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Do you have a passion for supporting young people’s mental health and a desire to make a difference? Are you motivated, organised, and able to be flexible to cope with the changing demands of a growing organisation. If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join a small, local charity as our Centre Manager.
About Us
The Purple Elephant Project is a dynamic charity providing vital therapeutic interventions for children and young people in Greater London. Our mission is to alleviate mental health distress by working through challenging and traumatic early life events using Play and Art Therapy. We're seeking a dedicated Centre Manager to join our growing team and help us continue making a difference in young lives.
The Role
As our Centre Manager, you'll be the backbone of our daily operations, while ensuring our Twickenham centre runs smoothly and efficiently. You'll play a crucial role in supporting our staff, therapists, and volunteers, while also providing a welcoming environment for the families we serve.
Key Responsibilities:
·Oversee day-to-day centre operations, including opening/closing procedures and security and ensuring the facility runs smoothly and facilities are well maintained.
·Manage the Centre Coordinator
·Coordinate centre scheduling, including therapist sessions and other meetings
·Provide administrative support to the CEO and handle enquiries
·Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and charity policies
·Maintain personnel records & IT access
·Oversee the client record keeping system and support staff users
·Support staff recruitment and induction processes
·Recruit and manage volunteers
·Keep our website up-to-date
What We're Looking For:
·Excellent administrative and organisational skills
·Proficiency in Microsoft Office and confidence with IT systems
·Strong communication and interpersonal skills
·Ability to work independently and as part of a team
·Empathy and understanding for the families we support
·Flexibility to adapt work to support the changing needs of the charity
Desirable Qualities:
·Understanding of children's mental health
·Experience in office management
·Experience in volunteer management
·Driver's license and own vehicle
What We Offer:
·A chance to make a real difference in children's lives
·A supportive and collaborative work environment
·28 days holiday (pro-rata, including bank holidays)
·Workplace pension scheme
·Opportunities for professional development
The Purple Elephant Project is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check and provide references.
We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from all backgrounds.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Reporting to: Area Manager
Location of work: Remote. This post holder will be based at home with use of our London office available. The role may occasionally involve some irregular travel throughout the UK.
Contract type: Term time only. 4 days/28 hours per week, although part time/flexible hours may be considered.
Contract Length: Permanent
Salary: £31,500 FTE (£22,050 pro rata)
BACKGROUND
Magic Breakfast is a registered charity providing healthy breakfasts to children and young people in the UK who arrive at school too hungry to learn, and expert support to their schools. Over 200,000 children and young people are on roll at Primary, Secondary, ASL / Special Educational Needs Schools and Pupil Referral Units that the charity works with, in disadvantaged areas of Scotland and England. Providing breakfast ensures that children start their school day with the energy and nutrition they need to be able to make the most of their morning lessons. Magic Breakfast also undertakes research, and campaigns for long-term solutions to end hunger as a barrier to learning.
JOB PURPOSE
Magic Breakfast’s mission is to end child morning hunger in the UK now and for good. The Engagement Partner will be responsible for the remote engagement of schools, teachers, children and young people and the communities in their allocated area. They will support schools with the setup, rollout and continuous improvement of breakfast provision, engage with the wider school community to educate on the importance of breakfast on learning and to enable increased uptake in a barrier and stigma-free way by optimising provision and encouraging reach.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
•To develop a relationship with the supported schools to enable, preserve, embed, enhance and extend stigma and barrier free breakfast provision.
•To educate and engage with the wider school community, including teachers, parents and children and young people on the importance of breakfast and implications of hunger as a barrier learning through various online support including assemblies, staff meetings, online events and regional events throughout the academic year, all supported remotely.
•To remotely engage with the wider community to advocate for the importance of breakfast, the work that we are doing in existing schools and to support our campaigning and advocacy strategy and plans.
• To develop brand awareness in schools and local communities in line with our marketing strategy
• To support the recruitment of new schools with remotely launching new breakfast provisions, adapting to the requirements of the school and children and young people, and advising on best practise
• To remotely support any supporter visits, volunteering or any funder related requirements
• To remotely support any media requests as directed through the Policy & Engagement team
• To capture and report on “storytelling” to enable the organisation to utilise qualitative data to support external communication
• To explore, share and deliver on new engagement ideas across the department and organisation
• To enable, support and feedback on new ways of working, trials and innovations
General:
• By contributing to team meetings, sharing best practise and supporting colleagues and team members where necessary in line with Magic Breakfast’s ways of working.
• By helping to maintain a positive working environment; keeping the vision of Magic Breakfast at the heart of everything we do.
• By upholding a culture that keeps children and young people at the heart and encourages our values of openness, collaboration, bravery, compassion and a solutions-focussed approach.
