Communications And Digital Manager Jobs in Stratford, Greater London
Location: currently Hammersmith, likely move to Farringdon autumn 2024
Turn2us is a national charity tackling poverty and the structural causes of poverty. We work with co-producers and partners to provide people in financial crisis with the means and agency to get back on their feet, build resilience, move forward with their lives and thrive.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we are committed to equality, inclusion and diversity and the value people from different backgrounds bring to a team. If like us you believe everyone has the right to have enough to live on, and you are ambitious about eradicating poverty, join us and build your career with a charity dedicated to ensuring dignity and equity for all.
This is a varied and interesting role working with the National Grants Team and colleagues across the Programmes & Partnerships Directorate. We awarded over £2.4m of grants in 2023-24, supporting individuals and families experiencing financial insecurity. This role is about helping the team to operate efficiently, use our resources effectively and facilitating opportunities so we can listen, learn and improve using the insights we gather from our data, partnerships and people with lived experience.
This role requires a proactive, organised, and collaborative person with good attention to detail. We’re looking for someone who is committed to supporting impactful grant-making processes and fostering strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. You’ll need to be great at managing a varied and busy workload, capable of working on your own initiative and as part of a team and feel comfortable working flexibly to manage different priorities and timeframes.
We offer flexible working patterns, both in terms of hours and remote working. Please note that all employees are required to work from the office a minimum of 4 days a month.
Some roles may be required to be in the office more often than others and this will be agreed with the hiring manager upon starting at Turn2us. This can be removed and is always something discussed at a later date.
Please note that all job offers are subject to 2 – 3 satisfactory references and a disclosure satisfactory to Turn2us from the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).
Closing date: 08 July 2024
1st Interview date: 18 & 19 July 2024
Training Development Manager
We are looking to recruit a Training Development Manager to join a mission-led organisation, supporting a friendly and dynamic training team.
This is a remote working role offering reduced hours.
Position: Training Development Manager
Location: Remote
Hours: Full or part-time, 30-35 hours a week
Salary: £42,230 per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
First interviews: 11th or 12th July (London)
Second interviews: 17th or 19th July ‘24 (via Teams)
About the Role
The Training Development Manager will join at an exciting time as the organisation seeks to expand its training portfolio, offering a wider range of courses to enhance practitioner’s skills, knowledge, and proficiency in utilising the Outcomes Star effectively and are especially keen for the role to lead on the creation of digital learning.
About You
You will have experience of developing and documenting training courses and experience in a customer-focused role. With proven ability to prioritise and coordinate competing work streams to manage implementation projects, you will have experience of liaising and building relationships with senior customers
You will have an understanding of the needs of individuals using services and of organisations providing them and experience of selling products or services and implementing eLearning, this may be designing in house or working alongside an external organisation to design and build eLearning.
You will be:
- An experienced trainer, preferably with training qualifications
- Able to learn quickly
- Adaptable and flexible; with the ability to work in the ever-changing context of a growing organisation
- Responsive to client needs, able to take initiative with a creative problem-solving approach
- An excellent communicator with good interpersonal skills; able to work effectively independently and as part of a small team collaborating well with colleagues
- Committed to delivering a good service to clients and helping them make a difference to the people they support
About the Organisation
This employee-owned values-based Social Enterprise, has a vision of a society in which people are enabled to thrive. As an employee-owned organisation all employees are engaged in the development of the business through a Trust Board, helping homelessness, health, and social care providers improve services by creating engaging visual tools and promoting collaborative ways of working.
What you can expect
- A purposeful, caring and inclusive team operating within an employee-owned trust
- An opportunity to grow and develop yourself through your work
- To be empowered to lead and self-manage with the support of a highly committed team around you
- Opportunities to be involved in projects outside the scope of your role, if you so wish
Benefits include:
- Laptop and mobile phone provided for work purposes
- Generous pension scheme, flexible working arrangements, cash health plan, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme
- 5 week’s annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time) & additional days at Christmas
- Flexible working options such as part-time, compressed hours and flexitime
- Paid volunteering time
- Opportunities for personal development
We strongly encourage candidates of diverse backgrounds and identities to apply. Each new employee is an opportunity to bring in a unique perspective and strengthen the team, and the organisation are always eager to further diversify.
You may have experience in areas such as Training, Training and Development, Learning, Learning and Development, Development, L&D, Training Manager, Training and Development Manager, Learning Manager, Learning and Development Manager, Development Manager, L&D Manager.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
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The Talent Set are delighted to be partnering with St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity on the recruitment of an Individual Giving Campaign Manager for their fast-expanding fundraising team, project managing their iconic BBC Radio 4 Christmas Appeal in the lead up to its 100th Anniversary in 2026.
