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Senior Social Worker – Strengthening Families Team

Part time – 22 hours per week

Permanent position

Based in Reading, Berkshire

Pro rata salary in the range £19,618 - £23,978 pa (£32,994 - £40,326 FTE)

We are one of the UK’s leading voluntary adoption agencies, rated Outstanding by Ofsted, and have been at the forefront of adoption services for over 60 years, working with local authorities across the country.

We are proud to say that a PACT adoptive family is a PACT family for life and therefore families have access to our adoption support service whenever they need it. 

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, qualified adoption social worker to join this important service, as a key member in our Strengthening Families team.  Ideally, we are looking for someone with some form of therapeutic experience (particularly with trauma and attachment) however we are very happy and willing to support the right person to undertake the necessary training. We would look to support you to undertake some initial Theraplay and/or DDP training for instance in order to build upon your existing knowledge base and to equip you further for this exciting role.

If your passion is to work in a family and child-centred way to help families stay together and address communication and behavioural challenges then we would love to hear from you.

Interested?  Further details and an application form are available on our website.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Closing date:  noon, Friday 31st July 2020

Interview dates: Monday 10th and Wednesday 12th August 2020

PACT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults therefore please note our recruitment procedure includes DBS checks and overseas checks (where applicable). Please note prospective employees will need to evidence they have the relevant permission to work in the UK.

No agencies please

BIHR’s Human Rights Officers are an integral part of the team, enabling change through human rights by working with People, Communities, and Systems, taking what we learn from this to influence Policy.

A passion for human rights in the UK is a must. A commitment to ensuring the best possible practical use of domestic standards outside the courts is essential. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with solid knowledge of the Human Rights Act. This not an entry level role, and requires a level of experience of working directly with people using public series, community and advocacy groups, or public authorities.

BIHR is based at QMUL School of Law in East London. In exchange for our offices we teach a module on human rights, providing undergraduates with a course that focuses on the practical work of a human rights organisation. Our HROs assist with the development and deliver of this innovative clinical model. The role is home-based initially, due to Coronavirus. When a return to the office commences the ability to travel to the office for a min. of 4 days monthly within the core hours of 10am-4pm, will be required. Whilst much of our delivery is currently digital, when face to face work returns, the HRO role includes significant and regular travel across the UK. This includes overnight stays / early starts / late finishes (TOIL policy applies). A willingness and ability to travel regularly for work is a key requirement for this role

Main tasks and Responsibilities

All staff members are required to deliver their work in accordance with BIHR’s core mission, always acting in the best interest of the charity. A genuine commitment to supporting change through human rights across the UK is required at all times.

A Human Rights Officer’s main responsibilities will be to develop, deliver, review and improve information resources and one-off training sessions, all on the practical use of UK human rights law (non-litigation). These training sessions will be for people with care and support needs, their community and advocacy groups, and public services and authorities

• Develop current human rights information resources, including guides, handbooks, factsheets. Identifying and creating new resources, once agreed with PPM.
• Develop our online advocacy tools that sit under Your Human Rights. Identifying and creating new online tools, once agreed with PPM.
• Deliver a range of one-off training sessions through BIHR’s open calander. Identifying and creating new trainings, once agreed with PPM.
• Deliver a range of one-off training sessions for client teams
• Provide short talks for a range of audiences. Identifying potential new clients and working with the PPM to develop these relationships.
• Reflect on the evaluation learnings of the above and incorporating this into future activities.
• Update BIHR’s website on the above activities, ensuring engaging and impactful content.
• To complete the above tasks using remote/digital means and via face-to-face work, with a clear understanding of accessibility and the needs of audiences

Develop, deliver, review and improve programmes on change through human rights. This is to be done alongside people with care and support needs, their community and advocacy groups and public services and authorities (including frontline staff, mangers and leaders, local and national commissioners and regulators)

• Develop, deliver and evaluate a range of projects with the above audiences, and a clear understanding of the needs of these different groups (rights-holders and duty-bearers)
• Use of a range of different learning and engagements approaches, including training, peer learning, network development, case and practice reviews, policy reviews and developments, and think creatively about the best means of supporting human rights capacity development.
• Establish clear project plans to guide deliverables and set expectations with partners, ensuring timely and effective interventions delivered within budget.
• Ensure effective monitoring and evaluations, with an emphasis on participative qualitative learning which can be shared internally and externally, including ensuring relevant information is collected and available for funder reporting.
• Update BIHR’s website on the above activities, ensuring engaging and impactful content.
• To complete the above tasks using remote/digital means and via face-to-face work, with a clear understanding of accessibility and the needs of audiences

Develop, deliver, review and improve policy work which enables people, community groups and public services/authority staff be heard in national debates about human rights law and policy

• Keep up to date with policy and legal reviews and opportunities in Westminster and the devolved nations, identifying key interventions for BIHR to share evidence on the practical value of a human rights approach to other laws and policy.
• Keep up to date with policy and legal review and opportunities in Westminster and the devolved nations, identifying key interventions for BIHR to share evidence on the value of domestic human rights law for people in their everyday lives.
• Lead policy interventions on the above by developing BIHR and joint/shared evidence submissions, policy papers, briefings, etc.
• Develop BIHR’s online communities of practice (3: people, community groups, public service/authority staff) supporting people to share their experiences to feed into policy interventions  
• Keep up to date with European and International mechanisms offering BIHR the opportunity to share evidence and commentary on human rights in the UK for the benefit of those we support. Agreeing any interventions with the PPM and actioning.

