Communication Manager Jobs in Liverpool
As our Teaching Resources Creator, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our teaching resources for primary education, creating effective, impactful and engaging lessons. Your work will influence the educational journeys of hundreds of thousands of primary-aged students!
You’ll work in our Teaching Resources team alongside experienced teachers and resource creators.
Teaching Resources at Unifrog
One of the most important parts of Unifrog is a searchable library of hundreds of teaching resources, covering careers guidance, progression, SEL, and PSHE. Each week our lessons are used by tens of thousands of teachers in the UK and around the world.
We aim for our lessons to be plug-and-play, to be truly educational, to make it easy for schools to make the most of the Unifrog platform, and to be fun even when they deal with difficult subjects. We always try to make the learning as active as possible.
Our two core lesson packs are our Careers Year Plan, a complete scheme of learning for careers education for students aged 11-18, and our PSHE Lesson Pack, which covers the KS3, KS4 and KS5 DfE and PSHE Association objectives for PSHE.
We want to expand this offering to primary schools, giving teachers a version of the Careers Year Plan and PSHE Lesson Pack designed to meet the needs of students aged 4-11, along with bespoke video content for students and written guides for teachers and parents.
What you’ll do
Your main responsibilities:
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Write effective, impactful and engaging lessons. Your main role is to write engaging lesson content, incorporating text, images, and video elements in creative ways to engage primary students. You’ll develop learning activities that reinforce key concepts, assess student understanding, and encourage the use of higher-order thinking skills. Active learning should be a core component, helping students to apply what they’ve learned in meaningful ways.
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Use your experience and understanding of primary school contexts to tailor lessons to your audience. You’ll create resources that are both user-friendly for teachers and impactful for students. You’ll also ensure that lessons are plug-and-play, making it easy for teachers to deliver lessons without needing significant preparation. For teachers with the time and resources to take the lesson a step further, you might also suggest some extra optional tasks that require extra preparation but enrich the learning experience.
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Structure lessons effectively to align with benchmarks and frameworks. The lessons you write will align with the structure of our existing lessons and lesson packs such as the PSHE Lesson Pack and the Careers Year Plan. You’ll organise the content into a logical sequence of lessons, ensuring that each lesson is progressive and builds on the last to create a comprehensive learning experience for primary-aged students. You’ll align with careers guidance best practice, ensuring careers education lessons are informed by frameworks such as the CDI learning aims and primary-specific adaptations of the Gatsby benchmarks. For PSHE, you’ll ensure your lessons meet PSHE Association objectives and DfE statutory guidance.
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Consult and collaborate with a range of teams. You’ll work closely with our Careers Guidance Specialist when creating your lessons to ensure they align with best practice in careers guidance. You’ll also collaborate with the Video Team to shape the direction of video content aimed at primary students, ensuring it complements and enhances the lesson materials and is suitable for the intended audience. You’ll work with the Written Content Team to help craft written guides aimed at primary teachers and parents. You may also gather feedback from primary teachers to help you shape or refine the lesson content.
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Respond to and action feedback from your line manager, from others on the Unifrog team, and from external partners. This iterative feedback process ensures continuous improvement and refinement of the lesson content, aligning it with evolving educational standards.
You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our teaching resources for primary education, and your work will influence the educational journeys of hundreds of thousands of primary-aged students!
What we’re looking for
Essential:
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QTS and relevant primary school teaching experience
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You must have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a minimum 3+ years experience teaching in a primary school setting. You must also have some experience of teaching KS2.
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Adept at creating exceptional teaching resources
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Above all else, you need to be brilliant at creating teaching resources, and to love doing it. You will have had significant professional experience creating teaching resources and delivering them to students in a primary school context. You’ll need to be able to demonstrate an excellent understanding of teaching and learning principles.
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Creativity
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We want you to come up with great ideas for how to teach topics to students in fun ways.
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Quest for feedback
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We work collaboratively to ensure our resources are the best they can be. You’ll need to be eager to seek out feedback from your colleagues and from teachers at our partner schools.
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Attention to detail
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You’ll need to be able to proofread and edit to UK grammar and spelling rules, and to a company’s House Style.
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Ability to work in a team
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You’ll work closely with a range of team members across the Content Team as well as external parties. To do this, you need to be an excellent communicator and team player.
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Ability to work independently
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Creating brand new brilliant teaching materials is a long-term project that requires organisation, discipline, and resilience.
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Ability to work to tight deadlines
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We’re really excited about our upcoming projects. We have a long list of them to get done, and many have strict deadlines. You need to be able to deliver things on time.
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Desirable:
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Experience of teaching across more than one primary key stage.
Working together
You’ll work in our Teaching Resources team alongside experienced teachers and resource creators, and you’ll liaise with people in our Written Content and Video teams too.
In the Teaching Resources team, we commonly discuss new ideas as a group, share insights from our own teaching experiences, provide feedback on other team members’ work, and get feedback from teachers and students at our partner schools.
You’ll be managed by the Head of Teaching Resources.
Key benefits
Go to our jobs page for a full list of the excellent benefits we offer our team.
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Join one of ‘the best organisations to escape to’ and help transform careers and destinations in schools. We’re also a certified Great Place to Work.
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Become part of a committed, dynamic, and growing company. We want to build our team for the long term: if you do well, we will do our best to make sure you want to stay at the company for a long time.
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Professional development is important at Unifrog. You will define your own 6-month objectives and will be supported by your line manager and the rest of the team to achieve them. You will have an annual training allowance to spend on what you need to grow and progress.
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Influence the company’s direction: we love to promote great ideas, wherever they come from.
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Play a role in democratising access to learning: Unifrog makes a difference in young people’s lives. Every week you’ll have your work in front of hundreds of thousands of students, and tens of thousands of teachers.
Key details
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£36,000-£38,000 per year (Grade B) plus a share in a company wide bonus.
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Full time.
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12 month FTC
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Work remotely, or flexibly in our London office.
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28 days paid holiday per year (plus bank holidays) pro rata.
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Working hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Thursday, and 9am to 4:30pm on Friday.
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Start date: as soon as possible but no later than w/c 2nd January 2025.
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If you require reasonable adjustments, or want to discuss any details about the role before applying, please contact Mhairi (details on our website).
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We can only consider candidates who have the right to work in the UK.
Application process
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Deadline: 10:00am (BST) on Wednesday 11th September 2024.
