Jobs in Greater Manchester

We’re looking for an experienced Campaigns & Community Specialist to deliver key activities as part of a short-term project. Working closely with our small but dedicated team, you’ll play a vital role in mobilising grassroots activists, supporting expert-led insights, and strengthening feminist campaigning efforts.

About the Role

As a consultant, you’ll focus on three key areas:
�� Feminist AI Engagement – Work with AI experts by experience (EbEs) to develop a report on how AI impacts women.
�� WASPI Campaign Support – Collaborate with WASPI women’s campaigners to create a strategy that mobilises Fawcett members.
�� Local Feminist Campaigning – Engage with Fawcett’s local groups to strengthen grassroots activism through tailored resources.

Who We're Looking For

We’re seeking someone with:
✅ Project management experience in a nonprofit setting
✅ Strong communication skills and ability to engage with diverse stakeholders
✅ Commitment to feminist principles and grassroots activism
✅ Experience with AI ethics, participatory campaigning, or content creation (desirable)

We review applications on a rolling basis, so apply early to be considered.

�� Join us in driving feminist change!

You’ll be at home recruiting and interviewing new volunteers, pulling teams together, planning and strategising.  You've great people skills and a talent for bringing out the best in people, spotting their strengths, building up their confidence.  You’ll be supported by our Salesforce Manager and Content & Communications Lead and will work alongside colleagues heading up our services.  

We’re at the start of a new 5-year journey to create space for people who stammer – so we’re building our team.  This is a new role at STAMMA, so there is space to shape, create and shape volunteering at the start of our new strategy.  Now couldn’t be a better time to join.

We're embarking on a new strategy, fuelled by the National Lottery, which includes significantly expanding our volunteer operations which will be headed up with this new post.  We've already a team of over 30 brilliant volunteers.  Our services are central to what we do - so you'll be at the very heart of it all. Recruiting and supporting volunteers across the helpline, training and advocacy services, including supporting our amazing group leaders around the country. 

Essential Skills & Experience

-At least 3 years’ experience of volunteer management

-Understanding of the laws and regulations around volunteering.

-Experience of recruitment, managing volunteering shifts, supervision and monitoring.

-Thorough understanding of safeguarding practices and issues.

-Experience of presenting to groups of people and facilitating discussion and initiatives and coaching individuals.

-Strong writing and presentation skills.

-Experience of working within voluntary sector.

Desirable

-Experience of organising volunteer events.

-Experience of working with local volunteer groups or networks.

-Experience of using a CRM or volunteering management system.

-It would be great if you stammer, but not essential.

Soft Skills

-Leadership

-Empathetic

-Able to manage and prioritise a varied workload within deadline.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Recruit and induct new volunteers to support our services, working with the Services Director and the Training & Outreach Lead.  Work with the service managers to review training and update training modules.

-Ensure there is appropriate training, support, supervision and acknowledgement for all volunteers and ensure recruitment and processes comply with the charity’s values & EDI requirements

-Research and write volunteer policies and procedures, including risk assessments.

-Support and recruit volunteer community leaders; work with them to aim for consistent quality across the groups experience and develop an online training programme for leaders, and longer term, put a funding case together to support a training weekend for community leaders.

-Keep records on which community groups are active and identify areas of need and feedback mechanisms.

-Work with Content & Communications Lead to produce regular mailings for volunteers and recruitment drives and promote volunteering through recruitment and publicity strategies and campaigns.

-Keep up to date with legislation and policy related to volunteering and make any necessary modifications to accommodate changes.

-Maintain the database of volunteers + ensure all volunteers are registered members.

-Manage budgets and resources, including the reimbursement of volunteer expenses.

If you think you fit the bill and can tick most of the boxes needed under the Job Spec, then do apply.  Please send Jacqueline Fitzsimmons:

1. A CV.

2. A cover letter of no more than 2 pages to explain why you want this job and how you fit the Job Spec, with particular attention to skills and experience. 

If you want to chat through the post first, email Jane Powell

One to one Zoom interviews will be held in the first instance with the CEO. Candidates will then be shortlisted for a panel interview via Zoom. 

1st panel interview Online, 18th March

2nd panel interview London, in person, 24th March

About Tender

Tender is an arts charity working with children and young people to prevent domestic abuse and sexual violence through creative projects. Our programmes are safe, enjoyable, age-appropriate spaces where young people can engage with sensitive topics and “rehearse” for real-life scenarios. Participants are encouraged to be both consumers and producers of learning through script-work, role-play and creative media such as films and art. Throughout, we enable young people to explore their choices, rights and expectations in relationships and to recognise the early warning signs of abuse. 

Role Purpose

The main purposes of the Projects Coordinator role are to:

• Coordinate the delivery of Tender’s educational programmes to and for children and young people in schools and youth settings in East England (with an initial focus on Norfolk)
• Establish and maintain relationships with Tender’s internal and external stakeholders, including colleagues, workshop leaders, teachers/carers, delivery partners and other service professionals
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of Tender’s projects

Main responsibilities

Project delivery

• Coordinating the delivery of arts-based educational projects in and to schools and youth settings, including digital projects, to educate children and young people about healthy relationships
• Monitoring the progress of projects and working with the Programme Manager (East) to ensure projects are delivered to plan and on time
• Managing the distribution of relevant and appropriate materials and resources to project settings, workshop leaders and other partners involved in project delivery in the region to ensure high-quality project delivery
• Coordinating the evaluation of projects delivered in youth settings to ensure learnings from projects are assessed and shared
• Working with the Tender team to ensure effective and efficient use of time and resource during delivery

