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Join Our Team as a Virtual Challenges Manager!

After a significant period of growth, Social AF is excited to announce an opportunity for a Virtual Challenges Manager to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in managing relationships with our charity partners and overseeing the performance and development of our moderators. With a team of 30 Moderators and Team Leaders (self-employed contractors) supporting up to 25 events in peak months, you will ensure the smooth operation of our social fundraising challenges. Your responsibilities will include monitoring KPIs, developing training programs, and recruiting new team members. Additionally, you will manage a portfolio of charity partner accounts, providing top-notch service to maximise income generation and ensure challenges run to an exceptional standard. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced fundraiser who thrives on building relationships and delivering high-quality work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of key charity partner accounts, including hosting weekly update meetings and providing ongoing support throughout the duration of their challenge.
• Provide expert advice to our charity partners to maximise their challenge income.
• Develop and deliver end-of-challenge reports.
• Conduct ongoing challenge and performance analysis.
• Maximise retention for existing charity partners.
• Identify charity partners that are a good fit for our other services and support with cross-selling.
• Work with the Virtual Challenges Officer on content plans, supporter journeys, and event setup.
• Line manage the Virtual Challenges Officer.
• Lead the management of our moderation team.
• Assist with moderator training, including identifying knowledge/skill gaps, creating materials, and delivering training.
• Take an active role in recruiting new moderators.
• Organize and deliver team meetings.
• Plan and hold charity introductions and pre-challenge briefing meetings with moderators.
• Support with the development of weekly rotas and moderator group placements.

Person Specification:

• At least 3 years' fundraising experience.
• Minimum of 12 months’ experience running a Facebook Challenge or Social Fundraising Portfolio.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Strong relationship-building and management skills.
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and manage a varied workload.
• Ability to work on your own initiative.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Flexible and responsive to changing circumstances at short notice.
• Team player.

Desirable:

• Experience managing and moderating Facebook Groups.
• Experience using GivePanel or a similar platform.
• Experience working with third-party agencies on Social Fundraising Challenges.
• Line management experience to lead and develop a high-performing team.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Social AF is committed to equal opportunities and encourages applications from all groups of people without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so please apply as soon as possible.

To apply, send your CV and a short covering statement (300 words), along with answers to the following questions:

1. Tell us more about your experience managing a Social Fundraising portfolio, highlighting any direct experience with Facebook Challenges.
2. Please share more about any line management experience you have.
3. What motivated you to apply for this role?

We look forward to hearing from you!

About the Role

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is responding to the largest emergency in our 40-year history. Over the last year support for our cause has seen significant growth in income as tens of thousands of supporters have joined MAP. Our challenge now is to retain this interest and ensure we sustain income as we respond to the ongoing emergency and the longer-term health of Palestinians over the coming years. With an ambition to be a £50m organisation in the next five years, our fundraising operations team, consisting of database and supporter care functions, will play a key role in enabling over one million Palestinians to access improved healthcare annually by 2028.

The role will play a pivotal role to support the overall organization and teams, across all offices (UK, Palestine and Lebanon) to enhance our processes and system to respond to the growth of the last year and the ambition for the future. They will work closely with finance and non-finance staff, to understand the gaps and develop changes in the data granularity and the design of the most efficient reports introducing Power BI reporting tool. The growth as determined an expansion of teams and scopes, the role will contribute to promote a cohesive team works across all new staff and departments.
 

About You

The ideal candidate will find data analysis exciting. You love exploring links between system and process. You have great attention for details; like to find easy solution to complex issues, and to promote efficiency in process and system maintenance. You have great communication skills, and able to explain technical financial jargon in simple and accessible messages. You will champion the organization values in your day-to-day engagement, with kindness and patience. 

Duties and key responsibilities 

Business partnering

• Closely partner with the budget holders in the UK office on all aspects of budgeting, reporting and analysis providing support and training where necessary. 

• Review budgets for proposal to Institutional Donors ensuring compliance with MAP internal policy and relevant Donor regulation. Provide feed back and commentary for relevant senior staff sign off.

• Support UK budget holders on the actual vs budget monthly review, and in the reforecast process. 

• Provide training on finance standards and MAP financial procedure.

• Ensure a strong interface and reconciliation between the fundraising (Dynamics 365-CRM) and finance database (XLedger)

Process and system development

• Ensure that systems and reporting tools are fit for purpose for the organization financial controls needs

• Update and develop process guidance and tools in line with any gaps or need of improvement identified

• Develop training material and deliver training to ensure all staff (new and current) are timely updated on any process changes

• Develop and maintain BI solution to simplify and enhance finance reporting visibility for all stakeholder.