Research, analyse and produce commentary on a range of human rights issues impacting people’s everyday lives in the UK

• Use BIHR’s monitoring and evaluation data, and input from communities of practice, to research key human rights issues in the UK and develop public commentary
• Identify and respond to relevant external research and commentary on human rights issues relevant to BIHR’s work
• Provide commentary via a range of means including blogs and news pieces (for BIHR and for other groups and media), research papers, social media, etc.
• Keep up to date on key changes to law, policy and practice on UK human rights legislation, e.g. case law developments, new laws, etc.

Represent BIHR professionally and proactively including managing existing relationships and developing new ones, and participating in networks, forums and working groups

• Maintain and develop BIHR’s current relationships in the voluntary and public sectors, both on an individual basis and via network and forum memberships.
• Use initiative to identify and forge relationships with new partners and forums.
• Primary contact for your designated programme and policy work and relationship management and development.
• Ensuring good working relationships with a range of key contacts including policy and programmes partners and technical suppliers such as designers.

Additional supporting areas of work

• Work with the staff team to identify and secure income generating or fundraising opportunities to support BIHR’s growth and development.
• Supporting senior staff to ensure effective funder reporting.
• Teaching on our clinical module at QMUL Law School, sharing practical insights into BIHR’s work, convened by BIHR’s Director and PPM.
• Supporting colleagues with research and communications, including on social media and website development.
• Actively participating in internal meetings, review and development processes

Any other relevant duties as required by the Director or the PPM

Person specification

ESSENTIAL

Personal qualities

• Passionate commitment to BIHR’s mission and values and to working in the charity sector
• Strong team player with ability to get stuck in within a small organisation
• Efficient, reliable, flexible and collaborative working style and the ability to demonstrate initiative
• Self-motivating with ability to work effectively from home as part of a virtual team and in an office environment
• The ability, and appreciation of the need for, travel across the UK to deliver this role

Human rights knowledge and experience

• At least two years of experience of working on human rights, with specific experience of the Human Rights Act.
• A Masters level understanding of the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights, developed either through academic study or equivalent work-related experience.
• At least one year’s work experience of working in the charity sector or the public sector in a similar role.
• At least one year’s work experience developing an understanding of human rights standards in the delivery of health and social care, particularly mental health and/or mental capacity law.
• Demonstrable practical experience of human rights in relation to another area of people’s interactions with public services (e.g. housing, children, education, immigration, policing, welfare, etc.).

Learning and development skills and experience

• At least one years’ experience of development and delivery of rights-based training for adults, preferably including UK human rights.
• At least one years’ experience of developing and delivering programmes to build the capacity of people to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to bring about social change. (By capacity building we mean more than training). This can be with people directly, with community, advocacy or voluntary sector groups, or with staff in public services/ authorities, or a combination of these.
• Experience of creative approaches to technical or legal training.
• Experience of the development of practical information resources for people to support them to make change in their lives.
• Experience of development and implementation of monitoring and evaluating work and learning from this for future practice.

Policy, research and communications skills and experience

• At least one years’ experience of policy work, demonstrating a practical understanding of political and parliamentary processes.
• Experience of developing and drafting policy submissions (e.g. work related to government consultations, parliamentary and other inquiries, or other international processes).
• Work related experience of conducting research either desk-based/legal research and/or participative research directly with stakeholder.
• Ability to understand and communicate the practical significance of complex legal issues (preferably human rights) for non-legal audiences, using plain and engaging language.
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills, including the ability to communicate appropriately with a range of audiences.
• Excellent networking and relationship management skills, developed through demonstrable experience.

Computer and digital skills

• Technologically confident, working from a remote access cloud-based system
• High level skills in Microsoft Office particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Demonstrable ability to learn new packages, including BIHR’s website and social media platforms and programmes

Organisational skills

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy, including meticulous proof-reading and editorial support to colleagues
• Excellent administration and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously to a high standard
• Ability to work under pressure to deadlines, including remotely and adapt to a fast-moving environment

DESIRABLE

• Experience of using video conferencing or similar tools to delivery online sessions or a clear demonstrable ability to do so
• Experience of co-production approaches to working
• Experience of developing easy read material
• Knowledge of UN mechanisms relevant to the UK
• Experience of social media for professional purposes
• Experience of working with children or young people to deliver education and training
• Experience of delivering university level education

To apply for the post

Please use the application form provided. CVs or cover letters will not be considered. Please read the application form carefully and complete it in accordance with the instructions, particularly the personal statement section, which should address every part of the above person specification. Incomplete application forms will not be considered. No agencies please. Completed applications must be received by 10am Monday 10 August 2020. Late applications will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Interviews will be online via Zoom are likely to take place on Friday 21 August 2020 you should be available for and online interview on this date. If you have not heard back by that date, please note you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We are unable to provide feedback to non-shortlisted applicants.

We operate a rigorous interview process, which will consist of:

• A prepared verbal communication task for you to present at the interview (max 10 mins)
• A timed written task which you will be asked to complete within a time period prior to the interview, which you can chose (max 2-hour task)
• An online interview with a panel with unseen questions, using Zoom (max. 90 mins)

Senior Researcher: Nature-Climate Policy Lead
Central London 
The closing deadline for applications is 6th August 2020.

Interviews will be held on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th September 2020. Should there be a second interview stage, shortlisted candidates will be informed.

About Us

We are the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), an independent research organisation that aims to deliver positive change on a global scale.

