Contact a Family is a national charity for families with disabled children. We provide information, advice and support, and bring families together so they can support each other. We campaign to improve their circumstances, and for their right to be included and equal in society.

We’re looking for a dedicated and talented Programmes Manager to join our friendly Family Support team to manage the overall operations and quality of the delivery of a diverse portfolio of projects in a fast paced and growing area of the charity. This role will suit someone who thrives on being organised and delivering operational excellence in a busy and developing environment. Someone who is flexible and driven to build relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.

You will have responsibility for the project management and the day-to-day delivery of our Family Support offer, including overseeing the content, quality, and exemplary delivery of multiple projects. You will be accountable for the effective systems and processes to ensure the programmes are delivered on time and within budget. Successfully monitoring and recording the outcomes of each project. You will work closely with the Business Development Operations Manager to ensure that Contact’s freelance workforce deliver effectively across all Family Support projects and programmes.

This is a new role; therefore, we are looking for someone who is driven, whose creativity and experience of project delivery will help shape the success of this role, ensuring continued excellence in all areas of programme delivery.

The right person for this role is likely to have;

Previous operational management experience, including delivering services and support to families. Capability of delivering against grants and funding requirements including project finances, monitoring and evaluation to create comprehensive reports in line with funding requirements. Be a confident communicator with experience of managing resources and a diverse workforce. Created and developed high quality up to date content for family support programmes.

Excellent IT and numeracy skills will be a must, including the ability to extract, analyse and manipulate data using Excel.

ABOUT THE ROLE

In 2022 Generation is establishing and leading a high-profile project - the ‘Hub’ - to support Londoners from disadvantaged backgrounds and those worst affected by the pandemic into good, entry-level tech jobs, backed up by significant employer demand.

The Hub, unique in London, aims to change the system. It will bring an amazing coalition of sector leading organisations - Youth Employment UK, Prince’s Trust, Catch 22, Multiverse, QA, BDC, and more - to significantly boost awareness and uptake of life-changing opportunities, bootcamp and apprenticeships training, and careers in the tech sector with a focus on diverse and disadvantaged groups. The project also has the support of a number of leading tech companies (you know who they are!). 

The Hub aims to operate at scale, reaching several thousand Londoners and hundreds of employers over the next 2 years. 

The Programme Director will lead the Hub’s activity. It’s an exciting opportunity for someone who relishes the challenge of building something new, running a set of high impact and profile events, coordinating across a high profile set of organisations, and delivering work with an undeniable social impact at this crucial time.

The focus of the Hub's work will be a unique set of half day engagement events for unemployed Londoners to find out about careers in tech, training opportunities available for them across partners, hear from successful past beneficiaries, and interview for opportunities in pre-arranged matchmaking sessions.  There will also be an always on hub webpage, engagement events for employers and a research workstream codifying best practices in the space.

ABOUT GENERATION

Generation is a charity in the UK with the mission to train, coach, and support people into life-changing careers that would otherwise be inaccessible.

Our work focuses on supporting people from diverse groups facing barriers to employment.Our innovative bootcamps train learners for roles in high demand including cloud computing, data engineering, software engineering, health and care, IT support, customer support, and data analytics. We also recently launched a new programme placing people into emerging roles tackling climate change in the retrofit.

By joining Generation UK&I now, you will become part of an organisation committed to social impact. The work is fast-paced, exciting, and innovative. The impact is clear.

ABOUT YOU

To suceed you'll need to be:

- An entrepreneurial doer, excited to do things for the first time

- A planner who sees plans through 

- A presenter comfortable and energised in front of large groups

- An organised and self-motivated professional managing multiple workstreams at pace

- An effective leader, thoughtful, decisive, and empathetic 

- Passionate about the cause

You’ll need the following experience:

- Track record building projects or programmes from scratch,

- Experience planning and hosting well-attended events

- Experience hiring and managing a team of 2-3 people

- Track record of leading successful coalitions or partnerships toward mutual goals

- 3+ years of experience in relevant role(s) including programme, project and team management

- Experience managing project budgets of >£200k+

THE OFFER

Working at Generation in the UK & I you’ll get:

- Purpose and social impact in the heart of your work

- Flexible working as per your role requirement

- Access to productive co- working space at WeWork with Generation UK & I and global team/s

- WFH set up support of £300

- Access to upto £1,000 towards your learning & development per year. And up to 5 days of training days/ study leave per year to support your development.