What’s on offer:
Salary: £43-£48,000 per annum
Working Pattern: Hybrid working from their Bloomsbury office (Central London)
St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity exists so that everyone has a safe place to call home, providing emergency financial help that can transform a person’s circumstances within days. The Charity also funds a range of projects across the UK, providing innovative services within healthcare, legal advice and mental health support to facilitate a long-term transition out of homelessness. The Charity is at a pivotal stage in their development, building on the hugely successful BBC Radio 4 Appeal that will enter its 100th Anniversary in 2026, diversifying income streams to create year-round opportunities to donate. The BBC Radio Christmas appeal generates over £2M income for the Charity, providing a unique and long-standing opportunity to engage a diverse audience to the wonderful programmes that the Charity funds across the country. Key duties for this role include:
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Develop, deliver and evaluate inspiring, innovative and cost-effective Christmas Individual Giving activity, driving engagement and optimising long term value from cold and warm audiences.
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Ensure effective management of the annual BBC Radio 4 broadcast appeal, working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure opportunities to leverage engagement and net income are maximized across all relevant channels. These include broadcast, telephone, social media, paid search, SMS, email, inserts and mail.
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Deliver the Christmas activity as part of an integrated approach, working collaboratively with the BBC, creative and media agencies and colleagues across St Martin’s Charity including the Fundraising, Communications and Programmes teams.
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Work with the Leadership Giving Team to ensure high value giving opportunities arising out of the Christmas Appeal activity and Radio 4 Appeal Anniversary year are optimised.
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Work collaboratively to optimise contactability across Christmas campaign activity, developing a seamless supporter journey that encourages regular giving and increases lifetime value.
We’re looking for the following skills & experience:
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Demonstrable experience of project management across a range of direct marketing channels including print & digital.
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A strong track record of campaign planning, including ideation, proposition development, campaign execution and channel optimisation.
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Experience of sourcing compelling content for utilisation across both online and offline channels.
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Experience of working with creative, print, digital and media agencies, collaborating with them to get the best results.
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Experience of using social media to target, communicate with and engage
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Planning and budgeting experience in an individual giving context.
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Experience of managing broadcast appeals, especially radio appeals is highly desirable.
If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to end homelessness in the UK, then we would love to hear from you! To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
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Closing Date: 14 July 2024
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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative individual with leadership qualities and organising experience to join us as our Campaigns Manager for Communities where you will work with a variety of volunteers and community organisers to make change for children in the UK and across the world.
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About the role
As Campaigns Manager for Communities, you will ensure that our campaigners around the UK have a meaningful experience with Save the Children UK, building localised campaigns and networks for realising children's rights. You will lead the development and implementation of projects that deliver our strategic objectives, working collaboratively with a variety of colleagues to do so. You will be a strong leader and manage a small team of campaigners working across our key strategic focus areas.
The projects you will work on will be varied. From supporting our network of climate campaigners, to working with parents in poverty and diaspora communities working for peace. Your role will focus on building up in our community organising across the breath of our work.
In this role, you will:
- Lead Save the Children UK's campaign strategy to engage and build our communities and organising work.
- Lead the development and implementation of campaigning and organising projects that are engaging, impactful and deliver our strategic objectives.
- Work closely with mission colleagues to ensure that their work represents campaigning and organising best practice and innovation, and with Fundraising & Marketing colleagues to deliver our Supporter Engagement strategy.
- Ensure the direct reports are given clear direction, strong performance management, support, feedback and development opportunities.
- Responsible for providing coherent and meaningful experience for our supporters across the missions and other areas of SCUK's work.
- Lead a community of practice in the team that keeps abreast of best practice and external trends and innovates to maximise impact for children.
About you
To be successful, it is important that you have:
- Experience of leading development and delivery of impactful campaign strategies, with knowledge and understanding of a range of campaigning and organising tactics, and a track record of success.
- Excellent understanding and experience of mobilising public audiences to affect policy change.
- In-depth knowledge of and experience of working with a wide range of campaigning and organising techniques and tactics and across diverse digital campaigning platforms.
- Knowledge of working with civil society actors to deliver change and ability to effectively manage and work within networks and coalitions.
- Line management capabilities including the ability to delegate and prioritise for self and others, planning and goal setting, motivational and strong communication skills.
- Delegation experience and ability to identify areas of interest and skills across a team.
- Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.
What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
- We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
- We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
Closing date: midnight Sunday 14th July
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
Fundraising Manager
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Fundraising Manager to become a vital part of a small, friendly and ambitious fundraising team.
Position: Fundraising Manager
Location: Hybrid working – primarily homebased with occasional travel to Maidenhead
Salary: £34,978 per annum
Contract: Full time, permanent
About the role:
The fundraising team raise approximately £400K annually and aspiring to grow by over half a million by 2025. You will be responsible for leading and growing income via the charities Corporate Partnerships and Sporting Challenges. The ideal candidate will have high-level experience in corporate fundraising.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide excellent account management to some of the charities existing and new corporate relationships.
