We are looking for someone who can help us develop and deliver our vision for the charity in the next decade.  Do you fit the bill?

This is a business development role which forms part of our management team (SMT).  As we are a small, member-led organisation, every role also involves working directly with our members.  Our work is holistic, person-centred and constantly strengthened by the voice of our members.

Based: from Mencap Cottage House, Crosby and Mencap Liverpool office, City Centre

Hours: 30-37.5 hours week Monday-Friday, (flexible & term-time working available)

Salary: £25,000- £28,500 for 37.5hrs

Responsible to: the Chief Executive

Mencap Liverpool & Sefton is a local charity based in the centre of Liverpool and the middle of Sefton.  We work with individuals who have a learning disability to ensure that they are valued equally, listened to and included.  Most of the people we work with have mild to moderate learning disability and often get no other form of support.  

In December 2018, Mencap Liverpool merged with South Sefton Mencap to form Mencap Liverpool & Sefton.  This has increased our area of operations and given us many new relationships and opportunities to develop.  We have a compelling vision to restore the building in Crosby, to create an inclusive place which enhances the mental wellbeing of our members (beneficiaries) and the local community.

And in December 2020, we will be celebrating the 70th Birthday of Mencap Liverpool!

Key Responsibilities:

• Partnership Working
• Project Management
• Income Generation
• Marketing & Communications
• Management, Influence & Leadership
• Strategy & Impact

About you:

Our ideal candidate will have an/or be able to demonstrate:

• At least two years in successful business development/income generation
• Strong understanding and alignment to our vision and mission
• Experience of working within the Third Sector
• Business Planning
• A flair for developing positive relationships
• Excellent time and workload management skills
• Demonstrable understanding of the charity funding environment
• A great team working ethic
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills 
• A natural communication and presentation style for a range of audiences
• Great attention to detail
• A high level of IT literacy
• Persuasive writing skills
• A problem solving approach and great initiative

For a detailed description of the role and person specification, please see the attached job details.

We will be holding informal interviews as applications come in, so don't wait until the closing date.  Send us your CV and a covering letter explaining how you meet the person spec.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice is an inspiring charity that provides palliative, respite and end of life care to babies and infants aged from birth to five years suffering from life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Compassionate care is at the heart of its philosophy, and there is no cost to the families.

This unique non-profit operates three hospices across England. A team of specialist nurses offers 24/7 care and support in a safe, caring and fun environment, where parents know that their child will receive the best possible care. A home away from home.

About the role of Corporate Fundraising Manager

Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice in Liverpool has a great relationship with its corporate partners. Since the hospice opened its doors in 1995, Zoe’s Place has strived to deliver high-quality supporter journeys to corporates who in turn have been so valuable to the unique services offered to the families that rely on the Hospice.

To continue this fantastic work, the charity is recruiting a creative and confident individual to lead on income generation from corporate partners on a 12-month fixed term contract.

You will maximise existing relationships, whilst actively identifying and securing new partners. A confident networker, you will understand the need for a bespoke approach to each corporate, understanding their requirements and how best to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship.

This exciting opportunity would suit either an experienced corporate fundraiser, or someone with private sector marketing and communications, B2B sales or account management experience seeking an opportunity to kick start their career in the third sector.

Salary: £31,114 per annum

Hours: 37 per week

Based: Flexible with travel across UK including the Liverpool Head Office

Duration: 12 months with possible extension

This is an exciting new role, created as part of our investment in income generation for our five year transformational strategic plan. As our fundraising lead you will work as part of the communications team to create and deliver an income generation strategy to develop our work promoting and celebrating the contribution of people with personal experience of supportive shared living.

You will be responsible for leading the organisation in generating new income (with support from colleagues) from a variety of sources including individual donors, events, corporate sponsorship, lottery and assisting with project grants.

You will need to have the ability to be a strategic thinker and have the energy to kickstart our fundraising plan and help lead the organisation in unrestricted income generation. The role has the potential to grow depending on the success of the organisation.

We are looking for an individual who understands and believes in our ethos and is ready to join us on our journey.

Job objectives

1. Corporate: raise money from local, national and international businesses, working in association with our corporate fundraising agency.

2. Individual giving: maintain, promote and manage our existing outsourced weekly lottery offer. Build, promote and support a series of fundraising events (using existing organised events) to raise our profile and donations.

3. Community: recruit, motivate, organise and facilitate supporters to raise money for our work – building a community that will help sustain our work. Work with targeted small/local businesses to facilitate community fundraising and awareness raising.

4. Trusts and foundations: Helping to apply for grant proposals for grants from funders whose values are aligned to our own.

5. General: to contribute to the health, sustainability and ethical development of Shared Lives Plus

Shared Lives Plus is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff.  We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.

For more information contact Phoebe Rowell, Communications Manager or visit the Shared Lives Plus website

How to apply  

Apply by sending an up to date CV and a supporting statement, which should be kept to a maximum of two pages. Please start your supporting statement by saying why you want to work for us and work in the Shared Lives sector. Your supporting statement will also need to demonstrates how you meet the requirements of each area of the person specification below:

• Relevant skills and experience
• How your knowledge, values and attitude make you a suitable candidate
• How you would meet the practical requirements of the job.

To get a better sense of what we are looking for in each of these areas please read through the main duties and responsibilities and the detailed personal specification below.

Shared Lives Plus is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff.  We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.

