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Step into a transformative journey with Working Options. We're on a mission to empower young people aged 14-19 across the UK, and you can help make a real difference. As North Wales Project Coordinator you'll play a crucial role in connecting volunteers with schools and fostering impactful relationships, all while working within a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.

We believe in inclusivity, trying new things, setting high expectations, and creating real opportunities for young people. With the support of our experienced team and dedicated trustees, you'll have the chance to shape young people's career ambitions.

If you're self-motivated and eager to contribute to a great mission, this is your chance to join a team that's helping young people to transform their career and life chances.

Don't just take our word for it, here's what one of our young people had to say:

"My personal experience has been exceptional. There is a collaborative atmosphere, and it is truly empowering to be part of a charity that values student input and involves us in decisions that directly affect our lives." – Working Options Alumnae.

Find out more about the role and hear from our Chief Executive about our charity's ambitions.

Person specification 

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO:

• Has a passion for our cause.
• Is fully committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Is self-motivated.
• Has excellent attention to detail.
• Can juggle multiple priorities, sticking to deadlines and flagging when priorities need reviewing.
• Has a flair for developing great relationships, particularly with schools and colleges.
• Is proactive and tenacious, able to seek out new opportunities and remain resilient.
• Is creative and likes coming up with new ideas.
• Is ambitious for themselves and for the charity.
• Has high computer literacy.

DESIRABLE:

• Experience within educational settings or working with young people in Wales.
• The ability to communicate in the medium of Welsh.

While we don’t specify this in our person specification, we are particularly interested to hear from applicants who have experienced some of the challenges that young people across Wales face today.

About The Role
We’re looking to expand our team and would love to offer the role to someone who has a passion for equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). This is an exciting opportunity to come and work for us whilst studying an apprenticeship to gain a Level 3 qualification.

You’ll be joining us at a pivotal time within the organisation’s EDI journey. We support the equity of all of our people, however, our EDI strategy has a particular focus on race equity and this will be something you’ll be strongly involved in supporting us as team to help the Society achieve their commitment in becoming an anti-racist organisation.

The role will be varied and offer the chance to work with a range of stakeholders and a knowledgeable team to support you with your learning and development. This post will be fixed term for a period of up to 18 months, dependent on when the end point assessment of the apprenticeship is completed.

You will:

Support and coordinate our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and (EDI) activities across the organisation, along with supporting our aim to drive engagement with our colleagues through multiple channels, developing and delivering engaging and informative content and materials.

You’ll help build and communicate an inclusive working culture, where this becomes embedded in everything we do, whilst contributing to the development, administration, and implementation of initiatives and learning that support in delivering our EDI objectives.

You’ll report to the EDI Specialist who will provide clear objectives and expectations to set you up for success in your role. This role also offers an apprenticeship in Business Administration which will help set the foundation of your knowledge in both EDI and working in an organisation within a business context.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Preparing content for internal-facing publications, including monthly newsletters, weekly updates, ad-hoc messages and promotion of resources.
- Closely supporting work on maximising the utilisation of the Society’s EDI memberships and accreditations.
- Supporting in the gathering of EDI data to help evidence key trends or information that will support business decisions to be made.
- Collaborating with internal teams and external partners to support EDI initiatives, helping to embed inclusive practices throughout the people journey.
- Supporting promotion and content for EDI awareness celebration days and months.
- Understanding how organisations work and how to contribute to building sustainable change in workplace culture

This role is home based within England as it is a Government requirement to enable us to access their funding for the apprenticeship.

About you

- Passion for Diversity & Inclusion: A genuine interest for fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture.
- Content Creation: Competent writing skills, with the ability to develop in creating clear, engaging, and inclusive content for a wide range of audiences.
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Developing on your ability to communicate effectively, with the capability to build and maintain relationships across the organisation.
- Organisational Skills: Effective time-management and organisational abilities to ensure tasks are completed efficiently and to a high standard.
- Expanding your knowledge of EDI best practice: Researching and developing your knowledge to support you in your role and update the team on new industry thinking.
- Digital Proficiency: digital skills, with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

What we will provide you:

- The opportunity to build a strong foundational knowledge of EDI practice through our work, and business administration through the apprenticeship.
- A supportive team and work environment that encourages initiative and recognises great work.
- Experience of working in a leading organisation within the Charity sector.
- A dedicated apprenticeship space for you to connect with other apprentices across the Society.
- A recognised Level 3 apprenticeship in Business Administration.

