Impact Lead Jobs

About The Role
It’s an exciting time to join us as a Regional Fundraising Manager! We’re a growing team with big ambitions, playing a huge part in making these ambitions a reality, paving the way for our future. Alzheimer's Society was named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 and we have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction.  This is a wonderful achievement and we're incredibly proud, as this is fantastic testament to all the people who make up Alzheimer’s Society. 
 
Location: Homebased - Wales and West Central England (Hereford, Worcestershire, Black Country) region only.
Interview date: 20th - 24th January

This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced team manager with expertise in community, corporate or relationship fundraising, enabling you to demonstrate your impact by both growing the overall income by managing and developing your amazing team of Regional Fundraisers, and by securing new sources of income where the opportunity is greatest. This could range from new business acquisition through to delivering higher level bespoke stewardship and key account management for our highest value supporters. This is a real opportunity for you to make your mark!

From multi-year partnerships and supporters, right through to managing volunteers and raising awareness in our communities, the team you will lead is talented, fast-paced and on a mission to create a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. This is where you come in - we need somebody who can harness this passion, help us to maximise on the opportunities that our unique locations give us, and ultimately grow income so we can be there for everybody affected by dementia. Working closely with the Senior Regional Fundraising Manager, the successful individual will plan, execute, and deliver our core community income and expenditure budget, ensuring that no opportunity is left unturned.

We are looking for someone with;

• Strong skills built in community, corporate or relationship fundraising.
• Ability to manage a team, developing them to be Trusted Experts.
• Evidence of ability to manage of competing priorities and deliver multiple concurrent activities. 
• Possession of skills to acquire new business and deliver excellent account management and supporter stewardship.
• Ability to developing action plans from strategic objectives for your team to deliver.

Location: We offer a homebased or Hybrid role within Greater London.
Interview date: w/c 20th January

If you are passionate about community fundraising, team management and development, and want to be part of an ambitious and strong team environment...then we want to hear from you

About Alzheimer's Society
Dementia is the biggest health and social challenge of our time.

There are currently estimated to be 900,000 people in the UK with dementia. Many are undiagnosed and facing the realities of their condition alone.

At Alzheimer’s Society we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today and providing hope for the future. We’re here for everyone living with dementia.
 
As a Society, we are made up of people with dementia, carers, trusted experts, campaigners, researchers and clinicians. We are the UK’s largest collective force of people with unparalleled knowledge and over 40 years of experience addressing the biggest challenges facing people living with dementia.

Our Values

We are Determined to make a difference when and where it matters most, by being passionate, focussed and making a lasting impact for people affected by dementia.

Every one of us is a Trusted expert, listening, learning and using evidence and experience. We are Better together by being open, combining our strengths, helping us to achieve more together. We are Compassionate, we are kind and honest, and we don’t shy away from challenges.

Through our values we will make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.

Equal Opportunities

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society.

We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do. During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and be at your best.

About Gaddum

At Gaddum, we treat everyone as individuals. We really get to know those we help, understanding their world to offer a range of support that’s right for them. Our promise of tailored support is made possible by our breadth and depth of knowledge, through our unwavering commitment to the local people of Greater Manchester. Our experience listening to generation after generation, for nearly 200 years, has taught us the importance of considering not just the individual but also the relationships around them. Our innovative approach means we can not only build resilience, but identify further risks, providing preventive support now and in the future. At Gaddum, we believe that by supporting individuals, we ultimately help support entire communities. Our aim is to empower and enhance the lives of the people we exist to support.

About the Accelerating Reform Fund

The Accelerating Reform Fund is a new initiative which aims to transform social care services, making them more responsive to the needs of the community. It is a national programme, with 42 regions allocated to have their own projects. Greater Manchester is one of the ARF regions. The ARF has a particular focus on unpaid carers and aims to boost short-term breaks for carers and improve hospital discharge processes. This work is made possible by Department for Health and Social Care grants. As an organisation, Gaddum has supported and collaborated with unpaid carers for many years, so we’re excited to bring our experience to the table. This role will be based in the Manchester team working to improve hospital discharge processes.

Job Summary

To develop and ensure safe discharge planning and information for patients and unpaid carers. To embed procedures to raise awareness of the needs of carers in a secondary care setting, working in partnership with the discharge, virtual and enablement teams. To empower carers to be involved in the discharge process.

Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to provide operational leadership and oversight of the Carers Hospital Discharge Pilot in Manchester. The role involves line-managing a team of three Hospital Discharge Workers across multiple hospital sites, ensuring effective collaboration with hospital staff and community services to support carers. The aim is to enhance the identification and referral of carers, ensuring timely and appropriate support to prevent carer breakdown and facilitate smoother, safer, and more efficient hospital discharges. By fostering strong relationships with health teams, discharge teams, and local services, this role bridges the gap between secondary care and community resources, contributing to improved outcomes for carers and patients alike.

The Cardinal Hume Centre works to prevent and tackle youth and family homelessness.

Job title: Employment and Learning Manager

Reports to: Head of Advice

Salary: £42,000 plus benefits

Contract: Permanent, full-time (35 hours)

Hybrid Working

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the world? Do you want to leverage your skills to combat homelessness for children and young people? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking to recruit a passionate and values-led Employment& Learning Manager to lead on the development and growth of the Centre’s Employment and Learning Service. Our Employment and Learning Service is among the most impactful support we offer, with the potential to help individuals and families build long-term resilience. You will play a pivotal role in strengthening and expanding this service, particularly in demonstrating its effectiveness and scaling our ability to reach more people in need.

You are joining at a time when we are actively piloting projects to reach young people and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness sooner. We aim to lower the barrier to entry to our service through outreach projects, and you will be tasked with leading the team to build and engage in this project.

Our approach follows the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model, which helps clients to identify and pursue meaningful employment and learning goals based on their preferences and aspirations. Our learning service ihomework and exam preparation for children, English conversation classes and access to ESOL support, life-skill development, digital inclusion and access to vocational courses and higher education.

Please refer to the job description for further information. 

In your cv and cover letter, please outline how you meet the requirements of the role and why you would like to work for us. You must account for any gaps in your employment history.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The Centre requires staff and volunteers to complete a criminal records self-declaration and undertake a DBS check. This role requires an enhanced DBS check.

Benefits

· 26 days’ leave rising to 28 days’ leave after two years’ service (pro rata for part time staff)

· Additional discretionary wellbeing and celebratory days

· Access to Blue Light Card discounts

· Pension: stakeholder pension scheme and we will match employee contributions up to a maximum of 6%.

· Life assurance cover (after probation passed)

· Season ticket loan

· Training and development opportunities

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to lead our Student Communities Team based in Sunderland. This team supports a wide range of societies, our student representation function and volunteering opportunities for students.

You will manage and support the team to ensure that our student-led activities and initiatives are engaging, impactful and safe.

The post holder will need to demonstrate the essential criteria from the JD/Person specification within their application statement demonstrating previous management experience and clear examples of driving positive change and strategic developments.

It is an exciting time to join us!

We have recently achieved Quality Students’ accreditation from the National Union of Students and are currently going through a Democracy and Governance Review to revitalise the way our students interact with the Democracy and Governance of the organisation across both the Sunderland and London campuses.

Informal conversations regarding the post are encouraged with our Head of Operations, Dan Fow, ahead of application. Please email to arrange an informal and confidential meeting.

About the Role

Base Location: The main headquarters of the Charity is in Leamington Spa although some of the work involves being located across Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire. We have a blended approach of home-based working, office-based working and travelling to and attending meetings as required. The postholder is expected to adopt a flexible approach to their work.

Salary: £29,094 + travel expenses + pension.

Working Pattern: 37 hours per week | 1 FTE | Job Share or Part time options

Contract type: Fixed Term until 31 March 2027 (subject to successfully passing probation and subject to extension beyond this date subject to funding)

The main responsibilities of this role are:

Relationship Management

· To act as the lead and relationship manager with partners on behalf of Think Active Lead, or support on the development of local partnerships and networks promoting collaboration across all relevant sectors

· Raise awareness of funding opportunities available to increase participation in sport and physical activity.

· Lead, or support on the development of local place partnerships that align multiple agendas with partners from across different sectors and advocate for the benefits of physical activity.

Project Management

· To act as the lead for Sport England and other projects and initiatives managed by Think Active.

· High quality Project Management that ensures projects aims are clear, that they are delivered on time and on budget and in line with our values.

· Effective delivery of the Think Active. #WeThinkActive Strategy, through your contribution as a team member of Think Active and with and through partners.

· Tangibly contribute to the increase participation in sport and physical activity and address wider social needs through creative and innovative approaches and partnerships.

