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Brockley Park, London

The vacancy

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (shifts include early, late, night, weekends, and bank holidays).

Are you ready to make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable young people?

Join us as a Housing Support Worker, where you'll support 18-25-year-olds facing homelessness, helping them overcome challenges and build independent, fulfilling futures.

What You’ll Be Doing

In our supported housing schemes in Lewisham, you’ll work closely with young people, offering guidance, encouragement, and practical support tailored to their needs. Your role will include:

• Building trusting relationships with young people experiencing challenges like mental health issues, family breakdowns, or gang involvement.
• Supporting each individual through weekly progress meetings, helping them set and achieve their personal goals.
• Assisting young people in navigating the housing register and securing their next home when they’re ready to move on.
• Working flexibly as part of a rota, including early mornings, late evenings, night shifts, weekends, and bank holidays.

What You’ll Bring

• Literacy Skills: Confident in reading and writing for accurate record-keeping and communication.
• IT Proficiency: Skilled in using Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Understanding of Support Needs: Knowledge of housing support requirements for individuals with mental health issues, delivered through a flexible, outcome-focused, and person-centred approach.
• Thorough Welfare Benefits Knowledge: Up-to-date expertise on welfare benefits to effectively support young people.
• Exceptional Communication Skills: Capable of communicating clearly and compassionately at all levels, always mindful of the situation.
• Values That Shine Through: Kindness, empathy, positivity, energy, and enthusiasm.
• Calm and Assertive: Able to remain composed in challenging situations and handle conflicts with diplomacy and care.

Why Join Us?

We understand the challenges of this role, but seeing young people thrive and move toward independence is incredibly rewarding. You'll be part of a passionate, supportive team that shares your commitment to making a difference.  An Enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

• 25 days’ annual holiday, plus bank holidays
• two additional paid volunteering days each year 
• flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal 
• 4 x salary life assurance
• up to 10% pension contribution
• the opportunity to broaden your skills and enhance your professional development by undertaking an accredited qualification, supported by us.

Ready to take the first step in changing young lives?

Apply today and start making an impact.

Click 'Apply Now' to submit your CV along with a brief statement about why you’re the perfect fit for this role. Don’t forget, your personal statement on the application form is your chance to stand out!  Use it to showcase your skills, experience, and passion, and tell us why you’re the ideal candidate for this position.

Closing date: 13 January 2025

Interviews are due to take place week commencing the 20 and 27 January 2024.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy.  Peabody are not able to offer Visa sponsorship.

Contract type Permanent

Weekly hours 37.5 hours per week, shifts 7.5 hours per day. between 8AM to 10PM including weekends and bank holidays

Public Relations Internship-Remote

Organisation Profile

We are a global literacy charity with a strong focus on PR and media exposure to create greater community education and awareness.

With over 13 years of experience we work with mainstream media, social media, influencers, celebrities, and partners to build our brand and highlight the topic.

More information: visit the websites of  World Literacy Foundation and World Literacy Summit 

Project Description & Training Provided

* Create a strategy & roadmap document for an upcoming global literacy conference next year.

* assisting to write press releases

* researching into influencers

* researching into media contacts

* writing blog posts

* helping to organise PR images

* assisting to create PR strategies, ideas and concepts

Skills or Experience Required

You must be a 3rd or 4th  Public Relations student

 Learning Outcomes

Online Communication

Remote Team Work

Problem Solving

Responsibility

Creative Thinking

Planning & Organisation

Attendance:

15 Hours Per Week

Duration: January 15-April 15 2025

Stipend Offered:  £10 per hour

We are looking for a dynamic, confident individual with skills and expertise in marketing and communications to take an active and leading role in raising our profile, promoting our services, demonstrating our impact and managing targeted campaigns and initiatives.

You will be a passionate advocate of children’s literacy, with a strong background in digital media, able to create engaging content and communicate effectively and creatively across multiple platforms, telling our stories and demonstrating our impact.  You will be experienced in creating, running and evaluating marketing campaigns and initiatives, confident in your own abilities, with a creative flair and eye for opportunity.

