Purpose of the role
We are Business in the Community. We inspire, engage and challenge our members and we mobilise that collective strength as a force for good in society. We are recruiting an experienced Senior Manager to oversee delivery of our inclusion advisory projects and manage inclusion advisory team members.
The purpose of the role is to ensure that Business in the Community consistently delivers first class advisory services that add value to our members, whilst growing the pipeline of inclusion advisory work.
Key requirements of the role include (but are not limited to):
Supporting our advisory work across the inclusion agenda, including workshop facilitation, report writing, overseeing and being the senior lead on projects; being the main point of interaction for senior business contacts; business development and team oversight. Experience of both project planning and delivery as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
You will support the Director of Advisory Services and wider Strategy and Membership Teams to scope, plan, deliver, present and resource our inclusion advisory projects, so experience of collaborative working to achieve results is essential.
This role will also include working with colleagues to develop new advisory products and to review proposals for providing advisory services that support our members based on member need. This will be linked to an income-generation target so experience of income generation is required.
The successful candidate will have a good understanding of inclusion issues and the business and the societal case for inclusion. We are looking for knowledge on inclusive cultures, and diversity including race and gender equality.
The successful candidate will also understand strategy development and implementation, including developing recommendations for next steps, implementation and governance.
The full person specification and job description are attached on BITC careers page where this vacancy is displayed. To view the documents please click on 'apply' .
Closes for applications Thursday 4th February 2021 at Midnight
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Corporate Partnerships – Senior Corporate Business Development Manager
Permanent
Home/Office Based
Salary: £41,000 to £49,500 depending on location and experience
Plus Car Allowance and Benefits
Are you an ambitious business development professional with the passion and drive to identify, develop and secure high value corporate partnerships that maximise income, value, and influence for Macmillan?
Macmillan Cancer Support is a diverse and forward-thinking charity with one of the largest and most successful corporate partnerships teams in the sector. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Corporate Business Development Manager to join our dynamic and successful Corporate Business Development Team.
What is the role?
In this role you will proactively develop a pipeline of long term, high value multifaceted corporate partnerships that maximise income, value and influence for Macmillan, in line with the wider Corporate Partnership Strategy. Using your skills and experience you will build a diverse pipeline of opportunities, create compelling propositions, lead negotiations and deliver pitches to secure a range of new corporate partnerships including sponsorship, commercial, charity of the year and strategic. This is an exciting role that involves working with a wide range of senior stakeholders to identify new opportunities and secure new corporate partners. This role also has line management responsibilities.
Who are we looking for?
As our ideal candidate, you clearly know how to strike the balance between confidence and persistence, patience and diplomacy, and are expert at managing internal and external stakeholders to develop compelling propositions. We are looking for an experienced candidate who has extensive experience in the charity sector with a proven track record of securing diverse partnerships worth over £100,000 p.a. Your skills and knowledge include:
- Commercial understanding and cross sector business knowledge
- Expert sales, influencing and negotiation skills
- Experience of working within a business development function in fundraising
- Evidence of successful acquisition of high value partnerships using a data and insight driven approach
- Experience of establishing effective relationships at the most senior levels within large, commercial organisations
- Target driven, proactive and creative in developing tailor made proposals and pitches to meet corporate objectives
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Line Management experience
What can we offer you? In return, we commit actively to develop you and offer excellent benefits including a 34.5 hour week (with an early finish on Friday), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension, childcare vouchers, generous annual leave, and interest free loans for season ticket and gym membership.
Location This role is currently home based with the option to work from our London Office when it re-opens. Regular travel across the UK and to the London Office will be required when current restrictions allow to ensure the best opportunities are optimised and to attend internal meetings. The role comes with a company car allowance.
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Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies.
We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths so we seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, reflecting the diverse nature of our society.
We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be, please contact the Macmillan HR Team.
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Fantastic opportunity to lead on a new trusts strategy as a senior manager, in an ambitious organisation that continues to grow!
