Policy Jobs
Closing date: Wednesday 4th December 2024 at 9am
Please note that the turnaround time between both the first stage and second stage interviews will be short:
First Stage Interview: Monday 16th December/Tuesday 17th December 2024
Second Stage Interview: Wednesday 18th December/Thursday 19th December 2024
We have an exciting opening for someone to join our senior leadership team leading our campaigning work. We need a strategic expert who understands politics, campaigning and how to get the best out of campaigning organisations. The Campaigns Director must maintain a comprehensive understanding of the organisation's financial position, proactively managing budgets and implementing necessary adjustments to ensure organisational health and sustainability.
The Campaigns Director leads the Campaigns department, crafting our plans and supporting the team to execute powerful, people-powered campaigns that shape the country to be fair, respectful and sustainable. They oversee campaign strategy development, as well as teams that execute our plans, run our social media campaigns, and our public/media affairs work, all while ensuring alignment with organisational goals and political positioning.
The Campaigns Director must maintain a comprehensive understanding of the organisation's financial position, proactively managing budgets and implementing necessary adjustments to ensure organisational health and sustainability. They play a critical role in steering the organisation's narrative, tracking campaign progress, and working collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to align campaign objectives and work in progress with other organisational insights and initiatives.
Your background and experience
We are looking for someone who understands 38 Degrees, our model and our organisational culture already, and our fierce determination to change our country - campaigning to do so without fear or favour whoever is in power. You will have worked at, or with, a similar organisation to us, where our supporters are our purpose, and you’ll be ready to engage in discussions about campaigning tactics and way of working from day one.
Our power is the passion, and number, of our supporters. You will have insight and experience on how an organisation like ours should respond to a new environment - and capitalise on the changed landscape.
You will understand not just the purpose and strategies of organisations like ours, you’ll know that we can only succeed if we have the right people, structure and culture. You’ll have experience of working in productive and positive environments, and you’ll have insight into how teams can be set up for success in a campaigning space.
You’ll be adept and experienced at project management, understand the pressures the team face working in a fast paced reactive environment and be able to get the best of people in this context to help deliver on longer term, strategic goals.
And most of all, you will be a positive, practical person who can work with others, bringing them with you, to solve problems in a collaborative way.
About us
38 Degrees is one of the UK's biggest campaigning communities, involving over a million supporters who campaign to make the UK a better place. We’re united by a shared vision to create a fairer and more respectful UK and a more sustainable world.
In the space of a week, millions of supporters could be campaigning on anything from protecting our NHS and stopping cuts to Universal Credit, to saving local green spaces and protecting our democracy.
38 Degrees is fiercely independent. We are primarily funded by small donations from hundreds of thousands of members of the public from all over the UK. This independence means we never have to hold ourselves back from taking on those with power and can truly listen to our supporters.
Why you’ll want to work here
The 38 Degrees culture is honest, kind, supportive, courageous, and respectful. We move fast, and frequently change plans to respond to events. We work hard but we also have fun. We regularly enjoy team away days and social hours.
Benefits include:
27 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays); Office closure between Christmas and New year; 9-day fortnight (office closed every other Friday); 4pm closure on the alternate Friday Flexibility to work 90 days per tax year (30 day maximum per travel in any location as per approval process); one month paid sabbatical leave after 5 years of service; Employer pension contribution; 24 hour employee assistance programme; Enhanced family leave policies; Cycle to work scheme; employer paid annual flu vaccination; Rental deposit loan; Contribution to eye tests/glasses; Learning and development budget.
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We’re especially keen to hear from people who’ll bring lived experience of the issues we work on and who’ll make our team more diverse as a result. So if you’re Black, Asian or from any other minority ethnic group, if you’re disabled, LGBTQIA+, or if you’re from a working class home, your application will be especially welcome. And thanks to our flexible home working approach and network of offices, we have a staff team that is increasingly based across the UK. We’re keen to continue diversifying geographically, so that we’re rooted in our supporters’ communities.
To make sure that we are able to reach our goal of a diverse team we have equal opportunities monitoring requirements. Your application will not be complete without the equal opportunities monitoring form.
38 Degrees is committed to inclusive working practises, so during the application process we commit to:
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Paying for childcare whilst you’re at 38 Degrees interviews or tasks
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Paying for your travel costs to the office and back – and for overnight accommodation if you’re travelling from a long distance for an interview although at present the majority of interviews are held online using zoom.
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Making any reasonable adjustments – for example ensuring we have a BSL interpreters organised in advance if you’d need one
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If there anything else you’re concerned about or think we could provide, please let us know.
