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Job Description – Head of Key Food Partnerships
Reporting to: COO
Location: Flexible (regular food industry visits and travel)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time-35 hours
Salary: £68,974-£72,605(National) or £72,605-£76,426 (London)
We welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident Employer that welcome disabled applicants and provide reasonable adjustments.
About FareShare
FareShare now operates 35 Regional Centres around the UK. The majority of these are run by local charitable organisations we call our Delivery Partners. This enables us to be a UK-wide organisation yet also think and behave with local concerns at the heart of our actions. For more info please visit FareShare website.
FareShare’s Strategy & Vision
Vision: We have the vision of a UK where “No good food goes to waste”.
Mission: To use surplus, fit for consumption, food to feed those who are vulnerable in the UK by supporting front line charitable organisations that tackle the cause and not just the symptoms of food poverty.
Our Purpose: We are doers. We are a community. We change lives. Our Values:
Passion – for our cause and the challenge that lies ahead
Ambition – to go the extra mile and drive the change that must happen
Respect – for ourselves, each other, our volunteers, our partners and our beneficiaries
Collaboration – it’s only by working with others that we can be stronger Focus – on providing the best service possible so that we deliver and achieve the most for our clients/customers.
The role
Our key priorities at FareShare UK are to grow the food volumes accessible to the charities and community groups we support across the UK. Food partners (manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, importers, packers, catering providers, producers and others) are pivotal in helping us to meet these priorities, providing access to food and many other strategic resources. This crucial role will focus on working with our top food partners to maximise the mutual value in the relationship through strategic and structured account management. Our ability to meet growing demand and retain our leading position in the food redistribution landscape will be heavily influenced by the success you have in this role.
You will be the direct account lead for some of the biggest food accounts in the UK and you will lead part of the Food Partnership Team for managing and engaging new business relationships to drive and grow food and funding from top food partners.
As part of this role, you will lead the transition to a tiered and structured strategic account management approach of all top partners. Coordinating colleagues in the food team and other FareShare teams: FareShare Go, Marketing, Fundraising, Network Operations and Volunteering teams to ensure that top partners get an excellent service. You will work with the top food partners and other stakeholders to ensure appropriate identification of activities, and monitoring of progress, benefits and evaluation.
You will help identify and overcome the barriers to food redistribution and increase the volumes of foods available to FareShare from food partners and their wider supply chains.
Working with marketing and relevant teams you will develop sales materials to open opportunities for more food and other resources from top partners.
You will lead new business development for FareShare Go and work closely with the FareShare Go operations team to mutually agreed objectives. You will support the team to develop new opportunities to deliver the FareShare Go service to food partners including meeting tenders and developing compelling propositions for partners.
Main areas of responsibility
Business Development and Relationship Management
- Support the senior Leadership team by implementing and driving FareShare’s strategy to deliver the services that our top food partners want now and in the future.
- Develop sales and tender materials to win new and grow current business for increased food, funds and other strategic resource.
- Keep up to date on trends and key areas of opportunity for top accounts.
- Directly account manage the largest opportunity accounts that we want to engage or grow.
- Develop strategic relationships and account strategies with top food partners to maximise the volumes of surplus food and funding to FareShare through structured joint business planning process.
- Embed a strategic approach to account management and joint business planning processes for top partners to make sure that they have a structured first in class service from FareShare.
- Ensure oversight of all account activities and provides regular updates to, and feedback opportunities for relevant FareShare stakeholder teams including FareShare Go operations, Food Co-ordination, marketing and fundraising.
- Develop key relationships with key personnel within our top food partners and develop a good understanding of their structure and operations to help drive sustainable, successful relationships and engage the relevant internal departments
Business Process Improvement to deliver growth
- Understand the barriers to redistribution of food and lead initiatives to overcome them
- Develop new models of food redistribution which meet market needs and build new channels of supply to FareShare
- Liaise with colleagues in the FareShare Go and Food Co-ordination Operations teams to highlight and resolve any operational issues and support related initiatives as appropriate
- Work with the food partner to develop appropriate systems and business processes which will ensure they are managed in the most environmentally, socially and financially efficient way.
Project and Initiative Management
- Be responsible for managing and communicating key projects and initiatives and securing support from a range of internal stakeholders within the food partners and among the FareShare network.
- Prepare and proactively present the benefits of new initiatives to existing and potential partners despite the challenges to existing embedded processes.
People and Culture
- Lead, manage and motivate the part of the Food Partner Team focused on engagement and growth, creating a culture of high performance and a positive and supportive working environment.
- Support effective working with colleagues in the wider Food Team, and Network Development and Operations Teams to support an atmosphere of collaboration and trust consistent with FareShare’s values
- Foster positive change, new ways of working and an understanding of best practice
- in using FareShare’s Customer Relationship Management systems.
Person Specification
As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable in this role.
- Proven influencing, negotiation and selling skills, to understand the needs of a key partner and ability to demonstrate the value of the proposition to the customer.