Other tasks

• Support and prioritise the analysis work for the year-end process and audit when required. 

• Work closely with the Senior Business partner of Finance on potential enhancements and changes to the finance system. 

• Ensure correct tracking of income and expenditure across project and donors, and reconciliation of all restricted and unrestricted income.

Person Specification 

Education/Training   

• A recognised professional Accounting Qualification, for example ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA. 

• A commitment to continuing professional development.

Knowledge / Experience

• Experience in finance budgeting, reporting, and forecasting, within a complex charitable organisation, working internationally. 

• Experience of developing and supporting donor management systems including budget development, full cost recovery, cost allocations, tracking restricted funds, and reporting to large institutional donors e.g. UNICEF, OCHA, ECHO, WHO, DFID etc.   

• Experience of business partnering; supporting and influencing budget holders and senior managers. 

• Experience of constantly looking to identify and deliver improvements. 

• Understanding of management and financial accounting principles and techniques. 

• An appreciation of the political complexities in the Middle East region, of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and of the position of the Palestinian refugee population in regions where MAP operates. 

Skills 

• An ability to both support and influence budget holders.

• An ability to develop and adapt financial systems and financial reporting tools. 

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present financial information and narrative to a range of stakeholders to improve decision making.

• Excellent IT skills, including experience of using Office 365 software. Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Power BI development and maintenance

• Solution-focused approach, ability to work under pressure. 

• Fluent written and spoken English. 

 Personal attributes and other requirements  

• Commitment to a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation & abuse/safeguarding.

• Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities.

• An ability to apply awareness of diversity issues to all areas of work. 

• Able to work flexibly in emergencies and to meet specific deadlines including some evenings and weekends.

• Attention to detail, organisational and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently and under pressure. 

• A commitment to MAP’s vision, mission and values and a passion for improving the health and dignity of Palestinians. 

• Prepared and able to travel occasionally to all MAP offices. 

• Work collaboratively with others in all aspects of our work. 

• Abide by organisational policies, codes of conduct and practices. 

• Treat with confidentiality any data or sensitive information about individuals, organisations, clients, and employees at MAP.

Ambitious About Autism's college settings are currently looking for an Assistive Technologist to join the team. Ambitious Collage settings provide excellent education for Autistic young people with complex needs. The college aims to enable learners to access further education and to develop skills and knowledge that lead to successful transitions to adulthood where our learners will live, work and contribute to their local communities.

As the Assistive Technologist, you will develop, implement, monitor, and enable assistive technology for our learners. You will provide modelling and training to staff and parents on the full continuum of communication and technology support. Working as a diagnostic team member you will provide ongoing technical assistance to learners, staff, and parents.

Your role as Assistive Technologist:

• Collaborate with colleagues and parents to share information and expertise to plan and implement effective student programs for the purpose of developing and implementing assistive technology services.
• Facilitate student communication in social settings across environments through the use of assistive technology.
• Work with learners who qualify for assistive technology support to develop an appropriate individualised learning plan.
• Proficiently use technology to communicate, compile reports and collect data, providing accurate records and communicating with team members, parents, administration, and charity staff.

The role can be based at either site with some travel.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a forward-thinking organisation with the interests and wellbeing of autistic children and young people at its core.

We are committed to CPD, where you can access a wide range of training and development opportunities to support your personal and professional development. Other benefits include a generous holiday allowance, access to our Employee Assistance Programme, a wide range of wellbeing activities and more.

For further details on how you can make a difference and find out what we have to offer, please see our recruitment pack. 

If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential call, please contact Stephen Vickers

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. 

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

At least half a million adults in the UK stammer. People who stammer can face daily ignorance, discrimination, and disrespect, affecting job prospects, mental health, and social inclusion.

STAMMA stands up for and empowers those who stammer, challenging discrimination wherever it is found. Working with a brilliant community, the charity drives change through advocacy, support, and campaigning—whether fighting for fair treatment, better services, or improved access to speech and language therapy.

With a new strategic plan, ‘Space to Stammer’, supported by the National Lottery, the charity is at the start of a three-year journey to scale their work, grow their impact, and increase income.

The Head of Fundraising will develop a structured major donor programme and shape a growing fundraising function that spans major donors, trusts & foundations, legacies and corporate partnerships. There is exciting growth potential on offer with this role, with scope to expand the team and diversify income streams.

