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Seeking a purposeful career change? Embark on a transformative journey with the On Purpose Associate Programme, offering a unique opportunity for mid-career professionals to transition into impactful work. This paid, year-long leadership programme is designed for those ready to pivot their professional journey towards creating a sustainable, equitable and just future.
Programme summary:
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Make a real impact: Through two 6-month work placements with leading organisations, you'll gain hands-on experience tackling pressing social and environmental issues. Our partners, including Triodos, Better Society Capital, Save the Children, Oddbox, and Sustainable Ventures, provide unparalleled opportunities to contribute to meaningful change.
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Expert-led learning: Immerse yourself in an intensive Learning & Development programme, with weekly in-person sessions led by experts from across sectors. This blend of professional training and academic rigour equips you with the leadership skills, knowledge and mindset to drive systemic change.
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1-2-1 mentoring & coaching: Receive personalised support through fortnightly mentoring sessions and quarterly executive coaching, fostering both personal and professional growth.
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Join a supportive community: You'll be welcomed into a tight-knit cohort of ~20 like-minded and ambitious Associates. Together, you'll share ideas, challenges, and successes, creating a sense of belonging and mutual support that extends far beyond the programme's duration. You’ll also join the expansive On Purpose community, connecting with a global network of impact-driven professionals offering life-long inspiration, collaboration and opportunities.
Why join us?
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Earn while you learn: A competitive gross salary of £25,645 per annum, supporting your full-time commitment to creating change.
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Have a transformative impact: Join nearly 1000 purpose-driven alumni who are leading change worldwide in all parts of the system, with 92% working in the impact sector.
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Access diverse career opportunities: Our Associates have moved into sustainability jobs and social impact roles ranging from CEOs of social enterprises to leadership positions within traditional companies driving change from within. We have a former music label business owner now the CEO of Hubbub, a former Consultant now Managing Director of Divine Chocolate, and a former Marketer at Google now Head of Europe for Terra.do.
Who we’re looking for:
This programme is ideal for individuals seeking a career change into the environment and social impact sector, or for those already in the impact sector who want to develop new skills, have the opportunity to work in more commercial organisations, or to join an engaged network of people who share your values and are working toward the same goal.
Specific sector/industry experience is not important. We’re looking for talented people from diverse industries who have a determination to bring their skills and experience to purpose-driven projects and to driving systemic change. We seek ambitious individuals with:
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A minimum of three years full-time professional experience
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The right to work in the UK
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Fluency in English
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Office environment experience
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Excitement towards building a career that helps transform our economy from profit to purpose
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Skills in project management, stakeholder engagement, adaptability, interpersonal communication, problem-solving, quantitative analysis and strategic thinking.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences and those who are often under-represented in the impact sector, including but not limited to individuals with disabilities and those from diverse ethnic, gender identities, sexualities, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.
How to apply:
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Register your interest via our website to receive a link to your online application form.
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Closing date for applications: Monday 21 October, 9:00 am (BST).
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Interviews scheduled for mid-late November with the programme starting in April 2025.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
In the role of Formation Lead & Tutor is key in helping our expanding Initial Training Team provide outstanding formation in contextual mission and evangelism – by forming effective evangelists who are able to work with God in transforming communities.
We are looking for someone who has an active and living Christian faith in order to enthuse others in mission and evangelism, with experience of working outside of the traditional church contexts. You will need to have strong collaboration and teamwork skills, with strong social and personal skills to develop relationships. The successful candidate will be able to model the values of Church Army in all that they do,
We want everyone everywhere to encounter God’s love and be empowered to transform their communities through faith shared in words and action.
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About the role:
We understand that a spinal cord injury can be devastating, but we believe it shouldn’t prevent anyone from getting the most out of life. And we’re here to help make sure that can happen through our range of services that are designed by, and delivered for people affected by spinal cord injury.
The role of Head of Services is a new one and reflects the growth and diversification of how we reach our audience and offer them support. We want to reach everyone affected by spinal cord injury across the UK.
As our Head of Services, you will lead the development, quality and sustainability of an award-winning portfolio including our Mentoring, Digital, Courses and Vocation Services – as well as providing support to oversee our vital Volunteer Development Programme.
As the only charity in the UK with dedicated services for children and young people with spinal cord injury, you will also use your expertise to guide this key area of our work.
Reporting to the Director of Services and working with the Head of Strategic Engagement, you will play a key role in the strategic leadership of the directorate.
You will be naturally driven to achieve the best outcomes for people affected by spinal cord injury. Above all, you will be passionate about being able to demonstrate the impact of what we do, and you will see for yourself how Back Up quite literally transforms lives every day.
About us:
At Back Up, we have big ambitions. Over the next few years, we’re going to be transforming the lives of even more people affected by spinal cord injury.
Together we’ll be working hard to make sure everyone affected by spinal cord injury has access to the support they deserve; and we are the only spinal cord injury charity in the UK providing dedicated services to children and young people.
At Back Up, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. Please read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy Statement. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. We particularly welcome applications from those from black, Asian or ethnic minority backgrounds or those with higher level spinal injuries.
