Programme Manager Jobs in Remote
We are looking for an experienced professional to manage and develop our holistic immigration and generalist advice and casework services, including line management and supervision of relevant staff and volunteers.
supporting refugees, asylum seekers and those with no recourse to public funds
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
A fantastic opportunity for a fundraiser to join our dynamic, friendly and supportive fundraising team. You will be reporting to the Lead for Corporate & Community Engagement and working in a very varied and exciting working environment.
The perfect candidate will enjoy forging positive and robust relationships with corporate partners and local small businesses across Berkshire and into surrounding counties, delivering vital income for our charity. This will include assisting them with organising and delivering events.
You will use your creative and professional skillset to provide high-quality account management, stewardship, and growth in existing corporate partnerships.
You will work proactively to generate new business leads to secure valuable partnerships for our charity. You will undertake research, create compelling proposals for a range of audiences and pitch to companies to secure their support.
This role will suit an individual who has solid experience of fundraising and wants to develop their career in corporate partnership management.
Based at our state-of-the-art children’s hospice just outside Maidenhead, this role is a brilliant opportunity for someone to add value to a growing fundraising team. If you are passionate about raising money to help, make our services available to all families that need us and will reflect our core values in all that you do, we would love to hear from you.
As well as a competitive salary, we offer a generous annual leave entitlement, access to a pension scheme as well as private medical insurance and life assurance. You will also have free on-site parking and will benefit from an Employee Assistance Programme.
We provide specialist care and support to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, and their families, across Berkshire




At TLG, we’re passionate about building an exceptional staff team that love making a difference to struggling children across the UK. We are continually on the lookout for great people to journey with us and join our vision. An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a graduate to train up in the specialism of Executive Support, who would consider a career in this profession. The EA to the Chief Executive is an integral and trusted role right at the heart of the action. We are looking for someone who is excited about helping senior leaders with executive tasks, operations, organisational efficiency, problem solving, the ability to react and pivot as things change.
The successful candidate will have a natural leadership gift, will be comfortable with challenging the status quo, and be able to lead up and across the organisation with heads of departments and directors, to deliver the strategy and agenda that the Chief Executive & Executive Director are working towards. They will be trained in all aspects of executive support, working closely with the Head of Executive Strategy. TLG is interested in an individual that has a proactive instinct to fulfil the role successfully, to anticipate the needs of senior leaders, and provide effective problem solving ahead of issues emerging, with a relational approach who can partner effectively and negotiate well across the team at all levels.
TLG is a Christian charity and, as a team, we want to bring our faith to the work we do; as such, we are recruiting an individual with a strong and vibrant Christian faith. We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week
Closing Date: 27th February
Initial Interviews: 5th March Online
Final Interviews: 10th March at our National Support Office in West Yorkshire
An exciting opportunity to play a crucial role securing the funding needed to help young people thrive. At an exciting time of growth for our charity, we are looking for an experienced, driven and enthusiastic Senior Fundraising Manager to join our team. You will take the lead in managing and growing an existing portfolio of trusts and foundations, developing strong relationships and securing vital funding that enables us to continue to deliver our mission.
What is Jamie’s Farm? Jamie’s Farm is a charity that supports young people by combining therapeutic work, farming, and purposeful activities to help them thrive. Through residential visits to our working farms, we provide a nurturing environment where young people can reflect, build confidence, and develop the resilience they need to overcome personal challenges. As part of the dynamic HQ team we offer a beautiful and unique supportive working environment, a competitive salary, and the opportunity to be part of a team that is passionate about making a real difference.
More about the role: As Senior Fundraising Manager you will write compelling grant applications and reports that clearly communicate the impact of our work, ensuring we maintain and increase funding in line with agreed targets. You will use your excellent interpersonal skills to cultivate lasting partnerships with funders. Taking a proactive approach, you will identify and secure new funding opportunities, expanding the network of trusts and foundations that support Jamie’s Farm.
About you: We are looking for someone with proven experience securing funding from trusts and foundations, with a strong track record of writing successful applications for significant grants (£200k+). You will be a confident and persuasive writer, able to communicate our impact concisely and compellingly, while building strong and long-lasting funder relationships.
Proactive and tenacious, you excel at identifying and pursuing new funding opportunities. Highly organised, with keen attention to detail, you can manage multiple applications and deadlines effectively. You are also eager to embrace new ways of working, using AI and digital tools to enhance efficiency.