This role is ideal for a strategic, hands-on fundraiser who thrives on building relationships and securing transformational funding.

As Head of Fundraising, you will: 

• Develop and implement a major donor fundraising strategy to secure 5- and 6-figure gifts. This includes creating compelling cases for support, crafting donor propositions, and ensuring robust stewardship
• Oversee trusts & foundations fundraising, managing one direct report and freelancers, ensuring effective grant applications and grant management
• Grow and diversify income streams, with a focus on legacy and corporate partnerships, identifying areas for long-term fundraising development
• Lead donor communications and stewardship, working with the Head of Communications and Salesforce Manager to ensure supporters feel valued and engaged
• Work closely with STAMMA’s CEO, leadership team, trustees, and external stakeholders to maximise fundraising opportunities
• Identify opportunities to grow the team in line with income growth and opportunities to diversify income

Ideal skills and experience: 

• Proven experience in securing five- and six-figure gifts from HNWIs, with a track record of building long-term relationships
• The ability to oversee and drive growth in trusts & foundations and legacy fundraising
• Experience in developing strategies, growing income, and shaping fundraising functions
• Experience of developing cases for support and delivering excellent stewardship
• Collaborative, supportive leadership approach, with the ability to thrive in a small-team, fast-paced working environment

Benefits include:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (includes office closure between Christmas and New Year)
• Up to 8% matched employer pension contributions

STAMMA are partnering with Laura Macnamara at QuarterFive for this appointment. Apply by Wednesday 12th March. 

At The National Lottery Community Fund, we are committed to making a bigger difference in the years ahead.  That’s why being ‘impact-focussed’ is one of our core values.  We want to transform how we use evidence in our organisation so that we can identify the communities that most need our funding, demonstrate the difference we make and take an equity-based approach.  Our 2030 strategy ‘It starts with community’ sets stretching goals and puts impact at the heart of what we do. In April, we will launch a new Impact Strategy that will explain how we will do this.

This is an exciting new role in Evidence and Impact in which you will have responsibility for helping our new analytical community to use common and consistent datasets.You will take a holistic view of the wide range of data that we use across our work and build a stronger data practice for our team and the wider Community Fund.To do this you will explore how data flows between systems in our organisation before it is used in analysis.With the Head of BI you will design and maintain a target architecture that sets out how we want our data to work and enables engaging and transformative analysis.Strong collaboration with our Technology and Service Design teams will be essential as continuously improve how we use data from our different systems to enable BI and insight.

This is a great role for someone who can see the big picture and wants to work on the overall data landscape at the Community Fund. It would suit someone who wants to build their data architecture skills, has a thirst for knowledge and can see new ways of addressing problems.We are looking for someone who is a strong collaborator and who has helped improve how data is managed within an organisation.Being able to see the value of clear and consistent processes for analysis will also be vital for this role.For those seeking to build their data architecture career, technical training will be provided in the role.

This position can be based in any of the Community Fund’s offices, with travel required for occasional team meetings and events.

Interview Date: Interviews will be held w/c 3rd or 10th March and will take place online via Microsoft Teams.

Location: We have a hybrid approach to working, work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, these are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Newcastle and Newtown. 

On application, please align your supporting statement to the criteria below

Essential criteria

• Understanding of data governance practices, such as data quality, data security and data privacy, particularly in relation to analytical and reporting systems. 
• A strong commitment to ongoing CPD with regards to data and analytics and architecture practice.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with different audiences and translate business requirements into technical architecture. 
• Technical expertise in database and analytics technologies, particularly SQL or DAX/PowerBI. 
• Familiarity with architectural frameworks such as the TOGAF standard or similar.
• Strong experience of implementing data architectures, data modelling for analytics, including in designing data models for others to use.

Desirable criteria 

• An appreciation of how data architecture supports AI use in data services.
• A professional qualification, bachelor's degree or equivalent level of experience in a relevant discipline such as data analytics and modelling or computer science or related discipline.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion  

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.  

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.) 

Chief Operating Officer 

Salary:  £46,000 -£52,470 p.a. (dependent upon experience, with scope to increase as the role develops)
Location: Home-based (with the opportunity to work in our Sheffield co-working space)
Hours: 35 hours per week (flexible working available)
Contract period: Permanent

SUMMARY

Community Energy England (CEE) is looking for an experienced experienced operations manager. This is a key role for CEE as we start to implement a new strategy, bring in new funding streams, and explore new ways to meet the needs of our growing membership. You will form part of our small senior leadership team and be an integral support to the Chief Executive. As we are a small organisation, this role will by necessity be a hands-on role too; “doing the doing” will be an important part of enabling you to develop this area of our activity and impact. Part of this will involve working collaboratively across the team and with our members to ensure that we work effectively and strategically. 

