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Who we are:
Muslim Aid is a UK faith-based international development organisation that provides support to communities around the world affected by disasters, conflict, or endemic poverty without regard to their social, religious, or ethnic background.
Established in 1985, Muslim Aid has facilitated the engagement of the British Muslim and non-Muslim community in support of its work in a variety of ways. Over the years, its humanitarian work has included responses to major crises around the world including, famine in East Africa, earthquakes and flooding in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
We place strong emphasis on long-term development projects that build the capacity of local people to help themselves. In addition to the 5 country offices worldwide we also work with multiple partner offices focusing on sustainable Development Programmes and providing humanitarian relief during times of crisis.
Summary of the role:
The Communications Officer plays a key role in executing the organisation’s communication strategy. This role involves creating and managing content for various platforms, supporting media relations, and contributing to the overall communication campaigns and public relations efforts. The Communications Officer will work closely with other team members and the marketing team to ensure that all communication activities are aligned with the organisation’s strategic goals and effectively engage target audiences.
About the Role:
- Create engaging content for the organisation’s communication platforms ensuring that all content aligns with the organisation’s messaging and brand guidelines.
- Collaborate with the marketing team to engage followers and improve reach.
- Manage the collation, storage and dissemination of the organisation’s digital archives in line with established guidelines and operational requirements.
- Prepare stakeholder media summaries and reports on the organisation’s media coverage and its key issues.
- Maintain a database of media contacts that can be used to strengthen stakeholder management.
- Report on the performance of communication activities using data and insights to inform future communication strategies and activities.
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Public Relations, or a related field.
- An understanding and awareness of the value of social media and their fundraising potential.
- Experience in content creation, social media management, and media relations.
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with the ability to create content for different platforms and audiences.
- Proficiency in social media platforms, content management systems, and graphic design tools.
- Detail-oriented and organised, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Why you should apply:
Join Muslim Aid as a Communications Officer and play a pivotal role in shaping our communication strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to create and manage impactful content across various platforms, support media relations, and contribute to meaningful communication campaigns that align with the organisation’s strategic goals. Apply now to bring your creativity and expertise to a role where your contributions will have a tangible impact on communities around the world.
Benefits you will enjoy working for us:
- 25 days annual leave + 4 Privilege days
- Hybrid working
- Paid time off for medical appointments
- 2 hours lunch break on Fridays
- Time off in Lieu (TOIL)
- Pension Scheme
How to apply:
To apply please submit your cover letter (no more than 1 page) and CV.
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Location (UK): Office Hybrid* - London
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer
Travel: Occasional travel to Versus Arthritis offices (London, Chesterfield, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow)
Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.
We’re looking for a Policy Officer who will make a difference to health and social care policy for people with arthritis.
Within the Chief Executive’s Office, the UK Advocacy and Health Intelligence Department are focused on creating lasting change. We identify creative policy solutions in response to the challenges people with arthritis face. We influence decision-makers through stakeholder engagement, public affairs activity and by campaigning alongside people with arthritis. We have expertise across health and care services, public health, and employment policy. We also work in collaboration to influence medical research and data policy and play an active role in several cross-sector groups.
About the role
The purpose of this role is to drive policy development across our policy priority areas. The Policy Officer will lead on specific policy projects, commissioning research, developing policy positions, and producing reports and consultation responses.
This role will cover a broad range of issues across one of our strategic goals – prevention and diagnosis; access to treatment; and living well with arthritis. Our approach considers the needs of people of all ages who have arthritis.
The Policy Officer will also contribute to the wider work of the team, working closely with colleagues in the Nations Teams, the Research Directorate and the wider charity, including by representing us on cross-sector policy groups, drafting briefings, and participating in events and conferences.
We’ll give you autonomy, variety and challenge with opportunities to work with inspirational campaigners, attend events in Parliament and meet senior stakeholders in Government. We’re a supportive team who will value your well-being and professional development.
About you
If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you:
- Understanding of policy issues relevant to people with long-term conditions or disability.
- Experience of working in a policy team.
- Experience of developing and influencing health and social care policy.
- An ability to think creatively and communicate effectively.
- An enthusiastic, adaptive and flexible approach.
*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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For 140 years, the Forces Employment Charity has proudly supported Service leavers, veterans, and their families in building successful civilian careers. We provide veterans with life-long, life-changing support, jobs, and training opportunities, regardless of circumstances, rank, length of service, or reason for leaving.
This is an exciting but critical time to join the team as the charity looks to grow and expand its business development, fundraising and income generation efforts across the organisation. This is an excellent opportunity for a passionate individual with exceptional writing and organisational skills plus an eye for detail, to advance in their fundraising career by supporting our vital work.
Brief role description:
The Fundraising Officer plays an integral role supporting the Fundraising team at the Forces Employment Charity (FEC).