Please see the full job description, desired experience and employee benefits by exploring our recruitment pack below. Don’t meet every single requirement? We’d still love to hear from you – your unique skills and experience could be just what we’re looking for.
How to Apply: Please apply via the Jamie’s Farm website by clicking on the “Apply” button below. Read through the full recruitment pack and return both a completed application and equal opportunities form to the email address provided. We look forward to hearing from you!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We Are Survivors are looking for an experienced therapeutic manager to come and join our Community Team to help us support survivors and their supporters across Greater Manchester.
The organisation has an ambitious strategy to ensure that #NoMaleSurvivorIsLeftBehind and is looking for a new therapy services manager to help us achieve this.
You will help us to provide key services across Greater Manchester. The Community team is made of therapists, group, and community workers to support men and boys to access the services they need. The role we are recruiting for is to grow this team from our central hub across wider Greater Manchester.
This role will be a job share with our existing Therapy Service Manager. The Community Therapy team deliver trauma informed therapy to survivors and their loved ones. The managers will work with the Community Services Manager and Senior Practitioners to ensure a smooth-running service and good clinical governance. There will be a small caseload as part of the role.
Role Purpose To manage specific services and teams, ensuring the provision of quality assured support services to male survivors and their loved ones. This role will be up to 12 months providing Maternity Cover to the existing Service Manager.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
• To manage the operational and clinical duty of care for support services
• To maintain the safe and inclusive provision of spaces for all clients
• To provide Line Management, guidance and professional and pastoral support to all client facing services staff and volunteers
• To effectively lead and successfully manage the provision of client services, as designed, and governed by the organisation, including ensuring KPIs are met, and data handling and reporting is accurate.
• To ensure that all services managed, effectively recorded, and identify threats and trends that will result in responding effectively to meet client’s needs.
• To maintain and deliver relevant services to a small caseload of clients.
• Manage and deliver specific projects as directed and agreed by the Executive Team.
• To support the further development of the services that meet client’s needs.
In return for your time, experience, and commitment to the organisation, you will receive.
- A competitive salary.
- Annual leave package with incremental rises plus bank holidays.
- Company sick pay.
- Birthday annual leave.
- Monthly clinical supervision.
- Pension contribution.
- A range of discount and benefit programmes.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Prospectus are excited to be partnering with our client as they search for a Philanthropy Manager to join their incredible, expanding team. This is a permanent role with flexible working options and hybrid working from their London office.
The organisation invests where inequality is greatest by helping women who are forgotten — the women survivors of war and conflict. In Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, South Sudan and many other locations, women learn skills to rebuild their families and communities through the charity’s programme.
Their global community has invested in the power of over 550,000 women across 17 conflict-affected countries, to create a ripple effect that makes the world more equal, peaceful, and prosperous.
This role will join a small and dedicated Corporate and Philanthropy team who deliver on a seven-figure annual income budget.
The new Philanthropy Manager will play a pivotal role in the continued growth of major donor giving. With several dedicated and engaged high-value supporters already committed to their mission, their focus is now on developing new business of mid-level donor portfolio. This role will therefore suit someone who has come from a fundraising role in Philanthropy, or perhaps Corporate Partnerships, with some experience across Major Gifts too.
With a vision to grow global philanthropy, an element of this role will support in developing new major donor relationships in collaboration with colleagues across UK, Germany and US teams.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with previous experience in developing and growing a mid-level giving programme. This role would suit someone who is based anywhere in the UK that is happy to travel to the London office.
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application, then please contact Flora Cunningham at Prospectus.
If you are interested in applying to this position, 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. You’ll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.
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Highway Vineyard Church is a growing multicultural church in the Borough of Newham in East London. We are a multisite church seeking to contagiously and compassionately demonstrate and communicate the love of Jesus to the people of our city.
This is an exciting time of change and growth at Highway Vineyard church and we are currently putting together an ambitious five year plan. The Operations Manager's main goal is to help us turn our vision into action!
We are seeking an experienced and highly organised individual to join our staff team. This is a broad, operational, and strategic senior role that will involve overseeing all of the church's operations in a way that best enables the growth of God's kingdom. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth running of our operations by managing logistics for our multisite church, providing administrative, financial and HR support, and serving as an integral part of our staff team. The ideal candidate will bring strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and a servant-hearted leadership approach.
