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About the role

You’ll join us at a vital and exciting time, as we help to shape what the future of health and care looks like with our new strategy and a reshaped communications and engagement directorate.

From moving health and care into communities, to tackling health inequalities and keeping people in good health throughout the course of their lives, you'll work across a range of issues to drive income and impact for the Fund. By joining the marketing and digital communications team, you’ll help our customers to better understand, engage with and advocate for change in the health and care system, including through our events, courses and policy content. 

As a marketing and communications executive, you’ll be responsible for creating inspiring marketing and digital communications campaigns that drive action, bring in income and increase our impact. You’ll plan, research and develop products, deliver creative content for marketing and communications campaigns, study customer behaviour and work collaboratively to execute impactful multi-channel communications campaigns. You will have a passion for all marketing and digital communications content, including email, paid marketing, websites and social media. You’ll analyse data, manage projects and run and evaluate our campaigns. With a strong focus on audience and insights, you’ll have a willingness to get stuck into all areas.

This role will work within a multi-disciplinary environment, make strategic recommendations to a wide range of colleagues, lead cross-departmental and cross-organisational project teams to deliver against the organisation’s goals and get to know the policy areas that we focus on.

The Fund has an ambition to increase the diversity of our workforce and introduce careers in health and care policy to a broader range of people. We encourage applicants from all sections of the community, including those from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We believe that diversity of background and experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will improve the way we influence health and social care policy. 

What you'll get in return 

The King’s Fund is committed to a hybrid working model that meets the organisation’s needs, while giving staff flexibility to choose between office and home working. In keeping with our current policy, the post-holder will be required to work a minimum of two days per week from our central London office (pro rata, averaged over a month).

In addition to a competitive salary, The King’s Fund offers generous holiday entitlements, a £3 daily discount in our café and an on-site gym.

How to apply

To apply, please visit our website and read our supplementary guidance documents below, then download and fill in our application form. If completing the application form presents any challenges, contact us by email so we can discussion options.

Please note that in order to apply, you must have existing documented proof of your right to live and work in the UK. 

CVs will not be accepted as applications. Applications must be submitted using The King’s Fund application form.

Individual Giving Manager - Chichester Festival Theatre

Maternity Cover

The Individual Giving Manager will lead the successful planning and delivery of mid-level giving, managing schemes between £120–£4,999 annually. You will oversee donor cultivation, stewardship, and supporter communications, ensuring the highest standards of engagement and experience.

Line-managing the Senior Events Officer, you will also ensure the delivery of high-quality events that inspire and retain donors and generate fundraising income, playing an active role in developing CFT’s giving schemes and future fundraising strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Mid-level supporters

· Manage all mid-level giving schemes (£120–£4,999 annually), ensuring they remain appealing and effective

· Proactively identify and cultivate prospective new supporters, and increase giving from current donors

· Provide outstanding stewardship, delivering benefits on time and ensuring a first-class supporter experience

· Work with the Senior Events Officer to deliver exceptional cultivation and stewardship events.

· Collaborate with Marketing to promote giving opportunities and ensure consistent messaging.

· Review and refine supporter propositions to reflect best practice and donor needs.

· Support the Friends and Membership Officer with renewals, direct debits, and administration.

Prospecting & Cultivating

· Proactively identify and cultivate new supporters, increase giving from current supporters.

· Lead recruitment campaigns for mid-level supporters and contribute to targeted donor communications

· Work with the Head of Individual Giving to identify potential major donors and implement tailored stewardship plans

· Complete due diligence on all new and prospective supporters in line with CFT’s Donation

Acceptance Policy Development Events

· Line-manage the Senior Events Officer to deliver high-quality donor events across the giving journey

· Collaborate with colleagues to ensure smooth operational delivery

· Represent CFT at supporter events, ensuring donors feel welcomed and valued

Administration & Reporting

· Maintain accurate supporter records on Spektrix

· Monitor income against targets, flagging risks and opportunities

· Contribute to the fundraising strategy, principally through growing mid-level giving

· Produce receipts, renewals, and accurate reports for the Development Committee and Board

· Collaborate with Marketing and Development colleagues on supporter communications and campaign mailings