- Carry out effective prospect research.
- Engage companies in our sporting challenges.
- Nurture effective relationships with corporate partners to achieve the best outcomes for the charity.
- Manage and grow the charities portfolio of challenge events to maximise income from this fundraising stream to achieve and exceed set income and expenditure targets, offering opportunities for engagement, and fundraising across the calendar year.
- Plan and deliver the marketing and recruitment of a range of events, including the London Marathon and other major running, hiking, cycling, swimming, skydiving and ultra-challenges.
- Coordinate and create content for the Fundraising Team communications via social media and digital communications to increase engagement from supporters.
- Create and manage annual budget lines to ensure income and expenditure meet set financial targets to maximise a return on investment.
- Monitor and report on income and expenditure for the relevant budget lines.
- Actively participate in team meetings.
- Attend key fundraising events and annual conference.
About you:
To be successful in this role you will have:
- A proven track record of successfully managing a charity’s corporate partnerships and sporting challenges.
- Good knowledge of the principals of customer service/supporter care and donor development.
- Sound knowledge of GDPR and the impact on fundraising in terms of on-going consent and deletions of donors.
- Significant experience of working within a charity in a similar fundraising role.
- Experience of developing new fundraising products and building a programme of engagement to grow fundraising income.
- Experience of managing events, preferably sporting challenge events.
- Excellent digital skills with experience of using a variety of online platforms, including website editing, image re-sizing, social media, and e-news content creation.
- Experience of using a CRM database to maintain data accurately, and an understanding of how to extract and evaluate information.
- Strong presentation, negotiation and influencing skills with a creative and entrepreneurial outlook.
- Strong project management skills.
- Excellent MS Office skills in the use of email, Word and Excel and PowerPoint.
- Use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter including knowledge of a content management system for updating websites and images.
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Fundraising, Corporate Fundraiser, Fundraising Manager, Regional Fundraising Manager, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Corporate Fundraiser, Events Fundraiser, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Major Donor Fundraiser, Challenge Events, Events Fundraising, Sporting Events Fundraising, Individual Giving, Donor Fundraiser, Corporate Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Executive, Donor Partnerships etc.
Join our team as a Senior Campaigns Adviser (Digital) and lead the production of our campaigning communications and actions, with particular focus on impactful digital campaigns. You'll be at the forefront of driving positive change for people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) by helping our supporters to influence politicians and decision makers.
In this role, you will work with the National Campaigns Manager to plan, develop, deliver, and evaluate our digital campaigns across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Your innovative approach will help grow our base of digital supporters and create engaging online and offline campaigning tools.
Working closely with our Policy and Campaigns team, you'll ensure our campaigns are backed by solid evidence and clear policy objectives. You will manage our social media channels, creating original content that resonates with our audience, and ensuring our campaigns are consistently engaging and effective.
Collaboration is key in this role as you will work with various teams within the organisation.
We are looking for a proactive and dedicated individual who is passionate about making a difference. If you have a strong background in digital campaigning and are ready to take on a leadership role, we would love to hear from you.
Apply now to join us in creating positive change for those living with and affected by MND.
Hybrid Working Expectations: up to 2 days per week office attendance (Flexibility to attend the office more regularly on occasion may be required to meet business needs.)
What are we looking for?
A dedicated professional with a good understanding of health, social services, and welfare. You will have a good understanding of political decision-making processes at both national and local levels.
With experience in a campaigns environment in the third or public sector, you will have a proven track record in developing, planning, and delivering successful campaigns, with expertise in creating campaign materials and using e-campaigning software like Engaging Networks.
As a successful candidate, you will be outcome-focused, with strong reporting and negotiating skills. You should be able to manage your workload effectively and demonstrate good IT skills including experience with Microsoft Office.
A willingness to work flexibly, including some evenings and weekends, is required. Regular travel within the UK, including overnight stays, is also necessary.
For full role responsibilities please view the job description located within the Candidate Pack.
Our Benefits
- 28 days holiday, rising to 33 days after 5 years' service, plus Bank Holidays
- Access to UK Healthcare which includes reimbursement for dental appointments, eyecare, Health & Wellbeing screening and therapies
- Access to a 24/7 phone and video GP Service
- Life assurance
- Confidential counselling helplines
- Salary sacrifice schemes to include: Cycle to work & Buy and sell annual leave
- BenefitHub which offers lifestyle discounts and offers on everyday shopping
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Opportunities for training and personal development
- Hybrid working
How to apply
Please submit a CV and supporting statement. Your supporting statement should be no longer than one side of A4 and demonstrate how you meet the following areas of the role.