ABOUT US

Community Energy England (CEE) is a membership association for and created by the community energy sector. Our mission is to create the conditions within which community energy is able to thrive and scale. 

We have a growing network of over 320 member organisations, including community energy enterprises and other supportive organisations from the private and public sectors, and we work with a wide range of other associations and networks.

We are a small team but with an increasingly big reach and growing impact as we work with our members and key stakeholders to enable the growth of the sector.  With this small core size comes flexibility and the opportunity for all team members to shape the direction of the organisation and get involved in all levels of delivery.

We have four outcomes that we are working towards:

• Enable: Community energy organisations across England have access to the resources, support and skills needed to grow in capacity, scale and impact
• Influence: The policy and regulatory environment supports significant growth of community energy
• Collaborate: There is increased demand, both regionally and nationally, for collaborating and investing in CE
• Thrive: Community Energy England is a strong and sustainable organisation that can serve the community energy sector into the future

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The Chief Operating Officer will lead on our ‘Thrive’ outcome: ensuring that CEE is a strong and sustainable organisation that can serve the community energy sector into the future. 

Working closely with our Chief Executive, this role will be responsible for further developing the operational foundations - our systems and procedures - that allow our Heads of Departments to deliver their services with increasing professionalism and impact, and to grow the team to enable us to continue to impactfully support our growing membership. This role will suit someone who would relish the opportunity to lead and shape new ways of working.

As a member of the CEE team, you will be given the opportunity to continue developing your skills and contribution to the organisation and the sector. Community energy has broad and exciting impacts, and this role will provide varied experience and reach. 

Please see the Supporting Document and Job Description for full details of the role responsibilities. 

PRINCIPAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Strategy implementation - developing systems for tracking organisational objectives and delivery, overseeing progress and reporting to the CEO
• Operational oversight - Actively collaborate with the senior leadership team and our Membership & Operations Officer to review and refresh our policies, procedures, and operational systems to ensure they meet the needs of our plans for growth
• ​Governance - working with the CEO and board to ensure good governance and effective risk managemen
• Finance and funding - supporting CEE’s financial management procedures and fiscal activities (working with our external bookkeeper) including budgeting, reporting requirements, and development of new funding sources (working with the senior leadership team)
• HR - (with support from our external HR service and Membership & Operations Officer) updating and implementing staff policies and processes which contribute to staff wellbeing and retention, supporting the senior leadership team to regularly review the range of skills required to deliver CEE’s strategy, identifying mechanisms for ensuring that we have access to the knowledge and skills required, monitoring implementation of policies & processes
• Membership services - oversight of our membership processes, relations, and communications
• People management - line managing our Membership & Operations Officer and Events & Communications Officer, liaising with our external bookkeeper and HR service, supervision of senior leadership team priorities
• Oversight of key projects - this will include ongoing oversight of the website (we have a new website in development), ensuring our events and new projects align with our strategy, and reviewing how CEE functions as a remote working team
• Team working - working collaboratively across the team and with our members to ensure that we work effectively and strategically. This will include working with the Chief Executive to grow the team to enable us to continue to impactfully support our growing membership.

SALARY, BENEFITS AND CONDITIONS

• Location: Working from home with the option to work in our Sheffield co-working space. There will be the need for occasional travel to other parts of the country such as CEE’s base in Sheffield.
• Hours: 35 hours per week. We are open to flexible working requests and many of our team work flexibly. Occasional weekend/evening travel and working (with notice) may be required, for which you’ll get time off in lieu.
• Salary: 46,000 -£52,470 p.a. (dependent upon experience, with scope to increase as the role develops).
• ​​​​​​​Contract Period: Permanent.
• Start date: ASAP.
• Reporting to: Chief Executive (Emma Bridge).
• Leave: 25 days paid holiday a year plus bank holidays (pro rata if part-time), with an additional day after 2 and 5 years.
• Pension: 7% employer pension contribution.
• Climate Perks (extra annual leave for staff who choose low-carbon holiday travel).

HOW TO APPLY

If you need specific support to fully engage in the recruitment process, or would like an informal conversation about the role or organisation before applying, please email Lisa West. 

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

To apply, send the following documents to Lisa West. 

1. CV (no more than 2 pages)
2. Covering letter clearly demonstrating why you are interested in this role, and how you meet the “About you” criteria.

