Junior Account Manager Jobs in Victoria, Greater London
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We’re Anthony Nolan. We’re here to uncover the answers inside us. Answers for people with blood cancer and blood disorders. Answers that will not only improve lives today but save them tomorrow.
By uniting people and science, we’re growing our world-leading stem cell register, so everyone who needs a transplant, can find their lifesaving match. We’re currently giving four people a day another chance to live.
Driven by patients, backed by stem cell donors, and powered by science, we won’t stop until we’ve unlocked the cures, treatments and transplants that will transform the future for more patients. And together, we can reach the remarkable day where every patient who needs us can not only survive, but thrive.
If you're inspired by this vision, and feel you have the skills and experience we need to help achieve it, we'd love you to join our lifesaving team.
We are looking for a Corporate Partnerships Officer to join our Corporate Partnerships team.
Title:Corporate Partnerships Officer
Salary: £31,165 per annum
Contract: 12-month fixed term contract
Hours: 35 per week (standard Anthony Nolan working hours)
Location: Hybrid, with head office in Hampstead, London
Job Summary
In this exciting role, you'll provide outstanding support to the wider corporate partnerships team across our portfolio of partnerships to maximise income and deliver exceptional stewardship, alongside collaborating with the new business team to secure high-value, strategic partnerships.
- Proactively seek opportunities to maximise income from corporate partners, while delivering exceptional stewardship.
- Work closely with the Corporate Partnerships Account Manager to lead lower-level partnerships and provide dedicated support to larger partners.
- Collaborate with our new business team to drive income growth by supporting the identification, cultivation, and acquisition of strategic, high-value, sector-leading partnerships.
Deliver exceptional administrative, budgeting, and reporting support to the team, playing a vital role in driving our success and ensuring seamless operations
What’s in it for you?
- A competitive salary
- 27 days annual leave (pro rata), pension scheme, childcare vouchers, access to counselling via a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme
- A stimulating work environment full of opportunities to learn and develop
- Life Assurance of four times annual salary
- Travel season ticket loan, Cycle to work Scheme
- And more! (further details on our Life at Anthony Nolan page)
Please check out the full job description attached here, and you can read more about what to expect on the Our recruitment process page.
Release your remarkable, join our team and give someone another chance to live.
Anthony Nolan is a Disability Confident Committed and Living Wage accredited employer.
All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is the voice of firefighters in the UK. We are the only recognised trade union negotiating nationally for firefighters and emergency fire control staff.
*** Flexible working available ***
We're seeking a talented and driven individual to lead our social media operation. You will:
· Develop social media strategies that maximise engagement and support for the FBU, its aims and campaigns
· Shoot, script and edit videos; edit audio; and design infographics and other relevant digital content
· Run a reactive/trends-driven social media operation aligned with the objectives of the FBU
The FBU already has a small, effective communications team covering campaigns, press and external communications. If you have these skills, great. But what we are really looking for is someone with the passion, political/labour movement experience, and technical skills to take our social media, video and digital content to the next level.
You’ll collaborate with other teams and union activists to bring projects to life, and you’ll have great storytelling skills. You’ll also be willing and able to travel and attend events frequently.
If you love social media and have strong creative skills, this might be the job for you. This is a new role, so proven experience in the social media landscape is essential.
If you want to make a difference, if you are committed to advancing trade union activism, engagement and awareness, and if you are aligned to the aims and objectives of the FBU, we are interested in hearing from you.
We are willing to consider flexible working arrangements, including job share.
Full details of the role and job requirements are set out in the Job Description which you can download here.
Benefits include:
Generous annual leave
Additional Christmas office closure period
Final salary pension scheme
Employee assistance programme
Season ticket loan
Annual Christmas bonus
Eyecare claim back scheme
Childcare assistance scheme
Flexible working arrangements
Closing date: 2nd December 2024 – 10.00 am
Interview date: 12th December 2024
To apply please send your CV with supporting statement setting out how you meet the essential job requirements (each to be no more than two sides of A4) as part of your submission. Applications without a supporting statement may not be considered.
We have a proud history, and since our foundation in 1918 have helped create and develop the modern fire service.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
IPS Grow is a national programme designed to support the expansion of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services in mental health and drug & alcohol teams across England. It is funded by NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). A core element of the programme is the expert assistance provided by a team of IPS experts, known as IPS Grow Leads, to support providers to improve their fidelity to the IPS model and achieve better employment outcomes for their clients. Subject to funding award, we are recruiting to a Project Support Officer. This role will provide essential support to enable the whole team to effectively and efficiently deliver a wide range of provision to IPS services nationally.