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

· Experience of fundraising with individual supporters, including donor relationship management

· Experience of prospect research and pipeline management

· Proven track record of asking for and securing gifts

· Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills

· Confident communicator with strong written, verbal, and presentation skills

· Experience of prospect research and pipeline management

· Strong organisational and project management skills with excellent attention to detail.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office and CRM systems

· A proactive, flexible, and collaborative approach, with willingness to work evenings and weekends

Desirable Criteria

· Experience in fundraising campaigns (digital and offline)

· Demonstrable success in event planning and delivery

· Knowledge of Spektrix and Dotdigital (or equivalent systems)

· Knowledge of the arts sector and enthusiasm for theatre and live performance

Responsibilities as a Manager

· Lead, support and develop the Senior Events Officer, ensuring clear objectives and professional growth

· Manage budgets effectively and contribute to organisational efficiency

· Model excellence in fundraising practice and collaboration across CFT

· Uphold health and safety responsibilities as required

Full details of the role can be found on the CFT website 

Based at our Head Office in Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 0BX

Status:       Permanent

Salary:       Band 4, £26,945 - £29,569, per annum, dependent on experience, plus 5% Outer London Fringe Allowance

Hours:       Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 16:30, hybrid, 2 days in office, 3 days at home.

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About Us:

Combat Stress is the UK’s leading mental health charity for veterans. For over a century we’ve been helping former service personnel deal with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression. Today we provide specialist treatment and support for veterans from every service and conflict, focusing on those with complex mental health issues related to their military service. We provide a range of community, outpatient and residential mental health services to veterans with complex mental health problems. We provide services in-person, and via phone and online.

About the role:

To support the charity’s income generation and stewardship of donors by working with the fundraising and events teams. There are a variety of annual special events that include but are not restricted to: Annual Charity Dinner, Armistice Address, Carol Service and Clay Shoot as well as Open Days, virtual events, AGM and the Secret Postcard Auction. To further support other fundraising teams in the logistics, stewardship and administration of events, activities, data management and input and donor engagement tasks.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the Senior Events Officer with all fundraising and stewardship events including the production, delivery, logistics and administration of our key special events
• Work with Income stream Heads, when required, to manage their donor engagement and cultivation events and activities
• Update the events section of the Combat Stress website
• Assist in researching venues and suppliers for events
• Liaise with and relationship manage external suppliers (caterers, printers, florists, venues) regarding events
• Help manage all printed materials related to events including designers, printers and advertisers
• Help source prizes for the live and silent auctions
• Raise and manage invoices as directed
• Input and manage event administration on Raiser’s Edge, always ensuring accurate records are maintained
• Process ticket applications and donations in lieu of tickets and ensure all supporters are thanked in a timely manner
• Attend events and assist the Senior Events Officer to ensure everything runs smoothly and all attendees at the event are well looked after. Some out of hours work is required
• Collaborate and support other fundraising teams as and where required

This role is subject to a DBS check.

As a healthcare environment, and for the health and wellbeing of our staff, veterans and visitors, we encourage everyone at Combat Stress especially professionals that are veteran facing  to take up the offer to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19

What we offer:

You will work within a reputable charity that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our veterans, that has a fantastic cause and a committed follower base.

Benefits:

•          27 days annual leave, with an increase to 30 days annual leave upon 5 years of continuous service, plus bank holidays and an additional increase to 33 days annual leave upon 10 years continuous service, plus bank holidays. 

•       Competitive stakeholder pension scheme - contributions matched up to 11% of salary

•       Discount shopping vouchers

•       Access to the Employee Assistance Programme

•          Flexible working

•          Access to Blue Light Card scheme

•          Death in Service Scheme

Plus many more.

Employer Engagement Worker

30 hour post

Pay rate: £26,802 (FTE/37hours)

12 months fixed term with potential for extension

Location: Bradford

Closing date: Sunday 26th October 2025

Previous applications need not to re-apply.

Unpaid Carers in England and Wales alone contribute around £162bn to the economy through their role as unpaid carers. They look after a loved one who needs care, without doing this as a paid job, and devote many hours of their time every week to the person they care for.