- Expertise in developing, planning and delivering campaigns to successfully bring about change.
- A good understanding of political decision-making processes nationally and locally.
- Excellent verbal, writing, presentation, organisational and administrative skills.
Where experience is asked for, please give one example showing what you did and what it achieved. Where we require evidence of ability, please explain either how you would approach that particular competence or give an example to support your suitability.
Alternative Applications
To provide an inclusive application process for all our opportunities, we are open to receiving alternative applications from candidates who may find it difficult to complete our online form.
About Us
Our vision is a world free from MND. Our mission is to improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments and brings us closer to a cure for MND. The Association also campaigns and raises awareness so the needs of people with MND, and everyone who cares for them, are recognised, and addressed by wider society.
We are committed to equality and value diversity. We are working hard to remove perceived and actual barriers to participation for people with and affected by MND, current and future staff, volunteers, and stakeholders.
We guarantee interviews for disabled applicants that meet the requirements of the role as part of our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme. Reasonable adjustments can be made as required.
Important Information
Adverts may be closed before the deadline once sufficient applications are received. To avoid disappointment, please apply early.
We request that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Prospectus is excited to being working with UK Youth in their search for an IT Manager, who will manage the day-to-day IT operations of the charity. This is a full time, permanent position, based in London (Hybrid).
UK Youth is a leading charity with a vision that all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment into the youth sector, the lack of cross sector understanding of how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions.
Reporting to the Head of Operational Improvement, the IT Manager will ensure the smooth and effective management of day-to-day IT operations, including operational management of all IT systems and their maintenance, governance, digital and data security, and procurement. The post holder will act as the first line of IT support, managing the service desk function of the IT team, ensuring an effective service for users across the charity. Finally, the IT Manager will manage and monitor IT data protection, ensuring GDPR is up kept throughout the organisation.
To be successful, you will have demonstrable experience in IT operational management, with experience resolving IT challenges. You will have strong technical knowledge in both software and hardware, including Microsoft 365, Cyber Essentials etc. You will have demonstrable interpersonal and communication skills, with an ability to build rapport and relationships with stakeholders across all levels of the organisations. Finally, you will have an understanding and an appreciation of the work that UK Youth do, with empathy with the needs of young people.
As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.
The hiring managers are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, please initially submit a CV to learn more, and ensure you don’t miss out.
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As a Senior Innovation and Product Development Manager, you will lead on new fundraising product development at the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
We have ambitious growth plans for innovation and product development at BHF, and this is an incredible opportunity for those who want to apply their talent, skills, and determination to change the future of innovation at the one of the UK’s largest charities.
In this role, you’ll develop and deliver a programme of fundraising innovation that, when successful, will accelerate, recalibrate, and challenge our Fundraising, Marketing and Communications strategy. Your pipeline will be focused on sustainable, short-term income growth by launching fundraising products and propositions that reach new audiences and generate new revenue for the charity.
Taking ideas from customer insight, through ideation, prototyping and launch to help significantly grow income and support our mission-led directorates. You’ll engage with and support senior level stakeholders to develop new product concepts, business models and product development strategies.
This role will line manage two Innovation Managers.
Working arrangements
Please note this is a fixed term contract until April 2025, covering family leave.
This is a dual location role, with your working time split between your home and our London Office.
At the BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.
About you
As our ideal candidate, you have strong experience designing and developing new product concepts and propositions in the charity sector, managing them through discovery and prototyping, and delivering fundraising products to consumers against commercial performance indicators.
With excellent project management, communication, and organisational skills, you have experience of leading innovation cycles, agile sprint and ideation sessions, a working knowledge of agile digital delivery processes and practice, and a track record of launching brand new concepts, campaigns, and products.
A proactive, ambitious, and resilient individual who can do things differently and take risks, you have experience leading a team and working in a fast-paced, multi-workstream, commercial orientated environment.
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We’re recruiting for a Fundraising Project Lead to join Samaritans. You’ll work in a small & friendly team to lead and deliver a programme of virtual fundraising challenges and with plans to grow our current virtual flagship event to include an in-person element. You’ll lead a ‘best in class’ stewardship programme, with engaging content and communications that support participants to maximise their fundraising and build lasting relationships with Samaritans.
You’ll have previous event management or community fundraising experience, within the charity sector. You’ll have experience of managing moderating an online community and excellent project management and written communication skills.
This is a fun and varied role. We’re looking for a creative individual with a growth mindset, who thinks outside the box, brings new ideas to our event portfolio and can tailor their creativity to suit different audiences/groups. We want our events to stand out in a crowded marketplace so we are looking to think differently about how we deliver our events and provide best-in-class supporter stewardship and a great supporter experience.
