Jobs in Sevenoaks
Are you passionate about developing ministries which inspire and equip Christians in the workplace and to share the good news of Jesus Christ across cultures? Are you keen to see East Asian workplaces transformed by the good news of Jesus Christ?
OMF International is seeking to develop its strategy to better facilitate the equipping of people in the workplace in being involved in cross cultural missions to East Asian peoples. To do this, we are looking for a self-motivated Workplace Ministry Manager to develop this ministry within OMF UK as an effective and accessible pathway for people to use their vocation in the marketplaces of East Asia to share Jesus Christ.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate proven experience in building purposeful networks across cultures, developing organisational infrastructure and an ability to identify workplace opportunities and create promotional resources. In addition to this, the candidate should have excellent organisational skills, interpersonal skills, and a strong personal drive to grow and develop this workplace ministry pathway into the workplaces of East Asia. Above all, the ideal candidate will have a deep commitment to world mission and to sharing the good news of Jesus.
To apply for this role, please submit a CV and covering letter to the email address specified on the recruitment pack.
Closing date: Monday, 15 July 10am.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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vision is to work in partnership with the local community to:
· Meet emergency food needs: through the provision of food parcels to those experiencing food poverty.
· Provide fresh produce: community allotments so that our food parcels can contain varied fresh produce.
· Prevent the recurrence of food poverty: through signposting, education and partnerships we aim to reduce dependence on food banks.
Loveworks are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, inspiring and confident individual with excellent management and communication skills who is ready to take on the opportunity to lead this highly respected and dynamic charity. Ideally you will have a passion for helping people in food poverty and for engaging and empowering staff and volunteers. You will have strong leadership, people management, organisation and communication skills with the ability to generate strategic and financial growth delivering measurable results.
Main purpose of the role
- Provide leadership in delivering the Loveworks business plan in line with the overall Strategy
- Ensure that our beneficiaries and volunteers are at the heart of the Loveworks strategy and business plan.
- Ensure financial stability and growth of our operations and services to meet local needs
- Manage and develop staff (currently 4) and around 80 volunteers
- Oversee the operational running of the charity and provide holiday support
- Be responsible for Loveworks assets including warehouse, van and two allotment plots
- Increase awareness and impact of Loveworks through maintaining and building new relationships with corporates, funders and other partners
Main areas of responsibility:
· Strategy and business planning:
o Converting the strategy into an annual business plan
o Working with partners and Trustees to realise the benefits and impact of Loveworks in the community
· People management:
o Line management of up to 5 staff
o Build and maintain a vibrant volunteer community ensuring volunteers feel valued, supported and motivated to support Loveworks in a variety of roles.
o Ensure good practice, policies, procedures and appropriate training is in place for staff and volunteers.
· Operational management:
o Oversee the operational running of the charity, as delegated to the charity officers, ensuring the governance is fit for purpose and maintained.
o Manage and ensure maintenance and running of Loveworks assets including the warehouse, van and two allotments
· Budget management:
o Create and manage the overall budget as agreed with Trustee Treasurer
o Monthly and annual reporting
· Governance:
o Work with the Board of Trustees to ensure the charity commission governance requirements are operationally in place and maintained.
o Manage operational risk and health & safety across the charity.
· Stakeholder management:
o Relationship building e.g. agencies, schools, corporate organisations and fundraisers, developing and maintaining links with local community groups, organisations and businesses.
· Marketing and fundraising:
o Oversee the funding bids, grant applications, sponsorship campaigns and fundraising events.
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- Direct marketing content with support from Trustees and external resource when required.
As Loveworks is a small team of part-timers you will be required to perform the roles of other team members including food bank and warehouse support and processing, fundraising and other responsibilities during some periods.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you an experienced community organiser looking to make a real difference in an urban community, particularly with BAME and marginalised groups? Are you a strategic thinker, a doer, and a people-person?
Join Big Local Works (BLW) as our Community Organiser – Enterprise and Engagement.
Based on a recently refurbished historic market, we want to develop a people-powered regeneration, led by and for local residents, to sit alongside extensive property development happening in the area.
This new post, funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Charity, requires a skilled and energetic individual to harness and stimulate community energies.
Our approach focuses on involving people from diverse backgrounds and encouraging them to develop their own enterprises and initiatives, especially (although exclusively) related to micro-enterprise and economic participation. We want local people's voices to be heard, but more than that - we want them to take an active part in a community's regeneration..
We strongly encourage applicants from minority/marginalised communities, and value personal experience and connection to our mission alongside professional skills.
