Blind Veterans UK is the national charity helping vision impaired ex-Service men and women lead independent and fulfilling lives.  We offer blind veterans access to the highest quality of services to help them discover life beyond sight loss.

The number of veterans we help is increasing rapidly as we implement our overall strategy to embed a national footprint and take our exceptional services to the beneficiary.

The role of the Senior Manager - Direct Marketing is to develop, grow and manage Blind Veterans UK supporter retention and development programme, by retaining and growing our supporters who yield the best lifetime value.  This includes lifetime and legacy gifts whilst developing and implementing effective retention strategies and supporter contact activities across cash giving, in-memoriam, committed regular giving, weekly lottery and raffle.

We are looking for an experienced professional to direct and deliver our supporter retention and development programme nationally and regionally.  You will have good strategic understanding, be financially astute, innovative and resourceful and will have management experience.

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits and career development opportunities for the right candidates.

Closing date: Friday 31 January 2020 at 23.00pm

Interview date: to be conducted on an ongoing basis

To apply, please send your up to date CV and Supporting Statement of not more than 750 words outlining how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the person specification.

Please note only applicants who submit a CV with a Supporting Statement will be considered.

Due to the high number of enquiries and applications we receive for our vacancies we don't acknowledge each one - if you haven't heard from us within a week of the closing date, please assume that we won't be inviting you for an interview. You are, of course, welcome to try again if a suitable post comes up. We are unable to provide feedback to candidates not shortlisted for interview.

FILE is a new grant-making Foundation, headquartered in Amsterdam with staff based in the Netherlands and the UK, whose charitable object is to promote the protection of the environment through law and related advocacy.  FILE has two sets of objectives: the first to encourage philanthropies to join strategies and co-manage funds for climate and biodiversity activities, and the second is to apply these funds to support legal reform and cases, campaigns and advocacy around legal interventions, the research and evidentiary support of law cases, and learning within the community.  Whilst FILE is a grant-making institution, it also aims to help build the NGO ecosystem, shape the strategy, and make an impact on climate change and the protection of biodiversity. 
 

The Mission.

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented individual who will play a critical role in FILE’s strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation processes, leading the design of the theories of change that will underpin FILE’s strategy development.

An experienced individual with a depth of understanding and practical experience in MEL in a similar international organisation. S/he will develop FILE’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) frameworks to identify the greatest impact opportunities and priorities for FILE’s grant-making, working closely with the team, and partner stakeholders.

We are at a critical stage of our business development and are seeking a talented senior manager to make a significant impact from the outset. S/he will take responsibility for managing reporting frameworks that enable effective communication through FILE grantees to FILE’s donors.

The successful candidate will play a formative role in shaping FILE’s grant-making, evidence base and impact assessment processes, they will need to be hand’s on and drive this part of our business forward. S/he will be able to demonstrate their expertise in interpreting, communicating and leveraging evidence findings in order to inform strategic and real-time operational decision making. They must be passionate about climate change and biodiversity, understand the impact of our work and be aligned to our mission and values as an organisation. They must be interested in playing a role in developing the culture of our business as we grow.

The Exciting Opportunity

Responsibilities:

• Strategy development: Working in partnership with FILE’s Executive team and FILE’s grantee partners, build and manage the theories of change that will underpin FILE’s climate change and biodiversity strategies. Manage the design of FILE’s monitoring and evaluation systems, disseminating findings clearly and effectively to enable informed decision-making.  As appropriate, progressively refine and update MEL strategy and frameworks to ensure that they track with organisational and programmatic evolutions

• Frameworks: lead on the development and updating of FILE’s multi-year organizational results frameworks, with support and inputs from FILE’s leadership team and staff.  Coordinate the development of FILE’s annual organisational objectives, and support staff in developing results frameworks to measure progress against programme and country strategies, as appropriate.  Systematise FILE indicators with a view to developing consistent measurement approaches to our work and impact across programmes and donors.

• Grant Proposal Development: Enure that FILE conducts robust and appropriate appraisals of the evidence base, cost-effectiveness and impact potential of strategies and/or grants under consideration, and sets up rigorous MEL frameworks accordingly.

