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Financial Controller (Ark and Ventures)
Reports to: Finance Director for Ark and Ventures
Location: Currently operating hybrid working in our West London Office
Contract: Permanent
Pattern: Full Time (standard hours 9am – 5.30pm)
Closing date: 05/05/2025
1st stage interviews: w/c 05/05/2025 (virtual)
2nd stage interviews: w/c 12/05/2025 (in person)
Salary: £60,000 to £75,000 (depending on experience)
About the role:
This is a vital and high-profile role for us and requires a person with strong technical skills and the power of independent thought; meticulous organisational skills and attention to detail; and drive to constantly develop new and improved ways of working. The successful candidate will be a qualified and committed accountant, ready to lead financial control for Ark’s central Finance team.
The Financial Controller will be mainly responsible for ensuring the highest standards of financial control are met across Ark, its subsidiaries and the various external ventures Ark supports. Within this, the role will be responsible for the processing and reporting of financial accounting data for Ark and its related entities, day-to-day cash flow management and compliant statutory returns (including VAT).
The Financial Controller for Ark and Ventures will report into Finance Director for Ark and Ventures. This role is currently operating hybrid working in our West London Office on a permanent basis working full time.
First-round interviews will take place virtually w/c Monday 5th May and second-round interviews will take place in person w/c Monday 12th May.
Key Responsibilities:
- Staff management including training and regular appraisals. The team currently consists of two Finance Officers. Also supporting two business partners.
- Provide up-to-date financial information and technical advice to Ark management and the Venture teams, including cash management.
- Lead the year-end process, including creation of annual accounts for Ark and its related entities (excluding Ark Schools) and overseeing the audits.
- First review of monthly management accounts.
- Take responsibility for the year-end audit and preparation/supervision of draft statutory accounts for the Group and 5 subsidiary entities in accordance with Charities SORP, Companies Act and UK GAAP. Liaise with auditors and ensure timetable and deadlines are met
- Management and oversight of the month-end process to ensure timely period close, including approval of all manual journals posted to the accounting system.
- Review and approval of balance sheets control account reconciliations, including bank reconciliation, petty cash, purchase ledger, staff loans, credit card, and Payroll accounts.
- Responsible for the day-to-day management of the Group’s cash flow and Treasury and preparation of performance reports for the Ark Management Team and Finance and Risk Committee.
- Set-up and maintenance of PS Financials (accounting system) and Concur (invoice and expense system), including maintaining workflows in accordance with the Scheme of Delegation.
- Relationship owner for Lloyds (banker), including set-up of Commercial Banking Online and credit cards in accordance with the Scheme of Delegation. Responsible for maintaining all bank accounts and mandates.
- Responsibility for writing and maintaining finance policies and processes, including the financial Scheme of Delegation, and ensuring these are freely available to all relevant staff.
- Accounts Payable Lead ensuring all suppliers are paid on time. Responsible for processing weekly BACs runs and authorisations in line with the Scheme of Delegation.
- Manage insurance provision for the Ark Group.
Key Requirements:
- Right to work in the UK.
- Professional Accounting Qualification (at least 3-years post-qualification).
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- A record of Continuing Professional Development activities.
- Audit experience.
- Hands on experience of producing statutory accounts.
- Experience of VAT, including international and/or construction industry scheme reverse charge, ideally in a charity context.
- Advanced level IT skills and ability to make effective use of standard software packages, e.g., Microsoft Words, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Staff management.
- Knowledge of the latest Charities SORP and Companies Act.
- Understanding and/or experience of working across a Group structure with a variety of business activities.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, influencing and relationship building skills at multiple levels.
- Self-motivated with excellent time-management skills and the ability to plan, manage and prioritise a varied workload, and to take responsibility for issues through to resolution.
- High attention to detail, proactive, confident, independent thinker and an enthusiastic ‘can do’ attitude.
- Ability to effectively present financial information at the appropriate level.
- Ability to challenge and influence assertively and cooperatively.
Benefits:
- Our hybrid working model aims to offer the best of both worlds, striking the right balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. You will work a minimum of two days per week in our state-of-the-art office in West London allowing you to connect with colleagues, with the flexibility to work remotely, or in the office over the remaining days
- In addition to our current hybrid working arrangements, employees can request to work fully remotely for up to 10 working days a year, whether this be in the UK or abroad
- Our flexitime policy allows you to work your hours around our core hours of 10.00 - 16.00, helping you prioritise your work-life balance and personal commitments
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with each year of service up to 30 days after 3-years’ service. This entitlement is pro rata for part time employees. This entitlement excludes bank holidays
- Full office closure between Christmas and New Year
- As an Ark employee, you will have the opportunity to be part of the TPT (The Pension Trust) scheme, our workplace pension scheme where we make an 11% contribution; you are not required to contribute towards this scheme unless you choose to
- Access to high-quality professional learning throughout your career, offering both face-to-face sessions and a bespoke online learning platform
- Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers, interest-free loans available for season tickets or a bike, gym discounts offering up to 40% off your local gym and free eye tests.
About Us:
Ark is an education charity that exists to make sure that all children, regardless of their background, have access to a great education and real choices in life. Our network of 39 schools reaches traditionally underserved communities in Birmingham, Hastings, London and Portsmouth. We educate 30,000 pupils and have nearly 3,000 teaching staff across our network. We also incubate and scale innovative ventures, which we roll out beyond our network of schools for the benefit of teachers, pupils and the education system as a whole. Current Ventures include Ark Curriculum Plus, which equips teachers with the subject expertise needed to ensure students succeed, and Ark Start, a growing chain of nurseries offering affordable, high-quality early years education.
Recently, Ark moved to new offices at EdCity – a unique not-for-profit development in West London, in partnership with Hammersmith & Fulham council. EdCity is designed to bring mission-aligned organisations together to focus on improving the lives of children, especially through education. It offers leased offices, a range of venues for training and events, and an innovation hub for the education sector to connect, collaborate and learn together.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.
Safeguarding statement:
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.
Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.
Ark works to make sure that all children, regardless of their background, have access to a great education and real choices in life.

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Join RABI and play a pivotal role in ensuring sound financial planning and performance, operational excellence, and compliance, as we continue to develop our focus on empowering the worth and wellbeing of the farming community.
Location: Oxford / Flexible working (min 2days p/w in the office)
About us
RABI (The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution) is a national charity providing one-to-one expert support, advice and guidance to the farming community across England and Wales. Established in 1860, the commitment to address the individual needs of farming people remains at the core of RABI’s mission. Our farming communities are facing increasingly complex challenges and pressures and for many stress cracks are beginning to show. RABI has a crucial role to play now and in the future, to support the personal resilience and wellbeing of farming people.
RABI continues to work tirelessly to develop and deliver services and support that uplifts and supports farming people through practical, financial and emotional assistance, touching the lives of thousands of people every year. Whether giving expert advice on benefits or providing mental health support, RABI offers a beacon of hope.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced and strategic planner to join RABI as our new Head of Finance & Operations. This is a critical role at the heart of our organisation, ensuring that our financial management, operational governance, HR practices and estates oversight are robust and future-focused. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will play a central role in planning and delivering the strategic priorities of the charity.