If you understand how crucial unpaid carers are to the community and are able to articulate their case to engage employers to support them in work - this is the job for you.

We are looking for a confident, passionate, articulate person who can communicate in a clear and compelling way to engage Bradford employers in:

• Identifying carers within their workforce so that they can support the valuable role they play in society
• Encouraging carers to work for them as their needs will be understood
• Encouraging other employers to join a consortium of like-minded employers across Bradford to become ‘Carer Confident Employers’

If you think you have the skills necessary to do this role we would welcome hearing from you.

In turn we will support you by helping with desk top research to engage with employers we had historical relationships with and with introductions to external partner organisations who will actively work with you to support this role and this agenda.

Please email your CV and a covering letter stating why you think you are perfect for this role.

Deputy Director, Principal Gifts
University of Manchester
£80,000 - £110,000, dependent on experience
Hybrid working

This is a really unique opportunity to lead a Principal Gifts programme for the University of Manchester.

As Deputy Director, Principal Gifts, you will work at the most senior levels to secure principal gifts that are truly transformational.  Your leadership will help ensure that we deliver our most ambitious fundraising effort in our history, designed to expand our global influence, engage new audiences and galvanise our community of over 600,000 alumni worldwide. 

You will join an incredible Development and Alumni Relations team here, led by Kate Cambden, and work alongside our new Vice Chancellor, Professor Duncan Ivison, a seasoned fundraiser with vision, ambition and international standing. With philanthropy embedded at the heart of the University’s forthcoming ten-year strategy, this is a pivotal moment to help drive Manchester’s future impact.

Reporting to the Director of Development & Alumni Relations, you will be a vital member of the Senior Leadership Team, providing strategic guidance to University leaders, academics, and fundraising colleagues, while securing the gifts that will make the greatest difference.

This is a chance to shape the future of philanthropy at Manchester - for our students, our researchers, and our global community - while leaving a lasting legacy.

Everything is coming together to make this a real inflection point for Development and Alumni Relations at Manchester.  We have an incredible team, an outstanding Vice Chancellor and a significant growth trajectory in our fundraising. We have an enormous – almost unprecedented - opportunity to help the University of Manchester have an even greater impact in the world. 

The team here are passionate, fun, creative, and ambitious individuals who are dedicated to our work as well as to supporting each other.  This role embodies our values - integrity, collaboration, boldness and ambition - and will be central to delivering the lasting impact our campaign seeks 

Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 5 November

Interested?

Please familiarise yourself with the attached Candidate Pack.
To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter.

The University of Manchester is partnering with Constellate Global Talent on this search. No agencies please.

Job Title:  Corporate Partnership Manager

Department:  Fundraising

Reports to: Head of Philanthropy and Partnerships

Location:  Hybrid-Home working with occasional travel to London office

Salary: £30,810 based on working 30 hours per week, all year round (Based on £38k full time equivalent)

Hours:  30 hours per week

Contract:  Part-time, all year round, permanent

Closing Date:  3rd October 2025

Young Epilepsy and St. Piers is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and promotes the welfare of all learners.

As part of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, online searches will form part of this process. 

An Enhanced Disclosure with relevant Barring Service checks and full referencing will be required before employment can commence.

Your Role

The Corporate Partnerships Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing a successful programme of corporate fundraising to reach an agreed annual target.  This will include managing our current corporate supporters, maximising their potential and securing new corporate support

Key responsibilities include:

To develop and grow Young Epilepsy’s existing strategy for raising money from corporates

To account manage all existing corporate relationships ensuring that the relationship is developed to its maximum potential with first class stewardship

To proactively identify and secure new corporate relationships in line with the organisation’s business plan and priorities

Managing Corporate Partnerships Officer

What we need from you

Experience of implementing a successful corporate fundraising strategy

Recent and proven success of fundraising from companies and organizations

Recent and significant experience of working in a target-driven environment. 

Experience of successfully delivering against financial targets within specified deadlines

 Your benefits

• Comprehensive training and professional development opportunities
• Generous annual leave
• Occupational pension scheme
• Subsidised dining room
• Gym membership options (on and off-site)
• Your Rewards, giving you access to nationwide discounts and benefits
• Free parking on campus
• Access to a working farm and horticultural area

We are accessible by bus, by train via the East Grinstead branch of the Oxted Line and by car

About us

Young Epilepsy is the children and young people’s epilepsy charity. Our purpose is to create a society in which children and young people with epilepsy are enabled to thrive and fulfil their potential. A society in which their voices are respected, and their ambitions realised.