We are currently looking for a Senior Researcher to join our team to lead our policy advocacy work on nature, climate and development. This post is a joint appointment between our Biodiversity Team in the Natural Resources Group (NRG) and our Climate Change Group (CCG). Funding is secure to April 2022 and for this period, the focus of the role is explicitly on helping IIED increase its engagement with CBD, UNFCCC processes and leading a series of high-profile events and communications linked to these processes.

To continue in the role beyond April 2022, you will be expected to contribute to the fundraising efforts of the Institute and develop new policy-focussed work, as well as continuing to raise IIED and partner profiles in the climate and biodiversity policy arenas through policy engagement and policy-relevant research; stakeholder engagement and capacity development; and communications and advocacy. 

The Benefits

- Salary of £47,009 - £51,783 per annum DOE
- Benefits package
- Fast-paced and engaging work environment
- Use your expertise to support worthwhile causes

If you have experience of working on international climate and biodiversity policy, this is an exciting opportunity to develop a new role in a leading international think tank.
 
Our mission is the build a fairer, more sustainable world using evidence, action and influence, working in partnership with others. If you think you could help us to achieve our vision, we would love to hear from you.

The Role

As the Nature-Climate Policy Lead, you will help to shape and promote a climate-nature-development triple agenda in international biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development policy processes, as well as in other international and UK political policy forums.  

You will identify critical moments in UNFCCC, CBD and wider UN (e.g. SDGs, UNGA) policy processes, and non-state actors’ processes to promote IIED key partner organisations’ policy positions.

Your role will involve:

- Leading IIED advocacy, engagement, and co-ordination on nature and climate in international policy negotiations 
- Developing new projects and ensuring coherence with existing institutional work on nature climate and development 
- Communicating and co-ordinating engagement in policy processes 
- Working with the Head of Media to raise the profiles of IIED and our partners on biodiversity, climate and development issues
- Supporting fundraising for this area of work 

About You

To join us as a Senior Researcher, you will need:

- Proven experience with international policy frameworks, agreements and initiatives addressing nature, climate and development
- Experience of working on climate and biodiversity issues, particularly in the context of links with local and national development
- Proven experience of engaging with international organisations, government agencies, academics, NGOs and other civil society organisations working on nature, climate and development
- Experience of creating, developing and/or working within consortia, networks, alliances, partnerships and international teams
- Excellent knowledge of UNFCCC, CBD and wider UN (e.g. SDG, UNGA) policy processes, as well as the key issues related to climate-nature-development triple agenda thinking, demonstrated through a record of relevant innovative and influential work and publications
- A relevant postgraduate degree, or a relevant degree and formal training, or equivalent experience 
- The willingness to travel internationally (in line with COVID-19 guidelines and restrictions) 

Excellent knowledge of UK political decision-making processes, particularly in relation to FCO/DFID, DEFRA and UK involvement in international policy forums (G7, UNGA etc.) would be beneficial. Excellent knowledge of LDC and/or Chinese government decision makers and international engagement processes would also be an advantage, as would the ability to read and write in French, Spanish and/or Mandarin. 

Other organisations may call this role Public Policy Lead, Advocacy and Policy Lead, Climate-Nature Specialist, Senior International Policy Officer or Senior Policy Researcher.

Webrecruit and IIED are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.

So, if you are seeking your next challenge as a Senior Researcher, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.

Making this happen is a massive challenge. We will only succeed if we build a fantastic body of knowledge about youth violence and make it very accessible. Central to this will be a highly accessible website that shows what works to reduce youth violence and what doesn’t. This website – which we call a ‘toolkit’ – will summarise, in a highly accessible way, decades of academic research.

You will be part of building this toolkit.

Key responsibilities

Most fundamentally, your job is to build and maintain a high quality, highly accessible and highly up to date body of research. This will include the production of a Toolkit that shows what works and what doesn’t in reducing youth violence and our wider evidence synthesis function. To achieve this, you will:

• Be a key part of the team tasked with the content production for the toolkit and how we synthesise and summarise existing evidence into accessible information on if specific practices and interventions are effective in reducing youth violence. 
• Build and maintain a highly effective working relationship with external stakeholders and partners.
• Review and write content for the Toolkit that is 100% plain English. You will make it your mission to ensure that only easy-to-understand content is on the website and that things are written with incredibly clarity.
• Listen hard to the priority audiences for the Toolkit so that you know how you can always be looking to improve it. You will build a real understanding of how Violence Reduction Units, Police and Crime Commissioners, Mayoral Combined Authorities, Local Authorities, Whitehall and Welsh Government officials and Youth Sector umbrella bodies think and make decisions.
• Ensure that all of our work at the Youth Endowment Fund is informed by the cutting-edge knowledge that you are building. You will ensure the toolkit can best inform new funding rounds that the Fund is launching so that we can always have the best possible clear understanding of what the existing evidence says.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You have produced high quality and highly accessible research. You are very well respected for the quality of research that you produced and the impact that that research had. The outputs you produced rarely just sat on a shelf. They were discussed, debated and led to change happening. You have an established track record of managing a wide range of research.

• You will have a post-graduate (Masters or PhD) qualification. This is in a relevant field such social science, social policy, public health, health services or other field, with a significant quantitative component, or relevant experience equivalent to Masters qualification.
   
• You write in a way that people easily understand. You have that rare skill of writing in plain English. You avoid jargon. If something is complicated, you are good at explaining it.

