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Post: Senior Marketing and Communications Manager (Women Only)
Contract: Full-time (permanent contract, subject to funding, flexible working available)
Location: Liverpool
Salary: £34,500 per annum
Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer
Overview
Are you passionate about making a difference and ready for the next step in your marketing career? Join Savera UK as the Senior Marketing and Communications Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in the development and execution of all marketing activities and communications efforts – a leading charity dedicated to ending ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) and culturally specific harmful practices.
This is a diverse and dynamic role, where you will be dealing with complex and sensitive subject matter. You will be expected to build on your existing knowledge of or passion for human rights by proactively developing a deep awareness of the multi-layered, and ever-changing nature of our work.
You will be part of a small and very supportive, highly expert, and effective team, who work at pace without compromising on quality or attention to detail.
You will also become the custodian of our carefully developed brand, which possesses qualities of authenticity, power, and challenge.
You’ll have the opportunity to build brand awareness, market services, increase revenue, support fundraising, develop campaigns that influence policy, and help to effectively communicate our impact.
This is an exciting time to join Savera UK as they embark on a journey to amplify their message and drive change.
An occupational requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010, the post holder must be female under the Sex Discrimination Act, 1975 Part 7 to meet the needs of the majority of Savera UK’s service users.
Savera UK encourages individuals from any community to apply, in particular those from underrepresented groups. In order to be appointed to this post, please note that a Disclosure & Barring Service check (DBS) will be required for this post, alongside an up-to-date reference.
Savera UK is an Equal Opportunities employer.
* Location: The post holder location will be Liverpool based but will also need to work where relevant/required including traveling. Therefore a full, clean driving licence, and use of own car is essential, and mileage would be reimbursed
Please note that due to the nature of Savera UK’s work and for security purposes, they do not disclose the location of the post until the successful candidate is appointed. However, we can confirm that their registered head office is around 30 minutes’ walk or 15/20 minutes by car/public transport from where this role will be based.
How to apply
Job Description & Job Specification and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form can be downloaded directly from our website. Savera UK will consider applications from candidates who have comparable qualifications and experience for the role advertised.
Applications that don’t include a covering letter, as specified, will be automatically rejected.
Following receiving your CV and covering letter, Savera UK may ask you to complete a further application form, to help us gather further information. Ensure your covering letter is clearly relates to the essential specification required for the role, as detailed in the job description
Closing date for applications: 5pm 5th June 2024
The recruitment process will be in two stages. If you are shortlisted, Savera UK will be in contact to arrange an informal 20-minute chat about the role and your interest in it. Savera UK will then invite candidates who progress to the second stage to an in-person interview, which will comprise competency questions and a task on which they will be asked to present back to the interview panel. Candidates will be provided with information for the task, for which they will have two weeks to prepare. There will be opportunity for one set of questions/clarifications about the task.
In-person interviews are expected to take place in w/c 17th June 2024. Please inform Savera UK, when you apply, if there are any dates in that week that you can/cannot attend.
All applications will be treated in strictest confidence.
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Role: Wales Remembrance Events Manager
Location: Homebased – Wales
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract - 7 Months
Hours: 25 Hours Per Week
Salary: £36,720 (Pro Rata) £26,228 Per Annum
Are you ready to elevate your event management career?
Join us as a Remembrance Events Manager and play a crucial role in the Royal British Legion's mission to honour and commemorate the sacrifices of our armed forces. Based in Wales, with some travel to London, you'll lead a dynamic team to plan and execute memorable events that uphold our legacy of Remembrance.
As the Remembrance Events Manager, you'll shape the national landscape of commemorative events, collaborating with civil, military, and veteran organisations, as well as the Royal Household. You will lead the Remembrance Events Team and deliver a busy programme of iconic and high-profile national events. Your creative vision and strategic planning skills will be key in delivering large-scale events that capture the hearts and minds of the nation.
With your strong leadership abilities, you'll effectively manage budgets, resources, and venues to ensure the seamless execution of every event. Your commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity will shine as you represent the Legion positively, both nationally and internationally. If you're a seasoned event planner with a passion for honouring our heroes and a proven track record in project management, we want to hear from you.