We are an insight and data-led team with lots of opportunities to attend networking groups, events, webinars and build relationships with people in our sector.
• Permanent contract
• Full time hours (35 per week)
• £35,000-£37,000 per annum
• Hybrid working – This role is ‘linked’ to our central office (Ewell, Surrey), with a mix of home working and office working
• We are passionate about flexible working, talk to us about your preferences
This role will deliver exceptional supporter experiences that build a sense of community and maximise supporter's potential to raise money and awareness for Samaritans, from an annual programme of mass participation fundraising challenges.
Over the past five years we’ve taken a test and learn approach to product development, significantly growing our income, and with exciting plans in 2024/25 this is set to continue. We are aspirational for Samaritans, striving to deliver the best supporter experiences for our passionate and dedicated supporters. We’re also a supportive team, there for each other, seeking out insights and developing our skills. We look forward to finding out more about you.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join us in our life saving mission at Samaritans.
The Person
We are looking for a people person with the ability to lead, develop and support large groups of fundraisers. You’ll have exceptional project and time management skills. You’ll need to be an excellent communicator, be adaptable to changing priorities and have a good understanding of online communities and digital fundraising. You’ll have experience of working with charity supporters in a fundraising environment and an understanding of databases and processes.
If you’re looking for a new opportunity or a chance to learn new skills in a fast-paced fundraising environment, please consider applying. A full outline of the opportunity and what you’ll need to bring to the team is provided in the Job Description here.
What’s in it for you – our benefits
So, you want to work for us? Good choice. We like it here too. We offer competitive salaries, flexible and hybrid working to suit your needs, family-friendly policies, 28 days annual leave inclusive of wellbeing days and a matched pension contribution up to 5%. You’ll have a structured induction and ongoing projects, secondments & learning opportunities. We also have colleague-led affinity groups made up of people with shared identities.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority. We have a staff community of Mental Health First Aiders, a Health Cash Plan and an Employee Assistance Programme. You’ll have free subscriptions to Headspace (your personal guide to mindfulness, sleep, focus, movement, and more) & Perkbox (an employee benefits platform with online exercise classes). That’s not all. We listen to your ideas and have staff forum and social committee networks.
Hybrid and flexible working
We are a flexible organisation, and we embrace hybrid working – a mix of connecting in person and remotely. We’re aware that the world is changing, and we all want and need different things from our work and home lives. So, if you need to walk the dog, go to the gym, pick up children or have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.
Being Inclusive
We recognise the enormous benefits and the social justice imperatives of ensuring diversity at every level of our organisation. Samaritans is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person they are. To ensure Samaritans is representative of those we support and who support us, we particularly welcome applications from Disabled, BAME and LGBTQ+ candidates, as these people are under-represented at Samaritans.
Application
If this role sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply. You’ll be asked to upload your CV and provide a cover letter (2 pages maximum) tailored around your motivations for applying and your skills and experience in relation to the job.
This role will close for applications at 9 am on 8 July, with interviews scheduled to take place on w/c 15 July.
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Sophie Hayes Foundation is a dynamic charity, focused on supporting survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking rebuild their lives and achieve sustainable freedom by providing invaluable training, coaching, work experience and advocacy across the UK.
We are seeking a Head of Fundraising & Engagement to provide vision, leadership and hands on delivery for income generation and communications to inspire and empower a small team and drive growth in the charity’s income, communications and campaigns.
Bringing proven experience in successfully developing and implementing fundraising and communication strategies, you will be an expert in building relationships with partners and donors and have a track record of delivering voluntary income growth.
Today there is greater need than ever before for survivors of modern slavery to be supported to rebuild their lives and remain free. If you are passionate about seeing this happen, we’d love to hear from you.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants is looking for a committed and motivated Head of Operations (Digital). Do you want to utilise your skills to help refugees and asylum seekers in London? Have you got excellent people skills and a welcoming and supportive nature? Do you have excellent digital and technical skills required to run our online school? If so, this exciting opportunity could be for you. Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants has been helping to integrate refugees since 1997. We engage with our clients each day and are currently working online and in person. We operate online and from the Centre’s premises in Islington. We create a community, teach English, provide a support service and a therapeutic and creative space with arts activities and sports that help people who have suffered trauma. The Centre has strengthened its funding base and broadened its income streams over the last three years. We are looking for a suitable candidate to work with our team to ensure our operations and online and digital inclusion programmes run smoothly. In addition to online and digital skills, the role requires someone who is resilient, professional, self motivated with a strong work ethic and determination, attention to detail, the ability to make decisions and strong empathy for the clients we work with. If you’d like to apply, please download the job description and person specification and Application Form and complete and upload to Charity Job.
Please note we CANNOT accept applications without a completed Application Form.
