I CAN is looking for a proactive Business Development Officer to work for the UK's leading children’s communication charity. The role sits in the trading arm of the charity which aims to generate around £1 million per year from the sale of its educational training portfolio.  The role focuses on business development and the post holder will play a major role in ensuring that the department hits its revenue targets, so will require a commercially minded person.

Working with the Head of Commercial Services, you will be responsible for delivering I CAN’s business development and sales activity. This will include gaining excellent product knowledge, generating and cultivating leads, developing proposals and closing deals. You will also be expected to be the ‘face’ of I CAN at trade shows and as our audience is schools, many of these events take place at the weekend, so a degree of flexibility will be required, although the requirement will be small here.

You will also be involved in some aspects of marketing, and you must be comfortable with copy writing, design (digital and print), data management, reporting etc. Experience of changing web content through a CMS would also be an advantage. 

This is a very interesting and varied role. Being part of a small, dynamic team, the post holder will have the opportunity to gain additional experience in a whole range of areas such as product development, process improvement and customer acquisition. Our product portfolio is aimed at the children's workforce, so the role would be particularly suitable for someone who has a passion for children fulfilling their full potential, as well as experience of the purchasing behaviour of schools, children's centres and nurseries.

If this sounds like you, and you want to have a broad ranging role where you get ample opportunity to develop new skills whilst also helping children to find their voice then we would love to hear from you.

We do read cover letters so please submit one demonstrating:

• Ability to learn and take on new challenges
• Experience in sales or marketing or passion to learn
• Passionate about going the extra mile to meet income targets
• Excellent communication skills and a customer focussed aptitude

To apply, please submit your up to date CV and a covering letter by 11:30 pm, Sunday 07 November 2021. 

I CAN works within the government’s Covid-19 guidelines.

Please note that we will not close applications before this time and date as we recognise that candidates put in a lot of time and effort into making an application and we want to give each of you the time and space to put in an application you feel proud of.

Please note that we will not shortlist candidates who do not submit a CV and a supporting statement.

We serve children and young people from all backgrounds and strive to represent the same diversity in our workforce. We strongly believe there is unity in diversity and are committed to create an inclusive working environment for all. We are under-represented by people who are from ethnic minority backgrounds and those who identify as being from the LGBTQ+ community. We particularly welcome applications from all suitably qualified people from these backgrounds. If you are excited about making an impact in children’s lives, we would love to hear from you.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, unfortunately, we are not always able to respond to every applicant. If you have not received a response within one week after the closing date, you have not been successful on this occasion.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This is an exciting time to join The Diana Award in a brand-new leadership role within our small fundraising team as we look to build on the success of our current partnerships with well-known funders and corporate partners to enable us achieve our mission 

As the Head of Fundraising and Business Development, you will work closely with the Deputy CEO, the Senior Leadership Team and Management Teams to submit high quality, innovative funding proposals. 

Leading a range of income generating activities, you will be responsible for the end to end process of bid development from identifying opportunities and cultivating leads; developing high quality proposals; and building relationships with prospective partners to ensure the attainment of funding.

You will be responsible for generating a significant percentage of our total annual income through direct income and business development activity. 

You will have a track record of writing successful funding bids and creating powerful partnerships, be passionate about supporting young people and thrive working in a dynamic and ambitious creative organisation. 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Business Development 

• Use your skills, creativity and experience take responsibility for the implementation of our fundraising strategy in response to the evolving funding landscape 

• Responsibility for developing and growing the pipeline, identifying opportunities for funding from a range of sources including (but not limited to) trusts & foundations, statutory sources, and corporate partners. 

• Develop ideas for creative sponsorship and funding opportunities and lead the development and submission of high quality, compelling funding proposals and tender documents to unlock funding. This will also involve identifying suitable partners; presenting proposals and closing deals; drawing up and negotiating contracts and ensuring delivery 

• Work with the stakeholders, our internal researchers and policy team to scope and develop exciting new project proposals.

• Develop fundraising and donor relationships in order to increase unrestricted income. 

• Devise and implement arrangements for our work with corporate partners, including recruiting and managing relationships with corporate partners

• Maintain a thorough understanding of financial targets and progress, liaising with the Finance Manager. 

