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Approach Social Work (formerly known as the Frontline programme)

Approach Social Work (formerly known as the Frontline programme) is a three-year master’s programme, building a new, diverse generation of social workers. Designed and delivered by social work charity Frontline, we teach social work differently. By blending learning and practice, what you discover in theory is eased into real-life settings, supervised by a social worker. Gaining your postgraduate diploma within 12 months, will be the first step in your life-changing career.

You’ll learn how to connect with children, young people, parents and carers. How to gain all important trust, so a family opens their door to you again. You’ll gain the technical knowledge and build on your relational skills. We’ll give you the time and support to develop your approach, with confidence.

You earn while you learn, and once you gain your qualification you’ll step right into a job. And through our Frontline Fellowship, you’ll join a network of peers intent on transforming social work practice in England.

Be part of something bigger. Join the next generation of social workers.

What’s in it for you?

• Get paid from day one with a bursary in year one and a salary from year two.

• You’ll receive a tax-exempt bursary in year one of £18,000, that’s equivalent to a salary of £21,000. From your second year you’ll be a full-time employee with your local authority, with a salary of up to £34,000

• Qualify as a social worker and complete a fully funded master's degree.

• Get high-quality training and supervision from experienced social workers, academics and coaches in a rich, supportive environment.

• Become part of the Frontline Fellowship and receive ongoing support and training throughout your career.

What to expect as a trainee social worker

Year 1: 

• Start with five weeks of intense online study, including five in-person sessions, led by experts in social work theory.

• Begin your 12-month placement in a local council social work team, where you'll work closely with fellow trainees and an experienced social worker. You'll gradually take on more responsibility in supporting children and families.

• Qualify as a social worker by the end of your first year.

Year 2:

• Manage your own caseload, building on your skills and confidence.

• Engage in ongoing study to further develop your professional abilities.

• Receive continued support from Frontline tutors, your employer and fellow trainees.

Year 3:

• Conduct a research project and complete the academic credits needed for your fully-funded social work master's degree.

• Receive leadership coaching to enhance your professional capabilities.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for your potential to become an outstanding children’s social worker and leader, empowering families to achieve positive change. No specific experience is required to apply. We value diverse perspectives and experiences and a commitment to advocating for the communities’ social workers serve. We're dedicated to fostering diversity in our programme and supporting applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

You will also meet the following criteria:

• Have at least a 2.2 (predicted or obtained) in an undergraduate honours degree (or international equivalent) 

• Have obtained GCSE English Language at Grade C/4 or above (or approved equivalent qualification)

• Possess the right to work and study in the UK (including access to public funds) for the duration of the programme (until September 2028)

• Be resident in England by the time the programme commences

• Not be a qualified social worker

Be part of something bigger. Join the next generation of social workers.

Please note: There are only limited places remaining for the 2025 cohort. We have already closed many locations and will continue to close locations as places are filled. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible, to avoid missing out.

Applications close Monday 17 March at 11.55pm.

We are looking for an experienced and driven fundraiser to raise new income for our Charity.

The Empowerment Group supports individuals aged 14+ of Black heritage in the UK, facing mental health challenges through online therapy.

The Role:

You will hold lead responsibility for the charity’s new business opportunities and income generation, ensuring the development opportunities are effectively maximised.

As Fundraising Officer your responsibility would primarily be to identify and complete tenders for contracts suited to the work of our organisation both locally and nationally. Your responsibility would also include identifying and completing trust funding applications to Trust funders. You would be responsible for developing fundraising programs/products, recruiting individual and corporate sponsors and encouraging support through promotional activities.

Key duties include:

• Develop the business fundraising strategy to include methods on how to engage potential donors, including single events and detailed campaigns
• Identifying contracting opportunities and funders where our work aligns
• Develop and maintain relationships with potential bid partners and funders
• Writing contract tenders and bid proposals
• Develop, organise, and deliver fundraising events where applicable
• Research potential individual and corporate donors
• Assist in planning and coordinating events to raise income and coordinate activities of volunteers and interns related to event planning and execution
• Maintain complete records of funders and manage regular funder communications including project reports
• Support in completing new and existing monitoring and bi-monthly performance reporting to the CEO

About you:

You will be an experienced fundraiser who can demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will have extensive experience in contracts and tendering with local councils and government where the majority of opportunities will arise.

