This is an opportunity to join a growing team at the Global Distributors Collective (GDC). The GDC started in October 2018 and, since then, we have gone from strength to strength supporting our members – last mile distribution organisations – to sell life-changing products to low-income, remote or otherwise marginalised people across the world. Our ambition is to make last mile distribution the first priority.

Engaging with our members and partners sits at the core of everything we do; from delivering our innovation workstream and providing technical assistance directly to our members, to hosting learning and collaboration events and gathering/disseminating research and insights. In this role you will work closely with the Head of the GDC, GDC Project Manager and particularly the Communications and Impact Manager to help shape and deliver an ambitious agenda of communications activities, to support last mile distribution companies to save time, money and increase their impact at the last mile. You will also coordinate our member engagement work, providing you with an opportunity to liaise directly with, and learn about, socially-driven companies operating all across the world.

No two days working for the GDC are the same. We are a small, fun and fast-paced team looking forward to welcoming a new team member into the mix!

About you

You are an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a questioning mind and desire to learn. As a communications professional, you will have exceptional written and verbal communications skills and be comfortable liaising with a range of stakeholders. Your eye for design means you are creative with the ability to champion the GDC brand, ensuring that our external communications are always top quality. You will be familiar with working in a customer- or client-facing role; experience working or volunteering within a membership organisation would be an asset.

You are comfortable to work remotely and undertake tasks independently, often delivering work to time-pressured deadlines; while also being a keen team player and ready to chip in when necessary. While you may not have prior experience of working in the international development sector, you’ll have an interest in development issues and finding ways to improve the lives of marginalised people.

As our small international team works predominantly in English, it’s important that you are a fluent English speaker. Many of our members speak French as a first language, so French language skills would also be an asset!

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

Our other benefits include:

• Full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week
• 26 days holiday rising with continuous service, in addition to public holidays.
• Pension scheme - employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave.
• Life assurance (3 x annual salary).
• Bike to Work scheme.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme
• Remote working / home working is possible with this role.

About us

Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

Additional information

We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.

Closing date for applications: midnight GMT Friday 19th March

Tentative Interview date: week commencing 29th March

Please note that, should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.

Please Note: We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible. IRMO reserves the right to close the Job-Ad as soon as a suitable candidate is found. Please do not send CVs as we do not shortlist from CVs. The role is temporarily home-based due to Covid-19, we require candidates to be available to work from an office-based location at any time. 

The postholder will be responsible for the delivery of high-quality advice and coaching services to support participants to secure and/or progress in employment and for developing relationships with local partners to enable participants to access employment, training, and volunteering opportunities.

• Hours: Part-time, 22.5 hours per week
• Contract: Fixed-term until September 2021
• Pay band: £25,052 (pro-rata)
• Annual leave: 30 days per year (pro-rata)
• Deadline to apply: Rolling 

Do you speak Church? Can you help build passion for mission across a wide range of church styles and traditions using your fundraising and/or marketing skills for a great cause? Do you have the gift of administration?

If so then come join our Church Relations team and play a key role in helping us build and maintain relationships with churches for the sake of God’s mission.

Since CMS believes that all of God’s people are called to mission, it is specifically the task and responsibility of the Church Relations team to engage the UK church in the cause of mission and foster relationships that inspire and challenge: to increase awareness and understanding of mission and foster fruitful partnership. CMS offers a range of ways for churches to engage with global mission, including opportunities to establish formal links with individual people in mission, to receive a CMS speaker, and through prayer and fundraising resources.

The role is responsible to the Church Relations Team Manager, and the CRO will work closely with and support the Church Relations Advisers (CRAs). S/he will also liaise regularly with the wider Fundraising team, Mission Partners, and other colleagues within CMS whose functions have a direct bearing on his/her responsibilities, particularly within the Church and Community Mission, International Mission and Finance directorates.

The Church Relations Officer is a fixed term, either full-time or part-time role 28 – 35 hours per week (4 or 5 days a week), with a starting salary of £27,775 (full-time; or £22,220  for 4 days a week), and a generous pension scheme contribution. The role will be based at home due to the current pandemic but the post holder will be expected to work from the CMS House, Oxford from time to time (occasionally) when the government’s regulation allows it as well as for key team meetings.

Currently CMS employees are working from home following government advice, and will continue to do so until the government allows office working. As this role is fixed-term, it is envisioned that the appointed person would be able to support the team working from home and equipment/ working tools will be provided.

