Due to a period of maternity and parental leave, we are looking to appoint a Senior Development and Fundraising Officer for a temporary period of approximately 15 months. The postholder will contribute to the organisation’s overall success by supporting the delivery of our fundraising targets by helping to secure income from Trusts & Foundations, individual giving and the corporate sector. You will be key in strategically supporting and seeking out external funding to provide long term and sustainable philanthropic giving to support the organisation.

The postholder will need a proven track record in successful fundraising from a variety of sources such as the Arts Council, individual giving and trusts and foundations. You will also need to have previous experience of delivering against fund-raising targets and experience of managing sponsor relationships and delivering stewardship.

Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments. We have a 30-year track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives.

The Team

Our Climate Change team provides MEL services to a range of clients - including the World Bank, the UK Government, UN agencies and philanthropic foundations - working across the globe. Our projects involve designing and leading complex MEL systems for multi-million pound initiatives, conducting strategic evaluations, supporting innovation and learning within the sector, and conducting long-term, multi-country impact evaluations.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and organised Senior Consultant to join the Climate Change team and lead existing MEL work as well as pursue new opportunities, develop proposals and expand the team’s portfolio.

The Role

We are recruiting for an experienced professional to join the team to work on projects across our portfolio.The role brings together your climate change expertise, with technical evaluation and research skills. You will be adept at working collaboratively, with both internal team members and external project teams.

You will contribute to project delivery, develop and maintain stakeholder relationships, lead business development activities, and build our reputational capital and market presence.You will play an active role in bidding work and have a clear understanding of commercial drivers.

The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key dimensions:

• Evidence Advocate: generating robust evidence and using this to support clients and shape global debates;
• Change Agent: supporting clients in reflecting, learning and managing change;
• Project Manager: contributing to and building high performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets;
• Trusted Advisor: building long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success.

The Candidate

You will ideally have a relevant post-graduate degree and a proven track record with demonstrable experience working in the field of climate change and human development. We welcome applicants who have particular specialism in one or more of the following areas: mitigation, emission reductions, climate finance, adaptation/resilience, bio-diversity and natural resource management, and are willing to consider those who offer other expertise relevant to addressing the climate challenge.

We are looking for demonstrable achievements across the four key dimensions of the core technical strengths. As an evidence advocate you will have led the design and implementation of complex M&E projects and workstreams, actively seeking new data tools and techniques to apply in a structured and systematic way to produce evidence based findings. As a change agent you will have a proven track record in conveying ideas and thinking in a clear, focused style, flexing your technique to suit the environment.  As a project manager you will have demonstrated your ability to actively manage clients whilst building trust, ensuring a quality focus supported by clear commercial project management skills.  As a trusted advisor you will have led proposals, leveraging your own network to research and define issues and generate solutions, and built positive relationships with high profile clients.

This is a technical role and you will have proven experience of applying a range of evaluation and research designs and methods (qualitative and quantitative), as well as MEL thinking and practice.

You will have consultancy experience and be able to quickly establish credible and strong working relationships with team members, clients, partners and stakeholders, leveraging existing networks where appropriate. In addition, you will have the ability to lead, manage and influence others.  

The salary for this role is up to £42k depending on your skills and experience. 

We also offer a comprehensive learning and development programme, 24 days holiday plus additional time off over Christmas and a matched company pension up to 5%. 

The role is based in our offices in Brighton & Hove (East Sussex) but will largely work remotely for the foreseeable future.  However, you will already have the right to live and work in the UK and be able to travel to the office if needed. The role is likely to involve national and international travel when conditions allow.

The deadline for applications is March 12th but please note we will be interviewing successful candidates on a rolling basis.

Each year Sightsavers receives over £10m from gifts in the wills of our generous supporters. Administering these gifts sensitively and professionally is vital for us to continue to grow this key income stream and eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities through our work.

Sightsavers are recruiting for a new position, a Legacy Administration Manager who will play a vital role within our growing in-house Legacy Administration team.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Legacy Administration, the Legacy Administration Manager will manage and operate the administration of all legacies received by Sightsavers in the UK and Ireland, liaising with Executors, Solicitors, Trust Corporations, together with Legacy Managers/ Officers at other charities. Key duties include:

• managing and developing our small, dedicated legacy team
• maximising potential funds for Sightsavers, whilst protecting the reputation of the charity
• optimising the collection of legacy income in line with current legal frameworks
• complying with internal and external audit and compliance requirements in relation to legacy administration
• providing a legal and advisory service through the Head of Function
• maintaining all case documentation and records
• responsibility for and managing of the Legacy Officer

About you

We are looking for an individual with outstanding customer service and strong technical and influencing skills as well as bags of tact and diplomacy and a team ethos.  You will have:

• previous experience in Charity Legacy Management or equivalent areas of specialism in the legal sector, ideally with managerial responsibility, with the Institute of Legacy Management Certificate CICLA (Certificate in Charity Legacy Administration), STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) qualification or equivalent.
• demonstrable experience of working in a senior position in the legacy department of a charity or Probate department of a firm of Solicitors, Bank or Trust Corporation.
• Good finance and accounting knowledge, particularly estate accounts, investment management and share valuations.
• Strong knowledge of relevant Charity Law legislation.
• Strong knowledge of relevant Probate and Trust Law and procedures. Working knowledge of Data Protection Act.

This is an involved role and further details may be found within the job description.

The team are all currently working from home but once the office reopens, our expectation is that we will need the successful candidate to be able to travel to the offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW) at least one day per week. It’s an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts.