- Understanding of a strategic account management approach and ability to manage multiple accounts in the FMCG, food, retail or comparable sector with professionalism and integrity consistently meeting or exceeding challenging targets
- Good working knowledge of the key players in the food retail industry and an appreciation of their ways of working with their supply chains
- Successful track record of managing cross-functional projects such as new launches, operational initiatives, promotional activity or other projects to tight timescales and budgets, ensuring involvement of all key stakeholders
- The ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at a range of levels and across multiple functions with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to prioritise effectively with strong time management skills to ensure effective allocation of FareShare resources to cope with competing demands and to prioritise tasks appropriately
- Ability to use own initiative working independently and responsibly
Experience
- Retail account management experience working at multiple levels including Directors across Operations, Communications, Marketing, CSR, business support and technology teams
- Demonstrable experience of driving significant growth and impact in food accounts
- Track record of building, leading and managing high performing, effective teams through periods of growth and change
- Experience of managing direct reports including managing performance issues
- Project management of multiple stakeholder initiatives
- Delivery of process improvement in a sales or customer service environment
- Knowledge of and interest in Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility and experience of its application within the business environment.
- Drive, motivation and attention to detail in ensuring all business opportunities presented to FareShare are captured and explored
- Pro-active, organised and able to work under pressure, whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Offices packages, ideally at an advanced level and with a good level of numeracy and literacy
Competencies and behaviours
- Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
- Proven ability to lead and manage teams and build strategic relationships across the business with a customer service focus
- Negotiation and influencing skills to deliver win-win outcomes
- Excellent, proven organisational skills
- Creative approach to problem solving
Benefits
- Hybrid / Flexible working, with regular UK travel
- 28 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays
- Employers pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme
- Season ticket loan
Battersea is here for every dog and cat and has been since 1860. We are a leading animal welfare charity and over the last 164 years we’ve grown from one site in London to three rescuing and rehoming centres across the Southeast as well as a global education and outreach programme. With around 700 employees and 1,000 volunteers, we have cared for over three million vulnerable animals since we were founded. We also campaign tirelessly to make things better for dogs and cats; sharing our expertise and educating the public and policymakers about responsible pet ownership.
The Philanthropy and Trusts team sits within the Philanthropy, Philanthropy & Commercial (PP&C) team. Our aim is to engage and cultivate new supporters who can make a significant difference to Battersea, while also managing relationships with existing partners.
We are looking for a Philanthropy and Trusts Officer to join us. They will contribute ambitious yearly income targets across the team by managing a mid-level individual giving programme and a small trust mailing programme, managing financial data and reporting as well as supporting the Philanthropy and Trusts teams in in their wider fundraising efforts.
What we can offer you:
In return for your commitment to our cause and to recognise the value of our employees, Battersea offers a range of benefits to support the wellbeing of our employees. These include:
- 28 days of annual leave (plus 8 days paid public holidays) per year
- Discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme and access to Wellbeing Resources.
- Generous pension contributions – up to 10% employer contribution
- Free healthcare cash plan, where you can claim for a range of treatment including dental, optical, physiotherapy, chiropody and acupuncture every year.
- Annual interest-free season ticket loans
We are also committed to providing learning and development to our employees. During your time with us, we provide support for your professional and career development, including access to digital and in-person training programmes, leadership and management training, mentoring and much more.
Our hybrid working model:
We operate a 50% onsite hybrid working model, with our office-based staff splitting their time between site based and home working. This enables our office-based staff to balance the benefits of home working with onsite collaboration and maintaining a connection to our cause.
Diversity and inclusion:
At Battersea, we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse workforce and inclusive culture in all aspects of our organisation. We aim to ensure that this pledge, reinforced by our values, is embedded in our day-to-day working practices and our work together.
By hearing from and valuing different experiences, perspectives, and contributions, we know we can provide the best expert care for every dog and cat who needs us. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from diverse ethnic communities and people with disabilities, who we know are currently underrepresented in our workforce.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we will ask about any adjustments you may need at application and/or interview stage, and if you are offered a role with us, we’ll talk to you about any workplace adjustments you may need to help you perform at your best.
More about us:
At Battersea, we aim to never turn away a dog or cat in need of help. We give each one lots of love, expert care and get to know their characters and quirks so we can find them a new home that’s just right for them. Join us and help us be here for every dog and cat, wherever they are, for as long as they need us.
Closing date: 4th July 2024
Interview date(s): 15th – 17th July 2024 (1st round); 22nd – 23rd July 2024 (2nd round, if applicable)
For full details, please download our recruitment pack.
To apply for the role, please click the button below. All applications must be submitted before the closing date advertised. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications is received.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Us
Travalyst is a not-for-profit organisation working to identify – and help bring about – the systemic changes needed in order for sustainable travel to be taken out of the niche, and into the mainstream.
We believe tourism can, and must, play a key role in achieving a sustainable future for our world; so we’re convening the key players, and catalysing the necessary action, to change the impact of travel, for good. We are committed to being a driving force that redefines what it means to travel, helping everyone explore our world in a way that protects both people and places, and secures a positive future for destinations and local communities for generations to come.
We were founded in partnership with Booking (dot) com, Expedia, Google, Skyscanner, Trip (dot) com Group, Tripadvisor, and Visa. The Travalyst Coalition now includes eleven of the world’s leading companies and brands associated with travel working with us to make travel more sustainable.
Travalyst provides supportive, independent and neutral governance, empowering our Coalition of some of the biggest – and occasionally competing – travel companies and service providers to share data and accelerate change. The goal is to bring credible, consistent sustainability information to the mainstream, helping both travellers and travel companies make better, greener choices.
