We are pleased to be working with a disability charity who are looking to hire a Senior Trusts Manager to join their developing team. You will be responsible for developing major applications in support of targets and to report on the ongoing progress to donors. You will also develop and deliver a fundraising plan to generate income from grant making trusts and foundations against targets.

The charity are looking for somebody who has proven experience of developing and executing trust fundraising plans, as well as experience of building relationships with Trustees and administrators. You will be required to required to research trusts and their criteria, targeting your applications in accordance with your research.

You will need:

• Demonstrable experience of trust fundraising
• Experience of developing and executing trusts fundraising plans, including budgeting and delivering against budget
• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills
• Raiser’s Edge experience

Salary - £38,000 - £42,000

Location: London

Deadline: ASAP

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call James on 02030 062787 or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable roles. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically, supporting people to find their perfect role within the not-for-profit sector.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

• If enough applications are received the charity reserve the right to end the application period sooner.

The Moving Minds Alliance is a multi-stakeholder partnership of 20+ organisations working to scale up the financing, policies, and leadership needed to effectively support young children and families affected by crisis and displacement everywhere.

Four years since its inception, and having recently updated its strategy and operational set-up, Moving Minds Alliance is embarking on its next phase of activity with a growing membership. The Moving Minds Alliance is hosted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).

To lead the Joint Advocacy pillar of Moving Minds Alliance’s strategy, we are looking for an enthusiastic changemaker, who has experience in shaping and managing partnerships that shift mindsets and priorities at a systems level.

Delivering the robust support structure needed to support the members’ joint advocacy activities, and bringing on board and building collaborations with ‘unusual suspects’ who can bring meaningful, positive change to displaced families’ lives will be key goals in this role.

The successful candidate will ideally have worked across more than one of the sectors represented in the Moving Minds Alliance (e.g. philanthropy, UN/non-profit, private sector), have an excellent understanding of the humanitarian response system, as well as  a track record of delivering tangible results through multi-stakeholder partnership. Prior experience working on early childhood development is not a requirement.

Note that funding for this role has been secured and is in the process of being transferred to the IRC.

Our Vision: Rebuilding resilience of the youngest refugees

Forced displacement worldwide is at a record high, and children are disproportionately represented among those fleeing from emergencies and crisis-affected contexts. One in four children around the world lives in contexts affected by conflict or disaster, and more than 30 million children have been displaced by conflict.

Given the protracted nature of modern displacement, most children born in displacement will go on to spend their entire childhoods away from home. Experiences during this period, in the very first years of life, shape the architecture of the brain and lay the foundation for future development, learning and physical and mental health.

Prolonged exposure to violence and toxic stress is associated with high levels of depression, anxiety, and in some cases post-traumatic stress disorder, which can have life-long negative effects on children’s development.

The good news is that evidence indicates early childhood services, including those that support and guide parents, caregivers, and families in times of crisis, can mitigate the negative effects of trauma and stress on young children and promote resilience and well-being for a lifetime.

While the international community has made significant efforts to ensure children have access to basic healthcare and nutrition, the provision of services for other critical areas of a young child’s development is severely lacking in crisis situations across the globe, as well as in communities hosting refugees and asylum-seekers. A 2018 review of active humanitarian response plans revealed that only 10 out of 38 plans included interventions specifically targeting the youngest children. A more recent MMA analysis of financing for early childhood in crisis contexts, found that only 2% of humanitarian aid, and 3% of development aid finds its way to supporting the needs of the youngest children and families in crisis contexts.

Coordinated action by the humanitarian community, donors, and policymakers is needed to raise the life prospects of millions of young children on the move.

About the Moving Minds Alliance

The Moving Minds Alliance came together to close the gap in support for the youngest children on the move and their families. It is multi-stakeholder partnership working to scale up the financing, policies, and leadership needed to effectively support young children and families affected by crisis and displacement everywhere.

Originally established in 2017 by a group of six philanthropic foundations, today it counts nearly 25 members including foundations, NGOs, UN agencies and academia. Members combine their programmatic, funding, and research expertise to support prioritization of the youngest refugees and their caregivers.

Moving Minds Alliance develops activities in the areas of:

• Joint Advocacy: Ensuring donors, humanitarian actors & networks, and country governments prioritize and champion early childhood development (ECD) in crisis settings;
• Sharing & Learning: Establishing a thriving network that is sharing and applying insights effectively to deliver on its common agenda for change.

