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Senior Communications Officer

Location: London
Salary: £42,840 - £50,870
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time
Closing Date: 9th November 2025 

We’re looking for a strategic communications professional who thrives on creative storytelling and getting things done to join our small but mighty communications team. 

You’ll have a sharp news sense, a knack for crafting compelling content, and the organisational skills to keep a busy team running smoothly. You’ll be as comfortable crafting stories for media as you are scheduling posts or coordinating campaign timelines - someone who spots opportunities, connects the dots, and gets things done. 

You’ll help the Clean Air Fund reach and engage our key audiences: governments, funders, businesses, researchers, civil society organisations and campaigners. 

As Senior Communications Officer, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering the Clean Air Fund’s strategic communications by: 

• Driving impactful storytelling and thought leadership across global and regional media, working closely with our media agency.
• Leading our social media strategy and management, growing the organisation’s and CEO’s digital presence, with a particular focus on LinkedIn.

• Supporting the smooth running of the communications function, strengthening collaboration across the organisation and the wider clean air movement.

Our Culture

At Clean Air Fund, we’re guided by purpose and grounded in evidence. Our culture combines clear structures and rigorous frameworks with space for fresh thinking and collaboration across diverse perspectives. We value curiosity, openness and a shared commitment to making a measurable difference.

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, returning parents, carers or any other aspect which makes them unique. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented groups to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that the recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm. 

For more information on this role, including the full person specification, please see the job description.

Title: Data and Reporting Officer – Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) 

Salary: £29,400 to £34,600pa 

Location: UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, when required 

Contract: 24-month Fixed Term Contract 

Hours: This is a full-time role with 35 hours per week 

About the role 

Sightsavers work in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) contributes to a range of public health problems to reduce disparities, lower disease burdens, and build locally owned sustainable health programs. The NTD Data and Reporting Officer sits within the NTD Surveillance unit and provides a single point of contact for programme and country teams on data monitoring and reporting. 

The position will be based in the UK, with occasional travel to Sightsavers headquarters in Haywards Heath, and international travel up to four weeks per year. 

As the NTD Data and Reporting Officer you will help standardise, consolidate and continuously improve directorate Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) tools and processes, maintain data architecture for NTDs, ensuring core organisational data assets are of high quality, cohesive and accessible, and manage secure storage for NTD data reporting. 

Further responsibilities include: 

• Maintain a cross-departmental M&E calendar. 

• Develop and disseminate and track quarterly planning and reporting templates for country office/partners. 

• Quality check data submissions prior to consolidation against organisational data policy. 

• Ensure programme plans (targets) and associated performance data (actuals) are timely and accurately entered in core organisational data systems. 

• Process and analyse large, complex datasets on request for directorate senior management, donors and partners. 

• Conduct detailed reviews of donor reports, narratives and press releases to ensure any referenced data is accurate and appropriately referenced.

• Provide day to day capacity building and support for directorate and country office staff on data monitoring and reporting. 

• Provide ongoing support to licensed NTD data systems, including acting as a first point of contact for the directorate NTD data helpdesk. 

• Participate in NTD programme and team meetings.

Skills and Experience 

As the successful candidate you will possess practical experience or an undergraduate degree in international development, public health, international relations, geography, statistics, or an appropriate equivalent. You will also have excellent English language skills, have an understanding of international development issues and a commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities, and have experience within data reporting and monitoring. 

Further requirements include: 

Essential 

• Excellent problem-solving and analytic skills, with the ability to work with large, complex datasets. 

• Understanding of data privacy and best practices in data security. 

• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to identify critical issues and communicate these effectively to colleagues. 

• Able to facilitate group-training sessions, with a focus on programme systems and data, building capacity in developing country contexts in areas relevant to position. 

• Advanced Excel skills, and proficiency with Microsoft suite. 

• Knowledge and understanding of Monitoring and Evaluation reporting. 

• Experience processing and analysing large and complex data sets. 

Desirable 

• Working knowledge of French and/or Portuguese. 

• Experience of working in different countries, preferable within NTDs or the public health sector. 

• Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data visualisation platforms, such as PowerBI and Tableau. 

This is a varied and involved position, and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details. 

Please note that there will be an expectation that you can occasionally visit our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW), and complete international travel up to four week a year. 

Benefits 

Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London. 

Next steps 

To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please submit your CV via our recruitment portal and answer all of the application questions. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.

Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit. 

