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Working with World Land Trust 

WLT is based in the UK and is unique within the conservation world. Reaching its 35th year of operation, the Trust has grown from small beginnings saving critically threatened forest in Belize, to becoming an internationally respected conservation organisation with a proven track record, working with more than 52 overseas conservation NGOs on protection of threatened habitats. WLT has developed its modus operandi without losing its vision, integrity and transparency.

Who we’re looking for

Sadly, we’re saying goodbye to our current Creative Officer who is leaving us to travel overseas but that means there’s an opportunity for an equally talented individual to step into their shoes!

Our Creative Officer has a key role in WLT’s Communications Team, developing creative concepts for various projects across multiple platforms to inspire and engage supporters. Working alongside our Copywriters and Marketing team, the Creative Officer will produce inspiring artworks for digital and print projects, which are vibrant, creative and impactful.

If you’re creative, have a qualification in graphic design or illustration, relevant work experience and excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, we’d love to hear from you. This role requires someone full of original ideas who has a collaborative approach but also the ability to work independently, meet tight deadlines, and work on multiple projects simultaneously. As a conservation fundraising charity, we feel that an empathy and understanding of our mission and Values is important too.

We build flexibility into the way we work from day one, encouraging early conversations around options for hybrid working to enable remote connection and collaboration alongside some face-to-face working, and our 9-day fortnight working pattern is popular, supporting our staff to maintain a health work-life balance. 

We recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce, bringing new perspectives and different experiences into the workplace. Our aim is to be an inclusive employer, providing a welcoming and supportive environment for all staff, where staff can be the best they can be. We recognise that we are underrepresented in some groups, so welcome and encourage applications from minority ethnicities, those with disabilities, and all gender identities. What’s important to us in this process is your skills, knowledge and experience to enable you to do the job and that is where our focus will be to find our next new team member! 

Applications 

For the full application pack including job description, person specification, our terms and conditions and how to apply, please follow the link to our website.  

Closing date: 9am on Monday 25 November 2024. Interviews are expected to be held on Tuesday 3rd and Friday 6th December 2024.  Please note that the closing date given is a guide.  We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications

Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century?  As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as everyday health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives.

 Supporting the Direct Marketing Manager in delivering growth in income through St John Ambulance’s direct marketing Retention programme via a range of campaigns. You will focus on supporting the Retention strategy which includes using data and insight to deliver across a variety of channels including digital, email, social media, direct mail, telemarketing and SMS.

You will either be able to work in a hybrid way working between home and 2 days per week at our London office or remotely working from home with a requirement to attend our London office for a team anchor day once a month

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. The role benefits from a competitive salary, generous pension, hybrid, flexible working, 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, free first/mental aid first aider courses, Blue Light and NHS online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, flu jab, eye care, mental health and wellbeing tools and volunteering days. 

About You:

Having worked in a third sector direct marketing role previously, you will have experience running effective national and regional campaigns using a variety of fundraising channels including digital, email, social media, direct mail, and telemarketing. With your good organisational and time management skills you’ll be able to meet deadlines and manage conflicting priorities under pressure. 

You will have knowledge of usability testing, user research methods and conversion rate optimisation as well as an understanding of fundraising regulator guidance, gambling commission compliance and GDPR. 

About The Role

• Manage the delivery of all Retention campaigns from concept through to evaluation, using data and insight to drive creative and production, drawing up schedules, and managing the approval processes
• Work collaboratively with data teams to ensure effective use of supporter profiling for delivery across a range of Retention campaigns
• Manage relationships with external agencies including media houses, designers and printers; to negotiate costs and relevant performance reviews
• Responsibility for collation of all KPI tracking, trend analysis and activity results that feed into the team’s reporting and performance structure 
• Work alongside the Content team to research and develop retention. To gather information, case studies and photos for use in all direct marketing campaigns. Where appropriate, to liaise with external agencies such as designers and copywriters

Please see the job description for more detail 

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or SJA volunteers wishing to apply, please apply below. 

About Us:

St John Ambulance is committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive; we have several networks including the Armed Forces Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equity, diversity and inclusion. 

  We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

We are a multi-award winning, creative and innovative organisation, with an ambition to make our mark in the mass marketing arena. We’re looking for an experienced direct marketer who is proactive, passionate and creative in their approach and who believes in creating a personal and rewarding experience for the UK public to make a difference to the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children.