Moving Minds Alliance’s activities are focused on the areas described above; MMA does not provide funding for implementation of early childhood programs on the ground. Activities are taken forward collaboratively by its members, with support from the Secretariat (interim support is currently provided by consultants).

Operational costs and activities are financed by a sub-group of philanthropic foundations that is part of the overall MMA membership, through a combination of annual member fees and additional donations and grants. A Steering Committee provides overall strategic direction, while sub-groups (most notably the Joint Advocacy Group) are responsible for operationalizing specific areas of work.

MMA’s Secretariat and pooled fund is transitioning to be held by the International Rescue Committee. As such, Secretariat staff will be on IRC contracts. MMA’s brand and identity will be separate from IRC, and this will be reflected in the Secretariat set-up (e.g. MMA Secretariat staff will receive MMA email addresses, business cards, etc.). As part of this newly established hosting arrangement, the MMA Secretariat will be able to make full use of IRC systems, and count on back office support from IRC’s legal, HR, finance team, etc.  

The Position

As part of the ‘Joint Advocacy’ pillar of MMA’s work, a group of 20+ organisations came together between September 2019 and April 2020 to develop a joint advocacy strategy for early childhood in crisis contexts. Through coordinated action and shared prioritization of efforts, the strategy’s overaching goal is to ensure donors, humanitarian actors & networks, and country governments prioritize and champion early childhood development in crisis settings.

The strategy is currently being implemented by members of MMA’s Joint Advocacy Group in five separate Working Groups, with interim support from consultancy firm Unbounded Associates. Public resources that have already been generated as part of the process include a baseline analysis of international aid levels for early childhood services in crisis contexts, and an issue brief developed in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak to call attention to the double emergency faced by families already caught up in crisis contexts.

The Senior Engagement Manager will be responsible for shaping and supporting the group to deliver its ambitious workplan, and for developing the structure and processes underpinning the work. In addition, the succesful candidate will oversee external MMA communications, and monitor and pursue key developments and opportunities that align with the Joint Advocacy Group’s objectives.

This is a senior role which comes with considerable autonomy in shaping and implementing the work. The Senior Engagement Manager will report to the Moving Minds Alliance Director, who is also currently being recruited. At least one project officer will also be recruited in the short term, who will in part support the Senior Engagement Manager on coordination of the Joint Advocacy Group.

Responsibilities of the Senior Manager Engagement will include:

Strategy Development

• Lead refinement of the MMA advocacy strategy and multi-year workplan, in coordination with the Joint Advocacy Group (JAG) Team Leads, and in consultation with MMA members and the MMA Director
• Oversee development of budget and associated workplans for joint advocacy efforts, and feed into organization-wide budget prepared by the MMA Director
• Develop and oversee MMA’s external communications & social media strategy
• Track progress toward indicators of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) plan for the joint advocacy strategy

Joint Advocacy Group (JAG) Leadership

• Oversee implementation of the Joint Advocacy Strategy: Track progress against objectives, spot and fill gaps as needed, connect opportunities and ensure alignment across workstreams
• Build and maintain good relations with JAG members; develop a good understanding of their priorities and strengths
• Align JAG members with appropriate roles and responsibilities, and adequately guide and support the group to deliver on its ambitious objectives
• Recruit additional JAG members with expertise in key areas, including members from the Global South
• Facilitate meetings of the entire JAG (30+ individuals), the JAG Team Leads (4-6 individuals), and small, ad hoc groups of members as needed;
• Review and refine the processes and platforms underpinning the JAG’s work to optimally facilitate communication, knowledge sharing, and alignment across the groups
• Manage recruitment and selection and oversee contracts of any external contractors hired to support the work of the Joint Advocacy Group

Outreach & Communications

• Build and maintain relationships with relevant networks and organisations (both known allies and more ‘unusual suspects’); be proactive in pursuing opportunities for collaboration on, or amplification of MMA’s advocacy goals
• Use influential, high-level individuals within MMA organizations, draft talking points and messaging for MMA leadership and champions to promote the network and its goals in key fora
• In coordination with JAG members, identify and leverage global advocacy moments and events, and maintain a calendar of global opportunities
• Keep informed of key developments and players in the area of early childhood in crisis contexts
• Oversee content curation and development of the MMA quarterly newsletter
• Oversee day-to-day Twitter and LinkedIn postings by the Project Officer, and support his/her development in the area of communications
• With the MMA Director, oversee maintenance of the MMA website and ensure content is aligned across the various communication channels
• Engage in all aspects of the publication process for MMA publications, from conception to content development to finalization, launch, and dissemination.