You will see first-hand how our projects work and the impact reading for pleasure makes and play a key role in telling our stories and increasing our reach and support.

In return, we offer a varied role in a small friendly team, with an exciting blend of strategy and delivery which you can shape and make your own; a flexible approach; and training and development opportunities.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

MARKETING & DESIGN

• Lead impactful marketing campaigns, from concept to execution, across multiple channels.
• Monitor campaign progress, analyse data, and implement strategies to boost engagement and conversion.

· Manage Google AdWords – develop and optimise our AdWords campaigns.

• Develop innovative approaches to increase brand awareness and support.
• Collaborate with colleagues in Volunteering, Delivery and Fundraising to create integrated campaigns for those areas.

· Work with colleagues to create in-house design elements using Canva and/or InDesign for online and offline documents including - flyers, adverts, reports, Annual Review.

· Draft and coordinate content for, and manage the creation of, a quarterly newsletter to our list of subscribers.

· Act as brand custodian for the charity – ensuring staff and partners are adhering to Brand Guidelines.

COMMUNICATIONS

· Monitor all Marcomms channels including the website for engagement and activity – keeping a record and producing a quarterly report.

· Be responsible for the Charity’s website, working with our external digital partner to maintain and develop content and functionality and improve accessibility and reach.

· Collaborate with our delivery and volunteer team to co-create “on-the- ground” content from our projects each month (images, GIFs, video, copy) for publishing across our social media channels.

· Manage a monthly digital content plan – developing and scheduling content according to key dates in the calendar, posting to relevant channels (additional support of 4 hours per week is provided).

· Be the first port of call for the media, passing calls on to Senior Managers.

HR and Line Management

· This role reports into the Head of Operations as the line manager, but involves some matrix management from the CEO who will provide guidance and support in specific areas.

· The role currently has no direct reports, but includes four hours’ support from an existing member of staff

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential Criteria

1. Significant experience of delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns

2. Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively in writing and in person on a variety of platforms and to a wide range of audiences

3. Experience of social media management, with knowledge of design tools

4. Demonstrable experience of generalist marketing and communications, including digital, written and storytelling

5. Ability to develop engaging supporter journeys that deepen relationships and drive action

6. Effective and willing collaborator, able to work with other colleagues in other teams to achieve shared objectives, and inspire and engage stakeholders

7. Proven design ability, with confident use of design tools such as Canva

8. Able to manage own time and well-being effectively, ensuring targets/objectives are met while work/life balance is effective

9. Ability to see the bigger picture and translate thoughts and ideas into strategic plans

Desirable Criteria

1. Experience/knowledge of the charity sector

2. Familiarity with website functionality and design

An exciting opportunity to become part of the Senior Management Team (SMT) at Schoolreaders, a dynamic and fast-growing charity based in Bedford. Schoolreaders is a national charity tackling poor literacy through a network of volunteers who provide one-to-one reading support to children in primary schools across the country. We are the largest national in-school child literacy charity, supporting over 28,000 children in over 1,400 schools every week. We have ambitious plans to grow and support many more children in future, so it’s an exciting time to join us.

We are looking for a committed individual to join Schoolreaders to be part of the SMT and wider charity, delivering this vital support to children. As Head of Business Support, you will be coming on board to develop and manage the structure and team that deliver the support functions for the charity, helping keep everything running smoothly. Your team will consist of employees, contractors and third parties where necessary, and you will co-ordinate them to deliver a seamless set of services. At this time the role will line manage two officer roles within the charity, manager several third parties (including HR and IT) and work alongside the Head of Finance.

The Head of Business Support will oversee compliance, governance, HR, IT, facilities, and administrative functions. We don’t expect you to be an expert across all these areas – you might have a strong background in one or two but have the ability to manage these functions and others in the team and have a meticulous eye for detail. You will be expected to have a good understanding of compliance, IT, health & safety and HR to enable you to lead the day-to-day delivery across these disciplines.

