About Us

The vision of Holy Trinity Brompton Church (HTB) & Alpha International is the re-evangalisation of the nations, the revitilisation of the Church and the transformation of society. Each member of staff plays a key role in contributing to our vision. Our mission is bigger than any individual task but together our work contributes to the bigger picture.

Used in over 114 countries across all five major continents, Alpha International’s mission is to equip and serve the church to help people discover and develop a relationship with Jesus. We do this by equipping churches around the world with Alpha – a series of sessions exploring the Christian faith.

The AI Project Management Office (PMO) is a new, distinct function at Alpha International that has been incubated and developed out of the Alpha 2020 Transformation programme.

One of the key roles of the PMO is the strategic execution and delivery of large,complex and cross functional projects.

The Role

Alpha is seeking an experienced project management professional preferably with experience in the film making industry.

The Programme Manager will support the Programme Director to execute the Alpha Film Series Programme. This programme oversees 4 projects delivering critical outcomes for Alpha. This is enabled by eight support workstreams.

The programme is complex, involves multiple teams across the UK, Malaysia, US and Canada and requires dedicated programme management (PM) support to manage the running of the programme on a day-to-day basis ensuring it is on time, on budget and delivers strategic product outcomes. A large part of this role will be managing dependencies across workstreams, driving the required rhythm, setting up robust programme reporting and internal comms. Their key responsibilities will be to:

• Manage the programme plan on a day-to-day basis keeping the Programme Director up-to-date on risk, issues and mitigation.

• Take an active role in working with project managers to develop solutions to any delivery challenges.

• Ensure fluid communication between all stakeholders internal and external to the programme.

• Manage programme budget, updating internal systems for tracking project spend and processing all income and payments.

• Provide cash flow updates for finance and fundraising to ensure smooth provision of funds to the project.

• Manage the working relationship with external team members and ensure their professional expertise is being utilised in every area of the project.

• Ensure contracts between the external parties and Alpha International are drawn up and meet requirements.

• Provide overall programme management of the portfolio but direct responsibility for AFS 1.75 and AFS 2.0 projects.

• Booking of fliming locations, crew, equipment in pre-production.

• Diary management and pre-breifing of talent during production.

• On-site support for the team during production in order to report back into the Executive Producers.

• Ensure all permissions and rights needed are granted in post-production, including release forms being signed by all testimonies/contributors.

• Work with Product Strategy and Global Impact teams to ensure that the final product delivered meets strategic targets.

• Work with the Marketing, Comms, Digital and Publications teams to ensure the successful release of AFS to AI regional teams, AI digital platforms and AI regional publication houses. Strategies for these channels of distribution may be contextualised depending on the region.

• Key point of contact for all general AFS queries.

The Ideal Candidate

• 3+ years professional experience in Consulting or Project Management ideally on film or TV projects

• High resilience and comfort working with fast-paced teams and operating in ambiguous work environments, to tight deadlines

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and resourcefulness

• Ability to develop credibility with key stakeholders and drive for alignment, accountability and improvement

• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity

• Strong knowledge of HTB and Alpha as an organisation and experience of the Alpha Course

• Self-motivated, strategic thinker 

Our Benefits Package

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays.
• A Cash Healthcare Plan (out of pocket health expenses including new glasses, dentist, and complimentary therapies)
• Flexible working options.
• Local discounts including gym membership and days out.
• Employee assistance programme to give you support on any issues that come up in life.
• Annual season ticket loan.
• Child Care voucher scheme.
• Generous pension provision, life assurance and permanent health insurance. 
• Cycle to work scheme

Associate Director of Members’ Programmes

Central London • £60,000 - £65,000 + Benefits

The Microbiology Society is a membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and their practical uses. It is one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools.

Our principal goal is to develop, expand and strengthen the networks available to our members so that they can generate new knowledge about microbes and ensure that it is shared with other communities. The impacts from this will drive us towards a world in which the science of microbiology provides maximum benefit to society.