Operations & Governance

• Review and refine plans for the establishment of a dedicated coordination/ governance structure for the JAG, in close collaboration with the MMA Director
• Manage budget forecasting and monitor spending for the joint advocacy workstream, and feed into ongoing overarching budget monitoring 
• Support resource mobilization for the Moving Minds Alliance Joint Advocacy workstream, in active collaboration with the Director and Steering Committee
• Support the Director to prepare materials on all ongoing advocacy and communications activities for the Steering Committee and the Annual Report

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate for this position has the following skills and experience:

• Master’s Degree in communications, advocacy, public policy, international affairs or another relevant field (or equivalent experience)
• Fluent in spoken and written English. French, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili, and/or knowledge of other languages desireable
• 8-10 years of progressively responsible experience in international development/ humanitarian aid, social business, and/or philanthropy. Experience across more than one sector a plus
• Prior experience leading advocacy and communication efforts for multi-stakeholder partnerships for development/humanitarian innovation or other forms of social change
• Strong solutions- and result orientation, energized by thinking out of the box and by pursuing novel approaches to shifting mindsets
• Skilled at spotting and prioritizing opportunities and synergies, and effective in securing engagement around them from key players
• Experience in implementing and encouraging uptake of project management structures and processes to aid collaboration, communication, and reporting
• Excellent listening, communications and persuasive ability, proven track record in uniting people around a common goal
• Highly organized with strong project management skills
• Capable of working independently as well as collaboratively
• Passionate about social change, and driven to make a difference in the lives of young children on the move (early childhood knowledge not required)

Please include the following questions in your cover letter:

1. Please describe two opportunities and two challenges you see for Moving Minds Alliance to increase prioritization of early childhood development in crisis settings by major donors, humanitarian actors and host country governments.
2. What are three important values you would embody in a (mostly) remote, multi-stakeholder partnership, and why?
3. What are two concrete learnings/insights from leading advocacy and/or communication efforts for a multi-stakeholder partnership in the past that you would bring to MMA?

MMA Secretariat staff will be on IRC staff contracts. The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

Les employés du Secretariat MMA seront employés sur la base des contrats de IRC. IRC et les employés de IRC doivent adhérer aux valeurs et principes contenus dans le IRC WAY (normes de conduite professionnelle). Ce sont l’Intégrité, le Service, et la Responsabilité. En conformité avec ces valeurs, IRC opère et fait respecter les politiques sur la protection des bénéficiaires contre l’exploitation et les abus, la protection de l’enfant, le harcèlement sur les lieux de travail, l’intégrité financière, et les représailles. 

Candidates must have the righ to work in the UK or Switzerland.

The application deadline is 27th October 2021.

IRC-UK strives to be an equal opportunities employer. IRC-UK is committed to equality of opportunity and to non-discrimination for  all  job  applicants  and  employees,  and  we  seek  to ensure  we  achieve diversity  in  our  workforce  regardless  of  gender,  race,  religious  beliefs, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

IRC-UK welcomes applications from all candidates, including underrepresented groups and refugees who have the right to work in the UK.

IRC UK will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job functions if appointed to a role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments. 

Charity People is pleased to have partnered with Refuge in their search for a Senior Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser. This role will focus on developing the mid-level trusts portfolio. This is a fixed term contract (until Sept 2022) with possibility for extension.

About Refuge

Refuge supports women, children and men experiencing violence and abuse. They are the country's largest single provider of specialist domestic and gender-based abuse services.

Refuge support around 7,000 women and children per day. They help survivors to access safety and rebuild their lives. This year, the passing of the Domestic Abuse Act marks a milestone in years of campaigning by Refuge and the wider sector, and they won Campaigning Team of the Year at the recent Charity Times Awards

Culture & Benefits

* High impact, successful and growing team
* Flexible, hybrid home/office model
* 28 days holiday allowance, 6 % pension

About the role

You will join an ambitious and high performing team and manage a portfolio of mid-level trusts and foundations (£10 - £50K). You will be responsible for developing income by submitting successful grant
applications and providing ongoing stewardship.

You will manage an evolving pipeline with a focus of growing year on year opportunities and proactively seek new opportunities for growth.

About you

We are looking for an experienced Trust Fundraiser with a track record of raising philanthropic income, with the ability to hit the ground running.

You will be pro-active with strong communications skills. As an experienced relationship manager, you can develop relationships internally and with donors. You will be an excellent writer, able to submit
creative and compelling grant applications.

This role would suit a candidate who is motivated by developing a portfolio and is comfortable identifying new opportunities for growth.