The ideal candidate will be educated to A level, ideally degree level, and have experience of fundraising and/or marketing experience, awareness of broad differences in church styles, traditions and etiquettes and experience of building and maintaining excellent ‘customer’ relationships, as well as proven administrative and database skills. The post holder should also be a committed Christian, in agreement with the aims and values of CMS, which can be found on our website, and willing to attend evening or weekend meetings occasionally if required.

This post is fixed term because the Church Mission Society is currently undergoing a strategic review to ensure that our approach to mission is fit for the next generation. The outcome of this work will be clearer organisational alignment around an agreed strategic focus, and organisational clarity that will improve the sustainability of our work, financially and otherwise.

Further details can be found in the job description and person specification available to download.

Closing date for receipt of completed applications:

• Midnight on Sunday 07 March 2021
• Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16 March 2021 at CMS house, Oxford or Zoom depending on government guidance.

As an equal opportunities employer, we particularly welcome applications from individuals from minority groups as they are currently underrepresented within our organisation at this level. All appointments are made on merit of skill, experience and potential as laid down in the job description and person specification.

The purpose of the role is to provide day-to-day support to the FICS programme teams and to coordinate projects across our field-building, policy and communications, and grantmaking functions. 

About FICS

FICS’ vision is a world in which people – both collectively and as individuals – have the power to hold their leaders accountable and shape their government, economy and society towards justice, equality and fairness for all.

In order to achieve that goal, FICS defends and expands civic space – the physical, digital, and legal conditions through which progressive movements and their allies organise, participate, and create change. We do this through:

• Thought-leadership: FICS forecasts the trends that shape the future of civic space to ensure that progressive organisations and donors are ahead of the curve, and identify strategic opportunities to disrupt and reform the drivers of closing civic space.
• Building a donor ecosystem: FICS builds support from a community of donors and donor networks in alignment with its analysis, creating a community of learning and practice around what works to defend and expand civic space.
• Incubation: FICS hosts new civic space initiatives to enable donors to mobilise resources collaboratively and at scale around key opportunities to disrupt and transform the drivers of closing civic space. Through these new initiatives FICS will offer civic actors not only grants but support with field-building, technical assistance and building alliances across sectors and movements.

FICS was established in 2016 as a donor affinity group supported by a secretariat of two. We are now entering a period of growth, more than doubling our staff team during 2021 to deliver ambitious new grant-making and research programmes that will enable funders and civil society to collaborate around the systemic issues that drive closing civic space.

The Programme Coordinator sits at the heart of this growth. Highly organised, inquisitive and adaptable, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work across a range of projects and issues. Coordination and administration will remain core to the role but, as the team grows, there may be opportunities for the post holder to deepen expertise in one or more specialist subject area.

Job Description

Primary responsibilities include:

Coordination and administration

• Planning, managing and monitoring a range of projects, in collaboration with the wider FICS team.
• Coordinating meetings, events, and webinars – liaising with participants and speakers, researching venues and catering.
• Organising FICS Management Committee meetings, preparing the agenda and papers, and minuting meetings.
• Providing financial administration for FICS, including entering data into accounting software, producing reports, drafting and monitoring consultant contracts.
• Providing scheduling support to the FICS team, organising travel and accommodation, contributing to risk assessments, maintaining records.

Grant-making support

• Providing grants administration to FICS, coordinating calls for proposals, responding to enquiries, ensuring compliance with Global Dialogue’s grant-making procedures, producing reports.
• Attending conferences and meetings to help gather intelligence about closing civic space and grant-making practice.

Knowledge management and communications

• Supporting internal knowledge management, both online and offline.
• Supporting FICS’ external communications, liaising with editors and designers to ensure timely and high-quality publications, updating the website, helping to moderate and drafting content for relevant online communities.
• Working collaboratively with other members of the FICS team to identify and assess opportunities to build FICS’ programming and strengthen its impact.
• Assisting with background research and the preparation of relevant reports, briefings, and presentations, to inform the strategic initiatives, fundraising and stakeholder management.
• Other duties commensurate with the role.

Person Specification

We are committed to being a diverse team and are looking for talented people from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences who share our values.

