Public Relations Officer Jobs

Are you a communications professional looking for your next move? Are you experienced in creating, commissioning and refining content and communications for a wide range of external audiences and the media? If so, CFG would like to hear from you. We're looking for a Communications Officer to join our Policy and Communications Directorate. You'll have experience in working across PR/media relations, campaigning and content creation for professional/B2B/charity audiences and working to tight deadlines. You'll be comfortable using different comms channels and tools to share our messages, news and sector insights. If you are looking for your next move, read on to find out more. 

How to Apply 

If you would like to be considered for this position, please take a look at our recruitment pack on the next page, and apply with your CV. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 14th May 12pm, and shortlisting will take place that week, with interviews to follow shortly after. 

Please email us with any job enquiries, or if you require assistance or experience difficulties when applying. Please note that successful candidate(s) will be asked to evidence their Right to Work in the UK post-job offer – we do not hold a sponsor licence therefore we are unable to provide Visa sponsorship.

Benefits of working at CFG 

• 25 days' annual leave per year in addition to bank holidays, increasing to 28 days after three years of continuous service (pro-rata if part-time). 

• An extra three days' leave for the office Christmas closure. 

• Wellbeing week closures 

• Time off for personal health appointments. 

• Hybrid and remote flexible working options. 

• Four paid volunteering days every year. 

• A generous flexitime policy that allows employees to create a good work-life balance. 

• Access to eye care vouchers and contribution to the cost of new glasses. 

• Access to our mental wellbeing platform, Plumm. 

• Enhanced sick pay, as well as enhanced parental and adoption leave policies 

• Continuing personal development - learning and development opportunities both individually and organisation wide, such as a mentor/coach, training courses and conferences. 

• Auto enrolment to the Personal Pension Plan where CFG will contribute twice your contribution to the scheme up to 10%. 

• Access to interest-free employee loans or salary advances. 

CFG promotes remote-first working, although we do have office space at our registered address in Southwark, SE London for those team members who prefer an office setting. We expect all of our team members to attend all staff, directorate, or team anchor days on a regular basis in London. All staff anchor days are currently quarterly, and directorate and smaller team anchor days are organised on an ad hoc basis. If you have any questions about this we'd be happy to chat about our in-person expectations with you. 

Please note that attending our flagship events will be required for this role, as well as work outside core hours occasionally as part of our events programme.  

ABOUT BOND

Bond is the UK network for organisations working in international development. We unite and support a diverse network of over 400 civil society organisations to help eradicate global poverty, inequality and injustice. We strengthen and champion the sector to make international development more efficient and effective. We work to influence governments and policy-makers, develop the skills of people in the sector, share expertise, and build organisational capacity and partnerships.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The primary focus of this external-facing role is to ensure that Bond’s member organisations are deeply engaged across a wide-range of Bond services and activities.

Using an account management approach, you will thrive on seeking out, building and nurturing relationships with key job roles at every level within our member organisations, offering them regular support and advice on how to get the most out of their membership of Bond. 

As the first point of contact for Bond members, you will deliver outstanding customer service with a warm, helpful, and confident demeanour, lead meetings with members to understand their needs and identify engagement opportunities, and introduce members to Bond colleagues when appropriate. A firm grasp of the Member Value Proposition is essential, as is the ability to confidently and enthusiastically speak to all aspects of it when interacting with members.

Working alongside the membership and marketing manager, you will help to develop and implement strategies to retain existing members, using data (in Salesforce, our CRM) to inform and tailor our approach including identifying members with low activity or gaps in engagement. You will gather feedback and intel from members through surveys and other mechanisms so that we better understand how and why they value Bond and to identify potential new initiatives and services they may find useful. One of your responsibilities is member renewals (which is integrated with Salesforce), in which you will work with the Salesforce Adviser to ensure that the process is optimised and efficient. You will also regularly compose member emails and newsletters and contribute to Bond reporting and Board papers.

