As IOP’s Digital Officer you will communicate with our audiences via our digital channels, primarily our website(s). The postholder will develop, manage, produce and upload content. This role is responsible for making digital content decisions, ensuring that content is on message and on strategy, serves user and organisational needs and is of a first-class standard.

The role

This is an exciting role that will see the postholder working closely with the Website Editor, the wider communications and marketing team, and with teams across the organisation in support of the IOP’s strategy and digital needs. In collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders, the Digital Officer will contribute to IOP’s projects and activities working with the communications and marketing team and with internal ‘clients’ and will write and commission new content, edit existing content, and advise on the best way to ensure our messages reach our audiences.

The job holder will also be responsible for maintaining editorial quality, following SEO principles, upholding usability and accessibility standards, and making continual improvements to our digital content.

The person

We are looking for a talented digital professional with a proven track record of developing and writing accurate and engaging digital content for a variety of channels and formats. You must be a skilled writer with excellent attention to detail and the ability to express complex information in plain and engaging English.

You will need to be confident and effective at dealing with stakeholders at all levels as well as keeping end-users in mind with all digital content decisions.

You will have proven and recent experience of working on complex organisational websites, a clear understanding of digital best practice, including usability and accessibility, and ideally will be proficient in using a Drupal CMS.

Why work with us?

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland, we seek to raise public awareness and understanding of physics and support the development of a diverse and inclusive physics community. As a charity, we’re here to ensure that physics delivers on its exceptional potential to benefit society.

We have an ambitious new corporate strategy and transformation of our digital estate is a high priority. Our newly expanded communications and marketing function will be central to delivering our strategy and plans. We are looking for a superb digital professional to join the team and help develop our digital estate to its full potential.

Working from our new flagship King’s Cross offices, at the heart of the exciting ‘Knowledge Quarter’ our communications and marketing teams will raise awareness and understanding of our ground-breaking education, diversity, science and innovation programmes and help spread the word about physics and its value with the public. This is an exciting time to join IOP.

In addition to a competitive salary and professional development opportunities, we offer employees a comprehensive benefits package including an excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance and generous annual leave. We also offer a range of other benefits including childcare vouchers, gym membership and interest free season ticket loans.

For further information on this role and to apply please visit the IOP Jobs website.

Interview date: 10 June 2020 via go2 Meeting

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a commercially minded Marketing Lead, with experience in retail to join the marketing team to help us maximise sales of Girlguiding products. The role will involve working closely with our Trading team to promote uniform, clothing, gifts and resources to key audiences and identify and develop new product opportunities.

The successful applicant will be a product marketer with extensive experience of successfully developing and delivering multi-channel integrated strategies and audience-focused marketing and communications plans. They will write persuasive copy for different channels and have excellent interpersonal skills, being able to build strong working relationships with colleagues at all levels.

Girlguiding values the differences that a diverse workforce brings and is committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Girlguiding is proud to be part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a member of Time to Change. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Salary - £35,635 - £40,248 + £2,500 or £5,000 accountancy allowance (Dependant on qualification status) with offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester.

The Government Property Agency (GPA) was launched as an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office in 2018. The GPA represents a step change in the way that Government property estate and assets are managed efficiently, by providing innovative and flexible solutions across the Government estate. Our core service is to support departments in business change and workforce transformation. The GPA is the place to be for UK's leading professionals in estates, commercial, project management and beyond.

The Government Property Agency is expected to grow exponentially over the first few years of its existence; this equates to transferring hundreds of assets (worth billions of pounds) onto its balance sheet from Government Departments, as well as gaining responsibility for the running of a large part of the central government office estate.

The In-Year Planning and Reporting Manager will contribute to GPA developing a culture of strong financial management. The role requires the post holder to lead a team of three in delivering a function informed by analysis, underpinned by robust data and supported by analytics and visualisation tools. Further growth will be required as GPA expands its client and property base.