It is an occupational requirement that to deliver on our charitable purposes, you must be a passionate disciple of Jesus Christ, demonstrating personal growth and accountability , with a commitment to the Christian vision, mission and ethos of Highway Vineyard church
Please submit a CV and Covering later stating how you meet the requirements of the role. Unfortunately applications with no covering letter can not be shortlisted.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are recruiting to a unique specialist housing support project (Ashraya Project) for Male victims of domestic abuse. We have an exciting opportunity for a Domestic Abuse Service Manager - Housing and Immigration Specialist to support Male survivors by leading this pan London Service. This role is a hybrid working role and is based at our London office close to Old Street tube station, for a minimum of one day a week and home working, subject to operational demand.
Do you want to join a committed and inspiring team? Do you want to help make a real difference every day?
Do you have resilience & adaptability? Can you work effectively with a focus on safety and customer service and care?
If yes, then we'd love to hear from you
What we offer:
At Victim Support we believe in attracting & retaining the best people and offer a competitive rewards & benefits package including:
- Flexible working options including hybrid working
- 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, rising to 33 days plus Bank Holidays
- An extra day off for your birthday
- Pension with 5% employer contribution
- Enhanced sick pay allowances, maternity & paternity payments
- High Street, retail, holiday, entertainment & leisure discounts
- Access to our financial wellbeing hub & salary deducted finance
- Employee assistance programme & wellbeing support
- Ongoing training & support with opportunities for career development & progression
- Clinical supervision and group reflective practice
About the role:
This role is home and office based, with travel throughout London. As a Domestic Abuse Service Manager - Housing and Immigration Specialist you will: -
- Lead on the development of responses to the needs of male victim/survivors with housing and immigration needs within London and the development of relationships with partner agencies in this area.
- Effectively manage and develop a high quality, innovative and pro-active domestic abuse team.
- Ensure that the service prioritises the safety, security and dignity of service users and their children
You will need:
- A passion for working with victim/survivors and a thorough understanding of domestic abuse and its impact.
- Knowledge of the issues facing men, women and children affected by violence against women and girls along with the ability to identify victim/survivor individual needs
- Have a thorough understanding of migration and asylum routes inclusive of international and UK law and rights and the procedures for applying for refugee/asylum status in the UK
- Experience of working with housing agencies or in a housing setting in the context of domestic abuse to provide advice
- A thorough understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse and harmful practices and its impact specifically on men but inclusive of the significant impact on women, children, families, and communities.
- Experience of managing a team delivering front line support to victims or domestic abuse or vulnerable people to a high standard
- To be non-judgemental, non-directive and anti-discriminatory with an approach to empowering victim/survivors of domestic abuse
- The ability to speak Sylheti/Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Turkish, Kurdish, Polish, Gujarati, Somali, Yoruba, Akan, French, Lingala, Igbo or Arabic is desirable.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
About Us:
Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity providing a range of specialist services to people who have been affected by crime across England and Wales. We work towards a world where there are fewer victims but who have stronger rights, better support and a real influence in the Criminal Justice System. Everyone at VS is driven by our Vision Ambitions and Values to play their part in making a difference for those who experience crime and traumatic events. Working for VS gives you the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing high quality services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.
Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.
Victim Support strives to represent the diverse communities we serve and are passionate about creating an environment where all staff and volunteers feel respected and heard. Being a diverse organisation with an inclusive culture is integral to us being able to meet our aim of ensuring that anyone who is a victim of crime gets the support they need.
As part of our commitment to the Race at Work Charter we particularly welcome applicants from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. VS is also a Disability Confident Employer and we provide a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for candidates that are disabled and meet all essential criteria for a role.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.
How to apply:
To apply for this role please follow the link below to the Jobs page on our website and complete the application form demonstrating how you meet the essential shortlisting criteria.
We look forward to hearing from you.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date.
Project Manager
We are recruiting for a Project Manager to join the IPS Grow team, in this hybrid working role.
Position: Project Manager
Location: London/Hybrid SE11
Hours: Full-time
Salary: £56,500 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 3rd March at midday
The Team
IPS Grow is a national programme designed to support the expansion of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services in mental health, primary care, and drug and alcohol teams across England. The programme is led by the organisation in partnership with the Centre for Mental Health. It is funded by NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID).
About the Role
You will primarily be responsible for developing and managing projects. These projects can be incredibly varied with a complex array of stakeholders making for an exciting career. Some of the skills that you will be using include:
- Strategic, analytical & creative thinking
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
- People management
- Communication skills
Key responsibilities include:
- Plan and define project scope: Develop detailed project plans, including scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements to achieve project goals.
- Coordinate and lead teams working in a matrixed way: Assemble, lead, and motivate project teams, ensuring effective collaboration among team members and stakeholders.
