CVS Bedfordshire is a voluntary and community sector support organisation, offering a range of services, enabling local organisations and communities to make a difference.

We are looking for an additional Senior Adviser to join our small team supporting VCSE organisations across the three unitary authority areas within the historic county of Bedfordshire. The duties will include providing guidance on governance and business planning, facilitating partnerships with other organisations, liaising with funders regarding funding opportunities, and delivering training sessions. Experience of working with VCSE organisations, and a good knowledge of the organisational development challenges that they can face, is essential.

Connection Support work alongside people to overcome life’s challenges. Our ultimate goal is to solve homelessness and achieve independence for the people we support.

During this exciting time as we transition a new strategic plan, an opportunity has arisen for a full time Marketing and Communications Manager. Working alongside the Senior Management Team to take the organisation forward in its ambitious plans, the Marketing and Communications manager will play a pivotal role in developing and implementing Connection Support’s Marketing and Communications Strategy.

You’ll be from a marketing and communications background ideally within the voluntary sector and have experience with a proven track record to be able to lead our organisations internal and external public relations and brand values.

You will be part of our senior management team working together to help us to reach more vulnerable people and make a greater difference to peoples lives.

Put simply, it’s about making a difference. A real difference.

Location - Flexible (across Oxon, Bucks and Milton Keynes).

Connection Support is excited to announce a new post being created to implement our charity’s latest strategy to generate and diversify its income. We are looking for someone to bring enthusiasm, professionalism, personable and persuasive communication both in person and writing to the process of establishing a distinct, charity focused fundraising strategy to generate supplementary income through grants, individual givers, events and other means, during this very exciting time for us.

From a fundraising/charity background, you have experience and a proven track record of fundraising from individual and company donors and grant making organisations and can facilitate people to plan and work together so that income generation targets are achieved.

You will be part of our senior management team working together to help us to reach more vulnerable people and make a greater difference to peoples lives.

Put simply, it’s about making a difference. A real difference.

We are currently looking for an experienced Research Coordinator to join us on a permanent, part-time basis. Reporting to the CEO, we are looking for someone who will be responsible for delivering our current research strategy as well as be involved in managing our research programme and supporting the PSPA Research Committee.

See the full job description for more details.

Please apply with your current CV and a cover letter to show us how your knowledge and skills match this role.

Closing date for applications: 6 November 2021

Brand, Content & Creative Services Manager

Salary: £36,994 per annum + good range of benefits

Contract: Permanent – 36.5 hours per week (flexible working considered)

Based: Milton Keynes (hybrid)

World Vision is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries.

Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

Job Purpose

We are looking for an experienced brand manager that wants to use their experience to drive our communications and campaigns forwards and change children’s lives for the better.

The right person for this role will be an experienced brand leader, energised by the opportunity to bring a brand to life for both internal and external audiences. A powerful and engaging communicator, you will inspire each member of staff across the organisation to identify with our brand and apply it to their work.

A natural storyteller, you will understand how to develop and use our brand framework and content to engage a wide range of external audiences. You will have the ability to work with senior stakeholders to define the themes the organisation should be speaking about to demonstrate relevance and get cut through within the marketplace. This role requires you to influence teams across the organisation, aligning our communications across audiences to tell powerful and consistent stories about our work, including mass market, philanthropists, corporate and church partners and institutional donors.

As part of your remit, you will guide our Public Engagement teams in using powerful content across channels – in particular the digital space – to engage our mass market audiences and to help us stand out in a crowded marketplace. You will be agile and responsive, able to recognise relevant themes and opportunities coming from both our own research and the UK news agenda to strengthen our campaigns and drive awareness and engagement.

Being an inspiring people manager, you will be able to manage and empower a busy team of expert creatives in the production of the powerful copy, engaging design and fresh video content which fuels our external communications.

As an active Christian*, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).

Please click the link provided to view the full job description

Please upload your CV of full employment history. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.

Closing Date for applications: 4 November 2021

Interview Dates: TBC

*Permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family.  As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK - Job Applicant Privacy Notice is available on our website.

No agencies please.

This is an exciting opportunity as we embark on a new 5 year strategic plan. The Fundraising Manager will play an important role in developing relationships with trust and grants including writing bids and monitoring reports. Working in conjunction with the CEO the Fundraising Manager will also help to develop our relationships with major donors.

Supported by a Digital Marketing Officer and Fundraising Officer the successful candidate will develop our income streams from individual and major donors, churches, corporates, schools and community fundraising. The ideal candidate will have experience of managing digital fundraising campaigns, organising fundraising events and developing strategies to increase regular planned giving. Experience of using Donorfy and Enthuse or similar fundraising platforms will be an advantage.