The closing date for applications will be 8am on Tuesday 18 March. Late submissions will not be considered. All applications will be acknowledged, but only shortlisted candidates will be given feedback. Interviews will take place in Sheffield on Thursday 27 March. Reasonable travel expenses will be covered.

Referees will only be contacted once the successful candidate has been offered the job subject to references. At least one of the two referees should be your current or most recent employer.

We are looking for someone with the passion, energy, drive, values and focus to lead The Enthum Foundation, a charity providing supported accommodation and life skills to unaccompanied young people aged 16-17 years.

We have recently transitioned from a founder led to founder inspired organisational model and are looking for our first strategic, collaborative CEO with a real appetite for our mission! 

We are looking for a CEO who is wise and resilient with excellent people, finance and communications skills.  The Enthum soul is a creative and imaginative one and we would love our new CEO to help up further nurture this spirit. 

As with all CEO roles, it is a multi-faceted and demanding role. You will be responsible for balancing the support needs and aspirations of the awesome young people we serve with running the business functions and services.  

It's a rewarding, hands-on role working with a talented team of 16 staff, united by our mission and eager to consolidate our successful work to-date and further increase our reach and impact.    

If this sounds like it could potentially be you.... Please get in touch!

We particularly welcome applications from individuals with lived experience of being a young person in care or from a refugee background.  This is a part time role (60% FTE) which can be spread flexibly across 3-5 days.

We look forward to hearing from you. The deadline for applications is Thursday 6th March at 12 noon.

• ​Salary: £42,479 per annum, rising to £44,716 after 12 months in London (or £38,290 per annum rising to £40,526 after 12 months outside of London).
• Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week) Part time and job share applications are also welcomed.
• Contract: Permanent
• Location: Home based, or office based at Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London N1, in line with NCVO’s flexible working policy or home working policy.
• ​Closing date: Tuesday 4 March 2025
• Shortlisting date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
• Interviews: Tuesday 11 March 2025

About the role

​From local and national support services to green spaces, sports clubs, museums and the arts, voluntary organisations and volunteers are a vital part of communities across the country. As the membership community for charities and voluntary organisations, NCVO has championed volunteers and the voluntary sector for over a hundred years.

​The main elements of the role:

• ​Design and manage high quality content across NCVO’s digital web products and services that meets user and business needs
• ​Support the creative content manager in delivering our new content strategy
• ​Responsible for our digital content products, overseeing the execution of content review cycles and ensuring a regular flow of high impact, high quality content

NCVO is fully committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in our sector. We want this to be reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and identities. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups in the voluntary sector and those with diverse, lived experience. As part of our commitment to employing disabled people, all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirement for all competencies on the person specification will be guaranteed an interview.

​If you have access needs or require reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a pre-interview task and will have one week to complete the exercise. Interview questions will be shared in advance.

Benefits for NCVO employees

​NCVO offers attractive benefits including:

• ​25 days’ annual leave (for full time staff and pro-rata for part-time staff) and office closure between 25 December and 1 January inclusive. After three years' service annual holiday increases to 27 days, and after five years to 30 days, (pro rata for part time staff)
• ​the option to purchase or sell up to five more days each year
• ​five days’ volunteering leave (pro rata for part-time staff)
• ​2.5 extra ‘wellbeing’ days off during the year
• ​enhanced pay for sick/maternity/adoption leave
• ​subsidised gym membership
• ​season ticket loan
• ​flexible working, including opportunities to work from home/off site
• ​monthly homeworking allowance for permanent homeworkers
• ​monthly office worker allowance for those who have to work from the office on a daily basis
• ​generous employer pension contribution of up to 8.5% of salary, into our stakeholder pension scheme (linked to employee contribution)
• ​training and development opportunities.
• ​The opportunity to join Hospital Saturday Fund health cash plan for free at the basic level of cover, or at a reduced rate for other levels of cover
• ​24-hour free and confidential employee assistance programme

​We’re located a short walk from London King’s Cross station in a modern accessible building, overlooking Regent’s canal.

About NCVO

We are the charities charity. For over 100 years, NCVO has stood shoulder to shoulder with communities, championing and celebrating voluntary action.

​Our membership is made up of over 17,000 voluntary organisations across England, from small, grassroots community groups and social enterprises, to large, far-reaching charities.

​We believe that communities are strengthened by voluntary action. We therefore want charities to thrive and be empowered to deliver for people and communities.