General Information
Big Local Works (BLW) is a community-focused economic inclusion charity based in Bermondsey, South East London. We want to help create a thriving, inclusive local economy and community in which everyone can participate.
To make this happen, we maximise local people’s financial and economic wellbeing to reduce poverty and hardship, and give them support to find sustainable, active routes out of poverty, including through employment and enterprise.
We deliver our support in the community through three main services:
- Expert welfare and benefits advice and advocacy for local people experiencing poverty and hardship
- Employability Skills training and coaching to help people access ways of increasing their earned income
- Start-up and enterprise support for clients who wish to start trading on the local ‘Blue Market’
People Powered Regeneration
As well as continuing to offer an ever-wider range of individual support, we now have a strategic vision to create a ‘people-powered regeneration’ in an area already undergoing massive redevelopment by property developers.
In July 2019, a community campaign was successful in securing £2m funding from the GLA for the ‘Made in Bermondsey’ regeneration project centred on making key improvements to the local market place, the Blue Market in South Bermondsey.
Final works were completed in July 2022 and the market now has a first-class infrastructure for traders, local residents and visitors to use and enjoy the Blue Market place. The market also showcases a vision of a better future for the local area: a more prosperous, resilient and connected local community where people come together to trade, socialise, and celebrate across the diverse boundaries. We need to pay special attention to BAME, and recent migrant, communities who have begun to settle in Bermondsey after many years of exclusion.
Through our work, we seek to empower local people, encourage enterprise and community activity, and support the regeneration of an area that has long suffered from the effects of deprivation. Most recently, we have been successful in securing £200,000 from the Esmee Fairbairn Charity for strategy and community engagement support in the local area.
Our key goals are:
- Local people have more say over the changes in their local community.
This means that local people are actively involved in the development of place-based community assets, enterprises and projects. Local people will have more influence on local development and regeneration.
- ·A more diverse range of local people work together to improve their community.
This means community members from a wider range of backgrounds become active citizens. There are better relationships and increased collaboration between local stakeholders.
- People feel proud of their local area, and hopeful for the future.
This means stories and messages about the area are more inclusive and welcoming of diverse perspectives and communities. People are better informed, and know more about the opportunities and assets in their local community.
Community Organiser – Enterprise and Engagement
Over the past 2 years, we’ve undertaken in-depth research and community mapping to understand our area's needs, assets and lived experiences.
This role has three key responsibilities:
1. Outreach and engagement with local communities to help them build a stronger voice during regeneration
2. Supporting the development of new initiatives by local people, focused on microenterprise and wider community activity
3. Ensuring that a wider range of local people are involved and included in community activity, and their voices heard – especially those from marginalized communities
Key Tasks include
Role overview:
- Apply recognised community organising principles and practices to support the development of new initiatives in the local area.
- Broker collaborations and relationships between local groups, helping them develop a shared voice during regeneration.
- Identify and develop active citizens, and support them to develop and deliver their own individual and shared community Initiatives, including those focused on enterprise and wider community activity
- Facilitate groups and provide ‘servant leadership’ for community groups where appropriate, managing conflict effectively
- Develop effective and positive relationships with local stakeholders (including, for example, local councillors, community networks and leaders, and partner organisations), communicating assertively, and with diplomacy and tact.
- Organise Events: Plan and host events, both online and in person, to strengthen community ties and increase visibility.
- Work closely with the Business Improvement District, local charities and businesses and key strategic partners to help us achieve the overall aims of the People-Powered Regeneration
- Build and maintain a network of contacts among our priority groups and communicate efficiently with each one
- Lead on day to day local communications and marketing, supporting the development of newsletters and online content, with appropriate support and resource
- Contribute to research and evaluation across activities to ensure our work has the best possible impact
- Represent the work to existing and potential supporters, and the local community, to secure buy-in and support for the programme
Person Specification: (Key Skills that would help you in this role)
Skills, knowledge and experience
- Experience of developing relationships with a range of different and diverse community groups especially focusing on historically marginalised groups, especially BAME and recent migrant communities, as well as communities of faith, LGBT+ people, and others.
- A strong understanding of, and commitment to, the principles and practices of equalities, diversity and inclusion and how these relate to community organising.
- Demonstrable experience of maintaining strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and proactively; with effective time management and prioritisation skills, to be able to multitask.
- Ability to communicate confidently, professionally, and approachably.
- Demonstrable high-quality writing skills and experience of using digital technologies for marketing and community engagement (such as social media, website content management eg. Wordpress, Squarespace).