In 2024 Back Up won The Times and The Sunday Times Spotlight Award for Best place to work for disabled employees. As well as this, Back Up has been voted one of the top ten charities to work for (Third Sector Best Charities 2020). The enthusiastic, inclusive and supportive spirit of our very skilled staff ensure excellence in the services we deliver.
At Back Up, we inspire people affected by spinal cord injury to get the most out of life.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
This organisation is using Anonymous Recruitment to reduce bias in the first stages of the hiring process. Our system keeps your personal information hidden until the recruiter contacts you.
The Support Services Coordinator is crucial in helping with the administration and data management of the Support and Information team. We are a small and friendly team of 8, who need a coordinator with excellent I.T. and data skills who is keen to put these into practice to directly support bereaved families and the professionals who work with them.
This is a great role for someone with excellent organisational skills and a passion for the work of the charity.
Please answer the following three questions in your cover letter
Q1 It is 4pm on a Friday and aftr a busy week you still have the following tasks to undertake:
1. Complete the End of month statistical report for your manager and for Fundraising (this usually takes 2 hours to complete).
2. Post bereavement packs to 3 families
3. Email the helpline befrienders the weekend helpline rota.
4. Import Professionals e-Newsletter sign-ups into Raiser’s Edge (database)
5. A colleague has been locked out of the training platform and requires help.
6. Respond to an email from a bereaved parent asking for directions to the Family Day which is happening this weekend.
7. Run an urgent report the National CONI Lead requested this morning.
8. Email training certificates to delegates following completion of their online training evaluation
Please put these in order of priority and explain your reasoning
Q2 You have received an excel spreadsheet with a download of our online training evaluation forms, each form contains about 10 questions and you have about 100 answers already. You have been asked to analyse this data and provide a draft report with graphs, % and some simple explanation/analysis. Tell us step by step on how you will approach this task?
Q3 - Outline an example of where accuracy, thoroughness and timeliness of your record keeping has been important and explain how you went about achieving this.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The role of the Trusts and Grants fundraiser is to build on-going relationships with Charitable Trusts and Foundations, whether those Trusts/Foundations are local to Birmingham and the West Midlands, or based elsewhere in the U.K., so as to continue to source financial support for St Basils in terms of grants for both revenue and capital purposes.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Administration Support Assistant
Salary: £17,850 for 3.5 days per week (FTE £25,500)
Contract type: Fixed term until March 2027 / Working hours: Part time
Location: Taunton TA1 5AW - With opportunities for hybrid working
The Administrative Support Assistant will work with the Engagement Team for 1 day per week to ensure important ongoing administrative and business tasks and supporting the team to deliver face to face and digital events, engagement, communications and volunteer support.
The Administration Support Assistant will also work for Somerset Environmental Records Centre Team (SERC) for 2.5 days per week to support with the data flow process, managing data uploads and enquiries from customers.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
Responsibility 1: Data Support
- Supporting SERC Manager and team with updating the SERC website, particularly regarding SWT event advertising.
- Monitoring of SERC email accounts and coming up with a system to coordinate the inboxes together and reduce our carbon emissions.
- Contributing to the SERC team’s production of protocols for the management of data, to ensure the integrity of data.
- Assisting the team in coming up with an online filing system and digitising paper records, particularly Local Wildlife Site files.
- Assisting with the timely and accurate flow of data into the species database. Moving casual and consultancy data submissions from emails into the data entry filing systems.
- Editing and manipulating Excel Spreadsheets of species records and entering them into Recorder and the Online Recording System.
- Extracting data from recorder and other systems where trained and assisting with programmes such as digitising Local Wildlife Site (LWS) site files and LWS reviews and the review and updating of the Somerset State of Nature report.
- Taking opportunities to develop own skills and those of others in the team (including volunteers) by work shadowing, attending events and other training courses.
Responsibility 2: Volunteer & Communications Support
Provide outstanding and consistent administrative support for Engagement Team colleagues by:
- Working closely with the Volunteering and Community Support Officer to support advertising, onboarding and general administration of volunteering and community activities.
- Monitoring and responding to the volunteer and event email enquiries - processing, recording and forwarding as required.
- Ensuring the volunteer pages on the website and social media are updated to show volunteer vacancies and volunteer role descriptions.
- Listing engagement events on the SWT website, Eventbrite?and quarterly newsletter
- Being responsible for bookings and procurements for events and training opportunities, both in person and online, when required (booking venues, reminders, refreshments, background tech etc)
- Recording volunteer hours and supplying this data to support funding bid writing and reporting.
- Supporting volunteer recognition by working with staff where necessary to celebrate individual achievement and recognise milestones.
- Being responsible for volunteer post including pin badges and retirement letters.
- Working with the membership team to ensure that volunteer records are up to date and in line with prevailing GDPR and Data Protection legislation, including annual data check.
- Inputting engagement team data into spreadsheets and our CRM system. (inc. data entry to Raisers Edge)?
Responsibility 3: General Administrative Duties
Provide accurate and timely support by:
- Supporting with the review of policies, procedures and forms as and when required.