As part of the Marketing, Communication and Fundraising Directorate, and led by the Head of Fundraising and Development, you will research and identify new funding opportunities and support their conversion into long-term relationships. You will be supported by senior members of the fundraising team to create and write high-quality proposals to secure funding, and stewardship reports to demonstrate impact and outcomes to our funders.
Interested? Want to know more about the Charity? Please visit the Charity website.
Eager to know more the role? Have a look at the Job Description attached.
What’s in it for you? Check out the Benefits sheet attached.
Have we convinced you to apply? If so, submit your CV and Covering Letter by closing date Wednesday 23 July 2025
Please note: Applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert; therefore, we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible. If you are an internal applicant, please ensure you have made The People Team aware before applying.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff by fostering an inclusive, supportive environment where everyone, including those with disabilities, can thrive, develop, and achieve their full potential. We actively encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and ensure reasonable adjustments are made to support candidates with disabilities throughout the recruitment process.
We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process.
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We provide life-changing support, jobs and training opportunities to Service leavers, veterans, reservists and their spouses, partners and Children
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For 140 years, the Forces Employment Charity has proudly supported Service leavers, veterans, and their families in building successful civilian careers. We provide veterans with life-long, life-changing support, jobs, and training opportunities, regardless of circumstances, rank, length of service, or reason for leaving.
This is an exciting but critical time to join the team as the charity looks to grow and expand its business development, fundraising and income generation efforts across the organisation. This is an excellent opportunity for a passionate individual with exceptional writing and organisational skills plus an eye for detail, to advance in their fundraising career by supporting our vital work.
Brief role description:
The Fundraising Officer plays an integral role supporting the Fundraising team at the Forces Employment Charity (FEC).
As part of the Marketing, Communication and Fundraising Directorate, and led by the Head of Fundraising and Development, you will research and identify new funding opportunities and support their conversion into long-term relationships. You will be supported by senior members of the fundraising team to create and write high-quality proposals to secure funding, and stewardship reports to demonstrate impact and outcomes to our funders.
Interested? Want to know more about the Charity? Please visit the Charity website.
Eager to know more the role? Have a look at the Job Description attached.
What’s in it for you? Check out the Benefits sheet attached.
Have we convinced you to apply? If so, submit your CV and Covering Letter by closing date Wednesday 23 July 2025
Please note: Applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert; therefore, we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible. If you are an internal applicant, please ensure you have made The People Team aware before applying.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff by fostering an inclusive, supportive environment where everyone, including those with disabilities, can thrive, develop, and achieve their full potential. We actively encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and ensure reasonable adjustments are made to support candidates with disabilities throughout the recruitment process.
We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process.
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Registered Charity
101 - 500
We provide life-changing support, jobs and training opportunities to Service leavers, veterans, reservists and their spouses, partners and Children
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At the Medical Research Foundation, we believe in the transformative power of medical research. As an independent charitable foundation, we fund exceptional research into underfunded and emerging areas of health, areas where we can make the biggest impact. As we roll out an ambitious strategy to 2029, we’re looking for a Grants Officer to join our dedicated Research Team and help us deliver funding that has the potential to improve lives around the world.
You’ll play a central role in administering research funding competitions and supporting our portfolio of funded research. You will ensure our funding processes are fair, rigorous, and efficient, making sure the right researchers get the right support at the right time.
From managing day-to-day queries and processing applications to helping deliver scientific events and award ceremonies, this is a varied and rewarding role with plenty of scope for professional development.
We would like to hear from you if you can demonstrate:
- Experience of working, studying, or volunteering in a grant-giving or grant-management role, or a research funding organisation or science-related environment
- Clear communicate skills, in writing and verbally with colleagues, scientists, and other stakeholders
- Good analytical skills, with excellent attention to detail
- Strong project planning, organising and time-management skills with the flexibility to respond to team priorities and unexpected changes
- A high level of IT skills, specifically excellent MS Word, and excellent MS Excel.
- Working confidently in a team and be self-motivated to work alone
Our vision is a world where medical research improves health for everyone.
There are still many health conditions which impose a heavy burden on millions of people, in the UK and around the world. History has shown us, time and again, that the best way to achieve better human health is through medical research. We know that by investing now, we will see life-saving advances in the future and improvements in health for everyone.
We will offer a salary of between £32,000 and £35,000 per annum depending on experience for a 36-hour week. Ideally you will be a full-time employee, but we are happy to consider a part-time contract (min 0.8 FTE).
We value spending time working in-person to develop strong connections with each other and with our mission, so you will be based at our central London office for a minimum of three days a week (usually Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) with the option to work remotely for the remainder. This will be on a pro-rata basis for part time staff.
t the Medical Research Foundation, we believe that diversity drives creativity and innovation. We are dedicated to promoting equality of opportunity, fostering fairness and inclusion, and creating an environment where everyone feels that they belong.