Reporting to the Director of Finance & Operations, you will lead and develop high-performing teams across Finance, HR, and Estates & Operations. You will bring strong strategic planning insight, ensuring sound financial planning and performance, operational excellence, and compliance with governance frameworks and regulations. You’ll also manage relationships with investment and estate advisors to ensure we are making the best use of our resources in line with our strategic goals.
What we are looking for
You will be a CCAB-qualified finance professional with substantial experience of working at a senior level, ideally within the charity or non-profit sector. Your background will include leading finance, HR and operations functions, and developing and implementing strategic financial and operational plans. We’re looking for someone with excellent leadership skills, who brings a collaborative and open approach to building strong relationships across teams and with external partners. Experience of investment portfolio oversight, estate management, and working through organisational change will be key to your success in this role.
You will also bring strong planning and analytical skills, an eye for risk and performance indicators, and the ability to present strategic planning insight clearly to executive colleagues and Trustees. Above all, you’ll share our commitment to supporting farming communities and have a strong affinity with RABI’s values and mission.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a values-driven organisation and help build the infrastructure that supports RABI’s ambitious growth and the ongoing delivery of services that improve the lives of farming people.
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Closing date for applications: By 9am, Tuesday 13th May 2025
IN A NUTSHELL
The Director of Data and Analytics will be a critical driver in the Centre for Homelessness Impact's mission to end homelessness for good. By leading and developing our data strategy, infrastructure, and capabilities, you will unlock the power of data to inform a decisive shift towards prevention. This role will involve working with partners to harness data from across sectors – housing, social care, health, education, and more – to generate insights that drive evidence-based decision-making, illuminate cost-effective solutions, and fuel innovation in preventing homelessness. You will be part of the leadership team, working with researchers, and programme leads across the organisation to ensure data is at the heart of achieving our mission.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead the Data Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive data strategy aligned with the Centre's strategic priorities, including expanding access to evidence and data, fueling collaboration, and enabling lasting change through R&D and through Test & Learn programmes. This strategy will encompass data from various sectors that influence homelessness, with a focus on identifying cost-effective prevention strategies.
- Enhance Data Infrastructure: Work with external partners including in local government, national government, and the third sector to oversee the development and maintenance of robust data infrastructure, systems, and tools to support the collection, storage, processing, and analysis of data related to homelessness and its root causes across relevant sectors, with a view to supporting resource allocation and intervention design.
- Drive Data Analysis and Insights: While you will have direct line management responsibility for an evidence and data lead, with additional support from external associate data analysts as needed, you will also be a hands-on leader, conducting data analysis yourself. You will generate actionable insights and develop data-driven solutions to address homelessness by examining data from various sources, including housing, social care, health, and education, to identify trends, risk factors, and opportunities for cost-effective prevention. You will also collaborate with other colleagues within the Centre for specific projects and initiatives.
- Champion Data-Driven Decision Making: Promote a data-driven culture within the Centre and across all sectors relevant to homelessness prevention, ensuring data driven approaches, including cost-effectiveness analysis, inform programme design, implementation, and evaluation.
- Collaborate closely with the Director of Evidence to ensure alignment between data analysis and research priorities, and to effectively translate data insights into evidence-based practice and policy recommendations as well as contribute to the development of research projects, and disseminate findings to relevant stakeholders
- Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across relevant sectors, including researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, to share data, insights, and best practices to advance the field. This will involve building partnerships with organisations and agencies beyond the traditional homelessness sector to access and analyse relevant data, including cost and effectiveness data.
WHO YOU ARE
- A data expert: You have a PhD in a relevant discipline including statistics; econometrics; or data science; or relevant work experience in lieu of a PhD.
- A collaborative leader: You have experience of working collaboratively with a range of partners including in government or local government on data analysis
- A great manager: You have led and built high performing data analysis teams. Experience working in a fast paced working environment and delivering on projects with tight turnaround times.
- A strategic thinker: You can translate complex data and analytical insights into actionable strategies to address homelessness and its root causes, with a keen understanding of how to identify and evaluate cost-effective solutions. You can connect data-driven insights to broader organisational goals and strategic priorities.
- An effective communicator: You can clearly and persuasively communicate data-driven insights, including complex analytical findings and financial analyses, to various audiences, from policymakers to practitioners. You can tailor your communication style to different audiences and effectively convey the value of data and analytics.
- Desirable: An understanding of the homelessness sector and its data.
WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS
As the Centre for Homelessness Impact embarks on its next chapter with an even greater focus on prevention and cost-effectiveness, this role is critical. You will lead the way in using data to drive evidence-based decision-making, innovation, and systemic change, with a particular emphasis on achieving the 'prevention turn' to address the root causes of homelessness in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. You will work in close partnership with the Director of Evidence to ensure that data and research are seamlessly integrated to drive impactful change in homelessness and related fields.
WHAT WE OFFER
- A unique opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of people affected by homelessness.
- A chance to work with a passionate and dedicated team committed to achieving ambitious goals.
- A supportive and collaborative work environment that values innovation and creativity.
- The opportunity to contribute to the development of a leading What Works Centre.
- Direct line management responsibility for an evidence and data lead, with additional support from associate data analysts as needed. You will also have access to and collaborate with other teams within the Centre for specific projects and initiatives.
WORKING AT CHI
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Interest-free loans for travel season ticket, cycle to work, and deposit to secure a tenancy
- Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 30 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 33 days
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme
- Flexible working
Employment Type: Full time. Open to part time and flexible working arrangements
Location: Remote - UK. Flexible, remote, or hybrid for London-based staff.
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000
Team: Evidence and Data
Seniority: Senior
Closing: 5:00pm, 22nd Apr 2025 BST
TO APPLY
We use Applied for all our internal recruitment - an independent online recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity.
The closing date for this role is Tuesday, 22nd April 2025 17:00. Interview will be held in person in our London office in early May. Please note, due to panel availability we cannot offer alternative dates.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and particularly welcome applications from people with experiences of homelessness.
The Centre for Homelessness Impact exists to improve the lives of people experiencing homelessness through better use of data and evidence.

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Benefits:
- enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental pay
- family-friendly policies
- 8% employer pension contribution (Aviva) or opportunity to continue NHS pension
- free health cashback plan (Medicash): employee cover plus up to four dependent children
- 24/7 virtual GP access (UK registered), plus access to Best Doctors
- free, confidential employee assistance programme (Medicash)
- access to a wellbeing app
- flexible working options including hybrid working, flexible working patterns such as part-time, compressed hours, and more*
- learning and development opportunities including bespoke training and access to LinkedIn Learning)
- commitment to employee health and wellbeing.
- we have a Menopause Friendly accreditation and are a Disability Confident employer
About Us
Every three minutes someone in the UK develops dementia: a progressive and complex condition that can be devastating for the whole family. One in two of us will be affected by dementia in our lifetime, either by caring for someone with the condition, developing it ourselves, or both.
Dementia UK is the specialist dementia nursing charity that is there for the whole family. Our specialist nurses, known as Admiral Nurses, provide free, expert advice, support and understanding to help families care for their loved one. Every day, Admiral Nurses help families up and down the country to have the best life possible, for as long as possible.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Dementia UK in a newly created, high-impact role as Head of Facilities, where you will lead the strategic and operational management of our working environments and help shape the future of how we work.
