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With a new CEO and an ambitious and inspiring new strategy being developed, Smart Works are looking for a skilled and analytical Director of Finance to drive organisational financial strategy at a time of significant change and growth.
The Director of Finance will act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, and provide financial reporting for the board, working closely with the Treasurer. As part of the SLT, the post holder will be responsible for the financial management and strategic financial planning for our London centres and Group staff, as well as supporting our 12 centres nationally, operating within a federated structure. In addition, the post holder will provide wider leadership as part of a multi-disciplinary team to drive positive outcomes for our clients.
For full details, please see the attached job pack, and submit your application via our online portal by 12 noon on Friday 31st October.
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The London Diocesan Fund (LDF) is seeking an Area Giving and Finance Advisor (Kensington) to play a key role within the Area Finance team, based at Causton Street.
Job Summary
The Area Giving and Finance Advisor provides comprehensive finance support to churches within the Kensington Area, aiding them in the development of their ministries, manage Common Fund giving and to support the Area Bishop’s staff team in the management of resources including monitoring clergy post numbers, curate funding, and other financial matters. As part of a small team of Area Giving and Finance Advisers, the role involves offering training, resources, and advice on parish financial management and administration, and advice on various giving methods, including online and contactless options. Additionally, the role entails promoting generous giving through training initiatives, facilitating the award of grants and loans to churches from Area funds, and fostering effective communication and relationship-building between the Area team, Finance team, and parish officers.
Job responsibilities:
· Support churches in effective financial management, compliance, and stewardship of resources.
· Provide finance training, advice, and resources to clergy, PCCs, and parish officers.
· Assist diocesan leaders with Common Fund giving and the allocation of Area resources.
· Facilitate and monitor grants and loans awarded to churches.
· Promote a culture of generosity and encourage varied giving methods, including online, contactless, and the Parish Giving Scheme.
· Deliver training and resources to support generous giving and stewardship.
· Build strong relationships and communication between parishes, Area teams, and the diocesan Finance team.
· Collaborate with the National Giving Team on parish support initiatives.
· Support Area staff and councils in monitoring posts, curate funding, and other resource matters.
· Work occasional evenings and weekends as required.
· Undertake other duties appropriate to the role.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full details on the main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Essential
· Experience of encouraging charitable giving.
· Experience managing a wide variety of professional relationships.
· Understanding of the ethos and mission of the Church of England, and of the role of parish clergy.
· Effective written and oral communication skills.
· Numerate and financially astute – comfortable working with financial data.
· Christian faith with empathy to the mission and values of the Church of England.
· Right to work in the UK.
· The person will not require a DBS check.
· Experience of charity accounting (accounting qualifications are not a requirement) (desirable)
Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full details on Person Specification.
About the London Diocesan Fund
The London Diocesan Fund (LDF) is the employment body that serves and supports the Diocese of London and Church of England. The Diocese of London comprises of c400 parishes north of the River Thames and within the M25 motorway.
The Church of England in London is growing, vibrant and at the heart of communities throughout the capital. At the London Diocesan Fund we seek to do everything we can to support this mission and growth, using our resources to help our parishes and chaplains to serve over 4 million people.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
The Diocese of London is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce which represents our context and wider community.
We are aware that those of Global Majority Heritage/United Kingdom Minority Ethnic (GMH/UKME), women, and disabled people are currently under-represented among our clergy and workforce, and we particularly encourage applications from those with the relevant skills and experience that will increase this representation.
Safeguarding
The Diocese of London is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Benefits of working with us
The LDF offers a supportive working environment, opportunity for career development and the following financial benefits:
- Competitive remuneration package
- 27 annual leave days to rise to 30 after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
- 15% employer pension contribution and salary sacrifice available
- Death in service benefit x3 of basic gross salary
- Enhanced maternity leave of six months full pay, after 12 months’ of employment
- Season ticket loans of public transport
- Access to Benenden Health Insurance
- EAP counselling through Health Assured
- Up to £100 for eye test and contribution to spectacles
- Two additional paid days for community volunteering
To apply:
Submit your application and CV online via Pathways. Please refer to the person specification and JD when you’re answering the application questions.