Reporting into the charity’s CEO, you will be part of the Senior Management Team (SMT). As part of this you will directly input into the charity’s strategy and annual planning process.  The Head of Business Support will also manage the delivery of change within the organisation, tracking projects and raising risks and issues to the SMT.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

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1. Day to day oversight of the delivery and development of corporate services functions, to include:

a. Compliance, ensuring that Schoolreaders is compliant with all relevant legislation, data management and safety standards. (H&S, GDPR etc)

b. Risk, ensuring effective systems and processes are in place for managing risk, owning key policies and their review, engaging with staff with information and training, liaising with the Board and with the Director responsible for Safeguarding and being the main point of contact for whistle blowing.

c. Business Support, monitoring and driving forward internal projects, overseeing the review and management of policies, and managing administrative and other support functions.

d. IT, supporting and maintaining systems, hardware and software, ensuring they are secure and up to date, continuing to develop new functionality in partnership with our external IT providers

e. HR (managing both internal and external resources) to support recruitment, starters and leavers, staff welfare, processing payroll, leave and sickness and the training and development of people.

f. Facilities, managing office spaces, supporting home workers and overseeing health and safety.

g. Producing and leading on the annual Culture Review, collating scoring and feeding back to trustees.

h. Finance, assisting the Head of Finance, approving spend where necessary.

2. Line management of two Business Support Officers, covering

a. Compliance

b. HR Support

c. IT Support

d. Finance

3. Development of yearly plans and budgeting for all corporate services.

4. Manage relationships with external suppliers and ensure value for money.

5. Owning the programme of change across all services to ensure we remain on track to deliver our ambitious growth objectives.

6. Establishing and maintaining office procedures.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Sally Wrampling (CEO)  for an informal conversation.

To apply for the post, please submit your CV with a covering letter outlinging how you meet the job requirements / specification.

Are you passionate about children’s literacy? Do you want to use your fundraising skills and experience to enable opportunity for children living with little or no access to books and reading? Can you help us to create a home environment where reading for pleasure is part of the fabric of family life? If so, read on - we may have just the job for you here at Doorstep Library!

We are looking for a passionate and astute fundraiser, able to make and develop relationships with stakeholders and manage funding portfolios. You will have a flair for communicating, in writing and in person, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to spot and develop an opportunity. This is an exciting and varied role, where you wil see our projects first hand and the difference that we make.

In this role you will:

• Build and manage a fast paced and highly effective new business pipeline
• Engage, pitch and win new business opportunities with high value corporates at a partnership value of approx. 150k+ 
• Account manage, steward and maximise income from our current partners and ensure accurate reporting and impact data for each partner 
• Collaborate across Carers Trust to build exciting and creative propositions for partners and prospects, alongside the Head of Corporate
• Work with the Head of Corporate and Exec Team to engage high level corporate stakeholders and maximise our new business and account management opportunities. 

Our ideal candidate:

• Will have a strong track record of securing new business opportunities in a charity or sales role
• Will have experience in account managing relationships and creating financial uplift within that partnership 
• Experience in building and managing a pipeline of opportunities through the sales cycle 
• Strong interpersonal and pitch building skills 
• Good experience in relationship management internally and building connections to have a positive outcome on a project or partnership
• Capacity to take initiative and identify opportunities.
• Financial literacy sufficient to present project budgets and corporate partnership costings 
• Self-motivation with enthusiasm for working flexibly as part of a team 

Download the information packs below to find out more. 

· To be responsible for the recruitment and retention of Doorstep Library volunteers for home and online reading projects, ensuring they are fully trained and vetted and able to deliver our reading projects in accordance with our policies

· To devise and deliver a volunteer recruitment and retention strategy to ensure Doorstep Library has sufficient volunteers to deliver it targets

· To actively manage and develop the volunteer journey to ensure that our volunteers’ time is maximised and that they have a fulfilling and rewarding volunteer experience

· To line manage the Volunteer Coordinator and matrix manage the Volunteer Support Officer

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic volunteer manager with the skills, confidence and ability to build, maintain and report upon a diverse and committed volunteer cohort to deliver our home and online reading sessions. You will be a passionate advocate for children’s literacy and a creative thinker, able to spot and develop opportunities for engagement in local communities and with corporate partners.

