Be Free Young Carers is an award winning charity that seeks to improve the lives of young carers living in the South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse Districts. We are seeking to appoint a passionate and experienced leader.

Be Free Young Carers operates throughout South Oxfordshire, the Vale of White Horse Districts and will establish a presence in the Oxford City District in 2022 as a next step in its expansion plans. We offer support and advice dedicated to improving the lives and well-being of young carers.

We are the only specialist charity supporting young carers in Oxfordshire and provide advice, guidance, offer befriending and peer support, enabling young carers to meet, socialise and have fun, increasing their self-confidence and improving their mental well-being.

In the post pandemic period, like many charities in Oxfordshire, we have seen an increase in demand. It is also clear that a significant unmet need to support young carers exists. We have a strategy to expand the geographical remit of young carers we can support in the County. Our strategy will result in young carers across Oxfordshire receiving vital support they urgently need.

Working with a dedicated, professional and highly motivated team the CEO’s role will be to inspire and lead, ensuring the sustainability of the existing charity footprint, and delivering the expansion strategy. This is an exciting time to join a thriving, growing, commercially minded charity and a rare opportunity for someone to lead a significant programme of work in its early stages of development.

The CEO is responsible for the leadership, the overall strategic direction of the Charity, working with the Chair and Board, and the delivery of all its activities to ensure it meets the needs of the children and families it exists for in the most effective way for the future.

The role is full time, but we will consider flexible time and working arrangements. Closing date is 2 January 2022..

Reporting to the Director of Government & Multilateral Relations, the Senior Development Officer will establish and maintain close relationships with current and prospective donors with a view to maintain and increase Crisis Groups donor base internationally.

Responsibilities include:

• In collaboration with the Director of Government & Multilateral Relations, contribute to the development and execution of the annual strategic development plan and other organization-wide communications.

• Cultivate, solicit and steward a portfolio of government and multilateral donors while identifying and qualifying new donors to meet fundraising goals.

• Produce institutional fundraising strategies and develop quality concept notes, detailed tailored funding proposals, including liaising with the finance department to develop budget, for submission to government and multilateral donors;

• Through wide consultation across the organization, write detailed reports, project updates, and produce other related materials needed to deepen prospect and donor engagement, secure grants, and steward relationships.

• Negotiate new funding partnerships and/or consortia, liaising with both internal and external stakeholders to develop feasible projects for funding, establishing scope, allocation, outputs, navigating challenges, and cultivating relationships across a variety of levels.

• Negotiate the terms and conditions of grant agreements and contracts with new and existing partners, including managing expectations, troubleshooting issues, and facilitating consensus with donors before signing.

• Through collaboration with Crisis Group advocacy, Program, and Senior staff, devise innovative methods of donor engagement for government and multilateral donors, tailored to their evolving needs and priorities, and in line with the capabilities of Crisis Group staff.

• Conduct policy monitoring and responsive advocacy to strengthen relationships and cultivate new ones with government and multilateral donors, including organizing advocacy visits where needed with Crisis Group Program staff and senior leadership as well as period travel outside Brussels.

• Conduct research on prospective government and multilateral donors, proactively formulate entry points for funding, and contribute to developing a strategy for cultivation and solicitation.

Requirements include:

• Ten years of fundraising experience in an NGO environment, preferably working with institutional donors;

• Ability to produce high quality written content for proposals, calls for bids and other submissions and maintain accurate is essential;

• Excellent, demonstrated English language writing skills;

• Attention to detail, ability to work independently with tight deadlines;

• Well organised, communicative and interpersonal working attitude, keen to take initiative and collaborate in a team environment;

• Knowledge of French or other European languages is highly desirable; and

• Experience in planning events or conferences would be an asset.

Relate London North East and Essex, the leading provider of relationship support services across the region, is seeking a Chief Executive.

