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Head of Growth, Development and Outreach (Maternity Cover)

Location: Home based, with regular travel across the UK for work.

Contract: Full time, 35hrs per week, 12 months maternity cover

Salary: £47,000

Closing Date: 14th February 2025

Interview: A selection day will be held 6th March 2025 at our National Support Centre in London (travel expenses to the selection day will be paid subject to prior approval)

Are you a first-class leader, manager coach and mentor with experience of leading growth in a volunteer involving community organisation?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.

We are currently looking for a Head of Growth, Development & Outreach to cover 12 months maternity leave.

About the role

Reporting to the Director of Young People, Volunteer & Business Support the postholder will provide our disbursed team of Growth & Development Workers with clear management, guidance, support and advice on growth, development, volunteer recruitment and retention. The role will coordinate and drive forward our work in these area, helping the Sea Cadets to make a difference to the lives of even more young people across the UK.

The postholder will have excellent management, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to manage a diverse workload and operate in a collaborative way with others. They will have an understanding of issues facing volunteering, recruitment, retention and growth in voluntary organisations and the effective management and support of remote workers is essential.

Responsibilities

The following is a list of the principal tasks of the Head of Growth, Development & Outreach and is not intended to be an exhaustive list:

• Provide line management for the Project Coordinators, Growth & Development Team Leaders and through them the Growth & Development Workers.
• Providing both management support and technical advice on growth, development and volunteer recruitment, retention and support functions.
• Contribute to the strategic development and sustainable growth of The Sea Cadets nationally.
• Lead and manage the effective implementation of new and ongoing projects that support outreach, growth, development, volunteer and/or cadet recruitment and retention, including but not limited to externally funded projects, liaising with and reporting to funders as required
• Support and advise employees, volunteers and others on the growth and development of the Sea Cadets.

Requirements

• Experience of managing and supporting a disbursed staff team
• Experience of successful growth & development in a community organisation context
• Experience of working with volunteers and a good understanding of how to ensure they are effectively recruited, managed and supported
• Experience of working and/or volunteering in a voluntary youth organisation
• Experience of delivering externally funded projects through the effective support and management of both staff and volunteers
• Experience of liaising with and reporting to external funders

For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack attached.

Benefits

• Flexible Working hours
• Cycle to work scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 2 years
• Life assurance (4x salary) for those that join the pension
• Private medical insurance
• Pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.

If you are interested in this Head of Growth, Development and Outreach vacancy, please apply now!

Additional Information

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo a criminal record check.

At Unlock we want to ensure that people with criminal records have access to the best quality support possible.

We have our website which receives over 1.5 million visits, and our helpline with nearly 10,000 contacts every year; now we want to take this support out into communities to make sure our expertise gets to everyone who needs it. With over 12.5 million people affected by a criminal record and with this number growing, we know our service is even more important than ever.

We want to build a network of community organisations that are connected to Unlock and have access to specialist training in supporting people with criminal records. This new role is pivotal to achieving the vision of Better Advice for All.

If you’d like to be part of this vision and the role fits with your skills and experience, we look forward to your application.

Designability is a national charity that supports disabled people to live with greater independence. Our expertise is in person-centred design, creating products and services with and for disabled people to enable greater freedom and choice, every day.

Our work focuses on understanding the needs, challenges and aspirations of disabled people by placing them at the heart of everything we do. Through person-centred design, these invaluable insights, combined with creativity and specialist skills, help to inform design decisions at every stage of a project. This results in innovative, engaging and practical designs of accessible products and services to transform the everyday lives of disabled people.

Over the last 50+ years, we have worked on a range of pioneering projects from the multi-award-winning Accessible Pushchair design and national guidance on Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging to our flagship Wizzybug powered wheelchairs for very young children. We collaborate with organisations, businesses and partnerships to help create positive change in the world of accessible design. To date, we've transformed over 300,000 lives in the UK.

Here at Designability, we will be working on many exciting developments over the next few years. Our plans including growing the team, moving the workshop to a new Bath location, starting multiple new projects, and embarking on our largest-ever piece of research with disabled people to shape our future priorities.

We’re at the beginning of a journey to develop and diversify our income streams at Designability. This includes the implementation of a new major donor programme, a new corporate partnership strategy and developing our consultancy income.

We’re looking for someone who:

· Has a successful track record of personally securing five and six figure gifts.

· Experience of providing excellent and bespoke relationship management.

· Wants to lead the development of a new programme of engagement opportunities for donors.

· A great storyteller who understands donor motivations and how to match them with opportunities.

· Has experience in identifying and researching opportunities to create a prospect pipeline.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic team at an exciting time of growth across our charity, and to make a meaningful difference through our work supporting disabled people to live with greater independence.

