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We're hiring: Senior Campaigns and Digital Engagement Officer
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Salary: £34,000 - £37,000 FTE (depending on experience)
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Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week) or part-time, with flexibility for an exceptional candidate
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Contract: 12 months fixed-term (with a view to extend subject to funding)
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Location: London hybrid (with remote-only options for an exceptional candidate)
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Closing Date: Sunday, 5th July
The Work Rights Centre is a progressive, rapidly growing charity dedicated to helping migrants and disadvantaged Britons access employment justice and improve their social mobility. We combine life-changing frontline legal advice with systems change work, and today we are launching a new chapter.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Campaigns and Digital Engagement Officer to bridge the gap between our work and the general public. You will be the engine that converts our legal wins and policy change ambitions into a public movement, mobilising our supporters to show up, speak up, and financially support our mission.
Key responsibilities include:
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Campaign development: Lead the creation of digital journeys that take supporters from casual followers to active participants (signing petitions, emailing MPs, and donating).
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Supporter engagement: Manage and segment our newsletter community, create high-performing content, and launch our first regular monthly giving programme.
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Digital optimisation: Use data (Mailchimp, Google Analytics) to track ROI, optimize website "Action" pages, and ensure a frictionless, mobile-first donation experience.
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Strategic growth: Contribute to the wider development of the charity, including our business planning and stakeholder relationships.
This role is fixed-term because this is the first time we are developing this work, with support from a restricted, time-limited grant. If by the end of the first year it is clear that the role brings significant value to the charity, we will be looking to secure alternative funding and extend the contract.
What we're looking for
This is an ideal opportunity for a marketing or communications professional who is creative, strategic, and confident in their ability to grow communities. We are looking for someone with:
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Experience: At least 3 years in marketing or campaigning, with a proven track record of driving digital actions, building communities, or hit fundraising targets.
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Tech savvy: Confidence mapping user journeys, segmenting audiences, and using data to iterate digital strategy.
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Communication: Exceptional copywriting skills with the ability to translate complex policy or legal concepts into compelling, human stories.
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Mindset: A fundraising growth mindset, a proactive attitude, and a deep commitment to migrant rights and economic justice.
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Desirable: Lived or learned experience of the issues facing vulnerable migrants, or knowledge of a language other than English.
Even if you don’t tick every single box, if you share our values and trust your ability to make a positive contribution, we highly encourage you to apply.
Why join us?
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Generous leave: 32 days annual leave (28 days + Birthday Off + 3 days Christmas closure).
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Great benefits: 5% employer pension contribution, 20 weeks enhanced parental pay, and enhanced sick pay (up to 28 days).
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Growth & learning: A dedicated professional training budget to help you upskill.
Work Rights Centre is a charity dedicated to helping migrants and disadvantaged Britons access employment justice
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here.
The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.
About the role
We’re looking for a senior digital marketing manager – email to jointly lead our team as part of a job share to deliver high performing email campaigns and automations to support the charity’s activity. Working closely together with the other senior digital marketing manager – email, you’ll work across large email projects and campaigns, support the team’s workload and priorities, and create processes to best support their success.
Line managing 2 digital marketing officer email roles, you’ll support their development and contribute to our email strategy together with the head of digital engagement.
Working with the senior manager, marketing and communications planning and measurement (owned earned shared paid channels) you’ll be a key part of shaping and ensuring consistency across all our channels.
About you
You’ll have substantial email experience and knowledge, being confident creating and optimizing complex automations alongside managing relationships with email platforms.
You’ll be passionate about delivering the best experience and engagement with email and understand best practices and the importance of data and testing.
You’ll be well organised and have strong prioritisation and communication skills, working across the organization on a diverse range of campaigns and projects.
Job description and benefits
Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.
Location, hybrid working and salary range
This role is primarily based in our London office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 2.5 days per week at home, and 1 day in the office per week.
The salary range is:
£32,900 to £34,300 per annum based in London
When applying
We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you’ve any immediate questions please contact the Breast Cancer Now recruitment team.
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.
We reserve the right to close this advert early. Therefore, to avoid disappointment please submit your application as soon as possible, if you’re interested in this opportunity.
Closing date Tuesday 16 June 2026 9 am
Interview date 23-25 June 2026
About Us
We are a pioneering education charity, and one of the leading multi-academy trusts in the country. We have a track record of taking on some of the most challenging schools in London, turning them into places where every young person can access a high-quality education and have opportunities to succeed.
Educating 1 in 41 young people in London, we now have 55 primary and secondary academies transforming the life chances and opportunities of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The Harris Federation has a track record of accomplishment in achieving success through rapid school improvement and has built an unrivalled reputation for running outstanding academies in London.
Our central team comprises a dedicated, driven group of departments working centrally to provide support across the Federation and all of our academies.
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Summary
We are seeking a visionary Director of Digital, Data and Technology to shape the future of education at the Harris Federation.
Taking the lead on a bold, organisation-wide digital vision, you will drive transformation across more than 50 academies, using technology, data and AI to unlock better outcomes for thousands of young people.
This is a high-impact leadership role in which you will influence at the very top: advising senior leaders, delivering large-scale digital transformation, and building a modern, secure and data-driven organisation.
If you are a strategic, forward-thinking digital leader with a passion for innovation and making a real difference, this is your opportunity to create lasting impact at scale.
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Main Areas of Responsibility
The Director of Digital, Data and Technology will lead the strategic direction of digital, data and technology across the Federation, driving innovation, transformation and high-quality service delivery to support education and operational excellence.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Define and deliver the organisation-wide digital and data strategy
- Lead digital transformation to improve education and operations
- Oversee IT, cloud platforms, systems and cyber security
- Build and lead a high-performing technology team
- Enable data-driven decision making and analytics capability
- Enhance service delivery and user experience
- Lead major programmes, budgets and supplier partnerships
For a full list of responsibilities, please download the Job Pack.
Qualifications & Experience
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant technical discipline
- Senior leadership experience as a CDIO, CIO, CTO or equivalent, leading large-scale digital, data and technology functions
- Proven success in delivering enterprise-wide digital transformation in a complex organisation
- Experience developing and executing digital, data and technology strategies
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies (Microsoft 365, Azure) and enterprise architecture
- Expertise in cyber security, risk management and information governance
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into delivery
- Strong leadership and people development capability
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- High level of commercial awareness and financial management
For a full job specification, please download the Job Pack.
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Professional Development & Benefits
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, 26 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays) for staff who work across the full year, and many other benefits.