• Grants Management: Working in partnership with the Programme team, to lead on the smart integration of monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks into partnership agreements with a view to ensuring alignment with FILE’s core frameworks.  Throughout the lifecycle of the grants, ensure that timely and relevant monitoring and evaluation data is available and proactively used by partners and FILE to learn lessons and drive programmatic decision-making.  This will include working directly with FILE’s grantees and donors to ensure the development of rigorous and fit-for-purpose monitoring frameworks.

• Partnership management: Lead on the sourcing, hiring and management of external evaluation organisations to effectively monitor and evaluate FILE’s grants and strategies, as appropriate.  Act as expert support to FILE’s grantee partners as they seek to monitor and evaluate their impact.

• Reporting and stakeholder management: Working in conjunction with the Programme Director, to develop and manage robust impact reporting structures from grantees to FILE, including monitoring progress against deliverables and impact indicators, enabling lessons to be learned.  Lead on the preparation and dissemination of reporting on performance across portfolios against FILE’s results framework through board reports and other management information to FILE’s board and donors, ensuring that these are produced to a high standard and in a timely fashion.

The Talented Individual

Qualifications & Experience

• A university degree in a related field including law, political science or environmental science. A postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline is desirable.
• Understanding of the climate and/or biodiversity landscape required, with an understanding of legal strategies or advocacy desirable.
• Professional experience in a related field.
• Experience in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation frameworks required, including robust knowledge of monitoring and evaluation tools.
• Experience of grant-making, budget management and donor reporting highly desirable.
• Outstanding partnership management skills, with the ability to establish and manage collaborative internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to assimilate and digest large volumes of information.
• Outstanding and demonstrable English written and communication skills.  You will be able to present information in a compelling way through proposals, memos and PowerPoint presentations.  Knowledge of other languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin advantageous.
• Ability to work unsupervised, a motivated self-starter, with strong problem solving and multi-tasking skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, strong organisational and project management skills and the ability to be flexible as priorities and needs change.

Want to use your skills in New Business Development to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

Join WaterAid as Senior Bid Manager to change normal for millions of people 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 2018 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

The WaterAid Institutional Funding and Partnerships Team has been tasked with leading WaterAid UK's (WAUK) ambitious new strategy to grow the size of it programmes through restricted income. It is expected that this growth will primarily come from institutional partnerships with some of the world's leading bilateral and multilateral development agencies, including DFID, USAID and SIDA.

This is a full-time permanent position, with an estimated 8-12 weeks travel including some varied and unsocial hours.

As our Senior Bid Manager in the Bid Management Team, you will lead the bid development process for large complex institutional grants or commercial tenders working closely with key stakeholders including internal Water Aid colleagues in London and in-country as well as other key suppliers and/or partners towards achievement of Water Aid's strategic programme objectives in priority countries.

Your duties will include:
* Lead the overall bid management process including project conceptualisation and design process, working in-country or remotely, with Water Aid member/country office colleagues and external partners resourcing technical input consistent Water Aid's global and country programme strategies e.g. via in-country design workshops;

* Lead and/or coordinate proposal writing and/or editing e.g. past experience and organisational capacity, technical approach, logical framework, theory of change and project management.

* Lead on the management of all stakeholder relationships especially consortium partners in the case of commercial contracts, negotiating business/scope of work and management arrangements, prepare teaming/consortium agreements; coordinate activities related to key personnel e.g. drafting job descriptions and lead/support recruitment processes, participate in interview panels.

* Work with finance colleagues and teams to ensure project budgets achieve optimal organisational cost recovery while demonstrating Value for Money principles.

Person Specification
The ideal candidate will have a relevant degree level or equivalent Social Sciences qualification, or equivalent relevant work experience. S/he will have demonstrative significant experience of leading the bid management process including writing and securing large and/or complex tenders or grants, preferably for DFID, USAID, Global Affairs Canada, SIDA or other major bilateral or multi-lateral donors.

Knowledge of key technical areas, relevant to WA UK's work such as WASH, health, education, child protection, gender, livelihoods or resilience is desirable. French language skills would also be an advantage and evidence of behaviours and/or a working style that reflects WaterAid's values

Visit the WaterAid careers page for a full job pack.

Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format. Applications will close one minute before midnight on Sunday 9th February 2020. Interviews will be held on w/c 17th February 2020.