- Manage budgets and resources: Allocate resources effectively and oversee project budgets to ensure financial goals are met while avoiding cost overruns.
- Monitor project progress: Track key performance indicators (KPIs), schedules, and milestones to ensure the project stays on track and meets deadlines.
- Risk management: Identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement contingency plans to address unforeseen challenges
- Quality assurance: Oversee quality control processes to ensure that project deliverables meet organisational standards and commissioner expectations.
- Document and report: Maintain comprehensive project documentation and present progress reports to senior management or stakeholders as required.
- Lead on evaluation: Conduct lessons learnt sessions and post-project evaluations to assess performance against objectives and provide recommendations for future.
The teamwork from wherever best suits the tasks of the day, coming together in the main London office when that's needed.
About You
You will have a passion for developing and supporting team members with the ability to organise and structure thinking in developing approaches/plans with teams and clients. You will be able to demonstrate a high level of trust, integrity, empathy, and commitment to driving social change.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has an entrepreneurial spirit, curious nature, and comfortable working with ambiguity.
- Is a good communicator who is comfortable working with teams, clients, and other stakeholders.
- Has a willingness to develop understanding of relevant regulatory compliance and risk management requirements
- Has the ability to manage teams to produce accurate, thoughtful, high-quality work to deadlines, understanding and working through client need.
About the Organisation
Since 2007, the organisation has helped to pioneer a series of programmes to improve outcomes for individuals with complex needs. These innovations, including the social impact bond model, have mobilised more than £500 million globally. With sister organisations in the US, Israel, the Netherlands and India the organisation has network of partners across the world.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We actively encourage applications from under-represented and minoritised groups, including those with lived experience of the social issues we are working to address. The organisation is an equal opportunities employer and support a range of flexible working options.
The application process uses Applied, a platform developed by the Behavioural Insights Team, to record your application. Applied is focused on using behavioural and data science to improve hiring decisions and minimise unconscious bias in the recruitment process. You will be asked to respond to four situational based questions, which will allow you to express your ability.
Other roles you may have experience with could include Project Manager, Project Lead, Lead Project Manager, Junior Project Manager, Project Facilitator, Project Coordinator, Project Support. #INDNFP
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
We’ve recently developed a highly focused team strategy, aiming to grow existing relationships with small and medium sized trusts, whilst identifying and building strong relationships with larger trusts, to secure high level, long-term support.
Our perfect candidate will have experience in trusts and foundations fundraising, managing a large budget and securing high value donations through identifying and building relationships. They will also have the confidence to implement and deliver on a new strategy. You’ll be a proactive self-starter with creative flair who has strong attention to detail and excellent research, relationship building and writing skills.
In this job, you’ll work closely with the Head of Partnerships & Philanthropy, Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager, our Trustees and the wider organisation to identify engaging funding opportunities and remove barriers. You’ll also be leading the trusts officer (direct report) and the team assistant (non-direct report) to manage their own pipelines and small trust mailings.
With our new strategy in place, there’s lots of exciting opportunities for you to grow and develop the trusts and foundations portfolio, with the potential to transform our fundraising longer term.
You’ll be instrumental in helping our team to reach our ambitious fundraising targets and ultimately improving the lives of everyone affected by bowel cancer.
We’re the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Charity Retail Operations Manager to manage the operations of our two charity shops - both working in the shops and administratively, while ensuring a successful experience for our student learners (aged 16-25) with learning differences.
Harington is an Ofsted-regulated Independent Training Provider based in north London, this academic year supporting 53 young people with learning differences. We specialise in employability skills in retail and horticulture. Our two charity shops, in Highgate and Hornsey, provide income for our charity and work experience placements for our students.
We are seeking a highly driven, enthusiastic and experienced Charity Retail Operations Manager to lead both shops, manage stock, finances, health and safety, and drive growth.
The role requires experience in retail, ideally working with young people with learning differences, alongside strong leadership and commercial skills.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your CV and a Personal Statement (no more than 2 x A4 pages), identifying how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification, and why you are interested in becoming Charity Retail Operations Manager for Harington.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Patrons and Legacies Manager
Ref: LL/25/01
Part-Time - 28 hours per week (0.8 FTE), worked between Monday and Friday
£38,929.50 - £45,417.75 FTE per annum, plus benefits
St James’s Square, London SW1 (with flexibility in line with hybrid working policy)
About The London Library
For 180 years, The London Library has stood as one of the UK's greatest literary institutions, inspiring creativity, and ideas. Our esteemed members, past and present, include literary giants like Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf, and contemporary authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Sarah Waters. Our collection boasts around one million books, a vast eLibrary, and an invaluable postal loans service, making it a sanctuary for those who cherish the written word. We are championed by our President, Helena Bonham Carter CBE, and operate as a registered charity.