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity to expand the IPS Grow team, aimed at helping health systems deliver high quality evidence-based employment practice. We are a well-established service, led by Social Finance and are funded by NHS England and DWP to support the expansion of IPS services across mental health and drug and alcohol teams.
We are looking for a Project Support Officer to focus on supporting the IPS Grow team and programme within the Health + Work team at Social Finance. This role will include providing project and administrative support to the team to ensure we have real impact. The role will report into the Team Head for IPS Grow.
Responsibilities
The key requirements of the role are:
Provide project support and coordination of IPS fidelity reviews:
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Support the coordination of IPS fidelity reviews;
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Support with collection and collation of data, helping generate insight and contribution to the evaluation of our work and of the services we support. This may also include data entry and contributing to standard reports;
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Provide support of team events and workshops, both internal and with the services we support;
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Provide ad hoc support to other aspects of the team’s project work and take on special projects, as required.
Provide administrative support to the programme:
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Support the Senior team within IPS Grow, with project planning and monitoring to ensure the programme remains on track;
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Produce documents such as monthly reports which may require collation of input from multiple parties and documents and compiling into spreadsheets or presentation slides, in collaboration with members of the Senior team;
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Provide support for co-ordination of IPS qualification delivery and professional registration;
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Liaise with regional leads, NHS Trusts and IPS providers and other key stakeholders as required;
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Support the delivery of specific administrative tasks and processes including minuting and action-log management of meetings and Boards;
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Coordinate diaries, schedule meetings and book rooms with internal and external parties, including arranging for materials and equipment to be available, as required;
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Support IPS Grow Leads to schedule complex meetings in their regions;
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Monitor team mailbox and act as a first line response for queries;
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Book travel and accommodation, including group bookings (e.g., trains, hotels) for the team;
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Manage expenses generated by travel and meeting bookings on internal systems, accurately and in a timely manner;
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Support the team knowledge management hub and operational manual whilst ensuring a clear document version control and management process in place;
Provide additional administrative support as required from time to time;
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Manage the creation of impactful presentations that communicate key messages to stakeholders.
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Provide support to the wider IPS Grow team
And any other responsibilities commensurate with the job title and role
About you
You will need to show competency, potential or interest in the following areas. You are not expected to arrive with a full skillset, as you will be supported to develop in the role.
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Shared values: We are looking for people with a passionate belief that anyone can work with the right support, and a commitment to our values.
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Team work: You are a team player and also have the ability to work independently, are receptive to feedback and use it to continually improve. You will be able to effectively represent Social Finance.
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Organisation and reliability: You will be highly organised. You will be able to manage multiple tasks and requests, prioritising them effectively and ensuring they are responded to in timely and accurate manner. The team will be able to rely on you to ensure that meetings are organised, papers are circulated, and third parties communicated with.
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Proactivity: You will be proactive as well as reactive. You will look for opportunities to support the team to be more effective and better coordinated. You will think ahead, helping the team to avoid mistakes. You will generate ideas for how we can improve our ways of working, becoming more efficient and effective.
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IT and data skills: You will be familiar with core Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and will have experience managing multiple email accounts. Ideally, you will be comfortable with spreadsheets and analysing data although you do not need to have specific expertise in this area. Experience using SharePoint, MS Teams, Zoom and Slack is desired.
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Communication: You will communicate effectively with the team to set expectations, adjust to changing priorities, and keep them up to date with your progress.
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Experience: You will have had prior experience in an administrative support role, ideally in a national team managing complex programmes or working in primary or secondary care.
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The Vacancy
The Programme Officer will work within the Conflict Advisory Unit (CAU). The CAU provides high-quality advisory and technical support to a range of aid actors across the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors, including donor institutions, UN agencies, international and national NGOs, civil society organisations, financial institutions and the private sector to integrate conflict sensitivity principles and practices into their strategies, policies, and programmes. The CAU runs remote conflict sensitivity/ peace and security helpdesks for donors, implements in-country conflict sensitivity facilities (currently in Afghanistan, South Sudan and Sudan), and undertakes bespoke conflict sensitivity work.
In additional to the CAU, the Programme Officer will work with country programme teams and other teams across Saferworld to support the uptake of more conflict-sensitive ways of working across diverse conflict-affected contexts and help to promote learning and good practice on adopting conflict-sensitive approaches. This role offers an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role within a dynamic and enthusiastic team and to work in support of addressing issues that are important for people affected by conflict and the aid sector.
