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Job Title: Volunteer Program Manager
Location: Remote - Geographic area: UK, English speaking
Reports To: Founder / CEO
Salary: 28K
Job Type: Full-time (Flexible Hours)
Closing Date: 30.07.2024
About Us:
Since 2006, ROLDA has dedicated itself to aiding vulnerable stray animals in Romania, one of Europe s poorer nations. Our mission includes rescue, rehabilitation, sheltering, sterilisation, and education. Our EU-standard shelters, inspired by British designs, can house up to 700 stray dogs, providing them with complete veterinary care and preparation for rehoming.
We have supported over 48,000 animals and built two dog shelters and one for disabled and senior cats. Additionally, we offer small grants to six other charities in Romania and over 40 shelters in Ukraine. We primarily rehome animals in Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK. By addressing the root causes of animal homelessness through neutering programmes and educational initiatives, we have significantly reduced overpopulation, helping over 40,000 cats and dogs in Romania and Ukraine.
Job Overview:
As the Volunteer Program Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the growth and impact of ROLDA through volunteer engagement. This is a remote position that requires strategic thinking, people management skills, and a commitment to achieving our charity’s objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
Volunteer Recruitment and Management:
- Recruit, train, and oversee volunteers to support ROLDA’s various programs and initiatives.
- Develop and maintain a volunteer database using CRM systems to track volunteer activities and engagements.
- Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, building strong relationships with volunteers and stakeholders.
- Provide leadership and necessary resources for successful completion of volunteer initiatives.
Community Awareness and Fundraising:
Promote community awareness about ROLDA’s mission and activities through public relations and public speaking engagements.
Organise fundraising activities and events to support ROLDA’s financial goals.
Collaborate with the Fundraising Manager to support income generation growth.
Operational Support:
- Maintain effective communication with the UK and international team of ROLDA and its partners, collaborators.
- Assist in developing and implementing operational policies and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements related to volunteer management and charitable activities.
Abilities and Competencies:
Experience in managing and maintaining CRM data.
The ability to be self-motivated with a high level of self-discipline and motivation.
Clear and concise communication skills.
Experience in public relations and public speaking.
Proficient in using digital tools and platforms for virtual collaboration and project management.
Effective organisation and time management skills.
Excellent skills in building and maintaining relationships, even in a virtual environment.
The capacity to work independently and make decisions without constant supervision in a remote setting.
Passionate about the work of ROLDA with a commitment to animal welfare.
Experience Required:
- Proven experience in volunteer recruitment and management.
- Demonstrated success in organising fundraising activities.
- Strong public speaking and public relations experience.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to volunteer management in the UK.
Benefits:
We offer flexible work hours and the option to work remotely to support your work-life balance.
Join a team dedicated to making a real difference to animals in need and see the direct impact of your efforts.
Take on this leadership role and gain valuable experience and career growth opportunities.
Be part of a diverse and inclusive team that values and respects all members.
How to Apply:
Please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience.
ROLDA is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.
Our mission is to ensure animals have a good life by advocating for them and by inspiring everyone to treat them with compassion and respect.
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Note: Applicants must be UK based within a reasonable commute of London. Application without a cover letter will not be considered.
Location Home based (Home working with regular meetings in London)
Hours Full Time, permanent (flexibility may be offered for an excellent candidate.)
Reports to Director of Policy and Research
Main purpose and scope of the role:
Parentkind is a national charity representing 13,000 Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) and has a long term ambition to be the voice of parents in policy making.
We are looking for someone to support our work in Westminster and Whitehall, improving our relationships across Parliament and inside government as we seek to be the credible voice of parents in UK policy making.
The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of advocacy and policy research in Westminster, either within Parliament or government. If you have a passion for politics, a background in policy research and an interest in education policy and politics this is the role for you.
The role will involve:
- Conducting research on parents, including polling of parents and their views. We have an ambition to make high quality policy recommendations based on this research.
- Alongside the research requirements of the role, you will be expected to support our political and broader stakeholder engagement activity to make sure the work we do is seen by the right people.
- Organise and plan political events to communicate our research, including roundtables, lunches and dinners and launch events in Westminster.
- Lead on responding to public consultations on behalf of Parentkind to ensure the voice of parents is heard in the public consultations.
You will represent Parentkind at important events and meetings and have the chance to promote our research and policy recommendations. We would particularly welcome candidates who can demonstrate some media experience, including writing press releases and placing stories with national media outlets.
Duties and key responsibilities
Policy research and analysis
- To conduct research under the guidance of the Director of Policy and Research.
- To produce summarise large amounts of information and produce briefing material on education policy for external audiences, often at pace.
- To support the development of parent opinion polling related to our policy work.
- Respond to relevant consultations on behalf of Parentkind.
Policy development
- To provide rapid briefing material for any relevant future business relating to Parliament and the UK government.
- To provide political monitoring and identify opportunities for political engagement.
- To support the development of policy recommendations and experience of publishing policy related research.
Political engagement
To plan and organise political events, such as roundtable discussions, lunches and dinners and launch events in Westminster.
To identify political stakeholders relevant to our work in Parliament and the UK government, including:
- officials inside government departments,
- elected representatives,
- think tanks and other relevant research institutions.
To maintain a wide range of political contacts and meet with political stakeholders to promote our research and policy work.
To meet with organisations with an interest in our work and provide effective briefings.
To attend party conferences and other education led events to represent Parentkind.
Media engagement
To support the Director of Policy and Research in media engagement, including background research for press releases.
To summarise our policy and research ready for social media platforms.
Residents must be based in or within commutable distance of London.
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Job Title: Support and Development Worker
Department: England Service Team
Reports to: Senior Support & Development Worker
Salary: £28,471 (pro rata for Part-time)
Hours: 35 hours a week over 5 days (Part-time will be considered)
Location: Home based – with travel across Teesside, County Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland and Tyne & Wear and neighbouring areas. Occasional travel across wider areas and nationally will be required.
We are looking for someone who can cover the Teeside, County Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland and Tyne & Wear area. You will be home based but will be required to attend clinics, events and meet members one to one where necessary within your allocated area and occasionally across wider areas and nationally.
