Senior programme manager jobs in london, greater london
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This is a critical and exciting leadership role for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust which will take the Trust forward to the next phase of organisational growth, building on the superb achievements to date of our retiring CEO.
You’ll need passion and energy to work on some of the most profound challenges of our time. Nature needs its champions, and you’ll need to harness all of your skills, all of your personality, and your network to grow our influence, our impact, and our outcomes. You’ll excel at galvanising others to take action enabling us to achieve our aims and ensure bumblebees are thriving and valued by everyone.
This is an incredible opportunity to join a very special organisation with passionate and high-performing teams who are truly dedicated to our vital purpose.
Please refer to the CEO pack for further information.
The Trust is an Equal Opportunities employer. This means that whilst seeking employment or during such employment with the Trust, we will seek to ensure equality of treatment for all persons regardless of sex, race, age, marital or civil partnership status, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity status.
At the Trust, we have a clear goal: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on reaching for our vision, through the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are thrilled to be helping Spectra to find seek a compassionate, curious, and entrepreneurial Head of Fundraising.
You will ideally have experience managing a small teams to achieve impressive results across Trusts, Foundations and Individual Giving.
This is ideally 4 days week offering hybrid role with approximately twice a month in the London office.
The Charity
A long standing LGBTQ+ charity dedicated to providing supportive, expert, and non-judgemental peer-led health and wellbeing services.
You will be joining an incredible organisation that prioritises a work culture that is based on collaboration and a willingness to develop working practices and share existing skills!
The Role
We are looking for a creative thinker with entrepreneurial ideas and understand how to manage a breadth of income through multiple digital platforms, applications, and bids.
You will oversee the funding portfolio, steward meaningful relationships with trust and foundation funders, and support the development of individual donors.
You will oversee and develop the fundraising team, including line management of the PT Senior Trusts Fundraiser and the PT Fundraising Executive.
You will source and apply for funds to meet a range of strategic priorities over the next period, including managing, reviewing and renewing some existing grants.
The Candidate
You will have experience in successfully leading small fundraising teams.
You will have experience in developing multichannel individual giving programmes, and writing and submitting compelling high value bids for trusts and foundations.
If you manage with integrity, stand for LGBTQ+ rights, are committed to racial and social justice, and strive for health equity, get in touch!
IMPORTANT NOTE
Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful, but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.
We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.
Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.
We’re currently recruiting full time or part time Mental Health Practitioners to work directly with young people in our schools Mental Health Teams. For this post you need to have a mental health qualification and at least two years’ experience of working with young people. We are also looking for people with an open and flexible attitude; excellent engagement skills and a passion for working with children and young people around mental health.
Responsibilities include offering a flexible range of short-term and longer-term mental health interventions to primary and secondary aged children and young people including individual and group-based support; workshops; crisis support; mental health themed activities. The posts have scope and opportunity for developing new initiatives and ways of working to support young people’s mental health across South London.
All posts are based on-site (office/school) and may require flexibility to work across different service areas and interventions. Some evening and/or weekend work may be necessary to meet the needs of young people.
Off the Record was founded in 1994 to provide free, independent and professional counselling for 14 – 25 year olds in the Croydon area
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Connexional Worship Renewal Team Leader
London-Hybrid
Hybrid Working: Connexional Team staff based at Methodist Church House have a hybrid work pattern which is currently 2-3 days in the office.
We are offering a hugely exciting role to support Methodist worship renewal across The Connexion and to continue to enhance our wonderful communities of local preachers, worship leaders and musicians through the training and development programmes offered by The Methodist Church in Great Britain.
It is open to both ordained and lay Methodists alike.
In recognition of the centrality of the worshipping life of the Church to Our Calling as both Christians and Methodists, we are absolutely committed to effectively supporting (in theology, craft and with practical questions) all of those who lead worship. We also recognise the missional imperative for high-quality worship. Thus the holder of this post will lead a small team, whose aims are to:
- Empower all of those leading worship through support and development.
- Operationalise and manage the Worship Renewal stream of the Methodist Church in Britain’s God For All ambition and strategy.
This will include working strategically; embedding deep learning and practice; envisaging and developing exceptional training and resourcing for all those involved in worship leading; managing staff, workplans and budgets; and being responsible for the governance aspects which sit within this role.
About you
Thus, we are looking for someone who is a gifted ‘crafter of worship’ and preacher, with deep sensitivity for Methodist worship in its varied traditions, passion for excellence in Methodist worship and creative strategic thinker. You will care deeply about the communities of people who lead Methodist worship, working alongside them to enable all to lead worship which contributes to flourishing Methodist churches.
It is essential, therefore, that you are a presbyter, deacon or local preacher in The Methodist Church, have a deep understanding of Methodist – and wider – theology with an understanding of how to translate these for contemporary society. You will have an excellent understanding of current training structures for worship within The Methodist Church, alongside experience of leading and managing change in a complex organisation.
The team
The Ministries and Learning Team in which this role sits, is friendly, supportive, vibrant and passionate. Within this team, you will be line-managed by The Director of Ministry Development. The Team exists to equip the Methodist Church by training, developing and supporting those called by God to serve in lay and ordained ministry embedding the strategies which support the Church’s aspiration to be inclusive, justice seeking, evangelistic and growing.
The postholder will manage a small team and work widely with other teams, such as Evangelism and Growth, and across the wider Connexion.
This post carries an occupational requirement for the post holder to be a Christian (in accordance with the Equality Act 2010).
Our Culture, Values and Benefits
Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.
We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Well-being Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.
The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups. We also welcome applications from people living with disabilities.
For ministers in Full Connexion the standard terms of service apply.
Closing date: 2 October 2025
Interview date: 21 October 2025 (Methodist Church House, London)
The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.