The responsibilities of the In-Year Planning and Reporting Manager will include

• Lead the preparation of Supply Estimates, reflecting the annual budget settlement with HM Treasury.
• Production of the monthly GPA and budget holder management accounts to tight deadlines.
• Lead the Management Accounts Team in analysing financial performance to identify variances and ensuring robustness of data.
• Support the identification and management of trends, risks and opportunities in the financial performance data.
• Lead the production of business intelligent financial data to support effective decision making.
• Provide technical advice on the public sector budgeting system.
• Drive continuous process efficiencies and improvements across the function, delivering maximum value for the GPA and ensuring robust controls are in place.
• Seek out opportunities to lead/contribute to cross-government and cross-finance initiatives outside of own role.
• Build relationships with key staff across Finance and the business in order to maintain effectiveness and relevance during change.
• Ensure Record to Report principles are embedded within the GPA.

The post holder may be required to undertake additional responsibilities as expected in relation to the role and grade.

Key Skills & Experience

• CCAB, or equivalent, qualified or part-qualified (or with sufficient financial/ commercial experience and/or the ability to gain formal CCAB qualifications within a reasonable time.)
• Good experience of financial reporting, ideally in a public sector context.
• Good experience of financial risk management.
• Good experience of using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
• Proficient using Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to seek and analyse significant amounts of financial data to inform decisions.
• Ability to put customer needs at the heart of delivery and communicate complex ideas to a non-financial audience.
• Ability to lead a geographically dispersed team.
• Ability to plan and prepare to maximise time and productivity.

Senior Change Management Lead (FTC to July 2021), up to £65,000 + Benefits

We're recruiting a Change Management Lead for a global Finance programme to lead the People and Talent workstream. This role will coordinate the delivery of the change management activities across the Global Finance community and will deliver change management, communications and L&D across all workstreams. The role will work closely with the CFO and Global Senior Finance Leadership Team to ensure that outputs support the programme delivery and that they are embedded into BAU. The Senior Change Manager will bridge the gap between the programme workstreams and the relevant corporate and Finance stakeholders to ensure new ways of working are implemented and benefits are realised.

Main Duties:

• Member of Finance Change team, working with CFO leading management and comms / engagement activities across global finance community
• Lead People and Talent workstream, reporting to the Finance Programme Director
• Manage direct and indirect reports for the delivery of workstream activity
• Own all aspects of the change management framework for Finance Change, Change Management, Communications, Training and Transition
• Create change management approach and plan to deliver are embed changes
• Ensure change activities are planned and executed timely
• Manage overall communication plan; Ensure training activities are planned, coordinated and evaluated; Engage with senior leaders and managers
• Work with the CRO and Programme Director to provide assurance in consistency and planning
• Own all aspects of the Finance Change People and Talent workstream framework and ensure the UK and Global Finance teams are ready to implement agreed change
• Development and delivery of the workstream plan; Oversee the design of a clear People and Talent plan
• Work closely with external consultants to ensure delivery of workstream deliverables
• Ensure the Finance Change People and Talent approach connects with other change projects
• Create overall framework and plan to deliver changes across Finance community
• Act as key advisor and change business partner to CFO and Finance leadership team

Person Specification:

• Experience leading change and transition in a global transformation programme
• Proven experience across change management and L&D
• Strong experience in mobilising and delivering large scale organisational and behavioural change programmes
• Consultancy, facilitation and L&D experience from international companies
• Change Programme Management experience
• Benefits realisation experience

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Senior Change Management Lead (FTC to July 2021), up to £65,000 + Benefits
We're recruiting a Change Management Lead for a global programme to lead the People and Talent work-stream.
This role will coordinate the delivery of the change management activities across the Global community and will deliver change management, communications and L&D across all work-streams. The role will work closely with the CFO and Global Senior Leadership Team to ensure that outputs support the programme delivery and that they are embedded into BAU. The Senior Change Manager will bridge the gap between the programme work-streams and the relevant stakeholders to ensure new ways of working are implemented and benefits are realised.
Main Duties:

• Member of the Programme Change team, working with CFO leading management and comms / engagement activities across global community
• Lead People and Talent work-stream, reporting to the Programme Director
• Manage direct and indirect reports for the delivery of work-stream activity
• Own all aspects of the change management framework for Change, Change Management, Communications, Training and Transition
• Create change management approach and plan to deliver are embed changes
• Ensure change activities are planned and executed timely
• Manage overall communication plan; Ensure training activities are planned, coordinated and evaluated; Engage with senior leaders and managers
• Work with the CRO and Programme Director to provide assurance in consistency and planning
• Own all aspects of the Change People and Talent work-stream framework and ensure the UK and Global teams are ready to implement agreed change
• Development and delivery of the work-stream plan; Oversee the design of a clear People and Talent plan
• Work closely with external consultants to ensure delivery of work-stream deliverable s
• Ensure the Change People and Talent approach connects with other change projects
• Create overall framework and plan to deliver changes across the Programme community
• Act as key advisor and change business partner to CFO and Programme leadership team

Person Specification:

• Strong experience in mobilising and delivering large scale change organisational and behavioural change on a Transformation programme
• Consultancy, facilitation and L & D experience in an international, matrix organisation
• Demonstrable experience of impact and management of organisational changes
• Change programme management knowledge or experience

Please note:
The deadline for CV applications is Friday 13^th March with interviews on the 26^th and 27^th of March.

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Unicef ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

The Digital Marketing Specialist sits in the Digital Marketing team that is part of a wider team encompassing Creative and Digital Content. The team operates as a center of expertise, providing strategic consultancy and digital transformation to the whole organisation.

The Digital Marketing Strategist is primarily responsible for providing digital marketing strategy across a broad range of channels, supporting client teams to deliver effective, sector leading digital marketing campaigns. In addition, this role leads the cross-organisational paid social strategy, ensuring the optimum use and growth of this channel.

If you are a digital marketer/media planner with a proven track record of planning and building effective multi-channel marking campaigns as well as depth of experience delivering paid social activity, then we would love to hear from you.

Head of IT

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of IT to join a fantastic charity based in London. As this charity grows, they are looking for someone who can head up the entire technical environment within the charity including Infrastructure, Network and dealing with 3rd party suppliers. This is a brilliant chance for someone to learn new skills as you will be working across various technologies and will have full control over the future development of the whole technology department including working with Cloud Technologies. 

As the Head of IT you will work closely with the Director of IT to identify and drive a range of new and exciting IT projects, developing a whole new IT strategy and controlling the process from start to finish. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Head of IT to enter a role where they can really develop the technical infrastructure of this charity. This role will be remote until circumstances change when you will be able to work from home 1-2 days per week.

Skills required for the Head of IT are:

• Previous experience of developing full IT strategy from start to finish
• Good all round experience in data management, CRM, ERP, Business Intelligence and Infrastructure
• Excellent communication skills to deal with both international and national stakeholders
• Controlling the whole IT department including asset management and infrastructure

IT Manager/ Information Technology Manager / Head of IT / Head of Information Technology

This is a brilliant chance for a Head of IT to take the next step in their career and really progress his/her career further. You will gain the full benefits that comes with working for a large charity

Location: North London 

Salary:  £60,000 - £64,000 + Excellent benefits

Apply now for further details and immediate consideration for this exciting career opportunity!

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Are you a qualified accountant looking for your next move into a progressive organisation in the charity sector? Does working in a changing environment excite you and inspire you to drive improvement? If this sounds like you, please read on!

Robertson Bell Finance are working with a well-known international development charity to recruit an Interim Management Accountant - Systems for a minimum period of 5 months. Based in Central London, the organisation are going through a period of transformation and will have a lot of change in the wider team.

The main responsibilities of the Interim Management Accountant - Systems are as follows:

• Produce accurate and timely monthly management accounts for a number of subsidiaries in the organisation.
• Carry out detailed analysis of variances between the actuals and the forecasted numbers - addressing these with stakeholders.
• Ensure the completion of a range of complex reconciliations and assist with any year end requirements in the wider team.
• Work with senior stakeholders across the organisation to produce annual budgets and forecasts.
• Be the go-to person in the team for all system related queries, acting as the super-user for the ERP.

The successful candidate will be a fully qualified accountant who has led on the production of monthly management accounts in a previous role - assisting with this will not be enough. In addition to this, it is highly preferable to have worked in the charity sector so that you are able to hit the ground running. Finally, you will be well experienced with producing budgets and forecasts and communicating these with senior budget holders.

You will need to be immediately available or have a short notice period to be considered. Applications will be reviewed daily, so please do not delay in applying.