To be successful in your application you must meet the essential requirements for this role and answer the questions below which are part of the selection criteria. Without completion of this task your application cannot be considered.
The successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK at the time of appointment.
Application Questions (max. word count: 2000 words across all questions)
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Tell us a campaign you have been part of, including what you were trying to achieve, how you developed a strategy, how you brought team members together to action the plan, and what the results you achieved.
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38D is a digital first, people-powered campaigning organisation where millions of people do something small to add up to bigger political and corporate change. Tell us about a time you’ve worked with a similar model - and why you think this specific form of campaigning can make a difference in the country.
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With the recent change of government, should 38 Degrees be an ‘insider’ or an ‘outsider’ group?
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Please tell us about a great campaign you’ve seen in the last year which was primarily driven through social media channels, and what lessons that campaign has for 38 Degrees.
Please ensure you have answered all 4 questions and completed the equal opportunities form.
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London W1B 1QH / Hybrid
From £35,666 + Benefits
12 months FTC in the first instance
About the role
You will play a key role in advising on and delivering the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) requirements of the Academy’s grant schemes and career development programmes, which will contribute to communicating the impact of our work and the evidence base for the continuous improvement of our schemes and processes. You will also contribute to the team’s wider portfolio of work, including monitoring awards for assurance of compliance with our policies, and the delivery of our strategy. The role is positioned within the Academy’s Biomedical Grants and Policy Team and will report to the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager.
About you
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
- A confident and friendly team player/collaborator (within and across teams)
- Highly numerate, with excellent data analysis skills
- Strong IT skills, e.g., Microsoft suite and online databases
- Excellent organisation skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- An interest in (and ideally experience of) using or developing monitoring and evaluation tools and systems
- An interest in biomedical and health research (desirable, but not essential)
- Ability to travel from time to time either in the UK or abroad, with occasional overnight stays
Benefits
- Salary progression framework
- Hybrid and agile working
- 29 days annual leave including Christmas closure dates, plus bank holidays.
- Pension (the Academy offers a flexible contribution structure with a minimum employer contribution of 8% up to a maximum of 13% of gross salary, with an employee contribution ranging from 3% to 8%)
- Life assurance
- Vitality Private Medical Insurance
- SimplyHealth Health Cash Plans
- Season ticket travel loan (interest free)
- Family friendly benefits - enhanced maternity and paternity leave (subject to qualifying period), coaching for parents returning to work)
- Subscription to Headspace and Class pass
- Staff training to support your development including EDI training
Working at the Academy
We have grown rapidly in recent years and continue to expand our team and the work they do. We currently have a staff of 70 people, all are guided by the following values:
- We strive for excellence
- We act on evidence
- We behave with integrity
- We collaborate widely
- We are inclusive and actively seek diversity in all forms
We support our staff to be agile, kind and resilient in everything they do. Our talented and committed staff team who embody our values are one of our key strengths. We put physical and mental wellbeing at the heart of our organisational culture and the way we work.
What you can expect working with us
Our staff culture is shaped by the message of our MedSciLife campaign which states that a life outside work is not an extra, but an integral part of who we are. We encourage different working styles and practices to enable passions and achievements outside work to support individuals’ careers.
To enable all staff to find a working pattern that best suits them and the needs of their role, we have agile working principles in place and are investing in hybrid and digital technologies. For those who want it, we provide daily access to desks in our London office Monday to Friday. To support connections in the office, our onsite venue team regularly provide free lunches for staff in our lounge and hot drinks are available in our small staff café.
For more information and to apply, please visit our careers portal.
Closing date: 5.00pm on 9 December 2024.
Interview date: w/c 16 December 2024.
We are committed to working towards full equality of opportunity in our own organisation, practices and activities, and in the wider academic workforce.
We want to ensure diversity of thought and experience in all we do and for our staff to be able to bring every part of themselves to work. We actively encourage and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to help us engage with the diverse community we serve.
We will happily make reasonable adjustments for applicants as needed. Please do specify these at the time of applying. We also welcome discussion of different working arrangements and locations with any successful applicant.
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Using Anonymous Recruitment
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Integrity Action is looking for a climate expert with strong programme design expertise to strengthen and expand our climate programming portfolio. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with our senior management team to maintain and elevate the quality of our programmes and fundraising. You’ll bring technical knowledge and thought leadership to shape our current and future climate-focused programming, driving meaningful change in alignment with Integrity Action's mission.
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Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page
Travel: Some travel in London and within UK
Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.