- Experience of managing a budget.
- Professional IT skills including confidence using Microsoft Office and Google Drive
Personal qualities
- A people-person who actively enjoys getting out and meeting people
- An enterprising person who wants to help people make new things happen
- Somebody with enthusiasm and passion, but also an ability to focus
- Somebody who enjoys working both alone and as part of a team, with the ability to inspire, motivate and work collaboratively with others.
Desirable:
- We would particularly welcome those with experience of applying one or more recognised community organising frameworks.
- We would particularly welcome those with experience of supporting enterprise, as well as social/ community-focused activity.
If you feel that your skills and experience do not fully meet the criteria as listed in the Job Description but that you have other relevant skills and experience that would support you in this role, please do apply and note these in your application.
You will benefit from
- 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays
- A great working environment and culture within a small, but growing, charity dedicated to improving lives in our community
Working pattern
- While there is scope for working from home on some tasks, you will need to be present in our centre, on the market, and out and about in the community for a good proportion of your time.
- There will be a need to work flexibly, including some evenings and some weekends, for which time off in lieu will be given.
If you are passionate about supporting individuals and communities facing poverty and improving their lives, and have the skills and experience required for this role, please apply.
We present work for everyone and we welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse background or those who are D/deaf or disabled, or other marginalized communities. By attracting people to work for us from a broad range of backgrounds with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Hybrid working 1-2 days per week in our Head Office (SE5 8JB) with occasional travel to regional offices
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Are you a passionate and proactive individual who is willing to test and manage the implementation of new ideas processes? Do you have a proven record of working in a charity fundraising environment and of winning and/or managing five- and six-figure grants?
If so, join St Giles Trust as our Fundraising Manager, where you will contribute to the implementation of our new Fundraising Strategy 23 – 26, plus have line management responsibilities and lead a sub-team who will have the responsibility to generate at least £500,000 per year.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About this key role
As a valued and integral part of the Fundraising and Communications team, our successful candidate will lead a small sub-team to generate at least £500,000 income each year, including the direct line management of a Senior Fundraising Officer, who you will support to line manage the Fundraising Assistant. We will count on you to implement effective processes and procedures across the fundraising and collaborating teams, manage and refine processes for recordkeeping and devise, maintain and update our Fundraising Handbook.
You will also be expected to manage the development and implementation of our Individual Giving Strategy and our Individual Giving income stream through single and regular giving appeals, as well as managing a portfolio of challenge events nationally that provides excellent stewardship for a range of participants. Developing and designing high-quality applications, presentations, and pitches to secure five-, six- and seven figure funding opportunities from Trusts & Foundations, Community Partners and High Net Worth Individuals is a key element of this role, as is providing excellent stewardship to existing donors.
What we are looking for
- Expert knowledge of the fundraising landscape
- Experience devising cultivation and solicitation strategies and database management
- Knowledge of fundraising best practice and regulations and of anti-discriminatory working practices
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to write compelling, tailored and informative copy for reports, applications and external communications
- Ability to think strategically and develop innovative ideas to help us stand out to existing and new donors.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
To apply click the apply button.
Applications will be reviewed on a fortnightly basis: Wednesday 19th June, Wednesday 3rd July, Wednesday 17th July. We therefore strongly encourage early applications.
This is an exciting new role to build upon the recognition of our achievements to date, by elevating the awareness of the Trust and our many partners. We expect that National Geographic will release their documentary in Autumn 2024 about Shackleton and the expedition organized by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust that found the wreck of Endurance in the Weddell Sea. This is likely to lead to heightened awareness of and interest in our work, which will appeal to applicants with a real interest in maritime heritage and, ideally, the Falkland Islands and/or the South Atlantic/Southern Ocean.
As COO you will serve as the first point of contact representing FMHT in, we envisage, an increasingly high-profile public manner. You will report to the Chair of Trustees, working collaboratively with the Trustees. You will also collaborate with a variety of charities, institutions and agencies, all with shared interests in our work.
We are seeking an energetic ‘all-rounder’ - a proven leadership professional who will roll their sleeves up and deliver. You will have outstanding communication and liaison skills, be skilful in raising funds and engaging sponsors together with sound financial and contract management experience. Drawing from your previous experience you will help to design, implement and deliver our operational and commercial objectives. Highly self-motivated, you will possess the vision, energy and drive to help create and to implement sustainable strategies for the Trust.
More information is available when you click on the apply button as this takes you to the FMHT website where the full job advert, job description and application pack is.