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Sarcoma UK exists to support everyone affected by sarcoma and to ensure their voices shape everything we do. As we prepare to launch our new five-year strategy, this pivotal role will help embed lived experience at the heart of our work.
We are growing our existing Involvement Programme to ensure patients, families, and supporters are meaningfully involved across all areas of Sarcoma UK’s work. As Involvement and Volunteer Coordinator, you will lead the development of our volunteering and involvement infrastructure creating impactful opportunities that inform our services, drive engagement, and raise awareness of sarcoma.
Reporting to the HR and Governance Manager, you’ll work collaboratively across all internal teams and externally with people affected by sarcoma and their support networks. This is a unique opportunity to shape how we involve our community, build capacity, and deliver on our strategic goals.
Benefits
- Flexible working options including hybrid working
- Pension with 5% employer contribution
- 25 days holiday entitlement per annum plus bank holidays and the working days between Christmas and New Year
- Additional day off for your birthday
- Health and wellbeing:
- Health Cash Plan
- Therapy sessions
- Wellbeing Group
Our Values
- Pioneering we are leading the way to a better future for the sarcoma community.
- Together we are creating a community to make a difference for all those affected by sarcoma.
- Expert we use our expertise in understanding sarcoma to deliver better outcomes
Duties and Responsibilites:
Involving people affected by sarcoma
- Strengthen and support our existing Involvement Network, keeping members engaged and informed.
- Facilitate a variety of inclusive involvement opportunities for people affected by sarcoma, reflecting diverse capacities, interests, and abilities, and ensuring these align with our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) framework.
- Recruit, induct, and train new Involvement Network members, promoting the network through Sarcoma UK’s communication channels.
- Develop systems to capture meaningful feedback and measure the impact of involvement activities.
- Collaborate with colleagues within Sarcoma UK to create and facilitate meaningful involvement opportunities that engage people with lived experience in our work, ensuring these opportunities are inclusive, accessible, and aligned with our strategic goals
- Champion the voice of patients and families across Sarcoma UK’s work.
- Produce and distribute a regular involvement newsletter to communicate opportunities, updates, and information about the work of Sarcoma UK.
Volunteer Management
- Develop and implement a volunteering programme aligned with Sarcoma UK's organisational objectives.
- Design and maintain efficient systems for the recruitment, screening, induction, and support of volunteers.
- Act as the initial point of contact for volunteer recruitment and onboarding, before handing over management to the relevant staff member (e.g. fundraising event organiser or project lead) depending on the role.
- Define clear volunteer roles and pathways that deliver impact and reflect volunteer motivations and interests.
- Plan and deliver engaging training for volunteers based on role requirements.
- Maintain accurate volunteer records using our database (Raiser’s Edge NXT).
- Develop and manage volunteer policies, procedures, and risk assessments.
- Ensure compliance with volunteering regulations and best practice.
- Monitor, evaluate and report on the impact of volunteering initiatives.
- Administer volunteer expenses and coordinate recognition within agreed budgets.
General
- Support cross-organisational projects that involve people affected by sarcoma.
- Attend Sarcoma UK events and contribute to the wider work of Sarcoma UK.
- Travel occasionally to meetings and events. Occasional evening or weekend work may be required (time off in lieu will be given).
- Work flexibly and collaboratively in a dynamic environment, undertaking other duties as required to support the wider operations of Sarcoma UK.
Sarcoma UK is a national charity that funds vital research and offers information and support to anyone affected by sarcoma.
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About the role:
At Single Homeless Project (SHP), we believe everyone deserves access to the care they need to live well - and that’s where you come in. We’re offering an exciting new opportunity to shape how health support is delivered within our innovative Camden Housing First service. As Health Lead, you won’t just be part of a team - you’ll be pioneering a vital, human-centred approach to health within homelessness services. It’s a chance to make a deep and lasting impact, not only on individual lives but on how we work with health systems across the borough.
This is a role for someone who wants to grow a meaningful career while helping others to rebuild their lives. You'll work directly with people who are often overlooked by traditional systems, taking the time to build trust, understand their needs and walk alongside them on their journey to better health. From completing health assessments and designing personal health support plans, to leading multidisciplinary meetings and opening doors to essential services - you'll be the link between individuals and the support they deserve. Your insight will also help us map local services, influence partnerships and drive forward more inclusive healthcare approaches.
You’ll be part of a psychologically informed environment, where trauma-informed care and understanding complex needs are part of everyday practice. At SHP, we’re committed to developing our people - this role offers a strong foundation for a career with real purpose, backed by expert training, team support and opportunities to grow with us.
About you:
- A knowledge of (or willingness to learn) about common health issues and the barriers to health access that people experiencing homelessness may encounter.
- Ability to find ways to engage and develop relationships with clients who may have a low level of interaction with and/or suspicion of services.
- Good understanding of local level health set up/services i.e. homeless health providers and teams.
- Confidence in working both as part of a team and independently.
- Skills and understanding of creating and monitoring support plans and record-keeping with regards to client support, safety and safeguarding issues.
- Skills and understanding of data collection and producing reports.
- The ability to advocate for and coordinate access to health care for clients with multiple disadvantage.
About us:
Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.
We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 12,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.
We offer you more than a job; we offer you a chance to be part of a compassionate, driven team that's committed to making a real difference in people's lives. You'll have the opportunity to lead, co-create, and inspire change while enjoying a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.
Join us in creating a brighter, more hopeful future for individuals in need.
Important info:
Closing date: Sunday 22nd June at midnight
Interview date: Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th July at SHP Head Office in Kings Cross
This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed (by SHP) for the successful applicant.
Please note applications are reviewed for AI use in application questions.
Preventing homelessness, transforming lives.




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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
About the opportunity
The London Programme Coordinator will be responsible for managing a caseload of up to seven partner schools, attending and coordinating weekly tutoring sessions, developing relationships with pupils, school staff and volunteer tutors and collecting data for monitoring and evaluation purposes. This role plays a crucial part in overseeing the quality of face to face and online tutoring sessions to ensure effective and impactful programme delivery.
Closing date: Sunday, 6th July 2025
Interviews: On a rolling basis. Early application is advised.
Start date: Ideally Monday, 18th August 2025
Contract: Full time. Fixed term contract until 31st July 2026.