We are looking for an Associate Director of Members’ Programmes to join our friendly and welcoming team, based in central London. You will be joining the Society at an exciting time as we deliver our Strategy 2018-2022 and celebrate our 75th anniversary in 2020. This role provides leadership and strategic direction for the development, implementation and evaluation of the Society’s activities that support the microbiology community, with a focus on building communities and impact and influence. Supporting the Chief Programmes Officer and Director of Strategy with the delivery of all of Council’s strategic objectives, the postholder will also be a proactive member of the Senior Management Team, providing leadership and championing change to support a culture and behaviour across the organisation that aligns with the Society’s values.

A background in our work is not a necessity, but you will have leadership experience coupled with the ability to understand the challenges and opportunities that we face. Being able to look across the organisation and identify ways of maximising member engagement is vital, as is having the commitment and energy needed to help us achieve a real impact.

For more information, please visit our website.

Please send a CV and covering letter via the button below.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Closing date: 7th June 2020

The Society takes the security of your data seriously. It has internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by our employees in the proper performance of their duties.

Please note that due to limited resources it is not possible for the Society to acknowledge receipt of applications. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

“We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.”

Head of Communications and Digital Content - Permanent

Full Time (37.5hrs per week) / Salary c£55,000 pa

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Communications and Digital Content to join our Income Generation and Communications Team. You will be responsible for devising and implementing The Children’s Trust communications and digital content strategy as part of the charity’s new five-year strategy ‘Hope and Ambition’. This will involve building The Children’s Trust’s brand and awareness online and offline; and helping to deliver a transformation in our use of digital in service delivery, income generation and stakeholder engagement, including the development of new capabilities in our teams.

You will have responsibility for leading a high-performing team to deliver a work programme that includes developing and delivering a multi-channel communications strategy, providing greater access to information, support and expertise for the children, young people and their families, staff, supporters, volunteers, the public and medical professionals. This role will also support the development of new and existing online and offline services and fundraising products, by developing content that engages audiences and drives revenue as well as proactively building and managing the brand, improving understanding of what The Children’s Trust does and raising awareness of the issues around childhood brain injury.

You will be a natural and enthusiastic leader, able to support a high performing team. With experience of working in a complex environment, you will be exceptionally organised with a high-level of attention to detail.  You will naturally possess excellent inter-personal skills, and an ability to consult and positively engage with key stakeholders across the organisation.

The role is predominantly to be based at our National Specialist Centre in Tadworth, Surrey however due to current circumstances remote working will be considered initially. The successful candidate will be required to be flexible and as a minimum be in the office at least three days per week once business returns to normal post-Covid 19.

If you would like to discuss the role please contact The Children's Trust directly, and the People Operations Team will be more than happy to assist you.

PLEASE NOTE: You will be asked to complete The Children's Trust Application Form upon shortlisting. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and will be further explored during the interview process. 

Closing Date: Sunday, 21st June 2020

Interview Date(s): Week commencing 29th June 2020

Strictly no agencies please.

As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview.  Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service. 

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton and Epsom.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including: free on-site parking; subsidised cafeteria; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an environment that is as unusual in its beautiful historic nature, as it is unique in its state-of-the-art facilities.

The Children’s Trust is fully committed to protecting children and young people.  All posts at The Children's Trust are subject to an enhanced DBS check.  If you are applying to The Children's Trust, and are already registered with the DBS update service, this will speed up the recruitment process significantly.  We are an equal opportunities employer, and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, sex, disabilities, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation, or age.

With a growing portfolio of research and development grants, we are looking for an individual to play a key role in ensuring strong financial controls, planning and management reporting across four country programmes.

This role sits at the interface between programme teams, KCL finance teams, donors and delivery partners in Africa.The role will oversee financial management of KGHPs restricted and unrestricted funds, playing a key role in financial planning and reporting across four country programmes. The postholder will also play a role in strengthening fund management, introducing financial controls and ensuring that funds are managed in a way that aligns to KCL and donor requirements.

The postholder will also provide support to the financial management of key statutory donor funded projects, primarily Prepared-for-Practice, a £3m, 5-year project funded by the Department for International Development’s Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform (SPHEIR) fund.

Key Responsibilities include:

Financial monitoring and management

• Working with the Project Accountant, design, implement and, as needed, improve controls to ensure compliance with donor requirements, including checklists, templates and other tools.