Make a life-saving impact with every story.

Every hour, five lives are lost to sepsis in the UK, but at the UK Sepsis Trust, we’re dedicated to changing this. Through advocacy, education, and support, we raise awareness, improve patient outcomes, and drive systemic change.

Our communications are vital in amplifying our work – reaching those at risk, connecting with the communities that need us most, and rallying supporters and partners to expand our impact. We’re looking for a dynamic and creative Marketing & Communications Lead to elevate our brand and spearhead our communications strategy.

This is a hands-on role for a collaborative leader passionate about storytelling, with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. You’ll work closely with our small but committed team, ambassadors, partners, and supporters to raise the profile of sepsis and showcase our life-saving work.

This role is home based but travel to London and Birmingham will be required on occasion.

Your Role: What You’ll Do

· Lead Digital Growth: Expand our reach and influence across social media, web, email, and beyond.

· Content Creation: Craft engaging, high-impact copy for social media, email campaigns, web, PR, and fundraising appeals.

· Digital Asset Creation: Bring stories to life through eye-catching visuals, graphics, and video content.

· Social Media Management: Plan and schedule content that drives awareness, conversation, and engagement.

· Email & Direct Mail Campaigns: Keep supporters informed, inspired, and motivated to act.

· Website & SEO: Ensure critical information is easy to access and impactful through optimisation and updates.

· PR & Media Outreach: Build strong relationships with journalists and influencers to amplify our message.

· Data-Driven Engagement: Use CRM data and insights to personalise outreach and strengthen connections.

· Team Leadership: Inspire and guide a small team, ensuring high standards and clear direction.

· Performance Monitoring: Track and report on the effectiveness of campaigns and activities.

About You: What We’re Looking For

· A proactive leader with proven experience in marketing, communications, and digital strategy.

· A natural storyteller with the ability to craft compelling, channel-specific content.

· Strong strategic thinker with a passion for hands-on implementation.

· Experience managing digital platforms, including SEO and analytics.

· Skilled in creating eye-catching digital assets (graphics and video).

· Confident in PR, media relations, and stakeholder engagement.

· Experience with CRM systems (Salesforce preferred) and data-driven marketing.

Why Join Us?

· Be part of a purpose-driven organisation with a life-changing mission.

· Lead high-impact campaigns with national visibility.

· Work in a collaborative, dynamic, and supportive environment.

· Enjoy flexible, remote working options.

Ready?

Send your CV and a cover letter outlining why you're the perfect fit. 

Volunteering Mass Engagement Lead
Fixed Term Contract until the end of Sept 2025 
Full-time (34.5hrs), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location Home based/ mobile
Salary Range £26,500 - £29,500 per annum plus car allowance (£350 per month, in order to receive it you will need a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle)

About us
At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role
Our vision for Volunteering is big. Shaped by volunteers, together we will do whatever it takes to create an enabled, scaled and diverse volunteering community, who have the best experience and deliver the best impact for Macmillan.

In this role you will deliver the volunteer journey from selection to ongoing support, motivating and inspiring new and existing fundraising volunteers.

You will support the Volunteering Mass Engagement Management team to increase capacity and return on investment across the UK through the recruitment, development, and retention of volunteers as well as supporting the delivery of Macmillan’s calendar of fundraising events, including leading volunteer activity on the day at events.
 

About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Good planning skills, delivering robust plans to achieve targets and objectives set.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including volunteers.
• Knowledge of regional/community fundraising, challenge events, other mass fundraising activity.
• Ability to self-motivate and work within a collaborative team environment
• Ability to travel across the UK up to 8 weekend days a year, including possible overnight stays.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Sunday 23rd February 2025

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

We're looking for a Membership Administrator to join our small, remote team to support our growth and deliver for our members. 

This role will support the membership functions of the NI to look after the day-to-day administrative tasks relating to member services, including maintaining databases, managing renewals, and providing customer service to members. This role is critical in supporting the organisation’s mission to engage and retain members, ensuring they receive value and are satisfied with their experience.

Job Summary:
The Membership Administrator is responsible for overseeing the membership process from onboarding new members to managing ongoing renewals and maintaining the membership database. The role involves ensuring that members receive excellent customer service, timely communication, and accurate information about the institute’s services and benefits. The position requires strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in database management.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Membership Administration
2. Customer Service
3. Communications 
4. Data Management and Reporting

Qualifications and Skills:
• Essential Experience:
o 2-3 years of experience in membership administration services, customer service, or administrative roles.
o Proficient with CRM or membership management software, including database management and reporting.
o Skilled in delivering exceptional customer service within a professional environment.
o Experience in administering a membership or customer renewals process.
o Background in non-profit organisations, associations, or professional membership.