We offer lifestyle friendly working arrangements including flexible start and end times, and hybrid working with 2 days from home and 3 days either with the team at our office in East Croydon or visiting one of our academies.
Learn more about on our website.
Safeguarding Notice
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Equal Opportunities
The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
We value the diversity of our staff and students, and everyone at the Harris Federation is equally valued and respected. We aim to be an inclusive employer that reflects the communities we serve. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment.
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Next Steps
If you have any questions about this opportunity, please send us an email, or call to arrange a conversation.
Before applying, please download the Job Pack for full details on the job responsibilities and person specification. This will be helpful for you when completing your application, and throughout the recruitment process.
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we may interview and offer to a candidate before the closing date. Please note that we only accept applications submitted before the closing date via our careers website.
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This is a unique opportunity to join Practical Action at an exciting and pivotal point in our journey. We are seeking an exceptional Executive Assistant to provide dedicated support to our Interim CEO during a period of transformation, growth and strategic development, while we recruit and appoint our permanent CEO.
Working at the heart of the organisation, you will play a key role in ensuring continuity, maintaining momentum and supporting the successful transition to new leadership. This highly visible position offers the opportunity to contribute directly to the next chapter of Practical Action's impact and ambition.
We are looking for an experienced, highly organised and proactive Executive Assistant who can provide outstanding strategic and operational support to the CEO of a respected international development organisation. Acting as a trusted partner, you will enable the CEO to focus on organisational leadership, external engagement, fundraising and the delivery of strategic priorities.
The role encompasses complex diary and inbox management, preparation of high-quality briefings and correspondence, Board and governance support, and coordination with senior stakeholders across the organisation and internationally. You will work closely with colleagues, partners and supporters across multiple countries, cultures and time zones, ensuring the smooth and effective operation of the Executive Office.
This is a demanding and rewarding role that requires exceptional judgement, discretion and attention to detail. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, complex environment, able to manage competing priorities with confidence, and skilled at building effective relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, trustees, partners and external representatives.
If you thrive on enabling others to succeed, enjoy working at the centre of decision-making, and are motivated by the opportunity to support an organisation delivering meaningful global impact, we would love to hear from you.
Accountabilities:
Executive and CEO Office Support
• Proactively manage the CEO's diary, inbox and correspondence, exercising independent judgement in prioritising requests and protecting time for strategic priorities.
• Prepare and commission high-quality briefings, background notes, talking points and presentation materials to ensure the CEO is fully prepared for all meetings and engagements.
• Draft, review and quality-assure outgoing correspondence, reports and communications on behalf of the CEO.
• Coordinate and manage complex domestic and international travel arrangements, itineraries, visas and logistics for the CEO and COO, ensuring efficiency and value for money.
• Manage the CEO and COO’s expense reporting and the Executive Office budget, maintaining accurate records and flagging issues proactively.
• Serve as the first point of contact for the CEO's office, managing enquiries from staff, partners, donors and stakeholders with professionalism and discretion.
• Work closely with the Internal Communications and Social Media team lead to ensure CEO internal and external communications are delivered well.
Board and Governance Administration
• Lead the end-to-end administration of Board of Trustee meetings and sub-committees, including scheduling, preparation of Board papers, agenda coordination and minute-taking, utilising AI. The majority are virtual due to the international nature of the board. In-person meetings take place approx. every 18 months.
• Maintain the governance calendar and ensure all regulatory and statutory reporting deadlines are met in coordination with the Company Secretary, CEO and COO.
• Support the onboarding of new Trustees and maintain up-to-date records of Board membership, terms of office and declarations of interest.
• Build strong working relationships with Trustees, acting as a responsive and reliable point of contact between Board meetings.
• Assist with the organisation of the Annual General Meeting and other governance events.
Leadership Team Coordination
• Coordinate the Global Leadership Team (GLT) meeting cycle, including agenda-setting, papers, actions and follow-up, working closely with the CEO and members of GLT.
• Support the CEO in tracking GLT action items, strategic priorities and key commitments, flagging issues and ensuring accountability.
• Co-ordinate with Regional and Country Directors on the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) meetings, including agenda-setting, papers, actions and follow-up,
• Assist with the preparation of materials for all-staff communications, leadership away-days and organisational events.
• Build effective working relationships across Practical Action's global offices, navigating time-zone differences and cultural contexts with sensitivity.
Stakeholder and Partnership Support
• Support the CEO's engagement with major institutional donors, trusts and foundations, bilateral agencies and high-value partners, including managing contact records and briefing materials, liaising closely with the business development and philanthropy teams.
• Coordinate logistics for high-level external visits, delegations, conferences and events involving the CEO.
• Assist with donor stewardship activities and the preparation of materials for fundraising and partnership development.
• Represent the CEO's office professionally in interactions with government officials, international organisations and peer NGOs.
Project and Research Support
• Take on research and project management tasks as directed by the CEO
• Continue to test and utilise AI tools to increase efficiency and effectiveness and share learnings with other members of Practical Action
• Support the delivery of special initiatives and cross-organisational projects led from the Executive Office.
• Maintain confidential files and records management systems for the CEO's office, ensuring compliance with GDPR and information governance policies.
To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:
Essential
• Significant experience (typically five or more years) as an Executive Assistant or Personal Assistant supporting a Chief Executive or equivalent senior leaders in a complex and or charitable organisation.
• Demonstrable experience of Board and governance administration, including minuting meetings and managing trustee or director-level relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft high-quality correspondence, briefing papers and presentations to Board or senior stakeholder standard.
• Outstanding organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines and maintain quality under pressure.
• High degree of discretion, confidentiality and professional judgement in handling sensitive information about people, partners and organisational matters.
• Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, with the ability to build trust and credibility with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of coordinating complex international travel and managing logistics across multiple time zones.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams), AI tools and the ability to learn new digital tools quickly.
Desirable
• Experience working in an international NGO, development organisation or comparable mission-driven environment.
• Familiarity with funder relationships
• Experience supporting or working in an organisation with offices or programmes in the Global South.
• Knowledge of charity law and UK charity governance, including Charity Commission requirements.
• A second language relevant to Practical Action's programme geographies (e.g. French, Spanish, Arabic).
• Experience with CRM or stakeholder management systems.
Skills, Abilities and Competencies
· Problem-Solving
· Strong Communication & Diplomacy
· Adaptability
· Proactive organisation skills
To apply please submit a copy of your CV (no more than 3 pages) and a supporting statement/letter that includes the answers to the following questions:
- Tell me how you build relationships in fast-paced environments taking into account those stakeholders being located in different countries and having different cultural background?