- 25 days annual leave

A FAIR CHANCE

Every role at Generation is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well, you.

You must have the right to work in the UK, and all staff members are required to pass a basic DBS check.

MORE INFO

You can download a job description for more detail about the role and the organisation.

Under Our Roof is a conflict management and personal development programme that works directly in the care sector, empowering young people and their adult carers to manage conflict more effectively and develop healthier, more resilient and supportive relationships.

Leap Confronting Conflict is looking for a Programme Manager to develop and manage the effective delivery and support the successful evaluation of the programme. This will include overseeing the recruitment of adults and young people onto training programmes, and ensuring the programme maintains coproduction at its heart. Building, maintaining and strengthening relationships with delivery partners (local authorities, fostering agencies, residential children’s homes) funders, supporters of the programme and policy influencing individuals/organisations are key to success in this role.

You will be a part of Leap’s Impact and Innovation team, while also working closely with the Delivery Team to ensure consistency of practice across the organisation, and the Income and External Affairs team to maintain ongoing funding for the programme. This post will also manage the Under Our Roof Programme Assistant dependant on ongoing funding for the Assistant role.

Prospectus is delighted to be supporting East End Community Foundation (EECF) as they look to appoint a new Head of Grants and Programmes to their team to ensure the successful implementation and management of the organisations grant making and programmes. This is a key role within the organisation, leading the team both operationally and strategically.

East End Community Foundation (EECF) brings donors closer to the people and organisations they seek to help. For 30 years, EECF has made charitable giving simple, effective, and meaningful.
   
EECF's grant programme cover the Boroughs of Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham with their three current campaigns focused on Elder Isolation, Youth Development and the Digital Divide. Over the last few years, EECF has increased giving substantially to meet the needs of people who live in the area and are continuing to support people across the East End with a well develop grant making programme to grass roots charities.   

The successful candidate for this role will have a previous experience of grant making with the ability to develop and evaluate grant making procedures and policies. You will have a good understanding of the voluntary sector, ideally local to the areas which EECF operate. You will also have the ability to take strategic ideas and translate them into a working proactive. This will be a leadership position within the organisation and local area, excellent communication skills, attention to detail and some public speaking ability is also required.
   
Prospectus welcomes candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply.     

If you are interested in applying for this Head of Grants and Programmes position, please submit your CV in the first instance. If your experience is suitable, we will send you the application form and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.

Reporting to: Director, International Human Rights Programme.

Location: Office-based, London with potential for one day working from home and up to 25 per cent travel annually.

Salary: Starting salary £50,000

Terms: Full-time position / Permanent subject to satisfactory six-month probation. Applicants must have the right to legally live and work in the UK

Who we are

The Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social, and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged. With offices in Europe, Africa and North America, Oak Foundation makes grants to organisations located in approximately 40 countries worldwide.

About the International Human Rights Programme

The International Human Rights Programme (IHRP) supports work aimed at protecting the fundamental rights of the individual. This includes efforts to secure accountability for gross human rights abuses, to protect and enable human rights defenders, to advance LGBTQI rights and to reduce arbitrary detention in a criminal justice and immigration context.

The programme has a grant-making budget of USD 30 million per annum to support activist organisations in our key geographies (EU, US, Russia, India, Myanmar, and Brazil). We provide core, project, and seed funding in multi-year grants. The IHR Programme is based in London and comprises a diverse team of a director, five programme officers, a programme assistant, and a fellow.