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Stage 1: Application form (~1 hour)
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Visit our website to upload your CV and complete the questions and tasks below. Please note that we do not review CVs at this stage of the application process, so please be as specific as possible about your experience.
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i. With reference to examples from your experience, what would make you an excellent candidate for this role? (250 words)
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ii. Upload one complete, standalone lesson PowerPoint on a careers topic of your choice, which fulfils these criteria:
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30 minute lesson;
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Includes notes for teachers delivering the lesson;
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Aimed at a KS2 year group of your choice (please specify the year group you've chosen on the first slide of your presentation);
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Is well-structured, clear, and written to a high standard; and
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Supports the teacher in being plug-and-play and informative about the topic you’ve chosen.
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Your presentation can be in either PowerPoint or Google slides format. Please provide a dropbox or google drive link to your presentation, ensuring you have set access permissions to “anyone with the link can view”.
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- iii. Imagine you've been asked to develop a 60 minute standalone PSHE lesson about healthy eating for Y4 students, which will be delivered by a teaching colleague with support from a TA. Describe the steps you would take to plan and write the lesson, focusing on how you would ensure it is effective, appropriate and ready for someone else to deliver. (max 400 words)
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Stage 2: Task (~ 2 hours)
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Stage 3: Video call interview (1 hour)
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Standard Q&A from a panel of three, including questions about your experiences and how these relate to the role, and scenario questions based on common situations you might face (plus time for your questions).
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Stage 2 tasks will be scheduled after the application deadline. Video call interviews will be held on 24th September 2024.
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Your answers are an opportunity to let us know more about your motivations and experience. While we understand that candidates might want to use AI to improve parts of their application, we strongly encourage you to write your answers independently.
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Please note, we compare all answers to an AI generated answer. Where we suspect AI has been used to write the majority of the answer, this will be taken into consideration when scoring.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Community Engagement Coordinator - Central Region, England
Location: The role will be home-based with extensive travel across the central England region and regular travel to other regions and BookTrust offices.
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time contract
Salary: £30,000 per annum
BookTrust is the the UK's largest reading charity, and we reach millions of children every year with books, resources and support to get every child reading, regularly and by choice. We are national in scale and operate in every region in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. We work through every local authority, via children’s centres, schools, libraries and health professionals, to reach the families Our England Partnerships Team support our wide range of partners in a place-based way, working in and with local communities and the children and families most in need of support.
As a Community Engagement Coordinator, you will work within the regional partnerships team to support projects, pilots and pieces of learning to build greater place-based working with the BookTrust partner network who need us most. Working with the Partnership Team, and colleagues from across BookTrust support a caseload of community work to support programme delivery, partnership network development and bespoke pieces of learning and development. Create excellent links into and understanding of the issues facing local communities and stakeholders to support BookTrust delivery and development work, and place based, community led initiatives.
We are looking for a positive and enthusiastic, credible ambassador with a demonstrable ability to develop relationships and make connections across a wide range of people and groups. You will have great communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of audiences, in writing, and in person. You may have worked within or across a local authority provider network, in outreach or in a local community or project within the third sector. You will have experience in and an interest in work with children and families experiencing deprivation and or children’s reading. You will be a highly motivated individual with the ability to work and travel unsupervised across multiple projects simultaneously and to work at pace, often to tight deadlines.
To find out 'How to apply' please go to our website. Please send a copy of your CV along with a covering letter showing how you meet the person specification and your motivations for applying for the role. Your covering letter should not be longer than two sides.
Closing date: 27th September 2024 at Midday.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity
We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: BAME candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from underrepresented communities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team to discuss your requirements further (contact details can be found on our website).
BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflects our commitment to safeguarding therefore, the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, and pre-employment checks.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you passionate about bringing together real life experience with scientific expertise to ensure everyone living with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) has access to effective, evidence based treatment and care?
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis (APF) is the UK’s leading health and research charity for pulmonary fibrosis: a lung scarring disease that cuts thousands of lives short in the UK each year. There’s no known cure, and it’s on the rise.
We are looking for someone to join our team who has the skills and experience to grow and unite our community to take action, inspiring them with the motivation and confidence to get involved. You will be able to think on your feet, managing a varied workload with the ability to prioritise competing demands and ensure everyone who gets involved has a consistently positive experience
Why join us?
As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, we support personal development and offer a range of benefits:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (plus additional discretionary days around Christmas)
- Company Pension Scheme
- Flexible, home-based working
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme including retail discounts, access to emotional support.
- Death in Service scheme.
- Company related sick pay when 6-month probation is complete.
- A focus on personal development including access to training opportunities and coaching.
Application Details
- Your CV
- A supporting statement outlining how you meet the knowledge and experience criteria in no more than two sides of A4
Closing Date: Monday 9th September
Interviews: Teams call w/c 16th September
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis is committed to a culture that is both diverse and inclusive and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
We bring people together to drive change so more people affected by pulmonary fibrosis (or lung scarring) can live well for longer.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Please note that the salary displayed is the actual salary, the pro-rata salary range is: £38,954- £43,055 pro rata
The British Dietetic Association is a professional body and trade union and is the leading organisation of nutrition professionals in the UK; representing the nutrition and dietetic workforce across all sectors.
The BDA is seeking a national policy and campaigns officer with responsibility for Scotland. The post holder will work within the Trade Union and Public Affairs Directorate of the BDA to research and develop policy projects to support the delivery of the BDA strategic plan. They will also take a leading role in the planning and co-ordination of the BDA priority campaigns. The successful candidate will have excellent campaign and project management skills along with experience of policy development in a trade union or membership organisation and a political environment.
An understanding of the UK health environment, particularly the allied health professions would be beneficial along with knowledge of the workings of the devolved government in Scotland.
The BDA is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. The BDA intends to do this by maintaining and rigorously implementing an Equal Opportunities Policy and Code of Practice. We particularly encourage black and minority ethnic people, people with disabilities and LGBTQI+ people to apply as they are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Benefits offered
- Pension Scheme (employer 12% contribution)
- Flexible Working Policy
- THRIVE Accreditation Staff Well being Group
- Parental Leave arrangements
- Cash Back’ Healthcare and Healthcare Scheme
- All positions subject to 6 months probationary period, statutory sick pay during this period
- Sickness Benefits – after successful probationary period
- Trade Union Recognition- GMB
- 30 days Holidays per annum (1 to be taken last working day before Christmas and 3 to be taken between Christmas and New Year, this is for full time, will be pro-rata’d for part time employee)
- Staff Development opportunities
Key Areas of Responsibility
The post holder will deliver on the following key responsibilities:
- Policy Development including Work with relevant committees and BDA staff in the development of key policy documents and position statements with particular responsibility for allocated country coard(s).