Work Environment:
• Mainly working from home so could be based anywhere in the UK. There will be some travel with regular meetings in London.

Flexibility and Accessibility: We offer flexible hours and remote working options to accommodate individual needs. There will be support available for remote workers who may require specific adjustments, such as ergonomic setups or assistive technologies.

Commitment to Inclusion: We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups in the finance and nuclear sectors. Our recruitment process is fair and accessible, and we are happy to provide accommodations upon request. If you require adjustments to the application process, please contact us so we can support you.

We are looking for an ambitious, experienced and creative fundraising expert who is committed to building upon a strong programme of fundraising (events - third party, community and mass events) whilst bringing new initiatives in these channels to the charity to see income significantly grow.  Currently this channel of income generates around 20% of our annual budget – and we’re excited for this postholder to see it grow yet more.

Reporting in the short term to the CEO, the post holder will work across multiple income streams event/mass/community, to develop innovative products and tools to engage our supporters and maximise and grow our income generation strategy and lifetime value of our supporters. You will develop high-level third-party relationships, events and community initiatives that lead to long-lasting relationships and long-term support for Dreams Come True.

This is a busy role, and you’ll work on various relationship fundraising income streams, supported by the Fundraising Executive. You will support the CEO to develop new challenge and mass fundraising events and lead on new initiatives to drive new income. This is a hugely exciting role and perfect for someone who wants to build their experience and has the creativity and passion for growing this programme of work into new areas of opportunity.

You will lead in developing a strategy and operations plan for your key areas: Events, Community, DIY, and mass fundraising, as well as support the Fundraising Executive to develop new ways to recruit supporters and market events. The remit of this role will also include the recruitment and management of new volunteers, ensuring they undertake rewarding tasks that are both motivational for the volunteer and cost-effective for the charity.

This role is responsible for the line management of a Fundraising Executive, who you will help to develop in their role and ensure all tasks are completed on time and to a high standard.

Key Responsibilities

Driving income (in plan and new) generation; strategy; budget management

● Develop and deliver a strategy and ops plan that covers events, mass, third-party and community fundraising.

● Proven experience of recruiting, building, delivering, stewarding marathons/sky dives/bungees/treks that build income and new opportunities year to year.

● Support the Fundraising Executive to project manage an existing portfolio of events and introduce new products to grow the programme, incorporating digital/virtual fundraising.

● Review the portfolio of events and build new income generation opportunities for 25/26 and beyond to uplift income and grow supporter participation.

● Set, monitor, and report against budget figures, feeding into forecasting and monthly KPIs, and reporting any concerns to the Head of Fundraising.

● Lead the development and growth strategy for third-party relationships and high-value community supporters.

● Undertake regular reviews of activity including ROI analysis, report progress v budget, and implement actions as required.

● Lead on Identifying new opportunities for community grant funding including but not limited to supermarkets, round tables, rotary, masons, golf clubs, sports clubs, and schools.

● To provide excellent analysis, evaluation, and reporting on fundraising activity to the CEO, drawing conclusions and making recommendations for future activity.

General

• The ability to write and present compelling cases for support across a range of audiences.
• To keep up to date with the latest event trends and bring creative suggestions to the programme of work to continuously test and learn, engage new supporters and drive new income opportunities
• To work closely with Dream Team, to keep updated with Dream stories and use a range of methods, to effectively communicate these to all supporters
• To introduce new products to grow the programme - including digital/virtual fundraising and mass fundraising events.  
• Manage the Fundraising Executive, ensuring they have a robust work and development plan in place.
• Support, motivate and develop fundraising volunteer roles, ensuring they have a clear understanding of DCT to enable them to represent the charity’s work effectively.
• Grow our Events programme, developing plans to recruit, convert, retain, and develop donors to deliver income growth across the portfolio.
• Diversify the organisation's overall regional events portfolio by leading product development.

· Manage the relationships with external event suppliers.

• Work collaboratively with the Head of Fundraising to build and grow existing fundraising digital products and generate new initiatives to drive income.
• Manage the Fundraising Executive to develop propositions for the wider community fundraising work.

· Provide talks and presentations to high-value community organisations.

· Provide support in other areas of Fundraising and the Head of Fundraising when required.

