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Prospectus is delighted to be supporting an iintrnatonal organisation to recruit their new Programme Development Manager, as the organisation looks to increase their impact and support thousands of women on their way out of poverty. This is a permanent, full-time position based in London (Hybrid).  

This organisation helps women beat the odds and succeed as entrepreneurs. The money they earn and the confidence they gain changes everything. Whole families and communities rise with them. Since 2003, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the charity have helped more than 5 million women launch small businesses that can stand the test of time.

Reporting to the Head of Programmes, the post holder will  identify, prospect and approach new institutional donors, converting them form prospects to secured funds.  You will ensure the effective delivery of a portfolio of institutional and corporate grants, making sure projects are achieving key milestones and that day-to-day activities are on track. The Programme Development Manager will provide high quality project information to both internal and external stakeholders, extracting and quality assuring project data relevant for reporting, and making sure all projects are compliant with donor requirements. You will proactively manage relationships with existing donors, developing engagement strategies, sharing key information, and laying groundwork for follow-on funding. Finally, you will  lead proposals for new and existing donors, coordinating inputs from Hand in Hand International and network colleagues, drafting technical inputs, and engaging with funders where required.

The ideal candidate will have an innovative approach and a strong track record in fundraising from large institutional donors; trusts and foundations, corporate foundations and governments. The main objective of the role is to i dentify, prospect and approach new institutional donors, converting them from prospects to secured funds.  The role will be roughly 70% fundraising and 30% grant management.

As well as a demonstrable track-record securing large, multi-year grants from different types of funders, you will have experience with their thematic areas: women's economic empowerment, value chains, livelihoods or enterprise acceleration. This role will need experience across fundraising, programme management and programme development.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.   

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. Cover letters are not required at this stage.

Prospectus is delighted to be working with The Planning Inspectorate, searching for a Finance Business Partner to join their innovative team. You will help to shape the team and wider Finance function as the organisation continues to make the transition from providing a traditional back office service, to being a strategic, business facing function.  Working alongside senior leaders across the organisation, we will as a team, provide insight, challenge, and advice to support better decision making and improved performance.

The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work they do has a significant impact on people's lives, their communities, and the economy.

The Finance Business Partner will be experienced within an active partnering role, supporting business areas with their budgets, advising on best practice, and challenging where needed, and helping the improvement of performance.

You will also hold line management experience and enjoy coaching and supporting the development of your team.  You will also assist in the preparation of business cases where required, and support ad hoc project work, which being a government department, can be wide ranging and interesting.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with SAP, and will hold a full qualification in accountancy, UK CCAB or CIMA*, with current membership of a professional body.  You must also be able to work in Bristol regularly throughout your probation period, and visit when needed once training is complete. You will also have the demonstrable experience to enable the above activities. There is an accountancy allowance for fully qualified candidates of £1,730 per annum. Find further information about the role on the appointment brief below. Please click through to the job pack for further details.

*Candidates with international accountancy qualifications must have completed conversion to UK CCAB or CIMA prior to application.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

We are excited to be supporting our client, an independent charity who advocates for fairer, greener, and more prosperous societies across the UK, in their search for a temporary Executive Assistant.

This role will be supporting senior members of staff, starting in mid January and running for roughly 3 months in the first instance. You will be required on site in central London 2 days per week and the remainder remote, however flexibility around this is required for specific meetings and events. 

General duties will include:

• Proactive diary management for senior members of staff
• Act as first point of contact for Executive Director and senior leadership team
• Minuting meetings
• Meet and greet visitors, ensuring reception are informed in advance
• Process monthly expenses
• Booking travel and catering
• Supporting and organising events
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams and Zoom

Experience in the charity sector would be highly beneficial.

If you are interested in finding out more information about this new opportunity, please register your interest below and submit your CV in Word format.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

Prospectus is delighted to be working with the Civil Service, searching for a Finance Business Partner to join an innovative team.  You will help to shape the team and wider Finance function as the organisation continues to make the transition from providing a traditional back-office service, to being a strategic, business facing function.  Working alongside senior leaders across the organisation, we will as a team, provide insight, challenge, and advice to support better decision making and improved performance.