• By working collaboratively across the organisation to build good working relations.
• By adhering to all Magic Breakfast policies and procedures.
• By ensuring everything is compliant with current legislation, policies and procedures.
• By undertaking any other duties commensurate with the role.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Skills and abilities
• Possess excellent communication skills, organisational skills and stakeholder management capabilities.
• High level of competency in the use of Microsoft Office packages and Salesforce or a similar CRM
• Good use of judgement in terms of when to escalate and when to delegate.
• Confidence in using Microsoft Word IT packages.
Knowledge and experience
• Engagement with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external, delivering presentations, assemblies, engagement events, both in person and online.
• Experience of customer support and an understanding and experience of influencing and making the case for change.
• Experience of working against targets.
• Working remotely with multiple customers and stakeholders.
• The proven ability to communicate messages confidently, engagingly and with impact across a variety of audiences
• Demonstrate working knowledge and understanding of the charity and education sector along with a commercial awareness.
Other
• Be a collaborative team player with the confidence to effectively contribute remotely across teams and departments.
• Share a passion and commitment to Magic Breakfast’s aim of alleviating morning hunger as a barrier to learning for children in the UK.
• Embody the charities values, behaviours and ways of working.
• Demonstrate positive mindset, flexibility and openness to agile working and change.
WHAT WE OFFER
At Magic Breakfast we value our employees and work hard to develop offer a supportive, respectful culture which enables everyone to bring their whole self to work.
Please click here for our job pack
Please click here for our website
APPLICATION PROCESS
While Magic Breakfast welcomes applications from everyone, to better serve its communities it has identified that we would particularly benefit from: young people earlier in their careers, people who have lived experience of poverty, navigating socio-economic adversity or were eligible for free school meals, and people from a minority ethnic background.
Should you wish to discuss the role before applying please email our People and Culture Team, hr @ magicbreakfast. com
Shortlisting - 23rd -25th Sept
Interviews - 1st and 3rd Oct
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
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Director of Sales and Marketing
We are seeking an experienced, strategic and dynamic leader to join the team as Director of Sales and Marketing to lead the commercial sales and marketing initiatives.
If you are passionate about inspiring audiences through science and innovation and can drive the sales and marketing efforts to new heights, then we would love to hear from you!
Position: Director of Sales and Marketing
Location: Edinburgh/Hybrid
Hours: Full Time
Salary: Circa £48k - £58k per annum depending on experience, plus some great benefits
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: Hybrid working, generous holiday allowance (34-36 days per annum), option to buy additional annual leave via annual leave purchase scheme, sustainable travel perks scheme, pension and life insurance provisions (3x salary), Employee Assistance Programme, learning and development opportunities
Closing Date: 22 September 2024. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis so please apply early to register your interest. We reserve the right to close applications early.
Interview Date: w/c 30 September
The Role
In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for driving revenue growth, enhancing brand presence, and expanding global market reach. You will play a crucial role in developing and executing innovative sales strategies, acquiring and managing high-profile clients, and positioning the organisation at the forefront of the industry.
About You
With a proven track record in B2B sales and with a history of meeting or exceeding revenue targets, you will have strong experience in strategic marketing, digital marketing, and brand development.
An exceptional leader with a background in managing and mentoring teams, you will have the ability to analyse market trends and drive business development through your excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
You will also have proficiency in CRM systems and digital marketing tools.
The Organisation
The organisation delivers one of Europe’s largest science festivals, a primary school education programme across Scotland, a careers event for secondary school pupils, climate engagement programmes and a variety of international programming activities and projects. They believe in inspiring, encouraging and challenging people of all ages and backgrounds to explore and understand the world around them.
What’s on offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for international travel.
- A vibrant and supportive work environment.
- The chance to lead a passionate team and make a global impact.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds because the organisation believes that bringing together people with different perspectives, ideas and experiences always leads to better discussions, decisions and results.
You may have experience in other areas such as Sales, Marketing, Marketing and Communications, Digital Marketing, Income Generation, Director of Sales, Director of Marketing, Director of Marketing and Communications, Director of Income Generation, Sales Director, MD, Managing Director, Director of Marketing.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
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Community and Engagement Manager
Position: Community and Engagement Manager
Location: Teddington, TW11 8HT
Salary Range (depending on experience): pro rata of £33,000 – £39,000 incl. OLW
Hours: Part-time 21 hours per week. We are able to offer some flexibility with the role such as term time only or flexibility with days/times.
Contract: Permanent
Annual Leave: pro rata of 25 days leave plus bank holidays
Closing date: 10pm on Monday 2nd September 2024, or before if a suitable candidate is found.
We reserve the right to close the application early. An early application is strongly recommended as shortlisting and interviews will be held on an ongoing basis.