Your knowledge, skills, and experience will include:

• Demonstrable track record as a successful fundraiser and business development professional in the charitable sector.
• Knowledge of the charitable sector, funders, council and government contracts.
• Understanding of the experiences of people who live with significant mental distress and the impact of trauma, racism and discrimination on mental health.
• Must work flexibly to meet the needs of the role (including evening/weekend if required to meet funding application deadlines)
• Knowledge and understanding of GDPR regulations.
• Attend team meetings and be a proactive member.
• Proven track record of generating income for a charity.
• Quick thinker and ability to make decisions under pressure.

Previous applicants need not apply.

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 working with more than 23,500 Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), Parent Councils and Schools. We are the voice of parents in policy making. 

We are an ambitious organisation and we are looking for an ambitious and highly motivated individual to support our work in Westminster and Whitehall. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of public affairs, advocacy and/or working in a policy environment. 

We are looking for an ambitious and motivated individual able to take on responsibility and lead. 

The role will involve:

• Managing the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Parents to make this one of the most high profile APPGs in Parliament.
• Organising events to communicate our research, including roundtables, lunches/dinners and launch events in Westminster. 
• Leading our political and policy stakeholder engagement activity to ensure we have strong relationships where they matter. 
• Dissemination of our research to political and policy audiences to ensure our research is seen by the right people. 
• Support our parent research, including polling of parents and making policy recommendations based on this research. 

As a UK wide charity, you will be expected to support our work in other parts of the UK and the devolved administrations. 

We would particularly welcome candidates with media experience, including writing press releases and placing stories with national media outlets.

Duties and key responsibilities

Managing the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Parents. 

• Developing a plan for the APPG to achieve our ambition of making this one of the most high profile APPGs in Parliament.
• Raising the profile of the APPG for Parents and increasing the number of MPs and peers engaged with its work. 
• Organising well attended APPG meetings and events. 
• Providing the secretariat to the APPG and working with the Officers to deliver the work of the Group.

Organising events to communicate our research, including roundtables, lunches/dinners and launch events in Westminster. 

• Manage and organise research/policy led events with political/policy audiences, including roundtables, lunches/dinners and launch events.
• Increase attendance at these events to make sure we are successfully engaging with political/policy audiences.

Leading our political and policy stakeholder engagement activity to ensure we have strong relationships where they matter. 

• Developing our stakeholder database of priority contacts.
• Actively arranging high value meetings to promote Parentkind.
• Maintaining a consistent level of communication with political/policy audiences on behalf of Parentkind.

Dissemination of our research to political and policy audiences to ensure our research is seen by the right people. 

• Taking responsibility for high quality dissemination of our research and evidence to political/policy audiences. 

Support our parent research, including polling of parents and making policy recommendations based on this research.

• Working across the organisation to support our parent polling activity with engaging and topical questions.
• Support the development of policy recommendations based on our research.
• Writing concise and compelling briefing documents.

Deputy Chief Executive 

Salary: £49,045 to £60,274 
Location: Hybrid with an assumption of work from Dunelm House, DH13AN as necessary 
Contract: Permanent 35 hours a week full time 
Benefits: 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 4 closure days over the Winter break, 6% employer pension contribution, 28-hour week over 10 week summer vacation period and non-contributory membership to HSF scheme.

Are you interested in being the Deputy Chief Executive of an ambitious, values-led charity working to ensure students  have the best possible experience? If so, our client looking for a leader who believes in the power of education to change people and society, with a strong track record in building alliances, leading people, managing quality outcomes, creating opportunities and making change.

About The Organisation

They are a student-led and student-inspired organisation with hundreds of volunteers and elected student leaders, supported by a team of professional staff. They are driven by the decisions and opinions of students and each year they elect a team of student Sabbatical Officers, who are responsible for supporting and representing students interests in various aspects of campus life.

They are a charity who exist as a separate organisation and their charitable governance is overseen by a Board of Trustees made up of both student and external volunteers who contribute their expertise and experience to ensuring they are a well-run organisation.

They’ve committed to a four-year plan focused on bringing students across Durham together, building confidence in the purpose and value of the Union, and tackling the big issues that hold students back. The strategy has emerged from listening to students talk and inviting their input on the challenges they have faced over the last few years, what matters to them, and what they need from their students’ union.

They have recently undergone changes to their elected student leadership structure and the make up of their leadership team, making it a very exciting times for the new Deputy Chief Executive to help shape their future for students.

About the role: 

The Deputy Chief Executive role is a brand new role created through some of the recent changes to their leadership team. The role holder will work across the Union to advance the students’ union’s mission to be the champion of students at the University, leading student-facing services including independent advice, support for student-led sports clubs, societies and interest groups, and democratic services.