We work with children and young people across the country, as well as many of those people and organisations who shape their lives - parents, health and care professionals, researchers, teachers, policymakers and more.

Informed by young people and drawing on our strong legacy of expertise in education, health

and research, we have developed and published our 2020-2025 strategy. This focuses our work around 3 key offers: health and research, voice and support and St Piers special education. Within these key offers we aim to:

• Coordinate research that improves diagnosis and treatments, and deliver cutting-edge health services
• Campaign for children’s rights, supporting them in school and college and providing innovation tools, information, and practical help for living day-to-day life
• Provide an innovative and creative environment for children and young people with epilepsy, autism, and severe learning difficulties.

 No agencies please 

Young Epilepsy strives to employ people that reflect the community it serves; therefore, applications from minority groups and people with disabilities are particularly welcomed.
Young Epilepsy is the operating name of the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy. Registered Charity No: 311877 (England and Wales).

If you do not hear anything within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful. 

Young Epilepsy is the operating name of the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy. Registered Charity No: 311877 (England and Wales).

Big ideas. Lifelong connections. One objective.

SENIOR INNOVATION SERVICE DESIGNER

Salary: £55,000 - £59,000 per annum

Reports to: Director of Innovation

Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London w/ high-flex (1 - 2 days per week in the office). We are open to further discussion around flexible working for the successful candidate.

Closing date: Tuesday 14 October 2025, 23:55

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Senior Innovation Service Designer. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping and testing future-forward service concepts that respond to emerging trends, technologies, and changing user needs. Working at the intersection of design, business strategy, and technology, you'll design end-to-end services that explore what's next-not just what's now.

You'll work on early-stage innovation projects, often where the problem or opportunity is not fully defined, and will help turn insights, signals, and prototypes into viable service models with potential for long-term impact.

What will I be doing?

• Designing and prototyping services from early-stage concept through to pilot, focusing on desirability, feasibility, and viability

• Mapping and visualising complex service systems, including current and future-state journeys, ecosystems, and value exchanges

• Collaborating with researchers, strategists, technologists, and business leads to frame opportunities and co-create solutions

• Translating user needs, behavioural insights, and market signals into service concepts and design principles

• Rapidly prototyping and testing service touchpoints across physical, digital, and human interfaces

• Building business models and operating models in collaboration with commercial and delivery teams

• Working with the Innovation User Researcher to initiate workshops (e.g. co-design, ideation, service blueprinting) with internal teams, users, and partners

• Clearly communicating and 'selling' products into the business, influencing peers in cross functional teams and senior stakeholders

• Contributing to the development of innovation methods and playbooks focused on H2/H3 innovation, that deliver substantiable incremental revenue.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience in service design delivering tangible, commercial results, with the ability to work in ambiguous, exploratory environments and drive clarity

• Strong skills in service blueprinting, journey mapping, systems thinking, and experience prototyping

• Experience designing and launching disruptive early-stage concepts, with large commercial ambitions

• Comfortable facilitating co-creation and storytelling across levels of seniority

• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect user needs with business opportunities

• Familiarity with emerging trends and technologies, and how they can shape future services

• Strong ability to generate, evaluate, and execute new ideas, using data and user insights

• Experience with design thinking, agile methodologies, or lean innovation processes

• Good stakeholder management skills, and the ability to navigate and influence across complex matrix-management structures

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and prioritise time effectively

• Resilient and committed team worker, who values others, can coach individuals, and proactively addresses challenges

• Achievement and action orientated, driving continuous improvement, learning from mistakes, and encouraging perseverance.

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination

Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism

Human: Act to have a positive impact on people

Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

What will I gain?

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Finance Officer to join our mental health charity, to support and deliver effective, efficient financial processes and compliance with financial regulations and data protection to ensure the smooth and effective running of the organisation. 