Job purpose

Recent years have seen a marked deterioration in the quality and substance of political discourse. Human rights (and the liberal values underpinning our rules-based system) have come under sustained attack. These developments have rendered citizens susceptible to demagoguery and political manipulation, and nations easy quarry for potential autocrats. These information challenges have become even more acute in the context of the pandemic.

The programme officer will be responsible for the development of a new stream of grants within the programme’s strategy to address the production, packaging, and dissemination of malign content (including fake news, deep fakes, and disinformation). Grants will address:

• The means of content production, e.g., bots and artificial intelligence.
• The packaging, targeting and distribution of content, including through data collection and exploitation, algorithmic curation, and microtargeting.
• Broader infrastructural challenges, namely platform regulation and internet shutdowns.
• The programme officer will be expected to liaise with other programme colleagues working on how technology can be deployed to advance civic activism and advise on the scope of digital rights more broadly.

The programme officer will be expected to liaise with other programme colleagues working on how technology can be deployed to advance civic activism and advise on the scope of digital rights more broadly.

Main Responsibilities

The programme officer works under the supervision of the programme director. In that capacity they are expected to:

• Contribute to the development of the programme’s strategic directions, including through the (co)drafting of various submissions and reports to the Advisory Panel meeting.
• Contribute to the setting of programme budgets and provide input on the internal allocation of funds.
• Develop new granting opportunities in line with strategic directions.
• Represent the programme in a variety of settings, including among peer groups and at public events.
• Maintain primary responsibility for management of the grant portfolio (or part thereof) from point of initial inquiry to assessment and final recommendation to the President/Trustees/Advisory Panel meeting.
• Conduct the monitoring and evaluation of grants, including through the conduct of site visits.
• Work with Oak’s administrative and programme management staff to report on the progress of individual grants and broader portfolios.

Position requirements

• University Degree and at least 7-10 years relevant professional experience in human rights with a strong interest and knowledge of digital challenges to the information sphere (an advanced degree may substitute for 1-2 years of experience).
• Proven research and analytical skills and some management experience.
• An understanding of non-profit and/or governmental financial reporting and budgeting.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Willingness to travel (approx. 20-25 per cent).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• At ease using contemporary software (word processing, Excel, PowerPoint, email).
• A commitment to Oak’s organisational values.

Benefits for UK staff

• 23 holidays + 11 public holidays + office closed between Xmas and New Year.
• Health care contribution.
• Personal pension scheme, to which the Oak contributes 10% of the gross salary.
• Eco-transport subsidy.

Discretionary grant budget of USD 50k/per year from first full calendar year.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 30th January 2022

This position will have significant responsibility for leading the strategic development of Metroland Cultures' work with young people, working with artists and partners to shape opportunities for them to engage in the arts and culture as audiences, participants, creators and leaders.

In particular, this role will lead on the development and delivery of Metroland University, an intensive programme of creative development and industry skills building for young people aged 18-24 years.

For more information about the constituency model and main responsibilities, or to request an informal conversation about the role, click on the application resources below.

We kindly request no contact from agencies or media sales.

Post: Digital Fundraising & Marketing Manager, Made in Hackney (MIH)

Hours: 4 days a week

Contract: Permanant

Location: Partly home based and partly at Liberty Hall, Clapton Commons, E5

Salary: £26,400/annum pro rata 4 days/week (FTE £33,000/annum)

Holiday: 20 days (plus bank holidays – see below for more details)

SUMMARY

Made In Hackney opened its doors in 2012 as the UK’s first fully vegan community cookery school.  We became an independent charity in 2018 and collaborate with communities to showcase and develop skills, knowledge and inspiration to grow, cook and eat more plants.

In March 2020 we paused our usual programme to launch a Covid19 response of online classes, telephone support for those not online, and an emergency direct to door community meal service. At the peak of the crisis we provided 500 meals a day across Hackney direct to households who needed support. Today we continue to provide meals and hope to be able to do so for as long as there is need. We aim to incorporate training and jobs for local young people into the community meal service.