This is a full time, fixed term contract until September 2022 with possibility of extension for the right candidate. The salary is £33, 720 negotiable, depending on experience.

To apply please send your CV to Emma Adams at Charity People. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as interviews are happening on a rolling basis.

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 thisbecause we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities with which we work.

Commercial Education Trust (CET) is an independent charity which believes commercial education is essential to the development of young people so they can thrive both at work and within society more widely.

They support programmes which build the knowledge, skills, understanding and capabilities of young people so that they can prepare for employment, self-employment and enterprise.

Executive Director

Reports to: Trustee Board

Responsible for: Operations Director and Grant Administrator

Location: London

Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 full time equivalent for 3 days per week

The Commercial Education Trust's goal is to invest in initiatives which help young people learn new skills; successfully apply these skills to the world of work; and achieve prosperous and rewarding lives. More than £3.5 million has been invested through grant-making and other activities to date.

The Executive Director position is the most senior member of CET's staff team and holds responsibility for leading and developing CET's strategy and impact through its grant making, engagement, advocacy and partnership efforts. Working closely with the Trustee Board, you will have responsibility for developing programmes, partnerships and networks to build CET's influence and meet its strategic vison and goals.

Critical to the role is a commercial mindset, an entrepreneurial outlook and a detailed knowledge of the UK education sector. You will have significant experience of identifying and developing strategic partnerships and developing new initiatives that can facilitate and amplify CET's strategic mission.

We recognise the value of diversity and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background.

To Apply

To apply for this position, please fill in the Equal Opportunities information and upload your CV and a supporting statement of no more than two pages of A4 onto our website.

Application deadline: 24 October

Preliminary interviews with Prospectus: 1- 4 November

Second stage panel interviews: W/C 15 November

These dates may be subject to change and applicants will be advised in advance should this happen.

To learn more about this unique opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please read the full appointment brief, on the Prospectus website, which can be reached by clicking on the “Apply on Website” Button.

EMHIP is a quality improvement programme aimed at reducing and ultimately eliminating ethnic inequalities in access, experience and outcome of mental health care. We have developed a Key Interventions implementation plan, of which the establishment of a BME specific Crisis Family Placement Service is one of the first to go live.

The Crisis Family Placement Manager will lead this programme of work, working alongside families, and mental health services, to provide an alternative to hospital admissions. If you have the vision, capabilities and appetite to be at the forefront of this exciting new initiative, we will love to hear from you.

About InfluenceMap
We are a London UK based non-profit think tank working on the cutting edge of climate and sustainability issues. Our highly original analysis of the climate agenda has been covered by media globally, used and acted on by hundreds of investors, and has informed numerous campaigns. We are probably best known for our unique platform for analyzing corporate lobbying on climate policy. Other workstreams are the FinanceMap platform assessing the financial sector and its impact on climate, as well as a Japanese collaborative venture (the Japan Energy Transition Initiative).

Joining InfluenceMap represents a great opportunity to be part of a friendly and dynamic team, work with our global network of partners in the finance, media and campaigning worlds and help develop our cutting-edge content which is helping to shape the agenda on the climate crisis.  At InfluenceMap we strongly value diversity, equity and inclusivity in our work, which we view as critical to our mission and strategy.

Position Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your development skills to a fast growing and highly impactful global climate change think tank. You will be a key member of the InfluenceMap team working closely with the Executive Director and key team leaders in managing our funding and development processes. InfluenceMap maintains an existing base of philanthropic foundation partners who share our values and goals and recognize our impacts. In line with the pivotal role InfluenceMap plays in driving global systemic change, we are in a process of expanding our funder base. You will manage relationships with existing funders as well as identifying new opportunities and working with the Executive Director to convert these to new partners. Our focus is on mutually beneficial long-term relationships with our funding partners.  We are a highly data driven organization and our development/funding processes are highly automated and make full use of cloud-based efficiency tools.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of all funding administration processes
• Evolve our funder-focused messaging and communications materials
• Manage the funder component of our Salesforce CRM system, ensuring all milestones, leads and contacts are accurate and up to date
• Working with team leaders manage the delivery of all funding related reporting, proposals, budgets and other written communication
• Maintain a continual process of tracking new opportunities globally via networking, web searches and communications with existing funders
• Work closely with the Executive Director to ensure continual face to face/online communications with existing funders and suitable new leads

You will report to and work closely with the Executive Director and key team leaders. We have teams based in the UK, the US, and Japan. This position is  based out of our London office with remote working possible. You will be expected to be thoroughly comfortable with the latest cloud-based efficiency and communication tools.