We anticipate that remote interviews will take place during the week commencing 24 November 2025 and the evaluation process will include a written task and an oral interview to be completed by shortlisted candidates in advance of this.

Closing date: 9 November 2025 

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply. 

Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls. 

The Events Officer will support the Events Operation Manager in delivering the smooth running and operation of the Aga Khan Centre facilities and events. In this context, he/she will manage the daily set up, servicing, cleaning and management of meeting rooms and Board Rooms for a range of events. Duties include preparation and setting out of all refreshments for meetings and events.

The role requires the ability to work flexibly in terms of working hours including late hours and Saturdays and Sundays if required to support and accommodate events. 

Meetings & Events

• Support the team with setting up meeting rooms for internal and external users, including organising tea/coffee trolleys and serving meeting room lunches

• Liaison with clients/bookers/stakeholders via email, by phone and face to face

• Creation of event agendas/function sheets/transferring all information from the organiser to capture event requirements

• Liaison with event suppliers (Catering, AV, Entertainment, Florist Etc.) on behalf of the organiser

• Using function sheets to manage and set up rooms and areas, ensuring any food and beverage requirements are met in a timely manner and utilising the appropriate suppliers

• Ensuring rooms are set up according to bookings

• Meet and greet organisers for each event allocated

• Offer and conduct site visits with event organisers

• Administration: responsible for all administration duties relating to meetings and events

• Oversee each event allocated and stay onsite throughout, as, and when required as directed by the Events Operations Manager 

• Liaise with the relevant teams to ensure the AV in meeting/event rooms is set to the standard required for each meeting/event

• Assisting Events Operations Manager with creating regular and ad-hoc reports on meetings and events for the Property Committee and other senior staff

• Manage the clearing, turn around and set up of meeting and seminar rooms as required

Customer Care

• Providing excellent customerservice to guests and stakeholders

• Liaise with all events clients (internal organisations and external), being the main point of contact to plan and organise from start to end their events, researching the most adequate spaces, negotiate prices, quotes for large meetings, VIP events or large events, adapting to any budget. On the day of the event, being the main point of contact and responsible for putting all the teams together (building maintenance, IT) for a smooth event delivery on the day

• Liaise and maintain a relationship with the volunteer core of the ismaili community and coordinate requirements for specific meetings/large events

• Maintain and extend upon relationships with the 3 different organisations based in AKC

• Oversee and coordinate derigging for all meetings and VIP events invoicing and ensuring all the payments are made

• Liaising with clients for feedback

• Supervise and manage different contractors such as cleaners, catering, hospitality agency staff, AV, reception, or volunteers

• Day to day manage and train Events Assistants to ensure maximum utilisation of the resource

• Maintaining and updating regularly the trackers about extra cleaning, external staff, events allocations and volunteers’ requests

General

• Support the Building Manager and Events Operations Manager to ensure the day-to-day cleanliness and tidiness is maintained to a high standard

• Ensure the cleaning contractors maintain clean board rooms and meeting rooms as well as kitchens and equipment

• Carry out cleanliness checks and walk rounds, ensuring the areas of responsibility are clean and stocks are replenished as necessary

• Manage the clearing, turn around and set up of meeting and seminar rooms as required

• Send a tracker of events every fortnight reflecting meetings and events updates to key events people in the building institutions

• Work with the Events Operations Manager to monitor health and safety, sanitation, and food hygiene standards

• Assist Events Operations Manager with the monthly Service Data report for the Property Committee

• Work closely with the Events Operations Manager, Reception, Security, buildings management team and users to provide a seamless and positive experience

• Work closely with the volunteer service team who provide hospitality support for events at the Aga Khan Centre

• Oversee the cleaning team to ensure the inventory for the kitchens and pantries is stocked and managed daily

• Support the Events Operations Manager in all their duties as required

• Carry out any other reasonable duties as assigned by the Events Operations Manager & Buildings Manager

• Deputise for the Events Operations Manager in his/her absence 

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience of working in a similar role within a meetings and events environment.

Skills

• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills

• Organised and capable of multi-tasking with excellent attention to detail

• Knowledge of Microsoft applications including Word and Excel

• Ability to problem solve

Personal Attributes

• Friendly and professional manner

• Ability to work flexibly in terms of working hours including late hours and Saturdays and Sundays if required to support and accommodate events

• Demonstrate integrity with high personal and organizational ethical standards; is fair, honest, and trustworthy with respect for confidentiality; inspires and builds trust

• Respectful of diversity; sensitive towards others; open and understanding towards other people’s cultures, values, autonomy, and faiths; demonstrates compassion and empathy; is courteous to other with respect to their background, religion, gender, and age

• Committed to acting ethically and upholding safeguarding standards towards all staff, volunteers, and beneficiaries of the organisation.