We have also recommenced delivery of our popular programme of cookery classes from our brand new school; Liberty Hall.

Made In Hackney has a successful track record of crowdfunding – securing between £13K and £80K in 6 week campaigns and as of time of writing we are at the start of a new campaign to raise £150K. In addition Made In Hackney is successfully fundraising through our developing enterprise programme as well as developing monthly giving donor relationships.

We are seeking a creative, highly motivated and strategically minded individual to become our Digital Fundraising & Marketing Manager. The objective of this role is to help the charity by developing and delivering new digital marketing campaigns to grow both our customer and supporter base and take them on a rewarding journey of increasing engagement to become long term participants, friends, supporters and donors.

The experience of working for Made in Hackney is varied, unique and rewarding. There is plenty of room for the successful candidate to be creative and bring new ideas to the charity. As we enter our 10th year it is a hugely exciting time to join us as we strive to take our programme and approach to a much wider national and potentially even global audience.

Responsibilities include:

Marketing

• Develop promotional marketing campaigns to increase participation and revenue generation for MIH’s online and in person ticketed cookery class programme, ensuring each class achieves maximum ticket sales.

• Collaborate with the Programme Director to develop and implement ideas for growing online and masterclass participation.

• Develop and deliver content for both MIH’s web and social media platforms.

• Keep abreast of digital marketing trends, emerging digital platforms and online spaces that could provide opportunities to increase income through class participation and donations.

Fundraising Strategy and Development and Digital Fundraising

• Develop and implement a digital fundraising plan 

• Manage budgets for each digital campaign and analyse campaign performance to evaluate digital fundraising activity.

• Understand donor and participant behaviours to help inform future marketing campaigns and digital fundraising activity.

• Provide regular updates for core team and trustee meetings on the progress of plans and campaigns

• Ensure all digital fundraising complies with Charity and Data Protection Regulation legislation including but not limited to, Institute of Fundraising, Charity Digital Code, Fundraising Regulator and Charity Commission Guidelines

• Manage paid search engine promotion to drive traffic and maximise the number and value of individual and regular donations made online.

• Collaborate with the Project Director and Development Manager to develop and implement ideas for growing virtual fundraising activity and community participation.

• Develop digital giving mechanisms to generate income.

• Lead on developing new and emerging ways to increase community engagement potentially through patreon or other new channels 

• Utilise and share engagement metrics and market research with the team

Governance, HR and Strategy

• Participate in regular update meetings with Core Team to ensure effective communication and mutual support.

• Contribute to strategic discussions on future path of organisation.

• Attend board of Trustee meetings. 

Financial Management

• Participate in organisational budget planning and monitoring meetings.

• Report on budget variances to and implement solutions to rectify them. 

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Have experience of digital marketing and securing income for charities 

• Have an excellent understanding of how to use marketing tools and techniques to increase the visibility, profile and reputation of an organisation

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to communicate clearly with a range of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures

• Have an excellent understanding of how to use marketing tools and techniques to increase the visibility, profile and reputation of an organisation

• Confident in using in a CRM systems analyse and grow relationships;

• Ability to take initiative, problem solve, and think creatively; 

• Enthusiasm, energy and a positive attitude; 

• Desirable: Expertise on social media advertising platforms: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Facebook

BENEFITS

• Flexible working arrangement with allowance for working from home 

• Training provided in Salesforce, Safeguarding Adults and Children, Emergency First Aid, Food Safety etc

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which includes counselling and physio

• Staff Wellbeing and social activities throughout the year 

• Quiet time working – the opportunity to work flexibly over the Christmas and summer period – See Annual Leave Policy for full details. 

• Pension Scheme

• Staff discount of 15% in Food For All Shop;

Equal Opportunity

We have a strong commitment to promote diversity, equality and equal opportunities. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups, whether these be of ethnicity, gender, identity, religion, physical ability, sexual orientation or other.