Skills and Experience

• At least 2 years' experience in a development or marketing function, preferably in a not-for-profit environment
• You will be self-motivated and thrive when working in a globally distributed, virtual team environment
• An interest and passion for environmental/climate related causes
• Excellent administrative and written communication skills
• High degree of comfort with cloud-based productivity tools (MS Excel/Word, Dropbox, Salesforce, communication tools).  Training will be provided, but you will be expected to be a quick study!

Salary, Location and Start Date

• InfluenceMap's London office is in Borough with a fully flexible working from home policy
• Starting salary depending on experience/qualifications, up to £40K
• This is a full-time position, starting as soon as possible
• Right to work in the UK

The Application Process

• InfluenceMap values diversity and provides equal opportunities to all candidates.
• Please provide your CV (two-page maximum), cover letter (one-page maximum) and reference/s in one PDF file
• Please apply by 5th November, 2021.  Early applications are encouraged and will be processed as they arrive

The Medical Research Foundation is searching for a Senior Research Evaluation Manager to shape and lead the evaluation of the impact of our funded research, to demonstrate the impact we are making in our strategy to fund the very best medical research to change lives.

Many of the diseases and conditions that affect human health have been cured or overcome as a result of medical research. But there will always be more to do. Although significant resources are being spent around the world developing exciting new treatments and therapies, there are areas of medical need that receive little or no support - and people’s lives that see no improvement. That’s where we step in.

The Medical Research Foundation is an independent charitable foundation. Formed by the Medical Research Council (MRC), we fund and support the most promising health research wherever we discover great opportunities that are not being pursued. We use our donations responsibly and ensure we make the greatest impact where it is most needed.

About the Role

To fund more of this research, we need to be able to persuade donors that what we do is impactful and that the funding that we provide makes a difference, as well as deliver on our strategy of funding research which is high need, low investment.  To do this we need to capture and report on the outputs and impact of the research that we support and present the data and tell the stories that demonstrate impact.  You will join our rapidly expanding team in our central London offices to provide leadership for our monitoring and evaluation processes and ensure that we have a sound evidence-base to support our funding schemes and of the outputs and impact of individual research projects.  You will be motivated to learn and develop your skills in those aspects of the role where you have less experience.

What you will do in the role

• develop appropriate M&E systems and tools that align with our new Theory of Change and M&E framework to demonstrate the impact of funding calls and schemes.
• optimise the use of the existing Researchfish and end-of-grant reporting tools.
• optimise other data collection points to support M&E e.g. applications.
• implement, review and revise the new M&E systems and tools.
• develop a three-year schedule of M&E activities and reviews, evaluate and revise for the future.
• oversee data collection and analysis
• keep abreast of tools and methods for M&E and data visualisation, and be a source of expertise in this area.
• lead on impact reporting; write and contribute to reports; present to our Board of Trustees and wider external audiences.

What you can bring to the role

• experience of implementation or management of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment and reporting
• data collection and collation skills using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies
• experience managing databases and interpreting and analysing large volumes of data
• an understanding of theories, concepts and approaches to evaluation
• strong data collection, visualisation and analysis skills
• a good understanding of data management and GDPR

Our offer:

• A salary up to £43,000 (pro rata), dependent on experience.
• Part-time hours of 18-25.2 hours per week (0.5-0.7 FTE) worked over 3-5 days. 
• Annual pay award, performance award scheme and other rewards.
• Generous pension contribution, with no qualifying period.
• 30 days annual leave each year, plus public holidays.
• Flexi-time system and core working hours of 10am to 4pm.
• Employee assistance programme and other health-related benefits.
• An opportunity to make a difference to human health.
• Fantastic colleagues.

This role will be on a 2 year contract in the first instance

The vacancy will close on or before 20 October 2021 and we advise you to apply as soon as possible.  Applications will be considered as they are received and the vacancy will close early if a suitable candidate is found.

A copy of the recruitment information pack and equal opportunities monitoring form are attached as separate documents for you to download.

Head of Software Engineering

Up to £70,000pa

London and Remote - we are a hybrid working team

The Head of Engineering innovates and progresses Comic Relief’s (CR’s) digital giving capabilities and data platforms to deliver best in class User Experiences for our staff and supporters.

The role is responsible for establishing and continuously refining processes, standards and practice for the development, delivery, and operation of all digital products in a secure, scalable, agile, and operationally efficient manner.

They are responsible for the architecture and operation of the infrastructure, and for nurturing a team of highly skilled engineers to deliver and support these critical systems.