About the role
Richmond AID is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic person who can lead our multidisciplinary team Inclusion Team. The team currently has 6 direct reports and services include: BuddyUp, Spade gardening service, Mental Health Peer Support service, Connect to Tech digital training, Campaigning and peer group activities.
There is a variety of skills and experience within the team which will require someone to use a flexible management approach, directing support to where it is needed most. We are looking for someone to not just manage these services, but to lead their development and widen our coverage across the borough of Richmond. This will predominantly involve supporting the people involved to be leaders of their own projects, improving delivery models, ensuring projects meet targets and quality standards. Some of the projects are also delivered in partnership with other organisations so an understanding of the responsibilities of contract management is essential. We have recently started a campaign project and experience of running effective campaigns would be an advantage.
About you
You will have strong leadership skills with experience of managing a multi-disciplinary team. You must be committed to the value of participative community engagement, have a great understanding of the needs of diverse communities, and a passion for social justice and supporting Disabled people.
You must have experience of service delivery, monitoring, evaluation and report writing and setting SMART outcomes for your team. You will know what it takes to set up and manage a project and ensure it meets the intended outcomes. Additionally, you’ll be confident in participative strategies and tools such as facilitating groups, arranging events, developing surveys, gathering views and responding to consultations.
You will be skilled in managing group dynamics and supporting your team to have boundaries with clients. You will also have experience of managing Safeguarding issues.
Ideally you will have experience of campaigning work, with a track record of delivering innovative digital campaigns that have led to real change.
About Richmond AID
Richmond AID offers 25 days annual leave plus eight bank holidays or pro rata of this for part time roles. Normal office hours are 9am to 5.15pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 5pm on Fridays. You will be based at our offices in the Disability Action and Advice Centre, 4 Waldegrave Road, Teddington, TW11 8HT but may need to work from other locations as needed.
Related roles: volunteer manager, services manager, service coordinator, community development, campaign manager, community engagement, co-production manager, event manager, digital and communications manager, communication manager.
To apply
Please apply via the Charity Jobs website.
You will need to send your CV and a covering letter of up to 2 sides of A4 stating how you meet the Essential and Desirable criteria in Experience and Knowledge section of the Job description.
Disabled Candidates
The charity is an equal opportunities employer and particularly welcomes applications from Disabled candidates and has been awarded the Disability Confident Employer quality mark, meaning any Disabled candidates that meet the minimum criteria will be invited for interview. Please advise if you have a disability or long-term health condition that you would like to be considered when you apply.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Kate's Home Nursing is a local charity, with a team of dedicated nurses providing a Hospice at Home nursing service for people at the end of their lives. Our team is passionate, skilled and dedicated and the feedback we receive daily tells us how much people value our service.
This is a great role if you are looking to work within a small team to lead and drive our fundraising efforts, using your own creativity, experience and proven skills. You will be able to help define our strategy and fund raising budgets and you will have opportunities to work with the community and local/nationwide businesses to help secure the funding we need to provide our hospice at home nursing service and bereavement support services.
Job title: Fundraiser
Location: Office based - hybrid
Basis: Part Time – 3 days per week
Reports to: CEO
Salary: £38,000 - £41,000 FTE
The Fundraiser is responsible for income generation from all available sources and for increasing awareness of the charity.
Main duties and responsibilities
• Develop and maintain the Fundraising Strategy, for approval by the CEO and Trustees, ensuring it’s then taken up and executed.
• Setting, together with the CEO and Trustees, and managing the fundraising budget.
• Overall responsibility for fundraising events and campaigns, including creating, organising, attending and all follow up actions.
• Recruit sponsors and volunteers for fundraising purposes, maintaining the database for these, being responsible for induction and training.
• Working with volunteers.
• Ensuring we are up to date with and adhere to all data protection and fundraising regulations, following the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Conduct.
• Maintaining our Fundraising Policy, Volunteers Agreement and all other documentation relating to volunteers and fundraising.
• Supporting other people’s events, being the first point of contact for anyone raising funds on our behalf.
• Create and run marketing and promotional activities and materials.
• Maintaining and building relationships with supporters and donors.
• Responsibility for Just Giving and other fundraising platforms, this involves identifying and supporting new campaigns and fundraising events, thanking and providing full reports for the CEO.
• Responsibility for making full use of social media and our website in relation to all fundraising activities.
• Increasing income from wills.
• Increasing regular monthly donations.
• Community engagement.
• Increasing support from local business, whether financial or maximising access to their services at minimal cost.
• Reporting on all FR activities, both individually and cumulatively throughout the year. Reports are for CEO and Trustees in addition to people, trusts and organisations who give grants.
Requirements and skills
• Proven experience as a Fundraiser or similar role, including creating or working with budgets and strategy.
