Right to Succeed is a fast-growing national charity, working to deliver place-based and educational change in the most disadvantaged communities. Together, alongside their local and national partners, Right to Succeed delivers coordinated, impactful programmes aimed at improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people, their families and wider communities. We are now recruiting an inspiring new Programme Manager to manage day to day implementation of the discovery phase of a whole system improvement programme in two of Liverpool City Region’s most left behind communities.

As a Programme Manager in the Liverpool City Region, you will work with the Programme Director on the initial discovery phase of the programme, working alongside multiple agencies, research professionals and stakeholder groups to create and maintain the conditions required for an effective, collective place-based change approach.

Together with the team, you will support and build the capacity of residents in selected communities, in order to develop a long-term, place-based vision designed to improve children’s capability, wellbeing and access to opportunities.

To apply for this imporant role, you must have significant experience of developing and delivering impactful programmes and interventions, ideally working collectively with colleagues in the community and public sector spaces. You must be an excellent communicator, skilled at building and maintaining relationships with a range of stakeholders, including those at a senior level. With strong facilitation skills and proven effective line management experience, you will support the Programme Director to monitor and evaluate complex programmes and report key outcomes to funders. Overall, you will be passionate about ensuring high quality programmes to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, young people, families and communities.  

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please initially submit a word-formatted version of your CV and a 2-page maximum supporting statement outlining your interest in the role and how your skills and experience meet the requirements on the Person Specification in the Recruitment Pack.

Please note this is initially a 12 month fixed term contract, subject to funding.

Depending on Covid-19 restrictions, this role may initially need to be home-based but will be based with the team in the Merseyside area, location to be confirmed.

The successful applicant will work with a dynamic, passionate Team, within a very well established and needed female only registered Charity, Tomorrow’s Women Wirral. As Business Development Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the efficacy and efficiency of business operations as well as shaping strategic goals for the future. As an ideal candidate you will be well-versed in all business matters.  You will be a competent leader able to provide guidance that enhances performance in a manner which incorporates the Charity’s vision and culture, with the goal to ensure the sustainability of the Charity’s activities and to drive development  and long-term success whilst always keeping the aims and values of the Charity at the forefront.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

(Please note, this job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to reflect a range of duties the post-holder will perform. The job description will be reviewed regularly and may be changed in the light of experience and in consultation with the post-holder.)

• Adhere to direction set by the Board of Directors/Trustees and CEO.
• Work closely with the Board of Directors/Trustees, CEO and Treasurer in the production of business plans, financial forecasts, and policy updates, and provide feedback on strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. 
• Deputise for CEO in her absence.
• Work as part of a Motivational Management Team.
• Support the work of employees to improve efficiency, effectiveness, safety and wellbeing.
• Gather, analyse and interpret both external and internal data to assist in the production of reports required.
• To develop and lead a Bid/Tender Writing Team providing tools and techniques to convert business ideas into an actionable plan to increase finance and growth.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with financial partners, Landlord, Public or Third Sector Grant fund holders, to facilitate an effective client financing process.
• Deliver a strong Business Plan and Model to develop and strengthen Tomorrow’s Women’s move towards business sustainability, creation and expansion. 
• Ensure adherence to legal rules and guidelines, and compliance with the regulations and procedures of the Charities Commission and Company Law.

Job Specification

• Proven experience as Business Development Manager or relevant role.
•  Appropriate degree/diploma or higher.
• Qualifications in Income Generation/Bid Writing/Leadership & Management and proven evidence of this.     
• Strong financial and business planning/growth expertise with a thorough understanding of diverse business processes and strategy development.
• Excellent organisational and leadership skills.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and abilities.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, databases, Tendering processes, and information systems.
• Good understanding of research methods and data analysis techniques.
• Commitment to, and understanding of, the work of our Charity. Ensuring Tomorrow’s Women’s ethos of client-focused delivery, innovation and social value is demonstrated to clients, partners, stakeholders, and funders.
• Flexibly and sensitively challenging in approach.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of Tomorrow’s Women, sharing best practice and ideas required.
• A good sense of humour!

Charity People is proud to be heading up the search party for one of the North West's biggest, boldest and most recognisable charity brands with a lifesaving mission. We're looking for a high-performing Regional Fundraising Manager with expertise in community fundraising to lead a team of five fundraisers across the North West.