In your application, you need to demonstrate how you address the following criteria:

Required

You will have:

• A demonstrable interest in human rights and social justice, civil society organising, and the pressures on civil society organisations resulting from current political trends
• Relevant administrative experience, ideally gained within a not-for-profit or development organisation
• Proven organisational skills, with the ability to juggle a wide range of responsibilities that may demand ongoing prioritisation
• Proven ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English, including an adaptable written style and excellent punctuation and grammar
• Strong numeracy skills, with good attention to detail – experience working with financial records would be an asset
• Strong IT skills, with sensitivity to the relevance of digital security in human rights work (the main tools we use are O365, Slack, Zoom, and Wordpress)
• Experience of philanthropy, either as a grant-maker or grant-seeker
• Permission to live and work in the UK

You will be:

• Comfortable working in a ‘start-up’ culture – flexible, with the capacity to learn quickly, and proactive in identifying new ways of working and process improvements
• Methodical with strong record keeping skills
• Committed to FICS’ organisational values
• Committed to your own personal professional development

Desirable

• Educated to degree level, or otherwise able to demonstrate the capacity to deal sensitively and appropriately with complex issues
• Experience organising meetings and events
• Experience supporting grant-making processes
• Skills in a language other than English

Terms and conditions

Hours:This is a full-time role, although we would also consider offering the role as a job share or at 4 days/wk (0.8 FTE)

Salary: £26,000-30,000 pro rata, depending on experience

Terms: Permanent contract, subject to funding, with an eight-week probationary period

Benefits: We offer a range of benefits including 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata). Global Dialogue contributes 6% to its workplace pension scheme, has a flexible working policy, and offers personal development leave.

Location: The FICS team works remotely and this role is home based. Once it is safe to do so, the successful candidate will be expected to be in London regularly for team meetings and other activities (up to 2-3 days per week) with occasional international travel.

Reporting to: Deputy Director, FICS

Job title: Digital Campaign Coach

Department: Relationship Management

Seniority: Minimum 4-5 years experience in a digital fundraising role

Compensation: £32.500 - £37.500 depending on experience

Location: Remote working, then London or Bristol

Closing date: 2nd of March 2021. We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so it is in your interest to apply as soon as possible. 

The company

At Lightful, we believe that those doing the greatest good deserve the best technology.

We’re passionate about making the best technology accessible to charities and nonprofits. Our products and solutions help organisations unleash the power of technology and make the good work they do even greater. Our products and services are designed to simplify the work and amplify the impact of charities and nonprofits. 

We offer three main services to charities and nonprofits; the Lightful Social Platform, the BRIDGE Programme and Lightful Labs. 

The Lightful Social Platform allows organisations to create, schedule and publish content to their social media pages. It is the only social media platform designed specifically for those in the charity sector and was ranked the number 1 for Social Media Management platforms built for non-profits. https://lnkd.in/dTKJmkm 

BRIDGE (Building Resilience in Digital through Growth and Engagement) combines a learning syllabus, delivered through a combination of live and recorded sessions and webinars, with the Lightful Social Platform. BRIDGE is supported by foundations and other funders, and offered out to small to medium charities that they support. The use of our social media manager helps participants to save time, learn best practice and collaborate internally more effectively. The syllabus focuses on four key digital foundations - fundamentals, storytelling, fundraising and insights. We take participants through these foundations helping them to improve confidence and competence. The BRIDGE team has worked with organisations like Comic Relief, DCMS and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We have been running a COVID-19 adapted curriculum based on Response, Recovery and Resilence themes since May this year, with 200 nonprofits from around the world currently enrolled.

Lightful Labs is a digital consultancy that offers customised services to help teams to do more. The Lightful Labs team have worked with amazing organisations like Help Refugees, London’s Air Ambulance and the Rhodes Trust to name a few. 

Lightful Values

As a registered B Corp, we’re a values-led organisation, so our values are integral to the Lightful culture. Our Lightful values are:

• To act with audacity while remembering humility
• To understand the importance of both listening and leadership
• To practice generosity whilst showing accountability
• These all lay on the foundation of respect and integrity

Role Description 

You will be part of a team responsible for coaching communications, marketing and fundraising professionals within charities and guiding them through a 6 or 12-month BRIDGE programme. This programme has been designed to assist charities in developing skills and confidence with digital and social tools, including but not limited to the Lightful Social Platform, in order to help them raise more funds. Our programme is adaptive and, alongside teaching core digital skills, can focus more on digital engagement, digital fundraising, and also building trust in vaccines.

