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Peer Support Group Development Officer - Midlands Area
Must live in the Midlands area (Birmingham, Nottingham, Coventry, Worcester etc)
Job Type:
Full-Time- 37 hours per week, remote working with travel across region and occasional national travel, flexible working negotiable by prior arrangement.
Overview:
Following the successful application of a National Lottery award, we are seeking two dedicated and compassionate Peer Support Group Development Officers to set up and sustain local peer support groups for people living with and affected by prostate cancer. These roles focus on building on our established networks to expand peer support in defined areas, facilitating group formation, and enhancing service delivery through strategic outreach and resource development.
This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of individuals living with and affected by prostate cancer, providing crucial support through community-based initiatives. If you are enthusiastic about volunteer management and community service and have the skills and experience, we are looking for, we encourage you to apply.
Key Responsibilities:
- Group formation and support: Oversee the setup and operation of 10-12 self-sustaining and independent peer support groups within your assigned region across the lifetime of the three-year project. Ensure smooth delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of group activities. Support existing group leaders and organisers to reach more people living with and affected by prostate cancer with tools and resources.
- Volunteer Coordination: Recruit, train, and support volunteer Support Group Leaders. Assist in the co-production of training materials and resources, aimed at creating self-sustainable groups.
- Community Engagement: Conduct outreach to map existing support services and facilitate the integration of these services with the peer support groups. Host local engagement events to boost volunteer recruitment.
- Data and Case Management: Use a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to support high-quality volunteer and case management, ensuring accurate data collection to support service outcomes.
- Training and Development: Develop and deliver tailored training programmes for volunteers based on the specific needs of Group Leaders and Organisers. Set up regional forums for sharing best practices and peer networking. Encourage use of Members Portal to share good practice.
- Documentation and Compliance: Ensure compliance with Best Practice Guidance document. Ensure adherence to safeguarding policies to maintain safe governance of peer support groups.
Skills and Qualities Required:
- Strong Facilitation and Communication Skills: Ability to engage effectively with diverse groups. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
- Project Management: Proven skills in managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders. Ability to meet deadlines and manage a varied workload.
- Volunteer Management: Experience in recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers in community settings. Knowledge of best practices in volunteer management.
- Influencing: Experience of influencing a wide range of partners and stakeholders, and in particular clinicians and voluntary and community providers within the health and wellbeing community.
- Community Development: Experience of developing and delivering community services with a range of stakeholders, including health and social care workers, commissioners, local authority and community and voluntary partners.
- Data-Driven Approach: Experience with data collection and CRM systems and a commitment to data-driven service evaluation.
- Community Sensitivity: Experience collaborating with people with a lived experience of cancer or other long-term conditions. Ability to understand and empathise with community needs.
- Administrative: Strong administration and IT skills to maintain accurate records and documentation.
- Safeguarding Knowledge: A good understanding of safeguarding practices, particularly concerning vulnerable populations.
Educational Qualifications:
- Relevant qualification or experience in Community Development, Psychology, Public Health, or a related field is preferred.
Essential Requirements:
- A genuine commitment to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of the role.
- Right to work in the UK.
- Willingness to travel within the designated region and, on occasion, nationally when required.
- Live in the area/region - Midlands (Birmingham, Nottingham, Coventry, Worcester etc)
Please provide a CV and a supporting statement that addresses the included questions
We are hiring for two positions. Please indicate which area you are applying for.
You MUST live in the area/region of the Midlands (Birmingham, Nottingham, Coventry, Worcester etc)
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Community and Events Fundraiser
Are you a dynamic relationship builder with a passion for making a difference? Do you thrive on hitting targets and achieving goals? If so, Prospect Hospice has the perfect opportunity for you to transform your career while making a meaningful impact!
About Us:
Join our dedicated, friendly, and supportive fundraising team at Prospect Hospice, where every day brings the chance to support local individuals and families facing life-limiting illnesses. We are committed to providing compassionate care, and your role will be crucial in ensuring we can continue to offer this vital support.
The Role:
As a Community and Events Fundraiser, you will:
- Engage and Inspire: Work with our amazing community supporters, raising the profile of Prospect Hospice and attracting new supporters to our cause.
- Drive Fundraising Efforts: Help our supporters organize and participate in various events, activities, and fundraising platforms to generate essential income.