Breaking Barriers are an award-winning organisation committed to empowering people from refugee backgrounds to secure fulfilling and stable employment in the UK.
After a year of impressive growth, they are now looking for an additional Senior Philanthropy Manager with a focus on trusts and foundations to expand the reach of their current work and fund new initiatives in line with their long-term vision.
The Senior Philanthropy Manager will manage and steward a portfolio of charitable trusts and foundations to secure annual and multi-year gifts. As well as managing relationships and uplifting income from existing donors, there will be a focus on creating new relationships through proactive prospecting, developing a long-term strategic approach to trusts fundraising.
You will also lead on approaches to corporate foundations in collaboration with the corporate team, and line-manage a Philanthropy Manager.
Job specification
- Work closely with the Head of Philanthropy on the development and implementation of the philanthropy strategy, leading on development of a long-term trusts fundraising strategy
- Manage a portfolio of donors and prospects, developing tailored solicitation and stewardship plans for each donor
- Directly solicit grants, working closely with colleagues in the programmes, finance and data teams to develop proposals and engagement opportunities
- Work closely with the corporate fundraising team to develop a strategic and collaborative approach to fundraising from corporate foundations
- Build cross-organisational relationships to facilitate fundraising and strengthen understanding of philanthropy, including with senior stakeholders
- Line management of a Philanthropy Manager
- Manage and continually develop a pipeline of existing and new prospects
- Write compelling proposals, reports, and correspondence in support of strategic priorities
- Attend meetings and events as a senior representative of Breaking Barriers
- Ensure accurate record keeping of all activity and relationships on the CRM database
- Regularly update and report on philanthropy income pipeline and budget in line with progress to ensure the value and timing of planned income to the organisation is accurate
Person specification
- Demonstrable knowledge and interest in the refugee or migration sectors
- Experience of soliciting 5 and 6-figure gifts from trusts and foundations, statutory bodies or corporate foundations, including multi-year funding
- Experience of developing and implementing high value fundraising strategy (desirable)
- Additional experience or knowledge of corporate partnerships fundraising (desirable)
- Excellent track record of relationship management, including cultivation and stewardship of donors
- Experience of effective cross-team working with the ability to interact confidently and with diplomacy, both internally and externally
- The ability to process complex information and relay this to a variety of audiences both verbally and in written communication
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills
- Knowledge of GDPR and other fundraising regulations in relation to high value fundraising
In line with Covid-19 regulations, the Breaking Barriers team are working remotely for the foreseeable future.
The deadline for application is the Wednesday 3 February, and will require a CV and covering letter in Word format.
Interviews will take place remotely w/c 8 February, followed by a final round w/c 15 February.
To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Kayleigh McCallion at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.
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Social Investment Business provide finance to create fairer communities and improve people’s lives. We do this by providing the money and support they need directly, partnering to support them effectively and, using our knowledge to inform our own work and influence others.
To say 2020 was an extraordinary year for Social Investment Business would be an understatement. By the end of the year, the team had assessed more than 3300 applications, disbursed nearly £30m of grants, and invested over £15m: all in addition to work that was actually planned. Since 2018, we have become the strategic grants partner to Access and Power to Change, and helped win and establish the £200m Youth Endowment Fund. And we have a burgeoning reputation as a sector leader in data analysis and insights.
It is a hugely exciting time to join the organisation: we are growing and investing in our expert team, and building on the successes of the last few years. We believe this is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is as passionate as we are about strengthening organisations, investing in communities, and improving people’s lives across the UK. If you have the same level of enthusiasm and commitment to that mission, and also to continuous improvement and learning, this could be the role for you.
Since 2004, Social Investment Business has deployed and managed over £400m of loans and grants into over 2,000 organisations and enabled almost 1,000 more to get dedicated support through our programmes. Social Investment Business is a values-led organisation and as such we expect all colleagues to live by the values which underpin what we do and how we do it.