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Head of Internal Audit
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the team as the internal auditor.
Applications from individuals who are seeking flexible working options, including reduced hours or job shares are welcomed.
Position: SIT60 Head of Internal Audit
Location: Home-based. However, occasional travel will be required as part of this role (may include team meetings or other work-related meetings)
Salary: Circa £33,500 (FTE circa £51k) (inner London weighting £2,595 pro rata or outer London weighting £1,495 pro rata may be applied in accordance with where you live)
Hours: Part-time, 23 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 10 October 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Interview Date: 21 October 2025. Depending on the outcome a second interview may be arranged.
Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.
The Role
The role reports to the Associate Director of Legal and Governance, with an independent reporting line to the Chair of the Finance Committee.
The role will provide a comprehensive programme of internal audits into the activities of our charity and will report to our Finance Committee with recommendations for improvement. This is a crucial role in safeguarding the charity’s assets and reputation.
Key responsibilities will include:
- To establish effective and robust operational and strategic Internal Audit plans for the Charity and to report on progress of the plan
- To carry out the Internal Audits within the Internal Audit Plan, within the agreed timetable and budget shown in the Plan, to report on them, to present them to Board and Committee meetings and to monitor progress.
- To liaise with externally sourced providers of internal audit services in support of the role and for conducting internal audits into specialist areas of activity of the charity (such as IT arrangements).
- To maintain a strong working relationship with the Finance Committee, its Chair and the Chief Executive and to act as a Business Partner to all Executive Directors in relation to internal audit.
- To contribute to the Charity’s efforts to avoid fraud, including by advising on new policies and to lead on fraud investigations where appropriate
- To ensure a joined-up approach to both the external and internal audit work, minimising duplication and feeding into the external audit risk assessment.
- To liaise effectively with colleagues to ensure any potential new financial systems have adequate consideration of internal controls.
- To keep up to date with Internal Audit practice and developments and advise the Charity in relation to internal audit matters.
About You
You will have:
- A qualification in internal audit or accounting (e.g. CIA, MIIA, AAT, ACCA, CIMA) as a minimum.
- A good knowledge of how charities operate and their main processes including Finance, HR, Fundraising and CRM systems.
- An in-depth knowledge of risk based internal auditing techniques, including testing and sampling methodologies.
- A good understanding of charity related compliance requirements, and appropriate counter-fraud measures and risk management processes
- An ability to act with authority and provide an independent voice on internal audit matters affecting the charity.
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
When you click to apply, you will be able to see the full responsibilities and person specification for further information on the role.
Please submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Please state any preferences for flexible options in your covering letter. Applications from individuals who are seeking flexible working options, including reduced hours or job shares are welcomed.
Finding strength through support
The organisation is the only charity in the UK providing lifelong support for all stroke survivors and their families. Providing tailored support to tens of thousands of stroke survivors each year. This support includes one-to-one and group support, funding vital scientific research into stroke prevention, acute treatment, recovery and long-term care, and campaigning to secure the best care for everyone affected by stroke.
They are here for stroke survivors and their loved ones, from the moment they enter the new and frightening post-stroke world, supporting them every step of the way as they find their strength and their way back to life.
It’s only thanks to the generosity of supporters and donors that they can provide vital support.
The Association is driven by an ambition to improve the lives of everyone affected by stroke. This means they’re determined to create an equitable and inclusive workplace that benefits from the difference, and thrives on the diversity, of our people. Guided by an approach to solving inequity in stroke, the team are prioritising listening to, and learning from, lived experience across the charity.
The charity are working to improve the representation of this lived experience at all levels within the Association and are eager to recruit applicants from a variety of communities and backgrounds. We are keen to receive applications from people affected by stroke, people of colour, members of LGBT+ communities, and disabled people because these identities and experiences are underrepresented and would add enormous value to how the organisation work.
A Disability Confident employer, the organisation is making great progress focusing on flexible working, reasonable adjustments and access to work. The charity has a variety of staff network groups and are committed to continuously improving diversity and inclusion efforts. If you have questions, or access needs, we’re happy to discuss any support and adjustments we can make throughout the recruitment process so that you’re able to contribute your best in a way that meets your needs.
You may also have experience in areas such as Auditor, Lead Auditor, Head Auditor, Head of Internal Audit, Head of Internal Auditing, Director of Internal Audit, Director of of Internal Audit, Internal Auditing Director, Internal Audit Director, Senior Auditor, CIA, MIIA, AAT, ACCA, CIMA. #INDNFP
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Charity People are delighted to be partnering with a leading literacy charity to recruit for their next Head of Digital.
This charity empowers children, young people and adults from disadvantaged communities with the literacy skills they need to succeed. They work directly with young people and their families, with the 5,000 schools in these communities, with nurseries, prisons, YOIs and through their teams leading community literacy programmes in 20 places in the UK facing the biggest literacy and poverty challenges. Literacy is a vital element of action against poverty and their work changes people's life stories.