An excellent communicator verbally and in writing, you will be able to tell the Doorstep Library story to a wide variety of audiences and promote the benefits of volunteering with us. You will build upon existing work to create and deliver a volunteer recruitment strategy that meets our requirements and enables us to deliver our targets and grow our services.

In return, we offer a varied role in a small friendly team, with an exciting blend of strategy and delivery which you can shape and make your own; a flexible approach; and training and development opportunities.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

STRATEGIC

· Work under the guidance of the Head of Delivery & Engagement to design, implement and be responsible for the Volunteering Strategy - to recruit, train and retain enough volunteers to meet our delivery targets and grow our services

· Collaborate with the Service Delivery Manager and the Marketing & Communications Manager to identify delivery gaps across boroughs and create targeted recruitment campaigns

· Work with the Fundraising team to develop and manage corporate volunteering from/with income partnerships

· Research and reach out to community events/groups to raise awareness about Doorstep Library in the areas we operate in

· Manage the Volunteer Committee – coordinating and enlisting volunteer involvement as required, delivering outcomes

· Have overall responsibility for the evaluation and development of training and guidance resources for volunteers

· Diversify the volunteer offer and establish/develop supporting partnerships with schools and corporates

· Provide quarterly volunteering reports for SMT, the CEO and the Board of Trustees

· Keep abreast of current developments in the volunteering sector, ensuring our volunteering offer is up to date

· Lead on the development and systematic review of volunteer related policies, processes and procedures.

· Where requested by the Senior Management Team, contribute to the review of wider Doorstep Library policies, processes and procedures.

· Adhere to Doorstep Library policies, processes and procedures in all aspects of volunteer management

DELIVERY

 (with the support of the Volunteer Coordinator and Volunteer Support Officer)

· Manage the successful and timely completion of the volunteer onboarding process, including- interviews, DBS checks, references and liaising effectively with the delivery team on volunteer trials and appropriate placement across our projects

· Create, deliver and systematically review volunteer training (initial and refresher) ensuring content is up to date and all volunteers are fully trained in delivery and safeguarding in line with Doorstep Library’s policies

· Develop and manage the stewardship of volunteers on an ongoing basis and retain comprehensive oversight of all volunteers throughout their volunteering journey

· Curate, with the Marketing & Communications Manager, regular content and communications about our volunteering offer (i.e. case studies, blogs, newsletters etc.)

· Oversee the functionality of the relevant parts of the Volunteer Database (managed by an external company) suggesting improvements/developments where necessary

·  Ensure the database is kept up to date with required information about all volunteers

· Work with the Marketing & Communications Manager to ensure our website volunteering pages and ‘Volunteers’ Area’ are up to date with relevant content

· Collaborate effectively with the Service Delivery Manager to ensure project volunteering needs are met

· Ensure effective communication with the Service Delivery Team on volunteer issues

HR AND LINE MANAGEMENT

· Direct Line Management responsibility for the Volunteer Coordinator (full time) and matrix managed responsibility of an existing member of staff (Volunteer Support Officer) working one day a week with the volunteer team

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential Criteria

Demonstrable experience of recruiting and managing volunteers

Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively in writing and in person on a variety of platforms and to a wide range of audiences

Strong presenting skills, able to tailor talks/presentations to different groups of different sizes and backgrounds

Demonstrable experience of building and stewarding relationships/partnerships

Able to manage and interpret large amounts of (largely numerical) data

Able to produce clear written reports

Effective and willing collaborator, able to work with other colleagues in other teams to achieve shared objectives

Able to manage own time and well-being effectively, ensuring targets/objectives are met while work/life balance is effective

Ability to see the bigger picture and translate thoughts and ideas into strategic plans

Ability to think laterally and creatively to recruit volunteers in a competitive volunteering landscape

Line management experience

Desirable Criteria

Familiarity with databases, analysing data and running reports

This role is an Account Management and New Business split and would suit someone with great communications skills, who is bursting with energy and creativity, and unafraid to try new approaches. We foster an environment where it is ok to make mistakes, be creative and try new things so that we can bring our prospects and partners the best opportunities to grow.