You will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of building maintenance, security, contract management, health and safety, and office services - ensuring our facilities are safe, sustainable, and support a high-performing, inclusive workforce. Based at our central office in One Aldgate, you’ll ensure the building runs smoothly, efficiently, and in line with the evolving needs of a growing charity.
This role also extends beyond the office walls. You will ensure our home-based and hybrid staff have the right support, including conducting Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessments, and working closely with IT and HR to provide appropriate equipment and guidance for safe and effective remote working.
You’ll manage the facilities budget, drive cost efficiencies, monitor utility usage, and identify opportunities to improve environmental sustainability. You’ll also lead and develop a small but dedicated Facilities Team, fostering a culture of service excellence and continuous improvement.
About You
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
- Significant experience leading a Facilities Management function in a comparable setting
- Strong working knowledge of health and safety legislation and experience managing compliance, audits, and risk assessments
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach to building maintenance, security, office operations, and supplier management
- The ability to develop and implement practical and strategic facilities plans to support a dynamic, growing organisation
- A collaborative leadership style with a commitment to staff wellbeing, accessibility, and inclusivity
This is your chance to make a meaningful difference. You’ll play a vital role in supporting our people, infrastructure, and culture - enabling us to deliver more for families facing dementia.
Our culture
In addition to a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, we truly value our people. It’s important for us to create a working environment that looks after our workforce to support them in achieving their full potential. You will become part of a diverse and dedicated team who are supported to use and develop their skills. We recognise and value the key role you will play in delivering our strategic plans for the benefit of those living with dementia.
Our staff have a voice. Representatives from different roles and levels across the organisation positively contribute to and lead on our working groups around health and wellbeing, menopause, and equity, diversity and inclusion.
Dementia UK is proud to welcome everyone. We aim for a truly inclusive culture with talented, diverse teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We celebrate difference and individuality and encourage everyone to join us and be their whole selves always.
By applying to join Dementia UK, you acknowledge that in the event you are successful for the role, any offer and your ongoing employment will be conditional on you having or obtaining the right to work in the UK.
*Please note that any decision on flexible working is based on business needs
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Benefits:
- enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental pay
- family-friendly policies
- 8% employer pension contribution (Aviva) or opportunity to continue NHS pension
- free health cashback plan (Medicash): employee cover plus up to four dependent children
- 24/7 virtual GP access (UK registered), plus access to Best Doctors
- free, confidential employee assistance programme (Medicash)
- access to a wellbeing app
- flexible working options including hybrid working, flexible working patterns such as part-time, compressed hours, and more*
- learning and development opportunities including bespoke training and access to LinkedIn Learning)
- commitment to employee health and wellbeing.
- we have a Menopause Friendly accreditation and are a Disability Confident employer
About Us
Every three minutes someone in the UK develops dementia: a progressive and complex condition that can be devastating for the whole family. One in two of us will be affected by dementia in our lifetime, either by caring for someone with the condition, developing it ourselves, or both.
Dementia UK is the specialist dementia nursing charity that is there for the whole family. Our specialist nurses, known as Admiral Nurses, provide free, expert advice, support and understanding to help families care for their loved one. Every day, Admiral Nurses help families up and down the country to have the best life possible, for as long as possible.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Dementia UK in a new role as Head of Digital Engagement. You will be responsible for developing and delivering an effective, proactive and integrated digital strategy, overseeing an operational plan that supports the organisation’s overarching objectives.
As the Head of Digital Engagement, you will lead our Digital Engagement Team, motivating and empowering colleagues to create inspiring and engaging cross-channel digital marketing activity (including website, email, pay-per-click and paid social media activity). This will include ensuring our digital activity is inclusive and accessible, as well as focused on segmentation, testing, scheduling, optimisation, acquisition, supporter journeys and engagement.
With other key stakeholders, you will help to drive digital transformation and a digital culture across the charity. You will identify opportunities for the charity that will help meet our organisational objectives and work with key stakeholders to drive these forward, ensuring there is a joined-up and prioritised approach to our digital projects. Working closely with the Head of Brand and Marketing and the Head of Communications, you will help increase awareness of Dementia UK and Admiral Nurses, while supporting our fundraising, influencing and service delivery goals. Together, you will ensure brand integration across all channels, keeping the brand fresh, consistent and impactful. You will also ensure that the brand and its assets are accessible and effective across all digital platforms, and that everything we produce reflects the values and identity of Dementia UK.
To succeed in this role, you will bring significant experience of digital marketing and communications at a senior level. You will have a strong track record of overseeing the successful delivery of digital projects, campaigns and content that generate measurable results. You will also have experience in developing and implementing strategic plans, alongside managing operational plans with clearly defined KPIs and identified risks. In addition, you will be a strong communicator and proven leader of high-performing teams, able to provide clear direction, motivation and effective line management through supervision and staff development.
If this sounds like you, join us in making a difference in the lives of those affected by dementia.
Our culture
In addition to a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, we truly value our people. It’s important for us to create a working environment that looks after our workforce to support them in achieving their full potential. You will become part of a diverse and dedicated team who are supported to use and develop their skills. We recognise and value the key role you will play in delivering our strategic plans for the benefit of those living with dementia.
Our staff have a voice. Representatives from different roles and levels across the organisation positively contribute to and lead on our working groups around health and wellbeing, menopause, and equity, diversity and inclusion.
Dementia UK is proud to welcome everyone. We aim for a truly inclusive culture with talented, diverse teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We celebrate difference and individuality and encourage everyone to join us and be their whole selves always.
Dementia UK is a Disability Confident Employer.
By applying to join Dementia UK, you acknowledge that in the event you are successful for the role, any offer and your ongoing employment will be conditional on you having or obtaining the right to work in the UK.
*Please note that any decision on flexible working is based on business needs
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Youth Endowment Fund
Assistant Director of Impact, Programmes and Partnerships – Maternity Cover
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Salary: £75,000
Contract: 13-month maternity cover
Location: Central London, Hybrid*
Application Deadline: Thursday 24th April by 12pm
Interviews: Week commencing 5th May 2025
About the Youth Endowment Fund
We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. We exist to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence across England and Wales. We do this by funding great initiatives, finding out what works and working for change.
Key Responsibilities
Your role is to ensure YEF’s funding is directed toward the most crucial gaps in evidence – those that, if filled, will lead to meaningful change for young people. You will oversee the selection of the most promising, evaluable interventions to test in England and Wales, ensure trials are set up successfully, and work with our Evaluation team to deliver high-quality impact evaluations.
More specifically, you will:
Provide team and organisational leadership
• Provide inspirational leadership to the Programmes Team of ten people, ensuring they are best-in-class at supporting delivery organisations to engage in robust evaluation.
• Oversee the Programmes team, including direct line management of four Programme & Impact Leads.
• Ensure the expertise within the Programmes Team is embedded in YEF’s wider work, drawing on the team’s experience of working with delivery organisations to help shape policy and practice recommendations.
• Represent YEF externally, ensuring our funding programmes are well understood and aligned with our sectors’ needs.
• Directly contribute to annual and multi-year planning as part of YEF’s operational planning cycle.
• Be responsible for tracking and reporting progress against our key organisational performance metrics.
• Help build and model a culture where it is natural to perform well, and colleagues support one another to do so.