Purpose of Job
To deliver a high-quality service to and facilitate opportunities for individuals with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus and their families/carers through Shine membership. To empower and enable members Living with the conditions to lead healthy and happy lives through greater independence, better condition management and by creating links to the Shine community across England.
SHINE has just under 14,000 members with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus. This post will bring a real focus to the County Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland & Tyne & Wear area and will be an exciting opportunity to engage with members and develop and deliver the services we offer.
Our Little Stars project for 0–12 year olds has been established for over 3 years supporting younger members and their families with their diagnosis and beyond. We also have a growing Teen membership known as FIRE (Friendship, Independence, Resilience, Equality) Working alongside our multi skilled, established team, you will be supporting members across all age groups and building on the great foundations already in place.
Core role
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To provide information to individuals, families, carers affected by Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus including hard to reach communities living within your area.
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To provide advice, support and guidance to enable people with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus to access the correct benefits to become financially stable, the right services to improve their health and well-being, and to better co-ordinate their support and independence through a variety of methods. This will include attending specialist clinics in the area to engage with them.
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To refer individual members and/or their families/carers to the most appropriate source of expertise and support in Shine’s Health team and other designated leads within the organisation, or signpost to external agencies as appropriate.
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To develop age-specific groups and peer support networks which will provide opportunities for people with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus to connect and interact, enabling social opportunities and to share experiences, support and learn from each other.
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To work with and develop opportunities for Shine volunteers.
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To contribute to the delivery of regional and national programme of events to Shine’s membership, based on identified need and interests, geographical location and age. These will be face to face and virtual events.
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To provide information to professionals working with those individuals and families affected by Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus.
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To raise greater awareness of Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus amongst professionals, external organisations and the general public through presentations, training and attendance at professional events.
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To actively promote membership of Shine to people with the relevant conditions.
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To keep clear and accurate records for monitoring and evaluation using our Salesforce database system.
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To work with other service, fundraising, marketing, trust and foundations colleagues and Shine’s membership to identify and seize potential fundraising opportunities for long-term sustainability of the work.
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To prepare and keep up to date a directory of relevant contacts across the area and to share relevant information with colleagues.
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To undertake administrative duties as required of the role.
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Any other duties in line with the job role.
Essential criteria
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Ability to travel across the designated areas
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Flexible working hours. This may include some evenings and weekends
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Ability to work from home
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The ability to be motivated and work on your own initiative with lone working from home, whilst also travelling across the area and Region to be part of the wider dispersed team.
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Full Enhanced DBS checks and referencing will be completed
Experience and qualifications – essential
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At least two years’ recent experience of delivering support and advice services
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Experience of working with people of all ages with disabilities
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At least two years’ experience of advising on one or more of the following:
health and wellbeing; independence; benefits; education and learning; employment; developing friendships and social skills; reducing isolation; social care; housing
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Experience of developing and delivering opportunities to enable and empower people with disabilities to achieve their goals towards independence.
Knowledge, skills and abilities – essential
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Understanding of spina bifida and hydrocephalus and of the issues and challenges faced by people living with these conditions
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Ability to work with people individually and to facilitate and run group activities and events
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Excellent communication skills both verbally and written
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IT literate with a good knowledge of computer systems and programmes (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and use of databases
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A non-judgemental approach to working with people
Experience and Qualifications – desirable
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Hold a qualification in a health, nursing, social care or disability related field
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Experience of working in the third sector in a paid or unpaid capacity
Knowledge, skills and abilities – desirable
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Understanding of the role peer support plays in enhancing services and support to members
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An awareness and understanding of how to use social media and its effectiveness in reducing social isolation
In return, Shine will offer you:
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A competitive salary of £28,471 (pro-rata for part-time hours)
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3% pension contribution
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25 days holiday plus bank holidays + additional discretionary leave between Christmas and New Year (pro-rata for part-time hours)
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Support to learn and develop
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Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
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Broadband allowance
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Additional annual leave due to length of service
If you would like to have a chat about the role in more detail or have any questions, please give us a call and ask to speak to Gill Valentine, our Director of Services.
Shine is a Disability Confident employer and will offer guaranteed interviews if a disabled applicant meets the minimum criteria for the job.
To apply please submit your CV and supporting statement, which should outline your interest and explain how you meet the role criteria.
*Please note applications without a supporting statement will not be accepted*
Closing date: Sunday 4th August 2024 at 11pm
Interviews: Thursday 15th August 2024 (Virtual)
Please note: we reserve the right to interview suitable candidates before the closing date, therefore we encourage applications as soon as possible.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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NB: Applications should submit an application letter confirming why this role is for them, and why they are for this role. Applications from UK residents only with a right to work in the UK. Please feel free to share links to your work, or a portfolio.
Role: Digital Marketing Manager
Reporting to: Head of Marketing
Salary: Up to 35K + Working from home allowance
At Parentkind, we believe that the well-being of children is deeply intertwined with the active involvement and support of their parents. Our mission is to empower parents not only to be partners in their children's education but also to foster happy, healthy relationships that enable children to thrive in all aspects of their lives. As the leading voice for parents in the UK, Parentkind plays a crucial role in shaping educational policies and supporting families through comprehensive, impactful initiatives.
This is your chance to join our national charity while we are embarking on an exciting chapter, delivering new products and campaigns. As a result, we are looking for high-performing team players to join our fun and friendly marketing team.
As an advocate for parents, we are seeking an experienced Digital Marketing Manager that is motivated by community engagement and storytelling, to help us bring to life our brand, mission and impact.
You’ll be working across our audience spectrum including; our 12,500+ parent teacher association (PTA) membership base, those in a parenting role, and school leaders. You’ll work across a range of projects from building out our always on digital strategies, cross-channel community building and helping us reach for the stars on major campaigns and projects.
