Thera East Midlands, part of the Thera group of companies, which supports over 300 people with a learning disability in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Stoke, at home, at work and in their local community.

As a Managing Director you will work closely with a colleague executive Service Quality Director with lived experience of a learning disability and the rest of the board to lead Thera East Midlands board to achieve the company’s strategic vision and objectives.

You will bring extensive leadership and management experience to the established and talented management team and inspire them to continuously improve the support offered and commit to the co-design of new opportunities for the people in their own communities and in the planning and delivery of individual support.

It is essential that you have the empathy and understanding of the needs of people with a learning disability together with the depth and breadth of experience and knowledge required to provide day to day intensive support at scale, and take the company forward.

If you are able to take initiative, seek opportunities and successfully work with others to achieve outstanding results the we would love to hear from you.

From Bernie Sanders to Greenpeace UK, progressive organisations are using digital mobilisation to activate hundreds of thousands of campaigners and raise millions of pounds online. Forward Action believes that a digital mobilisation model - where organisations use digital channels to drive hundreds of thousands of supporters to take advocacy, fundraising and volunteering actions - can revolutionize campaigning and fundraising in the NGO sector. However, its potential is still largely untapped in the UK. We help progressive organisations build digital mobilisation programmes and, as our Marketing and Partnerships Officer, you will work to help grow the number of organisations using a digital mobilisation model to drive real-world change.

You will manage our online marketing programme, working to keep establishing Forward Action as a thought leader in digital mobilisation and finding ways to share learnings from our innovations for the rest of the sector to benefit from. You’ll run the day-to-day operations of our partnerships programme, acting as the primary point of contact for prospective partners and delivering the administrative and coordination work needed to move organisations smoothly through from first interaction to a productive partnership. And finally, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your skills in relationship building, supporting our Partnerships Director to build stakeholder buy-in on projects.

If you’re passionate about digital marketing, enjoy building relationships, are well organised and would be excited to help spread digital mobilisation across the charity sector, this job is for you.

This is a permanent role, with the freedom to work both in our London office and remotely from home, although during lockdown you will, of course, only work from home. Once lockdown is fully lifted, it’s likely you will need to be able to travel to meetings in London once or twice a week. You can work either four or five days a week. Applications close Sunday 2 August.

Who we are

Forward Action is a digital mobilisation agency for progressive causes. We help our partner organisations reach new supporters, then mobilise them to become activists and donors. We have been in the engine room of some of the most successful election and charity digital campaigns of the last few years, helping our partners add millions of new supporters to their email lists, raise more money online (from more donors) and create campaigns that have led to real-world change.

Our values are critical to us: we will only work with causes that make the world a better place. You will get to work with some of the most inspiring and impactful organisations in the sector - such as Greenpeace, Cancer Research UK, and Amnesty International - and spend your days helping win progress on everything from climate change to homelessness.

You will be working at the cutting edge of digital mobilisation. We trust in data rather than our gut instincts, so we are constantly testing and iterating in our work in order to challenge assumptions and drive better results. We are an agile, fast-moving team, and you will have the opportunity to rapidly develop and expand your skills and experience. 

One of our fundamental values is that all our work should drive real-world, measurable results. But we also believe that the greatest progressive impact we can have is to give our partner organisations the skills, knowledge and culture they need to do what we do themselves. We want to spread our skills and way of working across the progressive sector, not make our partners dependent on us. You will play a key role in this in your job.

What you’ll do as part of our team

• Manage our marketing and thought leadership work

  • Identify and apply for opportunities for Forward Action to speak at conferences and events, and occasionally speak at them yourself (if this is something you’d like to do)

  • Oversee our content calendar for our blogs and social media channels, and commission other team members to write content that shares our learnings and further establishes Forward Action as a thought leader in digital mobilisation

  • Launch and run our email programme to share results and learnings from our work

  • Organise occasional evening drinks, coffee meetings and other social events with partners (and attend them yourself)

• Run the day-to-day operation of our partnerships programme

  • Be the primary point of contact for prospective partners over email, from their first interaction with us through to the point we start work together

  • Identify and organise opportunities for our partnerships team to share advice and learnings with both current and prospective partners

  • Run our project setup process, ensuring we’re completing all the administrative setup work needed for each new project

  • Run our invoicing process, using our bookkeeping system to send out invoices for each completed project

  • Assist with quoting and, occasionally, proposal writing for smaller projects

• Develop your skills in building relationships with partners

  • Join calls with our Partnerships Director and new prospective partners to discuss how Forward Action can help them hit their goals

  • As a development opportunity in the role, you will act as the partnership owner on occasional projects, building relationships with partner stakeholders and helping our team break through process challenges or blockages during projects.

Benefits and working culture

Pro Rata Salary: £31,431 if you live inside London, £28,063 (plus £3,000 travel expense allowance) if you live outside London. We have a generous pay increase system, so every year your salary will increase in line with inflation, and if you hit your professional development goals you will also move up a pay grade. If you move up a pay grade your pay will increase by £1,123 - £1,258 pro rata depending on whether you live outside London or in London.

Contract Term: This is a permanent contract. The role can be either full time or four days a week.