Their new Deputy Chief Executive will be responsible for the performance, development and sustainability of the professional staff team and volunteers. They will lead effective and efficient services, and both model and inspire behaviours consistent to their values. This role will also provide advice and make recommendations to student leaders, the Chief Executive and the Trustee Board on policy development within their area of responsibility, support the Chief Executive with policy and strategy development, and create and maintain productive relationships with their Students’ Union partners across the University, the North East of England, and the voluntary and students’ union sectors.

They’re looking for a good combination of skills and experiences, but they do not expect you to have all of the ones they’ve outlined in the job pack, nor do they expect you to be equally confident or strong in all of them.

They expect that all of their volunteers and staff behave in line with their principles that they champion students, they are proud of Durham and they make the future better.

They expect their values and your values to complement each other with ours being: 

• They value care and responsibility, because thier students matter more to them than anything. 
• They value imagination and collectivism, because they’re grounded in their distinctive collegiate community. 
• They value ambition and optimism, because they believe their students can – and do – change the world.

They offer an inclusive work environment and a very good overall benefits package. They’re a flexible employer and believe passionately in caring for their people. They’re also committed to ensuring that their team reflects the diversity of the world and the student community they serve. They respect everyone’s individual identity and celebrate difference and particularly welcome applications from candidates from Global Majority backgrounds and those who are disabled. They offer a guaranteed interview for candidates who are disabled and who meet all the main criteria.

How to Apply

Please download the candidate pack for more information about the role.

Key Dates

Closing date: 5pm, Friday 28th February 2025 
Longlist interviews (remote): Monday 17th March 2025 
Shortlist interviews (in person): Tuesday 25th March 2025 

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The Human Trafficking Foundation (HTF) is looking for an experienced fundraiser to play a pivotal role in securing funding from trusts, foundations, and other philanthropic sources. This role is essential in ensuring the long-term sustainability of HTF’s vital work in responding to human trafficking and modern slavery. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in successful bid-writing, a strong interest in HTF’s mission, and the drive and organisational skills to thrive in a small, dynamic, and highly effective team.

Employment Type: Part-Time (2 days per week), up to one-year fixed term contract. Option for Consultant or Staff Position

Key responsibilities:

Research and Identify Funding Opportunities:

• · Proactively identify relevant trusts, foundations, and grant-making bodies aligned with HTF’s mission
• · Cultivate connections with prospective trusts and donors
• · Develop a strong pipeline of funding prospects

Bid-Writing and Grant Applications:

• · Craft compelling, high-quality tailored funding proposals and grant applications
• · Ensure applications align with funders' priorities and HTF’s strategic objectives
• · Maintain accurate records of fundraising efforts and communications

Relationship Management:

• · Build and maintain relationships with key funders and donors
• · Work with the Director of Operations to provide timely updates and reports to funders, demonstrating the impact of their support

Financial Planning and Forecasting:

• · Work with the Director of Operations to develop financial forecasts and funding strategies
• · Track income targets and report on fundraising progress

Person Specification

We are seeking a proactive fundraising professional who will understand HTF’s unique work in order to develop targeted funding applications and ensure HTF’s long-term financial sustainability. The ideal candidate will have:

Essential:

• · Proven experience in trust and foundation fundraising with a successful track record in securing grants
• · Strong bid-writing skills with the ability to craft compelling and persuasive proposals tailored to the interests of the specific funder and the needs of HTF
• · Experience in developing and managing a funding pipeline
• · Ability to build and maintain relationships with funders and stakeholders
• · Excellent communication and organisational skills
• · Ability to work independently, manage multiple deadlines, and demonstrate initiative

Desirable:

• · Strong financial acumen, with experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting
• · Knowledge of the anti-trafficking and modern slavery sector
• · Experience in fundraising for policy-focused or non-frontline charities

Application deadline: Friday 21st February. Early applications may lead to early consultation. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide feedback on application forms. No Agencies Please

About the role 

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Art Director to join our award-winning in-house creative team. This is your chance to shape compelling campaigns that inspire action, drive awareness, and create a tangible impact. You’ll bring a unique blend of big ideas, strategic thinking, and hands-on design skills to ensure Shelter’s messages resonate powerfully across all platforms.

From ideation to launch, you’ll be responsible for delivering ambitious, research-driven concepts and solutions. You should feel equally at home designing to our brand guidelines and leading the charge on your own innovative concepts. Occasionally, you’ll also step in to support with general design needs, ensuring that all outputs for the Shelter brand meet the highest creative standards while maintaining brand consistency. A strong command of Adobe Creative Suite is essential.