· Seek out opportunities to generate income and contribute to Think Active business development and income generation targets both for the organisation and for local partners.

· Use robust data and insight to co-design, implement and evaluate innovative. and appropriate projects and initiatives.

· Prepare detailed reports; including performance and financial in relation to your work.

· Adhere to GDPR and data protection through your planning, implementation and communication.

Financial Management

· Plan, implement and in accordance with funding guidance, financial procedures,

and policies, take responsibility for diversifying Think Active’s income streams through in line with the strategy and business development plan

· Project and budget management including forecasting, monitoring of income and expenditure, plus the submission of financial reporting

Demonstrating Impact

Reporting progress and capturing value through case studies and evaluation processes designed to evidence the impact targets. Story telling – the ability to articulate the impact and value of Think Active (locally, regionally, nationally across various sectors)

Marketing and Communications

· Work with the Marketing and Communications Leads and deliberately and thoughtfully align projects and work with Think Active’s Active Societies strategic objective.

· By strategically cultivating and managing partnerships you will play an important role in building brand visibility and enhancing Think Active’s marketing and communications efforts.

· You will collaborate with internal colleagues and external stakeholders to create compelling narratives that showcase the impact of our projects and initiatives, driving awareness and engagement.

· By leveraging partnerships, the Partnership Manager will contribute to positioning Think Active in promoting health and well-being through innovative and impactful physical activity projects, initiatives and collaborations.

Digital Marketing Manager
Location: Slimbridge Wetland Centre with the opportunity for hybrid working
Salary: £34,405 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About The Role

Be part of something extraordinary.

At WWT, the charity for wetlands and wildlife, we’re on a mission to restore wetlands and unlock their power to benefit nature, people, and the planet. Join our passionate team and play a pivotal role in increasing awareness and engagement with our exciting new brand. Your expertise in digital marketing will help us connect with audiences and drive meaningful change.

The Role

As Digital Marketing Manager, you’ll develop and deliver a dynamic digital marketing strategy to attract first-time visitors to WWT sites and support membership recruitment and retention, particularly post-visit. Your work will directly support WWT’s mission of raising awareness about the importance of wetlands.

In this role, you will:

• Drive Impactful Campaigns: Develop and manage ‘paid for’ digital marketing campaigns with clear ROI metrics, helping us reach and engage key audiences.
• Lead with Strategy: Oversee digital marketing activities across WWT sites, ensuring consistent and compelling messaging that drives results.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with social media, brand, marketing, supporter engagement, and digital and data teams to align strategies and maximise impact.
• Evaluate & Optimise: Monitor campaign performance, providing analysis and recommendations for continuous improvement.

The role is a permanent full time position and will be base at Slimbridge Wetland Centre with the opportunity for hybrid working. This role would be expected to work at Slimbridge 2 days a week.

About You

We’re looking for a strategic digital marketer with a proven track record of delivering results.

The ideal candidate will:

• Develop and Deliver Strategy: Create and implement a bold, results-driven digital marketing strategy to drive first-time visitors to WWT wetland sites. 
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Advise on and work with relevant third parties to deliver the digital marketing aspects of visitor, profile, and engagement campaigns. You’ll work closely with the FMC and Operations Senior Leadership Teams to achieve campaign objectives.
• Drive E-Commerce Growth: Play a key role in developing WWT’s e-commerce strategy, ensuring marketing delivery aligns with WWT’s trading priorities while balancing other financial asks across the supporter journey.
• Lead Email Marketing: Oversee and develop WWT’s email marketing plan to serve new and existing supporters. You’ll ensure emails build engagement from data capture through to conversion and retention, maximising supporter relationships.
• Leverage Data & Insights: Lead on identifying trends in digital marketing, contextualising them for WWT to improve performance against objectives. This will include:

With excellent organisational skills, a strategic mindset, and strong technical expertise, you’ll thrive in managing multi-faceted digital campaigns and finding innovative ways to deliver exceptional results.

About Us

We’re WWT, and we’re on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for our work, and we’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.

Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, our team are second to none. And there’s nothing we love more than watching them soar.

Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?