• Due to the high profile of some of the events attendees at times, a smart-casual attire must be observed when conducting themselves during an event

Application Details:

• Must have right to work in the UK.

• Must include CV and a supporting statement that outlines why they want the role, why they want to work for AKF(UK) and how their experiences and skills to date will make them the most suitable applicant for the role.

Who we are:

Muslim Aid is a UK faith-based international development organisation that provides support to communities around the world affected by disasters, conflict, or endemic poverty without regard to their social, religious, or ethnic background. 

Established in 1985, Muslim Aid has facilitated the engagement of the British Muslim and non-Muslim community in support of its work in a variety of ways. Over the years, its humanitarian work has included responses to major crises around the world including, famine in East Africa, earthquakes and flooding in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as conflicts in Syria and Yemen. 

We place strong emphasis on long-term development projects that build the capacity of local people to help themselves. In addition to the 5 country offices worldwide we also work with multiple partner offices focusing on sustainable Development Programmes and providing humanitarian relief during times of crisis.

Summary of the role:

The Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Office role will be responsible for driving organic growth, improving online visibility, and nd optimising the performance of Muslim Aid website and other digital platforms and other digital platforms.  You will develop and implement SEO strategies that ensure our appeals, campaigns, and content are easily discoverable by our supporters and new audiences. You will play a key role in enhancing donor engagement and maximising conversions through search.

About the Role:

1. Develop and implement on-page and off-page SEO approaches to increase website visibility and traffic.
2. Carry out keyword research and competitor analysis to identify content opportunities.
3. Optimise website content, landing pages, and campaign pages for search engine performance.
4. Monitor, analyse and report on SEO performance using tools such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console and SEMrush.
5. Advise content teams on SEO best practices for blogs, appeals and campaign content.
6. Conduct regular website audits to identify and resolve technical SEO issues.

About You:

You must currently hold the right to work in the UK. Muslim Aid is not offering sponsorship for this role

To be successful in this role, you will need:

1. Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent experience.
2. Proven experience in SEO, with a track record of improving website visibility and rankings.
3. Strong knowledge of search engine algorithms, keyword research, and link-building strategies.
4. Experience using SEO tools (e.g., SEMrush, Ahrefs, Moz, Screaming Frog).
5. -Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise with a variety of stakeholders and employees at all levels.
6. Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple campaigns simultaneously.

Why you should apply:

Join Muslim Aid as a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Officer and play a key role in amplifying our digital impact. You’ll drive organic growth, boost online visibility, and ensure our appeals and campaigns reach the audiences who care most. Through smart, data-driven SEO strategies, you’ll maximise donor engagement, strengthen supporter connections, and increase conversions across our platforms. If you’re passionate about using digital innovation to make a global difference, apply now and help us grow our reach to transform more lives.

Benefits you will enjoy working for us: 

• 25 days annual leave + 4 Privilege days
• Hybrid working
• Paid time off for medical appointments 
• 2 hours lunch break on Fridays 
• Time off in Lieu (TOIL) 
• Pension Scheme

How to apply:

To apply please submit your cover letter (no more than 1 page) and CV.

Applications will be accepted until the closing date. However, please note that Muslim Aid may conduct interviews and progress with the selection process on a rolling basis, with the aim of appointing a suitable candidate as soon as possible.

Insights and Impact Manager £41,738 

The Role 

Are you passionate about putting girls' voices at the heart of programme design? We're looking for a collaborative and data-informed Insights and Impact Manager to bring research, evidence and learning into our work at GFS. You'll design and lead monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) across all programmes, build systems to gather insight from girls and young women, and ensure their experiences directly shape our delivery and strategy. 

About Girls Friendly Society 

Established in 1875, GFS is one of the oldest UK registered charities working to support girls and young women. We believe in challenging gender inequality by empowering girls and young women. We achieve this by providing groups and opportunities for girls and young women to build friendships, gain confidence, and learn that they are unstoppable. We deliver a programme of activities designed to develop socio-emotional skills such as confidence, self-esteem, emotional wellbeing, and resilience, and recruit and train women volunteers to run those activities in a space designed for girls and young women. We prioritise working in areas of disadvantage. 

