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Head of Retail and FOOD Services
Department: Directorate of Development and External Affairs
Salary: Starting at £47,264, rising to £54,728 FTE per annum + £480 home-based allowance FTE per annum
Location: Homebased with weekly national travel
Hours: 37 hours per week (full-time)
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Permanent
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as the Head of Retail and FOOD Services. This is a unique opportunity to lead and innovate in a role that combines strategic leadership, operational excellence, and community impact.
Main Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement a multi-channel retail and food services strategy, including business planning, risk assessment, and performance management to increase net profit and service impact.
- Lead on budgeting, financial forecasting, and P&L management. Identify and develop new income-generating opportunities, including grants and tenders.
- Provide strategic leadership to geographically dispersed teams, ensuring effective recruitment, support and training of staff and volunteers.
Main Requirements
- Educated to degree level or above in a relevant sector.
- Demonstrable senior retail management knowledge and experience in managing complex projects, leading teams, and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Proven track record in income growth, financial planning, and managing budgets.
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
• Apply via the Family Action Careers Hub linked to this advert
• Closing Date: 7th July at 23:59
Interviews are scheduled to take place from 16th-22nd July 2025.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
Family Action is an award-winning national charity working from the heart of local communities across England and Wales.




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About us:
At Back Up, we have big ambitions. We launch our bold new strategy in April 2025 and together we’ll be working hard to make sure everyone affected by spinal cord injury has access to the support they need. We have a unique portfolio of high-impact services, and we are the only spinal cord injury charity in the UK providing dedicated services to children and young people.
At Back Up, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. We particularly welcome applications from those from black, Asian or ethnic minority backgrounds or those with higher level spinal cord injuries.
In 2024 Back Up won The Times and The Sunday Times Spotlight Award for Best place to work for disabled employees. Previously, Back Up was voted one of the top ten charities to work for (Third Sector Best Charities 2020). The enthusiastic, inclusive and supportive spirit of our very skilled staff ensure excellence in the services we deliver.
About the role:
Do you have experience of working with disabled people? Are you a highly organised team player with an eye for detail and a passionfor making a difference?If so, Back Up could offer you an inspiring and fulfilling role making a significant difference to the lives of people with spinal cord injuries.About the role:All of our courses aim to increase confidence and independence in a supportive environment. They’re also led by people who have a spinal cord injury themselves–allowing participants to learn from others who have who have been there and can understand the issues and challenges.
As Courses Team Leader, you will be working closely with our Courses Coordinators and the wider team to oversee the ongoing development and delivery of this key part of Back Up’s services.You will be need to be creative, well organised and be a supportive line manager with supervisory experience. Most important though is your commitment to supporting those affected by spinal cord injury to thrive.
For full details please see our job description.
How to apply
Please apply by emailing recruitment @ backuptrust. org. uk by midnight on 10 July 2025.
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A CV with salary information for your most recent post and two referees, one of whom should be your present or most recent employer. We will contact them after interview.
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A (maximum) two side A4 supporting statement, saying why you want the job and explaining how you fit the person specification. This statement is crucial; CVs alone will not be accepted. We will acknowledge receipt of your application, and then let you know if you are to be invited to interview.
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A completed equal opportunities form. This form will be kept separate from your application, and not viewed by the recruiting manager. It is used to help us assess the diversity of our applicants to ensure our processes are fair to all. It is optional to fill in but it will help us improve and maintain high standards.
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We will acknowledge receipt of your application, and then let you know if you are to be invited to interview. Interviews will be held on 14 July 2025. Please let us know if you are unable to make that date.
What will the process involve?
The process will involve at least one interview round which will be either in person or online. There will be a panel interviewing you and you may be asked to complete a task beforehand to present to the panel. If you need any support or adjustment to the recruitment process at any stage, do please ask and we’d be pleased to work with you to put these in place so that you can perform to the best of your abilities throughout the process and demonstrate your suitability for the role. Please email recruitment @ backuptrust. org. uk
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As a ‘Disability Confident’ employer we are committed to the inclusion of disabled people as candidates and employees. We are proud that we get high numbers of disabled people applying for roles at Back Up. We will offer an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Please let us know if you are eligible for the scheme: recruitment @ backuptrust. org. uk
Don’t meet every single requirement?
At Back Up we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every criteria in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at Back Up.
At Back Up, we inspire people affected by spinal cord injury to get the most out of life.




The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The CMV Connect Project Coordinator role is designed to enhance the charity's outreach and support initiatives, focusing on building and maintaining relationships with healthcare professionals, families, and the broader community. This position involves coordinating projects that aim to increase awareness, provide resources, and support families affected by cCMV. This role is a part time role funded by National Lottery Community Fund. It is a freelance contractor role, as it is a contract for services.
CMV Action is a UK-based charity dedicated to supporting families affected by congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV), a leading cause of childhood disabilities such as deafness, developmental delays, and vision impairment. The charity provides information, advocacy, and support to raise awareness and improve outcomes for those impacted by cCMV, both during pregnancy and in babies and children.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Coordination: Oversee the planning, implementation, and evaluation of CMV Connect initiatives, ensuring they align with the charity's objectives. Work with other Operation Team members and report to the Board fortnightly.
- Supporting families: Work with the trustees to follow up on those we support and identify how we can support them in the future. Work with volunteers to organise in-person and online opportunities for families to meet up.
- Volunteer Coordination: Recruit, train, and support volunteers involved in CMV Connect project.
- Event Management: Organise and support events and campaigns aimed at raising awareness and funds for CMV Action.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain relationships with healthcare professionals, community groups, and other families to promote awareness and support for cCMV. Provide social media content to the Fundraising Officer when each milestone is reached.
- Resource Development: Assist in creating and distributing educational materials and resources for families and healthcare providers.
- Data Management: Collect and analyse data to assess the impact of initiatives and inform future strategies. Financial data collection for the final evaluation report.
Person Specification
Essential
- Education: Degree level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
- Experience: Proven experience in project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and working within a charitable or healthcare setting. Previous working experience with volunteers within a project would be ideal.
- Skills: Strong organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office, including proficiency in Excel.
- Attributes: Ability to work independently and as part of a team, manage multiple tasks, and maintain confidentiality.
Desirable
- Qualifications: Project management or volunteer management qualification.
- Experience: Experience in fundraising, event management, and using CRM systems, experience managing a similar project or offering support to families.