Relationships with family, partners, friends and colleagues play a big part in how happy we are, and when they aren’t healthy, we suffer. Relate is here to develop and support relationships particularly by helping couples, families and individuals to make their relationships work better through counselling or mediation. 

Part of the national federation of Relate, we are a local charity with a turnover of around £980k and a team of 74 employees including 54 practitioners.

To be considered for this post you must have proven management experience, the ability to implement projects and plans to achieve targets and results, excellent communication skills, and the energy and commitment necessary to lead a busy charity at a key time in its development.

We expect candidates to demonstrate an understanding of the kind of services Relate provides and a passion and commitment to our social purpose.

This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check.

Closing date 10th December 2021,  Interviews will be held on 17th and 18th January 2022

Shiva Foundation | Senior Program Manager 

Location: London, U.K. (flexible working possible)

Application Deadline: 23.59, 12 December 2021

Start Date: February 2019 

Duration: Permanent; 5 days a week

About Us: 

Shiva Foundation envisions a world that operates on the basis of value-based leadership, where individuals are equipped with the knowledge, frameworks and tools to act in service of equity, freedom and justice. We believe it is our collective responsibility to put people before profit, centre people’s lived realities of oppression and step back to make space for marginalised voices to be heard. We recognise the need to understand where power inequalities exist in order to build a more just world.

Our goal is to design sustainable models to tackle the systemic inequity impacting marginalised individuals and communities across the U.K. and India. Our role is two-fold. We act as a support and anchor for those working on the frontline - this includes community groups, grassroots organisations, local councils, civil society, local leaders and businesses etc. We also leverage networks and influence to enact meaningful change at the policy level, in government and across business. We do this in four ways, by providing:

• Knowledge, frameworks and tools to facilitate concrete action;

• Resources and capacity for collaborative working;

• Expertise for impactful policy advocacy; and

• Immediate support and relief.

Our focus is across two key issue areas:

1. Tackling modern slavery and promoting labour rights; and

2. Tackling gender based violence (GBV), especially against racially minoritised women.

About our Priorities: 

Our work is wide-ranging and collaborative. In particular we are currently prioritising:

• Embedding labour rights and modern slavery provisions into policy. We ensure that local and national government policies meaningfully address modern slavery and labour rights violations and support survivors fully. This includes but also goes beyond the Modern Slavery Act. We work with policy-makers, local councils, government and regulatory bodies to make this happen.

• Shifting corporate practices towards more equitable power distribution. We provide expertise to ensure that business policies and practices meaningfully incorporate activities that address modern slavery and uphold labour rights. We work with small and medium businesses to make this happen.

• Improving statutory agency response to GBV against racially minoritised women. We advocate an improvement in statutory agency policy and practice when it comes to supporting racially minoritised survivors of GBV. This includes more consistent, integrated and tailored support for survivors who live at the intersections of multiple oppressions. We work with statutory local agencies, policy-makers and civil society to make this happen.

• Better resourcing racially minoritised communities. We work to equip racially minoritised communities with more and better resources to be able to respond to GBV and access support services in ways that work for them when violence does happen. We work with leaders or community-led organisations in racially minoritised communities as well as civil society to make this happen.

About the Role:

The Senior Program Manager will be responsible for leading the organisaiton’s programmatic priorities, as outlined above. While some projects are well established, new areas will emerge and therefore you should have experience with program design as well as implementation. It is preferable that you have some knowledge of both issue areas but we welcome applications from candidates that have only worked in one area before, if you are able to show an ability to pick up knowledge quickly. You will work with a range of stakeholders especially public sector bodies and small to medium businesses. It is preferable that you have experience working with both but we will also welcome applications from candidates with more experience in one than the other if you can demonstrate a willingness to learn. The small team environment means that this role involves significant responsibility as well as the opportunity to collaborate and interact with a diverse set of senior external stakeholders. You must be comfortable with a steep learning curve and significant responsibility from the outset.