Our values are:
• Put People First
• Be Curious
• Be Bold
• Be Collaborative
• Be Accountable
About this role
We have an opportunity for a talented Head of Grants to join our Grants Team as part of the Social Investment Business organisation. Reporting to our Director of Grants this role plays an important part in shaping our grant-making, and working with our partners to make sure that our funding is supporting communities and creating impact. This will be a key role which will work with colleagues across our organisation to deliver our objectives and to support the delivery of SIB’S strategy.
We are looking for someone who has previous experience of effectively leading funding programmes of significant size, implementing systems improvements to improve internal and external processes, and who has experience of working with multiple stakeholders. We need someone who is passionate, proactive, can work well autonomously and as part of a team and is flexible, adaptable and can manage competing priorities.
Key responsibilities
Relationship Management & Assessments
- To develop, maintain, and continuously improve, high quality grant assessment and monitoring practices and policies, ensuring consistently excellent levels of customer service
- To take the lead in ensuring that all grant funding objectives, KPIs and targets are met, and ensure reporting and processes are in place to support and monitor this.
- To lead, provide direction and oversee the workload of all staff involved in grant assessment and monitoring work.
- To work closely with the wider SIB team on the development, design and implementation of new programmes, in line with SIB strategic objectives.
- To work closely with the wider SIB team to ensure grants data is captured, reported on, and used to make ongoing programme improvements.
- To support the Director of Grants in developing strategic plans for grant making at Social Investment Business
- To ensure that processes and systems within the Grants Team are effective and fit for purpose, complying with quality standards and audit, funding and business requirements.
- To work with colleagues to develop policy and guidance on appropriate and proportionate levels of due diligence for grant assessment and monitoring work and guide the Grants Team in the successful application of these policies.
- To coach and advise grants team staff on all aspects of their work from responding to initial grant enquiries through to assessment, decision-making and monitoring, providing technical and policy advice and knowledge.
- To provide an overview of the grant fund portfolios, developing, providing and improving management information and analysis for reporting to Group Boards and Committees, and for internal management and KPI reporting purposes.
- To develop effective grant monitoring processes and ensure that lessons learnt are captured and fed into process improvements.
General
- Contribute to the knowledge management, equality, diversity and inclusion and learning objectives of the organisation, supporting the implementation and effectiveness of SIB strategy.
- Help develop solutions and ensure ‘business requirements’ are correctly defined and support implementation of new projects and initiatives.
- Represent SIB at external events, ensuring all communications are professional and in line with SIB’s values.
- Manage customer complaints in a professional and responsive manner.
- To work within the organisation's processes and procedures required to contribute to the effectiveness of the quality management system.
- In agreement with manager to undertake other tasks that support the objectives of SIB as required.
- To work in accordance with our five core values.
Core competencies
- Track record of leading funding programmes of significant size
- Experience of managing online grants application and management systems
- Demonstrable experience of problem solving and meeting the evolving needs of a broad range of clients, including government clients
- Experience of managing complex networks of stakeholders with different interests and priorities in a high profile programme.
- Proven track record on leading, developing and motivating teams
- Demonstrable record of improving quality and performance within a funding environment.
Feeding Britain is seeking to appoint a full-time Project Manager who will lead on the successful implementation of the organisation’s new and existing projects, as well as the design of additional ones, to prevent and relieve hunger and malnutrition in the United Kingdom. The Project Manager will be employed for an initial 12-month period, with the possibility of a further 12-month extension.