 Deadline: 5pm Friday 4th February 2022 though we encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will be scheduling interviews as we get applications and reserve the right to close the job early. Post commences: As soon as possible after appointment

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

There is a director-shaped hole at Southall Black Sisters. Will you be the one to fill it?

Southall Black Sisters is looking for an exceptional woman with that mix of political vision and management & people skills which will ensure that the organisation retains and grows its iconic place in anti-racist, anti-fundamentalist, feminist politics, and provides an exemplary advocacy service to Black and minoritised women.

Originally set up in 1979, Southall Black Sisters has become a household name. Based in West London but with a national reach and reputation for its landmark legal interventions, its contributions to changes in policy through targeted campaigns and its unique approach to casework and advocacy have brought hope and freedom to countless women who have walked through its doors.

In 1983, we set up a not-for-profit advice, campaigning, resource, and advocacy centre for Black and minoritised women, defending women’s rights and freedoms, with a particular focus on challenging all forms of violence against women, especially in relation to South Asian women. We have been in the forefront of the fight to support migrant women whose escape from domestic violence is complicated by harsh immigration rules and the absence of state benefits.

Be prepared to challenge the state, community leaders, and all patriarchal and racist institutions in support of the women who come to our centre. You should bring substantial experience in a management role, including 5 years at a senior level. You should be committed to our values and have the experience and confidence to present our case to a range of external bodies, including the media and government. You should be able to demonstrate evidence of strategic leadership, and an ability to manage change, and inspire staff teams.

Due to the nature of our work the post is open to women only (exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1). We particularly welcome applications from Black and minoritised women.

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is a local conservation charity working to protect wildlife and help people connect with nature. With a team of volunteers we care for wild places so that nature has a place to thrive. We help people experience the wildlife on their doorsteps and to take steps to protect it.

We believe that wildlife should have space to thrive alongside our everyday lives and that everyone benefits from having access to nature.

Our staff team is enthusiastic, friendly and committed to wildlife conservation and exemplifies our values of professionalism, valuing contributions by others and continually striving to improve. We offer flexible working as well as other benefits such as salary sacrifice schemes. We are based in the attractive setting of Verulamium Park on the outskirts of St Albans.

About the role
As Digital Communications Officer you’ll be promoting the Trust’s work by creating engaging content for the Trust’s digital channels. You’ll be on top of digital trends and analysing how our supporters interact with us online to develop the Trust’s digital output. We want to help people connect with wildlife and take action to protect it and you will be critical in helping the Trust reach new audiences and ensuring a close connection with existing supporters.

Trust supports flexible working including working from home.

We are recruiting an experienced Digital Manager to shape and manage our digital communications , building our reach and engagement with key audiences in support of our mission.

You will have experience of initiating and leading a variety of innovative and successful digital campaigns from concept to completion. You will analyse, optimize and develop our digital channels and provide advice on the development of our digital activities. You are an exceptional communicator who knows what makes high-impact digital content. This is a hands-on role that will sometimes involve directing the creation of content by agency and freelance support or colleagues, and sometimes by producing if yourself.

This is a new role in an organisation that is growing rapidly, so comfort with almost continuous change is vital, as is the ability to juggle multiple and varied priorities while maintaining high standards. You will have a desire to learn, improve and grow with an organisation who will support your development and learning.

To find out more about this role, please look at the JD and person specification. 

The closing date for this role is 23 January 2022.

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, returning parents, carers or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable. We are committed ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.

£85,000 - £90,000 per annum, inclusive of car allowance (subject to having a UK driving licence/ own car for business use)

Mount Green Housing Association is a community housing association based in and around Surrey with around 1,600 homes. We are at an exciting point in our near 60 years’ history.  We have ambitious plans to shape everything we do with and for our residents. We can and will achieve this through the fantastic ‘one-team’ Mount Green approach, which is where this role plays its part and where you will be supported to do your best work.

At Mount Green, we believe in flexibility between working from the office and home and focusing on getting the right job done well rather than hours at the desk. We want our team to learn and develop professionally and we support colleagues with future career aspirations. Added to this, we offer a great benefits package, including private healthcare, generous pension scheme and annual leave offer - as well as the competitive salary.