Hold strategic oversight of new evaluation commissioning
• Work with the Assistant Director of Evaluation to shape and implement YEF’s strategy for programme and evaluation commissioning.
• Oversee the team in identifying and developing proposals for new trials within our main sectors.
• Assess the feasibility and strategic value of evaluation proposals, making stop/go decisions on their progression.
• Ensure the Programmes Team effectively supports grantees to work with evaluators to co-design interventions and develop clear, robust plans for trial setup and delivery.
• Oversee the development of high-quality proposals for new trials, assuring quality and presenting clear recommendations for our Grants and Evaluation Committee.
Be responsible for the ongoing oversight of the full portfolio of evaluations
• Lead and be accountable for delivering on YEF’s Race Equity commitments within our funding decisions and grant delivery.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for a portfolio of c.50 live trials, maintaining oversight of progress across our portfolio of live trials and intervening early when we spot risks.
• Oversee the financial management of the team’s project portfolio across c.50 live trials, ensuring effective budget oversight, approving grant payments, and maintaining financial accountability.
• Provide direct advice and guidance to the Programmes Team on the setup and delivery of our most complex trials.
• Ensure the rapid mobilisation of new trials following approval.
Build meaningful partnerships and strengthen the organisation’s influence
• Be responsible for partnership opportunities with central Government—holding key relationships, assessing the strategic value of co-funded evaluation projects, and overseeing Heads of Evaluation to negotiate new partnerships terms.
• Steward strategic relationships with other key stakeholders, including other research and policy organisations, funders, and delivery organisations that will help us influence change.
• Represent the Fund on boards, committees and events, including providing up-to-date information to external audiences on YEF-funded activity, and sitting on the board of external organisations linked to YEF’s work.
• Be proactive in identifying co-funding opportunities and ensuring fundraising targets are met for new and existing evaluations.
About You
You are this sort of person:
• You are inspired by the vision of reducing violence affecting young people: You don’t want your days to pass without making a difference. You are inspired by the goal of tackling violence affecting young people.
• You are responsible, motivated, and thrive in a fast-paced environment: You take personal responsibility for critical decisions and have a proven ability to work in fast-paced, rapidly evolving settings. You have a good track record of overseeing a large body of varied and complex projects, ensuring they deliver on time, on budget, and to a high quality.
• You demonstrate team leadership and coaching skills: You have experience of leading teams, supporting and developing others to perform at their best.
• You are experienced in evaluation and research, including commissioning: You have several years’ experience working in a senior research and evidence role in a related sector, and you have technical expertise in evaluation methodologies. You have substantial experience commissioning or conducting large-scale research and evaluations.
• You have a graduate qualification, or equivalent work experience: Your qualification or experience is in a relevant field such as social science, social policy, public health, or another field with a significant quantitative component.
• You have some understanding of systems and practice in our priority sectors: Our priority sectors: Children's Services, Education, Health, Neighbourhoods, Policing, Youth Justice, and the Youth Sector.
• You are experienced in building partnerships: You have a strong track record of building partnerships that drive change.
• You are an excellent communicator: You produce high-quality documents that communicate methodological and statistical information in a way that is easily understood. You excel at translating complex evidence and analysis into clear, accessible formats for non-experts.
• You are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion: You believe in and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, backgrounds, and values. You promote and encourage these principles.
While it’s not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of violence affecting young people.
It’s also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
All appointments will be made on merit, following a fair and transparent process. In line with the Equality Act 2010, however, the organisation may employ positive action where candidates from underrepresented groups can demonstrate their ability to perform the role equally well.
Hybrid Working
The office is based in Central London. Those living in and around London are expected to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week. If you live outside of London and work remotely, you’ll be expected to work from the London office 2 days per month. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage.
To Apply
Please click on the "Apply for this" button and submit your CV, your completed monitoring form and cover letter. Please submit your application by 12pm on Thursday 24th April 2025.
Interview Process
There will be a task to complete in advance of the interview. This will be a two-stage interview process. Interviews will take place the week commencing the 5th of May 2025. This will be a panel interview.
PLEASE NOTE: We do not sponsor work permits and you will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK.
Benefits Include
· £1,000 professional development budget annually
· 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
· Employee Assistance Programme – 24hr phone line for free confidential support
· Volunteering days - 4 half days per year
· Death in service - 4 times annual salary
· Flexible hours. Core office hours 10am – 4pm
· Financial support including travel and hardship loans
· Employer contributed pension of 5%.
Your Data
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful, and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
The people we are looking for do not discriminate and we believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
We exist to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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!
Are you a highly skilled and experienced professional looking to lead our Information Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance in one of the UK's largest charities?
About the role
Our vision is to embed robust governance, risk management, and compliance frameworks across the organisation, ensuring British Heart Foundation (BHF) is secure and resilient in the future. As our Head of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (InfoSec), you’ll play a pivotal role in making this vision a reality.
You’ll be responsible for providing strategic guidance, oversight, and management of the GRC functions within BHF, being able to clearly communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the business. Reporting directly to the Head of Information Security, you’ll lead initiatives to build a strong security culture, ensure compliance with relevant laws and standards, and manage information security risks.
Working arrangements
This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London office.
At BHF, we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
About you
We are open to applicants with a wide range of backgrounds and experience, who can demonstrate excellent stakeholder management skills alongside solid analysis skills.
You'll have excellent influencing and communication skills (both written and verbal), able to work with stakeholders holders across the business, and at all levels. You’ll also have previous experience of leading change and challenging assumptions. Being able to build, plan and deliver against is essential in this role.
You’d benefit from experience information security, particularly focused on governance, risk, and compliance. You’ll also have a solid understanding of the NIST CSF 2.0, PCI DSS, and Cyber Essentials Plus. Leading the development and implementation of information security governance frameworks.
In this role you will be responsible for:
• Conducting risk assessments, identifying, assessing, and mitigating information security risks
• Ensuring compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and standards
• Promoting a strong security culture within the organization through training programs and awareness campaigns
• Managing and mentoring a team, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment
• Developing and maintaining metrics to measure the effectiveness of InfoSec activities
About us
At British Heart Foundation, we are focused on the urgent need to fund more research into heart and circulatory diseases like heart diseases, stroke, vascular dementia, and the conditions that cause them, to find answers fit for 21st-century challenges. We are independent, have more than fifty years of breakthroughs under our belts, and we won’t stop until we beat heartbreak forever.
We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.
Interview process
Interviews will be held, in person, at our London offices, and will include a short presentation.
How to apply
It’s quick and easy to apply for a role at BHF. Just click through to our careers site to apply. All you’ll need is an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role’s criteria.
As part of our commitment to be an inclusive employer and ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for this role, BHF will use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

Family Holiday Charity - CEO
Making memories happen
The Family Holiday Charity helps families get time away together, often for the first time ever.
We're here for children who've never seen the sea. For teenagers who can't remember when they last saw mum smile. For parents and carers having to juggle paying bills and dealing with some of life's toughest challenges. We're here for young carers, grandparent carers. For families facing illness, isolation, or bereavement.
Holidays offer new possibilities. Time spent together, even a day away, helps to build relationships, confidence and hope for the future.
About Family Holiday Charity
Our vision is to transform lives with the anticipation, enjoyment and memory of a holiday. Our mission is to give families the chance to enjoy time away together to explore, have new experiences, to meet new people and to have fun!