We are a small team and will have a senior member of the team on maternity leave for the first six months of your time with us. As such, you will also temporarily be responsible for some of the organisation’s administration, financial management and budgeting. You will work closely with the founder and other senior members of the team and will have the opportunity to input on key strategic decisions. To begin with, you will have one direct report - this may expand over time. 

You will often be expected to act as the public face of the organisation, building relationships with stakeholders from across a range of sectors including government and public sector, business and civil society.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Management 

• Building out new program structures based on the organisation’s strategic priorities.

• Designing and leading the day-to-day implementation of all project work. 

• Conducting mapping and research for new work, such as interviews, focus groups, roundtables, desk-based research, etc.

• Developing project-specific goals, monitoring and evaluation methods to measure the impact of the organisation's work. 

• Engaging key stakeholders to strengthen partnerships/collaboration for a comprehensive and inclusive approach. 

• Sourcing external funding, if relevant, and managing the relationship with donors, including timely reporting. 

Communications

• Liaising with the Communications Coordinator to create and implement outreach and communications plans relating to any project activities/milestones.

• Developing and maintaining effective constituencies of contacts and partners to optimise information gathering and development and implementation of effective strategies. 

• Writing or contributing to the drafting of timely and effective reports, briefings, position papers, correspondence, action materials, press releases and other internal and external documents.

• Acting as an organisational spokesperson at events, panels, presentations etc. 

• Representing the organisation at key working groups, partnership meetings, national forums, operational units etc.

• Managing the outreach and uptake of the organisation’s existing tools and resources, such as the Blueprint and SME toolkit.

Strategic & Operational

• Inputting on strategic and tactical direction of the organisation, as required.

• Maintaining understanding of current key trends and how those can feed into the organisation’s work.

• Maintaining key relationships with experts in the anti-slavery and GBV space (across business, government and civil society) to scope out future projects and identify opportunities for cross-promotion and/or collaboration.

• Measuring progress and impact against strategic goals to report back to the senior management team. 

• Identifying funding opportunities and drafting applications, as required (this is not expected to be a large part of the role).

• Overseeing organisational and program-specific budgets (this is expected to be a temporary duty while our Managing Director is on maternity leave).

• Overseeing general organisational communications with the Communications Coordinator  (this is expected to be a temporary duty while our Managing Director is on maternity leave).

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

The below is a list of preferred knowledge, skills and experience for this role. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet some of these criteria if you can show an ability and willingness to learn new skills and grow in the role. We particularly encourage you to apply if you are a person of colour or part of another minoritised community.

• An undergraduate or graduate degree in human rights, gender, development, law or other relevant discipline (or relevant professional experience)

• A minimum of 4-5 years of progressive experience in a project/program management role for a similar organisation

• Experience working with public sector bodies, such as local councils, the Home Office, the London Mayor’s Office etc.

• Experience working with senior level business representatives

• Experience working with civil society organisations

• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder projects and facilitating work with a wide range of groups and sectors

• Ability to think strategically and identify new opportunities and initiatives

• Proven experience planning, prioritising and juggling multiple demands, and openness and flexibility to take on different administrative and support tasks

• Experience of managing conflicting demands, meeting deadlines and adjusting priorities

• Ability to manage a heavy and varied workload effectively, to maintain high levels of both accuracy and output

• Management and leadership skills demonstrated by evidence of leading high performing teams and working with individuals at all levels

• Effective public speaking skills

• Excellent IT skills

• Excellent written and spoken English

• Ability to work unsupervised

• Knowledge of the modern slavery and labour rights in the UK

• Knowledge of gender-based violence (or violence against women and girls) in the UK

• Ability to relate well within a multi-cultural context and with various stakeholders

• Demonstrated commitment to Shiva Foundation’s mission, vision and values

• Permission to live and work in the UK

How to apply

Please apply for this role through our website by 23.59 on 12 December 2021. 

If your application is successful you will hear back from us the week of 13 December 2021 for an initial chat. You will also be given an exercise to complete. Successful candidates will be invited for an interview between 3-14 January.