- Campaign Co-ordination such as Co-ordinating allocated BDA campaigns in conjunction with working groups and the monitor of the landscape with regards allocated campaigns and advise when relevant issues are trending or becoming topical.
- Represent the BDA with internal and external stakeholders including BDA Specialist Groups, AHP policy officer and working groups/networks and other alliances.
- Be a valuable member of the Trade Union and Policy and Public Affairs business areas, contributing to the evolution of the policy function and contributing to their wider work and objectives
Person Specification
Knowledge
- Degree educated
- Campaign/project management
- Policy development
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Public policy making process
Experience
- Working in a membership organisation
- Working in a political environment
- Experience of working with or within the Dietetic of Allied Health Professional would be advantageous.
Please note: candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Please send your CV and a covering letter and we will send you an EDI Form which must be completed for your application to be considered.
To discuss the role, please look for the BDA Trade Union page where you will find the contact information for all of the team.
Please send your CV and a covering letter and we will send you an EDI Form which must be completed for your application to be considered.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: UK home based (remote working)
Reporting to: Head of Fundraising
Key relationships: Head of Trusts and Foundations, Executive Officer, Programme staff
Contract: Permanent, full time (4 days per week considered)
Salary: £32k
The Fundraising Officer will make a key contribution to the generation of sustainable funding through corporate partnerships, trusts and foundations. The role will support initiatives to increase the organisation’s income by expanding our pool of donors, improving retention of current donors and maximizing fundraising opportunities.
Who we are
WasteAid is an international non-governmental organisation that works in low and middle-income countries to implement environmental and economic empowerment programmes, focusing on support to nascent green businesses and grassroots entrepreneurs. The work improves the livelihoods of some of the poorest and most marginalised, promotes circular economy innovation and contributes to a cleaner and healthier future for all.
Our programmes focus predominantly on the reduction of plastic, organic, textile and e-waste pollution in areas of the world that have no formal waste management systems.
The organisation promotes and shares locally appropriate, evidence based inclusive practices, supporting and empowering others to take positive action. We partner with public, private and community-based organisations in countries where the lack of waste management systems are harming the environment, economy and society. We achieve our goals through our 3 flagship programmes:
- Our Wastepreneur programme for those individuals and micro businesses trying to make a living within the circular economy and make a difference in their communities
- The WasteAid Circular Economy Network which brings together national stakeholders, local authorities and the private sector to tackle local waste challenges through networking, training, infrastructure support and innovation challenges
- First Step Resource Management Programmes focus on a whole system approach to divert waste from landfill supporting community behaviour change, basic infrastructure, collector group training and end market development
The organisation is less than 10 years old and has enjoyed unprecedented growth with an annual budget this year of circa £2 million. It is a dynamic organisation with an international team who work in a supportive and collegial environment.
WasteAid currently implements programmes in The Gambia, India, South Africa and Uganda.
Can you bring your fundraising skills to help us to do more?
Purpose of Role
To support the Head of Fundraising and Head of Trusts to develop and deliver effective income generation and partner relationship management. Collaborating also with the wider WasteAid team to develop quality funding proposals and fundraising assets. To research, explore and initiate new fundraising approaches with potential new funders.
Income Generation
- Support the senior fundraising team to research and develop potential opportunities for maximising income generation
- Support the senior team to identify and secure new supporters/partners and ensure effective engagement with established supporters. This includes:
- Diverse Outreach
- Proposal Development
- Participation in pitch sessions / donor meetings
- Rolling stewardship and relationship management for a number of potential and current donors. Including coordinating staff fundraising /other donor activity and admin to support the partnership
Raising WasteAid’s Profile
- Promote the aims and objectives of WasteAid, increasing public awareness and support
- Ensure project donor partnership plans are in place and implemented in liaison with the project teams and WasteAid’s PR function
Marketing and Communication
- Develop and maintain appropriate fundraising materials to attract donors and support compelling applications for funding
- Work with WasteAid’s PR company to maintain effective communications and good relations with our donors. Ensuring that they are updated on the organisation’s work and achievements with a view to extending and increasing their support where possible
- Utilise and maximise the use of all communication platforms to promote fundraising and the work of WasteAid including social media, local media support and the promotion of third-party led fundraising
- Ensure all communication channels are monitored, including social media comments and inboxes, and any incoming communications and queries dealt with in an appropriate and timely manner
Other
- Analyse, monitor and report on fundraising activity and performance to inform ongoing fundraising planning and improvement
- Responsible for ensuring accurate and up to date records are kept of all fundraising activities on WasteAid’s CRM system
- Responsible for ensuring WasteAid’s fundraising and communication activities follow best practice and are compliant with internal policies and procedures, GDPR, the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Practice, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation, Charity Commission requirements and all other relevant legislation
- To review develop and implement fundraising processes and procedures to ensure that best practice is achieved
- To keeping abreast of new fundraising developments, initiatives and opportunities
- Any other duties as required
Person Specification
Experience
This listing represents the full and ideal picture of the role. It is likely that not every strong candidate will be able to demonstrate all the listed attributes. If you feel that you can meet most of these qualifications, we encourage you to apply and give some thought as to how you might acquire any other necessary experience/skills after joining WasteAid.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in fundraising/income generation (or a related field) with good influencing (e.g. writing or pitching) skills
- Experience of developing new fundraising relationships or supporting existing relationships
- Experience of generating funds from supporters. Specifically corporate partners, small-medium sized businesses, trusts and foundations
- Experience managing corporate relationships, understand and delivering client requirements
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to make communications engaging and persuasive for a diverse range of audiences
- Excellent diplomacy and relationship skills
- Ability to engage confidently with a wide range of stakeholders with a proven ability to build relationships and partnership working
- Strong and effective networking skills
- Effective IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel and use of fundraising CRM systems, knowledge of desktop publishing packages would be an asset
- Uses original and creative thinking to make improvements or support the initiation of new approaches
- Good understanding of fundraising regulations, standards and best practice
Personal Attributes
- A self-starter, enthusiastic, reliable and professional
- Effective communicator
- Strong organisational time management skills with the ability to prioritise effectively to meet deadlines
- Willing to take part in all activities, taking a ‘hands-on’ approach to getting things done
- Enjoys individual, team and collaborative working
- Demonstrates a consistent high standard of work and attention to detail
- Willingness to learn
- Willingness to travel to client’s locations
- Works with honesty and integrity and is aligned with WasteAid’s values
- Ability to adapt to changing environment
- Knowledge of issues linked to WasteAid’s work in either the waste management, environmental and climate change or international development sectors is highly desirable
Qualifications
Institute of Fundraising qualifications desirable
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Job in a Sentence
You will help grow applications to our award winning Leaders Plus Fellowship for working parents through excellent sales funnel management and marketing.