Within the Chief Executive’s Office, the UK Advocacy and Health Intelligence Department are focused on creating lasting change. We identify creative policy solutions in response to the challenges people with arthritis face. We influence decision-makers across the UK by developing evidence and through stakeholder engagement, public affairs activity and by campaigning alongside people with arthritis. We have expertise across health and care services, public health, and employment policy. We also work in collaboration to influence medical research and data policy and play an active role in several cross-sector groups. We’re looking for a Policy Manager who will make a difference to health and social care policy for people with arthritis.
About the role
The purpose of this role is to lead on projects across our policy priority areas, commissioning research, developing policy positions, and producing reports and consultation responses. There will also be opportunity for line-management within the team.
This role will cover a broad range of issues across one of our strategic goals – prevention and diagnosis; access to treatment; and living well with arthritis. Our approach considers the needs of people of all ages who have arthritis.
The Policy Manager will also contribute to the wider work of the team, working closely with colleagues in the Nations Teams, the Research Directorate and the wider charity, including by representing us on cross-sector policy groups, drafting briefings, and participating in events and conferences.
We’ll give you autonomy, variety and challenge with opportunities to lead projects and to work with inspirational campaigners and meet senior Government and NHS stakeholders. We’re a supportive team who will value your well-being and professional development.
About you
If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you:
- Understanding of current policy issues relevant to people with long-term conditions or disability, including healthcare policy.
- Recent experience of influencing policy gained from work within a policy team.
- An ability to think creatively and communicate effectively.
- An enthusiastic, adaptive and flexible approach.
*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Can you help us promote public and national awareness of kidney disease in the UK to benefit all kidney patients?
The National Kidney Federation (NKF) is a unique, independent UK charitable organisation run by kidney patients for kidney patients. They are seeking an exceptional Policy and Public Affairs Manager to help shape and deliver an exciting programme of work that tackles the challenges of renal disease head-on. As a senior appointment, this role will raise the scale, effectiveness, and profile of their policy and public affairs work.
Job Title: Policy and Public Affair Manager
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: NKF HQ (North Nottinghamshire) Hybrid working
Salary: Up to £43,000 (dependent on experience)
Hours: 36 hours per week
Perks and Benefits:
At NKF, they value their team members and offer some incredible benefits:
* Up to six weeks of annual leave plus bank holidays
* Early finish on Friday's
* Christmas shutdown
* Pension scheme with up to 8% employer contribution
* Death in service insurance worth three times your salary
* Free car parking at their HQ
About the Role:
You'll build on current policy initiatives, leveraging the knowledge of our team, trustees, and professional networks, while collaborating with 50 Kidney Patient Association members. You'll have the freedom to shape and implement their programme of work, working strategically and independently to enhance NKF's impact on patient support, campaigning, and public life.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead NKF's policy and public affairs activities, reporting to the Chief Executive.
- Develop and implement strategies to tackle the challenges of kidney disease.
- Collaborate with internal teams, trustees, and external stakeholders to drive impactful campaigns.
- Represent NKF in public policy discussions, including parliamentary groups, ensuring our voice is heard at the highest levels.
- Contribute to strategic planning and hands-on delivery within a small, collaborative team.
About You:
We're looking for someone who combines strategic vision with a willingness to get stuck into the work. You'll have:
- Proven experience in policy and public affairs with a strong network in public policy and parliamentary groups.
- A solid understanding of health policies.
- Knowledge of marketing and communications, with the ability to amplify NKF's work and messaging.
- Entrepreneurial skills and the ability to shape and deliver impactful strategies.
- The ability to work collaboratively with teams and independently when needed.
- A passion for making a lasting difference for kidney patients and the NKF's mission.
This is a chance to join NKF at an exciting time. With a refreshed five-year strategy, growing reputation, and committed team, you'll have the support and opportunity to make a long-lasting impact.
How to Apply:
Due to the sensitive nature of the role, we are accepting applications on a rolling basis so please do reach out if this impacts you in any way. The provisional closing date for this role will be December the 10th at 12pm. Please send a copy of your CV to Priya at Charity People in the first instance.
First Stage Interviews: 12th and 16th of December
Second stage Interviews: 19th of December
Charity People actively promote equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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About SafeLives
We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.
Last year alone, more than 11,000 professionals working on the frontline received our training. Over 87,000adults at risk of serious harm or murder and more than 109,000 children received support through dedicated multi-agency support designed by us and delivered with partners. In the last seven years, more than 5,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change by interventions we created with partners, making almost 17,000 adult and child victims of their abuse safer.
Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone.
The Role
Our influencing work is changing the UK conversation about domestic abuse, with both national
and locally based elected representatives and the officials and colleagues who work alongside them.
As our Policy and Public Affairs Manager, you’ll lead impactful policy initiatives that align with our mission to end domestic abuse and to ensure support for the whole family, preventing harm, reducing risk and supporting recovery. Working closely with our Head of Public Affairs and Policy, you’ll develop strategies which will amplify our voice and the voice of survivors, and deepen our policy engagement, particularly in relation to multi-agency work, health and family justice.
You will be joining the organisation at a pivotal moment as the new Government makes an explicit commitment to halve VAWG in ten years, including planning a new strategy and a number of new Bills to support this mission This provides an unmissable policy development and influencing opportunity to ensure that SafeLives’ priorities for improving the response to domestic abuse are taken forward by Government.
This is an ideal role for a dynamic and experienced policy manager with a commitment to social change and the prevention of domestic abuse.
You will be based in our London office and/or remote working, with regular meetings in London and occasional travel to other locations around the UK, including our Bristol office.
Benefits
- 34 days' holiday incl. public holidays
- Flexible working e.g. compressed hours
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye care vouchers
- Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
- Childcare vouchers
- Employee assistance programme
- Clinical supervision
- Holiday purchase scheme to buy up to an additional 5 days
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Enhanced sick pay
- Professional development fund
- Individual learning budget
- Restorative practice training
- Time off in lieu
If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter and CV.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 2nd December 2024.
SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all; please see our job description for full details.
No agencies, please.
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Come and join ASAP’s dynamic, small and friendly team!
We are recruiting a Women’s Legal Advisor. This interesting and diverse role sits both within ASAP’s legal and policy teams and involves provision of legal advice, representation at the asylum support tribunal, delivery of training and influencing work with the Home Office.
Key information:
- Permanent contract, following a six months’ probation
- Full-time post (but we will consider requests for working 28 hours a week)
- Hybrid working, so based 2 days a week in our offices in East London
- Salary £41,220 p.a or pro rata equivalent (includes ILW) and other benefits
- Application deadline is 11:59pm on Sunday 1st December 2024 with interviews in London on Monday 9th December 2024
The Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) is a small national charity which was set up in 2004 to reduce destitution by protecting people's legal rights to food and shelter. We have a team of 12 permanent staff members and 45 volunteer solicitors and barristers.
ASAP delivers three strands of work:
- High-quality legal representation at the Asylum Support Tribunal, for people appealing against Home Office decisions to refuse or withdraw their accommodation and financial support.
- Training, an advice line and online forum to support hundreds of frontline organisations, advice agencies and legal practitioners across the UK who are helping people apply for financial support or accommodation.
- We use our strong evidence base to improve government policies and procedures on asylum support through policy work and strategic litigation.
The Women’s Legal Advisor works across the three strands of ASAP’s work to promote and protect the rights of women within the asylum support system. It is a varied and interesting role spanning legal representation at the Asylum Support Tribunal (AST), the provision of advice on ASAP’s Advice Line, the delivery of training, and influencing work with the Home Office. The post is currently focused on access to support for those experiencing domestic abuse however, the future focus of this project will be one of the first priorities for the new post holder, after induction.
A strong interest and commitment to upholding the rights of women is essential, as is an understanding of the barriers and difficulties that women seeking asylum face. You will work closely and collaboratively with colleagues internally, providing advice and support on issues impacting women in the asylum system. You will work with partner organisations externally, pursuing asylum support policy improvements for women and supporting advice workers to assist women to access housing and financial support. The role is part of ASAP’s policy team as well as our legal team (staff members providing legal representation at the AST and via our advice line). The Head of Legal provides legal supervision to the role, and assistance with legal accuracy of training materials.
We positively encourage applicants with lived experience of seeking asylum and/or asylum support. You do not have to tell us about your experiences as part of the recruitment process if you do not want to. If you are an expert by experience (a refugee or a migrant with direct, first-hand experience of issues and challenges of the UK asylum or immigration system), you can ask for independent and confidential support for your job application from the Experts by Experience Employment Network.