The key responsibilities of the Project Manager will include:
- Developing and adhering to business plans, budgets, evaluations, and strategies for maximising the effectiveness of Feeding Britain’s projects
- Overseeing and supporting the day-to-day operation of projects ranging from Citizens’ Supermarkets and Healthy Holidays to Kickstart job placements
- Working closely with local partners to ensure each project is delivered to funders’ expectations while, crucially, being flexible enough to reflect local circumstances
- Together with the National Director, constantly seeking opportunities to propose and find ideas for new projects that fulfil the founding purpose of Feeding Britain
- Spreading through the Feeding Britain network of towns, cities, and counties our self-grown ideas and building up sufficient resources for their implementation - by drafting national and regional funding bids, for example
- Managing part-time staff
- Maintaining Feeding Britain's online presence through website and social media content
- Undertaking other ad hoc tasks where necessary
Feeding Britain is looking for an individual with strong organisational abilities, good IT skills, and excellent written and verbal communication skills, who is committed to the organisation’s mission of ensuring everybody in this country has the necessary resources and opportunities to access and obtain food of sufficient quality. The organisation is seeking someone with proven experience of managing multiple projects and budgets.
Feeding Britain’s Project Manager will report to the National Director and work closely with the Finance and Administration Officer to coordinate and implement the different strands of the organisation’s work across a growing number of regional partnerships.
Feeding Britain's office is based in London, but the job location can be flexible and is currently remote.
UK Office (Victoria, London) & Home Based
The Vacancy
We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief. We actively encourage people with Parkinson's to apply.
About the role
You’ll work with stakeholders across the organisation to rationalise and prioritise business requirements for a digital experience platform. You’ll make a significant contribution to the agile delivery of the platform MVP and drive the changes to ways of working for internal stakeholders in line with our strategic themes of providing ‘Better Support, Everyday’, and continuing to be ‘Fit for the Future’ .
What you'll do
- Elicit and manage functional and non-functional requirements for our future-state digital experience platform
- Apply a range of analysis techniques to understand the change impacts of the new platform, processes and digital services on the information and support teams
- Assess how the change impacts the wider organisation and ensure these impacts are considered in the project strategy and delivery
- Lead on the the definition and delivery of change management plans
- Champion a holistic approach to change, building the POPIT model into the plans from the outset
What you'll bring
- Demonstrable experience of Business Analysis throughout the project lifecycle
- Experience of digital experience platform implementations
- Familiarity with the Business Analyst’s role in Agile delivery and service design are essential
- Good working knowledge of Salesforce products such as Service Cloud and Community Cloud is beneficial
- Understanding of the charity sector and service delivery, practical experience beneficial
- Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills
- Proven ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels and challenge where necessary
- Ability to analyse requirements, stakeholders, processes, and business benefits
- The BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or a comparable qualification (desirable)
Closing date: 1 February 2021
Interviews will be held on 10 February 2021
What's it like to work for us?
We aim to find a cure and improve life for everyone affected by Parkinson's - and you could help us achieve this.
We offer a variety of paid job roles and volunteer opportunities both at our UK office in London and across the UK.
Plan International UK is looking for an Senior Programme Development Manager (Eastern and Southern Africa) with exceptional business development and donor management skills to join our Development Programme Unit on a permanent basis.
In this role, you will lead a team of Programme Development Specialists to develop high quality, gender sensitive and innovative commercial tender and grants submission in collaboration with our Country Offices. You will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining strong relationships with key institutional donors. You will have a proven track record of pre-positioning, developing, reviewing and winning institutional donor funding in a competitive setting, particularly from FCDO, the EC or multilateral donors.
This is a high-visibility, high-impact role responsible for leading large-scale, complex bid processes. You’ll therefore be adept at engaging and influencing at all levels.
The deadline for applications is 9am on Tuesday 2 February.
Plan International UK is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds
Due to the nature of our work with children and young people, we follow rigorous child protection policies and procedures in our recruitment process. As a result, some of our roles are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure by the Disclosure and Barring Service. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from joining us as an employee or volunteer; this will depend on the circumstances of any offences.
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This is an exciting opportunity for a exceptionally motivated professional, with strong business development experience and a track record of success with relevant clients and funders, to join the Business Development team of a dynamic British company.