• You will have significant technical expertise in evaluation methods and evidence synthesis. This will include RCTs, QEDs, and knowledge and experience of evidence synthesis approaches such as metanalyses and systematic reviews. You will combine this with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible format to non-experts.

• You are very at ease with data: You are highly numerate and very comfortable working with complex data sets and advanced analytical techniques.
• You make change happen. You have experience of delivering results. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work. You care about evidence and information, but you are just as passionate about making change happen because of that information.
• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
• You are fascinated and thoughtful on how people engage with information. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make present information so that people find it engaging, use it, recommend it to others and return to it. You understand why people resist making evidence-based decisions. You come alive talking about to make information and evidence really accessible so that people change what they do.
• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
• You are at ease with policy makers. You are very comfortable and experienced talking to and exploring policies with policy makers whether junior civil servants, senior civil servants or advisers. You are very effective in these conversations.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values.

You may have:

• A good level of knowledge and understanding of crime or serious violence. You know the facts, understand the issues, know the key people, and can discuss the theories. You are knowledgeable on this topic and very at ease discussing it with experts.

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

To apply, please send a CV, cover letter and the monitoring form from our careers page by midnight, 12th July, 2020.

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 20th July.

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27th July.

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
 

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
 

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

We are recruiting a Senior Policy Researcher to join our Consumer and Public Services team. People who come to Citizens Advice for support are five times more likely to be in poverty. Our team tries to change policy by tackling practical problems that improve our clients’ financial health. In recent years, we've done this by:

• Helping reduce the bills paid by loyal and vulnerable customers in essential markets by £260m
• Persuading regulators to introduce a cap on certain high cost credit products, which have reduced costs by £60m
• Lobbied for the introduction of a ban on letting fees, which has saved renters £13m a month

Our team is now at the forefront of the organisation’s advocacy response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our organisation is unique. We directly help 2.7 million people to solve their problems each year. Through these interactions we see first hand, and in real time,  the problems faced by people across England and Wales. We spot emerging issues quickly, often even before government - a particularly crucial role we’re playing at the moment. This makes us uniquely placed to develop effective solutions and influence government, regulators and industry.

You’ll be joining the team at a challenging time for the people who come to us for support and will quickly be leading influential policy research projects that you’ll design to make an impact on government and other policymakers’ decisions.
You will have strong analytical and research skills and the drive to change policy, working with our world-class news and public affairs teams to ensure these changes happen. 

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust is dedicated to improving the lives of young people and communities from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds.

Through our portfolio of high-impact programmes and partnerships we:

• Work with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, aged 13 to 30 to inspire and enable them to succeed in the career of their choice.
• Empower individuals and communities to create better places for people to live and work.
• Support people to create a fairer, inclusive society in which everyone can flourish.

We have undergone an exciting journey to move from being London-focused charity to having national reach by developing a fundraising portfolio that includes Individual Giving, Events & Community Fundraising, Corporate Partnerships (some with high profile brands) and Trusts & Foundations.

We are looking for an experienced and highly proactive Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager who can support on the delivery of a range of high value partnerships and manage a portfolio of partnerships. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to support on the delivery of key national partnerships, including Strategic and Charity of the Year opportunities involving employee fundraising, cause-related marketing and high-profile events and campaigns.

If you are the right person for this post, you are likely to have excellent interpersonal skills, ability to project manage and be able to work with senior stakeholders both internally and externally but also be ambitious, commercial, tenacious and ready for a challenge!

Job Purpose:

• To work with the CEO and Head of Operations and wider SLCT team to develop annual fundraising plans and targets
• To lead and manage all corporate fundraising activities (including high profile brands)
• To maintain and develop relationships with key funders and donors through face-to-face contact, telephone and written communication
• To develop engaging and high-quality materials and effective processes to help with thanking and stewarding supporters working with our communications team
• To work with the CEO and Head of Operations and wider SLCT team to help shape the proposition for corporate partners
• Build and nurture fantastic relationships with potential funding partners. You will work collaboratively with a range of funders, thinking creatively and strategically to maximise fundraising opportunities
• Pro-actively responding to opportunities for support, ensuring you have a holistic view about how to best maximise each relationship and activity
• Lead and manage the growth and development of the Trust’s corporate and major donor individual income by maintaining existing and developing new relationships with companies and individuals working closely the Fundraising Manager
• To identify and research new sources of funding within the corporate sector
• Develop, deliver and report on our fundraising strategy and tactical plans to ensure we achieve our fundraising targets. This will span our work with trusts and foundations, other grant-making bodies, philanthropists and corporates.
• Test and hone our materials, approach and systems to improve the fundraising ask and our stewardship strategies
• Work closely with colleagues across the trust to identify new opportunities and ensure partnerships are realistic and deliverable including the Fundraising Manager, Head of Operations and Head of Programmes.
• To research, prepare and submit funding proposals, e.g charity of the year, probono support including agreed outcomes.