Come and be part of the leading Armed Forces charity, making a difference to the lives of those who have served to keep us safe and protect our way of life.
Join us in preserving the legacy of Remembrance and making a meaningful impact on the lives of veterans and their families. Apply now and be part of something truly special.
Here at RBL, we aim to support our people and their wellbeing, with a package including generous paid holiday allowance and pension scheme contributions, and a range of optional benefits and discounts.
You will be contracted to your home address, and you will perform most of your work remotely there using our collaboration tools to work with colleagues, with occasional travel around Wales and to our London Hub for meetings. You will need to have an understanding of working in and delivery large scale events in a devolved nation and be sensitive to operating in a bi-lingual nation.
For more detailed information about the role, please see our Vacancy Information Pack attached to our direct advert.
RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.
Closing Date: 7th June 2024
We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role(s). Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in developing the fundraising vision of Harrogate Theatre.
Harrogate is a beautiful spa town that is frequently voted in the top ten places to live in Britain with a vibrant and growing arts culture. The Theatre delivers a mixed economy of produced and received work, it has a buoyant education department and artist development programme. Come and play your role in securing its future.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Events Manager
£35,831 pa plus excellent benefits
London WC1 and home-based
35 hours per week, full-time
The Events Manager is a crucial role at the College, as you will be responsible for the planning and delivery of the College’s annual flagship conference. As Events Manager, you will work closely with internal and external stakeholders and suppliers to ensure this event is executed to an exemplary standard.
You will manage the Conference Committee and work closely with College Officers, Members and internal colleagues including the Creative Content and Marketing, Children and Young People and Corporate Services Teams to deliver our high-profile conference. Helping to ensure impactful campaigns are created to drive delegate registration and engagement, you will also be responsible for producing detailed project plans and RASCIs for the conference.
Reporting to the Head of Events, you will provide support with the tracking of event expenditure, managing supplier procurement processes and negotiating with suppliers to guarantee value for money. Taking the lead on all College relationships with internal and external service providers, you’ll also ensure that site visits and assessments are carried out where necessary, making certain that insurance, legal and Health & Safety obligations are adhered to.
In addition to the flagship conference, you will support the wider team in the delivery of other high profile engagement activities including international conferences, membership ceremonies, regional member events, dinners and a number of ad-hoc events according to College priorities. You will also deliver virtual events as required, taking the lead on researching virtual event solutions to ensure that the College meets shifting member needs.
Educated to a good standard, with demonstratable experience of delivering large scale (1,000+) educational or scientific conferences, you should have a background of working with external professional conference organisers along with experience of working in a membership or not-for-profit organisation.
Excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills with colleagues, internal and external stakeholders and suppliers are essential, as are outstanding communication skills, both oral and written.
With a good understanding of project management methodology and how to apply it to events, you should have a sound knowledge and insight into the wider event industry, in order to keep up-to-date with trends, developments, innovation and legislation. Solution centric to enable innovation, you must be able to adapt to changing situations.
Line management experience and the ability to motivate and develop direct reports is essential, whilst an event management or project management qualification, along with experience of running events outside of the UK would be desirable.
The Membership, Policy and External Affairs Division actively promotes the membership, stakeholders and the public awareness of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and core child health priorities.
The RCPCH sets and maintains standards for the education and training of all doctors working in paediatrics and child health in the UK. We advocate on child health issues at home and internationally. Additionally, through a variety of activities, the College influences the quality of medical practice for children in hospital and in the community.
The RCPCH has more than 22,000 members and fellows and employs around 200 staff, most of whom work in our London office in Holborn. We have smaller offices in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The RCPCH wants to represent all the communities we serve. Appointment will be made solely on merit. However, the College is particularly keen to receive applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, and/or candidates with a disability who are currently under-represented at this level of the organisation.
The College operates a flexible and modern working policy, whereby our colleagues work in the office for a minimum of 40% over a 4-week cycle and the remainder from home.
Closing date: 4 June 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Project Manager
Salary: £39,228 p.a. FTE
(pro-rata salary dependent on hours worked)
We also offer 27 days of annual leave (pro-rated for hours worked) plus bank holidays and a birthday day off, 8% employer pension contributions, a core hours system of working and enhanced family friendly policies.