- Knowledge: Understanding of public health issues, particularly related to congenital infections and how to work in the charity sector.
Working Conditions
- Location: The role is home-based with occasional travel required for meetings and events.
- Hours: Part-time position, with flexibility to accommodate the needs of the projects. Approximately 16 hours per week, equivalent to 2 days per week.
- Salary: £150 per day, 8 hours a day, approx. 2 days a week, approx. 40 weeks till early June 2026.
This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of families affected by cCMV, contributing to the charity's mission to raise awareness and provide support.
This role has been funded thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Following the return of our co-founder Becca Dean MBE as CEO, we're excited to be recruiting for several new roles as we move into the next chapter of our journey. Having recently celebrated our 12th birthday, we're more determined than ever to reach even more girls and young women, and we’re building a brilliant team to help us do just that. If you're passionate about empowering the next generation, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
This is an exciting role joining a Programme Team of 15 staff based throughout the UK. You will work closely and collaborate with the other Network Managers and share some priorities across regions, working to develop the region as a whole. The purpose of this role is to facilitate good relationships between the mentors and mentees in the region. 70-80% of the role is about relationship building (with schools, mentors and partners), coordination and the tracking/ administration of those relationships. 15-20% of the role is direct delivery with the girls in the region.
Mentoring programme
- Manage overall success of the cohorts (groups of mentees and mentors) in your region, including coordinating and administering events and communications for cohorts in your area.
- Deliver engaging on-boarding sessions for mentees.
- Design and deliver events and workshops for mentees.
- Deliver matching of mentees and mentors at in-person events or virtually.
- Work with the wider programme team to train mentors.
- Support mentors once matched through regular check-ins, monthly emails and ad-hoc conversations.
- Collect data to track the progress, and impact of, mentoring relationships.
- Support mentors with safeguarding concerns, following The Girls’ Network process in line with our child protection policy.
- Develop effective relationships with schools, on-boarding, supporting and retaining the partnerships.
Partnerships
- Work with the Senior Network Manager in your area to identify professional partnerships and sponsorship with local and national businesses.
- Work with your Senior Network Manager to identify a recruitment and retention plan for your area including key partners to work with.
- Be an active presence in the community, attending events and networks to encourage local women to mentor on our programme.
The Girls’ Network reputation and network
- Advocate The Girls’ Network at every opportunity, through local media, PR activities and social media.
- Identify opportunities to build the reputation of The Girls’ Network in your region and through events and networking.
- Report significant successes and achievements to relevant staff members.
Ongoing success of The Girls’ Network
- Work with the Programme Team to identify key areas for programme development.
- Opportunities to get involved in programme and wider organisational projects.
- Understand the development of school initiatives nationally and in your region, and understand their impact and implications for The Girls’ Network programmes.
- Attend programme and whole team meetings and team days.
- Maintain and champion a girls-centred way of working.
Other duties
As a small charity with limited resources, all staff are expected to be flexible with their work and as such you may be required to undertake other duties and tasks as assigned from time to time.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ROLE
Essential skills, knowledge and attributes
- You are deeply passionate and driven to achieve equal opportunities for all and will keep the girls we work with at the heart of your work.
- You are able to build and manage a number of relationships with a variety of different people and are confident speaking to both young people and adults within schools and businesses.
- The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of the disadvantages faced by both women and those from the least advantaged communities and have a drive to rectify the inequalities that currently exist.
Desirable skills, knowledge and attributes
- You are flexible in your approach to working with a small organisation and understand the time and resource limitations
- You have safeguarding knowledge and experience
- You have experience of Salesforce or another CRM system
- Understanding or experience of working from home
- Experience of working in a small charity
Visit our website for the candidate pack and details on how to apply.
Good luck with your application
Please note: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so early application is encouraged. If a high number of applications are received, this advert will be closed early (with a minimum of 24 hours’ notice). We regret that due to time constraints, we will not contact you unless you are selected for interview.
Our mission is to inspire and empower girls from the least advantaged communities by connecting them with a mentor and network of female role models.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Bipolar UK is the only national charity dedicated to supporting individuals affected by bipolar, including carers and families. We're launching an exciting new lottery-funded project in Northern Ireland to expand our peer support network.
As Senior Volunteer Co-ordinator, you’ll play a central role in growing and supporting our network of local support groups. You’ll recruit, onboard and induct volunteer co-facilitators, ensuring a welcoming, inclusive experience. You’ll supervise and support volunteers, helping them develop skills and confidence to deliver safe, effective peer support—whether online or in-person.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the set-up and running of new support groups across Northern Ireland.
- Providing ongoing training and practical assistance to volunteers.
- Collaborating on the promotion of groups and services with internal teams and external partners.
- Ensuring compliance with safeguarding, GDPR and internal policies.
- Promoting Bipolar UK’s self-management courses and psychoeducation resources.
- Representing the charity within communities and building partnerships with local mental health services.
This is a varied, hands-on role ideal for someone with strong communication skills, experience supporting volunteers, and a passion for peer-led mental health support.
Applicants must be based in Northern Ireland due to the requirments of the role.
Salary: £28,000–£30,000 | Contract: 2-year fixed term (extension subject to funding)
Location: Home-based in Northern Ireland, with occasional travel to London.
Hours: Full-time (35 hours/week)
Reporting to: Services Manager – Groups
Please note that we are currently only able to consider applications from candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
Applications without the specified cover letter will not be considered.
Applicants must be based in Northern Ireland.
Our mission is to empower everyone affected by bipolar to live well and fulfil their potential.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The voluntary sector in the UK achieves amazing impact every day for people, society and our environment but it's not always as good at measuring and communicating that impact. That's where you come in....
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Impact and Evaluation expert to join our growing team. The role involves managing a portfolio of VCSE clients and providing comprehensive support to their monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) needs. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of MEL methodologies, data collection techniques, data analysis, report writing, stakeholder engagement, and a passion for improving social outcomes through evidence-based evaluation.
Charity Fundraising Ltd provides a comprehensive range of fundraising, strategic consultancy and evaluation services to Charities and other not-for-profit organisations. Established in 2000, Project and Programme Evaluation and MEL support has grown to become a core component of our service offer. We work with lots of amazing charities, both local and national, small and large, across the UK, covering themes such as: Homelessness; addiction; youth; community; disability; mental health; minoritised groups; medical conditions; heritage; environment and more.
This is a remote role but candidates must reside in and have the right to work within the United Kingdom. Please note that applications will only be considered where the screening questions are fully completed.