While the role sits in the Communications and Member Services team, it is integral across the organisation. You will regularly meet and collaborate with colleagues across our policy and advocacy, sector transformation and senior leadership teams to possess a thorough understanding their work and the value-add it provides to members. Likewise, your deep comprehension of what members need from Bond will input into Bond’s strategy and membership offer. 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Member engagement and account management

• Create and implement effective strategies to engage members and keep them involved and interested in Bond’s activities and initiatives.
• Build and nurture relationships with key member audiences to better understand their needs and requirements of Bond and clearly articulate the member value proposition.
• Regularly meet members (predominantly online, but also in person) to discuss their membership and engagement opportunities.
• Ensure the contact data we hold on key member contacts is accurate.
• Coordinate the member renewals process including the communications schedule, automated reminders, reviewing fees and raising invoices.
• Work alongside the membership and marketing manager, Director of CMT and colleagues to develop and implement the member retention strategy, audience profiling work and Member Value Proposition.
• Provide regular communications and updates to member contacts using the Campaign Monitor email marketing tool.
• Contribute ideas to the improvement and development of the membership structures and systems.
• Be the first point of contact for membership queries.

Data analysis and insights

• Monitor, analyse and report on membership activity held in our CRM (Salesforce).
• Use data to understand trends and inform member engagement and service delivery.
• Work with colleagues to ensure that engagement information is logged in our CRM in an accurate and timely manner.
• Support the creation and analysis of member insight surveys.
• Work with team members to ensure that data is held in accordance with Bond’s data protection policy.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in a membership focused role within a membership organisation or network.
• An innate tendency and proven track record in establishing and nurturing relationships with contacts at all levels within an organisation.
• Ability to think creatively in devising strategies to engage with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience of organising and leading meetings with stakeholders.
• Experience of using data to gain customer/stakeholder insight and inform strategic decision-making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, showing a high level of competence when interacting and communicating with different audiences.
• High IT and internet proficiency, including CRM systems and databases, MS Office, Word, Excel PowerPoint etc
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with competing deadlines across the team.
• Solutions-focused and problem solving “can do” attitude.
• An understanding of and commitment to the values and objectives of Bond.

Desirable

• Experience of processing membership renewals.
• Experience of using integrated CRM and e-marketing systems (ie, Campaign Monitor for Salesforce).
• Experience of sales and marketing.

BENEFITS

Bond offers a competitive salary and benefits package including:

• 27 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays, with additional staff privilege days, normally between Christmas and New Year
• 7% pension contributions (staff pay 3.5%) ​
• Flexible working hours (Hybrid working – 1 day, minimum in the office per month)
• Staff Development days
• Perk Box access
• Employee Assistance Programme
• WeCare (Health and wellbeing services, including access to 24/7 online GP services, second medical opinion, mental health support such as counselling, guidance from health professionals, burnout prevention, life event counselling, get fit programmes, nutritionist advice, etc. – for staff and immediate family)
• Interest-free season ticket loan

HOW TO APPLY

To apply submit your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for this role by midnight on Friday 24th May 2024.

Please note that this advert may close early if a large number of applicants are received.

BOND AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Bond values diversity and works to advance equity and inclusion. All staff have a responsibility to ensure that they are being open, accepting and respectful to all that they come into contact with within their work at Bond, regardless their protected characteristics. Acting in accordance with the EDI policy, Bond staff must contribute to our inclusive organisational culture ensuring that they are aware of and respond appropriately to micro-aggressions, racism, sexism, LQBTQ+ misconduct and disability equity. Bond Staff must not be bystanders, and must report when they witness any unacceptable behaviour.

In order to assess and ensure the continued effectiveness of Bond’s Equal Opportunities Policy, all applicants are asked to complete a short questionnaire when applying. You are not obliged to answer the questions but the more information you supply the more effectively we can monitor our equal opportunity practices. Completion of all questions is voluntary and failure to answer any question(s) will not affect your application in any way. 

The information you supply will be treated in confidence and will not be seen by any member of the selection panel responsible for the appointment. The questionnaire will be detached from your CV and cover letter, stored anonymously and used purely to provide statistics for monitoring purposes.

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We are looking for social media officer to support the Health Equals team to deliver an exciting programme of campaigning work.

The post holder will play a crucial role in helping Health Equals to build its online presence and following, supporting its objective to raise awareness of how our health is shaped by the building blocks of health. As well as driving engagement to our public campaigns, the successful candidate will lead on creating and curating compelling evidence-based content from Health Equals members.

The social media officer will be adept at finding opportunities to reach broader audiences, to amplify messages, build relationships and engage in debates in innovative ways with opinion formers and influencers online.