Contract: Permanent role
Salary: £50,000 to £55,000
Location: Contracted to London office (SW8 1RL) with flexible home working
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Closing date for applications: Monday 6th October
Interview date: first stage interviews will be held remotely on Friday 17th October with second round held week commencing 27th October
As Head of Digital, your core responsibilities will include:
- Lead the development and implementation of the charity's digital transformation strategy
- Provide digital leadership and expertise across the organisation
- Oversee the development of digital platforms to enhance brand and mission delivery
- Lead the delivery of key digital projects on time and within budget
- Enhance data analysis and CRM capabilities, developing reporting dashboards, generating data-driven insights and making recommendations to optimise performance and growth
- Manage the digital marketing budget and relationships with third-party suppliers
- Work with the Director of Marketing and Communications to build, implement, and maintain a consistent and high impact brand strategy
- Lead high-quality campaign activity on all digital channels, demonstrating the charity's thought leadership and influencing policymakers and politicians and ensuring brand and messaging is consistent through all digital channels
- Oversee development of content for websites, social media and newsletters
- Ensure communications channels influence existing and potential donors and supporters of the charity
We'd love to hear from candidates with the following skills and experience:
- Proven significant experience in senior digital leadership and/or strategy development
- Strong track record of managing agency partnerships
- Expertise in influencing public opinion or behaviour through communications and marketing
- Experience leading and motivating a digital team
- Success in delivering consumer-facing, digital-first campaigns
- Skilled in managing relationships with senior external stakeholders
- Excellent cross-departmental collaboration and communication skills
We're particularly interested in receiving applications from candidates who have the following experience, although this is not essential:
- Experience of contributing to organisational strategy development
- Good understanding of the role of digital marketing to deliver strategic growth
- Knowledge of using data insights to support strategy development
- Knowledge of how behavioural insight can be utilised to deliver behaviour change
If you're interested in hearing more about this opportunity, please send your CV to Alice Wood at Charity People in the first instance.
Charity People is a forward thinking, inclusive organisation that actively and deliberately promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We know organisations thrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment by matching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespective of background e.g. 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 this because we believe that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we work with.
Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our new Data Transformation Martech Specialist.
About the role
Our innovative Data, Digital, and Technology Transformation team are driving a large-scale change programme for AIUK. We are on a mission to revolutionise our systems to better align with our strategic goals, ensuring our technology, data and digital capabilities empower our work. By joining us, you will contribute to a human rights impact that resonates globally, leveraging cutting-edge solutions to amplify our efforts. If you are passionate about leveraging technology for social good, this is your chance to make a difference and be part of a team shaping the future of human rights.
The Data Transformation MarTech Specialist will play a pivotal role in a significant cross-organisational multi-year project to comprehensively overhaul AIUK's data and digital capabilities. As the marketing expert in a dedicated project team, you will work to deliver our new CRM and MarTech solution, deploying a full suite of supporting technologies with particular focus on our marketing technology applications.
Collaborating closely with external partners and key internal stakeholders, including AIUK's Data and Insight Team, you will lead on AIUK's transition from our existing marketing technology stack to a new Marketing Cloud solution (or a suite of new marketing applications) that will enable us to provide a seamless experience across all marketing channels and help us to comprehensively manage all of our marketing activities. This is a two-year fixed term role, which is expected to be the maximum length of the transformation programme.
More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.
The role may be for you if:
- You have experience evaluating and implementing new marketing tools/platforms.
- You can lead the review and documentation of Amnesty's marketing processes.
- You collaborate well with others and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
- You have a good knowledge of CRM solutions, with Salesforce desirable
Our Commitment to you
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.
New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro-rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.
Apply for this role
This vacancy advert may be taken down from job boards earlier than the stated deadline if a high standard of applications is received (if you have started an application in our portal, you will still have opportunity to complete it by the original deadline).
We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage applications from people from an ethnic minority background, and people with a disability to help us achieve a balanced representation in our workforce, especially at senior grades.
To reduce bias in our shortlisting process, AIUK operates an anonymised application process. If for any reason you prefer to apply in a different format, or require adjustments in the process, please get in touch. To support all candidates to perform their best at interview, we send questions 24 hours in advance. We are a disability confident organisation.
Visit amnesty.org.uk/jobs for application guidance and information on benefits, recruitment inclusion and hybrid working.
About MSI
MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.
Today, our organisation has almost 9,000 team members working in 36 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centred care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.
We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.
About the Role
The Head of SBC (Social and Behaviour Change) and Inclusion is a critical technical leadership position that supports country programmes to design solutions that improve attitudes, support for and uptake of sexual and reproductive health services across communities. This includes guiding and building capacity in user-centred design principles to ensure projects are inclusive and responsive to the needs of the audience. It also means incorporating best practice to create programming that is gender transformative and equitable. This role will be focused on the “Leaving No One Behind” Pillar of the MSI 2030 strategy with a special focus on reaching key populations and vulnerable groups including adolescents, people living with disability and people in extreme poverty.
This role will also be responsible for coordinating with donor teams and supporting programmes to ensure completion of key donor deliverables related to SBC and GESI Gender Equality and Social Inclusion).
About You
For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.
This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.
Our values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction. They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all that they do.
We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open-mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.
We seek exceptional communicators who are self-motivated, solutions-driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous setting.
To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills:
- Good strategic thinker: able to pull together persuasive strategy and concept notes to convince others on the soundness of MSI digital strategy
- Strong technical experience with a commitment for delivering the best possible client care
- Strong people leadership and influencing skills: ability to quickly and effectively build relationships and establish high degree of trust & respect with multiple client and third-party stakeholders
- Excellent communicator – verbal & written – the ability to engage, empathise and convince variety of stakeholders at all levels have confidence in facilitating internal / external and client workshops
- Very strong analytical & evaluation skills ability to translate data into insights into action and show others how to effectively utilise client insights. Ideally trained in Human Centred Design techniques
- Excellent team management skills – can build, motivate and champion successful teamwork
- Strong prioritisation and organisational skills
- Innovative and creative in looking for solutions to meet needs of clients, providers, donors & MSI team.