- Practical Action has a very experienced and diverse board of trustees. Can you give an example of when you have had to build relationships with these types of people. Please describe your approach to having the most effective interactions?
- Tell us about the most complex project, event, or initiative you have coordinated?
- Describe a situation where you made a significant decision on behalf of a senior executive. What was your thought process and outcome?
Closing date for applications: 17th June 2026. Should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.
Interviews: It is anticipated that interviews will take place W/C 22nd June 2026
If you do not hear from us within five weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful
Our vision is for a world that works better for everyone. We believe where there’s action, there’s hope.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About us
At CharityJob, we help charities find people who share their purpose, faster and more easily. We’re passionate about fair and effective recruitment and listening to our candidate and recruiter customers to improve our products, content and marketing.
We’re the number one job board in the UK for charities. And we provide leading technology to support our recruiters, including an applicant tracking system, as well as our sister networking platform, CharityConnect.
We’re motivated by the belief that great people power great causes. We’re a mission-led, commercially sustainable business that balances social impact with innovation, collaboration, and high standards of service. We have around 30 employees working for us across marketing, product, sales, software development and finance.
Our team cares deeply about the sector we serve and the experience of everyone who uses our platform. Working here means contributing to a product that helps charities thrive, while being part of a supportive, inclusive workplace where ideas are valued and personal development is encouraged.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Content Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. You’ll lead on all content across the organisation, including two blogs (our Career Advice blog for candidates and our Recruiter Insights blog for recruiters), our email and e-newsletter copy, sales collateral, product messaging, PR campaigns and anything else needing an expert editorial eye.
Annual leave: 25 days (+ bank holidays)
Reporting line: you’ll report to the Marketing Director and be part of the Marketing team.
Hours: 9am-5.30pm (with reduced hours of 9am – 5pm in December and August). Flexibility will be considered.
Working arrangements: this is a hybrid role, with two fixed days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) working in the office.
Job application process: to apply, please send your CV and answer a few short screening questions.
We can only accept applications for this role from applicants who live in the UK.
Job description
What you’ll be working on:
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Regularly planning and producing content for the CharityJob blogs.
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Updating the content calendar with article revisions and new content in line with business needs, seasonal trends and sector updates.
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Continually monitoring and maintaining our existing blog content, including optimising performance, working with our external agency to fill content gaps and conducting keyword research to improve organic content reach.
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Leading on SEO across the organisation, including managing our relationship with our external agency, acting on their recommendations and liaising with our in-house development team.
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Working closely with the Senior CRM Manager to write copy for promotional and service emails and trigger campaigns.
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Working closely with our external agency to manage digital PR campaigns to raise awareness of CharityJob and our products with trade, local and national press.
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Editing product copy to make sure that the right messages and prompts appear in the right places and in the right tone of voice across our website and products to help achieve business objectives.
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Producing supporting or customer-facing documents for our sales team.
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Writing guides and other long-form content, and briefing designers to deliver a finished product.
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Managing content produced for and with CharityJob’s partner organisations.
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Copyediting and proofreading copy and documents across the organisation.
This job is for you if:
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You understand the role of content marketing in the overall marketing strategy and customer journey.
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You have excellent copywriting skills, particularly for email campaigns and landing pages.
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You have a good knowledge of SEO and Google Analytics (AI search would be a bonus)
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You can highlight key feature benefits in new software products and distil these into engaging content and copy.
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You have excellent proofreading and copyediting skills and a keen eye for detail.
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You’re used to successfully juggling multiple projects, working calmly under pressure and managing tight deadlines.
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You have some experience of working with and managing third-party suppliers.
We help charities find people who share their purpose, faster, easier and fairly.



The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis (APF) is the UK’s leading patient charity dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by pulmonary fibrosis. Our mission is underpinned by values of compassionate, bold, expert and collaborative. We believe in creating a supportive environment in which both our employees and beneficiaries can thrive.
Founded in 2013 by people affected by PF and clinicians, APF has grown into a respected national charity rooted in community and evidence. We provide trusted information and support, help a growing network of support groups, campaign to improve access to care and invest in research to bring hope of new treatments. APF strives to be an organisation of equity and inclusion, welcoming people from all backgrounds – our team and volunteers aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve.
We have just launched an ambitious five-year strategy (2025–2030), co-created with the PF community, which focuses on expanding support, transforming care, and accelerating research. This strategy marks a step change with a clearer focus, stronger delivery model and greater ambition to ensure no one faces pulmonary fibrosis alone.
Role purpose
The Senior Challenge Fundraising Officer will lead the delivery and growth of APF’s third-party and mass participation challenge events portfolio.
This role exists to significantly grow income and participation by managing end-to-end third-party challenge events, developing community-facing charity-owned fundraising products and delivering excellent supporter stewardship
Working closely with the Head of Fundraising and colleagues across Communications, Services and the Operations Team, you will increase recruitment, empower supporters to raise ambitious funds, and create journeys that encourage long-term engagement with APF.
Success in this role means more people fundraising for APF, raising more income and feeling valued, supported and inspired to stay connected to our mission.
Key Responsibilities
1. Grow participation in third party
- Manage the full lifecycle of third-party and mass participation challenge events, from planning and recruitment through to stewardship and re engagement.
- Develop and execute creative marketing strategies to boost participation and attract new event participants.
- Draft engaging promotional content that inspires and engages our supporters in collaboration with the Communications team.
- Promote third-party events proactively across relevant channels and networks.
- Work with the wider Fundraising team to improve and refine the stewardship journey for challenge participants to maximise the participant experience.
- Identify and pursue opportunities to grow participation in new and existing events.
- Attend key events as required, managing on-the day logistics and volunteer coordination.
2. Community Product Development
- Work with Head of Fundraising to shape and improve APF’s fundraising offer and remote products.
- Test and refine new fundraising concepts that increase accessibility and broaden participation.
- Work collaboratively across teams to ensure our community fundraising products align with wider campaigns and strategic priorities.
3. Income growth and fundraiser mpowerment
- Inspire participants to achieve ambitious fundraising targets through engaging, creative communications.
- Develop and enhance fundraising materials, including participant packs and digital resources to support our fundraisers.
- Use insight and sector trends to identify opportunities to boost event visibility and maximise fundraising efforts.