For more details, please see the full Job Description and Person Specification or visit the LDF Careers Page.
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20/20 Levels is a social mobility organisation dedicated to empowering black and racially underrepresented young people to maximise their potential through opportunities. We provide career and business development programs, mentorship, and opportunities to help young talent thrive in their chosen industries. Our community is at the heart of everything we do, and we are looking for a passionate and creative Social Media Manager to help amplify our impact through digital channels.
Role Overview
As the Social Media Manager, you will play a key role in enhancing 20/20 Levels’ digital presence by creating, managing, and growing our social media platforms. You will be responsible for creating engaging content, designing visually appealing assets, scheduling posts, analysing performance metrics, and interacting with our online community. This role is ideal for someone who is creative, detail-oriented, and passionate about using digital media to drive engagement and brand awareness.
This role reports directly to the Marketing & Communications Lead and works closely with programme teams to amplify their work.
Key Responsibilities
Content Creation & Management
● Manage the 20/20 Level’s social media accounts (Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube), including content creation, scheduling (using programs like Later), and engagement.
● Create compelling written, visual, and video content that aligns with 20/20 Levels' mission and brand, including graphics, reels, captions, and TikTok posts.
● Monitor social media channels for trends, conversations, and mentions related to our industry and brand.
● Design materials for internal communications, including newsletters, announcements and marketing materials and team updates
● Assist in maintaining a content library, organising media assets, and archiving materials for future use.
● Collaborate with our Marketing and Communications Lead to brainstorm and contribute creative ideas for campaigns and promotions.
Community Engagement
● Engage with our online community by responding to comments, messages, and inquiries in a timely and professional manner
● Foster meaningful conversations and positive online interactions to strengthen audience relationships
● Collaborate with internal teams to showcase program updates, success stories, and upcoming initiatives
Performance Tracking & Strategy
● Monitor trends and insights to optimise content strategy and maximise visibility and engagement
● Track, analyse, and report on social media performance, making data-driven recommendations for improvement
● Assist in running social media campaigns and influencer partnerships
● Stay up to date with the latest digital trends and best practices to keep our content fresh and relevant
Qualifications & Skills
● Previous experience in social media management, digital marketing, or content creation (internships or personal projects welcomed)
● Strong understanding of various social media platforms and their best practices
● Excellent written and visual storytelling skills
● Strong verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain performance metrics and communicate ideas clearly and quickly.
● Graphic design and video editing skills (knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Canva, Adobe Suite, CapCut, Indesign & Illustrator)
● Ability to analyse metrics and adjust strategies accordingly
● Creative thinker with an eye for detail and brand consistency
● Passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion, with an understanding of the challenges faced by underrepresented young people in the workforce
● Ability to work independently while collaborating with a team
Benefits of Working with 20/20 Levels
● Opportunity to contribute to a meaningful mission and make a real impact
● Flexible working arrangements
● Professional development and mentorship opportunities
● Exposure to a dynamic and supportive community
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20/20 Levels is a social mobility organisation dedicated to empowering black and racially underrepresented young people to maximise their potential.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Finance Manager
We are seeking a Finance Manager to join the growing Reaching Higher team and bring our finance function fully in-house. We are looking for a skilled and detail-oriented professional who will play a pivotal role in ensuring strong financial systems, accurate reporting, and sound financial planning. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proven track record in financial management and governance, budgeting and forecasting, payroll and pension oversight, and the ability to provide clear strategic insight and analysis to support organisational growth and sustainability.
Purpose of this Role
Our finance functions are currently partially outsourced to an external contractor. Our income has grown significantly over the past five years and our Board have now decided to employ a Finance Manager and bring financial expertise in-house. In this new position as the Finance Manager at Reaching Higher, you will play a vital role in ensuring accurate financial reporting and planning, payroll and pension management, and financial governance and compliance. You will support all aspects of Reaching Higher’s work and development through ensuring strong financial systems.