The successful candidate will report to the Senior Operations Manager and will involve managing financial transactions and reconciliation, maintaining accurate project records, supporting the production of management accounts, costing new work, budgeting and reporting as well as overseeing payroll.

You will need to demonstrate strong analytical skills and a passion for supporting mental health research.  Attention to detail, an administrative mind and a compassionate communicator are vital to this role as well as the ability to use your initiative and manage your own workload.  Every day will be different, with the opportunity for you to develop your skills and support our projects.

This post would ideally suit someone with excellent financial administration skills and project management experience.  The post holder will also need to have knowledge of Xero and QuickBooks accounting software

Our team is committed to transforming mental health research through collaboration, inclusion and a belief in equity and anti-oppressive behaviour.  We strongly encourage applications from Black people, People of Colour, people who are LGBTQIA+, those with a disability and those who identify themselves in marginalised groups, as well as people with lived experience of mental health issues.

We offer benefits including a competitive salary, hybrid/flexible working, a NEST Pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, wellbeing support and mentoring scheme, an individual training budget and access to an Employee Assistance Programme with healthcare cash plan. Please see the full Job Description for more information.

The closing date for applications is Monday, 20th October 2025 at 9am.

The Interviews will be held week commencing 27th October 2025.

To apply please visit job vacancies on the McPin Foundation website to download an application form.

If you have any questions about the post please send your email to our contact inbox.

Vice-Chancellor’s Office
Development, Alumni and Campaigns Office

Development Manager
Ref: ALC1611

Starting salary from £38,784 per annum, dependent on skills and experience, with an annual increment up to £46,049 per annum. 

This is an exciting time to join our fundraising team in the Development, Alumni and Campaigns Office. Our £100m fundraising campaign, Dare to Do Different, is underway and we wish to appoint an individual who shares in our passion for philanthropy.

You will be joining a dedicated and enthusiastic fundraising team where you will be personally responsible for managing a portfolio of individual relationships. You will cultivate, solicit and manage a portfolio of major donor prospects (this includes holding regular face-to-face meetings) to secure significant donations towards our themes of Climate, Health, Creative and Campus.

Degree-educated or with equivalent qualifications/experience, you must have excellent communication skills and a proven track record in fundraising or relationship management.

This full-time post is available on an indefinite basis. 
 
UEA offers a variety of flexible working options and although this role is advertised on a full-time basis, we encourage applications from individuals who would prefer a flexible working pattern including annualised hours, compressed working hours, part time, job share, term-time only and/or hybrid working. Details of preferred hours should be stated in the personal statement and will be discussed further at interview.

We strongly encourage applicants from underrepresented groups to apply, including candidates who are disabled, Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, and/or LGBTQ+. We welcome applications from all protected groups as defined by the Equality Act 2010. Appointment will be made on merit.

Further information on our great benefits package, including 44 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays and additional University Customary days (pro rata for part-time), can be found on our benefits page.

Closing date: 22 October 2025 

The University holds an Athena Swan Silver Institutional Award in recognition of our advancement towards gender equality.

About the Role

This is an entry-level role in the UK’s leading international consultancy and research organisation in the field of social development. As a Technical Analyst (TA), you will primarily support our work on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), with the potential to work in other thematic areas such as climate justice and wider research (see below for more information on our different thematic areas).

We are seeking candidates who are self-starting, flexible and keen to acquire diverse experience in the field of social development – and who will thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, specialist social development consultancy organisation serving the wider international development sector.

We are committed to creating a diverse workforce and welcome applications from qualified candidates from all ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds. We wish to particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates, who are underrepresented in our organisation.

Read on to discover more about the role, our organisation, and what we’re looking for in your application.

About the Team

The GBV portfolio, a crucial part of our Technical Team, works on a range of issues related to the prevention of and response to GBV. As a Technical Analyst, your role would involve providing research for the Ending Violence against Women and Children Helpdesk. You could also be involved in providing support to knowledge products and guidance material, policy and programme guidance, specialist research, and monitoring and evaluation of GBV.

How to Apply

If you are interested in joining our dynamic team, please refer to the Person Specification and submit your tailored CV and cover letter to the link below. The deadline for applying is Sunday, 2nd November 2025. Due to the high volume of applications, we are only able to respond to shortlisted candidates.