Duties and responsibilities
- Responsible for the delivery of Action Tutoring’s tutoring programmes in partner schools, whether online or face to face. This includes working closely to manage and effectively communicate with all key stakeholders: schools, pupils and volunteer tutors; leading weekly face to face and online tutoring sessions; leading on reviewing and improving programme delivery, using data to reliably assess programme performance.
- Responsible for overseeing the quality of both face to face and online tutoring, engaging in quality assurance processes, and providing feedback to volunteer tutors to ensure effective and impactful delivery.
- Develop and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders in partner schools, including members of the Senior Leadership Team and subject teachers.
- Update and maintain Action Tutoring’s database, including collecting data for monitoring and evaluation purposes, such as attendance records, baseline and interim assessments and end of programme surveys.
- Reporting regularly on key performance indicators.
Person specification
Qualifications and experience criteria:
- Experience working with volunteers and/or young people
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Evidence of ability to prioritise and manage administrative tasks
We are looking for some of the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others:
- Being the sole representative for a partner school, you will need to use your ability to work independently and with initiative, often organising your own time to meet deadlines.
- You’ll also need to have a strong aptitude for developing relationships with a range of stakeholders ensuring you uphold high standards of communication and adapt your style for different audiences. The nature of this role will also require you to demonstrate adaptability, resilience and the ability to cope with some uncertainty.
- This position would suit you if you’re looking to develop your experience in the education or charity sectors. Existing experience of working with young people and/or project management in a charity or education setting would be an asset.
- As a charity that values and celebrates people's diversity and champions opportunities for all young people, we are keen to receive applications from people who have experienced disadvantage and from those who are of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities who are currently underrepresented in the organisation.
- The role would be best suited if you are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as, committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children.
You’ll likely be more successful in this role if you have:
- Experience of working with young people and/or project management.
- Evidence of an interest in education and/or the third sector.
Award-winning national education charity working towards a world in which no child’s life chances are limited by their socio-economic background.

Membership Telemarketing Lead
Business Disability Forum is the leading business membership organisation in disability inclusion.
We are trusted partners, working with business, Government and disabled people to improve the life experiences of disabled employees and consumers, by removing barriers to inclusion.
- We work with over 600 members employing over 20% of the UK workforce and an estimated 8 million people worldwide.
- We advise, support and encourage businesses (many of them global) to become more disability-smart.
- We influence policymakers by representing the voice of employers and disabled employees.
- We provide evidence-based thought leadership on how business affects the lives of disabled people.
- We help effect changes in business practices, products, services and policies that positively impact the life experiences of disabled people, and also benefit business.
The role
We are seeking a proactive and results-driven temporary (1 year FTC) Membership Telemarketing Lead to support our membership generation and engagement efforts. The ideal candidate will have strong research skills, an understanding of market trends, and experience in customer engagement. This role involves reaching out to potential members, fostering relationships, and leveraging Salesforce CRM to track interactions
The requirement
- Experience in market & customer research, particularly in analysing clients’ needs suggesting solutions.
- Experience of working with a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database.
- Experience in a consultative sales environment.
- Ability to analyse and research information to identify potential leads using all available tools
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to self-manage.
- Tenacity & Perseverance
For the full job description and person specification of this role and instructions on how to apply please visit our website below via the link on this page.
How to apply
Applications should be by CV and a supporting statement, of up to 400 words, detailing why you think you would be suitable for the role. If you require any adjustments to the application process please contact Barnaby Powell as set out below. Applications should be addressed to Barnaby Powell, HR & Office Manager, Business Disability Forum, Dowgate Hill House, 14-16 Dowgate Hill, London EC4R 2SU. If you are submitting your application by email please do so to hr or barnabyp @ businessdisabilityforum .org .uk
- Closing date for applications: Sunday, 29 June 2025
- First interviews are planned for the week commencing 14 July 2025.
- Second interviews are likely to take place in the week commencing 21 July 2025.
Business Disability Forum is committed to ensuring that all its information, products and services are as accessible as possible to everyone.
If you wish to discuss anything in regards to accessibility or if you require alternative formats please contact Barnaby Powell by email at addresses above or by telephone on 020-7403-3020.
For further information on Business Disability Forum please refer our website via the link oon this page.
Equal opportunities
We are committed to becoming disability-smart and an employer of choice irrespective of race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, or pregnancy and maternity. The ethical and business case of ensuring that our workforce is representative of wider society is at the heart of what we do. When we are recruiting, disabled candidates who meet all of the essential criteria will be offered an interview.
About the role
We have an exciting job opening in our Grants team at ClientEarth! The Grants Officer will work in the Grants Team as part of the wider Development Department, to manage a portfolio of grants that fund our organisation’s work.
ClientEarth’s Development Department is responsible for raising and managing funds to enable the organisation to deliver its mission – using the power of the law to bring about systemic change that protects the earth for – and with – its inhabitants. The department is formed of several fundraising strands: a Grants Team and a Business Development Team that manage and secure funding from trusts, foundations, and institutional donors; and a Philanthropy Team, working with a wide range of individuals and organisations to raise primarily unrestricted gifts to support ClientEarth’s work.
Meet your Manager
In this role, you will be managed by Lydia Baker. Lydia joined ClientEarth in August 2024 and in her role as a Grants Manager is responsible for managing relationships with key funders. Lydia has worked in the NGO sector for over eight years and has expertise in a variety of functions including grant management, programme management, communications and monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning. On a day-to-day basis you will work closely with Lydia as part of an established Grants Team that sits within the Development Department at ClientEarth.
Main Duties
- Funding portfolio management - Have a close and in-depth knowledge of their grants portfolio, including a sound understanding of the philanthropic, institutional and statutory funding mix;
- Internal and external communications - Meet with Trust, Foundation and Institution portfolio managers to discuss proposals, provide updates on the programmatic work, and to formally report back on financial, organisational and technical issues;
- Project management - Effectively manage reporting and the grant renewal process from start to completion including working with multiple teams across ClientEarth’s European and international offices to ensure input from all avenues to complete proposals and reports in a timely and high-quality manner; and
- Financial planning and budget handling - Work with Finance and Programmes staff to develop individual budgets for funding proposals
- Systems and processes - Maintain funder database systems (Raiser’s Edge) and other organisational databases (SharePoint) on a daily basis
See the job description (below) for a full list of duties for this role.