Job Purpose
Do you want to play a part in helping leaders with young children achieve their career aspirations without sacrificing everything? Are you an excellent comms all-rounder who enjoys working in a target-driven environment, knows about sales funnels and can produce solid content that is useful to the audience? Are you highly organised and enjoy getting stuff done in a dynamic hands-on role? If ‘Yes’, then you could be our next Digital Marketing Coordinator.
Reporting directly to the CEO and Founder, the purpose of your role as Digital Marketing Coordinator is to increase applications to our Leaders Plus Fellowship and ensure employers approach us to work with us.
Apply:Cover letter (max 1 page) and CV (max 2 pages), outlining how you fulfil the key requirements of the role and answering the following two questions:
- What attracted you to apply for this role?
- What top 5 successes do you bring where you could apply the learning to this role?
Please include with your application:
- An example of a piece of writing you have produced for the web and an example of a social media post you have worked on across any platform as well as any bonus skills (e.g. technical applications that you are proficient in or experience in video editing)
Closing date: 17th September midnight
Interviews: 26th September
Ideal start: 15th November
Questions: Please refer to the listing on our website for contact details should you have any questions about this role.
We welcome applications to this Digital Marketing Coordinator role from all interested candidates regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, or family circumstances. We particularly welcome applications from colleagues currently underrepresented in our team including those who identify as from a minority group.
Key Responsibilities
Things you will lead on as Digital Marketing Coordinator include:
- Marketing to parents
- You write newsletters and emails for our audience of parents that are useful to them and also promote the Fellowship Programmes.
- You will manage our sales funnel and take responsibility for example for application pack downloads.
- You will edit and coordinate content creation.
- Employer marketing
- Including creating marketing materials that show the benefit of our work to employers and managing an email list for employers including data reporting of this.
- Responsive team support on all things comms: for example when our partnerships development team needs some copy for a mailout, you provide this.
- Website management: you manage our website to generate incoming enquiries from both employers and parents.
- Overseeing our social media and podcast
- You will also line-manage our Digital Marketing Executive
We Would Love to Meet:
(Please do apply even if you don‘t fulfil all criteria – some of our strongest applications in the past have been from surprise candidates!)
- You are highly organised and self-motivated, able to prioritise and juggle a varied and fast-paced workload. We know that when we ask you to do something, you get it done quickly or communicate proactively if priorities need to shift!
- You are extremely results oriented and keep your focus on how many people apply to the programme (which is critical to how many people we can help get to senior leadership). You always ensure that you spend your time on tasks that get employers to work with us or get individuals to apply.
- You are able to learn what employers and working parents want. We know that your content responds to the questions they are asking themselves.
- You take initiative and seize opportunities to achieve team goals. We know that when you are clear on our team goals, you will help us achieve those without us telling you every detail of what you need to do.
- You write good emails and can write solid content. We can tell you loosely what we want to communicate and you’ll write something which is clear and focused on the needs of the audience, with SEO at the forefront of the final text.
- You bring solid administration and coordination skills to the comms work and are organised. Because you own your work, we can let you get on with the job and you’ll remind us what needs to get done - we don’t need to follow up with you!
- You thrive in a dynamic environment and enjoy juggling things on multiple fronts. We know you are in control of your workload and will get things done, or otherwise let us know if we need to drop or change things.
- With a flexible and ‘can do’ approach. Things change quickly here and you aren’t fazed by that!
- You are good at managing upwards and work with a remote team. You tell us what you need from us and remind us when we forget!
- You are a team player committed to working collaboratively to achieve results. We are all working for the same thing and we will shift what we do if necessary to support the team goal. You’ll ask for help if needed and offer that help, too.
- You are excited to work in a small organisation and an entrepreneurial culture, willing to learn and get involved in activity outside of role remit when required.
General Leaders Plus Core Competencies:
- Courage
- Integrity
- Results orientation
- Inclusion
- Activating leadership in others
- Resourcefulness
- Continuous learning
- Resilience
- Planning and organising
- Alignment with the Leaders Plus principles
Why work for us
- Inspiring Team: Be part of a dedicated team making a real difference for working parents and promoting gender equality in senior leadership.
- Flexible Working: Experience best-in-class flexible working arrangements to help you balance your professional and personal life effectively.
- Quick Decision-Making: Work in a small, agile organisation where we make impactful decisions swiftly.
- Holidays: Enjoy 5 weeks of holiday each year plus bank holidays pro rata.
- Excellent Pension Contribution: Benefit from a 6% employer pension contribution.
- Professional Development: Receive a £500 contribution annually towards your professional development, helping you grow and advance in your career.
- Company benefits with Pirkx: including 24/7 GP booking helpline, 24/7 dedicated telephone counselling service, discounted gym memberships and virtual gym classes for all abilities, virtual and physical physio, mental health resilience training, courses for a lifelong learning, guidance on financial wellness, discounts on big brand shopping, cinema tickets, holidays, plus loads more.
- Dynamic and Entrepreneurial Culture: Thrive in an environment that encourages innovation, learning, and getting involved in various activities outside your role.
Please note due to the high volume of applications, we do not have the capacity to respond to every submission and only candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted. If you do not hear from us following the closing date, please assume you weren't successful on this ocasion. Thank you.
As part of the application, we'd love to know:
- What attracted you to apply for this role?
- What top 5 successes do you bring where you could apply the learning to this role?