 Why you’ll love working at WWT

• Wake up every day knowing your work is helping to restore wetlands, and our world
• Be surrounded and inspired by our team of passionate, dedicated people
• 33 days annual leave (which goes up to 38 days after 5 years of service) – this includes bank holidays and you have flexibility to take those days whenever you want
• Free entry to all our wetland centres, including your family
• Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
• Colleague discount on shopping and memberships
• Cycle to work scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life Assurance of three times your salary, for peace of mind for your loved ones
• Independent personal, workplace and financial advice from Care first

Closing date: 13th January 2025

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

WWT is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit.

No agencies please.

We seek a highly motivated, STEM-focused individual to become our Head of Education. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will deliver the UKESF’s current programme and identify and execute opportunities to increase our impact.

The primary responsibilities of the Head of Education will include:

Ensure the operational effectiveness and impact of the UKESF’s current portfolio of schools’ projects and activities.

• Oversee existing schools’ projects to identify areas of development, efficiency or impact.
• Manage two direct reports.
• Identify opportunities for income or fundraising to support continued delivery of the projects.
• Ensure that schools’ projects are being delivered on budget. Oversee resource purchasing, develop and manage the projects budgets in line with funding.
• Work with our community, including volunteers, to deliver effective outreach as part of our existing portfolio of projects.
• Evaluate and report on the success of existing projects.

Lead the development and creation of new projects and activities to promote Electronics in schools, from Primary through to 6th Form. 

• Identify opportunities for new projects, that are impactful and age-appropriate. Projects can be either developed internally or collaboratively with our stakeholders.
• Ensure new programmes help us to achieve our mission, and compliment our existing integrated skills programme.
• Identify funding opportunities and manage the project budget effectively.
• Evaluate and adapt programmes to ensure maximum impact. Some external reporting will be required.

Develop and maintain relationships with our external educational stakeholders and collaborators.

• Work with teachers from multiple disciplines to inspire pupils with Electronics
• Consider how relationships with schools and their pupils can be nurtured to increase the number of students who go on to pursue Electronics
• Attend events, meetings and forums as relevant to raise the profile of our Electronics resources and support for schools.
• Work with other educational stakeholders to raise the profile of Electronics as part of the wider STEM education ecosystem.

Skills and Behaviours

We are looking for someone who is reliable, trustworthy and collegiate. You will be enthusiastic about STEM education and outreach projects. In particular, we are looking for someone with demonstratable experience of:

• STEM education in secondary schools, or non-for-profit sector.
• Inspiring and successfully managing operational teams.
• STEM projects and outreach activities.
• Leading collaboratively; high emotional intelligence, low ego. 
• Building and maintaining successful relationships with a range of different external stakeholders. 
• Strong communication, influencing and presentation skills.
• Managing budgets, working to KPI’s and meeting deadlines.
• Flexible and proactive approach, with the drive and initiative to make things happen.

This role will be particularly suited to someone looking for a worthwhile and rewarding challenge in the STEM education charity sector. It is a permanent position, and we offer flexible working (all forms of flexible working considered). Our office is on Wiltshire/Gloucestershire border and there is an expectation some UK travel (up to 10%).

We have built a strong team, with a very positive and collaborative culture. Therefore, as well as understanding the CEO’s intent, the key to the role will be working with the team to support each other to achieve the charities aims.

About the UKESF

We are the voice for skills in the Electronics Industry. Through engagement with Schools, Universities and Industry, it is our mission to encourage more young people to study Electronics and to pursue careers in the sector.

The UK has a long heritage of technological innovation and has a world-class Electronics sector with the potential to provide solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today. However, the demand for capable, employable Electronics Engineers and designers is currently outstripping supply.

The UKESF works tirelessly to ensure that more schoolchildren can learn about Electronics, in an engaging way, and be aware of the opportunities available. We have a number of programmes and initiatives that help aspiring engineers to develop their interest through to university study, and support that prepares undergraduates for the workplace.

Although we are a micro-organisation, recent funding successes, growing stature and increasing activity mean that we now seek a committed individual to join our team in a senior capacity. 

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for service excellence and business growth? Strides Highbury Counselling Centre is looking for an innovative Service and Business Development Manager to lead the operational management of our counselling service and drive the development of our commercial opportunities.

Why Join Us?
At Strides, we bridge the gap in mental health services by providing affordable, long-term counselling. We also maximise the social value of our spaces to empower individuals and communities. Your work will make a real difference.

What You’ll Do:

• Oversee the day-to-day running of the service and administration team.
• Develop partnerships and manage commercial room hire to maximise income.
• Collaborate on service policies, marketing, and business development.
• Lead on health & safety, building management, and service delivery.