About the Role
We are seeking a Patrons and Legacies Manager to join our dedicated Development team.
In this pivotal role, you will:
· Oversee and manage the Library’s regular giving patrons programme - develop and implement strategies to maximise patrons’ income, retain and increase the number of patrons
· Oversee and manage the Library’s legacy giving programme, develop and implement strategies to promote legacy giving, steward legacy pledgers and grow the number of legacy pledgers
· Support with the management of international giving programmes including leading on the US patrons programme
About you
You will have:
· Demonstrable experience of fundraising from individual donors
· Demonstrable experience of donor or patron management and administration, legacy management and an understanding of legacy giving, preferably within a cultural organisation
· Ability to work with absolute discretion, confidentiality, tact and diplomacy
· Excellent communications skills, with meticulous concern for detail and accuracy, able to convey information orally or written in a clear, concise, and friendly manner, and present effectively to groups of people
· Ability to work independently or supportively as part of a team, facilitating and co-ordinating work of others to achieve common goals.
· Be competent in the use of specialist fundraising/membership software and familiar with the Library’s CRM, MS Dynamics, learning new systems quickly
Personal attributes include:
· Self-motivation and confidence, presenting a positive and professional image at all times
· Flexible and adaptable to change, with the ability to play a proactive role in a small office
· Pleasant, approachable and helpful, even under pressure
Why join us?
The London Library offers a friendly, hardworking, and inclusive workplace where we strive to support the diverse needs of our team. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to equality and diversity. Specific adjustments and access needs can be discussed to make this role suitable for you.
If you have the expertise to deliver a great patrons and legacies management experience and are passionate about using your skills to contribute to the development of The London Library, we want to hear from you!
To apply
Please visit our website via the link and complete an application form including the Library's equal opportunities monitoring form.
CLOSING DATE: Sunday 2 March 2025 @ midnight
INTERVIEWS: week commencing 10 March 2025
Please note:
We can only consider candidates with the current right to work in the UK.
We reserve the right to shorten or extend the closing date of any position where a high or low volume of suitable applications are received. Therefore, if you are interested in this role, an early application would be encouraged.
Hay Time Project Manager | Full-time 35 hours per week (part time at four days per week will be considered) | £34,555 - £37,880
Based at our offices in Clapham, near Settle, with a mix of office and home working.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to lead on delivering our new grassland strategy, focused on offering guidance, advice and support to landowners and communities.
You’ll play a critical role in restoring and enhancing wildflower meadows across the Yorkshire Dales and Forest of Bowland, as well as helping people to discover, celebrate and enjoy meadows through training, volunteering and events.
About Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust
We are a small charity doing big things to help to protect and enhance the People, Landscape and Wildlife of the Dales.
For 27 years we have delivered diverse and inspirational projects, helping to plant 1.6 million trees and securing the future of more than 850 hectares of wildflower hay meadows, creating habitats for our wildlife and combatting climate change. We are passionate about inspiring disadvantaged groups and future generations to care for this special area.
About the role
The Hay Time Manager will play a key part in liaising with land managers, partner organisations, volunteers and community groups to develop and deliver annual programmes of restoration and enhancement schemes. You will lead a small team to deliver a calendar of training and events for a range of audiences, as well as ensuring monitoring and evaluation is in place so we are delivering the best impact for the area.
As part of our new strategy, we are developing a small-scale seed collection and growing project, with a focus on growing rarer species to support the delivery of a range of enhancement schemes.
We have strong partnerships in place with other grassland restoration projects and organisation, helping to share best practice and deliver greater impact.
As a Manager at YDMT you will help to support the development and management of new projects and work across all our projects to identify opportunities for cross team working.
We believe the role will be a highly rewarding one, and a real opportunity for someone to develop their skills in a fantastic organisation, whilst benefiting this wonderful area and its communities.
About you
We're looking for someone with a background in grassland restoration and management who can work with a range of landowners, providing advice and guidance.
Your role will focus on managing complex grassland schemes and delivering them within timeframes and budgets.
You will be a highly organised person, who is able to manage a diverse workload. You will have good communication skills and feel comfortable using your own initiative.
Underpinning all of this is your ability to work within our culture – which means sharing our values of being creative, caring, honest and enabling.