Main Duties:
- Managing a portfolio of VCSE and public sector clients and coordinating projects with colleagues, client staff members and trustees.
- Conducting comprehensive external project and programme evaluations for clients.
- Developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation frameworks at project, programme and organisational level.
- Develop impact reports that clearly communicate organisational outcomes and impact
- Collaborating with client staff and trustees to understand and address their evaluation needs.
- Analysing and reporting on project outcomes and impacts, utilising data analysis techniques to identify patterns, trends, and insights from evaluation findings.
- Plan and lead M&E workshops and training events with clients.
- Collaborating closely with line managers and colleagues to ensure high-quality service delivery.
- Supporting our fundraising clients to enhance their monitoring and impact reporting systems and processes and using monitoring data to feed into project / programme design and development
- Support clients and colleagues to develop consultation tools and undertake consultation with service users, partners and other stakeholders
- Participating in the promotion of the company’s services, including responding to client enquiries, discussing needs and developing proposals
- Research and identify new business opportunities and work with colleagues to develop
- General administrative duties, including maintaining records in line with our Quality Management System (QMS).
- Other duties as assigned by the line manager.
Person Specification:
Essential Qualities / Skills / Experience:
- A successful track record of undertaking voluntary sector project / programme evaluations and developing M&E frameworks.
- Experience of designing and developing monitoring frameworks / tools and undertaking quantitative and qualitative primary research
- Research and analysis skills such as literature review and secondary data analysis
- Ability to chart and visually communicate data and findings in effective and compelling ways
- A team player with a confident manner and a professional, flexible, positive and studious approach to the work.
- A passion for supporting the voluntary sector in the UK to better achieve it’s aims
- Experience in key social issues within the UK
- An ability to quickly develop a detailed understanding of wide ranging and complex topics.
- A high standard of written English with an ability to produce concise and persuasive prose.
- High level computer literacy, for word processing, graphic report layout design, data analysis, record keeping, and web-based research.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Close attention to detail.
- An ability to manage projects with multiple contributors and stakeholders.
- A strong ability to work with data using spreadsheets and other software tools.
Desirable Qualities / Skills / Experience:
- Broad understanding of key health, social welfare and other issues in the UK that the voluntary sector seeks to address.
- Presentation skills and experience in training / mentoring.
- Experience of promoting and selling consultancy services.
- Relevant professional qualifications, memberships and evidence of CPD.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Your focus will be to secure both major gifts from new donors and build on the commitment of long-standing supporters to further their partnership in MAF’s work and mission.This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly and high performing team and make a significant contribution to our global mission. There is an occupational requirement for the job holder of these positions to be a committed Christian. Additional information is available on request.
Responsibilities
In this role you will have 6 key responsibilities:
Financial: Managing a portfolio of high-value relationships and to deliver income at the agreed annual target in the first year with an expectation this will rise year on year.
Management: You will be one of the first points of contact internally for trusts/foundations and individual major donors (IMD) related queries and will work in accordance with the major giving team strategic plan and existing procedures, practices and standards.
Relationship:You will seek to actively develop and manage excellent relationships with an agreed portfolio of trusts/foundations and IMD capable of donating a minimum of £25,000 or more as a single gift each year. In addition you will need to:
- Develop and implement professionally written action plans which will engage, inform and nurture prospects and donors to deliver gifts at the agreed level.
- Undertake timely administration to capture and record knowledge of supporters within the customer relationship management database. Work with the organisation’s systems team to utilise this information to enhance applications and giving levels
- Pro-actively develop relationships with key stakeholders within the MAF organisation(s)
- Present MAF proposals alone or with others, (member of the operational field team, CEO etc), to prospects and donors.
- Participate in events to develop relationships with donors, inviting individuals from portfolios where appropriate and co-ordinate visits to MAF overseas operations where appropriate to introduce these donors directly to the work of MAF.
Information: Information management and analytical thinking is essential as you will present detailed, accurate and high-quality fundraising proposals to prospects and donors, ensuring any specific deadlines or funding windows are complied with. In addition you will need to:
- Ensure that donors are thanked appropriately for their gifts with timely and appropriate reports, letters and phone call.
- Provide timely ‘report backs’ that are appropriate/agreed with each donor, to evidence effective use of funding and to encourage the opportunity to make further applications based on good stewardship and achievement of agreed outcomes.
- Maintain a thorough knowledge, and the funding priority, of projects available for funding by trusts/foundations supporters and prospects.
- Actively seeking to grow the trusts/foundations portfolio and income through the use of research
- Attending regular appropriate training courses, external forums and networks to ensure continuous personal development
Major Donor team (practice/ procedures/training):As a key member of the team you will need to ensure procedures and standards are developed/maintained to ensure we are effective and compliant with any legislation/regulation.
CRM Database: To provide support to the Partnership Executive, who will be the team’s CRM database lead and maintain a thorough working understanding of MAF UK’s CRM system in order to answer specific team queries. You will need to support the teams day-to-day CRM activities including producing reports, importing data, adding activities, amending details and any other relevant tasks
In line with all staff in MAF UK you will be required to:
- Be a role model of organisational values and beliefs - contributing to the shared spiritual life of the MAF UK team as a unique Christian charity. This will include attendance and participation in corporate times of biblical reflection and corporate prayer meetings
- Participate in appropriate matrix programme and project teams, contributing skills and expertise to required timescales from the appropriate programme leader
- Keep your line manager informed of all relevant and timely information
- At all times comply with statutory requirements for handling personal and sensitive data in a confidential manner
- To abide by Safeguarding and Conduct Policies, and all other MAF UK policies provided on the Intranet
Christian values, beliefs and ethos of MAF UK:
As a Christian mission, MAF UK is seeking those who share in the Christian values and beliefs of the organisation, as described in the mission, purpose, values and beliefs statements. All staff will be required to support and actively demonstrate the Christian values of the organisation and to take part in organisation activities such as staff meetings, prayer meetings, away days, where the values and beliefs of the organisation will be obvious.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
Essential Requirements
- Educated to degree level
- Experience of working with donors or in a relationship management environment
- Experience of utilising knowledge of audiences to develop donor involvement
- Your personal skills and attributes will need to include
- Excellent writing skills with the ability to successfully present project proposals to trusts and foundations
- Proficient skills in Microsoft applications
- Able to communicate positively, persuasively, and sensitively across functions and organisations
- Building strong partnerships across the organisation and maintaining a positive and friendly approach even under pressure
- The ability to positively influence non-direct reports in order to obtain information, or drive activity
- High levels of efficiency and quality – Excellent attention to detail
- Financially literate and able to interpret business plans
- Able to manage multiple deadlines and priorities
- Committed and mature Christian, able to demonstrate understanding and acceptance of the Statement of Faith and willing to proactively take part in MAF events and meetings e.g. prayer meetings, away days etc. Able to describe these beliefs and values to others so as to represent MAF as a Christian mission organisation
- Emotional resourcefulness
- Flexibility towards others and circumstances
- Service orientation
Highly Desriable requirements
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Major donor/trusts & foundations or other transferable fundraising training
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Experience of working in a Christian organisation or charity/fundraising environment
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Successful work experience within a fundraising environment
Benefits:
- Salary: £42,000 per annum depending upon experience
- Hours: This role is full time, 36 hours per week
- Pension: MAF UK provides a non-contributory pension scheme for staff of 10% salary on joining
- Annual leave entitlement: 22 days per year plus 8 statutory paid public holidays per year (including those falling at Christmas and New Year).