In this role you will:

• Build and manage a fast paced and highly effective new business pipeline for opportunities within a 25-150k threshold
• Prospect, engage, pitch and win new business opportunities with high value corporates at a partnership value between 25-150k
• Manage, steward and relationship build with our current partners to ensure partnership uplift
• Work with project teams to collate accurate reporting and impact data for the partnership accounts you manage and look for impact opportunities for your pipeline prospects
• Collaborate with teams across Carers Trust to build pitch decks, proposal toolkits and engagement tools for the corporate team to deliver to partners and prospects
• Work with the Corporate Manager and Head of Corporate to sell and scale our new employability offer to corporate prospects

Our ideal candidate:

• Will have a good track record of securing new business opportunities in a charity or sales role
• Will have experience in account managing relationships
• Strong interpersonal and pitch building skills
• Capacity to take initiative and identify opportunities
• Financial literacy sufficient to present project budgets and corporate partnership costings
• Self-motivation with enthusiasm for working flexibly as part of a team

Download the attached documents to find out more about the role and the perks for working at Carers Trust.

Are you an experienced marketing professional looking to use your skills to make a real difference? At St Catherine’s Hospice, we are seeking a Marketing Manager to lead our marketing efforts and help embed a supporter-centric, data-driven approach across our organisation.

This is a unique opportunity to shape and deliver a marketing strategy that will raise awareness, engage the community, and drive the essential income that sustains our vital care. If you’re ready to build something impactful from the ground up, build and lead a passionate team, and use your expertise for a meaningful cause, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

As Marketing Manager, you will:

• Develop and Implement Strategy: Create and deliver a comprehensive marketing strategy and annual plan, working closely with the Director of Marketing and Engagement.
• Raise Awareness and Support: Inspire our community by sharing powerful stories, recognising supporters, and elevating the Hospice’s profile.
• Deliver High-Impact Campaigns: Oversee multi-channel campaigns to promote our initiatives, drive brand awareness, and support fundraising goals.
• Lead Digital Excellence: Manage and optimise our website and digital platforms to enhance user experiences and meet audience needs.
• Analyse and Refine: Use data and insights to evaluate performance, identify growth opportunities, and continuously improve our marketing efforts.
• Build and Mentor a Team: Lead and inspire the marketing team, fostering collaboration and ensuring their development and success.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: Proven track record in business-to-consumer or not-for-profit marketing, with expertise in leading teams and delivering successful campaigns.
• Leadership: Skilled in mentoring, strategic thinking, and building relationships across teams and stakeholders.
• Technical Expertise: Proficient in digital marketing techniques, CRM systems, and campaign management with creative literacy and an understanding of brand.
• Creativity and Pragmatism: A visionary thinker who can turn ideas into impactful action.
• Resilience and Emotional Intelligence: Sensitive to the needs of patients and families, with the emotional intelligence to navigate challenging situations.

Why Join Us?

At St Catherine’s Hospice, you’ll find more than a job—you’ll find purpose. Here, your work will directly contribute to providing care and support to those who need it most. You’ll enjoy the autonomy to shape your team and plans while being part of an organisation that values innovation, compassion, and community.

Qualifications and Skills Required

• Degree in marketing or extensive equivalent experience
• Expertise in campaign planning, digital marketing, and brand building
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to manage budgets, analyse data, and make informed decisions

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• 36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) and your birthday off
• Access to an employee assistance programme with a wealth of wellbeing resources
• Competitive pension scheme (up to 8% employer contribution)
• Life insurance
• Hybrid working opportunities
• On-site free parking
• Opportunity to lead a growing marketing team
• A chance to use your skills for a cause that makes a difference every day

Join us in shaping the future of St Catherine’s Hospice and making a lasting impact on our community.

