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About BIG Alliance

BIG Alliance (Businesses for Islington Giving) delivers business-supported employee volunteer programmes to strengthen links between businesses, community organisations and education institutions across Islington. In doing so, it aims to help address issues of poverty and isolation, which are prevalent across the borough, despite the perception of Islington being an area of high wealth. 47.5% of primary school children in Islington live in poverty, the third highest rate in London.

Established in 2012, BIG Alliance aims to make community investment easier, more effective and more rewarding for its business members.  It is a partnership between, East London Business Alliance – a registered charity that has been supporting the social and economic regeneration of east London for 30 years, Macquarie Group – principal funder and founder, and Islington Giving - funder and founder.  To date, BIG Alliance has placed more than 9,000 business professionals into volunteering opportunities within over 200 community organisations, schools, colleges and universities.

ELBA has an excellent employees benefits package including generous leave, flexible balance between working from home and the office, above sector average maternity and paternity pay, 5% pension contribution, life assurance, and a great learning and development programme, including access to free accredited courses up to degree and post-graduate level. 

Purpose of the job
The main purpose of the job is to facilitate development and delivery of the BIG Alliance’s skills-based volunteering programme, which utilises the skills, experience and sector-specific expertise of employees within our business partners to support Islington’s community organisations and residents.

Our skilled volunteers are placed with a community partner or beneficiary either individually or join one of our annual programmes which include: CoRe (Community Resourcing), Board Builders, Leaders in Partnership and Time to Talk. Over 2,500 employees have been placed as skilled volunteers through BIG Alliance since 2012 providing expertise in law, finance, IT, HR, and marketing and communications to name just a few.

The postholder will be responsible for the successful delivery of various aspects of this programme, delivering exciting, innovative employer supported volunteering projects that meet the expectations of specific corporate supporters, and the needs of the community with key geographical focus in Islington.

Job Description
Main duties:
• Collaborate closely with community partners, corporate partners and BIG team to understand community needs and design appropriate employee volunteering activities to address these needs
• Develop relationships and effective partnerships with key stakeholders in the community including the local authority and community infrastructure support organisations to maximise the impact of BIG Alliance’s work.
• Support the delivery of all business skills activity and the wider BIG Alliance programmes.
• Proactively market volunteering programmes to BIG Alliance corporate partners.
• Source, place and manage cohorts of corporate volunteers in line with business plan and project targets.
• Develop effective working relationships with community affairs team with BIG Alliance corporate partners, ensuring that these companies are supported to develop employee volunteering and other initiatives that meet their targets, priorities and strategies.
• Implement effective evaluation and impact measurement tools in line with BIG Alliance corporate partner requirements, ensuring that evaluation informs best practise to ensure continuous improvement.
• Work on any projects with BIG Alliance, as and when required.

General
• Develop a broad knowledge of regeneration programmes and local authority priorities in Islington.
• Use BIG Alliance’s internal systems to maintain records and report progress, including due diligence and volunteer recording via Salesforce
• Ensure that effective project management systems for monitoring and evaluation are in place and keep detailed records.
• Proactively generate case studies, news articles, photos and social media content to promote the work of BIG Alliance in line with BIG Alliance communication targets and protocols.
• Collaborate with other BIG Alliance colleagues on projects where appropriate and contribute to the development of BIG Alliance/ELBA as an organisation overall.
• Adhere to and implement policies, including equal opportunities and health and safety.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by your line manager.

Title: Evidence Uptake and Learning Manager (Maternity cover)

Salary: circa £38,000 to £44,000pa

Location: UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath

Contract: 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Hours: This is a full-time role – 35 hours per week

About the role

Sightsavers is currently seeking an experienced Evidence Uptake and Learning individual to join our team and manage a range of research evidence uptake and learning activities across the organisation. This role is key in ensuring that evidence from research and other data sources is easily accessible, appropriately stored, and used by different stakeholders within and outside Sightsavers.

High quality evidence and evidence uptake are critical for our programmes and advocacy. We hold an independent research organisation status by UK Research and Innovation and make significant investments in generating evidence from research, evaluations and routine programme systems.

The post holder will work closely with different teams across the organisation to ensure that effective user-friendly mechanisms and systems for evidence uptake and learning are in place and widely used.

Further duties include:

1. Manage and continuously improve existing mechanisms for consolidation, storage and sharing of research evidence produced at Sightsavers, including evidence trackers, dashboards, websites, and online libraries.

2. Facilitate dissemination of Sightsavers research internally to support learning; organise learning seminars and workshops; produce and disseminate the Research team’s bi-monthly newsletter.

3. Manage the curation of content for a research evidence library and produce a bi-monthly research evidence newsletter to facilitate the use of research evidence across the organisation.

1. Working closely with the Communications team, develop new approaches and tools to disseminate research evidence, such as visual abstracts, videos, podcasts, etc., to reach wider audiences and enhance the content of the research centre website.