Please include with your application:
- An example of a piece of writing you have produced for the web and an example of a social media post you have worked on across any platform as well as any bonus skills (e.g. technical applications that you are proficient in or experience in video editing)
We are excited to read your application, thank you for your interest!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Grandmentors Wiltshire Project Coordinator
Permanent Contract
Job Ref: V515
Hours/Days per week: 17.5 hours per week – (Flexible days/hours)
Salary: £12,500 plus attractive employee benefits package
Start date: ASAP
Location: Home or Office based within Wiltshire
Closing date: 22nd September 2024
Interview date and Location: W/C 30th September 2024, Teams
About the role
At Volunteering Matters we use volunteering’s unique power to bring people together and build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK.
We bring people together to resolve some of society’s most complex issues. From social isolation and loneliness; improving health and wellbeing; building skills, confidence, and opportunity; to ensuring young people can become change makers in their community, the impact that we make is great. And we won’t stop until everyone in the UK has the opportunity to thrive.
People-led and impact driven, we are a national charity that is deeply embedded in local areas across the UK. We operate in five regions: London and the South East; Wales and the West of England; East of England; the Midlands and North West England; and Scotland and North East England. We also have an Employee Volunteering Team with over 25 years’ experience, acting as a broker to provide tailor-made solutions to employers. We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.
This is an exciting time to be joining the team. We’re changing the way we work to meet new ambitions and make sure our impact continues to grow alongside out business.
Grandmentors
Grandmentors is a national volunteering programme where older volunteers (aged 50+) use their lifetime of skills and experience to support and mentor vulnerable young adults leaving the care system. These young adults often need a guiding hand and role model to support them to find work, continue their education or begin training – ultimately giving them the skills and self-belief to lead successful and independent lives.
Volunteers meet with a young adult regularly to boost their confidence and work towards goals, which are unique to each person.
Role Purpose
We are recruiting two part-time Project Coordinators to effectively deliver all aspects of our Grandmentors project in Wiltshire, ensuring it achieves its aims, objectives, outcomes, and targets. The postholders will work alongside teams within Wiltshire Council and with local volunteers to ensure that we improve the lives of care experienced young people (aged 16-25) through the unique power of inter-generational mentoring.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Effectively manage the service to ensure it meets agreed targets and millstones.
- Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders and local authority staff.
- Ensure volunteers are recruited, appropriately trained, and supported in their role; this will involve processing volunteer expenses, DBS checks and maintaining databases.
- Ensure regular communication between project staff and volunteers is maintained and that regular supervision for volunteers is provided.
- Work with your line manager to ensure project expenditure is in line with the budget.
- Maintain accurate records on all aspects of the project and submit data onto a secure system.
- Manage and maintain effective monitoring and evaluation records to capture impact and outcomes and ensure contractual compliance.
- To implement and maintain appropriate risk assessment management processes.
- Prepare impact and progress reports for both internal and external purposes.
- Develop relevant information to promote and raise the profile of Volunteering Matters locally.
- Promote and adhere to Volunteering Matters Equality and Diversity Policy and all other Volunteering Matters policies which relate to the work of Grandmentors.
- Contribute to joint working and teamwork across Volunteering Matters and your regional team.
Experience/Skills and Attributes:
In deciding who to shortlist and appoint to this post, we will be looking for evidence of the following skills, knowledge, experience and personal qualities.
Essential
- Experience working with or supporting young adults with the ability to motivate, enthuse and develop positive attitudes.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately and effectively with a range of stakeholders (including volunteers, local authority staff and funders).
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a demanding and developing workload.
- Resilient, flexible with ability to work on own initiative as well as collaborating with others.
- A good, practical knowledge of safeguarding and risk assessments.
- Evidence of good administrative and IT skills.
- Understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities, data protection and confidentiality.
Desirable
- Knowledge/experience of the care system.
- Experience supporting/managing volunteers.
Qualifications
Relevant experience and values alignment is more important for this role than specific qualifications.
This role requires an enhanced DBS check which will be undertaken with the successful candidate before starting.
Location
The role requires someone based within Wiltshire. With a flexible working policy, the postholder can be based from home or within Wiltshire Council offices. The postholder will need internet access to enable remote working. I.T. equipment and infrastructure will be supplied.
Our Values & Way of Working:
In all that we do, we embrace a philosophy of ‘Freedom within a Framework’ and are guided by our values: Empowering, Inclusive, Compassionate, Positive & Straightforward.
This job description is intended to include the broad range of responsibilities and requirements of the post. It is neither exhaustive nor exclusive but while some variations will be expected, these will be at an appropriate level for the role.
Diversity & Inclusion
Volunteering Matters welcomes all applicants and are keen to ensure our team reflects the diversity of the UK and the communities we serve. We encourage applications from disabled, LGBT and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, along with candidates with any protected characteristics and from disadvantaged groups.
Disability Confident & Reasonable Adjustments:
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. Please provide evidence in your application, which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required in the “Experience/Skills” section of this advert. To be considered for a guaranteed interview or to discuss any reasonable adjustments during the process, please state this in your application or contact our HR team for more information.
We have also committed to the following pledges which positively encompass our recruitment and selection processes and methodology: The Promise, Show The Salary, Salary History.
Benefits
Our employee benefits reflect our culture which is built on an approach of full flexibility with accountability, and designed to let you make your most positive contribution; we offer Flexible Working by Default (re hours & place of work), Unlimited Annual Leave, Employee Pension scheme, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Employee Assistance Programme, enhanced sick and family leave. We are also open to discuss job share applications.
GDPR Statement
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We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the London and Home Counties community engagement team to support our exciting work with communities at risk of flooding.
If you have excellent communication skills and a desire to work with people in a collaborative way to address flooding inequality using a community-based approach, then apply today!
Location: Home-based, as part of the London and Home Counties team, however, regular national travel will be required as part of this role including evening meetings with communities, training days or other work-related activities.
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week
Salary: initial salary of £24,500 to £25,500 per annum plus discretionary London weighting may be applied in accordance with where you live
Contract: Permanent, initially to provide maternity cover in Slough/Bucks but with an expectation that you will transition to work regionally once this has been completed
Benefits: 30 days annual leave including bank holidays plus a day off on your birthday, learning and development and the company operates an auto enrolment pension scheme.
Closing Date: 22nd September 2024 (midnight). We reserve the right to close these vacancies early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Interview Date: w/c 30th September 2024
The Role
Reporting to a Community Engagement Manager, the Flood Engagement Officer will work with colleagues across the area to deliver against engagement activity.