Contract: Fixed term maternity cover for up to 12 months
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours (30 hours per week will be considered - we are open to discussing how this may work for you)
Location: London (with hybrid working available) with regular travel across England
Keep Britain Tidy is one of the UK’s leading environmental charities. At a time when we are living in a world that is facing its greatest environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or more urgent.
As we’re moving forward we recognise that a diverse workforce yields the best results. We embrace all the different identities in the UK and we want our workforce to reflect that.
Environmental change is affecting us all and we want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution and help us make the changes that cannot wait. It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all our staff, and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. With this in mind, if you're excited about this role but you’re worried that your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd still love you to apply. You might just be the perfect person for this role!
Keep Britain Tidy’s Services Team delivers high-quality research, innovation and evidence-based services which align with the charity’s aims to reduce resource use, waste and litter, improve the quality of public space and help people live more sustainably. We are looking for a Project Manager with the flair and flexibility to deliver a range of projects for local authority clients and partners. Your projects could include delivering innovative solutions to problems like recycling contamination and fly-tipping, running door-to-door engagement campaigns to drive up recycling, and conducting surveys to improve waste and recycling collections. You will be responsible for all aspects of project delivery and management, which in some cases will involve managing teams of casual workers.
All our roles benefit from generous holiday entitlement and pension contributions, including the opportunity to join the UK’s first net carbon pension scheme and to receive extra days leave for using alternatives to flights. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, you just need to let us know.
If you are interested in this job and want to help us make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description found on our website.
After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us, please apply following the application instructions.
As part of the application process you will need to answer 3 questions, submit your CV and complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population and we are not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately.
Please submit your application before the closing date.
The deadline for applications is 09:00, Monday 17 June 2024.
For successful candidates, interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams in the week commencing Monday 01 July 2024.
If you require an in person interview, please let us know.
We have signed the pledge to always #ShowTheSalary for the roles that we advertise.
We are proud winners of the Working Families’ Best Small Employer Award 2021.
No agencies please.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
New Horizon Youth Centre runs a busy day centre from Monday to Friday, providing basic needs to young people experiencing homelessness and a one-stop-shop for housing advice, youth work activities, counselling, jobs, education and training support. The Services Manager (Day Centre) is a brand new role for the organisation. They will work as part of the existing Youth Work Team to provide vital additional capacity and expertise to respond to the significantly increased demand we have been experiencing. This role is primarily focused on delivering our frontline day centre service each week. You will spend around 2-3 days per week frontline as our Duty Manager ensuring the smooth running of the day centre. You’ll also be responsible for coordinating our weekly rota, line managing the team, overseeing our Locums, Students and Volunteers programme, supporting with donations and day centre stock, and delivering staff training . You should be passionate about supporting young people who are unsafe or facing homelessness, be able to motivate a multi-disciplinary team of staff and have the energy to problem solve in a fast-paced environment on a daily basis.
Salary: £37,024 - £41,600
Closing Date: 10am, 3rd June 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Homeless Link is the national membership charity for frontline homelessness agencies and the wider housing with health, care and support sector in England. With more than 800 members, we work to improve services and campaign for policy change that will help end homelessness and ensure that everyone has a place to call home and the support they need to keep it.
As a learning and development specialist, working as part of our Member Services Team, you will be responsible for leading the growth, advancement and sales of our learning and development offer. This includes specialist training and coaching services that we run commercially to help staff working in homelessness to focus on their personal development or unlock change. Through these services we want to help create a high performing homelessness workforce who have the skills, knowledge and behaviours to provide professional and consistent support to people experiencing homelessness.
The successful candidate will have experience of developing and implementing learning strategies and programmes along with project development & management skills. A knowledge of homelessness or supported housing sector is desirable but not essential.
You can find more information about the role in our Recruitment Pack along with details on how to apply.
Homeless Link is based in London, but the post is flexible and home working will be accepted. We are actively seeking to increase diversity within our organisation and would greatly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness, from a black or minority ethnic background and/or with a disability.