Relationships

• Supporting the Programme Manager (East) to establish and maintain relationships with youth settings to facilitate the delivery and success of educational projects
• Supporting the Programme Manager (East) to manage relationships with other stakeholders involved in the delivery of projects, including workshop leaders, youth leaders, partner organisations, and professional specialists, to ensure stakeholders remain engaged in and committed to the projects’ success
• Working with the Programme Manager (East) in managing communications for Tender’s projects, including building new relationships with youth settings
• Working with colleagues to manage information flows and communication to ensure knowledge of and learnings from projects are known and understood across Tender

Administration

• Logging, tracking and updating project management documentation (including project booking, securing contracts, carrying out risk assessments) to facilitate transparency of decision-making and accuracy of reporting
• Following monitoring and evaluation procedures to ensure the results of projects are recorded accurately and in a timely manner using specified systems, including Salesforce and SharePoint
• Participating in training and other learning activities to develop relevant professional skills and knowledge
• Undertaking any other reasonable duties commensurate with the grade and competencies required of the post requested by the line management

The Destitution Project (DP) is a dynamic and well-respected charity at the forefront of refugee and asylum seeker support in Bolton, Greater Manchester.  Proud recipient of the 2020 Queen's Award for Voluntary Service!  As DP’s Operations and Development Manager, you will provide overall leadership and management for the drop in and casework operations, staff and volunteers. This will include attending and being responsible for oversight at the Wednesday Drop-in and liaising with service providers and partner organisations.

Our Wednesday Drop-in offers a safe, welcoming space for people to meet and mix.  We provide a hot meal; food parcels for asylum seekers; clothing and household goods and much more.  Our Casework Service provides information and support face to face at the Drop-in and remotely through the week to first time applicants; refugees newly granted Leave to Remain and refused asylum seekers.

Our service is delivered by a passionately committed team of three staff members (part-time) and a volunteer core of thirty including 6 trustees. A few of the Team have been with the Project since its foundation as an independent charity in 2015; others have joined along the way, some having initially come to DP as service users themselves.  People with lived experience are central to everything we do, not just as service users, but as staff, volunteers and trustees.

You will work closely with DP’s Trustees and the DP Coordinating Committee to ensure smooth service delivery; develop and implement DP’s long-term strategic plans and, via consultation and feedback, build resilient services and activities that meet service users’ needs and help enhance the local community.  This will include building relationships in the community and representing DP at events and via external networks.

You will have experience of:

• Managing and supervising the work of teams and individuals.

• Decision-making in a wide range of situations including where risk management and safeguarding are considerations.

• Managing competing interests within the workplace.

• Understanding the circumstances and needs of refugees, asylum-seekers and vulnerable migrants.

The skills and attributes you will bring to DP:

• A creative, flexible, problem-solving approach

• Good communication (with a sense of humour)

• Able to reflect and learn from experience,

• Respectful of staff and volunteer knowledge and experience

• Commitment to working in a manner, which promotes diversity and equity ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and dignity.

Hours: Full-time

Pay: Up to £42,000 GBP gross gross per annum (dependent on experience)

Duration: Permanent contract

Location: UK-Med Office, Manchester, UK or remote working options within +/-2 hours of UK Time

We are seeking a Medical Professional, with significant expertise and experience in global humanitarian and disaster responses, to provide specialist technical guidance and oversight to our humanitarian health programming as a our new Health Advisor.

UK-Med is an NGO providing emergency health support in times of crisis and humanitarian emergencies. We provide clinical support, as well as training and capacity building for health professionals around the world, with particular focus on countries vulnerable to natural disasters, outbreaks or with weakened health systems due to complex emergencies. As a key partner of the UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT), we work closely with FCDO and the WHO, but we are also growing our own programmes. Our work has never been more vital, with disease outbreaks and disasters becoming more frequent, complex and severe.

Following a period of significant growth we are seeking a medical professional to join our team in this pivotal role. Our portfolio of emergency health programmes continues to grow at pace, with current or recent projects in countries including Ukraine, Gaza, Rwanda, Sudan and Lebanon. Projects include outbreak response, trauma and surgical care and health systems strengthening.

The successful candidate will have significant experience in the area of emergency response and disaster medicine, ideally including conflict contexts. You will be able to apply your expertise to supporting strategy development at an HQ level, designing health responses and capacity building programmes as well as contributing to grant proposals. You will be willing and able to deploy overseas with our responses, providing leadership to health teams and liaising closely with Ministries of Health, WHO and other external partners.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits along with a friendly working environment and the opportunity to make a real difference through humanitarian work. UK-Med is an organisation with a committed team of staff and members.

How to apply

We strongly recommend that you read the Candidate Information Pack – Health Advisor - Jan 2025 before applying for this role.

To apply, please submit a current CV and a supporting letter (2 pages) through our online jobs portal.

Please apply as soon as possible and no later than Wednesday 12 February 2025

UK-Med is committed to safeguarding of our personnel and beneficiaries and has a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation and abuse. We conduct thorough vetting before any appointment is confirmed.

UK-Med is committed to the principles of diversity, equality, and inclusion. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive environment where employees feel respected and supported to be able to fulfil their potential.

About Gaddum

At Gaddum, we treat everyone as individuals. We really get to know those we help, understanding their world to offer a range of support that’s right for them. Our promise of tailored support is made possible by our breadth and depth of knowledge, through our unwavering commitment to the local people of Greater Manchester.