In this varied, fast-paced, and rewarding role, you’ll collaborate closely with colleagues— specifically working alongside our Senior conceptual Copywriter taking briefs from concept to completion. You’ll lead some projects independently while receiving support and guidance from the Creative Lead when needed. The role offers an opportunity to work across a range of media, including print, TV, social media, and experiential designs. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation, creating communications for teams in fundraising, campaigns, services, and occasionally retail.

You’ll also take on a mentoring role for one of our in-house designers, helping them develop their creative skills while ensuring their work consistently represents the Shelter brand to the highest standards. Supporting their wellbeing in the workplace will also be part of your leadership approach.

About the Team 

As our Senior Art Director you’ll be joining a friendly, talented and dedicated team who’ve recently won In-house agency of the year at the Drum awards. You will work closely with your Creative Lead and fellow writers and designers to deliver creative content to highest standard across all areas of our communication.   

Benefits 

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About Shelter

Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

Safeguarding statement 

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies. 

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Finance Lead         

Remote working with flexible hours | 3 days per week |  £350/day |  Initial 6 month contract with rolling extension  

This is a pivotal role supporting our Senior Management Team to make the future fairer and improve the sustainability of our business.

About the School of International Futures (SOIF)

School of International Futures (SOIF) is a global non-profit collective of practitioners in strategy and policy for current and future generations. Our vision is a better, fairer, more sustainable world for current and future generations.  We achieve this by empowering people to use participatory futures and foresight to drive societal transformation through their organisations, communities, and countries.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a Finance Lead to support our agile and values-driven non-profit business to grow whilst balancing financial sustainability.  Reporting to the Operations Director, this role will involve working with our Senior Management Team to shape our financial strategy, deliver our plans, and improve the way we work. You will manage a financial accountant.  They carry out all routine finance processes and this role is focussed on quality assurance, finance strategy, and developing our approach to managing grants.  We use Xero for our financial platform and most of our financial management tools and reporting are in Google Sheets, slides, and docs.

Responsibilities 

These include;

1. Finance strategy
2. Grant management
3. Management Information
4. Cashflow management
5. Process improvement

Experience and skills

The following are essential skill requirements for this position:

• Accountancy qualification - AAT,  ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• At least 5 years experience working as a Finance Lead or at a senior level in an organisation that delivers project-based and/or non-profit work
• Fluent English speaker with excellent written English (additional languages a bonus)

Experience in using Xero (our finance platform) and Google Sheets is desirable.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

SOIF is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Application process

To apply, please upload your CV, and a tailored cover letter that outlines how you meet the listed capabilities, essential, and desirable experience, and respond to 4 specific questions related to the key skills and experience above on our website. We value authentic, thoughtful responses and encourage you to share your insights and experiences. Please note that overly generic or AI-generated answers may not effectively demonstrate your suitability for the role.

To completethe application, answer each of the four questions on our jobs portal

• Provide some examples of how you have supported and challenged senior leaders with different levels of finance experience to deliver results
• Describe your experience with forecasts and budgets and how you have tailored your approach to meet the organisation's needs
• Describe your experience of setting up grant policies and processes and managing grants
• Describe your experience of managing cash flow and financial risk in a small or growing organisation including short-term treasury management

Closing date: 10:00 PM (UK/BST), Sunday, 16th February 2025.

First-round interviews: Week commencing 24th February 2025.

Second-round interviews: Week commencing 3rd March 2025.

Sightsavers are looking for a Subsidiary Finance Executive – to help support our financial transactions and processes as well as internal and external reporting requirements.

Salary:    Up to £38,475.00- salary will be pro-rated for part-time hours

Location:     UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, when required

Contract:Permanent

Hours:     This is a part-time role (3 -4 days per week) with some flexibility around hours worked and lots of home working

We are looking for a well organised and experienced Finance Officer with a proven track record of delivering to deadlines in a busy and dynamic environment. This is a varied role that will process transactions, perform reconciliations, and help ensure that financial controls and policies are followed across the charity and its trading subsidiaries.