About the role

The Director of Finance and Resource works collaboratively across the whole of Plantlife Group, leading, developing and delivering a highly effective and strategically aligned support service.

The role is responsible for all support services including finance, IT and digital services, HR, facilities, procurement as well as governance across the Group.

You will ensure financial integrity, as well as formulating strategies for growth and sustainability across the Group.

Alongside your financial expertise you must have an understanding of best practice in HR and IT management and strategy development.

We currently have almost 100 staff located across the UK, mostly working remotely. Our support services need to be positioned to provide our growing staff base with the tools and resources to do their jobs efficiently and effectively in order to deliver for nature and ensure the Plantlife Group is a place people want to work.

As Director of Finance and Resource you are instrumental in a number of Board interface capacities and will be a director of at least one of the fully owned subsidiary companies

To apply for the role or view the full recruitment pack, please visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you!

Please note we do not accept CV's.

Job Title: Senior Media and Communications Officer

Contract: Fixed Term Maternity Cover until 1st April 2026

Salary: £32,000 FTE

Working Hours: 35 Hours per week

Location: Remote

 

About the Role

As the Senior Media & Communications Officer, you’ll lead on storytelling, media engagement and campaigns that support parents through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.

You will:

· Spot and jump on media opportunities: Monitor news and trends, draft timely and impactful responses to the big issues affecting parents and maternity services in collaboration with NCT’s subject experts.

· Creative storytelling: Source inspiring stories from parents, volunteers and practitioners and showcase how our services empower and support people through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.

· Lead on PR campaigns to drive awareness of our charity’s work: Develop communication plans to grow awareness of NCT’s support, services, and campaigns, leading on the consumer PR for charity fundraising moments, such as NCT’s Winter Appeal, and in line with our For Every Parent strategy.

· Manage media relationships: Cultivate connections with journalists, ensuring NCT remains a trusted source for expert comment on maternity and parenting issues.

As Senior Media and Communications Officer, you will be a part of NCT’s Communications and Campaigns team, which brings together NCT’s campaigning, policy, media, parent and pregnancy information as well as our internal engagement team. You’ll also work collaboratively across the charity, including with subject matter experts including NCT Practitioners and our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, as well as being the day-to-day point of contact with NCT’s PR Agency.

The job will involve some out-of-hours work including providing an effective on-call service for the media. There may also be occasional travel a few times a year.

Why join us?

NCT is the UK’s leading charity for parents, supporting them through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring that everyone can thrive and feel empowered in their roles.

If you’re ready to make a difference and help shape the future of our services, we’d love to hear from you!

We welcome and actively encourage applications from all candidates including those from under-represented groups within NCT such as individuals from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQI+ people and people with a disability.

The welfare and safety of individuals is at the heart of everything that we do. NCT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Closing Date: 3rd March 2025

Join our mission-driven, friendly team at Dr Frost Learning, a charity changing students' lives through our digital maths learning platform. We're a team of 12 staff working with thousands of schools, looking for an enthusiastic account exec to join our team.

You'll play a crucial role in building and maintaining relationships with schools and Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) to drive platform adoption.

You might have prior experience in account management or customer support, or this might be a lateral move for you. As long as you're great at building trusting professional relationships, you could be brilliant at this role!

This is a fully remote role with occasional travel (max. once a month) to schools or relevant education conferences. The role is term-time only (38 weeks a year). This role works best as a 30-hour a week working pattern but we are open to variations of this.

The FTE salary for this role is £40,000. For 30-hour weeks and a term-time only working pattern, this is equivalent to £25,255.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of school and MAT accounts, serving as their primary point of contact and ensuring high levels of satisfaction and retention
• Build relationships with key stakeholders at both individual school and trust level
• Conduct virtual (and occasional in-person) demonstrations of the Dr Frost Maths platform to potential clients
• Work closely with teachers and trust leaders to understand their needs and optimize their use of our platform
• Monitor account health and proactively address any concerns or opportunities
• Assist in gathering user feedback to inform product development
• Assist in responding to customer support and invoicing queries
• Support schools and MATs through their onboarding journey
• Identify opportunities for expansion within existing MAT accounts
• Represent Dr Frost Learning and promote our product at occasional events and conferences

Essential Criteria:

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Experience of building relationships with professionals in a work context (this might be teachers or any other professional group)
• Confident with use of IT
• Organised and methodical, able to track and record

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in customer success, account management, or teaching
• Proven track record of meeting targets and KPIs
• Understanding of the UK education sector and MAT landscape
• Experience with virtual training or presentation delivery
• Knowledge of data analysis and reporting tools

RiverCare & BeachCare Programme Officer (East of England)

Salary: £29,840 p.a.