Our experience listening to generation after generation, for nearly 200 years, has taught us the importance of considering not just the individual but also the relationships around them. Our innovative approach means we can, not only build resilience, but identify further risks and offer preventive support now and in the future. At Gaddum, we believe that by supporting individuals, we ultimately help support entire communities.

Our aim is to empower and enhance the lives of people in Greater Manchester.
 

Outline of service:

Gaddum and Manchester Mind have come together to provide a new and innovative service which will support people to leave inpatient mental health settings and return to their community with the support they need to recover and remain well.

As a team, we will deliver psycho-social interventions, advocacy, housing and welfare rights advice and peer support. There will also be tailored support to young people (those under the age of 25). All we do is underpinned by listening and ensuring people feel heard – because we know that when people are listened to, they recover. The team will be working with colleagues within the mental health, primary care, inpatient and community sectors.
 

Job Purpose of Senior Administrator:

To provide high quality administrative support to the Discharge from Hospital Team – this will be a team based between Manchester Mind and Gaddum.

Your role will provide much needed support for monitoring, data and evaluation requirements of the service and the management of inbound webform referrals (including outcome/ feedback forms on our case management system).

You will also respond to or delegate emails and voicemails to the service appropriately, requiring a good knowledge of the service. You will also support the Service Manager with the improvement and development of administrative and reporting functions.
 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Administration and Project Support

• To complete specific tasks allocated through work plans and project plans, independently.

• To manage resources of the service, maintaining the resources folder, ultimately ensuring people have the right information where and when they need it.

• To amend and update resources as needed on Canva, developing and updating them as required.

• Support the development of communication materials including Easy Read Guides with support from Service Manager.

• To coordinate the arrangement of meetings, conferences and other events.

• To minute and keep a record of meetings as required.

• To manage the purchasing of service and employee resources as required using Gaddum finance processes.

• To curate online resources, internally and externally.

• To develop and maintain administrative systems as needed.

Reporting and Monitoring

• To compile data as requested to assist in the production of monthly and quarterly reports as requested following standard operating procedures

• To run reports as appropriate using agreed databases (such as, but not limited to, NHS and Local Authority) databases.

• To build, run and amend reports to meet changing reporting requirements.

• To ensure data relating to client contact are accurately recorded on our case management system (such as, but not limited to, referral and feedback forms).

• To use Microsoft Excel and any other appropriate system to review and manage reports in line with data reporting requirements.

• To input outcome monitoring forms accurately on to case management systems from a range of mediums including online forms, paper form and other formats as preferred by the client.

• In respect of data entry, identify and support the organisation’s migration into technological solutions that remove the need for third person data input.

• Ensure best practice Information Governance approaches are in place to maintain the best data management systems possible – ensuring compliance with the Information Commissioner’s Office and Gaddum’s Information Governance Framework.

Managing referrals and maintaining records

• Process inbound webform referrals, checking for accuracy, duplication and completeness of data.

• Support, alongside colleagues, the development of referral routes that align with service needs.

• Identify gaps in completeness of data for reporting requirements and develop solutions to address them going forward (e.g. identifying training options to upskill colleagues).

• Ensure best practice Information Governance approaches are in place to maintain the best data management systems possible – ensuring compliance with the Information Commissioner’s Office and Gaddum’s Information Governance Framework. Communication with clients and professionals

• Managing team inboxes, responding to emails as appropriate and delegating communication to appropriate colleagues.

• Respond to voicemails as appropriate, ensuring people receive a timely and professional response and resolving issues with as fewer contacts as possible.

• Contact clients for feedback, where appropriate, and accurately input feedback into outcome monitoring fields.

About Gaddum

At Gaddum, we treat everyone as individuals. We really get to know those we help, understanding their world to offer a range of support that’s right for them. Our promise of tailored support is made possible by our breadth and depth of knowledge, through our unwavering commitment to the local people of Greater Manchester.

Our experience listening to generation after generation, for nearly 200 years, has taught us the importance of considering not just the individual but also the relationships around them. Our innovative approach means we can, not only build resilience, but identify further risks and offer preventive support now and in the future. At Gaddum, we believe that by supporting individuals, we ultimately help support entire communities.

Our aim is to empower and enhance the lives of people in Greater Manchester.
 

Outline of service:

Gaddum and Manchester Mind have come together to provide a new and innovative service which will support people to leave inpatient mental health settings and return to their community with the support they need to recover and remain well.

As a team, we will deliver psycho-social interventions, advocacy, housing and welfare rights advice and peer support. There will also be tailored support to young people (those under the age of 25). All we do is underpinned by listening and ensuring people feel heard – because we know that when people are listened to, they recover. The team will be working with colleagues within the mental health, primary care, inpatient and community sectors.
 

Job summary:

Reporting to the team manager, this post is one of two Coordinators. The manager and two coordinators will be jointly responsible for 12 staff working in a diverse range of roles, and who work for Gaddum or Manchester Mind (the two organisations who partner together to deliver this service).

Employed within Gaddum’s element of the service, you will manage a team of 3 support workers and 2 peer support workers, supporting their casework and professional development. Working as a team, you will develop this new innovative service and ensure it delivers highly effective, safe and quality interventions to the people of Manchester.

Your team will work with people prior to discharge from mental health hospital and then support the person to get the care they need so they can recover in the community. People will feel connected within their communities – to services, friends and family. You may carry a small caseload (3 cases maximum) dependent on your capacity and development needs.

The aim of our service is to:

• Repatriate: when people are sent to an out of area placement (OAPs), advocate to get them back to Greater Manchester so they can recover closer to their community.

• Discharge: Supporting people when they’re ready to be discharged from inpatient mental health services to get back to the community and recover.