As this is a UK-based role, please confirm your eligibility to reside and work in the UK as part of your cover letter.

Prospectus is delighted to be supporting a large national health charity with their search for a Fundraising Manager – Cheshire and Greater Manchester East.

The foundation is the UK’s leading independent funder of research into heart and circulatory diseases. For over 60 years, they’ve raised vital funds to save and improve lives, support those affected, and back groundbreaking research—from AI predicting heart attacks to potential cures for inherited heart conditions.  

As Fundraising Manager for Cheshire and Greater Manchester East, you will drive community fundraising and regional partnerships through building and stewarding relationships with businesses, fundraising groups, and high-value prospects, while proactively identifying new opportunities. Using their CRM system, you’ll manage supporters effectively, meet financial targets, report on progress, and promote the foundation's campaigns to raise awareness and income across your region.

The foundation are seeking a self-motivated, ambitious individual with proven experience of building strong relationships that deliver results. You’ll bring excellent communication skills, strong organisational ability, and a track record of achieving financial targets. Comfortable managing multiple priorities, you’ll be data-driven and insightful in identifying opportunities, with the creativity and problem-solving skills to maximise income and inspire supporters.

Prospectus invests in your journey as a candidate. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds and are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. If you have any disability and would like assistance completing an application then please contact Jessica Stoddart at Prospectus.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You’ll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Lead

Permanent. Full time. Hybrid working. (You will be required to attend the office for a minimum of 2 days per week with the option to work remotely for the remaining 3 days)

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Salary: £49,663 per year

If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the scheduled closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience. 

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love. We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues and the option of being a homeworker for most of our roles too. 

About the role

Reporting in to the Head of Impact for the Multi Country Cluster region (MCC), the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Lead will lead Christian Aid’s MEAL and as part of the MCC Senior Management Team, will work across Humanitarian, Development and Advocacy programmes in MCC countries to drive impact.

The role will work closely with partners and together identify areas for accompaniment support. 

The post-holder will lead in the development, implementation and monitoring of Christian Aid, donor and sector MEAL approaches and requirements, providing effective and timely support (including capacity building) to programme staff and partner organisations, ensuring high-impact initiatives to maximise our impact. 

The role will develop and promote Christian Aid’s profile and visibility with donors, sector stakeholders and beyond foster a mindset of connection, as well as drive digital technology and decolonised approaches in MEAL across all Christian Aid programming, share their ideas and insights. 

Some of the main responsibilities for the MEAL Lead will include:

• Support MCC Senior Management to create a team environment and delivery of high-quality impactful programmes. 
• Develop and lead project proposals based on strong planning, monitoring and evaluation procedures, ensuring financial policies and procedures are complied with, including reporting requirements, to maximise impact and income. 
• Supported by the Organisational Effectiveness and Communications team, provide visibility and promotion of research and learning products for the MCC that will maximise our impact. 
• Ensure humanitarian, development and advocacy programmes meet the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) through remote and in country engagement. 
• Working with partners to co-create appropriate MEAL systems.
• Input into all major bid developments. 
• Oversee the development of best practice in community-based approaches to accountability within Christian Aid
• Provide accompaniment support to partners. 
• Manage monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure they are maintained, updated, used and that they contribute to quality programming, driving meaningful change.
• Lead on outcomes and impact measurements ensuring they are reported effectively to donors in order to maximise income. 
• Collaborate with Communications colleagues, to enable the development of a communications plan for the MCC and storytelling to supporters that will showcase high-impact initiatives that maximise our impact.
• Support decisions related to projects and programmes informed by Christian Aid’s corporate strategy, including the 4 themes and aligning with organisational values and goals. 
• Develop strong lessons learned feedback into programme design and improve the quality of future programming, to support a culture of continuous learning and improvement. 
• Represent Christian Aid in the sector, sharing innovation and learning from our MEAL practice widely, promote the exchange of ideas and knowledge, and creating strategic partnerships with other actors in the M&E sector. 
• Develop, capture, and share best practice in community-based approaches to accountability within Christian Aid.
• Collaborate with the Programme Quality & Operations Lead to complete global CHS audits processes to deliver high quality work.
• Together with Organisational Effectiveness colleagues, participate in / co-lead relevant global CoP(s)