Main purpose and scope of role
To support and work in collaboration with the Head of Marketing to:
- Develop our digital marketing strategies and annual plans for all audiences across website, email and social
- Manage and develop our communities across email and social channels including content creation and community building/management
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver engaging digital campaigns
- Manage and develop a Marketing & Communications Executive
Duties and key responsibilities
Strategy development and implementation:
- Develop and implement digital marketing strategies for website, email and social, that align with the charity’s goals
- Ensure effective online presence, drive website traffic, and grow our audience with PTA membership acquisition and email data
- Utilise a range of techniques including paid search, SEO, and PPC
- Conduct market research and analyse trends to identify new opportunities
- Set measurable goals that demonstrate improvement in marketing efforts
Social media management:
- Manage and develop our social communities including Facebook pages and groups, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and YouTube
- Launch and manage new channels, where relevant, such as TikTok, Threads etc.
- Deliver an audience-led approach ensuring that community, connection and engagement is at the heart of our social activity
- Oversee the creation and distribution of relevant, original and high-quality content
- Conduct high-performing organic and paid for campaigns for both always-on and campaign activities
- Identify and manage appropriate content creators for key campaigns and activities
Email marketing:
- Create and manage email marketing campaigns, including newsletters, soluses, and transactional emails.
- Design and implement email marketing campaigns that are compelling and on-brand.
- Analyse email marketing metrics (open rates, click-through rates, conversions) and optimise campaigns based on performance
- Ensure email marketing strategies comply with current email marketing best practices and regulations
Collaboration:
- Collaborate with our content marketing team to develop relevant, quality digital content across a range of formats for our audiences
- Work with our Content Marketing Manager to promote key content as well as helping to inform their cross-channel content strategy
- Support the PTA Membership team with suitable digital acquisition campaigns that will contribute to their new member acquisition goals
- Work with the wider Marketing and Fundraising teams to deliver fundraising campaigns with corporate partners
- Work with others across the organisation as well as independently to understand our key audiences so that the work delivered is audience-focussed
Analytics and reporting:
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for always on and campaign activities and monitor these regularly
- Compile monthly and specific campaign reports to showcase marketing performance
- Analyse reports and key metrics and optimise strategies and activities as needed
Project management:
- Lead on the delivery of digital campaigns
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritise effectively
Continuous learning:
- Monitor effectiveness of our digital activity to ensure that we optimise our plans and activity in the future
- Stay informed of the latest trends, technologies and best practises so that Parentkind’s work is forward-thinking and impactful
General Responsibilities
- To ensure Data Protection procedures are followed at all times
- To keep abreast of relevant educational policy and legislation affecting our key audiences
- To be flexible within the remit of the post
- To undertake other duties as reasonably requested
- To be self-servicing
- To attend and participate in Parentkind’s performance, development and training programmes.
- To abide by organisational policies, codes of conduct and practices.
- To be responsible for the health, safety, welfare of self, other members of staff and visitors.
You’ll have
- 6+ years experience in digital marketing
- Demonstrable experience in planning, delivering, and optimising multi-channel organic and paid-for digital activity
- Social media management and community building experience
- Experience in leading digital campaigns
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent written communication skills with strong attention to detail
You’ll get
- To join a fast-moving charity with an exciting future
- Remote working full-time with a great online team culture
- 25 days holiday in addition to UK public holidays.
- Benefits such as 4 x Death in service, two years of 75% income protection for long term illness, free private online/telephone GP appointments
How to apply
A job description is attached to this listing.
To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter through CharityJob, outlining your motivations for applying for the role and how you meet the Person Specifications.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 9am on Tuesday 16th July.We are keen to not lose amazing candidates through a lengthy process and so will interview on an ongoing basis and may appoint before the deadline. Please apply or indicate your interest as soon as practical.
More about Parentkind
Parentkind is the national voice of parents and the largest federated charity of its kind. As a 68-year-old charity, we have helped parent groups raise billions in support of their children's schools. Parentkind's membership of 13,000 parent teacher associations deliver tens of thousands of events and opportunities at around half of all primary schools and a quarter of secondary schools each year.
Parentkind delivers the National Parent Survey, The National PTA Awards, The PTAextra termly magazine, 'Be School Ready' (a publication that reaches 1 in 6 families with children starting school each year), and more.
The charity's impact is significant, and our work ensures that parent and carer voices are heard at a local, regional, and national level.
This job description may be amended from time to time and does not form part of the Employment contract.
Please note that this role will require you to have the legal right to work within the UK.
Background to the role
The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) is at the forefront of the movement to transform meat production in order to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger, to antibiotic resistance and animal suffering.
We work with scientists, businesses and policymakers to make sustainable proteins like plant-based and cultivated meat (grown directly from cells) delicious, affordable and accessible. Please check out our 2023 Year in Review and our 2023 Europe Highlights blog post to find out more about who we are and what we do.
We are at an exciting stage in our growth and are looking for a Donor Engagement Officer to support GFI’s fundraising efforts across Europe.
How you will make a difference
The work of GFI is powered by philanthropy. Reporting to our Philanthropy Manager, you will be responsible for translating the incredible work of GFI Europe’s programmatic teams into inspiring, engaging stewardship touch-points for our donors. You will bring creativity and data-driven insights to this role. The stewardship touch-points you deliver will support the work of our whole development team and inspire donors at all levels. You will also maintain and upgrade the support of leadership giving level (€2,000-€25,000 p.a.) donors in your own portfolio.
Your work will include:
- Delivering GFI Europe’s existing stewardship strategy (e.g. a mid-year impact update, end-of-year blog, virtual events, and gift anniversary emails).
- Enhancing GFI Europe’s stewardship strategy to maintain and improve donor retention at all gift levels, by researching and recommending creative and effective stewardship ideas (e.g. videos, digital stewardship platforms, events), suggesting improvements to existing processes, materials and resources, and implementing these changes.
- Building strong, meaningful, long-term relationships with a portfolio of 20-30 leadership-giving level donors and prospects (individuals and some foundations) across Europe through face-to-face meetings, video and telephone calls, email and other channels, to acquire, retain and upgrade their support.