• Creativity.
• Persuasion skills.
• Strong leadership qualities. • Excellent communication skills. • Excellent organisational skills. • Skills to ensure income from digital fundraising is maximised.
General
• The person must fit in with our small team which involves being flexible, approachable, friendly and open.
• The competent use of technology and information systems is an essential requirement of this role. Staff are expected to be competent with the use of technology and information systems and understand their duties and responsibilities with regard to the appropriate use of personal data including sensitive personal data.
Please include a c.v. and covering letter detailing your relevant experience and expertise and why you would like to be considered for this role.
To give people the choice to be nursed at home with everything in place for their comfort and to care for them with kindness, compassion and expertise
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The Rank Foundation is seeking a Finance and Operations Officer to join their dedicated team in Shoreditch. The post holder will be at the heart of our operations, ensuring smooth financial management and supporting meaningful initiatives. The position is offered on a full-time permanent basis based in our office in Shoreditch, London, and we hope the postholder to start in late Summer / early Autumn.
If you are a passionate finance professional with strong operational skills and look to make an impact in the philanthropy and social sectors, apply now!
Key accountabilities:
· Finance: Manage payments, invoices, expenses, and grants payment using Xero, reconcile accounts, handle VAT returns, and maintain organised financial records.
· Organisational Administration: Support GDPR compliance, provide general administrative support, assist with events, and manage shared inboxes and VOIP accounts.
· Governance Support: Offer administrative support for trustees, circulate executive reports, plan governance meetings, and review policies.
· Programme Support: provide administrative support to some of the Rank Foundation’s flagship programmes.
Please download the Recruitment Pack for the full description of the post.
How to apply and recruitment timetabl2
If you would like to apply, please state the role you are applying for and send your CV together with a supporting statement no longer than 2 sides of A4 that clearly demonstrates how you meet the knowledge, skills, and experience requirements of the role.
The important dates to note
Closing date for applications: 5pm on Monday 9th September 2024
Interviews: In-person London, 19th September 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an incredible opportunity to lead a highly-respected, visionary, organisation with a peerless track record of achieving change in immigration detention policy and practice. We are looking for an exceptional individual with strong strategic leadership and people management skills, and an unwavering commitment to human rights, above all the rights of people in detention.
Our new Director will be leading the organisation in a period of both challenges and opportunity, as the new Government settles in and debates about immigration policy continue. Despite the uncertain times, we are committed to continuing to challenge immigration detention in the UK. The new Director will inherit a well-resourced, effective and well-regarded organisation with an impressive, dedicated and friendly staff team. While the role will be multi-faceted, it will be hugely rewarding, supported by a committed board of trustees.
BID is a small organisation - our new Director will own the overall operation, management and sustainability of the charity, with the support of committed trustees. The Director will lead on strategic leadership, finance and operations, people and culture, fundraising, policy and communications, legal casework and governance and regulation - all with the support of our brilliant team of 10 staff, and the opportunity to recruit. As with any small charity, the post-holder will need to be agile and responsive.
To find out more about the Director role, download and read our job ad and description.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Green Estate is a community interest company whose purpose is to grow green and resilient urban places for people and nature to thrive. We are one of the first 15 organisations who the King selected for the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development. Our 2030 goal is to become a national urban resilience demonstrator.
This is a new and pivotal leadership role at The Green Estate at an exciting time of change. With a new CEO, Leadership Team, Board and Strategy in place we are seeking an experienced professional fundraiser to develop and deliver our first fundraising and investment strategy to help us achieve our mission and 2030 goal!
This will involve delivering ambitious fundraising targets from a range of sources including grants, donations, corporate and philanthropic fundraising and investment. The postholder will need to ‘hold the pen’ and produce high quality funding applications and investment proposals.
The postholder will provide leadership and business development support for expert and talented service managers and work with the rest of the Leadership team to grow the income, impact and influence of The Green Estate.
The postholder will need to be commercially minded, have an excellent track record and expertise in fundraising from multiple sources and have a commitment to our mission and values.
This role will require significant fundraising experience across multiple income streams, combined with leadership qualities and a track record of delivering ambitious fundraising targets and business growth.
In return we can offer you a friendly and supportive working environment within a unique and diverse organisation. We are a growing business with a professional and focused team who are highly supportive of ongoing training and development.
The standard working hours for The Green Estate CIC is 08:00 – 16:00 fully on site but there are opportunities for flexible and hybrid working arrangements. This role cannot be fully remote, due to the requirement to support on-site activities and meet with stakeholders.
Closing date: 12.00pm Friday 20th September 2024
Interviews will take place week commencing 30th September 2024
An information pack has been prepared providing further details about our organisation, its vision for the future and the full job description and person specification for the role. This is available on our website.