This well known charity based in London, are looking for an experienced Head of IT to take the lead on their IT strategy as well as overseeing the operational delivery of their ICT infrastructure, systems architecture and business applications.

This involves managing a 3rd party to supply 1st -3rd line support, ensuring a secure, robust IT infrastructure and innovative and collaborate core IT business solutions.

This includes the day-to-day management of the following:

• the network and associated network services, including cabling and wireless network, ADSL and MPLS connections.
• the server infrastructure and associated services including backup and business continuity.
• Workstations and other devices (including laptops, tablets and smartphones).
• Printers, scanners, and other technology as utilised staff and processes.
• The telephony facilities, fixed and mobile, and other communications technologies inc Video conferencing technologies
• Ensure that the ICT assets and licences are managed effectively and that licensing laws, other legislative requirements and best practice is adhered to throughout the organization
• In the absence of the 3rd party provision or in areas that are outside the scope of that arrangement, provide direct support and advice to staff and volunteers. 
• Maintaining the network security, spam filters user and system passwords.
• Ensure adequate system backups are maintained and be responsible for the IT systems disaster recovery plan for the charity
• Manage business applications and ensure they are housed in secure, stable and useable environments.
• Ensure the ICT Disaster Recovery services are maintained and tested as required as part of the Business Continuity plan.

About you

• You will be an experienced Head of IT; with a proven track record of success in leading and managing outsourced 3rd party suppliers, to deliver high quality results to deadlines and performance management if results are not forthcoming with the ability to inspire trust and confidence in system users (with varying degrees of technical ability)
• You will have the ability to prioritise, plan and oversee a multi-faceted and complex programme of work combining large transformational projections and the day-to-day maintenance of the infrastructure.
• You will have experience of organisational wide application and system roll-out through formal project processes such as Prince2 or Agile plus budget management.
• Technically you will have significant experience with Microsoft client/server & application technologies (Office/Windows/Exchange/SQL Server/SharePoint) including system administration plus significant experience of working with Cloud Technologies, including Hybrid Office 365 tenancy’s.

CHICKS is a national children’s charity providing free respite breaks to young people aged 8-17 from all over the UK who would really benefit from a break from their home lives. We were established in 1992 and since then we have provided over 16,000 young people with a much-needed break.

We believe that every young person has the right to make positive childhood memories. A CHICKS break inspires new confidence and gives young people the chance to have fun, enjoy new experiences and relax. More than anything, it gives them the chance to just be children.

We are looking for an exceptional candidate to build our fundraising capacity as well as grow our presence nationally by providing excellent fundraising and communications knowledge and offer strategic guidance and support as part of the leadership team.

This role has line responsibility for the Fundraising and Retail Team who are based across various locations.

The Director of Income will take up a key leadership role in a progressive, professional, and collaborative organisation. Committed to CHICKS vision and values, the Director of Income will inspire, motivate, and empower others, building a high-performance culture across, fundraising, retail, and marketing.

Our income generation activities need to be fully aligned with this ambition. The Director of Income will build long-lasting partnerships, both internal and external, communicate with and influence a range of audiences, and bring innovation to income generation at CHICKS.

Scope & Purpose:
The successful candidate will be a strong commercial leader with a record of achieving substantial income targets while driving growth and brand development. To deliver this role you will require an extensive track record of developing and implementing strategic plans to achieve income growth, as well as a wide knowledge and understanding of a diverse range of income streams.

Main Responsibilities:

· Develop the income strategy to raise income in line with set targets, the agreed annual budget and the charity's business plan

· Be an active and effective member of the Senior Leadership Team

· Lead the Income teams in expanding and delivering our charitable income

· Control and monitor budgets in respect of the fundraising, shops and communications targets and objectives

· Plan and deliver, with support from the team, new marketing initiatives that will increase our visibility both locally and nationally

· Build relationships with our most significant funders, through regular communication and face-to-face meetings where possible, and ensure that they continue to feel close to our aims and work

· Ensure all income activity is compliant with relevant charity and other statutory legislation and conforms to Institute of Fundraising and Fundraising Regulator codes of conduct and practice

· Keep abreast of changes in market practices and trends in charitable giving both locally and nationally