The successful candidate will be an integral member of our current team of 11 working across:

• Content creation, scheduling and channel management. This will include creating impactful written social media content, tailored across Health Equals social media channels.
• Monitoring social media, including identifying opportunities to build awareness of Health Equals, our members and our campaigns.
• Track, analyse and report on social media metrics to assess the performance of our content, and use insights to make recommendations for improvement in engagement and reach.
• Work to develop our online community engagement and influencer outreach.

Health Equals is a 5-year multi-million pound campaigning initiative developed as part of the Health Foundation’s aim to improve health and reduce inequalities. 

We aim to develop a campaigning movement that calls on the general public, policy makers, sector leaders, and the private sector to recognise the value and benefits of good health for all, and make sure the things we know shape good health are at the heart of policymaking and practice. Our vision is a society that values everyone’s health, where each of us has the best chance of a happy and healthy life, no matter where we are born, and wherever we work and live.

This role will work closely with the Senior Communications Manager, Policy & Membership Manager and Digital & Brand Manager.

We look forward to hearing from you!

To find out more about the role and what we are looking for, please click on the link below to be redirected to our careers website.

JOIN OUR TEAM!

As a Projects Officer for Live Unlimited you'll be helping to make a difference to the lives of care experienced young people living in Barnet, north London.

Here at Live Unlimited our vision is that all care-experienced children and young people are able to achieve their potential and lead happy, fulfilled lives.

Most care experienced young people will have experienced trauma and adverse childhood experiences before they went into care system. 

Early intervention is key and we know at Live Unlimited the life-changing impact our schemes can make. As someone who shares our passion for social mobility, you'll be driven by a desire to help us to deliver first class opportunities to these incredible young people, providing support and inspiration along the way. 

Reporting to: Operations Director & Fundraising Manager

Location: Flexible and remote working is offered to all of our staff. We have an office based in Colindale, London, which we tend to work around two days per week, with two days remote working.

About the Role: This is an interesting and varied role. As the post holder you'll be not only be setting up, administering and delivering schemes and activities to benefit Barnet’s looked after young people, you'll also be creating marketing materials and supporting fundraising events.  Promoting the work of our charity is key too through updating our website, writing our quarterly newsletter and social media channels, as well as supporting the running and administration of the charity. 

About You:

You'll have experience of managing and delivering projects, schemes or activities and supporting administrative tasks including keeping accurate records, financial tracking and expenditure.
 
You'll also have experience of creating engaging content for newsletters, websites and/or social media channels especially Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram and building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver common goals.
 
Having a passion for Live Unlimited’s vision and objectives is very useful in this role. We particularly welcome applicants with experience or being a looked after child, care leaver or personal experience of the care system.

If you are organised and efficient, passionate about social mobility, and have a creative flair, this is the perfect job for you!

Working hours: 28 hours (4 days per week) Could be split across five days. Core hours: 10am-4pm

Salary: £135.35pd for 4 days per week (£35,191 FTE) The role is for 12 months with a view to possible extension dependent on funding. Would consider suitable candidates interested in working 21 hours (3 days per week).

Closing date: 10th May 2024.

Please note, we’re actively reviewing applications and interviews will be held on a rolling basis. The ad may close early if a successful candidate is found.

Key responsibilities:

(1) The set up, administration and running of schemes and activities

(2) To deliver marketing and fundraising activities as needed for specific schemes and activities 

(3) To support wider awareness building and promote the work of the charity to enable it to meet its charitable aims and objectives 

(4) To provide support in the running and administration of the charity 

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience of project management and delivering schemes or activities and supporting administrative tasks including keeping accurate records, budgeting, booking rooms, responding to emails etc. (essential)

• Experience of coordinating and updating online and social media channels especially Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (essential) 

* Experience of marketing and communications (essential)

• Experience of building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver common goals (essential)

• Experience of working within not for profit or charitable sector (desirable) 

• Fundraising experience (desirable) 

• Knowledge of the challenges facing looked after young people (desirable) 

• Knowledge and/or experience of safeguarding issues working with children and young people (desirable)

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential)

• Excellent time management and organisational skills (essential)

• Ability to work under own initiative, taking responsibility and ownership for researching and solving problems (essential)

• Computer literate and ability to work with Word and Excel (essential) and website management systems (desirable)

• Awareness of data protection legislation (desirable)

Other:

• Relevant work experience

• An enhanced DBS check is a requirement of this role

Do you want to improve the lives of people with disabilities and vulnerable people?

Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an award-winning international humanitarian and development organisation. Working alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we take action and raise awareness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Our UK team is looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual to join us as a Programme Funding Officer (PFO). This is an exciting and varied role working across the funding cycle from the early stage of new opportunities through to grant management. You will be regularly in touch with our country teams, supporting them to engage with UK institutional donors in-country and advising them on compliance for both grants and commercial contracts. You will also get a chance to support partnership development, as well as get involved in advocacy and policy influencing. If this sounds like the next role for you, we’d love to welcome you to our friendly and dedicated team.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND PURPOSE OF THE POST

The Institutional Relations team is responsible for donor engagement and influencing, institutional funding, and partnerships in the UK. It comprises the Head of Institutional Relations, a Commercial Contracts Manager and three Programme Funding Officers.

As part of HI’s 2016-2025 strategy, we have ambitious targets for growth in institutional funding from UK donors, and more broadly, a focus on building strategic relationships with key UK donors and partners. Given the changing external funding environment and evolving context in the UK, we are looking for an individual who is willing to be flexible and adapt to the context in order to meet the organisation’s needs and have the biggest impact for people with disabilities.

The main purpose of this post is:

· Improving our track record for UK and other funding by increasing internal understanding of donors and funding mechanisms in your portfolio, supporting high quality submissions, grant management and donor compliance

Strengthening relationships with, and generating and managing funding from UK and other institutional donors and partners

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Promoting our work and building relationships with institutional donors

Supporting the work of the Head of Institutional Relations, you will have sound knowledge of the donors and funding mechanisms in your portfolio, and contribute proactively to influencing their funding strategies and priorities. Duties include:

· Maintain a good understanding of HI’s programmes, strategy and approach and communicate this externally.

· Identify and build relationships with a portfolio of large public and private institutional donors and their key suppliers (e.g. INGOs and for-profit development companies), mobilising colleagues from UK and across the global organisation as required.

· Work with country programmes to develop country-level action plans to engage with local representatives of UK donors and partners, in order to strengthen in-country relationships, influence donors’ country-level plans and access in-country funding opportunities. This will also involve supporting the development of multi-year operational plans and advise on the funding possibilities offered by UK institutional donors.

· Anticipate future trends and the expectations of the donors and funding mechanisms in your portfolio, influence their policies and strategies, and negotiate and consult with them on institutional funding matters, in liaison with the appropriate colleagues from the UK team and federal network.

· In coordination with the Head of Institutional Relations and the Chief Executive, monitor and where needed, contribute to collective work and advocacy initiatives in collaboration with partners and INGO networks (such as the Start Network and targeted Bond groups) with the aim of raising HI’s profile and influencing UK donors in line with our influencing priorities.

Generate and manage institutional funding from UK donors

You will follow and champion HI’s internal institutional funding procedures to identify and analyse funding opportunities from UK sources, contribute to project submissions, and carry out grant management duties. You will:

· Monitor, identify, analyse and communicate all relevant funding opportunities from donors in your portfolio (including development and humanitarian grant opportunities and commercial contracts). This will involve facilitating internal go/no go decision-making for new opportunities and advising, and supporting programme colleagues on positioning and consortium-building when relevant.

· Lead the review and analysis of the requirements in new funding agreements and contracts, advise internal stakeholders on compliance and ensure appropriate contract negotiation and due diligence processes are followed.

· Implement internal procedures for contract/grant management and support the submission of reporting and payment requests according to donor requirements.

Improve our track record for UK institutional funding

You will be responsible for increasing internal understanding of UK donors and funding mechanisms in your portfolio, supporting high quality strategic submissions and donor compliance. You will:

· Create internal communications, train and brief finance, programme and technical staff (including country programmes) on the donors in your portfolio, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge to comply with donor rules, understand donor priorities and focus areas, and maximise the potential for funding.

· Support proposal development, advising on donor requirements, expectations and preferences.

· Build strong relationships and internal links with technical and programme teams and contribute to internal working groups on issues related to institutional funding.

Other duties

· Maintain a positive and collaborative working relationship with HI UK colleagues and the Federal Institutional Funding, and Operations teams.