To apply please complete the application form on our website and send it to our recruitment account.
You can also use these contact details to request a confidential conversation with the Head of People Services about the organisation and the role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we meet suitably qualified candidates. Please do not delay in applying.
Our mission is to grow green and resilient urban places where people and nature can thrive.
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Fundraising Manager
Are you a passionate and experienced fundraiser with a proven track record of securing significant grants and tenders? Do you excel at building relationships and creating compelling proposals? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a real difference!
About Us
The Renewal Programme is a dynamic local charity dedicated to supporting vulnerable and marginalised communities in the London Borough of Newham. We work to address issues such as homelessness, food insecurity, social isolation, and insecure immigration status, while also providing vital adult education, advice services, and youth programs. This breadth of impact offers a wealth of inspiration for our fundraising efforts!
The Role
As our Fundraising Manager, you will you will be the driving force behind our fundraising efforts, helping us to grow both our income and our impact. This is a chance to utilise your expertise in grant writing, relationship management, and strategic thinking to drive positive change.
Your Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Securing significant grants from trusts, foundations, and statutory sources.
- Leading the development and implementation of a multi-faceted fundraising strategy.
- Building and maintain strong relationships with funders and stakeholders.
- Crafting compelling proposals and pitches that showcase our impact.
- Managing grant budgets and ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Collaborating with our committed team to help drive growth and impact.
Your Profile
You will have a proven track record in securing significant and multi-year grants. Excellent written and verbal communication skills will be second nature to you, as will strong organisational skills and attention to detail. You will thrive in developing and managing both internal and external relationships with key stakeholders and be a creative and strategic thinker able to operate at senior level. This is a pro-active role where we will expect you to build a strong understanding of our projects and get to know our frontline staff and the communities we support.
Full details of the role are set out in the attached job description and person specification.
Why Join Us
Impact: Your work will directly impact the lives of vulnerable individuals and communities in need.
Collaborative Culture: Be part of a passionate and dedicated team.
Flexible Working: Enjoy a blend of office-based and home workingProfessional Growth: Develop your skills and knowledge in a supportive environment.
Other employee benefits include:
- Annual Leave: 28 days plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time)
- Employee assistance program for confidential support
- Wellbeing day: An extra day off specifically to intentionally recharge
- Cycle-to-work scheme to promote healthy commuting
- Tech scheme to support equipment purchase
- Workplace Pension scheme
How to Apply
Please note there is no closing date for this role, but early applications are encouraged as we will invite interviews and begin the selection process on a rolling basis, with the aim to have the position filled as soon as appropriate candidates are identified. To apply please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter of no more than 2 pages long.
Please note that a DBS check will be required for this role.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Newham Renewal Programme is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of background.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This role is one of two Development Managers who share responsibility for raising funds from trusts and foundations, and each also manage a discrete other area of fundraising. This role leads on individual giving, while the other focuses on corporate giving relationships.
We are looking for a personable and intuitive candidate who loves making connections. You’ll have great written and verbal communication skills, combining your desk-based work with meetings and events that bring Clean Break’s work to life.
You’ll be confident in adapting information for a variety of different audiences, creating high-quality, persuasive proposals and compelling cases for support, clearly demonstrating the life-changing impact of our work.
You’ll have an eye for detail, strong financial acumen and a strategic approach to fundraising: considering a variety of approaches and identifying new opportunities. You’ll be someone who loves crafting new initiatives and campaigns but who also understands the importance of excellent database management and well-informed research.
You’ll enjoy working closely within a small, friendly team, and in collaborating with colleagues across the organisation.
Please read the full Recruitment Pack before applying for this role.
Deadline for application is Monday 12pm midday 9 September 2024.
Because our work is about highlighting women’s experiences and providing gender-specific services to women, all of our positions are open to women only (exempt under Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, part 1).
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Location: Centrally located, light and airy office with great views on Regent Street, London. Hybrid working possible, minimum 3 days per week in office.
Benefits: 25 days’ holiday allowance, flexible working, occasional 1-2 days extra holiday for Christmas period.
Reports to: Chief Project Officer at the Global Returns Project
Timetable: Candidates will be considered on a rolling basis
Preferred start date: 23 September 2024
What we are looking for
The ideal candidate will approach C-suite executives and other industry leaders with confidence. They will think creatively about strategies for identifying potential institutional partners, attracting their attention, and transforming those relationships into funding. They will be comfortable assuming responsibility for certain target audiences.
The ideal candidate will be data-driven and will relish the challenge of helping select and assess some of today’s highest impact climate and nature charities. They will have the attention to detail to maintain our charity selection methodology and dig into the details of the charities we support to report on their progress.