Key skills / experience / abilities

• Minimum 3 years experiencecorporate partnership experience & fundraising experience
• Knowledge/experience of digital fundraising campaigns
• Experience of national fundraising strategies
• Proven track record of building relationships with high value supporters and corporates and an understanding of stewardship best practice
• Experience in creating and reviewing budgets, tracking and reporting on income
• Knowledge of the wider fundraising sector
• A self-starter who is happy to work independently and with the wider team,
• Must have the ability to prioritise own workload
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong organisational skills
• The ability to deliver via matrix and experience of team leadership
• Ability to see the bigger picture without losing sight of details
• A positive attitude and willingness to get stuck into tasks at a variety of different levels

Main tasks:

• To report to the Head of Operations and to deliver agreed outcomes with the wider SLCT team  
• To lead and manage high-profile corporate partnerships and fundraising activities of the organisation
• To maintain and develop relationships with key funders and donors through face-to-face contact, telephone and written communication
• To develop engaging and high-quality materials and effective processes to help with thanking and stewarding supporters working with our communications team
• Identifying opportunities to generate income and ensuring it’s messaging is amplified as widely as possible
• To identify and research new sources of funding within the corporate sector
• Develop and manage relationships with existing and new donors in order to maximise fundraising potential and supporter retention.
• To work with the Head of Operations and Head of Programmes to help shape the proposition for partners ensuring our programmes deliver maximum return for the Trust

Line management

• To manage direct reports and matrix manage others to deliver on all fundraising objectives
• Experience of managing a team

Administrative

• To ensure that accurate records of all supporter activity are tracked effectively
• To maintain accurate and up to date records of all funding opportunities, appeals, approaches, donor contacts and coverage.

General

• To attend supervisions, team meetings and other meetings, as and when required.
• To attend internal and external training courses, as agreed with your line manager.
• To represent the organization at internal and external events including networking events, fundraising events and launch activities, as and when required, occasionally on evenings and weekends.
• To adhere to the Institute of Fundraising Code of Practice, Charity Law, Health & Safety Law, GDPR and other relevant legislative requirements.
• To undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required.

Diversity Policy:

The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust is keen to encourage applications from individuals from a diverse range of applicants. We are particularly proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Please complete a 1-page covering letter statement attached to your CV demonstrating your capabilities in relation to each of the essential and personal qualities listed above, addressing each point in the order shown.

Where relevant use your answers to illustrate how your competences have helped you achieve positive results.  This will give you the best possible chance of being short listed.

Please note, we will interview suitable candidates before the closing date. 

This is a full-time post, but with some flexibility possible, to start September 2020.

Background

ShareAction is a charity and campaigning organisation working to unleash the power of the financial system to drive social progress and protect our environment. We focus on transforming the investment system, using it as a lever to generate positive social and environmental impact in the real world.

We do this by:

• Educating and working with investors to improve their practices;
• Influencing the policy-makers and industry regulators that can ensure the investment system serves society’s interests in the long-term;
• Campaigning to unlock the power of investors, as shareholders in companies, to change corporate behaviour (on issues such as climate change, good work and human rights, sustainable food and public health);
• Mobilising ordinary people, who have a stake in the investment system through their pensions and savings, to demand a change in how their money is invested;
• Collaborating with other civil society organisations who share our vision.

Job Description

You will be responsible for supporting ShareAction’s climate change corporate engagement team with high-quality research to inform our campaigns on the oil & gas and power generation industries and encouraging companies from a range of sectors—particularly hard to abate sectors—to set science-based targets. This will include ad hoc research to prepare for meetings, work on more long-term research projects (including surveys and the drafting of investor reports and briefings) and the presentation of research findings to target audiences, with the support of the rest of the climate team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Although your role will be varied and open to some change in the activities you will undertake, below are the types of activities that you can expect to be doing:

• Conducting and leading research on a broad range of topics linked to the intersection between climate change, financial services and a number of industry sectors (including oil & gas, mining, power, transport, and heavy industries);
• Drafting reports and briefings for a range of audiences, including investors and companies;
• Supporting the climate campaigns team with ad hoc research, for instance to prepare for meetings or presentations;
• You will work closely with our communications team to coordinate press and social media around publications;
• Presenting research findings to a variety of audiences, with the support of the climate campaigns team;
• Horizon-scanning to identify new developments and trends in the external environment which may provide opportunities for our mission.

Please note that this list isn’t exhaustive and the role might change slightly from time to time.

Person specification

We are looking for a passionate, determined individual, with the following experience and skills:

ESSENTIAL

• Experience of leading or being part of a research project;
• A good understanding of how climate change affects companies in a range of sectors;
• Ability to write about complex topics in a direct and understandable manner;
• Good analytical skills – the ability to quickly get to grips with new and complex subject areas, assimilate information, pull out the relevant points and communicate them to a wide variety of audiences;
• Excellent written and verbal English skills;
• Comfortable analysing, manipulating and presenting quantitative information;
• Experience writing press releases and social media content;
• Able to flex, balance competing priorities and reprioritise when needed;
• Great attention to detail;
• Good presentation skills;
• A good understanding of ShareAction and our objectives;
• Experience of Microsoft Office tools (particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and Office 365.

DESIRABLE

• A good understanding of responsible investment;
• A good understanding of any of the following sectors: financial services, mining, oil & gas, power generation, cement, shipping;
• Experience of working with CRM systems, ideally Salesforce.

ShareAction values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen). One of the ways we do this is by actively encouraging staff to work in ways that best suit their needs and our flexible working policy outlines many of the options available - such as part-time and term-time working, job sharing, home working and working compressed hours. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Due to Covid-19 all interviews will take place online, you will also be expected to work from home for the foreseeable future.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community. Note that all personal information will be removed from applications prior to shortlisting which can delay the process in responding to applications. 

Please note that to be considered for this post you must be legally eligible to work in the UK. Due to current restrictions we are unable to hire anyone that isn’t already living in the UK.

We are looking for a Senior Network and Sustainability Adviser for the Action for Global Health Network (AfGH), which represents over 60 of the UK’s leading NGOs, research institutions and health experts working to promote and improve global health.