This organisation has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England.  The work they do has a significant impact on people's lives, their communities, and the economy.

The Finance Business Partner will be experienced within an active partnering role, supporting business areas with their budgets, advising on best practice, and challenging where needed, and helping the improvement of performance.

You will also hold line management experience and enjoy coaching and supporting the development of your team.  You will also assist in the preparation of business cases where required, and support ad hoc project work, which being a government department, can be wide ranging and interesting.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with SAP, and will hold a full qualification in accountancy, UK CCAB or CIMA*, with current membership of a professional body.  You must also be able to work in Bristol regularly throughout your probation period, and visit when needed once training is complete.  You will also have the demonstrable experience to enable the above activities.  Please click through to the job pack for further details of the role.

*Candidates with international accountancy qualifications must have completed conversion to UK CCAB or CIMA prior to application.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

This is an exciting and challenging position, which will be pivotal in growing the acquisition programme as part of our 5-year strategy. Managing the A&W team and collaborating with others across the Fundraising and Communications Directorate, you'll help to optimise acquisition activity as we scale up investment in this area. This is an opportunity for someone to help make a real difference to a varied programme using a test and learn approach. 

The Supporter Acquisition Manager (SAM) leads a team of two Senior Officers to grow our new supporters through delivery of annual testing plans across all acquisition products and channels. The SAM is responsible for the largest budget within the FundComm department. They play an instrumental role in shaping and delivering the 5 year growth strategy and are key to making it a success. A focus of the role to support this growth involves managing cross-team projects - inline with Brooke’s project management framework - to design, test and roll out new creatives and products that attract and retain higher volumes of new supporters. This will include our regular giving product, as well as introducing a brand new prize led product such as raffle or lottery. 

Criteria 

We’re looking for a strong and collaborative project manager with good all-round experience of channel marketing for acquisition. Experience in delivering DRTV and digital are essential and experience developing RG or prize-led products is desirable. 

You will need to be confident setting and managing budgets and KPIs and able to accurately forecast and report against large budgets across multiple products and channels. This includes using a data-led approach towards strategic annual planning, budgets and operational plans for your area, with your team’s input. You will know how to operationalise and optimise these plans through a test and learn approach and help champion and embed a testing culture across wider teams as well. You’ll also be an organised individual with excellent communication and analytical skills, who enjoys working across teams to deliver best in class products and integrated appeals. You will use your knowledge of the supporter engagement funnel to drive growth through integrated campaigns, working closely with Brand MarComms team to ensure awareness activity, targeting and organic channels all align to support acquisition objectives.

At Brooke, we celebrate diversity and the creative new ideas it brings. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds, in particular global majority candidates, candidates from a social mobility background, disabled and neuro-diverse candidates, and candidates under 25 as these groups are currently under-represented at Brooke. 

We are aware that studies have shown that women and global majority candidates are less likely to apply for a role if they feel they do not meet the full criteria of the job description. If you feel you meet the majority of the criteria, we would love to hear from you. 

We offer a variety of flexible working options to best support our staff and to ensure our working practices are as inclusive as possible. 

Closing date: 19th January 2025 (this role may close early depending on the response) 

Are you passionate about delivering a casework function to regulate charitable fundraising and protect the public? 

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with the the UK's charity regulatory body for the recruitment of a Case Officer on a full-time permanent basis. This role is offered on hybrid basis with two days based in their London office.

The regulator was launched in 2016 to promote good fundraising by charities and to protect the public from unacceptable fundraising practices. It works with other sector bodies and regulators to ensure that charities and other fundraising organisations understand their responsibilities when it comes to legal, honest, open and respectful fundraising. Reporting to the Case Manager, Case Officers are the initial point of contact for members of the public, charities and fundraising agencies when a complaint is made to the Fundraising Regulator.

As a Case Officer, you will deliver excellent service to all stakeholders, and you will investigate and resolve complaints in a prompt and efficient manner. Working in a busy, supportive and committed team, you will manage your own caseload and will undertake independent research and support on a variety of related projects. You will ensure consistent and robust evidence-based decision making and will maintain accurate and timely records.                    