Strategic Leadership 

• Work alongside the Deputy CEO on the development of the fundraising strategy in line with changing landscape.

• Produce regular update reports for the Leadership Team, Trustees and others as required on the activities and status of business development across the organisation.

• Research and analyse data and trends to inform strategy, contributing lessons learnt into the business planning processes and continuous learning approach. 

• Working closely with the Leadership Team and Management Team in the development of Organisational Strategy and Business Plans. 

• Working with the Director of Programmes, embed all successful projects within delivery teams in a clear and efficient manner to allow them to start delivery in line with expectations. 

 Management 

• Build a cohesive and engaged business development team ensuring the team has clear shared and individual work plans in place with measurable KPIs and regular supervision, appraisals and team meetings to monitor progress. 

• Develop clear lines of accountability, set priorities, and establish robust and timely reporting mechanisms within the team,

• Encourage and support the team to engage in continuous professional development, signposting and seeking opportunities as relevant 

• Contribute to overall leadership and management of Fundraising and Business Development team, while directly line managing the Business Development Manager. 

• Contribute to the wider management of the organisation, ensuring effective business partnering relationships are in place with key functions eg. comms, operations, I&I, fundraising etc. 

• Represent the organisation externally as required. 

• Undertake any other reasonable duties as may be required. 

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE, TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS  

• Either a relevant degree or equivalent experience 

• Substantial experience of successful income generation and development activity, including handling key clients, preparing, costing, pitching and closing proposals, completing tender documents for submission, ensuring delivery of initiatives on time and within budget to the satisfaction of all parties etc. 

• Significant experience of working with corporate partners and statutory organisations. 

• Experience in fundraising and donor relationships

• Demonstrable experience of building and sustaining relationships and partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders 

• Significant experience and demonstratable interest in the youth sector and youth leadership

• Experience of leading, motivating and developing a cohesive, high performing team 

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS  

• Demonstrable understanding of evidence-based programming, including using theories of change to guide programme practice. 

• Skilled in working with multiple stakeholders and funders, including at senior level 

• Good knowledge of the third sector 

• Excellent organisational, planning and interpersonal skills 

• Ability to set and meet deadlines. 

• Excellent communications and influencing skills, including ability to write persuasive and engaging content

• Ability to work as part of and across teams 

• Knowledge of budget and financial management, including setting, monitoring and reporting 

• Knowledge of child safeguarding 

• Excellent decision making and the ability to exercise sound judgement 

• Able to represent the organisation, reflecting its values and priorities 

PERSONAL QUALITIES  

• Entrepreneurial, innovative, personable, collaborative and good at working both in a team and under your own initiative

• Flexible and dynamic, with an ability to adapt and respond quickly to a fast-changing environment

• Confident communicator 

• Ability to quickly build credibility internally and externally 

• Ability to undertake occasional travel around England necessitating overnight stay

Permanent contract or secondment opportunity (minimum 12 months)

The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) is an independent charity established in 2013 to champion and support the use of effective early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people at risk of experiencing poor outcomes. As a member of the government’s What Works Network, we have a pivotal role as the go-to source for evidence and advice on early intervention for children and young people. Our work spans social policy and service areas including health, education, families and policing.  

Our expert team of researchers and advisers who have the practical experience of local delivery, put us in a unique position to support local services to use local information and national research to provide services that really improve outcomes for families.

We are now expanding our local development team and are looking for two highly motivated people to join us. Working closely with local leaders and commissioners across the country, our local development advisers support local areas to use evidence and local information to develop and improve early intervention strategy and delivery.  

We are looking for people who understand the local public service context and have experience of strategy development in child and family services, as well an understanding of national policy, local public sector strategy and delivery relating to early intervention. The right people will have strong stakeholder management skills and be able to build and maintain strong relationships with local public services, government departments, sector bodies and national charities.

To be successful, you will be a confident communicator, and have a strong appreciation of how evidence (local information and research) can support local decision-making, service delivery and its impact. Above all, you will be passionate and committed to improving the lives of vulnerable children and families, be flexible, and a strong team-player who is also able to work independently.