1. Contribute to the development of technical documents to disseminate research results, such as research summaries, peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs and blogs.

2. Contribute to the implementation of Sightsavers’ strategic organisational learning framework, including the design and piloting of processes and tools to embed learning in projects.

3. Contribute to the consolidation of evidence to feed into Sightsavers’ thematic learning questions, improving organisational understanding of key thematic challenges and ensuring the learning informs programme design and adaptation.

Skills and Experience

As the successful candidate you will have a relevant Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience, possess knowledge of research and evaluation methodologies, and be able to travel internationally for up to 12 weeks during the contracted period.

Further requirements include:

• Demonstrable experience of using a range of approaches and tools for communicating research to a variety of audiences and encouraging uptake into decision-making

• Experience of facilitating meetings, and working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams

• Fluent written and spoken English

• Written and spoken French and/or Portuguese (desirable)

• Excellent analytical skills

• Strong project management skills

• Relationship building skills with internal and external audiences – a highly collaborative approach, and willingness to adopt a ‘customer focus’

• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities.

• An understanding and commitment to accessible practices.

This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.

Benefits 

Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.

Next steps

To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please submit your CV via our recruitment portal and answer all application questions. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.

Please note that there will be an expectation that you can occasionally visit our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW).

We anticipate that interviews will take place during the week of 20 January 2025 and the evaluation process will include a written task and one stage interview (although depending on the strength of applications, we may need to include a second stage interview) to be completed by shortlisted candidates.

Closing date: 5 January 2025

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.

Working hours: This is a full-time role (35 hours per week)

Part-time working may be considered for an exceptional candidate with a minimum of approximately 28 hours per week

Salary: £45,000 - £48,000 per annum, subject to qualifications and experience

Benefits: We offer a range of benefits including hybrid and flexible working, 11% non-contributory pension scheme, 25 days holiday rising to 29 after five years’ service.

About the role:

Your chance to join the Diocese of Chelmsford Programme Management Office as a Programme Manager, working within a mission focused team to develop and shape coherent programmes of change ‘to enliven disciples to make disciples’ in the Bradwell Episcopal Area. 

We are seeking individuals with a passion for change to establish, support and navigate the resource intensive phase of strategic implementation. You will be instrumental in engaging others to be receptive to project / programme management disciplines in missional projects and programmes of work across the whole diocese.

We are seeking individuals who are able to demonstrate significant project management experience working in large scale programmes of organisational change, as well as having excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage others.

Qualification in programme management or degree level or a proven track record in programme management will be required for this role. 

Travel is required in this role, and this may include the ULEZ zone of London.

Role Duties

• Work collaboratively with the Bradwell Episcopal Area Team to develop successful applications for external funding for missional growth, including the development and writing of project plans and funding applications. 
• Contribute to the missional strategy, training and implementation of that strategy in the context of church growth and discipleship.
• Work collaboratively within the PMO team ensuring shared learning and a consistent approach to programme management is taken across the three episcopal areas.

Person Specification

• A desire to serve the church in the Diocese of Chelmsford and passionate about enabling growth.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to bring order to complex situations and find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
•  Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes and projects, including risk and issue management.

The Diocese of Chelmsford

The Diocese of Chelmsford is the Church of England in East London and Essex. The Diocese is vibrant and growing with our 463 parishes and 139 schools across Essex, the unitary authorities of Southend and Thurrock, and five East London Boroughs serving a population of around 3 million and rising.  We have nearly 600 churches, which are served by around 500 clergy.

The Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance (CDBF) is a company, and registered charity, that manages the business and operational affairs of the diocese, including matters relating to Finance, Property, Communications and Media, Safeguarding, Governance, Human Resources, Information Technology and Data Management, as well as Mission and Ministry which deals with training and supporting our clergy. We aim to serve our parishes and churches, worshipping communities and church schools with accountability and responsibility.

For more information and how to apply please visit the Diocesan Website.

Closing Date: Friday 17 January 2025

Interview Date: Monday 27 January 2025

Job role: Programmes Manager

Salary: £45,000, plus generous benefits

Contract type: Permanent

Full-time/Part -time: 35 hours; flexible working considered

Key dates: Closes 23:59, Monday 6 January 2025, Interviews w/c 20 January 2025

Foundations strives to be a great place to work, where everyone is high performing and where together we achieve impact that makes a real difference for vulnerable children and families. We focus on using and championing high-quality evidence, working directly with government and local leaders to provide practical solutions and encourage change. We’re an organisation with ambitious aims and our people are essential to our success.

The Programmes Team at Foundations plays a key role in the generation of actionable evidence in early intervention and children’s social care. We strive to raise the standards and volume of good quality research in the sector by identifying promising interventions and building up and strengthening the sector’s capacity to take part in, learn from and use high quality evidence.