To develop, inspire, support and sustain a movement of organisations working together to achieve positive futures for people who are homeless.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Closing date: 9th June 2024
Ref 6735
We are looking for an Account Manager to join the Partnership Development Team in our Global Programmes Division to support our global programme partnerships work, manging and expanding our relationships with Development Banks.
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About the Team
The Partnership Development Team is comprised of partnership experts across a portfolio of institutional partners. The team seeks to deliver exceptional global partnerships, optimising both funding and influence. The team works closely with colleagues from across the Global Programmes and Policy, Advocacy & Campaigns Division, other Save the Children members and with Save the Children International (SCI) country and regional teams to deliver on our partnership objectives. The team is at the forefront of driving the institutional partnership agenda and approach for both Save the Children UK (SCUK) and the Save the Children global movement, ensuring Save the Children is the partner of choice.
About the role
As the Account Manager you will contribute to and effectively support our global programme partnerships work, to achieve Save the Children's strategic objectives.
The focus of the role will include extending Save the Children's relationships with development banks plus new initiatives such as impact investment and results-based project funding. You will support the Partnership Managers on a varied portfolio of cross-Save the Children partnerships as well as supporting with the management of cross Save the Children partnership management.
You will support and liaise with a network of internal and external stakeholders to optimise our engagement with key partners, in pursuit of specific partnership opportunities.
In this role, you will:
- Ensure a broad-ranging and inclusive partnerships. This includes:
- Contributing to the implementation of SCUK's overall institutional partnerships strategy.
- Management of information and status of relationships/financing to keep our leadership (CEO, Executive Directors) up-to-date with our partnerships.
- Supporting the organisation to continually build strategic understanding of partners and any evolving trends that may impact the relationship.
- Representing Save the Children with the appropriate partner contacts and providing strong support to colleagues in their external engagement (country, regional and HQ levels).
- Exploring new avenues of collaboration and new funding modalities to maximise income and return on investment.
- Secure support from colleagues from across the organisation to contribute to our engagement with our regular and new accounts
- Ensure increased quality and consistency in the design, delivery and reporting of all projects/awards across the account and SCI. This includes:
- Supporting the wider account team on the development and delivery of donor specific capacity building plans.
- Working closely with the Donor Compliance team to identify risks, mitigating measures and setting adequate monitoring mechanisms to support wider award management processes.
- Developing common standard approaches to quality and compliance across the account. Ensuring partner regulations and expectations are well understood among parties involved.
- Engaging with account members, where necessary, and SCI in generating learning and best practices.
- Ensuring strong knowledge management systems are in place.
- Collaborate with team members to develop and embed our partnership and management approach, to maximise the benefit of the team's work to the wider organisation and movement.
About you
To be successful, it is important that you have:
- Skills in partnership management and market assessment in relation to overall positioning with partners.
- Experience, interest and knowledge of current thinking and future trends and thorough understanding of international development issues.
- Proven experience of providing creative and innovative approaches in developing new initiatives that contribute towards partnership objectives.
- Strong management behaviours, including external relations, partner focussed-approaches, delivery of results, strategic purpose, negotiating & influencing.
- Experience in relationship management, working with donors, trusts and foundations, or equally demanding partners.
- Experience of undertaking industry trend and donor specific research, finding relevant, reliable, and up to date information quickly.
- Excellent coordination and relationship building skills in forming and maintaining both internal and external relationships.
- Strong analytical skills with ability to present complex information in a clear and succinct manner, ability to analyse trends and report on key financial metrics.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including senior level briefings and presentations, both for internal and external audiences with appropriate attention to detail.
- Ideally knowledge of and experience working directly with Governments and other key actors such as multi-lateral institutions e.g. their structure and operations, priorities (geographic, sectorial, thematic, at policy & advocacy levels).
- Ideally a good understanding of project design, quality programming and effective delivery.
- Knowledge of and experience working directly with institutional donor partners
What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
- We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
- We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
Job Title: School Engagement Manager
Reporting to: Director of Transformations
Hours/days: Full-time 40 hours per week (will consider part-time & flexible working)
Location: Flexible / hybrid with a minimum of one day per week in the Brixton office. The role will involve travel to various locations in London, and some travel to Yorkshire/South West, so would therefore not suit fully remote working.