Why Join Us? 

At GFS, we believe in creating a supportive and inclusive work environment where our team can thrive. As part of our organisation, you'll enjoy: 

• 25 days annual leave (pro rata), plus bank holidays 
•  Long service leave after two years 
• GFS Pension Scheme with 7.5% employer contribution 
• We embrace flexible working and support our employees to work in ways that suit their individual circumstances and responsibilities.   
•  24-hour access to Employee Assistance Programme 
•  Season ticket loan 
•  Annual EDI Learning Days 
• Study time to support your professional development 

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 

GFS is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from marginalised communities including Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled people, and those from underrepresented groups. 

As part of our commitment to equitable recruitment, we guarantee interviews for candidates from marginalised communities who meet the essential criteria for the role. We are also committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace. If you require any adjustments to support your application or interview, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure an accessible and inclusive process. 

Key Dates 

• Closing Date: Noon, Thursday 20th November 2025 

• Interviews: Thursday 4th December 2025 

About Pathfinders Neuromuscular Alliance

Pathfinders Neuromuscular Alliance is a national, user-led charity run by and for people with muscle-weakening conditions. We empower adults with neuromuscular conditions to live fulfilling lives through peer support, information, advocacy, and co-produced research and campaigns. Our work brings together lived experience and academic insight to influence health, social care, and disability policy.

About the Role

We are seeking a Research Officer to support a series of user-led research projects exploring:

• Access to social care and support

• Healthcare access and inequalities

• Sexual health and relationships for people with neuromuscular conditions

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge, lived-experience research that aims to improve quality of life and influence national policy and practice.

You will work closely with the CEO, Research Manager, and members of our lived experience research advisory group. You’ll be involved in all aspects of the research cycle — from design to dissemination — and will ensure that our research is ethical, inclusive, and grounded in co-production principles.

Key Responsibilities

Research Design & Ethics

• Support the design of research studies in collaboration with the lived experience team and academic partners.

• Support the preparation of ethics applications, participant information sheets, and consent materials.

• Develop interview schedules, focus group guides, and surveys.

Participant Engagement

• Recruit participants through Pathfinders’ network, social media, and partner organisations.

• Ensure accessibility and inclusivity in participant communication and data collection.

• Support co-production activities (e.g., advisory groups, workshops, testing materials).

Data Collection & Analysis

• Conduct qualitative interviews and/or focus groups with participants.

• Support data transcription, coding, and thematic analysis (using NVivo or similar).

• Maintain accurate, confidential records and data management systems.

Reporting & Dissemination

• Contribute to research reports, briefings, and peer-reviewed papers.

• Present findings to internal and external audiences, including at conferences or stakeholder meetings.

• Work with communications staff to translate research findings into accessible outputs for our community and policymakers.

Collaboration & Co-Production

• Embed lived experience leadership throughout the project lifecycle.

• Liaise with academic partners and other charities to strengthen our research and advocacy work.

• Contribute to a culture of inclusive, ethical, and participatory research practice.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience managing or delivering a research project from start to finish (e.g., Master’s dissertation, PhD, or equivalent applied research).

• Strong understanding of qualitative research methods (interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis).

• Ability to plan and manage multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and work independently.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing.

• Commitment to co-production, lived experience leadership, and inclusive research practices.

• Awareness of issues affecting disabled people and/or people with long-term conditions.

Desirable

• Lived experience of disability, chronic illness, or neuromuscular conditions. Applications will be prioritised where they meet this criteria.

• Experience of working with disabled people or people with neuromuscular or muscle-weakening conditions.

• Familiarity with ethical approval processes (university or NHS).

• Experience with NVivo or similar qualitative analysis software.

• Experience working in a small charity or community-based research context.

What We Offer

• Flexible, remote working arrangements.

• A supportive, inclusive environment led by people with lived experience.

• Opportunities for co-authorship, conference presentations, and career development in inclusive research.

• The chance to shape evidence that can drive change in health and social care policy.

Be part of the breakthrough. Help change lives through world-class medical research.

At the Medical Research Foundation, we don’t just fund research – we fuel progress. We back bold ideas, support brilliant minds, and invest in science that’s often overlooked but urgently needed.  As our remit is as broad as medical research itself, we fund an exciting variety of science and are able to step in where others cannot. We are looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking Head of Research Funding to join us on a one-year maternity cover.  This is a unique opportunity for someone passionate about improving human health and advancing medical research to step up or across into a leadership role to manage our dynamic Research Funding Team and deliver our strategic research objectives.