- Collating and crafting timely, understandable, concise, and interesting updates about high-impact news about GFI Europe’s work, tailored to different countries and cultures, that frontline fundraisers can share with donors and prospects to show how their support makes a difference and inspires further giving.
- Helping to provide GFI Europe’s input into global stewardship materials and events, such as the Year in Review by collecting and submitting impact stories and collaborating with global colleagues.
- Assisting other frontline fundraisers with stewardship reports, according to need and capacity.
- Ensuring accurate, timely and thorough correspondence, acknowledgement and record-keeping at all stages of the donor journey for donors in your portfolio. You will use our CRM system (Salesforce) to manage prospects and supporters, enter and track gifts, pull reports, and analyse data.
- Performing other relevant duties as required.
Who we’re looking for
We primarily hire for skills and potential rather than experience. The core skills and attributes needed to excel in the role are:
- A passion for our philosophy and mission.
- A good understanding of the donor journey from identification through to solicitation and stewardship.
- Comprehension & communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English, and the ability to understand a range of information (i.e. about alternative proteins, and GFI Europe’s science, policy and industry work) and translate it into compelling and persuasive messages for donors.
- Creative thinking: The ability to develop creative, innovative strategies and materials for engaging supporters.
- Project management: Experience in managing projects from conception to fruition.
- Initiative: a sense of ownership and responsibility to drive outcomes.
- Excellent people skills: building strong, collaborative and positive relationships, and working well with colleagues and stakeholders across multiple cultures.
- Attention to detail: ensuring accuracy of information, for example when using a CRM database to record and track interactions with donors and prospects.
- Tech savviness: Good level of IT literacy and a willingness to learn new software packages (training in Salesforce, Asana, and Google Suite will be provided).
- Integrity: A high degree of professionalism, confidentiality, and discretion.
- Openness to DEI principles: an affinity with our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and with maintaining our welcoming and supportive culture.
It would be an advantage to have some or all of the following attributes, but none of them are prerequisites, and we welcome applications from candidates without any or all of them:
- A willingness to occasionally work flexibly, including occasional evenings, weekends and public holidays (for example, for donor meetings).
- Experience in video editing and/or graphic design.
- A proven track record of securing philanthropic gifts via face-to-face, digital or telephone fundraising.
- The ability to work in European languages in addition to English. German, French or Dutch would be a particular advantage.
- A willingness to occasionally travel across Europe in pursuit of philanthropic opportunities.
We want the best people and we know that building a diverse, inclusive workplace leads to stronger, happier, more productive and resilient teams. We strongly encourage people of every ethnicity, orientation, age, gender, origin, socio-economic background, and ability to apply. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritise an inclusive culture absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team
Benefits and the fine print
- Terms of employment: Full-time (38 hours/week), flexible working hours, permanent.
- Location: We can consider applicants based in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain or the UK. This is a remote role, and you will be able to work from home, or we are happy to consider supporting costs for co-working to enable you to work from an office if you wish. The whole GFI Europe team aims to get together in person approximately twice per year for around 3-5 days at a time. Travel costs will be covered by GFI Europe within our travel policy.
- Salary and benefits: The salary and benefits package for all of our roles are researched and benchmarked based on similar nonprofit roles in the country/location of hire. Due to capacity, we cannot complete that research for every European country in advance, but approximate indicative ranges (total annual amounts received in gross salary plus benefits including home-working allowance) are likely to be:
- £36.000 – 39.600 if based in the UK.
- Right to work requirements: The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country where they are based, and to be able to travel within the EU.
- Application Deadline: 21 July 2024, 11.59pm CET. We will get back to all candidates after that date, no matter the outcome of their application. You should expect to hear back from us within about a week of the deadline.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are seeking an inquisitive, collaborative and adaptable new member of the Genetic Alliance UK team. Our new Senior Policy and Research Officer will bring the voice of people living with genetic, rare and undiagnosed conditions to the centre of innovative research programmes and cutting-edge policy discourse.
Genetic Alliance UK is the largest alliance of organisations supporting people with genetic, rare and undiagnosed conditions in the UK. Our member organisations and the people they support are at the heart of everything we do. We advocate for fast and accurate diagnosis, good quality care and access to the best treatments.
Full details of this role including the job description and how to apply can be found on Genetic Alliance UK's website.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Inspire one gift in a will. Help fund a third of our research. Improve countless lives.
Legacy Management Officer
£34,000 - £36,000 per annum +
Reports to: Senior Legacy Partnership Manager (Friends and Family)
Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement
Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Location: Home-based
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Closing date: 20 July 2024, 23:55
This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact as soon as possible.
Recruitment process: One competency-based interview with a 10-minute task included.
Interview date: From the week commencing 22 July 2024
How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.
Legacy income from gifts in wills generates a third of Cancer Research UK's income towards our life-saving research (In 2022/23, we raised £261m in legacies). Therefore, the Legacy Management team is essential to the future success of our mission.
As a Legacy Management Officer, you will join the Friends & Family Legacy Management team as part of the UK's largest charity. You will play a valuable role in delivering our Legacy Product Strategy by managing a caseload of pecuniary, residuary, and life interest trust legacies and building collaborative relationships with solicitors, law firms and other professionals involved in legacy giving or Wills substitutes. You will play a key role in being the first point of contact for our supporters/members of the public and in administering estates generously donated to Cancer Research UK by our deceased supporters/ donors in a professional and approachable manner.
Your legacy by the end of this contract will be to have had a deeply human and meaningful impact by engaging with the family and friends to thank, recognise, and share the impact of their loved one's legacy in bringing about a world where everybody can lead longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer. If you have a Legacy Management or Legal background with experience in probate, trust, and /or charity law, we would love for you to join our mission.
What will I be doing?
Managing a paperless caseload of pecuniary, residuary, and life interest trust legacies within your region ensuring to deal with them efficiently and effectively while adding value and safeguarding Cancer Research UK's interests.
Corresponding with executors engagingly and professionally in line with Cancer Research UK's brand guidelines and values, and the Charity Commission.
Making pragmatic decisions in line with the Delegated Authority while promoting Cancer Research UK as an easy-to-deal-with and professional beneficiary.