Family Holiday Charity is a £1 million income charity, providing nearly 400 life-changing holidays each year. However, our ambitions go far beyond this. We are at an exciting stage in our development and have taken steps to build a sustainable future.
About the role
We are seeking an experienced CEO to lead us into the next phase of growth, driving our mission forward with vision and passion. Working with the Board of Trustees and the Senior Leadership Team, we're looking for someone to provide strategic leadership, ensure financial sustainability and to oversee the charity's operations whilst preparing us for our next phase of development.
Key responsibilities
- Provide vision and leadership for the charity
- Support the charity's fundraising strategy, securing funding through grants, donations, and partnerships
- Act as the public face of the charity, advocating for its cause and engaging with stakeholders
- Foster partnerships with other charities, businesses, and community organisations
- Have overall responsibility for the financial management of the charity
- Assist the board with its decision making and strategic direction for the charity's long-term sustainability
Who We're Looking For:
You'll be an inspirational and tenacious leader who combines strategic vision with hands-on implementation. Resilient and adaptable, you'll thrive in a dynamic environment and be able to demonstrate perseverance and flexibility. You'll be a strong communicator and relationship builder, persuasive and articulate. Commercially and financially literate, you'll have a compassionate and values-led approach to leadership. Ideally, you'll have experience in fundraising, specifically developing corporate partnerships.
Skills and Experience:
- Experience of leading and managing multidisciplinary teams at CEO or similar level
- Strategic thinker and problem solver
- Delivery and execution of strategic plans
- Experience of working effectively with a Board of Trustees
- Proven experience in budget setting and financial management, reporting to funders and Trustees
- Understanding of Charity law and regulations, governance requirements, and reporting standards
Terms and Benefits:
- Full-time, permanent role, based in Bermondsey with hybrid working possible
- Occasional weekend and out of hours working is required.
- Open to flexible working arrangements - let us know what you're thinking, and we can discuss
- Salary: Hybrid from £73,017 - £80,703
- Pension: 5% employer pension contribution
- Holidays: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- 3 days extra between Christmas and New Year for office closure/headspace.
Timeline:
A Q&A webinar session will be hosted by Family Holiday Charity at 6pm on Tuesday 13th May where they will share further insights and answer any additional questions you may have. Please register your interest in attending this webinar with your consultant to receive joining instructions.
Application deadline: 5pm on 30th May
First interviews: w/c 16th June
Second interviews: w/c 23rd June
How to Apply:
Charity People Ltd is acting as a recruitment agency advisor to Family Holiday Charity on this appointment. Interested candidates are invited to submit a CV and request a candidate pack. If you have further questions prior to applying, please contact Philippa Randle at Charity People
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability, and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so we can help make the application process work for you.
Charity People actively promotes 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 with which we work.
Can you help us grow the future talent pool for UK engineering and technology? We’re driving change so more young people choose engineering and technology careers and are looking for an impactful Director of Business Development and Partnerships (maternity cover) to join our mission. The UK urgently needs to address engineering and technology skills shortages to drive economic prosperity and improve sustainability. EngineeringUK is a not-for-profit dedicated to growing the future talent pool, collaborating with over 400 organisations across industry, education, and the third sector in our research, leadership, activities for schools, and advocacy. In this pivotal role, you will lead a team that builds and maintains relationships with businesses, Professional Engineering Institutions, and funders. With your team, you will help us secure funding, source valuable content, and create holistic partnership opportunities. It’s an exciting time to join as we have established strong delivery against our strategy and wish to grow our income to expand our reach and impact. As a key member of the Executive Team, you will bring critical corporate insight, ensure our activities are relevant and impactful, and act as an ambassador for EngineeringUK, representing our collaborative, inclusive, insightful and curious values.
About EngineeringUK
Our purpose is to drive change so more young people choose engineering and technology careers.
Our vision is that the UK has the workforce needed for engineering and technology to thrive, to improve sustainability and to achieve net zero.
Our mission is to enable more young people from all backgrounds to be informed, inspired and progress into engineering and technology.
In the UK, we don’t have enough engineers and demand is going up. So, we need more young people to realise there could be a future for them in engineering and technology. To really thrive, we need a stronger, more diverse and representative workforce and for that we have to do things differently to make engineering more appealing.
We are a not-for-profit working with hundreds of organisations across business, education, professional institutions and the third sector so we can all grow the future talent pool together. We drive that collective effort through research and evidence, leadership, activities for schools and advocacy, with a focus on long-term sustainability.
We guided by a series of values that we apply to all our activity:
- We are inclusive and care about diversity. We understand that we have different needs and create opportunities for everyone's voice to be heard
- We are collaborative. We listen, share and work in partnership to achieve our vision
- We are curious and keen to learn. We challenge ourselves and others to innovate and experiment
- We are insightful. We evaluate what we do and draw on research to make decisions and to improve our collective understanding
- We are driven by a strong sense of purpose. We are determined to make an impact and achieve our goals
About the role
The Director of Business Development and Partnerships (DBDP) leads work at the interface between EngineeringUK and the engineering and technology sector that we represent and serve. As a member of the Executive Team, the DBDP brings critical insight of the corporate world and ensures that our engagement activities are relevant to them, represent their breadth and that our research, analysis and policy work draws on current and real-world experience. The Director leads a team that maintains established relationships with businesses, PEIs and funders and builds new relationships, encouraging organisations to support our work through funding, the provision of content and holistic partnership opportunities.
The Business & Industry team consists of 11 colleagues working under 4 pillars:
- New partnerships
- Corporate relationships
- Trusts and foundations
- Professional institutions and partnerships.
The Director has 4 line-reports: 3 Heads and one Manager. Each team has a slightly different role in meeting the B&I team strategy, but all work collectively to ensure that key industry bodies and businesses are engaged with our work.
New partnerships. Engage new businesses with our portfolio of activities including corporate membership, EUK Education programmes, The Tomorrow’s Engineers Code, policy, and other opportunities.
Corporate relationships. Responsible for account managing existing relationships with members, sponsors and funders including supporting STEM strategy development, organising peer-learning opportunities, upgrading membership/funding levels, networking them across EngineeringUK, and deepening engagement across multiple activities.
Trusts and foundations. Managing existing high-value partnerships with funders who support our programmes, engaging new funders to scale our work, working with other teams to develop compelling proposals and raise EngineeringUK’s profile in the grant-making space.
Professional institutions and partnerships. Coordinate engagement with PEIs across EngineeringUK, ensuring a consistent approach and maximising joint value from our partnership. Securing new partnerships (and then managing, renewing and cross-selling the relationship) with SME clusters.
Reporting to the Chief Executive, and as part of the Executive Team, the DBDP is expected to understand the governance requirements of charities and companies and work with the Board of EngineeringUK to support decision making.
The role is London based at our office at 10 Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6EN and may involve some travel in the UK . We believe that hybrid working has many benefits and are pleased to offer flexible working with a minimum of 2 days (or 40%) a week in the office and the option for a flexible start and end to the working day in our vibrant central London office overlooking the Thames. Further details on our flexible working practices can be discussed at interview or you can reach out to a member of our HR team.
Further details of the role can be found in the recruitment pack on the vacancies page on our website.