About the role
Travalyst is recruiting its first full-time COO. This is a broad role, supporting Travalyst’s CEO and a growing Executive Leadership team to enable delivery of this first-of-its-kind global initiative. Now in its 5th year, the Travalyst team and organisation is scaling quickly to drive progress and accelerate impact.
About you
You will be able to demonstrate a track record in successful organisational design and implementation, including the development of effective but adaptable systems and processes and their roll-out across a complex organisation with multiple partners and stakeholders. You will manage and lead on finance, governance and risk, ensuring that Travalyst is run according to the highest standards for a UK not-for-profit organisation.
Proven scale-up operational experience, in a sustainability-focused organisation and/or a UK not-for-profit, is essential. Strong project management skills, enabling effective prioritisation and decision-making and excellence in delivery, would be of huge benefit in the role.
Areas of responsibility:
Governance, Legal & Risk
· Be accountable for governance structures and processes, including reviewing and revising governance documentation annually
· Ensure compliance with UK statutory and legal obligations
· Support the Travalyst Board and CEO to ensure effective risk management and mitigation
· Support CEO with preparation of Board packs and attend Board meetings as an Observer
· Act as Company Secretary
· Provide oversight of legal discussions and documentation, working with pro-bono legal team where needed
Financial Management
· Oversight of financial management and administration, including near and longer-term financial planning, modelling, and cash flow management
· Manage outsourced Finance Director, bookkeeper accountants and auditors for budgeting, statutory accounting, audit, payroll, and tax - and evolve the Finance function as the organisation scales
· Support the CEO on funder management, leading on financial and operational aspects of fundraising, including leading grant application processes, budgeting and grant reporting
HR and Organisational Design
· Oversight of HR management and administration, including resource planning and recruitment
· Managed outsourced HR and recruitment consultants on professional development, culture & engagement, employee lifecycle management and recruitment initiatives
· Evolve HR function as the organisation grows
· Oversee workforce planning and recruitment for new hires supported by outsourced HR
· Ensure compliance of all existing legal/ contractual agreements with employees, consultants and suppliers
Operations and Strategy
· Support the CEO on the development of Travalyst’s annual strategic planning and lead on the accompanying operational plan
· Support the CEO in managing Travalyst Coalition Partners, including acting as the relationship lead where required
· Lead on Travalyst’s procurement process and manage key supplier relationships including all contracts, policies, and procedures
· Support the team to evolve Travalyst’s operating model, develop and manage systems and processes to ensure successful delivery of ongoing workstreams and new projects or initiatives
Resourcing & Project Management
· Lead on development and implementation of project management and delivery processes, ensuring excellence in delivery across project teams
· Lead weekly touchpoints to prioritise resources and workload, and track progress against milestones
· Focus and role model excellence in delivery through strong project management skills and ways of working
IT
· Lead the roll-out of new internal technology to support effective delivery
· Act as data protection officer (DPO) for the organisation, providing oversight and following best practice and regulation with regards to information, governance, data protection and adherence with UK GDPR
· Provide oversight of IT and data security
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Women V Cancer is a unique partnership between Dream Challenges, Breast Cancer Now and Ovarian Cancer Action. Together, we have raised more than £20 million in fundraising across a portfolio of one day mass participation cycling events and overseas multi-day cycling challenges.
The partnership has big aspirations for growth and is looking for someone to join as a Fundraising and Partnerships Officer with key responsibilities in relationship management across the partners, reporting and analysis, events marketing, and participant stewardship.
The right candidate will be a self-driven and experienced fundraiser, whose knowledge of marketing strategies in fundraising and events, alongside an impactful supporter journey, can enable the development and growth of this long-standing partnership. You will have experience of the charity sector, event delivery, and social media marketing.
Key Areas
Marketing and stewardship
- Increase participant numbers on events through comprehensive and diverse marketing campaigns.
- Assist in digital advertising of events including creations of social media campaigns and PPC.
- Assisting in maintenance and digital creation on the branded WVC microsite.
- Develop the partnerships first user-generated video content campaigns, and influencer campaigners, alongside the group Digital Marketing Manager.
- Assist with automated journeys from lead generation marketing.
- Assist with social media channels and assist in creating social media marketing.
- Create and send email marketing campaigns.
- Deliver stewardship journeys of registered participants on events.
- Increase the average fundraising raised per participant.
- Increase engagement and communications across relevant social media groups.
Relationship management
- Build strong relationships with all three parties and represent key stakeholder interests both internally and externally.
- Understand each individual partner’s ways of working, their individual tone of voice and organisational visions and ensure these are implemented across the partnership.
- Coordinate project groups, communications and meetings, working with various teams within all parties to plan and schedule activities.
Reporting and analysis
- Work with the Marketing team and representatives from each of the charities to undertake campaign reporting, as well as post-event analysis including, but not limited to, audience insight and feedback, engagement and attendance rates, and fundraising per participant.
- Establishing a clear payment schedule for both sides for marketing contributions and donations.
- Track performance including registration numbers and income – reporting back to all parties.
- Undertake analysis work to improve understanding of current audience demographics and their interests, reviewing this regularly to ensure accuracy.
- Undertake regular competitor analysis work to scope trends and gaps in the marketplace – looking at how we benchmark ourselves against our competitors.
- Support on the strategic planning devised by all partners, providing insight learnt from the portfolio and audience analysis to help shape this.