- Monitor fundraising performance to ensure we’re meeting targets and delivering strong ROI on our challenge activities.
4. Stewardship and re-engagement
- Foster personal connections with supporters through thoughtful, tailored stewardship that keeps them engaged and feeling valued.
- Create clear re-engagement plans to encourage repeat participation and long-term loyalty.
- Collaborate with wider Fundraising and Services teams to support acquisition and ensure our supporters have a smooth, high-quality supporter journey.
- Represent APF publicly when required, acting as a confident ambassador for the charity at events and in public settings.
5. Data, insight and compliance
- Support on the management of CRM data to enable accurate segmentation, performance tracking and reporting.
- Monitor recruitment, participation, income and ROI to help inform future planning and improvements.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge with GDPR regulations and compliance and ensure personal data is handled responsibly and securely.
- Work closely with the Governance and Operations Manager to ensure our fundraising activities are fully compliant with GDPR and the Code of Fundraising Practice.
How to apply
Please apply via CharityJob or submit a CV and a covering letter (maximum of two pages) highlighting your skills and suitability to the role, reflecting the key responsibilities in the job description.
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis (APF) is a national charity dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by pulmonary fibrosis.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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£23,600 pa for 28 hours a week (FTE £29,500) + benefits
Part time/28 hours a week (flexible hours)
Fixed term contract until 30/09/2027
Aberdulais, Wales
Closing Date: 16 June 2026 at 9am
Are you a proactive, relationship-focused individual with a passion for community engagement and supporting people facing disadvantage? Do you have experience working collaboratively with partners and engaging individuals who may face barriers to participation?
If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a highly motivated Senior Engagement Officer to play a key role in delivering an exciting community heritage project in partnership with the National Trust.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About the Project
This innovative new project will create opportunities for people who are often excluded from heritage and community spaces. Working in partnership with the National Trust at Aberdulais, the project will:
- Recruit, train and support new volunteers using our lived experience peer-led model
- Deliver community events and activities to engage local people and visitors
- Increase access to heritage and nature, improving wellbeing
- Build a more diverse and sustainable volunteer base to support the future of the site
About this key role
You will lead on community engagement and partnership development, helping to successfully deliver this 15-month project. You will build strong relationships with local stakeholders, support volunteer recruitment and development, and coordinate a range of activities and events.
Working closely with the Wales team, you will:
- Develop and maintain effective partnerships with local organisations and stakeholders
- Support delivery of a lived experience heritage training programme
- Help recruit, support and develop volunteers
- Coordinate events, activities and community engagement initiatives
- Promote the project and support outreach and recruitment
- Maintain accurate records and contribute to monitoring and reporting
- Support the development of a sustainability plan for the project
What we are looking for
- Experience of building partnerships and working with a range of stakeholders
- Experience supporting or delivering community, volunteering or engagement programmes
- Experience supporting individuals facing barriers to participation
- Ability to organise and deliver events or group activities
- Strong communication, organisational and administrative skills
- Ability to manage a varied workload and meet deadlines
- Confidence using digital tools and supporting outreach or promotion
- Awareness of safeguarding, risk management and professional boundaries.
Please note: this role requires an Enhanced DBS check.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, access to clinical supervision, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
Closing Date: 16 June 2026 at 9am.
A ydych chi'n unigolyn rhagweithiol sy'n ffocysu ar berthnasoedd ac yn frwd dros ymgysylltu â'r gymuned a chefnogi pobl sy'n wynebu anfantais? A oes gennych chi brofiad o weithio ar y cyd â phartneriaid ac ymgysylltu ag unigolion a allai wynebu rhwystrau i gyfranogi?
Os felly, mae Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles yn chwilio am Uwch Swyddog Ymgysylltu â chymhelliant uchel i chwarae rhan allweddol wrth gyflawni prosiect treftadaeth gymunedol cyffrous mewn partneriaeth â'r Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol.
Ynghylch Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles
Elusen uchelgeisiol, wedi’i hen sefydlu sy’n helpu pobl sy’n wynebu helbulon i ddod o hyd i swyddi, cartrefi a’r gefnogaeth gywir yw Ymddiriedolaeth St Giles. Yn ganolog i’n hethos yw ein cred bod pobl sydd â phrofiad uniongyrchol o oresgyn problemau, megis cefndir troseddol, digartrefedd, dibyniaeth ar gyffuriau ac alcohol a bod yn aelod o gang, yn allweddol i sicrhau newid positif mewn eraill.
Ynglŷn â'r Prosiect
Bydd y prosiect arloesol newydd hwn yn creu cyfleoedd i bobl sy'n aml yn cael eu heithrio o ofodau treftadaeth a chymunedol. Gan weithio mewn partneriaeth â'r Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol yn Aberdulais, bydd y prosiect yn:
- Recriwtio, hyfforddi a chefnogi gwirfoddolwyr newydd gan ddefnyddio ein model profiad uniongyrchol dan arweiniad cyfoedion
- Cynnal digwyddiadau a gweithgareddau cymunedol er mwyn ymgysylltu â phobl leol ac ymwelwyr
- Cynyddu mynediad at dreftadaeth a natur, gan wella llesiant
- Adeiladu sylfaen wirfoddolwyr mwy amrywiol a chynaliadwy er mwyn cefnogi dyfodol y safle
Ynghylch y rôl allweddol hon
Byddwch yn arwain ar ymgysylltu cymunedol a datblygu partneriaethau, gan helpu i gyflawni'r prosiect 15 mis hwn yn llwyddiannus. Byddwch yn meithrin perthnasoedd cryf â rhanddeiliaid lleol, yn cefnogi recriwtio a datblygu gwirfoddolwyr, ac yn cydlynu amrywiaeth o weithgareddau a digwyddiadau.