Contract: Permanent

Hours:  37.5 hours per week

Location: Home-based with regular travel in the East of England, and occasional travel nationwide.

We also offer 27 days of annual leave (pro-rated for hours worked) plus bank holidays and a birthday day off; Extra days leave for travelling using alternatives to flying; The opportunity to join the UK’s first net carbon pension scheme with 8% employer pension contributions; A core hours system of working and enhanced family friendly policies.

Keep Britain Tidy is one of the UK’s leading environmental charities. At a time when we are living in a world facing huge environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or more urgent. This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented and enthusiastic Programme Officer to join our RiverCare & BeachCare programme, run by Keep Britain Tidy in partnership with programme funder Anglian Water.

The successful candidate will be joining a long-established programme which works with a large network of community-led volunteer groups throughout the region. Groups take practical action to protect and enhance their local watercourses and coastlines. The programme aims to inspire people to gain a sense of community ownership of local blue spaces through training and support to become empowered, self-organising volunteer groups.

The successful applicant will be joining the team at an exciting time of programme development, as we look to increase learning and advocacy for environmental stewardship and sustainability. You will have experience of volunteering or volunteer coordination, working with communities and a wide variety of partner organisations, and hold a good knowledge of ecological challenges, ideally in the water and marine environment.

You will be an effective communicator, organised and able to manage your own time. You will be knowledgeable in matters of volunteer health and safety, data protection and safeguarding, with strong skills in using IT to support with the administration required for successful programme delivery.

You will be working as part of a regional and national team. Some travel within the region will be required, as will occasional weekend and evening work.

If you are interested in this job and want to help us make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description.  After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us, please continue to apply. 

As part of the application process you will need to answer 3 questions and submit your CV - these will be reviewed based on the criteria found in the person specification. We also ask that you complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population and not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately and securely.

The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 10th March 2025. Keep Britain Tidy reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we ask that you please submit your application as early as possible.

For successful candidates, interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st March 2025.

Environmental change is affecting us all and we know that a diverse workforce yields best results. We want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution. It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all staff and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, you just need to let us know.

We have signed the pledge to always #ShowTheSalary for the roles that we advertise.

We are proud winners of the Working Families’ Best Small Employer Award 2021.

No agencies please.

Salary: £38,000 per annum 

Contract: Permanent 

Reports to: Head of Policy and Research

Hours: Full time (40 hours per week including one hour lunch break each day) 

Start date: May 2025 

Location: Home-based (travel costs paid for meetings) 

Annual leave: 27 days FTE per annum plus Bank holidays (22 days FTE per annum whilst the 4 day week is in place) 

Please note that at Waterwise we work a Four Day Week, under voluntary agreements which all staff members sign. This means that you will be contracted and paid as full-time but you will sign a voluntary agreement stating that you commit to employing efficiency tools both individual and team-wide to deliver and be paid for 5 days work within four normal 9 to 5 days - the office is closed on Fridays. Training will be provided and you will be expected to continue to refresh your training and to keep up use of the efficiency tools. Annual leave is also pro rata’d. More information on a Four Day Week can be found here. We can answer any questions you may have about this at interview.

Waterwise 

Waterwise is the leading independent voice in the UK for using water wisely, for the benefit of people and the planet. Our vision is that water is used wisely every day, everywhere, by everyone. We are the UK’s conscience on water efficiency, on behalf of people and the planet, and are experts in water efficiency policy, regulation, research, behaviour and campaigns. Waterwise is a people-led organisation which prioritises the wellbeing of its staff.

Water scarcity is an urgent issue right here, right now, right across the UK - consistent record-breaking high temperatures and low rainfall, and recurring drought, show how climate change and population growth are already putting our water resources under severe pressure, and this challenge is growing. Water efficiency has to be a big part of the solution, and we support and challenge governments, industry, customers and others to be innovative and ambitious on water efficiency. Our work includes campaigns, events, media, policy and regulatory influencing, research projects, stakeholder engagement and services such as Waterwise Training and the Waterwise  Checkmark. We are funded by supporters across and beyond the UK water sector. Our Waterwise Strategic Direction to 2030, published in August 2022, tells you a bit more about us. Our UK Water Efficiency Strategy to 2030 tells you a bit more about our ambition.