Who we are
Chefs in Schools is a young, ambitious charity that’s rapidly growing. Our mission is to improve kids' health, through improving school food & food education. We focus our efforts in areas of high socio-economic deprivation, where more than a third of children are entitled to free school meals, and diet-related disease is driving further inequality.
We support and train school kitchen teams to serve the best, freshest and tastiest food possible, alongside meaningful food education. We share learning and resources, aiming to inspire and enable others to follow our lead.
We’re backed by some of the biggest names in food and have ambitious targets to ensure every child has access to incredible school food and food education, setting them up for life with the skills and knowledge to feed themselves well.
About you and the role
The purpose of this role is to foster engagement between our charity and schools and kitchen teams seeking support to improve their school food. This is a significant and important role for our rapidly scaling charity, ensuring effective communication and engagement with schools, academies and stakeholders to maximise our impact.
You will be supported by our Director of Transformations, and work closely with our Senior Programme Managers, and the Director of Partnerships and Impact.
Your role will be critical to the successful delivery of both our core programmes which are delivered across England. This role will be primarily focused in London, but will include supporting the engagement of schools in locations across the UK as we develop new hubs. You will be joining a dynamic and growing charity who are passionate about delivering exceptional training, skill sharing, expertise and know-how to advance the quality of food preparation, food service and food education in schools.
You will have an understanding of the context that we operate in, education and food sectors. You will have strong people skills, and the ability to build relationships and manage effective partnerships with external organisations.
The responsibilities, skills and experience listed below are intended to give you an idea of what we need for this role. If you don’t meet every requirement but feel you would be able to work with us to deliver the majority of them, we urge you to apply anyway. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and for us the most important ‘experience’ is passion for our mission. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We want to get to know you at the interview and understand we can do this best if you’re at ease. We’re an inclusive employer and are passionate about creating a welcoming working environment for everyone. We’re continually updating our DEI policy and have a neurodiversity champion. If you need adjustments to the interview process please let us know.
As we work with children and young people, an offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and DBS clearance, in line with our safeguarding policy.
Key responsibilities:
● To work with the Director of Transformations to develop and execute a school engagement plan, in line with our scaling strategy and current funded programmes.
● Work closely with the Director of Transformations, Director of Impact and Partnerships and the Senior Programme Managers to assess and propose suitable programmes of support for schools, multi-academy trusts and caterers interested
in our School Chef Educator Programme and School by School interventions.
● Lead meetings with Senior Leadership of prospective participating schools and academies, supported by our Senior Programme Managers where appropriate.
● Work with our Senior Programme Managers to identify suitable schools and participants for our funded training programmes, ensuring a high uptake of available places on our funded training programmes.
● Maintain accurate data records and ensure our contacts database is up to date with relevant school, participant, partner and engagement information.
● Build relationships with academy trusts and other strategic educational and youth organisations to market our programmes and champion our work around school food.
● Work with the Senior Programme Managers to build upon our current onboarding and customer journey for schools and training participants, developing and improving this for future schools and cohorts.
● Act as a collaborator and key influencer amongst colleagues to develop approaches and engagement resources that will facilitate a stronger rapport with schools.
● Working with the Director of Partnerships and Impact, effectively and efficiently handle new enquiries, manage the sales pipeline, outreach campaigns and support the onboarding process for schools and participants.