To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience:
- Deep & wide experience in SBC programming across a range of markets and contexts
- Demonstrable experience and leadership in user-centred design, including research & insight methodologies, ideation and prototyping
- Understanding of GESI principles, including experience with design and measurement of gender-transformative programming
- Demonstrated experience of leading change initiatives by motivating teams & fostering a positive culture and delivering results
- Have a strong track record of team and project leadership
- Good practical experience of influencing stakeholders not under your direct management
Formal education/qualification
- Degree level education/ post-graduate qualifications or equivalent. Ideally Communications, Life science, Public Health, Business, Marketing
- Proficiency in French desirable but not required
Please see the job framework on our website.
Location: London, UK (minimum of 2 days per week in the office) or any country programme MSI operates in.
Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £46,000 - £59,600 per annum for UK based candidates. Discretionary bonus + benefits. For all other locations, the salary will be banded within the national context.
Salary band: BG 10
Closing date: 26th September 2025 (midnight BST). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.
For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.
Director of Engagement & Fundraising
Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: £140,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Every child deserves to be safe, loved, and free from abuse. At the NSPCC, that belief drives everything we do.
We are the UK’s oldest and largest children’s charity, and today our mission has never been more urgent. From tackling the challenges of online safety to delivering vital frontline services, we are responding every day to the changing world children are growing up in. children.
This is a pivotal moment for the NSPCC. We are establishing an Engagement & Fundraising Directorate to modernise how we connect with supporters and unlock new opportunities for growth and that is why we are on the hunt to find a bold, visionary, and collaborative leader to join us as our Director of Engagement & Fundraising.
What You’ll Do:
As our new Director, you will lead the charge in transforming our income generation strategy and driving sustainable growth. You’ll inspire and empower teams to achieve their best, champion supporter-first thinking and strengthen our brand and digital presence to reach more people than ever before. Sitting at the heart of our Executive Board, you’ll shape strategy, spark innovation and deliver real impact for children on a national scale.
This is an opportunity to shape the future of the NSPCC and ensure we can protect children for generations to come.
Who You Are:
You will bring a proven record of driving income growth at scale, with deep expertise in fundraising and supporter engagement, including digital. You’ll be an experienced leader of large, diverse teams, skilled at guiding transformation with clarity and resilience. Strategic yet hands-on, you combine vision with execution and you are an outstanding communicator who can inspire trust and build strong relationships at every level.
Above all, you’ll be driven by the belief that together, we can end child abuse.
Ready to Learn More?
Click below to view our full Candidate Pack for everything you need to know including how to apply.
Closing date: Wednesday 8th October, 9am.
Help shape national debates on justice and champion the voice of magistrates.
We’re looking for a Policy and Research Officer to join the Magistrates’ Association and turn evidence into influence.
The MA is the only independent membership body for magistrates in England and Wales. With around 12,000 members, we speak truth to power, support our members, and advocate for a fairer and more effective justice system.
This is a varied, fast-paced role where no two days are the same. One day you might be writing a briefing for a parliamentary inquiry or drafting a consultation response; the next you could be analysing survey data, supporting one of our national policy committees, or working with colleagues to launch a new advocacy report in the media.
You’ll be joining a small, supportive team where your ideas can have real impact. Recent projects have tackled judicial diversity, recognition for magistrates, reform of the Single Justice Procedure, and access to justice for disabled magistrates. Your work will help shape the future of the magistracy — and through it, the wider justice system.
We’re looking for someone with strong research and analytical skills, excellent writing and communication, and the ability to grasp complex issues quickly. If you’re passionate about justice and want to see your work influence real-world change, this role is for you.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Overview
We are seeking an experienced, high-performing Challenge Events Lead to drive forward a flagship portfolio of challenge fundraising events with strategic control, operational excellence and a deep sense of ownership.
This is a senior delivery role, accountable for all aspects of planning, executing and evaluating complex fundraising events across Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, Evelina London Children’s Charity, and Guy’s Cancer Charity. This position requires someone who can operate independently, manage high-value partnerships, oversee delivery risks, and influence cross-functional teams with credibility.
You will be expected to take initiative, lead relationships and processes without supervision, and support junior colleagues in upholding the highest operational standards. A key element of this role is working closely with the Events Fundraising Co-ordinator to ensure seamless delivery — offering guidance and support across all operational touchpoints, while also benefiting from their delivery support in return.
About us
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity, Guy’s Cancer Charity and Evelina London Children’s Charity are part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation. Our collective mission is to build the foundations of a healthier society.
As part of our team, you will work alongside talented people from a mix of personal and professional backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part-time roles and job shares. Though our ambitions are serious, this is a friendly place to work with lots of opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.
There is more information about working with us on our website, where you can read about:•
- how we approach recruitment
- our team, culture and values
- the benefits of working with us
- and our approach to diversity, equity & inclusion, health & wellbeing, and learning & development
Overall Purpose of the role
The Challenge Events lead plays a critical role within the fundraising team, combining strategic oversight with a hands-on commitment to delivery excellence. At a time of organisational transformation and ambitious long-term growth, this role is central to building the operational foundations and supporter experiences that will enable our 10-year vision to succeed.
This role will provide clear direction and structure to the planning and execution of our event portfolio, while remaining close to the operational detail — streamlining processes, refining supporter journeys, and driving performance through data, insight and continuous improvement.
This role is responsible for setting high standards across everything from partnership engagement to on-the-day execution. It requires someone who is comfortable working autonomously, leading high-value relationships with professionalism and precision, and bringing creative thinking to how we engage and retain our event supporters.
The Challenge Events Lead will also guide and support the Events Fundraising Co-ordinator, working in close partnership to deliver exceptional stewardship across the supporter lifecycle and elevate every touchpoint — from first sign-up to post-event celebration.