Why this role matters

As the Head of Research Funding, you will be the driving force of the Research Funding team, ensuring our funding mechanisms uphold the highest standards of integrity, supporting research with the greatest potential for impact.  Your leadership will be crucial in identifying new funding opportunities, maintaining rigorous oversight of grant management, and ensuring that our research funding remains innovative and effective.

You will:

•  Oversee the planning and execution of all research funding competitions and ensure the robust management of the full lifecycle of grant funding.
•  Undertake health and research landscape reviews to identify emerging areas of research need and innovation.
•  Manage and develop a team of six people, maintaining the highest professional standards.

About You

You are inspired to help us to deliver our vision of a world where medical research improves the health of everyone. 

You bring:

• A PhD in biomedical sciences or related fields; or equivalent experience and a degree in biological sciences.
• Significant experience of biomedical research funding, including developing and managing funding calls; financial oversight of funding; peer review processes; and grant management.
• Line management expertise.

Bonus points if you have:

• Postdoctoral research experience
• Experience of preparing landscape reviews and strategic cases for support.

What we offer:

• A chance to be part of a mission that matters.
• A supportive, collaborative, and ambitious team culture.
• Opportunities to grow, learn, and make a real impact.

About the Medical Research Foundation

Our vision? A world where medical research improves health for everyone. We fund life-changing science, and we’re proud of the role good governance plays in that mission.

Salary & Working Style

• £61,000 - £65,000 per year full-time (36 hours per week) dependent on experience
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays
• 12% employer pension contribution + life assurance
• Generous other benefits
• Wellbeing support and flexible working culture

This is a full-time post, but we are happy to consider a part-time contract (min 0.8 FTE).  This is a fixed-term maternity cover post expected to start in January 2026 and end on 31 December 2026.  We are very happy to consider secondment opportunities from other organisations.

We value spending time working in-person to develop strong connections with each other and with our mission, so you will be based at our central London office for a minimum of three days a week if you are full-time (Monday, Tuesday, and either Wednesday or Thursday) with the option to work remotely for the remainder.  If you are part-time, you will be office-based for at least 50% of your time.

A Place for Everyone

At the Medical Research Foundation, we believe that diversity drives creativity and innovation. We are dedicated to promoting equality of opportunity, fostering fairness and inclusion, and creating an environment where everyone feels that they belong.

We especially welcome applications from individuals from minoritised groups, including those from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and members of the LGBTQI+ community.

The Susanna Wesley Foundation is looking for a theologically literate researcher who has experience in conducting research and evaluations in faith-related contexts to join our team at an exciting time of growth.

Projects will focus largely on qualitative participatory research, with a view to understanding, and impacting on, practice; we therefore welcome applications from those who combine research capability with practitioner experience, and/or those who have successfully conducted theological action research. Expertise in practical theology would be particularly welcome as would a passion for enabling flourishing, inclusion and positive change.

We prize collaborative working and relational approaches so the role would suit someone who enjoys building relationships and participating in conversations to generate learning and understanding. The role includes some administrative elements alongside the opportunities to exercise research skills.

This can be a full time or part time role. See the job description for further details and instructions for applying.

Applications close at 11.59pm, October 27th 2025.

Join our team! We are looking for a Research and Policy Officer 

Are you a policy-oriented researcher with strong economic analytical skills 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.

You will produce research analysis on women's economic circumstances, helping us to translate complex ideas into policy recommendations for a more gender-equal economy. 

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:  30 hours per week for full pay (WBG operates a shorter working week). We are happy to consider flexible working arrangements and welcome secondment applications. Some out of hours working will be required for which TOIL will be given. 

Location: Hybrid London / remote with at least one day per week in the office.  The postholder must be resident in the UK with the right to work in the UK. Office is in Vauxhall, London. 

Duration: Nine-month contract (with possible extension to one year subject to work return of postholder).

Salary: £37,377 for 30-hour week plus 5% pension contributions.

Line management: Reports to the Head of Research and Policy

Land, and the way that it is owned and managed, impacts on all of us. It has different places in all of our histories, whatever our backgrounds or heritage, whether our experience is of public or private ownership, colonialism, dispossession, or migration, the difficulties of making a living in a rural economy or the daily impacts of urbanisation and gentrification. How we currently own, manage and make decisions about land lies at the heart of many of our current social, economic and environmental challenges and injustices. 