Key duties will include:
• Supporting the Subsidiary Finance Manager in ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of all financial records and the preparation and delivery of the subsidiary statutory reports and external audits within agreed timetables.
• Assisting with the monthly close process of the subsidiary ledgers, preparing recurring monthly journals to deadline.
• Performing reconciliations of the subsidiary ledgers to review non-bank balance sheet and key profit and loss accounts monthly to ensure the accuracy of the monthly management accounts, maintaining appropriate documentation to support the audit.
• Preparing necessary journals to rectify and clear incorrect or irrelevant balances and mis-postings in the subsidiary ledgers
• Monitoring and actioning the subsidiary finance service desk tickets
• Liaising with the group accounting team, treasury team and subsidiary offices to ensure accuracy of information in the subsidiary ledgers and efficiency of processes.
• Driving continuous improvement

This is an ideal opportunity to build on your existing finance and accounting experience within a supportive and proactive team. We are looking for an individual with a high level of IT (Information Technology) skills, especially in integrated accounting and reporting platforms. You will have strong written and oral communication skills and be comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders. To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Previous experience in finance and accounting areas
• Previous experience of performing reconciliations
• Understanding of the International Charity Sector and regulatory environment.
• A relevant professional accounting qualification (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) or be part qualified with relevant experience

Please read the full job description for further details.

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying. Please note that there will be an expectation that you can occasionally visit our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW).

We anticipate that remote interviews will take place on Thursday 13 and Thursday 20 February 2025 and the evaluation process may include a role-specific task to be completed by shortlisted candidates in advance of this.We are keen for the successful candidate to start as soon as possible. Please note that this role must be worked from the UK and applicants must have existing and ongoing Right to Work in the UK. 

Location:  Home based, with some travel across the UK

Direct Report:  Reports to Head of Campaigns 

Background:  Communications, social media, writing, graphic design, digital analytics

Remuneration:  £34,000 - £44,000 with 5% employer’s pension and 25 days holiday (plus 3 discretionary gifted days between Christmas and New Year)

Start date:  ASAP

Term:    9 months

We are River Action

We are a small and agile campaigning organisation on a mission to rescue Britain's rivers from a toxic cocktail of agricultural, sewage and industrial pollution. We support community action, galvanise and mobilise public opinion, influence government policy, and call out destructive industrial practices to incentivise changes that end pollution. 

We are a talented team of positive disrupters and community mobilisers to deliver our strategy to urgently protect and restore our rivers for the benefit of community and wildlife.

Britain’s rivers are our life support system and they are dying. We need urgent action to bring them back to life.

What you’ll be doing

As Senior Digital Communications Coordinator, you’ll be delivering our digital communication strategy by coordinating the organisation's creative digital content and analysing the impact of our digital communications to increase our impact as a campaigning organisation.

We are looking for someone who can create digital content, implement new and creative approaches to digital communications and analyse impact.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating the development and delivery of impactful digital communications plans for work across River Action’s Campaigns, Communities, Legal and Fundraising teams. 

• Working with colleagues across the organisation to gather content including data and images for digital communications.

• Writing highly engaging, evidence-based and tactically astute content for digital communications.

• Designing digital communications materials using graphics software, videos and photography, adjusting format, style and medium for different platforms and audiences.

• Working closely with River Action's Media coordinator, to deliver reactive responses to real-time news stories and press releases.

• Collaborate with community activists and groups in gathering new video, audio, photographic and written content for digital communications.

• Posting and coordinating social media streams across all platforms (River Action’s prime channels are Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Linkedin).

• Actively cultivating River Action’s social media presence by growing the charity’s following across all platforms and supporting our many partner organisations and influencers with supportive posting.

• Maintaining River Action’s website, commissioning blogs, and other innovative content, ensuring the website is inspiring, accurate and relevant.

• Coordinating the delivery of River Action’s monthly newsletter including gathering content, writing copy and monitoring key indicator analytics.

• Monitoring and reporting communications performance and River Action impacts achieved through digital communications including social communications, email communications and website.

• Identifying new and innovative digital communications tactics to increase the impact of our work across the organisation.

• Testing and analysing the effectiveness of digital communications tactics. 

• Recruiting and coordinating relationships with key influencers and our alliance of collaborators to promote our work, develop key messaging and profile-raising.

• Collaborating publicly on communications and public engagement initiatives with other NGOs to develop and cement strategic relationships, and increase cross-promotion across platforms.

• Contributing to the development of our brand and key messaging with colleagues and help keep these fresh and relevant.

• Visiting sites and communities to generate stories and images, interview people of interest and create live content.

• Contributing to fundraising efforts particularly crowdfunding in support of the Campaigns and Fundraising teams and charity’s mission.