​We focus on empowering charities and volunteers by making sure they have the knowledge, tools, and resources they need. We advocate for and with our members, giving voice to those not often heard, and harnessing the collective power of partners to ensure the voluntary sector is valued.  We bring charities together so they can learn, connect, and create greater impact.

​As the voluntary sector and volunteering adapt to new challenges and a changing context, so must NCVO. We are therefore prioritising work to evolve as an organisation to ensure we live our values of ambition, inclusion, openness and collaboration in everything we do internally and externally.

​We have around 80 staff and income of more than £7m per year. With our members at the heart of everything we do, our mission is to unite to champion the remarkable role of charities and volunteers. Because stronger charities make for stronger communities.

​NCVO is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone.

Full time, 35 hours per week

Permanent

Salary, Grade CL £57,298.50 per annum

Location: 30 Euston Square, London (hybrid – minimum 2 days in the office)

Closing date: 11:59pm on Sunday 16 March 2025               

Interview date: Wednesday 26 March or Thursday 27 March TBC

The Royal College of General Practitioners is the largest membership organisation for GPs in the United Kingdom. Our mission at the RCGP is to ensure the highest possible standards of patient care in general practice and to improve the health outcomes and lives of millions of people.

We are looking for an experienced programme manager, with a strong record of successfully managing complex research or innovation projects from start to finish, including developing bids and contracts, an understanding of good governance processes, excellent people skills and the ability to look at the big picture. The ideal candidate will have the capacity to collaborate effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders. If you are a driven problem-solver, with excellent written and verbal communication skills, an eye for detail, and you’re looking for a varied role where you will quickly be able to offer real value, then please get in touch.

In this role you will be managing projects which aim to better understand the health of the population through a primary care lens, including our work on the Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC). Established in 1957, the RSC is an active research and surveillance unit that collects and monitors data from over 2000 practices across England and Wales, and it played a key role in monitoring the spread of Covid-19 in the community. You will also work across projects to support the development of research skills in primary care and the dissemination of key findings to help shape policy and practice. You will also help to scope out opportunities for the College to support the spread of innovative ways of working in general practice.

The successful candidate will share our corporate values. In return, the College offers excellent terms and conditions and a great working environment. 

Please download the Candidate Pack to view the full job description. To apply, please kindly complete the application form via the RCGP Vacancies page. 

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 ~ 

ROLE PURPOSE

As the Head of High Value at St George’s Hospital Charity, you will provide leadership and operational delivery of the High Value fundraising strategy. You will lead the planning and management of High Value income streams as well taking a proactive role in fundraising high value gifts from Trusts & Foundations, Corporate Partnerships, Major Donors, and Special Events.

This role will be responsible for leading the High Value team to generate £1.5m annually from High Value partnerships and will lead on the development and implementation of our fundraising strategy, with a focus to grow High Value income to £2.5 million annually over the next five years and by 29/30. Currently our High Value income is underdeveloped, and we are looking for a hands-on fundraiser who is prepared to lead the way in building up these high-value partnerships, whilst leading a team to buy-in to the strategy and consequently, achieve income targets.

You will play a significant part in ensuring our fundraising appeals are a success. We are currently raising £5m for the transformation of our children’s wards. You will be a hardworking, proactive, and ambitious individual who can inspire and manage a high-performing team to cultivate and steward our high-value supporters effectively.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Fundraising Activities

• Major Gifts: Cultivate and maintain relationships with high-value donors, ensuring effective solicitation, stewardship, and follow-up to secure significant contributions (six-figure gifts). You will lead on prospecting, stewarding, maintaining, and uplifting a portfolio of 20+ major donors/year. You will be responsible for doubling income from major donors from £350k/year to £780k/year in five years.
• Corporate Partnerships: Build a portfolio of corporate partners, including securing high-value Charity Of The Year partnerships. You will work with the team to grow this income stream from prospecting, approaches, applications, pitches, stewardship and providing account management. The postholder will build income from corporate partnerships from £230k/year to £770k/year over the next five years.
• Trusts and Foundations: Build and maintain a portfolio of 30+ Trusts & Foundation supporters. Responsible for researching, approaching and developing compelling applications with a focus on ensuring Trusts & Foundations provide a long-term, diverse and sustainable income stream bringing in £1m+ / year
• Special Events Management: With the support of High Value Officer oversee the planning and execution of key fundraising events, including the annual gala which aims to raise £250,000, ensuring financial performance and donor engagement are prioritised.
• Database Management: Work with our Database Manager to ensure consistent, accurate and timely data inputting processes. Thinking creatively and proactively to continuously monitor and improve data capture and reporting harnessing analytics to maximise fundraising potential.
• Prospecting: Undertake research and make use of tools to identify potential High Value partners.
• Content development: Write and design compelling cases for support that are tailored to our High Value prospects and partnerships grounded in our branding and communications toolkit.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the Trusts and Corporates Manager and High Value Officer to review and feedback on compelling, engaging applications for funding and produce high-quality reports that meet donor requirements.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Produce regular reports on fundraising activity, analysing performance against targets, and identifying areas for improvement and growth.
• Stewardship: Lead on developing and delivering effective stewardship journeys and ensuring they are tracked and implemented across High Value giving.
• Stakeholder management: Represent St George’s Hospital Charity at pitches, fundraising events and meetings with internal and external stakeholders. Devise bespoke stewardship journeys for high value partners.