Location: At home during lockdown; post-lockdown, in our Hoxton office, with the option to work remotely. Ensuring our team is open to people who live outside London and enabling staff to work flexibly are important values to us, so you’ll have the freedom to work from home regularly. Many of our meetings are held via video conferencing, but post-lockdown you will need to attend meetings with clients in London fairly regularly - once or twice a week on average.

Holiday: 25 days/year (pro rata), plus bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year.

Extra holiday for travelling sustainably: We’re a member of the Climate Perks scheme, so you’ll have an extra two days of holiday a year if you use them to travel by land or sea instead of taking a flight.

Maternity and Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave: For a small organisation, we’re proud to have a generous and progressive parental leave policy. Maternity leave is 12 weeks at full pay, 14 weeks at 50% pay. Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave is 6 weeks at full pay.

Working culture and hours: Our team is open, inclusive, friendly, respectful and kind. People from communities that traditionally experience discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity or immigration status; women; new parents; people with disabilities; and LGBTQ+ people are especially encouraged to apply.

We work eight hour days (including a 30 minute lunch break), with core hours of 9:30am-4:30pm. We put a lot of importance on ensuring everyone finishes on time: while there are some times when you’ll need to stay a little later to finish work, people in the team rarely work more than 45-60 minutes late. No one ever works on weekends or their holidays.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and determined individual with a track record of influencing policy to achieve real change.

The policy officer role is a new post created to support the charity’s work to reform policy and legislation to reduce the stigma and discrimination that people with criminal records face. With a focus on reforming the criminal records regime, the policy officer will build on Unlock’s recent work – including successful legal intervention in the Supreme Court, the #FairChecks movement and work on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 – to influence policy makers and key stakeholders to secure changes to legislation and government policy.

The role also includes supporting the development of Unlock’s strategy of using the law for achieving change in policy, as well as building on the charity’s previous research to develop a strategy that strengthens the evidence-base for changes in policies and practices that will have a positive impact on the lives of people we exist to help.

IMMIGRATION POLICY MANAGER

Job Title: Immigration Policy Manager

Reports to: Executive Director             

Salary and benefits: £34,000 pro rata 4 days a week (equals £28k take home salary can be extended to 5 days subject to funding), plus a 6% pension contribution and a generous training and development budget.

Location: Nationwide (home-based)

Deadline for applications: 9am on 22nd July 2020

Interview dates: 27th and 28th July 2020

Start date: ASAP 

Duration: 18 months

Role

The Immigration Policy Manager will work with the Executive Director and policy team to build relationships with organisations in the immigration sector, improve these organisations’ capacity to respond to the challenges brought by the introduction of technology into immigration policy, and deliver impactful campaigns with ORG’s Campaigns Manager.

The Immigration Policy Manager will bring an enthusiasm for understanding the intersection of digital into other policy areas such as migration and a drive for bringing together coalitions of organisations to work together to bring about real change in policy.

Open Rights Group are recruiting a Policy Manager that will help with a new and exciting project to use collaborative advocacy and campaign approaches to equip and empower UK migration-sector civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle issues of big data decision-making and digital technology within their work.

About Open Rights Group 

Open Rights Group is the UK’s premier digital rights organisation. We are at the forefront of campaigning to maintain, protect, promote, and advance our civil liberties in the digital age. 

We have three main areas of work: digital privacy, free speech online and government mass surveillance. We challenge threats to privacy by both the government through the surveillance of our personal communications and private companies, who use personal data to increase profits. We challenge threats to free speech through the criminalisation of online speech, online censorship and restrictive copyright laws.

Founded in 2005, we have over 3,200 paying members and a grassroots movement of more than 40,000 supporters and 9 local groups across the UK. Open Rights Group’s main office is based in London, UK and we have a small office in Edinburgh. 

How to Apply

To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter (no longer than 2 sides of A4), setting out how you are suited to the role by 9 am on 22nd July 2020. Please ensure your email has the subject heading ‘Immigration Policy Manager’, and that all attachments are sent in PDF format. 

Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held online. Please hold 27th and 28th July 2020 free for interviews.

Key Responsibilities 

Research

• Conduct research into the needs and capacity of immigration sector organisations on digital policy;
• Compile and analyse data related to Open Rights Group’s work;
• Ensuring Open Rights Group’s policy work fits within the wider policy landscape and that the policy team remains up to date with relevant research and policy developments in the project.

Engagement

• Organise roundtables with immigration sector and other partner organisations.
• Host events at Parliament with support of Chief Operations Officer and immigration sector NGOs.

Producing policy materials

• Draft reports, briefing papers, formal correspondence, presentations, and other documents articulating Open Rights Group’s policy positions in relation to data in the immigration sector;
• Coordinate team members’ input into public-facing documents, and obtain sign off for these documents from the relevant members of the team;
• Coordinate collaborative policymaking between Open Rights Group and immigration sector organisations.

Advocacy

• Work with the Chief Operations Officer and partner organisations to campaign on shared policy positions;
• Engage MPs and policymakers directly to bring about policy change.

Engagement with key stakeholders

• Build on Open Rights Group’s existing and develop new relationships in the immigration sector;
• Develop Open Rights Group’s relationships with allies across Government, legislative bodies, international organisations, and NGOs;
• Feed into Open Rights Group’s media engagement around key campaign issues.