Location: This role can be based at the MAF UK Offices in Scotland, Glasgow, or optionally could be in the Oxford, Cambridge arc as we are launching a new hub in the Milton Keynes area, maximising our engagement with a thriving local aerospace and charity sector region. Up to two days a week in our Folkstone Office might be initially required.We welcome hybrid working in line with our flexible working policy, the needs of the business, the requirements of the role and your location. This will be discussed at interview.
Closing date: 22nd June 2025
Interview date: July 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
- Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week). Job share applications are also welcomed.
- Location: Home based, or office based at Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London N1, in line with NCVO’s flexible working policy or home working policy.
- Closing date: 18 June 2025 at 08.00
- Shortlisting date: 20 June 2025
- Interviews: 30 June 2025
About the role
The Member Subscriptions Officer manages the administration and finance of NCVO’s membership subscriptions. Key duties include running monthly renewals, issuing invoices, managing payments and reducing aged debt. The role involves regular use of NCVO’s CRM system to ensure accurate records and efficient processes.
The post holder will handle member enquiries, support new applications and maintain strong relationships with members. Working closely with NCVO’s Finance team, they will ensure timely direct debit collections and contribute to income tracking and forecasting.
This role is ideal for someone detail-oriented, numerate, and confident using databases, with experience in financial administration and customer service.
About the Voice & Impact directorate
This role sits within the Voice & Impact directorate, a team focused on amplifying the voices of charities in civil society and making positive change for the future. V&I comprises NCVO’s policy and public affairs team; communications, campaigns and marketing team; digital content team and membership and engagement team.
About the Membership & Engagement team
Membership and engagement is a newly evolved team that exists to grow, connect and convene NCVO’s membership. The team acquires roughly 1,400 new members a year and offers care and support to retain 90% of its current 17K members.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
NCVO is fully committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in our sector. We want this to be reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and identities.
We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups in the voluntary sector and those with diverse, lived experience. As part of our commitment to employing disabled people, all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirement for all competencies on the person specification will be guaranteed an interview.
If you have access needs or require reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a pre-interview task and will have one week to complete the exercise. Interview question themes will be shared in advance. NCVO is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone.
Benefits for NCVO employees
NCVO offers attractive benefits including:
- 25 days’ annual leave (for full time staff and pro-rata for part-time staff) and office closure between 25 December and 1 January inclusive. After three years' service annual holiday increases to 27 days, and after five years to 30 days, (pro rata for part time staff)
- the option to purchase or sell up to five more days each year
- five days’ volunteering leave (pro rata for part-time staff)
- 2.5 extra ‘wellbeing’ days off during the year
- enhanced pay for sick/maternity/adoption leave
- subsidised gym membership
- season ticket loan
- flexible working, including opportunities to work from home/off site
- monthly homeworking allowance for permanent homeworkers
- monthly office worker allowance for those who have to work from the office on a daily basis
- generous employer pension contribution of up to 8.5% of salary, into our stakeholder pension scheme (linked to employee contribution)
- training and development opportunities.
- The opportunity to join Hospital Saturday Fund health cash plan for free at the basic level of cover, or at a reduced rate for other levels of cover
- 24-hour free and confidential employee assistance programme
We’re located a short walk from London King’s Cross station in a modern accessible building, overlooking Regent’s canal.
About NCVO
We are the charities charity. For over 100 years, NCVO has stood shoulder to shoulder with communities, championing and celebrating voluntary action.
Our membership is made up of over 17,000 voluntary organisations across England, from small, grassroots community groups and social enterprises, to large, far-reaching charities.
We believe that communities are strengthened by voluntary action. We therefore want charities to thrive and be empowered to deliver for people and communities.
We focus on empowering charities and volunteers by making sure they have the knowledge, tools, and resources they need. We advocate for and with our members, giving voice to those not often heard, and harnessing the collective power of partners to ensure the voluntary sector is valued. We bring charities together so they can learn, connect, and create greater impact.
As the voluntary sector and volunteering adapt to new challenges and a changing context, so must NCVO. We are therefore prioritising work to evolve as an organisation to ensure we live our values of ambition, inclusion, openness and collaboration in everything we do internally and externally.
We have around 80 staff and income of more than £7m per year. With our members at the heart of everything we do, our mission is to unite to champion the remarkable role of charities and volunteers. Because stronger charities make for stronger communities.
Communications Assistant
Location: Remote with flexible working arrangements. You will be expected to attend regular team meetings in Bristol (with paid travel and subsistence).
Salary: £26,000 per year FTE, dependent on experience.
Contract: We are open to this role being part time (0.8FTE) or full time. We offer fully flexible working.
Closing date for applications: 1 July 2025
Due to high numbers of applications, prior to interview we plan to carry out initial screening calls with prospective candidates before selection for interview. We will be asking about your reasons for applying and how you think your skills and experiences align with the role.
First interviews: w/c 28th July 2025
Start Date: ASAP: This is a new post.
About Good Faith Partnership
Good Faith Partnership believes that good things happen when we work together in new ways. Our mission is to create solutions to society’s most difficult problems, including loneliness, the cost-of-living crisis, mental health, and supporting refugees and asylum seekers. We believe that we can improve people’s lives and build a better world by harnessing the power of unlikely relationships and trying something new.