• Prevent re-admissions: Work with people, post-discharge, to ensure they continue to get the support they need to make informed choices, stay well and ultimately thrive.
 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide high quality support and supervision to your team. Provide casework support; identifying when cases need progression, onward referrals and changes in levels of support.

• Develop and review risk assessments and support the team to manage risk.

• Work with VCSE, primary care, local authority and communities to identify available services for people to access.

• Working with statutory sector systems, identify areas of system pressure and, with support, seek to add capacity.

• Ensure service resources are accurately maintained.

• Dependent on capacity you may manage a small caseload (maximum 3 cases) to support your casework knowledge in this area.

• To work in a person-centred, trauma informed and culturally appropriate way that enables people to effectively engage with services and make sustainable links in with their communities.

• To use your knowledge of community care, policies, legislation and statutory services to get people the support they need to recover and stay well.

• Where appropriate, independently visit people in inpatient and community settings across Greater Manchester.

• Occasionally visit people out of the Greater Manchester area who need to return to their community in Manchester (all travel expenses will be paid and non-commute travel time will be part of your working day).

• Build relationships with key professionals to ensure individuals and our service achieve their goals (e.g. inpatient staff, social care, CMHTs, community services etc).

• Work with the Operations Manager, system colleagues (internally and externally) to develop a supportive and productive referral route into and out of the service.

• Support the development, delivery and review of the service, responding professionally to changes as we improve and evolve our working practice collaboratively.

• Respond appropriately to Safeguarding concerns raised by colleagues and escalate in line with Gaddum/ Manchester Mind’s safeguarding policies and procedures and best practice. Working as a team:

• To integrate effectively with colleagues at Manchester Mind, taking a “one team approach” to deliver a seamless service, understanding the different roles in the team and recognising each other's strengths.

• To support Manchester Mind Coordinator via peer support.

• Work closely and integrate with external teams to support clinical, local authority and other system colleagues to ensure a “one team” approach to packages of care and support. 
 

Reporting and monitoring:

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date case notes using agreed case management systems, following standard operating procedures.

• Ensure the reporting, recording and monitoring of your team is accurate and complete.

• Support people to engage in our service through coproduction, engagement events and feedback forms, improving these processes as needs be.

• Contribute to reporting, evaluation and “deep dives” as required.

• Identify the unmet needs of people and report these back to management.

• Review complaints to the service and action appropriately.

• Ensure best practice Information Governance approaches are in place to maintain the best data management systems possible – ensuring compliance with the Information Commissioner’s Office and Gaddum’s Information Governance Framework.

Our Carers Support Service delivers free advocacy, casework, and counselling, so no carer feels invisible, isolated or alone. The Advice and Advocacy Specialist will be responsible for assessing and supporting dementia carers from initial contact.

Advice and Advocacy Specialist

Salary: £45,000 pa FTE

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (35 hours)

Location: Remote

Deadline: 20th  February at 12pm

Interviews: 27th February in London

Every year in the UK thousands of unpaid carers look after someone with dementia but receive little or no support. At Dementia Carers Count, we stand for them. We campaign for change and provide practical, emotional and financial support to dementia carers across the UK.

Our Carers Support Service delivers free advocacy, casework, and counselling, so no carer feels invisible, isolated or alone. Carers describe the service as life changing.

The Advice and Advocacy Specialist will be responsible for assessing and supporting dementia carers when they first contact the service. This role will also deliver casework to secure rights and services. We are looking for someone who understands carers rights and has experience of delivering successful casework. We need someone who is adaptable and open-minded, but also able to focus on quality assurance and carer outcomes.

We are a small and remote multi-disciplinary team, committed to making a difference for carers and supporting each other. The role can be based anywhere in the UK, with attendance at monthly in-person meetings in London.

If you like the sound of the role, and believe you have the skills and experience to join us, then we would love to hear from you.

Leadership Through Sport & Business (LTSB) is a UK-based social mobility charity that prepares and supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into meaningful roles with major firms. We make sure those at risk of under-employment find careers equal to their ambition and ability and can contribute from their first day on the job.

Since 2012, we’ve worked with 1,963 young people, providing them with personal and professional development to prepare them for the world of work, then working to place them in roles across accountancy & finance, digital technology, customer service, law, marketing and insurance.

Joining LTSB means becoming part of a team dedicated to breaking down barriers for young people. Your leadership will make a tangible difference, not only in the lives of those we support but also in the future direction of the charity itself.

We are looking to appoint an inspiring leader who brings:

• A passion for social mobility, equality, and supporting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Proven experience in a senior leadership role within a charity or small to medium sized organisation, ideally in the social mobility, youth, or education sectors. 
• A track record of successful fundraising, partnership development, and income generation, ideally including grant funding and corporate partnerships.

LTSB’s mission is to break down barriers and build bridges to opportunity. We actively challenge inequality, promote inclusivity, and celebrate the unique contributions of all individuals. We believe that by embracing diversity in all its forms, we can foster innovation, inspire excellence, and make a lasting difference. At LTSB, EDI is not just a commitment - it is who we are.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the application and interview process.

If you have any queries on any aspect of the appointment process, need additional information or would like to have an informal discussion, please contact Lottie Wihl or Mia Walker-Saunders at Prospectus.

Recruitment Timetable:
Deadline for applications: 26th February
Interviews with Prospectus: 17th, 18th and 19th March
Interviews with LTSB: w/c 24th March

Marie Curie is the UK's leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they're likely to die from.