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Closing date: 14 March 2021

We anticipate that remote interviews will take place in late March 2021.

Finance Manager required for established Charitable organisation in Brighton.

Qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA Accountant

Client Details

Our client is a well-known, established charitable organisation in Brighton. The charity covers multiple locations across the South East of England, with some truly mesmerising sites

Description

To inspire and lead the Finance Team to ensure timely, accurate and insightful financial information and reports.

Production of monthly and quarterly management accounts, financial and solvency forecasts.

Development and operation of an appropriate system of financial controls subject to oversight from the Director of Finance.

Assisting the Director of Finance and broader Executive team as needed.

Carrying out other roles within the Finance Team as needed by illness, holiday, maternity/paternity or overall resource needs, subject to maintaining an appropriate controls environment.

Oversight of bank reconciliations, debtor and creditor reports, journal entries, ensuring payroll entries are processed in the general ledger, liaising with the payroll bureau, maintaining relationships with the VAT advisory agency.

Maintenance of the general ledger, overseeing the chart of accounts.

Subject to oversight from the Director of Finance, ensuring that the Finance team can:

• Produce appropriate management reports (management accounts, statutory accounts, budgets, re forecasts, cash flows and ad hoc reports, etc.).
• Partner Project Manager's budgets and reports.
• Prepare the statutory accounts of the Trust, Trading company and

Foundation.

• Prepare other relevant external reporting requirements e.g. Charity Commission, VAT, Corporation Tax, etc, etc.
• Support formal external audit processes.

Profile

A qualified CCAB accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or ACIPFA) with demonstrable relevant experience.

Charity or Third Sector experience essential.
Experience of working in a unionised environment desirable.

Possess advanced Excel skills and practical knowledge of integrated financial systems (for example, Sage and IRIS Financials

A demonstrable ability to work on own initiative and to prioritise own workload and that of Team.

Experience of successful project management useful.

Ability to build excellent working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

Ability to influence the attitudes and opinions of others, gaining agreement to ideas and proposals.

Excellent verbal communication skills in order to provide accurate and easily understandable financial advice.

Adaptable, receptive to new ideas and willing to adjust to new demands and circumstances.

Display a high level of personal 'drive' and show a capacity for sustained effort and performance.

Motivated, enthusiastic, tenacious and results orientated.

Job Offer

Flexible working, generous pension. 25 days holiday, friendly team

We are working with a wonderful Christian faith charity who are looking for a part-time Major Donor and Trust Fundraising Manager.

This role will be responsible for cultivating and developing strong relationships with new and existing Major Donors and Trusts. You will lead on creating compelling and bespoke funding proposals and work closely with your team members to develop an innovative major donor strategy.

You will have:

• A demonstrable interest in the Christian faith
• Previous experience working in the charity sector with a strong understanding of Major Donor fundraising
• Experience of securing 5 figure gifts from Major Donors or Trusts and Foundations
• The ability to communicate and negotiate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, with strong written skills

Closing date: ASAP

Salary; £21,000 (£35,000 full-time equivalent)

Hours; 21 per week

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

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

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

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

Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments. We have a 30-year track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives.

The Team

The Health team oversee a dynamic and rapidly evolving portfolio focused around five core areas of expertise; health systems strengthening (HSS), adolescent, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), global health security, global health strategy and tropical diseases. We are a learning partner for global funders investing in evaluating health systems strengthening, evaluate youth-led design for SRHR solutions and help Gavi develop a theory-based strategic framework for its investments, and an evaluator of anti-microbial resistance with the Fleming Fund.

The Role

We are recruiting for a senior consultant to join our 15-strong Human Development practice, and focus on supporting the learning and evaluation agenda of our SRHR projects, in particular as a learning lead embedded within Marie Stopes International three days a week.   This role will be pivotal to Itad’s position as learning partner under the FCDO UK Aid Connect SRHR programme tasked with two innovative pilots: 1) to increase resilience in climate change affected communities through integrated SRHR, conservation, and livelihoods programming; and 2) to improve the continuum of care surrounding comprehensive SRH services in fragile and conflict affected settings. This role will entail translating the findings from a realist evaluation into adaptive management of the interventions through the consortium, so sits in a very exciting ‘evidence to action’ space between a cutting edge evaluation approach and novel SRH service implementation.  It is anticipated that remainder of the role (two days per week) will be designed to support our process evaluation of Adolescents 360, a design centred livelihoods SRHR programme, and/or our role as learning partner to WISH, the flagship SRHR FCDO project.

The Candidate

You will ideally have a relevant post-graduate degree a proven track record within the international development or research sector, preferably in SRHR, learning and adaptive management, or another related health area.

The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key areas:

• Evidence Advocate:generating robust evidence and using this to support clients and shape global debates
• Change Agent:supporting clients in reflecting, learning and managing change
• Project Manager: contributing to and building high performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets
• Trusted Advisor: building long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success

We are offering a competitive salary for this role up to £43K plus benefits including a comprehensive learning and development programme, 24 days holiday plus additional time off over Christmas and a matched company pension up to 5%. 

The role is primarily based from the Marie Stopes offices in London and our offices offices in Brighton but will largely work remotely for the foreseeable future.  You will need to travel to both locations when we are able to and will already have the right to live and work in the UK without restrictions

The deadline for receiving CVs with cover letters is 12 March, but please note we will be interviewing successful candidates on a rolling basis.