Role requirements
- Experience of working in a grant management or project management role for a charity, NGO, private or public entity
- Experience of reporting to private foundations including trusts
- Experience drafting proposals and securing funding from foundations and other funding institutions
- Experience and knowledge of budgeting, and organisational (e.g. not for profit/charity) finances
See the job description (below) for a full list of requirements for this role.
Note to candidates: We know that long lists of criteria can be daunting and that some candidates will not apply for a role unless they feel they are 100% qualified. If you feel you meet at least some of the essential criteria, we still encourage you to apply.
Further Information
Have a question about this job? Please visit our Careers site for advice on applying, FAQs, and more.
Flexible working: We are proud to be a Flexa accredited Employer. Visit our Flexa Employer page for more information on our approach to flexible working. Our flexible working policy allows our people the choice to decide to work from home/another location in the country where their contract of employment is issued for 80% of their month, with the other 20% of their month being office-based See our Benefits page for more.
ClientEarth values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We aim to appoint the most suitable candidate at all times and welcome applications from people from all different backgrounds.
Please note that ClientEarth is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in the UK.
ClientEarth is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal services to third parties.
Using the power of the law to protect life on Earth.



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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Part-time—21 or 28 hours per week
Permanent
Grade EN/EL
EN – National – £22,079.36 per annum pro rata 21 hours or £29,439.15 per annum pro rata 28 hours
EL – London – Hybrid – £24,225.24 per annum pro rata 21 hours or £32,300.32 per annum pro rata 28 hours
Closing date: 8th July 2025
Interview date: 16th July2025
Everyone has a GP— and today alone, GPs and their teams across the UK will see over 1 million patients.
Now the Royal College of GPs is looking for an organised and detail-oriented professional with a passion for governance to support our charity delivering its mission to encourage, foster, and maintain the highest standards of general medical practice.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Governance Officer and provide high-quality governance support to the College, in particular the work of Council which is the most senior representative body for over 55,000 members.
We are looking for an exceptional individual who will coordinate Council meetings and promote effective communications with Council members on college governance and compliance with key policies—including the new declarations of interest policy.
You will collaborate with colleagues and members on the communications and engagement plan - developing innovative ways of increasing member understanding and awareness of college governance. You will share our commitment to increasing membership interest in taking up elected roles and broadening the diversity of candidates at the most senior representative levels.
This is a great opportunity to work with colleagues in events, communications, and marketing to explore how different media can be used to reach members, including in your work supporting the organisation of annual elections and hustings for Council members and Officers and onboarding activities such as induction and training.
The successful candidate will share our values. In return, the College offers excellent terms and conditions and a supportive environment where you can do your best work.
Requirements:
- Degree level education or equivalent experience.
- Part qualified or willing to work towards the Chartered Governance Institute (CGI) qualification or similar.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and confident using a variety of digital and CRM systems.
- Proven experience in managing formal meetings and effective communication skills
- The role involves working on 2 Saturdays when Council meets and occasional evenings for events.
To apply, please click 'Quick Apply' and complete the application form.
The Royal College of General Practitioners is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
~ Building a sustainable future for general practice ~
Background
People and communities around the world have the solutions to social injustice, authoritarianism, and the climate crisis. But repressive governments, corrupt corporations, and armed groups use violence and oppression to try and silence them.
By building resistance and resilience among those challenging unaccountable power, Open Briefing supports a shared vision for a world where communities and ecosystems can thrive.
As a mission-driven nonprofit, we join forces with grassroots activists, community groups, and social movements at risk. Working together, we strengthen their physical safety, digital resilience, and collective wellbeing. As a social impact consultancy, we help leading nonprofits and foundations navigate risk and support the people and partnerships that make change possible.
This dual approach allows us to work at every level of civil society, from the grassroots to the global.
We have scaled to meet a 66% surge in demand for our support over the past two years, with our international team now responding to 11 new cases every week. Last year, we:
- Answered 575 calls for assistance across 100 countries.
- Delivered over 6,000 hours of mentoring and accompaniment.
- Trained over 1,000 activists in 112 holistic security workshops.
Across all our work, the same approach guides us. We come with questions, not just answers. We listen to the knowledge and experiences of the people we support before sharing our own. Then we act, together.
We are expanding our diverse, inspired, and purpose-driven team. Will you join us as our new director of digital and information security?
Role description
As our director of digital and information security, you will lead our digital risk and resilience team and programme in order to help build resistance and resilience among the people and movements challenging unaccountable power.
Your focus in this senior role at this crucial time will be on leadership, strategy, growth, and culture, with specific responsibility for our digital risk and resilience programme, internal information security, and tech transformation. Your responsibilities will include:
Lead our digital risk and resilience programme
- Manage the design and delivery of our digital and information security support, including:
- Coordinate the digital security mentoring, accompaniment, and capacity sharing we deliver to at-risk activists and low-resource civil society organisations referred through our rapid response mechanism.
- Oversee the professional information security consultancy and advisory services we provide to high-profile nonprofit and foundation clients.
- Develop our holistic security approach and ensure the smooth delivery of holistic security projects as part of our cross-programme leadership group.
- Lead a team of digital and information security professionals and technologists, including:
- Build and maintain an effective team, and recruit, onboard, and mentor new consultants as required to meet increased demand or to fill gaps.
- Inspire, motivate, and line manage team members and foster a team culture that ensures psychological safety and reflects our values.
- Quality assure and provide expert input into the work of consultants in the team as appropriate.
- Drive our evolution in this risk domain from a service-focussed workstream to an impact-driven programme, including:
- Build strategic relationships with hubs, hotlines, networks, and other key nodes in the protection ecosystem, particularly across the global majority.
- Produce tools, guides, and trainings on key digital and information security issues of concern to activists and organisations at risk.
- Raise Open Briefing’s profile in the digital rights and tech communities by representing the organisation externally, including at conferences and events and within relevant civil society networks.
Champion our own digital and information security
- Maintain an up-to-date registry of our valuable and sensitive information assets and the technical and organisational measures in place to protect them.
- Define, prioritise, and implement additional technical and organisational measures to better protect each of our valuable and sensitive information assets.