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for building high-impact corporate partnerships? Our Marketing & Communications team is looking for a Corporate Partnership Marketing Manager to develop and execute powerful communication strategies that amplify our partnerships, extend our reach, and create meaningful engagement with key audiences.

As the Corporate Partnership Marketing Manager, you'll take the lead in shaping and delivering strategic marketing and communications plans for high-profile corporate partnerships, including Superdrug, SPAR UK, the Gas Distribution Networks, and the National Garden Scheme.

Reporting to the Senior Marketing Manager, Marketing Campaigns, you'll collaborate across internal teams and work directly with corporate partners to craft compelling narratives, drive impactful campaigns, and ensure seamless integration of partnership activities across all channels. Your work will not only strengthen brand alignment but also help us reach more people affected by dying, death, and bereavement.

Main responsibilities:
- Create and execute communication plans that maximize visibility and engagement for our corporate partnerships.
- Work closely with PR, social media, content, creative, and paid media teams to ensure seamless marketing integration.
- Develop engaging narratives and marketing materials to showcase the impact of our partnerships.
- Act as a trusted advisor to corporate partners, providing expert marketing and communications guidance.
- Drive media coverage and leverage key brand moments to enhance awareness and engagement.
- Track and report on key marketing KPIs to refine and optimize partnership strategies.

Key Criteria:
- Proven expertise in integrated marketing campaigns. Experience in corporate partnerships, charity partnerships, or commercial organizations would be preferred.
- Ability to build strong relationships at all levels and influence key decision-makers.
- Strong understanding of digital, media, and brand partnership strategies.
- Ability to develop compelling brand narratives and problem-solve complex challenges.
- Adept at managing multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Experience in tracking marketing effectiveness and adjusting strategies accordingly.

Please see the full job description .

Application & Interview Process:
- As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV and Cover Letter. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your most relevant skills, experience and knowledge for the role.
- Close date for applications: Feb 23, 2025.

Salary: £35,530 - 39,474 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full-time (35 hours per week)
Location: Home-based with occasional travel. You can work from our offices in a hybrid model if preferred.

Benefits you'll LOVE:
- Flexible working. We're happy to discuss flexible working at the interview stage.
- 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
- Continuous professional development opportunities.
- Industry-leading training programmes
- Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
- Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits
- Access to Blue Light Card membership
- Subsidised Eye Care

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We are delighted to be recruiting for a visionary, mission-driven leader to join Mary’s Meals UK, as Executive Director. Reporting to our Board of Trustees and Chief Growth Officer – MMI, you will provide inspirational strategic and operational leadership to Mary’s Meals UK (MMUK), to drive and lead ongoing growth and innovation, as we strive to grow our movement and raise awareness and funds, on a national scale. With an entrepreneurial approach to growth, you will be bold and brave, seeking new opportunities and partnerships to foster growth, whilst nurturing our existing, deeply committed supporters.

As Executive Director, you will demonstrate strong leadership and bring proven experience of engaging and leading a leadership team through periods of growth and change, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Strategy development, implementation and execution will be key to success, and you will demonstrate service, simplicity and stewardship to support agile growth across a variety of sectors and regions.

MMUK is the largest and longest established National Affiliate in the Mary’s Meals network, currently raising c.£20M to support global school feeding programmes, reaching children living some of the world’s poorest countries. The promise of a meal attracts these hungry children into the classroom, giving them the energy to learn and hope for a better future.

Key responsibilities:

· Collaborate with the MMUK Board of Trustees and MMI to lead the design and execution of an ambitious growth strategy, to ensure the organisation can achieve its mission and stays true to our values.

· In collaboration with our Director of Supporter Engagement & Income, develop and deliver an ambitious fundraising strategy for MMUK, focused on growing our supporter base, developing new partnerships and nurturing existing partnerships with various networks and other grassroots communities.

· Work with our Director of Communications to develop and implement an ambitious media and communications strategy to drive growth.

· Manage, monitor and report on the progress against organisational goals and objectives, in collaboration with our Director of Finance & Operations.

· Serve as the primary liaison to our Board of Trustees: manage, inspire and cultivate the board relationships.

Mission-driven, with extensive experience of leading a high performing non-profit or profit-making entity, on a similar scale. You will have experience across a broad range of strategic and operational functions and will combine your proven ability to drive growth, develop and nurture productive relationships and inspire our movement. Strategic in outlook, you will role model our dearly held values, inspiring and engaging everyone involved in our movement and representing MMUK to key supporters, donors and stakeholders.

You will also need:

· Significant experience of providing inspirational leadership to a senior management team and a wider organisation, with the ability to develop and live organisational culture.

· Strong experience of developing and executing strategies to drive revenue generation or fundraising.

· Experience of representing an organisation to key supporters, donors and stakeholders.

· Deep commitment to Mary’s Meals’ vision and mission and reaching the next child waiting.

· Familiarity with Churches and Christian networks would be advantageous but certainly not essential, as would the ability to represent MMUK in faith-based networks with confidence and credibility.

We are a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. As an organisation, named after Mary the mother of Jesus and shaped by Christian values, we feel that the way we do things is as important as the result and we welcome all who wish to play their part in our important work. We continue to change the lives of over 2.4 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals.

We are a values-driven organisation, we believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding.

We have a remote-first approach to work and are happy for you to work remotely and flexibly, in a way that best supports your work-life balance. We have an office in Glasgow and London for those who would like to work from here occasionally or on a regular basis. Some travel across the UK and to countries where Mary’s Meals operates will be required.