Come and join our small, supportive team!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Vacancy Reference: BfN2025/62
Job Title: Employee Relations Manager
Salary: £17.44 per hour (FTE Salary £34,008 – for 37.5 hours)
Number of Posts: 1
Type of Contract: Permanent
Start Date: January 2025
Hours of Work: 24 per week
Working Pattern: Hours to be worked over 4/5 days per week Monday to Friday during business hours. Days must include a Monday and Friday
Work Location: This role can work remotely Very occasional planned travel within the UK
Responsible to: HR Manager
Closing Date: 10/12/2024
Proposed Interview Date: Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th December by Teams
Job Information: We are seeking a highly motivated individual who shares our values to join The Breastfeeding Network’s busy HR team. The ER Manager will play a vital part in our organisation and in the management and support of our people processes. This is a new and exciting opportunity in a fast paced environment. The role of Employee Relations Manager is a generalist HR management role and will be responsible for ensuring effectiveness of HR process and driving improvement across all areas of the employment lifecycle, as well as providing expert HR knowledge and advice to our management and leadership teams. If you are interested in progressing your career within an organisation which makes a real difference, we’d love to hear from you. Please note for this role applications will not be anonymised
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About us
Founded in 1951, the Refugee Council exists to support people who come to the UK in need of safety and speak out for compassion, fairness and kindness. We achieve this by providing expert advice and casework, building the capacity of refugee community organisations, and working with allies across society to change government policy.
Our vision for refugees to be welcome to live safe and fulfilling lives contributing to the UK has never been more urgent and needed.
About the team
The Age Dispute work sits within the Youth Casework team, and we seek to deepen the impact by supporting more children and young people now dispersed across England and who are wrongly age assessed of assumed as over 18 by the Home Office and/or by the local authorities.
About the role
As an Age Disputes Casework Adviser, you will bring your expertise to provide specialist casework to challenge incorrect age assessments, use experience to deal and prioritise high risk cases, work with various stakeholders including legal representatives, statutory agencies, and collaborate with others in sector to develop, learn and share best practice resources in casework provision.
You will maintain an understanding of the changing practice in relation to age assessments in particular and the wider policy landscape, work with colleagues in the Youth Services and in consultation with the Youth Services Manager, liaise with other relevant Refugee Council teams, including advocacy, practice development, youth involvement, In-Form to use casework evidence to address inequities in policy and practice.
This role is fixed term until 31/03/2027.
Based within the Youth Services of the Refugee Council, the Age Disputes Casework Adviser will be responsible for:
- Working with children and young people to understand their experiences and needs.
- Working closely with other Age Disputes Casework Advisers and the Youth Services Manager to identify and review high risk and complex cases that need prioritising and create effective internal case triage and allocation systems.
- Liaising with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure that the needs of young people with disputed age are recognised and met.
- Identifying age assessment policy and practice issues impacting on the lives of separated children for possible action via strategic litigation with legal representatives and advocacy colleagues.
- Maintaining expert casework knowledge and understanding of the environment and barriers that separated children seeking asylum face in with regards to the assessment of their age, and issues related to access to high quality information, advice and legal representation on immigration, asylum and welfare, and always learning and sharing the knowledge with others.
Main duties and responsibilities
Working with young people
- Work in the best interests of all separated young people who are wrongly age assessed and referred unto our service.
- Manage a high volume of referrals from internal colleagues and professionals effectively, and work with Youth Services Manager to identify high risk cases, decide eligibility and priority criteria, and providing timely, helpful, and legally accurate responses at all times.
- Manage their own complex caseload, primarily age dispute related (appropriate assessments, litigation, and appeals) and support on a range of welfare matters including health, education, and community care issues.
For more information on the role and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button.
Closing date: 6 December 2024.
Ensuring that the Refugee Council is an inclusive and accessible place to work is important to us. We want to enable people from different backgrounds to apply and thrive with us. We believe our recruitment process enables that and are also happy to make adjustments on request.
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Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Customer Journeys Transformation Lead
Type: Part-time (17.5 hours a week), fixed term contract until 30 April 2025 (maternity cover)
Location: Office-based in London with the flexibility to work remotely
Salary: £25,873 (FTE £51,747) per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band and Job Family: Band 3, Profession / Technical
About us
We make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.
Our strategy is based on what people affected by MS have told us is important to them. It gives us a clear and determined focus.
Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive working environment where you'll be able to make a difference.
About this job
The MS Society is undergoing a major transformation, investing in data, technology, services and engagement to better serve the MS community. Our goal is to create a more connected and inspiring experience that deepens relationships and boosts engagement, income and impact.
As Customer Journeys Transformation Lead, you will play a key role in this change, leading efforts to map and improve customer journeys across all touchpoints.
You will work with technical teams, subject matter experts, senior leaders and the community to design future journeys that enhance the customer experience and support our transformation goals. Using customer research and person-centred design, you will identify key moments, pain points, and areas for improvement.