We connect businesses, governments, charities, philanthropists, trusts and foundations, and communities to make lasting change—from incubating projects such as Warm Welcome to rolling out the Home Office’s Homes for Ukraine Scheme. By bringing unusual or different players to the table, we can spark new ideas and unlock new levels of potential.
At the Good Faith Partnership, we value diversity, and we recognise the enormous benefits and the social imperative of bringing together diverse groups of people. We therefore warmly welcome applications from a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual to work within a small, friendly and dynamic team. If you are passionate about communications, and want to develop, grow and hone your skills, this role is a great place to start.
You will provide communications support for Good Faith Partnership and a range of projects we deliver, including:
● The Warm Welcome Campaign for people right across the UK particularly those experiencing fuel poverty or loneliness;
● Welcome Hubs for refugees and asylum seekers;
● ChurchWorks which aims to bring the Christian Church and government closer together to effect positive change in UK society.
We anticipate that the successful candidate will spend around two-thirds of their time supporting the Warm Welcome Campaign and the remainder supporting wider Good Faith Partnership projects.
You’ll work across all aspects of communications, including design and content creation, e-marketing, social media engagement and delivery, events, website management and managing our photo and story libraries. You’ll be delivering communications to support our campaigning and influencing, fundraising, awareness raising, storytelling and brand elevation.
This is an entry level communications post. We’re looking for someone who is organised and systematic, thrives on creating engaging written and visual content, and loves working with all kinds of people. You’ll be encouraged and supported to grow and develop your communications skills and expertise.
Responsibilities
Working closely with the Communications Manager and Director of Communications you will work in the following areas:
Content creation
You will help bring Good Faith’s many projects to life through engaging visuals, videos and communications materials by:
● Creating visual assets using design software such as Canva
● Creating other visual content including short-form video
● Helping commission other visually led content such as banners, flyers and reports
Social media
A significant part of the role includes increasing our reach through social media:
● Creating and scheduling regular content for LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and X
● Using insight data to drive social engagement
● Developing strategic partnerships with relevant accounts on the different social platforms
● Engaging with partners and stakeholders on social platforms—sharing stories with the wider team as standard
● Responding to posts, comments and direct messages
● Monitoring trends through social listening and sharing these with the team
Websites
You will support the Communications Manager by:
● Writing and publishing engaging stories and news items to profile the great work of the team and our projects
● Preparing copy and visuals for web pages in our CMS
● Uploading content to websites
● Ensuring website copy is accurate and up to date
Email newsletters
You will work with the Communications Manager to:
● Support email communications
● Help maintain the email communications database
● Create and schedule email communications, ensuring content has been approved by a team member
● Segmenting audiences to keep communications relevant and engaging
PR
You will support the Communications Manager in a year-round programme of PR and media relations by:
● Creating lists of contacts in our media database
● Helping to amplify our news through our email distribution platform
● Monitoring PR mentions of our projects through our media database
Supporting systems and resources
● Taking responsibility for developing and maintaining accessible communications systems
● Managing our digital image and stories library, keeping stories and case studies up to date and searchable by the rest of the team
● Securely storing and organising documents on our G-Drive, ensuring accessibility for the team and compliance with GDPR
● Supporting, maintaining and developing existing partnerships and managing the systems (including CRM use) needed for communications delivery
Teamworking
● Attending regular meetings, contributing to communications discussions and planning, adapting to social trends as well as opportunities and challenges
● Supporting the delivery of other Warm Welcome and Good Faith Partnership efforts
● Reporting to the Communications Manager, you will work closely with the Communications team and the wider team, as well as our network of partners and supporters.
Person specification
We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:
Content creation
● Familiarity with content creation tools such as Canva or Indesign.
● Experience of creating engaging content for social media or other channels.
Social media
● Good understanding of social media channels, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, X, TikTok and YouTube.
● Experience of interacting with other users on social media and websites.
● Experience of using web content management systems.
Email newsletters
● Excellent writing and proofreading skills.
● Familiarity with email marketing software such as Mailchimp.
Supporting systems and resources
● Highly organised and the ability to create and manage administrative systems.
● Familiarity with the Google suite of programmes including Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Excel Spreadsheets etc.
Teamworking
● Ability to prioritise and balance competing demands on your time.
Competencies and behaviours in our team
The core competence of everyone in our team is the ability to build trusted relationships among people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We are looking for people who are:
● Committed to the power of relationships to facilitate social change
● Collaborative, inclusive, ambitious, aligning with our core values
● Self-starters with high levels of commitment, energy and motivation
● Curious and show initiative, with problem-solving skills and an ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing context
● Calm under pressure, and can adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment
● Willing to pitch in to help other team members if needed
● Organised with effective time management skills.
Working arrangements
● Current members of the team are based across the UK, with some in London, Reading, Bristol, Manchester and Northern Ireland. Applicants must be able to travel to Bristol once a month for a Tuesday full team meeting. Given the nature of this role, we would also expect the applicant to carry out a reasonable amount of travel to both projects and partners across the UK.
● This role is fully remote, with flexible working arrangements.
● All employees, volunteers, partners, suppliers and consultants working with Good Faith are expected to adhere to our Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies. Good Faith’s commitment to safeguarding means we seek to ensure that no harm comes to people as a result of contact with the organisation’s programmes, operations or people.
● You will need to have the right to work in the UK.
Supporting your application
● If you disclose a disability during your application process and you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we will contact you to discuss any reasonable adjustment you might need at the interview. If you wish to disclose a disability, please email us.
● We’d be very happy to answer any specific questions relating to this role - please email us with ‘Query for Communications Assistant role’ in the email subject line and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
● Please specifically address the requirements listed in the person specification in your covering letter as we will use this to shortlist applications.
● For more information, see our website or find us on twitter at @goodfaith
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Operations Officer (Internal role names: Scheduler, Response Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator)
Time: 2.5 days per week (20 hours). Monday is an essential working day, the rest of the time can be worked flexibly within business hours.
Where: Remote - UK based. Two team days per year in London / South East or online.
Salary: £26,000 full time equivalent
Deadline: 11th July
As Scheduler, you’ll help allocate new client referrals to our team of practitioners and coordinate smooth handovers between team members. You’ll work closely with the Scheduling Lead and wider operations team to ensure efficiency and continuity of care.
In the Response Coordinator role, you'll manage all incoming enquiries via phone and email, ensuring timely responses and directing queries to the appropriate team member.
As Volunteer and Placement Coordinator, you’ll oversee the onboarding of volunteers and Music Therapy student placements, matching individuals to suitable settings, and handling DBS checks and references.