Person specification
Essential Skills / Competencies
Ability to fully engage with EngineeringUK’s mission and values, be committed to its goals and act as an ambassador for and role model within the organisation
- Proven experience of successfully identifying, initiating and establishing funding relationships, understanding customer needs and translating these into solutions
- Experience of writing and presenting proposals and securing funding
- Experience of leading, managing and motivating teams to deliver results
- Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective relationships at all levels inside and outside the organisation; persuades, influences and listens to others using reason and cooperation
- Experience in strategic analysis, strategy setting and taking a pro-active approach towards improvement
- Flexible and imaginative approach to problem solving and ability to challenge assumptions and successfully deliver challenging messages
- Experience identifying and understanding customer needs and translating these into solutions
- Work in a way that supports our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
Desirable Skills / Competencies
- Knowledge of the engineering and technology sector
- Knowledge of STEM education and engagement
- Proven participation at an executive or senior level
EngineeringUK is committed to being an inclusive workplace, where everyone feels they belong. This is supported by the dedicated work we are doing to ensure our policies and practices are inclusive and that our staff are trained to be able to fulfil this commitment.
We value the benefits of a diverse workforce and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. Our recruitment process is designed to be as accessible and inclusive as possible and to ensure people are individually assessed regardless of their backgrounds or characteristics. We are an equal opportunities employer and are open to flexible working, including job share.
Applying for this role
Applications
If you would like to request to submit your application in an alternative format to support accessibility, please let us know.
The deadline for applications is 12:00 noon on 22nd April.
Interviews
Applications will be assessed against the requirements for the post as set out in the Role Profile and Person Specification.
We are a Disability Confident committed employer. We guarantee an interview to any disabled people who meet the minimum requirements of the role. Additionally, if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to make this process easier for you then we are happy to do so. Just complete the relevant sections of the online application form.
We aim to notify candidates who have been shortlisted on 25th April. If you have not heard from us after this date, please assume that you have not been successful.
First interviews will be held on 7th May.
Second interviews will be held on 19th May
What can we offer you?
- Competitive salary
- 28 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), in addition we normally close for the Christmas week
- Competitive pension (10% employer contribution)
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Flexible working
- A vibrant office with terrace overlooking the Thames embankment and Tower Bridge
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Insurance (4 x salary)
- Long term illness/incapacity insurance cover (permanent health insurance or PHI)
- Annual private health check for all employees over 40 once they have completed their probationary period and to employees over 35 after 3 years’ service
- Discounted gym membership
- Yearly flu vaccination
If you are looking for a new challenge in a friendly, caring and ambitious charity, then Head of Charity at Oxford Health Charity (OHC) may be the role for you.
We are seeking a dynamic leader who will drive the strategic leadership and delivery of all OHC functions and lead Volunteering Services across the Trust. A key focus will be leading on major gift fundraising and major donor relations through an ambitious and sustainable fundraising strategy.
You'll lead our charity team, overseeing all operations and ensuring delivery of strategic and operational plans. Your financial oversight will ensure resources are managed effectively, and you will be responsible for producing the charity’s Annual Report and Accounts, ensuring transparency and accountability.
Leading on major gifts fundraising, building relationships with major donors, trusts, foundations, and corporate partners, you’ll develop a strong pipeline of major donors securing gifts of £5,000 and above while promoting legacy giving and corporate partnerships.
We are seeking an experienced charity leader with a strong background in fundraising, a proven track record in securing high-value gifts and developing donor relationships. Strong leadership skills, strategic thinking, and experience managing complex budgets are essential.
If you’re ready to lead with purpose and compassion and make a lasting difference to our patients, staff and community, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
This is a rare opportunity to make a tangible impact by securing philanthropic support to enhance patient care and staff wellbeing. Main duties of this role include:
- Develop and implement a charity strategy for OHC and other relevant supporting strategies in collaboration with the Board
- With the Executive Director of Corporate Affairs, provide vision and leadership for the charity setting the overall vision and strategic direction, ensuring alignment with its mission and values
- Take ownership and lead on major gifts fundraising including solicitation and stewardship plans to establish a portfolio of major donors and prospects to include High Net Worth Individuals, Trusts & Foundations and corporates. A specific focus is on securing donations in excess of £5,000 from major donors by initiating, promoting legacy giving and developing long term relationships between supporters, prospective supporters and Oxford Health Trust/Charity
- Ensure appropriate governance is in place for reporting to the Charity Committee and the Charity Board on the charity’s activities.
- Lead, manage and support the Charity Team, empowering them to develop and deliver to the highest level.
- Developing and implementing volunteer roles across the organisation in line with the Volunteer Strategy and organisational strategy and ensuring that appropriate systems and processes are in place for the management of volunteers.
Providing funds which enhance the experience of patients, carers, families and staff receiving support across Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Head of Programme is responsible for leading a respective programme within Impact on Urban Health.
Supporting the Director of Programmes, the role is responsible for translating agreed programme strategies into deliverables which help design, deliver and manage their respective programme team’s operational initiatives.
The role works collaboratively with the IoUH leadership to deliver IoUH strategy, promote the Foundation’s values and shape a positive culture.
Team leadership
- Manage a matrix working team including providing line management support to a team of Portfolio Managers.
- Assign roles and responsibilities ensuring clear accountability across teams.
- Motivate, enable and offer pastoral guidance and support to team members.
- Undertake formal line management responsibilities such as performance tracking, annual reviews and personal development plans.
- Lead or support team recruitment as required, including onboarding of new starters.
- Promote the Foundation’s values and behaviours in all aspects of work.
Programmes
- Work with Director of Programmes to aid effective programme oversight and act as the first point of contact for support requests from the programme team.
- Responsible for managing respective programme budgets and managing the journey between programme stages.
- Focus day-to-day operational management and execution of programmes, ensuring timely and efficient delivery.
- Enable close working and effective relationships with innovation colleagues to incorporate innovative practices and launch new programmes or programme strands.
- Build and maintain relationships with partners and key external stakeholders
Evaluation and learning
- In partnership with the Data, Evaluation and Learning Team:
- Maintain and sharpen a culture of strategic reflection, learning and evidence-based decisions across the programme portfolio.
- Guide teams, partners, and contractors in routinely and systematically distilling insights for programme operations and wider influencing.
- Make sure that our programme evaluation tools and processes are fit for purpose.
Portfolio Manager support
- Retain responsibility for execution of limited portfolio where necessary and support Programme Managers to pick up any delegated projects as required.
- Assure quality of project design, delivery and learning to meet standard of excellence.
- Empower idea generation and ensure alignment with strategic programme direction.
- Support Director of Programmes to oversee investment process, including being accountable for programme proposals being submitted for internal investment approval.
Communications and indirect influencing
- Work with Communications and Influencing colleagues to design and implement a programme of communications that achieve insights sharing and influencing objectives.
Corporate responsibility
- Support Director of Programmes in managing programme’s impact and spend performance.
- Support Director of Programmes in satisfying governance and accountability requirements (business unit meetings, business plan, risk register, reforecasts, etc.).
- In conjunction with the Director of Programmes, co-ordinate the programme’s contribution to the business planning process.
- Support the Director of Programmes in the delivery of programme OKRs.