· To analysis, identify and evaluate income and communications options; utilising financial and other performance management data

· Make and assist with presentations about CHICKS to potential and current donors

· Travel nationally as required, following and strengthening fundraising leads

· Build strong relationships with current and potential donors and ensure that ongoing support is appropriately recognised

· Liaise with the Finance team to ensure that monthly reconciliation of all income and expenditure is in line with targets set

· Continue to develop the knowledge and skills required to fulfill the responsibilities of the position

· Produce regular reports for our Trustees and attend Board and Action Group meetings as required

Person Specification:

· A proven track record in fundraising and retail

· Delivery and monitoring of income generation strategies and implementation

· Capacity to build excellent relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally

· Outstanding written communications, particularly for funding applications, project management, including reporting

· Ability to understand and use financial language and budgets, and to set departmental budgets and targets

· Strong research and prospecting skills

· A self-starter with strong self-management skills

· Good humoured and approachable

· Full Drivers Licence and access to a car is essential

· Have excellent attention to detail and the ability to adhere to specific deadlines

· An articulate and persuasive communicator with the ability to establish and manage various donor relationships and building strategic relationships

· Good computer skills with the ability to use database software. Experience of Raiser’s Edge is desirable

· Ability to show a commitment to professional standards and apply industry best practice to all aspects of the role

· To understand and actively reinforce the ethos, culture and operations of CHICKS

Please submit the application form outlining your motivation for applying and highlighting how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the role of Director of Income, as set out in the brief.

Applications should be sent with reference DIRECTOR OF INCOME.

Closing Date for Applications: Midday, Monday 1 June 2020

Formal interviews are likely to take place in early June 2020

We will be reviewing applications as soon as they come in so please ensure that you act quickly if you are interested in this post. CHICKS reserve the right to close this advert prior to the closing date specified, should we find the suitable candidate.

The Robertson Trust is the largest independent grant-making trust in Scotland with the vision of a fair and compassionate Scotland where everyone is valued and able to flourish.  It has donated more than £263 million to charitable causes in Scotland since 1961.  It is currently finalising a new exciting strategy to address some of the most intractable social issues in Scotland which will see it adopt new ways of working and building new partnerships to deliver greater impact in Scotland.

The summer of 2020 will see the launch of a new strategy for the Trust.  After extensive review and stakeholder engagement, the Trust has sought to develop a strategy which will best fit the current challenges facing communities in Scotland and enable the Trust as a funder to work alongside communities to address these challenges.  This is an exciting time for a new Chief Executive to deliver this new strategy.  We are looking for a strong, inspiring and empowering leader who is ambitious about maximising the Trust’s undoubted potential. 

The Role

• Reporting to the Chair and working closely with the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive will deliver the newly developed strategic plan. 
• Embody and demonstrate the Trust’s values to the whole organisation, leading and developing the team and promoting a culture of diversity and continuous improvement.
• As a key ambassador, the Chief Executive will nurture, build and maintain positive relationships with a range of key stakeholders.

The Individual

• Proven leadership experience at board level within a complex, growing organisation and with a record of achievement in developing and delivering organisational strategy.  This can have been gained in any sector (but any candidate should recognise that the dynamics of the charity sector are different).
• Demonstrable experience of leading transformation and driving cultural change to achieve operational excellence, including digital transformation.
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of impact of poverty, trauma and inequalities.

Closing date: Monday 22nd June at 5pm.

Streets of Growth is seeking to employ an experienced and entrepreneurial individual as a Youth Intervention Coach on a full-time basis who has a strong track record of working with young people (15-25 years) and their families. 

Streets of Growth is an outcome driven charity, working to reduce harm and positively transform the lives of the most vulnerable and at-risk young people and their families in Tower Hamlets East London. We do not wait for the young people to walk through our doors, or to be referred by an agency, instead we engage and reach out to young people across the streets and neighbourhoods. Working to build a relationship of trust, truth and transformation with each young person, coaching and enabling them to support themselves to change negative lifestyles, move away from violence and harm, stay out of prison, get good jobs, and create a better future for themselves.