- Ensuring the Trust’s Health and Safety policies and procedures are effectively implemented.
- Attending internal and external meetings, preparing agendas and minutes.
- Being proactive with other administrative tasks as required.
- Administrating postage - addressing, distributing and preparing letters for posting including using a franking machine.
- Ordering stock.
- Ensuring staff have availability of correct uniform and liaising with the PCR business administrator to order new uniform,
- Providing administrative support to the staff within the engagement team and SERC
- Booking rooms using our online calendar booking system.
Additional benefits of working for the Somerset Wildlife Trust include:
- 7% employer pension contribution
- Life insurance
- An annual professional institution subscription
- Flexible and agile working
- Wellbeing support - EAP, wellbeing champions
- Diversity networks through RSWT/TWT
- Paid volunteer days
- Continuous Professional Development opportunities
- Minimum 33 days of holiday (25 annual leave + bank holidays) pro rata
- Active staff social events
The opportunity to make a real and positive difference to nature, communities and the climate.
Closing date: Sunday 15 September 2024
Interested?
If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website.
No agencies please.
About the Company: Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a leading UK charity dedicated to improving the health and dignity of Palestinians affected by conflict, occupation, and displacement. With a focus on the occupied Palestinian territory and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, we provide vital health and medical care to those in need, particularly in crisis zones like Gaza.
About the Role: As Support Retention Manager, you will lead on our cash, mid-value and supporter journey strategies. The postholder will develop a high-performing retention and development programme building engagement and grow supporter life-time-value. This role is crucial as we seek to build relationships with long-standing supporters as well as sustain the engagement of our recent emergency supporters.
In collaboration with the Head of Individual Giving, you will lead the development and delivery of our Individual Giving strategy to help successfully deliver MAP’s five-year vision. You’ll lead the development of supporter-led multi-channel campaigns, launching and testing new channels and creating bespoke supporter journeys.
Responsibilities
Leadership and Strategy
- Build and inspire a high-performing, results-oriented team focused on delivering sustainable income to maintain and build on recent growth.
- Performance manage, support and develop the Individual Giving Fundraising Officer.
- Lead the development and delivery of Individual Giving strategies, leading on MAP’s Individual Giving and Mid-Value retention strategy with a focus on growth and lifetime value.
- Work across and develop MAP’s retention products, appeals and journeys, including playing a vital role in delivering multi-million-pound integrated campaigns during Ramadan and Winter.
Planning & Management of Campaigns
- Collaborate with the Head of team and peers to develop team plans aligned with the Fundraising strategy.
- Ensure the team create and optimize insight-driven, supporter-led campaigns., working with the Marketing Manager and Insights lead
- Ensure processes and systems are in place to track and meet KPIs, including the development of robust testing plans to optimize campaigns based on insights.
- Manage and motivate a range of agency partners and suppliers.
- Ensure compliance with relevant fundraising legislation and stay updated on changes in relevant thinking and laws.
Innovation
- Lead the investigation, testing, and implementation of product innovations utilising agile methods to test and learn with efficiency.
- Develop bespoke, audience-led supporter journeys, including ongoing journeys for UK and international supporters.
- Proactively stays ahead of emerging trends and horizon scanning and enjoys working in a fast-paced, agile manner, acting on learnings to optimize activity.
Budget Management
- Create annual budgets for the Individual Giving Programme, setting income and expenditure targets, with support from the Head of team.
- Manage the retention budget, including reporting on management accounts, reforecasting, and assessing risk levels.
General Responsibilities
- Support the mission, ethos and values of MAP.
- Support and promote diversity and equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- Maintain and improve competencies through continuous professional development.
- Treat with confidentiality any personal, private or sensitive information about individuals, organisations, clients or staff and MAP data.
Job Requirements
- Relevant experience in fundraising and/or marketing, with experience of direct marketing and developing supporter/customer journeys and campaigns to build long-term loyalty, engagement and income growth through cash and regular giving.
- You’ll have experience of end-to-end project management, including managing multiple projects and priorities at once.
- Experience in leading multi-channel, data-led fundraising and/or marketing appeals with evidence of income growth across channels including mail, email, SMS and TM.
- Strong track record in developing direct marketing strategies.
- Experience in strategic planning, project management, budgeting and forecasting.
- Experience of managing external stakeholders and agency partners – including creative/DM, print, SMS/TM and fulfilment agencies.
- Experience in analysing and presenting data for informed decision-making, as well as leading others to develop testing plans and optimise campaigns.
- Able to confidently analyse results, digest complex data, and extract insights to inform strategies and campaigns. This includes cash, regular giving and audience analysis.
- Expertise in digital and written communication, with a supporter-centric approach.
- Able to balance short and long-term priorities and manage opportunities and risks.
- Effective management and leadership skills, with experience of line management.
- Highly proactive - excellent at networking, communicating, and influencing.
- Relevant direct marketing qualification and/or equivalent experience.
Personal attributes and other requirements
- Commitment to maintain high standards to promote trust and confidence in MAP’s fundraising initiatives.
- Commitment to a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation & abuse/safeguarding.