You will work closely with our team to ensure that all day-to-day finance requirements are met, including accurate grant finance monitoring and reporting to multiple funders. You will also work closely with our senior leaders and board to build the charity’s financial resilience and the financial awareness of our wider team.
You will work closely with the Executive Assistant & Administrator and report to the Executive Director, as well as working closely with the Executive Team, Treasurer and wider Board.
About Reaching Higher
Reaching Higher is a youth organisation which works with over 2000 young people aged 9-21 each year across Croydon and surrounding boroughs. Developed in partnership with local churches, we are a youth-led charity with a Christian ethos and this role is restricted under basis of faith.We have a particular emphasis on providing mentoring support to young people and supporting their development as leaders. We have established strong links with key local, London and UK-wide organisations and our approach leads us into regular working contact with partner schools, community groups and churches.
Please see our job specification table below for more information.
Qualification
-AAT or Accountancy body qualified preferred, with at least 5 years’ experience
Experience
-Experience of maintaining accounting ledgers
-Experience of charity accounting & SORP principles
-Experience of a Finance Manager role
-Experience of using Microsoft packages with excellent IT skills
-Experience of working in a small team
-Experience preparing monthly / quarterly management accounts
-Experience preparing annual statutory accounts and being involved with audit processes
-Experience managing financial operations, planning, reconciliation, reporting and analysis
-Experience of working with and co-ordinating income and expenditure across multi-project budgets
-Experience running monthly payroll
-Knowledge of a range accounting software – preferably Xero
-An understanding of our work and the sector Reaching Higher operates in
-An understanding of good financial management and the importance of care and accuracy
-Knowledge of financial governance, including accounting regulations and best practice
Skills
-Well organised, efficient and accurate
-Able to maintain confidentiality and deal with sensitive information
-Articulate with good verbal and written communication skills – ability to work with and support non-financial officers and managers
-Ability to propose new and maintain existing controls within the organisation
-Ability to work independently on multiple projects, organise own workload and prioritise
-Ability to take responsibility for the finances of the charity, and work with the senior team to ensure financial stability and/or growth
Personal Qualities
-Demonstrable commitment to working in ways which promote equality of opportunity
-Commitment to continuous professional development
-Confident in working alone or at home
-Strong work ethic, results-motivated and solutions-focused
-Ability to work on own initiative, be pro-active, consider implications and make decisions.
-Capable of working to tight deadlines
-Ability to take an agile, flexible and responsive approach to management and responsibilities
-Willing to strive for quality and excellence, setting high goals and committed to continuous improvement
-Commitment to equality and diversity and an understanding of how to promote them in your work
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Platform’s North Sea Workers’ Transition project is building towards a managed phase-out of oil and gas extraction in the UK North Sea. We’re organising for an energy industry that protects the rights and livelihoods of the current oil and gas workforce and directs wealth back to communities, especially those impacted by industrial change.
We have been working with offshore oil and gas workers and their unions for 5+ years. In 2023, we published a groundbreaking set of 10 demands for a just energy transition away from fossil fuels co-created with offshore workers: Our Power: offshore workers’ demands for a just energy transition. Since publishing the report we have launched public advocacy and media campaigns based on these demands - working alongside industrial trade unions, national and grassroots climate groups, and oil and gas workers. We coordinate a first-of-its-kind coalition of industrial unions and climate groups working together on national worker transition demands.
As living conditions continue to decline and the climate crisis deepens, we are looking for a motivated and creative campaigner, who is able to lead the next stage of the project, and who has a strong understanding of anti-oppression and energy justice.
About the role
The Worker Transition Campaigns Manager will work closely with our Worker Organiser and Public and Community Ownership Campaigner, supported by our Organising and Advocacy Lead, Research Lead and Communications Lead.
You will be responsible for strategising, project managing and delivering the project. Activities will look like:
- Coordinating an existing coalition of climate groups and trade unions, including holding relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders across movements;
- Developing and delivering political advocacy and public campaigns strategies to win Our Power demands - including public ownership of energy - at a UK and Scottish Government level;
- Supporting the work of Platform’s Worker Organiser(s) to build links with energy workers and involve them in media, political meetings and/or campaigning activities.