· Actively contribute to the HI UK operational plan and team work plans, and internal staff meetings.

· Ensure high quality, accurate internal reporting and information management for your portfolio.

· Keep abreast of developments within the sector by liaising with counterparts in other NGOs, and relevant networks.

· Represent HI UK at external forums and meetings when relevant.

· Any other activities commensurate with the level of the post, as may be required by the Chief Executive or Head of Team.

Equal opportunities policy

HI UK is committed to diversity and inclusion. We recognise that discrimination shapes the opportunities that many people have in society and that people have different needs in order to realise their full potential. Addressing this requires organisations to be proactive in creating environments that encourage the inclusion and development of all. Though we still have a long way to go, inclusion is central to our identity at HI UK and we are strongly committed to the continuous work that it requires.

We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with disabilities and/or from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds, to help make us more representative. If you have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role, we will guarantee you an interview.

England’s National Parks represent our finest landscapes, famed for their spectacular beauty, varied wildlife and rich cultural heritage. National Parks are critical to supporting local communities, providing access to green spaces for the nation, and helping to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and declining biodiversity.

National Parks England’s purpose is to be the collective voice for English National Park Authorities, helping us to achieve our purposes through influencing policy.  We are a small team, working with a much wider team of colleagues across National Park Authorities.

As Senior Media and Communications Officer within NPE you will support a range of the policy and influencing work of National Park Authorities for a range of campaigns and projects including our work on Generation Green and the Protected Landscapes Partnership.

You will work alongside the wider team to ensure effective communication through the media to influence public opinion and political change. As well as high quality media relations, the post will support delivery of public relations activities, and support wider public affairs and stakeholder relations.

The successful candidate will have excellent media, public relations and integrated communications skills gained within a policy and influencing environment and will be confident to play both lead and supporting roles on a wide range of projects. They will have excellent writing and editing skills, an understanding of what makes media worthy content, and experience of building relationships with journalists. The post holder should also have experience of as supporting stakeholder engagement with those in and around government and in working with a range of project partners.

Wolfson College is seeking a Communications Officer to join its Communications team, working with the Communications Manager and Events Coordinator to lead on and deliver College-wide communications. The Communications Officer will deliver high quality content across the College’s internal and external channels, provide expert communications advice to our community, lead on key projects and initiatives, and play an integral role in the delivery of Wolfson’s communications strategy. The role is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and passionate communications professional to contribute to Wolfson’s strong sense of community, vibrant intellectual and cultural life, and dynamic, diverse, and friendly working environment—for students, Fellows, staff, and academics. The role also offers the unique opportunity to engage with a Cambridge College at all levels and to develop a strong knowledge of working in the higher education sector, as well as the chance to develop communications and project management skills in a supportive and collaborative setting.

Welcome to Ada!

We are Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, a high performing technical college with the mission of educating and empowering the next generation of diverse digital talent.

We work with a fantastic roster of partners such as King, IBM, Deloitte, Salesforce and Bank of America and offer an innovative, supportive sixth form experience for our 150+ students that prepares them to be digital pioneers achieving both academic success and, more importantly, setting them up for successful careers in tech. We are passionate about harnessing tech as a tool for social mobility and improving diversity of opportunity and therefore, with the support of our partners,  place a major focus on diversity recruitment. At present over 50% of our students come from low income backgrounds, more than 50% are from Black, Asian or Mixed backgrounds and 23% are young women. We are the top performing sixth form for computer science in the country with >90% of our students going on aspirational digital degree apprenticeships, tech related degree courses or straight into junior technical roles.

This is an exciting time to join Ada in  our new  state-of-the-art campus , just a few minutes walk from Victoria station. This new campus provides us with the capacity to significantly increase our student volumes and meet our ambitious target of transforming 10,000 lives by the end of 2030 while ensuring that we achieve our mission to make  the tech sector more representative targeting 50% of learners to be female, 50% to be from ethnic minority backgrounds and 50% to be from low income backgrounds.

We’re passionate about building a supportive, values driven environment for both our students and staff and this is where you come in!

A message from Tom Fogden, Dean 

This year we are celebrating 10 years since I co-founded the college. So much has changed but our focus on supporting underrepresented people into tech jobs has remained central. This role is situated right at the heart of our mission; your direct actions will help impact the career trajectory of our students. We have dozens of stories of the amazing jobs that our learners have gone on to achieve and the flourishing lives that they are now living. We are looking for someone that can increase the scale and success rates of our apprenticeship applicants so that even more young people can reap the benefits of their unique tech education.