Key responsibilities will include:
Delivery of community projects
Engaging and empowering communities
Managing key stakeholder relationships
Providing data to support activity
Supporting the senior team with other activities as required
About You
You will be:
Able to empathise with those at risk of flooding
Able to prioritise and focus to increase impact and reach
Willing to travel extensively including evenings and occasional overnight stays
Flexible and organised
A team player with a solution focused mindset
This role requires extensive travel across London and the South to visit communities and our professional partners and will require regular travel outside of the locality for away days, meetings and training. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role including a full driving licence and access to a car.
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
When you click to apply, you will be able to see the full responsibilities and person specification for further information on the role.
Please submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.
About the Organisation
The National Flood Forum (NFF) is the only independent national charity dedicated to supporting and representing people at risk of flooding. Established in 2002 by those affected by flooding, we passionately put people at the heart of flood risk management. Our goal is to empower individuals and communities to recover from flooding and get the best possible outcomes. We put people first. We act as an honest, trustworthy and independent broker on behalf of flooded people.
We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of flooding.
You may also have experience in areas such as Community Engagement, Engagement Officer, Engagement Assistant, Community Engagement Lead, Community Engagement Coordinator.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We now have an opportunity for a Branch Administrator to assist in providing effective administration for the branch. This is a freelance role working with the Branch Chair, Treasurer and the other Trustees.
We are CPRE Leicestershire, the countryside charity. We want a thriving, beautiful countryside for everyone. We believe in countryside and green spaces that are accessible to all, rich in nature and playing a crucial role in responding to the climate emergency. We want developments which are well designed and provide the ‘Right Housing in the Right Places’ and put greater weight on the protection of out valuable countryside assets.
Duties involve:
- Dealing with the branch email account (via Google mail), including assessing content and forwarding to Trustees. Compiling acknowledgements for all emails received
- Agenda setting for Branch meetings in liaison with the Chair
- Collating and circulating papers for Branch meetings to all attendees
- Minuting Branch meetings then typing up minutes and sharing with Chair for approval (please note all meetings are currently held via Zoom)
- Regular contact with the Chair to discuss all Branch matters
- Other admin duties may include (although this is not an exhaustive list)
- Preparation of draft Annual Report
- Preparation for Annual General meeting
- Preparation of newsletter content
- Have a proficient understanding of how to create meetings via Zoom
- Understanding of DropBox (or similar storage system)
- Emailing information to members and contacts using blind copying
- Occasional venue booking (e.g. negotiating price, reviewing venue etc)
- Keeping all contact lists up to date
- Dealing with queries from National Office, members and members of the public
- Contact with other CPRE Branches within the UK
- Attend ad-hoc meetings and training sessions organised by National Office
- Contributing to the smooth running of the Branch
- Being an advocate for CPRE Leicestershire·
- Willingness to drive to occasional meetings held within Leicestershire
What we need from you: This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in a respected local countryside organisation by applying your administrative skills to make a real difference to a friendly and passionate group.Willingness to drive to occasional meetings held within Leicestershire
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £34,085.47 per annum (plus £5,023.71 London Weighting Allowance if applicable)
Location: Remote, office based or flexible working
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 per week
Closing date: Wednesday the 11th of September at 11:30pm
Are you an enthusiastic and innovative fundraiser looking to work at one of the UK’s leading charities on homelessness and housing? If you are and have a passion to help the housing emergency join Shelter as a Senior Direct Marketing Manager – Digital Acquisition where you can put your digital fundraising expertise and curious thinking to use in our Individual Giving team and strive to make a difference.
About the role
This Senior Direct Marketing Executive position is within our acquisition team which is a fast-paced, dynamic, supportive team who bring in new donors across the Individual Giving portfolio. You’ll work alongside the Senior Direct Marketing Manager (Digital Acquisition) to lead on the following things:
- Digital fundraising campaigns and projects
- Managing relationships with agencies
- Managing budgets
- Maximising income opportunities
- Staying ahead of sector trends and insight
- Monitoring the achievement of financial and non-financial targets
Your key areas will be developing and leading on delivering our multi-million-pound campaign at winter and across Shelter’s individual supporter channels, propositions and product. Your work will help to drive us closer to ending the housing emergency.
About you
You’ll bring digital expertise, an audience understanding and your creative flair to develop standout digital campaigns. With a constant curiosity for industry leading creative campaigns, you will inspire the team and share your knowledge and skills. You will build strong relationships with colleagues, agencies and suppliers. You must also be skilled at project managing multiple campaigns while maintaining a high level of drive and commitment.
You’ll have a key eye for detail and will be comfortable interpreting and analysing data to make decisions and be confident to take risks, run tests and ultimately push our fundraising to the next level.
This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team, for someone who is looking to excel in digital fundraising and marketing strategy and to deliver ambitious plans.
We are looking for candidates who have the following skills and knowledge listed below to apply for the role.
- Essential digital expertise: You have experience working in a fundraising and / or a marketing environment with a technical grasp of digital marketing and developing digital supporter / customer journeys and engagement, working across key digital platforms like Meta Business Suite, other social media platforms, Google Ads and Google Analytics.
- Direct marketing knowledge: You will have a solid understanding of best practice in marketing communications. You will have experience in drawing up digital marketing plans. You will be familiar with delivering marketing results in a customer focused environment such as fundraising and be able to manage and analyse marketing campaigns, as well as being able to digest complex data and extract key insights to inform strategies and campaigns and are able to comminate these effectively with the wider team.
- Effective communicator: An expert in communicating digitally, you are audience led and supporter / customer centric and will be dedicated to providing the best experience to Shelter supporters to reach acquisition and financial targets. You will have experience and be able to demonstrate your copywriting skills. You are a storyteller.
- Results-driven: You are an ideas person and are results-driven with a keen interest in the fundraising market. You are excited by the prospect of working in an innovative team to improve Shelter’s fundraising offerings.
- Prioritise diversity and inclusion: You will be excited to role model challenging internal and external stakeholders to encourage a more open and inclusive mindset and embed inclusion in product work.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
Our Individual Giving team sits within our successful, growing Income Generation directorate and consists of three programmes - Supporter Acquisition, Direct Dialogue and Supporter Retention and Development. Together, we deliver a diverse programme of work with ambitious income targets that support our organisational strategy, across cash, regular giving and lottery products. We’ve grown quite a bit over the past few years and benefitted from both investment and opportunity for innovation. That’s resulted in us generating over £20m of unrestricted income every year. We’re also welcoming and supportive, firmly believe in developing our people and can offer you every opportunity to progress.