• Own and develop internal tools to track the active grants portfolio and ensure that these are up to date and accurate, managing financial risk of in a timely way

• Manage the flows of funding to in-country programmes and partners, including forecast-based transfers and reconciliation

• Support annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasts

• Ensure that exchange rate fluctuations are actively monitored, and appropriate action is taken as required

• Working with Programme Managers, ensure that all funding proposals are properly costed, do not expose KGHP to excessive risks and provide full cost recovery

• Oversee annual project audits, in conjunction with programme and central finance teams, ensuring it is completed according to donor audit protocol and ensuring audit requirements are monitored throughout project. The postholder will act as a key point of contact for external auditors

• Oversee financial reprofiling on donor-funded projects, ensuring the process is clearly communicated and understood by partners and an accurate budget reprofile is submitted to the donor

• Ensure programme-specific financial record keeping in conjunction with central finance teams, ensuring all financial documents are stored in an easy-to-use system and that financial documents can be retrieved for audit purposes

• Support financial close out of projects in line with donor guidance, in conjunction with RMID, including reconciliation of projects closing financial position

• Provide monthly summary reports for management decision making and quarterly reports for the Strategy Delivery Board.

Project financial reporting

• Conduct comprehensive compliance reviews of partner financial reports, ensuring accuracy of financial reporting and proactively raising issues relating to expenditure rates with the project budget holder

• Prepare timely and accurate quarterly and annual financial expenditure reports in line with donor guidance and templates. This will include reviewing and consolidating partner financial reports

• Prepare and consolidate quarterly project forecast and requests for funds

• Upload project financial data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) on a quarterly basis

Partner financial monitoring and capacity strengthening

• Deliver training and capacity building to partner organisations, ensuring they understand donor financial rules and regulations and have systems in place to meet them

• Maintain excellent communication with partners to enable receipt of timely and accurate financial information

• Conduct regular verification and monitoring of partner financial management and asset management, ensuring compliance with donor rules and regulations. Escalate issues arising with project budget holders and work with partners to strength systems where needed.

• Provide financial expertise, guidance and support to colleagues within KGHP

Berkshire College of Agriculture (BCA) is an ambitious and successful provider of skills-based, further and higher education. To enable the College’s continued success they require a dynamic and aspirant finance department leader to deputise for the Finance Director; someone who can demonstrate a proactive response to professional challenges and is eager to work in a fast-paced and supportive environment.

The Assistant Finance Director will need to be professionally qualified and highly experienced in providing leadership to teams with expert knowledge of digital finance systems for purchase, sales and nominal ledger.

So as to ensure continued, effective oversight and control of the College finances, the person appointed will be experienced in the preparation and reporting of management accounts and reports, with detailed knowledge of accounting standards and best practice.

Whilst experience of working in a further education/education setting is desirable, the College is happy to consider candidates with wider commercial finance experience gained from a range of other sectors. As a supportive organisation focused on the development of both students and staff, comprehensive support will be offered to the appointed person throughout their first annual cycle of business.

For more information and to apply for this role, please visit the microsite on Peridot's website via the application method on this site.

My client works with grassroots programmes to provide deep support to the most vulnerable communities in the UK. We are seeking an ambitious and change focussed Finance and Operations Director to lead the financial direction of the charity and oversee all aspects of its financial management. This is an exciting time to join an ambitious organisation as its work develops and its team expands.

The Finance and Operations Director embeds a culture of strong financial management, effective controls and efficient processes within the organisation. You will be expected to provide critical financial information, analysis and insights, and advice and support on financial and strategic management issues, and emerging opportunities and risks, to the CEO, management team and the Board of Trustees.

Reporting to the CEO, this is a key role in the organisation and your responsibilities include:

• Overall responsibility for the development and successful delivery of the finance function and providing successful leadership across the organisation;
• Leading on strategic financial planning and financial management;
• Developing and maintaining effective financial functions including budgeting, management accounts, preparation of annual statutory accounts, and preparation of financial reports to organisational funders and to the Board of Trustees;
• Leading change across the organisation, including a systems and digital transformation.