General
- Keep up to date with sector knowledge to ensure best practice.
- Identify new trends and scope out new product development.
- Support all elements of event delivery (including volunteer recruitment, training weekends), attending UK and overseas events when required.
- Help identify and build relationships with relevant celebrities or influencers to contribute to the Women V Cancer marketing strategy
- Work alongside charity partners to develop supporter journeys for a series of UK and Overseas events which will increase conversion, average gift and retention.
- Identifying high value fundraisers and create a specific supporter journey for these individuals.
Personal Specification
Essential:
- Strong project management skills: a logical and thorough planner with the determination to see tasks through to completion.
- Experience in charity stewardship and increasing fundraising on live events.
- Experience in marketing events and recruiting participants.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to understand and marry up different priorities.
- Experience with partnership working, ideally across organisations.
- Clear and confident communicator, able to communicate with MDs, charity representatives and individuals taking part in events.
- Third Sector experience in a fundraising or supporter facing role.
- Confident in engaging with supporters who may be vulnerable.
- Excellent time management skills: able to manage a wide and varied workload, prioritising key tasks and ensuring that deadlines are always met.
- Ambition and determination, both personally for your own professional development and for the organisation.
- Knowledge of marketing avenues, including digital and out of home marketing and techniques to enhance and track performance.
- Experience of working with various social media channels.
- Experience of delivering events or supporting on delivery of events.
Desirable
- Basic knowledge of the charities involved and what they do.
Only CV submitted with a covering letter will be considered. Let us know why you are applying for this role and why you should be considered.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
As we move closer towards assisted dying legislation across the British Isles, this role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a high-profile, fast-paced campaign that will provide plenty of challenges and opportunities for personal development.
Using strong creative, communication and interpersonal skills, the Media and Campaigns Officer will play a crucial role in the delivery of our media strategy. They will work closely with the Senior Media and Campaigns Officer and wider Communications and Campaigns teams to ensure the press office runs smoothly and in concert with the organisation’s wider strategy.
This role includes delivering media objectives; managing, supporting and recruiting personal stories and patrons; monitoring and disseminating relevant media coverage; identifying reactive media opportunities; proactively securing media coverage; producing and distributing engaging press materials; and maintaining relationships with key journalists.
The role will also work across the campaign’s sister charity, Compassion in Dying. Both organisations share an aim of improving dying in the UK by putting people in charge of decisions about the end of their life. The charity’s profile and influence has grown hugely in recent years, with its wealth of expertise and thought leadership recognised across the end-of-life and wider healthcare sector.
Working closely with colleagues in the Information Line and Policy & Research teams, key responsibilities will include securing opportunities within the media to amplify the voices of dying people and those close to them; supporting those individuals to share their experiences; keeping abreast of relevant coverage within mainstream media and healthcare trade press; using the media to raise awareness of the importance of and ways to plan ahead for the end of life; and seeking media opportunities to share our research and insight, shift attitudes and push for the changes needed so that everyone can have a good death, whatever that means to them.
The ideal candidate will be an innovative, intuitive and creative individual with strong media-handling experience. We are seeking a team-player who is passionate about the values and mission of both organisations, enjoys working on a high-profile issue in a fast-paced work environment, and is seeking to become more actively involved in campaigning.
Please find the full job description and person specification attached.
Application deadline: 12 noon Tuesday 2nd July 2024
Interviews: Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th July 2024
We are the leading UK movement for end-of-life choice. We campaign for a safe and compassionate law for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About us
World Jewish Relief provides life-saving and life-changing action to people in crisis around the world. We work with our trusted local partners to help people survive the consequences of conflict and disaster, to thrive and rebuild their lives. We deliver programmes using our expertise, with urgency to achieve maximum and sustainable impact for those within and beyond our community.
Since 2021, we have established a broad and varied portfolio of climate resilience programmes implemented through local partners across Africa and Asia. These all enable communities to cope with and be better prepared for the consequences of the climate crises, and all focus on groups who are marginalised, e.g. landless, displaced, low caste, and religious minority groups. Specifically, they focus on livelihood resilience, early warning systems and preparedness, and climate resilient WASH, across Nepal, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Ethiopia.
About the role
We are now recruiting a knowledgeable and experienced Climate Resilience Programme Manager to continue leading our climate action strategy. The purpose of the role is to bring climate change expertise to grow, strengthen, deepen, and diversify our innovative programme portfolio, continue to minimise the negative environmental impacts of all of our programmes, and deepen our carbon emissions reduction strategy as we continue to expand the reach and impact of our organisation.
You will build strong partnerships by working closely alongside our local partners in programme design, technical knowledge, implementation and monitoring. It is anticipated that the post will include 3-4 overseas trips per annum.
The role affords huge scope for personal development, with the flexibility and autonomy needed to shape this critical area of programming. A particular objective will be to strengthen the M&E across the portfolio and access additional external funding for scaling up our climate resilience programmes.
You should have:
Essential
- Experience in the climate resilience sector and demonstrable knowledge of how to build and manage climate resilience programmes
- Knowledge of humanitarian and/or livelihoods programming, including monitoring, evaluation accountability and learning (MEAL) processes is critical
- Cross-cultural sensitivity and ability to work with overseas partners with varying levels of English.
- Strong administrative, research, analysis, numeracy and IT skills.