We use programme funding as a mechanism to support the generation of new evidence where there are gaps, and as a lever by which to influence the standards of research in the wider sector. As a What Works Centre, we fund the delivery of a programme in order to commission an independent evaluation to determine the impact of these interventions on outcomes of interest.

The Programmes Team is responsible for ensuring grant funding and commissioning are done to the highest standards across the organisation and the team also oversees a varied portfolio of delivery grants.

Our Programme Managers span many areas of expertise. We're therefore looking for an individual to join our team, with strong experience in one or more of the following areas:

· Project management and/or programme management

· Grant making or commissioning

· Grant management.

We are particularly keen to see applicants with the above experience who have worked in the early intervention and children's social care sector and/or research sector. We also welcome applications from individuals who have lived experience of children's social care, or who have worked directly in practice.

We value and celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all our employees. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We believe it’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of our stakeholders, and the wider society in the UK, and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities.

We offer excellent salaries, learning and development opportunities, and a great office location situated in the heart of St James’s. We work in a hybrid and flexible way at Foundations that recognises the importance of a good work-life balance.

Closing Date: 23:59, Monday 6 January 2025

Interviews (Virtual): w/c 20 January 2025

Job Title: Development Manager

Location: London 

Contract: Permanent 

Reporting to: Head of Development 

Responsible for: Occasional consultants or volunteers 

Salary: £50,758.50 Gross per annum

Deadline: 8th January 2025

Conciliation Resources 

Conflict is difficult, complex and political. The world urgently needs to find different ways to respond. Conciliation Resources is an international organisation committed to stopping violent conflict and creating more peaceful societies. We work with people impacted by war and violence, bringing diverse voices together to make change that lasts. For 30 years, we have been making peace possible. We currently have over 70 full and part-time staff members, working mainly out of the London and Australian offices. We work with over 70 locally-based and international partners worldwide. Conciliation Resources is deeply committed to keeping people safe from harm, whether they are personnel or those who come into contact with our work.

Communications and Development Team 

The Development Team sits within a wider Communications and Development Team, which consists of four members of staff at different levels, who work across a range of activities. The wider Team has two dedicated staff members currently focused on donor relationship management and fundraising, and two on communications. 

The Development function is responsible for management of Conciliation Resources’ strategic funders, the generation of unrestricted income and providing fundraising support to the wider organisation. The majority of funding currently comes from government grants and this will remain a key focus, with some time also spent on reacting to opportunities for new funding streams which present themselves – such as trusts and foundations, and to a lesser extent, high-value individual donors and corporations. 

The Communications function has oversight over all areas of organisational communications including the website and digital communications, branding, media relations and production of content. 

Job Purpose 

The purpose of this role is to help generate funding for CR as an organisation, and its component teams. The job-holder will need to work with the Head of Development to support the development of existing and new unrestricted funding relationships, collaborate with staff in other teams to help achieve more restricted income, and at all times champion good organisational communication and information management around funding and donors.

With guidance from the Head of Development, the postholder will lead on building and maintaining strategic relationships with new donors and partners, which might involve some grant management, including budget monitoring, as well as providing technical advice to programmes and policy teams’ fundraising efforts. This may involve writing proposals, working on project budgets, coordinating submissions and providing other guidance, help and advice. The postholder will need to engage, train and support colleagues, as well as gather learning and introduce new tools in response. 

They will use Conciliation Resource’s data management system (currently Podio) to support the development of clear grant and donor management processes, and maintain aspects of the system which relate to fundraising. 

As a member of the DevelopmentTeam, the postholder will also feed into wider fundraising activities and strategy, supporting the Head of Development Team as needed.

Person specification 

Essential experience, knowledge and skills 

• Significant experience of developing and drafting successful funding proposals and budgets to secure income

• Experience of working with grant management or customer relationship management (CRM) IT systems 

• Knowledge of basic fundraising practices, approaches and environment

• Excellent English verbal and writing skills, with the ability to write for different purposes, communicate persuasively and summarise complex information 

• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively, listen to and influence others, both internal and external to Conciliation Resources 

• Excellent numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to present information in an accessible way

• Common sense approach, with a positive attitude and the ability to adapt to an evolving business and working environment, and take initiative

• Cross-cultural sensitivity and appreciation

• Understanding of and commitment to Conciliation Resources’ goals, values, work and approach

Preferable

• Experience or knowledge of commercial contracting

• Experience or knowledge of trusts and foundations 

• Experience or knowledge of major donor fundraising

• Significant experience of building relationships with donor contacts, in particular with institutional donors (including UK, USA, UN, EU or other european governments) to support the increase of funding for an organisation 

• Experience of donor-funded grants/contracts, including narrative and financial reporting, due diligence and contract processes, basic monitoring and evaluation 

• Project management experience, including experience coordinating and gaining support from a wide range of stakeholders 