Key Contacts

The Immigration Policy Manager will be directly managed by the Executive Director. They will work closely with colleagues across the broader team to maintain alignment of Open Rights Group’s legal and policy goals, and collaborate within the team to effectively disseminate Open Rights Group’s policy messages.

Length and Salary

The Immigrations Policy Manager will be employed on an 18 month contract. The annual salary is £34,000 per annum pro rata for 4 days a week less any required deductions for income tax and national insurance. The position will be home-based. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK. Open Rights Group is an equal opportunity employer. 

Person Specification

CRITERIA 

ESSENTIAL:

• At least 3 years experience in a policy and advocacy role.
• Familiarity with international and domestic policy matters relating to digital and human rights. 
• Research skills. 
• Policy analysis skills. 
• Events organising skills. 
• Ability to work with and manage relationships with partner organisations. 
• Ability to speak publicly, including with the media and at conferences and meetings. 
• A high degree of self-motivation. 
• An interest in and aptitude for political and parliamentary engagement. 
• Creativity and energy in approaching a workload consisting of large long-term projects. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

DESIRABLE:

• Experience in immigration sector. 
• Knowledge of digital rights or relevant experience in digital policy. 
• Legal research skills. 
• Project management experience.

This is an exciting and busy time to be joining UK Youth. Despite the strain of COVID-19, we are in the process of developing a new strategic plan and direction for the organisation. This has resulted in a number of interim roles becoming available across the External Affairs Directorate. The anticipated new strategy could result in further exciting opportunities.

UK Youth’s Research and Impact function is a key pillar of our new strategy to sharing and embedding learning across the youth sector. As Interim Head of Research and Impact you will lead and develop a team to deliver UK Youth’s research and impact strategy, with a focus on continually improving UK Youth’s work to ensure young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives.

You will be responsible for leading a number of high quality large and complex research projects and evaluations as well as the Research and Impact Team The Research and Impact team focuses on evidencing, articulating and learning from our work to positively impact on all aspects of the organisation to meet the needs of more young people.

This is an exciting time to join our team in a role that offers you the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of thousands of young people.This role is initially fixed term until the end of December 2020.

We are a value-based, passionate and committed organisation offering a friendly working environment with lots of opportunities for professional development and socialising with colleagues through activities such as office yoga, lunch and learn sessions and potluck lunches; as well as optional out of work social events such as bowling, tennis and baking.

This role will be located at our new Head Office in Westminster, although due to the current ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the role will initially be home-based.

UK Youth prides itself on being an Equal Opportunity employer and we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010, which include race, age, disability, gender, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Our selection procedures ensure that people are treated on the basis of their relevant merits, experience, skills and abilities and that no individual receives more or less favourable treatment. We can offer flexibility through the interview process and endeavour to accommodate candidate’s needs.

Visit our website to find out more about the role, working at UK Youth and what we can offer you.

Head of Policy and Advocacy

Central London/currently remote, £50,000-65,000 depending on experience

This is a permanent role and full time, but we are happy to talk flexible working including part time

Reporting to the CEO, member of the Management Team

Deadline: Mon 22 Jun at 10 am

Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity, is recruiting a Head of Policy and Advocacy, a new role at a critical time.

We are an independent charity, a team of fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm that bad information does — to people’s health, to democracy, and in decisions that affect people’s lives.

This will be a high-profile job at the cutting edge of globally-relevant policy debates. You’ll be working initially to influence government policy and legislation on tackling misinformation and disinformation online, on protecting election integrity and updating election law, and to improve the quality of government information.

Over time, you’ll work with the whole team to shape Full Fact’s advocacy work and make sure that the lessons from our fact checking are translated into effective calls to action in support of our charitable mission to inform and improve public debate. That ranges from seeking corrections when high profile people or outlets get things wrong, to influencing government policy, or making the case for responsible AI in our field.

We are a supportive and ambitious team looking for a creative campaigner with a strong policy skillset, committed to supporting and developing an exceptional team of three Policy Managers and one Researcher. The ideal candidate will have a track record in highly-contested or high-profile campaigns to influence legislation, government policy, or the decisions of public bodies.

We created this team because too many of the issues that affect our mission are either stuck in a world of policy slogans like ‘advertising transparency’ or ‘algorithmic accountability’ with too little actionable policy substance behind them; or at risk of dangerous over-reactions that infringe free speech.

At our best Full Fact combines practical experience of fact checking; rigorous research, diagnosis, and policy development; and compelling advocacy to achieve change. 

We have strong relationships already: a top-tier cross-party board; collaborations with public bodies such as the ONS and the House of Commons Library; and integrations into major online services such as Google Search, Facebook, and Instagram. We regularly engage with relevant departments, parliamentarians and committees, as well as industry and academic players. There’s plenty of room to build, and plenty to build on.

You don’t need to be an expert in any of our policy areas. You do need to bring your campaigning experience and share our commitment to accuracy in public life, and to freedom of expression.

You’ll report directly to the CEO and be part of Full Fact’s management team alongside the CEO, COO/Deputy CEO, Head of Automated Fact Checking, Head of Communications, and Editor. You will also work directly with the policy sub-group of the board of trustees chaired by Anand Menon.