Gan weithio'n agos gyda thîm Cymru, byddwch yn:
- Datblygu a chynnal partneriaethau effeithiol gyda sefydliadau a rhanddeiliaid lleol
- Cefnogi cyflwyno rhaglen hyfforddi treftadaeth profiad uniongyrchol
- Helpu i recriwtio, cefnogi a datblygu gwirfoddolwyr
- Cydlynu digwyddiadau, gweithgareddau a mentrau ymgysylltu cymunedol
- Hyrwyddo'r prosiect a chefnogi allgymorth a recriwtio
- Cynnal cofnodion cywir a chyfrannu at fonitro ac adrodd
- Cefnogi datblygiad cynllun cynaliadwyedd ar gyfer y prosiect
Yr hyn rydym yn chwilio amdano
- Profiad o adeiladu partneriaethau a gweithio gydag amrywiaeth o randdeiliaid
- Profiad o gefnogi neu gyflwyno rhaglenni cymunedol, gwirfoddoli neu ymgysylltu
- Profiad o gefnogi unigolion sy'n wynebu rhwystrau i gyfranogiad
- Y gallu i drefnu a chyflwyno digwyddiadau neu weithgareddau grŵp
- Sgiliau cyfathrebu, trefnu a gweinyddu cryf
- Y gallu i reoli llwyth gwaith amrywiol a chwrdd â therfynau amser
- Hyder wrth ddefnyddio offer digidol a chefnogi allgymorth neu hyrwyddo
- Ymwybyddiaeth o ddiogelu, rheoli risg a ffiniau proffesiynol.
Noder: mae'r rôl hon yn gofyn am wiriad DBS Uwch.
Yn gyfnewid am hyn, gallwch ddisgwyl cyflog cystadleuol, lwfans absenoldeb hael, pensiwn staff, mynediad at oruchwyliaeth glinigol, gweithio hyblyg, rhaglen fentora, gwasanaeth cyngor a chwnsela, benthyciad tocyn tymor a llawer mwy.
Rydym yn gyflogwr ecwiti a chynhwysol. Rydym yn croesawu pob cais, ac yn arbennig yn annog ceisiadau gan bobl o'r mwyafrif byd-eang (du, brown, aml-dreftadaeth) a'r rhai sy'n uniaethu fel anabl, niwro-eang, neu niwro-amrywiol, gydag unrhyw nodweddion gwarchodedig a/neu rwystrau neu heriau cymdeithasol. Rydym yn gwerthfawrogi'r effaith rymusol ac addysgiadol y gall pob profiad ymarferol ac amrywiaeth meddwl ei gynnig i'r sefydliad.
Bydd St Giles yn gwarantu cyfweliad i bob ymgeisydd anabl sy'n bodloni'r meini prawf gofynnol a nodir yn y Disgrifiad Swydd ar gyfer y swydd wag hon.
We help people held back by poverty, unemployment, the criminal justice system, homelessness, exploitation and abuse to build a positive future.
Carers’ Resource is delighted to be able to advertise a new role to support carers and those they care for. We are seeking:
Senior Trust & Grant Fundraiser
Salary: up to £33,000
Permanent full time post (part time considered for right candidate)
Location: Hybrid working with part of week spent at one of our offices: Shipley, Harrogate or Skipton
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Trust & Grant Fundraiser to lead and grow our charitable income from trusts, foundations and grant-making bodies.
Reporting directly to the CEO, you will play a key strategic role in securing sustainable funding, both restricted and unrestricted, that enables Carers’ Resource to enhance, expand and support our existing services and allows us to invest in organisational infrastructure, website and digital technology.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record of personally securing at least £200,000 per annum in trust and grant income and will be confident developing compelling funding applications, building long-term funder relationships, and identifying new income opportunities.
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled fundraiser who is passionate about making a difference and wants to contribute to the growth and impact of a respected regional charity.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a trust and grants fundraising strategy aligned with organisational priorities.
- Research and identify suitable trust, foundation and statutory funding opportunities.
- Prepare high-quality, persuasive funding applications, proposals and expressions of interest.
- Secure a minimum of £200,000 per annum in trust and grant income.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with funders, partners and stakeholders.
- Manage the full grant cycle including applications, monitoring, reporting and stewardship.
- Work closely with the CEO and senior leadership team to develop funding priorities and project budgets.
- Collaborate with operational teams to gather impact data, case studies and outcomes.
- Maintain an accurate pipeline and reporting system for funding applications and deadlines.
- Produce timely and accurate reports for funders demonstrating impact and outcomes.
- Monitor fundraising trends, sector developments and funding opportunities relevant to carers and community services.
- Support the development of partnership and collaborative funding bids where appropriate.
- Ensure compliance with fundraising regulations and best practice.
Person Specification
Essential
- Demonstrable success in securing trust and grant funding, including a proven track record of personally generating at least £200,000 annually.
- At least 3 years experience of writing successful funding applications to trusts, foundations and statutory funders.
- Excellent written communication and bid-writing skills.
- Strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to manage multiple funding applications and deadlines effectively.
- Experience of developing fundraising pipelines and income strategies.
- Strong analytical and budgeting skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams.
- Passion for supporting carers, vulnerable people and local communities.
- Proficient IT skills including Microsoft Office and CRM/database systems.
Desirable
- Experience working within the charity, health or social care sector.
- Knowledge of issues affecting unpaid carers and vulnerable communities.
- Experience of reporting to senior leadership teams and trustees.
- Understanding of monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
Personal Attributes
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail
- Strategic thinker with a creative approach to fundraising
- Compassionate and values-driven
- Professional, resilient and adaptable
What We Offer
- Opportunity to work for a respected and impactful Yorkshire charity
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities
- Supportive and collaborative working environment
- Ongoing professional development
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Pension scheme
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Carers' Resource is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and supported.
Closing date for applications: Monday 15th June 2026
Email your application, including a covering letter explaining your fit to the role and CV.
Or apply directly via our website
Email your application, CV and a covering letter explaining your fit to the role.
Carers’ Resource exists to support unpaid carers. We provide information, advice & support to carers, to the people they care for and professionals.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Title: Senior Corporate Fundraising Officer
Reporting To: Senior Corporate Partnership Manager
Location: Hybrid working, with a mix of home and minimum 1 day per week in West London office
Salary: £31,500 per annum
We aim to be transparent about remuneration at MHI. As a charitable organisation, salaries for this role are predetermined and not negotiable. Please consider the advertised salary before applying.
Hours of Work: 40 hours per week, inclusive of a daily 1 hour paid lunch
Contract: Permanent
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave per year, plus public holidays;
- Company electronic devices;
- Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme;
- Private health insurance after completion of probation;
- Eligibility for a Blue Light discount card.
Closing Date: 26th June 2026 at 5pm. We reserve the right to close the job advert early if we receive a high number of applicants.
Click Here for the full Candidate Pack for this role.
Job Summary
Working closely with the Senior Corporate Partnership Manager, this role will support the delivery of high value corporate partnerships, including stewardship and engagement activities, as well as business development, identifying opportunities with aligned brands and up-coming charity of the year applications, to develop new corporate partnerships. The role is offered on a hybrid basis, with one day a week in the office in West London, and expectation to attend partner events where required.