This post would sit within Platform’s internal collective management structure and would therefore be expected to support the collective management of the organisation in addition to finance and fundraising-related responsibilities. This includes line managing 1-2 staff members after the 6 month probation period and attending collective management meetings.
Role Details
Hours: 4 days (32 hours) based on a 40 hour work week (5 x 8 hour days including a 1hr lunch break).
Contract: Permanent
Proposed start date: ASAP, depending on notice period.
Salary: £36,824.41 for 4 days (32 hours) per week (£46,030.51 FTE) is our baseline salary, adjustable according to our Socially Just Waging System. Terms and conditions apply.
Other benefits include: 30 days annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays, enhanced parental leave, enhanced sick pay allowance. We offer Wellbeing and Training and Development funds to all staff. All policies subject to review.
Location: The role will be formally based at Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6HG, but remote working is possible.
Most Platform staff are supported to work from home most of the time, but all permanent members of staff are expected to attend in-person meetings 3-4 times a year, usually at the London office, and other in-person meetings when required.
Responsible to: Management Group (MG), Trustees (in conjunction with the Treasurer)
You can find more details about the person specification and job description on Platform's website.
Platform works towards a just future beyond fossil fuels.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Treasury and Cash Manager | 12-months | £500 - £600 per day (Inside IR35) | UK - Hybrid
For a large, complex international organisation which operates in more than 80 currencies with over 80 banking partners in 100+ countries, we're recruiting an Interim Cash, Risk and Treasury Manager. Reporting to the Corporate Treasurer, this role will implement all aspects of corporate treasury policy, processes, controls, analysis and investment strategies including cash management, financing and investment activities, risk management, and loss prevention. The interim Treasury Manager will build relationships with banks and will identify ways to improve in-country banking and repatriation of cash, including liquidity, cash forecasting, and debt management.
Main Duties:
- Manage the banking platforms and processes including the European zero balancing cash pool
- Optimise cash-flow and improve cash flow forecasting across the business, optimising investment income and work in partnership with Shared Services, and Country Finance teams
- Support the identification and releasing of trapped cash overseas, working with in-country colleagues and the Tax and Status team as well as Financial Control
- Manage the Foreign Currency liquidity requirements
- Support the development and implementation of Treasury Management Policy and controls
- Support the development and implementation of long-term investment strategy aiming to optimise deposit interest income
- Develop partnerships with banks and financial institutions to ensure all banking arrangements are fit for purpose
- Lead and support change in treasury activities and provide business units with advice on commercial matters
Person Specification:
- Qualified or part-qualified ACA, CIMA, ACCA or ACT
- Strong experience of treasury management
- Experience of assessing and managing business-related financial risks including FX, interest rates and counterparty risk management
- Management of FX exposures and strong understanding of money market instruments
- Strong experience of dealing platforms, ISDA and loan documentation
- Experience of working with different regions on merchant services and payment provider issues
- Strong experience of cash activities including security and monitoring cash investments
- TMS experience and use of 360T is desirable
- Shared Services Operations experience
- SAP experience
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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.
Camp Jojo is a small/medium, but growing charity with a committed team of Trustees, Special Advisors, and Volunteers. This is a chance to contribute to a dynamic organisation and work in a supportive environment. In particular, Camp Jojo’s extension of its work to Nags Head Farm, Appleby, Cumbria, is new; with Open Days held in 2025, and the first camps to be held in August 2026.
The holder of this post will be critical to this development; working to establish a sister site in Cumbria to Ivy Farm on Mersea island, Essex, with a well tried and tested model of operations. The role of Nags Head Farm: Operations Manager (Families and Site Ops) is to offer leadership and administrative support to key functions of Camp Jojo at Nags Head Farm, and to members of the Camp Jojo Board, in relation to the camps held at Nags Head Farm.