Seeking support and guidance from the Complex Legacy Management team when appropriate.
Building relationships with lay executors (non-professional executors) and engaging with the family and friends of the deceased to thank and acknowledge their loved one's legacy, and to provide information about the impact of their gift/ will.
Promoting the team within Cancer Research UK which will involve reporting on and sharing interesting and impactful legacy stories.
Accurately estimating and updating the value of each legacy gift ensuring to undertake additional checks as required and participating in pre-audit compliance work.
Adhering to Cancer Research UK's financial and Data Protection policies.
Undertaking additional activities to support the overall Legacy Strategy and improve the team.
Providing excellent legacy administration and engaging with legacy professionals to create a positive view of Cancer Research UK and the wider legacy charity sector.
Supporting the Legacy Partnership Manager in implementing the engagement strategy (including events and other relationship-building activities).
Attending engagement events and professional visits within your region where a Legacy Management perspective is beneficial. Such as:
Supporting the wider Legacy Management team and other Fundraising & Marketing teams with Family & Friends Legacy engagement activities, supporter queries, and events.
Being the first point of contact for legacy queries from supporters and members of the public.
What are you looking for?
Legacy Management or Legal background. Ideally is a qualified solicitor (or qualified by experience) in probate, trust, and charity law.
Knowledge of probate and trust law.
Accounting and Tax knowledge (particularly estate accounts, investment management, share valuations, management accounting, reporting; income tax, inheritance tax, and capital gains tax).
Strong attention to detail/data accuracy (particularly when inputting into case management systems).
Proven time management and organisational skills. This includes:
A track record of working under minimal supervision while managing or helping to manage a legacy administration or an equivalent function.
A flexible approach and comfortable in navigating ambiguity and challenging environments/ contexts (such as engaging with the family and friends of deceased donors).
Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills with the ability to gain buy-in and collaboration.
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with an ability to create connections that make great things happen.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.
If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we'd still love to hear from you.
What will I gain?
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.
You can explore our benefits by visiting our .
Additional information
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Location: North
Salary: £116 per day
Hours: Various
Department: Prison delivery
Job Type: Part time
Contract Type: Bank
Do you want to join an organisation committed to addressing illiteracy amongst people in prison?
Shannon Trust are delighted to be working with His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) to provide peer-led literacy and numeracy programmes across a number of prisons. To ensure the continuation of our programmes during times of staff absence, we are now seeking to recruit a Prison Facilitator on a bank working basis to work across the North region. Working closely with prisons and their staff, people in prison, Shannon Trust volunteers and mentors, this post will support with the delivery and development of our literacy and numeracy programme in the North region, maximising opportunities for people in prison to learn to read.
Ideally you will have some experience of prison settings underpinned by the ability to build relationships quickly and personal qualities that include resilience, determination and a problem-solving approach. You will also have a willingness to travel, sometimes at short notice, to provide short or long term cover within the region including some overnight stays.
This role will be prison-based. This is a bank role and so the number of days to be worked will vary and are not guaranteed.
Employee benefits include paid expenses and travel, a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme. The biggest benefit though is our culture – our people really want to work for the organisation.
We welcome job applications from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system and do not routinely ask for details of any criminal convictions. These roles do require prison security clearance, so we will need to ask for details of any relevant criminal convictions before an offer of employment is finalised.
Interviews are planned for 8 August 2024 (online).
Benefits: Standard Shannon Trust: Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Talent Set are delighted to be working with Barnardo’s to find their Senior In Memory & Legacy Marketing Executive.
Barnardo’s offer a fully remote working environment, with occasional travel to their offices for meetings.
Reporting into the Legacy Marketing Manager, you will lead and manage the regular recruitment of in-memory supporters via a range of channels including direct mail, telemarketing, broadcast and digital media, events and other channels. You will be responsible for excellent supporter stewardship and developing the free wills programme.
Key Responsibilities:
· To lead on creating and implementing a new offline and online in[1]memory marketing and stewardship programme which will include: managing data selection briefs, creating creative briefs, developing content and artwork using internal or external resources and liaising with other teams as appropriate.
· Manage the administration of and reporting on the Free Will-writing schemes. Manage the promotion of the Free Will schemes in direct mail, telemarketing campaigns as well in digital channels.
· Manage Barnardo’s in-memory digital journeys, working with Barnardo’s Digital Fundraising team to manage website content, optimise website user experience and develop digital journeys.
· With the support of the Legacy Marketing Manager, develop and test a legacy events programme.
· Ensure accurate data input of supporter information on the supporter database, supporting the capture of response data into results spreadsheets, monitoring and circulating results. Responsible for collating monthly reports and other reports for the Team as appropriate.
· Manage fulfilment and thanking processes, ensuring that all donors are thanked with appropriate sensitivity using online and offline communication channels.
· To support the overall Legacies team promotion of the importance of gifts in Wills and in-memory giving to internal and external audiences.
Person Specification:
· Highly desirable to have in-memory experience and Legacy Marketing knowledge, ideally gained in a large organisation, and a strong understanding of Direct Marketing, with a track-record of success.
· Experience of managing direct marketing campaigns across a wide range of media, including managing creative production, writing data briefs, managing print production and monitoring results.
· Experience of using data and insight to inform future plans.
· Experience of influencing and negotiating with stakeholders that have differing priorities across departments in order to achieve common goals.
· Ability to accurately input data, maintain systems and report from team databases.
· Effective and sensitive relationship management of legacy and in-memory supporters.
To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
The successful applicant will work closely with the Support Line Manager and team to deliver support for anyone affected by sarcoma. The post holder will be part of a growing Support Line team and be part of the continued expansion of the service as we grow in exciting new directions in 2024/25. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to expand their knowledge and experience in a role that can make a real impact for people affected by sarcoma and their families.
Sarcoma UK aims to produce the highest quality information for the sarcoma community. We work in line with NHS England’s certification scheme, The Information Standard, to ensure the information we produce is clear and reflects the most up to date clinical guidance. We involve sarcoma experts and people with personal experience of sarcoma as reviewers of our information to ensure our information is accurate and relevant to our target audience.