Shared Assets works with people and land for a just future.

We undertake advice & support, research, movement building, communications and resourcing work to support, mobilise and advocate for the development of models of managing land that create shared social, economic and environmental benefits. We see systems change as a core value of our work and seek to be transformative, both through externally-facing projects and internal approaches and ways of working.

Our research work supports collective learning related to working on and with the land. We communicate our findings through articles, blogs, podcasts, reports, events, and more - building a shared evidence base to support the development of a just land system. Through our research, we seek to make an impact at a local and a systemic level. We want to create conditions that allow people and communities to thrive, and promote care for the land and environment. We do this work on both a commercial and grant funded basis.

The role holder will lead the full range of Shared Assets’ research projects, from scoping and design through to delivery, follow up and evaluation. They will need to have experience of designing and carrying out research and learning activities with a wide range of partners - including academics, community groups, NGOS and local authorities - in collaborative ways. In the past we have worked on research projects of many scales - from large European Union funded consortia, to smaller, one-off pieces which help a local authority or community organisation move forward with their work. Often our research work involves collaborating with a group of other civil society organisations to provide evidence of why change in the land, food and farming system is needed, and generate action on these issues. 

The main areas of work are to: manage and deliver funded research projects (or projects with a research component) with partners, reflect with colleagues on what we are learning within and across workstreams as an organisation and sector, use this knowledge to create new ideas for research work, and support fundraising for these, as part of our ‘infrastructure’ role.

For more details please see the full application pack. Apply before 10am on Monday 27th October.

The Policy and Campaigns Officer will develop policy positions and campaigns that will help ensure that the needs, rights and priorities of those living with DMD are understood and acted on by decision makers, policy makers, parliament and government. The Officer will work closely with colleagues in the Policy and Communications team to support a cohesive and impactful approach to policy, engagement and communications.

Job Description

• To ensure that the charity’s policy and campaigning work is firmly grounded in the views and experiences of the DMD community and to ensure that they are consulted and involved in the development (and delivery where appropriate) of Duchenne UK’s policy positions and campaigns.
• To maximise the benefits of our existing relationships with civil servants, parliamentarians, policy makers, relevant organisations (such as NICE) and charity sector professionals and to create new relationships which help us to achieve our aims.
• To organise events and parliamentary activity working with parliamentary supporters and the DMD community.
• To devise low-budget campaigns aimed at creating positive change in policy, practice or attitudes that will improve the lives and outcomes of those living with DMD. 
• To create campaign assets such as digital and social media content in collaboration with the communications team.
• To draft consultation responses, policy positions and occasional short reports summarising the findings of research we have conducted or commissioned.
• To monitor relevant government proposals and initiatives, identifying those likely to have a major impact on the lives of those living with DMD, and to seek to influence their development.
• To stay abreast of relevant academic research, build relationships with key academics and identify opportunities for collaboration.

Person Specification

Essential experience:

• Experience of working in a policy and/or campaigning role.
• Experience of writing for a range of audiences and using different channels to produce convincing, clear and succinct content across a range of platforms such as blogs, web and print.
• Experience of working with civil servants and parliamentarians.
• Experience of using digital and social media for influencing and campaigning purposes.

Desirable experience:

• Project management experience including initiating, planning, implementing and evaluating campaigns and organising events.
• Experience working in health and social care space, with pharmaceutical industry and/or a highly regulated industry and engaging with regulators.

Essential knowledge:

• Working knowledge of the healthcare system, regulatory framework and the social model of disability. 
• Knowledge of how policy and legislation are developed in Westminster and Whitehall.
• Knowledge of campaigning techniques.

Essential skills and attributes:

• Highly motivated with a passion for improving the life outcomes of people living with DMD.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with people of all ages and backgrounds. 
• Ability to draw out the most salient features of complex issues and debates.
• Ability to analyse large amounts of information and produce easy to digest summaries and position statements.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Ability to build excellent working relationships both internally and externally.
• Good organisational and workload management skills.
• Proficient with all main Microsoft Office packages.

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave + 8 days of public holidays (both pro rata)
• 3 days of office closure between Christmas and New Year
• Summer Fridays – half days on Fridays in July and August (pro rata)
• Flexible working policy
• Hybrid working
• Standard Employer Pensions contributions after 3 months
• Team wellness day and team away day
• Training and development opportunities

Terms and conditions

The appointment is subject to satisfactory references and an initial six-month period of probation, during which performance will be regularly reviewed.