Closing date: Thursday 4th July 2024
Interviews: Tuesday 9th July 2024
Our mission is to offer people the emotional support, practical tools and sense of community they need to be happy and have a decent quality of life.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Executive Assistant to CEO
Salary Banding: £32,000 - £35,000 per annum FTE
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37 Hours Per Week OR Part Time 30 hours over 4 days
Location: Hybrid (up to 2 days WFH) / Hatfield
Herts Young Homeless is an independent charity and has been supporting vulnerable people in Hertfordshire since 1998. We are a big-hearted, open and expert team that seeks to break the cycle of youth homelessness through education, advice and support.
What can we offer you?
- A supportive, passionate and inclusive environment.
- 25 days annual leave per annum (in addition to Bank Holidays & Public Holidays) (increases with LOS)
- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- People's Pension Plan contribution
- Group Life Insurance plan 4 x salary
- Opportunities for personal and career development
- Hybrid working - option to work from home up to 2 days per week
- An additional annual leave day on your Birthday
- Monthly draws to win ‘lunch on your manager’ or ‘leave work early’
- Medicash & Employee Assistance Programme - support with wellbeing & personal struggles/ Heath Cash Back Scheme.
Job Purpose
This is a critical role, sitting at the heart of hyh, the purpose of which is to provide high quality administrative support to the CEO, coordinate and administer the leadership and governance of the organisation and oversee the smooth running of the office.
Administration and Support for the CEO
- Be a step ahead at all times in providing executive support to the CEO including: diary organisation, making appointments, responding to invitations, dealing with correspondence, and liaising with external partners and arranging travel.
- Conduct research, prepare papers and briefings, produce PowerPoint presentations.
- Project support for organisation wide projects.
Leadership and governance support
- Plan and coordinate the efficient running of leadership and governance meeting cycles, including scheduling meetings, booking venues, circulating documents, collating reports, minute taking, maintaining action logs, arranging refreshments etc. This includes the Board of Trustees and two sub-committees (Governance and Finance), Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Leadership Team (LT).
- Provide high level admin support to other members of the SLT as required (Head of Services, Head of Fundraising & Communications, Finance Manager).
- Coordination and administration of internal staff meetings and communications, including monthly Team Briefings and bi-annual Organisation Days.
- Provide on-going support to Trustees, including responsibility for their induction and on-going training
- Maintain and update trustee records and registers, including Charity Commission and Companies House registrations.
- Manage our policies and procedures and oversee the annual cycle of policy reviews.
Office management
- Oversee the smooth and efficient running of the office, ensuring that it is a great working environment for staff where supplies never run out, the office is clean and tidy, and all staff have the furniture and equipment they need.
- Coordinate a small team of office/admin volunteers to provide excellent support to the wider hyh team.
- Build and maintain service and supplier contracts and relationships, including our landlord, telephones, broadband, lone working devices, phones, printers and cleaning.
- Be the main contact for our IT managed services provider and act as the internal contact point for any IT queries.
Organisational support
- Support the SLT with our day to day health and safety compliance including administering Health and Safety Committee meetings, carrying out workstation assessments and conducting regular H&S checks and annual PAT testing.
- Support the SLT with our data protection including administering GDPR Committee meetings, managing the relationship with our external Data Protection consultant and acting as the internal point of contact.
- Provide staff induction and on-boarding in relation to the office, IT and equipment.
Skills and experience:
- Significant experience as a senior Executive Assistant at CEO level.
- Significant levels of office management experience.
- Strong administrative background, ideally with experience working in the non-profit sector but not essential
- Experience managing and overseeing contracts, ensuring the service providers are excellent value for money.
- Experience acting as secretariat to boards of trustees or similar governance bodies.
- Experience managing people in paid or voluntary roles.
- Excellent communicator in formal and informal communications, both verbally and in writing, to all stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport and communicate sensitively
- Target-focused and results-driven with highly effective time management and exemplary prioritisation and planning skills.
- Accuracy and meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to think creatively and solve problems smartly.
- Positive with a “can do”, solution focused attitude.
- Self-motivated and ability to work on own initiative, independently, without direct supervision.
- A strong completer-finisher.
Full Job Description available attached to Job Advert.
If you are open, big hearted, passionate, conscientious and take pride in doing a job well, then we would love to hear from you!
Please apply via the link on the vacancy found on our website submitting a cover letter telling us about how your skills align with the role and attach your CV .
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application and/or the interview stage please let us know and we will be happy to help and support where practical.
Recruitment Process will consist of a face to face interview and if successful we will conduct a personal interview as second stage. The details of this will be explained should application be progressed to next stage.