If you are entrepreneurial in your thinking of working with young communities, want to achieve high standards for the young people and their families  you work with and are looking for an exciting opportunity in which you can grow both personally and professionally then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate will be skilled in engaging, assessing and delivering interventions designed to support young people to build personal resilience and move away from harm and violence. Plus, the successful candidate will possess sound risk assessment skills and safeguarding knowledge.  A key component of the job role is, case management and good practice models, which underpin Streets of Growth practice.

Roles and duties:

1. Implementation of Streets of Growth’s Appropriate Intervention Model (AIM) via Bridging programme, across the areas of Lifestyle, Enterprise/Employ-ability, Education and Engaging Institutions.
2. Working on a case management basis with a caseload of referred and street engaged young people.
3. Working in partnership with families and other key people in a young persons’ life to build a strong network for positive change and progression for each young person and their family.
4. Working with the frontline team to deliver targeted street work to engage and build up relationships of trust with high risk and vulnerable young people (15-25 years) in the estates and youth crime hotspot areas across Tower Hamlets. 
5. To work to and meet set progression targets within agreed time-lines and deadlines based on the needs of the young people and their families on your caseload.

Qualifications and Skills

• Three years or more frontline experience of working with young people in one of the following areas, youth work, targeted youth work (such as gang intervention, county lines) family intervention, social work, youth justice, probation, education or health.
• A professional qualification in one of the following areas: youth and community work, social work, probation, family intervention, health, education OR relevant degree and experience of working with children, young people and families.
• Experience of providing high quality coaching support and knowledge of approaches including those relating to coaching and emotional intelligence that ensure young people and their families can develop the resilient skills needed to move out of crime, violence, harm and poverty.
• Good IT skills and ability to use Microsoft packages and previous experience of inputting data on CRM system.
• Desirable is the experience and or a good understanding of the needs and challenges facing young people and communities of Tower Hamlets and East London.

Contract: Initial One-Year fixed term contract with the potential to be made PERMANENT dependent on progression achievements and funding. Full time 37 hours per week (however, part time applicants will be considered). Evening and weekend working will be required but will be reflected in workload and working hours.

Benefits

• 20 days annual leave + bank holidays.  FTE,( if part-time post is awarded this will pro rata of days worked)
• Pension scheme up to 8% contributions (this will be reviewed on an annual basis)
• Ongoing support for professional development and training (internal and external)

Please send a current CV along with a covering letter stating your

• suitability for this role,
•  skills and qualities you will bring to the role
•  any other information relevant to the post.

Please note that applications sent WITHOUT a Covering letter will NOT be considered. 

For informal discussion about the post you can contact Diane Peters, CEO on 020 7 515 7356

Streets of Growth will be interviewing selected candidates as applications are received and reserves the right to close the post before end date if a suitable candidate is appointed.

US: Hi, we’re Possible – we bring people together to create bold, beautiful solutions in response to the climate crisis. Whether that’s connecting the world’s first solar railway, mining renewable heat from underneath London’s parks, leading calls for a televised climate debate or launching a ground-breaking employer scheme to incentivise clean holiday travel - we’re always thinking of new ways to cut carbon that involve and benefit the public. 

YOU: Are you someone with a passion for tackling climate change in a way that gets everyone involved? Are you a creative thinker with a positive, practical attitude able to turn ideas into reality? Do you get fired up by working with communities to breathe life into innovative climate solutions that improve lives today? Does solving difficult problems float your boat? If so, we should talk.

The world’s recent social and political awakening to the climate crisis has been overtaken by the much more immediate crisis of the pandemic, but in the background the climate emergency continues to demand urgent action. In this turbulent and challenging time, Possible’s work on inspiring climate solutions that everyone can contribute to is needed more than ever. Transport is a key area where the UK has veered a long way off track, with carbon emissions actually rising in recent years instead of falling. But with travel patterns turned on their heads by lockdown, new futures are now becoming visible where the car is no longer king.

Possible have secured funding for a major new campaign to reduce private car dominance in cities, showing how achieving the big reductions in motor traffic needed to meet climate change targets will also dramatically improve health outcomes and quality of life for people living in cities. The ‘new normal’ post-covid cannot be one where people shun public transport for private cars, or our climate goals will be impossible to meet. 