Leadership and Management

• Team Leadership: Line manage the High Value Officer and Trusts, Corporates, and Partnerships Manager, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture through motivation, feedback, support, and professional development.
• Strategic Development: Lead the development of the fundraising strategy across Trusts & Foundations, Corporate Partnerships, Major Donors, and Special Events. You will be responsible for setting clear, ambitious objectives and targets and ensuring these are understood, bought into, and met across the wider team.
• Budget Monitoring: Work with the Director of Fundraising and Communications to develop the annual budget, including leading on monthly performance reports and contributing to quarterly reforecasts.
• Reporting: Be responsible for collating and reporting data, including analysing Key Performance Indicators to Senior Leadership Team and Board of Trustees.
• Systems and Processes: Be proactive in your approach to solving problems and sharing these solutions with the team e.g. pipeline management, gift acceptance.
• Cross-Department Collaboration: Work closely with the Director of Fundraising and Communications and other teams to maximise high value fundraising opportunities.
• Capacity Building: Provide guidance and support to senior colleagues in building new funding relationships and enhancing overall donor engagement.
• Recruitment and Retention: Oversee recruitment processes to attract and retain high-quality staff, addressing performance and conduct issues proactively.
• Compliance and Best Practices: Ensure all fundraising activities comply with relevant regulations, best practices, and organisational policies, maintaining high standards of donor stewardship

This is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. Duties may vary dependant on the needs of the Charity 

Applications closing date: Thursday, 6th March

Interviews: Thursday, 13th March

Note: Applicants must be UK based within a reasonable commute of London.  Application without a cover letter will not be considered.

Location                      Home based (Home working with regular meetings in London)

Hours Full Time, permanent (flexibility may be offered for an excellent candidate.)

Reports to Director of Policy and Research

Main purpose and scope of the role:

Parentkind is a national charity working with more than 23,500 Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), Parent Councils and Schools. We are the voice of parents in policy making. 

We are an ambitious organisation and we are looking for an ambitious and highly motivated individual to support our work in Westminster and Whitehall. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of public affairs, advocacy and/or working in a policy environment. 

We are looking for an ambitious and motivated individual able to take on responsibility and lead. 

The role will involve:

• Managing the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Parents to make this one of the most high profile APPGs in Parliament.
• Organising events to communicate our research, including roundtables, lunches/dinners and launch events in Westminster. 
• Leading our political and policy stakeholder engagement activity to ensure we have strong relationships where they matter. 
• Dissemination of our research to political and policy audiences to ensure our research is seen by the right people. 
• Support our parent research, including polling of parents and making policy recommendations based on this research. 

As a UK wide charity, you will be expected to support our work in other parts of the UK and the devolved administrations. 

We would particularly welcome candidates with media experience, including writing press releases and placing stories with national media outlets.

Duties and key responsibilities

Managing the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Parents. 

• Developing a plan for the APPG to achieve our ambition of making this one of the most high profile APPGs in Parliament.
• Raising the profile of the APPG for Parents and increasing the number of MPs and peers engaged with its work. 
• Organising well attended APPG meetings and events. 
• Providing the secretariat to the APPG and working with the Officers to deliver the work of the Group.

Organising events to communicate our research, including roundtables, lunches/dinners and launch events in Westminster. 

• Manage and organise research/policy led events with political/policy audiences, including roundtables, lunches/dinners and launch events.
• Increase attendance at these events to make sure we are successfully engaging with political/policy audiences.

Leading our political and policy stakeholder engagement activity to ensure we have strong relationships where they matter. 

• Developing our stakeholder database of priority contacts.
• Actively arranging high value meetings to promote Parentkind.
• Maintaining a consistent level of communication with political/policy audiences on behalf of Parentkind.