Your focus will be on service journeys, volunteering, income generation and campaigning. You will also define a strategic approach to integrate these journeys across all areas.
Additionally, you’ll work closely with governance and business intelligence teams to make sure changes are planned and delivered effectively and impact is measured.
Closing date for applications: 9:00 on Tuesday 3 December 2024
Interested?
PLEASE PRESS THE 'HOW TO APPLY' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Equal Opportunities
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.
We’d be grateful if you downloaded and completed the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
Disability Confident Employer
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and we’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
You can ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both our recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes.
If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, please contact us. You can also ask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format. Such as for them to be sent to you by email or in a larger word format.
More about our employee benefits:
We have a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to):
Encouraging work life balance
- 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time
- More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment
- Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and us)
- Flexible working options
Caring for you and your family
- Generous sick pay entitlement
- More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment
- Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year
- Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis
- Enhanced leave for new parents
- Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information
- Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)
- 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service scheme
- New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
- In the event of miscarriage or still birth
- To support fertility treatments
- For antenatal appointments for both parents
Thinking about your finances
- Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans
- Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax
- New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing
Enriching your life at work
- Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager
- Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities
- New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely
- Various opportunities to influence how we internally operate (including surveys, and focus and committee groups)
- Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for MS Society activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community)
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal
Safeguarding
We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services and we come into contact with.
This is regardless of Gender, Race, Disability, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Pregnancy, Gender reassignment.
We recognise our particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.
We have measures in place to protect everyone we come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.
Your right to work in the UK
You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with us. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if we offer you employment.
You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. We currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.
No agencies please.
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To fund world-leading research, share the latest information and campaign for everyone's rights. Together we are a community. Together we can stop MS
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Can you help us promote public and national awareness of kidney disease in the UK to benefit all kidney patients?
The National Kidney Federation (NKF) is a unique, independent UK charitable organisation run by kidney patients for kidney patients. They are seeking an exceptional Policy and Public Affairs Manager to help shape and deliver an exciting programme of work that tackles the challenges of renal disease head-on. As a senior appointment, this role will raise the scale, effectiveness, and profile of their policy and public affairs work.
Job Title: Policy and Public Affair Manager
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: NKF HQ (North Nottinghamshire) Hybrid working
Salary: Up to £43,000 (dependent on experience)
Hours: 36 hours per week
Perks and Benefits:
At NKF, they value their team members and offer some incredible benefits:
* Up to six weeks of annual leave plus bank holidays
* Early finish on Friday's
* Christmas shutdown
* Pension scheme with up to 8% employer contribution
* Death in service insurance worth three times your salary
* Free car parking at their HQ
About the Role:
You'll build on current policy initiatives, leveraging the knowledge of our team, trustees, and professional networks, while collaborating with 50 Kidney Patient Association members. You'll have the freedom to shape and implement their programme of work, working strategically and independently to enhance NKF's impact on patient support, campaigning, and public life.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead NKF's policy and public affairs activities, reporting to the Chief Executive.
- Develop and implement strategies to tackle the challenges of kidney disease.
- Collaborate with internal teams, trustees, and external stakeholders to drive impactful campaigns.
- Represent NKF in public policy discussions, including parliamentary groups, ensuring our voice is heard at the highest levels.
- Contribute to strategic planning and hands-on delivery within a small, collaborative team.
About You:
We're looking for someone who combines strategic vision with a willingness to get stuck into the work. You'll have:
- Proven experience in policy and public affairs with a strong network in public policy and parliamentary groups.
- A solid understanding of health policies.
- Knowledge of marketing and communications, with the ability to amplify NKF's work and messaging.
- Entrepreneurial skills and the ability to shape and deliver impactful strategies.
- The ability to work collaboratively with teams and independently when needed.
- A passion for making a lasting difference for kidney patients and the NKF's mission.
This is a chance to join NKF at an exciting time. With a refreshed five-year strategy, growing reputation, and committed team, you'll have the support and opportunity to make a long-lasting impact.
How to Apply:
Due to the sensitive nature of the role, we are accepting applications on a rolling basis so please do reach out if this impacts you in any way. The provisional closing date for this role will be December the 10th at 12pm. Please send a copy of your CV to Priya at Charity People in the first instance.
First Stage Interviews: 12th and 16th of December
Second stage Interviews: 19th of December
Charity People actively promote equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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World Obesity Federation (WOF) is a worldwide federation with over 100 members and takes a holistic view of obesity from cause and prevention to treatment. WOF is a lead partner to global agencies on obesity, including WHO, and a member of the Global Obesity Coalition.