The applicant must have the right to work in the UK and provide relevant ‘right to work’ documentation.

Relevant training will be provided during induction as well as opportunities to develop your career through experience of different aspects of the charity’s work and working with colleagues on new initiatives.

The organisation’s hybrid working policy is at the discretion of the line-manager during the first three months of employment, to support the induction process.

Email Marketing Officer at The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity

Full Time, Permanent

Location: Chelsea, London UK with a minimum of one day a month in Sutton

Hybrid Working: 40% of time in Chelsea/Sutton office, London UK

£28-32k DOE

About the Role

The Email Marketing Officer role is key to our supporter communications. You will work across teams to deliver our email programme, building high-quality, personalised campaigns and engaging content using your copywriting skills. This is a varied role requiring a motivated, organised, and collaborative approach to champion engagement and a data-driven strategy.

Why Join Us?

The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity raises money to save the lives of people with cancer, everywhere. We ensure our nurses, doctors and research teams can provide the very best care and develop life-saving treatments, which are used across the UK and around the world. From funding state-of-the-art equipment and ground-breaking research, to creating the very best patient environments, we will never stop looking for ways to improve the lives of people affected by cancer. 

The Marketing and Digital team are a creative and supportive team, responsible for The  Royal Marsden Cancer Charity website, email, social channels, brand building, paid advertising  and more. This is an exciting time to join our growing Marketing and Digital team as we shape and improve the charity's brand building and digital approach. The Charity is also committed to its biggest fundraising appeal to date, for a new major development project in Chelsea.

Working for us offers you a rewarding career and the chance to really improve the lives of those living with cancer. 

What you'll be working on:

• You'll support the team with the end-to-end delivery of marketing, stewardship, transactional and automated email campaigns.
• You'll create engaging content and brand-aligned creative assets, using strong copywriting and data insights.
• You'll act as a champion for email best practices, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
• You'll continuously develop and improve personalised user journeys to boost supporter engagement.
• You'll analyse email effectiveness using analytics (CRM, Google Analytics) and manage the email testing plan.
• You'll proactively collaborate with internal teams to share insights and ensure seamless, high-quality supporter communications.

This job is for you if…

• you have experience using an ESP such as Adestra or Mailchimp and ability to quickly pick up new digital tools and software
• you have knowledge and understanding of the principles of email marketing best practice
• you have excellent writing, copy-editing and proofreading skills, with an eye for detail and a strong command of the English language
• you have the ability to communicate, collaborate and build good working relationships
• you have strong organisational skills, ability to work proactively and manage multiple tasks concurrently.

What we offer:

• Hybrid working, with 40% of time spent in our Chelsea, London office and a minimum of one day a month in Sutton.
• 37.5 hrs a week, with flexible working around our core hours of 10am to 4pm
• 27 days annual leave
• Up to 6% employer contributions subject to matched contribution from you (increasing with length of service)
• Training, support and development opportunities
• Access to the blue light discount scheme
• Range of wellbeing initiatives

Inclusion Matters

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and walks of life. 

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you.

How to Apply:

Please click 'Apply' and submit your CV and cover letter.

• Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 3 November 2025
• Interviews: 11 & 13 November 2025 (in person)
• Role starts: 5 January 2026

Location: Hybrid: Office base is in London with expectation for a minimum of one day per week in the office (The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, Vauxhall, London, SE11 5RR).

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week (1.0FTE)

Salary: £50,000

Annual Leave: 22 days per annum plus 3 discretionary days  

About the role 

CUF’s new strategy has a vision of ending poverty together.  Over the next three years we will be developing our relationships with our networks, partnerships, Dioceses and churches to respond, primarily, to relational poverty, recognising its place within the web of poverty. Our work will be mission and community resilience focussed, in the framework of asset based community development.

Through our work we will see more impactful, confident and mission focussed churches who are empowered to serve their local communities.  We will witness greater cohesion across Dioceses, schools, Christian denominations and Christian charities as a national movement to love and serve our neighbour, and challenge unjust structures of society. We will also work more strategically with communities of different faiths

in our resilience work, facing the challenges of relational and identity poverty.  We will work closely with the Church of England who have highlighted ministry in low income communities as a priority for resourcing.