If you are offered the role, you will be invited to attend two paid induction days at the end of January and/or early February. The expected start date is in early February but we are willing to discuss this with you further.

Head of Business Development

Location: Central London with flexible working
Salary: £58,379 per annum raising to £64,524 following two years continuous service, plus excellent benefits
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week 
Contractual status: Permanent

The RCR is a great place to work, with an ambitious agenda. At the forefront of the health agenda, our members diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, stroke and more, while leading on innovations including AI, skills mix and community diagnostic hubs. As COVID-19 recedes and the cancer backlog rises up the agenda, our members’ work and views have never been more important.

We are currently recruiting to the new position of Head of Business Development, within our RCR Learning team. The successful applicant will provide visionary leadership to develop and successfully bring to market RCR’s digital and face-to-face learning and events portfolio, ensuring it is innovative, high-quality and commercially positioned as the go to global market leader for both members and non-members working within imaging and oncology services. All this should be delivered against the backdrop of the RCR’s wider strategic priorities, proactively enabling the wider organisation to meet its objectives, which include membership growth and workforce development in addition to the provision of world class learning resources.

The Head of Business Development will need to have excellent leadership skills as they will be responsible for leading a team of ten talented professionals. With deep experience in business development, you will have a proven track record of sales growth driven through product and/or market development and diversification. Experience managing contracts, budgets, negotiating and income generation. To be successful you will be a strategically minded individual with the ability to build and sustain strong and mutually beneficial working relationships would be best suited to this role.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you then you can find out more about the Head of Business Development role, the RCR and instructions on how to apply by visiting the RCR website.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 28 November 2021. First stage interviews are scheduled for Wednesday 1 December 2021 with second stage interviews scheduled to take place on Monday 13 December 2021 and Tuesday 14 December 2021.

The post holder will lead on implementing audience focused fundraising campaigns that deliver long-term sustainable income, as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our supporters. The post holder will use evidence-based insights to drive fundraising decisions that increase our overall effectiveness. The post holder will be responsible for providing outstanding supporter experience and stewardship to TVAA supporters.

Individual Giving Development Manager Responsibilities:

• Work with the Assistant Director of Fundraising and Individual Giving Acquisition Manager to develop and deliver the overall Individual Giving strategy
• Ensure that the strategy is translated into action across the Individual Giving remit, so that there is a sustainable and diverse audience-led programme
• Work with the Individual Giving Acquisition Manager to ensure that all supporters are welcomed and stewarded into TVAA effectively
• Actively increase supporter value through and highly effective stewardship and communications
• Develop existing and new initiatives to increase income and raise awareness specifically implementing New Donor Welcome, Cash Appeals, Newsletters, RG conversion, RG Upgrade and RG reactivation programmes amongst others
• Manage income and expenditure budgets, ensuring accurate forecasting, strong financial management and ownership of income targets and KPIs
• Work with the Data Manager and Assistant Director of Fundraising to maximise the value of our data by developing and implementing a Data Management Strategy
• Use analysis, insight and audience understanding to inform decision making and implement a test, refine and rollout approach to fundraising to maximise the lifetime value of our supporters
• Work with the Data Manager and Assistant Director of Fundraising on the development of supporter journeys through the provision of robust testing, data analysis and insight
• Work with the Data Manager and Assistant Director of Fundraising to develop cross organisational segmentation, analysis and reporting based on business objectives and KPI’s
• Work with the Supporter Care Manager and Assistant Director of Fundraising on the development of a Supporter Care Strategy
• Brief the Supporter Care team effectively on live campaigns to ensure the provision of a first-class supporter experience ensuring that all gifts are thanked and banked promptly in line with agreed SLAs
• Work with the Supporter Care Manager and relevant external suppliers to ensure all complaints and queries are handled in a timely, courteous and efficient manner, adhering to agreed standards and timescales for escalation or resolution
• Inspire, manage and motivate. Monitor and evaluate individual and team performance through setting stretching objectives, regular personal supervision, reviews and appraisals
• Establish a culture of continuous development through coaching, staff learning and personal development
• Attend meetings and represent the Assistant Director of Fundraising as and when required.
• Take responsibility for their own health, safety and welfare, comply with TVAA H&S policy and procedures, and not act in any way that compromises the safety of themselves, colleagues or the public.
• Manage the health and safety of their staff and volunteers, including conducting risk assessments as appropriate, and ensuring they have access to, and participate in, appropriate instruction, training and supervision.