About You:
You bring experience in managing community counselling services, leading diverse teams, and building impactful partnerships. You’re organised, proactive, and ready to inspire your team and the community we serve.

Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. In 2024 we embarked on our new 10-year strategy for ending homelessness. We know it is not inevitable. We know together we can end it. 

Location: Based in London, working from home is an option in line with Crisis’ homeworking policy. This role is required to be in the office for a minimum of one day a week. This role will also require periodic travel to other Crisis locations in the UK.

About the role 

Crisis is looking for a Head of Strategy to drive and facilitate the execution of Crisis’ bold 10-year strategy, launched in June 2024. In this new role, you'll be at the heart of our mission to end homelessness. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will work alongside the CEO and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and lead a passionate and driven team, to unlock and drive change to achieve our new, ambitious strategy.

In this role you will translate strategy into delivery by being responsible for developing our strategic plans, bringing the focus and clarity needed to end homelessness in the next 10 years. You and your team will support Crisis to be clear on our strategic priorities, be able to implement their delivery, and enable us to track the impact we look to achieve.

By working across all teams, with a strong collaborative and facilitative approach, you will act as a critical friend, ensuring we are meeting out strategic objectives with curiosity, challenge, and an innovative mindset.

This is a varied, dynamic, and fulfilling role! A new opportunity to influence and enable ambitious change. We encourage anyone to apply who believes they have the skills needed to bring this new role to life.  

About you 

• An inspiring leader, experienced in bringing together teams and colleagues for meaningful collaborative work at all levels and drive strategic initiatives.
• Confident and comfortable in providing challenge to the status quo.
• An excellent communicator, being able to influence change at all levels of the organisation.
• An experienced strategic professional, with strengths in providing the right structure and rigor to enable delivery.
• Committed to our values: bold, impactful, collaborative, and equitable.

Please see the full Job Pack linked below, for a full list of requirements for this role. We realise that long lists of criteria can be daunting, and you may not want to apply for a role unless you feel 100% qualified. However, if you feel you have relevant examples to answer the screening questions, we encourage you to apply.

We believe diversity is a strength, and our aim is to make sure that Crisis truly reflects the communities we serve. We are actively working towards our organisation being a place where everyone can thrive and make their best contribution to our mission of ending homelessness for good. We know that the more perspectives, voices, and experiences we can bring to this work, the better. We particularly welcome applications from people who have lived experience of homelessness, and people from all marginalised groups, communities, and backgrounds.  

Working at Crisis  

Our values, Bold, Impactful, Collaborative and Equitable, are at the heart of everything we do as we continue in our mission to end homelessness.

Our staff, members and volunteers are vital to getting the right government policies in place, providing breakthrough services, and building a supportive community. We’ll lead by example to nurture a positive and ambitious workplace guided by ending homelessness.

As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:  

• A competitive salary. Please note, our salaries are fixed to counter inequity, and we do not negotiate at offer stage. 
• Interest free loans for travel season ticket, cycle to work, and deposit to secure a tenancy.  
• Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 8.5%  
• 28 days’ annual leave (pro rata) which increases with service to 31 days and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days leave.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption pay. 
• Flexible working around the core hours 10am-4pm  
• Wellbeing Leave to be used flexibly and more! (Full list of benefits available on website)  

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience, and career.  

When you join us, you will have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation.

How do I apply? 

Please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below. Our shortlisting process is anonymised as part of our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We do not ask for CVs, instead we ask you complete the work history section and answer the screening questions for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively. At least two members of staff score all applications.

Closing date: Sunday 12 January 2025 23:55

Interview date and location: Tuesday 21 January 2025 in person at Universal House, Wentworth Street, E1

Interview process: Competency, scenario and value-based interview and a situational assessment task.  

Can I use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for my application? 

We strongly discourage applicants from using AI technology at any stage of the recruitment process. This is so we can run a fair, transparent process which gives all applicants an equitable chance of success. We want to hear about your own experience and perspectives in your application and if shortlisted, during the interview too. 

Prospectus is delighted to be working with a pioneering social impact organisation to recruit an experienced Head of Communications to maximise the global impact and coverage of their work. Our client is dedicated to accelerating global progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing climate challenges. Operating across over 50 countries, the organisation focuses on transforming global financial systems to ensure that every investment, business, and government decision considers its wider social and environmental impact.