Your role is to be the point person for digital campaigning, working across multiple cohorts to deliver 1-1 or group sessions to support nonprofit or faith-groups to build digital campaign capacity - drawing on your own experience from working at charities or agencies. This is a unique role to get hands-on with an amazing variety of nonprofits and faith-based groups from around the world and make a tangible impact on their services - from increasing fundraising results, or increasing trust in vaccines in the communities these groups serve.

Responsibilities 

First and foremost a relationship manager’s responsibility is to improve the digital campaigning and fundraising skills of the participants while helping them with digital capacity building.

• Communicating with customers through every possible medium (including face to face if and when that’s possible again!), making sure every interaction our users have with us is a positive one
• Lead the delivery of digital campaign content, ensuring it is up-to-date, relevant and leads to demonstrable outcomes
• Take 1-1 sessions with participants and review their digital campaigns content and strategy, going into detail about quick-wins or longer term gains they could make
• Manage relationships between key stakeholders of the charities within the cohort. This includes
  • Regular check-ins
  • Monitoring engagement on the Lightful Social Platform and Lightful Learning
  • Prioritise outreach based on customer need and engagement
  • Highlighting who our “Bright Sparks” (top users) are within the programme
  • Keeping customer tracker and database up to date
  • Keep customer progress decks up to date in line with their SMART objectives
  • Minimise churn or reduction of those engaging with our products/services
• Record account management within our CRM (Salesforce)
• Identify customer health within our participants
• Ensuring that our customers are both happy and also making the most of the features within the platform
• Develop content for the Masterclasses and Digital Drop-Ins to complement what is delivered in the e-learning content
• Deliver the Masterclasses and Digital Drop-Ins to participants ensuring continuous development of the content
• Inform the product team of feedback from users so that we can improve the platform
• Updating documentation in line with new platform and feature releases
• Partner with Sales to collaborate when creating new concept notes or syllabuses 
• Partner with Product when new features are being developed and released 
• Develop videos and other resources for the e-learning syllabus
• Support participants with usage on the Lightful Social Platform through live chat, email and telephone support

Essential experience

• Minimum 4 years’ digital campaigning experience in a charity
• Demonstrable experience of running digital fundraising campaigns and hitting fundraising targets
• Experience of running online campaigns that led to tangible outcomes
• Understanding of key digital fundraising methods
  • Online fundraising platforms
  • Search Engine Marketing
  • Email marketing
  • Social media marketing
  • Supporter journeys & donor stewardship
  • Online advertising and social ads
• Experience in training or consulting is essential, be prepared to speak with us about when you have had to train individuals and groups on a specific topic
• Previous experience of writing clear, engaging content for a variety of audiences
• A genuine passion for the charity sector
• Digital and social media savvy/native
• Genuine love of talking to people and helping them solve problems
• Exemplary communication skills, both written and verbal
• Self-starter who can make your their own decisions
• “Can do” attitude and willingness to get stuck in to a range of different tasks
• Comfortable to ask questions when uncertain, and elevate issues at the appropriate times
• Flexibility - ability to deal with conflicting deadlines, multiple tasks, and adjust priorities on the fly
• Experience working in fast-paced environments, including technology and Software as a Service organisations 
• Comfortable in public speaking and presenting to small and large groups of people

Optional additional experience 

• Experience in an account management, relationship management or customer success 
• Experience with using and managing a LMS (Learning Management System) 
• Fundraising consultant or digital agency experience
• Experience of peer support with other charities on social media (eg answering questions on Fundraising Chat Facebook group)
• Spanish speaker a bonus

Personal qualities 

• Excellent team player with a positive, can-do attitude
• Empathy with the users of the platform - charities, beyond profit and third sector organisations with limited budgets and time
• Warm, friendly demeanour in all interactions
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment, taking the initiative where necessary
• Ability to communicate clearly with people from across the company

Additional Requirement

Eligible to work in the UK without the need of visa support/sponsorship

Benefits

You will be a part of our exciting culture that fosters personal growth and development. As we expand, you will be given the opportunity to thrive in a close-knit team environment.

