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Title: CRM and Power Platform Developer
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: One-year fixed term
Location: Office, hybrid or remote (1 week induction in office)
Salary: £39,793 pro-rata
Accountable to: Head of IT (Operations)
Responsible for: No management responsibility
DBS Eligibility: Basic DBS check and Social Media/Adverse Media checks
Closing Date: 10th August 2026
About the role
Join a charity that’s passionate about safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. If you want your work to have a real-world impact, this is the role for you.
What You’ll Do:
You’ll be part of a small, collaborative data team of three, working closely with our Head of IT & Data and colleagues across the organisation. This is a hands-on role where you’ll:
- Redevelop our CRM and introduce new features.
- Create intuitive tools like Power Apps to make life easier for users.
- Design workflows and automations that boost efficiency and improve data quality.
- Develop reporting tools that empower teams to use data effectively every day.
It’s a unique opportunity to combine technical development with strategic thinking—embedding data-driven practice across Thirtyone:eight.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Purpose-driven work: Everything you do helps protect children and vulnerable adults.
- Flexible working options: Balance your life and work with hybrid arrangements.
- Professional growth: Opportunities to learn, innovate, and lead.
- Supportive culture: Join a friendly, collaborative team that values your ideas.
If you love solving problems, building tools that people actually enjoy using, and want your work to have a positive impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Main Responsibilities
- Enhance and support Thirtyone:eight’s Microsoft Dynamics CRM to meet business requirements, ensure reliability, performance, security and compliance with GDPR.
- Create Power Apps to support the ongoing requirements of the business
- Perform Unit Testing and end-to-end testing as appropriate
- Liaise with end users for User Acceptance Testing and user-training
- Maintain clear and up to date documentation of system design, configuration, workflows, and user guides
Specific Responsibilities
- Work with the Senior Developer to support and enhance Thirtyone:eight’s Microsoft Dynamics CRM, ensuring it is secure, fit for purpose, and meets service and reporting needs.
- Design and maintain Power Platform tools, including Power Apps and Power Automate, with user-friendly interfaces for efficient data entry and access.
- Create and optimise workflows and automations to improve efficiency, strengthen data quality, and reduce manual processes.
- Optimise the use of storage within Thirtyone:eight’s Dataverse environment.
- Facilitate workshops, discussions, and user interviews to capture functional and non-functional requirements.
- Translate business needs into clear, structured specifications and user stories.
- Validate requirements with stakeholders to ensure shared understanding before development begins.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and data quality enhancement.
- Collaborate with users and managers to translate requirements into practical, user-friendly solutions, supported by appropriate documentation.
- Integrate Power Apps with other Microsoft services, such as SharePoint and Teams, and with third-party tools where applicable.
- Develop and follow test plans to support reliable delivery of changes and enhancements.
- Keep system documentation current, covering design, configuration, workflows, reporting structures, and user guidance.
- Ensure all developments comply with GDPR, data protection, and security standards.
Person Specification
A) Essential Personal Characteristics and Qualities:
- Humility - Having a modest view of your own importance.
- Integrity - The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
- Openness - Acceptance of, or receptiveness to change or new ideas.
- Collaborative - Involving two or more parties working together.
- Solution-focused - Concentration in problem solving or dealing with a difficult situation.
- Learning - Knowledge acquired through study, experience, or being taught.
- Creative - Having good imagination, thinking differently, or having original ideas.
- Fair - Treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination.
- Committed - Dedicated to a certain course, cause or policy.
- Passionate - Having or showing strong feelings or beliefs.
B) Essential Experience:
Experience in application or systems development, with either direct Microsoft Dynamics/Power Platform experience or transferable experience that would support rapid cross-training, including:
- Developing, configuring, or supporting business applications using a modern programming language or low-code platform.
- Working with relational databases, data models, queries, reporting, dashboards or structured business data.
- Creating or working with APIs, integrations, connectors or data flows between systems.
- Gathering user requirements and translating them into practical technical specifications or solutions.
- Testing, documenting, deploying and supporting system changes or enhancements.
B) Desirable Experience:
- Direct experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Power Apps, or Power Automate.
- Experience with Power BI or other reporting tools.