As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate and apply your Christian faith to all that we do. Please refer to our ‘Statement of Belief’ for the basis of our Christian faith.

If you are interested in applying for the above role please complete an application form, and the equal opportunity form via our website.

The closing date for applications is 5pm Friday 29th October.

Interviews for shortlisted candidates will take place on Tuesday 2nd November (PM) and Wednesday 3rd November (PM)

The Business Engagement Manager will be responsible for building relationships between The Clare Foundation and Buckinghamshire based businesses, to encourage and develop better partnership working between businesses and the charity sector. The post holder will create our new Helping Businesses Programme, which is an integral part of TCF’s three-pronged strategic vision: Helping Charities, Helping People and Helping Businesses in Buckinghamshire, making it an even more thriving and happy county to work and live in.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating and owning the Helping Businesses programme by generating new business contacts and collaborative opportunities to increase Corporate Social Responsibility in Buckinghamshire

• Conduct research and suggest new ideas or initiatives for CSR type proposals that will have a significantly positive impact on the environment and local communities

• Set up a series of roundtable discussion events with local businesses, agencies, county authorities, organisations and charities to listen to their needs and challenges

• Organise networking and training for businesses and charities to encourage positive collaboration and sustainable partnerships

• Provide a series of seminars/workshops that provide specific help and insight for charities on how to engage with businesses, build rapport and maintain relationships

• Represent the charity at corporate events and continue to build a network of relationships with external strategic corporate partners

• Monitor the progress of projects and programmes assessing results against initial plans

• Support the Trustee Matching programme

• Prepare related progress reports and quarterly Board papers for the CEO

• Provide information, media and associated materials for TCF’s communications team

• Maximise publicity for the network and promote successful interventions

• Become a local member of organisations such as CSRA, Chamber of Commerce and Buckinghamshire Business First (BBF) to build mutually beneficial relationships that enable TCF to gain exposure and traction.

Other Responsibilities

• Occasionally able to work evenings and weekends as required or appropriate

• Any other reasonable tasks requested and deemed appropriate by the CEO

Person Specification/Key Competencies

Requirements

• At least 3 years’ experience in a charity, public or corporate role

• Some knowledge of the business and charity sector in Buckinghamshire

• Own car and full clean UK driving licence

  Essential

• Engaging, collaborative and inclusive personality

• Ability to map, organise, create and deliver successful programmes and projects

• Flexible and adaptable, able to respond to the changing needs of the organisation

• Able to manage a diverse workload, deliver outcomes and remain calm under pressure.

• Articulate, with excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to deliver clear messages to a range of stakeholders, partners and staff.

  Desirable

• Reflect the values of our organisation and that of the sector

• Understanding of the Buckinghamshire Council community strategy and programmes

• Ongoing commitment to BAME issues, equality, diversity and inclusion and to be a voice for those who are disengaged and vulnerable.

Please forward a CV (not more than 2 pages) and a covering letter (not more than 1 page)

Join Toybox as Programme Manager - Africa and/or Asia

We are looking for a proactive Programme Manager to join our innovative team to support the delivery of our international development work with street children. If you have a solid knowledge of programming within international development with a passion to add value and constantly improve impact, then this job is for you.

Our strategy, quite simply, is to make the world a better place for street children. Despite the many challenges of COVID-19, we are on track to grow this financial year, enabling us to continue to deliver this vital work.

This role is critical to our future success and will therefore be hands on, operating within a busy and collaborative team and has the potential for the right person to add real value and make a real difference to the lives of street-connected children.

The role will focus on:

• Working with partners to ensure quality designs, monitoring and evaluations of projects.
• Submission of proposals and reports to institutional donors.
• Ensuring the application of good practice approaches and promoting innovation and learning.
• Assessing the capacity of selected partners and supporting them to implement partner capacity building plans. You will be part of a small team and will be the main person responsible for selected partners, undertaking travel to those countries at least once a year.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• To have at least a degree level qualification in a relevant area, but also have significant experience of overseeing/managing projects, including projects addressing the needs of the most vulnerable.
• Experience of project theory of change, design, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience of working in the UK charity environment.
• Excellent writing and financial literacy skills.
• Experience of using Microsoft (Word, Excel and E-mail).

How to apply:

Please send your CV and a covering letter detailing why you want to work for Toybox and your suitability for this role.

1st interviews will be held on Thursday 18th November and 2nd interviews on Thursday 25th November.

For a full information pack, please visit our website.

Toybox is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all employees, trustees, and volunteers to share this commitment.

At Toybox we strive to hire the best. If you are driven to change the world for street children, you will fit right in. We are courageous in what we do, always looking to innovate and improve. We learn from our mistakes and celebrate our wins. Everyone is welcome—as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their whole selves to work.

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To apply for this role, you must have the right to work in the UK.