The Individual Giving Manager will report into the Senior Individual Giving Manager and is responsible for delivering key Individual Giving campaigns and projects, including our stewardship retention programme via a range of direct marketing channels, in order to drive income and achieve our strategic objectives. You will also be responsible for the ongoing monitoring, continuous improvement and success of our Individual Giving campaigns that provide low risk, unrestricted income - crucial to our future growth as an organisation. 

The Individual Giving Manager will be responsible for helping to devise, and then deliver, our Individual Giving retention programme to our warm donor base – which includes Regular Giving Upgrade, Reactivation and Cash to Conversion campaigns, as well as Cash appeals, Stewardship communications and welcome journeys for new donors. You will work with a range of channels including telemarketing, email, SMS and direct mail. We are not aiming to replicate existing Individual Giving models, so you will take a bold and pioneering approach to mass marketing and stewardship, breaking down conventional barriers to achieve transformational growth.

You will be experienced in direct marketing – creating compelling propositions and content, able to plan and carry out sophisticated stewardship journeys, whilst ensuring there are robust systems and processes in place to execute superb supporter care.

You will work closely with the Acquisition team to ensure activities are optimised and integrated at all times. You will have a strong campaign management approach (from planning to evaluation) and be responsible for the ongoing monitoring, continuous improvement and success of each campaign you deliver, using data and insights to shape future campaigns and helping to grow unrestricted and sustainable income.

 Your responsibilities:

•  To be responsible for delivering War Child’s Individual Giving supporter retention programme, including cash and emergency appeals, warm telemarketing (upgrade, reactivation and C2C), welcome journeys and a series of engagement communications across the year. Our multi-channel approach requires a good knowledge of telemarketing, email, SMS and direct mail, as well as KPI monitoring, analysis and learning for the continuous improvement and success of the programme. You may also be required to carry out some Regular Giving acquisition activity as needed.   
• To work closely with the Acquisition team and Senior Individual Giving Manager, to ensure all campaigns and supporter journeys are well planned, joined up, and motivate potential and existing supporters with a personalised and rewarding experience. This includes the planning and delivery of strategic supporter journeys, and creating new processes to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency across the programme.
• Monitor income and expenditure for each campaign you deliver against targets and budgets, and provide regular reports and updates on progress and performance (including the attrition of donors).
• Draw on fundraising knowledge and expertise to support the Senior Individual Giving  Manager and Head of Individual Giving with the overall supporter retention strategy, including making key recommendations on targets, opportunities for growth, scale back, and spend needed, while considering the external environment / trends across the sector, audience insight and campaign learnings – helping to influence strategic decisions on future investment.
• Ensure excellent stakeholder and agency management, so that War Child is in a strong position to motivate sector specialists to engage with our brand and form long-term relationships.
• To maintain an up to date knowledge of current activities at War Child and be an advocate of the War Child brand.
• Work closely with the Fundraising Compliance Manager and other key team members to ensure that all marketing activity is in line with compliance regulations set by the IOF, DMA, ICO, Fundraising Regulator and GDPR legislation.
• Contribute to creating a culture committed to the safeguarding of children and adults, and compliant to WCUK’s Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk Policies. 

These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the post.

 You are:

•  An experienced Individual Giving fundraiser, with demonstrable knowledge of mass market channels,     supporter retention campaigns and direct marketing principles, ideally gained within an international development or humanitarian NGO setting so you can present War Child’s work with authority.
• Someone with a proven track record of successful fundraising results, maximising the potential income across every campaign you are responsible for, and delivering against income targets to budget and on schedule.
• Analytically and numerically strong, and confident in using Excel. Able to take an evidence-led approach to enhancing performance, by analysing data patterns and trends (including the attrition of donors), and using a range of KPIs to monitor and predict performance.
• An excellent copywriter, someone who is passionate and experienced at crafting compelling direct marketing copy, creative and journeys for Individual Giving donors.
• Experienced at using a relational database to support and report on fundraising activity, using insight and analysis to identify opportunities.
• An excellent communicator with strong relationship-building skills internally and externally.
• An excellent multitasker who can prioritise a demanding and varied workload efficiently.
• Someone with a good understanding of the principles of fundraising regulation and GDPR, and its implications for fundraising policy and practice.
• Highly organised, process driven, proactive and have an excellent eye for detail.
• Willing to work outside of normal working hours where needed, in response to emergencies.

 All candidates for roles based in London are required to have the right to work in the UK.