• Experience of working in an international non-governmental organisation or related organisation 

• Administration experience, including a proven track record of maintaining databases and office records 

• Knowledge of international development, peacebuilding or humanitarian work 

• Good coaching skills with the ability to pass knowledge onto, train and motivate others 

• Exceptional organisational and planning skills with the ability to coordinate information and processes involving multiple people/teams

• Excellent attention to detail 

• Strong computer and IT skills, with good command of Excel and awareness of artificial intelligence tools

Desirable 

• Relevant university degree, or local equivalent, or qualification by experience in a relevant subject area

Title: Regional Safety and Security Manager, East Africa

Location: Kenya/Uganda/Zambia/Tanzania
Contract: Two-year fixed term contract (renewable)
Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply

About the role Regional Safety Security Manager, East Central, and Southern Africa

Sightsavers are actively recruiting a Regional Safety and Security Manager (RSSM), East, Central and Southern Africa to join their global security team. Reporting to the Head of Security – Africa, this role supports the ECSA region on all matters of physical security risk management and business continuity. If you have strong experience working in remote and high-risk environments in a similar role in the development (or related) sector this could be your next career move. While the preferred location is one of Kenya/Uganda/Zambia/Tanzania, we will consider applications from other countries in ECSA with established Sightsavers offices.

Responsibilities but not limited to:

In collaboration with country directors and security focal points (SFPs) the RSSM will support security risk management in countries of operation. Responsible for all aspects of security management at a regional level.

The post-holder will manage and report all security incidents, conduct and review risk assessments, monitor information sources and all regional security developments. They will produce detailed analysis on specific threats to the senior management team and contribute to monthly security reporting.  They will assess and approve all travel and activities in their region and deliver new security projects in the region.

Essential skills and experience

· A proven successful track record of safety and security at country or regional level within East Africa

· Extensive network of contacts within the region

· Professional experience in the development, humanitarian or related sectors

· Fluent/strong English both written and spoken.

· Crisis/incident management experience

· Robust risk assessment and contingency planning skills and experience maintaining security documentation.

· Ability to engage confidently with a variety of stakeholders, including Sightsavers staff across the region, other INGOs and government partners.

· Available to travel extensively within the region to directly support country offices.

· Willing to hold the global emergency phone on a rota basis (1 in 5 weeks)

· Proven background in delivering security training to staff.

· Degree educated in security/intelligence/conflict studies/international relations or relevant recognised qualification.

· Current and ongoing right to work in one of the countries advertised.

· Security certification such as ASIS, CPP, INSSA desirable

The Regional Safety and Security Manager opportunity is a highly varied and involved role. The above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the job description for full details.

The deadline to apply is 8 January 2025 23.30pm GMT UK.

The interview process will be in two stages. First stage will be a written task. Candidates successful as this stage will be invited to either a face to face or virtual interview lasting up to one hour.  We intend to conduct interviews in the week commencing 20 January 2025 onwards. A potential second and final interview if required. We reserve the right to close this ad early.

To apply please simply use the link provided.

As an equal opportunity Employer we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader therefore qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls. 

The Youth Endowment Fund 

Senior Evaluation Manager - Full time  

Reports to: Head of Evaluation 

Salary: £50,600 

Contract: 1-year fixed term - potential to extend 

Location: Central London, Hybrid* 

Application closing: 5pm, Friday 3 January 2025 

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. 

The Senior Evaluation Manager will play a key role in supporting the Head of Evaluation to lead elements of evaluation work. The post holder will also lead a team of Evaluation Managers, ensuring they have the support to deliver a portfolio of evaluation projects.  

The Senior Evaluation Manager will play a key role in supporting the Head of Evaluation and Assistant Director of Evaluation to lead elements of evaluation work. The postholder’s responsibilities will include:  

• Develop and implement processes to assess the quality of evidence in funding applications and provide recommendations to the Grants and Evaluation Committee. 

• Lead the delivery of YEF’s evaluation work, designing, commissioning and managing complex and large-scale evaluations. 

• Be responsible for the ongoing development of YEF’s commissioning guidance. 

• Supervise and project manage the team’s evaluation work, providing quality assurance and monitoring of progress against project plans and project budgets. 

About you: 

• You’re an excellent communicator. You can produce technical documents that accurately report methodological and statistical information.

• You have strong knowledge, experience and technical expertise in evaluation methodologies. 

• You have strong relationship management skills. You’re comfortable working with a wide range of people, including senior academics and other research experts, children and their families, practitioners, and policy makers. 

We're seeking a dynamic individual who can mobilise Christians to respond to some of the most pressing humanitarian crises in our world today. This is a new role at Medair UK as we look to broaden and strengthen our engagement with churches across the UK. It's an exciting time to join as we have new partnerships with national church networks commencing. 