The Contractor will handle clerical and logistics tasks for the organisation in a timely and efficient way. The primary task of the Nags Head Farm: Operations Manager will be to oversee family applications to the camps, and to maintain and develop data bases in support of this. They will hold a key role in relation to communications with the families pre-, during, and post-camps. In addition, they will attend and minute meetings, and contribute to camp operations in planning etc. They may need to work flexibly, according to the seasonal demands of the charity.
They will attend the first day (Friday) of each camp The Nags Head Farm: Operations Manager will have a varied and sometimes high-pace job environment. As such, they will need to handle multiple tasks, manage their own time well, interact professionally with the wider Camp Jojo community, and be very good communicators.
Please use your cover letter to provide as much evidence as possible to show how your skills, abilities,
knowledge and experience meet each of the criteria in the role. Please provide examples which are
relevant to this role.
Please note, while we appreciate the value of AI tools, we strongly prefer that applicants prepare their
supporting statements with minimal use of AI. This helps us to better understand your authentic voice,
skills and motivation for this role. Thank you.
Deadline for applications - 31st October 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Vision: Home-Start believes every parent should have the support they need to give their children the best possible start in life. Main purpose of job: To ensure Home-Start's Southwark’s finance and operations systems best meet the needs of the organisation, enabling us to provide the best possible support to families with children under 5 in Southwark and Lewisham.
Our ambition is to continue to develop outstanding services that meet the needs of our community; if you want to be part of our future, we would love to meet you to discuss this further.
Home-Start believes every parent should have the support they need to give their children the best possible start in life.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Friends of Ibba Girls School (FIGS), which supports Ibba Girls’ Boarding School in South Sudan, is seeking a highly experienced Director of Fundraising and Communications to develop its fundraising strategy, secure new donors, meet ambitious fundraising targets and raise awareness of and support for FIGS through a variety of communication methods.
Friends of Ibba Girls School, South Sudan (FIGS)
Friends of Ibba Girls School, South Sudan (FIGS) was set up in 2011 in response to a specific request from local community leaders to help them translate into reality their vision to build and develop a girls’ boarding school in South Sudan in order to enable girls to complete primary and secondary education rather than drop out of school due to poverty and family pressures.
FIGS has raised over £4.9 million over the last 10 years, particularly through relational fundraising from the wide network of individuals who donate through regular giving, mainly in the UK but also internationally. Other sources of funds include schools, churches, trusts and foundations, corporates, and business philanthropists, as well as a yearly campaign through the Big Give Christmas Challenge.
FIGS has a committed and hardworking body of trustees, chaired by Chris Trott, former British Ambassador to South Sudan, and now British Ambassador to the Holy See based in the Vatican City, Rome. The charity currently employs 2 staff who work on fundraising, communications and administration.
In 2023 FIGS Trustees commissioned Windle Trust International (a well-managed UK charity with a long track record of effective work in South Sudan and sub-Saharan Africa) to act as FIGS managing agents in South Sudan, and to provide professional, technical and management advice and support to Ibba Girls Boarding School (IGBS).
Ibba Girls Boarding School (IGBS)
Ibba Girls Boarding School (IGBS) now educates over 300 primary and secondary school girls from across the whole of Western Equatoria State (an area the size of Scotland but less densely populated) and employs 42 staff (teachers, matrons, cooks, grounds maintenance, night guards and other support staff). The school is on a large, 100-acre green campus and provides not only high-quality teaching in the core subjects on the national curriculum, but also a wide range of co-curriculum subjects like drama, debating, sewing, and farming.
Since its opening in 2014, IGBS has become recognised as a tried and tested visible demonstration of the benefits of boarding school education in South Sudan, where most girls drop out from school before the end of primary and very few complete their secondary qualifications. IGBS is making a substantial impact across South Sudan, by providing good quality “all-through” integrated girls’ schooling, for both primary and secondary girls, from any background and of any faith or none.
IGBS is achieving both tangible and intangible measures of success, including reduced drop out from school; excellent exam results; a safe, stimulating, happy and nurturing culture; empowering young women who can exercise leadership locally and nationally for this new nation (independent since 2011). IGBS is now attracting widespread recognition in South Sudan for lifting standards of teaching and learning, and acting as a beacon of light and hope, whose example can gradually ripple out to other schools across South Sudan.