In return, you will join a supportive team, have support to develop and broaden your skills and experience, and gain valuable opportunities to engage with central government and inform key policy decisions.

It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of our stakeholders and the wider society in the UK, and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part time working and job shares for our roles. We will consider applicants from any part of England who wish to be home based providing they are willing to travel across England as required, and able to participate in meetings in London either virtually or physically.

To learn more about the role and working at EIF take a look at our jobs page where you can watch our Head of local development talking about the role and why you should work for EIF. 

We will be hosting a webinar and Q&A on Friday 12 November at 11.30am to meet the team, learn more about EIF and hear more about the role. To book your place please see our candidate pack on how you can register.

Closing date: 9:00am Tuesday 16 November 2021

Panel Interviews: 24 and 25 November 2021

Responsible for the daily operations of our new trust and the Foodbank in collaboration with the team. Our foodbank has been running for 10 years in 2022, over that time we have started many initiatives as we look to end the need for a foodbank. Can you come and be part of our team as we continue to tackle poverty, reduce foodbank demand and support our community.

5 billion people do not have access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care when needed. Can you help a growing organisation address a neglected area of global health care?

Surgery and anaesthesia have a fundamental impact on global health outcomes. Surgical intervention could address over 30% of the global burden of disease, and yet the poorest 33% of people receive just 3.5% of all surgery.

We seek to change this. However with the spread of coronavirus around the world, many of our sought after on-site programmes and courses in anaesthesia care have been suspended. While this has delayed our ability to provide face to face education and training where it is most needed, it also presents us with an exciting opportunity to explore alternative ways to deliver. This role will contribute to the WFSA’s vision and mission and build the overall capacity of the programmes team to increase our ability to provide digital education and training for anaesthesia providers around the world.

IF YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR DIGITAL EDUCATION THEN WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. PLEASE ALSO DEMONSTRATE HOW YOU MEET THE PERSON SPECIFICATION INCLUDING: 

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
• Experience of developing digital learning and of delivering learning resources to a range of stakeholders
• Experience in the operational and strategic delivery of digital education
• Knowledge of pedagogical approaches and methods for designing and delivering online learning to adult learners (e.g. instructional design)
• Proven experience of managing high volume workload and delivering to a consistently excellent standard under pressure
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and ability to lead and contribute to meetings with a wide range of stakeholders providing support and assistance as and when required
• Good project management skills
• Experience of working collaboratively with colleagues to review and improve the quality of online learning content

(See the job description for more details)

If this sounds like you then we would be delighted to receive your application. Please include a CV and a covering letter with your application by the deadline of the 14th November. Applications that do not include a covering letter will not be considered.

Interviews will take place in London (or online). We will be interviewing as and when suitable candidates apply.

We see business development as an important means of supporting our mission to build a better world through higher education. Through external funding and partnerships, we can create more opportunities for our members, and increase awareness of universities’ contribution to sustainable development.

You will be a highly motivated individual with a successful track record of identifying and securing new income and funding. In this role, you will be securing and maintaining the relationships and funding that make our mission possible. You will be proactive in positioning the ACU as a ‘partner of choice’ with global actors across the public, private and NGO sectors. You will play a key role identifying opportunities for us to scale our impact and reach, and delivering applications to funders and strategic partners to engage with new and innovative products and programmes being developed by the ACU contributing to the successful delivery of our strategy, The Road to 2030.

You will be responsible for developing the ACUs business development function to maximise impact for members and contribute to the advancement of international development in the higher education sector. You will do this through working with Research and Insight to identify opportunities and needs from members and with the Strategic Communications Directorate to identify opportunities for profile raising and influence with funders.

This role will suit someone entrepreneurial looking to join and lead a small but growing team, where you can deliver high impact. You will likely be coming from working in a relevant development-related environment such as a consultancy, NGO, donor agency or university.

The ACU is an international organisation dedicated to building a better world through higher education.

We believe that international collaboration is central to this ambition. By bringing universities together from around the world – and crucially the people who study and work within them - we help to advance knowledge, promote understanding, broaden minds, and improve lives.

We champion higher education as a cornerstone of stronger societies, supporting our members, partners, and stakeholders as they adapt to a changing world.