This is a key opportunity for an experienced event professional to shape the future of events at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation and play a leading role in how we build supporter loyalty, scale income, and strengthen our presence in third-party partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently lead the planning, delivery, and evaluation of a portfolio of flagship challenge events — including the London Marathon, London Landmarks Half, Brighton Marathon, Ultra Challenges and other third-party partnerships — ensuring a high standard of execution and supporter experience.
- Drive and manage Charity of the Year pipelines and partnerships, contributing to long-term income growth and brand visibility through strategic relationship-building and high-profile placement.
- Act as the strategic lead and primary relationship manager for key external partners (e.g. London Marathon Events, delivery agencies), safeguarding supporter experience, brand integrity and value across all touchpoints.
- Oversee console and registration systems, ensuring a smooth and seamless experience for participants from sign-up through to post-event engagement, while proactively identifying areas for optimisation.
- Develop and manage detailed event budgets, including forecasting, tracking, reconciliation, and net income reporting — with a clear place allocation strategy that aligns with ROI, supporter demand, and market trends.
- Lead on portfolio-level financial accountability, using budget performance, participation data and market insight to inform decisions around where to invest, expand, or strategically scale back — ensuring resources are directed where they’ll deliver the strongest return and long-term value.
- Lead on supporter acquisition strategy across owned and paid channels — including ballot management, grassroots marketing, and behavioural communications — to ensure high-quality leads, strong retention and long-term supporter engagement.
- Provide operational oversight, guidance and mentorship to the Events Fundraising Co-ordinator, ensuring clarity of roles, consistency of delivery, and strong compliance across all areas of shared responsibility.
- Collaborate on planning and execution of end-to-end stewardship journeys — from registration to celebration — ensuring data-led, insight-driven improvements and meaningful supporter experiences at every stage.
Work environment
- The post holder should expect to:
- Work in a hybrid hot desk environment, generally working 2 days a week in the London office and three from home.
- Be responsible for the input and maintenance of databases and files relevant to the post requirements.
- Will occasionally be required to attend events in the evening and at weekends.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
This role requires significant, hands-on operational experience. Applicants will need to demonstrate clear evidence of independently managing event budgets, leading on strategy and logistics, and owning high-level external partnerships.
Essential Experience
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience independently delivering large-scale fundraising events, with full responsibility for logistics, budgeting, and strategic outcomes.
- Strong track record in supplier management, live event delivery, and compliance — including health & safety, risk assessments, and insurance.
- Proven success managing high-value relationships with third-party organisers (e.g. London Marathon Events), including negotiating terms and ensuring delivery excellence.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and manage ambitious budgets, including forecasting, reforecasting, reporting and cost-efficiency tracking.
- Deep knowledge of event marketing and acquisition strategies — including ballot processes, audience segmentation, targeting, and grassroots recruitment.
- Experience designing and delivering multi-channel stewardship journeys, with a clear understanding of behavioural communications across email, SMS, WhatsApp, phone and face-to-face touchpoints — and how these influence retention, satisfaction and performance.
Personal Attributes
- Strategic and delivery-focused — able to set direction and manage detail with equal confidence.
- Highly accountable and self-driven — delivers results independently and takes full ownership of responsibilities.
- Committed to excellence, with a constant drive to improve systems, processes, and supporter experience.
- Collaborative and generous with knowledge — supports, mentors, and uplifts junior colleagues while maintaining clear boundaries of responsibility.
- Calm and composed under pressure — especially during live delivery or partner-facing moments.
- Insight-led and data-aware — uses evidence to inform decisions and adapt strategies intelligently.
- A strong and credible communicator — able to build confidence with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, suppliers and volunteers.
- Creative and solution-oriented — always looking for ways to improve value and elevate the supporter experience.
- Deeply motivated by delivering meaningful, memorable experiences for supporters.
- Adaptable and resilient — thrives in changing environments and supports others through organisational shifts.
Benefits
- Up to 12% employer pension contributions
- Annual personal development budget
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
- Shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Join us at the Foundling Museum at a pivotal moment in its story. We are seeking an experienced, conscientious and collaborative Director of Development to lead our fundraising and strategic growth.
With passion, creativity and realism, you will drive philanthropic support, nurture key relationships and be a key contributor to shaping the Museum’s future as we build on its unique heritage and national profile.
You will bring proven leadership, deep understanding of cultural fundraising and the ability to inspire colleagues, supporters and stakeholders to achieve income targets. This is a rare opportunity to make a dynamic impact on a museum with history, relevance and ambition.
Role Overview
The Director of Development at the Foundling Museum will lead the Museum’s fundraising strategy, driving income generation to support its mission and programmes. This senior leadership role oversees all aspects of fundraising, including corporate sponsorship, individual giving, trusts and foundations, membership schemes, philanthropic campaigns and communications.
The Director of Development works closely with the Museum's Director (CEO & Artistic Director), Trustees and key stakeholders to cultivate relationships with high-value donors, build strategic partnerships and secure sustainable financial support. As part of the Senior Management Team, this new role will work in collaboration with the Director of Finance (PT) and Director of Commercial and Operations (FT).
Reporting directly to the Museum Director, the role involves managing a small development team (2FTE) and communications team, setting ambitious targets and achieving actual income goals, ensuring alignment with the Museum’s values and strategic priorities.
The Director of Development will play a critical role in shaping the Museum’s long-term financial resilience, leveraging the Museum’s reputation and impact to inspire and engage supporters from diverse sectors.