The successful candidate will be fully qualified finance professional with a driven and proactive approach and robust technical skills likely to come from the Charity Sector. You will have a strong sense of commercial acumen and an analytical mind-set. You will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage and develop staff that you manage and build rapport with a range of finance and non-finance persons across the organisation. You will have significant senior level experience of managing the financial activities of a not-for-profit organisation and will be empowered to develop and embed the right financial systems, processes and controls.

This would be a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious professional looking to step into their first Finance Director position.

For more information, please contact Bryony Feeney at Allen Lane via the agency website.

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with Plan International UK, a global children's charity, to recruit for a Head of Brand and Digital Engagement to be based at their Head Office in London. The organisation is going through an exciting period of transformation with this role one of three newly created Head positions in the Communications, Campaigns and UK Programmes directorate.

Plan International UK strives to advance children's rights and equality for girls all over the world. Working in over 50 countries across Africa, Asia and The Americas, they provide vital support to children, their families and their communities, including child protection, child participation, health, education and economic security.

The Role

This role will bring together two teams (Brand Marketing and Digital Engagement) into a new, highly strategic unit, to deliver an exciting and ambitious brand and digital vision for the organisation.

Your high impact, creative brand strategy and skilful use of digital platforms will enable the organisation to tell powerful, engaging stories that will widen Plan UK's influence, capturing new audiences and deepening engagement with supporters, directly contributing to their mission to advance children's rights and achieve equality for girls.

The Person

Your experience and attributes will include:

• Substantial experience of having responsibility for an organisation's brand
• Proven track record of delivering a high impact brand vision and strategy and an ambitious attitude towards brand development
• Substantial experience of digital marketing and using digital channels to tell a brand story and engage a new audience
• Leading cross organisational brand campaigns, from strategy to delivery, with a clear understanding of how to engage supporters, grow awareness and consideration and ensure a consistent, powerful brand story, primarily on digital channels
• Substantial experience of setting a content strategy for an organisation, with ability to manage others to produce, edit and curate content
• Operating as an inspiring, engaging leader, able to influence across the organisation and inspire others to be creative, innovative and ambitious in their work
• A genuine interest in international development, humanitarian and/or girls' right issues

To Apply

To apply, please upload your CV in Microsoft Word format as part of your application.

A Prospectus consultant will review and assess all submitted applications. 

If shortlisted by Prospectus and selected for interview with Plan International UK interviews are planned to take place on the dates below:

Panel Interviews (1st stage): Week Commencing 22nd June

Panel Interviews (2nd stage): Week Commencing 29th June

Please note that the role may close earlier than the date advertised.

Job specification

• High profile national charity
• Manages one report
• Leading engagement with HNWIs, and digital special events
• Inbuilt flexible working

Person specification

• Min. 2 years’ experience of major donor fundraising
• Exprience of making the ask at £5k+

Industrial animal agriculture is at the root of many of the most pressing global issues of our time, from climate change and global hunger, to increased disease risk and poor animal welfare. 

The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) is at the forefront of the movement to use food technology to replace the products of industrial animal agriculture with plant-based, fermentation-derived and cultivated alternatives. Please check out our U.S. affiliate’s website (gfi [dot] org) and read the 2019 Year in Review (gfi [dot] org/2019) to find out more about who we are and what we do. 

We are at an exciting stage in our growth and are looking for a Communications Manager to join our team. For more information about this role, please check out the job brochure: shorturl.at/JW367.

How You Will Make a Difference 

You will lead on planning and delivering impact across the entire spectrum of communications disciplines, including media and public relations, brand marketing, digital and social media, and the production of content and materials. Your ‘North Star’ will be to advance the alternative proteins sector across Europe, and to ensure that GFI Europe is the go-to thought leader within the sector. As our first communications hire in our growing team, you will be responsible for:

• Developing and executing a strategic communications plan for GFI Europe.

• Work closely with our Managing Director on developing and executing an impactful public relations programme, including writing and placing press releases, op-eds, articles and blogs, etc, to deliver and shape positive coverage for GFI Europe and the alternative proteins sector. 

• Developing a clear, impactful narrative and key messages, and delivering these across all communications channels. 

• Building relationships with journalists in the fields of science, academia, business, innovation, entrepreneurship, food/ag, and policy. 