You will be a creative, organised and reliable individual, ideally with experience in a fundraising team, supporting corporate partnerships or community fundraising. An excellent communicator, able to manage your time effectively and build good working relationships, you will support the Income team to deliver and secure corporate partnerships, working with colleagues across the charity to identify opportunities for engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Support with high value corporate partnerships, including the delivery of employee engagement activities and communications, fundraising events and challenges
- Manage a portfolio of corporate partnerships, delivering first class stewardship and identifying and maximising opportunities for wider engagement
- Support the Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager to steward and engage partners and prospects, including thought leadership, communications, events, volunteering and fundraising activities
- Support with business development, utilising Salesforce, Pearlfinders and LinkedIn to identify and track opportunities
- Support the Senior Corporate Partnership Manager to create proposals, offers and presentations for new and existing partners
- Support with challenge events, including fostering corporate participant journeys, organising cheer points, being familiar with various fundraising platforms, coordinating event logistics, resources, and post-event wrap-up reports
- Support with stewardship of a select few high-value donors and ambassadors throughout their fundraising challenges, helping to deliver an engaging, bespoke and positive supporter experience
- Manage team administration, including merchandise orders
- Build excellent stakeholder relationships, keeping key contacts updated and ensuring partnership renewals
- Work with Commissioned Partnerships and Trust and Foundations colleagues to identify cross and upsell opportunities
- Work with the Marketing & Communications team to promote challenge events, secure spaces and identify opportunities for our corporate partners to get involved
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience developing and managing corporate partnership relationships.
- Proven ability to write compelling, creative, and tailored partnership proposals.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, including delivering pitches to external stakeholders.
- Demonstrable experience identifying, developing, and securing new business opportunities.
- Flexibility to support at challenge events, office fundraisers and awareness campaign activities.
- Ability to contribute and help develop creative ideas for challenge events and awareness activities.
- Ability to work proactively and manage multiple partnership opportunities simultaneously.
- Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience using CRM or database systems to manage partnerships and supporter information.
- Experience supporting or managing challenge event participant journeys
- Experience reporting on partnership performance and impact.
- Ability to analyse partnership trends and identify growth opportunities.
- Experience working within the charity or not-for-profit sector.
This role is subject to eligibility to work in the UK, plus satisfactory background and reference checks.
We understand that AI is increasingly part of everyday life, and you might choose to use it when putting together your application. While AI can be a helpful tool, we ask that anything you submit reflects your own skills, experiences, and perspective. We value authenticity and integrity, and we want to see what you uniquely bring to our team and why our mission resonates with you personally.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job role:
In this exciting and varied role, within our growing Mass Engagement department you will be part of the core team responsible for delivering the charities challenge events portfolio to maximise support and increase income.
You’ll manage a range of events from marathons and treks to bespoke fundraising challenges, ensuring participants feel valued, motivated, and connected to the cause.
You will be organised and a strong project manager, confident in solving problems, securing financial targets and take a creative and collaborative approach to deliver outstanding events.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver mass fundraising events, with end-to-end coordination of various in person and virtual events, ensuring supporters are at the heart of all activity, including budgeting, planning, supplier co-ordination, risk management and on the day delivery.
- Help to identify new event opportunities in collaboration with the Mass Participation Event Manager.
- Meet Income & KPI targets along with maintaining costs within agreed budgets.
- Build collaborative relationships with the wider Mass Engagement, Service Delivery & Marcomms Teams to ensure successful marketing, recruitment, and development of the stewardship journey for our supporters.
- Lead on marketing plans for challenge events to ensure maximum return in collaboration with the Marketing, Brand & Comms team.
- Use data and insight to evaluate event performance, inform decision making and continuously improve participant experience.
- Post-event management including follow up, debrief, results analysis and thanking of participants.
- Event attendance and taking the lead to co-ordinate on the day with support from additional members of staff.
- Manage and record income & expenditure accurately contributing to management reports, data analysis and future planning of the events programme.
- Develop effective relationships with third party event providers to build our profile and identify suitable events to meet our income, event and donor development plans.
- Identify optimisations that will help to streamline and improve our processes for events and supporters.
- Keep abreast of income and data trends across the sector to help inform future activities and events fundraising in line with fundraising regulation.
- Develop and deliver opportunities for corporate engagement and sponsorship.
Skills & Experience:
Essential
- A strong understanding of event fundraising and delivery
- Experience managing multiple projects with multiple stakeholders, stretching KPIs and competing priorities
- Able to use data, insight and market trends to make recommendations
- Collaborative, able to work effectively across functions and support our collective success
- Proven experience of budgeting and project planning, setting up and leading project teams where necessary to meet deadlines.
- Ability to manage a busy workload and meet deadlines whilst maintaining high standards and attention to detail
- Understanding of effective stewardship tactics to maximise income and deepen engagement with participants
- Experience of working across functions with a wide range of people managing both internal and external stakeholders at all levels
Desirable
- Experience of working with and managing volunteers
- Proven ability to assess and manage risk in both marketing/financial terms and reputational risk.
- Understanding of relevant marketing tactics and channels, particularly digital
- Knowledge of health and safety and risk management in event delivery & fundraising compliance.
- Familiarity with digital fundraising platforms and MS Dynamics
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Position: Senior Campaigns Officer
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours a week
Contract: Permanent
Location: London N4 office with flexibility to work remotely
Salary: Starting from £33,044 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band and Job Family: Band 2, Charity
You will start at our entry point salary of £33,044 per annum, increasing to £35,109 after 6 months service and satisfactory performance and to £37,174 after a further 6 months.
About us
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 strategy is based on what people affected by MS have told us is important to them. It gives us a clear and determined focus.
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 working environment where you'll be able to make a difference.
About this job
This is an exciting time to be joining the MS Society’s campaigns team. We’re leading significant work on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and the Timms Review, alongside developing campaigning to improve neurological healthcare through our call for a Modern Service Framework. With our new organisational strategy now underway, it’s a great moment to join the team as we look to take our influencing and campaigning work to the next level.
Whether it’s about making sure people access ground-breaking treatments, tackling the poverty people face when living with MS, or making sure the right support is there when people need it most, as a Senior Campaigns Officer you will be working directly on campaigns to empower, inspire and mobilise our community to become change-makers.