- Continuously improve the digital hygiene of our team members and the security of our devices, accounts, communications, and website by introducing additional general measures, including device management and regular digital security training.
- Coordinate our response to any data breach or security incident involving our information assets, devices, accounts, communications, or website.
Drive tech transformation in our organisation
- Act as a catalyst for change and drive tech transformation as a strategic enabler of our growth and scale.
- Map current systems and workflows to identify gaps, reduce complexity, and deliver improvements that strengthen security and ease staff burden.
- Lead the specification, procurement, and implementation of new tools – including secure case management, communication, and collaboration systems – and oversee change management and training to ensure successful adoption across our team.
- Establish a clear and responsive process for handling team requests for IT and digital security support, ensuring timely assistance and continuous improvement.
Shape our organisational strategy and culture
- Play an active role in strategic decision making, organisation development, and delivering our three-year strategy as a key part of our senior leadership team.
- Support our CEO and development director to cultivate new and existing funding partnerships, including for our digital risk and resilience programme.
- Model our organisation’s values and culture by using inclusive language, acting with empathy and compassion, and demonstrating a solutions-focussed and growth mindset in your interactions with all our internal and external stakeholders.
Advance your own growth and development
- Engage in our programme of training and coaching in order to grow as a leader.
- Remain up to date with key developments in digital and information security and relevant technology, such as data protection regulations, digital rights, internet freedom, and new surveillance and censorship technologies.
You will be supported in your role by a digital risk and resilience coordinator and a team of highly-motivated consultants, other members of the senior leadership team, our office manager, and a CEO who models servant leadership. You will also have detailed handover notes and access to our extensive internal knowledge base and up-to-date project management system.
To help you grow as a leader, we will co-design your quarterly objectives, regularly review your priorities and progress, and provide an annual 360 performance and growth review. All team members also have access to unlimited professional coaching and other learning and development opportunities.
Person specification
Essential
- You will be an experienced and empathetic leader or manager who values collaboration and teamwork.
- You will have a proven track record in digital and information security roles.
- You will have considerable digital and information security expertise and be able to communicate and apply that knowledge clearly, concisely, and effectively.
- You will have experience working with nonprofits and foundations and/or grassroots movements, organisations, and activists.
- You will have experience working in professional consultancy and advisory roles.
- You will be sensitive to the progressive and rights-based missions and diverse profiles of our clients and other stakeholders.
- You will have excellent written and spoken English.
- You will be based in a country with a time zone that is UTC +/- 3 hours or able to accommodate our core working hours.
Desirable
- You may have a strong understanding of the physical security and psychosocial aspects of holistic security and how they interact with digital risk and resilience.
- You may have proficiency in additional languages.
Terms and conditions
We are a global, remote-first, and digital nomad-friendly organisation. This is a home-working role with some potential for occasional international travel.
We are looking for someone who wants to become part of our close-knit team and develop a long-term working relationship with us and our stakeholders. You will be properly onboarded and continually supported by empowering managers and highly-experienced colleagues. Your line manager will be our CEO, Chris Abbott.
This is a full-time employed role. We will offer you a remuneration package made up of fair pay, sector-leading benefits, and progressive leave policies, including:
- Salary of £72,400 per annum.
- 7% employer pension contribution (UK).
- Family private medical insurance.
- Employee Assistance Programme, including welfare counselling.
- Unlimited professional coaching.
- Enhanced annual leave of 25 days plus local public holidays.
- Additional leave days for annual closedown.
- Enhanced sick pay.
- Flexible working, including flexitime and remote and home working.
- Access to local coworking spaces.
- Support for climate action:
- Personal carbon emissions offsetting.
- Up to two additional leave days for sustainable travel.
- Up to two additional leave days for climate activism.
- Apple MacBook Pro and peripherals.
In order to ensure that we comply with local laws and regulations, Open Briefing staff based outside the United Kingdom will be contracted locally through an employer of record (EOR). Wherever possible, we apply the same terms and conditions of employment to all staff, whether employed directly or through an EOR. Where there are differences due to local laws and regulations, we will apply the better of the provisions set out above or the local statutory requirements.
How to apply
To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter (no more than two pages each) using the secure form.
You will be asked three screening questions in the form as part of your application:
- What excites you about Open Briefing and this role?
- In this role, you’ll support civic actors facing complex threats from state, corporate, or criminal adversaries. These actors often have limited resources, knowledge, or experience to identify or respond to such risks. What do you see as the key factors when designing effective digital and information security strategies in this context? If possible, please share an example of a role or project in which you tackled similar challenges
- Our team is diverse in language, culture, location, working style, and employment model. Many of our consultants work with us part-time, alongside other clients, and are embedded in a wider ecosystem. Your role will be to support their growth, match them to the right work, and integrate their efforts across a broader, cross-functional team. What challenges would you anticipate in leading such a diverse, distributed team? Please share an example of a role in which you managed similar challenges – ideally within a global civil society or service-oriented organisation.
Please note the following dates:
- Closing date: 20 June 2025 (16:00 UTC)
- First round interviews: 7 and 8 July 2025
- Second round interviews: 10 July 2025
- Desired start date: 1 August 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter
Please let us know in your cover letter if any of these dates are problematic and we will try to accommodate. Given the nature of our work, the successful applicant will need to complete a reasonable vetting process before being appointed.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Position: Programme Officer
Reporting to: Senior Programme Manager
Location: Sidcup, Greater London, and hybrid working of 1 day in the office and 4 days remote (subject to change)
Contract Type: Permanent and full-time
Starting Salary: £28,000 – £32,000 gross per annum (based on experience) plus benefits
Interested in supporting projects that make a difference to the lives of others? This is an exciting opportunity for a person to grow and develop within a challenging but fulfilling sector. The Programme Officer will work closely with both the project teams and the wider organisation to support the effective management and delivery of projects across from our London office.
Purpose
The Programme Officer will be responsible for supporting the effective implementation of project delivery activities across our portfolio, predominantly in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. The post holder will support project delivery, ensuring quality expectations (internal and client), delivering within the scope and budgeted resources of projects, and in line with project timelines. They will work closely with other members of the programme delivery team, our technical team, delivery partners, and consultants to ensure projects maximise their positive impact and will also support the Senior Programme Manager to disseminate good management practice across the organisation, and advise on delivery approaches.
