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We’re looking for a highly strategic and driven Head of Media and Communications to lead Friends of the Earth’s messaging and media work. We are looking for candidates across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and this role will be based in our offices or at home, visiting London a few times a year if not based in the London office.
The role:
We’re looking for a highly strategic Head of Media and Communications to lead Friends of the Earth’s messaging and media work. You will lead on developing organisational narrative and messaging and work closely with others to create an annual communications plan, identifying and sequencing priority organisational messages and moments. You will lead Friends of the Earth’s media strategy, helping to achieve campaign impact, brand and fundraising objectives through influential media work and partnerships. You will lead on crisis communications and provide media and communications advice to the organisation’s senior leadership.
Key Skills and Attributes:
You are an experienced strategic communications leader, inspiring your team to deliver powerful messaging and media coverage to influence campaign targets and audiences, and build the organisation’s profile and fundraising. You have an acute news sense and writing skills, with sound judgement under pressure and a creative approach. You’re used to navigating complex organisations, you love working with others to create truly integrated plans and have excellent influencing skills. You thrive working in a busy and quick response environment.
The team:
The Media and Communications team at Friends of the Earth is key to the delivery of our campaigning goals, working for a fairer, greener planet for all. We work across campaigning, fundraising and engagement projects, creating compelling messaging to excite our audiences and inspiring journalists, commentators and media partners to raise awareness of our cause, our work and amplify our calls. We also ensure that our network of local activists are supported to do media work in their local area
Closing Date: 6th January 2022
We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.
We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement, including people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and disabled people and other marginalised or oppressed communities
Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We have Youth Development Lead roles available in our Delivery Team in Northern Ireland on a maternity cover basis for up to 12 months and a fixed-term basis until March 2023. The Prince's Trust operates a hybrid model of office and home working.
As part of the Delivery Team, you will have a broad focus, working in important areas such as Education (in partnerships with schools), Employment, Enterprise and Personal Development. We encourage cross-working across teams and focus areas. You must ensure that every young person we engage, progresses with an appropriate pathway of learning and development and one to one support. You will demonstrate best practices in how we work with young people in a safe way, to ensure we deliver maximum value for young people and partners.
To be successful in the role of Youth Development Lead, you will be able to engage in challenges with optimism and resilience and be adaptive and flexible – embracing change and innovation. Due to the pandemic and ways of working you must be comfortable both working virtually and communicating on virtual platforms.
For more information and to apply, please click 'apply now' to be directed to our website.
Perks for working at The Trust:
- Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
- Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
- Flexible working! Where operationally possible, you can work hours to fit in with, school hours or care arrangements for example and you can also work from home.
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
- In-house learning platform! Develop your skills for your career and your role
- The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
- You can volunteer for and/or attend events – music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
- Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Operations Support Coordinator helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by delivering a professional and pleasant work environment within our regional centres or community teams. Ensuring that anyone engaging with the local office whether in person or through virtual means will experience high standards of customer service, people-centred service and efficient professional and administrative support.
This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year.
We recognise that the world looks a little bit different since the pandemic. Therefore, we’re committed to enabling our staff to work where best suits the needs of the individual, their team and the organisation. For this role, there may be opportunities to work from home as well as the office. We want our staff to flourish and work in environments which maximises their potential and best serves our stakeholders.
We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.
Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.
Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.
Candidate requirements
To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;
Essential
• A comprehensive knowledge of GDPR regulations.
• Computer literate with advanced skills in the Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Basic understanding of Health and Safety legislation.
• Clear understanding and experience of safeguarding.
• Experience in a customer service role, and/or office/administration role.
• Completing basic H&S risk assessments.
• Experienced in the use of CRM systems.
• Excellent verbal, written, and reading skills required for communications. Good level of mathematics required for financial data processing.
Desirable
• Lived experience of vision impairment (either self or direct family member).
• Experience of dealing with complex queries and/or complaints.
• Knowledge of Salesforce or CARE database.
For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.
If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
How to apply
Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above.
As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.
The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.
Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Northern Ireland Development Manager
Part-time secondment cover until July 2023
Formed in 1890, the British Deaf Association (BDA) is the UK’s biggest Deaf-led membership organisation supporting Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL). We stand for Deaf Equality, Access and Freedom of Choice.
For this part-time position, we are looking for someone with the vision and experience to build on our strengths and reputation at a time of exciting change as Northern Ireland plans to introduce new Sign Language legislation. The post-holder will be a strong project development leader with experience of working with statutory and funding bodies, able to find new opportunities and generate new income. The post-holder will oversee the NI office, line-manage our NI Advocacy staff (and any new posts from new funding opportunities), and, work with key partners and organisations.
Working with the Chief Executive and key members of the Management Team, the NI Development Manager will ensure that the BDA remains responsive to the needs of the NI Deaf Sign Language Community.
Are you skilled at developing new projects to improve and make a positive impact on Deaf people’s lives in Northern Ireland’s Deaf Sign Language Community? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Salary: £35,000 pro rata (£21,000 pa)
Closing Date: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Interview Date: Wednesday 15th December 2021
The British Deaf Association expects the talents of all employees to be used fully. No employees should be treated differently because of their sex or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, abilities, language, marital status, religion, social class, race, ethnic origin, employment status, age, health status or pregnancy/maternity.
Details of the position, job description, person specification, application form, who to contact for an informal chat and a short video in BSL are available. Please click Apply to visit our website.
No agencies please.
Fundraising Assistant
Reference: NOV20218169
Location: Belfast
Salary: £18,250.00 - £20,246.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Annual Leave, Life Assurance
Hours: Full Time
Duration: 12 months
Do you have the passion, ambition, professionalism, and enthusiasm to raise funds to help us make Northern Ireland a better place for people and wildlife?
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated individual with resourcefulness, initiative, and an eye for detail to prepare and submit grant claims to external funding bodies. The post holder will also provide administrative support to the wider fundraising team. If you have enthusiasm for our work to save nature and can demonstrate your talents and transferable skills for fundraising, we would love to hear from you.
You will join an energetic team delivering RSPB NI's vision for people and nature. We can offer a role with variety, a friendly office environment with a dynamic team to work with and the opportunity to support work to conserve and connect people with NI's fantastic wildlife.
The post holder will work with colleagues across RSPB to help ensure our funders have an excellent partnership experience with us, increasing their understanding and awareness of RSPB's work in saving nature. You will be responsible for planning and attending meetings and events to manage funder and partner relationships.
This role involves preparing and submitting grant claims to external funding bodies, securing income to support our work from grant-making trusts, foundations, and other grantmakers.
Key role activities will include:
- Compiling and submitting timely grant claims to funding organisations to secure funds and ensure they are received promptly against budgeted spend.
- Identifying potential external funding sources and match these to agreed priority work on our nature reserves, projects, and core work.
- Completing funding bids (majority small bids (up to £5k and occasional medium sized bids (£5k-£100k) tailored to external funding bodies in order to secure income to drive forward RSPB work.
- Providing administrative support to the fundraising team to ensure they are able to deliver theteam’s work programme and meet or exceed agreed key performance indicators.
- Producing regular reports to assess progress and action needed against KPIs to ensure agreed annual performance targets are met.
The Fundraising Assistant role is an integral part of the team, and you will have:
- A-level education or equivalent.
- Good working knowledge of Excel and financial systems and information sources (e.g. budgets, annual report and accounts).
- An understanding of and application of project management principles.
- An ability to interpret complex information and communicate it simply to target audiences.
- Strong written and verbal communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence.
- A demonstrable ability to organise oneself effectively and prioritise work in order to get the right things done.
- Demonstrable experience in using Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Experience of collating, analysing and presenting complex financial information.
Closing date: 23:59, 07 December 2021
To Apply and for More Information:
If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website.
We are actively recruiting for this role and reserve the right to close this advert at any time.
Please note that you will be required to upload a CV and complete an online application form where you will be given the opportunity to explain why you are best suited for this role.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer.
No agencies please.