We especially welcome applications from individuals from minoritised groups, including those from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and members of the LGBTQI+ community.
Closing Date: 9 July 2025
Interview Date: 4 & 5 August 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Location: Home based, or office based at Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London N1, in line with NCVO’s flexible working policy or home working policy.
Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week), job share applications are also welcomed.
About NCVO
We are the charities charity. For over 100 years, NCVO has stood shoulder to shoulder with communities, championing and celebrating voluntary action.
Our membership is made up of over 17,000 voluntary organisations across England, from small, grassroots community groups and social enterprises, to large, far-reaching charities.
We believe that communities are strengthened by voluntary action. We therefore want charities to thrive and be empowered to deliver for people and communities.
About the Services & Partnerships directorate
This role sits within the Services and Partnerships team, which includes our Training, Consultancy, Membership, Practical Support and Fundraising and Partnerships teams. As a collective, this team generates significant unrestricted income for NCVO ensuring our vital support of charities across England is sustainable.
Our Practical Support team provide an essential lifeline to charities, giving guidance and support on issues that affect charities such as Governance, Fundraising, Finance and Volunteer Management.
Being in the Services and Partnerships team enables us to have sectoral impact, supporting charities to thrive. We strive for sectoral excellence, putting charities and their needs at the centre of what we do.
About the Training & Consultancy team
NCVO is an established and trusted training provider to over 6,000 people each year from across the charity sector and beyond.
We run our training services as a social business, offering cost effective, high-quality learning. Our wide-ranging well-respected portfolio of training aims to give the people working or volunteering for a charity what they need to thrive in their role. Our training also generates significant income for NCVO, playing a vital role in our financial sustainability and allowing us to achieve our mission.
Our training programme has three key strands; open (delivered live online), in-house (delivered online and/or face to face with an organisation on a specific theme) and eLearning. With support and oversight from the Training and Development Manager this role is responsible for the smooth running of the first of these three areas.
About the role
Our business is growing and we’re looking for a passionate, organised, and innovative team player who can oversee, maintain and scale our business systems and processes. Working closely with our staff consultants, associate team and clients this role is key to ensuring we provide a consistent and professional service; enabling our consultants to meet their targets on income and ensuring we maintain accurate records and reports on our work.
As Senior Business Support Officer, you will ensure that every aspect of our income-generating business is effective, including managing our financial processing, delivering effective administration, using our systems for project and client management, and optimising how we operate.
Your experience might come from having held project management, finance, or complex administrative support roles, either in a professional and/or volunteer capacity.
You’ll need to:
- be an effective task-oriented administrator
- have a strong ability to manage and prioritise competing priorities
- enjoy operating in a faced paced environment
- have a keen eye for detail
- be confident and experienced at using and maintaining business systems and software such as Microsoft Dynamics and Power BI
- have experience of working with budgets, contracting and multiple stakeholders
- have a versatile style meaning you’re comfortable working closely with different internal and external stakeholders, building the relationships required to drive forward our work
- be a curious and committed person, who is skilled at anticipating potential opportunities, risks and challenges as well as identifying ways to address these through improved processes and systems. You’re comfortable doing this both independently and in collaboration with a wider team. Your instinct and predisposition will be to work toward simple and practical solutions which can be easily adopted and understood.
We don’t expect you to have worked in consultancy or training before, but you’ll need to have both a passion for the charity sector and a strong commercial mindset to ensure the success of our social business.
We want to hear from a diverse range of applicants; whether you have experience in all the areas outlined here (and in our job description) or experience in some with a drive to learn and grow – please do consider making an application. If you require more information or informal discussion about the role, please contact our Lead consultant Sally Stephens by email.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
NCVO is fully committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in our sector. We want this to be reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and identities. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups in the voluntary sector and those with diverse, lived experience. As part of our commitment to employing disabled people, all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirement for all competencies on the person specification will be guaranteed an interview.
If you have access needs or require reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a pre-interview task and will have one week to complete the exercise. Interview questions will be shared in advance.
NCVO is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone. Charity No. 225922.
Benefits for NCVO employees
NCVO offers attractive benefits including:
- 25 days’ annual leave (for full time staff and pro-rata for part-time staff) and office closure between 25 December and 1 January inclusive. After three years' service annual holiday increases to 27 days, and after five years to 30 days, (pro rata for part time staff)
- the option to purchase or sell up to five more days each year
- five days’ volunteering leave (pro rata for part-time staff)
- 2.5 extra ‘wellbeing’ days off during the year
- enhanced pay for sick/maternity/adoption leave
- subsidised gym membership
- season ticket loan
- flexible working, including opportunities to work from home/off site
- monthly homeworking allowance for permanent homeworkers
- monthly office worker allowance for those who have to work from the office on a daily basis
- generous employer pension contribution of up to 8.5% of salary, into our stakeholder pension scheme (linked to employee contribution)
- training and development opportunities
- the opportunity to join Hospital Saturday Fund health cash plan for free at the basic level of cover, or at a reduced rate for other levels of cover
- 24-hour free and confidential employee assistance programme
We’re located a short walk from London King’s Cross station in a modern accessible building, overlooking Regent’s canal.