Successful applicants will excel in multitasking and meeting ambitious deadlines as part of a supportive and friendly team in a fast-paced start-up work environment.
Skills required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Team-player
- Time-management and self-organisation
- Ability to take initiative, identify problems, and solve them creatively
- Very high attention to detail
- Excellent understanding of, and passion to address, climate change and biodiversity loss
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
Skills preferred but not required
- Academic experience in geography, Earth Sciences, sustainability or related fields
- Understanding of the financial services industry
- Customer Relations Management (CRM) experience (Salesforce, etc)
Main duties and responsibilities
Partnership-building (50% of work)
- Support GRP’s established partnership-building strategy, expanding to new audiences in line with approach devised by Head of Partnerships and Strategic Communications Manager
- Support efforts to expand and strengthening GRP’s relationships with UK financial intermediaries, including wealth managers, financial planners, financial advisers and financial coaches.
- Other targeted outreach to potential institutional partners and individual donors, including:
- Lead conversion through meetings and presentations
- Coordination and communication with high-value institutional or individual leads
Charity research and impact reporting (40% of work)
- Ongoing relationship management with GRP’s current recommended charities
- Six-monthly data-driven assessment and scoring of GRP’s current recommended charities using our proprietary methodology
- Production of detailed impact reports on GRP’s current recommended charities every six months
- Quarterly presentations to GRPs’ Due Diligence Committee on our recommended charities, impact reports, etc
- Maintenance and updating of GRP’s selection/assessment methodology
- Research on climate charities for possible addition to GRP’s portfolio of recommended organisations
Customer relationship management (CRM) (10% of work)
- Managing company databases, including tracking and managing donor information and regular reporting to the Board of Trustees. Relevant programmes include Salesforce, Mailchimp and the website backend. No prior experience with these programmes required - training will be provided.
- Using data to facilitate ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the team’s progress in fundraising, sales and marketing, and addressing points of inefficiency to optimise conversions.
- Supporting website development and maintenance, including updating copy and visuals, and liaising with web developer.
While selection will be based on merit, we recognise the importance of elevating underrepresented voices in climate action. We encourage applications from people with disabilities and people who are from ethnically or culturally diverse backgrounds from across the UK.
Applicants should send both a CV and cover letter to the Chief Project Officer, Jack Chellman. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Please include the name, email and phone number of a reference we can contact. Applicants must be available to interview in London.
Less than 2% of philanthropy goes to climate mitigation. We’re working to change that.
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Job title: Head of Corporate Partnerships
Manager: Director of Income & Engagement
Direct reports: 4
Location: Hybrid work with 40% from Breaking Barriers’ office in London (71-91 Aldwych, WC2B 4HN)
Salary: £50,000 - £54,000
Hours: 5 days per week (37.5 hours) but open to part-time (26 hours minimum), and flexible working arrangements.
Contract: FTC for 1 year (maternity cover)
Overall purpose
The Head of Corporate Partnerships is a key leadership role within the Income and Engagement Directorate. Breaking Barriers’ relationship with corporate partners is the USP upon which our growth and success as an organisation has been built. The Head of Corporate Partnerships has accountability for generating income, impact and influence from the private sector, and for leading a high-performing team to achieve ambitious growth and scale for refugees around the UK.
As Breaking Barriers has grown from a start-up organisation to a now 60-strong team raising c. £4m and supporting more than 1,200 refugees annually, our corporate partnerships have expanded beyond our original London base to be nationwide partnerships with a wide range of businesses and employers. Our corporate partners have been crucial in enabling our growth and will be crucial to delivering upon the ambition of our 2030 goals. The Head of Corporate Partnerships is an essential role that will make this ambition a reality.
You will lead a team to deliver outstanding partnerships management of a range of strategic and multi-faceted relationships with a portfolio of c.50 businesses alongside leading strategy for business development. Leading by example you will own a number of our key relationships to drive growth, whilst bringing your experience to bear to coach your team and ensure structures and processes are in place to enable high performance.
You will be:
- a creative and strategic thinker who doesn’t feel bound by traditional approaches to charity / corporate relationships,
- a keen collaborator, working closely with colleagues in our Services directorate to deliver high impact employability programmes for our refugee clients, and with the Head of Philanthropy and Head of Public Engagement to identify and drive cross-fundraising opportunities,
- an outstanding communicator, comfortable and confident in your ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders across the worlds of CSR, DEI and employability, and across the private, public, and third sectors representing Breaking Barriers at a senior level.
The Head of Corporate Partnerships will be part of Breaking Barriers’ Joint Leadership Team and will have overall strategic and budget responsibility for Corporate Partnerships. They will be a visible leader within the Income and Engagement Directorate and across the organisation, and will contribute to a culture of creativity, growth, innovation and entrepreneurialism that will drive us to achieve our 2030 goals.