- Excellent oral and written English communication skills with an ability to produce accurate, factual and compelling reports, proposals, and presentations
Desirable
- Demonstrable knowledge of carbon emissions reduction within organisations
- Demonstrable experience in supporting resource mobilisation
- Knowledge of gender theory and inclusion practices
- Experience of working in Nepal, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, or the Philippines
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including:
- 23 days holiday plus bank holidays and Jewish holidays, after 2 years’ service holiday entitlement increases to 25 days.
- Pension scheme – we contribute 5% to the World Jewish Relief pension scheme.
- Life Insurance – up to 3 times salary to nominated beneficiaries.
- Health Cash Plan – cash back to cover the costs of dental treatment, optical care, specialist consultations and a range of complementary therapies.
- Enhanced maternity & paternity pay.
- Employee Assistance Programme – free, confidential advice or support with any personal or work. related concerns or free counselling if needed.
- Season ticket / travel to work loan.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- On Friday the office closes at 3pm.
- We encourage flexible working and offer a range of flexible working options.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
World Jewish Relief promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We invite and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. We encourage applications from candidates of different ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation and of faith or none that meet the criteria set out for this role. Candidates from the global south or with lived experience would be particularly welcome. You don’t need to be Jewish to work for us, but you must share our desire to assist those who need help based on their vulnerability, not their identity, recognising the dignity and potential of all people.
How to apply
Please upload your CV and a cover letter which demonstrates your suitability for the role by answering the following questions:
- Why are you interested in the role and how do you meet the person specification?
- What are the most pressing climate challenges facing vulnerable communities globally, and what do you think World Jewish Relief's role should be in addressing these challenges?
As a Marketing and Communications Officer, you'll leverage your creativity and proficiency in copywriting and editing across a variety of digital platforms. Your mission will be to enhance our brand's digital presence and convey our social purpose, with a focus on our brand-new website and multiple newsletters. With a keen eye for detail, you'll also create high-quality insight reports that demonstrate our impact and identify areas for improvement.
Your role extends to supporting PR tasks and collaborating with the Insights Team to maintain high data quality, to enhance newsletter targeting and distribution.
You'll report directly to the Digital Marketing Manager and collaborate closely with the Digital Content Officer, ensuring that the right content reaches the right audiences and our digital channels achieve optimal engagement and growth.
About you
You are a creative and analytical Marketing and Communications Officer, skilled at using digital marketing to build brand engagement and grow audience reach.
You have experience curating engaging content for websites and newsletters and developing and implementing digital marketing campaigns in collaboration with others.
Your understanding of user journeys and SEO will ensure that Youth Music’s new website is impactful, current and audience focused. Tasked with supporting projects from concept to completion, your organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines will be critical to your success.
You also excel in liaising with agencies and partners, and your analytical skills enable you to create reports and use data to inform marketing plans.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain a regular flow of engaging content for our websites and newsletters, ensuring consistency and audience engagement.
- Write copy for the website, newsletters, and occasionally for social media. Ensure all copy is engaging, informative, and tailored to the intended audience.
- Regularly update and maintain the company website. Liaise with internal partners to ensure all content is current and relevant.
- Support the development and implementation of digital marketing campaigns in collaboration with the Digital Content Officer (DCO) and the Digital Marketing Manager (DMM).
- Coordinate closely with website, content, and Google Ads Grant agencies to ensure seamless alignment with Youth Music’s digital marketing strategy.
- Work with the DMM and DCO to create detailed monthly and ad-hoc reports. Analyse data to gauge the effectiveness of marketing plans and identify areas for improvement.
- Implement SEO strategies to improve the visibility and ranking of the company’s website. Stay updated with SEO best practices and adjust website content accordingly.
- Provide support to the Head of Marketing and Communications with PR tasks.
- Collaborate with the Insights team to interpret data collected from marketing campaigns, the grants programme and audience research. And optimise our use of databases, ensuring the highest quality of data is maintained on Mailchimp for more effective newsletter targeting and distribution.
General
- Carrying out all such additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with the role.
- This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to reflect a range of duties the post-holder will perform.
Person specification
Essential
- At least one year’s continuous experience working in a similar role.
- Experience writing and editing compelling and accessible copy for various platforms such as websites, newsletters and social media.
- Knowledge of SEO strategies and best practices to improve website visibility and ranking.
- Proficiency in updating and maintaining website content to ensure it remains current and relevant.
- An understanding of the principles of data protection.
- Experience using data and insights to inform digital marketing plans.
- Skills in database management, particularly in using databases like Mailchimp for targeted marketing efforts.
- Proven creative thinker, with ability to generate new, forward-thinking, and relevant ideas
- Strong communication skills to liaise effectively with agencies, internal partners, and team members.
- Knowledge of and commitment to inclusion, diversity, equality and accessibility.
Desirable
- Experience in a charity, agency, youth or music organisation.
- Experience overseeing a Google Ad Grant account.
- Experience using Drupal.
- Understanding of the music education and / or music industries landscape.