Main Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the Programme Officer include the following:
1. Project Support
- Provide support to Programme Managers in the delivery of projects, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and scope and comply with client contracts
- Take on the project management of assigned select projects within a determined budget/complexity threshold, ensuring that they are delivered to time and quality
- Set-up and monitor project workplans, including change requests ensuring that approvals are formally recorded and filed
- Manage day-to-day relationships with delivery partners and internal team(s) and build a solid understanding of delivery needs and timelines across projects
- Monitor and support timely client and consultant billing and invoices attached to delivery
- Support onboarding of consultants for new projects, including due diligence checks and contract preparation based on set templates
- Ensure project management software and tools are accurate and kept up to date for allocated projects
- Provide timely responses to client queries and alert the Senior Project Manager of any potential risks
- Lead duty of care and travel planning for staff and consultants, working alongside administrative officers
- Liaise closely with technical colleagues and Project Managers on project support needs.
2. Project Financial Management
- Monitor project budget performance, capturing variances and liaising with the Finance Team and Senior Programme Manager
- Monitor and support the processing of consultants’ expenses/fees against contracts and client invoices against contracts.
- Make recommendations to ensure financial outcomes are met with respect to time, quality and cost, and provide early warning of project overspend
- Prepare internal project update reporting including finances and resourcing using required management tools.
3. Organisational Support and Business Development
- Provide support in strengthening policies, procedures, and management tools for Development Pathways
- Coordinate with wider project teams to ensure technical capacity is well planned across Development Pathways’ portfolio of projects
- Signpost colleagues to relevant project management tools and processes, when required
- Support project closure processes as required, capturing and sharing lessons internally
- Provide ad hoc input to evolving organisational requirements as directed by senior members
- Assist with the identification and monitoring of business opportunities in donor markets, as requested
- Update SharePoint and ensure project data sheets are developed and up to date to facilitate bids for tenders
- Collate and share project information to support the Business Development and Communications department.
Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours
The Programme Officer will require the following combination of applied skills, knowledge, and behaviours to successfully contribute to team goals:
Required:
- An undergraduate degree in an appropriate subject
- Around 3 years’ experience working on project support or delivery within international development, research and/or the consultancy sector
- Ability and confidence to work independently and manage their own workflows
- Good communication skills and an ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders at the individual level and in representation of the organisation
- Excellent drafting skills
- Ability to understand and effectively analyse and utilise financial information
- Proven ability to resolve problems, anticipate barriers and create practical solutions
- High IT proficiency (Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, SharePoint, etc.)
- Demonstrated attention to detail ensuring quality standards are maintained
- Ability to travel internationally when required.
Advantageous:
- Up to 3 yeaers project management experience
- Proficiency in additional languages
- Commitment to social justice and gender equality.
Reporting Lines:
This post will report to the UK Office Senior Programme Manager.
Terms of Employment and Benefits
Recruitment will be at the junior level and is a permanent and full-time post. Along with basic salary, the successful candidate would receive an attractive package of the following:
- Fulfilling work - working to make a difference to some of the world’s most under-served communities
- Flexible working – Development Pathways offers employees flexible work hours and hybrid working
- Generous time off – recharge with 30-holiday entitlement plus public/bank holidays
- Excellent health and well-being provision – access to the company private health care scheme (after the satisfactory completion of the probationary period), pension scheme, long-term sickness benefits and Employee Assistance Programme
- Group Life Insurance
- Commitment to professional development opportunities – we encourage our staff to participate in professional learning and development
- Provision of a company laptop
- Yearly working at home allowance
- Reward Scheme for involvement in winning bid work.
How to Apply
We invite interested candidates to please apply for the post by including all of the following:
- A cover letter explaining why you are applying for this position, and how you would meet the selection criteria for the post of Programme Officer
- A detailed CV (curriculum vitae) specifying your qualifications, education, and relevant work experience
- All applicants will be required to specify if they have the right to work and live in the UK.
Closing date for this post will be the close of business on the 20th June 2025.
Applications should be submitted by email.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we retain the right to close this role without notice. So, if you are interested, please apply early.
Due to the high number of applications expected, unfortunately only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Applicants, please note the Privacy Notice on our website.
Development Pathways is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to providing a work environment that is inclusive and free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications and abilitie without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, family or parental status, or disability status.
About us
Founded in 2010, Development Pathways has grown rapidly into an internationally renowned and respected consultancy business, providing high quality consultancies and project management throughout Africa, Asia, Middle East and the Pacific in social protection, inclusive programming and management information systems. We have offices in the United Kingdom, Kenya and Australia, focused on: social protection; social and economic analysis; research and evaluation; training and capacity building; and, digital technology.
We are committed to transformative social policies to promote social justice and gender equality, women’s empowerment and social inclusion. We work hard and are passionate about what we do. We find time to discuss important issues and how we, as a company, can support initiatives that we care about.
Please note our staff have a hybrid working arrangement of 4 days remote and 1 day working in the office per week although this may be subject to change
For more information about our organisation, please visit our website.
Please include a Cover Letter with your CV.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
A leading UK healthcare charity is currently recruiting an Interim Senior Management Accountant to to provide extra capacity across the management accounts and finance business partnering function during a busy time for the department.
The core duties of the role will be as follows, though as you will be supporting with extra capacity other duties or projects may be available:
- Production of monthly management accounts including preparation and provision of reports and commentary
- Support in the rolling forecasting process
- Work with the Head of Finance to support in the improvement of the month-end processes
- Support with ad hoc additional tasks including in-year budget and re-forecasting processes
What’s on offer?
- The role will be offered on an initial 3 month contract with the possibility of extension thereafter.
- Daily rate of £350 - £400 per day (inside IR35) depending on experience
- Hybrid working of 1-2 days per week in the central London office
The client is looking to hire a candidate with immediate availability or with a maximum of 2 weeks’ notice.