The Opportunity
This is a great moment of opportunity for a highly experienced fundraising and communications professional with a strong and demonstrable track record to play a crucial role (alongside a subgroup of trustees and two paid staff) in reviewing and refreshing FIGS’ fundraising strategy for the short, medium and longer term, and in raising FIGS’ profile through strategic communications. This will support FIGS to reach ambitious fundraising targets to allow us to increase the number of girls in the school to full capacity and implement multiple capital projects on the school campus over the next 5 years. The fundraising challenge also includes deepening and expanding FIGS’ donor base, while sustaining and engaging the large network of existing supporters and loyal donors, supported by effective communications and PR. You will lead and direct the fundraising work and will use your skills across a wide range of fundraising functions, including cultivating gifts from wealthy philanthropists, and through wills and bequests. You will also lead on delivering FIGS’ communications strategy, identifying opportunities to raise its profile with target audiences using a variety of relevant communications channels. You will have experience of digital and social media campaigns, and will oversee the development and dissemination of strategic communications materials in support of FIGS’ fundraising and profile-raising objectives. You will ideally have experience working on projects in fragile or developing contexts and an interest in education and gender equity.
There is plenty to enjoy in the varied work, where one can see visible results not only in FIGS’ fundraising targets, but also in the impact it has on the school, its students and staff, parents and communities across Western Equatoria State and across the nation of South Sudan.
Key Responsibilities
- To support the design and delivery of FIGS’ fundraising strategy and action plan, achieving or exceeding targets and KPIs, both financial and non-financial, as agreed with the Chair of FIGS Trustees, Treasurer and Chair of its fundraising sub-group
- To oversee and deliver FIGS’ communications strategy, and raise its profile with existing and new audiences through strategic communications and PR
- To widen the existing network of donors, based on relationship development and management
- To maintain active engagement with existing supporters and donors
- To identify and generate new fundraising opportunities, from the corporate and philanthropic sectors, as well as from other organizations, groups and individuals
- To generate a pipeline of activities across a range of fundraising streams
- To undertake PR and communications work in order to support the fundraising strategy
- To lead the design and distribution of PR and comms materials, including website, regular newsletter, leaflets, social media.
- To line manage FIGS fundraising and comms staff
- To produce progress reports for FIGS Trustees about fundraising in relation to targets and budget and make recommendations for future workstreams
- To attend key fundraising and supporter events to generate significant income, support and profile
- To act as an ambassador for FIGS
- To ensure fundraising and comms activities are in line with FIGS’ values and policies, relevant legislation and the Fundraising Regulator Code of Practice.
The selection process and how to apply
The post can be undertaken on a full-time or part-time basis (where part-time is at least 24 hours a week). Hours can be flexible by arrangement. The person will work mainly from home, liaising online with FIGS and WTI Trustees, staff, and volunteers and with the Board of Governors and Head Teacher of the school in South Sudan.
Some travel to fundraising and communications events in London and elsewhere will be needed. A three-year rolling contract will be offered in the first instance, with annual review and the potential for extension, subject to achievement of agreed performance measures and targets. The salary is in the range of £45-70K (or pro rata) depending on track record and experience.
To apply please submit your CV and a statement of up to 500 words explaining how you can contribute to FIGS’ fundraising and communications work, including evidence of your fundraising and communications experience, achievements and approach. Please provide the names and email addresses of two referees who would only be contacted after a job offer. Please apply by 9 am 29th October 2025 through CharityJob.
First and second round interviews will take place during November.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and welcome applications from a wide range of identities and backgrounds.
Please submit your CV and a statement of up to 500 words explaining how you can contribute to FIGS’ fundraising and communications work, including evidence of your fundraising and communications experience, achievements and approach. Please provide the names and email addresses of two referees who would only be contacted after a job offer.
Friends of Ibba Girls School, South Sudan aims to improve the opportunity and quality of primary and secondary schooling for marginalised girls.
Join Evolve Music as our next Executive Director — and lead a creative, purpose-driven charity using music to change lives across the South West.