Individual Giving Development Manager Requirements:

• Management of budgets and experience of allocating resources where appropriate to deliver sustainable fundraising income
• A good understanding of supporter motivations and feelings and the ability to translate this into engaging and responsive communications and content
• Experience of using insight to support and deliver the strategic vision within a comparable organisation
• A track record of using insight to inform evidence-based decision making
• Experience of managing and evaluating effective agency and supplier relationships
• Excellent interpersonal skills including leading and motivating a team and good negotiation skills
• To use marketing and fundraising techniques effectively, with insight, professionalism and sensitivity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to express ideas lucidly, present arguments in a logical manner and argue persuasively on complex marketing issues
• Clear understanding of GDPR

Desirable

• Professional marketing or fundraising qualification
• A flexible and entrepreneurial approach with a strong focus on results
• Experience of working in a charity or fundraising team
• Experience of collaborating and negotiating with internal stakeholders that have differing priorities across corporate departments in order to achieve common goals
• Strong problem solving and decision-making skills

About Us:

We love what we do. Our charity is a place where people care for each other, provide support and encourage everyone to be their best. We pride ourselves on being one of the UK’s leading air ambulance charities. As an innovative charity, we are continually developing our organisation and pushing the boundaries of patient care to deliver a unique emergency service, where and when it is most needed. All our staff live our values: We care no matter what, We go above and beyond, and We do the right thing for our patients, their families, our supporters and community.

Location: Stokenchurch, near High Wycombe, HP14 3SX - working remotely on a temporary basis, moving forward there will be a requirement to be in the office 2 days a week.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 per week
Salary: £38,000 - £40,000 per annum plus competitive benefits

You may have experience of the following: Fundraising Manager, Individual Giving Manager, Donor Management, Fundraising, Fundraiser, Business Development, Senior Fundraising Officer, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit, Marketing Manager, Marketing Coordinator, Direct Marketing, etc.

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Senior Community Mental Health Peer Support Worker

Community based work across the Sutton borough, and at the Age UK Sutton Offices, 1 Carshalton Road, Sutton SM1 4LE. The role requires frequent working and attendance at Community Mental MDT and delivery team meetings, held either virtually or at the Community Mental Health Team Offices, Wallington.

Age UK Sutton has been commissioned by SW London St Georges Mental Health Trust as part of their Community Mental Health Transformation Programme, to provide peer support for people over 50, who are currently accessing mental health support or have done so in the past.

The aim of the service is to support clients through peer support for early intervention, help avoid crisis or deterioration, but also as a step down from more intensive medical support to help reintegrate with the community.

The roles based at Age UK Sutton have a focus on providing peer support services for older people (50+). 

You will be working with people over the age of 50, with enduring and / or severe mental health problems and who may be less likely to approach mental health services, understand that there is a mental health concern, or generally are less well served by mental health services. In playing this focused role in a larger programme, you will have the opportunity to share and draw on experience and knowledge from a wider group of Peer Support Officers across the partnership.

A key aspect of this new service is that staff use their own experience of mental health difficulties (for example through lived experience, either personal or professional, or caring for someone with mental health difficulties). You will work collaboratively with people within the service to offer emotional and practical support towards goals that are defined by the person, focusing on the person’s strengths and personal resources. 