Medair is a Christian humanitarian organisation that responds to conflict, disease, and disaster so that the world’s most vulnerable and hard-to reach people can live with dignity and hope.

We're looking for someone with a proven track-record of developing and delivering meaningful partnerships with local churches and national networks. You will need to be a relational leader, an effective communicator and a self-starter able to kick-off new initiatives. Ideally you will being first-hand experience of working within a church, a keen understanding of the UK church landscape, and a strong personal network.

This new role presents an opportunity for someone to shape strategy, initiate new activities and be a public voice to this growing network in the UK. You will be a senior and integral part of Medair UK. Through your actions you will inspire churches and Christian audiences to give, pray and even go, working with Medair in our Country Teams. You will enable support for the life-saving work Medair delivers to some of the world’s most vulnerable people by leading our relationships with Churches across the UK.  

The role is being advertised as full time, however we are open to part-time working for the right candidate. We are a hybrid team, based out of our office in Kennington, London, with most of the team being in the office once or twice a week. There is a genuine occupational requirement for the holder of this Medair UK leadership position to be a committed Christian. 

Key Activity Areas  

External Engagement & Relationship Building  

• Lead on our external engagement with churches across the UK, growing the number of churches engaging in the mission of Medair through giving, prayer and awareness raising.

• Develop strategies for raising awareness, creating connections and establishing relationships with an increasing number of new churches with a bias towards those with a younger congregation.

• Collaborate with the Medair UK Director, Trustees and Senior Leadership across Medair in the relationships they hold and can grow.

• Steward relationships with caseload of Churches through effective communication, timely reports and creative touchpoints so that depth of relationship is established with churches that have donated, prayed and engaged with the mission of Medair.

• Work towards an agreed income target each year of churches that are giving towards emergency appeals and contributing unrestricted funds towards our work.

• Deliver Medair’s presence at Christian events including the oversight of volunteers, speakers and staff to maximize our presence at these opportunities.

• Cultivate regular speaking opportunities for yourself and the wider team to deliver in churches, prayer networks and regional gatherings introducing people to the mission of Medair and equipping people to pray for those in crises.

Resource Development & Volunteer Management  

• Strengthen Medair UK’s engagement with churches by developing profile raising resources and ensuring all fundraising appeals are designed and delivered to maximise church take-up.

• Oversee the delivery of our monthly prayer email, and ad-hoc prayer resources, as well as working collaboratively with colleagues in Medair UK and the wider group to commission resources that will engage Christian audiences.

• With the support of the Engagement Support Officer co-ordinate all requests for speakers in churches ensuring that a staff member or alumni, is available and well briefed ahead of time.

• Oversee the management the Medair UK alumni network – developing events, online and in-person, personal touchpoints and communications that will encourage this warm audience to keep enthused about Medair and growing our awareness in there networks.

Church Management  

• Manage the related tasks of the Engagement Support Officer whose role is split with 60% on Trusts and Foundations, and 40% on Churches and Alumni. This is matrix-management as the Engagement Support Officer is line managed by the Grants Manager.

• Oversee the receipting and acknowledgement of all financial support from churches, using creative ways to thank and steward churches and supporters who generously donate.

• Maintain an up-to-date and accurate record of church relationships on our CRM (salesforce), monitoring engagement events, income targets, key contacts and audience growth.

Internal Liaison  

• Liaise with Medair’s Heads of Country Programmes, Country Directors and Communications Officers in order to gather information and data for the purposes of applying and reporting to funders. 

• Foster dynamic and mutually beneficial relationships with colleagues across Medair International and the Affiliate Offices, readily sharing engagement products, resources and generously collaborating when there are international opportunities.

The Food Foundation is an award winning charity with a vision of a sustainable food system which delivers health and well-being for all. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where every team member feels valued and empowered. We believe that embracing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is fundamental to our success and the positive impact we make.

We are looking for an experienced Operations Manager - a well organised individual who enjoys interacting with others and supporting them in their roles. You will be approachable, outgoing, responsive to problems as they arise and keen to solve them, and keen to see work completed effectively and efficiently with excellent communications skills. You may have a background or some qualifications in HR.

This crucial and hands on role will be responsible for the smooth running of the organisation. Working closely with the whole team, you will be exposed to all areas of our work, playing a critical role in our delivery of impact, and supporting staff across the organisation. You will report to Senior Finance Manager and line manage the Operations Assistant.

This is a part time role from 20-25 hours per week. This is a hybrid role requiring at least 2 days per week in our office in
Brixton.

For further information please view our full job pack which you can find attached. 

The Communications Manager plays a pivotal role in how the charity is perceived in the Learning Disability sector and beyond. We are committed to enabling those who struggle with the written word to understand the world around them and empowering them to make their own decisions. This role involves managing communications and marketing, maintaining databases, and helping to secure income to support the charity’s mission.