We’re looking for an inspiring, strategic and compassionate leader to guide Evolve into its next exciting chapter.
Since 2017, Evolve Music has grown into one of the South West’s leading community music organisations, working in partnership with health, education and cultural organisations to deliver inclusive, creative and high-impact programmes. From Sound Lab for neurodivergent young people to Dads Rock for fathers and male caregivers, our work reaches thousands each year, using music as a catalyst for wellbeing, confidence and connection.
As Executive Director, you’ll shape our strategic vision, lead fundraising and partnership development, and nurture a talented and passionate team. If you believe in the power of music to transform lives, we’d love to hear from you.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
CDMT is looking for a talented, ambitious and driven education and arts professional to energetically build on the company’s success over the past decade and imaginatively take forward and elevate our mission and vision for the years ahead. The role is accountable to the Chair of Trustees.
CDMT’s position in the sector and the requirements of the role are described in the job pack and on our website.
ABOUT THE ROLE OF DIRECTOR
CDMT is the industry body for world-class professional schools, conservatoires and awarding organisations in the performing arts, and we are a strong advocate on behalf of the sector.
The Director of the CDMT plays a strategic role in performing arts training, education and assessment nationally and manages the staff and resources of an organisation of UK-wide standing. The CDMT is financed primarily by membership subscriptions. As this source of income is restricted, the successful applicant will need to demonstrate a strategic business sense and a successful income-driven record that will enable the CDMT to create, diversify and take full advantage of developing opportunities.
The Director must be able to liaise effectively with all sectors of the dance, drama, music and musical theatre education communities. They will have wide knowledge and experience of arts education at all stages of development from entry level, through Further/Higher Education to post-graduate level, and will also require an understanding of qualification frameworks in the UK. Knowledge and experience of inspection and self-assessment mechanisms similar to those operated by the Office for Students, Ofsted and Ofqual, is desirable.
The role includes advocacy on behalf of the sector and requires an ability to offer support and advice to professional schools, conservatoires and awarding organisations as well as informing the thinking of regulators, civil servants and parliamentarians. This demands a high level of tact, diplomacy, professional understanding and tenacity as well as intellectual rigour and integrity.
This is a time of change and challenge for the performing arts education community. The post of Director of the CDMT requires a talented, ambitious and self-driven professional able to offer and energetically deliver an exciting vision for the company’s future, and manage the journey required to successfully achieve it.
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST DEMONSTRATE
- Experience of management at a senior level in the education and/or arts sectors, with an awareness of national assessment and inspection frameworks
- Staff management skills and a motivating and inclusive style
- Ability to identify opportunities, take initiative, and command the respect of peers and associates, demonstrating honesty and integrity in all dealings
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal abilities, and strategic thinking and planning
- Knowledge and experience of financial procedures and regulatory compliance and responsibilities
- Proficiency in influencing, negotiating, and finding common ground and agreement
- Resilience, self-motivation, clear vision and the ability to defend and promote CDMT’s mission
- Commitment to equal opportunities and the charity’s values
- Education to a minimum of Degree level
- The guile to engage with the pertinent issues of the time and to endeavour to shape the future for the benefit of CDMT
SUMMARY OF DIRECTOR’S ACTIVITIES
- Set CDMT strategy, vision and direction with Board support
- Establish corporate values, rewards quality and success in a culture of equal opportunity
- Create business plans, allocates capital in support of aims, produces budgets and monitors finances
- Cultivate key relationships, influences decision-makers, develops suitable partnerships and networks
- Strengthen CDMT’s reputation through representations to government, industry bodies and media
- Lead, inspire and build teams of highly qualified staff, consultants with effective use of resources
- Chair meetings and ensures success of operational policies, membership committees and inspections
- Utilise sector intelligence to reinforce the company’s standing through targeted initiatives
- Oversee reports to the Charity Commission, Companies House, HMRC, Pensions Regulator etc (acting as Company Secretary)
- Manage risk assessments and mitigating actions, seek legal and professional advice where necessary.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.