Apply Today
Be part of something extraordinary. Submit a CV and covering letter by Wednesday 8th January 2025 at 5.00 pm

Interviews will take place on 22nd January 2025

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), this critical role will lead the development of a large, expert and high-performing directorate. You will be accountable for the strategic development and successful delivery of MyBnk’s programmes across the United Kingdom, ensuring high impact and consistent quality in every aspect of our programmatic output.

We are holding an information webinar about this role on 18th December. Please register for it via the job pack. All registrants will receive a copy of the recording.

You’ll create and deliver an ambitious new Programmes and Delivery strategy inspired by our new 2024-2027 strategy ‘Money: A Language for Life’ which outlines four strategic pillars: 

• Building habits; driving healthy financial habits 

• Expanding reach; enabling young people and adults to get financial education when they need it 

• Increased accessibility; supporting young people and adults most in need 

• Tackling inequality; fighting for financial literacy. 

In this role, you’ll ensure that MyBnk have robust and appropriate systems, practices and processes that enable us to deliver best-in-class operational programmes to our learners. This will be rooted in more effective use of data and insights to drive the development of our programme suite. Critical to our new strategy, is driving an ambitious and forward-thinking approach to programme innovation; ensuring our programmes are learner centred, purpose driven and leverage the best techniques for building financial fluency. 

You’ll be held strategically accountable for delivering our work across all four UK nations. As we introduce a new leadership framework, you will be responsible for implementing this across your Directorate. Our ambition is to be the leading financial education provider in the UK, and your contribution in this role will be Essential to achieving our goals.

MyBnk Directors are expected to identify and secure strategic partnerships that benefit the organisation. Equally, Directors will exemplify and model the MyBnk values of: 

• Young at heart, serious in intent 

• Stories are the best means of education 

• We live in the real world 

This role is a great opportunity to bring your professional toolkit to an exciting, growing and purpose driven charity doing vital work for our society. You will have the resources, support, and visibility you need from the CEO, Senior Leadership Team and Trustees. For the right person it will be a career-shaping role. 

Never Such Innocence is looking for an organised, analytical and passionate Engagement Manager to deliver the Never Such Innocence creative arts competition, special events and activities to young people, teachers and educators across the UK and around the world. 

Never Such Innocence is a small close-knit team dedicated to giving children and young people opportunities to reflect on war and conflict and a platform to amplify their voices, using creative arts. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and increasing engagement by working directly with young people, teachers, educators and project partners. 

Do you want to make a positive difference to the lives of others?

Barnet Mencap has been helping people with learning disabilities and/or autistic adults in the London Borough of Barnet for over 50 years. We provide supported accommodation, leisure and learning activities, information, advice, and guidance, and so much more. All while being committed to equal opportunities and the safeguarding of children and adults.

We know job satisfaction, flexibility, work/life balance, and a great team are incredibly important.

So, at Barnet Mencap, in addition to offering 32 days of annual leave per year (including Bank Holidays), we have a TOIL system to allow flexible working. There will need to be face-to-face work as part of the job, but there will also be opportunities to work from home and/or have different working patterns as agreed by your manager. Any travel expenses can be claimed, at the agreed rate, for journeys that are necessary in the course of your work; and claims for additional expenses will be reimbursed in accordance with our expenses policy. We also have auto-enrolment into a pension scheme with employer contributions in place, and all staff qualify for schemes like the Blue Light Card.

We are looking for a new Communications Officer within our Project Support Team, someone with strong communication and IT skills, a creative streak and who enjoys a challenge. Please view the Job Description and Person Specification for a better idea of what the role entails and what we’re looking for.

The successful candidate will have:

· good interpersonal skills working as part of the administrative team 

· high attention to detail and a high standard of literacy

· excellent organizational skills working in a timely manner

· be confident and flexible, acting as the public voice of Barnet Mencap

To apply, please either complete an application form or send a CV with a statement explaining how you meet each of the criteria on the person specification. The advert is also available on our website. Completed applications can either be sent through CharityJobs or emailed to our general address (available on our website).

Barnet Mencap is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and the safeguarding of children and adults at risk.