Position: Business Development Manager
Location: Sidcup, Greater London (partial remote working arrangement)
Contract Type: Permanent and full-time
Salary: £34,000 to £45,000 per annum (commensurate with experience) plus benefits
Purpose
Development Pathways is the leading provider of Social Protection services to a variety of donors worldwide. Our focus areas are social policy, social and economic analysis, and management information systems for social protection. Being a thought leader and acknowledged world leader in these areas, we are continuing to grow our portfolio and footprint.
Our Business Development team currently comprises a Head of Business Development, this role, and two junior roles. We anticipate team growth in the medium term. The team is responsible for driving our growth, leading on opportunity identification and proposal preparation, drawing on inputs from our technical teams. As the most senior role reporting to the Head of BD, you will lead on a range of opportunities, operating increasingly independently across the spectrum of Business Development activities. You will deputise for the Head of Business Development where necessary, and there may be opportunities to line manage a junior staff member. You will also contribute to improving our Business Development processes and tools.
Responsibilities and Duties
The responsibilities of the Business Development Manager will cover the following areas:
- Identify and generate business opportunities for Development Pathways. This will include working closely with the technical teams to develop innovative opportunities, engaging with new donors, building our presence in countries, and developing new products and services.
- Lead and support the development of bids for a wide range of clients, including managing inputs from technical teams, building budgets, assembling teams of internal and external staff (associates and consultants), and drafting key components of bids.
- Build good relations with clients and donors to position Development Pathways in the market place, in particular with potential new donors.
- Strengthen Development Pathways’ links with consultants, and help build our network of associates.
- Support the strengthening of our BD processes and tools.
- Deputise where necessary for the Head of Business Development, and take on line management of junior staff as required.
- Represent Development Pathways in a range of fora, in particular international business development opportunities.
- Lead in the design and development of events that position Development Pathways within the market place.
- Support the communications team to ensure that our communications are tailored to building Pathways’ international profile and position us for future opportunities.
- Undertake other activities as requested.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications and Skills:
- A relevant university degree in International Development, Social Protection, Gender Studies or another relevant area
- At least five years’ experience in international development, the humanitarian sector, consulting or another relevant sector
- Significant experience and successful track record in business development in international development, the humanitarian sector, consulting or another relevant sector
- Expertise in developing proposal budgets
- Expertise in assembling mixed teams of internal and external staff for assignments
- Familiarity with key clients and funders, including UN bodies, the World Bank and other international financial institutions, bilateral government donors such as the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and major grant-giving philanthropic foundations
- Excellent organisation skills, including an ability to work to deadlines, manage multiple demands, and deliver high quality work under pressure
- High level professional written and verbal English
- Excellent communications skills, including in cross-cultural environments
- Commitment to values of international development, social justice and equality
Desirable:
- Experience with social protection programmes
- A relevant second language, e.g. French, Arabic
- A Master’s degree in a relevant area
Reporting
You will be reporting to the Head of Business Development.
Terms of Employment and Benefits
This is a permanent and full-time post. Along with the salary, the successful candidate would receive an attractive package of the following:
- Fulfilling work – working to make a difference to some of the world’s most underserved communities.
- Flexible work – Development Pathways offers employees flexible work hours and remote work options.
- Generous time off – recharge with 30-holiday entitlement plus standard bank holidays.
- Travel the World – we are committed to seeing our work in action, all around the world up to 3 weeks in a year (when permitted).
- Excellent health and well-being provision – access to the company private health care scheme (after the satisfactory completion of the probationary period), pension scheme and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Commitment to professional development opportunities – we encourage our staff to participate in professional learning and development.
- Provision of a company laptop and working at home benefit
How to apply
We invite interested candidates, who meet the requirements, to submit their applications, by including:
- A Curriculum Vitae (CV) specifying your qualifications, education and relevant work experience.
- A cover letter explaining why you are applying for this position, and how your recent relevant experience and skills meet the requirements for the position of Business Development Manager.
- Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we retain the right to close this role without notice. Therefore, interested candidates are encouraged to submit their application as soon as possible.
- Due to the high number of applications expected, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
- Applications should be sent by email.
- The closing date for this vacancy will be the 14th February 2021.
Development Pathways is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to providing a work environment that is inclusive and free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, family or parental status, or disability status.
Applicants should be aware of our privacy notice on our website.
Shortlisted candidates: you will be invited to participate in an interview and complete a written assessment.
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I CAN is the UK’s leading children’s communication charity. We exist solely to help children and young people with speech, language and communication needs find their voice, and develop the skills they need to thrive and fulfill their potential.
The issue we are tackling is enormous, and so will be your role in helping us achieve our mission that no child should be left out, or left behind, because of a difficulty speaking or understanding.
Following a restructure of the team, as we gear up towards achieving our goal of reaching a quarter of a million children by 2023, we are seeking to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Trusts Fundraiser within our Philanthropy team.
Your work will make a concrete difference to the lives of children affected by speech, language and communication needs in the UK. As such, we seek professionals who share our ambition and donor-centred approach, are target-driven, and have strong work ethic. This is your opportunity to be an exceptional fundraiser as part of a dedicated, hardworking team that loves nothing more than supporting one another succeed.
Reporting to the Head of Trusts & Statutory Fundraising and an active member of the team, you will raise income from grant making organisations and build strong relationships with them.
We are keen to hear from you if you match the criteria outlined in the person specification and can fulfill the requirements of the job description. However, we expect the postholder to unequivocally demonstrate:
- Experience in fundraising
- Aptitude for developing relationships
- Ability to deliver against agreed targets
- Excellent written communication skills, and ability to develop compelling funding applications.
To apply, please send a one-page cover letter and your CV by the closing date. Your cover letter must address the above 4 points to support the shortlisting process.
For more information download our job description and recruitment pack.
Interviews will be held via video call on Thursday and Friday, 11th & 12th February 2021.
I CAN works within the government’s Covid-19 guidelines.
I CAN is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons, particularly Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Due to the volume of applications we receive, unfortunately, we are not always able to respond to every applicant. If you have not received a response within one week after the closing date, you have not been successful on this occasion.
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Philanthropy Manager, Feed the Minds
Contract: Fixed term 18-months
Salary: c£37k
Location: Vauxhall, London
About our work
Feed the Minds is a small, but ambitious UK-based international development organisation, operating in 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Our projects emphasise partnership and sustainable solutions promoting economic empowerment, health, and citizenship through practical education. Our funding comes from a wide variety of sources, and we are keen to diversify our funding streams.
About the role
The right person will have several years’ experience of fundraising and securing 6+ figure gifts from statutory, corporates and trusts and foundations that act like institutions etc., to build a sustainable portfolio to enable Feed the Minds to fund the work that we undertake. In this newly created role, you will join a small but high performing team. You will think strategically and lead on sourcing and responding to new funding opportunities.
Due to current circumstances this role will initially be home based.
Closing date for applications: 5pm 28th January 2021
To apply, please send your current CV and a covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) stating how you meet the person specification to Sandra Golding (by clicking on the apply now). The job description with person specification is attached. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Interviews for shortlisted candidates will take place on Thursday 11th February 2021
We do not wish to be contacted by recruitment agencies. Thank you.
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They have massive partners on board, and are on the precipice of some really exciting partners that they have got on board. You will have autonomy to go out and find some excellent brand new partners. The charity has gone through a refresh recently, and they are at a really exciting time.
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced, ambitious and driven individual to use their proven skills of building corporate partnerships to help us shape a more inclusive world.
You will need to have a strong back ground in new business and securing five and six figures. There is no line management with this role.
They offer flexible working and home working too, even after restictions are lifted.
The salary is up to £40,000.