Benefits:
- Flexible working options including hybrid working
- Pension with 5% employer contribution
- 25 days holiday entitlement per annum plus bank holidays and the working days between Christmas and New Year
- Additional day off for your birthday
- Volunteering day per year
- Enhanced sick, maternity and adoption pay
- Sarcoma UK Life Insurance Scheme
- Health and wellbeing:
- Health Cash Plan
- Therapy sessions
- Wellbeing Group
- Team activites throughout the year
- Interest-free season ticket and bicycle loan
Our Values
- Pioneering we are leading the way to a better future for the sarcoma community.
- Together we are creating a community to make a difference for all those affected by sarcoma.
- Expert we use our expertise in understanding sarcoma to deliver better outcomes.
Duties and key responsibilities
Support and Information
- To deliver the Sarcoma UK Support Line, a confidential telephone and email support and information service for anyone affected by sarcoma. This includes:
- Providing individual information and support to service users on sarcoma and related issues, by telephone, email and other media as the service develops.
- Adhering to quality standards, confidentiality, Sarcoma UK policies and the standard operating procedures of the Support Line.
- Under direction from the Director of Research, Policy and Support and Support Line Manager, contribute to Sarcoma UK’s social and other media as appropriate.
- To provide clinical input to the development of the charity’s information materials including the revision of existing information materials and the development of new information products.
- To provide input to the clinical content of the charity’s website.
- To raise awareness of the charity’s information and support services within the health professional field.
- To contribute sarcoma knowledge and clinical expertise across all the charity’s programmes.
Maintain Professional Knowledge
- Keep up to date with treatment and care of sarcoma through research and review of publications, horizon scanning, and attending study days and conferences, and disseminate this information within the charity.
- Adhere to the standards of good practice outlined in the AHP / NMC professional code of conduct, or relevant professional body’s standards.
- Maintain professional registration and compliance with revalidation requirements ensuring ongoing clinical education and professional development.
- Attend mandatory clinical supervision sessions.
External Relationships
- To maintain positive relationships with key Sarcoma UK stakeholders including sarcoma patients, family members/carers and support group leaders.
- To develop and maintain contact with sarcoma specialist healthcare professionals, including clinicians, specialist nurses and allied health professionals who have reviewed our information materials.
Other
- To support new work within the information and support team.
- The role will require some travel to meetings and events throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.
- Attend Sarcoma UK events and take part in Sarcoma UK’s wider work.
- Occasional weekend or evening work may also be required and time off in lieu will be given.
- The post holder will be working in a developing environment and will therefore be required to undertake other appropriate duties as necessary for the efficient operation of Sarcoma UK.
Sarcoma UK is a national charity that funds vital research and offers information and support to anyone affected by sarcoma.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
- Part-time (3.5 days per week)
- Permanent
- £30,500 per annum pro rata plus 6% pension contribution
- 28 days annual leave pro rata (on top of usual bank holidays)
- Arts Emergency operates a 35-hour week, we will consider compressed or annualised hours
- This role can be home or office-based
Arts Emergency has been supporting young people through its mentoring programme since 2011. During this time, we’ve seen a huge community of mentors from across the UK’s creative industries come together to support nearly 2,000 underrepresented young people to pursue higher education, creativity and careers.
As the Merseyside Mentoring Officer, you will work to recruit, match and support mentoring pairs across Merseyside. This is a busy, fun, and super rewarding role where you’ll get to work independently while being supported by the Mentoring Manager, your Mentoring team colleagues, and the wider Arts Emergency team around the country.
Knowledge & Experience
- Experience working with young people aged 16-18
- Experience of programme delivery in a related field (e.g. youth work, arts and culture, education)
- Knowledge of the context and issues affecting young people in Merseyside
Skills & Abilities
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills with diverse stakeholders
- Good presentation skills and confident at public speaking
- Good administrative and organisational skills
- Creative thinking - ability to recognise and capitalise on value-added opportunities for mentors and mentees
- Capability in using standard office programmes, web-based apps, and databases
Personal qualities
- Commitment to upholding Arts Emergency’s values of being bold, optimistic, and community-led
- Passionate and driven to make a positive impact on the world
- Always learning: a self-starter, motivated, eager to learn
- Self-disciplined to work independently and communicate proactively with the wider team
Key Tasks
- Recruit and maintain a network of volunteer mentors, in collaboration with the wider Mentoring and Arts Emergency team
- Organise mentor training events and carry out necessary safeguarding measures, including enhanced checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for volunteers
- Promote the mentoring programme with schools, colleges, and other referral partners
- Manage existing relationships and develop new ones with schools, colleges, and other referral partners
- Manage application and onboarding processes effectively
- Ensure the best possible mentor matches for young people and provide high-quality support throughout their mentoring relationship
- Monitor the programme and share updates proactively with the Mentoring Manager, including reviewing and responding to mentor reports
- Curate monthly newsletters, sharing opportunities with Merseyside-based mentees
The role can be home or office based, or hybrid. Arts Emergency’s head office is in London and Manchester. We also have access to Spaces offices around the country which can be used by all staff if an office space is needed outside these areas - including a co-working space off Wood Street in Liverpool city centre. Regular travel across Merseyside is essential as part of programme delivery.
To apply:
1. visit the Arts Emergency website
2. download and read the Job Pack thoroughly
3. follow the instructions on how to apply stated in this document
4. Deadline to apply: 29 July 2024, 10am
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Brand & Audience Strategist, a very exciting opportunity, joining a specialist UK Health/Cancer Charity. Open to remote working or attending the London office. 9 - month contract. Open to flexible working patterns.
- 9 - month contract.
- Open to flexible working patterns. Full-time, or can consider 30 hours per week.
- Open to remote working or you can attend the London office.
With a new strategy and ambitious goals to reach and engage a much larger and more diverse audience about the cause, as the Brand & Audience Strategist, joining the Brand and Strategy team, you will bring your brand strategy and audience segmentation expertise to help deliver this change.