Salary: £38,000 - £43,790 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
• Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave.
• Sabbaticals
• Volunteer Day

WaterAid is currently located at Durham Street, Vauxhall. However, we will be leaving our current location in the summer of 2020 (likely to be June/July 2020) and moving to 20 Canada Square, Canary Wharf. Therefore, the London Office location and contract base, if you are successfully offered the role, will change. This 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 serious. 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.

Position:  12 month maternity cover contract

Deadline for applications: Thursday 13th February                                                                                                                                       

The position:

We are delighted to be partnering with a leading health charity to recruit a Senior Policy and Research Manager. In this vital role, you will represent the organisation, developing relationships with key government and policy stakeholders. You will analyse statistical information and identify trends in data to inform policy and campaign plans, as well as managing and building on existing research. You will be a primary custodian of the charity’s knowledge base and you will work across its senior leadership team.

Requirements:

• You will have a good understanding of the UK’s health data information systems and health policy-making process.
• You will have strong research skills with knowledge of quantitative research methods.
• You will have excellent project management skills.
• You will have the ability to develop policy solutions.
• Line management experience is desirable

This is an exciting time to join Age UK, the leading charity helping older people who need us the most.

With the launch of our new charity strategy, and significant investment in Fundraising, we're ambitious to grow income from high value funders including charitable trusts, corporate partners, and national government bodies.

Now we're seeking a Senior Trusts Manager to lead the Trusts team in securing high-value, multi-year funding

Your job will be to lead and motivate the team, maximise income from existing funding partnerships and secure new, multi-year funding opportunities.

In addition you will produce well-written, high quality funding propositions, lead on meetings with high value prospects and stakeholders, and produce regular financial and programme reports for funders.

About you

* You will have proven experience in a high-value trust funding role.
* Your grasp of the Trust fundraising landscape will be second to none, you'll have a deep understanding of what Trust funders are seeking from charitable programmes.
* You will have excellent relationship management, donor stewardship and cultivation skills and the gravitas to manage senior donor relationships.
* Great communication and influencing skills will be essential to your success, ensuring you gain buy-in from senior colleagues.
* You will need excellent verbal and written skills to convert internal information into compelling, fundraising-friendly content for trust audiences.
* You will be experienced in managing a team to achieve income targets.

What we offer in return

We welcome applications from candidates seeking to make a difference in a dynamic team. In return we can offer an excellent salary of up to £48,000 and great benefits including 26 days annual leave + bank holidays, excellent pension (we contribute up to 9%), Life Assurance, Healthcare Cashback Plan, Season Ticket Loan, Cycle to work scheme, flexible working and much more.

Please note: The closing date for this role is 29th January, and interviews will take place on week beginning 3rd February 2020.

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here https://www.ageuk.org.uk/about-us/jobs/employee-benefits/

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Do you have extensive data insight and analysis experience?

Our client helps fund medical research, advocates for the rights of people to access the standard of health care appropriate to their condition and provides information and support.

The role holder will need to be passionate about data and insight to drive improvement, embrace and champion change, and balance reactive demands whilst working towards a long term vision.

The successful candidate will have strong experience of managing and supporting a multi-purpose team on how they use insight and analysis from feedback and knowledge of their customers, to evaluation of their engagement activities.
The ideal candidate will have strong understanding of data and delivering impactful insight through a range of quantitative and qualitative analysis.

You must have demonstrable experience of embedding an insight led approach to marketing activities.

This is a temp role with the option of applying for the role on a permanent basis.

To apply, please submit a Word Document version of your CV; cover letters are not required at this stage.

The Cabinet Office has a vital role to play at the centre of government. Its purpose is to maintain the integrity of the union, the security of the country and a flourishing democracy, to ensure delivery of the government's programme and the Prime Minister's priorities, and to ensure the delivery of the finest public services by attracting and developing the best public servants and improving the efficiency of government.

This is a key post within the Cabinet Office's Finance department. The successful applicant will work with a range of stakeholders to provide robust financial information, enabling the department to manage its financial position throughout the year.

The Senior Financial Reporting Manager will be involved in the management and control of the overall Cabinet Office financial position. The Senior Financial Reporting Manager will be responsible for providing strategic financial advice and support to Directors, the Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office Audit and Risk Committee and the Minister.