The peer group service will offer short term facilitated group peer support programmes, to enable clients to develop their own peer support networks and work on strategies to improve ability to manage their condition.  The 1-2-1 aspect of the service will provide enhanced support to participants who need and want this.

This role will lead Age UK Sutton’s part of the service, conducting client triage and needs assessment, personally providing 1-2-1 support to older people regarding their mental health support needs and line manage a Peer Support Worker who will run group work. 

Age UK Sutton is an independent local charity based in the South West London Borough of Sutton. 

This role will report to the Head of Integrated Health Services. 

The full role profile and person specification can be found inside the job pack.  You can download this job pack by clicking on the link under "job attachments" in the grey box on the right hand side of the vacancies page. 

How to apply
Apply through our Hireful careers page submitting a CV, and supporting statement which will give you the opportunity to show how you meet the person specification. You can find the full role profile and person specification in the job pack. Please note that CVs without a supporting statement will not be considered. 

Candidates are warmly invited to arrange an informal discussion with the recruiting manager before submitting their application. This can be arranged by contacting Charlotte Butcher, Business Support Officer: 

Closing date: Midnight Monday 3 January 2022 

Interviews: Thursday 6th, Friday 7th or Monday 10th January

We are looking for an experienced business development professional who not only excels at building relationships and sales pipelines but also relishes project management and developing proposals and sales opportunities. Corporate partnership experience within the membership or charity sector is preferred. The Senior Corporate Partnerships Officer will work closely with the Director of Commercial Services, their colleague in the Partnerships team, and also the Events and Marketing teams.  You will lead in creating, developing and delivering the charity’s corporate partnerships strategy for partner recruitment and retention, sponsorship and exhibition programme and other opportunities, putting partner value and insight at the heart of your approach.

About us

‘Inspiring Financial Leadership’ summarises both CFG’s identity and its purpose as an organisation that supports thousands of financial leaders in the charity sector. Our vision is of a charity sector that is financially confident, dynamic and trustworthy. We provide a range of services to our members and the sector more widely. These include training, a range of publications and a sector-leading programme of meetings and conferences throughout the year both physical and virtual.  We also work with other sector bodies to lobby the government and regulator on legal and regulatory issues affecting the sector. The organisation has grown consistently in recent years.

Why work for us?

We are a friendly team with a great sense of humour that enjoys the work that we do. There is lots of potential for development for talented individuals within CFG, and we can provide an excellent platform for career progression within the sector. We also offer a superb range of benefits including;

• 25 days annual leave per year in addition to Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after three years of continuous service (pro rata if part-time).
• An extra three days leave for the office Christmas closure.
• Wellbeing week closures - one in January and one in the summer. 
• Time off for personal health appointments. 
• Hybrid and remote flexible working options.
• Four paid volunteering days every year.
• A generous flexitime policy which allows employees to create a good work-life balance.
• Access to eye care vouchers and contribution to the cost of new glasses.
• 24 hour, free and confidential access to our Employee Assistance Programme, as well as our mental wellbeing platform. 
• A wellbeing area in the office, for quiet time and reflection.
• Enhanced sick pay, as well as enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.
• Continuing personal development - Learning and development opportunities both individually and organisation wide, such as a mentor/coach, training courses and conferences.
• Auto enrolled to the Personal Pension Plan where CFG will contribute twice your contribution to the scheme up to 10%.
• Access to a season ticket loan or bicycle purchase loan to help ease the cost of travel in London (subject to completion of probation period) as well as interest free employee loans. 

How to apply

Please read the full job description and person specification (pdf) and send your CV and cover letter via CharityJob.

Deadline for applications

We will be reviewing candidates as and when we receive CVs and cover letters and will appoint as soon as we meet the right person. Therefore, to avoid disappointment please apply early. This position is available immediately.

2-Year Full-Time Fixed Term Post

We’re looking for a team player who is motivated, creative and has a ‘can-do’ attitude to join our Communications and Engagement team, and help us deliver for this forward looking and innovative regulator. Our small team plays a key role in supporting the organisation to successfully deliver its messages to osteopaths, and other key audiences, and to increase insight about and engagement with the profession.

