high expectations with a positive attitude
• Humility: willingness to carry out tasks needed, according to precise protocols,  in order to get the job done as required

Salary and practicalities

• £30,000 a year
• The position will begin with a 6-month probationary period.
• You need to have your own laptop computer
• You will be based remotely during the pandemic, and after that at our home-based office in NW3, visiting delivery sites in Islington and Camden as required:  we have a strong preference for a candidate in this local area
• You will be required to work occasional evenings and Saturdays

About Talk for Health

Talk for Health is a small mental health social enterprise in NW3.  Our aim is to demystify therapeutic talk and our approach has been shown to be as effective as therapy. Our service runs in Islington and Camden, funded by the NHS and grant-makers, and involves a busy schedule of free trainings, groups and events.

Deadline for application forms and CV’s is 2nd May 2020.

Next steps: you will need to apply by sending in your CV and cover letter. Based on CV assessment you will be sent an application form to proceed to the next stage of recruitment.

I am currently working on an exciting Communications Officer role based in Surrey, for an animal cruelty protection charity. This is a fantastic opportunity to own your own projects whilst learning from a wider team. You will get the opportunity to talk to national newspapers and quickly progress your career.

The charity is looking for an energetic, animal passionate, individual with proven experience of working within public relations to plan and deliver communications activities, with support from more senior staff.

You will be responsible for:

* Managing incoming media enquiries and acting as a press officer.
* Drafting and disseminating of press releases, as well as maintaining press lists and media coverage files.
* Preparing and contributing to case studies, speeches, articles and report.

The ideal candidate will:

* Have experience of working within public relations.
* Demonstrate creative writing skills to draft press releases, statements and blogs, website copy and social media messaging.
* Show genuine empathy and compassion for animals and support the charities objectives and purposes.
* Display excellent interpersonal skills.

Salary: £25,000- £28,000 (depending on experience)
Location: Godalming, Surrey (30 mins from Waterloo)

Please get in touch for more details, by e-mailing your CV to [email protected]

The firm closing date for applications is Friday 27th March 2020, so please get in touch now, to avoid disappointment.

Looking forward to hearing from you.