Notably, the role involves working with Finance Business Partners to provide challenge to forecasts and influence the strategic direction of the business units, by providing an independent view of what is happening to the Department as a whole. The role also requires a good understanding of the Estimates and Government Accounts, to ensure robust forecasting in OSCAR and to be able to advise on budgetary changes for the Department and their impact on the Department's Estimates.

The responsibilities of the Senior Financial Reporting Manager will include

• Leading on the Cabinet Office financial position including in year spend and forecasts as well as financial risks to the Department.
• Advising the Finance Director (FD), and Deputy Directors (DFDs) on the Department's financial forecasts and ensuring the information is accurately reported against the departments control totals to support the Supplementary Estimate. This also involves agreeing changes between operating segments and control totals.
• Manage the delivery of prompt, accurate management accounts based on standardised systems and processes to an agreed timetable. Take a proportionate approach based on materiality, with emphasis on providing insight.

Maintain a strong understanding of the overall financial position of assigned business areas. Provide incisive variance explanations of material /sensitive /volatile areas, with clear summaries and interpretation for senior management.

• Management of the forecasting process, providing trend data to FBPs to inform the annual budget and workforce plans.
• Ensure that detailed budgets are accurately profiled, documented and uploaded to agreed timetables.
• Develop strong, collaborative relationships with finance colleagues and business areas; develop consistent and efficient financial processes, implementing continuous improvement.
• Developing and using reporting tools for maximum impact and efficient delivery through collaboration with IT, shared service provider and harnessing relationships across government.
• Oversight of performance, including identifying areas for improvement by using recognised continuous improvement principles
• Manage the delivery of commercial savings calculations where facility is not supported by embedded resource.

Key Skills & Experience

• CCAB, or equivalent, qualified
• A minimum of two years' post qualification experience or equivalent.
• A strong track record in team leadership.
• Excellent technical skills across a wide range of financial disciplines and a proven ability to apply them effectively.
• High credibility with senior colleagues and stakeholders and the ability to influence decision-making.
• The ability to analyse and communicate complex financial information in a clear and understandable way.
• Well-developed networks that enable you to gain a better insight into complex cross-government issues.
• Strategic and commercial skills gained from working in other specialist areas such as commercial, policy, IT, HR or delivery.

Salary - £52,500 - £60,635 + £5,000 accountancy allowance (Dependant on qualification status)

Are you a solid campaigns professional with an awareness of environmental issues?

Prospectus is proud to being partnering with an outstanding environmental organisation that has monumental impact on a global scale. We are leading the search for a Senior Campaign Manager to join a prize-winning initiative on a permanent basis. This position has arisen in response to the exponential growth of our client's campaign and the proven success of its impact on the transition of businesses adopting renewable electricity over traditional methods.

Reporting to the Head of Campaigns, you will actively lead on the overall operational delivery of campaigns. This will include the design and implementation of effective delivery processes, the coordination of the delivery of the campaign's core activities, as well as providing oversight and strategic insight through analysis and reporting. You will also manage the policy engagement process working both with the Advisory Committee and the project board to formulate the campaign's approach. A notable part of this role will involve engaging with multiple senior stakeholders internally, as well as with key external partners, leveraging these collaborations to the campaign's advantage. You will also have the opportunity to line manage supporting staff.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience with proven success leading on the operational delivery of an impactful campaign. A practical knowledge and passion for the environmental space is strongly desired and would be beneficial for success, as would experience of working within sustainability, environmental, climate change or renewable frameworks. Along with an excellent proven track record of project delivery, you will have some exposure to working in a global environment. Outstanding people skills and a highly organised mind are also fundamental for this position.

This is an incredible opportunity for an ambitious professional to join a progressive charity that is continuing to strive on fulfilling their mission of creating a more sustainable future. Within this position you will directly influence significant change on an international level!

Full job descriptions will be provided to candidates shortlisted by Prospectus. Please apply by providing a Word Document copy of your CV. Cover letters are not required for this post.