This is a pivotal role, you will be writing excellent copy, and managing and developing the GOsC’s stakeholder engagement activities through a wide range of channels and methods. The aim is both to maximise our reach to stakeholders and their contribution to the work of the GOsC so communications are very much ‘two-way’. You will be contributing to the delivery of the GOsC’s Communications and Engagement strategy for 2021-24. This role reports to the Head of Communications, Engagement and Insight, and can be based primarily at home or in our London office.

The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) regulates the practice of osteopathy in the United Kingdom and our overarching purpose is to help protect the public and patients, and to help ensure the highest standards in osteopathic practice. With just 26 staff, no two days are the same, and you will need to show that you are flexible and keen to support others in all aspects of our work. You will also need to be prepared occasionally to work outside office hours.

For further information and to apply for this role, please visit our website by clicking the apply button or contact Liz Niman, Head of Communications, Engagement and Insight, whose contact details are available on our website.

Closing date: Midnight on 6 December 2021.

Interview date (online): 13 December 2021.

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Magic Breakfast team as we expand our efforts to reach more children at risk of hunger in the UK. In the past year we have doubled the number of schools we work with and tripled the number of children we reach each school day. We have an ambitious strategy which will continue to see all areas of the charity grow, in order to end child morning hunger for good.

The Senior Database Administrator role is a new role to support this growth and the post holder will lead on the ongoing development, maintenance, and operation of the organisation’s CRM (Salesforce) and ERP (Business Central). The Senior Database Administrator will be the main point of contact for all database queries, big or small, and support all teams across the organisation with their database development needs and training requirements.

The post holder will be a good problem solver and comfortable providing technical solutions using systems for a range of stakeholders and projects and empower all teams to organise data so it can be used effectively.

More information on this responsibilities of this role can be found in the attached job description. Please ensure that you submit a CV and cover letter to be considered for this role. 

The closing date for this role is 5 December 2021. Interview dates TBC.

Work with us

The Vegan Society is an anagram of The Nicest Voyage. Quite fitting, we think, as for many people veganism is a journey – and a pretty remarkable one at that. Regardless of where you are on your vegan journey, our staff are on hand to make it easier, healthier and more fun. If you think you’d be great at helping others with this, read on, as this may be right up your street.

The Vegan Society makes veganism more accessible and an easily adopted approach by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media.

Who we’re looking for

Are you passionate about changing the way we treat animals? Do you want to help reduce damage to our environment? Do you want to encourage people to enjoy healthy vegan food that looks good and tastes great? We’re looking for an enthusiastic Senior B2B Marketing Officer who can help to support both individual behaviour change and system change.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

The Vegan Society as an organisation values equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to be an organisation that tackles any structural discrimination or prejudice. We are actively trying to increase diversity in our organisation and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We will offer an automatic interview to all candidates who meet our essential criteria and who identify as from an under-represented race or ethnicity or as deaf, neurodiverse, or living with disability.

The role

The Senior B2B Marketing Officer role will be responsible for the development of our business to client marketing activities. They will lead on various areas including the sales strategy for the Vegan Trademark. This will include sourcing and managing relationships between various third-party stakeholders, developing and delivering the strategy for how the Vegan Trademark markets outside of the UK and managing a team of two.

This role requires a candidate with experience of business-to-business marketing with a strong focus on sales and conversion, as well as knowledge of brand expansion.

The role is suitable for someone with 3+ years of Sales & Marketing or B2B & Client Relations experience, as well as other essential criteria listed below.