For more information about the roles and responsibilities, person specification and any other requirements, please refer to the job document.
Saferworld reserves the right to close this vacancy early given sufficient quality applicants. We therefore encourage early applications to avoid missing out.
The Organisation
Saferworld is an international organisation dedicated to conflict prevention and peacebuilding programming, policy and practice. We collaborate with institutions and work directly with partners across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe to tackle diverse factors that drive violent conflict, injustice and insecurity. We participate in major global policy debates on peace, justice and security to influence change.
For more information about Saferworld as an organisation, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, safeguarding, interview process or staff benefits, please refer to our website or jobs page.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Philanthropy Officer
About The Connection at St Martin’s
We believe that no one should have to sleep rough on London’s streets, and that everyone should get the support they need to find a place to call home. We get to know every person we work with, understanding what they need to recover, helping them build on their strengths, and supporting them to find their own way home. Help us make London a city where no one sleeps rough on our streets.
London’s diversity is its biggest asset and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London’s diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.
We particularly encourage applications from candidates with lived experience of homelessness who we believe are an essential asset in our sector.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and welcome the opportunity to consider flexible working arrangements.
About the Role
- The Philanthropy Officer role is key part of an ambitious and forward-thinking Fundraising & Communications team. We have recently gone through a period of strategic development as part of the implementation of a new strategy (launched in April 2023), and we encourage the you to bring your enthusiasm and vision to our aims.
- This is a great opportunity for a candidate who is looking to develop a career in fundraising. Although experience is desirable, we are looking for the right candidate so full training will be provided.
- You will have experience in working in an office environment with excellent interpersonal, writing and organisational skills. The role will be suited to someone who enjoys desk-based tasks such as administration, research, reporting and creative writing but is also comfortable meeting people and networking.
- The focus of this role will be the on-going administration of the legacy income, researching new opportunities across a range of income streams and supporting the Head of Fundraising with the stewardship of existing legacy pledges and major donors.
Full job description can be found on our website
Salary: £35,252
Closing Date: Monday 9th December
Interview Date: Thursday 19th December
Our Benefits
· 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
· Generous training budget, plus an annual personal training budget
· Enhanced Sick Pay Policy
· Enhanced family friendly policies
· Day off for moving house
· Hybrid working (depending on role requirements)
· Pension – 5% Employer, 3% Employee
· Cycle to Work Scheme
· Season Ticket Loan
· Employee Assistance Programme
· Reward Gateway (access to discount vouchers and cashback at the UK’s favourite retailers)
We are a London Living Wage employer
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Purpose of the job
At UK Youth, we believe every young person should have access to the opportunities they need to thrive and be empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. This role provides an exciting opportunity to join UK Youth and play a key role in driving forward our new strategy to 2025 ‘Unlocking Youth Work’. As a Trusts & Grants Officer, you will be joining a supportive and highly ambitious Partnerships and Trusts Team sitting within the wider External Relations Department. You will be leading on the relationship management of a portfolio of low to mid value Trusts & Foundations partnerships, building on your knowledge and expertise across relationship management and proactively spotting opportunities to build new relationships with other Trusts & Foundations.
You will split your time between relationship management of existing partnerships and new opportunities, supporting this team to conduct thorough prospect research into our priority sectors, make approaches to prospective partners and supporting with the development of bids.
Key responsibilities
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Leading on the relationship management and stewardship of a portfolio of UK Youth’s low to mid value Trusts & Foundations, maximising income and other mutually beneficial opportunities across in-kind.
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Championing existing partnerships internally to ensure the partnership’s expectations are delivered and exceeded. This includes working to secure engagement from Senior Leadership and relevant colleagues across Communications and Engagement.
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Coordinate with internal groups and senior colleagues across the Impact and Network Delivery teams to write applications and reports.
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Conduct and support colleagues on the Trusts & Foundations team with prospect research, helping to build a strong pipeline of new, well-researched opportunities that have strong alignment with UK Youth’s funding priorities.
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Support the Trusts & Foundations team in making approaches to a list of high value Trust & Foundation prospects, delivering high quality bids to secure new partnerships.
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Support the Partnerships & Trusts Team with ad hoc administrative duties including pipeline reporting, database (CRM) management, and inbox management.
Experience we're after
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Experience of undertaking research/prospecting
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Experience of leading a funding bid and/or relationship management of a Trust and Foundation
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Experience of working in a busy team across multiple projects
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Experience of working within a fundraising or similar team
Who we are
UK Youth is a leading charity that exists to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with others to ensure that the youth sector is strengthened, supported, and that provision is youth-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes.
UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment in the youth sector, the lack of cross sector understanding in how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions. These factors lead to mass inequality of access to youth services for young people. To find more about us and how we make an impact, please visit UK Youth Website.
Why work at UK Youth?
We are a value-based, passionate and committed organisation offering a friendly working environment with lots of opportunities for professional development and socialising (even for those working remotely!) from lunch and learn sessions, staff quizzes to virtual coffee meet ups.
UK Youth prides itself on being an Equal Opportunity employer and we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.
We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Our selection procedures ensure that people are treated on the basis of their relevant merits, experience, skills and abilities and that no individual receives more or less favourable treatment.
We welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in our organisation including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities. We are also currently underrepresented by men, and so are seeking applications from different backgrounds, cultures, age, experience and identity to bring a wide range of experience, ideas, views and insights to UK Youth.
What we can offer you
We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and vibrant organisational culture:
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Flexible/Agile Working
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27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time employees)
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Funded training provided in; Safeguarding, GDPR, Information and Cyber Security & Equality & Diversity
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Other training available in support of your personal and professional development
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Pension scheme (currently UK Youth match employee contributions up to 5%)
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Membership of our life insurance scheme which would pay-out up to 4 times your salary
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Employee Assistance Programme to support employees both professionally and personally
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20% discount off bookings at Avon Tyrrell, our New Forest Outdoor Centre, including camping, lodges and outdoor activities.
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IT equipment provided for the duration of contract
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CycleScheme and TechScheme
How to apply
If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please complete an application via our completely anonymised recruitment system provided by Applied which looks to create a fair and unbiased application process for all.
Closing date: Monday 2nd December 2024 at 8:00am
Provisional Interview Dates: 5th-13th December 2024.
As this role involves working in a regulated environment with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory background checks, which include criminal record check and employment reference.
UK Youth is a leading charity with a vision that all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Bond
Bond is the UK network for organisations working in international development. We unite and support a diverse network of over 400 civil society organisations to help eradicate global poverty, inequality and injustice. We strengthen and champion the sector to make international development more efficient and effective. We work to influence governments and policy-makers, develop the skills of people in the sector, share expertise, and build organisational capacity and partnerships.
Main purpose of the job
The Digital Marketing Coordinator/Adviser will bring together all aspects of Bond’s digital and social media marketing, to ensure that Bond maximises its marketing reach for all its products and services and particularly membership. The role is expected to use digital channels to build brand awareness, engage our core audiences and generate leads for new business of all types. The role will support content production on the website and coordinate some of the internally produced content items such as the communications to CEOs. They will ensure Bond’s digital platforms and systems are run effectively to engage users and deliver Bond’s key services and be able to provide key metrics internally and for external clients, where required. The person will be expected to effectively and efficiently manage relevant suppliers to ensure that they continue to provide value for money and are fit for purpose.
Main responsibilities
Digital marketing 75%
Managing campaigns
- Working with the Marketing Manager, overseeing email campaigns, social media marketing campaigns, and paid advertising
Analysing data
- Using web analytics software to monitor website performance, and analysing data to determine what content and ads are most effective
Optimizing for search engines
- Using search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) to make web content more visible to potential customers
Developing social media marketing strategies
- Assisting the Marketing Manager in identifying the target market, selecting the right digital channels, and crafting campaigns to align with Bond’s target audiences and income generation strategy.
Managing social media
- Contributing to social media engagement and brand awareness campaigns, and monitoring or handling social interactions
Developing user experience
- Supporting the Communications Adviser in developing the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) of digital platforms
Reporting
- Providing accurate reports and analysis to clients and company management
Staying up to date
- Keeping up to date with current digital trends
Creating content
- Supporting the Communications Adviser in writing and uploading copy and images for websites, developing content calendars, and creating content for blogs and social media
Cross-organisational support
- Assisting the communications team to ensure that approaches to digital marketing and social media are integrated into all areas of Bond’s work and support other teams in the delivery of their projects.
Digital support and supplier management 25%
Continuous improvement
- Provide support, advice and guidance to the Communications Adviser for further improvements Bond’s digital platforms to ensure a seamless user experience
Supplier management
- Work with digital suppliers, ensuring projects are delivered within budget
Regular support and maintenance
- Working with the Communications Adviser, effectively manage suppliers to ensure that Bond’s website and systems are working effectively and are seamlessly integrated, including the Bond website, analytics and other digital platforms as required.