Shortlisting date: 15 July 2025
Interviews: 22 July 2025
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Job Title: Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Location: Remote (UK-based preferred)
Travel: Travel to Calais and UK operational sites required
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Deadline to Apply: 16 July 2025
How to Apply: Please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role and motivation for working with Care4Calais.
About Care4Calais
Care4Calais is a volunteer-led humanitarian charity providing essential aid and support to refugees and asylum seekers in Northern France and across the UK. Founded on principles of dignity, compassion, and solidarity, we are committed to creating a fairer, more inclusive society for those seeking refuge.
From providing warm clothing, English classes to legal access, education, and social support, we work tirelessly—through a network of grassroots volunteers and a small, dedicated staff teams—to deliver life-changing help to displaced people. With operations in Calais, Dunkirk, and over 70 locations in the UK, our impact is wide-reaching and continually growing.
About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional Chief Operating Officer (COO) to lead and oversee the strategic delivery of Care4Calais’ operational (direct aid provision) work across all regions. This is quite a newly created role that will play a central part in shaping the charity’s growth, resilience, and day-to-day effectiveness—ensuring our humanitarian aid reaches those who need it most.
The COO will work closely with the CEO, Senior Leadership Team, and Trustees, to develop internal systems, guide operational teams, maintain consistency across all projects, and strengthen our digital communications, training, safeguarding, and volunteer engagement. You will also play a key leadership role in fostering innovation, implementing policy, and coordinating multi-regional delivery across the UK and Northern France.
This is a remote-based role, but regular travel to operational sites in Calais and around the UK is essential to ensure quality, cohesion, and morale across our field teams and volunteer network.
Key Responsibilities
➣ Strategic & Operational Leadership
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Oversee the delivery of all operational activities across the UK and French field sites, ensuring they align with Care4Calais’ mission, values, and strategic goals.
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Lead and support UK Field Operations Managers and France Operations Coordinators in planning and executing aid distributions, support services, and community engagement.
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Monitor performance across regions, using data and feedback to drive improvements in impact, efficiency, safety, and volunteer satisfaction.
➣ Volunteer Coordination & Digital Community Oversight
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Supervise volunteer communication channels, including Facebook groups, WhatsApp chats, and other platforms, ensuring all messaging is consistent, safe, and in line with our organisational tone and values.
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Support the recruitment, onboarding, training, and retention of a diverse and inclusive volunteer base.
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Work daily with Field Operations Managers to provide hands-on guidance, motivation, problem-solving and support for regional leads and volunteer teams.
➣ Training, Safeguarding & Compliance
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Develop, maintain, and implement comprehensive training programmes for volunteers to ensure service quality, safety, and dignity for people seeking asylum.
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Ensure that safeguarding policies are understood by all team members, staff and volunteers alike, and rigorously implemented, acting as a point of escalation for issues that arise.
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Oversee incident reporting processes, risk assessments, and other compliance-related procedures to safeguard both volunteers and people seeking asylum.
➣ Organisational Development & Governance
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Contribute to strategic planning and policy development with the CEO, and SLT.
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Identify opportunities for innovation in service delivery, volunteer management, and infrastructure.
➣ Field Engagement & External Representation
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Conduct regular visits to UK and French operational sites, meeting with local teams, assessing needs, and providing in-person leadership and support.
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Represent Care4Calais in meetings with partner organisations and local authorities, and at public events.
Person Specification
Essential
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Demonstrable experience managing multi-site teams.
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Strong leadership, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to delegate effectively and manage competing priorities.
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Deep understanding of issues affecting asylum seekers, displaced people, or those facing immigration challenges.
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Commitment to anti-racism, inclusivity, and the promotion of human rights.
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Ability and willingness to travel frequently to field operations across the UK and Calais.
Desirable
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Proven experience in a senior operational, COO, or equivalent leadership role within the charity, humanitarian or grassroots community sector.
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Experience working with refugee communities or within the UK asylum system.
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Understanding of safeguarding, compliance, and humanitarian best practices.
Equality & Safeguarding
Care4Calais is an equal opportunities employer. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled candidates, and those with lived experience of immigration system.
All appointments are subject to enhanced safeguarding checks.
Lived Experience Inclusion
We are an anti-racist organisation and a proud member of the Experts by Experience Employment Network (EBE), which aims to create a charitable sector led by individuals with lived experience of the asylum system.