- Achieve Impactful Targets: Channel your drive and commitment to meet and exceed fundraising targets, directly contributing to the care and support we offer to our patients and their families.
- Flexible Work Schedule: Work 30 to 37.5 hours per week (minimum 3 days in the office), Monday to Friday, with the ability to work evenings and weekends when needed for events.
Key Responsibilities:
- Income and Expenditure Management: Take charge of your own targets, ensuring a robust and sustainable income stream for the hospice.
- Supporter Experience: Provide exceptional support and guidance to groups and individuals organising events and activities in aid of the hospice, maximizing their fundraising opportunities.
- Ambassador Role: Act as a passionate ambassador for Prospect Hospice, recruiting sign-ups, encouraging fundraising efforts, and galvanizing community support.
- Community Relationship Building: We’re looking for someone local to Swindon, Marlborough and northwest Wiltshire to build and maintain strong relationships within the community, using your experience to foster long-term engagement.
What We Offer:
- A Rewarding Career: Enter the exciting world of professional fundraising with ample opportunities for growth and development.
- Supportive Environment: Be part of a team that values collaboration, encouragement, and mutual success.
- Community Impact: Know that your work is making a real difference in the lives of those in your community.
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong Relationship Management Skills: Demonstrable experience in building and maintaining relationships is essential.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to manage and deliver on multiple priorities with precision.
- Confident and Outgoing: Comfortable speaking to and supporting a wide range of individuals and groups, both face-to-face and through presentations.
- Administrative Competence: Effectively carry out administrative duties to support fundraising activities.
- Community Fundraising/Events Experience: Previous experience in community fundraising or organising events is highly desirable.
If you have great relationship management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage and deliver on multiple priorities, this could be the role for you. Apply today and start your journey with Prospect Hospice.
We offer a great range of benefits, including:
- 27 days holiday FTE plus bank holidays (rising with length of service)
- Generous contributory pension scheme and life assurance
- Discounts with local retailers, gyms and service providers including Blue Light Discount Card
- Supportive induction, training and development
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free parking on-site
Equality & Diversity
Prospect Hospice is committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive working environment. We recognise that promoting diversity and eliminating discrimination in our workplace will bring benefits for our people, our business and the communities we serve.
We are committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are provided with equality of opportunity in employment and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, offending background, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we support. As part of our SAFER recruitment processes, offers of employment will be subject to thorough checks, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, satisfactory references, online and social media checks and verification of qualifications. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to adhere to our safeguarding policies and procedures at all times.
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We will review applications as they come in and therefore we may close the vacancy before the closing date. Candidates are therefore advised to apply early.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Join Our Team as a Fundraising Coordinator
Location:
Leatherhead, Surrey
Salary:
£25,500 per annum (pro-rata) plus benefits
Hours:
37.5 Hours (full time) or 30 hours (part time) per week
Contract:
Full time or Part-time, Permanent
Driving Requirement:
A valid full UK manual driving license is essential.
Essential Criteria
To be considered for this position, you will demonstrate exposure to two of the following areas of expertise:
- Fundraising Supporter Care
- Working within a fundraising team
- General charity administration
- Legacy administration
- Community fundraising events and activities
- Good written and verbal communication
- Ability to build strong and effective relationships
About You
Are you someone who truly enjoys delivering excellent customer service and building strong, loyal relationships with charity supporters?
We are seeking an experienced fundraising coordinator who can deliver timely and efficient support to the fundraising, engagement and volunteering teams. You will demonstrate an eye for detail, a positive and friendly manner, as well as innovative ways to ensure an exceptional supporter experience.
What will you be doing?
As a Fundraising Coordinator, you'll be the charity’s expert in supporter care, managing donor enquiries and processing of financial gifts (whether online, over the phone or by post). You’ll oversee a varied and interesting workload from supporting the department with general administration duties and carrying out legacy administration, to supporting with fundraising events/activities and writing engaging thank you letters.
About Us
Registered as The Royal School for the Blind, SeeAbility is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK. This year we are celebrating our 225th anniversary, having pioneered specialist support across multiple generations since 1799!
We specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, who may also have sight loss. Our support ranges from providing person-centred support across our many supported-living and residential care provisions. Furthermore, we provide specialist eye-care services to children and adults alike and assists people to find paid employment for the very first time.
SeeAbility provides the resources and expertise that make this possible, we support people to live ambitious lives and achieve things they never thought possible.