This is a key role within the Charity and is a great opportunity for someone wanting to build experience across all areas of external relations. You might bring with you experience in stakeholder engagement, external relations, marketing or communications. Knowledge of fundraising would also be beneficial.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our management team at our award-winning charity, as our North Yorkshire Home from Hospital Manager

Our Home from Hospital service helps people to be more confident and comfortable when returning home from hospital by rebuilding confidence and independence and preventing hospital re-admissions.

It also supports the hospitals to achieve safe and timely hospital discharges and positively contributes to patient flow and a smooth transition home for our clients.

The position we have on offer is to manage our Home from Hospital Co-ordinators working across North Yorkshire.

This is a full-time role – 37 hours per week.

Based in either our Skipton or Harrogate office with travel to hospitals across |North Yorkshire

Salary is £32,076 – £34,684

You will be self- motivated and driven, along with experience of working across organisational boundaries and in multi-disciplinary teams, within hospital environments.

You will be able to influence referral partners, promote and develop the service so it reaches its full potential, across a diverse geographical area.

You will have at least 3 years management experience, with the ability to effectively manage high performing geographically dispersed teams.

For an informal chat about this role please contact Julie Duerden at Carers' Resource.

The closing date for applications is noon on Monday 13th January 2025.

Interviews will be held on Friday 17th January 2025 in our Skipton office.

Job Title: Community Manager 

Reporting To: Head of Youth Services

Location: Hybrid (Our offices are based at Phoenix Brewery, W10 6SZ)

Contract: Full Time, Permanent 

Salary: £36,000 per annum 

Benefits:

• Enhanced policies including 25 days annual leave per year, plus public holidays;
• Company electronic devices;
• Competitive pension;
• Remote and flexible working;
• Excellent opportunities for training and career progression.

Closing date: 12th January 2025

Job Purpose: To deliver The Mix’s online communities across discussion boards and group chats, leading a team to establish a fun, inclusive and supportive space for young people.

Main Responsibilities

Responsible for:

• Innovating and growing our online peer support community
• Taking the online community to the next level in terms of youth-led, peer-to-peer digital communities, both in terms of youth-led practice and using new technologies
• Line management of the community team and day-to-day delivery of the community service

Overseeing the day-to-day running of the community: 

• Supporting the community team to deliver The Mix’s peer support community across all channels including supporting young community moderators, activators, content creators and peer supporters, ensuring safe moderation and facilitating peer support
• Ensuring delivery of engaging community events such as group chats, live Q&As and Youth Voice activities
• Line management and development of the community team, including officers, senior officers, freelancers and 50+ young volunteers
• Working collaboratively with the content and digital marketing team and partner organisations to deliver a high-quality service
• Managing projects (including budgets) to develop the online community and volunteering offerUsing data and insights from the community to provide analysis of topics and discussions relevant to The Mix
• Working with the volunteer team to ensure that volunteer roles continue to help grow community engagement
• Ensuring that policies, procedures, rotas, schedules and other information about the services are delivered
• Promoting and encouraging self-care and reflective practice across the team

Community growth and strategy development:

• Leading on the growth and development of the community using youth-led practice and new technology to ensure that it is a space that meets the growing and changing needs of young people
• Delivering the community strategy and working with data and insight teams to monitor strategy development against KPIs
• Ensuring that community members have a sense of ownership and opportunities to help shape the community
• Establishing relationships with partner organisations and stakeholders across relevant sectors and fields
• Focusing on the continuous development of The Mix community by attending training events, being aware of best practice
• within the sector and cascading learning to staff, volunteers, and community members

Volunteering engagement & development:

• Line management of the Senior Engagement and Training Officer, supporting them to engage young
  people in the community into voluntary roles, lead on training and supporting young people in their voluntary roles
• Working with the Volunteering Manager to oversee the departments volunteering practices ensure a
  high-quality service, continuous volunteer development & a positive volunteering experience
• Ensuring that the community has enough volunteers to deliver the service safely
• Supporting the senior engagement and training officer with the co-design and design of volunteering
• roles and processes

Person Specification

Essential

• Qualification and/or relevant experience in youth work up to level 2
• Experience and demonstrable knowledge of running online peer support and community services, including the training and management of volunteers
• Passion for working with young people and experience and knowledge of the issues they face
• Good general technical knowledge with an understanding of the opportunities associated with new technologies and online services for young people
• Excellent people skills, adaptable and flexible in manner and approach with an understanding of how to motivate and develop staff
• Excellent written and verbal communication, as well as good listening skills with the ability to communicate with empathy and understanding
• Good planning and problem-solving skills
  Experience of delivering online workshops with young people
  Line management experience of staff and volunteers

Desirable 

• Experience in group facilitation and training
• Understanding of the legal issues affecting online communities
• Experience of working within safeguarding frameworks
• Good technical knowledge, ideally including at least a basic knowledge of HTML
• Any additional social media skills such as social listening, reporting and content creation

We will be interviewing on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the job advert early if we receive a high number of applicants.