 Child safeguarding

Our work with children to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children in all areas of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to be compliant and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy.

The Digital & IG Manager will be responsible for managing marketing campaigns across a variety of paid marketing channels. This currently includes Meta, Google Search Ads and YouTube and telemarketing, and is likely to include more channels in the future. You will work closely with the interim Senior Acquisition Manager to ensure that the regular giving programme is performing against targets successfully, contributing to the wider fundraising strategy of recruiting new regular givers and increasing our unrestricted, sustainable income.

You will lead on setting up, running and monitoring campaigns as well as analysing and reporting on results on a daily basis. You will create and test new,  regular giving propositions based on audience research and data-led results, working collaboratively with colleagues in the Individual Giving and Data teams to monitor and influence donor journeys to ensure strong rates of retention. You will use a combination of the Meta Business Suite, Google Analytics, agency reports and War Child’s CRM to track and report on results against target.

Your responsibilities

· Lead on  creative development and copywriting across a suite of creative executions. Take responsibility for developing creative concepts and generating ideas for broadcast campaigns.

· Lead on creation, planning  and delivery of regular giving acquisition campaigns from start to finish. This includes using data-led insights to build innovative and effective propositions and conversion journeys, with a focus on excellent user experience and recruiting high quality, long-term donors.

· Be responsible for implementing and delivering a strategic testing plan which underpins all Acquisition Campaigns.

· Ownership and day to day management of telemarketing campaigns, including quality control, regular meetings with agencies, results analysis and reporting and data checks.

· Own the donate section of the website – take responsibility for all income generation donate pages, ensuring they are optimised and donate journeys are seamless.

· Monitor, analyse and report on results using internal and external platforms and dashboards. You will use these insights to inform future campaigns and ensure we are spending budget in the most efficient way. You will set targets using KPIs, and regularly report back on progress against target to the Fundraising departments, presenting how regular giving recruitment supports War Child’s strategic priority of increasing sustainable income.

· Develop strong working relationships with other teams and key stakeholders. Appoint, and manage relationships with external agencies, suppliers and partners (digital and direct marketing, telemarketing, technology, creative, web technical etc.) to ensure excellent service delivery and agency management.

· Maintain a strong knowledge of developments, innovations, and new technology in web development, digital performance, digital marketing and social media, and any sector insights and trends, and identify any that may be of benefit/interest to War Child.

· Draw on fundraising knowledge and Direct Marketing expertise to support the interim Senior Acquisition  Manager and Heads of Acquisition & Individual Giving with the overall acquisition strategy, including making key recommendations on targets, opportunities for growth, scale back, and spend needed, whilst considering the external environment / trends across the sector, audience insight and campaign learnings – helping to influence strategic decisions on future investment.

· Work closely with the Senior Fundraising Compliance Advisor and other key team members to ensure that all marketing activity is in line with compliance regulations set by the IOF, DMA, ICO, Fundraising Regulator and GDPR legislation.

· Providing support and advice to other Fundraising departments from time to time on fundraising projects which require the use of paid digital channels to drive income. You will use your expertise to help guide the decisions and execution of paid digital media across the organisation. 

· Contribute to creating a culture committed to the safeguarding of children and adults and compliant to War Child’s Safeguarding and Adults at Risk Policies.  

These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the role.

 You are

· An experienced fundraiser with demonstrable knowledge of digital and direct marketing and regular giving recruitment via paid marketing channels, with excellent campaign management skills.

· Someone with a proven track record of successful fundraising results, delivering against income targets to budget and on schedule.

· Analytically and numerically strong, and able to take an evidence-led approach to enhancing performance.

· Able to assess and optimise campaign performance by analysing data patterns and trends and use a range of KPIs to monitor and predict performance.

· Able to demonstrate your experience in developing and implementing successful acquisition campaigns and supporter journeys, alongside a good understanding of how to utilise content effectively.

· Good knowledge and experience of PPC, SEO, digital analytics platforms, data capture, monitoring and tracking and how to utilise this to improve digital performance.

· Someone with previous experience of using Meta Business Suite to create and monitor campaigns.

· An excellent communicator with strong relationship-building skills internally and externally.

· Highly self-organised, process driven, proactive and have an excellent eye for detail.

· Someone with a successful track record of managing suppliers and agencies &experienced in managing multiple stakeholder relationships at any one time.

· An excellent copywriter, someone who is passionate and experienced at crafting compelling direct marketing copy for adverts and journeys.

