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Wells Cathedral School is searching for a new Director of Development and Head of Foundation to secure long-term support, and increase their inspiring and creative approach to education.
Location: Wells, Somerset with hybrid options
Closing date: 9 a.m. Monday 16th December
Who we are.
Wells Cathedral School has been educating children for over a thousand years in what must be one of the world’s most beautiful and inspiring locations.
Alongside its remarkable history and provision of an all-round education, the School also has the prestigious honour of being only one of five Specialist Music Schools in the UK within the Department for Education (DfE) Music and Dance Scheme, meaning it is nationally and globally renowned for music and choristry.
The School has so many special qualities and a big emphasis on bursaries enabling it to be a diverse, creative and welcoming environment for all. The School plays a huge role in the community through many events, concerts and activities, and they have plans to develop this further.
Having launched their brand new ‘Play Your Part’ campaign to much fanfare, they now need a brilliant senior development leader to ensure its success.
About the role.
The Director of Development and Head of Foundation will execute and evolve a recently developed strategy for a significant ramp-up in the fundraising activity of Wells Cathedral School Foundation, initially focused on funding bursaries and small-scale estate developments. They will also ensure the effective work of the School’s supporting bodies and lead on building good relations with alumni and delivering a legacy programme.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Implement our strategy for fundraising consistent with best practice and the objectives of the Foundation.
- To promote and develop the Foundation as the central charity in the School’s fundraising operation.
- Undertake direct fundraising, either individually or in conjunction with the Head Master and Foundation Trustees.
- Find innovative ways of engaging alumni and other friends of the School in Foundation and fundraising activities, including liaising with the Chair of the Old Wellensian (OW) Association for the planning and overseeing the organisation of appropriate alumni events and communications plans.
- Build positive relationships with pupils, colleagues, parents and other members of the wider WCS community, both nationally and internationally. This includes OWs, Wells Cathedral Chorister Trust (WCCT), Friends of Music and Wells Cathedral Choir Association (WCCA).
- Oversee the maintenance and development of the Toucan Tech CRM and community website. Grow and maintain a database of all volunteers, donors and donor prospects that supports the engagement and fundraising strategy.
- Cultivate and continue to grow a portfolio of potential major donor prospects and deliver significant gifts from individuals, organisations and businesses.
- Strengthen existing donor networks and develop further networks.
- Recruit and organise fundraising volunteers of alumni, parents, former parents and other friends and supporters of the School.
- Ensure the Wells Cathedral School Foundation meets its budgets and targets as appropriate.
Who we are looking for.
We are searching for creative, talented and passionate senior fundraisers and development professionals who place relationships at the heart of all they do.
Wells has a multi-income strategy and campaign ready to go, so we require operational excellence and a strategic mindset to ensure their successful delivery.
Candidates who understand the unique offering of the School and who can articulate its importance to many audiences will be successful in this role. Therefore we are searching for intelligent, confident and warm candidates.
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Applications for this role close at 9 a.m. Monday 16th December.
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Grade DL, Salary £45,581.89 per annum
Location: Euston, London (Hybrid working – minimum 2 days per week in the office)
Closing date: 9.00am on Monday 02 December 2024
Interview date: Thursday 12 December or Friday 13 December 2024
The Royal College of General Practitioners is the largest membership organisation solely for GPs in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1952, it has over 54,000 members who are committed to improving patient care, developing their own skills and promoting general practice as a discipline. General practice is the largest branch of the medicine and provides a majority of population’s contact with the health service.
We are looking for a senior policy professional to join our policy team, which is part of our Policy, Research and Campaigns department. If successful, you will help to make the case for resources in primary care to meet the health needs of our population, develop policy solutions to improve general practice, and influence decision making at senior levels of government. You will contribute to efforts in overcoming some of the biggest problems faced by the NHS in its history, including engaging with the plans being set out by the new Government. You will work closely with our public affairs and campaigns team and our press team, as well as a range of others across the organisation, to ensure that the voice of general practice is heard at the most senior levels.
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic policy professional who can hit the ground running and help drive forwards our influence in key areas within a fast-paced policy landscape. The successful individual will be responsible for a range of policy areas affecting general practice.
If you are a driven professional looking for a dynamic role where you will quickly be able to have an impact, we would like to hear from you. You should:
- have demonstrable experience working in policy.
- be confident in taking a lead on policy development and able to quickly become an expert in complex policy areas of general practice.
- have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with an eye for detail and an ability to explain complex problems to different audiences.
- be a strong self-starter who is confident in taking initiative.
- be confident in using evidence to help make a case for change.
Please download the Candidate Pack to view the full job description.
The successful candidate will share our corporate values. In return, the College offers excellent terms and conditions and great working environment.
To apply, please apply directly via the RCGP website vacancies page and provide both your CV and covering letter/statement.
The Royal College of General Practitioners is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
~ Building a sustainable future for general practice ~
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An exciting opportunity at CPSL Mind
CPSL Mind is a vibrant, values-led charity that supports local people in their recovery from mental health issues, promotes wellbeing and campaigns against stigma and discrimination.
Communications & Engagement Officer
Work Pattern: 37.5 hours including occasional evening and weekend work (Part time hours considered)
Salary: £28,071.00 per annum (Full Time), Scale Point 18 (April 2024)
Based in: our Cambridge or Peterborough office with hybrid working option and regular travel across Cambridgeshire.