As a member of Full Fact’s management team, you will have a particular responsibility for nurturing the supportive and ambitious environment we aim for, and for the overall direction of the charity.

If you are interested in applying but not sure you have all the skills, please do apply. We are open both to supporting learning on the job and to rearranging tasks within the team to suit the skillsets of the best applicant. We are happy to talk flexible working, and we are open to part time or job share applications for this role.

How to apply

Please email the CEO, Will Moy, in confidence with a CV and a covering letter that includes your notice period.

We prefer to sift applications anonymously. Please use your initials rather than your name and leave identifying details such as email addresses off your CV and covering letter. Both the covering letter and the CV should be attached to your email so they can be separated from it. Please include your contact details, including a phone number, in your email.

If you would like to arrange a confidential conversation with Will before applying, please email his assistant Paola Churchill.

Before applying please read the requirements we place on staff to protect Full Fact’s independence and non-partisanship. We recognise  that candidates for this job may well have been involved in public campaigning before and that’s not a problem. However, we are an independent and non-partisan charity and we need staff who can live up to that. As an acid test, if you cannot respect and understand people who took a different view than you of recent elections or referendums, this is not the job for you.

Policy and Advocacy are central to Full Fact’s work. If you’d like to learn a little more, read our joint statement with Africa Check and Chequeado: Fact checking doesn’t work (the way you think it does).

Applications close 10 am Mon 22 Jun.

How the application process will work

We want to see you at your best to understand your strengths and the contribution you could make at Full Fact with strong support, including for your learning and development. We also want to make sure that we use your time well during this process and don’t ask for more from you than we need to. Of course we will make any reasonable adjustments we need to make to this process to help ensure you can perform at your best.

The interview panel will be Will Moy, CEO; Mevan Babakar, COO and Deputy CEO; and Amy Sippitt, Head of Research. Amy is currently responsible for the team and is now leaving Full Fact after six years in various roles, having started as a fact checker.

The process starts off with an anonymised covering letter and CV. This will be read by at least two people to produce a shortlist for interview.

The first round interviews will be a phone (not video) interview with Will lasting no more than half an hour at a time that’s convenient for you. We will record it so at least two people can review each interview to decide who we invite back for the second round. The recordings will be deleted at the end of the process.

The second round will include a structured interview and some exercises which assume no prior knowledge. The interview will be with the full panel by video and last no more than an hour and a half. We’ll tell you everything you need to know to prepare, including anything we’d recommend reading in advance. We will ask you to prepare a short presentation for the interview. You will also have a chance to meet members of the team that you would be managing and ask them questions.

If necessary, we may then choose to have a third round that is tailored to you to go deeper on particular aspects of your skills, experience, or approach. This may include meeting other members of the team, the management team’s executive coach, or trustees as appropriate.

Job definition: Head of Policy and Advocacy

Your job is to secure changes from the people and institutions who influence people’s exposure to bad information, including governments, parliaments, regulators, private companies and others. You and your team work to reduce the harm bad information does by tackling its causes and its consequences.

You run a team of three Policy Managers and one Researcher and you are responsible for the quality and effectiveness of its work, for assigning work within the team, and for the wellbeing, management, and development of its members. As a member of Full Fact’s management team, you have a responsibility for the charity as a whole.

The team you’ll be working with

You’ll be working with an exceptional group consisting of three Policy Managers and one Researcher, and reporting to the CEO.

The rest of our management team—COO/Deputy CEO, Head of Automated Fact Checking, Head of Communications, and Editor—all have strong networks and regularly represent Full Fact to a wide range of audiences.

You will work closely across the team, including making use of evidence from our fact checking work; overseeing the Policy Managers pursuing corrections and other interventions following fact checks and feeding into editorial thinking; overseeing how we use research to make our work more effective; working closely with the communications team, including on media and on involving our supporters; making use of our AI work and automated fact checking tools, and working with them to advocate responsible AI from companies building counter-misinformation tech.

The outcomes you will be responsible for

Standards: Demonstrably maintain the highest standards of accuracy, fairness, and independence in all Full Fact’s work

Knowledge and expertise: Become and stay expert enough in the issues and ever-changing political, regulatory, and legal environment affecting Full Fact’s mission to be able to plan and advocate effectively

Recognition: Within three months, work with colleagues across Full Fact to design and implement a plan to increase awareness of Full Fact and the harms caused by bad information among senior government and political figures

Relationships: Ensure Full Fact maintains and develops strong, trusted, and appropriately challenging relationships with those we work with or work to influence

Policy: Lead Full Fact’s policy development on a range of complex and high-profile issues so that we have specific, credible, proportionate, evidence based and timely proposals to reduce the harm caused by bad information

Advocacy: Secure change in support of Full Fact’s mission and plans

Research and evaluation: Ensure implementation and development of Full Fact's research and evaluation plans and work with our Researcher to make our work more effective

Team: Contribute to a supportive and ambitious culture in your team and across Full Fact, including through goal setting and evaluation, consistent 1:1s with your team members, and regularly seeking and offering supportive feedback

Process: Ensure effective knowledge and information sharing, record keeping, and collaboration across the team

Learning: Within six months, agree your own learning and development plan

What we are looking for from you

Understanding of Full Fact’s mission and environment:

• You act with integrity and you’re happy to commit to Full Fact’s ethos and the seven principles of public life
• You’re politically astute and results oriented
• You understand that part of Full Fact’s work is being a watchdog, and that can attract hostile attention, and how those risks can be managed and mitigated while standing firm for our principles
• You are committed to the political neutrality of our work and have a good understanding of impartiality (please see the rules on our website)

Professional experience:

• Significant experience of effective advocacy such as influencing government policy in its early stages; building majority support in parliament on legislation; or influencing regulators’ policy and actions
• Familiarity with some of Full Fact’s policy context would be an advantage, such as freedom of expression, media, internet, data, election law, and government communications
• Track record of working effectively with internal and external stakeholders up to board level

Skills:

• A fast, flexible thinker, able to guide our team in devising and executing great campaigns 
• Able to lead and influence stakeholders, communicating persuasively in person and in writing whether on technical matters or on points of principle
• Able to both oversee and carry out rigorous research and analysis on a range of complex and high-profile issues

Leadership and management:

• You can run a team which is effective and happy
• You want to work collaboratively and you set an example in seeking and giving supportive feedback across the whole team
• Proven ability to plan, prioritise and organise programmes of work, resources, and budgets effectively, including the ability to contribute to the overall strategic planning of Full Fact as part of the management team

- You think British criminal justice is broken

- You want to raise the profile of miscarriages of justice

- You love campaigning and persuasively changing minds

- You have a passion for using stories to engage decision-makers and influence better policy

- You understand the complex needs of people with involvement in the criminal justice system

Sound like you?

We’re looking for an exceptional and highly motivated communications and policy professional. If you want to have a direct impact on raising the profile of miscarriages of justice and fixing our broken criminal justice system, then we want to hear from you. In this role you’ll manage strategic communications projects, engaging key audiences and seeking platforms for our staff, our prisoner clients and their families.

We’re looking for someone who’s led impactful communications campaigns aimed at a broad range of audiences. You’ll have proven experience of delivering timely and effective communications and engagement strategies that have enabled organisations to achieve their aims. You’ll have a passion for storytelling and an ability to work alongside those with lived experience of the cirminal justice system. You’ll understand the complex needs of people with involvement in the justice system, and with experiences of trauma or poverty. You’ll have worked in a complex organisation and understand how to deliver excellent content against audience needs. You’ll also demonstrate exceptional judgement and excellent stakeholder management.

Who are we?

APPEAL is a law charity that fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform. Our small team of lawyers, advocates and investigators take on criminal appeals on behalf of prisoners who cannot afford legal representation.

1. We investigate: battling for access to records and exhibits, arranging new forensic testing, conducting street-level investigation, and systematically analysing case documentation, digging deep to find the fresh evidence that proves a conviction is unsafe or a sentence is unfair.
2. We litigate: bringing cases to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal.
3. We advocate: working with former prisoners, campaigners, students, legal professionals, policy makers and other stakeholders to ensure our justice system learns from its mistakes.

We are committed to winning justice for individuals and their families, but also usingcases as impact litigation to push for systemic change to make our criminal justice system more accurate, fair and accountable. This involves not just legal work, but also implementation of a robust communications and policy strategy, as the reforms needed must come from parliamentary and policy interventions as well as from judicial precedent.

Work Specification

• You will lead APPEAL’s justice policy reform efforts and manage the day to day operation of our communications strategy.
• You will leverage APPEAL’s casework, research and campaigning around our Initiative to end the use of imprisonment for debt, that falls under the work of the Women’s Justice Initiative (WJI). The WJI primarily aims to use criminal appeals as impact litigation for imprisoned women who have experienced severe and multiple disadvantage.
• You will lead on policy reform efforts around APPEAL’s Open Justice goals, including advocating for better access to police and prosecution material, reform of the disclosure system, access to trial transcripts and improving the effectiveness of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
• You will manage APPEAL’s external communications, including drafting press releases, liaising with journalists, managing the website and APPEAL’s social media accounts and writing our annual impact report.
• You will also support our Bound by Injustice group, working with the family members of our imprisoned clients and clients themselves to empower them as advocates for reform.
• The job may expand to include managing the day-to-day operation of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice for which APPEAL is currently the secretariat.

Important information

LENGTH OF CONTRACT AND WORKING PATTERNS

Please note that we have 3 years of funding for this project but are only able to guarantee the post holder a 1-year full time role. We are seeking additional funding and, if secured, the contract length may be expanded.

We will also consider candidates who are interested in a part time role, though we require a minimum of 3 days a week commitment (if you prefer to be considered part time, please indicate this on your cover letter).

SALARY

£32,000pa. Additionally, we are Living Wage employers with a very flat salary scheme where all team members are paid within 20% of each other and all salaries are reviewed annually.

ANNUAL LEAVE

Annual leave is 25 days pro rata per annum from 1st January to 31st December, plus public holidays and the days between Christmas and New year. Additionally, staff accrue one additional day of leave per year of service.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

We have a small training budget and encourage staff to commit to their own personal development. We allow flexible working so if staff want to take on additional training or qualifications,they can discuss this with their manager.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

APPEAL particularly encourages applications from people with a BAME background, with disabilities, who identify as LGBTQ+, or who were the first generation to attend university, who are currently underrepresented in leadership in the legal sector. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to promoting principles of inclusion and diversity in our work. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements, particularly to support parents with childcare or those with caring responsibilities. APPEAL's offices in The Green House are wheelchair accessible.