AfGH believes that the UK Government should play a leading role in realising the right to health for all globally and works on a broad range of health issues with a focus on the quantity and quality of UK development assistance for health. The network provides a unique co-ordination and convening role mobilising UK global health advocates working towards a common strategy to hold UK government and global health institutions and stakeholders accountable, as well as providing a vital platform for dialogue between UK and global civil society and the UK Government.

The Senior Network and Sustainability Adviser is responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing the network’s fundraising strategy and network engagement strategy, to ensure the growth and sustainability of AfGH. They will play a critical role in raising income from the AfGH’s membership and through the development of funding proposals and new income streams.

The role will require some travel to and from London for AfGH related activities.

Key Accountabilities include:

1. To lead on the development and implementation of proposals to ensure organisational sustainability and legitimacy [60%]
2. To create and implement AfGH’s membership engagement strategy and grow the network [25%]
3. To support with the organisation of AfGH events [10%]
4. Other duties as directed by the Development and Network Manager [5%]

Location: Working remotely from home, occasionally co-work spaces, with frequent business travel.

Start date: Late Summer.

Salary: Band 1 or 2 Researcher depending on experience, £20,000 - £25,000.

Benefits: 30 days Annual holiday, Pension Scheme.

Hours of Work: Flexible, 35 hours per week; full-time, but part time may be considered.

Application Timetable: Wed 19 Aug mid-day: Close Thu-Fri 20-21 Aug: Shortlisting Tue-Fri 1- 4 Sep: Virtual Interviews.

The Dartington Service Design Lab is an internationally respected research and design charity dedicated to improving child outcomes. We seek a Researcher to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will enjoy a varied and quite independent role, spanning child development research, service design and evaluation, and public system reform. 

The work is rarely routine because we are often experimenting and trying to innovate with those who we work with. This requires a blend of mental agility, practicality, perseverance and an ability to adapt to deliver the necessary outcomes without continuous supervision. The person should be comfortable with ambiguity and approach new challenges with both curiosity and level-headedness. As a small organisation the wider team are mutually supportive as we all work closely together. The successful candidate will need to be able to communicate well with both their colleagues and our stakeholders. We value empathy and collaboration and a strong focus on using evidence for social good. 

We need a highly motivated researcher, equipped with a first, or upper second-class undergraduate degree in a relevant field, and those with a Master’s degree are strongly encouraged to apply as well. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Undertaking evidence reviews to inform policy and/or practice within tight deadlines; 

• Assisting with data collection, synthesis, management and analysis; 

• Helping prepare supporting materials for workshops, training and other events; 

• Drafting and refining reports, presentations and other dissemination outputs (including social media activities e.g. blogs, tweets etc.). 

• Conducting research activities with young people, families and stakeholders, using ethical and creative methods to adapt to participant need and contributing to insight synthesis and communication. 

Location is flexible, as a team we largely operate remotely across the UK with regular project related travel. We have also been using online and video communication tools well before the impact of COVID-19. Our staff tend to work from home or when appropriate, together in local co- working spaces, or from our own workspace in Devon. When possible, we also regularly meet as a whole team in Devon. 

The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and pre- employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. 

Job title: Senior Policy Adviser
Location: London with occasional travel to Leeds
Role: Fixed Term Contract to 4th June 2021, Part-time, 3 days per week
Salary: £48,270 + £4,000 London Weighting pro rata at 0.6 (FTE)

Job Details

We welcome applications for secondment from the health sector and encourage anyone wishing to do this to have advance agreement from their employer.

The NHS Confederation is the independent voice of NHS leadership. Our aim is an empowered healthy population supported by world class health and care services. Our 500+ members span the full range of organisations that provide and commission services including acute, community, mental health and ambulance service trusts; independent providers; clinical commissioning groups; and academic health science networks. We work across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and have a European Office focused on Brexit and international learning opportunities. We support our members to address the policy and strategic challenges facing the health and care system, influence the development of national policy and represent their views at the highest levels and in the public arena. In the last few months we have been working with members to ensure that there has been sufficient Government support to manage Covid-19 and we are now working on how we restore health and care services  more widely as part of our #NHSReset campaign.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Excellent knowledge of contemporary health policy, service delivery challenges and the wider NHS.
• A successful track record of delivering insightful and influential thought leadership and influencing through policy products and engagement activities
• Ability to write accessible and compelling policy narratives
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills that cut through complexity and provide insight
• Proven ability to build strong personal relationships and effective formal and informal networks.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including being personally credible and influential with senior stakeholders
• Ability to effectively manage a mixed portfolio of policy work, including scoping, ensuring it is relevant, timely and of a high quality

The Role

At this time of profound change our members need support to address the policy and strategic challenges of the evolving health and care policy landscape and a strong voice that materially shapes and influences the direction of travel so that the needs of patients and local populations are met in the best way possible. 

We have an opportunity for an exceptional policy professional who can work closely with our members to understand their views and needs and shape a programme of policy and advocacy work to meet them. You will be used to working at national level, with members and stakeholders to gather intelligence, develop policy positions, reports and briefings. Also, in acting as an expert in your field, representing the organisation’s and members’ views. You will be used to working effectively as part of a team of policy experts but also flexibly across organisational teams.  

In return you have the opportunity to develop a strong public profile as a national expert commenting on and helping to influence the future direction of health policy and practice. As well as an excellent benefits package including 30 days annual leave, pension scheme, flexible working, salary sacrifice schemes and season ticket loans. 