Closing Date: 10.00 am 8th July 2024
Interviews are expected to be arranged for week commencing 15th July 2024
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We treat everyone with equal dignity and respect, and promote equality, diversity and inclusion for all and challenge any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any person on the grounds of race, colour, sex, marital status, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or any other perceived difference.
hyh strives to be an equal opportunities and inclusive employer and encourages and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Our promise to you
Herts Young Homeless promises to act with the upmost integrity and respect when it comes to handling your data and will not share your details with any other client without 1) discussing the opportunity with you first and 2) without your verbal or written consent for us to do so.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
FUNDRAISING ENGAGEMENT MANAGER - NORTH WEST ENGLAND
Location: Home Based (within the North-West region)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours per week: 35
Salary: £30,753 (FTE)
Closing Date - Sunday 7th July
Informal Phone Calls - Wednesday 10th July
Interview Date - Wednesday 17th July
Do you want to join our commitment to ensure no family faces cancer alone?
We are looking for a standout relationship manager to join our fantastic team of fundraisers who work tirelessly to raise funds for Young Lives vs Cancer. This is a role of variety, opportunity and innovation and we are looking for someone who embraces change and constantly strives to achieve more.
A great personality and team ethic are really important in this role as you will maximise income for Young Live vs Cancer by coaching our supporters to reach their goals, whilst seeking out new fundraising opportunities for your geographical area. This role sits within the ‘Regional Engagement’ team and we need someone with natural customer service skills who wants to deliver a legendary experience to all of their supporters. Your team of supporters will range from volunteers and individuals, to groups and local corporates.
The North West region (made up of Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside & Greater Manchester) is filled with some of our most committed supporters and there is so much opportunity to grow our supporter base across the region. Our Social Workers and Manchester Home from Home support families from across the region and beyond, and building relationships with this team is a must.
We are not your average employer, nor are we looking for an average candidate in a 9-5 role. What we offer is the flexibility and adaptivity to ensure that your personal work/life balance is taken care of. Whether it is finishing early for an appointment, picking up from school or further education, we can help to make it work for you. Many of the team work condensed or flexible hours to suit their individual circumstance so we would love to discuss your needs more at interview.
Experience within a similar role, or within the charity sector, would be great but we know that a lot of the most important skills in this role are easily transferable from another sector. We want the right person and we will invest in training the right candidate. The skills we are looking for in this role are:
- Master at storytelling
- Epic at relationship building
- Strong prioritisation skills
- Great communicator
- Self-Motivated
- Self-Aware
- Great at spotting opportunities
- Influencing/Negotiating
- Compassion
- Bravery
- Integrity
- Team player
The must haves:
- Have a full UK driving licence and access to a car (including business insurance)
- Have a sufficient Broadband connection if home based
- Live in the North West region (Lancashire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside). Candidates who live outside of the region should highlight an intention to relocate to the area in their covering letter for their application to be considered
- This role is subject to a Criminal Record Check. In the event of a successful application a Disclosure report will be sought at a basic level.
Diversity declaration
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we recognise that opportunities for too many people remain a condition of their race, class, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation or a combination. This has never been acceptable to us as an organisation.
We are committed to taking anti-oppressive action and removing barriers in our recruitment practices. We particularly welcome applications from members of minoritised communities and creating equitable opportunities for all. We are passionately committed to taking actions and making changes to be a truly diverse, inclusive and equitable organisation, as well as reflective of the diverse children and young people we support. Click here to find out more about our Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging strategy.
Accessibility
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible. Please get in touch with us if you would like to discuss any specific requirements.
What we offer
Every quarter we offer a wellbeing and development day where no meetings are held. It’s a day for everyone to spend time on whatever supports their own personal wellbeing and professional development whether that’s catching up with training, life admin, exercise or reading. There is no prescription to these days as we know everyone is unique.
You may have experience of the following: Relationship Development Manager, Regional Fundraising Coordinator, Community Engagement Specialist, Philanthropy Relationship Manager, Fundraising Partnership Manager, Regional Supporter Engagement Officer, Community Fundraising Coordinator, Donor Relationship Manager, Regional Development Officer, Supporter Experience Manager, etc.
REF-214 986
Actively Interviewing
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!
The Talent Set are delighted to be working with Parkinson’s UK to find their new Celebrity Lead.
Parkinson’s UK offer hybrid working a minimum of 2 days per week from their London office.
In this role, you take responsibility for developing new and existing relationships with our celebrity supporters and their agents, stewarding their journey with the charity and making them strong and dedicated advocates across our strategic priorities. You’ll bring creative and proactive ideas ensuring we’re prioritising requests to maximise the potential of our high profile supporters.
Key Responsibilities:
· Implement and own our celebrity strategy and individual stewardship plans to support this, resulting in highly committed and engaged high profile supporters.
· Lead on outreach and negotiation with new, potential supporters for charity activities.