• Acting as a spokesperson for GFI Europe when necessary.

• Understanding, listening, and following the European conversation around alternative proteins to identify new opportunities to promote the sector and GFI Europe’s work in key European countries.

• Identifying, building relationships with and influencing key organisations and opinion leaders across Europe to strengthen the narrative that supports the alternative protein sector.

• Working with fundraising colleagues to develop and implement strategies for reaching, recruiting and stewarding supporters.

• Collaborating with our policy team to ensure our political communication is effective and reaches the right audience.

• Managing GFI Europe’s social media activity and potentially developing online tools such as a new website and webinars.

• Coordinating with colleagues, and potentially external consultants, to oversee the production of GFI Europe publications and material including brochures, presentations and one-pagers, and act as our ‘brand guardian’ to ensure consistency.

• Potentially working with and overseeing agencies, freelancers and others to help deliver the above. 

• Performing other tasks as required as a member of our small start-up team.

Who we’re looking for: 

You must have:

• A passion for GFI’s philosophy and mission.

• Significant (ideally 5 or more years) communications experience, for example in public relations, media relations, social media or journalism. 

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write persuasive press releases and articles.

• A passion for, and demonstrated success with, proactive media outreach, including effectively developing and pitching stories to journalists that resulted in positive coverage.

• Good judgement and news-sense: to successfully spot opportunities and ‘hooks’ to secure coverage, and to get the substance, tone and nuance of our message right. 

• The ability to devise a well-informed strategy for GFI Europe’s comms work, in terms of audience mapping, channels, messaging. 

• Excellent people-skills: the ability to influence, network, build alliances and work well in a team.

• A can-do approach: a self-starter with the drive and initiative to take responsibility for delivering communications impact.

• Comfort working remotely in a rapidly-growing and evolving organization: the ability to work well independently and under pressure, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines. 

• Fluent English, both written and spoken. We would also welcome applications from candidates who, in addition, can work in other major European languages.

We want the best people and we don’t want biases holding us back. We strongly encourage people of every colour, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability to apply. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritize an inclusive climate absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team.

The Fine Print:

• Terms of employment: Full-time, permanent

• Location: Flexible - we will consider applicants from anywhere in Europe. You will mainly be working remotely: from your home, or wherever you choose. Once the COVID situation has cleared, you and the whole GFI Europe team will get together in-person approximately once every six weeks for around 3-4 days at a time, most likely in the London area or Brussels. There may also be other occasional work trips within Europe or to the US.

• Salary: £38,000 - £44,000.  This range is based on a UK hire and will be adjusted if hired elsewhere in Europe.

• Right to work requirements: We are only able to consider applicants who are eligible to work and travel in the EU or UK.

• Application Deadline: 29 June 2020, 11.59pm BST. We will be assessing candidates on a rolling basis, so please apply now!

Any questions?  If you have any questions about this role, please do reach out to us at  europe (at) gfi (dot) org. If you’ve read this far but decided not to apply, please feel free to share this job description with someone else in your network who you think might be a good fit for the role! Thank you.

The United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) is looking for a General Manager to run its Office in Leicester (some Office work may, from time to time, take the form of home-working). The Association needs someone able to manage a small team of part-time members of staff. The Office staff team comprises: the General Manager (part-time, 28 hours on at least 4 days per week); a part-time Finance Administrator (23 hours on 3 days per week); a Membership Secretary (currently 10 hours on 2 days per week); an Admin and Awards Secretary (currently 10 hours on 2 days per week). It is the responsibility of the General Manager, in association with UKLA trustee line managers, to decide how and when to delegate tasks within the Office, and see that these are carried out effectively.

General Manager

Salary: Between point 20 and 27 (£25,217-30,942) pro rata

Contract, Part-time (28 hours on at least 4 days per week)

The General Manager should be a good communicator with excellent managerial skills and a keen interest in helping UKLA work effectively across the United Kingdom and beyond. The UKLA General Manager is expected to be reliable, systematic and proactive. She or he will have good interpersonal, administrative, communication and IT skills. The role requires someone who works well under pressure while also paying due attention to detail and upholding the values of the Association.