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities
- Commitment to the aims, values and ethos of MAP
- Ability and willingness to work weekends/evenings in emergencies, and to travel overseas where necessary.
MAP has a zero-tolerance policy with regard to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by MAP‘s personnel against the people they serve. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is the responsibility of everyone, and all selected candidates will be required to comply with MAP's PSEA Policy at all times. Selected candidates will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks against their past behaviour related to sexual exploitation and abuse, and may be required to provide additional information further on in the selection process.
Would you like to use your financial expertise to make a difference? Here at Princess Alice Hospice, you’ll be able to see the difference your work makes to the care we give every day.
About the role:
We are looking for a Head of Finance to join us at a very exciting time for the Hospice. Reporting to the Director of Finance and Operations, you will have responsibility for the smooth running of the finance function, supported by an experienced Finance Manager.
With a new Chief Executive and Chair of Trustees in 2024, we are looking at how we can reach our vision of bringing hospice care to more people by 2030. To do this we need to be as efficient and effective as we can and make sure that our managers and senior leaders have the financial information they need to inform decision-making and drive success.
In addition to this, as part of the drive for efficiency, we need to replace our ageing finance system and introduce new processes to streamline information flows by integrating with other key systems across the business. This new role will lead that project and ensure its successful implementation.
About you:
As well as being a qualified accountant, you’ll be creative and curious, with a desire to get involved in the wider leadership of the Hospice, and have experience of implementing and developing finance systems and processes to drive efficiency.
The ability to develop effective relationships, lead and motivate your team and work collaboratively and supportively with colleagues from other disciplines is key.
If you are a flexible thinker, share our values, and are looking for a dynamic role in a supportive and inclusive environment, we would love to hear from you!
As well as our competitive salary package and the opportunity of joining an organisation where you will be able to make a difference for our patients and their families, we also offer a range of great benefits, which include:
- 27 days' annual leave, plus recognised public holidays - rising to 29 days after 5 years' service and 33 days after 10 years' service (pro rata for part time)
- Training support and development opportunities
- Free onsite parking
- Subsidised meals at onsite canteen
- Employee Assistance Programme – promoting staff wellbeing
- Access to blue light card discount
- Access to Pension Scheme
- In – house laundry of uniforms, plus excellent changing facilities (with showers)
- Wellbeing - We provide a programme of activities, opportunities and guidance to inspire and support our employees to live a healthy life, at home and at work
Note: this vacancy will be predominantly based in our offices at Esher, with some opportunity for hybrid working
At Princess Alice Hospice we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity. We are fully committed to equality of opportunities, and we warmly welcome applications from all backgrounds and cultures.
We are signed up to the Disability Confident scheme and we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. We are a place where you can be you.
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All of our vacancies except from retail are subject to a relevant DBS check.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Engagement Manager
Key Accounts
Exciting role in a fast-growing organisation working with responsible businesses transforming the economy to benefit all people, communities and the planet. The B Corp movement encourages businesses to manage their impacts on society and the environment with as much rigour as they manage their profits. The role sits within the Community team which is responsible for working with the businesses in the UK B Corp community to ensure that they are positively engaged within the community and B Corp movement.
The B Corp Movement
B Lab UK is the UK home of the B Corp movement, a community of over 2,000 UK businesses who meet high standards of social and environmental performance, legal accountability, and transparency. Some B Corps you might have heard of include Innocent Drinks, Patagonia, Tony’s Chocolonely, Finisterre, Jude’s Ice Cream, GiffGaff and WeTransfer. Our goal is to transform our economy so that all businesses can be a force for good - and we’re looking for people who can help us get there.
B Lab is a global non-profit network that inspires and enables people to use business as a force for good. It creates standards, policies, tools, and programs that shift the behaviour, culture, and structural underpinnings of capitalism.
B Lab UK is a registered charity, building and engaging the UK B Corp community. Our team of 40 staff is friendly, hard-working and committed to changing how business operates. We strive to foster an environment where staff can bring their whole selves to work, by their own definition.
The Role of Engagement Manager
The B Corp movement is continuing to grow at pace, the community now more than 2,200 strong in the UK. The Engagement Manager is an exciting role that will be key to facilitating and enhancing the customer journey for existing B Corps. As we transition from a small community managed in direct 1:1 relationships to a much larger community managed at scale, our understanding of how to best engage and support B Corps of all sizes will be crucial. This new role will take a specific focus on key accounts, and amplifying their work to serve the organisational mission.
Responsibilities will include:
Key Accounts
- Responsible for developing and delivering a brand new customer journey for B Corp Key Accounts. This includes:
- Designing a new approach to onboarding and ongoing long term customer experience of being a member of the B Corp Community.
- Building relationships with key B Corp accounts to support them in engaging with the collective action, policy and influence elements of the new B Lab UK strategy.
- Working closely with the Growth and Product team to build a new pre-certification onboarding approach.
- Ensuring all relevant key accounts receive cohort support as part of the B Corp Community.
- Working with Impact and Data team members to ensure examples of impact are identified, and a plan developed for communicating this best practice through the wider B Corp Community.