As Head of Business Development, your responsibilities will include:

• Oversee the operational performance of the business development team including bid and proposal writing, contracting, financial management, delivery models, business reports, financial outturns, monitoring of pipeline activity and forecasting, and team performance. Build the capacity of the business development function at the ACU to ensure a high performing team.

• Develop strategic relationships and partner opportunities with key agencies such as FCDO, DFAT, and the World Bank and build strong networks with key funders and partners to track market development, assess opportunities and manage risk.

• Working with the Senior Leadership Team and Senior Executive Team to develop private sector engagement and funding for the ACU.

• Build and share knowledge of the ACU, the Commonwealth and Higher Education contract and development space to identify partnership, grants and contract opportunities for pursuit

Some of the skills you need to be able to demonstrate include:

• Strong track record of hitting income targets and winning new business

• Proven track record of winning bids with key funders e.g. UK Government, EU, World Bank, corporates, Trusts and Foundations

• Strategic thinker, with extensive experience of business planning, including KPIs, shaping strategies, and developing and leading strategic business development work/ projects

Our benefits include 31 days holiday per year (including 4 Christmas closure days) plus bank holidays, competitive pension scheme (10% employer contribution plus 5% employee contribution), season ticket loan and excellent support for learning and development through a range of educational and networking activities.

At the ACU, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of gender, race, religion, marital status, disability, age, and sexual orientation.

As Head of Business Development, you will be employed by ACU Trading Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary.

Closing date: 8 November 2021

Interview date: 11 November (possible 2nd interview 15 November 2021)

For further information and details of how to apply please visit our website.

Are you a confident and outstanding coach with a passion to work alongside the local church to transform communities? If you have a heart for urban communities and seeing the direction of young people’s lives radically changed, this may be for you.

We are now recruiting for a Lead Coach for our Spear centres at various locations– a great opportunity to work as part of a Spear team together with the local church to deliver the Spear Programme, equipping and empowering unemployed 16 – 24 year olds to overcome barriers to employment and turn their lives around by moving into sustainable work or further education.

Please see the attached job description for more detailed information. 

Responsibilities:

• Running Spear Foundation Programme group sessions, coaching young people in skills and mindsets to help them into work over 6 weeks
• Delivery of Spear Career, staying in touch with trainees for a year after they finish Spear Foundation, to offer bespoke support and workshops to help them as they apply for jobs, and once they're offered a role, supporting them to stay there 
• Networking with local organsations to enrol young people onto the Programme 
• Receiving regular feedback to support your own development, and helping to train the Graduate Coach
• Active participation in and support for the church team and mission

Person Specification

• An active Christian, passionate about personally representing the values and beliefs of Resurgo and the partner church.
• Qualifications at degree level or equivalent
• Dynamic and engaging Coach with experience of and enthusiasm for the practice of coaching and training techniques, and a desire to develop as a coach
• A minimum of one years’ experience in training and development design and delivery
• Heart for working with young people and commitment to transforming urban communities
• Effective interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence with a sense of humour and fun
• Ability to lead others effectively
• Exercises initiative, highly self-motivated and a forward planner
• Good time management and organisational skills, working well under pressure with the ability to prioritise workload
• Excellent communication skills and telephone manner
• Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint competent and accurate and efficient in typing and work methods

Working requirements, salary & benefits

• Starting salary from £25,500 dependent on location and experience, plus pension scheme
• Full-time Monday to Friday, 9.30am – 5.30pm
• 25 days annual leave plus gift days between Christmas and New Year
• Occasional evening working required (for events such as termly Spear Celebration evenings and the annual fundraising party).
• Excellent staff development and training opportunities, including attendance on either our Coaching Academy or ‘Coaching for Leadership’ course – a programme of coaching and leadership training within your first 6 months (valued at £2,500).
• You will be expected to participate in Spear team events and be integrated in the local church  community and Spear Trust, as well as wider Resurgo team events, including prayer meetings and staff conferences.
• We offer an Employee Assistance Programme (a confidential support service for staff) as well as the option to take advantage of Give as you Earn (GAYE)
• A DBS check will be requested in the event of a job offer

The programme is run in partnership with our partner churches and the role will require that the successful applicant attends becomes part of the partner church congregation. For more information on other Spear roles and partner churches, please get in touch with our People & Culture team.