• Competitive salary
• Holiday entitlement is 27 days per annum, plus bank holidays (last year we had even 3.5 extra given Xmas holidays by Lightful)
• Additional paid holiday for your birthday
• Additional paid holiday for your moving day (once a year)
• Working from home buddy to integrate you into the team
• Simply Health (Claim back money on everyday healthcare costs + Access to face to face counselling)
• Asana Rebel (Custom fitness app with educational content and long-term support to help you achieve a healthy life balance)
• Tax free contribution to additional home-working costs
• Headspace (Meditation App)
• Regular events e.g. quiz, cook-along, social drinks, summer party, Christmas party
• Lightful Lottery (£50 vouchers to win)
• Lunch & Learn sessions
• Training and Development plans
• Lightful Active Challenge
• Cycle to work scheme
• Offset Earth
• Childcare vouchers
• Lightful maternity leave
• Stock Options
• Ad hoc perks e.g. hampers, plants
• Volunteering opportunities
• Lightful Kids events
• Recruitment bonus
• Remote working and health a priority - we won’t require people to travel to an office (in London or Bristol) until UK government COVID scale reaches "level 1"

Inclusion of a diverse range of opinions and perspectives is core to Lightful’s open culture and ongoing success. Therefore we never discriminate on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

*No recruitment agency requests please* *We only work with direct applicants* 

To provide administrative support which ensures the smooth day to day running of the parish and its mission in conjunction with the staff team, the PCC and wardens, and a large number of volunteers. The Administrator has a key role in supporting the church to reach out with the good news of Jesus to the parish and beyond.  He or she will be the first point of contact for many people approaching the church and may have the opportunity to offer informal Christian support.

Job Role: Development Coordinator - 6 Month Contract

Reporting Line: Head of Development

Attendance Times: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9.00am-5.00pm with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break.  Evening and weekend working will be required when Safeline events are taking place and to attend fundraising talks and events.

Salary: £12,000 - £13,000 pro rata (full-time annual equivalent £24,000-26,000) depending on experience plus 25 days’ annual leave entitlement (full-time annual equivalent) and matched pension contribution up to 5%. 

Location: Stratford-Upon-Avon and Home Based

Safeline is a leading Warwickshire-based, independent, and professional specialist sexual abuse and rape charity.  We help people aged 3+ who have been abused to rebuild their lives, we protect those at risk, and we find ways to prevent abuse from happening.  We have been protecting and supporting people affected by sexual abuse and rape for over 25 years and we intend to continue this vital work for many years to come because the need for organisations like ours has never been greater. 

Job Purpose

To increase awareness of Safeline, its services and partnerships in Stratford-Upon-Avon and beyond and to generate fundraising income and support fundraising activities to contribute towards meeting Safeline’s income needs to support people affected by sexual abuse. To develop and deliver social media content, focusing on awareness raising and fundraising in Stratford-upon-Avon and contributing to Safeline’s social media strategy.

 This is a 6-month funded post but if it delivers against the objectives of the role there is the potential to convert to a permanent full-time position.

Safeline is committed to the safeguarding of young people and vulnerable adults and adopts strict measures to ensure the safety of its clients. Safeline expects all staff to work within its safeguarding policies and procedures.

Application

An application form and job description can be downloaded here or alternatively please contact Safeline via telephone or email.

 Please note CVs are not accepted.

Once completed, please return to F.A.O Emma MacLellan, Head of Development at Safeline, 6a New Street, Warwick, CV34 4RX or via email.

Closing date: Friday 26th March 2021 at 5pm

Interview Date: TBC

Job title: Training Coordinator
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Contract: 12 months initially with the potential for extension for at least another two years
Salary: NJC points 14 (£23,080) to 19 (£25,481)
Responsible to: Training Lead
Location: working from home initially due to covid-19 restrictions, usually based in Chorley with some home working and travel across Lancashire

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to join a team that are passionate about improving mental health and wellbeing?

We’re looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Training and Workplace Wellbeing Team, who has experience of delivering training to a range of audiences.

We want someone who is hardworking, creative, and able to work on their own initiative to deliver our mental health training courses in a variety of settings across Lancashire, as well as online. You will have good knowledge and understanding of mental health and wellbeing and be confident to challenge stigmatising viewpoints.

Ideally, you will have experience of promoting training and engaging potential customers but, above all, we want someone who is passionate and shares Lancashire Mind’s ambition to achieve Mental Wellbeing for All.

Lancashire Mind is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community, particularly candidates with a lived experience of mental health conditions who fulfil all the criteria within the person specification.

See attached Recruitment Pack for more information about Lancashire Mind and the job role.

Deadline for applications: 12 noon on Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Please note: Lancashire Mind follows Safer Recruitment practices and have a commitment to safeguarding people who use our services. Therefore, this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.