We are interested in finding people who are keen to make a  contribution to our vision.  We are looking for an Apprenticeship Outreach Officer who is  super passionate about our mission, to educate and empower the next generation of diverse digital talent, and is focused on preparing and providing support to our Sixth Formers in their journey through the apprenticeship application process.

If this sounds like you then please do apply.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Working with your line manager and where delegated, the Apprenticeship Outreach Programme Manager, to create bespoke events and short courses for potential apprentices.
• Building relationships with our Sixth Form learners through their 2 years at Ada  and helping them prepare for the different stages of the apprenticeship application process.
• Linking apprenticeship opportunities to  specific Sixth formers.
• Social media promotion: working with our marketing manager on SM campaigns to raise awareness of Ada’s short courses, partnerships with employers and open recruitment campaigns.
• Completing the legacy apprenticeship recruitment activity for Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025.
• Shortlisting Sixth Form candidates for any exclusive apprenticeship opportunities.
• Assisting the Sixth Form Outreach and Recruitment team with event planning, administration and delivery including outreach events (Careers Fairs, Open Days, Lift-off days, school visits to Ada and Keep Warm events. (This will involve commitment on some weekends and evenings during busy times.)
• Assisting with wider college events.
• Supporting the Sixth Form recruitment effort as needed through the administration of the application process.
• Keeping accurate records, inputting data into Ada’s systems and exporting relevant information to produce reports and dashboards.
• Assisting with tasks and administration in the wider teams including Reception and Front-of -house, facilities and External Relations.

Key competencies

Essential

• You have a passion for career support and employability.
• You have excellent communication skills including written and verbal, both face to face and on the phone.
• You have the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences; both educational and corporate.
• You are accurate with excellent attention to detail.
• You are a confident user of technology and productivity tools such as calendars, spreadsheets, trackers and databases.
• You have experience working in administration. Experience of  admissions and /  or outreach would be a bonus!
• You are willing to work flexibly, where necessary outside of normal working hours, and to travel around London,  as necessary for the role.
• You are able to cope with a varied workload, to prioritise effectively and to meet deadlines.
• You are willing to develop and demonstrate public speaking skills.
• You enjoy being part of a hard-working, target driven team focused on offering life-changing opportunities to young people with an interest in technology.
• You address issues and challenges proactively and can work with a diverse range of people to achieve your goals.

Desirable

• You have experience working with young people.
• You are an advocate for apprenticeships.
• Experience in customer service with a track record of excellence.
• You are a confident user of Microsoft Office and/or Google suite.
• You have experience of using a CRM system (Dynamics 365 and/or REMS desirable).

Other duties

This job description is not to be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. It is intended as an outline, indicating key areas of activity and may be amended from time to time in light of the changing needs of the organisation.

Safeguarding

Ada, National College for Digital Skill is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and references will be sought from previous employers prior to commencing employment. Other related pre-employment checks appropriate to the post will also be carried out.

We care about equity, diversity and inclusion

Ada. National College for Digital Skills recognises that equality of opportunity and the recognition and promotion of diversity are integral to its strengths. The following principles apply in respect of the College’s commitment to equality and diversity:

● To provide and promote equality of opportunity in all areas of its work and activity;

● To recognise and develop the diversity of skills and talent within its current and potential community;

● To ensure that all employees and prospective employees of the College are treated solely on the basis of their merits, abilities and potential without receiving any unjustified discrimination or unfavourable treatment on grounds such as age, disability, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender reassignment, trans status, socio-economic status or any other irrelevant distinction;

● To provide and promote a positive working, learning, and social environment which is free from prejudice, discrimination and any forms of harassment, bullying or victimisation;

● To promote good relations between individuals from different groups.

Applicants with disabilities

Ada is keen to increase the number of disabled people it employs. We, therefore, encourage applications from individuals with a disability who are able to carry out the duties of the post. If you have special needs in relation to your application please contact us.

Sponsorship

Sadly, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role so can only accept applications from candidates who have the legal right to work and remain in the United Kingdom.