Leukaemia UK – Our Charity

Leukaemia UK is growing! We are expanding our team to achieve a step-change in income, profile and impact in 2025 and beyond. 

We are a ‘small but mighty’ charity with one big ambition: to stop leukaemia devastating lives. Over the next 10 years we want to help save and improve the lives of more people with leukaemia through finding and funding life-changing research.

Despite progress in recent decades, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer every 16 minutes and survival rates are among some of the worst of any cancer.  And the physical and psychological impact can be lifelong. 

Our current strategy outlines our plan to increase our investment into ground-breaking world class research and policy development focused on improving access to kinder, more effective diagnosis, treatment and care for leukaemia and other blood cancers. To do this, we are embarking on a period of significant growth, investing strategically to grow our income, profile, influence, and engagement and impact.

As we begin the fourth year of this ambitious 5-year strategy, we are seeking a passionate and pro-active Special Events Manager to support in the delivery of our growing special event portfolio.

Team

We are a close-knit team, who are all passionate about Leukaemia UK and putting those affected by the disease at the heart of everything we do.  We are all focused on “keeping it real” with pragmatic, practical solutions, as well as ensuring that our charity gets the funding it needs to continue to help those diagnosed with leukaemia and other blood cancers.

From us you can expect fun and creativity, as well as great challenge and support. We may not be about the corporate life here, but we are all about delivering exceptional expertise and making a real change to people’s lives.

Leukaemia UK and You 

We have plans to increase our Special Events income from £300k in 2024 to over £500k in 2025 and you would play a leading role in allowing us to achieve this significant growth.

This role requires someone who loves organising, developing and delivering unique and memorable events. Do you have a strong track record in building a portfolio of sector-leading events that appeal to, engage with and retain, high value supporters? Do you enjoy meeting and bringing people together?

We are looking for a creative, hardworking and results driven Special Events Manager, who has experience of planning, developing and implementing a varied portfolio of high-quality donor-focused events and who is passionate about the impact our events can have in supporting the leukaemia community. In this exciting role, you will lead on the development and delivery of our flagship fundraising event, Who’s Cooking Dinner? working with the UK’s top chefs and restaurants. You will also play a key role in new and returning events such as a celebrity golf tournament ‘The Mini Masters,’ and our annual cultivation event.

This is a great role for someone looking to lead an area of significant growth for the charity, delivering exciting and unique events which raise funds and support our wider ambitions across philanthropy and the wider charity. You will also have line management responsibility for our newly created Special Events Officer role.

It’s a really special time to join the Philanthropy team at Leukaemia UK, as we look to achieve ambitious plans to raise even more funds through this income stream – which we know we can only do with a collaborative, high performing and ambitious team. We hope you’ll consider joining us!

Skills and Experience

• An ambitious but focused mindset, dedicated to delivering results
• Excellent relationship management skills, with diplomacy and discretion in working with high profile supporters
• Excellent verbal communication, networking and relationship-building skills
• Experience in managing and delivering Special Events within the charity sector
• Experience in working with an event committee and developing and managing key external stakeholders
• Experience in managing external agencies, suppliers, and freelancers
• Expertise in using CRM packages such as Salesforce
• Experience of tracking income and expenditure against budgets
• Effective project management skills, with experience of delivering high quality events
• Experience of working to ambitious team objectives and reporting against these
• Effective time management skills
• Line management experience

Job Specifics

• Hours: Full time hours are 37.5 Monday to Friday
• Location: We are very flexible! Our hybrid working policy is a minimum of two days per month in our London Office office. For the Philanthropy team this will vary dependent on meetings with internal and external stakeholders so your flexibility is a must. Our aim as the Philanthropy team is to work together in the office together one day a week, if and when possible.
• Salary range £40,000 - £48,000 (FTE)
• First interviews will be held via Teams on Tuesday 14th January 2025
• Second interviews will be face to face in our London Offices – at 26 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5BL on Wednesday 22nd January 2025.
• We are proud of our benefits – see a summary on our website Work with us - Leukaemia UK 

If you feel you have the passion for our work and the right mix of skills, energy, and flair to embrace this broad and challenging role and enable our strategy to fly, then we would love you to apply. Please also see the full job description attached to the advert.  

Application instructions: To minimise unconscious bias, we use anonymous recruitment and are unable to consider direct applications. Please apply via the CharityJob website with your CV and covering letter.

Closing Date: Midnight Sunday 5th January 2025

We look forward to hearing from you! 