You’ll also contribute to ongoing improvements by sharing feedback and insights from your role to support the development of internal systems and processes.
Accountabilities
This role involves a range of duties that may vary week to week. Key responsibilities include:
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Responding promptly to general enquiries from individuals and organisations via phone and email
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Supporting the scheduling team with new referrals, service contracts, and opportunities, including liaising with Music Therapists and Community Musicians
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Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records in our CRM system (Salesforce or similar experience is desirable), including logging communications and key information
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Ensuring clear and consistent communication with clients, referrers, and partner organisations regarding referrals and enquiries
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Creating and managing service agreements using Jotform
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Assisting with assurance and compliance paperwork
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Transferring referral data and supporting team members in keeping client records current
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Coordinating student placements and volunteer onboarding, including DBS and reference checks and matching to appropriate settings
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Signposting individuals to relevant resources where appropriate
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Providing operational support to team members and directing queries to the appropriate colleague
Person specification
We are looking for a highly organised, efficient individual who can work independently and take initiative when needed. The ideal candidate will demonstrate empathy and sensitivity in all communications, with a warm and supportive telephone manner and the ability to write clear, compassionate email responses to clients and referrers.
Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach are essential, as this role involves close interaction with colleagues across the team. An understanding of, or willingness to learn about, music therapy and the experiences of our clients is important.
Confidence using digital tools and systems is essential, as the role involves working with a range of platforms to support service delivery and coordination.
Key essential competencies:
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Excellent and clear communication both written and verbal
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Attention to detail
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Ability to prioritise effectively where needed
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Ability to work with sensitive data confidentially and in line with GDPR requirements
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An empathic and understanding approach
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Understanding of safeguarding practices and willingness to stay up to date with regular training
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Ability to understand the needs of our clients to help ensure the right support, in collaboration with the practitioners
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Ability to work responsively to changes
Desirable:
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Experience of working with a CRM database, Salesforce is preferable
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Experience using Google workspace and Google Docs and Sheets
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Experience working with Jotform and Slack is preferable
Training will be provided in all these areas should you not have experience working with these platforms.
Job benefits
With our benefits there is something good for everyone. We are a progressive organisation that believes building a good team culture is not only good for everyone who works for us – but it makes a difference to how we engage with our clients too.
That’s why when you join Chiltern Music Therapy, you can expect to receive a wide range of impressive employee benefits including:
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Competitive annual leave allowance
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Flexible working
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High street discount shopping portal
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EAP package - access to confidential support and wellbeing services
About Chiltern Music Therapy
Chiltern is an award-winning social enterprise that provides music therapy, community music services and training to over 1700 people of all ages and many different needs across England each year. Formed in 2011 from a desire to change how music therapy was offered in the UK, we hold accessibility and financial inclusivity at our heart, working across health, education, social care and community settings.
Proud to be a self-managed and employee-owned organisation, we strive to create a world where music therapy is the transformative thread in the lives of the children and adults we support. At Chiltern we recognise the different strengths within our team. We provide an environment where people can take charge of the work they do and make informed decisions using professional judgement and life experience, alongside peer support. We’re welcoming, inclusive, and have worked hard to create a positive environment that we are proud of. You can find out more about us on our website.
How to apply
To apply, please email your CV and a one-page covering letter which should include your reasons for wanting to join Chiltern Music Therapy and suitability for the role.
We welcome enquiries and applications from people of all identities and backgrounds and value diversity in our workforce.
Closing date for applications: 11th July 2025
We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible as we may close applications early depending on application numbers.
For more information about Chiltern Music Therapy please visit our website
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*OPERATIONS SUPPORT OFFICER*
About us
The Early Education and Childcare Coalition unites the voices of parents, children, providers, early years professionals and the wider business community, working together for investment and reform of early education and childcare in England.
We believe that we all benefit from a well-functioning early education system and we all have a role to play in ensuring it works for children, parents and the economy.
We are backed by some of the most high-profile campaign and research organisations in the UK. Our members include early years provider membership bodies, parent campaign groups, early childhood experts, trade unions, the business lobby, anti-poverty campaigners and NGOs. Together, we use our collective voice and research to build public and political support for early education and childcare.
And it’s worked. Thanks to the dedication of our members, early years is now one of the top six priorities for the new government’s Plan for Change, but our work isn’t done – we have an ambitious agenda to ‘rescue and reform’ the system, ensuring that:
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every child can access high-quality education and care that their parents can afford and that will support them to thrive
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every provider is funded fairly for the places they offer
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every early years professional is rewarded and recognised for the skilled work they do
This is an exciting time to join the Coalition. We have experienced significant growth over the last two years and with early years firmly on the political agenda, we expect this to continue.
We need an Operations Support Officer to support the team with day-to-day logistics covering general administration, finance and communications. Our hope is that this role will evolve and the successful candidate will continue to progress within this growing and impactful organisation.
About the role
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Hours: 15 hours per week spread across the week.
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Duration: One-year contract, renewed subject to funding.
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Location: Home-working. We are a fully remote organisation, and this role can be based anywhere in England as all meetings are held online.
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Salary: £29,000 - £33,000 per annum FTE (£11,600 - £13,200 pro-rata).
We work flexibly and it won’t come as a surprise to you that we understand the challenge of having caring commitments. We trust you to manage your time, but as a minimum requirement, we expect you to be available on Thursday mornings for our staff meeting. As a remote team this helps us to stay in touch and connect.
This role is initially offered on a one-year fixed term basis which we expect to renew in line with funding and is offered at 15 hours per week spread across four days per week during typical working hours. If you have an alternative preferred working pattern, please speak to us and we would be happy to see if we can make it work.
For the last two years, the Coalition has been incubated by the Women’s Budget Group, the UK’s leading feminist economic think tank. Our growth means that we are now ready to spin out into a separate and independent legal entity. That means that your employment contract will initially be with WBG on behalf of the Coalition but will then transfer across to the newly constituted organisation. This won’t change your role, your terms or your pay, but we want to tell you now. We are happy to answer questions at interview about that.
What you can expect to be doing
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Organising regular online and in-person internal and external meetings
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Recording and circulating meeting notes and minutes
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Managing our shared inbox and responding to general inquiries
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Working with the Deputy Director to update key policies and procedures
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Updating staff, contractors and/ or partners on new or changing internal procedures and deadlines
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Maintaining our online filing systems
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Supporting event planning and management
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Assisting with general finance administration including recording expenditure and logging invoices and expenses for payment
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Posting prepared content across our social media channels
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Helping to edit and send our monthly newsletter
About you
You will be a highly organised individual with great attention to detail. Ideally you will have experience in a similar, varied administrative role supporting a small remote or hybrid team in a fast-paced environment.