As part of our membership, we are dedicated to creating inclusive employment practices that recognise and accommodate the unique circumstances and strengths of people with lived experience. We actively move away from a one-size-fits-all approach, ensuring our recruitment processes are fair, supportive, and accessible.
We warmly encourage applicants with lived experience to make use of the guidance and resources available on the EBE website (ebeemployment).
In addition, applicants with lived experience are welcome to connect with the EBE support team for tailored assistance with completing the application form and, where available, one-to-one interview preparation.
Importantly, we recognise the significant cultural, linguistic, and experiential insights that individuals with lived experience of the UK asylum system bring to this role. As such, all applicants from this background who meet the essential criteria will be automatically shortlisted and invited to interview.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you an experienced, organized and proactive Executive Assistant who thrives in a fast-paced, international environment? Do you enjoy supporting senior leaders and playing a key role in enabling teams to work effectively across different time zones and cultures? Are you a practising Christian who wants to use your skills and experience in a faith-based setting? Then our team at ODI would love to hear from you!
We’re looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, who can confidently manage multiple priorities and handle sensitive information with discretion. You’ll bring experience in executive-level support, coordinating complex calendars and meetings, preparing internal communications, and supporting reporting to senior stakeholders.
Reporting to the Chief Programs Officer, you’ll play a key role in supporting the Global Field Leadership and Support Teams to stay connected and focused.
Your Key Responsibilities
· Provide administrative and communications support to the Chief Programs Officer and Field Operations Team, managing complex calendars, coordinating international events, preparing reports and presentations, and serving as the key liaison with internal and external contacts.
· Ensure smooth office operations through expert budget tracking, correspondence management, and use of digital tools, including maintaining filing systems, supporting internal communications, and producing field updates and newsletters.[EP1]
· Managing and coordinating special projects, and building strong relationships across different teams and departments to ensure smooth collaboration and information flow.
· Anticipating needs and proactively solving problems, helping CPO stay focused on strategic priorities and achieve organizational goals more effectively.
Your Profile
· Committed Christian with a heart for the Persecuted Church.
· Holder of a degree, or equivalent in education plus experience in an office environment.
· Cross-culturally sensitive
· Excelling in office processes, related computer software and electronic communications tools.
· Well organized, efficient, self-motivated and proactive
· Flexible, servant-hearted and positive. Able to adapt approach to provide best support.
· Fluent in spoken and written English
Our Offer
Working at Open Doors means that you are actively involved in serving the worldwide Persecuted Church. We offer you a versatile position in an international, dynamic environment, a professional team and the opportunity to grow professionally and personally. As a global organization we are used to combining working from home with working from the office and to have flexible working hours. This position is preferably based in the UK, or the Netherlands.
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Open Doors is an international, interdenominational organization that supports Christians who are persecuted for their faith.
Open Doors International supports the worldwide organization with services such as Communications, Marketing, People & Culture, Advocacy, IT, Program Management, Finance and Global Research by working in a service-oriented way with teams and colleagues in countries with an Open Doors Development or Field office.
Global Field Leadership & Support teams at ODI work under the leadership of the Chief Programs Officer and consists of Regional Directors with Field Technical and Program Management specialists.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you passionate about criminal justice and want to work from home for a small charity where you can make a real difference? Are you experienced in operations and/ or administration? Then we would love to hear from you!
The Welcome Directory is a multi-faith organisation dedicated to supporting the successful resettlement of prison leavers across England and Wales. We facilitate equal access to faith-based social inclusion while challenging stigma and discrimination as a vital and effective pathway for positive mental wellbeing; helping people to turn their lives around in the long-term and break the cycle of reoffending. We work at the grassroots level to build community capacity, create positive attitudinal change and to build more inclusive and thus resilient communities.
We are currently recruiting for an Operations Officer to lead on administrative support to the charity under the direction of the Project Manager, supporting on engagement with various stakeholders and networks. The goal of the post is to ensure that The Welcome Directory can effectively develop the reach of our work and achieve exponential growth, by maximising administrative efficiency.
Whilst this is a 6-month contract, there is the potential to extend where funding permits.
The role will include:
Leading on operational projects, including:
- Faith community engagement
- Processing faith/ belief community registrations and maintaining records
- Approaching existing and prospective faith/ belief communities, including follow up to the annual survey and periodical team campaigns
- Assisting with the production of the annual physical directory
- Co-ordinating the annual Affiliates Scheme
- Researching new initiatives or solutions
Supporting events, including:
- Support in the administration of the online Prisons Awareness Course and other webinar events, including technical support
- Planning bi-annual team days and any one-off events, in consultation with the Project Manager
- Planning bi-annual team campaign periods, in consultation with the Project Manager and Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
- Preparing resources and/or PowerPoint presentations and booking logistics, in consultation with the Project Manager and the Communications & Fundraising Officer
Leading on administration, including:
- Answering phone, email, and letter enquiries
- Purchasing of supplies and dispatch of resources
- Co-ordinating and setting up meetings
- Collating routine data and creating trackers to support operations
- Creating an annual team planner
- Taking minutes at specific meetings
- Leading on team password management
- Following up with stakeholders as required
Supporting on financial operations, including:
- Processing expenses claims and issuing internal invoices
- Paying-in cheques and paying external invoices
- Maintaining the organisational asset register
- Obtaining Gift Aid declarations
As a small, well-respected charity in the criminal justice sector, we offer staff:
- Opportunity to gain experience in the criminal justice sector, including a prison visit
- Remote working
- Working in a small, supportive team
- Regular team days
The full Job Description and Person Specification can be found on the attached.