· Competent at using databases and Microsoft Office especially Excel, for supporter management, results reporting analysis and insight.

· An excellent multitasker and can prioritise a demanding and varied workload efficiently.

· Able to think creatively, come up with new and relevant ideas,

· Passionate about digital marketing, with an enthusiasm for keeping up to date with innovations and trends.

· Having previously run non-digital direct marketing campaigns from start to finish for regular giving recruitment, as well as digital ones, would be an advantage.

 All candidates for roles based in the UK are required to have the right to work in the UK.

Child safeguarding

Our work with children to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children in all areas of our work. Successful applicants will be expected to be compliant and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy.

We’re recruiting for a brilliant, committed and experienced fundraising professional to help build on the growth we’ve experienced in recent years, and move us to the next level.This is an exciting and inspiring opportunity for the right person, both in terms of the role itself, but also the key part you’ll play in helping to enable women who have survived trafficking and other forms of violence to recover and rebuild their lives.

An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be undertaken. Due to the nature of the work, this post is for women only.

Two reasons why you should join Ella’s
1. You will make a difference: Ella’s is a London-based organisation working with women who have survived trafficking and sexual exploitation. Join us, and be a crucial part of ensuring survivors have all they need to recover and build lives that are safe and free.
2. You will work in a great place: We are a passionate, growing organisation. Last time we asked, 100% said they would recommend Ella’s as a place to work. As a team, we are strong, women-led, authentic, professional, fun and supportive
of one another.

Job description
We’re recruiting for a new Fundraising Manager to build on the growth and development we’ve experienced in recent years, and move us to the next level. You will work closely with senior leadership and colleagues across the organisation to
raise crucial funding, public support and awareness to underpin our organisationalstrategy. You will also develop and manage relationships with supporters and funders, as well as strategic partners and external suppliers as required.

Key tasks
● Management and development of all streams of fundraising
● Line management of 1x Fundraising Officer and 1x Grants Lead
● Management/liaison/briefing for external suppliers/freelancers/volunteers related to fundraising
● Uphold brand across fundraising
● Build and manage relationships, partnerships and connections to support Ella’s’ fundraising
● Lead on fundraising and related strategies and policies, and input into organisational strategies and policies
● Attend senior management meetings (weekly online), team check ins (weekly in-person) and other internal and external meetings online and in-person as required
● Monitor and report on targets

Additional tasks
● Support with Monitoring and Evaluation
● Support Ella’s’ communications as needed
● Represent and champion Ella’s at events, coalition groups, meetings and so on as appropriate
● Other tasks as required by Co-Directors or by role

More about Ella’s

Ella’s is a London-based organisation working with women who have survived trafficking and sexual exploitation. Our mission is to do everything we can to ensure survivors have all they need to recover and build lives that are safe and free.

Here is a summary of our main activities:
● We run five safe houses. This supported accommodation is crucial for survivors, until they are ready and able to live independently.
● We provide regular support for women and families in neighbourhoods across London, and many more further afield when they need us.
● We speak out on issues affecting the women we work with. We care deeply about survivors of trafficking and exploitation and want to see a world where these crimes are not tolerated.

Ella’s is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, as we believe having a diverse team adds value and positively impacts our service. We actively encourage applicants from BAME backgrounds, LGBTQ+ applicants and those with disabilities. We are committed to equality and diversity within our
organisation.
 

At Makespace, our mission is to revive, repurpose and transform empty and underused spaces across Oxfordshire into affordable, community-driven places. We are committed to nurturing connection and support for social enterprises, creatives, makers and fostering a more inclusive and connected local economy.

Our agenda is spatial justice - we believe everyone has the right to safe, affordable, secure and beautiful spaces in which to work, organise and celebrate. We use meanwhile as a lever to unlock spaces, and as a catalyst to bring about long-term, community place-based renewal, building towards community ownership.

The Advocacy and Communications Director will lead Makespace’s advocacy and external communications, to influence systemic change across the community/social enterprise sector and deliver transformational, multi-generational change in line with our strategy. The role will deepen engagement with local and national partners and stakeholders, building on the success of Makespace’s neighbourhood level projects as the organisation moves into the next phase of development. A key part of the role is translating the learning and impact from our hub spaces into compelling advocacy and communications campaigns.

This role is a new position designed to strengthen our senior leadership team, working closely with the Executive Director and Operations Director to guide the strategic direction of the organisation.