The UKLA General Manager has oversight of all communications and events from a UKLA Office perspective but is directly responsible to the trustees of UKLA for the efficient operation of the UKLA Office and its team of staff. On a day-to-day basis, however, the General Manager works independently and with minimum supervision, responding promptly and directly to the needs of trustees and committee conveners to ensure that UKLA’s programme of charitable activity and the implementation of delegated aspects of its strategy run as smoothly and effectively as possible.

The UKLA General Manager is expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities which the Association may from time to time reasonably require, and engage in any training which may be offered relevant to fulfilling the role more effectively.

Detail

1) Office management

Responsibility for the smooth operation of the UKLA office, including:

• acting as the UKLA’s Responsible Person for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ensuring UKLA’s compliance with GDPR
• ensuring office procedures support the secure storage and backup of electronic data
• ensuring administrative systems are efficient and fit for purpose
• ensuring office accommodation and equipment are fit for purpose and meet Health and Safety requirements
• liaising and negotiating with the management of the office premises (Voluntary Action Leicester – VAL), on behalf of the Association
• ensuring UKLA is covered by appropriate insurance policies (with relevant trustees including the Hon. Treasurer), including for external events such as conferences
• maintaining and updating the Office Handbook
• contributing to the annual review and revision of UKLA’s guidance on office procedures (with relevant trustees including the Hon. Secretary and/or Hon. Treasurer).

2) Office staff management

Accountability for staffing, including:

• advertising for and appointment of new staff, in collaboration with trustees, and agreeing their job descriptions
• induction and supervision of new staff members
• monitoring and reviewing performance of all staff in relation to their job descriptions and providing brief monthly reports to line managers (Hon. Secretary and/or Hon. Treasurer)
• supporting and supervising staff on a day to day basis 
• planning the efficient deployment of part-time staff to make best use of office space
• maintaining and updating the office staff critical date planner
• maintaining a calendar of annual leave for all office staff to ensure coverage and consistency of operation, and informing trustee line managers
• maintaining a record of staff hours and leave taken, ensuring these meet contractual requirements
• overall management of staff pension arrangements (in liaison with the Hon. Treasurer/Secretary).

3) Supporting UKLA’s charitable status

Acting as the key contact for the Charity Commission, in liaison with the President/Hon. Secretary/Hon. Treasurer, as appropriate:

• maintaining an ongoing database of trustee details and updating it annually
• updating the Charity Commission’s register of trustees, as necessary
• ensuring UKLA’s Annual Return is completed each summer on the Charity Commission website, including the upload of the Annual Report and Accounts
• keeping up to date with Charity Commission requirements.

4) Supporting trustees and sub-committees

Responsibility for managing office systems to support the smooth functioning of UKLA as an organisation, including:

• providing administrative support for the President, Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer, as required, prioritising efficiently
• providing administrative support for the conveners of sub-committees, Special Interest Groups and Task Groups, and the Regional Representatives co-ordinator, as required, prioritising efficiently
• ensuring papers for Executive Committee (EC) and National Council (NC) meetings are pre-circulated, filed and stored
• minuting EC and NC meetings (in conjunction with the Finance Administrator) and ensuring minutes are sent to the Hon. Secretary for checking within 5 working days of each meeting
• ensuring all minutes are filed and stored
• organising efficient filing systems for all other UKLA documentation, in digital or print form, to enable others to locate documents quickly and easily
• addressing action points relevant to the UKLA office which arise from committee minutes
• managing website updates in liaison with the website designer
• maintaining and regularly updating the UKLA Archive.

5) Finance

Overall responsibility for the efficient management of UKLA’s finances, including:

• maintaining a strategic overview of UKLA’s finances
• ensuring compliance with UKLA’s internal financial controls, as specified in the Charity Commission’s document (CC8) and contributing to the annual review
• supporting and advising the Finance Administrator as required
• acting as an authorised signatory and authorising expenditure
• liaising with UKLA’s accountants and payroll as necessary
• substituting for the Finance Administrator on urgent matters, where essential
• providing guidance to conference organisers about managing and budgeting for a conference, and ensuring they understand their responsibilities for covering costs
• ensuring that conference bookings are promptly processed.