• Helping ensure all team members representing River Action are well-briefed and on-brand ahead of external engagement, and colleagues handle sensitive personal information and relationships according to organisational policies.

• Keeping up to date with our relevant work across campaign, legal, advocacy, policy and key relationships in order to inform communications.

General

• Follow all charity policies.

• Actively participate as part of the team.

• Help to promote a positive, healthy and happy work environment and team culture.

• Attend and contribute to regular meetings.

• Work in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

• Be responsible for the health and safety of yourself and others at work.

• Undertake any other duties as reasonably required.

• Keep up-to-date with input from colleagues on related research, activities and policies.

The above overview contains the main duties and responsibilities for this position. However, in a small organisation such as River Action, staff members are expected to show flexibility in their approach to work and be willing to undertake other tasks that are reasonably allocated to them but which are not part of their regular job description. Where any task becomes a regular part of an employee's responsibilities, the job description will be changed in consultation with the employee.

Diversity and Inclusion

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies show that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single criteria. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace. So if you like the look of this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with everything in the job description, we would still like to hear from you. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

River Action is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young and vulnerable people and expects all members of staff to share this commitment.

Location

You will work from home with some travel across the UK.

Application process

Applicants should apply to jobs at riveractionuk dot com by submitting their Curriculum Vitae with an application letter describing their interest and suitability for the role by 9th February 2025. Only applications with all documents will be considered.

Interviews are anticipated be held via video conference during the week of 17th February 2025.

All shortlisted candidates will be contacted within one week of the closing date. 

Background

Social AF are experts in Social Media Moderation. We are incredibly proud to work with a large portfolio of regional, national, and international charities to protect and enhance their brand reputations online, as well as supporting them to deliver their virtual fundraising challenges which have collectively raised in excess of £20 million. 

Our reputation for delivering an excellent social media moderation service has helped the company grow at a rapid pace. Our services include: 

• Social Media Moderation 

• Facebook Group Moderation

• Event set-up and supporter journeys

The continued growth of our Facebook Group Moderation service, led by our Head of Virtual Challenges, means that we are now on the lookout for a talented Virtual Challenges Manager to support the day to day runnings as well as the ongoing growth of this department. 

Our Virtual Challenges Manager will support with the account management of our charity partners, manage our Virtual Challenges Officer and established moderation team, and ensure the smooth running of our events portfolio.
 

About the role
 

After a significant period of growth we are now looking to hire a Virtual Challenges Manager. The successful candidate will play an important role in managing relationships with our charity partners as well as the performance and development of our moderators.

We currently have a team of 30 Moderators and Team Leaders (self employed contractors) who work across a wide range of Social Fundraising Challenges. During peak times we can support up to 25 events in any one month.

You will be responsible for the day to day management of our team of talented moderators by monitoring their KPIs and performance, developing and implementing training, and taking an active role in the recruitment of new starters. 

You will manage a portfolio of charity partner accounts to provide the best possible service and support, to maximise income generation and ensure challenges run to an exceptional standard.

You will also line manage our Virtual Challenges Officer, and work closely with them to ensure the smooth running of our events.
 

You will be expected to live our values and work together with our senior leadership team to support with the growth and evolution of Social AF as the go-to moderation agency for the third sector. 

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years' fundraising experience and a minimum of 12 months’ experience of running a Facebook Challenge or Social Fundraising Portfolio.
 

It’s a really exciting time to join Social AF as we expand and grow our agency. The role will be suitable for an outstanding challenge events fundraiser who particularly enjoys building relationships and delivering work to an excellent standard

Please read the job description for further information, including a detailed job and person specification. 

There are video versions of the information below available to view on our website.

This job is to work as an advisor to Neurodiverse Connection. The person in this job will help us hear from other people with a learning disability. The project is to meet and hear from people who have been in mental health hospitals. We will be finding out about what went well and what could have been better.

We want to make sure that our information, conversations and activities are easy to understand for people with a learning disability. You’ll be helping us to get it right.

Sometimes you will be helping us write questions, sometimes you will be meeting people in hospital to find out about their experience. Sometimes you might come to workshops to help us run them well. We also want your help to think about what people tell us. You will help us tell people what we have found out in a way that is easy to understand.

We really want to hear from some people who don’t often get the chance to say what they think. We will be meeting with some people to do workshops and activities. We will be meeting other people online. You can work with us to help us make this interesting and easy to understand for people with a learning disability.

The work time is not fixed for this job and working days will change across the month. The person will be paid for half a day each week. This will mean that the person might work a full day one week and not work the next week, but that payment will always be the same at the end of each month. We will agree working days and time with the person.