How to apply for the role

Please submit your CV and a cover letter, explaining how your experience to date makes you the right candidate for Ada and this role. In the subject field please write “Application for Outreach and Recruitment Officer'' followed by your name.

Closing date for applications

Thursday 9th May 2024. Interviews are likely to be week beginning 13th May 2024.

Next Steps

Longlisted candidates will be contacted by phone or email and if you haven’t heard from us by May 14th we are afraid that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Thank you for your interest in the role and good luck with your application!

We are looking for a Chief Officer who will be responsible for the day to day running of the charity as well as working with the Trustees to take the organisation forwards.  The successful candidate will have experience of working with adults with learning disabilities, will have skills in finance, management and IT, and will enjoy working in a busy environment where there are changing demands and priorities throughout the day.

At Oak Tree Farm we are committed to providing a high quality, supportive environment where adults with learning disabilities, our Team Members, are the centre of everything we do.  The farm has livestock, growing fields, greenhouses, polytunnels and a tearoom as well as craft rooms, a cottage garden, pottery and shop. Our Team Members are involved in every aspect of life on the farm and the farm is firmly embedded in the local community with Team Members providing gardening services to local people as well as volunteering on the Sandon Estate.

This role is the first point of contact for journalists getting in touch with the Trussell Trust. The role is accountable for handling media enquiries; checking and responding to the press inbox; media monitoring and securing press coverage. The Press Officer will assist with media work through print, online and broadcast news to help build understanding, awareness and consideration of the organisation’s mission and goal. The Press Officer will support and advise colleagues, food banks in the network and external stakeholders to ensure they receive media coverage of strategically important projects.

Role responsibilities 

· Handle incoming enquiries and provide accurate, timely and appropriate responses, briefing journalists in line with the Trussell Trust’s key messages and priorities.

· Build relationships across the organisation, within the food bank network, with external stakeholders such as corporate partners, and with journalists to assist with securing coverage across national, regional and local media to reach new audiences and build cause awareness

· Horizon scan for media opportunities and develop innovative integrated communication plans, overseeing advice, statements, timelines, and key messaging to engage specific audience segments.

· Arrange spokespeople for interviews and support with organising and managing press visits to food banks, as well as photo calls, to support the organisation’s communications priorities and campaigns 

· Circulate regular coverage updates across the organisation and help maintain and develop media databases, key performance indicator reports and other admin systems and processes to ensure continuous improvement 

· Act as the media lead on proactive projects that help build understanding and awareness of both Trussell Trust and the food bank network’s strategic objectives.

· Participate in regular 1:1s and annual reviews, contributing to the identification of objectives and targets, and monitoring of progress towards them 

· Participate in an out-of-hours rota for media enquiries.

Person Specification 

Technical skills and minimum knowledge: 

·  Experience of working within a press office environment/PR

agency with a track record of securing high-impact coverage.

· A confident communicator who demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills.

· Demonstrates experience of tailoring communication for different audiences and circumstances. 

· Knowledge of UK national, regional and local media and how to leverage them to get key messages out to the public. Some experience of handling media enquiries and speaking to journalists. 

· Has a clear idea of priorities and manages own time appropriately while delivering key outputs and replying to requests in a timely fashion 

Behaviours and competencies: 

· Demonstrate dedication to the values of the Trussell Trust 

· Demonstrates empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially excluded backgrounds 

· Commit to occasional need to work outside of normal working hours and to travel throughout the UK 

· Passionate about the work of the Trussell Trust and able to represent it and its values effectively 

· Demonstrates resilience, resourcefulness, flexibility and perseverance 

Role models inclusive behaviours and values 

We are currently in an exciting period of growth as we upscale our delivery to enable more people to enjoy the benefits of cycling. 

The Finance Officer is responsible for working within the core Wheels for All team to provide finance team support to the wider programme delivery and national staff team. By working with colleagues to maintain financial systems, accurate record keeping and undertake financial administration they will provide the support required to implement and improve the processes needed to maintain the accurate financial management systems which are crucial to supporting the charity’s mission. This role would suit someone with at least 2 years’ experience in a charity finance role, who has experience or knowledge of all the core accounts department processes and some understanding of different charity income streams. You might be studying for an accounting qualification (e.g. AAT or ACCA) or be qualified by experience. A training package may be available for an applicable accounting qualification. 