Equally importantly, the role works with the CTO, Head of Product, Head of Data and Analytics and IT Service Delivery Manager to lead a Technology team which keeps Comic Relief at the forefront of technology innovation, and which helps us deliver our challenging objectives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Vertical ownership of the whole software stack including support, monitoring and full operational responsibility, (including participating in 15X7 support rota during key periods).
• Leadership and continuous development of a high-performing Engineering team which partners with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver to the highest standards.
• Advise on and implement technology choices that will contribute to CR’s strategy and continue our tradition of technology innovation.
• Define and embed coding, architecture and infrastructure provision standards and processes.
• Mentor other engineers; organise development forums; create a culture of operational excellence, quality first development and continuous refactoring and improvement.
• Actively engage in open source and technology communities and raise the profile of CR as a top tier software development organisation.
• Work on other products and tools like the testing stack, continuous integration, and delivery pipelines, and help craft unique user centred digital experiences in an agile setting.
• Act as a source of knowledge regarding the choice of approach for new projects and application development.
• Create opportunity for engineering team members to have closer ties to CR’s Social Tech portfolio e.g. mentoring, tech clinics, code reviews.
• Progress Machine Learning projects that unlock access to unrealised assets, streamline inefficient processes and/or accelerate strategic goals.
• Be an ambassador for collaborative cross-functional working both within the Technology team and across the wider organisation.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent software engineering leader with solid, demonstrable experience in leading and mentoring software engineering teams to deliver innovative, high-performing solutions to time and budget
• Strong software development skills with experience in most / all of the following:

            JavaScript (NodeJS, react),

            CSS/HMTL,

            API development,

           Continuous integration (GitHub actions, concourse ci),

           Test-driven development,

          12-factor application development,

          Serverless development in an AWS environment.

• Solid software testing and delivery skills – able to help create secure, scalable, and adaptable digital platforms and services.
• Excellent problem solver – good attention to detail, experience in performing root cause analyses and able to identify tactical methods for improvement.
• Strong people leader and coach, excellent motivational skills, can build high performing teams and drives towards a dynamic and innovative hybrid working culture that builds capability in line with organisational technology strategy.
• Strategic thinker with demonstrable experience and passion for innovating the discovery, design, and implementation of transformative end-to-end technology-enabled services.

Perks and benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Work from home option
• Wellness programs
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid emergency leave
• Sabbatical Opportunities
• Professional development
• Mentoring/coaching
• Paid volunteer days
• Payroll giving
• Team social events
• Extracurricular clubs
• Cycle to work scheme

To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.

Closing: 12:00pm, 2nd Nov 2021 GMT

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

• Be valued for being yourself
• Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
• Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
• Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.

Finance and Grants Officer, Temporary (3 months) £22 - 25 per hour (Umbrella)

For an international NGO based in central London, we are recruiting a Finance and Grants Officer to provide grant accounting for funds received in the US, and basic bookkeeping and accounting to ensure Donor, State and Federal compliance, including managing payroll and benefits payments. Ideally candidates will have experience in US government and foundation grants financial management and office accounting.

Main Duties:

• Monitor cashflow and ensure month end procedures are robust.
• Produce management accounts and review variances
• Produce Donor reports against project budgets
• Complete cost reports for Donors on a regular basis
• Review PO and process invoices for US office including expenditure linked to each project
• Process US payroll, pension, and control accounts with an external Bureau
• Work with the Executive Director to produce annual budget for the US Operations
• Reforecast income and expenditure according to Donor contracts
• Support audit processes and manage audits affecting the US region

What will you bring to this role?

• Part qualified CCAB with excellent understanding of accounting for restricted income and expenditure
• Experience managing grant income from US government and US foundations
• Experience in budgeting and preparing grant proposals
• Management accounts, internal controls, and compliance experience
• Access Dimensions experience
• International NGO experience

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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

If you know anyone looking for a new role, your referral could earn you £250

The consists of five distinct brands: , , , and . If you or anyone you know is looking to join our growing recruitment team, speak to us today. £250 is on offer for any referrals we successfully hire.

Cambridge House is looking for those willing to go the extra mile to create a more just society. Our innovative London-based charity has been tackling poverty, inequity, and social injustice since 1889. We provide a range of services that are designed to improve peoples lives as well as transform society through research and social action.

The role reports to the Chief Executive and our ideal candidate will have: 

• At least 3 years’ relevant service leadership experience at strategic, change management and operational levels.