Senior Manager (Social Impact)

Circa £50,000 + benefits

12 months Fixed Term Contact (Maternity cover)

21 hours / 3 days per week (happy to talk flexible working)

Wimbledon

We’re the CIPD — the professional body for HR and people development.  We are the voice of a worldwide community of more than 150,000 members committed to championing better work and working lives.  We’ve been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years, helping members build their professional expertise and organisations build their HR and leadership capability.

There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us. We offer a friendly and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday, free two-course lunch and flexible working hours.

The Role

You will act as a senior manager in the Social Impact and Innovation team, delivering on the CIPD’s social impact strategy of equipping our members to drive positive change in the world of work through practical action.  Specifically, you will lead on the team’s communications strategy and execution as well as overseeing our partnerships strategy and activity. 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Driving the strategy and delivery of an integrated events and communications plan around our social impact, maximising all CIPD channels to drive the CIPD’s impact against its mission of ‘championing better work and working lives’
• Ensuring the department’s work directly contributes to enhancing the CIPD’s brand and profile, as well as the role of the people profession, amongst key audiences
• Driving the team’s programme of work (including surveys, external research and collaborations, case study collection and output creation) around our social impact programmes and activities
• Providing high quality programme leadership, overseeing the CIPD’s management of key volunteering projects, programmes and partnerships as required, including overall responsibility for ensuring any related external funding targets are met
• Acting as a lead representative for the CIPD to key national stakeholders (including funders and strategic partners), upholding our reputation and brand through excellent leadership and communication at external meetings and presentations
• Line management responsibility for the Partnerships Executive and wider team leadership around our communications and events.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Experience of B2B and B2C communications and campaigning
• Experience of overseeing a marketing or promotional campaign
• Experience of representing an organisation to senior external stakeholders and funders
• Excellent project management skills and the ability to organise and prioritise a varied workload
• The ability to manage a small team
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Experience of writing copy to an excellent standard in a variety of styles (e.g. marketing and campaigns collateral, press releases, feature articles, web, social media)
• A proactive approach to relationship building and a high level of diplomacy, with the ability to manage difficult situations at all levels
• Ability to manage a wide-range of external suppliers and internal colleagues to deliver a range of discrete projects, events and outputs, on time and within budget
• Good presentation skills
• Confidence, resilience and determination
• Working knowledge of the world of business and public policy (desirable)
• Experience of delivering a national volunteering programme (desirable)

Please note, this advert is due to close on Thursday 30 January 2020.

If this role describes you and your career aspirations, then click APPLY.

CIPD: valuing everyone as an individual!

The CIPD define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value all our employees, customers and clients as people. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised and organisational and personal goals are met.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible

We are looking for a Senior Manager – Innovation & Products to ensure that we provide a clear new and existing innovation strategy in which supporter evidenced based decision making and drives fundraising growth alongside growing our fundraising marketing products such as Do Your Own Thing and In Celebration fundraising.

About us

Battersea is here for every dog and cat and has been since 1860. We are a leading animal welfare charity and over the last 150 years we’ve grown from one home in London to three rescuing and rehoming centres across the South East. With c500 staff and 1000 volunteers, we have cared for over three million vulnerable animals We also campaign tirelessly to make things better for dogs and cats; sharing our expertise and educating the public and policymakers about responsible pet ownership. Join us and make a difference for every dog and cat.

Our Fundraising Team

As part of a transformational growth strategy the Battersea has invested heavily in a new fundraising team and activities, increasing income more than tenfold since 2010. 

As part of a new fundraising strategy our aim is to generate £26.8m gross income in 2020 and we have ambitious plans in place to facilitate this growth. A key part of this delivery will be dependent using innovation and fundraising product programme to drive fundraising income. 

The Senior Fundraising Innovation Manager is a critical new role within the Fundraising Team and working across the department. We now have had a dedicated resource to drive the innovation programme forward, embed digital strategies into fundraising team’s plans and encourage the use of smart data analysis & insight to grow both existing and new product development. This role will also support the growth and development of our fundraising product programme. It is a pivotal role which will help guarantee the future success of our fundraising.

This role requires an experienced and inspirational leader to manage and motivate the team which consists of both innovation and fundraising product managers.

Our talented and award-winning fundraising team is vibrant and well respected. Our plans are ambitious. It’s therefore an exciting time to work at one of the country’s most loved and best-known animal charities and be instrumental in the success of our fundraising growth.