In 2016 we were listed as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in the ‘Great Place to Work’ Awards. In 2017 we won the Princess Royal Training Awards which honours employers that have created outstanding training and skills development programmes.

Please see our website as well as the attached job description for further information, and head to our jobs portal to apply. 

It's not often that a single role can affect over a million lives. But this is one of those opportunities. Your ultimate purpose is to use knowledge, ideas and emotions to influence a multitude of stakeholders, persuading the UK Government to act, eliminating serious alcohol harm.

As our Director of Research and Public Affairs you will lead our charity to the next stage in our influencing work, motivating and mobilising our thousands of supporters, building on our partnerships and alliances and making change happen. It won't be easy, but you'll be used to that, and will know how to skilfully use the media, our fellow citizens, civil servants, members of both Houses of Westminster, and our friends in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast to extract maximum results from the UK Government.

You will also be excited about leading some of our field's most exciting and fundamental research programmes and will be adept at ensuring research findings get turned into compelling ongoing communications.

Finally, you'll be up for working for a small, mighty, dynamic and highly professional charity that's at the heart of the action. You'll love working in an environment where things move fast; where an idea you have in the morning can be brought alive for the evening news.

As Garden Development Manager, you’ll run Share Nurseries, our social enterprise that grows and sells plants to the public, and make sure it provides high-quality work experience for our horticulture students. You’ll maximise the huge potential to grow and develop the nurseries, bringing your passion, creative flair, and commercial sense.

This isn’t your everyday garden centre job. The Share garden is a beautiful hidden urban oasis, home also to our training programmes helping disabled people gain horticulture qualifications and enjoy the therapeutic benefits of gardening. 

About Us

Share is a registered charity and a centre for training and wellbeing. We provide a range of programmes helping adults with learning disabilities, autism and other support needs live more independently. Our vision is a world where disabled people are fully included in society, living the life they choose, and we need talented people to help us make that happen.

About the role

You’ll deliver our ambitions plans for the garden, help us manage our resources and think about how we can engage with the public and local organisations. You’ll bring our teaching and social enterprise activities together in new and interesting ways.

Main responsibilities:

• You’ll work closely with our Head of Training to oversee and guide our educational and therapeutic gardening activities
• You’ll put Share Nurseries on the map, helping it become the garden centre of choice for our local community
• You’ll seek out and develop new opportunities to collaborate with other horticultural and environmental organisations, developing projects outside the garden
• You’ll use your vision to help shape our future and be a part of our exciting plans for growth as we redevelop the site

Your passion for social and therapeutic horticulture is plain to see. You truly understand how gardening has the power to improve physical and mental health, how it can help everyone, regardless of disability, age, or anything else. 

Who we’re looking for

• You have excellent gardening knowledge and have worked in a community garden or similar setting before
• You have the drive and ambition to take our social enterprise to new heights, bringing fresh perspectives so we can keep providing first-class training to help people move towards employment
• You’re hands-on, driven to provide excellent customer service and care
• You’re a brilliant communicator and an inspiring leader, able to motivate others and help them reach their goals
• Most importantly, you understand people, you love working with diverse groups and you enjoy helping others thrive

For a full job description and person specification, please visit our website 

Why work for us?

Share is committed to empowering disabled people. You’ll make a difference every day, helping people to live as independently as possible.

Our values drive us forward. They provide the framework for everything we do, including who we hire. We believe everyone has something to offer others, and we build on people's individual talents, interests and abilities. We think happy employees are successful employees.

We won employer of the year at the Wandsworth Business Awards in 2019 and we hold gold Investors in People accreditation. This means we truly understand the value of people: we focus on what people can do, not what holds them back. And we have robust policies in place so that every single person working at Share takes ownership for making our programmes come to life.

We’ve been praised for our thorough induction process and supportive working environment where everyone has a voice and is valued. You’ll be surrounded by people who support you, challenge you, and inspire you.

How to apply

To apply please visit our website

You can also download and complete the application form below, and send it to us via email.

We positively welcome applications from all parts of the community and from people with diverse cultural backgrounds and lived experience. 