· Manage and prioritise requests for VIP support from across the charity ensuring that they are aligned with our strategic aims.
· Be the first point of contact for celebrities looking for support, signposting them within the charity or acting as intermediary for confidential requests.
· Take responsibility for the management and development of the Celebrity Officer.
· Work with colleagues across the charity to maximise our celebrity supporters across all communications channels, highlighting new opportunities as they arise.
· Make sure that our celebrity supporters are well briefed and up to date with key messages.
· Ensure that our celebrity activity is tracked, reported and evaluated to show the value they bring to the charity.
Person Specification:
· Extensive experience of working strategically with celebrities and their management teams.
· Creative and proactive approach to celebrity engagement and ongoing stewardship.
· Negotiation and persuasion skills to ensure that high profile supporters understand why we’re the Parkinson’s charity to support.
· The ability to build and maintain relationships with discretion and sensitivity.
· Understanding and awareness of the GDPR when handling personal data and information.
· Working understanding of PR and social media to amplify opportunities.
· Excellent attention to detail, organisational and communication skills.
· Ability to prioritise your workload and support your team members to do the same in line with organisational priorities.
· Experience of operating in a modern digital workplace, including using digital tools (and what is needed from the role) to work collaboratively and productively.
To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
EDI Manager (External)
UK-Wide
£41,738 per annum (pro rata for part time hours)
(Ref: SUS4279)
From 22.5 – 37.5 hours per week – happy to talk flexible working
Contract – 1 year Maternity cover
Base: Home based, with option of hybrid working.
About the role
We have a new and exciting opportunity to work with us as an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Manager (External) to provide continuity while our EDI Strategy Lead is on maternity leave. Reporting to the Executive Director, Impact and working with key stakeholders and colleagues across the whole organisation, you will help ensure alignment between our external For Everyone Strategic Framework and our new organisational strategy. As a charity for everyone, this framework outlines our approach to embedding equity, diversity and inclusion internally within our organisation and externally in our delivery work.
As the EDI Manager (External) you will be supporting the Senior Leadership Team to deliver core actions from the For Everyone External Action Plan. You will also be responsible for reporting and evaluating progress on the implementation of the For Everyone External Action Plan.
You will be overseeing the consistent implementation of Sustrans Approaches, a new document that sets out the services that Sustrans offers, with a particular focus on inclusive design and delivery. As part of this, you will be providing guidance, training and bespoke support to colleagues, so that they feel confident and competent in inclusive design principles and practice.
Ensuring quality and timely execution, you will be managing specific EDI work projects and change initiatives, as outlined in the External Action Plan and/or Sustrans Approaches. This includes coordinating colleagues across UK-wide teams to share knowledge, resources and good practice on embedding equity, diversity and inclusion across our external projects.
This role will be home-based, with the option of hybrid working. Occasional travel to our hubs across the UK will be required as necessary to undertake projects on behalf of Sustrans.
About you
You should share our passion for making active travel more equitable and inclusive.
You should have previous experience of managing and implementing EDI related initiatives in engagement, infrastructure and/or urban planning projects, including supporting colleagues to embed EDI in their work.
You will be skilled in inclusive design principles in the delivery of engagement, infrastructure and/or urban planning projects, including training others to apply inclusive design principles in project delivery.
You should have successful project management experience, with excellent time management and organisational skills. You will also be accustomed to multitasking to tight deadlines.
You will demonstrate a strong ability to interpret, analyse and present qualitative and quantitative data and use it to evaluate the impact of projects or initiatives.
As an excellent communicator, you will have the ability to build relationships with ease across a wide range of people.
Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone - reducing inequality, valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups.
What we offer
In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment.
Wellbeing
- 28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working
- Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)
- Staff volunteer days
- 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service
- We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes
Financial
- Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans
- Bike, computer and season ticket loans
- Discount benefits
- London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32 local authority districts plus the City of London)
- Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary
Family Friendly
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday)
Additional information
- Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 23:59, 30 June 2024
- Interviews will take place in via MS Teams on the 11th or 12th of July 2024
About Sustrans
At Sustrans you'll be part of a movement to make it easier for people to walk and cycle.
We're all here to change things! You’ll be part of an incredible community of talented, passionate, creative, problem solvers all working together to change things for the better. We act locally and think big - we have a vision of a society where the way we travel creates healthier places and happier lives for everyone.
You'll be questioning the status quo and daring to imagine a different world. You'll work on exciting, impactful projects that will stretch and empower you and you'll be rewarded by seeing the difference you make to people, communities and the planet.
We believe including everyone is central to who we are and what we want to achieve, we welcome difference and pride ourselves on creating a culture where you can be yourself and where your wellness is supported.
You'll be guaranteed to make friends for life and work with a team that is incredibly flexible, supportive, ethical and fun.