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as CVs will be considered on a rolling basis.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Vacancy Reference Number:
SA/GF/UKFS-R1
Position title:
Systems Accountant
Reports to:
Global Finance Officer
Location:
REMOTE
Hours of Work:
Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary guideline:
Competitive
Terms of Employment:
12-Months’ Fixed-Term Contract (with a 6-Month Probationary Period, extendable and renewable)
Application Process & Closing Date:
Send an up-to-date CV and supporting Covering Letter by Email by no later than 20th June 2025
Approx. Interview & Role Commencement Date(s):
Interviews: W/C as and when suitable candidates apply
Start: ASAP thereafter
ROLE OVERVIEW:
Muslim Hands is seeking a dynamic and experienced Systems Accountant to lead the implementation of a bespoke budget and finance management system for our grant-receiving partners. This role is critical in ensuring smooth onboarding, system integration, and ongoing support to enhance financial management practices across our partner network.
See full role details attached!
Notes:
Strong Applicants may be contacted sooner, ahead of the closing date, to hold an Online Interview with Muslim Hands; therefore, please familiarise yourself with MS Teams / Zoom.
We reserve the right to end the application procedure early should the right candidate be found.
Unfortunately, we will only be able to contact successful candidates so if you have not heard from us by the closure date unfortunately your application will have been unsuccessful.
Send an up-to-date CV and supporting Covering Letter by Email by no later than 20th June 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
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Are you interested in joining an International Development Charity to work on its individual giving programme? If so, you will be joining at an exciting time for Mothers’ Union, as we prepare to celebrate our 150th anniversary in 2026.
Founded in 1876, Mothers’ Union is a women-led volunteer movement, with a membership of 4 million people around the world, 36,000 of whom live in the UK and Ireland. Based on Christian fellowship, members express their faith through action in their local communities, aiming to create a world where every individual can reach their full potential, by stopping poverty, injustice and violence.
Main Purpose of the Role:
To be responsible for the implementation and day to day project management of the individual giving programme across both existing and new fundraising products, maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, members, volunteers and internal teams across Mothers’ Union to ensure the success of the appeals. As part of a small team you will be working closely with and under the direction of the Head of Individual Giving.
Key Responsibilities:
- To project manage multiple appeals delivering accurate campaigns on time, on budget to a high standard, meeting agreed targets.
- Analyse and interpret direct marketing campaign results, and produce regular reports, drawing conclusions, completing campaign reviews and making recommendations to improve future activity such as targeting and testing suggestions to improve performance of the programme and feed into longer term strategic plans.
- Ensure all materials produced are accurate and compliant with relevant data protection and gift aid legislation (where applicable). Undertaking all activities in line with best practice standards and processes as set out by the IoF, Fundraising Regulator and any other bodies as prompted by the Head of Individual Giving.
- Write campaign briefs including campaign objectives, creative, digital, print and production briefs, feeding into decisions on creative approaches, copy and all technical aspects of the direct marketing programmes
- Write or amend existing copy and proof-read accurately. Critique, manage and evaluate work by external or internal agencies to a high standard and high level of accuracy
- Lead contact for our face to face fundraising activity, from briefing, monitoring and reconciliation to delivering training and fulfilling requests, including coordination of visits to Mother's Union projects
- Lead on any challenge events or wider individual DIY fundraising or organisational income generating events as assigned, meeting agreed targets set by the Head of Individual Giving.
- Monitoring, managing and reporting of key KPIs including campaign income, spend and other performance metrics on a regular basis. Reporting to the Head of Individual Giving, highlighting variances and updating fundraising team reports making sure information is accurate and reconciled where necessary.
- Designing and delivering targeted training programmes for groups of fundraisers or members on behalf of Mothers’ Union as well as providing effective one-to-one campaign support as required.
Please refer our job description for more information.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave (full time) plus up to 4 days of leave (full time) given at the discretion of Mothers’ Union.
- Employer pension contribution of 6.5%.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
- Two volunteering days per calendar year.
- One away day per calendar year.
- Enhanced sick pay.
- Bereavement leave & Compassionate leave
- Season ticket loan.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Eye care voucher and an allowance towards glasses.
Work Location/Hybrid Working Pattern
This role will be based at our Head Office in central London. Mothers’ Union operates a hybrid working model. Staff are required to work an aggregate minimum of 90 days per calendar year (pro rata for part timers) at our Head Office, Mary Sumner House in central London. Tuesdays are our anchor days where every staff member is expected to be at the office. The 90 days includes anchor Tuesdays. In addition, Thursday is a core working day where part time staff are expected to work, either at home or from the office as needed.
How to Apply
If you are interested in this position, please apply by sending your CV and a Cover Letter via Charity Job. The Cover Letter should clearly outline how your skills match the main responsibilities of the role. Please note – only applications with a cover letter, alongside a CV, will be considered.
Application Deadline
The deadline for applications is 22 June 2025 at 5:00 pm. Due to the number of applications we may receive, we will not be able to individually respond to each applicant. Kindly note, we will only be getting in touch with the applicants shortlisted for an interview. We aim to get in touch with the shortlisted candidates after the application deadline. We will be conducting interviews for suitable candidates as we go along and may fill the role before the closing date.
Equal Opportunity
Mothers’ Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to create an inclusive environment for all employees. You will be expected to ensure that Mothers’ Union’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy is adhered to in all respects of the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Business Development Officer – London, South East and East of England
Role purpose:
- Retain and grow relationships with existing centres through tailored engagement strategies that drive programme registrations and increase impact.
- Identify and convert new opportunities through proactive outreach, lead generation, and effective nurture tactics to deliver new business income.
- Deliver excellent customer service, ensuring a high-quality centre experience that builds trust and long-term loyalty.
Key responsibilities:
Retain and grow existing centre relationships
- Manage a portfolio of existing centres, ensuring regular and meaningful engagement aligned to their needs, delivery patterns, and growth potential.
- Deliver against annual centre income targets by supporting centres to continue and expand programme delivery.
- Develop and implement tailored engagement plans that reflect sector priorities, sector and programme maturity, and centre feedback.
- Analyse Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards to identify retention risks, spot growth opportunities, and respond to trends with proactive support.
- Coordinate requalification conversations and re-engagement activity to sustain long-term partnerships.
Generate and convert new business
- Identify and research high-potential leads across your allocated sectors (e.g., secondary, FE, community) using BI and CRM insights, sector intelligence, and marketing-generated activity.
- Plan and deliver proactive outreach activity via a Sector Development Plans.