Skills & experience:
● You have interest and belief in our mission, to improve child health through improving food and food education in schools
● You are an excellent writer and communicator with strong presentation and facilitation skills
● You have experience of maintaining and building business relationships with a wide range of audiences from individual schools to large academy chains, through to partner delivery organisations and local government departments
● You are confident liaising with decision makers at all levels
● You have experience of CRM software, and of building a strong sales pipeline and proactively securing business development opportunities
● You have the ability to listen, understand and interpret customer requirements
● You demonstrate self-motivation, flexibility and the ability to adapt to an ever-changing, growing organisation
● You have stakeholder and partnership management experience
● You have experience marketing programmes to schools
● You are a proactive, confident communicator with an excellent understanding of the education sector, and the key developments and approaches that will resonate with schools looking to develop their staff and transform their food offer
● You are personable and display the natural ability and passion to speak to school leaders and build meaningful relationships that help them achieve their goals
● You are well organised with experience of managing a diverse workload with multiple work streams
● A good understanding of the UK educational system is desirable
Benefits
You would be joining a friendly, supportive team who work hard, but believe in a healthy work / life balance. We seek a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge. Joining a small, collaborative team means you’ll be able to contribute to, and draw on, a variety of projects and strategic insights.
We offer 33 days (pro-rata for part time positions) of holiday per year, including bank holidays, a Cycle to Work scheme, hybrid working, free access to the CODE app for discounted restaurants & hospitality venues, enhanced parental leave. We are committed to developing our team and will support you with relevant training opportunities including
£250 towards elective training and development of your choice. We also offer Bupa Dental Insurance, Income Protection Insurance, as well as access to the AIG Smart Health Platform which offers health benefits including free rapid access
online GP appointments, free counselling and wellbeing support.
Application process
In line with our commitment to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process, we will invite candidates to interview based on their answers to a series of questions related to their day-to-day job. Please follow the Apply Now link to answer the questions and submit your application.
We recommend that you develop your answers offline and copy them in when you’re ready to ensure you don’t lose your work if interrupted.
Your answers will go through our sifting process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an online 30-mins interview to take place on Wednesday 19th June.
Successful candidates will be invited to an in-person 2nd interview to be held at at our office in Brixton, London, for which you will be asked to complete a short, 15-min task. The interview overall will take a maximum of one hour.
We’re on a mission to transform kids’ health through food – plate by plate, class by class, school by school.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Social Media Manager
Location: Hybrid, Old Street, London
Salary: £37,620 per annum (i.e. pro-rata to the full-time equivalent of £46,354 per annum)
Hours: 28 hours per week
Department: Strategic Communications and Content
Job Type: Part-time
Contract Type: Permanent
Plan International UK is a global children’s charity striving for an equal world. One where every child can reach their full potential and every girl can choose her own future.
We bring people together to protect children’s rights and keep girls safe, in school and in control of their bodies – even when disaster strikes. And we won’t stop until we are all equal.
We are seeking a creative and dynamic Social Media Manager to join our Strategic Communications and Content Unit. This newly-created role manages a Social Media Officer, and works closely with Media, External Relations, Brand and Content teams in the Unit as well as a variety of colleagues across the organisation.
In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive social media strategy that aligns with our mission and goals. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our online presence and driving engagement with our supporters, creating and curating content that resonates with a range of audiences and inspires our online community to take action. You will lead on monitoring and analysing our social media activity in order to continuously improve our approaches. And you’ll forge strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, from influencers and partners to fundraising and programme colleagues in a variety of global contexts.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record in social media campaign strategy and community management, ideally with line management experience. They will possess a blend of creativity, strategic thinking, analytical skills, and ability to react to trends and external events. And above all, they will be able to demonstrate a passion for gender equality and creating a safer, more just world for all children.
For further detail of this role, please see the job profile.
The deadline for applications is 23:59 on Monday 10 June 2024
Interviews will take place W/C 17 June 2024
We are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults in our work. We, therefore, apply rigorous recruitment and selection processes to ensure that only those who are suitable are recruited to work for us. Accordingly, appointment to all our roles is subject to a range of vetting checks and for this role this will include an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check and a check of the Children’s Barred List. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working for us; this will depend on the circumstances of any offences.
Plan International UK is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.
REF-214369
Do you have experience of running successful projects in different countries and/or across cultural boundaries? Do you have experience of working across teams and managing complex multi-stakeholder projects?