Key duties
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising, membership and partnership strategy to support the Museum’s short and long-term goals
- Work closely with senior leadership and the Board to align fundraising priorities with the Museum’s mission and strategic objectives
- Fundraising
- Lead efforts to secure major gifts and corporate sponsorships, with a particular focus on individuals, trust and foundations, and corporates
- Oversee the development of compelling proposals, pitches, and presentations to corporate and individual supporters, including negotiation of corporate and philanthropic agreements
- Work with trusts, foundations, and statutory funding bodies to secure grants that support the Museum’s exhibitions, programmes and capital projects, ensuring timely and accurate reporting on all grant-funded activities
- Ensure that proper due diligence around potential donors is conducted in line with the organisation’s policies and compliant with the Fundraising Code of Practice of the Fundraising Regulator and other national bodies with which the Museum is registered
- Donor and Partnership Development
- Identify, cultivate and secure new high-value donors of all types, including individuals, corporate partners, trusts and foundations and statutory funders
- Develop strong professional relationships with the Museum’s existing donors in a warm and personal atmosphere and in alignment with the Museum’s values
- Strengthen existing relationships with key stakeholders, including internal colleagues and board and committee members, to harness their relationships and foster a culture of philanthropy and understanding of fundraising across the organisation
- With the Director of Commercial and Operations, plan and deliver all major Museum events for key stakeholders
- Lead the team to cultivate the membership base of the Museum
- Leadership & Team Management
- Manage the fundraising team, providing guidance and support to ensure success in meeting income targets
- Manage the communications team to oversee the brand, marketing, media communications and related budgets
- Oversee digital communications, including website and social media, to increase income generation, philanthropy and partnerships
- Foster a collaborative and results-driven culture within the team, and with SMT across the staff
- Financial & Administrative Oversight
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of fundraising activities, ensuring that targets are met and that funds are raised in line with the Museum's mission
- Oversee the fundraising budget and ensure efficient use of resources
- Liaise with the Director of Finance to ensure fundraising revenues are accurately tracked and accounted for
- Ensure complete, accurate and timely processes are conducted around all fundraising activity, including gift administration and acknowledgement, Gift Aid, GDPR compliance, etc.
- Provide regular reports to the Museum Director and Board of Trustees on the Museum’s progress on key projects and targets as articulated in the Museum’s strategic plan
- Public Relations & Advocacy
- Serve as a key ambassador for the Museum, deputising for the Director where appropriate regarding income generation, enhancing its public profile and strengthening its reputation in the philanthropic and corporate sectors
- Represent the Foundling Museum at events, donor meetings and public forums
- Keep up to date on best practice in cultural fundraising and charity sector fundraising and communications, and bring this knowledge back for institutional benefit
Person Specification
Experience (required)
- Proven leadership, ideally at least 5 years, in a similar role where philanthropic and grant income is central to the success of the organisation
- Extensive experience of shaping and implementing fundraising strategies that have delivered a step change increase in actual income
- A substantial fundraising track record in securing income from diverse constituencies and across funding types, including personal experience in securing major gifts and managing teams to do the same
- A demonstrable history of innovation and entrepreneurial approaches to identifying income generation opportunities and pushing organisations forward to increase income
- Proven experience of nurturing long and short-term funding opportunities and being the key point of contact for both
- Significant team leadership experience of creating, leading, inspiring and motivating a high performing team and collaborating with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders
- Strong performance management skills with a proven ability to develop, articulate and champion funding opportunities and gain buy-in among staff and key stakeholders, including board and committee members
- In-depth understanding of relevant UK charity and tax legislation, due diligence processes and policies relating to fundraising
Experience (desirable)
- Extensive experience of fundraising in arts and / or heritage, preferably in the UK
- Knowledge of effective fundraising in Europe and the US, including tax-effective giving
- Thorough understanding of Data Protection legislation as it relates to fundraising, marketing and communications
- Experience of effective endowment and legacy fundraising strategies
- Personal characteristics and skills (required)
- Ability to lead, motivate and inspire a fundraising and communications team
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Highly developed negotiation, influencing and persuasion skills
- A natural networker who builds confidence and trust and can represent the Foundling Museum at the highest levels and garner respect within peer networks
- Project management skills and ability to remove any organisational roadblocks that exist in relation to development
- Resilient, diplomatic and resourceful in solving problems
- Ability to prioritise and focus on the areas of greatest impact
- Commitment to the highest professional and ethical standards
- Strongly numerate with the ability to be entrepreneurial and take measured risks
- Alignment to the Foundling Museum’s values, communicating clearly, transparently and consistently; having accountability and working as part of a collaborative team towards a common purpose
- Enthusiasm and passion for the mission of the Foundling Museum and for the importance of increasing engagement with and access to the arts
Conditions of Work and Benefits
- £65,000-70,000 full-time salary, depending on experience. We are open to 0.8 FTE at a pro-rata salary.
- Probation period of 6 months, and notice period of 3 months (1 month during probation)
- This job will be based onsite at the Foundling Museum. For all our employees, there are opportunities for partial hybrid working if desired; we have an agreed minimum of 60% of working hours that must be onsite at the Museum.
- Normal working hours are 9.30am to 5.30pm. This role requires some flexibility, including some mornings, evenings and weekends.
- 25 days annual leave per year (pro rata) + bank holidays (pro rata) + Birthday leave (one day)
- You will be eligible to join a group contributory pension scheme (3 months after your start date)
- Free access to our fully-funded Employee Assistance Programme for wellbeing – WISDOM
- Training support from our online learning platform
- Discount from the Foundling Museum Shop and local partner businesses
- Free or reduced-price access to partner museums
- Access to season ticket, rental deposit and cycle to work scheme loans (3 months from your start date)
- Please also note that this job description will not form part of your contract or your terms and conditions of employment. Duties and requirements of the role may vary from time to time in accordance with the needs of Foundling Museum, its strategy and the directions from the Museum Director.