The NHS Confederation welcomes all applicants from all backgrounds and is committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a process that is fair, open, consistent, and free from discrimination. We believe it is essential to build a diverse and inclusive company culture where all employees feel valued, respected, and acknowledged.

The NHS Confederation is also committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly to respond to changing circumstances and we want to ensure we do as much as possible to help support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.

Application deadline: Thursday 16th July (midnight)
Interview date: Tuesday 28th July (remotely)

Do you have a passion for data, insight and prospect management techniques which inform successful fundraising strategies? Have you worked with complex customer relational management databases and looking for the next stage in your career in a role which directly supports young people’s education?

We are looking for an analytical and curious prospect research and insight specialist to join our small team at an exciting stage of growth as we look to increase philanthropic income raised to support projects across the LSBU Group.

You’ll source new potential donors, oversee LSBU donation management and surface information from our database to inform our strategies.

Our No Barriers to Brilliance Campaign is about bringing education and opportunity to our communities. Our work has impact. It gives hope, changes lives, builds communities and strengthens society and we will keep working until the playing field is level for everyone.

By joining our team, you have the power to help our students thrive and create opportunities for people who might not otherwise have them.
 

To apply for this post please go to our web site.

To identify the vacancy you wish to apply for, click in ‘Job title’ and enter either the job title or the Job Ref.

Please Note: The Job Reference number for this post is REQ4840

During the unprecedented situation of Corona Virus (COVID-19), we want to provide some assurance that where possible we are continuing with recruitment to our vacancies and look forward to you applying.  Emails will be used to correspond with applicants, please ensure that you use an email account that you regularly monitor.  We have provisions to conduct interviews remotely and will direct you to the relevant video interviewing system via email.

Senior Manager

NSPCC JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE:                 Senior Manager, Strategy & Impact Team

DEPARTMENT: Strategy, Policy and Evidence

LOCATION:                   Shoreditch, London

GRADE:                       P6

NSPCC are seeking an exceptional candidate to lead the implementation of our ten year strategy which will formally launch in April 2021. The next strategy will enable us to achieve greater change for children and further our aim of preventing child abuse and neglect.

The successful candidate will have strong support for NSPCC’s mission and values and experience of strategic thinking. They will work as part of the Strategy and Impact team alongside the Project Management Office to help teams across the NSPCC to transition to the new strategy.

JOB PURPOSE

To further the NSPCC’s impact by leading strategy implementation planning and the management of organisational change. This person will help us move to our new organisational strategy and to keep the strategy alive and relevant for teams across the NSPCC, strengthening strategic thinking on individual projects and services, so together we make the biggest difference for children.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Help teams across the NSPCC make the biggest difference for children

• Provide strategic advice and support to teams and cross-direct initiatives, providing advice, conducting strategic reviews, and leading workshops (eg what is the NSPCC’s strategy for xx type of abuse?).
• Provide thought leadership, working in a collaborative way to draw from the expertise that sits inside and outside the NSPCC e.g. becoming a trauma informed organisation, making EDI part of all we do.
• Lead and incubate specific projects to improve organisational delivery of the strategy, working with experts and key stakeholders to understand issues and develop solutions and buy-in.
• Identify opportunities for the NSPCC to make further progress towards its mission. Adapt the strategy/its ambitions over time, assessing internal and external learning and opportunities.
• Scrutinise and challenge evidence from a wide variety of sources.
• Develop ways of working and operating model/organisation design.
• Manage and commission primary and secondary research and/or consultancy.
• Bring best practice on strategic thinking, implementation planning and change management practice to the NSPCC’s work to strengthen strategic focus and delivery.

Coordinate cross-organisation planning processes

• Contribute to cross organisation annual business planning and target setting.
• Oversee implementation planning for the new strategy. Monitor and report on implementation progress and risks, identifying issues and taking mitigating actions.
• Contribute to reporting and communicating the progress being made towards our organisational strategy, shining a light on successes, and highlighting where leadership attention may be needed.
• Identify ways to strengthen organisational planning and performance management.
• Apply change management tools, to translate plans into action

Bring the strategy to life: make it meaningful for our people and our users

• Be an ambassador for the strategy and translate it into meaningful changes for all. Develop relationships, act as an information broker between teams, identify and raise issues and help us to understand where more engagement and support is needed.
• Provide proactive and sustained messaging about why this strategy, why now, why us, and the roles we all play towards achieving it. Support others to play these roles, internally and externally.
• Continually look for ways to strengthen the quality of performance management. For example, ensuring that high quality conversations around impact and progress towards the strategy are taking place throughout the organisation.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Reports to the Associate Head of Impact, in the Strategy, Policy and Evidence directorate
• Works closely with the Strategy, Policy and Evidence Senior Management Team and the NSPCC’s Leadership Team more widely
• Interfaces with Directors on the Executive Board including the Chief Executive
• Key influencers relevant to the children’s sector including other charities, local and national NSPCC partners 

KEY INTERDEPENDENCIES

• Linking to all parts of the Strategy, Policy and Evidence directorate
• Linking to and facilitating annual business planning
• Linking to and facilitating the setting of annual targets, representing the scale of our ambition
• Linking to the Project Management Office, which oversees the top priority projects and programmes across the NSPCC.
• Linking with Communications teams

PERSON SPECIFICATION

1. Commitment to our mission to end cruelty to children. Courageous in standing up for what is right, identifying and acting on concerns in a timely and sensitive way.
2. Confident strategic thinker: able to appreciate the bigger picture and apply sound judgment to identify highest impact options. Able to seek out relevant evidence, develop insights and relate this to the mission of the NSPCC.
3. An understanding of organisational strategy and planning, with some experience of change management.
4. Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, comfortable working with senior internal and external stakeholders, with an ability to convince and inspire others.
5. Oriented to continuous improvement, finding solutions and making an impact. Takes the initiative, learns from past performance and is open to change.
6. Quality written and oral communication, able to produce high quality written reports, deliver impactful presentations, and facilitate discussions.
7. Proven project management skills including project planning and managing multiple stakeholders. Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritise accordingly, working independently.