This is a hugely exciting opportunity to join an entrepreneurial organisation with an enviable track record of growth, and a leadership team and Board prepared to back investment in fundraising. The Head of Corporate Partnerships will be someone driven and excited by the opportunity to develop further a function operating to the highest standards and generating impactful and innovative partnerships with a diverse group of businesses. They will be motivated to ensure that all people of refugee background in the UK have a fair chance to gain meaningful employment and will be ambitious to play a central role in helping Breaking Barriers to achieve it's 2030 goals.
To view the full job description and person specification, as well as details on our accessible recruitment process, please view the attached recruitment pack.
Other considerations
- As part of our safeguarding commitment to our clients, we carry out preemployment checks to ensure that successful applicants are suitable to work with adults at risk. These include obtaining references and verifying a candidate’s identity and right to work in the UK.
- We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
How to apply
If you are looking for a role where you can make a real difference, we want to hear from you. To apply, please submit a CV and statement (up to approximately 500 words/1 A4 page) outlining:
- Why you are interested in the role
- What skills you would bring to be successful in this role
- Any experience you would like to highlight
- Any reasonable adjustments you require for the interview process
- Disclosure of disabilities if you wish to do so (as a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role)
Please note that applications without a covering letter will not be considered.
Closing date for applications is 11:30pm on Sunday 29th September. Interviews will be held on a rolling basis so please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
We belong to the Experts by Experience Employment Initiative, which advocates and supports organisations to employ more people from a refugee background. With this in mind, we particularly welcome applicants with experience of seeking asylum and/or a refugee background.
If you are an expert by experience (a refugee or a migrant with direct, first-hand experience of issues and challenges of the UK asylum or immigration system), you can ask for an independent and confidential support for your job application from the Experts by Experience Employment Network. Please reach out to HR Manager Dani Meier for further details (we are unable to include email addresses in this advert, but you can find contact details on the final page of the attached recruitment pack).
Breaking Barriers exists so that every refugee can access meaningful employment and build a new life.
Are you passionate about enriching the university experience for students? Do you excel in guiding student leaders and managing complex administrative processes? If so, the University of Manchester Students’ Union has an exciting opportunity for you to become our next Student Groups (Administration) Manager.
As one of the largest and most dynamic students’ unions in the UK, representing over 47,000 diverse students, we are dedicated to making student life the best it can be. We empower students to pursue their passions, connect with others, and make a meaningful impact within their communities. As the Student Groups (Administration) Manager, you will be pivotal in ensuring that our student groups have the resources, support, and guidance they need to flourish.
In this key role, you will be at the forefront of our student activities, empowering student leaders by providing them with the tools and support necessary for effective group management. Your responsibilities will include continuously improving and overseeing all administrative processes related to student groups, ensuring they are efficient, user-friendly, and scalable to meet increasing demands.
You will collaborate closely with various departments to coordinate essential resources such as room bookings, funding, and group management tools. Maintaining strong communication with students, you’ll promptly respond to their needs and ensure they have a positive experience with the Union. Additionally, you will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with best practices, union policies, and safeguarding the welfare of our student community, particularly in relation to risk management and legislation.
The ideal candidate will have a solid background in managing administrative processes, with a proven track record of streamlining operations to enhance efficiency. Strong organisational skills are essential, as is the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritise workloads, and meet deadlines without compromising accuracy. Effective communication is key to this role, as you will engage with a wide range of stakeholders, including students, staff, and external partners. We are seeking someone who is proactive in identifying and solving problems, always looking for ways to enhance service delivery and improve the student experience.
Furthermore, a deep commitment to our values—especially inclusivity and placing students at the centre of everything we do—is crucial. Your ability to ensure that all voices are heard and factored into decision-making processes will be fundamental to your success as Student Groups (Administration) Manager. If you’re ready to make a difference in the lives of students, we encourage you to apply.
Please read the full role profile before applying, as well as our guide to recruitment.
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Job Title – Administrative Assistant (Advice and Information)
Contract – 6 months fixed term (with possibility of extension)
Hours - 14 hours per week (Part-time)
Salary - £10,000 per annum (£25,000 FTE)
Location – CoramBAAF, Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 2QA (with some working from home/hybrid possible)
About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime. Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
About CoramBAAF
We are the UK's leading membership organisation for professionals dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young people in care. Our corporate members in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland represent 94% of all local authorities as well as regional adoption agencies, health and social care trusts, independent fostering providers and voluntary adoption agencies, and cover 88% of all children and family social workers.
We support and empower professionals to do the best for children and families who come into contact with adoption, fostering and kinship care.