Safer Recruitment
SeeAbility is committed to safe and fair recruitment practices, safeguarding and protecting those who we support. It is a condition of employment that perspective employees will be subject to the following:
- A criminal background check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (where appropriate).
- Documentary evidence to confirm your identity, current address, and the right to work in the UK.
- Health Declaration to ensure that you are medically suitable for the role you have been offered.
- References will be obtained to ensure satisfactory evidence of conduct in current or previous employment concerned with the provision of services relating to (a) health or social care, or (b) children or vulnerable adults.
These checks will be carried out and completed prior offering a date to start employment at SeeAbility’ s expense.
Diversity
We actively seek to attract and retain talent from diverse backgrounds, recognising that a wide range of perspectives strengthen our teams. In exceptional circumstances, the role is exempt from the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1) which provides for the application of a genuine occupational requirement.
SeeAbility encourages applications from individuals of all identities, including those from underrepresented groups and those with a disability. We believe a diverse workforce drives innovation, creativity, and success. Everyone’s unique experiences and views are appreciated their opinion valued.
Why work for us?
At SeeAbility, we value your growth and well-being just as much as the support you provide, we can offer you:
- Comprehensive Training: Start with an extensive induction and continue developing your skills with face-to-face training, e-learning, and ongoing support.
- Career Progression: We support your ambitions, offering opportunities to achieve professional qualifications (Care Certificate, QCF levels 2-5).
- Recognition & Rewards: From excellence awards to long service recognition, your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
- Work-Life Balance: Enjoy up to 36 days of holiday with long service, flexible working options, and time off for life events.
- Financial Benefits: Discounts, cashback, pension schemes, and more, to help your money go further.
- Wellbeing Support: Access to a 24/7 employee assistance program, life assurance and sick pay.
Our mission is to champion and deliver ambitious support and preventative services alongside people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss,
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Prospectus is delighted to be supporting Leeds Castle in their search for a Fundraising Manager (maternity cover) to join the team for a 12-14 months. Leeds Castle is situated in a beautiful and historic spot in Kent, with great connections to surrounding cities.
The fundraising team at Leeds Castle was established relatively recently, in January 2023, and is responsible for securing funds from trusts, foundations, public bodies and individuals. There is a vast ongoing cost to care for a 900-year-old Castle and Estate and they need to generate income above and beyond the successful visitor & hospitality businesses. The postholder will play a crucial role in delivering a funding strategy to support their new multi-million-pound project ‘safeguarding the Castle for the next 900 years’.
The successful candidate will bring strong knowledge and experience in trust and foundations fundraising, with a clear record of funding achievement. Working with the Head of Audience Development & Fundraising, you will drive forward their fundraising strategy, strengthen the trusts and foundations pipeline and apply for match funding opportunities. The successful candidate will be resilient and highly motivated, an excellent writer with a strong attention to detail. They will be a good researcher and relationship builder, keen to secure great financial results to support Leeds Castle’s ambitions.
The new fundraising department will focus on creating a fundraising strategy, setting up systems and processes, researching approaches and building their pipeline of funders almost from scratch. They have already had great success in securing funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, so need to expand and build their funding pipeline and look to engage new funders.
This is a hybrid role, that will require some attendance from their office in Leeds Castle in Kent. The salary will be £42k - £45k, depending on experience and flexible working conditions can be considered.
As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.
In order to apply, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. Cover letters are not required at this stage.
Freedom from Torture is the Winner of the Overall Award for Excellence and the top prize for Campaigns and Advocacy at the 2023 Charity Awards.
We have an exciting opportunity for the role of Fundraising & Marketing Manager, a crucial role in the success of our entire individual giving programme making sure Freedom from Torture supporters have the most positive supporter experience possible.
Would you like to join our award-winning organisation?
About the role
An exciting brand new role in a busy supporter experience team you are responsible for delivering income growth, leading on fundraising campaign delivery including acquisition and retention activities.
Managing a team of two (an officer and an assistant) you will be overseeing the team day to day as, together, you develop creative campaigns working alongside the rest of the fundraising and communications team. At Freedom from Torture, working with people with lived experience is crucial. Your team will be at the forefront of telling survivor's stories to our supporters and working closely with the survivor directorate.