This job is subject to two satisfactory references, evidence of qualifications, an enhanced DBS check and providing evidence of the right to work in the UK. If you are disabled and would like to discuss other ways of submitting your application, please get in touch

Service Development Officer

Salary: £25,000- £28,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Permanent: FT (37.5) hrs.

Hybrid: home and office working. Our head office is currently located on Kings Road, London SW3

About us

Glass Door is committed to supporting people get—and stay—off the street. We do this by coordinating London’s largest emergency winter shelter network and by providing a year-round advice service to help people move beyond homelessness. Since 1999, thousands of men and women have found safe shelter and the support needed to leave homelessness behind, thanks to the dedication of thousands of volunteers and partnerships formed with churches and drop-in centres. Our night shelters save lives and our support services help change lives.

The role

We are looking for an organised and compassionate individual to join our growing team. No two days will be the same and will require a collaborative style and a practical, can-do approach to work.

As the Services Development Officer, your main areas of responsibility will be in service delivery, user involvement/participation and service development.

This is an interesting and varied role in a fast-paced environment, and you will directly interact with people in crisis and offer them emergency accommodation, help us to identify opportunities to improve our services and expand our involvement of people with lived experience of homelessness across our strategic planning.

You will develop and organise an activities schedule for guests and support our monitoring and evaluation work, identifying and implementing improvements to our services.

About you

You will be a confident and friendly self-starter, able to take initiative and full responsibility to complete tasks.

Possessing exceptional organisational and communication skills, you will interact with guests of our winter services over the phone or via SMS inviting guests to access our hostel service, ensuring our hostel is kept at capacity. You will be the first point of contact for enquiries about our hostel service from people experiencing homelessness and external organisations.

You will be able to relate to and work with people from a range of backgrounds, with a professional manner. Confident in speaking to groups, you will be able to lead meetings amongst people with lived experience of homelessness, ensuring insight from the group is taken forward and acted upon within Glass Door.

Strong IT skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook) is essential.

Previous experience of service user involvement and participation would be highly advantageous.  

Some experience of working with homeless people or similar disadvantaged client groups and an understanding of their needs is desirable. 

An ability to speak additional languages including but not limited to Polish, Romanian, Arabic, Spanish, French, Bulgarian, Russian or Tigrinya would be desirable but not necessary.

We offer:

• 24 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Personal development training opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Experience in the not-for-profit sector.

We are a rapidly growing, collaborative team who love making a positive impact. We are a friendly, diverse and inclusive team and are committed to having employees that represent all communities. We welcome applications from people from all identities and backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from people with lived experiences of homelessness.

Although Glass Door services often take place within churches or church-owned properties, please note individuals with connections to a variety of faiths or none work for, volunteer at, and use the services of Glass Door.

To apply

For full information on the role, please download the recruitment pack below or visit our website. 

To apply, please email your CV and a short statement (no more than 2 sides of A4), outlining your experience and what you would bring to the role. This should be emailed to the email indicated in the recruitment pack by 3 November 2021.

Please note: We will be reviewing applications as received and conducting interviews on a rolling basis. The post may close earlier if we have sufficient suitable applicants, and you are strongly encouraged to submit your application early.

We regret that Glassdoor can only consider applications from applicants with the right to work in the UK.

About Voice 21

Voice 21 is the national oracy education charity. We exist to empower every child to use their voice for success in school and life. Our work transforms learning and life chances through talk by increasing access to a high-quality oracy education for those that need it most. You can find out more about our journey so far and plans for the future here. 