- Develop opportunities for key accounts to meet directly in relevant groups, building cross organisational relationships amongst key stakeholders at these companies.
- Ensure the Leadership Team of relevant key accounts have the opportunity to connect and engage with the B Lab Leadership team.
- Identify opportunities for Key Accounts to be advocates for the mission of B Lab, ensuring they are prioritised for communications and opportunities for collective action and advocacy.
- Develop an understanding of levels of engagement within the key accounts group - building and regularly applying an engagement tracker to monitor the health of engagement.
- Ensure all key contacts are up to date, including ensuring the wider B Lab UK team maintains up to date contact information.
CEO Engagement
- Accountable for assembling a cross organisational team to design and deliver a CEO Engagement Programme to engage B Corp CEOs in aligning with and supporting the new B Lab UK Strategy to achieve economic change.
- Design a process for monitoring engagement, and set ambitious targets for the involvement of all key accounts engaging in the CEO Programme.
Campaigns
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- Key role on major B Lab UK events for the community, taking a primary focus on engagement targets of B Corps within the key account groups.
- B Corp Month- working with the Engagement Manager (Network), develop and deliver an effective engagement strategy for Key Accounts before, during and after B Corp Month.
Management
- Manage Community Assistant and responsible for their development in the role. Set objectives and oversee workload and performance.
- Support Community Assistant in managing FreshDesk and other community support responsibilities.
Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Accomplished relationship builder and communicator with a track record of engaging diverse stakeholders.
- Strong organisational, prioritisation and administrative skills.
- Clear communicator with excellent written and oral communication skills
- Good analytical skills with the ability to uncover insights from qualitative and quantitative data
- Understanding of customer experience and user experience approaches and how they can be deployed in our work
- Ability to collaborate effectively across teams, scoping and prioritising potential opportunities
- Experience in using Salesforce and Pardot (or equivalent).
- Strong team member with the ability to provide clear direction and to motivate a team to deliver outstanding results.
- Line Management experience
- Experience in event design, management & delivery
Desirable
- Experience in developing and delivering customer journeys to varied stakeholders.
- Experience in developing a digital community content plan.
- Experience in copywriting for newsletters.
- Ability to translate translate community requirements to technical / technology requirements
Person Specification
- Passionate about sustainability, and specifically about the role that business can play in creating the future that benefits all people and the planet.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment - therefore happy with:
- A changeable, sometimes uncertain, and fast-paced environment
- Variety - with no two days being the same
- A growth mindset and a willingness to try new things and learn from mistakes
- Proactive, organised, flexible and self-motivated. Rolling up your sleeves and getting things done.
- Good communicator; skilled at understanding others’ motivations and priorities.
- Has a creative approach to finding solutions to new challenges
- A quick learner with great initiative who can apply good judgement with confidence
- Collaborative with a team mentality - we need to work closely together to get the job done.
- Committed to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.
- Eligible to work in the UK (we will not be able to provide visa sponsorship).
This is a great opportunity for an experienced feminist Fundraising Manager to set RISE on a new path to independence. We are looking for a new person to join us to grow income, to enable us to diversify our fundraising approach, including major donors, legacy giving and securing corporate support and sponsorship. You will be managing a small team and working closely with the CEO.
RISE is a relatively small but highly respected women-centred domestic abuse charity deeply embedded in the Brighton and Hove community with 30 years’ experience. Our vision is ‘Freedom from Abuse and Violence’ and our strategic aims are on our website.
The role has clear fundraising priorities, but we are looking for someone willing to lend-a-hand to support our high-profile events and able to work well as part of a relatively small staff team. We are hoping to find someone who is a confident and organised feminist leader and an influencer who is as committed and passionate as we are to ending male violence and abuse.
RISE is a relatively small organisation with around 20 staff. We are a busy and (for our size) complex charity, with a friendly team, a positive ethos, and a commitment to ensuring that RISE is a strong and efficient organisation and a great place to work.
The successful candidate will be creative, organised and resourceful, possess excellent cross-discipline communication and income generation skills and have solid experience in running successful awareness-raising campaigns, maximising digital channels and securing press coverage to increase RISE’s reach.
We offer hybrid working with some requirements to be onsite. We believe in creating a positive environment where our differences are respected and each of us feels valued for our contribution.
On appointment, you will be expected to complete a DBS disclosure and supply us with references.
More information about the role and how to apply is available on the RISE website
The deadline for applications is: 8 September 2024
Interviews will take place: Week beginning 16 September 2024
* This post is only open to female applicants as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
The successful candidate will join a highly regarded women-led, women-centred, and trauma-informed charity with almost 30-years track record in violence against women and girls (VAWG) and LGBT Domestic Abuse.
RISE is committed to ending racism and has signed up to the Ending Racism in VAWG commitments:
We are committed to actively holding anti-racist values and practices and nurturing the contributions from Black and minoritised women within the sector to grow Black and minoritised women in leadership roles.
RISE is a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer working actively to create a staff team to better reflect our community. We do this by encouraging black and minorities and disabled women to apply for this role with a guaranteed interview to all women meeting this description that meet the person specification required.