Working with live public campaigns you will be directing the team to closely follow schedules and sign off plans, as well as managing external agencies. Our bank of retention and acquisition work currently includes print appeals, digital campaigns, inserts, press ads, social media and telemarketing acquisition, online lottery, raffle and more! You will be driving new ideas, innovation and strategies with an organisation that likes to say yes!
As you direct the marketing team, it is essential you'll be able to use your fundraising knowledge to edit copy and feedback on campaigns based on your experience of how to uplift response. This knowledge will be developed in your ongoing regular work monitoring the teams results and performance, putting these learnings into action with the creative, data and planning decisions that you make. Linking creative decisions with data and analysis is key and we welcome the new ideas that brings. Of course, it is also essential for the Fundraising and Marketing Manager to be knowledgeable with up to date compliance and data regulations.
It is essential you have great communication and people skills with experience of managing a busy workload and a busy team working to deadlines.
We have a great, supportive team with lots of opportunities to travel to London for team meetings and planning work.
About you
In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30-day annual leave entitlement, and 6% employer pension contribution (minimum 1% employee contribution).
Freedom from Torture is committed to showing the salary for all advertised roles and not negotiating salaries for roles, in light of evidence that this contributes to structural inequality.
Our policy is that all appointments will be at the start of the salary range but successful candidates will have the opportunity to move up the scale over time. The progression up the salary range is reviewed on an annual basis and subject to affordability. For this role, the salary range is £39,529 - £45,853 per annum
To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please visit our website.
Please note a CV and a cover letter addressing the job description and person specification of the role are mandatory to be considered for the position.
Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.
We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.
Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory standard/enhanced DBS/PVG disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.
Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
No agencies please.
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**Remote working (with 1 day per month in office) or hybrid working (Richmond office) available - please discuss**
We are partnering with an organisation that supports members of the armed forces community, including veterans and adult family members with health conditions and other complex challenges, on their journey into employment after leaving service.
They help individuals overcome barriers to employment and transform their lives. With a long and proud history, the organisation continually adapts its services to ensure they remain relevant to modern-day veterans and their families.
This key role involves delivering a grants portfolio to support the strategic aims of Veterans and Family Services. Working alongside the Senior Trusts Manager, you will be responsible for generating income from trusts, foundations, and corporate partnerships at the 5- and 6-figure level. The core grant fundraising programme is well-established, with regular funds from military charities and other trusts and foundations. The corporate partnership programme has recently been updated to focus on higher-value grants and broader partnerships.
The charity has ambitious plans to expand its services and is seeking a capable and confident individual who can work autonomously and creatively across a diverse portfolio, while also engaging with the wider team. This is a remote role, open to those based in the UK, with travel required to London once a month. Interviews will take place on a rolling basis, so please get in touch ASAP.
As Trust and Corporate Fundraising Manager, you will:
- Support the development and delivery of the fundraising plan, proactively researching and pursuing new income opportunities, with targets for fundraising applications to trusts & foundations and corporate foundations. (Account Management 60%, New Business 40%)
- Develop strategic and collaborative relationships with funders to maximise income and ensure excellent supporter care with a team target of £770k
- Write and submit compelling, evidence-based funding applications, targeted to the priorities and criteria of the funder
- Provide excellent stewardship of all funders, building on the existing stewardship framework
Ideal skills and experience:
If you’re someone who enjoys a varied portfolio with a focus on trusts, foundations and corporate partners, particularly those with corporate foundations, and you’re ready to play a pivotal role in sustaining and expanding services, we would love to hear from you.
- Experience in grant fundraising, charitable foundations, corporate foundations, lottery or statutory sources
- Excellent research and prospecting skills to create a pipeline of relevant opportunities
- Proactive and highly motivated, able to work independently and as part of a team, through a collaborative approach
- Creative thinker who can consider alternative options when making approaches to potential partners
Interviews will take place on a rolling basis, so please get in touch ASAP.
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Being an Individual Giving & Gifts in Wills Manager at St Wilfrid’s
We are delighted to offer the opportunity to join us as our Individual Giving & Gifts in Wills Manager.
This is a wonderful chance to support us by leading a small, close-knit team responsible for developing and delivering our individual giving fundraising strategy. You will also be focusing on donor development and acquistion, as well as retention and database management.
You will have proven experience in marketing and developing fundraising strategies within a charity setting. You will need to be confident in giving, setting and managing campaigns and annual budgets, and working towards income targets.