- Build and maintain a personal pipeline of prospects and log progress regularly updating conversion insight and forecasts.
- Support new centre onboarding, from initial conversations through to registration and early delivery support.
- Collaborate with Marketing on lead nurture campaigns, sales funnel activities, and content that targets sector-specific priorities.
Deliver outstanding customer experience
- Serve as a primary point of contact for your centres, responding promptly and professionally to queries, issues, and feedback.
- Ensure every interaction reflects the Leadership Skills Foundation’s values.
- Maintain consistent and accurate records of communications, registrations, and engagement history.
- Support customer feedback collection and contribute to the analysis of satisfaction and improvement opportunities.
- Champion a customer-first mindset and share insight to improve performance against our customer experience objectives.
Use data and insight to drive decisions
- Regularly review and report on programme performance, income data, and registration trends for your assigned centres and sectors.
- Use BI dashboards and management reports to inform your planning, prioritisation, and stakeholder engagement.
- Report on your own progress against KPIs and contribute to departmental performance reviews and forecasting activities.
Collaborate across teams and support innovation
- Work closely with key teams to coordinate campaigns, messaging, and respond to customer feedback.
- Feedback insight from centres to inform programme development and sector-specific improvements.
- Contribute to team planning meetings, training sessions, and department-wide initiatives.
- Support the induction of new team members and contribute to a collaborative, learning-focused team culture.
Skills, experience, and knowledge
Essential
- Previous experience in a customer supporting role, with an emphasis on relationship management and customer experience.
- An understanding of education systems in the UK.
- An understanding of initiating prospect engagement, business development strategies and meeting sales targets.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience of working on own initiative and being a self-starter.
- Confidence in presenting externally to customers and partners.
- Experience of working with sales forecasting tools and Management Information systems.
- Analytical thinking and evaluation skills, with the ability to interpret data and performance metrics to support decision making.
- Ability to present information concisely using Microsoft Office programmes.
- An ability to network, influence and build relationships with key stakeholders and customers.
- An ability to convert external relationships into long standing customers results.
Desired
- Previous experience in a sales environment.
- An understanding and passion for leadership skills development and the value it provides for young people and centres.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- An understanding of awarding bodies and their operating landscape.
There are numerous benefits that are available to you as a member of Leadership Skills Foundation.
In addition to working for an organisation that is forward thinking with a clear commitment to your wellbeing, we also offer an array of both contractual and non-contractual benefits as outlined below.
Contractual benefits:
- Standard 36 hour working week.
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days per year after completion of five years’ service.
- Automatic enrolment into NEST Pension scheme after three months, with the option to join group personal pension plan with matched contributions up to five percent following successful completion of probationary period.
- Agile/flexible working.
- Home working.
Non-contractual benefits:
- Discretionary extended Christmas break.
- Vitality Health Care Plan following successful completion of probationary period – with the option to add family/significant others at reduced rate.
- Meaningful and regular one-to-one system as part of a structured personal development process.
- Sight test and eyewear financial support.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
- Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week). Job share applications are also welcomed.
- Location: Home based, or office based at Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London N1, in line with NCVO’s flexible working policy or home working policy.
- Closing date: 18 June 2025 at 08.00
- Shortlisting date: 20 June 2025
- Interviews: 30 June 2025
About the role
The Member Subscriptions Officer manages the administration and finance of NCVO’s membership subscriptions. Key duties include running monthly renewals, issuing invoices, managing payments and reducing aged debt. The role involves regular use of NCVO’s CRM system to ensure accurate records and efficient processes.
The post holder will handle member enquiries, support new applications and maintain strong relationships with members. Working closely with NCVO’s Finance team, they will ensure timely direct debit collections and contribute to income tracking and forecasting.
This role is ideal for someone detail-oriented, numerate, and confident using databases, with experience in financial administration and customer service.
About the Voice & Impact directorate
This role sits within the Voice & Impact directorate, a team focused on amplifying the voices of charities in civil society and making positive change for the future. V&I comprises NCVO’s policy and public affairs team; communications, campaigns and marketing team; digital content team and membership and engagement team.
About the Membership & Engagement team
Membership and engagement is a newly evolved team that exists to grow, connect and convene NCVO’s membership. The team acquires roughly 1,400 new members a year and offers care and support to retain 90% of its current 17K members.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
NCVO is fully committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in our sector. We want this to be reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and identities.
We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups in the voluntary sector and those with diverse, lived experience. As part of our commitment to employing disabled people, all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirement for all competencies on the person specification will be guaranteed an interview.
If you have access needs or require reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a pre-interview task and will have one week to complete the exercise. Interview question themes will be shared in advance. NCVO is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone.
Benefits for NCVO employees
NCVO offers attractive benefits including:
- 25 days’ annual leave (for full time staff and pro-rata for part-time staff) and office closure between 25 December and 1 January inclusive. After three years' service annual holiday increases to 27 days, and after five years to 30 days, (pro rata for part time staff)
- the option to purchase or sell up to five more days each year
- five days’ volunteering leave (pro rata for part-time staff)
- 2.5 extra ‘wellbeing’ days off during the year
- enhanced pay for sick/maternity/adoption leave
- subsidised gym membership
- season ticket loan
- flexible working, including opportunities to work from home/off site
- monthly homeworking allowance for permanent homeworkers
- monthly office worker allowance for those who have to work from the office on a daily basis
- generous employer pension contribution of up to 8.5% of salary, into our stakeholder pension scheme (linked to employee contribution)
- training and development opportunities.
- The opportunity to join Hospital Saturday Fund health cash plan for free at the basic level of cover, or at a reduced rate for other levels of cover
- 24-hour free and confidential employee assistance programme
We’re located a short walk from London King’s Cross station in a modern accessible building, overlooking Regent’s canal.
About NCVO
We are the charities charity. For over 100 years, NCVO has stood shoulder to shoulder with communities, championing and celebrating voluntary action.
Our membership is made up of over 17,000 voluntary organisations across England, from small, grassroots community groups and social enterprises, to large, far-reaching charities.
We believe that communities are strengthened by voluntary action. We therefore want charities to thrive and be empowered to deliver for people and communities.