Role Description

• To help us reach and engage people with a learning disability.
• Help us make easy read information.
• Help us write easy read and easy to understand interview questions.
• Help make workshops interesting and easy to understand for people with a learning disability.
• Help people with a learning disability take part in interviews and workshops. These may be online or in-person.
• To represent Neurodiverse Connection nationally, regionally and locally and tell people about the work that we do.
• To work alongside the Neurodiverse Connection team to do high quality work.
• Travel nationally and especially within the areas of Bristol, North Somerset, North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire is an important part of this job.

Recruitment Details

Recruitment Timeline

• Deadline for applications: Monday 17th February 10am
• Are you invited for interview? Wednesday 19th February
• Date of interviews: Wednesday 26th February
• Have you got the job?: before Wednesday 5th March

How to apply

Stage 1: complete the application form or send us a video answering the questions. It’s ok for a supporter to help you with this.

• You will be asked to enter some of your contact details and details of previous work.
• You will then be asked to answer 3 questions.
• You will also be asked to complete an equity and diversity form. This is optional.

Stage 2: We will invite some people to an online interview. If you get invited, you will be sent the interview questions 5 days before the interview. You can have help from a supporter if you need this.

About Neurodiverse Connection

How we work

Neurodiverse Connection is a new Community Interest Company. We want to support you as an important team member to work on projects that you love and that match your interests and skills. We want you to tell us if there are things we aren’t getting right. We want to help everyone do well and enjoy being at work.

What you can expect from us

It’s part of our mission to be a great place to work and we think this is good for everyone.

We aim to:

• Work to make Neurodiverse Connection an organisation that you enjoy being part of and that supports you to do great work.
• Help you learn by offering training, working with other people, and supervision.
• Listen when we don’t get it right.
• 35 hour working week (pro rata).
• 4% work place pension contribution.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata).
• Access to a wellbeing fund.

International Project Officer

Animal welfare/Research/Veterinary

permanent, full time

Remote working

£37,684.00 per annum

World Horse Welfare is an international charity that improves the lives of horses in the UK and around the world through education, campaigning and hands-on care. The International department is responsible for implementing the charity’s strategy in developing countries and aims to improve the welfare of as many working equids as possible.

We are seeking a project manager to join our International team to manage funds, budgets and accounts and become familiar with the working of local administration and legal requirements relating to partner organisations.  This is not a role that is hands-on with Equids, you will be working with people who rely on them for their livelihoods in the community-based projects that underpin the charity’s presence in lower middle-income countries.

If you are a qualified Veterinarian this would be advantageous but not essential, as the focus of this role is Veterinary and Equid Welfare; ensuring that all practices by anyone associated with the programme are of an acceptable quality in terms of welfare and accepted professional  veterinary standards.  Working with Veterinary specialists you will co-ordinate all veterinary perspective discussions on interventions to address equine welfare across the programme. You will stay informed on current practices, related to Welfare and Veterinary intervention in terms of other organisations and institutions (including other welfare NGOs, Governments, or institutions such as WOAH) and represent World Horse Welfare in meetings, conferences, seminars and consultations concerning equine welfare.

Although UK based you will be required to travel internationally at least four times per year. This role is suitable for remote working, however, there is an expectation for attendance at our head office in Norfolk throughout the year and this will be at your own expense for travel and accommodation.

We offer a generous pension scheme, cash health plan, death in service benefit as well as the bike to work scheme.  Employee sickness pay scheme and a minimum of 31 days holiday including bank/ public holidays and a mandatory shutdown between Christmas and New Year.

World Horse Welfare’s values are grounded in pragmatism and compassion as we strive to support and strengthen the horse-human partnership in all its guises through a combination of care, research, education and influence. The charity promotes and protects welfare across the full spectrum of the equine world including horses in need, sport and leisure horses, and horses used in work and production in marginalised communities worldwide. 

World Horse Welfare is committed to championing equality and diversity in all aspects of employment and in the services that it provides. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQ+ and disabled people.  

Closing date for applications:  12th February 2025

SOS Children’s Villages UK is part of a global federation, which exists to ensure that each child and young person grows up with the healthy relationships they need to become their strongest selves. We are the world’s largest non-governmental organisation focused on supporting children and young people who don’t have, or who are at risk of losing, parental care.

We are now looking for a UK-based capable Fundraising Administration & Operations Officer to provide critical support to the Partnerships & Philanthropy and Programme Funding teams.