Salary: £24,748

Hours: 37 per week

Based: Liverpool

Duration: Permanent

Shared Lives Plus is the UK network for family-based and small-scale ways of supporting adults. Our members are Shared Lives carers and workers, and Homeshare programmes.

This is a new and exciting role created to support the pivotal role that our income generation, external communications and back-office functions will play in our 5-year transformational strategic plan. As part of the wider ‘back office’ team you will have specific responsibility for supporting SMT, HR and our externally-facing strategic support and communications work. You will need to be dynamic and able to manage a wide and varied workload. You will be particularly skilled at supporting great internal communications between our busy teams. You will support our Strategic advice and support manager to keep track of progress against project timelines and to keep our external partners up to date.

This role will:

1. Assist and Support the Senior Management Team in all their administrative needs.
2. Maintain and update all of the HR records and support the HR manager in recruitment and staffing changes.
3. Support the Strategic advice lead with project co-ordination, helping the team to keep track of progress against their project plans.
4. Support the Communications and fundraising team with any administration needs.  
5. Support the administration team with phone queries and ad hoc work load peaks.

How to apply  

Apply by sending an up to date CV and a supporting statement, which should be kept to a maximum of two pages. Please start your supporting statement by saying why you want to work for us and work in the Shared Lives sector. Your supporting statement will also need to demonstrates how you meet the requirements of each area of the person specification below:

• Relevant skills and experience
• How your knowledge, values and attitude make you a suitable candidate
• How you would meet the practical requirements of the job.

To get a better sense of what we are looking for in each of these areas please read through the main duties and responsibilities and the detailed personal specification below.

If you have any questions about the role please contact Lynne Harrison, Operations Manager or visit the Shared LIves Plus website

Shared Lives Plus is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff.  We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.

Deadline for completed applications 9.30 am on Monday 27th January 2020

Pre-interviews via skype pm Thursday 30th January 2020  and interviews in Liverpool on Thursday 6th February 2020

Are you a motivated and inspirational leader ready to take on a unique challenge in 2020? 

About the charity:

Barnstondale Centre is a charitable organisation based in Wirral and situated in a semi-rural location covering 15 acres.  The Centre provides accommodation in purpose-built log cabins.  It has a strong reputation for providing a range of outdoor activities including abseiling, archery and forest skills for schools and youth groups of all abilities.  Barnstondale is passionate about encouraging young people to have fun and adventures in the outdoors, teaching them life skills and enhancing their self-esteem. 

About the role of Centre Director

Barnstondale is entering a phase of new development and is looking to recruit an outstanding leader who will be tasked with operational management, strategy and business development. The post holder will be responsible for the development of Barnstondale’s strategy and external relationships to drive the charity’s mission.

With a strong commitment to working co-productively with existing staff, Trustees and current supporters, the post holder will identify what is already working well, what could be improved and how to implement and evaluate these improvements. This role will be key in developing a strategy for the training and development of Centre staff so as to best meet the needs of clients.

This is a unique opportunity, and one that brings unrivalled job satisfaction.

Who are we looking for?

Due to the multi-faceted nature of this post, you may bring experience from a comparable role, or you could be a specialist in business development or operational management, seeking an opportunity to further develop your career in a senior management post within the hugely rewarding charitable sector.

It is essential that you are an experienced people manager with exceptional communication, networking and problem-solving skills.

Barnstondale’s core services and environment mean that this post would best suit a candidate with an interest in outdoor activities and working with young people from a range of backgrounds. It is also a fantastic opportunity for candidates already working in the third sector, and for candidates in the public or private sector ready to grasp an amazing and fulfilling opportunity like this.  

How to Apply

If you’d like to work for this much-loved charity, get in touch with the BTA Recruitment team today.

Please get in touch with James for more information. 

You are advised to get in touch in advance of the closing date to give us time to consider your application and pre-interview the strongest applicants.

Closing date: 29th January 2020.

Interview date: 6th February 2020.

The Communications Officer will ensure that Wirral Ark has high quality communications and marketing in place to support its activities. Through high quality marketing materials, social media campaigns and consistent branding, will support our fundraising, policy and raise local awareness.

Key duties and responsibilities are as follows:

To support the fundraising function of the charity

• To work with fundraisers and management to make an appropriate comms plan for each fundraising event
• To support the success of fundraising events by reaching as many potential participants or donors as possible through appropriate channels
• To work with the fundraiser to respond to information requests from potential participants or donors
• To help produce and distribute fundraising packs in connection with ongoing events
• To create social media campaigns leading up to and through fundraising events
• To help design and produce printed materials relating to upcoming events
• To help organise our Christmas Card sales

Building awareness in the local community

• Publishing materials on different online channels that shares and champions the work of Wirral Ark
• Taking a lead on social media activity, ensuring we have a continual presence and engage with our local stakeholders
• Attending local events and helping raise awareness of the charity and its work
• Occasionally doing presentations to local community groups about Wirral Ark
• Helping design thank you and similar public stakeholder events each year
• Helping process volunteering queries coming in to the charity
• Creating and distributing press releases to appropriate places
• Manage and curate mailing lists of supporters
• Producing regular newsletters about Wirral Ark’s work
• Oversee the design and publishing of the charity’s website

Internal comms

• Helping design and refresh the Wirral Ark brand
• Producing brand guidelines and helping staff work inside them
• Support staff in producing their own printed materials for project and other internal purposes
• Inputting to the work of other staff where it relates to comms

General duties

• To attend all mandatory training courses
• To attend all staff meetings
• Other duties as required by the role.

A full job description is available to download.