The application process is rolling so please do send Hannah your CV and supporting statement ASAP on [email protected]
You can also call her on 02078207331 to request a job description too.
Only suitble candidates will be contacted
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Position: Senior Campaigns Officer
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent
Location: Flexible (currently home-based)
Salary: £33,885 - £39,276 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band F, Level 1
Department: Campaigns and External Relations
At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.
Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.
About this job
We’re recruiting a Senior Campaigns Officer to help us make positive change for people affected by MS.
Shaping compelling campaigns that mobilise communities of supporters to rally behind our movement is a big part of our new strategy – and we have bold plans to drive this work forward.
This is an exciting, challenging opportunity which is ideal for a confident, motivated and ambitious individual with a track record for delivering effective campaigns.
Working with the Campaigns Manager, you will develop and implement our key national campaigns, aimed at effecting meaningful change – whether that is policy change, practice change or even changing perceptions of the MS Society and the way supporters engage with us.
Your role will be vital in coordinating a diverse range of campaigning activities, as well as growing and nurturing our campaigns community and working directly with people with MS to build their capacity to campaign both locally and nationally.
You will be joining the MS Society at an exciting stage of our development and this is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive, dynamic and friendly team.
We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.
The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our new 5 year strategy.
Part of this exciting transformation will include an office move from our current National Centre in Cricklewood, NW London to a different location in London. We are currently defining where and what type of accommodation this will be and we really want our staff to be involved in that decision.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 1st February 2021
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity.
No agencies please.
The Senior Major Gifts Manager is responsible for managing a large portfolio of prospect, donor and key influencer relationships.
They are responsible for developing and advancing these relationships towards clear philanthropic support.
The Major Gifts function sits within the Philanthropy and Partnerships division of Fundraising. The division is responsible for all high value and relationship fundraising from individuals, trusts and corporate partners.
The team includes prospect research support and enjoys a strong relationship and support from our research and other mission teams to identify and develop compelling cases for support on projects and programmes in support of our mission to beat blood cancer.
This role will engage extensively with Fundraising and Mission teams, including significant work with our research community around the UK.
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About the role:
We are recruiting for a part time Senior Finance Manager to take on responsibility for managing all aspects of the organisation’s financial management and resource planning, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. Priorities will include producing quarterly management accounts for our board, managing our restricted grants funds, project budgeting, and leading the next audit.
About you:
You will have senior financial management experience, ideally with some experience in the charity or not-for-profit sector. You will be a self-starter who is comfortable working proactively on financial management with limited supervision. You’ll be a clear and analytical thinker with energy and drive, and with sound judgement. You’ll be excited about working in an organisation that develops a new type of culture based on innovation, trust, and open-mindedness. You will be committed to Positive Money’s vision (described below)
About Positive Money:
Our money and banking system increases inequality, fuels climate breakdown, and is undemocratic. We think that should change. Positive Money is a fast-growing organisation that combines the activities of a think-tank, a pressure group, and international movement. Born out of the financial crash of 2008, Positive Money is the leading civil society organisation challenging our central bank, banking system, and wider economy to work in the interests of people and planet. Our vision is a money and banking system that enables a fair, democratic, and sustainable economy.
Roles and responsibilities
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Day to day financial management, supervising our payment processes, financial controls, and income and expenditure categorisation systems.
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Line management of our external Accountant/Book-keeper (a contracted role) and working closely with our Operations manager.
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Produce quarterly management accounts for our board of Non-Executive Directors.
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Lead on the audit for the year ending 31 March 2021, working closely with the finance team, non-exec finance director on our board, and an external auditor.
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Manage our restricted grants allocation system, and produce financial reports for our funders.
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Manage our system of programme and project budgets, monitor our organisational budget, and support fundraising efforts with application budgets.
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Develop or refine existing finance, resource or remuneration policies and procedures as needed.
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Support Positive Money’s international work, liaising with your counterpart at Positive Money Europe and supporting the development of a new US office.