· Enable smooth operation of systems and processes

· Implement standard operating procedures

· Support high-value fundraising and programme teams to work efficiently and effectively.

· Coordinate diaries, travel, meetings (internal and external)

· Accurate and efficient data collection and reporting

· Oversee Salesforce CRM and manage programme pipelines

· Liaise with colleagues across SOS Children’s Villages UK, the global Federation and external partners

If you are a proactive, detail-oriented professional with experience in operations, systems or administrative roles – and a passion for support teams working to improve children’s lives – we want to hear from you!

To Apply

Please read the full Candidate Pack attached which contains the entire job description and person specification and submit a copy of your CV and a covering letter.

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 11 February 2025 at 23:59 UK time. We reserve the right to close the application process early if a successful candidate is found.

Please note: The post-holder must be UK-based. We are unable to provide employment sponsorship if required and unfortunately cannot progress applications without the required right to live and work in the UK on a permanent contract.

We are looking for a Quality Manager within our Survey Coordination Centre in our Service Delivery team. This is a part time, fixed term contract role. You will need demonstrable understanding of continuous improvement and process standardisation methodologies to streamline quality systems as well as demonstrable experience of translating complex quality concepts into clear, actionable plans. You will need to have demonstrable experience of coaching and training team members on quality processes, as well as demonstrable leadership skills.

Salary: £40,708 - £46,523 per annum, pro rata

Contract period: Fixed term contract - 12 months

Job Type: Part time (30 hours)

Reporting to: Head of Survey Coordination

Team: Service Delivery

Location: Oxford / hybrid working (up to full time from home - must be based with the UK)

In this role you will:

• lead on the development and implementation of the quality management system in the Survey Coordination Centre. You will play a vital role in driving quality and operational efficiency through the application of recognised improvement methodologies.
• In this role you will:
• Lead the analysis of current processes to identify gaps and areas for improvement and optimisation within the Survey Coordination Centre
• Work on the quality control process for outputs, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Implement quality assurance standards and procedures to maintain the integrity of outputs, ensuring that all standards and procedures abide by Picker’s Quality Assurance and Information Security Management System, including ISO 20252.
• Implement record-keeping and documentation practices, utilising Picker’s software packages as appropriate (including but not limited to Microsoft Office and Click Up)
• Prepare and present regular quality assurance reports to senior management, highlighting key findings and areas for improvement.
• Lead process improvement initiatives using recognised methodologies (such as Lean or Six Sigma) to identify areas for improvement and develop solutions that drive efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.

About you

You will have:

• Demonstrable understanding of continuous improvement and process standardisation methodologies to streamline quality systems
• A thorough understanding of quality management principles, methodologies and best practices.
• Demonstrable experience of translating complex quality concepts into clear, actionable plans
• Experience of coaching and training team members on quality processes, assessing learning outcomes and monitoring progress
• Experience of conducting reviews and audits of project work to review quality standards
• Demonstrable leadership skills, with the ability to engage team members and lead change.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, using a variety of media
• Empathy with Picker and its aims
• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience

This is a summary of the job description. Please review the full job description on our website.

About Picker Institute Europe

Picker is an Oxford-based charity with an international reputation as a key authority in the measurement and improvement of patient experience. Our mission is to make person-centred health and social care a reality for everyone. We evaluate the areas of health and social care that matter most to people, producing actionable and insightful results to drive advances in standards. If you are passionate about putting people at the forefront of healthcare services, then Picker could be the place for you.

Working with us

Here at Picker, we believe in treating our people well; from excellent career opportunities to a positive, collaborative culture. We all work with a shared set of values that inspire us to achieve the biggest impact. Working alongside colleagues who are experts in their field, you will be part of a team contributing to our vision ‘the highest quality person centred care for all, always’. You will contribute to our research with NHS Trusts and many high profile charities, such as The British Heart Foundation, Pancreatic Cancer UK and Mind.

To support you we offer a friendly, person centred working culture with many benefits including:

• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities, including flexible start and finish times
• Convenient Oxford location with free parking
• 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days, plus eight public holidays
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave
• Christmas office closure (currently an additional 3 1/2 days leave)
• Contributory company pension scheme (currently employer matching up to 8%)
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Free life assurance (currently 4 x salary)
• Tailored learning and development, including access to complete iHasco training library
• Health and wellbeing resources including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Season ticket loan scheme
• Regular calendar of social activities organised by a dedicated Social, Wellbeing and Employee Engagement team