• Awareness of the barriers facing young people and adults, particularly disabled people and young people living with complex needs.

• Knowledge and understanding safeguarding, diversity and inclusion, confidentiality and data protection policies and procedures.

• Financial and HR management experience.

• Experience of designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation tools and processes.

The salary for this role is £35,000 per annum and the contract is 12-month fixed term.

Closing date for applications: Midnight on Sunday 31 October 2021.

To apply, please visit our website and download the recruitment pack, diversity monitoring and criminal record declaration form. 

Do you want to work for an organisation whose aim is to enrich lives and strengthen communities?  If so, Enable Leisure and Culture is recruiting a Parks Biodiversity Officer to support our Parks Team.

Location: Wandsworth
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £31,703
Closing date: 31 October 2021

Ref: PA013

An amazing opportunity has arisen for a Biodiversity Officer to work in our expanding and enthusiastic team.

If you are a passionate, dynamic and organised individual, with a keen interest in biodiversity, you could be the person to lead on our practical habitat management works across the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Enable Leisure and Culture are responsible for the management of parks and green spaces on behalf of Wandsworth Council.  From the iconic Battersea Park, historically important local parks such as King George’s and Wandsworth Park and habitat rich open spaces such as Wandsworth and Tooting Commons, there is variety and wealth of green space that rivals any borough within Greater London.

Based at the Parks Office, Wandsworth Common, your duties will involve the day-to-day management of our horticultural grounds maintenance contractor to ensure the high-quality management of habitat within the boroughs 32 parks and open spaces.

You must have experience in contract management or work with/directing contractors or directly supervising staff.  You will also have relevant practical experience working in a biodiversity/grounds maintenance, ecology or conservation service environment with experience of supervising/managing habitat creation.

BENEFITS

Enable Leisure and Culture has committed to be the best employer it can be.  Supporting, nurturing and developing all staff is a key strategic aim of the organisation and this is reflected in everything we do.  Along with a competitive salary, we offer a supportive environment for personal and professional growth and development which is demonstrated through;

• 25 Days Annual Leave
• Flexible working
• Pension Scheme
• Free Gym membership
• Eyecare vouchers
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Ongoing training
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Weekly Office Fruit baskets
• ‘Staff Treats’ discount vouchers with known high street brands
• Regular social events
• Weekly Wellbeing hour

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post.  In order to apply for this post, you must demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Diversity is valued at Enable Leisure and Culture and is important in the work that we do. Applications from all sections of the community are welcome and will be considered on merit.

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK – we support people and communities to prosper and thrive.

National Lottery players raise an incredible £36 million a week for good causes. This money funds projects and activities that transform communities, protect our heritage and enrich lives through arts, spots and culture. We are proud to be one of 12 distributors responsible for awarding this funding across the UK.

Thanks to National Lottery players, last year we were able to award over half a billion pounds of life-changing funding to UK communities, supporting thousands of projects making a real difference to people’s lives.

Over eight in ten of our grants were for under £10,000 going to grassroots groups and charities across the UK doing great things to support their communities, during a particularly tough time.

We also distribute non-National Lottery funds, working closely with Government on funding for important issues, such as tackling loneliness, multiple and complex needs, mental health and distributing Dormant Accounts money.

Over the last five years we’ve awarded a total of £3.4 billion, of which £2.7 billion is National Lottery money.

We fund things that matter – whether helping communities respond positively to national, regional or local priorities, or helping the UK achieve its big social ambitions. Our grants range from £500 up to multi-million-pound programmes – supporting people and projects to do extraordinary things and bring great ideas for their community to life.

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a Funding Officer to join our North East London Team.

You’ll be part of a team, led by a Funding Manager and working alongside several other Funding Officers.

As a funding officer you will assess requests for funding and manage grants using local knowledge, best practice, thematic expertise, and the experience of customers and stakeholders to improve our grant making and inform our decision making. By working closely with people and communities from a defined geographical area, you will understand what matters to them and where our funding can make the biggest difference.

Being responsible for supporting local people and communities you will have a strong understanding of our vision, our commitment to equity and inclusion and our funding products. You’ll also need to support our stakeholders, helping them to make connections that will help them achieve their goals.

Being responsible for the pipeline of projects you will need to understand and respond to the different needs of our customers by providing advice and considered feedback and be willing to have challenging but constructive conversations.

As Funding Officer you will ensure our grant management and assessment play an effective part in contributing to the Fund’s knowledge and learning as a grant maker. You will manage your own caseload, liaise with grant recipients, undertake project visits, identify and manage risk, supporting organisations to deliver their projects and measure their impact.