Charlotte Holmes

Head of Philanthropy 

The global and anonymous nature of the internet and digital communication presents numerous significant opportunities for wildlife criminals and challenges for those dedicated to stopping them. IFAW pursues a multipronged strategy to tackle wildlife cybercrime that includes working with policymakers, law enforcement agencies, the private sector, civil society organisations, and the general public in order to disrupt the ability of criminals to use the internet and its support systems for the trafficking of wildlife throughout the supply chain. By reducing incentives to participate in the illegal wildlife trade, IFAW improves the conservation status of wildlife in priority habitats and the welfare of individual animals while supporting the development of international best practices in a large, complex and constantly evolving sector.

The Program Manager, Wildlife Cybercrime will lead IFAW’s sub-program focusing on wildlife cybercrime and deliver its strategy, under the Wildlife Crime strategy. The position will contribute to IFAW remaining a recognised leader and convener in this field and strengthening IFAW conservation programs’ impacts as well as programs implemented by governments, NGOs or other organisations, such as the Coalition to end wildlife trafficking online. The position will provide support to program and country project managers and staff and will be responsible for ensuring both internal and external projects are implemented in compliance with the highest standards and are in line with IFAW internal procedures and with those of any external funding partners.

In recognition that this is a niche and growth area for IFAW, the Program Manager, Wildlife Cybercrime will actively participate in the identification and winning of new funding opportunities and in generating and participating in connections with other potential funders or supporters as required.

Role and Responsibilities

• Lead and manage IFAW’s sub-program focusing on wildlife cybercrime, including but not limited to developing and implementing strategies, contributing and reporting against IFAW programmatic objectives, expanding and strengthening external networks, coordinating cross-regional work, and managing and delivering both internal and external projects to a high standard, according to work plans and institutional strategies, on time and within budget.
• Ensure IFAW remains a recognised leader in wildlife cybercrime by ensuring the organisation's work evolves to reflect new challenges and opportunities for growth through innovation and collaboration.
• To act as a thought leader for IFAW and contribute to the development and utilisation of international best practices for tackling wildlife cybercrime.
• Provide support to the strategic direction and evolution of the Wildlife Crime Program, including but not limited to the identification, winning, and implementation of new projects.
• Identify and create opportunities for cross-programmatic work and collaborate to ensure IFAW priorities are considered in the policy sphere.
• Act as a spokesperson for the cybercrime portfolio, representing the organization to, and building positive relationships with, NGO’s, politicians, Government officials, business representatives, other key contacts, and all media platforms.
• Oversee the development and utilization of IFAW internal Monitoring and Evaluation systems to record data from wildlife cybercrime activities.
• Work with Institutional Giving, other program relevant colleagues, and Development to identify and win funding opportunities.
• In collaboration with IFAW Financial colleagues, utilize IFAW tools and systems to manage budgets as necessary, including having oversight and authority over the Global Cybercrime budget.
• Work closely with IFAW Communications team to develop and implement a project Communications Plan that communicates the full range of IFAW activities relating to wildlife cybercrime.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• BS/BA degree preferred.  MS/MA degree in biological, social science, public policy, economics, forensic science, criminology or related field ideal.
• High level of professionalism – the mix of dependability, initiative, industry, and ability to make sound judgments within agreed guidelines that will earn respect and achieve success in chaotic, fast-moving, and high-pressure environments. Ability to both work unsupervised and as part of a team, as well as manage and mentor a team, including without direct authority, to meet deadlines and deal with a demanding and complex workload, and flexible working hours.
• Demonstrated experience leading a dispersed team and influencing activities without direct management authority. Preferred minimum of 5 years of working experience in project management.
• Experience handling several projects at any one given time across multiple time zones, including scheduling and budgeting, ability to plan effectively, and attention to detail.
• Preferred minimum 2 years of working experience on wildlife crime and, if possible, including wildlife cyber-enabled crime-specific issues. Expertise in OSINT, digital forensics, and the management of sensitive information, including e-evidence and collaboration with law enforcement, are a plus.
• A demonstrable network or evidence of collaborative working with other NGOs in conservation, animal welfare, organised crime, or corruption-related communities. Existing relationships with other key stakeholders in conservation, such as private sector, law enforcement agencies, IGOs, and governmental institutions, are a plus.
• Strong writing, media, and verbal communication skills, including developing professional reports and grant applications to funding partners. Demonstrable experience participating and speaking at public events and in the media. Track records in successfully leading restricted funding proposals.
• Team player who understands when and how to involve senior management in making decisions and understands and can work within a matrix management system.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to travel internationally.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal. Fluency and competency in any other language is a plus.
• Culturally sensitive, demonstrable experience of working across different countries and cultures.

UK Office Benefits

• 8% employer pension contribution
• 25 days’ holiday + public holidays + 5 discretionary days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Modern office
• Dog friendly office

At IFAW, we aim to create and foster a workforce that reflects and contributes to the diverse, global community in which we work to improve the lives of both animals and people. We are dedicated to fostering justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion so we actively encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds.

To apply, please submit CV and letter of interest via our website.