We are looking for an International Programme Manager to oversee Students’ Union UCL’s cultural celebrations programme, including expanding and developing our annual flagship International Festival. They will lead on the development and delivery of new projects including a series of international volunteering opportunities and the launch of the Union’s UK Visits programme, enabling UCL’s student community to develop skills that will complement their studies and make cross-cultural friendships. The International Programme Manager will also work with the Head of Intercultural Engagement to create new and develop existing relationships with overseas partners, creating opportunities for students to gain life changing experiences through co-curricular activities. The post holder will be central to driving forward an exciting programme of activity that fosters personal growth, connection, and community through extraordinary intercultural experiences.
This is an exciting role in a unique organisation. Our vision is to provide an outstanding experience for all UCL students and to be one of the best students’ unions in the UK and the world. We aim to build a vibrant and empowered student community with real influence in UCL and beyond, that enables students to enjoy their time at university; pursue their interests and passions; see the world in new ways; and develop the skills and experience to change the world for the better.
We are a registered charity employing over 100 career staff and 300 student staff, delivering a wide range of services and representative functions for UCL students. We have the widest portfolio of services of any student organisation in the country, managing UCL’s extracurricular programmes for sport, music, drama, dance, media, volunteering, academic societies and intercultural engagement; providing a wide range of fantastic social spaces; leading on student democracy and representation across UCL; and offering excellent student support services.
It's an exciting time to join our growing organisation as we lead the delivery of UCL’s groundbreaking new Student Life Strategy. This is enabling us to build more programmes to improve students’ mental and physical wellbeing, promote genuine equity for all, build students’ skills and confidence, develop their international connections and intercultural skills, and make a real contribution to our local community.
We support hybrid working. Excellent benefits including defined benefit pension scheme and generous holiday entitlement. We are proud of high levels of staff engagement and pride ourselves on being a great place to work.
New Horizon Youth Centre has been commissioned by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) as part of an Alliance with Safer London, St Giles Trust and the Anna Freud Centre to deliver on their Children and Young People’s Violence and Exploitation and Reduction support service. The commission will run from June 2024 for three years. As part of this, an additional service will be set up within the NHYC Youth Justice team specifically to deliver on the Alliance contract. The Services Manager will be the key operational lead for the Alliance, and oversee successful delivery of housing casework services to young people fleeing violence and exploitation who are referred in. You should have experience of working in services that support young people fleeing violence or who are impacted by the criminal justice system, and have a solid understanding of housing options for young people under 25. You should be exceptionally well organised and have excellent partnership management skills.
Salary: £37,024 - £41,600
Closing Date: 10am 31st May 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Hours of work: 36.5 per week
Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm with 30-minute unpaid lunch break, Friday, 9am to 4pm with 30-minute unpaid lunch break.
Location: Welwyn Hatfield (with some working from home)
Type of contract:Permanent
Purpose of role:
Citizens Advice Welwyn Hatfield has a vacancy for a highly motivated Advice Service Manager to lead our advice team. You will be responsible for the supervision, quality and monitoring performance of the advice team, who deliver multi-channel advice (face to face, phone and digitally) to Welwyn Hatfield residents on a wide range of advice issues including welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment, and discrimination. You may also be required to deliver advice and session supervision when necessary.
You will also be responsible for all aspects of risk relating to advice delivery, complaints handling, safeguarding and GDPR.
It is essential that you have the required management skills and a good understanding of the main advice enquiry areas including welfare benefits, housing, and debt
If you have a passion for helping people and want to join us in our fight against poverty, then we’d love to hear from you! We offer comprehensive training so if you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you’ll enquire to learn more.
What we can offer our staff:
- 25 days’ annual leave FTE plus bank holidays.
- 5% contribution to Employer’s Pension Scheme.
- Death in Service cover on joining the Employer’s Pension Scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme with Telus Health (formerly Lifeworks). (Everyone working at Citizens Advice has immediate access to professional and completely confidential counselling and legal advisory services.)
- Commitment to continued professional development.
- Town centre location with great transport links.
- An opportunity to work within a team that is friendly, supportive, forward thinking and passionate about helping our community.
Closing date: Friday 7th June 2024
For more information please download the Job pack attached.
We will be interviewing suitable candidates on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the advertisement early.