Importantly, you will be able to work independently, managing multiple demands and competing priorities. You’ll work closely with our Deputy Director to support the organisation as it develops, helping to improve internal procedures and delivering high quality administrative support across the team and our project work.
This role would suit someone looking for a part-time role carried out during school hours.
Person specification
Essential
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Highly organised individual with experience of providing day-to-day administrative support to a team, organisation or senior individual
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Experience of managing diaries and shared inboxes
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Proven ability to work flexibility supporting a small team in a fast-paced environment
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Experience of supporting online and in-person meetings and events
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High level of computer literacy and familiarity with Microsoft Office, Teams and Zoom
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Good attention to detail and proof-reading skills
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Comfortable with remote-working with the ability to self-manage when necessary
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Familiar with social media and scheduling content across different channels
Desirable
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Good understanding of the challenges facing the early education and childcare sector
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Experience of organising webinars and events
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Experience of supporting finance administration for a charity or non-profit organisation
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Confident using Canva, Eventbrite and Google Workspace
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Experience using accounting software such as Xero
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Experience editing and sending out newsletters
The application process
Please apply with CV and cover letter (no more than two pages) by the listed closing date. No agencies please.
The EECC is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. We use anonymous recruiting during the application process and we use positive action under section 159 of the Equality Act in relation to disability or race. This means that if we have two candidates of equal merit in our process, we will seek to take forward the disabled or Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic candidate in order to diversify our staff team.
We regret that our small team does not have capacity to respond to unsuccessful applicants individually.
The role may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of applications.
Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 16th June 2025
Start date: ASAP
Working together for an early education and childcare sector that delivers for our children, for parents, and for the economy.

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The Movements Trust is a start up charity operating in the UK and elsewhere. Our mission is to increase the funding that reaches social movements working on a Just Transition.
We're seeking someone who is enthusiastic, committed to movement building and campaigning, great at details and systems, and overall an effective team player in a remote setting.
Our new Movement Officer will -
- Be the first point of contact for movement enquiries, monitoring our inbox and responding to queries
- Support movements, campaigners and activists make applications to the Trust for our sponsorship service or grants programmes,
- Work with the Team and our Board of Trustees to ensure movements are screened and on-boarded
- Work with the Team to ensure we develop excellent services for movements, as well as helping to develop more events and support for movement building, improve our communications, fundraising and overall management so that we can continue to grow!
KEY SKILLS
Essential
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Good administrative skills, preferably within a charity setting
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Experience of managing finances eg record keeping, processing and budgeting
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Understanding and/or experience of community organizing, activism, campaigning and/or movement building
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Good communications skills - able to meet movements and explain our services to them, and to bring movements together to share experiences
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Understanding and commitment to the objectives of the Trust eg Charitable standards, a ‘Just Transition’ and social movements
Desirable
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Fundraising - either applying for grants, or grant distribution
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Using social media and digital tools
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Communication and awareness raising techniques
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Kinship
We are Kinship. The leading kinship care charity in England and Wales. We’re here for kinship carers – friends or family who step up to raise a child when their parents aren’t able to.
Together, let’s commit to change for kinship families.
About the role
Funded by the Department for Education, the National Peer Support Service for England is a game-changing service that creates a sustainable and life-changing legacy. It builds on Kinship’s 10 years of experience in developing peer support groups and over two years of delivering a national service that has set up 145 new groups.
This role is community-based and focuses on engaging kinship carers, bringing them together to form peer support groups, and supporting them to achieve independence at which point they will receive ongoing support from our national Hub.
You will do this by working with local authorities, schools, other charities and community groups. Arranging information events such as coffee mornings to engage kinship carers. You’ll create a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive community for kinship carers, building belonging, resilience, and empowerment.
About you
We are seeking a dynamic person located in or close to Greater Manchester, and willing to travel into priority areas across the North West of England who possesses the drive, passion, and skills to:
- Establish new peer support groups across a diverse range of communities
- Supervise a small team of Peer Support Development Officers
- Demonstrate the energy and enthusiasm required to inspire yourself and your team to achieve key targets and objectives
- Work collaboratively within the Peer Support and Community Team, as well as throughout the broader organisation, to ensure the delivery of safe and effective support services for the kinship community
- Support the sustainability of existing Peer Support Groups, taking the lead from the Hub (our network support Team)
- Keep precise records to create reports, extract learning, and share key insights throughout Kinship, enabling the organisation to enhance our services and products continuously
In the role of Senior Peer Support Development Officer, you will be instrumental in ensuring the delivery of a high-quality, consistent, and sustainable peer support service that has a significant impact on the lives of kinship carers.
You should have experience in developing and maintaining meaningful relationships with various community-based stakeholders such as local authorities, health services, schools, charities, and kinship carers. You will need to understand the key success factors involved in establishing and developing new in-person groups in areas of high need, as well as how to support existing groups in their journey toward sustainability.
An essential requirement of the role is to be a driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes.
Essential requirements include:
- Experience of team leadership or line management and supervision of a small team and managing performance to deliver targets effectively.
- Proven experience in reaching and establishing strong relationships with hidden or underserved communities in person.
- Experience developing peer support communities.
- Proven experience of recruiting, managing, training and supporting volunteers in community settings with an emphasis on understanding and working with vulnerable volunteers.
- Proven experience of ensuring outcomes and impacts of services is evidenced through high-quality data collection.
- Evidence of delivering training/support to volunteers,
- Strong facilitation skills and essential experience of peer support or user led groups with charity beneficiaries.
- Understanding of safeguarding particularly around vulnerable families.
What we’ll offer you
Kinship offers 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time) as well as a generous pension scheme. We have an excellent wellbeing offer including the Employee Assistance Programme and clinical supervision. We will invest in your professional development with training and career development opportunities.
Kinship is committed to championing equality, diversity and inclusion. We believe our work is greatly enhanced by the varied backgrounds, experiences and views represented within our teams. We aim to create inclusive teams, celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be their true self at work. We therefore encourage applications from anyone who fits our values, whatever their religion or belief, sex, gender identity, race, age, sexuality or disability and are actively seeking candidates that can bring real innovation and commitment to us.