- Passion for music and interest in its benefits for individuals and society.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Title: Patient Support & Advocacy Officer (2 vacancies)
Location: Home based with travel to renal units around Greater London
Hours: Full time opportunity 35 hours pw Monday to Friday | Part time opportunity 25 hours pw Monday to Friday
(must be sufficiently flexible to work irregular hours as demanded by the requirements of the post)
Role purpose
To engage with kidney patients, their families, and carers as a source of information, support, and advocacy, in order to improve care and wellbeing outcomes for patients. This may be in the hospital or other care setting, on the phone, online or face-to-face in a mutually acceptable public place. The role will cover the main renal unit and satellite dialysis units across your designated area, and regular travel and attendance is expected across all sites.
You will be expected to deliver Kidney Care UK’s Patient Support & Advocacy Service across the region, raise awareness of the service and the charity and build strong relationships with kidney patients, professionals and other kidney stakeholder groups in the region.
Responsibilities
- With support, establish the Kidney Care UK Patient Support & Advocacy Service in the region so patients, their families, carers and professionals to access independent support on social, financial, health advocacy and wellbeing
- Be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of the Patient Support & Advocacy Service across the region and the effective management of a caseload. This involves regular attendance at renal clinics in the region, building relationships with health and care professionals and being available for patients in the renal unit, on the phone or online, or to meet at a mutually convenient public location
- To support patients to build the skills and confidence needed to positively navigate the challenges presented by health, social care, benefits, and financial support pathways, and to overcome barriers and promote independence
- To support patients to connect with services to ensure that they are engaged in shared decision making and that their voice is central to shaping the care and support they receive
- To raise awareness of Kidney Care UK and the benefits of the Patient Support & Advocacy Service amongst kidney patients, their families, carers, and professionals across the region
- To be a primary source of, or gateway to, local information and access to other services
- To provide insight on patients’ concerns and unmet needs to inform Kidney Care UK research, campaigns, and new service development activity
- To maintain patient records to allow effective reporting on key performance indicators about patient activity and service outputs
- Identify and create relationships with key services and professionals across the region, to ensure patients, their families, and carers can easily access the Patient Support & Advocacy Service
- Essential skills, experience and knowledge
- Experience of working within advocacy, social work or health and social care sector
- Excellent PC skills including Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Ability to capture and record data in a central database
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally to a wide range of people
- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to listen
- Experience of assessing individuals needs accurately and sensitively
- Ability to deal professionally, calmly, and sympathetically with people affected by kidney disease
- Ability to travel independently throughout the area
Employee Benefits
Pension | Flexible working | Retail discounts | Generous annual leave | Cycle 2 work scheme | Employee Assistant Programme | Health cash plan | Family leave
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You don’t have to know about Down syndrome. You can learn about Down syndrome, but we need you to know how to nurture the heart of an organisation and its people.
Freelance/self-employed contract for 3 – 4 days per week
£30k - £40k p.a. depending on experience & hours – hours and fee are negotiable
Please see our video on our website (Meet the Team, Current Vacancies) for further details from our Chair, James.
Lead the 17-year-old charity into a brighter future
The role demands quality skills and experience in management, governance, building teams and communities, fundraising and finance – in person and online.
Can you simultaneously be creative, a problem solver, ideas person, developmental, positive leader, supporter, confidante, prudent and adventurous?
We are very keen to hear from you. Please send your CV and a 5 min video explaining who you are and why you suit the role and would like this work.
Please send your CV and a 5 min video explaining who you are and why you suit the role and would like this work.
Enabling children with Down syndrome to maximise their potential
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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!
Job Title: Finance Officer
Must have: Full right to work in the UK (if you don't have this we unfortunately won't be able to consider you for this role but we encourage you to look at our other global opportunities on our careers page)
Reporting to: HQ Finance Manager
Hours: 37.5 per week
Principal Location:London, hybrid with a minimum of 3 and an expectation of 4 days in the office per week.
Background:
Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.
Part 1: Role Purpose:
This role is a key member of the busy HQ finance function. Although the role is primarily focused on the HQ finances, the role operates within the context of Street Child as a global charity and so also has interaction with the global finance team. The role offers the chance to work across a number of finance functions, and some of the subsidiary charities. It is essential that the applicant can juggle the complexities of a busy role with has varied work priorities. Key stakeholders are the HQ Finance Manager, Finance Director and the HQ based fundraising team. The role works alongside the Finance Assistant and plays a role in oversight and coaching of this role.
Part 2: Key Responsibilities:
1) (40%) Deliver all functions related to Accounts Receivable
- Ensure that all income from a variety of different sources is correctly and accurately recorded in the finance system and CRM (which is under development) on a weekly basis.
- Supporting with work on accounts receivable including accessing, downloading and saving in a systematic manner reports from donor portals, bank account and other sources.
- Working with colleagues in Fundraising to analyse and code income reports in Excel and uploading it to the Finance system on a timely basis, at least weekly. Following up on how to code any income which is not allocated to a source.
- Working closely with colleagues in Fundraising to ensure prompt collection of outstanding balances from customers, and sending out monthly debtor balance statements.
- Raising donor invoices and requests for payments, and issuing donor receipts.
- Income and customer account reconciliations and revaluations.
- Any other responsibilities relating to Accounts Receivable.
2) (20%) Lead the Accounts Payable process
- Whilst the Finance Assistant is responsible for all payments, the Finance Officer has a lead role in ensuring that all invoices are paid on time, in an efficient manner and that the finance system reflects the transactions within the correct accounting period and correctly coded in the system – including account code, cost centre, project code and donor code.