Qualifications and Experience
- Fundraising experience at a senior level (Essential)
- Experience of developing funding propositions, campaigns and securing significant funds (Essential)
- Experience of working with CRM system or database to maximise income generation performance (Essential)
- Full driving licence with access to a car with business insurance cover (Essential)
- Right to work in the UK (Essential)
Please visit the careers page on our website or see the attached job description for a full person specification.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at St Wilfrid’s
We value diversity and are committed to being a place where people feel their differences are recognised and welcomed, and their needs are heard and respected. Creating an inclusive workplace is a core part of our aim to ensure St Wilfrid’s is a great place to work and a compassionate and caring place to be.
We want to hire talented people and to make sure our processes don’t exclude or disadvantage people with disabilities or different needs. Please let us know what would help you apply for our role – we’re happy to be flexible with our process to make sure you can shine. To do this you can call 01243 775302, or pop in and ask at Reception for HR.
We guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for the role.
What we offer you
All Hospice employees are offered the following benefits:
- Annual Leave – Our generous holiday entitlement starts at 27 days per year plus bank holidays and increases with service
- Healthcare – Access to a contributory health plan for you and family members, covering a range of benefits including eyecare and physiotherapy
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – Access to free and confidential Virtual GP Advice, Counselling and Legal Support
- Continuation of existing NHS Pension Scheme Membership – And recognition of reckonable service for certain benefits
- Generous Pension – With 7.5% employer contribution for staff not in the NHS pension scheme
- Life Assurance Scheme – Should the worst happen while you’re working with us, your loved ones will receive a lump sum payment equal to two times your salary (or the NHS Life Assurance Scheme if applicable)
- Free on site parking – At our beautiful, purpose built Hospice in Bosham
- Subsidised food – Our catering staff provide a range of high quality meals at low prices for all staff members when on site at the Hospice
- Staff discount – In all our community charity shops and eligibility for the Blue Light Card discount scheme
Interview information
This will be a two-stage interview process.
First stage interviews are scheduled to take place on the 23rd -27th September 2024 at St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Walton Lane, Bosham, Chichester. Second stage interviews are TBC.
Please note this vacancy may close early if sufficient applications have been received
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Mental Health Foundation is recruiting for a Project Assistant to support our Programmes Team in Glasgow on the Reclaiming Our Power project.
Deadline: 5pm on 7 October 2024
Location: Glasgow
Salary: Starting salary £26,125 rising to £29,260 pro rata to 0.5 full time equivalent.
Hours: Part time, 0.5 full time equivalent – currently 16 hours per week.
Contract type: This is a fixed term contract, ending on 30 September 2026.
This exciting Project Assistant role will work closely with the Programme Development Officer to support the development and delivery of Reclaiming Our Power. Reclaiming Our Power will explore the impact of racist microaggressions on mental health through creative peer support workshops with people with lived experience of racism, and will use learning to co-design and co-deliver learning opportunities to people working in the public and charity sectors delivering Glasgow’s services.
This project and role are funded with thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland.
What does the role involve?
- Organising events including creative peer support workshops, volunteer meetings, and training sessions
- Supporting the co-development and co-delivery of tailored training to people training/working in public-facing services
- Acting as a key point of contact for group participants and volunteers, building relationships with them and responding to queries and concerns
- Outreach work with people from Black and minority ethnic communities (including refugees and people seeking asylum) and organisations working with them across Glasgow
Requirements
What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?
- Demonstrable experience of organising and running community led initiatives
- Experience of supporting event management, both in person and online
- Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with individuals and organisations across a wide variety of backgrounds
- We are particularly interested in hearing from people with lived experience of the challenges faced by Black and minority ethnic Communities
Safeguarding is Everyone’s business – Mental Health Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all its beneficiaries, those who surround them, its staff, volunteers, and anyone else who comes into contact with its services and expects all trustees, staff, and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures (proof of eligibility to work in the UK, proof of residency and satisfactory employment screening, including a Disclosure check and two most recent references) along with 3-year renewals of Disclosure checks. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.
Other information
If you think your skills match and you’d like to be part of a dynamic and growing organisation, please complete and submit your application below. Please ensure you attach an up to date CV and statement of suitability answering all points of the person specification. Applications will close at 5pm on Monday 7th October 2024 and we are unable to accept late applications. Interviews are planned for Tuesday 22 October. You will be asked to deliver a presentation on the day of the interview.