The Digital Research Manager will deliver research, project management, and measurement and evaluation across the CENT (Communications, Education, Networks and Technology) and RPC (Research, Policy and Cities) divisions.

Division: Communications, Education, Networks and Technology

Team: Digital Research

Reports to:Digital Research Lead

Direct reports: 2

Budgetary responsibility: £200,000 +

Resource responsibility: SPSS subscription

Application process

If you would like to apply for this position, please send a one-page cover letter and two-page CV via the application method below, by 6th July 2020. Exceptional candidates may be interviewed and appointed before this time.

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted and applications without a covering letter will not be considered. All applicants must have either EU status or right of employment within the UK.

This is an exciting and busy time to be joining UK Youth. Despite the strain of COVID-19, we are in the process of developing a new strategic plan and direction for the organisation. This has resulted in a number of interim roles becoming available across the External Affairs Directorate. The anticipated new strategy could result in further exciting opportunities.

UK Youth’s Research and Impact Team aims to be recognised for the production of robust and insightful evidence and analysis on how youth work delivers positive outcomes for young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. We do this by demonstrating and improving the impact of our work with youth organisations in our movement, as well as using wider evidence to understand policy issues effecting young people today.

This is a stimulating role in our compact team, for an experienced individual and manager who values impact and enjoys evaluation and research and would like to apply their knowledge and experience to the charity sector. We are looking for a dynamic thinker, who can apply social research methods and who will use their initiative to work in a diverse environment supporting multiple projects within UK Youth and the wider youth sector.

Reporting to the Head of Research and Impact this role will be responsible for enabling our organisation to demonstrate the impact of our activity with youth organisations and young people.  This will include support with setting the strategy for impact, developing evaluations for a diverse range of projects, measuring outcomes and analysing impact.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day management and coordination of implementation, analysis and reporting of UK Youth’s evaluation methods. This is an important function in connecting our frontline work to our policy, advocacy and fundraising work. You will work across all UK Youth’s delivery teams, as well as with our National Programmes, Engagement & Advocacy, Partnerships & Fundraising and Marketing team. 

This is an exciting time to join our team in a role that offers you the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of thousands of young people.

We are a value-based, passionate and committed organisation offering a friendly working environment with lots of opportunities for professional development and socialising with colleagues through activities such as office yoga, lunch and learn sessions and potluck lunches; as well as optional out of work social events such as bowling, tennis and baking.

This role will be located at our new Head Office in Westminster, although due to the current ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the role will initially be home-based.

UK Youth prides itself on being an Equal Opportunity employer and we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010, which include race, age, disability, gender, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Our selection procedures ensure that people are treated on the basis of their relevant merits, experience, skills and abilities and that no individual receives more or less favourable treatment. We can offer flexibility through the interview process and endeavour to accommodate candidate’s needs.

Visit our website to find out more about the role, working at UK Youth and what we can offer you.

About the role: 

Spotlight on Corruption is looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated person with exceptional research and investigation skills and a flair for communication to join our growing team. The role is an exciting opportunity for a determined and ambitious person with a track record of producing rigorous and hard-hitting research for a wide range of audiences. 

Spotlight on Corruption is a dynamic new charity which focuses on ending impunity for corruption and holding the UK to account for its role in corruption at home and wherever it has influence. We track how the UK is implementing its anti-corruption laws and monitor whether anti-corruption enforcement in the UK is working. 

Spotlight on Corruption is led by anti-corruption expert, Dr Susan Hawley. We have a particular focus on following corruption trials, advocating for greater open justice and transparency in the UK courts and on tracking the effectiveness of enforcement bodies. We work to ensure that there is proper accountability for companies and senior executives that engage in corporate wrongdoing and compensation for the victims of corruption affected by corporate wrongdoing. Our work includes investigating cases, making the case for change, and using strategic litigation to bring change about.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about fighting corruption with strong analytical, investigative and research skills. The researcher will undertake targeted research into how the UK is enforcing its anti-corruption laws, investigate specific instances of corruption, and develop evidence based policy proposals to achieve change. The right person will have excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, including social media experience, and will be able to demonstrate that they can help Spotlight communicate its research and messages more effectively. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake research and investigations, including writing accessible, evidence-based policy briefings and research reports.
• Produce blogs on key developments relating to corruption and enforcement.
• Assist in the development and implementation of Spotlight on Corruption’s communication strategy, so that its research and messages reach key stakeholders more effectively. 

• Build Spotlight’s social media presence and develop its email communications with interested stakeholders.
• Participate in core activities of Spotlight on Corruption including: assist with fundraising; attend meetings with government and other stakeholders; liaise with other anti-corruption NGOs; and present research to various audiences. 