Digital troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting and providing regular technical support to staff, including managing website queries and bugs from staff relating to the website.
Person specification
Essential
- Content creation skills: Strong writing skills for creating social media posts, email copy, and other marketing materials.
- Social media management experience: Familiarity with platforms like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, as well as social media scheduling tools like Hootsuite or Buffer. Understanding trends, engagement tactics, and audience demographics is crucial.
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization): Knowledge of on-page SEO (like keywords, meta tags) and off-page SEO is important for helping content rank better.
- Email Marketing: Experience with email marketing tools like Mailchimp or similar to build, segment, and analyze email campaigns.
- Pay per click and digital Advertising: Basic understanding of platforms like Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and LinkedIn Ads, including keyword research and ad performance tracking.
- Analytics and Data Analysis: Proficiency with tools like Google Analytics to track website and campaign performance, and an understanding of KPIs like CTR, bounce rate, and conversions. Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets is often useful for data reporting.
- Experience of effectively working with digital suppliers, including holding suppliers to account and meeting deadlines
Desirable
- Experience of developing user experience and testing guidelines to ensure optimal design standards and functionality
- Strong digital project management skills and experience, including understanding risk, quality and optimisation in a digital project [GT1]
- Experience of working with staff, including those unfamiliar with digital marketing and social media ,
- Understanding of digital integrations, such as with email marketing and CRM
- Ability to respond to unexpected issues while completing regular tasks
Benefits
Bond offers a competitive salary and benefits package including:
- 27 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays, with additional staff privilege days, normally between Christmas and New Year
- 7% pension contributions (staff pay 3.5%)
- Flexible working hours (Hybrid working – 1 day, minimum in the office per month)
- Staff Development days
- Perk Box access
- Employee Assistance Programme
- WeCare (Health and wellbeing services, including access to 24/7 online GP services, second medical opinion, mental health support such as counselling, guidance from health professionals, burnout prevention, life event counselling, get fit programmes, nutritionist advice, etc. – for staff and immediate family)
- Interest-free season ticket loan
How to apply
To apply submit your CV and cover letter by midnight on Thursday 5th December 2024.
In the cover letter we expect you to set out:
- Why you are interested in this role
- How you meet the role requirements
- Your understanding of equity, diversity, inclusion and why it matters in this role
Bond and equal opportunities
Bond values diversity and works to advance equity and inclusion. All staff have a responsibility to ensure that they are being open, accepting and respectful to all that they come into contact with within their work at Bond, regardless their protected characteristics. Acting in accordance with the EDI policy, Bond staff must contribute to our inclusive organisational culture ensuring that they are aware of and respond appropriately to micro-aggressions, racism, sexism, LQBTQ+ misconduct and disability equity. Bond Staff must not be bystanders, and must report when they witness any unacceptable behaviour.
In order to assess and ensure the continued effectiveness of Bond’s Equal Opportunities Policy, all applicants are asked to complete a short questionnaire when applying. You are not obliged to answer the questions but the more information you supply the more effectively we can monitor our equal opportunity practices. Completion of all questions is voluntary and failure to answer any question(s) will not affect your application in any way.
The information you supply will be treated in confidence and will not be seen by any member of the selection panel responsible for the appointment. The questionnaire will be detached from your CV and cover letter, stored anonymously and used purely to provide statistics for monitoring purposes.
Privacy notice for applicants
Our Privacy Notice for applicants can be found on our website when you click apply.
Subject of employment at Bond
If successful, you must have the right to work for the duration of your contract at Bond. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references. Bond also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Liberty is looking for an exceptional Policy & Campaigns Officer.
This position, which sits in the Policy & Campaigns team, plays a key role in developing and implementing Liberty’s policy and campaigning priorities: undertaking high quality research, influencing decision makers, building coalitions, producing policy and campaign materials, providing policy input to strategic litigation, and building public and political support for Liberty’s work.
We are seeking someone who holds Liberty’s values and ambitions close to their heart, as we work to ensure everyone in the United Kingdom is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. This is a key role in securing the long-term policy change needed to protect the human rights and civil liberties of everyone who lives in the UK.
Policy & Campaigns Officers monitor and respond to policy threats to our human rights frameworks, to our rights to protest and to live free from discrimination. They work with political players and civil servants to steer policy and legislation. They produce high-quality, persuasive content and translate complex legal and policy arguments in a clear and compelling way for mass audiences. They lead and support other human rights and civil society organisations, lending expertise and building solidarity. We have worked with civil society to fight back against the Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023 and to see off threats to our Human Rights Act.