Reporting to the Head of Community and Events you'll be responsible for ensuring each Regional Fundraiser achieves their targets and is supported to meet their goals and ambitions. You'll work with them to develop fundraising within their individual geographical area, whilst ensuring that community fundraising plans across the whole of the North West region are robust and set up to encourage diversification and resilience.

You will have strong leadership skills and experience of team management (ideally remotely), as well as experience of community fundraising and a recent, informed understanding of the fundraising landscape across the North West.

You look for creative ways to inspire, encourage and motivate your team. You're able to shape the team to be exceptional charity ambassadors out in the field. You're also strong internal team player who can represent and champion community fundraising to stakeholders at all levels across the organisation.

Initially, you'll be fully home-based. Longer-term, there will be a need to attend meetings at head office in Merseyside, but you are welcome to be primarily home-based if that suits your circumstances. The role comes with some great benefits and the charity has spent time and energy creating a flexible, agile working culture with life and family-friendly working policies.

We are accepting applications on a rolling basis and will move to interview as soon as we have a strong enough shortlist, so please get in touch ASAP if you are interested. Please apply with a copy of your CV to our North West consultants, Amelia Lee and Ellen Drummond.

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 want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

A rare opportunity for a Fundraising and Partnerships Manager based in the North wales region to join a large national children's charity has become available on a 12 month FTC . Harris Hill are delighted to be supporting this organisation in their search and would love to hear from candidates with Regional Fundraising experience.

The strategic focus for the Community Fundraising Department is to maximise lifetime value from local community supporters, which this role will help to maintain and grow in the North Wales area. The role will engage, inspire and develop a dynamic supporter network of individuals and local groups to support the organisation's work through the development of a fully researched and engaged prospect pipeline for each audience.

Within this role you will also identify, engage and recruit influential volunteer leadership, and to support and steward individuals in leadership positions too. You will also support and steward their existing volunteer network.

The ideal candidate will have previous relationship fundraising experience (Community/ Corporate/ Major Donor/ Supporter Engagement) and you will have the ability to show how you have delivered and grown income. Ideally you will have Raiser Edge experience and be able to drive.

Home based in North Wales the post holder will be required to travel across Wales, attending meetings in the charities North Wales service centre

If you want to chat more about the role or receive a full job description then please contact Natalie at Harris Hill on [email protected]

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

This role can be based at any of our 9 offices; Croydon, Central London, Brent, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Rotherham, Liverpool or Newcastle.

About us
Crisis is the UK’s national homelessness charity. We work side-by-side with people to help them rebuild their lives. Through decades of experience of working with people who are homeless, we know what’s needed to leave homelessness behind for good. We use this experience to shape the services we provide and the changes we campaign for. 

The News and Media team play a central role in building Crisis’ public profile, awareness of our year-round services and securing the changes we need to ensure everyone has a safe and stable place to call home. We tell compelling stories of people who’ve experienced homelessness, support our fundraising efforts on a national and regional level and highlight our work at Christmas and throughout the year in new and creative ways. 

About the role
As Crisis’ Senior Media Officer specialising in services, engagement and fundraising, you will play a key role helping us plan and deliver creative media campaigns that bring our work to life, demonstrating how we end peoples’ homelessness for good through education, training and support with housing, employment and health. You will also help raise the profile of our range of fundraising events, campaigns and corporate partnerships with key target audiences.  

Your role will be stimulating and varied. You’ll work with our frontline staff to identify people facing homelessness who want to share their stories and empower them to do so. You’ll also work alongside our Artist Liaison Manager to devise creative ways for our high-profile supporters and ambassadors to engage with the cause publicly and play a crucial role in some of our biggest organisational campaigns, like our annual Christmas campaign. You will also help make the most of reactive opportunities that come through to our press office and help build relationships with key journalists. 

About you
You’ll be a skilled communicator with experience of working within a busy press office environment/PR agency or as a journalist. 
You’ll have a track record of delivering high-profile, integrated media strategies that secure quality coverage in national, regional and consumer outlets. 
A passion for writing, and experience of working with and interviewing case studies, will mean you know how to tell a compelling story that will capture the attention of journalists and build public support for our goal of ending homelessness for good.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy 
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8% 
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.

Closing date: Wednesday 27th January 2021 
Interviews will be held from w/c 8th February

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.