We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. Diversity and inclusion is a strategic priority for us as an employer and mental health charity, and we are proud to be signatories of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter and the Disability Confident Committed Scheme. Applications from under-represented sections of the community are actively encouraged.
If you have a disability, require any additional support or have any questions regarding the role, please contact us. We make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and during employment. Disabled candidates who meet all the essential person specification criteria will be offered an interview. Therefore, please do ensure you tick the relevant box on the application form and clearly indicate in your application/covering letter if you consider yourself to meet the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 / Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
We are currently operating mostly digital recruitment (including interviews via video conferencing). We have moved to a hybrid working model of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office and the rest working from home.
We look forward to hearing from you!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Join a team that is changing places and changing lives.
Groundwork is the community charity with a green heart. We believe that big global issues – the economy, the environment – have a big local impact. Groundwork operates throughout the UK helping communities find practical solutions to the challenges they face.
The Fundraising Officer supports the generation of income, principally for Groundwork activities across the East of England. Working with business development colleagues and delivery staff you will help to identify income sources, approach funders and partners, develop and write bids, and contribute towards the annual income of the Trust.
Salary range : £26,182 - £30,832 pro rata (depending on relevant experience)
Term: Min 22.5 hours – Max 25 hours per week, permanent
Location: East of England, with opportunities for home working
In this role, you will monitor the external funding environment to identify suitable sources of charitable trust and foundation funding and tender opportunities for projects and programmes of activity. You will use your communication skills to write high quality, persuasive copy that brings the charities work to life for potential funders, such as charitable trusts, BIG lottery, local authorities and central government. In return we offer a supportive working environment, lots of variety in your work and the opportunity to develop your skills and professional knowledge.
Ideally, you will have experience of successful grant funding from Trusts, foundations, lottery distributors or similar, together with demonstrable experience of undertaking high quality research. The ability to quickly develop a detailed understanding of wide ranging and complex topics is essential as is a genuine interest and enthusiasm towards fundraising work.
If you are looking for an inclusive, family friendly organisation which offers flexibility, a supportive culture, an employee assistance programme together with the opportunity to develop your skills we would like to hear from you.
Groundwork East is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.
For more information about this post, please go to our website. To apply, please send a short covering letter explaining how you meet the job requirements along with your CV.
Closing Date: Monday 30 September 2024
Interview Date: Wednesday 9 October 2024 via Teams
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We are hiring! We have a job vacancy for an Early Intervention Project Worker to join Shine.
Shine has a membership of over 14,000 members living with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus and associated conditions and over 6,500 associated members.
Our Little Stars project for 0–12-year-olds has been established for over 5 years supporting younger members and their families with their diagnosis and beyond. We also have a growing Teen membership known as FIRE (Friendship, Independence, Resilience, Equality) Working alongside our multi skilled, established team, you will be supporting members across all age groups and building on the great foundations already in place.
We are looking for an Early Intervention Project Worker who can cover the South of England, primarily you will be home based, supporting members through phone calls and using online platforms. You will be required to attend clinics, events and meet members one to one where necessary within your allocated area and occasionally across wider areas and nationally.
Purpose of the role
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To deliver Shine's Little Stars (funded by The National Lottery Community Fund) project for 0–12-year-olds, supporting early years and younger members with their families, their diagnosis and beyond across the Southern Region. To provide advice, support and guidance to enable people with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus to access the correct benefits to become financially stable, the right services to improve their health and well-being, and to better co-ordinate their support and independence through a variety of methods.
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To improve the life wellbeing of children 0-12 years old with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus by promoting independence and providing them and their families with early intervention support.
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To create a community whereby those affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus can connect with others, are empowered through knowledge and feel confident in the support networks surrounding them.
Shine will offer you:
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A competitive salary of £28,471 (Actual £22,777 for 28 hours per week)
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3% pension contribution
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25 days holiday plus bank holidays + additional discretionary leave between Christmas and New Year (pro-rata for part-time hours)
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Support to learn and develop
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Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
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Broadband allowance
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Additional annual leave due to length of service
If you would like to have a chat about the role in more detail or have any questions, please give us a call and ask to speak to Sally Hammond, our Children and families Manager (England)
Shine is a Disability Confident employer and will offer guaranteed interviews if a disabled applicant meets the minimum criteria for the job.
To apply please submit your CV and supporting statement, which should outline your interest and explain how you meet the role criteria.