The Head of Communications will play a pivotal role in advancing the charity’s mission by leading the organisation’s communication and marketing activities. Collaborating closely with senior leadership, the role involves driving the implementation of a global communications strategy, ensuring that diverse digital platforms and media channels are utilised effectively to support knowledge sharing and advocacy efforts. Leading a small team of 1–2 professionals specialising in digital communications and creative design, the post holder will oversee all external communications, media engagement, and marketing initiatives, including newsletters and other outreach efforts, while serving as the primary external communications contact for GSG Impact.

The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded and accomplished communications professional with extensive experience managing communications and marketing for high-profile, global organisations. They will demonstrate a passion for excellence, thriving in a high-performing team environment that spans multiple geographies and operates at pace. A creative thinker with a strategic outlook you will also have an acute attention to detail and the ability to transition seamlessly between strategic planning and operational delivery. Expertise in managing digital channels and social media networks is essential, as is the capacity to produce high-quality results through collaboration with both in-house teams and external suppliers. Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills are required, particularly when engaging with stakeholders such as finance journalists and social media influencers.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to an influential organisation committed to driving global change and fostering a sustainable and inclusive future.

At Prospectus, we are dedicated to supporting candidates throughout their application journey. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and are happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure the recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.

If this opportunity aligns with your skills and experience, we invite you to submit your CV in the first instance. Candidates whose profiles closely match the requirements will receive the full job description and be invited for a detailed discussion about the role. 

Join Badger Trust as Our Chief Executive!

We are looking to fill this role due to our present Chief Executive retiring after more than three years at Badger Trust.

Location:

Brighton (Badger Trust office - we're 15 minutes from the train station).

We're open to hybrid working, but we would need you to work from the office regularly.

Who We Are

Badger Trust is the leading voice for badgers in England and Wales, dedicated to the welfare, conservation, and protection of badgers, their setts, and their habitats. With the support of over 50 local volunteer badger groups and thousands of passionate followers, we work to ensure a future where badgers thrive.

About the Role

We’re looking for a dynamic and visionary leader to guide Badger Trust into our next chapter. As Chief Executive, you’ll be at the forefront of our campaigns, championing the cause of badgers, while ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference for wildlife and their habitats, influencing policy, managing a passionate team, and growing our community of supporters.

What You’ll Do

• Lead with Vision: Shape and deliver our strategy, ensuring Badger Trust remains the trusted and impactful voice for badgers.

• Inspire & Support: Motivate and manage a dedicated team, helping them thrive in their roles.

• Advocate for Badgers: Engage with policymakers, partners, and the media to secure positive outcomes for badger welfare.

• Drive Campaigns: Plan and lead impactful campaigns that raise awareness and drive change.

• Build Relationships: Strengthen connections with our supporters, donors, volunteers, and local groups.

• Ensure Sustainability: Oversee budgets, fundraising, and business plans, ensuring our organisation remains strong and effective.

Working Details

• Hours: Part-time, 0.8 FTE (we’re happy to consider 0.6 FTE for the right candidate).

• Salary: £43,200 (pro-rata for 0.8 FTE). For 0.6 FTE, £32,400.

• Contract: Permanent (subject to a six-month probationary period).

Who You Are

We’re looking for someone with:

• A passion for wildlife conservation and a drive to make a difference.

• Proven experience in leadership, with the ability to inspire teams and stakeholders.

• Strong campaigning skills and the ability to influence decision-makers.

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

• A strategic mindset with experience in managing budgets, operations, and fundraising.

Why Join Us?

Working with Badger Trust means joining a team dedicated to making a real impact on wildlife conservation. You’ll have the opportunity to lead exciting campaigns, collaborate with passionate people, and protect one of our most exciting and beloved wild animals. Badgers trully are worth saving.

How to Apply

If you’re ready to champion the cause of badgers and lead a passionate team then we’d love to hear from you. All applications can be made through Charity Job, but feel free to reach out to us for an informal chat.

We will be holding interviews on 20th and 21st January 2025.

Background

The Maypole Project supports children and young people with complex medical needs and their families across the UK. Our vision is that all families with a child with complex medical needs will have access to our support from diagnosis, for as long as they need.

Our unique model provides emotional and wellbeing support through counselling and therapy services for parents/carers, siblings and other adults involved in caring for a young person with complex medical needs. 