Relevant skills, competences and experience:

• Strong skills in information gathering and investigation
• Strong skills in analysis and managing large quantities of information 
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with ability to write clearly and persuasively to influence Spotlight on Corruption’s stakeholders
• Proven ability to work remotely on own initiative with minimal supervision while maintaining strong communication with members of a small team
• Ability to use communications strategically, including social media, websites and email newsletters
• Adaptable and flexible
• Strong organisational and administrative skills including IT proficiency, including remote working platforms, web research skills, social media platforms and digital communication tools 
• Strong understanding of and a commitment to fighting corruption and/or economic crime and its impact on governance, democracy and development 

Applications should be made by submitting a covering letter setting out your suitability for the role and CV, and an example of a piece of writing done within the past 4 months.

Nature Based Solutions Officer

Permanent/Full Time (35 Hours per week)

Flexible working arrangements (can work from home but should have the ability to travel to London for meetings if required)

£24,000

The climate and nature crises require comprehensive, ambitious solutions and urgent action across all sections of society.  As a grassroots movement of 46 independent conservation charities working on the ground to recover nature, our client has a vital role to play.

They believe that nature is valuable in its own right and that everyone should have the chance to experience the joy of wildlife.  They are part of nature and are wholly dependent upon it.  They also believe that restoring nature on a landscape scale is essential for tackling climate change and achieving ‘net zero’ emissions.

As the Nature Based Solutions Officer, you will support the delivery of their ambitious response to the climate and ecological emergency.  You will help drive forward a programme to increase their capacity to deliver natural solutions to climate change and cut the movement’s carbon footprint.

You will conduct research to support the activities of colleagues working on this programme and help with communications activities, to ensure local Trusts are well informed and can participate throughout. 

You will also help ensure active communication with and among Trusts and help ensure central policy around nature based solutions and emissions reductions has an impact on the ground. Working among and between teams, you will help ensure the central team effectively collaborates to deliver this programme.

They are looking for someone with the following:

• A relevant environmental degree, or equivalent, or working towards one.

• Knowledge across a range of subjects relating to the achievement of Living Landscapes such as agriculture, freshwater management (e.g. natural flood management, catchment-based approach), rewilding and species conservation

• Experience of team working and networking with a wide range of people.

• Experience of working on the ground with nature conservation organisations, and with the public and voluntary sectors.

• Research skills with the ability to analyse and interpret complex information.

• Strong communication skills – verbal and written.

About them:

They are determined to reconnect people everywhere to the natural world and empower people to take action for nature’s recovery.

They are a federated movement of charities dedicated to this vision and driven by their beliefs. Together they have 850,000 members, 35,000 volunteers and 2,000 staff across the UK, Alderney and the Isle of Man. They value courage, respect, integrity, trust and responsibility. 

They are wild about inclusion! They know wildlife will benefit from their people being as diverse as nature is, so they particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within the sector, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. 

As a Disability Confident employer, they are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. 

 

#environmentjobs #ecologyjobs #charityjobs #jobs #careers #jobsinecology

Job title: Wild Oysters Project Officer (Tyne & Wear)
Salary: £25,000 pro rata (equating to £15,000 per annum)
Hours:  Part Time – 22.5 hours per week
Duration: Fixed Term (to 1st June 2023)
Location: Sunderland and homeworking with regular travel

About us

Groundwork is a leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work.  We help people to carry out thousands of diverse, locally-led projects each year. Projects that tackle climate change and help people out of fuel poverty. That bring out the best in young people by helping them to improve their local area. Projects that build stronger communities by improving green space or get people back into work and create green jobs.

Wild Oysters is an exciting new project, developed by the Zoological Society of London, Blue Marine Foundation and British Marine.

About the role

The project will take place over three years having started in June 2020, and will create Oyster Rehabilitation Hubs in three locations across the UK- Tyne & Wear in England, North Wales and West Coast of Scotland. At each Rehabilitation Hub Oyster Nurseries will be installed across two Marinas, and we will restore the seabed by creating Oyster Reefs. The Oyster Nurseries form an important tool in our education and engagement programme, using the Oyster Nurseries we will engage local communities and schools with native oyster biology and culture, and with wider marine conservation issues.

As Wild Oyster Project Officer you will be responsible for implementation of the NE England Wild Oyster Rehabilitation Hub including supporting the installation of the native oyster nurseries, restoration of wild native oyster habitat, delivering regular public outreach and education sessions to engage the local community with the Wild Oysters project and leading citizen science-based monitoring and reporting.

This role is subject to an Enhanced Check through Disclosure Scotland

About you

We want someone with experience of working as part of a science/conservation/policy project and of delivering marine conservation or research projects. You will also have experience of carrying out fieldwork and delivering successful educational outreach sessions and public engagement activities. Your role will require you to have excellent communication skills as well as a good grasp of relevant conservation issues in the UK and in the marine/estuarine environment globally.

Closing date: Wednesday 8th July 2020

Want to apply?
Great. All you need to do is complete the application pack that’s available on our website. Simply click on the apply button to be directed to our vacancies page.

Make yourself at home

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work.

Groundwork North East & Cumbria is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

No agencies please.

The Children's Society are excited to be recruiting Prevention Officers to work collaboratively with local and regional partners in the following regions:

North West

East Midlands

West Midlands

This is a permanent position but with a provisional end date for funding of 31/3/2021 (Secondment will be considered).