To be considered for this post, you will have experience in a casework or complaints-handling environment. You will have the ability to investigate, analyse and exercise judgement in complex situations, and will have exceptional verbal and written communication skills. You will have the ability to understand the regulatory framework that the regulator operates within, and will operate with honesty, integrity and sincerity in all that you do to ensure that cases are resolved efficiently.              

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the development of complaint handling across the charity sector. Please apply by submitting your CV in Word format (cover letters are not required at this stage). Successful candidates will be contacted and will be asked to complete a supporting statement.      
   
As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

Prospectus is excited to be working with our client to recruit a Philanthropy Lead to join their fundraising team. The organisation is the largest provider of health and social care services for the Jewish community in the UK. Every week, they touch the lives of 10,000 people.

This role is offered on a full-time permanent basis paying between £34,000 to £38,000 per annum working a minimum of 3 days a week from their London office in Golders Green and the rest from home.

A key role within the Fundraising team that raises £20m in donations each year, you will work with key supporters, Trustees, and lay leaders to solicit and secure significant donations to fund the work of the organisation. Specifically, the team carefully look after relationships with the prestigious Patrons Programme of over 300 families who give regularly. Reporting to the Senior Philanthropy Manager, the Philanthropy Lead will also coordinate and progress new approaches for support.

The organisation is looking for someone with experience working closely with clients or supporters to build effective relationships, managing some events and writing compelling proposals and update reports to donors. You will have the ability to build relationships and engage with high-net worth audiences and will have excellent attention to detail.  

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process then please contact Ryan Burdock at Prospectus.

If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.      
 
In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon. 

Prospectus is excited to be partnering with a higher education college in the search for a Head of Development to join their collaborative and growing development team.

This Universitiy College is a progressive, international and inclusive community within the University of Oxford. Founded in 2008 ths College brings together researchers, students, teachers and practitioners with parity of esteem. As a graduate college they have approximately 675 students, 250 fellows, and around 6,000 alumni.

As the Head of Development, you will be responsible for growing philanthropic income over the next decade to support enhancing the student experience, transform the college's estate, host new academic centres and more. This role will focus on securing high value gifts and work to build long lasting relationships with individuals.

To be successful as the Head of Development, you will have previous experience in fundraising, particularly with securing major gifts. This person will be an excellent relationship builder and will be confident in working with both internal and external senior stakeholders. You will be able to demonstrate working with a team as well as, independently to achieve income generation success.

This role is a full-time permanent position that will have hybrid working in the Oxford office 3 days per week. The salary for this role is £48,000 to £62,000.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application then please contact Rhiannon Mehta at Prospectus.

If you are interested in applying to this Head of Development position, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.

Prospectus is excited to be partnering with our client to recruit a Head of Fundraising. The organisation is the leading national charity for kinship care. All of their work is informed by the experiences of families. From their on-the-ground programmes and peer support service to their co-produced campaigns, families are at the heart of everything they do. The organisation works relentlessly to raise awareness, influence policy and practice and scale their services, until every kinship family is able to access the support they need and deserve.

The Head of Fundraising will be a strategic thinker and hands-on fundraiser who can drive forward the organisation's fundraising strategy to generate income and expand the charity's work. Leading and supporting a small, ambitious fundraising team the post holder will have responsibility for all aspects of fundraising including developing new income streams and effective collaboration with colleagues to ensure successful project delivery and timely and accurate processes and reporting. Working closely with the senior leadership team you will help to advance the mission and growth of the organisation and achieve their strategic aim of ensuring that every family has the support they need.

To be successful in this role requires demonstrable experience of leading high performing teams to secure income from diverse income streams, including from trusts and foundations and statutory sources. You might come from a fundraising or business development background, with senior level experience of managing both. Direct experience of managing tenders and local authority commissioning would be ideal. Equally, experience of Major Donor or Corporate Partnerships fundraising would be an asset. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced role and be excited about developing a new role and team in a growing charity.

This is ideally a full-time role; however, a minimum of 28 hours will be considered. It is a permanent position with a salary of £52,000 to £55,000 plus a London weighting of £3,226.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process, then please contact Jessica Stoddart at Prospectus.
 