How to apply
Please click ‘Apply for Job’ below. You are required to submit a CV and a supporting statement. Please provide specific examples of how you meet the criteria in the 'About you' section of this advert approximately 1 page in length, following the STAR format, and ensure you demonstrate how you address the following behaviours listed below throughout your responses:
- We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset
- We create change and align behind our strategy
Any applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
Safeguarding statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Elrha is a global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation.
As our new CEO, you will join us at an exciting time in our strategic evolution, providing overall strategic direction and operational responsibility.
Are you a visionary leader with a passion for tackling complex humanitarian challenges? Can you inspire and lead our teams with empathy and integrity, drive transformative change, and make a significant global impact through the delivery of our long-term strategy? Do you have the expertise to encourage leaders, peers and funders to address critical humanitarian challenges with evidence-based research and innovative solutions?
Join us at Elrha, and be at the forefront of addressing some of the world’s most challenging humanitarian problems through evidence-based research and innovative solutions, working collectively with global partners and stakeholders to drive forward thinking and initiatives that aim to tackle the most pressing humanitarian problems. You’ll be the strategist, innovator and thought leader to propel our mission forward.
We’re looking for someone who is:
- An experienced leader – proven dynamic leadership in humanitarian or international development, adept at steering organisations through change and fostering inclusive cultures.
- Experienced in the humanitarian sector – deep understanding of the international humanitarian system, policy drivers, and mechanisms for driving change through research and innovation.
- Able to create impactful partnerships and coalitions, emphasising collaborative and equitable relationships.
- Experienced with a proven track record in business development with demonstrated success in diversifying funding sources and securing long-term partnerships.
- Experienced in shaping organisational culture and aligning structures and systems with strategic goals with clear and transparent decision making.
- A strategic thinker and problem-solver, with skills in advocacy and convening.
We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups and from low-and middle-income countries.
Note for applicants:
- We will be able to offer visa sponsorship if the preferred candidate does not already have the right to work in the UK. Relocation assistance may also be available, subject to conditions.
- Please read through the full candidate information pack, the job description for a detailed list of requirements, and ensure you complete the personal statement to explain how you feel you meet the requirements of the role and why you feel this is next career move for you.
- When applying you will be taken through the Save the Children UK recruitment system. Elrha is an independent subsidiary of SCUK and benefits from some SCUK systems and processes.
Closing date: Monday 23 September 17:00 BST. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and our HR team may get in touch for further information or clarification.
Interview dates: 1st interview stage – 14 & 15 October (online) | 2nd interview stage – 28 October (in person in London). Shortlisted candidates will receive additional information at the appropriate time.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
We are working in partnership with Blind Veterans UK, a military charity, who provide veterans with rehabilitation, training, practical advice and emotional support. They help blind ex-Service people of every generation lead the life they choose, rebuilding lives after sight loss, away from isolation and towards a life of fulfilment.
The charity is in a period of transformation. Over the next two years they will be revising the organisational strategy and planning for a new future, so that they are able to deliver the best possible support to their existing and potential beneficiaries from a financially sustainable position. The Head of People & Culture will provide support and leadership to the HR partners and advisors and ensure fair and consistent delivery of the Charity’s HR service. This role will be a change agent, and strategic partner, contributing to, and leading business conversations.
The Head of People & Culture will play a key role in change management, employee relations, talent management, leadership development, and employee engagement initiatives.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate:
- Current, extensive knowledge of key HR processes and best practice.
- Experience of leading, motivating, and supporting HR teams.
- Relationship management, especially at managerial and stakeholder levels.
- Business management, including financial management and strategic planning.
- Comprehensive understanding of employment laws, including inclusion and diversity programmes.
- Comprehensive understanding of the charity sector, focus area and business trends.
- Demonstrable experience of applying the principles of coaching and/or mentoring.
We are seeking a motivational people manager with excellent influencing and negotiating skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, including active listening, and with the ability to take a logical and analytical approach to problem-solving.
For more information, please contact Katherine Anderson-Scott, Associate Director, Charisma Charity Recruitment. Your application should be submitted through the Charisma website and include your CV and supporting statement.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status*, or other category protected by law.
*Blind Veterans UK will interview any veterans who apply for this role.
Location: Homebased, with some travel
Closing date: Sunday 8th September 2024
Interviews with Blind Veterans UK will take place in London on Wednesday 18th September
Due to the urgent nature of the role, Charisma will be reviewing and conducting vetting interviews on a rolling basis in preparation for the interview day on 18th September. Please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
The successful candidate will need to be able to start the role at the end of September / early October. As such we are only able to progress candidates who have a 1 month or less notice period or availability.
Vision Rehabilitation Specialist
We’re looking for a qualified Vision Rehabilitation Specialist (ROVI) to work for an important charity offering a wide variety of services to vision-impaired people across Cheshire, Halton, and North Wales.
Position: Vision Rehabilitation Specialist (ROVI)
Location: Home based with regular travel across Wrexham, with the requirement to work from the Council Offices and company offices on occasion
Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £33,977.84 - £35,246.40 per annum
Closing date: 19th September 2024
Benefits of working for the organisation: Full 2 week induction where you will meet the teams and experience each service, access to a training suite and regular reviews of any required training, annual team building days and regular staff socials, 26 days’ holiday increasing to 32 days after 5 years’ services (plus bank holidays) and access to an employee assistance programme which includes free 24/7 counselling, legal and information line.
About the role:
As Vision Rehabilitation Specialist, you will identify, deliver and evaluate professional rehabilitation interventions to vision impaired people to enhance their skills and confidence to maximise their independence.
You will provide a person-centred outcome-focussed approach to rehabilitation; supporting people to identify measurable outcomes, carry out assessments and develop a plan that will support each person to achieve their outcomes and meet their needs, reducing risks and lessening the impact of their VI.
The Vision Rehabilitation Specialist will work collaboratively with other services within the organisation to ensure individuals are receiving support whilst waiting for assessment and rehabilitation.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Triage – To carry out an initial conversation, in line with the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act, to identify further actions, and risk factors, refer and signpost to the organisation’s wider services and other organisations to meet the individuals’ desired outcomes.