Should you have any questions about the role, please get in touch by email.
The Welcome Directory will be scheduling interviews as applications come in. Please note we reserve the right to close vacancies early should we receive sufficient applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
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To help faith communities become places where people who leave prison find welcome, acceptance and appropriate support.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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1. Brief job description
Role: Grants Officer
Salary: £25,500 - £30,000 depending on experience
Holiday allowance: 25 days per annum plus UK bank holidays
Contract type: Permanent
Probationary period: Three months
Hours of work: Core hours are between 10am and 4pm. You will work 7 hours per day (excluding a lunch break) 5 days per week. Start / end times can be flexible, so long as the core hours are worked (or a variation in agreement with your line manager)
Location: Save the Rhino International supports a hybrid work model. For this role, it is anticipated that you will work a minimum of three days a week from our office (Unit 3, Coach House Mews, 217 Long Lane, London, SE1 4PR). Further flexibility can be discussed with your line manager
Line manager: Grants Manager
Start date: Monday 18 August 2025
Application closing date: 23:59 (BST) on Tuesday 1 July 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
2. About Save the Rhino International – leading the charge!
At Save the Rhino International, we believe rhinos are magnificent, in themselves and as champions of the incredible wild landscapes in which they live. And they are endangered. To thrive, both rhinos and people need a world that is healthy, diverse and resilient.
We connect people striving to conserve rhinos and their habitats with people who want to support that vital work, and we contribute our own knowledge and skills to the conservation effort. Every day we work with a wonderful community of passionate friends, partners and supporters, to ensure that all five species of rhinos thrive in the wild.
Our core values, on which we will never compromise, are Integrity, Collaboration and Determination. We express those values through how we behave and talk to the world – who we are: Friendly, Knowledgeable and Passionate.
Save the Rhino International was established as a UK-registered charity in 1994. In the financial year ending 31 March 2025, we raised c. £3.4 million in support of our conservation partners in Africa and Asia.
3. About the role
Please note that this is a new role at Save the Rhino, which offers the chance to help raise vital funds for rhino conservation efforts in Africa and Asia. The Grants Officer will report to the Grants Manager, who in turn reports to the Grants Lead.
Raising funds for specific rhino conservation field programmes and projects in Africa and Asia is a key part of Save the Rhino’s work. In the financial year 2024-25, c. £2.6m in grants were made in response to donor-funded proposals that were drafted by the grants team. Producing good proposals and credible budgets depends on close liaison with Save the Rhino’s partners in the field to understand the issues that need to be addressed and the proposed approaches to tackle them. Receiving repeat grants from donors depends on consistently providing high-quality, relevant and timely reports that analyse the impact of the grants, as well as developing relationships with the donors built on mutual trust and understanding.
As part of Save the Rhino’s grants management team, the Grants Officer will benefit from the opportunity to learn about rhino conservation in the field, and best practice fundraising. The primary focus of the role will be to support the Conservation and Fundraising teams by drafting narrative and financial reports on grants from individuals, companies, grant-making trusts and foundations, zoos, and governments. In addition, the Grants Officer will also participate in internal and external discussions about project design, monitoring and evaluating impact, and help provide content for Save the Rhino’s website, print, and social media.
Save the Rhino International is a small and friendly organisation with big ambitions. Every day, we strive to achieve our vision of all five rhino species thriving in the wild. We have an informal, genuine, and supportive atmosphere, whilst expecting high professional standards of all our staff. All members of our team are required to support the work of each other: enthusiasm, flexibility, and a willingness to pull together when required are essential.
4. Key responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of the Grants Officer are to support the Grants Manager and Grants Lead, including:
Programme-facing
- In discussion with field programme partners, help develop project proposals and budgets that can be pitched to potential funders
- Set up report templates for grant recipients to complete
- Assist with monitoring and evaluating grant impact
- Support Save the Rhino’s annual risk assessment process, which involves due diligence of the recipients of our grants
Donor-facing
- Thank the donors of donations for specific programmes or projects of less than £1,000 made to Save the Rhino
- Adapt quarterly / biannual / annual grant reports from field programmes or projects, produced by the Grants Manager and/or Grants Lead, and tailor them to each donor’s requirements
- Manage grants from funds raised by the ForRangers initiative, including liaison with the ForRangers Advisory Board, and communicating the impact of those grants to participants in the annual ForRangers Ultra marathon
- Respond to donors’ requests for images, information, rhino facts etc. on request
Internal
- Participate in and minute weekly meetings to discuss news and priority needs from our partners in the field, grant management and reporting, grant application opportunities, communications opportunities etc.