If you are inspired to join our movement and our vision, mission and values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you. Please click Apply and include your CV and a succinct covering letter, of no more than two A4 pages, telling us why you want to join Mary’s Meals UK and why your skills and experience would make you a great Executive Director.

Closing date for applications is Monday 24th February. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

Applicants must reside and hold full right to work in the UK.

Royal Voluntary Service has an opportunity available for a Content Support Officer to join our team. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return you will receive a salary of £22,861 - £24,385 per annum. The role is home based with occasional National travel.

About the Content Support Officer role:

The Virtual Village Hall (VVH) is the main Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) live online interactive platform by which the charity interacts with and supports people in communities across the nation. Through its virtual setting, it supports the wider NHS and health care systems to improve and maintain the health of the nation and also tackle health inequalities, social deprivation and drive digital inclusion. VVH has touch points and is embedded with every aspect of the charity and provides a holistic nationwide offer.

The purpose of the Content Support Officer is to support delivery of the VVH Communications Plan. They will provide written content to support the promotion and every day running of the service and will research and secure talent and organisations to host new/themed sessions. They will be a key member of the Virtual Village Hall team and will provide input into the planning and growth of the Virtual Village Hall.

The First Time for Everything project (FTFE) provides new opportunities and experiences for people over 55 to try something new for free in their local community and to be social and active, particularly those that are older or less mobile.  The programme has nationwide reach but targets areas of social deprivation and seeks to address health inequalities. A percentage of programmes are therefore delivered in targeted areas to reflect this.

The purpose of the Content Support Officer is to support FTFE activity coordinators to attract participation in events and raise awareness of the FTFE programme. They will provide written content for local media, case studies for fundraising and marketing purposes, and occasional briefing documents for RVS media interviewees.

Hours:  35 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Whilst the role is advertised as full time we welcome applicants that would like to be considered for part-time or job share.

Benefits

-26 days’ holiday (pro rata) plus paid statutory Bank Holidays (pro rata). Ten weeks’ company sick pay following successful completion of probation

-A great pension scheme. 2 x Salary Death in Service Benefit, subject to qualification

-Enhanced Family Leave schemes. An employee benefits package that gives access to an exclusive rewards website to get discounts and cashback online.

-A 24-hour doctor line, financial support with dental/optical and other therapies. A free and confidential employee assistance programme with up to six face-to-face sessions counselling included

-Extensive online and on the job training to ensure you will succeed in your role

-Opportunities to discuss flexible working. Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career

-The chance to make a positive, lasting impact that changes lives, communities and society

What you'll bring as our Content Support Officer:

-Direct experience of working in a comms environment

-Passionate about comms

-Knowledge of different comms channels and stakeholder engagement

-Some understanding of the Health & Social Care system and support organisations, long term health conditions, social isolation and older people

Please note that the full person specification is available on the Role Profile, please review this prior to application.

If you feel have the skills and experience to become our Content Support Officer please click ‘apply’ today, we’d love to hear from you!

The closing date for this role is 4th March 2025. However, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

At Royal Voluntary Service our goal is to welcome everyone and build inclusive and diverse teams. We celebrate difference and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work. To find out more about our commitment to EDI, visit our website.

Join Royal Voluntary Service and together we can change lives, change communities and change society.

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About CRIN

This is who we are and what we are fighting for

 CRIN is a creative human rights organisation focused on children’s rights. We press for rights - not charity - and campaign for a genuine shift in how governments and societies view and treat children. Our goal is a world where the human rights of children and young people are recognised, respected, and enforced, and where every rights violation has a remedy.

We work on many issues, from the survival of the planet to sexual violence, to civil and political rights, to the right to bodily integrity, privacy, expression, and information, to how children’s rights are affected by new technology.

We advocate for international institutions like the United Nations, as well as governments and professionals, to adopt strong children’s rights policies. We undertake legal research and analysis and propose better policies where these are lacking. We recognise the importance of activism at all levels and support the campaigning of organisations led by people with lived experience. Through critical thinking, artwork, and our vision for the future, we encourage people to think differently about the world we live in.

About the role

This is the campaign you will be working on 

One of the key issues we work on is accountability for sexual violence against children in institutions in Latin America, which aims to challenge impunity and improve access to justice for victims and survivors. Combating sexual violence against children globally has been a core part of CRIN’s work for more than a decade, and from this experience we see common challenges across the most systemic and entrenched forms of institutional abuse and exploitation: secrecy, cover-ups, abuse of power, stigma, shame, and impunity.

To successfully challenge this status quo, we have looked at the experiences of countries like Ireland and Australia, which were some of the first countries where survivors mobilised to demand and secure legal reforms to improve access to justice and establish national inquiries into child sexual abuse which prompted other policy reforms. In an effort to support and strengthen similar survivor-led activism elsewhere in the world, since 2019 CRIN has worked alongside grassroots organisations in Latin America led by adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Our focus has been to support their national campaigning that challenges impunity for abuse committed in the region’s Catholic Church, but we have since expanded the scope of our work to cover institutional settings more broadly.

CRIN’s added value in the campaign includes providing much-needed financial support and capacity building, research support, international and legal advocacy and helping to expand partnerships. By working with survivor-led networks, we aim to encourage their development across the region so that governments can no longer ignore their demands for truth, justice, reforms, and reparations.

This is who we are looking for…

We are looking for someone to coordinate the end-to-end delivery of the campaign. The focus of the role is on project and budget management, strategy planning and implementation, and partnership building. But given the generalist nature of campaigning, you may at times conduct advocacy support, media outreach, research and analysis, and event coordination.