- Experience working in a charity, membership, CRM, case management, or safeguarding-related environment.
d) Essential Abilities, Knowledge & Motivation:
The successful candidate will also be able to demonstrate:
- Strong technical aptitude and the ability to learn new systems, platforms and development approaches quickly.
- Practical problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse issues and deliver workable, user-friendly solutions.
- Clear communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Good attention to detail when working with data, configuration, testing and documentation.
- Awareness of data protection, information security and good practice when designing or supporting systems.
- A proactive and organised approach, with the ability to manage priorities and deliver work on time.
- Willingness to develop expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Power Apps and Power Automate.
- A desire to “give back” by working for a non-profit and supporting Thirtyone:eight’s safeguarding mission.
Independent and thought-leading, we equip organisations, churches, other faith groups, individuals and government with safeguarding tools they need



The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: Flexible on location.
Interviews: Week commencing 27th July 2026
As a Fundraising Systems Executive, you will play a key role in embedding our new Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, helping fundraising teams get the most out of our new systems. You will be part of a newly formed Technology team of developers, testers, and product specialists, working closely with brilliant colleagues to improve processes, manage donor data, and deliver innovative solutions.
This role suits someone with strong analytical and problem-solving skills who can support end users with technical issues and requests while managing multiple initiatives with ease.
You will need an understanding of fundraising processes and donor management, experience with CRM systems like Dynamics 365, familiarity with campaign management and reporting tools such as Excel or Power BI, and ideally a background in application support or not-for-profit organisations.
You’ll enjoy the variety of moving between reactive support and proactive delivery, helping shape the future of our fundraising systems while working alongside a clever and supportive team.
What happens next?
Please submit a CV, and Cover Letter that includes your experience, transferrable skills and motivation to work for The King's Trust! The Team will be in touch about the next steps shortly after the closing date.
Why do we need Fundraising Systems Executives?
Last year, we helped more than 40,000 Young People, with three in four young people on our programmes moving into a positive outcome in work, education or training. The young people we help face a range of challenges, such as unemployment, mental health issues or some who have been in trouble with the law. We believe all young people should have the chance to succeed, and that young people are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us. We want to continue having a positive impact on young people’s lives and we couldn’t do this without the important work of Fundraising Systems Executives!
Perks for working at The Trust!
- Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure on the days between Christmas and New Year
- Flexible working! Where operationally possible, our roles require a combination of office days and working from home (please speak to the hiring manager about this particular role)
- You can volunteer for and/or attend events – The King's Trust Awards, Pride, active events etc.
- In-house learning platform! Develop your skills for your career and your role
- Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial well-being support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas.
- Personal development opportunities through our Networks – KT CAN (Cultural Awareness Network), KT GEN (Gender Equality Network), KT DAWN (Disability & Wellbeing Network), and PULSE (LGBTQIA+ Network).
- Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks of full pay and 13 weeks of half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks of full pay for paternity leave.
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
- Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)
We believe that every young person should have the chance to succeed, no matter their background or the challenges they are facing.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Bowel Research UK is looking for a permanent Research and Grants Manager to coordinate and evaluate the management of the charity’s research activities. This role covers all aspects of pre- and post-award research management, impact reporting, grant finance management and governance, co-ordination of the Charity’s scientific committees and shaping external scientific communications to supporters and other stakeholders. Additionally, you will foster and maintain strong relationships with researchers, serving as the primary point of contact for engaging with the research community.
Bowel Research UK are bringing this permanent role following time spent with an interim postholder in position to create a solid foundation and understanding of what the role needs.
This is an opportunity to work with the UK’s leading specialist bowel cancer and bowel disease research charity. Bowel Research UK believe that a cure for bowel cancer and effective treatments to mitigate, or entirely eradicate, other bowel diseases is possible – but only if vital research is funded and investment made into the scientific and medical communities today, to see the benefits tomorrow.
Bowel Research UK are a flexible employer, for this post they are looking for someone to be comfortable with joining the team in the London office once a month. If the post holder would prefer to work more regularly from an office base, the charity has office space at Royal College of Surgeons in central London. Most team members work from here on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
For further information and to apply please follow the guidance in the Candidate Pack to arrange a conversation about your suitability for the role and next steps.
Closing date: midnight Wednesday 22nd July
The selection process will involve a two-stage interview process.