Benefits that come with working for Designability
Looking after its employees is important to Designability – supporting everyone to be happy and healthy means that we live our values of being creative, practical and inclusive and in turn meet our mission to enable disabled people to live with greater independence. We offer a range of employee benefits, including flexible working, a generous annual leave allowance and substantial employer contribution pension scheme.

Designability is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We are proud to be a Real Living Wage employer and accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, committed to making reasonable adjustments.

To apply: Please submit your CV and a covering letter, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria contained in the Job Description. We are happy to provide information about this role in alternative formats where possible and receive applications in alternative formats.

All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding checks, including checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment references.

Closing Date for applications: Applications are being taken on a rolling recruitment basis

Interview date: Successful applicants will be offered a mutually convenient interview date. Interviews will usually be held at our Bath offices.

Start date: Early April 2025

Designability is a national charity that supports disabled people to live with greater independence. Our expertise is in person-centred design, creating products and services with and for disabled people to enable greater freedom and choice, every day.

Our work focuses on understanding the needs, challenges and aspirations of disabled people by placing them at the heart of everything we do. Through person-centred design, these invaluable insights, combined with creativity and specialist skills, help to inform design decisions at every stage of a project. This results in innovative, engaging and practical designs of accessible products and services to transform the everyday lives of disabled people.

Over the last 50+ years, we have worked on a range of pioneering projects from the multi-award-winning Accessible Pushchair design and national guidance on Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging to our flagship Wizzybug powered wheelchairs for very young children. We collaborate with organisations, businesses and partnerships to help create positive change in the world of accessible design. To date, we've transformed over 300,000 lives in the UK.

Here at Designability, we will be working on many exciting developments over the next few years. Our plans including growing the team, moving the workshop to a new Bath location, starting multiple new projects, and embarking on our largest-ever piece of research with disabled people to shape our future priorities.

We’re at the beginning of a journey to develop and diversify our income streams at Designability. This includes the implementation of a new major donor programme, a new corporate partnership strategy and developing our consultancy income.

We’re looking for someone who:

· Has a successful track record of securing new income within a five-figure range and above.

· Is a confident relationship builder and communicator at all levels.

· Has proven experience in client and partnership management to maintain strong relationships.

· An expert networker, able to spot opportunities to upsell and cross well to maximise opportunity for the client and Designability.

· Understand donor and client motivations and able to create bespoke propositions to match these.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic team at an exciting time of growth across our charity, and to make a meaningful difference through our work supporting disabled people to live with greater independence.

Benefits that come with working for Designability
Looking after its employees is important to Designability – supporting everyone to be happy and healthy means that we live our values of being creative, practical and inclusive and in turn meet our mission to enable disabled people to live with greater independence. We offer a range of employee benefits, including flexible working, a generous annual leave allowance and substantial employer contribution pension scheme.

Designability is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We are proud to be a Real Living Wage employer and accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, committed to making reasonable adjustments.

To apply: Please submit your CV and a covering letter, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria contained in the Job Description. We are happy to provide information about this role in alternative formats where possible and receive applications in alternative formats.

All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding checks, including checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment references. 

Closing Date for applications: Applications are being taken on a rolling recruitment basis

Interview date: Successful applicants will be offered a mutually convenient interview date. Interviews will usually be held at our Bath offices.

Start date: Early April 2025

SOS Children’s Villages UK is part of a global federation, which exists to ensure that each child and young person grows up with the healthy relationships they need to become their strongest selves. We are the world’s largest non-governmental organisation focused on supporting children and young people who don’t have, or who are at risk of losing, parental care.

We are now looking for a UK-based dynamic Head of Communications and Digital (maternity cover – 12 months from mid-May) to lead on the strategic implementation of communications and digital initiatives.

• Enhance our brand visibility in the UK
• Ensure effective engagement and communication with our supporters
• Create and implement our digital and content strategies
• Leverage creative content and campaigns
• Work with colleagues in the UK and across the SOS Children’s Villages Federation to achieve results. 
• Line manage two capable direct reports

If you are a proactive and collaborative communications and digital professional adept at managing a diverse range of priorities, looking for a pivotal role within a friendly, flexible, and supportive team, then this could be for you!

To Apply

Please read the full Candidate Pack attached which contains the entire job description and person specification, and submit a copy of your CV and a covering letter.

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 11 February 2025, 9.00 am UK time. We reserve the right to close the application process early if a successful candidate is found.

Please note: The post-holder must be UK-based. We are unable to provide employment sponsorship if required and unfortunately cannot progress applications without the required right to live and work in the UK on a permanent contract.