What we can offer you

Our dedicated people mean that we can be here for every dog and cat. Whether you are sharing an office with our dogs or directly caring for our cats, our animals show their appreciation every day. There is no better reward than seeing the difference you make to the lives of our dogs and cats first-hand; although we also provide a wide range of employee benefits, including:

• 28 days of annual leave (plus 8 days paid public holidays) per year

• Generous pension contributions – up to 10% employer contribution

• Free healthcare cash plan, where you can claim for a range of treatment including dental (£120), optical (£120), physiotherapy, chiropody and acupuncture (£300) every year

• Annual interest-free season ticket loans

• Discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes

• Life insurance

So, if you are passionate about dogs, cats and about our work, then we’d like to hear from you.

For full details, including our job applicant privacy notice, please download our recruitment pack. You can apply by visiting our website. All applications must be submitted before the closing date advertised.

Would you like to join the dynamic, high-energy team at a national educational charity and help address educational disadvantage across the country? We're looking for a talented major donor fundraiser with excellent relationship building skills and a passion for education to join this super friendly team and maximise opportunities for new major donor engagement.

This role is initially a 10 month FTC, with the potential to become permanent.

About the role

As the Senior Relationship Manager (Philanthropy) you will be responsible for identifying new supporters, working closely with the wider team to steward existing donors contributing to philanthropy income target of £1.4 million for 2019-2020.

The role is a mixture of new business and account management, and you'll have the opportunity to work with the wider team to develop imaginative and memorable cultivation and stewardship activities.

Working towards the team target of £1.4 million for 2019-2020, you'll be building strong relationships with existing supporters to engage new potential donors through peer-to-peer fundraising. You'll also be creating high-quality impact reports, proposals and other inspiring donor comms.

About you

• You'll have significant experience of fundraising relationship management and building relationships with high-level stakeholders such as philanthropists, CEOs and Chairs
• You will have prior prospect research experience, or similar experience conducting research on potential clients to support new business
• You'll be a fantastic communicator, compelling and engaging both in person and in your written work. You'll be able to make complex information persuasive and easy to read
• You will have a proven track record of securing five and six-figure donations from individuals, or transferable examples of meeting and exceeding significant targets in a fundraising or relationship management role

You'll be joining a truly agile organisation. If you need to start late, finish early or fancy a change of scenery, that's fine, the organisation's agile working policy focuses on what you achieve, not desk time. Alongside flexible working, other benefits include 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays.

If you're as excited by this opportunity as we are, please send a copy of your CV (WORD doc.) to our major donor consultant, Philippa Bryant, and she'll be in touch with lots more information. 020 7939 7443/ [email protected]

Deadline for applications is 23 January 2020.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Position: Permanent

Deadline for Applications: 26th January 2020

We are delighted to be partnering with our well-respected international charity client in Bristol in their recruitment for an experienced Senior IT Manager.

In this IT department leadership role, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the executive team and technical group to develop, design and deliver the technology strategy for the organisation. You’ll manage and have oversight of all technical projects and systems, including servers, hardware and software. You’ll also line manage the IT Support Officer.

With your IT management skills earned in either the commercial or the charity sector, you will advise and provide training on new technical platforms. You’ll possess a sound understanding of GDPR legislation and will act as Data Protection Officer for the organisation.

In return for your valued work, expertise and skills, this charity offers an excellent working environment and team culture, and an opportunity to contribute your talents in a meaningful way to our society.

To be considered for this role you must possess strong IT management level skills and have experience in working with senior leadership teams to design and develop IT strategy and projects.  

Requirements:
 

• Experience working as an IT manager in either the commercial, charity or public sectors.  
• Possess good people management and strategic thought leadership skills, and have the gravitas to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Proven strong management of IT infrastructure, with a technical understanding of as many of the following applications as possible: Microsoft Azure, Veeam, Watchguard Firewall & Livesecurity, Slack, Box, CRM systems (Hubspot), Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi, SaaS, Cyber Security, Access Dimensions & Access Group products, Messagelabs, Windows server (2012, 2019)
• Proven experience in managing an IT department’s budget, including quarterly forecasting and delivering reports.
   