37 hours per week

£23,388 (DN pay grade) per annum

Location to be confirmed on appointment; either The Childrens Society office in relevant region or opportunity to work from home.

Please note, we are recruiting one Prevention Officer per region stated above. Please clearly state in your application which region you are applying for.

The Prevention Programme

The Children's Society has successfully secured funding for a second year of the Prevention Programme, a contract from the National Police Chiefs Council to work collaboratively to prevent Child Exploitation, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.

The Prevention Programme is an exciting, fast-paced programme which drives forward radical change in the prevention of Child Exploitation nationally. The programme works collaboratively with the police and a wide range of key partners across the country to deliver innovative responses to child exploitation based on police intelligence. We act as an agile resource, adapting to meet regional and national needs to transform practice across society in preventing child exploitation.

The programme uses a variety of approaches to delivery including training, resource creation and best practice advice and guidance, in order to achieve strategic change and improve safeguarding responses to exploited children and young people.

We're looking for a highly motivated individual, with a good understanding of working with children and young people and strong partnership working and communication skills to join our network of Prevention Officers.

The Prevention Officer role

-Strategic role to work alongside Regional Organised Crime Units to provide intelligence led interventions in a range of public, private and charity sector contexts in the prevention of Child Sexual and Criminal Exploitation, Modern Slavery and Trafficking. Interventions will include, but not be limited to best practice guidance, resource creation, training and the development of strategic plans to deliver tangible results and systems change - within a defined region.

-Work as a subject matter expert to deliver a wide range of 'tasks' bespoke to each region, which could include supporting schools, working with the police on operations, engaging with commercial bodies, writing guidance or researching interventions.

-Develop and maintain partnerships and undertake multi-agency working, including working with young people, to deliver prevention interventions within the region and at a national level.

-Work across Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, Child Criminal Exploitation, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking by engaging the police and a range of other professionals to raise awareness and ultimately to reduce harm to children and young people. Represent The Children's Society at a number of strategic external events and meetings.

-Keep up to date with new developments in exploitation, trafficking and modern slavery, as well as safeguarding practice to help to ensure that the work of the Prevention Programme is at the forefront of best practice in this area.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

In order to be successful in this role, you must demonstrate:

-Commitment to safeguarding children and young people, and experience of working within required safeguarding policy and procedure.

-Experience of developing initiatives that reduce risk for children and young people, through the prevention of CSE/A, CCE, Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery.

-Experience of public speaking and delivering presentations to large groups of professionals, including police.

-Experience of effective time and diary management.

-Experience of collaborative and multi-agency working and influencing key stakeholders.

-Enhanced DBS clearance.

If you would like to be considered for a secondment for this role please state this within your application.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Please note due to the nature of the role the successful candidates will be required to undertake NPPV Level 2 vetting to facilitate working in Police premises. This will be discussed further at interview.

The closing date for applications is the 14th July 2020. Please note if we receive a large number of applicants this vacancy may close earlier.

In your statement, please state which geographical region you will be applying for (North West, East Midlands, West Midlands)

Interviews will be held week commencing 3rd August (but this could be subject to change) . During Covid-19 restriction measures, it is likely that these will take place via Skype. This will be confirmed closer to the date and based on Government guidance at the time.

Women’s Aid is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children. Over the past 45 years, Women’s Aid has been at the forefront of shaping and coordinating responses to domestic violence and abuse through practice, research and policy. We empower survivors by keeping their voices at the heart of our work, working with and for women and children by listening to them and responding to their needs. 

We are a federation of nearly 180 organisations who provide just under 300 local lifesaving services to women and children across the country. We provide expert training, qualifications and consultancy to a range of agencies and professionals working with survivors or commissioning domestic abuse services, and award a National Quality Mark for services which meet our quality standards. We hold the largest national data set on domestic abuse, and use research and evidence to inform all of our work. Our campaigns achieve change in policy, practice and awareness, encouraging healthy relationships and helping to build a future where domestic abuse is no longer tolerated. 

The Change That Lasts project is our vision to end domestic abuse, working with communities across England and with our sister federations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Are you an excellent communicator who is committed to ending violence against women and children? Can you bring together communications across this important project, creating branded assets and media coverage of success?

With fantastic organisational skills, you will co-ordinate communications across this exciting and innovative project. This role will include working closely with colleagues in the Communications team to ensure that the Change That Lasts project is aligned with our wider organisational branding. This role will include covering the out-of-hours media on-call rota. It will also include travel and occasional evening and weekend work as needed.

To apply please download an application pack from our website, complete and return to the specified email address. Please do not include a CV. 

Applicants will be shortlisted according to how well they meet the criteria in the person specification.  Please highlight and explain how you meet these using the application form. If you have been shortlisted for interview, you will be informed by email. Regrettably, we are normally unable to acknowledge unsuccessful applicants. 

Women only need apply under schedule 9 (Part 1) of the Equality Act 2010. 

Women’s Aid is committed to quality, equality and valuing diversity. 

Applications are particularly welcome from black and minority ethnic women. Job share applications are also welcome.

We are a Disability Confident employer: we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for vacancies.

Registered charity no: 1054154 

Recruitment consultancies/agencies should not approach Women’s Aid with regards to open vacancies. We regret that agency candidates will not be considered.