*Please note applications without a supporting statement will not be accepted*
Closing date: 11pm Thursday 3rd October 2024
Interviews: Monday 14th October 2024 (Depending on location in person or virtual)
Please note: we reserve the right to interview suitable candidates before the closing date, therefore we encourage applications as soon as possible.
Providing specialist advice and support for spina bifida and hydrocephalus
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £34,085.47 (plus London Weighting of £5,023.71 if applicable)
Location: Remote, office based or flexible working
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours
Closing date:Thursday the 10th of October at 11:30pm
Are you passionate about engaging supporters, being audience-led, and building outstanding supporter journeys, with a proven track record of working on projects and campaigns to engage, retain and develop supporters or customers across a range of direct marketing and digital channels? Then join Shelter as Senior Direct Marketing Executive in our Retention team and you could soon be putting your skills and experience to excellent use at the heart of our Individual Giving team.
About the role
This pivotal role will see you working with colleagues across the IG team and with wider fundraising colleagues to deliver the Individual Giving (IG) and Retention strategies, working to:
- Increase lifetime value of cash, regular giving and lottery supporters
- Manage key projects and exceptional fundraising campaigns with significant income and expenditure targets
- Give supporters more control of how they give, when we contact them and the content that will mean most to them at their stage in their supporter journey.
- Make sure that each campaign builds strong supporter relationships and long-term commitment to Shelter
- Develop inspiring multi-channel integrated campaigns to create accurate, consistent and engaging experiences at every supporter touchpoint.
- You’ll have the opportunity to deliver audience-led new product and propositions to engage and retain supporters in innovative ways.
- You’ll work across teams as part of our matrix colleague, collaborating on new strategies for creating
- Manage budgets for individual campaigns and help with forecasting income and expenditure targets
About you
Passionate about outstanding supporter experiences and maximising income opportunities, you have demonstrated experience of direct marketing and digital channels such as direct mail, SMS, telemarketing and email.
You’re also used to optimising and reviewing campaigns and aren’t afraid to share both failures and successes. You’ll be highly collaborative, flexible and diplomatic in your approach to managing internal and external stakeholders to deliver results.
What’s more, you excel in analysis and intelligent use of data, are great at utilising insight, including the motivations, interests and behaviours of supporters to guide decisions and have a demonstrated knowledge of project management and development, and will be able to manage multiple projects at once.
You’re happy to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas, methods and processes too, like to horizon scan and keep ahead of emerging trends and are comfortable working in matrix teams.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
Our Individual Giving team sits within our successful, growing Income Generation directorate and consists of three programmes - Supporter Acquisition, Direct Dialogue and Supporter Retention and Development. Together, we deliver a diverse programme of work with ambitious income targets that support our organisational strategy, across cash, regular giving and lottery products. We’ve grown quite a bit over the past few years and benefitted from both investment and opportunity for innovation. That’s resulted in us generating over £20m of unrestricted income every year. We’re also welcoming and supportive, firmly believe in developing our people and can offer you every opportunity to progress.
How to apply
Please click ‘Apply for Job’ below. You are required to submit a CV and a supporting statement. Please provide specific examples of how you meet the criteria in the 'About you' section of this advert approximately 1 page in length, following the STAR format, and ensure you demonstrate how you address the following behaviours listed below throughout your responses:
- We enable decision making
- We create change and align behind our strategy
- We are open to risks and learning from our experiences
Any applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter.
We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
Safeguarding statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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Mottingham Big Local Refocused (MBLR) Partnership is delighted to be recruiting a Project Support & Communications Officer.
Mottingham is one of the local areas in England benefiting from £1 million Big Lottery investment. You will play a key role in the delivering of our plan and vision for the Mottingham Big Local area. Working alongside our MBLR Programme Manager, the person appointed will undertake a variety of tasks that include communications, grants administration and providing support to the resident led MBLR Partnership.
Working to implement our communications plan via established communication channels, you will be responsible for managing the partnership’s newsletters, social media and the MBLR website. You will also aid the MBLR Programme Manager with the administration of our Community Grants programme.
The person appointed will have experience of providing committee/Board support including minute taking and agenda distribution.
Hosted by Community Links Bromley, you will report to the local resident led Partnership
Please note that we do not accept CV's
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Do you have a passion for inspiring and engaging people with the natural world? Are you an enthusiastic team player able to deliver a range of key skills to support an experienced and fast-moving project team?