Senior IT Manager
Bristol

If you’re an innovative IT professional who is passionate about technology and its potential applications, this is a superb opportunity to shape the IT offering of a ground-breaking organisation.

About Development Initiatives (DI)

Our mission is to ensure that decisions about the allocation of finance and resources result in an end to poverty, increase the resilience of the world’s most vulnerable people, and leave no one behind.

We are an independent international development organisation working on the use of data to drive poverty eradication and sustainable development.

We are now looking for a Senior IT Manager to join us in Bristol and oversee all technical projects within DI.

The Benefits

- Salary of £45,000 - £50,000 per annum
- Pension (5% of salary)
- 25 days’ holiday + option to buy/sell holiday
- Up to five days’ paid leave for charitable work volunteering to address poverty and/or help vulnerable people
- Smart casual dress code policy
- Flexitime and homeworking options
- Cycle to work scheme
- Simply Health Cash scheme with employee assistance programme
- Paid professional fees and study leave
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/sick leave policies

“People are our greatest asset” – it’s a well-used saying, but at Development Initiatives, it really is true.

We are an ambitious organisation that is combatting poverty on a global scale and we need our people to be able to respond swiftly and creatively to new situations and challenges. As such, we work hard to create a nurturing, inspiring work environment that meets everyone’s needs.

Fostering a culture built on honesty and openness, we offer employees the freedom to innovate and use their talents to make an impact on our organisation and help us achieve our vision.

What’s more, we offer a comprehensive package with plenty of value-adding benefits, making your career in the charitable sector even more rewarding.

The Role

As the Senior IT Manager, you will lead our technology strategy and oversee the successful delivery of our technical projects.

In this important role, you will inspire and deliver innovative approaches to ensure that our IT and technology offering continuously evolves, particularly our infrastructure, data use and our use of technology in the external environment.

Specifically, you will:

- Lead and motivate the technical team
- Oversee our IT systems, including servers, hardware and software
- Lead on GDPR and act as the Data Protection Officer
- Review, and negotiate with, technical suppliers to ensure we get the best deal
- Lead efforts to attain new accreditations, such as Cyber Essentials
- Manage the IT Department’s budget
- Represent DI externally in your area of expertise

About You

To join us as the Senior IT Manager, you will need:

- At least five years’ experience in a similar IT role managing the IT provision and services for a business, charity or public sector organisation
- Strong working knowledge of GDPR and Data Protection legislation
- Strong knowledge of ‘best-in-breed’ apps
- To be an innovative thinker with experience of using technology to solve problems
- A technical understanding of as many of the following applications as possible: Microsoft Azure, Veeam, Watchguard Firewall and Livesecurity, Slack, Box, CRM systems (Hubspot), Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi, SaaS, Cyber Security, Access Dimensions and Access Group products, Messagelabs or Windows Server (2012, 2019)
- A professional IT qualification in a subject such as IT infrastructure, networking, database design or website development
- A degree in IT (or equivalent)

Other organisations may call this role IT Manager, IT Strategy Manager, IT Operations Manager, Head of IT, or Senior IT Service Manager.

The closing date for applications is the 30th January 2020.

Development Initiatives is an equal opportunities employer and, in line with our policies, we aim to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origin, age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation or disability.

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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday – Friday

Contract Type: Fixed Term (2 years)

Hours:                          Full time, 35 hours a week

Closing Date: 23:59 on Tuesday 4th February 2020

Are you a technical expert, passionate about helping organisations get the best from their data through the production of transformative business intelligence, growing capabilities for using digital analytics and facilitating great data management practice?

The Prince’s Trust is looking for a data management & insight expert who can transform our relationship with data; optimising the value of management information and making use of analytics to inform business planning, decision making and performance management. You will be an energetic and dynamic individual with strong technical expertise, a relentless focus on delivering results and a great team player with excellent communication skills. You will have a track record of optimising data capabilities and maturity and proven experience enabling the success of organisations through the production of data analytics and business intelligence.

To learn more about the role please visit our website.

The Prince’s Trust is a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome!

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.  Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.  We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.  We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

Indicative salary £26,800 - £32,800 dependent on location and experience

The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to equality and believe in building a diverse organisation that is representative of and responsive to the needs of our young people and stakeholders.

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