We are looking for a strategic thinker who brings a collaborative approach to their work. You will have policy and research experience in human rights, or a related field such as the equality sector or social welfare sector. You will have a strong understanding of how to secure policy change in challenging political environments.
You will have a strong commitment to Liberty’s anti-oppression values and strategy.
Liberty fully embraces flexible working and is committed to employee development. We aim to encourage people from all backgrounds to work with us and are particularly interested in hearing from people from minority backgrounds and all socio-economic sections of society. Liberty supports hybrid working, with a minimum of two days per week in the Westminster office.
The deadline for applications is Midnight Sunday 24 November 2024.
Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
Please be aware that we do not accept CVs for this role. All applicants must complete the application form to apply.
First round interviews will be held on the week commencing 2 December 2024
Second round interview will be held on the week commencing 9 December 2024
Apply via the job board on our website.
Job Title: Independent Advocate
Service: Coram Voice
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 21 hours per week
Salary: £13,380.60 per annum (£22,301 FTE)
Location: Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) - Home based with travel across neighbouring counties
About Coram:
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
About Coram Voice:
Coram Voice is a national independent children’s charity established in 1975 and has grown to become one of the leading organisations for children and young people in the UK.
Coram Voice exists to enable and equip children and young people to hold systems to account, to challenge and support them to do their jobs properly and to uphold the rights of children and young people to actively participate in shaping their own lives.
Coram Voice strives for a society which recognises, and willingly accepts, its responsibilities to children and young people, where the inequalities and discrimination they currently face have been eradicated. Where those children and young people are fully engaged in all decisions that are made about their lives. Where the views, needs and feelings that they express are at the core of those decisions.
Our Advocacy services we provide advocacy direct to children and young people in a variety of situations. Advocates around the country support children and young people to get their voice heard in decisions about their lives. This may be through the telephone helpline or through an advocate working directly with a child, for instance, to support them at a review meeting or to help them make a complaint about their care. Coram Voice provides visiting advocacy services to most of the secure units nationally, to Secure Training Centres, Juvenile Young Offender Institutions, psychiatric hospitals, residential special schools and children’s homes.
About the Role:
We are looking for an Advocate to join our team in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. We are seeking applicants who have transferable skills, a willingness to learn, a desire to promote the rights of children and young people or already have an IAP City and Guilds Level 3 or IAQ City and Guilds Level 4 in Advocacy.
You will work directly with care experienced children and young people and those on Child Protection Plans providing them with advocacy support in the community and a variety of settings.
You will empower and support them to ensure their voices are heard within decision–making processes that effect their lives.
You will be a capable ambassador for Coram Voice with the ability to engage effectively with professionals, carers, other stakeholders and most importantly children and young people.
If you have the necessary experience and skills and a commitment to promoting the rights of young people, we would like to hear from you.
What you will receive:
We wish to reward and recognise the valuable contributions our staff make to the organisation and offer an attractive benefits package to do so. Coram Voice benefits package includes a competitive salary, a matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary, generous leave entitlements of up to 25 days’ annual leave and an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year. A supportive work environment fostering a good work/home life balance and a suite of family friendly policies, which promote employee wellbeing.
You will get a genuine opportunity to make a difference every day.
Recruitment process:
Our Children’s Rights Managers will undertake Shortlisting. Successful candidates will be invited for interview. The interview process comprises of a written exercise and a panel interview. Successful candidates will have a further one to one interview in accordance within Warner recommendations. Internal candidates will need to notify HR of their interest in the post and they will provide further information on the internal application process.
Returning your application:
- We cannot accept general CVs.
- When completing your application form, you need to address each point of the person specification and demonstrate how you meet it.
- Applications must be fully completed.
- If you are a current Coram Voice employee you may submit a supporting statement only addressing the person specification requirements for the post.
Closing date: 1st December 2024 at 23:30
Interview date: 17th December 2024
General consideration for applications:
- DBS checks: all posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring check.
- Training: All successful candidates are required to complete our compulsory training programme which includes training in Advocacy (Being a Voice) Safeguarding and Diversity.
- Conflict of interest: the independence of the service is important to Coram Voice. Prospective applicants need to raise any other potential conflicts of interest when initially contacting Coram Voice about this post.
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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We are a leading children’s rights organisation. We champion the rights of children and get young voices heard in decisions that matter to them.
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