The candidate will lead on the MAPPS II study with oversight from the Head of Data & Evidence. MAPPS is a global research study that identifies and addresses the barriers and gaps in obesity care in health systems across countries. The in-depth knowledge and insight gained can be applied to inform policy reform and achieve global milestones – with the ultimate goal of improving access to obesity care for all.
MAPPS II is an enhancement, extension and update of our first MAPPS study (which was undertaken in 2018 -2019), that will span 3 years (2024 – 2027) and feed into global campaigns and upcoming global milestones. Key components of the project include research, convening, dissemination and coalition building.
Desired skills –
- An advanced university degree (Master's level or above) in a health-related field from an accredited/recognised institute.
- Experience in conducting primary and secondary data collection from different sources alongside the ability to analyse both quantitative and qualitative data.
- The candidate should be a strong team player who can work responsively, proactively and flexibly with a high level of attention to detail.
- Excellent research and interpersonal skills
Required -The candidate should have the right to work in the UK and able to travel internationally.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About the role
We are looking for an enthusiastic Guidance Editorial Manager to join the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of women's healthcare by ensuring the development of high-quality guidance for healthcare professionals. As part of our team, you will play a key role in the production of clinical guidance that supports better health outcomes for women, girls, and people, aligned with RCOG’s mission.
You will be working in a collaborative, values-driven environment, helping to create clear, concise and impactful guidance documents that contribute to improving healthcare practices across the sector.
Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
- Lead on the production of key RCOG guidance, including Good Practice Papers, COVID-19 and MPox (previously known as monkeypox) documents
- Support the creation of Green-top Guidelines and other essential RCOG publications.
- Proofread and copyedit drafts to ensure they meet the necessary style, format, and clarity
- Work closely with teams, committees, and healthcare professionals to develop high-quality guidance content
For the full list of key responsibilities, please check the recruitment pack.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact on women’s healthcare while advancing your career in an innovative and supportive team.
About you
We are looking for someone with:
- Demonstrated ability to manage a guideline development process
- Familiar with referencing software for producing and reviewing guidance
- Effective organisational and administrative skills
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and engage with people at all levels
This position is well-suited to someone with a passion for women’s health care, who enjoys a busy and varied workload and working alongside health care professionals to create high quality documents.
Our culture and benefits
As a key member of the team, you will be located in our offices in London Bridge. We offer a friendly, values led working culture with an excellent benefits package that includes:
- Agile and flexible working
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and office closure from 25 December to 1 January
- Up to 10% employer pension contribution after probation
- Enhanced occupational Maternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental leave policies
- Interest-free bike, season ticket and technology loans after probation
- Tailored Learning and Development and study leave
- Affinity staff networks
- Free lunch (onsite only)
- Employee Support Service counselling
- Life Assurance Scheme
- Lifestyle discounts
For a full list of the benefits we offer, please visit our careers site.
How to apply
- Click on Apply to be taken to our recruitment platform, Applied. Please visit our careers website to download the full Job pack.
- Closing date: 10.00 am on Monday 2 December 2024.
- We encourage candidates to apply early and reserve the right to close the advert and appoint before the closing date.
- We will be interviewing candidates in the week commencing 9 December 2024.
- Please note that the start date for this role is February 2025.
We believe that diverse teams will deliver the best outcomes for women's healthcare and we strive to be an inclusive employer. We are therefore looking for candidates whose backgrounds, experience and identity enhance the diversity of our existing team. We are particularly encouraging applications from underrepresented groups at the College such as those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and those with a disability. To find out more, please see our Diversity Policy and Equal Opportunities Policy.
We are only accepting applicants with a right to work in the UK; we are unable to sponsor people requiring a work visa.
About us
The RCOG is a professional membership association dedicated to improving women’s health care across the world. We do this by setting standards for clinical practice, providing doctors with training and lifelong learning, and working with partners to advocate for women’s health and health care across their life course. We are a global leader in this specialist area, supporting 17,500 members in the UK and internationally.
We are a values-led organisation placing high standards, innovation, openness, inclusiveness and trust at the centre of all we do.
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Closing Date: 1 December 2024
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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and experienced campaigner to join us as Campaign Manager (UK Child Poverty) on a 12 month contract basis.
In this key role for us, you will lead our impactful campaigns to address child poverty in the UK, collaborating with communities, partners, and policymakers to bring about meaningful change.
This role offers the potential for hybrid working. We have offices based in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Edinburgh. There are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter. This will be agreed with your line manager and team.