Skills, abilities, and attributes:
- Strong project management skills including budget and risk management
- Strategic thinking and ability to cut through operational detail and see the bigger picture
- Ability to operate at pace and efficiency, with the capacity to prioritise and measure level of effort
- Readiness to spell out plans and deliver in a way that is self-led, dependable and diligent
- Strong relationship building skills and ability to engage a wide set of partners in the delivery of IoUH work, across sectors and at local national and international level
- Strong inclusive leadership skills to operate comfortably with colleagues at all levels, lead leaders and relate to a wide range of partners and community members
- Humble leadership style that nurtures a balanced and calm culture
- Strong communications skills and problem-solving ability
- Personally, and professionally committed to the Foundation’s mission and values
- Ability to consistently embed DEI into ways of working and create a feeling of inclusion for others
- Ability to seek clarity and actively ensure roles and responsibilities are clear
- Comfortable handling uncertainty and navigating complexity
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:
- Experience in team and people management and empowering others to succeed
- Familiarity with wider policy context in which IoUH programmes operate
- Demonstrable commitment to equity and good health for all
Benefits
- Up to 12% employer pension contributions
- Annual personal development budget
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
- Shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
The responsibilities of this role are not exhaustive and you would be reasonably expected to undertake other responsibilities that are commensurate with the level of your role.
As this is an immediate requirement we will prioritise candidates who have a short or no notice period.
The interviews for this role will be held on;
w/c 28th April - 1st Interviews
w/c 5th May- 2nd Interviews
Job Title: Core Humanitarian Standards Self-Assessment Consultant
Location of Role: Hybrid, London
Application deadline: 20/04/2025
Employment Type: Consultancy
Fee: £300 - £550 per day
Contract Length: 18 days
Who we are:
Muslim Aid is a UK faith-based international development organisation that provides support to communities around the world affected by disasters, conflict, or endemic poverty without regard to their social, religious, or ethnic background.
Established in 1985, Muslim Aid has facilitated the engagement of the British Muslim and non-Muslim community in support of its work in a variety of ways. Over the years, its humanitarian work has included responses to major crises around the world including, famine in East Africa, earthquakes and flooding in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
We place strong emphasis on long-term development projects that build the capacity of local people to help themselves. In addition to the 5 country offices worldwide we also work with multiple partner offices focusing on sustainable Development Programmes and providing humanitarian relief during times of crisis.
About the Consultancy:
Muslim Aid UK (MA) is seeking a procure a consultant to plan and facilitate an organisational Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) self-assessment process. This consultant will review its performance/deliverables against the CHS and then develop an improvement plan for MA to work on over the coming 12 months. The overall aim is to help MA to deliver improved accountability and increased effectiveness for the people affected by humanitarian crisis.
About the Role:
The consultant will:
- Support the MA team to complete a comprehensive validated CHS self-assessment.
- Provide an outline of the areas of compliance/ non-compliance with the standards.
- Develop an organizational improvement plan.
- Provide insight into organisational readiness to move towards an independent verification/certification process.
Deliverables
- Draft and share a short assignment inception report.
- Conduct a desk review of Muslim Aid documents for the documentation survey.
- Formulate a summary report and improvement plan with a set of key recommendations including timeline, to allow compliance with CHS, with the objective of achieving CHS verification.
- Present the main self-assessment findings during an internal validation webinar involving all MAUK HQ, Country Offices and implementing partners.
- Submit final report incorporating the outcomes of the self-assessment, including an improvement plan, should be delivered at the end of the consultancy assignment. This should be written in alignment with the MAUK standards including a two/three-page executive summary.
Please see the Term s of Reference for more detailed information about this consultancy and proposed deliverable timelines.
About You:
The successful consultant will need to have:
- A relevant degree in economics, international development, disaster management or humanitarian aid or equivalent qualification in a relevant field.
- Significant experience with humanitarian work, including experience with project implementation and management, as well as knowledge of current humanitarian issues, trends, standards, specifically the Core Humanitarian Standards; Sphere Standards.
- Previous significant experience of organizational development, preferably within humanitarian organisations.
- Experience with CHS assessment/verification process.
- Good written, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Capacity to work independently and implement assignments remotely.
- Fluent in written and spoken English; knowledge of other working languages Arabic, Urdu and Bengali would be an asset.
- Experience of working in complex organisational structure.
How to Apply:
Application process
You will need to submit a proposal, your proposal should contain the following elements:
- A detailed resume/CV.
- A summary proposal (maximum of 2 pages), providing:
- an overview of the process/methodology the consultant will undertake to complete this assignment.
- a summary of relevant experience and expertise which makes the candidate the right fit for this assignment.
- A cost proposal.
- Testimonials or references from previous clients you have worked with.
Greenpeace is a movement of people who are passionate about defending the natural world from destruction. Their vision is a world where everyone has equal access to clean air, water, and energy; where the nature we love is protected, precious habitats are restored and communities are united by ambitious climate action.
Generating £35 million annually, GPUK’s fundraising programme enables them to expose environmental destruction, hold corporations and governments accountable, and mobilise people for climate action— all without taking money from political parties or businesses. Greenpeace has an appetite for risk-taking and experimentation. They move fast, think creatively, and embrace new ways to engage supporters.
To drive innovation across the organisation, GPUK are making a long-term commitment to a dedicated fundraising innovation function, ensuring new ideas are developed with strategic intent, tested rigorously, and embedded effectively.
This is an exciting opportunity for a bold and strategic leader to shape the future of fundraising at GPUK. As part of the fundraising leadership team, you will oversee the implementation and ongoing refinement of the new 3-year fundraising strategy, as well as develop and embed the model for fundraising innovation.
As Deputy Director, Strategy & Innovation, you will:
- Lead the development, implementation, monitoring and ongoing refinement of Greenpeace UK’s fundraising strategy, aligned with GPUK’s new 3-year organisational strategies and objectives
- Provide strategic support and advice to the fundraising director and fundraising leadership team, leveraging your expertise to guide decision-making
- Work with colleagues across the fundraising department and the wider organisation to embed a culture of innovation and strategic alignment, ensuring collective ownership for delivering results
- Be accountable for the fundraising innovation pipeline and investment, while sharing responsibility for a £35m fundraising income budget, driving forward new opportunities that enhance supporter engagement and income generation
- Play an active role in fostering a positive, inclusive and collaborative department culture, role modelling working to shared objectives, celebrating success and learning from setbacks and failures
- Line manage the Fundraising Innovation Lead and provide leadership, direction, coaching and support to the broader team, ensuring the team is motivated and equipped to perform to high standards (see applicant pack for organisation charts)
Ideal skills and experience:
- A solid understanding of various fundraising disciplines, as well as the key principles of supporter engagement and experience, achieved through operating at a senior level in a busy fundraising team
- Strong working knowledge of new product development, innovation methodologies and fundraising to deliver supporter focused propositions in a range of contexts
- A strong planner and strategic thinker, with proven experience of developing, guiding and implementing strategy at department and cross-organisation level
- Extensive experience of planning, forecasting and budgeting, including developing investment cases and modelling income, return on investment and lifetime value over short, mid and long term horizons
- Demonstrable experience of leading, managing, motivating and inspiring high-performing teams
- A commitment to diversity, inclusion and anti-racism is essential, with a willingness to continually learn and foster a positive and inclusive culture
Diversity and Inclusion
Greenpeace UK recognise the value in having a diverse workforce, as well as the importance of creating equal opportunities for all. Applications are welcomed and encouraged from people of all backgrounds. Candidates will be selected based on how well they meet the criteria for the role and all applicants will be treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
If you have any specific requirements which would enable you to participate in the recruitment process more fully, in particular if these relate to a disability or access issue, please contact us as soon as possible. If you require the job pack in a different format, please get in touch and we will happily provide you with one.