About you

Who we are looking for

Essential:

• Degree in Social Sciences, Information Management, Statistics, Research or related fields. 
• Significant experience of working in development/humanitarian/advocacy work. 
• Understanding to promote decolonised MEAL and digital MEAL initiatives. 
• Detailed understanding of current thinking/debates on monitoring, evaluation and learning and VFM. 
• Substantial experience in developing M&E plan, systems and databases using MS office and software applications.
• Detailed understanding and significant experience on developing and analysing MEAL frameworks.
• Highly developed report writing including donor reports.
• Significant experience of compliance, project-cycle management procedures and processes.
• Significant experience of commissioning and managing consultants. 
• High level understanding of accountability and partnership approaches and demonstrable experience of developing accountability mechanisms at field level.
• Highly developed analytical and critical thinking skills. 
• Excellent facilitation skills. 
• Highly developed written and oral communications skills. 
• Highly developed interpersonal skills and ability to work in a diverse team and manage complex and sensitive organisational relationships. 
• Highly developed ability to manage complex workloads and deliver work to tight deadlines.
• Highly developed ability to promote and influence culture change. 
• Understanding of CHS commitments and other accountability frameworks, including community feedback mechanisms 

Further information

At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.

We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams. 

We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and sympathy with Christian Aid’s faith identity. 

All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

This role requires applicants to have the right to live and work in the country where this position is based and undertake the role that you have been offered. If you are successful and we make you an offer for the role, we will be required to conduct a right to work check on your immigration status in the UK. We will contact you regarding the documentation you will need to provide to evidence this. 

At Action for ME, we believe that change won't just happen; it has to be made. That's why action and impact are at the heart of everything we do. Whether that's helping people today with support, information, or care. Or working towards securing future change through our research and campaigning work.

The intent of everything we do is to pursue positive impact for the lives, rights, and futures of people affected by ME.

More information can be found in the application pack. 

You will play a pivotal role supporting the Charity in several different ways. Working with the Senior Leadership Team, you will ensure the smooth running of the organisation, providing administrative support to the Director of Operations and the Chief Executive. As a self-starter you will manage a range of tasks such as diary management, meeting minutes, assisting with event administration and HR administration. No two days will be the same!

You will be the point of contact for our HR, recruitment and training systems, ensuring consistency and assurance across the organisation. You will support HR administration such as supporting recruitment, on-boarding and off-boarding of colleagues as well as taking minutes for Board meetings, so you will need to be able to maintain a high level of confidentiality.

As a team player, you will provide comprehensive, confidential and sensitive people-orientated administration support, developing a deep understanding of our organisation, our work and build strong, effective working relationships with colleagues.

Remote working at home can be challenging for some and for others, it works incredibly well. You will need to be able to work on your own, use your own initiative and ensure you are proactive in maintain good levels of communication and contact with your colleagues to ensure we deliver the best service possible to people with ME. 

Programme Manager (Loneliness)

We are seeking a Programme Manager (Loneliness) to join the Astra Foundation. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our growing grants portfolio tackling loneliness among young people in the UK and France.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small but ambitious foundation. As Programme Manager, you will:

• Oversee and develop our portfolio of grants tackling loneliness across the UK and France
• Work with grantees and partners to generate learning, share best practice, and amplify effective approaches.
• Engage in local and global networks on loneliness, ranging from social-prescribing, funding and commissioning programmes, and research

The successful candidate will report to the Foundation Manager and work closely with our Board and Chair. You will combine rigour in grant making with the vision to influence systemic change – helping us explore what works, share best practice, and catalyse cross-sector collaboration.

This role is ideally suited to someone with experience in programme management or grant making, and with a passion for tackling one of society’s most pressing but often overlooked challenges.

Salary: £40,000–£45,000 (depending on experience, pro-rata if part-time)
Contract: Full-time  – we will also consider candidates wishing to work 0.8 FTE
Location: Hybrid – Victoria, London (two core office days per week)

Please download the full application pack below for further details.