NSPCC Values

The NSPCC is the only charity focused on ending child cruelty across the UK. Everything we do protects children and prevents abuse. A brand’s values determine how an organisation acts; they shape the way it works and they create a point of difference. These are the values that we feel best embody the NSPCC brand and what we stand for:

Putting children first: we believe in children and we want what’s best for them.

Taking a stand: We are brave in our actions and we stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Making an impact: We base our decisions and actions on evidence and the difference these will make to ending cruelty to children.

Striving for excellence: We always strive to do and be the best we can, so that we can – directly and indirectly - give every child the start in life they deserve.

Working together: We always achieve more for children through working together.

About us
Crisis is the national charity for people facing homelessness. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

This is an exciting time to join the Policy and Campaigns team at Crisis and play an important role to help us advance our goal to end homelessness in Great Britain. In the last few weeks we have seen significant progress in policy making on homelessness, and it is a critical time to ensure this momentum is not lost.
As Senior Policy Officer for Health and Homelessness Prevention, you will lead a new area of policy work for Crisis, developing our policy positions and strategy around health to ensure that health policy is well-considered and advocated for in our solutions to end homelessness. You will also work closely with Public Affairs and Campaigns colleagues on influencing decision makers to help people out of homelessness and campaign for the changes needed to solve it altogether.
 

About you
To be successful in this role you will have solid experience of leading policy projects in housing, homelessness, or health, and developing practical policy solutions to complex problems. You will also be enthusiastic about working cross-organisationally with frontline services and people with lived experience to develop policy from practice.

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 8.5%
· 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 apply now. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.

Closing date: Tuesday 14 July 2020 (11.59pm)

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

Legal Adviser or Policy Adviser - Criminalisation of Sexuality and Reproduction - Fixed Term Contract - 18 months

(This role is initially being offered as an 18-month fixed term contract, after which the job has scope to be offered on a permanent basis).

Location: London (N.B.: It may be possible for the post-holder to work from a different location if the candidate is based in a country/territory with an Amnesty International Secretariat office and we are in a position to hire an employee in that location - please see link below to see our worldwide office locations: )

Amnesty International is seeking a Legal Adviser or Policy Adviser to provide law and policy advice to Amnesty International's International Secretariat, including its various Regional Offices, and the broader movement on specified areas of human rights and related positions of the organisation, with a specific focus on sexual and reproductive rights, the criminalisation of specific conduct including sexuality and reproduction as well as other challenges related to criminal justice systems and related abuses, personal autonomy, gender related issues including as they pertain to non-discrimination; to contribute to the further development of the organisation's policies on a wide range of human rights issues, especially those pertaining to the aforementioned areas; to monitor developments at inter-governmental organisations and in other relevant forums relevant to standards, policies and practices, especially those pertaining to the aforementioned areas, and identify opportunities for pro-active engagement in collaboration with the relevant AI Programmes and Sections; to support the organisation's strategic litigation on specified areas of human rights.

About the role:

As Legal Adviser or Policy Adviser you will work closely with country and thematic researchers, advocates, media officers and campaigners in the International Secretariat and Sections/Structures to ensure human rights law and the organisation's human rights policies are applied and advocated in an effective manner through research projects, advocacy initiatives, media and campaigns. You will lead, help develop and/or support research, drafting, advocacy, policy, training and standard-setting activities as part of a project team leading Amnesty's work on the criminalisation of sexuality and reproduction. You will also work with colleagues in the Law and Policy Programme to ensure effective, coherent and timely output reviews and policy consultations, especially as they pertain to the aforementioned areas. You may also be required to provide specific support on issues pertaining to criminal justice systems and related abuses, detention, torture.

Depending on the post-holder's background and experience, the position will be one of Legal Adviser or Policy Adviser.

Please see to the job description for more information.

About you:

You will have substantial expertise and professional experience in human rights law. Particular expertise on sexual and reproductive rights, criminalisation of sexuality and reproduction, use and abuse of criminal justice approaches applied to or otherwise impacting on specific conduct or groups, gender related issues including as they pertain to equality and non-discrimination, including intersectional discrimination, personal autonomy and the rights to privacy and health would be critical. Good knowledge of human rights issues related to detention, torture, due process, expression, thought, conscience and religion would be additional assets. You will have demonstrated experience in research and advocacy on human rights issues, as well as experience in or working with the legal profession, inter-governmental organisations and/or human rights NGOs. You will have demonstrated legal drafting and analytical skills, e.g. through experience in the application of international law. You will also bring strong advisory and communication skills, including with a view to conduct effective advocacy.

You will have experience of planning, organizing and prioritising work under pressure and to deadlines. Excellent team skills are essential in this position. You will also have excellent external representational skills. You will have outstanding written and verbal English; the ability to work to a high professional level in another widely used language, particularly French or Arabic, will be a significant advantage.

Please see to the job description for more information.