- Provide compelling copy and images for Save the Rhino’s Communications team to produce content highlighting rhino conservation progress and the impact of donors’ grants
- Ensure all supporter and partner activity is accurately recorded in Save the Rhino’s database (Salesforce) and used effectively for relationship management
- Manage administrative tasks, including creating invoices, and tracking income and expenditure against the budget
- Uphold General Data Protection Regulation, data protection, and fundraising best practice to ensure that Save the Rhino’s fundraising is ethical, inclusive and legally compliant
General
- Participate in organisational monitoring, evaluation and learning processes
- Contribute to achieving organisational financial targets and return on investment
- Support the team with ad hoc event logistics, including, but not limited to, evening cultivation events, London Marathon, etc.
- Contribute to building broader team culture
- Other tasks as needed and consistent with role
5. Person specification
Essential skills / experience:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, high attention to detail and fluency in English
- Experience of writing reports and communicating effectively with a range of external audiences
- Strong excel skills
- Excellent time-management and ability to prioritise workload to meet tight deadlines in a busy team
- Ability to be flexible, enthusiastic, self-motivated and self-confident, working both independently and as part of a team
- A degree in conservation / biology / zoology or related field
Desirable skills / experience:
- Experience of working with people from different backgrounds and cultures, and/or in different countries
- Knowledge and understanding of African and Asian rhino conservation
- Experience and success in applying for and managing grants from individuals and grant-making organisations
- Experience with fundraising / customer-relationship management databases
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Save the Rhino takes your data protection seriously. Our full privacy policy for recruitment can be found on our website.
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Location: MSSC, 200B Lambeth Road London, SE1 7JY (hybrid working)
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: up to £41,500 per annum dependent upon experience
Closing Date: 2 July 2025
Application: CV & Supporting Statement
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The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.
We are currently looking for an HR People Partner – ER and Projects to join our team.
About the role
We are looking for a self-driven, highly motivated team player to join our HR department. Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, this postholder will work closely with the two HR People Partners. The post holder will lead and manage all formal employee relations cases whether it be disciplinaries, grievances or complaints. They will also Project manage and deliver on HR projects including the development of new initiatives and HR policy updates.
Responsibilities
- To lead and manage employee relations activity across the charity by working closely with the key stakeholders.
- To provide guidance and advise senior managers in line with MSSC policies, employment legislation and ACAS Code of Practice regarding complex HR situations.
- To lead and take notes at all MSSC disciplinaries, grievances and formal complaints to support the process. These could include conduct, performance management/capability, absence management. grievances, bullying and harassment, discrimination, whistleblowing etc.
- Ensure appropriate documentation of cases including file notes, correspondence, accurate meeting minutes etc, ensuring their employee file is kept up to date and organised.
- To provide support to the HR People Partners on broader ER issues, if necessary, such as absence management/OH referrals, performance management/PIPs.
- To support and assist the Director of HR and the team on a range of HR projects and initiatives.
- To develop, review and implement HR policies, procedures and guidance documents, ensuring legal compliance and best practice.
- Manage the appraisal process including launch communications, monitoring completions and reviewing forms for any ER issues and logging training needs.
- Lead the annual staff survey launch and collation and analysis of data.
- To cover for the Director of HR and other team members as required.
Requirements
- CIPD qualified or equivalent experience
- Strong experience of leading employee relations cases and advising senior management
- Strong knowledge of employment legislation and best practice
- Strong organisational skills – the ability to juggle a demanding workload and manage priorities and working under pressure and takes pride in producing high quality work
- Strong communication and influencing skills; clarity in writing style and verbal expression
- Excellent interpersonal skills – friendly, approachable and professional
- Experience of managing HR projects and leading through to effective delivery
- Strong attention to detail and the drive to get things right first time
For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack. If you are interested in this role, please apply now!
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave per annum increasing with length of service
- Hybrid working for many roles
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- Private medical insurance
- Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
- Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
Additional Information
MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.
We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.
All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks.
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We’re looking for a brilliant Executive Assistant to join our team and play a central role in supporting our Chief Executive and governance functions. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives on organisation, loves working with people at all levels, and wants to make a real impact at the heart of a professional membership body.