Salary £25,000- £28,000 FTE, dependent on experience

Hours Full-time, 35 hours per week (1 FTE, will consider PT for the right candidate)

Contract Permanent

Location Warrington Head Office

 Annual leave entitlement of 25 days 

Are you a strong, visionary leader ready for a new challenge in the Third Sector?

Having led the organisation through a significant period of change, our CEO has chosen to move on to take up a new challenge. We are looking for a Chief Executive to lead St Nicks through the next phase of its strategy. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who has the desire, vision and ambition to transform our current charity HQ into a building suitable for the charity we are now and the charity St Nicks can become under your leadership in the future.

You’ll have the benefit of a skilled and experienced team, a good deal of secure revenue funding and a Board of Trustees who offer constructive challenge with the freedom to grow and explore opportunities.

Deadline: midnight Sunday 12th May

Assessment and interviews: week commencing 20th May 

Are you a creative communicator with a flair for social media and content creation and a commitment to gender equality?

If so, this could be the role for you.

The Women’s Budget Group (WBG) is the UK’s leading feminist economics think tank, providing evidence on women’s economic position and proposing policy alternatives for a gender-equal economy.

Having been through a period of growth, our small team is expanding! You will lead on content for our website, newsletter and social media channels, helping us to reach new audiences and translate complex ideas into accessible and engaging short videos, infographics and other images.

WBG is committed to diversity and inclusion. We use positive action under section 159 of the Equality Act in relation to disability or race. This means that if we have two candidates of equal merit in our process, we will seek to take forward the disabled or Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic candidate in order to diversify our staff team.

 Hours:  Currently 30 hours per week for full pay during a pilot of working a shorter week ending July 2024. (In some organisations this is the 4 day week but at WBG, 30 hours can be worked over 4 or 5 days per week with flexibility). In the event that the shorter working week does not become permanent, hours will be negotiable between 30 hours and 37.5 hours per week. We are happy to consider flexible working arrangements and invite job share applications. Some out of hours working will be required for which TOIL will be given.

Location: Hybrid London / remote.  The postholder must be resident in the UK with the right to work in the UK. Office is in Vauxhall, London. Post can be worked as office based or a mixture of office/remote working with at least two days per week in the office.

Duration: 18 month contract with potential to extend subject to funding.

Salary: £36,288 pro-rata (£29,030 for 30 hours) plus 5% pension contributions.

Line management: Reports to the Head of Communications and Public Affairs

The Talent Set are delighted to be working with Parkinson’s UK to find their new Celebrity Lead.

Parkinson’s UK offer hybrid working a minimum of 2 days per week from their London office.

In this role, you take responsibility for developing new and existing relationships with our celebrity supporters and their agents, stewarding their journey with the charity and making them strong and dedicated advocates across our strategic priorities. You’ll bring creative and proactive ideas ensuring we’re prioritising requests to maximise the potential of our high profile supporters.

Key Responsibilities:

· Implement and own our celebrity strategy and individual stewardship plans to support this, resulting in highly committed and engaged high profile supporters.

· Lead on outreach and negotiation with new, potential supporters for charity activities.

· Manage and prioritise requests for VIP support from across the charity ensuring that they are aligned with our strategic aims.

· Be the first point of contact for celebrities looking for support, signposting them within the charity or acting as intermediary for confidential requests.

· Take responsibility for the management and development of the Celebrity Officer.

· Work with colleagues across the charity to maximise our celebrity supporters across all communications channels, highlighting new opportunities as they arise.

· Make sure that our celebrity supporters are well briefed and up to date with key messages.

· Ensure that our celebrity activity is tracked, reported and evaluated to show the value they bring to the charity.

Person Specification:

· Extensive experience of working strategically with celebrities and their management teams.

· Creative and proactive approach to celebrity engagement and ongoing stewardship.

· Negotiation and persuasion skills to ensure that high profile supporters understand why we’re the Parkinson’s charity to support.

· The ability to build and maintain relationships with discretion and sensitivity.

· Understanding and awareness of the GDPR when handling personal data and information.

· Working understanding of PR and social media to amplify opportunities.

· Excellent attention to detail, organisational and communication skills.

· Ability to prioritise your workload and support your team members to do the same in line with organisational priorities.

· Experience of operating in a modern digital workplace, including using digital tools (and what is needed from the role) to work collaboratively and productively.

To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.

We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.