- Determine most efficient payment platform to process international payments, and ensure that recorded in the finance system at the correct conversion rate.
- Be a point of contact with the Foreign exchange agents to quickly resolve any questions.
- Work with the Finance Assistant to ensure accurate and timely recording of all approved supplier invoices, requisitions, staff expenses and other expenditure in the accounting system and that all supporting documentation for all transactions are uploaded.
- Managing at least two payment runs a week and additional runs as required; ensuring that all invoices for payment are correctly approved by the budget holder, setting up payments on online banking platforms and sending out requests for payment approvals to payment authorisers and verifying that all payments are fully approved in the banking platforms by the deadline set.
- Once the payment is made, allocating the payment against the invoices in the Finance system.
- Reviewing staff expense claims to ensure that all supporting documentation is provided before payment.
- Managing monthly staff credit card reconciliations and ensure that these are returned on time with all receipts and invoices and checking and reviewing classifications, with follow up as required.
- Carry out monthly Creditor account reconciliations ensuring that all balances are valid and backed up with appropriate supporting documentation.
- Fully deliver the set up all payroll payments in time for the monthly pay day. This involves ensuring correct amount and currency of payment (which may differ from the salary of the individual’s employment contract) and method of payment across all HQ staff.
- Any other responsibilities relating to Accounts Payable.
3) (40%) Month end reporting and reconciliation and subsidiary accounts
- Complete all balance sheet reconciliations, including bank and petty cash reconciliations and submit for approval by HQ Finance Manager.
- Once CRM system is in place, undertake reconciliation processes between finance data and CRM data.
- Carry out monthly revaluations of bank accounts.
- Ensuring supporting information for transactions is correctly stored in electronic format on Teams such as bank statements, remittance advices, credit statements.
- Assist in preparation of internal reports, including working with Operations Department and Finance department to review their monthly reports.
- Take responsibility to deliver the management accounts of two subsidiary companies: Children in Crisis and HQ transactions of Africa Educational Trust.
- Compile information for Gift Aid returns.
- General support and assistance to the team including administrative duties and managing the office post.
- Other ad hoc support to the wider operations team as may be required.
- Audit: support with the year end audit and provision of supporting information to auditors.
Part 3: Person Specification
Attributes / Essential / Desirable
Education / Qualifications
- 5 GCSE at Grade C or above including English and Maths
- Post-GCSE qualification such as A-Level or T-level or equivalent
- Degree
- A Good understanding of double entry bookkeeping
- Part qualified accountancy qualification.
- Full Accountancy qualification
Experience and Knowledge
· IT Literate with strong Excel skills
- Familiar with using Teams
- Experience of working in a similar role
- Experience of using a CRM would be an advantage
- Charity or third sector experience.
Skills and Abilities
- Attention to detail
- Highly organised and self-motivated
- Flexible and able to manage multiple tasks at one time.
- Good written, verbal and presentation skills
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Fast learner whilst not afraid to ask for help!
- Shows initiative in identifying problems and posing solutions
- Persistence and tenacity
Other
- Pro-active communication style including keeping team-members informed and updated as necessary.
- Work co-operatively and collaboratively with colleagues, other departments and other external contacts
- Strong communicator and able to explain work to other team members
- Good Interpersonal skills
Are you ready to make a difference to the lives of children and young people in Croydon?
Reedham Children's Trust is Croydon’s oldest children’s charity, providing support to vulnerable children and young people in our area since 1844. We do this by collaborating with grassroots organisations to fund innovative programmes and projects to help transform the lives of young people.
The way we have worked over the last 180 years may have changed but our mission remains the same: to provide life-changing support for vulnerable and disadvantaged children in Croydon. We believe every child deserves the chance to thrive and to look forward to a healthy, happy, and fulfilling adult life.
In addition to running a number of established and successful projects, we have recently launched our Youth Innovation Fund which has created the need for a new role, the Youth Partnerships Officer, to ensure we deliver all our projects effectively, on time and robustly - as well as promoting our work dynamically using a range of social media platforms.
This role will be responsible for a range of activities including:
- building effective relationships with local youth delivery organisations
- managing the administration of funding awards
- monitoring service delivery of the projects to support the smooth running and success of our work.
In addition, you will have the knowledge and creativity to develop and sustain an engaging social media presence for this work.
Who is our ideal candidate? Someone who is:
- detail-oriented and committed to working to a high standard, with the ability to manage their time and competing priorities. with experience of providing administrative and coordination support to different projects at the same time and strong common sense to guide your work.
- a confident communicator, with a positive outlook, who works well with others and is organised, calm and tenacious to get things done.
- able to work sensitively and effectively with a diverse range of external partners that support people with different vulnerabilities,
- understanding of the challenges facing both the beneficiaries of our work as well as the individual organisations and charities.
In exchange, we offer flexible working primarily by remote within a small and friendly team, the opportunity to visit projects and schools as well as attend consortium meetings, and an organisational commitment to supporting a good work/life balance. We also offer training and support to enable you to be successful in your role and your career.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a small, collaborative charity working with a passionate and dedicated team. If you are excited by this opportunity and have the relevant skills and experience to apply, we would be delighted to hear from you.