The voice of environmental health since 1883, CIEH is the professional body for environmental health representing nearly 8,000 members in the public, private and third sectors. Building on its rich heritage, CIEH ensures the highest standards of professional competence in its members, in the belief that through environmental health, people’s health can be improved. Our vision is “safer, cleaner and healthier environments for the benefit of all”, and this role is key to helping us deliver our vision.
You’ll be the engine behind our Board and Committees, ensuring meetings run smoothly, papers are published on time, and actions are followed up. You’ll also support our governance processes—from elections and inductions to compliance and AGM planning. And as Executive Assistant to the CEO, you’ll manage diaries, coordinate briefings, and help drive forward key projects and events.
If you have strong experience in executive support, brilliant organisational and time management skills and the desire to be a key team member in a professional membership organisation then we would love to hear from you.
- Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
- Contract type: Permanent
- Location: Remote with 1-2 days per month travel to London Office
- Closing date: Thursday 3 July 2025
For more information, please see the job description and person specification.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Do you have experience in research funding? Or a keen interest to apply a scientific degree to funding impactful child health research? If so, then we have a fantastic opportunity for you.
Following a promotion, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is hiring for a Research Officer is responsible for ensuring charitable funding supports the highest quality projects within our funding priority areas of: research; patient and family experience; technology and medical equipment; hospital staff support; education; and environment (through supporting redevelopment projects and capital builds).
Salary
The salary for this position is £31,935 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.
In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.
Key Responsibilities
Research grant management
- Managing the delivery of GOSH Charity’s response-mode funding schemes, including our National Research Project Grant and ‘Lift Off’ pilot study funding call and others.
- Supporting potential applicants via email, phone or in person to ensure we receive high quality grant applications.
- Processing, reviewing and validating grant applications.
- Leading the peer review process using our Grant Management System.
- Project managing the delivery of the Research Assessment Panel.
- Supporting the input of patient and public voice, to ensure they’re built into our research funding decision making.
Committee management
- Providing operational and secretariat support to the Research Assessment Panel and Lift Off Scientific Assessment Panels, and other expert research review panels as required.
- Managing agendas and meeting logistics, including face to face meetings as they are arranged.
- Preparing papers and reports, and collating these from across the team for delivery to the Committee in good time.
- Preparing high quality minutes that provide a clear record of discussions, decisions, and actions, and disseminating these following internal and Chair approval.
- Support the regular review of the Committee membership and tenure.
- Evaluating and recommending improvement and applying sector best practice to the Committee operations.
- Being a first point of call for Committee members, supporting them to deliver their role and ensuring they have a good experience working with GOSH Charity
This is a varied role with high impact, please refer to the full role profile for all the information.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Previous experience working in grants management or within relevant scientific research.
- Knowledge of research principles and the UK research funding environment.
- Sound knowledge of paediatric research or similar discipline.
- Demonstrate experience of research quality assessments, including peer review.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with high attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at once.
- Strong relationship builder, with the ability to network in the scientific, clinical and research communities.
- Either an undergraduate degree in a relevant scientific discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience.
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We are Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. We stop at nothing to help give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, funner and longer.
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Play a key role in protecting parrots and their habitats worldwide.
We’re looking for a motivated and organised Grants Officer to coordinate grant fundraising efforts at the World Parrot Trust.
This is a unique opportunity for someone who thrives on coordination and collaboration to contribute meaningfully to global conservation. You’ll manage timelines, gather information, and support the delivery of successful grant proposals and reports—helping unlock vital funding for the World Parrot Trust.
Please submit your CV and a short cover letter explaining your interest in the role and your relevant experience.
Applications close at 23:59 BST on Friday 11 July 2025. We will review applications on a rolling basis.
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About the role
The National Churches Trust awards grants to help keep churches of all denominations well maintained, open and in use. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Grants Manager to join our Church Engagement team and oversee our grants programmes, ensuring the funding is delivered to best-practice standards and in a way that supports our vision to see open churches thriving at the heart of their communities.
The future of church buildings is our biggest heritage challenge; we are looking for someone who can help us to ensure our grants are effective and delivered in a way that is transparent, inclusive and impactful and makes a positive difference.
About the National Churches Trust
As an integral part of the UK’s heritage, we want to keep the UK’s wonderful collection of church buildings well maintained, valued and in use. Working on the ground in all four nations, we support churches of all denominations with the challenges and opportunities they face. Our vision is to see open churches thriving at the heart of their communities.
Our mission
- We Speak Up: churches are valued and supported
- We Build Up: churches are well maintained, adaptable and in good repair
- We Open Up: churches are sustainable, open and welcoming support
Our values
- Being straightforward in responding to others’ needs
- Providing support that makes a difference
- Joining forces to achieve greater impact
- Driving change that brings our vision closer
To find out more about the role and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: Midnight on Thursday, 10 July 2025.
Interview dates: Wednesday, 6 / Thursday, 7 / Friday, 8 August 2025 in Westminster, London.