Anti-racism commitments
One of our Anti Racism Plan objectives is to proactively achieve stronger representation of Black people and people of colour, particulary within leadership
positions, and have recently published ambitious race representation targets.
As part of our Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we are committed to interviewing people of colour who meet the essential criteria for this role.
If you are a person of colour, you meet the essential criteria and you would like to be considered for the role, please note this in your application.
Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Greenpeace UK recruiting manager and HR team.
Employee benefits include:
- 25 days annual leave for full-time staff, with additional leave accrued according to length of service up to a maximum of 32 days
- Once a month, all Greenpeace staff take an organisational ‘breather’ day where the office closes with no expectations of output on these days
- Office closure normally occurs between Christmas and new year and staff are not required to use annual leave to cover this period
- Employer pension contribution of 8.5% of basic salary, provided employees contribute at least 3%
- Interest free season ticket loan, or a tax efficient bicycle loan
- Life assurance scheme (4 x annual salary)
- Employee Assistance Programme that includes access to free confidential advice with a qualified counsellor
Greenpeace UK are partnering with Ed Cherry at QuarterFive for this appointment.
We are looking for our first Director of Fundraising - someone who will have the opportunity to build and develop a team to help deliver our fundraising strategy.
About Us
St John International is a global organisation – a family of charities whose ambition is to lead in first aid and medical responses to communities’ health needs. With 44 St John establishments across the world, we like to think of ourselves as the ‘scaffolding’ which supports our organisations. We do this by sharing best practice, offering practical and financial support and strategic direction to implement a gold standard of community and emergency care for the sick and the poor everywhere we work. Our focus is First Aid, Ambulance Services, Eye Care, and our Mother and Baby Programme.
Our impact is real, immediate, and lasting as we build stronger communities through our work. Our aim is continuously to improve the quality and scale of training and care we provide around the world, so that we can say with confidence that we represent the gold standard in everything we do. However, we want to do more. We are therefore launching a major fundraising initiative to support our work. We are grateful to an ambitious donor who has invested in a principal gift to create a new fundraising programme to create sustainable, reliable growth.
What you will be doing
The Director of Fundraising will be a key member of our executive team reporting directly to the Secretary General. As our first Director of Fundraising, you will have the opportunity to build and develop your own team to help you deliver the fundraising strategy.
In taking forward the strategy, you will identify and articulate areas for support, research relevant funding potential and secure income through the development and execution of both the short and long-term fundraising strategy across the funding spectrum. You will have the confidence and experience to help us to deliver a longer-term strategic approach to continued fundraising, based on organisational and business objectives.
With our donor’s generous gift, we aim to build a thriving, major gifts programme which builds capacity and delivers a significant return on our donor’s investment. It is our aim to raise £15million over the next 4 years.
You will be responsible for building a fundraising team and leading fundraising in all areas, from major gifts relationships, completing complex bids to grant-making Trusts and Foundations and managing and utilising the skills of the Trustees and wider St John network.
You will build and maintain a network of supporters. This will require both organisational and bid-writing skills, as well as the ability to represent us, our work and all that we stand for in negotiations with partners, sponsors and major donors around the world.
1. PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE JOB
The Director of Fundraising will lead the continued development, co-ordination and delivery of our new fundraising strategy, to build and maintain philanthropic income.
The post holder will work under the direction of the Secretary General and Trustees to:
1. Deliver our new Fundraising Strategy which has been prepared, maximising resources through major donors, trusts and foundations, individual giving, corporates and legacies throughout the world.
2. Build a new fundraising team.
3. Act as an advocate and ambassador for the charity, building and prospecting new relationships with supporters, stakeholders and donors.
4. Work with colleagues to articulate and promote the charity’s unique message.
5. Mobilise potential supporters and advocates within our St John Family.
2. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
a) Work with the St John International team and trustees to deliver the innovative and varied fundraising strategy.
b) Create and manage fundraising: major donors, trusts and foundations, corporates, and legacies across the organisation.
c) Monitor, collect and manage information on relevant sources of funding, including public and charitable funds, commissioning and procurement, and emerging opportunities for income generation.
d) Develop, implement and oversee quality control, evaluation and reporting procedures to ensure a high standard of bid submission, monitoring and reporting at all times.
e) Build relationships with major donors and maintain good stewardship of donors and funders. We expect our contributor base to include international donors, and not just those who may be UK-based.
f) Research and write high quality grant applications and proposals for support.
g) Develop, pitch and manage sponsorship proposals and presentations.
h) Work with colleagues to embed opportunities for fundraising and fundraising events through other areas of the charity’s work.
i) Attend networking events, prepare groundwork and establish connections to engage potential donors and develop opportunities.
j) Prepare reports and give presentations on fundraising progress to the trustee board.
k) Identify opportunities to collaborate with global partners to secure additional efficiencies, benefits or increased resources, including the potential for joint fundraising approaches.
l) Ensure that appropriate health & safety standards are met for fundraising events, including the production of risk assessments and event plans.
m) Ensure the fundraising office adheres to all required fundraising regulations in the UK.
Interested candidates should download the application pack for more information, including the detailed person specification, and apply with a CV, along with a supporting statement of not more than two pages addressing the person specification, by Tuesday 22 April.
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The Regional Director of Programmes for Europe is accountable for the development and execution of programme strategies in Europe1 in line with ClientEarth’s global mission and strategy. As a member of ClientEarth’s Global Leadership Group, the Regional Director of Programmes for Europe plays a key leadership role in driving ClientEarth’s mission, values, and strategy, while also contributing to global impact strategic oversight and decision-making.
Meet your Manager
In this role you will be managed by Adam Weiss. Adam joined ClientEarth in 2020 and is based in Brussels. He originally came to the organisation as Head of Ocean, Plastics, and Chemicals, and was most recently in the role you are applying for. His background is in human rights and anti-discrimination law.
Main Duties
- Champion ClientEarth’s Regional Strategy - Is accountable for ClientEarth’s programme strategy for Europe, which is co-created with regional Systems Heads, Country Heads, and the Associate Director for the EU.
- Regional Programmatic Delivery - Ensures effective resource prioritisation and capacity planning decisions across regional programmes to maximise impact against global systemic objectives. Manages significant and complex budgets.
- External Leadership & Partnerships - Fosters and grows ClientEarth partnerships across the region to amplify the organisation’s impact in the region.
Role requirements
- Law degree or other legal qualification
- Strong leadership skills and substantial strategic leadership and senior management experience with large teams
- Strong commitment and understanding of environmental issues, and a demonstrated track record in driving positive change for the environment
Note to candidates: We know that long lists of criteria can be daunting and that some candidates will not apply for a role unless they feel they are 100% qualified. If you feel you meet at least some of the essential criteria, we still encourage you to apply.
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