You would work alongside the Legal Advocacy and Campaign Coordinator, as well as part of the core project team comprising the Co-Directors and the Legal and Policy Coordinator.

Your responsibilities will include:

● Leading the delivery of CRIN’s campaign supporting grassroots organisations in Latin America to end impunity for child sexual abuse in institutional settings.

● Building and maintaining trust-based partnerships with grassroots survivor-led networks in Latin America, ensuring engagement is anti-colonial, trauma-informed and participatory.

● Building partnerships with key allies, such as civil society groups, journalists, academics, legal experts, consultants and funders.

● Managing the campaign budget and related administrative tasks, including partnership contracts and sub-granting. 

● Providing advocacy, research, and administrative support to partners, as needed. 

● Organising capacity-building events to support partners’ organisational development.

● Providing occasional research and writing support to colleagues in the production of advocacy materials, including submissions to human rights bodies and research reports.

● Managing project communications, including updating the campaign webpage, leading on media outreach, coordinating the production of research reports and translating all project materials. 

● Working with CRIN’s communications staff to create content for the website, social media, and newsletter.

● Managing the campaign’s Monitoring and Evaluation, recording, and reporting actions, deliverables, and learnings, including coordinating annual progress reports to our funder.

● Participating in regular project meetings to discuss developments, address any issues and plan the next stages of the work.

● Participating in organisation-wide activities such as regular team meetings and collective decision-making.

We are looking for someone with the following attributes:

● Professional experience or interest in issues related to access to justice for survivors of childhood sexual violence.

● Professional experience or interest in working with grassroots organisations and/or survivor-led organisations.

● Native-level fluency in written and spoken Spanish and English. 

● Experience in project and budget management. 

● Ability to cultivate partnerships with diverse stakeholders, including grassroots organisations, activists with lived experience, civil society organisations, international NGOs, journalists, and lawmakers.

● Knowledge of or interest in participatory approaches to partnerships and decision-making, as well as an understanding of how oppression can manifest in the issues we work on (and how we work as an international NGO) and a keen interest in how we can implement an anti-oppression approach.

● Motivated, with strong organisational skills and ability to manage one’s own work (including while remote-working).

● Ability to think strategically and critically.

● Ability to thrive in a small but diverse international team, with a strong commitment to anti-discrimination, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The following would also be an advantage:

● Previous experience of working at an NGO and/or in human rights campaigning. 

● Comparative knowledge of Latin America’s cultural, legislative and policy context/s.

● Experience in media work.

● Knowledge of national and international human rights mechanisms.

We know that we may sometimes be overcome with feelings of self-doubt when reading job descriptions. Even if you feel you may not hold all the qualifications and experience listed here, we strongly encourage you to apply if you are excited by our vision and the contribution you could make to the role.

 What it is like working with us

 We are a small team of around 18 people. We take pride in our CRIN Code and try to approach our work and relationships with open minds, humility, and respect. This helps us foster greater creativity, breadth of experience, and personal growth among our staff, and it’s essential to our success as an organisation.

Our staff and consultants work remotely and are located mainly in Europe at the moment, but we are committed to continuing to build a team that reflects the world’s diversity of skills, experiences, cultures, and perspectives. While we have lines of accountability, we also aim to have a relatively flat structure whereby everyone receives support from and is accountable to each other in a number of ways.

To find out more about who works at CRIN visit our website.

Application process

CRIN is committed to building a diverse team, and we encourage applications from underrepresented groups and consider candidates who are suitably qualified and eligible regardless of sex, gender identity, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, education or professional experience.

How to apply

We are not big fans of formulaic responses. We want to know who you are, how you think, what your principles are and why you want to work with us.

Please send a CV (no more than 2 pages) and complete both of the following statements in no more than 250 words each:

● “Improving access to justice is important for child sexual abuse survivors because…”

● “The key to building trust-based partnerships with grassroots survivor-led organisations is…”

These can be sent to our jobs email with the subject line “Campaign Coordinator”. Only those applications which send in all materials will be considered. Please bear with us, as we are a small team.

If you have any questions, or if you are a job seeker with a disability and would like someone to contact you about individualised application support, please contact us.

Thank you for your interest in joining the Sortition Foundation. We hope this document encourages and inspires you as you consider this opportunity.

Location: Home based. Our current team is based in the UK. We are happy to consider any applicant who can generally make meetings to match a UK time zone.

Salary: We offer a competitive salary and benefits package that considers the cost of living in the country of employment. The salary for this role will be circa £50,608.89 per year (Band B) pro rata based on our Global Salary Scale adjusted for cost of living according to your location and paid in your local currency.  As an illustration, the full-time equivalent salary in the following locations is:

• Hungary - Ft13,692,430 (HUF)

• Australia - $95,718.14 (AUD)

• UK - £50,608.89 (GBP)

Hours: 21-35 hours (3-5 days) per week. You will have some flexibility about when you work your hours, and we have some required team meeting commitments.

Contract length: Permanent

Reporting to: Convenor of UK/EU Delivery Team

Management: None

Application deadline: 09.00am (UK time) 24 February 2025. Details of how to apply at the end of this job description.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced project manager interested in the deliberative democracy field to deliver selection and stratification services to customers, to enable the recruitment and selection of participants for deliberative democratic processes to take place at all levels of government & society. As a project manager, you will be responsible for ensuring a smooth journey for our customers and a high quality of service delivery. 

Key Responsibilities

• Liaise with clients to manage selection and stratification services for their projects, and advise them on good practice.

• Co-ordinate the design, printing and postage of invitation materials.

• Use software tools to generate addresses by lottery.