Dissemination of our research to political and policy audiences to ensure our research is seen by the right people. 

• Taking responsibility for high quality dissemination of our research and evidence to political/policy audiences. 

Support our parent research, including polling of parents and making policy recommendations based on this research.

• Working across the organisation to support our parent polling activity with engaging and topical questions.
• Support the development of policy recommendations based on our research.
• Writing concise and compelling briefing documents.

The King’s Trust is looking for a Deputy General Counsel to lead the Legal Team and be a key member of the senior leadership of the Safeguarding, Legal and Assurance Function, and Company Secretary of The King’s Trust Trading Limited. This role is a 12-month fixed term contract, and we would consider part time (4 days per week) for the right candidate.

You will be working closely with the General Counsel & Company Secretary and lead on complex, challenging and meaningful projects across The Trust. You will be a qualified solicitor with significant post qualification legal experience gained in house.

Proactive and solutions-focused, your excellent communication and interpersonal skills will enable you to build effective trusted relationships and influence at all levels, including the most senior. You will need to be well-versed in most areas of charity and commercial law, adept at providing legal advice and assistance and able to undertake company secretarial and legal compliance matters.

Flexible, you will be able to quickly expand your knowledge and experience in new areas of law and governance as part of a high performing team. In addition, your excellent planning and organisation skills will enable you to prioritise and multitask as you work at the heart of the organisation’s governance, improving processes and achieving positive change. You will lead the Legal Team (including the Data Protection Officer), responsible for managing their workload, their personal development and wellbeing. 

RM Recruit are partnering with a Warwickshire based Charity to recruit a Fundraising Manager for their team. This is a newly created post that will play a key role in leading the established fundraising team to achieve ambitious income targets and develop long term funding relationships.

Role Overview

The Fundraising Manager will work closely with the Head of Income Generation to develop and nurture corporate partnerships and major donors.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support income diversification by exploring and developing other streams, such as corporate partnerships, individual giving, and community fundraising.
• Work with the Head of Income Generation to identify opportunities for innovative income generation strategies.

• Managing and tracking income against targets
• Team management and driving individual KPI achievements across the fundraising team
• Overseeing day-to-day fundraising operations
• Leadership and support for event fundraising initiatives

This role will require several years’ experience of fundraising, with a proven acumen of identifying, building and developing high-value, long-lasting partnerships and securing sustainable income from multiple streams. Communications skills are key alongside the ability to motivate a fundraising team to achieve above and beyond.

This forward thinking charity can offer a broad range of excellent benefits to include; 35 days holiday, a contributory pension scheme, flexible working, free onsite parking and staff wellbeing programs.

RM Recruit is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and will treat all applicants equally irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, marital/civil partnership status, age, disability, race, religion, pregnancy, ethnic or national origin.

Clare College seeks to appoint an exceptional individual as its next Development Director. Clare College has a long and proud history, dating back to 1326, and today is a vibrant and diverse community of Fellows, staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and alumni. The College will be celebrating its 700th anniversary in 2026. The second-oldest of the constituent Colleges of the University of Cambridge, Clare College is known for academic excellence, as well as its friendly, stimulating and supportive environment and its highly engaged alumni body. The College has recently completed its very successful Old Court campaign.

The new Development Director will be responsible for shaping and realising the College’s ambitious fundraising strategy, and for maintaining and enhancing relations between the College, its alumni and other potential benefactors. Working in close collaboration with Fellows and staff, they will shape and deliver a new fundraising campaign to be launched to coincide with the College’s 700th anniversary.  The successful candidate will be personally responsible for cultivating and raising principal gifts to the College, and for stewarding existing principal donors. They will lead the work of the Development Office, developing and empowering a small and highly capable team. They will report to the Master and will be put forward to the College’s Governing Body for election as a Fellow of the College, reflecting the importance of close relationships between the Development Director and the Fellowship as a whole.

The ideal candidate will be an outstanding collegial individual, with a successful track-record of setting and delivering ambitious fundraising targets and personally securing principal gifts. Recent successful major campaign experience would be helpful. The successful candidate will be a strong communicator and diplomat, with natural influencing skills, who will be able to engage effectively with all College members, including Fellows and alumni. They will be an inclusive leader who will inspire their team. The successful candidate will be collaborative in style, and will be respectful of tradition while bringing a forward-thinking approach.  This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in attracting philanthropic funding that will secure the College’s core activities for future generations.