If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.   
 
To apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon. 

Are you an administrative professional who is looking for a new challenge?  Prospectus are excited to be working exclusively with a major livery company with their search for a new Administrator.

This role is available on a 1-year fixed term contract and part-time basis (3 days a week). The salary for this role is £31,000 FTE and is also available on a hybrid basis, where the postholder will attend the London office two days a week, which is based in close proximity to Cannon Street and Bank train station. You will have the opportunity to work from home one day a week.

In this Administrator role, you will report to the Charity Director. You will develop and maintain the Charity's administrative systems. You will service meetings and be responsible for carrying out clerking functions/minute taking for the board meetings, finance committee meetings, property committee and any others as required. You will process and record invoices for payment. You will undertake administration of the Salesforce database and ensure the system is kept up to date. You will also deal with telephone enquires relating to the almshouse and provide other administrative and secretarial support as required.

To be considered for this role, you will have demonstratable experience in office administration. You will have strong customer service experience, dealing with telephone enquires. You will have experience of minute taking in meetings.

You will have strong IT literacy skills, which includes experience of using Microsoft Office and Salesforce CRM. You will be a people person who has excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will have strong organisational skills and excellent time management skills

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with a charity that owns and runs a network of schools and academies in England and Wales. The organisation continues to be at the forefront of education for girls providing transformational bursary awards to help even more girls learn without limits, now and into the future. 

To support in their next phase of development the organisation is recruiting for an experienced Head of Communications to help achieve their aim of ‘reaching as many girls as possible’ by communicating key messages, promoting the benefits of their education, and articulating the core values that drive their growing family of schools.

The Head of Communications is a senior leadership role reporting directly to the Director of Marketing & Engagement. The role is responsible for leading the central communications team and working collaboratively with marketing and communications teams based in each of their schools. Responsibilities include developing and leading the communications strategy for the organisation and their 25 schools, managing reputation with all stakeholders, and developing the brand voice and core messaging hierarchy, ensuring their narrative is consistent and compelling across all channels. In addition, the Head of Communications will lead on all issues and crisis communication activities, overseeing communications from the CEO and Trust Office based departments and lead external communications across media and owned communication channels. 

The successful candidate will bring significant experience in a leadership position within a fast-paced and high-profile communications team. You will have extensive understanding of strategic communications campaigns, news agendas, and digital communications, including measuring effectiveness, and demonstrate effective leadership skills having managed a communications function in previous roles. You will bring experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders and providing guidance to senior leaders. In addition, you will have strong experience managing crisis communications and bring a passion for the mission. 

To apply please submit your CV and a two-page supporting statement, preferably in Microsoft Word/PDF format. The statement should outline your motivation for joining the organisation and why you feel you would be a good fit for this role. You should also demonstrate your experience and skillset with examples relating to the Person Specification in the Job Pack. If you have any further questions or would like to know more about this opportunity please contact Steven Fraser from Prospectus.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice Prospectus are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Prospectus invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application 

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with our client to recruit their new Senior Prospect Researcher. A pivotal role in the highly successful Philanthropy Team, this post will work across revenue streams to deliver excellent prospect research ahead of big plans in the coming years for the organisation.

The Senior Prospect Researcher will be responsible for the overall management of all aspects of prospect research information and will be able to advise and inform colleagues on the best relationship-based fundraising and engagement activities. You will propose creative and innovative approaches for major gift prospects and will also perform prospect research across corporate partnerships, trusts and foundations, and legacy prospects.

Reporting to the Senior Philanthropy Manager, you will be an excellent communicator and will enjoy working within a high performing team. The selected candidate will have experience within prospect research and will be comfortable performing prospect research across a range of revenue streams. You will be able to work within a big and expanding fundraising and development team and will understand the ways in which fundraising teams work and will play a vital role in the organisation achieving its strategic objectives.  

 If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application then please contact Ryan Burdock at Prospectus.  

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process then please contact Ryan Burdock at Prospectus.

If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.      
 
 In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.