Read the highlights below and for a detailed job description and information on how to apply, please visit our website.

Closing Date - 11 February 2022

If you think you are the right fit for us, we look forward to reading your application.

The role: you will lead, manage and develop Mount Green’s housing operations, asset management and development functions. You will bring strong, inspirational leadership and direction for staff, facilitating a ‘one-team’ culture across the business that delivers high performance and ensures residents are at the heart of our business. You will be able to develop effective working relationships with colleagues across Mount Green and with external partners, to deliver on Mount Green’s Corporate Plan.

We reserve the right to close these adverts early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

TPP is delighted to be working with Resuscitation Council UK and supporting with their search to hire a new Director of Engagement & Influencing. This is an opportunity to join an organisation focused on saving lives through the delivery of evidence-based clinical guidance, training courses and initiatives to ensure everyone across Society has the skills and is willing to save a life if they see someone who has collapsed and is not breathing normally.

As an experienced senior level communications professional, you will be joining our client at an exciting stage of their growth and be an integral part of delivering the Vision to 2030. Their mission is to ensure that everyone who has a cardiac arrest has access to appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Work to address the health inequalities in this area is a crucial part of the organisation’s work going forward

As a member of the senior management team, you will have overall people management responsibility for a team of communications and engagement specialists and play a key part in increasing awareness, achieving influence, leading internal communications and delivering inclusive communications along with championing diversity across a range of audiences and key stakeholders.
 

Your duties & responsibilities will include:

• Developing a marketing, communications and stakeholder engagement strategy relating to all key areas of resuscitation and the organisation’s Vision to 2030 and strategic plan.
• Stakeholder engagement and relationship-building, including governments, the NHS and partner organisations
• Developing public policy positions and messaging for specific audiences including external stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Identifying opportunities to influence the wider healthcare agenda and raising RCUK’s profile as a key player and partner for decision-makers.
• Developing and strengthening RCUK’s external communications, including social media, media and email communications.
• As part of the Senior Management Team, developing, helping prioritise and delivering the strategic plans underpinning Vision 2030.
• All external communications, including media and digital channels.
• Maximising the impact and reach of RCUK’s brand and website.
• Leading the Engagement and Influencing department working across communications, policy, stakeholder, marketing and insight disciplines.

Your background, experience and skillsets will include:

• Experience of working at a senior management level in either a communications and marketing, policy or engagement role.
• Demonstrable experience of providing proactive leadership and vision to evolve an innovative programme of influencing and engagement work.
• Demonstrable experience setting strategies and plans at a departmental or organisational level.
• Demonstrable track record of engaging with decision makers and key influencers.
• Proven experience in building effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, partnership building and networking at senior level.
• Demonstrable experience of planning and implementing challenging, innovative and measurable communications plans to generate quality results and engagement.
• Experience of working across all communications disciplines including media, PR, internal communications, stakeholder engagement and digital.
• A strong track record of positioning an organisation to achieve tangible outcomes in a competitive communications environment – including development of brand, identity and messaging.
• Experience in developing and managing budgets.
• Excellent knowledge of health and social care policy, of the NHS and of parliamentary processes across the four nations of the UK would be beneficial but not essential.

The Director of Literature ensures that great literature and Shared Reading remain at the heart of The Reader, utterly central to its mission. In this role, you will lead the development of the entire literature programme – setting the tone and tenor of how we read and what we read, and ensuring that the reading of literature feeds the organisational ethos. You will manage 3 Heads of Department within the Directorate across three teams;