- Assessment - To undertake specialist VI assessments with the person to identify their needs and aspirations to promote independent living.
- Plan – To agree a plan with the person about how their needs can be met, through other services, equipment and rehabilitation.
- Rehabilitation and service provision – To implement, evaluate and review rehabilitative services to the vision-impaired person aimed at maximising and maintaining independence, safety, dignity, and choice. Rehabilitation may include, but not be restricted to:
- Daily Living Skills – to include the teaching of new skills or adapted practice for all aspects of daily living, home management, employment and leisure.
- Communication Skills – to include all forms of access to communication including but not limited to print, Braille, Moon, audio description, ICT, telephones, Deafblind manual and block alphabet.
- Mobility training – To develop planned programmes of training to develop independence in indoor and outdoor mobility environments, including training in guiding skills, pre-cane, long cane, orientation (including specialist equipment) and route planning techniques.
- Low vision - To provide training/therapy in coordination with local NHS low vision services that help individuals make the best use of functional vision.
- Risk –To identify, assess and mitigate risk throughout the rehabilitation provision.
- To work with vision-impaired people who have additional complex needs.
- To assess and recommend minor works of adaptation and liaise with all relevant parties in line with appropriate budgets and policies.
- To provide statistical information to feed into quarterly contract monitoring reports.
- To enable the Local Authority to maintain their Partially Sighted/Sight Impaired and Blind/Severely Sight Impaired Registers.
Key skills required for this role:
- Foundation Degree in Rehabilitation Studies (Visual Impairment) or equivalent.
- Ability to develop clear plans and communicate these to service users and other staff.
- Recognised rehabilitation work qualification (or currently working towards it)
- Proven experience in performing rehabilitation assessments with visually impaired people and providing mobility, communication and daily living skills training.
- Working knowledge of good practice relating to safeguarding.
- Ability to deliver training/advice sessions to individuals or groups of service users, carers and other organisations.
- Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, including lone worker policies.
- Ability to travel and work in all areas of Flintshire and Wrexham.
- Strong personal organisation/time management.
- Proven track record of maintaining and updating personal records for clients.
- Ability to record service management statistics.
- Be calm and deal sensitively with people and be open-minded to all cultures and ways of life.
- Work on own initiative, whilst exercising discretion and confidentiality.
- Be a team player.
- Be willing to work flexibly (outlook, work hours, work location).
- Able to implement programmes in partnership with other agencies.
About the organisation:
The employer is a well-established organisation with a strong history of promoting independence and support to people with vision impairments (VI). Offering a wide variety of services for vision-impaired people across Cheshire, Halton and North Wales, including counselling, digital skills, financial wellbeing and benefits advice, home visiting, community outreach, and peer support. These services complement rehabilitation to create a wraparound service for our clients.
The organisation delivers the vision rehabilitation contracts to four local authorities across Northeast Wales. The team are managed and led by qualified and experienced Vision Rehabilitation Specialists (VRS), ensuring the best support from people who understand the role. You would be a part of a wider team of VRSs, meeting regularly to share learning and to give and receive support.
The employer understands the importance for all their staff to receive additional training as needed and support from the wider sector, so RWPN registration and membership fees are covered for the VRS team by the organisation. The organisation is also represented in the Wales Rehabilitation Officers Forum (WROF) and the Wales Vision Forum, to ensure that we are up to date with any changes affecting VRS working in Wales. VRS are also able to meet with other VRS more widely than Wales through the organisation’s membership of Visionary.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
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These unique and rewarding freelance audit opportunities would suit experienced experienced audit professionals that are flexible, love diverse travel experiences, supporting worthwhile causes and inspiring people. AfID is recruiting on behalf of a leading specialist in international NGO grant audit services for development donors such as the UN and the World Bank. Assignments would suit experienced qualified audit professionals with grant audit / management experience, ideally in a not-for-profit/ international development context
Role overview.
Complete international grant expenditure audits for a diverse range of projects (grant recipients) funded by international donor institutions ranging from emergency aid, to long term development in areas such as agriculture, health or infrastructure or technical research. Assignments are 1-3 weeks in length and based across the European mainland and the developing world. These are offered on an assignment by assignment basis, one to two months in advance.
Contractors can be based outside the UK
Requirements
- Qualified ACA / ACCA or equivalent – 5+ years post qualified experience
- Grant management and audit and reporting experience with international institutions. Preference given to individuals that have worked on UN or EC grant assurance assignments
- Diplomacy and cultural sensitivity while working with a hugely diverse range of clients and beneficiaries
- A real interest in international development and associated funding structures
- Ideally but not essential fluency in a second language such as Spanish, German, French, Arabic & Portugese
- Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills in English.
- Resilience and adaptability
Personal attributes:
- At least 5-10+ years of relevant audit experience
- Ability to work under pressure; Strong planning, organisational and time management skills
- Sound technical and analytical skills, report writing and presentation skills
Passionate about international travel and development and willing to work in international locations. Individual must be prepared to travel to challenging locations when it is deemed safe to do so. Individuals must also be able to demonstrate effective past working practices when working remotely with a range of clients.
Fancy being our Head of Estates and Facilities?
We have an exciting new opportunity at Willowbrook Hospice in Prescot – an Independent Charity which operates a Specialist Palliative Care Unit for patients across Knowsley and St Helens – for someone to join our Senior Leadership Team as we look to recruit a new Head of Estates and Facilities. This is a key role in the 8 person-strong Senior Leadership Team, responsible for the strategic direction and operational management of the hospice estate, retail units and all patient-facing services. You will have full responsibility for key teams providing crucial services across Willowbrook, covering:
· Maintenance
· Catering
· Housekeeping
· Gardening
Role Description
This is a full-time role, 37.5 hours per week, mainly working Monday to Friday. Although the role is both strategic and operational, it includes being responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of all Willowbrook buildings and facilities, managing patient facing services in the Hospice building, managing budgets, line managing teams and handling procurement activities on a day-to-day basis. The post holder will develop a plan of work that continues to improve and enhance our patient services and facilities whilst ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and other relevant standards and best practice.
Required Qualifications
- Facility Management (FM) and Procurement skills and experience
- Analytical Skills and Budgeting expertise
- successful Line Management experience
- Strong understanding of healthcare facilities management
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Relevant qualifications in Health and Safety (NEBOSH)
- Knowledge of health and safety regulations
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.