The Natural History Museum is a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. They care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually.  They now seek a new Senior Philanthropy Manager to personally secure six and seven figure gifts.

The Senior Philanthropy Manager will work closely with the Head of Philanthropy, the Senior Principal Gifts Manager and the wider Philanthropy team to help achieve the overall strategy for high-value partnerships. You will work to big income targets and will mange a personal portfolio of funder accounts, managing both the Patrons Manager and Philanthropy Manager too.  Collaborating with the Special Events team and Corporate team too, you will prepare written donor proposals, donor stewardship materials and actions and will work independently to plan and implement creative strategies to increase philanthropic gifts.

The selected candidate will have an established track record in significant fundraising or income generation, with a proven track record of securing income at the six-figure-plus level. You will enjoy working within a results-oriented environment and will have demonstrated success in managing high value portfolio partners.

If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application then please contact Ryan Burdock at Prospectus.
   
If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.  Tuesdays and Wednesdays tend to be the Development team days in the office, with the rest working from home. There are lots of flexibility options available to how this job can be performed, including part time hours, job shares, and flexible working weeks. Please enquire to find out more.
     
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application. In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to speaking with you soon.

Our client is a leading independent funder. 

They aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK. 

The foundation provides c. £50million annually in grants to organisations working in the arts, children and young people, sustainable food and environment, and social change.  They also have an allocation of £60 million for social investment to support organisations creating social impact.

Their strategy focuses on three interdependent aims: improving Our Natural World; tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future; and nurturing Creative, Confident Communities.  They provide long-term, flexible grants as well strategic support to organisations and initiatives with brilliant ideas that work towards these aims.

Prospectus is delighted to be helping to recruit a Funding Manager on a full-time (or 0.8) permanent basis to work on the A Fairer Future (AFF) programme as part of the team based in Kings Cross.

In A Fairer Future, there are five focus areas:

• Arts and creativity making change
• Children and young people’s rights
• Gender justice
• Migrant justice
• Racial justice

The role:
This key role will add substantial grant-making and strategic capacity to the AFF team, which currently consists of 6 people reporting to the Director of A Fairer Future. The role will take on existing relationships in the form of a portfolio of organisations at various points in their funding journey. This person will pick up these relationships and ensure continuity as well as contributing to strategic initiatives, helping to achieve impact in the thematic areas covered by the AFF strategy and roadmaps. Committed to social justice, the candidate will be ambitious to help create change using the foundation's full range of tools and approaches.

Convening collaborations, commissioning research and mobilising networks to create change will all be part of this role in addition to the more day to day management of organisation’s funding journey, supporting them from application onwards to achieve the best possible impact. They will also be responsible for capturing learning from reporting, site visits and facilitating online discussions with organsiations as well as representing the Foundation at sector forums and events concentrating on the AFF priority areas.

The culture at the foundation is collaborative and nurturing, so working closely with colleagues to share ideas and learn from each other will be essential in this role.

The person:
The successful candidate will have experience of working in one or more of the areas cover by the AFF priorities, perhaps gained through work in the voluntary or local authority sector.  We are particularly keen to hear from applicants with experience in arts and creativity making change and/or racial justice, but are also interested to hear from those with experience in children and young people’s rights, gender justice and migrant justice. This experience could have been gained from the delivering or commissioning programmes in these areas or indeed from a grant making perspective.

Highly organised, intellectually curious and pragmatic, this person will be able to unpick complex information and will be confident in assessing applicants’ financial information. They will understand the charity funding world and importantly, the challenges faced by marginalised communities across the UK in the face of widespread inequity. The AFF team works with the Involving Young People’s Collective, candidates should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the value of co-production.

IT confident and systematic on their approach, this person will also be helpful and empathetic in addition to being an excellent communicator both in person and in written work. Excellent attention to detail, thorough and collaborative in their approach to work, this person will be a real team player whilst being able to work under their own steam.

An understanding and experience of systems change principles and an appreciation of the nuanced intersections between the various priorities of the AFF programme will be important to success in this role. This role represents a fantastic opportunity for someone with the right skills and experience to really effect positive change and to make a real mark in one of the leading Funders in the UK.