Application timetable
- Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Monday 20th October 2025
- First interview date: Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th November 2025
- Second interview date for shortlisted candidates: Monday 10th November 2025
How to apply
To apply please follow the link to our application portal where you will be asked to upload a completed copy of our standard application form you may also attach your CV if you wish. Please note that the job is being advertsised via CharityJob until the 10th October and after this date you will need to go directly to our website to apply where you will have until the 20th October to submit your application.
PLEASE NOTE: On the application portal, where it requests a CV, please ensure to upload your completed Application Form (required), your CV (optional) the Equal Opportunities Form (optional).
Please get in touch with us if you have any access requirements or queries related to the application process details of how to do this are in the Job description.
If you wish to book a time to have a short informal conversation (phone or video) prior to application with the Museum Director her contact details are in the job description.
Please also note that any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of satisfactory references and proof of right to work in the UK and also may be subject to a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check.
The Foundling Museum is the only cultural institution in the UK to celebrate the lives of care-experienced people, and those who care for them.

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
- 35 hours (flexible working, such as a 9 day fortnight, could be considered)
- Hybrid - London (1 day a week in London, with regular travel to our Bristol office)
- Closing date: 28th September 2025
- Interview date: w/c 6th October 2025
Change lives in a life-changing career
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, their whole world can feel like it’s falling apart. Independence is taken and confidence is stolen. Stability no longer exists. The future suddenly feels uncertain.
The impact of cancer on young lives is more than medical. And that impact can be felt by entire family. That’s why we exist. Our specialist social workers help children and young people with cancer and their families navigate the emotional and practical impact of cancer.
We remove barriers, solve problems and prioritise wellbeing. And we stop at nothing to make their voices heard and their unique needs understood, so they can get the right care and support at the right time
About the role
We are seeking an exceptional, creative and strategic fundraising leader to shape and deliver a new public fundraising and supporter engagement strategy, driving significant income growth across individual giving, legacies, community, events and trading.
As Associate Director, Public Fundraising, you will be a motivating leader for the talented Supporter Engagement team. You will work with your leadership group to build on our successful approach to mass fundraising, aligning with our new organisational strategy to drive long-term transformational growth.
We are seeking someone with a passion for audience-led fundraising, who will lead and empower the team of 46 to explore new opportunities, grow income and build sustainable relationships. Ultimately this will mean that our public fundraising programme will enable the charity to deliver its ambitious vision for the future, ensuring that every young person with cancer gets the support they need.
This is a pivotal role across the wider Income Generation directorate, supporting the Director and colleagues to deliver the overall Income Generation strategy, demonstrating YLvC values, and helping to develop our high performing team.
This role is subject to a criminal record check. In the event of a successful application a basic criminal record check will be completed.
What will I be doing?
No two days are the same at Young Lives vs Cancer. So, summarising your ‘day to day’ isn’t easy. Here are some of the main things you’ll be doing, but you’ll find more details in the job description.
- With your team, translate corporate and departmental strategy into actionable team plans with a focus on supporter experience and long term growth, embedding best practice and leading cross-functional programmes to drive strategic delivery.
- Develop a budget and KPIs that support the team and overall Supporter Engagement plan with a process for regular monitoring, reporting, and evaluation to ensure impact and alignment.
- Champion external insight gathering, ensuring your team stays ahead of trends and identifies emerging risks
- Inspire confidence and engagement across Supporter Engagement through consistent, evidence-led leadership that values the supporter and embodies Young Lives vs Cancer’s values.
- Foster a high-performing, healthy team culture, ensuring your team reflects the professionalism and quality expected of a leading organisation.
- Champion the impact of Supporters, Supporter Engagement and Income Generation across the organisation inspiring trust and engagement from stakeholders.
- Build and nurture your external network and strategic external partnerships that actively shape planning and decision-making across your specialism and the wider organisation.
- Proactively identify opportunities to represent and advocate for Young Lives vs Cancer, collaborating across the children’s cancer care and voluntary sectors to influence and innovate.
What do I need?
Diverse perspectives and unique skillsets are at the heart of Young Lives vs Cancer. If you're passionate about making a positive impact and eager to learn, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet the criteria and person specification fully. Your potential is what matters most to us, and we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment to help you develop.
The key skills we’re looking for in this role are:
- Proven senior leadership experience in public fundraising e.g. individual giving, legacies, community, events and trading.
- Track record of developing and delivering strategic plans aligned to organisational goals.
- Experience leading high-performing, geographically dispersed teams and managing cross-functional programmes.
- Track record of enabling teams to innovate and deliver new opportunities and approaches to maximise income growth
- Strong background in budget management, KPI development, and performance evaluation.
- Understanding of supporter engagement strategies, donor journeys, and long-term growth models.
- Awareness of current and emerging trends in fundraising, digital engagement, and supporter experience.
- Understanding of organisational development, team dynamics, and performance culture.
- Ability to network across the not for profit sector in order to strengthen perspective internally and for the sector.
What will I gain?
For people to reach their full potential, they need the right environment. As a member of Team Young Lives, you’ll be made to feel supported, valued and appreciated. Here’s how we do it:
- Flexible working: we’re open to working hours outside of 9 - 5 and we can talk through your flexibility requirements at interview stage
- Wellbeing, Thinking & Growth Days: four days a year to to step back from the day-to-day and focus on your own learning and development
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Great family/caring leave entitlements
- Enhanced pension
- Access to our employee savings scheme
To find out more about our benefits package, have a look on our website.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we recognise that opportunities for too many people remain a condition of their sex, ethnicity, class, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation – or a combination. This has never been acceptable to us as an organisation. We don’t just accept difference, we value it, celebrate it, nurture it and we thrive because of it.