This is a fantastic time to join a supportive and well-established team within an organisation with rapid growth ambitions. This role will be what you make it and we’re looking for someone to seize this opportunity!
How to apply
Please apply via Charity Job with your CV and a cover letter of no more than 2 pages for the attention of Deborah Fox. Please include your notice period and earliest availability to start in your cover letter.
- Application deadline: 11.59pm, Thursday 26 June 2025
- First interview: We will hold ongoing online first-round interviews as we receive applications. Final interviews will be held face-to-face in Manchester on Thursday 3 July 2025
Kinship reserves the right to close applications early on receipt of sufficient applications. Apply early!
• Really tell us why you want to work for Kinship. We’re interested in working with people who share our values. You can read about our values above.
• Keep your response clear – use bullet points and short paragraphs if that helps. It will help the recruitment team to really focus on your answer.
• Don’t go over 2 pages on your cover letter.
• Please do not use AI tools like ChatGPT to produce your cover letter. We use software to check and your application will be rejected if you do.
We support kinship carers in their homes and communities, giving advice and helping them work through problems to find the best way forward.





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Location: Homebased
Contract: Full time, fixed term 1 year contract.
Salary: Salary £34,000 per annum
Closing Date: 26 June 2025
If you have the creativity and skills to develop engaging and accessible elearning content that supports youth development, then joining Sea Cadets as a Senior Virtual Learning Officer could be a good move for you!
The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a vibrant and growing charity delivering life changing nautical adventure for young people through the Sea Cadets to give them the best possible head start in life. We also provide personal and professional development opportunities for seafarers with the Marine Society. Working with our staff, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a vision and five-year strategy to take us forward and further improve the astounding contribution already made through our work to the lives of thousands of young people and seafarers, while fully supporting our volunteers who are vital to our success.
We are currently looking for a Senior Virtual Learning Officer to join our learning development team.
This role will be involved in the development of training covering subjects such as:
- Safeguarding
- EDI topics such as Autism and Gender Diversity
- Health and Safety
- Onboarding new adult volunteers to Sea Cadets
If you enjoy eLearning development this could be the role for you.
Responsibilities
- Work with course designers to develop new, and maintain existing, elearning and media content.
- Translate storyboards into interactive learning content, creating activities, graphics, animations, audio and videos, using tools such as Articulate (Storyline and Rise), Canva, H5P, Murf and Adobe.
- Ensure learning meets development guidelines, and is accessible, functional and engaging.
- Integrate learning content to create courses on our learning management system (Moodle).
- Test learning content, including using screen readers and other accessibility software.
- Help to maintain the guidelines for course development.
- Support the day-to-day administration of the Sea Cadets learning management environment
- Cultivate strong working relationships across multiple teams (internal and external)
- Stay up to date with latest system upgrades and advise on their potential impact on existing or new courses
Requirements
- eLearning development experience ( e.g. tools such as Articulate Storyline and Rise, or similar)
- Experience in media creation for graphics, sound and video editing.
- Good MS Office skills
Desirable
- Experience using Teams and SharePoint
- Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- LMS Administration experience (our platform is based on Moodle, Mahara and Alfresco but other LMS skills will be transferable)
- Subject matter knowledge in one of the following areas:
- Supporting Autistic young people
- Specialised educational needs
- Other Equity, Diversity and Inclusion subjects
- Safeguarding
- Onboarding new people
For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack.
Benefits
- Some hybrid working opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme and Season Ticket Loan
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Life assurance (4x salary) for those that join the pension
- Private medical insurance
- Pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
- Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
- Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
- National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees' views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise.
Additional Information
MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.
We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.
All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo a criminal record check, and successfully acquire MoD security clearance.
We help launch young people for life through adventure.




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Join our friendly and mission-driven team at NFER, where you’ll help bridge the gap between research and classrooms. This is your chance to bring vital insights directly to schools – raising awareness of the NFER Classroom brand and increasing the reach and impact of our research findings within the education community.
Pay: £36,000 - £40,000 (FTE)
Contract: 18-month fixed-term contract
Hours: Part-time (21 hours)
Location: Remote within the UK, with occasional visits to our Slough office (approx. 6 times per year)
Annual Leave: 30 days plus 4 paid closure days FTE
Pension Contributions: 10% employer contributions
Family Support: Enhanced maternity/parental leave and paid compassionate leave
What you’ll be doing
In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our mission to connect schools with powerful, practical research. You’ll take a leading role in shaping how NFER communicates with educators, using your creativity and insight to bring our work to life across digital channels.
One day you might be crafting social media content that sparks conversation among teachers, the next, you’ll be writing an email newsletter that lands just right with a headteacher seeking evidence-based ideas. You’ll help turn research into engaging, accessible summaries, so schools can quickly grasp key insights and put them into action.
You’ll also update and improve our For Schools website pages, ensuring every word is useful and user-friendly. Behind the scenes, you’ll track performance using analytics, learning what works and what could work even better. And throughout it all, you’ll collaborate with researchers, designers, and communications experts to deliver thoughtful, impactful campaigns that schools actually want to read.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential skills and experience:
- Experience in marketing communications or a related role
- Excellent writing skills and creative flair
- Confidence using digital tools such as social media platforms, Canva, Google Analytics and CRM systems
- Strong time management and the ability to work independently
- A collaborative approach and a clear focus on impact
- Experience working in or with schools is a bonus, but not essential.
If you meet only 70% of our essential skills, still apply; you may have skills we didn’t know we needed.
Other roles you may have experience of include: Marketing Executive, Marketing Officer, Marketing Assistant, Marketing Coordinator, Marketing Specialist, Brand Executive, Communications Executive, Digital Marketing Executive, Social Media Executive, Content Marketing Executive, Email Marketing Executive, SEO Executive
WHY NFER?
At NFER, we are recognised globally for providing trusted research, resources and insights that drive meaningful change. By joining us, you’ll contribute to a mission that prioritises impact over profit, working in an environment where collaboration, flexibility, and inclusion are valued.
What we offer:
- A supportive and inclusive workplace culture.
- Opportunities to develop your skills and advance your career.
- Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance from day 1.
- The chance to make a real difference in the education sector.
APPLICATION PROCESS
We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply early. Shortlisting will commence from 23rd June 2025.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re here to support
you and ensure a positive experience. For further details, please review the Job Information Pack.
If you’re ready to bring your skills and passion to a role that makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and start your journey with NFER.
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