Benefits that we can offer in return:
· Living Wage Employer
· 3% employer contribution pension.
· Generous holiday entitlement of 27 days’ annual leave rising to 29 after 5 years plus bank holidays.
· Employee assistance programme.
· Focus on well-being and balancing flexible working alongside RISE’s priorities.
· Committed to training and learning opportunities for continuous development. Trauma Focussed wellbeing support.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job title: Director of Development
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Grade 8: £66,679 - £88,977. Appointments for this role will generally be made at £80,000 per annum
Working arrangements: Full time, 35 hours a week. Standard working hours between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working, with a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. This role requires travel within the UK and internationally and attendance at evening and weekend events.
An exciting opportunity to lead a high-performing fundraising team and help shape our new fundraising campaign to improve patient care and reduce ill health across communities.
As Director of Development, you’ll lead our efforts to bring major donors, trusts/foundations and corporate partners into long term relationships of trust with the Royal College of Physicians. Your core responsibility will be to encourage and motivate the fundraising team, including line management of the Deputy Director for Corporate Partnerships and the Head of Philanthropy. You’ll also cultivate your own individual portfolio of international donors and find opportunities to engage face-to-face with prospective supporters at the major and principal gift level.
You’ll be trusted to work autonomously to develop and implement our fundraising strategy and work with our development board on planning for a new fundraising campaign, following the successful close of our £10 million Giving Health campaign. You will help achieve our strategic aim to increase our income from major gift fundraising and, depending on results, you’ll also have the opportunity to grow the size of the fundraising function.
You’ll report to and work closely with the CEO, Chief of Staff, and have the full support and involvement of the President, College Officers and Trustees.
Purpose and scope
Key responsibilities
- Shape the overall strategic goals of a new multi-year fundraising campaign and ensure that we deliver our ambitious income generation targets on an annual basis
- Work closely with the president, trustees, chief executive officer and other senior colleagues and volunteers to develop and implement the RCP's fundraising strategy
- Enhance our fundraising profile to highlight the contributions of donors and the impact of funded projects at all levels
- Refresh our fundraising comms strategy and produce high quality, in-depth digital and hardcopy materials
- Plan an annual programme of engagement between the President/CEO and international major gift prospects, including from the 20% of our membership based outside of the UK
- Facilitate the work of development committee members in advising on strategy, monitoring progress towards agreed targets, introducing new prospects, and helping with cultivation
- Support the development of fundraising skills among colleagues - both your direct reports, the Deputy Director for Corporate Partnerships and the Head of Philanthropy - and senior colleagues involved in making asks
- Maximise the fundraising potential of the RCP’s heritage collections and grow the fundraising income of our museum, archive, and library
- Ensure due diligence on prospective donors and adherence to internal processes and procedures for fundraising, reporting, financial management and information management
- Oversee the existing awards programme, which is administered by the development administrator
About you
- A proven track record of effective fundraising leadership
- Substantive major gift experience, including securing six figure gifts from either individuals, trusts/foundations or corporate partners
- Influencing and negotiating at the most senior levels externally and within an organisation; able to describe and communicate compelling propositions and to 'ask' for the gift
- Track record of developing a fundraising strategy over time, demonstrating innovation and creativity as well as knowledge and experience of successful programmes from peer organisations
- Highly developed stakeholder management skills with proven ability to create, develop and sustain trusted and effective relationships with major philanthropic partners and potential partners
- Highly developed networking skills to build and sustain a network of supporters for the RCP
- Track record of successful line management that builds and motivates a successful team
- Strong skill set in decision making, understanding complex environments, strategic thinking and an exceptional ability to communicate
- Strong organisational skills to maximise outcomes against multiple competing priorities
- Understanding of fundraising regulation and compliance
For more information about the role please view the job description and person specification.
Our benefits
Working at the RCP comes with lots of benefits designed to ensure that you feel valued and supported in your role. The benefits we offer include:
- 29 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
- group personal pension plan with 7% employer contribution
- interest-free season ticket loan
- life assurance
- annual pay award
- flexible working hours
- employee assistance programme – 24/7 advice and support for any work-related issues as well as any problems affecting your home life
- occupational health team – includes employment and work-related health assessments, health checks and work station assessments
- cycle to work scheme
- corporate eye care scheme
- professional training and development opportunities
- enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- staff discounts platform – including discounts on cinema tickets and a range of high street brands
About the RCP
The Royal College of Physicians is a rewarding and friendly place to work with an incredible history, dating back to our foundation in 1518. We are a professional membership body for physicians – doctors who work in hospitals – with over 40,000 members in the UK and around the world working to improve patient care and reduce illness. Our activities focus on educating, improving and influencing for better health and care.
About the selection process
Please note that the selection process will take place over two days. The expected dates are 17 and 18 September.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend the following: -
Day 1
- Meeting with the team (30 minutes)
- Negotiation skills based scenario with a key stakeholder (30 minutes)
Day 2
- Pre-interview time limited preparation of presentation (15 minutes)
- Delivery of presentation and panel interview (60 minutes)
How to apply
Please submit an up-to-date CV and cover letter outlining how your suitability for the role and how your skills and experience meet the job description. Please note that applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered.