We’re on a journey to be reflective of the diverse children, young people and families we support. We know we aren’t there yet, and we’re passionately committed to taking actions and making changes to be a truly diverse, inclusive and equitable organisation. This includes taking anti-oppressive action and removing barriers in our recruitment practices. We particularly welcome applications from members of minoritised communities. Our Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging strategy will tell you more.
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. CVs can be uploaded, but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history sections of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.
Accessibility
We’re committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll always aim to be as accommodating as possible.Please let us know in your application form of any adjustments or access requirements we could make to help you with the application process and interview.
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The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple has an exciting opportunity for a Fundraiser to join their dedicated team.
Location: London, EC4Y 9BT
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 gross per annum
Job Type: Part Time, Permanent
Working Hours: 22.5 hrs per week, 3 days per week
About Middle Temple:
As one of the four Inns of Court, we are proud to provide support, education and accommodation to barristers at every stage of their careers. The Inn awards just over a million pounds in scholarships each year, with the majority going to students commencing the bar vocational training course, some to students doing a post-graduate law conversion course, plus smaller amounts for ad hoc overseas placements, essay prizes etc.
The Inn’s mission is to support the rule of law in the UK and overseas, especially Common Law jurisdictions, and carries this out by providing extensive education opportunities and support to its members across the world.
Fundraiser – The Role:
In this part-time role (22.5 hrs p/w) you will be responsible for all aspects of fund raising for The Middle Temple and for the associated activity. You will generate the strategy, annual fundraising plan and then enact activity to achieve the objectives set in the plan.
We’d love to hear from you if you are an experienced fundraising practitioner who has built strategies and plans with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Fundraiser – Key Responsibilities:
- To write the Middle Temple fundraising strategy and annual plan. Then, to enact the plan to achieve fundraising objectives
- To organise and run the annual calendar of fundraising activities, including appeals
- To manage the oversight of the Trustees of the Middle Temple charity and fund through regular meetings of these groups
- To manage, and keep updated, the fundraising databases and information sources required to enable the Inn’s fundraising
- Identify, cultivate and then apply to various funding sources, both internally and externally including grants and trusts
- Write funding applications where appropriate, monitor and track donations and keep financial records up to date
Fundraiser – You:
- An experienced fundraising practitioner used to both creating strategies and plans as well as operating as a ‘hands on’ operator
- Experience of a similar working environment and/or understanding of the workings of other not-for-profit organisations
- Strong administrative experience, ideally in a fundraising role, dealing with the legal and administrative requirements of fundraising including the relationship management of donors
- Experience in managing the requirements of a charity including accounting, reporting and attending meetings of the Charity’s Trustees
- IT literate with experience of using databases (Salesforce and CiviCRM), Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel)
- Excellent communications skills (verbally and in writing) at all levels
Fundraiser – Benefits:
- Generous Annual Leave Entitlements
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme (online resources and access to confidential counselling services)
- Private Medical Insurance (including gym membership)
- Medical Cashback Scheme (e.g. for dental, optical)
- Generous Pension (12% employer contribution)
- Season Ticket Loans
- Access to a Range of Learning & Development Opportunities
- Opportunity to join our dedicated team and work in a beautiful, unique, and historical setting in central London
Application Process:
Middle Temple is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an environment that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
To submit your application for this exciting Fundraiser opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now.
Our client is a leading independent funder.
They aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK.
The foundation provides c.£50 million annually in grants to organisations and initiatives with brilliant ideas who share our goals. We also provide social and impact investment for organisations with the aim of creating social and environmental impact.
Their strategy focuses on three interdependent aims: improving Our Natural World; tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future; and nurturing Creative, Confident Communities. They also want to play a more active role themselves using their range of tools to effect change. In addition to funding, this includes convening and brokering alliances, commissioning research, and using their influence to achieve their goals.
Prospectus is delighted to be working with the foundation to recruit a Funding Officer on a full-time (or 0.8) permanent basis to work on the Creative, Confident Communities (CCC) strategy as part of the team based in Kings Cross. Esmée operates on a hybrid basis, with a minimum requirement of two days in the office at Kings Cross (Tues & Weds). The role will also require UK travel on occasion.
In Creative, Confident Communities, there are three focus areas:
- Communities working together for change
- Community driven enterprise and regeneration
- Community led art and creativity
The role:
This role will provide vital support to the foundation’s assessment and management of funding applications, grants, and programme development. The Funding Officer will manage the key administrative functions for the team, as well as a broad portfolio of grants and funding relationships, ensuring strong engagement with partners throughout their funding journey. A key part of the role will involve gathering learning from funded work through reviewing reports, calls, and visits, and feeding this learning into the wider CCC strategy.
Working closely with senior members of the team, the postholder will assess new funding applications, draft recommendations, and contribute to CCC’s strategic development, such as research, convening events, and visits. They will play an active role in supporting the foundation’s decision-making processes, while also contributing to collaborative projects and sector networks.
The person:
The ideal candidate will be highly organised, analytical, and curious, with an interest in one or more of the CCC focus areas. Experience in grant-making, funding, or working in a related environment would be an advantage but is not essential. What matters most is a strong interest in the work of charities, voluntary organisations, and community groups, and an ability to understand the challenges they face.
You will be confident managing and interpreting complex information, including financial data and project plans, and able to communicate your findings clearly both in writing and verbally. Strong administrative skills and database experience are important, alongside the ability to prioritise effectively and meet deadlines.
Personally, you will be empathetic, practical, and collaborative and able to build relationships with a wide range of people in a professional and supportive way. You will show sound judgment, flexibility, and a proactive attitude, with a commitment to the organisation's values of equity, justice, and integrity.
This role offers an excellent opportunity for someone with the right skills and enthusiasm to support impactful work across the UK, while contributing to the goals of one of the country’s leading independent funders.