Owing to limited resources, we won’t be able to contact candidates who aren’t shortlisted for interview. If you don’t hear from us, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
At Care Rights UK, we are passionate about supporting and campaigning for the rights of older people needing care and their families. You would be welcomed into our small, dedicated, friendly team. You would provide research support to help the team improve our knowledge of care law across the UK and update our information resources.
This is a vital role for the charity, ensuring our work is underpinned by sound research and helping us to diversify and increase our reach across the UK. You would work alongside colleagues who are experts in their field, with dedicated time for co-learning and sharing knowledge and skills.
You would join the charity during an exciting period of change, as we invest in growing our advice and support service. You would work closely with our small team to ensure our research work aligns with our advice service, campaigns, policy and communication work, as the charity pushes for a better care system.
The ideal candidate will be a positive, can-do person, with a passion for championing the rights of older people needing care, and an enthusiasm for using your research skills to affect change.
We value equality and diversity. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, disability, or carer status.
To apply, please send us the following:
• A cover letter that explains how you meet the criteria in the person specification
• Your CV
The cover letter plays a key part in our selection process. We use the information you provide in the letter about your skills and experience to decide whether or not to invite you for an interview. It is important that you explain in your cover letter how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification, giving specific examples from your past experience. Your letter should be no longer than 3 pages.
Care Rights UK is your care champion, the charity focused on defending the rights of people in care.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About us
Humane Society International/UK is a global animal protection organisation, striving for a better future for animals through advocacy, education, and hands-on programmes. HSI/UK is a leading force for animal protection, with hundreds of thousands of supporters across the country. We are an effective voice for animals, with active programmes in wildlife protection, alternatives to animal experiments, and farmed animal welfare. A small but effective team, HSI/UK has big ambitions to create further positive change for animals both here in the UK and around the world.
About the position
This is an exciting opportunity to create change at scale, informing and promoting a practical transition to plant-based diets, in order to reduce the number of animals suffering in factory farms. Part of our Farmed Animal Campaigns team, the role will work to increase the quality and availability of plant-based options with major caterers and universities in the UK, impacting hundreds of thousands of meals daily.
This role also includes an opportunity to support the delivery of a campaign to end the use of farrowing crates, one of the worst forms of cruelty to farmed animals in the UK today. In this role you will support the Senior Manager for Farmed Animal Campaigns to create public-facing campaign assets, and develop compelling research to underpin our policy and industry engagement.
If you are results-oriented, persuasive, organised and, ideally, have knowledge of food and/or farming systems, along with a commitment to animal welfare, then we would like to hear from you.
Key areas of responsibility:
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Initiate and maintain relationships with universities, food service companies and public sector institutions to support and oversee their delivery of goals to reduce meat/animal products
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Work with consultants to develop and deliver our Forward Food culinary training programme to food service professionals, to support their understanding of plant-based food and marketing, and their role in the just protein transition.
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Identify and support opportunities to encourage people to eat fewer animal products, including working with media and celebrity ambassadors.
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Conduct environmental impact assessments on menus and food procurement to effectively monitor and report on progress towards meat-reduction goals
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Deliver compelling and informed advocacy to UK political stakeholders to encourage the adoption of policies that catalyse a just protein transition and better farmed animal welfare.
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Support development and delivery of HSI UK’s farmed animal campaigns strategies
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Research and present on industry-related trends and developments in the plant-based food market and alternatives to cage confinement.
About you
Our successful candidate will be confident, articulate and creative with a proven track record of supporting the delivery of effective campaigns through research and advocacy. You’ll be a proactive self-starter, and someone who brings positive energy to work within teams. You’ll have a keen eye for detail and accuracy, as well as experience and ability to produce compelling and effective advocacy materials, including analysing scientific data and translating it into meaningful language for stakeholders. You’ll have experience of building strategic relationships in the private or public sector to deliver agreed goals. You will have an ambition and drive for creating positive change for animal welfare, and a willingness to regularly evaluate our progress and impact with a view to further improving our strategies.
We are searching for a campaigns professional to make a difference and be part of a successful global team. If that’s you, please get in touch!
This role can remote, office based or hybrid. It involves UK travel to workshops, meetings and events.
To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter via the CharityJob website by June 9, 2024. Applications without covering letters will not be considered.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.