6) UKLA International Conference

Contributing to the UKLA’s annual International Conference in liaison with the conference organiser and the convener of the Conferences sub-committee by:

• co-ordinating practical details, including – as appropriate – venue, catering, accommodation, social programme, timetable and budget
• updating website pages for submission of proposals, where appropriate
• providing office administrative support for the proposal submission process
• creating the final programme
• creating the conference brochure with the support of the conference director and overseeing its production and delivery
• maintaining excellent communication with delegates and speakers, ensuring information is delivered effectively in a timely manner
• maintaining an overview of conference budgets and finances, and seeking to achieve best value for money at all times
• attending all International conference ensuring their smooth running and overseeing staff/helpers.

[Please note that for the July 2021 International Conference (postponed from July 2020), much of the above has already been begun.]

There will be few times in your career as an Individual Giving specialist where you can make such a mark as in the role we are offering at Leeds Cares.

You will be the strategic lead in the development of our Individual Giving program. You will manage a small but growing team and will play a critical role in the charity’s next phase of development.  Reporting to the Director Fundraising, the Head of Individual Giving is a key role and will have the responsibility of developing and establishing our strategy to build and retain a broad and committed supporter base for Leeds Cares. The activities of you and your team will ensure we maximise income, securing the charities long-term future and ensuring we have the greatest impact by lifting us to the next level of fundraising and donor care.

You are already an experienced Individual Giving specialist with the highest of standards and a brilliant eye for detail. Health/medical background is not essential; more important is a track record of delivery, a proven ability to generate repeat, predictable income for the charity and an ambition to do more for our beneficiaries.

If you want to make a real difference and you have the experience to match our ambition please read on.

This role can be based in any Christian Aid office. If based in the London office, £4,170 London allowance will be added to the salary.

About us

Christian Aid is an international development charity that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty, for this to become a reality unequal power relations need to be changed. Our organisation strategy, Standing Together, asks us to focus on poverty, power and prophetic voice, thus we work in partnership to eradicate extreme poverty, dismantle its root causes across the world, and enable the voice and agency of the poor and marginalised to be fully realised. Through our development programmes, policy, advocacy and campaigning, we work with and for people of all faiths and none to deliver long-term sustainable development projects that enable poor and marginalised children, women and men to achieve equality, dignity and justice. We also provide urgent, practical and effective humanitarian assistance in the wake of disasters and conflict.

This role sits in the Programme Policy, Research and Learning team (PPRL); one of three teams which make up Christian Aid's Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns Department. Although the team sits in PPC, it has a cross-organisational remit, providing thought leadership and advisory across our policy, advocacy, campaigning, development and humanitarian work. PPRL exists to generate and provide thought leadership to the organisation; offer research and sector-based expertise to support practice across our global programmes; and to enhance the links between national programme delivery and learning, and global policy analysis and understanding.

About the role

This role leads the small 'strategic advisory' hub, which works to support staff across the organisation in interpreting, applying and making meaningful the key elements of Christian Aid's analytical framework (on poverty, power and prophetic voice). Through the development of strategic frameworks, guidance on key concepts and active engagement with staff across our development, humanitarian and advocacy programmes strategic advisors ensure that Christian Aid is developing and delivering programmes in line with organisational strategy, and that learning and good practice from country programmes informs organisational thinking. In this way the strategic advisors ensure that our work on poverty, power and prophetic voice across our different types of programmes are coherent.

In addition to leadership of the hub, this role is specifically responsible for leading Christian Aid's thinking and practice on women's rights. We take a gendered approach to women's rights, emphasising the complexity of intersectional inequalities, power relations and the need for gender justice; and we believe we have a specific role to play, as a faith-based organisation, in securing women's rights. This role therefore ensures that our corporate campaigns integrate in-depth gender analysis, and that Christian Aid is able to built on its reputation as a faith-based organisation which champions women's rights and gender justice. It coordinates our cross-organisational group on gender and inequality, and will actively seek funding opportunities and contribute to fundraising initiatives to ensure strong and consistent work on women's rights