If you have any queries about the application and selection process or the role, please contact our recruitment team.
Key dates
Closing date: 11:59pm 6 September
Shortlisted candidates will be notified by email on: 12 September 2024
Interview dates: 17 and 18 September 2024
The RCP positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.
The RCP is all about our people – our members, staff, volunteers and leaders. We educate, influence and collaborate to improve health and healthcare for everyone and know we can only do this by being inclusive, encouraging and celebrating diverse perspectives. Welcoming into our community people who represent the 21st-century medical workforce and the diverse population of patients we serve is a priority for us.
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About
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people. To achieve this mission, we provide thousands of grants every year to groups and individuals across the globe that work on the issues we focus on—promoting tolerance, transparency, and open debate. We also engage in strategic human rights litigation and impact investing, while incubating new ideas and engaging directly with governments and policymakers through advocacy to advance positive change.
The Role
To support the Policy, Knowledge & Training team in the development of a wide array of knowledge resources (in written, visual, and digital form), and the design and implementation of creative communication strategies and mechanisms to effectively share these resources with various audiences across Open Society Foundations.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with the Associate Director and the Policy, Knowledge & Training team, members of Grants Management, and other Open Society stakeholders to develop, test, produce and revise knowledge resources (for example, manuals, training guides, guidance and policy documents, case studies, workbooks, videos, online learning tools, and other resources) for Open Society’s Salesforce-based grantmaking software, grants management compliance, and grantmaking policies.
- Assist a team of Grants Management trainers to facilitate trainings, both independently and as a part of the Policy, Knowledge & Training team, for in-person and remote learning sessions.
- Organize resources, information and data into useable formats to meet the needs of end users – both within Grants Management and for the entire organization.
- Develop and maintain informational resources for Grants Management, while ensuring appropriate controls are in place, adjusting for accuracy, completeness and readability.
- Support the execution of communication strategies and mechanisms to share knowledge resources with diverse audiences inside Open Society.
- Stay abreast of grants management and grantmaking policies and procedures, practices, and guidelines at Open Society, and assist stakeholders as needed to understand and adhere to these.
- Build and maintain relationships with program and operational units across Open Society, helping to identify knowledge and experience within the organization that would be valuable to systematize and share broadly.
- Help to identify gaps in knowledge and experience within the organization that the Policy, Knowledge & Training team should address.
- Provide advanced administrative support for Policy, Knowledge & Training projects, including scheduling and arranging the logistics for in-person or virtual meetings, contributing to the development of agendas and facilitating work meetings when necessary, managing project’s timeline, identifying projects’ operational needs and developing solutions, and managing administrative issues related to the work of retained consultants.
- Perform various administrative tasks and other duties as assigned.
- 15% travel is required.
Direct Reports:
None
Key internal relationships
Associate Director, Policy, Knowledge & Training; Grant Officers; Grant Associates
Qualifications
Essential:
- University degree – BA or BSc
Experience
Essential:
- Experience in design and testing of training material
- Experience with evolving and complex administrative policies and procedures and operating within them and ability to quickly understand and use policies and procedures.
- Excellent computer skills, proficient in Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, and experience with other knowledge management/sharing platforms (Freshservice, Interact).
Desirable:
- Experience as an effective teacher/trainer/facilitator
- Experience working with a grant processing software/system (Salesforce or other CRM preferred) Knowledge of grant making concepts and the philanthropic and non-profit sectors in general
- Prior experience working with processes and systems – either from within Grants Management or from Programmatic teams.
- Proven experience in collaborating with multi-country stakeholders within a multinational organization, and/or organization with significant complexity
Competencies
Functional Competencies:
- High level of emotional intelligence and ability to build and maintain strong, trusting relationships, internally and externally, across cultures and geographies, to further unit goals
- Demonstrated specialized knowledge of grantmaking policy, including ability to design reasonable policy, anticipate ways in which policies may succeed or fail, and effectively develop and carry out strategy to align grantmaking practices with OSF’s approach to grantmaking and goals of a given policy
- Ability to use data and information to undertake assessment and inform decision-making
- Excellent l, project management and organizational skills
- Ability to draft policies, guidance and other documents in English; and basic understanding of approaches to adult learning and facilitation
- Works with considerable independence under limited supervision, using judgment to identify issues requiring supervisory involvement
Personal Competencies:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills enabling the individual to effectively draft policies and facilitate where needed
- Demonstrates commitment to OSF’s core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity and integrity
- Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism, and social justice
- Commitment to listening and working with humility; ways of working that are respectful to all people; and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace
Languages:
- An excellent knowledge of English
- Knowledge of other languages would be an asset
Competitive rates of pay apply.
Open Society Foundations is committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, and to building a diverse staff that reflects the movements, issues and communities that our mission serves. Candidates from all underrepresented backgrounds, identities and communities are encouraged to apply.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues with disabilities.