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Support the organisation and on other operational matters such as HR, facilities or IT where needed.
Essential skills and experience
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Strong skills in financial analysis, budgeting, and daily financial and resource management
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Ability to multi-task across a range of financial management systems
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Experience of managing or monitoring small to mid-sized budgets
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Experience of working on organisation-wide financial management, and an understanding of the key elements of management accounts
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Experience managing restricted grants funds
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A strategic mindset
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Ability to problem solve complex organisational issues
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Risk management experience
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High attention to detail
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Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, needed to work closely with a small team, and a range of external contractors, funders and stakeholders
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Experience of leading, or working on, audit.
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Self-motivation, and ability to work proactively with minimal supervision
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Committed to a culture that is open, honest, respectful and welcomes innovation and new creative ideas.
Desirable skills and experience
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Financial or accountancy qualifications
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Other operations management experience, such as HR, facilities or IT management
Terms and conditions
Contract: The role is for an initial fixed term of 1 year with a 6-month probationary period. After a year if the contract is extended, a permanent contract will be offered.
Salary: Band 2, £38k gross per annum (pro rata’d for part time hours) + 8% pension contribution
Reporting to: Chief Operating Officer
Hours: 16-20 hours per week, (2 or 2.5 working days). Requests for flexible working will be considered. The post holder may need to be flexible about working hours within the week from time to time.
Holiday: 25 days per year for full-time equivalent (plus bank holidays)
Location: Through the Covid-19 pandemic we are following government advice and working from home. Up to two members of staff can work in the office when required subject to government guidelines.
Closing Date for applications: 8am, Monday 8th February
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th February
(interviews will take place online)
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Want to help make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere?
Want to help vulnerable communities protect themselves against Covid-19? Can you create and lead effective media strategies that help bring about change? Want to join an award-winning and ambitious team?
Are you fizzing with great ideas, willing to take risks but utterly strategic in ensuring impact and results?
Join WaterAid as our News Manager and help to change normal for millions of people living without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. On top of that you'll be joining a 2020 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.
As News Manager, you will work closely with our Policy and Campaigns directorate and media colleagues around the world to ensure that ambitious media coverage plays an integral role in our global advocacy strategy, amplifying our message to decision makers and helping bring about change.
Full time. Currently working from home. International travel may be required in the future.
You will provide expert media advice and delivery on national and international news, policy and campaigns activities across all media channels. You will ensure that WaterAid's media work on news, policy and campaigns is global, ambitious, proactive, fleet of foot, creative, strategic and results driven.
You will also:
* Brief staff up to and including the Chief Executive
* Build and maintain excellent relationships with relevant journalists
* Act as a media spokesperson for WaterAid as required.
* Lead up to four senior media officers
* When circumstances allow, you will accompany journalists to visit our work
To be successful, you will need:
- Considerable experience of achieving high profile, impactful media coverage, preferably around policy or campaigns issues.
- Experience of liaising with journalists of all levels
- Proven ability to prioritise workload and work under pressure.
- Creativity and tenacity
Salary:
Circa £42,000 (subject to experience) with excellent benefits
WaterAid benefits include:
- 36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
- Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
- We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Flexible working conditions, including the opportunity for part-time work and home working up to 2 days a week
- Season Ticket Loan
- Free annual eye tests
- Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
- Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave.
- Sabbaticals
- Volunteer Day
Additional Information:
To see the full job pack, please click 'Apply'. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format.
Applications will close 23:59 on Sunday 24 January 2021.?Availability for interview is required w/c 01 February 2021 - due to current restrictions interviews will take place by video call.
WaterAid is currently located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base. Due to current restrictions on office capacity the majority of our staff are working from home. All aspects of this including how we will support home working and the office transition will be discussed at the interview stage with you.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.
WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct. We will conduct the most appropriate pre-employment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained.
WaterAid is an equal opportunities, disability-confident employer and committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us.
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