We will be more confident in speaking out the truth about poverty, through a renewed influencing, policy and research team, who will take our grassroots and collaborative work to highlight unjust structures on poverty, and shape an ecclesial, political and sociological response.

In this newly created role you will develop our work on influencing and telling the truth about poverty, this is one of two objectives for the charity.  You will help build relationships of influence within the Church of England, Government and other decision makers to use our stories and impact to show the difference churches and faith groups can make in ending material and relational poverty.  You will develop policy positions on areas of CUF’s work in relation to poverty that will give a firm basis for our work, and that we will be able to speak out on with confidence and knowledge based on connection to grassroots churches and organisations.  You will develop a robust mechanism for reporting on impact, which goes beyond just evaluating our work but demonstrates the difference that faith based social action can make on ending poverty together.

This role will report to the CEO, but work across all of CUF’s teams and departments and will be responsible for the line management of the Listening and Learning Officer.

POLICY and CAMPAIGNS OFFICER 

Do you want to drive vital change for victims of stalking and harassment across policy and legislation? As a Policy and Campaigns Officer at Suzy Lamplugh Trust, you’ll work on multiple, diverse and fast-paced projects in a committed and expert team. Come and step into a role where your work truly makes an impact. 

ABOUT SUZY LAMPLUGH TRUST 

This post represents an opportunity for the right candidate to join the UK’s founding personal safety charity and leading authority on stalking. 

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust was born out of the tragic story of Suzy Lamplugh, a 25-year-old estate agent who went missing whilst at work in 1986, was never found, and was eventually declared deceased in 1993. The Trust was set up in Suzy’s name and continues to be a pioneer in reducing the risk and prevalence of abuse, aggression and violence - with a specific focus on stalking and harassment – through education, campaigning and support.

We are an organisation that has: 

• been responsible for training over one million lone and frontline workers across all sectors in personal safety; 

• campaigned heavily and played a pivotal role in driving changes in the law to better protect people across the UK; and 

• supported over 75,000 victims and survivors of stalking since the inception of our National Stalking Helpline and stalking advocacy service. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support the delivery and evaluation of national campaigns on workplace safety as well as stalking, harassment and other priority areas.

• Maintain effective relationships with civil servants, policy makers, national and local decision makers, and other campaigning bodies and build relevant networks of stakeholders.

• Proactively keep abreast of issues within the post-holder’s own portfolio, general criminal justice, personal safety and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) policy developments and up to date campaigning techniques.

• To undertake or commission research on specific policy areas as required.

• Develop policy recommendations, write policy and campaigns reports, lobby government and other decision makers and stakeholders, and respond on behalf of Suzy Lamplugh Trust to government enquiries, consultations or other relevant initiatives. 

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The Policy and Campaigns Officer is responsible for supporting on Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s policy and campaigning work relating to reducing harassment, violence and aggression in society by addressing these issues at their root cause, working with employers to improve personal safety culture within organisations and seeking to influence policy and legislative change where necessary. This role will also support campaigns that ensure that victims of stalking receive better support and protection.

Contract Type: Permanent 

Salary: £31,500 

Hours: Full-time 

Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details. 

As an Equal Opportunities employer, the Trust strives to maintain a diverse and inclusive culture representative of the communities we seek to support. 

 WHAT WE OFFER IN RETURN 

In return for our staff’s commitment and dedication, we offer a range of benefits, including: 

• Hybrid working (minimum 40% in the office) 

• Flexitime Policy 

• 28 days annual leave (which increases after 3 and 5 years to a maximum of 33 days pro rata for part-time) + public holiday 

• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution 

• Health & Wellbeing App with access to advice, counselling, support and a wide range of discounts 

• Occupational Sick Pay (which increases after 3 years) 

• Cycle to Work scheme (cycle racks on site) 

• Interest-free travel loan for annual season ticket 

• Regular all-staff off-site meetings and events 

Initially office-based (London) for 3 months to support a meaningful induction, moving to a blended working model (40% office / 60% home). While London-based candidates are ideal, we'll consider applicants from nearby areas too.

HOW TO APPLY 

Suzy Lamplugh Trust is committed to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. Please apply by submitting a CV and a covering letter detailing how your skills and experience align with each point in the person specification. Applications without a covering letter will not be considered. 

All applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Please note that if you do not receive a response within three weeks of the closing date, your application was not successful. 

Closing Date: 23rd November 

Interview: week beginning 8th December 2025