As a Brand & Audience Strategist expert, you will help the charity deliver and embed a framework to allow more intelligent audience engagement across all engagement activity. Positioning the charity as the go-to charity and priority audiences will be key.
- You’ll be a strategic thinker rather than a tactical doer. It will be your audience-first approach and strategic brand direction that will bring everything together.
- You’ll play a key role in influencing what is spoken to an audience and when. Facilitating and embedding a new audience framework across the entire organisation.
- You’ll work closely with multifunctional teams, leading discussions with the communications team, working with the digital and data teams to ensure they can make decisions and pivoting existing activity based on real-time data and insight.
As the Brand & Audience Strategist, you will:
- Project manage profile growth strategic workstream, considering how to make the most impact through brand activity.
- Lead the audience workstream, working closely with the Head of Brand and Strategy and the cross functional workstream team to develop strategies to best achieve the charities goals.
- Work alongside the Deputy Director of Communications and the audience agency, to manage audience workstream; developing, owning and embedding a new audience-centric approach across the charity to enable them to reach, engage and motivate more people to join their community.
Main Responsibilities:
Audience growth
- Project manage the audience workstream, ensuring they remain on brief and on track to deliver results that support teams across the organisation
- Support, develop and champion audience-first approach across the organisation, developing and owning ways of working to embed this across teams.
Brand strategy and development
- Project manage the workstream responsible for purposeful profile growth, positioning the charity as the go to charity and increasing their reach amongst the community.
- Develop audience insight and key messaging that inspires teams across the organisation, in particular the Engagement directorate, to develop integrated campaigns and bring these to life in the most impactful way.
- Own and embed the brand strategy and the engagement funnel so that all external activity, as well as internal ways of working, speaks to the bigger picture of who they are as a brand, and where their audiences are on their journey
Planning and processes
- Identify the best way to launch and embed audience segmentation framework, providing the platform and tools for colleagues to work from
- Forward plan communications priorities according to the organisational strategy, ensuring consistent brand story across all channels
- Work with teams across the organisation to understand the audience needs and project manage opportunities to establish category and increase reach and engagement.
Data and insight
- Lead on high-quality market intelligence gathering and analysis to inform audience engagement strategies that promote the brand story and drive people through the engagement funnel
To be successful in this Brand & Audience Strategist role, you will have knowledge, skills and experience in these areas:
- Strong experience of developing and delivering brand and audience strategies that deliver impact with proven track record of achieving or exceeding brand and reach KPIs
- Successful track-record in delivering internal frameworks, marketing plans & strategy, responsible for brand activation across multiple communication channels and disciplines
- Experience of commissioning and analysing audience data and insight to develop successful marketing activities, along with using performance data to monitor and maximise impact
- Manage budgets, set KPIs, track performance and adjust plans and activity to maximise impact.
Please note: This is a rolling recruitment drive and the deadline is ASAP.
Angela Mann Recruitment' is a specialist Charity & NFP Recruitment Agency, with extensive experience and knowledge of working within the sector. We match individuals to roles based on the required skills and experiences requested to fulfil a position, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Living with cystic fibrosis can bring extra costs, so we provide financial support including dedicated benefits advice and a range of welfare grants for people with cystic fibrosis and their families.
As Welfare Officer, you will:
- Be a first point of contact for people in financial need, providing income maximisation and signposting to internal and external information and support resources as appropriate.
- Work with the Trust’s Welfare & Rights Advisor to capture and analyse the reach and impact of our benefits advice service, gathering data and testimonials and creating and sharing reports.
- Provide one-to-one income maximisation to clients via phone, email and video calls
- Work as part of a small team providing holistic support to the CF community in the UK.
- Deliver a specialist student support service – providing information to people with cystic fibrosis entering further or higher education about their rights and the financial and practical support they can access – training can be provided for this aspect of the role.
The ideal candidate will bring experience of delivering income maximisation, either in a paid or voluntary capacity, and an empathetic, non-judgmental and empowering approach.
This is an opportunity to join a small, friendly team focused on making a real difference to the lives of people with cystic fibrosis and is a critical role within our Information, Support & Programmes team, helping us to ensure we can provide access to long-term, sustainable financial support for people affected by cystic fibrosis so they can look after their health and live the life they want.
The Cystic Fibrosis Trust aims to be an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs, can be themselves and achieve their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain staff with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives; particularly people who have cystic fibrosis; people who identify as being from an ethnic minority group, as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.
It is our policy not to discriminate against any person because of their age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability (physical and mental), race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief (including lack of belief), sex, sexual orientation or union membership.
Salary: £8,700 pro-rata (£29,000 FTE) plus either £450 Home Allowance per year or £3,000 London Weighting pro-rata per year
Hours: 10.5
We also offer a range of benefits including flexible working, healthcare cash plan, pension, and more.
Closing date for completed applications is 5pm on Monday 29th July 2024.
First interviews expected on Tuesday 6th August 2024.
Second interviews expected on Friday 16th August 2024.
We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if necessary. Therefore, if you are interested in this role, please submit your application as early as possible.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE.
How to apply
Please note: you will need to have the right to work in the UK before starting work for us and we will check this
Please see the job description for more information on the role. If you would like to discuss the role before applying, please contact us.
To apply, please select 'Apply Now' and complete our application form and equal opportunities form.
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Our client is a leading values-driven improvement agency which has evolved from a largely government- funded body to a fast-moving, high-profile and more commercial organisation and thought leader in recent years.
They are independent and people-focused, operating at policy and practice levels with a huge database of ‘what works’ good practice, eLearning tools and resources. Working beyond and across Social Care and Health, Children’s and Adults sectors, they contribute to the development and implementation of better care, support and safeguarding at a national and local level.
We are delighted to be partnering with the organisation to recruit a Programme Manager to join the team on a fully remote working basis. This person can be based anywhere in the UK and the role is offered on an 8 month fixed term contract until March 2025.