The Maypole Project has been providing vital services to families for over 21 years and is in an exciting phase of development. We are expanding our management team to provide the capacity needed to grow and extend our provision to meet the needs of more families who would benefit from our unique model of support.

Role Purpose

As a member of the senior leadership team, the role will have strategic and operational oversight of all clinical and therapeutic services and activities, ensuring the Maypole Model of support is delivered effectively, to high-quality standards and is appropriately resourced. Working to the Maypole vision to provide access to support for everyone who needs it across the UK, through appropriate outreach, the role will work closely with colleagues and external partners to support the development and expansion of our service offer to meet the needs of families and grow our income.

Key Responsibilities

Service Management

• Line Management of the Senior Counsellor, Senior Child Therapist, Activities Manager and Clinical Supervisors.
• Overall management of the Therapies team, fostering positive communications through regular team meetings/socials, and building a collaborative and collegiate working culture across the organisation.
• Ensure all staff receive appropriate training and have access to further professional development opportunities.
• Holding a counselling caseload of 3-4 clients, in line with postholders professional qualifications and experience.
• Oversight of all enquiries and referrals from initial contact, through assessment and end of support, with assistance from the team administrator.
• Facilitate the provision of a Clinical Supervision for the therapies team.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for the organisation ensuring safeguarding cover is always available via nominated deputies in your absence.
• Contributing to case conferences as required and convening internal “Maypole Team around the family” meetings to discuss our work and ensure seamless working both within Maypole’s provision and with external providers as necessary.
• Contract management: act as the main point of contact for our contractors with which we have service level agreements for the provision of therapy services.
• Data: Manage the client database and associated systems for recording of clients in relation to appointments, payments and impact reporting.
• Ensure premises are fit for purpose for therapy services and activities programmes, ensuring adherence to health and safety regulations, accessibility and confidentiality policies, in liaison with Head of Developments, CEO and other responsible personnel.
• Business/Service Development
• Contribute to strategic and operational plans for business and service development including delivering the aims of our strategic plan for growth in the following areas:
  •  service uptake and expansion across a wider geographic area
  •  developing service provision, quality and resourcing
  • development of training and other consultancy services to external professionals
• Monitoring and Evaluation: ensuring standardised ways of recording data and disseminating the impact of our services in communications to a range of stakeholders including for contracts/grants as well as for key supporters and internally the Board and staff team.
• Support the CEO and Head of Development in developing external relationships and partnerships, instigating discussions regarding potential new contracts and partnerships and opportunities for collaborative working.
• Act as an Ambassador for The Maypole Project, advocating and promoting our work throughout relevant networks. Working with the Head of Development, seek opportunities to give talks and presentations to a range of audiences with the aim of building relationships with external contacts and potential partners.
• Reporting: provide written reports as required for the CEO, Board of Trustees, funders and contract clients.

Finance

• Contribute to setting the annual budget for therapies and activities.
• Monitor monthly income and expenditure accounts for therapy services, highlighting any discrepancies or potential for significant over or underspends.

General responsibilities

• Attend regular supervision, line management and whole team meetings.
• Adhere to the codes of ethics and practice adopted by The Maypole Project, in line with our service model and with other relevant Counselling Professional bodies.
• Comply with legal and statutory requirements including the Data Protection Act, Health and Safety at Work Act (always ensuring H&S of self and others).
• Comply with all organisational and departmental policies and procedures.
• Undertake the required CPD as identified in annual appraisals and line management processes.
• The postholder is expected to carry out additional duties commensurate with the role.

The National Lottery Community Fund is looking for a Records Manager who wants to make a difference.  This is a fantastic opportunity to join the UK’s leading community funder to lead on our records management and information assets approach.

We are looking for a colleague who has experience and understanding of applying Records Management principles and standards ideally in a public sector setting.  This is a role you can make your own to build a meaningful framework and an engaged colleague culture on managing our records and information assets.

Particularly focus areas for the role will be:

• ensuring we have an up-to-date Information Asset Register that is user-friendly and easy to maintain
• evolving and implementing our data retention policy 
• establishing and rolling out a user-friendly classification and marking system for our documents
• Evolving our archiving policy and practice with the National Archives and other external organisations we work with to best manage our digital and historic paper records.