Role purpose

The School Recruitment and Partnerships Lead will be a key part of the External Relations team. They will have responsibility for our business development pipeline and play a crucial role in encouraging schools to join our membership programme - Voice 21 Oracy Schools - through calls, emails, events and other business development activities. On a day-to-day basis they will regularly speak to teachers and senior leaders in schools about our work, as well as undertaking other marketing activities to support this. Where opportunities arise, they will also submit funding bids to help subsidise our work with schools in particular areas of the country.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and implement a school recruitment strategy based on targets in our five-year organisational strategy for growth, with a particular focus on targeting schools that fall into our ‘target population’ (schools in the top 40% for average Free School Meals eligibility)

• Meet with senior leaders and teachers (usually virtually) to talk about our work and its impact, encouraging them to become Voice 21 Oracy Schools

• Build relationships with business development prospects in Multi-Academy Trusts, local authorities and senior leadership teams in schools

• Produce analysis and reporting on school recruitment as required, and feed insights back to improve the overarching strategy

• Identify and utilise opportunities to reach new education audiences to publicise our work

• Collaborate on the development of broader marketing strategies to schools, including via digital communications

• Represent Voice 21 at external events in the education sector to raise awareness of our work

• Submit funding applications to trusts and foundations on an ad hoc basis to support our work with schools, in particular for bespoke projects with groups of schools in a specific geographical area where an opportunity has arisen.

• Manage relationships with existing funders of school projects, providing a high-level of responsiveness

Skills and experience required

• Experience selling to schools and/or Multi-Academy Trust/local authority leaders OR experience in a business development role in another context, but with separate experience in or demonstrable understanding of the education sector.

• Strong influencing and negotiating skills

• The skills and experience to develop and maintain a sales pipeline of leads and prospects

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including experience building and maintaining relationships with external audiences in a customer-facing role

• Experience producing persuasive written work, such as fundraising applications

• Good knowledge of the education sector and issues affecting schools today

• Good IT skills, ideally including use of a database such as Salesforce

You’ll love this job if...

• You enjoy talking to people and persuading them to join a cause you’re passionate about

• You are motivated by an ambitious plan and a desire to make things happen 

• You love building strong relationships and thrive in a people-centric culture

• You are passionate about making a change to young people’s learning and life chances. 

Application details 

To apply: Please send your cover letter and CV by the closing date, stating ‘School Recruitment and Partnership Lead’ in the subject box. It would also help us to specify where you saw the vacancy advertised. Please ensure both documents are no more than two pages in length and that your cover letter outlines how you meet the ‘skills and experience required’ (above) and why you think you could successfully contribute to Voice 21’s growth.

Please also click here to fill out our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form 

Interview dates: w/c 1st November, to be confirmed

Start date: as soon as possible

Questions: If you have any questions about the role, please contact Alex Newton

As an equal opportunities employer, Voice 21 is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Voice 21.

WaveLength is proud to be the UK’s leading charity focusing on loneliness and social isolation, working across the UK in local communities to reduce loneliness for people living in poverty by providing technology such as radios, televisions and tablets.

Research estimates that over 9 million in the UK are lonely at any given time. We help reduce the experience of loneliness by connecting people via technology to their families, support networks and communities. We calculate we work with over 25,000 beneficiaries a year.

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the desperate issue of loneliness for millions
of people and raised awareness of the need for support across a wide range of donors. We want to capture the momentum of this increased awareness to build on our fundraising capability.

With strong fundraising foundations in place, we recently completed a review of our opportunities and resources and have a new focus on refreshing our existing donor base whilst diversifying our income streams. As part of this diversification, we are ambitious to recruit an experienced Digital Lead to develop our digital fundraising and communications activity.

We have a good understanding of our impact and have research that proves what we do works to alleviate loneliness, however we want to be better at weaving this knowledge, insight and personal evidence from the individuals we help into our storytelling, to build stronger and far-reaching supporter engagement through digital and traditional channels.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven, ambitious and experienced fundraiser to help us further build and drive our fundraising function forward. Working closely with the CEO, you will help set the digital fundraising and communications strategy, being directly responsible for raising related income and, as we grow and develop, you will also have the opportunity to build, support and lead a dedicated team alongside you. There is excellent scope for professional development within the role; to work autonomously and really own the outcome of your efforts whilst also being part of a supportive, collaborative and dedicated organisation.

For further details about the opportunity and WaveLength’s mission and vision, please download the full appointment brief below and or on our website.

About Restless Development.

We know young people have the power to solve the challenges we face in our world, but they are being ignored and overlooked. We are the agency that works with young people so they can lead in solving those challenges. Whether that means supporting communities to end child marriage or prevent HIV, we work with young people to change their lives and the lives of people in their communities. 