Charity People are delighted to be supporting the Royal College of Physicians with this exciting opportunity to lead a high-performing fundraising team, and help shape their new fundraising campaign to improve patient care and reduce ill health across communities.
About the RCP
The Royal College of Physicians has an incredible history, dating back to their foundation in 1518. They are a professional membership body for physicians - doctors who work in hospitals - with over 40,000 members in the UK and around the world working to improve patient care and reduce illness. Our activities focus on educating, improving and influencing for better health and care.
Job title: Director of Development
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £80,000
Working arrangements: Full time, 35 hours a week. Standard working hours between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working, with a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. This role requires travel within the UK and internationally and attendance at evening and weekend events.
The Role
As Director of Development, you'll lead efforts to bring major donors, trusts/foundations and corporate partners into long term relationships of trust with the Royal College of Physicians. Your core responsibility will be to encourage and motivate the fundraising team, including line management of the Deputy Director for Corporate Partnerships and the Head of Philanthropy. You'll also cultivate your own individual portfolio of international donors and find opportunities to engage face-to-face with prospective supporters at the major and principal gift level.
You'll be trusted to work autonomously to develop and implement the new fundraising strategy and work with the development board on planning for a new fundraising campaign, following the successful close of the £10 million Giving Health campaign. You will help achieve the strategic aim to increase income from major gift fundraising and, depending on results, you'll also have the opportunity to grow the size of the fundraising function.
You'll report to and work closely with the CEO, Chief of Staff, and have the full support and involvement of the President, College Officers and Trustees.
Key responsibilities include:
- Shape the overall strategic goals of a new multi-year fundraising campaign and ensure that we deliver our ambitious income generation targets on an annual basis
- Work closely with the president, trustees, chief executive officer and other senior colleagues and volunteers to develop and implement the RCP's fundraising strategy
- Enhance our fundraising profile to highlight the contributions of donors and the impact of funded projects at all levels
- Refresh our fundraising comms strategy and produce high quality, in-depth digital and hardcopy materials
- Plan an annual programme of engagement between the President/CEO and international major gift prospects, including from the 20% of our membership based outside of the UK
- Facilitate the work of development committee members in advising on strategy, monitoring progress towards agreed targets, introducing new prospects, and helping with cultivation
- Support the development of fundraising skills among colleagues - both your direct reports, the Deputy Director for Corporate Partnerships and the Head of Philanthropy - and senior colleagues involved in making asks
- Maximise the fundraising potential of the RCP's heritage collections and grow the fundraising income of our museum, archive, and library
- Ensure due diligence on prospective donors and adherence to internal processes and procedures for fundraising, reporting, financial management and information management
- Oversee the existing awards programme, which is administered by the development administrator
About you
- A proven track record of effective fundraising leadership
- Substantive major gift experience, including securing six figure gifts from either individuals, trusts/foundations or corporate partners
- Influencing and negotiating at the most senior levels externally and within an organisation; able to describe and communicate compelling propositions and to 'ask' for the gift
- Track record of developing a fundraising strategy over time, demonstrating innovation and creativity as well as knowledge and experience of successful programmes from peer organisations
- Highly developed stakeholder management skills with proven ability to create, develop and sustain trusted and effective relationships with major philanthropic partners and potential partners
- Highly developed networking skills to build and sustain a network of supporters for the RCP
- Track record of successful line management that builds and motivates a successful team
- Strong skill set in decision making, understanding complex environments, strategic thinking and an exceptional ability to communicate
- Strong organisational skills to maximise outcomes against multiple competing priorities
- Understanding of fundraising regulation and compliance
For more information about the role and how to apply, please contact Kevin Croasdale at Charity People: [email protected]
Benefits:
Working at the RCP comes with lots of benefits designed to ensure that you feel valued and supported in your role. The benefits we offer include:
- 29 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
- group personal pension plan with 7% employer contribution
- interest-free season ticket loan
- life assurance
- annual pay award
- flexible working hours
- employee assistance programme - 24/7 advice and support for any work-related issues as well as any problems affecting your home life
- occupational health team - includes employment and work-related health assessments, health checks and work station assessments
- cycle to work scheme
- corporate eye care scheme
- professional training and development opportunities
- enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- staff discounts platform - including discounts on cinema tickets and a range of high street brands
About the selection process
Please note that the selection process will take place over two days. The expected dates are 17 and 18 September.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend the following: -
Day 1
- Meeting with the team (30 minutes)
- Negotiation skills based scenario with a key stakeholder (30 minutes)
Day 2
- Pre-interview time limited preparation of presentation (15 minutes)
- Delivery of presentation and panel interview (60 minutes)
Key dates
Closing date: 11:59pm 6 September
Shortlisted candidates will be notified by email on: 12 September 2024
Interview dates: 17 and 18 September 2024
The RCP positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.
The RCP is all about our people - our members, staff, volunteers and leaders. We educate, influence and collaborate to improve health and healthcare for everyone and know we can only do this by being inclusive, encouraging and celebrating diverse perspectives. Welcoming into our community people who represent the 21st-century medical workforce and the diverse population of patients we serve is a priority for us.
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