The role:
The Programme Manager will lead on all Programme Management activities to support the organisation’s work developing and delivering the Accelerating Reform Fund programe. Working under the strategic leadership of the Head of Innovation, they will ensure robust but agile programme management that enables the organisation to provide iterative and evolving support to a large portfolio of innovation projects in Social Care. With oversight from the Head of Innovation, they will also play a central role in designing, developing and delivering the programme of support, with a particular focus on scaling up social care innovation and supporting learning amongst projects.
The person:
The successful candidate will have substantial demonstrated experience of Project Management ideally in the Health and Social Care or Social Change Sectors. This person could also have been a social worker with experience of having run development projects. They will have knowledge of the Social Care Act and will be familiar with digital change, commissioning, co-production and communicating with local authority audiences, and will be able to partner effectively with decision makers and senior stakeholders in the Social Care sector. This person will also have designed and delivered programmes of improvement aimed at reforming quality and focus in Social Care in the UK. An accomplished partnership worker, having commissioned training and ideally will have worked on Social Care training and development programmes with lots of planning, budget management and national reach.
This role is fully remote, so the candidate can be based anywhere in the UK and will be part of a national team of 40 staff. The person will need to be able to travel to London for a monthly in person meeting, and across the country for some workshops approx. 6-8 times during the contract.
As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.
Community Engagement Lead
£48,000 - £55,000 per annum per annum plus benefits, depending on relevant skills and experience.
Location: Home-based, with occasional travel to Football Foundation offices and other sites
We’re the Football Foundation – the Premier League, The FA and Government's charity that helps communities improve their local football facilities through football grants. This means better games and more players - helping transform communities where demand is greatest, and impact will be strongest. We have ambitious plans and with the support from our funding partners, the Football Foundation is well-supported to continue to invest in community pitches and facilities across the nation.
To help us with this important mission, we’re looking for a Community Engagement Lead to join the team and play a key role in ensuring we achieve our objectives of engaging with and increasing physical activity levels amongst the four key priority groups facing the greatest inequalities: low socio-economic groups, women and girls, disabled people and people with long term health conditions, and culturally diverse communities.
This is an exciting time to be joining the Football Foundation and this is a great opportunity to use your knowledge and experience of place-based working and community engagement to make a real difference through community sports.
The role
A hugely exciting opportunity has become available to join the Football Foundation as our Community Engagement Lead. This position plays a crucial role in the Foundation achieving its objectives of increasing physical activity levels amongst priority groups facing the greatest inequalities and ensuring great community engagement is championed and embedded across our processes and programmes.
Working with our Funding Partners and key stakeholders at a national level, the postholder will provide strategic leadership to the delivery of the Foundations innovative PlayZones Programme, oversee delivery of our Sport England National Lottery funded Active Through Football programme and lead, manage, mentor, and support a team of Community Engagement Officers & Programme Manager to create a high-performance environment, which allows team members to thrive.
Following recent changes, the Community Engagement Lead and reports are positioned within the Foundations Delivery Team, each with a regional responsibility aligned to the teams regional structure. The postholder will work dynamically with colleagues across the Foundation as well as externally with a range of partner including funding partner organisations, the Active Partnerships, and other National Governing Bodies to continually shape and refine our approaches based on learning, research, and insight.
This role will be challenging, but the post holder has the opportunity to influence change throughout the Foundation’s processes and ensure meaningful community engagement is undertaken by our applicants.
What are we looking for?
You don’t need to follow football to apply, but it is expected that you appreciate the power of sport to change lives and have a genuine interest in using your skills and experience to help the Foundation achieve our charitable and strategic objectives.
Key to this role will be your exceptional knowledge and understanding of place-based working and the ingredients required to successfully tackle inequalities and affect change within a local area. A crucial part of this will be your knowledge of the workings of Local Authorities and the role they play within community development.
You’ll have strong communication and interpersonal skills, with experience of building and managing multiple stakeholder relationships, as well as experience of managing, leading and developing small teams.
You’ll have excellent planning and organisational skills, with experience of developing programmes to meet the requirements of multiple funders, but you’ll also have the flexibility to adapt to a diverse workload. You’ll also have strong attention to detail, with experience of producing robust reports for decision-makers and presenting to panels or committees.
Most of all we want someone who reflects who we are as an organisation. We refer to our values as our four corners:
· Fair Players – open and inclusive in our approach
· Star Performers – trusted to deliver
· United Team Player – collaborative and easy to work with
· Passionate Supporters – flexible and willing
If you share these values and have the necessary skills and experience for the role, then we look forward to hearing from you.
For full details of the role and requirements, please download our recruitment pack below.
What can we offer you?
The salary band for this role is £48,000 – £55,000 per annum, dependent on relevant skills and experience.
You will start on 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (which increases after 2 years), plus additional time off to volunteer. We also offer a generous pension scheme (8% employer contribution), free health care provision, a monthly gym subsidy, death in service benefit and access to selected match tickets.
We are committed to helping our team members maintain a healthy work-life balance, so offer flexible working around core hours to help achieve that.
Equality and Diversity Commitment
The Football Foundation is committed to, and values the principles of diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive working environment where all our team feel respected and supported in fulfilling their potential. We encourage and welcome applications from all, regardless of background and are particularly interested to hear from individuals belonging to under-represented groups including diverse ethnic communities, individuals with a disability, and those from the LGBTQI+ community.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process at either application or interview stage, please contact us at jobs @ footballfoundation .org .uk
How do I apply?
To apply, please follow the steps outlined below:
1. Please send the following to jobs @ footballfoundation. org .uk
o CV
o Cover letter - please highlight briefly and clearly how your skills, abilities and experience equip you for the role, together with your reasons for applying (no more than one side of A4).
The closing date for applications is: 9am, 23 July 2024
Interviews are scheduled for 30 July 2024
All applications received will be short listed against the role requirements and person specification. Those most closely matching our requirements will be invited to take part in an online interview.
Due to the volume of applications received for most roles, the Foundation only contacts candidates if they are shortlisted for interview. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, you should assume your application has not been successful.
Please note that you must be eligible to work in the UK to apply.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.