Deadline for applications is 9am, Monday 17th March 2025
Would you like to be at the forefront of providing essential funds to cash-strapped human rights organisations both in the UK and abroad?Do you have the necessary skills to make a real difference?To identify, develop relationships with and monitor organisations which do important and sometimes unsung work?
The Human Rights Fund gives grants to progressive groups and organisations which actively promote and defend human rights and seek transformational change.We don’t fund the fashionable and well-endowed, but rather seek to identify where there is real need and where we can make a genuine difference.We typically fund organisations which may be doing unique or unusual work, often in challenging circumstances.We are sympathetic to new and recently-founded organisations and those which have difficulty in raising funds.We are pro-active and do not accept unsolicited applications for funds (which explains why we do not have a website).
We are looking for someone who is a self-starter, well organised and numerate.You should be well-informed about, and have an understanding of, one or more of the issues which our grant-funding programme addresses, namely:
- Palestinian rights
- Alternative media
- Violence against women and girls
- Social justice
You are likely to have experience in either grant giving, working for an NGO or campaigning. You will research potential grantees, conduct due diligence, monitor grantees (which includes developing good relationships) and review grants.
You will help administer our current programme and identify organisations that would benefit from our support.Do you have the experience, drive and necessary skills to make a real difference and help us progress to the next level? If so, then we’d like to hear from you.
Key Tasks
- Within agreed parameters, identify and research potential grantees including due diligence and meeting with leadership of potential grantees
- Considering core versus restricted or project funding
- Monitoring grantees and ensuring compliance with grant requirements
- Annual reviews of grantees including reviewing annual reports etc.
- Keeping an account of grants using Excel
- Assist in reviewing our portfolio of existing grants
- Help develop our grant making strategy
- Help review process for awarding grants and identifying impact
- Keeping our template agreement and other documents under review
- Arranging verification of charitable status of organisations not registered as UK charities
- Analysing whether we make a difference
- Liaising with other funders, fiscal sponsors or charities
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Understanding of and commitment to human rights
- Experience with an NGO, charity or campaign, preferably in areas relevant to the Fund’s work
- Well-informed about, and have an understanding of, one or more of our funding tracks – Palestinian rights, alternative media, violence against women and girls, and social justice
- Good communication skills – both written and verbal
- Good level of numeracy and the ability to understand a basic budget
- Good IT skills including good working knowledge of MS Office, Excel and other relevant software
- Well organised self-starter, methodical and accurate with good attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and on own initiative
Desirable
- Experience in the human rights sector
- Experience of grant-making, fundraising and/or campaigning
- Experience of undertaking research and writing reports
- Ability to understand accounts
- Familiarity with social media
Terms
- The position is 2 to 3 days (up to 21 hours) per week, working from home.We are flexible on working hours and will discuss exact hours and working patterns with candidates at interview.
- You will meet regularly with and be responsible to our Founder and Executive Committee who are based in London.You will therefore need to be in London or within easy travelling distance.
- Salary: circa £32,000 to £37,000 (FTE) depending on experience
- Other terms:pension option, 25 days annual leave (pro rata), probation period.
The Human Rights Fund gives grants to progressive organisations which actively promote and defend human rights and seek transformational change.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Service Manager
Location: Derby
Salary: £39,444 per annum
Contract type: Full time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week with a requirement to particiapte in the out of hours on-call on a rota basis
We are recruiting for a Service Manager who is passionate about supporting survivors who are impacted by domestic abuse and other gender-based crimes. This is a multifaceted, fast paced, and exciting role where you will join our team in Derby to lead on the delivery and development of high-quality refuge and outreach services for survivors of domestic abuse and other gender-based crimes.
The post holder will provide line management and high-quality support to the direct reports in line with Refuge’s policies and procedures. This will include providing supervision on complex and high-risk cases, overseeing operational emergencies, and ensuring high standards of casework. The Service Manager will lead on the delivery of the multiagency aspect of work, working jointly with the Refuge teams and wider stakeholders to deliver best services to the survivors.
Candidates must have proven experience of providing direct emotional and practical support to vulnerable people, managing, and motivating staff, managing casework as well as working within multiagency setting. In addition, you must have an excellent knowledge of domestic abuse and other gender-based violence and its impact on survivors. You will have knowledge of relevant Criminal and Civil law legislation, as well as Housing and Health and Safety legislation.
As part of this role, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call rota.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Closing Date: 09:00am 17 March 2025
Interview Date: 25 and 26 March 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.