At Waterwise we put staff wellbeing first, and our staff surveys show that our team knows, feels and appreciates this. Our values are 

People: We will prioritise staff wellbeing, be an inclusive, kind and positive team. 

Purpose: We will deliver independent and ambitious leadership to drive social and  political change on water efficiency 

Pioneer: We will be forward-thinking and visionary in our approach, being brave and  innovative in challenging the status quo 

Passion: We will campaign to protect water and the planet and work to keep our own  environmental impact as low as possible 

We are always looking for bright, committed people with a diverse set of skills and  experience to help achieve our vision that water is used wisely every day, everywhere, by  everyone. We are a lively, happy, friendly team, and we can’t wait to read your application! 

At Waterwise, we’re committed to driving equity and preventing discrimination at work and in the work we do. Please see more on this below. 

We are also working to reduce Waterwise’s own carbon and environmental footprint. 

Policy Manager role description

You will report to the Head of Policy and Research and be part of a small but growing sub-team leading on our policy advocacy work and winning and delivering water efficiency research projects. 

Key responsibilities in the role include: 

• Supporting and influencing policy development including engaging with policymakers through meetings and consultation responses

• Supporting the delivery the UK Water Efficiency Strategy to 2030 and helping provide secretariat support to the associated forum and groups 

• Leading Waterwise’s work with stakeholders on policy across the UK

• Working with the Head of Policy and Research to maintain a network of relevant stakeholders and supporters across the UK

• Working with communications and marketing colleagues to provide content for blogs, trade media and press

• Working on discrete research projects as and when necessary, including undertaking a project management role on some projects

• Assisting the team with events (e.g. Waterwise annual conference), campaigns (e.g. Water Saving Week) and training

• Attending and speaking at conferences, seminars and meetings to represent Waterwise

• Working with colleagues to develop new funding proposals and providing financial information to the CEO

Other tasks and duties may arise and training will be provided. There will also be an opportunity to develop skills in being interviewed for the media.

The above is not an exhaustive list of activities but hopefully gives you a sense of the role  and requirements. 

Policy Manager person specification

We need someone who is proactive and a self-starter, with excellent communication and organisational skills. You will have a track record in policy and evidence work and/or water sector stakeholder engagement management to join our small, high-powered, influential team. The role involves policy and strategy support, project and programme management and delivery as well as stakeholder engagement. It's a great opportunity to be immersed in the water policy, regulatory and delivery agenda, as well as engage in external meetings and networks.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours

• Experience in influencing and advocating for policy change - including planning and delivering against agreed objectives

• Experience working with external stakeholders

• Experience in supporting delivery of stakeholder groups such as steering groups, task and finish groups, workshops, webinars and conferences

• A good understanding of the UK water industry and, ideally, some experience with water efficiency

• Excellent interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders, including policy makers

• Strong organisational skills, including the ability to plan and work proactively to meet deadlines

• Excellent attention to detail 

• Ability to positively promote Waterwise and its work

• Experience in project management such as developing leads and bidding for projects desirable but not essential if a commitment to develop skills in this area

• Ability to work flexibly within a small team that works from home

• Ability to manage own time and prioritise tasks

• Ability to communicate across the team about your work and workload

• Commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and wellbeing 

• Eligibility to work in the UK

Benefits 

At Waterwise the wellbeing of our employees is our number one priority. To recognise the  fantastic work our team does in driving water efficiency, and to support their wellbeing, we  have a wide range of employee benefits, beyond statutory commitments. These include: 

• Positive, values-based environment and an inclusive culture where it feels safe for  employees to say ‘no’ on grounds of workload 

• Strong emphasis from CEO on wellbeing and workload management 

• Homeworking and a small allowance for occasional shared office working 

• Four Day week - being paid full-time but working 80% of this (or pro rata equivalent), in exchange for using tools to work efficiently - for full-time employees this equates to a day off every week, in addition to annual leave

• Flexible working 

• Part-time working 

• 27 days annual leave per annum for full-time employees (or pro rata equivalent for part-time colleagues), plus Bank Holidays (pro rata’d to 22 days full-time equivalent as we work a Four Day Week)

• Death in service benefit at x2 of salary 

• Paid chartered and professional memberships 

• Individual and team training budgets 

• Maternity leave and maternity adoption leave beyond statutory 

• Childcare costs for activities undertaken outside normal working hours 

• Sickness pay beyond statutory 

Equity, diversity and inclusion 

At Waterwise, we’re committed to driving equity and preventing discrimination at work and in the work we do. We know that simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We want to create an inclusive environment within Waterwise and in our work and events, where everyone can contribute their best and develop to their full potential. We celebrate and value how different everyone is, and we work hard to ensure everyone is treated with dignity and respect. This aligns with our ‘People’ value that we will prioritise staff wellbeing, and will be an inclusive, kind and positive team.