About CPSL Mind
Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire Mind (CPSL Mind) is a values-based, mental health charity. We are a highly collaborative organisation, providing a range of strengths-based services and projects to support recovery from mental health problems and promote positive mental health across our diverse communities.
About the Role
We are looking for a skilled communications practitioner to join our established Communications Team, supporting delivery of effective and impactful communications and marketing campaigns that raise awareness of CPSL Mind’s services and helps to grow our fundraising.
In particular, our new Communications and Engagement Officer will:
- Support in the delivery of CPSL Mind’s annual content and campaigns calendar to promote CPSL Mind’s services, raise awareness, and increase income generation.
- Start-to-finish development and distribution of CPSL Mind’s Internal Newsletter.
They will also work with the wider team to:
- Create innovative, accurate comms content and assets for use across a variety of platforms.
- Support individuals who have accessed our services to tell their stories either via written word or video content.
- Attend media and external events to represent CPSL Mind to build relationships and generate content.
We actively monitor applications for employment and will shortlist and arrange interviews for this role as applications are submitted.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community and those with their own lived experiences of mental health challenges.
No agencies please.
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Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (England, Wales & Northern Ireland)
Salary: £97,905 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (30 hours over 4 days)
Location: London-based or commutable to London (minimum weekly), with some other UK travel as required.
Plus benefits.
Can you lead Friends of the Earth in our mission to achieve climate justice?
We are seeking to appoint an Executive Director to lead Friends of the Earth (England, Wales & Northern Ireland) at a crucial domestic and international moment for climate, environmental and social justice.
You will motivate, inspire and build the capacity of a growing and diverse network of people coming together to transform our environment into one which is flourishing, sustainable, and socially just.
You will do this as a passionate and effective advocate for an environment that’s getting better, a safer climate, abundant nature, healthy air, water and food. We work from the grassroots to the global in communities throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland to playing our part in the international network of our sister organisations around the world.
We are looking for someone with established credibility and standing within the environmental and/or social justice sectors, someone able to inspire our activists, staff and allies, and to attract funding and resources to enable our vital work; someone with outstanding strategic vision and organisational leadership as well as a collaborative approach to build and deliver transformative work internally and externally.
With exceptional communication and relationship skills and an empathetic approach, you will inspire and lead our engagement across the political landscape and engage with a widening range of communities. Fostering equity, diversity and inclusion, including our commitment to becoming an anti-racist organization, you will be key to our work in pursuit of a just and sustainable world for all.
CLOSING DATE: THURSDAY 2nd JANUARY 2025 (AT 23.59)
For more information please read the information pack.
HOW TO APPLY AND KEY DATES
Please apply by sending a curriculum vitae, supporting statement and Equality & Diversity form to the recruitment team, see how to apply.
Your supporting statement should be no more than 2 pages of A4 and address the key requirements of the person specification with relevant examples of your experience and outline why you are interested in the post. Please state if you wish to be considered under Disability Confident.
To ease administration, please combine into a single Word document. Please do not use PDF format.
We are undertaking direct recruitment via this process. Additionally, Oxford HR are assisting us via an executive search process. If you are engaged with that, please continue to route your application via them. All applications will be reviewed jointly.
Key dates:
Closing date: Thursday 2nd January 2025 (at 23:59)
First stage
1st Interviews: Wednesday 15th/ Thursday 16th January 2025 (online via Teams meeting)
Second stage
Meetings with key stakeholders: Wednesday 22nd/ Thursday 23rd January 2025 (online via Teams meetings) This will include meetings with representatives of our Boards, management, staff, Nations and the recognised union (Unite).
2nd Interviews: Wednesday 29th/ Thursday 30th January 2025 (in person at our London office)
We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance including a 4-day working week with no loss of pay, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.
Our staff body is currently under-representative of People of Colour, LGBTQIA+ people and people with long term conditions or impairments. We are committed to eroding these historic barriers, so as to create a movement in which people from all walks of life see themselves in, and so we particularly encourage you to apply if you belong to one of these groups or sit at multiple intersections of disadvantage. We are committed to the Disability Confident standard and will guarantee an interview to any candidates who declare a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Friends of the Earth staff who publicly represent Friends of the Earth (including all campaigners) are not allowed to also represent a political party. This is to ensure that there can be no confusion in the minds of the public about Friends of the Earth's party-political independence. Affected staff should also seek permission from the Senior Management Team if they wish to hold a non-public facing official role in a political party. If this is an issue, please do raise this with us as soon as possible.
Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.
Registered Charity
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We are part of an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here.
The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.
About the role
An opportunity has arisen to join our policy, evidence and influencing team, working to deliver change for people affected by breast cancer. In this role you’ll use insight from patients and healthcare professionals, data and research to develop evidence-based policy positions and recommendations. You’ll work with colleagues across public affairs, campaigns, regional and devolved teams develop and deliver influencing strategies and build strong relationships with key external stakeholders. You’ll also act as a source of expertise across the organisation and externally on key policy areas and the wider policy environment.
About you
With experience of working in relevant policy roles to deliver significant change, you’ll be skilled in developing credible, evidence-based policy positions and be able to think strategically. You’ll have excellent communication skills and experience of building relationships with, and influencing, key stakeholders. You’ll also have a strong understanding of the policy and influencing landscape that Breast Cancer Now works in.
Job description and benefits
Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.
Primary location of role and hybrid working
This role is primarily based in our London office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 3 days per week at home.
When applying
We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you’ve any immediate questions please email the Recruitment Team
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.
Closing date: Sunday 1 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Interview dates: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December 2024