Do you want to craft digital campaigns that hit the right note, emails that pack a punch, and bring energy and creativity to our campaigning? Are you keen to join a team where we will prioritise personal development and foster a culture which supports learning, innovation, testing and giving things a go? Do you want to support people living with MS to be more involved in our campaigns and develop activities to embed co-production throughout our work?
Closing date for applications: 9:00 am on Monday 15 June 2026
Interested?
PLEASE PRESS THE 'HOW TO APPLY' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Equal Opportunities
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.
We’d be grateful if you downloaded and completed the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
Disability Confident Employer
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and we’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
You can ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both our recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes.
If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, please contact us. You can also ask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format. Such as for them to be sent to you by email or in a larger word format.
More about our employee benefits:
We have a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to):
Encouraging work life balance
- 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time
- More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment
- Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and us)
- Flexible working options
Caring for you and your family
- Generous sick pay entitlement
- More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment
- Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year
- Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis
- Enhanced leave for new parents
- Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information
- Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)
- 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service scheme
- New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
- In the event of miscarriage or still birth
- To support fertility treatments
- For antenatal appointments for both parents
Thinking about your finances
- Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans
- Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax
- New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing
Enriching your life at work
- Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager
- Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities
- New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely
- Various opportunities to influence how we internally operate (including surveys, and focus and committee groups)
- Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for MS Society activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community)
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal
Safeguarding
We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services and we come into contact with.
This is regardless of Gender, Race, Disability, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Pregnancy, Gender reassignment.
We recognise our particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.
We have measures in place to protect everyone we come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.
Your right to work in the UK
You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with us. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if we offer you employment.
You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. We currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.
No agencies please.
To fund world-leading research, share the latest information and campaign for everyone's rights. Together we are a community. Together we can stop MS

Young Scot is looking for an ambitious and experienced Director of Marketing and
Information to lead our national information, content, digital marketing, communications and
platform strategy at a pivotal moment of transformation.
This is a unique opportunity to shape how Scotland’s national youth information and citizenship
charity reaches, informs and engages young people aged 11–26 in an increasingly fast-moving
digital world. Central to the role will be our charitable mission, and the values that underpin
everything Young Scot does.Working alongside the CEO and Senior Leadership Team, you’ll
lead the strategic development of Young Scot’s information services, marketing activity,
communications and branding, digital platforms and audience engagement approach, ensuring
we remain relevant, trusted and innovative in how we serve young people across Scotland.
You’ll oversee the evolution of Young Scot’s digital ecosystem, including our website, app,
membership and media communications and wider content infrastructure, ensuring these
platforms are modern, scalable and future-ready.
This role requires a leader who is comfortable shaping strategy and delivering execution. You’ll
bring experience leading teams, driving audience growth, overseeing digital products and
translating emerging opportunities appropriately - including AI and new media behaviours -
into practical organisational and societal advantage.
You’ll also play a central role in ensuring Young Scot continues to deliver high-quality
commissioned campaigns, trusted information services and impactful engagement activity in
partnership with the Scottish Government, public sector partners, commercial organisations
and the wider youth sector.
If you’re a confident strategic leader, an innovative thinker, and someone excited by the
opportunity to shape the future of youth information and engagement in Scotland, we’d love to
hear from you!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Dog Aid Scotland
Dog Aid Scotland is celebrating its 70th anniversary of creating and protecting loving homes across Scotland. The charity helps keep dogs with their owners whenever possible and when that’s not possible, we find dogs new homes, giving them hope for a future.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a long-standing charity entering a period of growth and investment with a focus on helping many more dogs and their owners. The charity will look to increasing the scale of its work, significantly increasing awareness of the importance and impact of Dog Aid Scotland while ensuring financial sustainability through fundraising and income diversification.
Role Description
The Head of Income and Engagement is responsible for diversifying and growing Dog Aid Scotland’s fundraising income streams as well as overseeing the charities strategic communications and marketing activity. Reporting directly to the CEO, the postholder will develop and deliver a comprehensive Income and Engagement Strategy that ensures sustainable income growth, deepens supporter engagement and increases awareness of this long-standing charity. As well as working at a high level, this will be a hands on, operational role which is expected to work directly with donors and lead on fundraising activity.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of Income and Engagement Strategies aimed to grow income sustainably and significantly increase awareness of the charity
- Grow income from individual giving, regular giving, fundraising events and legacy giving, whilst looking to develop further income streams such as major donors, trusts and foundations in future.
- Develop strong donor journey that's engaging, from recruitment and stewardship to longer term donor retention.
- Create and deliver engagement strategy focused on growing brand awareness, deepening engagement and understanding of the charity, its impact and services.
For more information on the role and how to apply please see the Job Pack below.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Communications & Engagement Officer
Reports to: Senior Communications Manager
Location:Contracted to Breaking Barriers’ office in London, with some expectation of travel
Terms:22.5 hours per week over 3 or 4 days – open to flexible working arrangements
Contract:Permanent
Salary:£30,500 - £33,500 (inclusive of London weighting), pro-rata
Purpose of the Role
The Communications & Engagement Officer is a key role within Breaking Barriers’ Income and Engagement Directorate. It helps refugees find meaningful employment through communications and fundraising activities that maintain and grow relationships with partners, funders, supporters and relevant influential organisations and individuals.
The post holder reports to the Senior Communications Manager, and works closely with the Head of Public Engagement, Senior Digital Marketing Manager and Fundraising & Partnerships Officer. They also lead or participate in activities involving colleagues across Breaking Barriers’ teams and our refugee clients.
This role contributes to the implementation of our communications, engagement and fundraising strategies, and is closely involved in team planning – including input into operational plans and communications campaigns to steward and inspire key audiences.
The Communications & Engagement Officer is responsible for the planning and creation of day-to-day communications across our owned channels, with a particular focus on social media. They are also responsible for managing social media interactions and outreach, and for creating selected content for Breaking Barriers’ website.
The post holder helps the Senior Communications Manager to ensure that organisational content complies with brand guidelines. And they play a key role in data management – maintaining our multi-media asset bank and the storytelling data within our Salesforce CRM.
This role will suit a team player who is able to build strong relationships across Breaking Barriers to support content creation, ethical storytelling and impact. The post-holder should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment, solution-focused and creative, whilst having a good eye for detail. And, of course, they should have a passion for stewarding, inspiring and mobilising audiences through high-quality, engaging communications.
Key Responsibilities
1. Communications planning and delivery (60%)
· Work with the Senior Communications Manager to manage the communications calendar.