We believe every child and young person in Croydon deserves the chance to thrive and to look forward to a healthy, happy, and fulfilling adult life.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Ivy Rock Partners is incredibly proud to be recruiting a new Chief Finance and Operations Officer for the Harris Federation. This is an amazing opportunity for a passionate finance leader who is looking to work within an organisation impacting children across London and the south east. Market leading salary and benefits on offer.
We welcome applications from all sectors, particularly applicants who have operated in highly regulated environments, and have led on ERP implementation projects.
Harris Federation seek to operate in areas with high levels of socio-economic disadvantage. In these places a high quality education is fundamental to the future success of the children they serve. They aim to disrupt the status quo, and free-up our teachers and leaders to focus on one thing and one thing only, providing an exceptional education for every child, where all children thrive and learn through engagement with an exciting, ambitious curriculum underpinned by excellent teaching.
Job Purpose
Finance
• To lead and manage the Harris Federation finance function so that Harris delivers its educational aims and objectives as well as meets all DfE and EFSA requirements
• To be responsible for the financial sustainability and development of Harris Federation and for the financial probity of the organisation
• To ensure the provision of an efficient, responsive, reliable, and effective financial service to the Harris Federation.
• To support the CEO in his role as Accounting Officer in line with the Academy Finance Handbook
• To provide strong leadership and direction to an established central finance team consisting of 35 staff), this being the led by a strong Financial Controller and the business partnering team led by a strong Head of Business Partnering
• To manage the Financial Controller and oversee the operational finance and accounts team
• To manage the Head of Finance Business Partnering and oversee relationships with key stakeholders across the academy network
Operations
• To work alongside the CEO and Directors to continue the development of an effective and efficient business model for the Harris Federation central services
• This will align with the Oracle roll out where the current operating model will require business change that will drive the efficiencies and benefits a new and sophisticated system like Oracle can bring
• To give strong leadership and direction to the central systems team (circa 6 staff), this team currently supporting the roll out of the Oracle system across HR, Payroll and Finance
• To ensure the provision of an efficient, responsive, reliable and effective systems support and development service to the Harris Federation
We’re looking for a Digital Marketing Officer to join our team of art lovers, music enthusiasts, culture geeks and social activists!
Creative United is an ambitious and entrepreneurial Community Interest Company committed to supporting the growth and development of the arts and creative industries. We believe that the arts, culture and creativity should be accessible to everyone, and an essential part of life that everyone should experience and enjoy in some shape or form.
Crucial to our success is the ability to effectively share our programmes, aims, opportunities and impacts with external audiences; meaning that our organisation is in the best possible position to address barriers to access the arts, inform and persuade change-makers, develop and grow networks, and amplify its and others’ successes. It is important to us to maintain a high-quality social media and digital output, and we’re looking for someone to champion our values across our digital platforms.
Our ideal candidate is someone who shares a passion of both the arts and the barrier breaking qualities of social media and online communication.
Our team operates on a hybrid working model with staff required to attend the office (currently in central London) one or two days a week, on average.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Wandsworth Oasis seeks a suitably experienced and dynamic Interim CEO to lead the organisation through a period of transition.
About Wandsworth Oasis:
Wandsworth Oasis is a beacon of hope, dedicated to enhancing community life through proactive support and engagement. We proud to be an organisation that not only addresses immediate needs but also empowers individuals to build a better future. Our commitment to financial prudence and operational excellence ensures that every contribution makes a lasting impact. Join us in our mission to create a thriving, inclusive community where everyone can flourish.
About the role:
The Interim CEO will be taking on this pivotal role at a crucial time in its development as an organisation. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting the board in strategic planning and skills gap analysis. This role requires a leader who can provide effective line management, foster staff development, and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
Key objectives include:
Integrated Leadership
* Operational Excellence
* Staff Development
* Financial Management
Collaborative Governance and Strategic Enhancement
* Board Collaboration
* Skills Enhancement
* Strategic Planning Facilitation
Seamless Leadership Transition
* Succession Planning
* Stakeholder Engagement
* Performance Evaluation and Reporting
How to Apply:
Charity People Ltd is acting as a recruitment agency advisor to Wandsworth Oasis on this appointment. Interested candidates are invited to submit a CV and cover letter outlining their suitability for the role to Senior Appointments at Charity People for an informal conversation about the role or if you have further questions prior to applying, please contact Fabrice at Charity People
Salary:
£75k FTE, day rate will also be considered as well as a 4-day working week
Closing Date:
Applications must be submitted by COB Thursday 27th June 2024.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability, and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so we can help make the application process work for you.
Charity People actively promote equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities with which we work.
Role: CRM Officer
Duration: 9 months
Salary: £39,500
Hours: 37.5 per week
Location: London (Hybrid)
We are delighted to be working with a wonderful international aid organisation to recruit an experienced CRM Officer to cover maternity leave.
About the role:
Reporting to the CRM & Data Insight Manager, you will lead on the regular schedule of data imports, data selections, data cleansing, and support the CRM and Data Insight Manager with CRM Development. Additionally, you will support the Fundraising team through training, maintaining user guides, ad-hoc reporting and being the first point of contact for any CRM issues.
About you:
You will have considerable experience of CRM database systems, ideally in the not-for-profit sector. Experience of using KingswaySoft or similar ETL tool with programming skills such as SQL is essential. We are looking for an organised, flexible candidate who is used to managing a busy workload.
We are looking to move quickly with this role so if you are interested, please apply without delay.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.