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm.
When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met, their voices are heard, and lasting results are delivered for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About the Role
As Campaign Manager (UK Child Poverty), you will lead Save the Children UK's campaign strategy on one of our priority areas, working closely with mission colleagues, supporters, and partner organisations.
You will manage a senior campaigner and provide task management for two other colleagues, ensuring delivery of impactful, community-driven campaigns.
In this role, you will:
• Lead the development and implementation of campaigns to achieve our strategic objectives on UK child poverty.
• Support the growth and mobilisation of networks involving children, young people, and families with lived experience of poverty.
• Build strong relationships with key campaigning partners and coalitions.
• Collaborate with teams across the organisation to ensure campaign best practices and innovation.
• Represent Save the Children UK in external forums as a passionate advocate for children and families.
• Monitor and evaluate campaign activity, using insights to shape and improve strategies.
About You
To be successful, it is important that you have:
• Experience leading the development and delivery of impactful campaigns, with a track record of success.
• Strong understanding of campaigning and organising tactics, and experience mobilising public audiences for policy change.
• Demonstrated experience working with partners, coalitions, or civil society actors to deliver change.
• Proven project management skills, with the ability to deliver high-quality work under pressure.
• A passion for politics, changemaking, and the ability to travel within the UK (including overnight stays) are also essential.
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission, and values is a must.
• Knowledge of child poverty, children's rights, or related fields in the UK context (desirable).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and inspire diverse stakeholders.
What We Offer You
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health, and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to improve the lives of children every day.
To apply, please click the apply button to visit our website (please note there is a mandatory application question: How would you influence this government to scrap the two child benefit cap? What would an impactful campaign look like? (up to 500 words).
Closing date: 1st December 2024
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
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Governance and Risk Officer Hybrid (within UK) with access to the London office
About Us
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is a policy and action research organisation promoting sustainable development and linking local priorities to global challenges. We are based in London and work across five continents with some of the world’s most vulnerable people to strengthen their voices in the decision-making arenas that affect them. With more than 150 members of staff working with associates and partners around the world, IIED has been at the forefront of evidence-based policymaking in sustainable development for over 50 years.
We are now looking for a Governance and Risk Officer to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis, working 35 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £37,762 - £41,554 per annum
- 25 days' annual leave per year
- Closure between Christmas and New Year with additional paid holiday
- 7.5% employer's pension contributions
- An employee protection scheme offering a flexible menu of benefits
- An interest-free season-ticket loan
- A cycle-to-work scheme offering tax savings on the cost of purchasing a bike for travel to and from work
- An employee assistance programme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption policies
- Enhanced sick pay entitlements, increasing with length of service
- Flexible working options
- Support for learning and development
This is an exciting opportunity for an organised and proactive administrator from a charity background with an excellent grasp of project management to join our impact-driven organisation.
Working alongside experts in environmental and social justice, you’ll have the chance to develop your skills and contribute to initiatives that support some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
So, if you’re ready to influence impactful decision-making and contribute to our mission to promote sustainable development worldwide, then apply now!
The Role
As a Governance and Risk Officer, you will provide governance services and support risk management activities across our organisation.
Focusing on board administration and maintaining governance best practices, you will assist in preparing materials for Board and committee meetings, co-ordinate logistics for in-person Board events and handle Board member records and compliance filings.
You will also play a key role in maintaining the organisational risk register and governance calendar, supporting internal committee functions and keeping governance and risk materials up to date on SharePoint.
Additionally, you will:
- Administer evaluation, recruitment and onboarding processes
- Develop and follow up on action logs for internal governance bodies
- Create agendas and proofread documents for internal committees
About You
To be considered as a Governance and Risk Officer, you will need:
- Experience of the practical application of project management methodologies relating to critical flow
- Administrative experience in a charity
- Experience writing quality meeting minutes
The closing date for this role is 24th November 2024.
Interviews are likely to take place w/c 9th December 2024.
Please note, as part of the interview process, shortlisted candidates would be expected to complete a short assessment in Word and Excel.
IIED is a hybrid working organisation and you are likely to be working from home most of the time. As such, you will need a suitable place to work and a reliable, fast internet connection.
Other organisations may call this role Governance and Risk Administrator, Administrative Officer, Administrator, Office Administrator, Office Assistant, Secretary, PA, Personal Assistant, or Board Administrator.
IIED is a Global organisation that serves the Global Majority. We are committed to equity of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in IIED’s workforce including members of minority groups and those with lived experience of the work we do.
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