The Project Support Officer (“PSO”) role is fundamental to the delivery of our Wilder Connections project. The role requires a range of skills and experience across the following elements which are described in greater detail in the Recruitment pack which can be found on our website and include:
- Activity administration
- Supporting practical activity delivery – group visits and events
- Volunteer administration
- Data and photographic record keeping
- Marketing and social media
- General project support
If you’re passionate about nature and eager to make a real impact on our journey to a Wilder Doddington then we’d love to hear from you.Full details and online application form can be found on our website www. doddingtonhall. com/jobs/
The role is partly funded by a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund which continues until the end of 2027, but our intention is that the role should extend beyond this time.
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This vacancy has arisen as the result of the retirement of our current Fundraising & Marketing Director in Spring 2025. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced leader to take over this pivotal role within the charity.
Based at either of our two sites in North Weald and near Colchester (with regular attendance at the other site), you will oversee the strategic management of our charity's fundraising, marketing, and communications. You will lead in the creation, development, and implementation of a range of revenue-focused strategies, and have overall accountability for a large team that generates the funds needed to keep the service operational. As a key member of our Executive Team, you'll collaborate closely with our CEO and other members to drive the delivery of our short, medium, and long-term goals.
Role responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of robust and diverse income generation and marketing strategies that meet both the current, and future, operational needs of the charity with a focus on lottery growth.
- Advise and support the CEO and Board on all fundraising and marketing matters.
- Develop and deliver income diversification plans.
- Lead the team in a positive and inspirational way to maximise all opportunities across our region.
- Develop and build working relationships with key stakeholders and other air ambulance charities.
What we’re looking for
You will have extensive fundraising experience in a compatible context, specifically across key areas of income generation. You must be target driven to achieve income objectives set. You will have appropriate qualifications or be qualified through experience in fundraising and marketing and/or communications.
We're seeking an applicant with excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, high emotional intelligence, and the ability to build effective relationships at all levels. The ideal candidate will have experience working at a senior executive level, demonstrating sound judgement, political and commercial acumen, and exceptional planning and prioritisation skills. You must be resilient, target-focused, and capable of managing multiple tasks under tight deadlines while delivering exceptional standards.
EHAAT is a charity which provides vital life-saving care to critically ill and injured patients across Essex, Hertfordshire and the surrounding areas.
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We are looking for an experienced Grants Writer and Coordinator to lead on expanding income from a sustainable portfolio of trusts and foundations. The post holder will be responsible for developing and executing the strategy to significantly increase our restricted and unrestricted income, aiming to surpass £500,000 this year. This role involves coordinating a diverse portfolio of high-value trusts, foundations, and grant-makers, including the National Lottery, Children in Need, and other major grant schemes, charitable trusts, and foundations.
We are looking for a skilled bid writer with extensive project management experience to transform our core and project work into compelling fundraising propositions. The ideal candidate will be proactive, with a proven track record in high-value fundraising from trusts and foundations or a similar field. The Grants & Trusts Coordinator will cultivate and maintain key relationships with funders capable of contributing four to six-figure sums.
The key tasks for this role include working closely with the CEO to develop a plan for multi-year income growth from grant funding, aligned with the Charity’s strategic objectives and income targets. The role requires developing the strategic direction for grants and trusts funding, ensuring a pipeline of high-value bids and a sustainable income stream. You will identify, engage, cultivate, and coordinate a portfolio of high-value trust and foundation supporters, providing effective relationship management alongside the CEO.
Securing both restricted and unrestricted income for Platform for Life involves initiating, managing, and developing a comprehensive programme of applications to a wide range of funding sources. You will identify funders that align with the work carried out by Platform for Life, and collaborate with the CEO, colleagues and trustees to produce high quality, innovative bids, ensuring the strongest possible application is submitted. You will then coordinate and create the funding, mid-term and completion reports for funders.
For further details of this role including a full job description, please refer to the 'Role Information Pack'. The position is a permanent hybrid role (some office based time required), with a starting salary of £35,000 FTE (0.4FTE – 15 hours per week). The part-time hours of work are 15 hours over 3 days, ideally Tuesday to Thursday from 9:30am to 2:30pm (Flexibility available).
The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 27th September 2024 (4.30pm)
Platform for Life prides itself on being a flexible working employer including flexible home-working arrangements. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS Check. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.
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