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Investigations Officer - Northern Ireland
Reference: JUN20214803
Location: RSPB Northern Ireland
Salary: £27,574.00 - £30,590.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Annual Leave, Life Assurance
Duration: 2 years
This is an outstanding opportunity to help ensure a better future for Northern Ireland’s wildlife. Across Northern Ireland, many of our magnificent birds of prey are being illegally persecuted, and some of our rarest species such as hen harriers, peregrines, and red kites are particularly affected.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised and committed individual to join the RSPB Investigations team in the fight against raptor persecution in Northern Ireland. If you could thrive in a dynamic, challenging environment where you will have the opportunity to contribute your own ideas within a unique and specialised team, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
This new role will act as the key point of contact for our investigative work across Northern Ireland and will follow up reports of dead birds, help monitor some of our rarest breeding species and carry out targeted fieldwork in areas with a history of wildlife crime.
The successful candidate will have:
- A degree in ecology or conservation and/or relevant practical experience
- Experience of practical conservation delivery in support of species & habitat conservation
- Knowledge of wild birds particularly raptors, and of wildlife protection legislation
- Knowledge of RSPB's Investigations team priorities and work
- Proven IT skills including MS Office software especially Excel, Outlook and Teams
- A good level of numeracy and literacy with high attention to detail
- A confident telephone manner, able to liaise professionally with enforcement partners, and also to handle reports of wildlife crime with understanding and empathy, sometimes in sensitive situations
- Taxonomic, identification and practical field skills appropriate to the post
The following are desirable but not essential:
- Experience of specialist software eg GIS
- Experience of working with Police standards for information management/best practice, and/or statutory agencies, media, or law enforcement partners
- Confident and capable of being a public face for RSPB to specialist audiences, as well as general audiences via the media.
This is a 2-year contract and we are looking for someone to fill the role as soon as possible.
Closing date: 23:59, 09 August 2021
Interested?
Please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.
The RSPB is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
No agencies please.
Position: Business Intelligence Partner
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent
Location: Flexible (currently home-based up to August 2021)
Salary: £46,364 - £50,909 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band G, Level 3
Department: Strategy and Business Intelligence
At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.
Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.
About this job
Reporting to our Head of Strategy and Business Intelligence, you’ll provide valuable and important insight to broaden and deepen our understanding of our community and help improve the MS Society’s data and insight maturity.
With a key focus on modelling and visualisation, you’ll use data and insights to help drive impact and performance across our organisation and community. You’ll have excellent data analysis, data extraction and data manipulation skills.
Using Microsoft PowerBI, you’ll deliver and maintain our organisational business intelligence hub, and develop key business intelligence resources and reporting that maximise the value we derive from our data. You must have excellent knowledge of BI and analysis tools.
You’ll be a proactive, insight-led person, able to identify opportunities where the organisation and business areas can better use data and analytics for decision-making, innovation, and continuous-improvement.
You’ll have a track record of success in delivering high quality results to deadlines and substantial experience of improving outcomes through provision of analysis and insight, particularly in a marketing or service delivery context.
We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.
The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our Every MS Story strategy.
As part of this exciting transformation, we’ll be moving from our current National Centre based in Cricklewood, London to Finsbury Park, London later this year. We’re expecting to be moving into our new office from August 2021.
Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 10 August 2021
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We’re a Disability Confident Employer. We’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and/or from ethnic minority backgrounds, where we’re looking to build stronger and better representation among our staff.
No agencies please.
Membership Fundraiser
Location: Belfast or Derry
Salary: £18,250.00 - £22,243.00 Per Annum
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days annual leave
Do you want to make a positive impact on our natural world each and every day? Are you a good storyteller with a love for the outdoors? Then this could be the perfect job for you!
What’s the role about?
Our Membership Fundraisers are the ambassadors for the RSPB; traveling to different venues on most days in their company van, where they set up stands and spend the day actively engaging with members of the public.
Every day our Membership Fundraisers are playing a vital role in our efforts to help give nature the home it deserves. They do this by having engaging conversations with people about our conservation work, educating the public about how they can help wildlife from home, and inspiring people of all ages to become lifelong members of the RSPB so that we can make a difference to our natural world.
What we need from you:
You don’t need to know much about birds, nor do you need to know much about conservation as we run a thorough induction program and offer fantastic training and ongoing support. We do however look for individuals who have a passion for nature and are gifted storytellers.
Essential skills, knowledge, and experience:
- Enthusiasm and passion for saving nature;
- Enjoy working outdoors -solo as well as part of a team;
- A good story-teller and a confident communicator;
- A resilience to rejection;
- Experience in a customer-facing role;
- Comfortable asking people for monthly donations;
- A full, manual driving licence;
- Access to the Microsoft Office suite at home; and
- Willing to work 3 out of 4 weekends and bank holidays.
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:
- Fundraising/sales experience
Closing date: 23:59, 08 August 2021
We run a monthly induction for all new Membership Fundraisers around the UK and are currently recruiting for a 6th September 2021/11th October 2021 induction.
We are now recruiting for Membership Fundraisers across the UK, to find out more information on the locations available, please click the apply button to be taken to our main job opportunities page where all Membership Fundraising vacancies are listed.
No agencies please.
Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer
We’re looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the Policy and Influencing team as our Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer in Northern Ireland.
Position: Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer
Location: Homebased, Northern Ireland
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: circa £29,500 per annum
Contract: Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application
Closing Date: 11 August 2021
Interview Date: Week commencing 16 August 2021
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application
The Role
Reporting to the Public Affairs and Campaigns Manager, and working very closely with the nation-specific Policy & Influencing Lead, you will deliver our organisation’s integrated public affairs and campaigning activity for Northern Ireland. You will plan, develop and deliver effective and strategic influencing activity to help achieve our team objectives on key issues impacting people affected by stroke.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Delivering public affairs activity and stakeholder engagement to support the organisation’s influencing priorities
- Tracking and logging stakeholder contact and take primary responsibility for the management of political stakeholders
- Providing political monitoring and horizon scanning
- Planning and implementing campaigns and advocacy activity – both online and offline - that help to secure long-term improvements for those affected by stroke
- Attending, and supporting others to attend, meetings and events representing the Stroke Association, including developing high-quality briefings
- Spending a significant proportion of their time supporting UK-wide public affairs and campaigns activity too
About You
The Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer will have experience/background in:
- Some experience of national or local level influencing, campaigning and advocacy
- A solid understanding of the Northern Ireland political and health context
- Experience of undertaking policy analysis and horizon-scanning
- And ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience of developing briefings for a range of audiences
To fulfil the role, you must have the right to work in the U.K.
Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Please state any preferences for flexible options in your covering letter
In return…
This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.
About the Organisation
Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.
We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there. We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.
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