About you

We are looking for an exceptional individual who is passionate about gender and women's rights; who has experience of working at the highest levels influencing policy and practice on women's rights. You will be as comfortable speaking out about gender with faith actors as you are in providing advice and guidance for colleagues working on policy, development and humanitarian programmes and advocacy. You will have excellent knowledge of current policy and political debates on women's rights, gender and inequality, and how these intersect with debates on faith and development, and you will also have extensive experience in delivering programmes on women's rights. Equally important will be your interpersonal skills, your ability to build strong relationships and work across different departments, appreciating a diversity of cultures, workstyles and perspective. You will thrive on learning and developing with others, enjoy facilitation and creating space to promote critical thinking and learning from practice. You will be confident at team leadership, at managing your own workload and competing priorities.

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Purpose of Post

FACT’s mission is to enrich lives and shape the future through Film, Art and Creative Technology. You will be joining our team at an exciting time in the organisation’s development! The Head of Development will work closely with the CEO/Director, who joined the organisation in May 2019, and the new leadership team to identify, develop and implement opportunities for income generation in line with FACT’s Business Plan.

This role will be particularly focused on diversifying and growing income to help strengthen FACT’s business model, coordinating our upcoming Band 3 Arts Council England National Portfolio application, and leading on our capital fundraising campaign. The role will also be key in managing stakeholders including: local government, public funding distributors, trusts and foundations, EU funding, corporates and other strategic relationships.

The Head of Development will lead the Senior Management Team in the coordination and management of all bid writing and fundraising across the organisation, and take a lead role in the development, implementation and management of initiatives to maximise both contributed and earned income.

How to Apply

Please download the full job description and equal opportunities form. To apply, please send a detailed letter outlining why you are interested in the post and how your experience fits our requirements, plus a CV and a completed equal opportunities form.

Deadline

Sunday 29 March at midnight

Interviews

Interviews will take place on Monday 6 or Wednesday 8 April 2020.

Working through a combined approach of programmes and advocacy, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women helps release the potential of women entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries.

Through our work we support them to grow and start successful micro, small and medium businesses so that they can create better futures for themselves and their families, enable their communities to prosper, contribute to strong economies, and move the world in a whole new direction. Over the 12 years since the Foundation’s inception, we have directly supported over 160,000 women across more than 100 countries, and our ambitions continue to grow.

We’re looking for a skilled communications professional to join our workforce at an interesting, challenging, but extremely rewarding and exciting time as a Senior Communications Officer. The ideal candidate would be a highly motivated individual with strong skills in writing, editing and proofreading, creating engaging communications materials, using social media and other digital platforms professionally, administration, and managing many competing priorities.

You’ll be an important member of the External Affairs team and work closely with our Programmes and Partnerships teams to co-ordinate and support the delivery of a rich, engaging communications plan which promotes our work to a wide range of stakeholders and influences for progress towards closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship.

This is a full time, permanent role at 35 hours per week, with core office hours being 10am to 4pm. We have some flexibility around working hours but this is reviewed case-by-case on an applications basis, at the discretion of the Senior Leadership Team. The Foundation’s workforce are currently all working from home and you will be too until such a time that we can safely return to our Central London office (W1), from where you’ll be based after then.

We have a lively, friendly, passionate and hard-working team, with an international and collaborative culture. This role has a salary of £25,375 per annum, and you’ll be entitled to 28 days of annual leave (which includes 3 that must be taken at Christmas), and other benefits.

To apply, please download the Job Description, and send us the following:

• Covering letter addressing relevant experience for the role (1,000 words max)

• Current CV – no more than two pages

• Two examples of communications materials you have produced or led on, including one written piece, e.g. a blog, press release or news post. This can be a web link or a file attachment

Please send your application, or any questions you may have, to the email address listed.

Apply by midday, 12 June 2020. Interviews will be held via Zoom during the week commencing 15 June 2020. Our current aim is to hold only one round of interviews.

The Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply for this position. All applicants should have the right to work in UK. Please let us know if you have any access requirements of which you would like us to be aware during this process.

Due to the large amount of applications we receive, please note that you will only be contacted should we wish to invite you to interview.

Thank you for your interest in the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. We look forward to receiving your application.