Please see our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Statement here. 

We are committed to treating all current and prospective employees fairly and to ensuring  that our workplace and employment practices are free from discrimination, harassment or  victimisation on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil  partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We  strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply. Everyone in our team has a role to play in helping Waterwise become more diverse and inclusive, and we hope you will join us for this next stage in our journey - for this role we therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in Waterwise’s workforce. These include people of the global majority, LGBTQI+ people, and men.

We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for everyone.  If you are interested in applying for a role with us and think you may need some additional  support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get  in touch on the email address below.

How to apply 

To apply for this role, you will need to answer role-related questions.  Please provide evidence and examples from your work history or other aspects of your life to  answer the questions and demonstrate how you meet the criteria required. Please refer to the person specification when you are doing this.

Our goal is to remove bias from the hiring process and so rather than asking you for a CV  and cover letter, we have set up role-related questions which will allow us to assess your  approach to a problem and understand what knowledge and skills you have. Your answers  will be anonymised, randomised and reviewed by the selection panel. We will use these  scores to shortlist for interviews. We also think giving feedback is incredibly valuable for  candidates, so at the end of the process, you'll see how well you performed during the  application process.

The closing date for applications is 23:59pm on 16th March 2025. There will be a two-stage interview process. First interviews will be held on 25th March 2025 and second interviews will be held on 9th April 2025.  First interviews will be held online via Zoom and second interviews will be held in person in Birmingham (venue TBC).

We will consider flexible working requests within this role - please state your preferred hours  and working pattern within your application.

RiverCare & BeachCare Programme Officer (30 hours)

Salary: £23,872 p.a. pro-rata (£29,840p.a. FTE)  

Contract: Permanent

Hours:  30 hours per week

Location: Home-based with regular travel in the East of England, and occasional travel nationwide.

We also offer 27 days of annual leave (pro-rated for hours worked) plus bank holidays and a birthday day off; Extra days leave for travelling using alternatives to flying; The opportunity to join the UK’s first net carbon pension scheme with 8% employer pension contributions; A core hours system of working and enhanced family friendly policies.

Keep Britain Tidy is one of the UK’s leading environmental charities. At a time when we are living in a world facing huge environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or more urgent. This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented and enthusiastic Programme Officer to join our RiverCare & BeachCare programme, run by Keep Britain Tidy in partnership with programme funder Anglian Water.

The successful candidate will be joining a long-established programme which works with a large network of community-led volunteer groups throughout the region. Groups take practical action to protect and enhance their local watercourses and coastlines. The programme aims to inspire people to gain a sense of community ownership of local blue spaces through training and support to become empowered, self-organising volunteer groups.

The successful applicant will be joining the team at an exciting time of programme development, as we look to increase learning and advocacy for environmental stewardship and sustainability. You will have experience of volunteering or volunteer coordination, working with communities and a wide variety of partner organisations, and hold a good knowledge of ecological challenges, ideally in the water and marine environment.

You will be an effective communicator, organised and able to manage your own time. You will be knowledgeable in matters of volunteer health and safety, data protection and safeguarding, with strong skills in using IT to support with the administration required for successful programme delivery.

You will be working as part of a regional and national team. Some travel within the region will be required, as will occasional weekend and evening work.

If you are interested in this job and want to help us make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description.  After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us, please continue to apply.

As part of the application process you will need to answer 3 questions and submit your CV - these will be reviewed based on the criteria found in the person specification. We also ask that you complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population and not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately and securely.

The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 10th March 2025. Keep Britain Tidy reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we ask that you please submit your application as early as possible.

For successful candidates, interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st March 2025.

Environmental change is affecting us all and we know that a diverse workforce yields best results. We want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution. It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all staff and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, you just need to let us know.

We have signed the pledge to always #ShowTheSalary for the roles that we advertise.

We are proud winners of the Working Families’ Best Small Employer Award 2021.

No agencies please.

Job Title: Quality and Safeguarding Officer
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £28,100
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week). Flexible working options available
Reporting To: Quality Improvement Specialist
Manages: N/a
Location: Remote with occasional travel to the Leicester head office and other locations, where required.