• Publications – providing staff and volunteers with curated literature for use in Shared Reading as well as championing the work of The Reader to the general public primarily via The Reader magazine and The Reader podcast.
• Programmes – devising and delivering The Reader’s public events programme at Calderstones and elsewhere including online, weekly community activities and one-off events
• Teaching and Learning – designing and delivering The Reader’s teaching and learning programmes, developing and nourishing Shared Reading practice across our international network of practitioners. Working directly with the Volunteer Support Team to ensure effective quality assurance for volunteer-led Shared Reading and providing our volunteers with inspirational resources and learning opportunities.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Inspiring the entire organisation – Shared Reading participants, volunteers, visitors to The Reader at Calderstones, staff members, the Trustee Board - in its reading life.
• The annual programming theme and Reader Bookshelf of recommended reads, which inspire our events and reading experiences each year.
• The programming of literary events both online and at Calderstones, including Gravity Festival and The Penny Readings.
• The Reader magazine and podcast, and our wider publishing programme.
• The curated reading resources on our Online Community Hub, used by our national network of volunteers and staff.
• The oversight and development of The Reader’s quality assurance system, ensuring we maintain high quality delivery of Shared Reading.
• Ensuring great teaching of Shared Reading is delivered and further developed.
• Retaining and building standards of diversity and range of literature, including writing from earlier times and challenging texts.
• Being a leader in the ongoing work development of The Reader’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion strategy, paying particular attention to the role of the Shared Reading and the literature we read in creating more humane, warm, and diverse society. 
• You’ll be responsible for leading the development of a new organisational structure which will ensure that the voices of our Reader Leaders and group members are given expression and are heard in our organisational development activities.
• General Director-level work, as a member of Directors’ Group which is collectively responsible for the work of the organisation as a whole, building the organisation’s strategy and plans, and reporting to the Board of Trustees.

Key Responsibilities

Knowledge and skills

• Great vision for literature in the world
• Wide and deep range of reading experience
• Excellent writing skills
• Exceptional communicator
• Good at working alone and in teams
• Good with people, strong management skills

Literature and reading

• We are looking for a reader who has a strong vision for the place of literature in the world, who understands the emotional power of Shared Reading, at both individual and group level, and the potential of the literary experience as an agent for change. You’ll be able to describe the kind of change that literature can bring about.
• You’ll have a wide, deep and, above all, personal literary experience and be able to draw on your own inner anthology of great texts that feed your soul. You’ll be able to speak about your own reading life in compelling terms.
• You’ll be a reader who is also an explorer, willing to look beyond your current experience, but with a clear sense of what it is you are seeking for in literature when you go looking.
• You’ll understand the levels/range of literary expertise within The Reader movement and ensure the organisation continually encourages development of practice, as well as finding ways to harness and promote the expertise of exceptional practitioners.
• You will be committed to the enlargement of our reading range – we want more diverse and challenging texts, from all times and from many cultures. But above all we seek a commitment to the curation of texts which speak to our inner and emotional lives.

Leadership and people management

• We’re looking for a dedicated reader who is also an inspiring leader. This is, above all, about ensuring that the golden thread of literature is woven through all our organisational thinking, practice and making. You will ensure that Shared Reading is undertaken and embedded at all levels of the organisation, and that our organisational thinking about literature remains lively and flexible.
• You will have responsibility for ensuring the Literature Directorate meets its operational, financial and strategic objectives.
• You’ll be able to provide responsible, supportive leadership for the Heads of Teaching and Learning, Programmes and Publishing, as well as providing leadership and a sense of collective purpose to the Directorate as a whole. 

Communication

• You will be able to write well, with nuance and complexity, about The Reader’s work and more widely about the literary experience.
• You will be able to speak authoritatively in public and in the media about The Reader’s work, able to tell the stories we want to tell so that the world understands what literature can do.
• You will be able to develop business planning documents and compile information for Directors’ Group, the board, funders or other external agencies and stakeholders

Liaison and networking

• We’re looking for someone who has, or can develop, a network of contacts with writers, thinkers, and publicly-recognised readers in order to build The Reader’s brand and influence e.g. via podcast, magazine
• You will be a good team member, used to collaboration and able to build strong, flexible and respectful working relationships internally.
• You will be a leader who tells our Reader stories, building belief in what we have to offer, and able to make good and trusting relationships on the basis of your direct experience of our work.