We need a senior campaign manager to lead the team delivering this landmark programme to kickstart the process of making private cars obsolete in our cities - accelerating the move to a zero carbon Britain built by and for everyone. We need an experienced leader who knows how to support local community changemakers as well as working with city authorities and local political leaders, leveraging bottom-up grassroots activism to drive city-wide transformation. Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record in campaigning and experience of successfully leading a team, including project management oversight and multiple line management responsibilities.

+ About the role

You’ll be a senior member of the campaigns team, working closely with and reporting to the directors, with responsibility for delivering Possible’s Car Free Cities projects for a minimum two year period starting in July 2020. You will be based in Possible’s London office in Camden Town (pandemic permitting), on either a full time or 0.9FTE basis, depending on preference. With the directors’ support, you will be managing annual budgets of hundreds of thousands of pounds and a team of up to six staff, some working remotely from other cities, alongside key relationships with academic partners and overseas consortium members in Paris and New York. 

You’ll work collaboratively with the communications team to spread our key messages far and wide, and leverage the greatest impact possible in our target communities and beyond. You’ll also work closely with the rest of Possible’s senior management team to cultivate and maintain a positive and supportive working culture amongst the whole workforce as well as within your own team. You’ll also work across the campaigns, fundraising and comms teams to develop the most effective mobilisations techniques, building capacity in our supporters to escalate action and bring their communities with them.

Working within strategy and project plans that have been collaboratively developed, you’ll be free to put forward your own ideas for campaign activities, particularly in response to changing events. You’ll be adaptable to overseeing delivery of different tactics based on need, from online petitions to research and report publication, lobbying of city administrations and politicians, grassroots community organising, pioneering innovation and publicity grabbing interventions.

As a key member of the Possible family you’ll be part of a small, passionate, nimble, unique and positive organisation that cares about its people, its projects and, ultimately, the planet.

+ Person specification

Competencies can be demonstrated by both paid and voluntary experience.

Must haves

• Track record of planning and delivering successful campaigns and projects.

• Experience of leading a team, including line management.

• High standard of written and spoken communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with colleagues and project partners such as campaigners, volunteers and funders, internally and externally.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

• Ability to think creatively and generate new campaign and tactic ideas.

• Ability to digest, understand and analyse information independently.

• Adaptability, enthusiasm, appetite for learning and ability to take initiative.

• Passion for working with the public to take action, and for helping increase the capacity of people to act and activate others around them.

• Commitment to Possible’s positive approach to climate campaigning and passionate about achieving climate justice.

• Working knowledge of UK climate and transport context and policy.

Nice to haves

• Experience of public meeting facilitation.

• Experience of working with distributed organising tactics focused on widespread public participation.

• Experience of working with mainstream media and social media.

• Event management experience.

• Community organising experience.

• Contacts in local government and existing networks of transport / environmental activists and NGOs.

• Experience of digital marketing or campaigns.

• Experience of international working.

• Understanding of cultural and behaviour change campaigns and strategies.

• Basic research skills.

• French language skills.

+ About Possible

Here at Possible, we have a vision for a low carbon Britain that has been built by and belongs to everybody.

To get there, we dream up projects, build tools and spread success stories to make sure everyone has the help and inspiration they need to play a role in tackling climate change. Our work cuts carbon, but because we work on cultural as well as technical levels, we get people talking about climate change action too. We want our projects to be infectious, so it is always about more than just a solar panel here, or an LED there - it’s about groups of people working together to change the world.

+ Our Values

Inclusivity  Trust and respect   Creativity   Shared ambition

Positivity  Caring and kindness  Integrity  Openness

Not just buzzwords to make us feel warm and fuzzy, these are the values we are guided by in our actions and our organisational culture. Away days help to keep these values alive and we work together to keep our team as supported, empowered and cared for as possible. We’re run by a team of directors rather than one single CEO, and we’re committed to reducing hierarchy wherever possible.

Workplace benefits include:

• 25 days paid holiday (+ bank holidays and three days at Christmas)

• Flexible working

• Paid volunteer leave

• Bike to work scheme

• Paid journey days for low carbon holiday travel 

• Childcare vouchers

• Good maternity and paternity leave

• Employer pension contribution