We focus on empowering charities and volunteers by making sure they have the knowledge, tools, and resources they need. We advocate for and with our members, giving voice to those not often heard, and harnessing the collective power of partners to ensure the voluntary sector is valued. We bring charities together so they can learn, connect, and create greater impact.
As the voluntary sector and volunteering adapt to new challenges and a changing context, so must NCVO. We are therefore prioritising work to evolve as an organisation to ensure we live our values of ambition, inclusion, openness and collaboration in everything we do internally and externally.
We have around 80 staff and income of more than £7m per year. With our members at the heart of everything we do, our mission is to unite to champion the remarkable role of charities and volunteers. Because stronger charities make for stronger communities.
About the role
This is a key role in providing administration and organisational support to the CEO and the Board. The successful candidate must have the ability to exercise good judgement in a variety of situations, with strong written and verbal communication, administrative skills, and the ability to maintain a balance among multiple priorities. This is a part-time position with flexibility on the number of days worked each week, with a minimum of one to two days in the office.
What you will be doing
- Manage the Chief Executive's schedule and diary ensuring there is adequate time for meeting preparation and follow-up.
- Provide project support and co-ordinate briefing packs for the Chief Executive to ensure they have comprehensive information for any meetings and activities.
- Manage the Boards meeting schedule and calendar of events.
- Attend meetings, including the Annual General Meeting, to take and produce accurate minutes and update the Rolling Agenda and Actions Sheet.
- Handle confidential information with discretion and maintain the highest standards of confidentiality.
What you bring to the role
- Committed to delivering the best support possible so that the Board and CEO can be as effective as possible.
- An initiative-taking approach - looking ahead and resolving potential issues.
- Responsiveness to changing demands and able to adapt own workload to provide the support that is needed.
- Comfortable managing upwards and communicating assertively and confidently with senior executives and managers.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to work on your own initiative.
- Demonstrable experience in preparation of papers, with a proven ability to take and write accurate and comprehensive minutes of meetings.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- You will be able to demonstrate our values of being:
- Ambitious
- Inclusive
- Collaborative
- Accountable
The closing date for applications is Monday 23rd June.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 3rd July, at Pitfield Street, London.
About London Youth
We are London Youth: a charity on a mission to support the capital's youth sector to improve the lives of young people. We do this with and through our members - a network of six hundred youth organisations - and at our two outdoor residential centres, Hindleap Warren and Woodrow High House.
Throughout our 135-year history, community youth organisations have provided a constant lifeline and vital space outside the family and formal education, where young people can develop confidence, resilience and skills. Young people need opportunities outside school to have fun with their friends, to make a positive change in their communities, and to shape the city they live in.
We look to work with all young people, focusing particularly on those who would not otherwise have access to the kind of opportunities we offer.
In 2023-24, we worked with 591 member youth organisations who supported more than 710k young Londoners. 28,676 young people took part in our programme, events, and activities, with nearly 18,000 enjoying activities at our two outdoor learning centres, Woodrow and Hindleap. We supported 2,000 youth professionals at over 184 of our training and network sessions.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Conscious Advertising Network (CAN) challenge outdated norms, tackle waste and fraud, and champion transparency to unlock growth and innovation. By safeguarding society and the environment, we ensure advertising truly works for everyone.
CAN is a coalition of more than 190 advertisers, agencies and civil society groups, all working together to ensure we create effective advertising that works for everyone. At CAN, we believe that advertising should inspire, innovate, and drive real results – without compromising our rights and freedoms.
Our Guiding Principles and Guides cover six main areas; information integrity & hate, inclusion, children’s rights & wellbeing, informed consent, anti ad-fraud, and sustainability. The Guides are designed for advertisers and agencies and offer practical steps to help navigate the changes within the advertising industry.
Role Purpose
The primary role of the Research & Insights Officer is to support the Research & Insights Manager in conducting research and producing insights which supports the development of CAN’s conversations with advertisers around the issues embedded in its Guiding Principles and Guides.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
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Assist the Research & Insights Manager in the design and managing of research and insights which support CAN’s mission.
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To support the Research & Insights Manager in creating producing insights and communications materials for the advertising industry and trade and national press i.e Member briefings, press releases and social media comms.
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Awareness of, and regular reporting on, relevant research bodies and initiatives/ projects they are undertaking which help unearth new potential research areas where advertising is impacting human rights
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Working with members and external partners to collaborate on research projects or to gain insights on the advertising ecosystem
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Assist with project management to support the research and insights team, as well as the wider CAN team
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Working with other teams internally to collaborate on projects where required, in particular supporting the communications to members.
Measurement of Success
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Successfully working alongside the Research & Insights Manager in the delivery of robust and interesting research projects and related communications materials, to ensure advertising works for everyone
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Discovery of new issues and talking points to uncover emerging issues related to advertising harms
Skills and experience (required)
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Experience in the field of research or journalism
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The ability to produce clear, well-sourced and accurate briefings and summaries, or news articles
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Ability to work both in a team and independently
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Fast-learning self-starter comfortable to work in a fast-paced and wide-ranging work environment
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An understanding of investigative journalism and research
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Fluent written and spoken English
Skills and experience (desired)
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A proven track record of research achieving impact, either through journalism or the production of content which has measurably improved awareness on a given issue
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An understanding of the ad tech ecosystem and related harms
Other information
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The role will entail hybrid working, predominantly working from home with some days working in a London based office
Package
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Competitive salary & statutory pension contribution (£28k depending on experience)
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12 months Fixed Term Contract with a view being extended
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23 days holiday
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1 Day off for your Birthday
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Primary caregiver leave - 2 days paid
To apply:
Please submit a CV and cover letter by June 30th. Your cover letter should be no more than 2 pages long, answering the following questions:
1. What is your motivation for working with Conscious Advertising Network and this role specifically?
2. What skills and experience would you bring that will enable you to be successful in this role?
Our diversity and inclusion commitment
The Conscious Advertising Network exists in a diverse society. Our aim is to build a team that reflects this diversity, while fostering a working environment, which allows every employee – regardless of their differences – to thrive.
We aim to do this by sharing our job opportunities across a wide range of online platforms, actively interviewing a diverse pool of applicants and ensuring that career development is based purely down to talent, personal values and effort.
We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.
Conscious Advertising Network is a network of 190 members challenging outdated norms and taking bold steps to ensure advertising works for everyone