As Senior B2B Marketing Officer you will:

• Own the marketing lead target for incoming clients to the Vegan Trademark.
• Create and manage the strategy for marketing activities to gain leads through B2B marketing.
• Manage the B2B function so that long-term campaigns are managed and monitored.
• Create B2B social channel strategies for non-UK audiences (LinkedIn) and work with the B2B team on developing the established UK strategy.
• Work with the B2B Marketing Officer on producing strong sales content for a variety of digital channels and audiences.
• Own the competitor matrix for the Vegan Trademark to maximise knowledge of the external market and deliver international brand marketing activities.
• Manage the reporting and impact of B2B activities.
• Work alongside the rest of the BD department to gain insightful client feedback to directly impact the development of the marketing strategy for the Vegan Trademark.
• Manage and support the B2B Marketing Officer in their role in delivering leads, providing engaging B2B content and establishing a clear strategy for supporting incoming clients as well as established, renewing clients.
• Manage and support the Marketing Assistant.
• Work alongside the International Sales Manager to expand marketing communications outside of the UK.
• Attends trade and consumer shows when appropriate.
• Deliver talks, workshops or presentations relating to the Trademark and/or VEG 1.
• Work with the Fundraising Manager to identify potential relationships and opportunities that will increase the brand awareness of the Trademark and/or VEG 1 products.

To be considered as our Senior B2B Marketing Officer you must have:

• Marketing, Sales or Business-related degree/qualification (or 3+ years’ workplace experience in Sales & Marketing or B2B & Client Relations
• Speaks German or French to a professional or fluent level.
• Experience creating strategic documents and identifying complimentary activities.
• Experience of delivering marketing strategy for sales and brand development.
• Experience utilising B2B social platforms and their related adverts managers.
• Experience in collating, reviewing and monitoring brand competitors.
• A proven track record of generating new leads through marketing activities.
• The ability to produce concise reports and impact briefings.
• A good understanding of business operations for a Trademark/certification scheme: production processes, administration, marketing, PR, promotion and sales.
• Understanding of corporate identity and branding needs.#

What we offer

• A fun and supportive team
• A solution-focused atmosphere and hard-working environment
• Flexible working hours
• Employee Assistance Programme and health cash-back scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Childcare vouchers scheme
• Animal companion compassionate leave
• Ethical pension scheme (5-7% employer contribution)
• Death in service benefit
• 28 Days leave + 8 Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave & 3 closure days)

Additional information

This is full time role (37.5 hours per week) role with a salary of £25,863-£32,718 per annum

This is a predominantly home-based position, but the successful candidate must be willing to travel to our head office in Birmingham when required.

The application deadline is 9am on Friday 10th December 2021.

Interview’s will be held w/c 10th January 2022

Find out more about what it is like to work for The Vegan Society by reading our recruitment pack.

The Senior Content Editor helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by ensuring Guide Dogs’ content promotes, protects and differentiates the organisations’ brand and drives public engagement.

The role works with content generating teams to ensure that they are connected and working towards a common purpose, reducing duplication of effort. Improving the quality of our content by creating tools and processes that will enable teams to create content that is on brand, engaging and effective. Create best-in-class content that can be used by the whole organisation and will build on our ability to tell stories and create content that inspires, engages and moves people to action, expanding it to an organisation-wide capability.

This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. With a view to start the beginning of February 2022. 

We recognise that the world looks a little bit different since the pandemic. Therefore, we’re committed to enabling our staff to work where best suits the needs of the individual, their team and the organisation. For this role, there will be opportunities to work from home as well as the office. We want our staff to flourish and work in environments which maximises their potential and best serves our stakeholders.

We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

Candidate requirements

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Significant experience as a writer, editor, or content developer preferably with a background in marketing, journalism, communications and/or digital content production.
• Significant work experience with and in-depth understanding of developing creative multimedia content (stories, photography, video, etc.) that can effectively be used across platforms, for different purposes, for various audience groups in very different markets.
• Experience of managing large projects.
• Experience of managing contracts and external suppliers.

Desirable

• Experience of managing budgets.
• Experience of managing others.

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

How to apply

Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above.

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.

The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised. If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.

Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.

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