· Collaborate with colleagues across Breaking Barriers, especially the Income & Engagement and Services teams, to source content that reaches, engages, stewards our key audiences – including partners, funders and individual supporters.
· Plan, create and schedule written and multi-media (graphics, videos, photos) content on social media platforms.
· Plan and create or coordinate longer-form content, including case studies, articles and blogs.
· Contribute to the delivery of integrated communications campaigns that support income generation, brand awareness and positioning amongst key audiences.
· Support the continual improvement of our communications by monitoring and evaluating their own work and implementing recommendations.
· Support the development of communications, engagement and fundraising strategies and input into team planning.
2. Community and supporter engagement (30%)
· Manage and engage with our organic social media communities.
· Pro-actively engage with relevant organisations and individuals via social media, in line with agreed strategies.
· Help develop and manage our growing community of storytellers with lived experience of life as a refugee.
3. Other responsibilities (10%)
· Update storytelling data in the Salesforce CRM, and undertake other administrative tasks.
· Take responsibility for maintaining Breaking Barriers’ asset bank of photographs, videos and graphics.
· Advise and support colleagues on compliance with brand guidelines, and create brand resources.
· Represent the Public Engagement team at selected events, including photographing or filming key moments and activities.
· Support other teams with ad-hoc requests for communications support.
· Take a proactive approach to professional development.
· Take on other marketing and communications tasks as required.
Person Specification
Essential
· Demonstrable knowledge of and/or interest in refugee, employment or migration sectors
· Experience in a communications or fundraising role (this doesn't have to be in the UK)
· A demonstrable understanding of key communications and fundraising principles, whether through direct experience or study, and including:
o Understanding audiences
o User journeys
o Developing key messaging
o Audience stewardship
o Working with brand guidelines
· Experience of creating high quality campaigns or content to inspire or drive action
· Experience creating written and multi-media (photography/graphics/video) content for social media, websites and/or emails
· Strong copywriting, editing and proofing skills, and the ability to tailor content for different audiences and channels
· Excellent relationship-building skills, and confidence working with colleagues at all levels of seniority
· Ability to work on own initiative, take responsibility for work, and learn from challenges and successes
· A proactive and creative approach to problem solving and idea generation
· Comfortable within a fast-paced team and able to prioritise multiple projects
· Ability to pay close attention to detail, to maintain communications quality and accuracy
· Experience with administrative, team communication and workload management applications, preferably including the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
· Experience with one or more of the following:
o Design tools such as Canva
o Photography and film editing
o Website CMS software
o Email broadcast platforms
o Social media scheduling platforms
Desirable
· Lived Experience of Breaking Barriers’ cause
· Experience using Salesforce, or another CRM system
· Knowledge of GDPR and data protection principles as they apply to communications and fundraising
· Experience of monitoring and evaluating communications or fundraising activities
Other considerations:
· Breaking Barriers is committed to protecting an adult’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect and for their views, wishes and beliefs to be fully taken into account when deciding action.
· We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
· Breaking Barriers particularly welcomes applicants with experience of seeking asylum and/or a refugee background.
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we are committed to offering an accessible recruitment process and guarantee an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
Breaking Barriers exists so that every refugee can access meaningful employment and build a new life.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Senior Individual Giving Acquisitions Officer (Maternity Cover)
Up to 12-month Fixed Term Contract. Full Time.
Hybrid working (Minimum of 2 days per week in the office)
Location: This role can be based at any of our UK offices - Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Warrington
Salary: £41,783 per year for Cardiff, Edinburgh, Warrington. £46,666 per year for London (including London allowance)
About us
Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love. We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues.
About the role
Reporting in to the Individual Giving Lead, the Senior Individual Giving Acquisition Officer will drive the strategy and execution of Christian Aid’s individual giving acquisition efforts, ensuring high impact campaigns like Christian Aid Week, Christmas and Emergency Appeals effectively attract new supporters. Through compelling messaging and innovative approaches, foster long-term, sustainable relationships,
optimising channels, products, and engagement strategies to maximise supporter growth.
The post-holder will lead on Regular Giving acquisition recruitment across multiple channels to grow lifetime giving and increasing the Christian Aid supporter base. They will be leading a team of two Individual Giving Acquisition Officers and collaborating with senior leadership, manage budgets, forecast the performance of campaigns and ensure cost-effective delivery, all while championing the ‘Believe in the Possible’ proposition to inspire and engage the next generation of supporters.
Some of the main responsibilities of the Senior Individual Giving Acquisition Officer includes:
- Lead the development and execution of the Individual Giving acquisition strategy, leveraging on key appeals like Christian Aid Week and Christmas to recruit and engage new supporters.
- Empower people and amplify change, optimise acquisition channels, refine messaging, and test new products to attract and retain both one-off and regular givers, ensuring long-term growth and engagement.
- Prioritise and lead the Regular giving recruitment strategy across multiple channels, supporting our ambition to build back and grow recruitment and supporters lifetime value.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders, ensuring seamless and effective campaign delivery, maximising impact across multiple platforms.
- Analyse supporter data, providing actionable insights that enhance campaign effectiveness and engagement, continually refining approaches for greater success.
- Manage and mentor Individual Giving Acquisition Officers, fostering professional growth and driving performance within the team.
- Contribute to the broader Individual Giving strategy, cultivating an ambitious team culture that embraces innovation and excellence.
- Oversee reporting, budgeting, and forecasting to maintain financial sustainability and ensure the efficient allocation of resources.
About you
Who we are looking for
Essential:
- Significant experience in leading supporter acquisition programmes and activities across a range of channels.
- Significant experience in digital fundraising techniques for acquisition.
- Significant experience managing external suppliers and multiple stakeholders.
- Highly developed skills in budgeting, forecasting, and data-driven decision-making.
- Developed knowledge of legal requirements for fundraising, direct marketing, and data protection.
- Highly developed analytical, strategic, and communication skills for optimising acquisition.
- Demonstrable experience in managing and mentoring a team.
Desirable
- Marketing qualification (e.g. IDM, CIOF).
- Experience in DRTV and face-to-face fundraising.
- Experience in writing fundraising copy and digital marketing.
- Experience in emergency appeals or international development.
Further information
At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.
We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams. ian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and sympathy with Christian Aid’s faith identity.
All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
This role requires applicants to have the right to live and work in the country where this position is based and undertake the role that you have been offered. If you are successful and we make you an offer for the role, we will be required to conduct a right to work check on your immigration status in the UK. We will contact you regarding the documentation you will need to provide to evidence this.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.