Planning and organising

• You will be responsible to leading the development of an organisational structure to encourage the participation of Volunteer Reader Leaders (and eventually group members) in organisational thinking.
• You will be responsible for the development of the Literature Directorate plan, working collaboratively with other Directors to ensure that all plans help build the overarching organisational plan.
• You will offer leadership and support the Heads of Department within your team in relation to operational planning and the implementation of projects, and take responsibility for the realization of the Directorate’s plans.
• You will oversee the Literature Directorate budget (c £650,000) and be responsible for the high-level prioritizing of time and resources.

Initiative and problem solving

• We are seeking a deeply creative person, able to lead the directorate and wider organisation in creative literary thinking, taking literary practice to the needs and demands of real-life work, such as the development of our anti-racism position and our involvement with all kinds of people who may feel literature is not for them.
• You will identify key literary/reading/philosophical problems which arise in the course of our work and be a key thinker, giving voice to the complexity of problems and taking part in the discovery of solutions.
• You will be dealing routinely with issues which may not have an apparently immediate solution, and you’ll be able to hold complex problems in mind, able to use literature, first and foremost, as your mode of nuanced thinking.

Decision making and freedom to act

• You will be responsible for organisation-shaping decisions which will affect thousands of people involved in The Reader movement, as well as the organisation’s legacy for the future. 

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Powerful vision for literature in the world
• Inspiring leader – able to demonstrate your experience of inspiring others to read, or think and become fellow travelers with you in some way
• Wide and deep range of reading experience
• A highly motivated serious reader, with a profound grasp of the reality (impact and potential) of Shared Reading, and the ability to inspire belief in The Reader’s mission
• A literary thinker first and foremost – able to demonstrate that ‘literariness’ is a specific way of understanding the world
• Generously open-minded, unconstrained by ideologies but able to understand and translate, where appropriate, their relation to The Reader’s core purpose.
• Creative, able to lead the development of new literary products and services
• Demonstrably comprehensive understanding or experience of least one area within the literature-directorate: publishing/programming/teaching/comms
• Able to build networks of literary connection, e.g. publishers, writers, booksellers and to develop literary supporters
• Understands and aims to embody and represent The Reader’s Values
• Excellent writing skills – demonstrated by written submission
• Exceptional Communicator
• Good at working alone and in teams
• Good people manager

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working in a senior managerial or leadership role
• Experience of building a creative product from scratch
• Transferable skills that you think would help you do this role well

In order to complete the application process you must submit an application form and written submission. Please visit THe Reader's website to view a full job description and application process.

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated fundraiser to sustainably increase income from our individual supporters and grow communications across our digital channels.

Room to Heal is a human rights charity, based in London. Our mission is to support people who have survived or witnessed torture and organised violence to rebuild their lives in exile, through an integrated programme of therapeutic and casework assistance. We offer a range of activities including: therapy groups, gardening, individual therapy and casework, cooking and social gatherings, and therapeutic retreats.

Room to Heal is staffed by a team of committed individuals, who work hard but also recognise that a friendly, nurturing environment is crucial for all of our well-being. By joining Room to Heal you will also become a part of a small, close-knit, multi-cultural and inspiring community and be able to see first-hand the positive changes that your work enables in the lives of survivors.

Due to Covid-19, we are largely working remotely: our therapy groups and casework support is currently held online and we’re running some face-to-face community activities when it’s safe to do so.

We’re looking for a highly motivated and experienced person who will strengthen our relationships with, and develop fundraising income from, our individual supporters. They will also successfully manage and integrate communications with individual supporters across all of our digital platforms. 

For more infomation on the day-to-day responsibilties of this role, please see the attached job description

We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Please apply by sending a CV and covering letter, detailing your interest in the role, your relevant experience and evidence of how you meet all aspects of the person specification and job description.

The closing date for applications is Monday 31 January 2022, noon.