About Home-Start UK

Home-Start is a federated charity consisting of a central national office – Home-Start UK - and 177 geographically dispersed local Home-Start organisations, all working together under the same identity.

We recognise that being a parent has never been easy. Every Home-Start volunteer is trained to work alongside parents to overcome the challenges they are facing. We work with parents to build on their strengths and give them the support that they tell us they need. We offer no judgement – just compassionate, confidential help and expert support. This peer-to-peer support is key to the difference Home-Start makes and often our volunteers have lived experience of the challenges their families are facing themselves.

About The Role

Home-Start UK is looking for a Quality and Safeguarding Officer to support our quality assurance (QA) programme and help ensure high standards of safeguarding practice across our network of Home-Start charities.

As part of our Quality team, you will play a key role in coordinating QA reviews, supporting our QA self-assessment programme, and overseeing policy reviews. You will also help facilitate our Quality Reference Group (QRG), Safeguarding Forum, and Trustee Safeguarding Training.

In this role, you will provide safeguarding support by responding to queries, liaising with Home-Start charities, escalating concerns to a designated safeguarding lead, and promoting best safeguarding practices across the network.

If this sounds like your type of challenge, we’d love to receive your application.

Closing date for applications is Friday 7th March, 5pm.
Interviews will take place virtually on the 18th and 19th March 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.

Home-Start UK is committed to Equality of Opportunity and Diversity. We wish to encourage applications from all parts of the community irrespective of gender, race, colour, age, sexual orientation or disability.

Candidates will also be sent the interview questions ahead of their interview so that they may fully prepare. Appointments will be based on merit, following an open and clear selection process.

Home-Start UK, a charitable company limited by guarantee. Company No. 5382181. Charity No. in England and Wales 1108837 and in Scotland SCO39172.

No agencies please.

​Bring Your Salesforce Expertise to a Role that Makes a Difference

Charity People are proud to be working in partnership with a UK-wide charity that brings the comfort of therapy animals to people in hospitals, schools, care homes, and more on their search for a Sales Force Coordinator.

Location: Home-based with occasional days in Head Office (Chalgrove)
Hours: Part time - 20 hrs per week
Salary: £35,000 pro rata (£20,000 actual)
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Benefits: 28 days pro rata + pension scheme

About The Organisation

We are working with a UK-wide charity that brings the comfort of therapy animals to people in hospitals, schools, care homes, and more. With 5,000 volunteers, they make a difference by improving mental health and wellbeing through the power of animals. The organisation is continuously improving its technology to enhance the experience of its volunteers and the impact of its work.

As the Salesforce Coordinator, you'll play a vital role in managing and developing the organisation's Salesforce platform to support the growth of their volunteer management system, their new portal, and future fundraising initiatives.

Role Overview:

You'll work with external partners and internal teams to customise, maintain, and enhance the Salesforce CRM system, helping the organisation reach its full potential. You'll ensure smooth operations, oversee system developments, and provide training and support to users. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with Salesforce experience who is excited to make a tangible impact in the charity sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support CRM development projects with external Salesforce partners, ensuring timely delivery.
• Customise Salesforce to meet the organisation's specific needs, including creating fields, objects, workflows, and reports.
• Produce and maintain dashboards to monitor activity and performance.
• Assist in implementing new Salesforce features, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements.
• Maintain and document Salesforce processes and procedures.
• Administer the Salesforce database, ensuring data integrity and managing user accounts.
• Provide training and ongoing support to users on Salesforce functionality.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Salesforce configuration and data issues.

About You:

You're a Salesforce professional with a passion for using technology to drive change. If you have experience in Salesforce administration, customisation, and troubleshooting, we want to hear from you. Your proactive and self-motivated attitude will ensure you thrive in this role, balancing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Essential Skills:

• 2+ years of experience in Salesforce Administration.
• Proficient in Salesforce configuration, customisation, and administration.
• Experience with Salesforce NPSP and Experience Cloud (advantageous).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in training and supporting a diverse range of users.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities effectively.

You'll be an integral part of the organisation's mission, ensuring their systems are working seamlessly to support volunteers and drive positive change.

How to Apply:

If you're ready to make an impactful difference, then we want to hear from you. Please send your CV to Priya Vencatasawmy at Charity People for further details of the application process.

Closing Date: 7th March

First-Stage Interviews (in-person): Week commencing 17th March.

Charity People actively promote equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.