The successful candidate will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service form in line with Section 115 of The Police Act 1997

Charity People is delighted to be partnering with National Literacy Trust to recruit for a brand new CRM Digital Project Manager as they invest in their digital team and IT team.

Reaching out to the communities and people who need them most, National Literacy Trust empowers children, young people and adults with the literacy skills they need to succeed. Working closely with over 5,000 schools, nurseries, prisons, YOIs and through teams leading community literacy programmes across the UK, the organisation believes that literacy is a vital element of action against poverty that everyone should have access to.

CRM Digital Project Manager

Contract: Permanent, full time role

Salary: £35,000 to £38,000 per annum

Location: Hybrid - home based with ideally two days plus (up to three) in the London office per week

Closing date for applications: midnight on Thursday 9th January

As CRM Digital Project Manager you will join a supportive, flexible team, within an organisation that places huge value on staff wellbeing.

Reporting to the Senior Digital Project Manager you'll work closely with colleagues from across CRM, IT, and digital teams as well as with the wider organisation and external suppliers.

Core responsibilities within your role will include:

• Be the first point of contact and provide frontline support for queries regarding Salesforce and FormAssembly usage across the organisation
• Lead on Salesforce training to all departments, ensuring that each team understands their responsibilities around data entry, management and reporting and has the capabilities to do so
• Work with teams to translate their processes into actions on Salesforce
• Lead on user experience and feedback, capturing requirements for development where necessary and managing the delivery of projects
• Use Agile methodologies to bring together requirements from multi-disciplinary teams and create a pipeline of work
• Contribute to the emerging CRM and data strategy that underpins the work of the wider digital team
• Take active leadership in the adoption of new tools and processes, supporting the delivery of strategies for digital change management and creating metrics for success
• Proactively consider development needs and integrated tools to support processes, and provide thought leadership on how the evolution of technology can support charitable growth
• Become an active member of the Digital Customer Experience team, focusing on digital efforts more generally across the organisation and making sure that thinking and planning is strategically aligned
• Manage data visualisation projects for teams to measure their impact through dashboards and compare against public datasets
• Support with reporting at key milestones to internal and external stakeholders, understanding organisational KPIs and how the work of every team can be best represented through data

We would love to hear from you if you have the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience of working with Salesforce, ideally with experience of using FormAssembly and Salesforce data tools (e.g. Data Loader)
• Salesforce Administrator Certification of equivalent experience using Salesforce configuration and change management
• Experience of working with a range of datasets and the ability to organise information for different needs and audiences
• Experience of system development
• Experience of supporting digital products through a design life-cycle, from capturing user requirements and building a concept to user training and delivery
• Confidence in presenting technical information to different lay audiences and experience in delivering training

We're also particularly interested to receive applications from candidates who have the below, although this is not essential:

• Experience using and configuring APIs and of and using middleware (e.g. Zapier)
• Knowledge of coding languages including SQL
• Experience using data visualisation tools such as Tableau or Power BI

If you're interested in hearing more about this opportunity, please send your CV to Alice at Charity People in the first instance. 

Charity People and actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Location: Home based
Salary: £34,000
Hours: 35 hours
Department: Community delivery
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent

Do you want to join an organisation committed to addressing low literacy nd low numeracy amongst people across the UK?

Shannon Trust, building on many years of successful work within the criminal justice system, has been testing its programmes, training, and partnership work with the wider population. As a result, we are now investing in our Community Learning Network. Digital development plays a key role in our future plans, particularly with our Turning Pages and Count Me In digital learning tools.

We are looking to expand our Community Learning Network team and are recruiting for a Digital Product Owner.

Ideally, you will have solid experience and technical knowledge of digital product ownership. Reporting to our Community Learning Network Manager, you will oversee the development and maintenance of our suite of digital tools and be responsible for liaising with our external technology partners on a day-to-day basis, while collaborating with internal colleagues as needed.

This role will be home based. Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme. The biggest benefit though is our culture – our people really want to work for the organisation.

We welcome job applications from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system and do not routinely ask for details of any criminal convictions.

Interviews are for Friday 17th January 2025.

Benefits: Standard Shannon Trust: Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme.

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