About the role
The Administrative Assistant (Advice and Information) provides important administrative support to our small, friendly Advice and Information Team, which includes:
CoramBAAF members’ Advice Line which covers all aspect of adoption, fostering, kinship and related areas. It is busy and popular with professionals, primarily social workers, who use the service. It offers telephone and email advice, prioritising speed and quality of service.
The Outbound Permanence service. This provides specialist advice by email, supported by legal research, country-specific written guidance and individual consultations where required, to local authorities making arrangements for children to live with relatives and friends overseas. The service also delivers regular training and events.
The Information Service, which supports the advice line and CoramBAAF members with up-to-date information, research, resources and statistics. Their role also includes managing CoramBAAF’s specialist library, the largest collection of adoption and fostering related resources in the UK, and producing the CoramBAAF Digest, a unique monthly current awareness briefing for everyone working in adoption, fostering, kinship and child welfare covering latest developments in legislation, parliamentary activity, policy, consultations, research, statistics and online resources throughout the UK. The Information Service is also an invaluable internal resource, assisting with survey design and data governance, and helping our consultants, trainers and authors to ensure that they have the latest and most accurate information for practice forum meetings, the guides we publish and the training we offer.
The role will primarily support the Outbound Permanence and Advice services. The role is an opportunity for someone with experience and business support/administrative skills, good attention to detail, customer service focus and a flexible approach.
Working hours can be discussed, but to include Thurs/Fri (Friday am specifically).
Fixed term for six months, with possibility of extension.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing Date: 16th September 2024 23:59pm
Interview Date: 1st or 2nd October 2024 (TBC)
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278
Job Summary
We're looking for a Media Officer who can help us amplify the voices of women leading the fight against poverty and spread CARE’s expert opinions on key humanitarian issues.
You'll work alongside our Senior Media Manager to secure high-quality coverage in national and regional print, broadcast, and online media. You’ll support our expert spokespeople, from our CEO in the UK, to women leaders in the Global South. You’ll play a key role in fundraising for our projects across the world and help us to influence decision makers.
The Media Officer will join the organisation at an exciting time when developing good communications is at the heart of our strategy. The Communications and Brand Team work collaboratively alongside the Advocacy and Programmes teams towards ambitious aims, in a friendly and supportive environment.
Why work for us?
By joining our team, you'll stand with women who are transforming their families, communities, and the
planet and help CARE to deliver long term solutions – from food to housing to healthcare. Are you
ready to be part of an organisation working in 100 countries and changing millions of lives?
At CARE International UK we affirm the dignity, potential and contribution of participants, donors,
partners and staff. Our actions are consistent with our mission. We are honest and transparent in what
we do and say and accept responsibility for our collective and individual actions. We work together
effectively to serve the larger community. We constantly challenge ourselves to the highest levels of
learning and performance to achieve greater impact.
About you
We’re looking for an energetic, proactive individual with experience in journalism and/or media
relations, who can help drive our media successes and ensure more people across the UK hear about
the global realities of poverty, emergencies, gender inequality and climate change, as well as about the
ways that CARE and our community of supporters are urgently working to address these. You’ll be able
to work quickly to react to the news agenda and deliver timely coverage, be confident pitching to
journalists, briefing spokespeople and have an understanding of and interest in the issues that CARE
works with.
About the role
You'll work on increasing CARE International UK’s media coverage, working with the Senior Media Manager to
execute our media strategy. You'll build strong relationships with key journalists and media outlets to improve awareness of CARE’s work around the world and drive fundraising and advocacy goals. You will be working collaboratively with colleagues in the UK and across the global partnership to support digital campaigns.
About CARE
CARE International is one of the world’s leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight
poverty and injustice in the world’s most vulnerable places. We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We
stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement
CARE International UK is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful and safe work
environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to
dismantling harmful and oppressive structures of power and accordingly centre gender equity in our
work to save lives, fight poverty and achieve social justice. The post holder agrees to promote and
uphold these principles.
CARE International UK operates fair, transparent and non-discriminatory recruitment practices and
actively encourages applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of
skills and experiences. We are particularly interested to hear from candidates from Black and minoritised communities, LGBT+ candidates and disabled candidates.
CARE International UK is a disability confident employer. As part of our commitment to disability
inclusion we guarantee interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role. To
be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme please complete the relevant section in the
online application form. If at any stage of the recruitment process you require reasonable adjustments,
including a copy of the recruitment pack in large print or an alternative format, please contact
the HR Team.
Safeguarding
CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable
adult or a child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. Recruitment to all jobs in CARE
International UK includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references.
Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.
Please note that in compliance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, all job offers at Care International UK are conditional on eligibility to work in the UK.
Closing date for applications: 8th September 2024 at 11pm
Interview date: Week commencing the 16th September 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.