This is a rewarding role for anyone who enjoys relationship-building and influencing colleagues at all levels to drive positive change; you will work with every team across The National Lottery Community Fund, and with our network of Information Assets delegates, to help us get the most out of our information assets and ensure we are a good custodian of our information. 

This is also a great role for a strategic thinker who enjoys a good mix of big-picture-thinking and an attention to detail. You’ll have strong planning and organisational skills and experience and confidence using IT systems for managing information, particularly Microsoft Office 365 (M365).

You will be part of our friendly Legal and Information Governance team, reporting into the Head of Legal and Information Governance Services.  This is a hybrid-working role with a good balance between travelling to our offices UK-wide to engage with colleagues and team and autonomous working from home.

Interview Date: Interviews will be held in January 2025

Location: We have a flexible approach to working and work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, these are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Newcastle and Newtown.

Essential criteria

• Experience of designing and implementing records management strategies and systems
• Experience of using IT systems for managing information (particularly M365)
• A sound understanding of Records Management principles and best practice and knowledge of Data Protection and Freedom of Information legislation
• Experience of influencing, relationship-building and training colleagues and an ability to prioritise effectively
• Experience of working within cross-organisation teams and a strategic and solutions-focused approach

Desirable criteria

• Relevant experience gained within a public sector setting or a similar environment
• Qualification in records or information management and/or accreditation by a relevant professional body.
• Experience working in a complex environment with multiple and sometimes competing priorities.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion  

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.  

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.) 

Why work for us?

The Programme Funding Team is at the very centre of CIUK’s new strategy for the development of high quality and impactful programming within CARE.  The team shapes and builds our institutional programme portfolio in line with the CARE International 2030 vision and ensures that our programmes save lives and bring lasting change through consistent and high standards of programme design, partnerships building and learning.

At CARE International UK we affirm the dignity, potential and contribution of participants, donors, partners and staff. Our actions are consistent with our mission. We are honest and transparent in what we do and say and accept responsibility for our collective and individual actions. We work together effectively to serve the larger community. We constantly challenge ourselves to the highest levels of learning and performance to achieve greater impact.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will be a passionate and experienced funding specialist, with experience in institutional funding and a very good knowledge of our key donors’ requirements (FCDO).

Using your drive and expertise to work on various complex bids (including multi-million pound grants and commercial contracts), securing new funding for programmes at CIUK. Confidently lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams during proposal preparation, working with partners and colleagues in multiple locations.

Your extensive experience  and high level of understanding of programme design is key to this role, as is excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Capable of building strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders; you are a positive collaborator and a strong team player.

About the role

The Senior Programme Development Specialist will work on complex and major bids, often on multimillion pound consortia, commercial contracts and multi-country partnerships. Taking a high degree of responsibility for programme funding processes from scoping and positioning CIUK for new funding opportunities, to facilitating the programme design and developing successful bids. This includes independently negotiating the scope of work and budget with internal and external partners  (potential primes and subs). 

This position will drive a high-quality bidding process with institutional donors and large foundations to build a healthy and sustainable funding pipeline so that CIUK can achieve our programme goals. You will work closely with technical advisory teams, country offices, finance colleagues, and other partners in order to deliver winning bids, which showcase CARE’s programme innovation and deliver impact as well as ensuring adequate cost recovery for CIUK. 

About CARE

CARE International is one of the world’s leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world’s most vulnerable places.  We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.

Safeguarding

CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any abuse to, sexual harassment of or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. CARE International UK expects all staff to share this commitment through our Safeguarding Policy and our Code of Conduct. They are responsible for ensuring they understand and work within the remit of these policies throughout their time at CARE International UK.

Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do, including recruitment. All offers of employment at CARE International UK are subject to:

- satisfactory references. CARE International UK participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.In line with this Scheme, we will request information from successful applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. 

- appropriate criminal record checks (including a Bridger check).

By submitting an application, the applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Equality and Diversity

We are committed to Equality and value Diversity.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. If you require the candidate brief or need to submit your application in an alternative format, because of a disability, please do get in touch by sending an email to the HR team.

We also encourage people from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds or LGBT+ to apply for roles at CARE International UK.

Please note that in compliance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, all job offers at Care International UK are conditional on eligibility to work in the UK.

Please note that applications will be reviewed as we receive them, and interviews will be arranged as soon as possible. Therefore, the advert may close sooner that the closing date stated below if a suitable candidate has been appointed.

Closing date: Sunday 5 January at 11pm