You’ll also need to work within the Fund’s policies and procedures and the necessary legislation, and in a way that is in line with our vision and principles.

You will represent the Fund within your local area including at funding fairs and external meetings and create opportunities for people to come together. You will share learning from your conversations, events, grant holder reports and evaluations with other colleagues so that we can maximise our impact.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time; 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview Date: Tuesday 16 November 2021

Essential Criteria

We are looking for local talented people from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences who share our values and are passionate about making a difference through our funding. Whether through lived or gained experience you will really understand the communities we work with.

You will have:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and confidence to operate in a wide range of environments
• Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships at several different levels with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion
• Confidence to use your judgement, take initiative and challenge when appropriate
• An ability to manage your own workload with minimal supervision.

Ideally you will live within the geographical area you are covering and have excellent knowledge of that area. You will work from several locations across the area, including your home and our offices with the expectation that you will be flexible in order to get the best outcomes for our customers.

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge of London and its charity sector and experience working with underrepresented communities in the region
• Understanding of financial planning and business plans, ability to analyse accounts and numerical data.
• Demonstrable IT skills and the ability to learn detailed processes

For You

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

Equal Opportunities

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds.  As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and will proactively make reasonable adjustments if needed through the recruitment process and during employment. This can be related to a physical and mental health conditions.

We are also proud to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion, supporting our commitment to being a great place to work for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) staff.

Prospectus are pleased to be partnering with Rosa to recruit a Communications Officer to plan and deliver communications to key Rosa audiences.

Rosa is a UK based grant making charity who support and fund grassroots women's organisations. Their mission is to connect, champion and invest in women's organisations who are working to make the UK a fairer and safer place for women and girls.

As the Communications Officer, you will write, edit, co-ordinate and publish content across various channels, including the website, social media and print and online marketing. In addition you will plan and implement communications and marketing campaigns to raise awareness, maximise profile and highlight impact and need. Monitoring social media and website analytics, managing Rosa's communication and fundraising contact systems will also be key components of this role as will improving organisational understanding of what works for different audiences.

The successful candidate will have proven experience working in a communications role and supporting fundraising campaigns through effective comms. It is expected you will have great attention to detail with the ability to produce compelling content as well as write persuasive copy and to think strategically in terms of audience, channels and messaging and a good judgment to successfully spot opportunities.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

Please initially apply with a Word Copy of your CV - more information about the role and the organisation will be provided to suitable candidates.

Job Title: Advocacy & Patient Support Officer, Greater London

Responsible to: Lead Advocacy Officer for South England.

Location: Home-based, with travel as required.

Hours: 20 hours per week. Some evenings and/or weekend work will be required during the course of the job. 

Salary: £27.5K per annum pro rata (plus expenses, pension & generous annual leave).

Actual part-time salary: £14,867pa.

Job Title:  Advocacy & Patient Support Officer, Yorkshire and Humber

Responsible to: Lead Advocacy Officer for North England

Location: Home-based, with travel as required.

Hours: 25 hours per week. Some evenings and/or weekend work will be required during the course of the job.

Salary: £27.5K per annum pro rata (plus expenses, pension & generous annual leave).

Actual part-time salary: £18,584pa.

Job description

Two exciting opportunities have arisen to work for Kidney Care UK as Advocacy & Patient Support Officers, covering either London or Yorkshire and Humber. This is a challenging but rewarding role with opportunity for career development and personal growth.

Kidney Care UK is the leading national charity working to improve quality of life for kidney patients through advocacy, direct grants, educating and informing patients, counselling and funding patient-centred research, healthcare professionals and projects. The charity was established over 40 years ago to address the many issues associated with kidney disease and kidney failure.

We wish to appoint an enthusiastic, sensitive and professional individual who has excellent communication skills and the ability to work with patients, carers, health professionals and relevant health and community stakeholder groups. You should be a natural problem-solver, proactive in your approach and really enjoy working with people.

The successful applicant will join our team of experienced Advocacy Officers. Full training will be provided, including Safeguarding. The position will be home-based; travel within the region will be required, once safe to do so. This opportunity may suit someone with kidney disease, a carer or family member, health professional or someone who has worked closely with people with long-term conditions.

Kidney Care UK is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expect all staff and volunteers to actively support this commitment. An Enhanced DBS will be required for this role.

We want to hear from all interested candidates, and to be considered for the position we strongly recommend submitting a detailed covering letter along with your CV, outlining why you're right for the role.

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