• Create web forms (using a CMS) for potential participants to register their interest.

• Create spreadsheets and back-end processes to enable selection of participants by lottery for events.

• Answer questions from people interested in taking part in processes.

• Use software to select participants by lottery.

• Coordinate with our calls teams to confirm the attendance of selected participants by phone, and replace any who drop out.

• Prepare reports for clients.

• Work closely with other members of the delivery team to support each other.

• Keep abreast of best practice in sortition and deliberative democracy in our sector.

• Participating in and contributing to a Working Group (to be decided together).

Essential skills and experience

• An ability to self-motivate, work flexibly within small teams and on your own initiative.

• Experience in managing projects independently.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, facilitating clear and effective exchanges in English.

• Confident in using spreadsheets, formulas and software tools: at least 2 years’ experience using Excel/Google Sheets in an advanced manner.

• Ability to understand demographics and statistics.

• Commitment to Sortition Foundation’s strategic goals.

• Demonstrable commitment to the values that guide the goals of the Sortition Foundation of social justice and collective wisdom and those that guide our culture: curious, caring and courageous.

Desirable skills and experience:

There are some additional roles and skill sets that we would be interested in identifying in applicants, but which do not form the core part of the project manager role and are therefore not essential. We do not expect applicants to have any or all of these desirable skills. 

• Familiarity with sortition and deliberative democracy.

• Strong networking and collaboration skills, with the ability to build and maintain professional relationships, engage diverse stakeholders, and represent the organisation at conferences and events.

• Technical sales.

• Data analysis.

• Software development, including Python, JavaScript, Google Apps Script, HTML, Liquid, and NationBuilder templates, with the ability to troubleshoot issues and optimise workflows through coding solutions.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to integrate technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, self-motivated and independent; everyone works from home with substantial freedom to choose their own hours.

Benefits:

• Holiday allowance: 40 days of annual leave including public holidays (pro rata).

• Flexible Working: Flexible hours and the option to work remotely.

• Pension Contributions: 3% employer contribution to your pension (if you’re UK-based).

• Sick Leave: 20 days of sick leave per year (pro rata).

• Social Events: Regular social events and in-person gatherings.

About the organisation

The Sortition Foundation is a not-for-profit company that exists to transform politics and upgrade democracy. We recruit people from all walks of life for citizens’ assemblies in the UK, Australia, Europe, and around the world, with clients including national governments, local governments, cultural, technology and other organisations. The surplus generated from this work funds our campaigning for the institutionalisation of these assemblies at local and regional/national level. We are structured as a workers co-operative and our core values are to be caring, courageous and curious. We have a small and growing team across the UK and Australia and a subsidiary organisation, Sortition Europe, based in Hungary.

Our Vision is that people from all walks of life make informed decisions about how we live together. Our Purpose is to build the movement for permanent, powerful citizens’ assemblies. Our strategic goals are to: 

1. Build a powerful movement for democratic renewal using citizens’ assemblies; 

2. Build the capacity and expertise to deliver citizens’ assemblies at scale;

3. Build the belief that citizens' assemblies are feasible and desirable; and 

4. Build and maintain a sustainable organisation. 

Our goals are guided by the following values: Collective Wisdom and Social Justice. Our culture is guided by the following values: Curious, Caring, and Courageous.

In the last few years, citizens’ assemblies have become commonplace in many countries (UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Poland) and spread to many more, such as France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, among others. A regional parliament in Belgium created a permanent citizens’ assembly - the first of its kind in Europe - and we are seeing local councils in the UK and Australia follow suit.

While this represents considerable success, there is still much work and campaigning to do. We want to see citizens’ assemblies become more prevalent, for them to become a permanent feature of our democracies, and we understand that for this to happen we need more people, organisations and decision makers to know about and advocate for these assemblies.

In recent years the Sortition Foundation:

• Supported nearly 200 citizens’ assemblies and other sortition events in the UK, Australia, Hungary, and elsewhere, sending hundreds of thousands of assembly invitations to households, and recruiting thousands of people for deliberative processes. Some examples include Scotland’s Climate Assembly, the Budapest Climate Assembly, a citizens’ jury on assisted dying in Jersey, the UK government’s Public Advisory Group on COVID-19, and many community panels in Australia for councils in Victoria. 

• Developed a network of democracy organisations campaigning for the institutionalisation of citizens’ assemblies; we have an ongoing campaign to replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens, have developed and tested messaging and framing guides for communicating our campaign goals, and have laid the groundwork for this transformative democratic change.

• Reviewed and refreshed our strategy and structure to get clear on what we can hope to achieve with the resources we can wield in the best possible organisational structure.

• Grew our annual turnover dramatically, from almost zero turnover six years ago, to over £624,000 in the last financial year.

We achieved all this thanks to our growing and dedicated staff; our continued partnerships with organisations including the Electoral Reform Society, Unlock Democracy, and Involve in the UK, and DemocracyCo in Australia; our ongoing participation in the Democracy R&D International Network.

The Application Process

To apply, please complete our online application form (where you can also upload your CV). We will NOT be accepting applications via email or in any other format. The closing date for all applications is 09.00am 24 February 2025 (UK time). If you require additional time, please contact us by 20 February 2025 and we will do our best to accommodate your request.

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process. If there are additional options you’d like to request, please contact us. We also offer reasonable adjustments on the job.

If you would like to discuss the role or have any questions, please do email us.

Our intention is to hold interviews (virtually) during the week of 10 March 2025. We will share the interview questions with you two days prior to your interview. 

Should you be offered the role, we will ask for two references from you.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other categories protected by law.