Our programmes are genuinely life-changing, but can’t do any of this without talented, creative individuals at every level of our organisation.

About the Role.

This is an exciting opportunity for a rising leader to gain exposure to how a values-driven, globally-led agency for change works and is led. We see this role very much as an opportunity not just to increase the effectiveness of our leadership team but also as a chance to develop and model a new way of leading within a global movement for change. 

Working closely with the Co- CEOs, this role will gain unparalleled exposure to our leadership team, and we very much expect – and demand – that it is a leadership development opportunity for the right candidate to grow as a leader themselves while also helping Restless Development’s leadership to perform at the highest level possible. In short this role will both improve how our leadership works as well as prove how leadership should be done in an agency like ours. 

The Executive Assistant and Office Coordinator sits within the International People & Operations team, providing additional all-round support for how we support our people – making it a role uniquely connected with all teams globally. 

About You.

Essential skills and experience

● Proven organisational and time management skills
● Acute and thorough attention to detail
● Effective executive-facing communication skills
● Excellent written and spoken English
● Proficiency in working with Google (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Calendars etc), as well as Microsoft Office functions

Desirable skills & experience

● Prior Executive Assistant experience
● Prior office management experience
● Prior event management experience
● Experience of international development
● Passion for continuous learning and improvement

How To Apply.

Please download our terms of reference from our website and complete an application form by Sunday 7th November 2021 at 12pm GMT.

Applications without the form, or CVs, will not be considered. Interviews will take place:

• Tuesday 16th November and
• Thursday 18th November

About Restless Development.

We know young people have the power to solve the challenges we face in our world, but they are being sidelined. We are the agency that works with young people so they can lead in solving those challenges. Whether that means supporting communities to end child marriage or prevent HIV, we work with young people to change their lives and the lives of people in their communities. Our programmes are genuinely life-changing, but we can’t do any of this without talented, creative individuals at every level of our organisation.

About the Role.

The Corporate Partnerships Manager is an essential role within Restless Development’s tight-knit Fundraising team. The Corporate Partnerships Manager is responsible for raising vital unrestricted income through event sponsorship and corporate partnerships. Currently the vast bulk of financial support at Restless Development comes from multiyear restricted grants from institutions (governments, multilateral agencies, trusts & foundations). To ensure we are reaching our aims of maintaining a balanced budget and sustainable growth, we are committed to increasing investment in the Fundraising team in London with a view to growing unrestricted and strategic income year on year. The Corporate Partnerships Manager is key to this, working closely with the Senior Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager, the Restless Leadership Team and other Hubs around the world to develop these partnerships nationwide and beyond.

We are looking for a passionate, self-driven individual with an appetite for prospecting and sales, a desire to grow and deliver high quality partnerships at Restless Development. The successful candidate will have experience of creating new partnerships with businesses and/or event sponsors. You’ll need to be passionate about what Restless Development does and be able to clearly explain and present that work and its impact to our supporters. This role is part of a small team, so the successful candidate will be a team player who is willing to support the wider team whilst balancing their own workload. There’ll be the occasional late night at an event, and you could be expected to accompany supporters on a visit to see our work in action in Africa or Asia. There is appetite at Restless Development to grow the corporate team and an opportunity for line management once the successful candidate in this role has hit their targets.

About You.

Essential skills and experience

• Experience identifying, creating and securing new leads that translate into partnership(s) / sales
• Excellent relationship / account management skills
• Demonstrable Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent planning, organisational and logistical skills
• Ability to manage relationships with multiple stakeholders, at all levels, both internal and external
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to work to deadlines and balance multiple priorities
• Ability to manage own time and work autonomously
• Ability to work as a team to meet deadline

Desirable skills & experience

• An understanding of international development, in particular the youth sector
• Up to date knowledge of the sector, including the setup of the Fundraising Preference Service and General Data Protection Regulation changes
• Experience of fundraising leadership: setting vision and direction as well as planning and delivering ambitious targets

How To Apply.

Please download our terms of reference from our website and complete an application form to by Monday 1 November 2021 at 9am GMT.

Applications without the form, or CVs, will not be considered. Interviews will take place:

• First round: Wednesday 3 November
• Second round: Monday 8 November