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Job Purpose
This role sits within our crisis alternative service, Safe Space, which is a core and out of hours service providing a safe and welcoming space for people who are feeling distressed and experiencing crisis. Our aim of the service is to keep individuals well in the community and prevent readmission into hospital. The service operates 365 days a year from 14:00-22:00pm across all of our boroughs.
Staff within the service will provide person-centred, practical and emotional support, face to face or via telephone or virtual on a one-to-one basis to individuals experiencing mental health crisis or preventing crisis.
The objectives of the service include:
- To improve the mental wellbeing of people experiencing mental health and social crisis in HFEH.
- To proactively work with keeping people well in the community to reduce re-admitters into hospitals by working with WL NHS teams (e.g. discharge, LPS, CATT, MINT and SPA)
- To provide a true alternative to A&E via a non-clinical drop-in service to support clients
- To provide support to clients accessing the service- for instance: signposting, de-escalation and crisis recovery planning.
- To contribute to an improvement in individual mental wellbeing.
- To remain a source of independent support for all clients.
- To treat service users with respect, dignity and personalised support
- To raise awareness of mental health services available with the goal to improve long term mental health and reduce social isolation
- To increase self-management skills of those accessing the service
- To reduce the use of police, ambulance and statutory mental health services whilst experiencing crisis via a drop-in service.
- To reduce the use of statutory crisis services by people experiencing mental ill health without positive outcomes for the individual.
The Role
The role of the support workers will be to support the rest of the team in delivering interventions on a one-to-one. The role will also involve triaging and assessing all clients accessing the service, signposting and delivering collaborative self-management plans with clients to improve mental wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing a person centred and recovery orientated approach in all aspects of the roles and responsibilities.
- Promoting people’ rights and responsibilities
- Considering each person as an individual
- Working collaboratively with clients to understand their needs and developing flexible and realistic crisis support packages/person centred plans
- Understanding of safety planning
- Experience with de-escalation, recognising and mitigating risks.
- Experience of working with challenging behaviour
- Listening to clients and encouraging positive steps towards self-management of crisis and recovery
- Good time keeping skills – Essential
- To attend all mandatory training including safeguarding and GDPR
- To work autonomously in a fast-paced environment and under pressure
- Providing advice, information, practical and emotional support to clients
- Proactively recognising the indicators of deteriorating mental health and facilitate appropriate action, whilst liaising with relevant agencies e.g. CATT, Emergency Duty Teams, CMHTS, etc
- Engaging with clients to show empathy, inspire hope and promote recovery
- Establishing supportive, empowering and respectful relationships with clients and carers/ family
- Maintaining accurate records, detailing interventions
- Ensuring that outcomes, outputs and impact are recorded
- Providing administrative support to the team
- Attend reflective practice, clinical supervision, peer supervision and line management supervision
- Create and maintain good working relationships with partner agencies
- Follow workplans and actively participate in training and development
- Provide and manage resources for clients and staff
Person Specification
- Minimum of 1 year working in mental health services and with clients experiencing mental health distress and crisis
- Experience of managing challenging behaviour and dealing with clients with complex needs
- Experience of managing safeguarding risks and understanding legal requirements for safeguarding adults and children
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Understanding of the Recovery Model in mental health
- Understanding of the principles of trauma informed care
- Understanding of suicide prevention and safety planning
- Understanding of the relationship between mental health and social issues and how these issues may impact on physical, mental and emotional wellbeing
- Understanding of relevant legislation and policies
- Experience of working with vulnerable individuals
- Creative and flexible approach to working with individuals
- Ability to deal with stressful and difficult situations in a calm manner and de-escalate challenging situations
- Awareness of issues in mental health service provision
- A good understanding of mental health conditions
- Experience of working with vulnerable individuals
- Creative and flexible approach to working with individuals
- Ability to deal with stressful and difficult situations in a calm manner and de-escalate challenging situations
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload
- Ability to involve clients and carers in all aspects of work
- Empathy and non-judgemental approach
- Good communication skills
- Capacity to work within an agreed shift pattern
- Experience of delivering information and advice (housing, benefits, debt etc)
- Experience of non-clinical, therapeutic interventions like psychoeducation
- Good IT skills including Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint, with proven ability to input and extract information and produce reports
- Car driver with sole ownership of a vehicle and willingness to travel to locations would be desirable.
- Ability to work out of hours and on weekends
We’re here to make sure that everyone suffering with a mental health problem gets the help they need to recover.




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About Woman's Trust
Woman’s Trust was established almost thirty years ago and is the leading specialist in mental health services for women. Led by and for women, it aims to ensure that women affected by domestic abuse can live a safe and healthy life, free from further harm. Our approach is trauma-informed and person-centred, empowering survivors on their journey to recover from the trauma. We support 900 women and children annually, with an income of £1.3m and 40 staff. We are committed to a positive, inclusive and equitable environment for our staff, service users and volunteers. Alongside our current service provision, we are focused on developing innovative mental health services for young women and girls, launching peer-led support groups and providing therapeutic groups to children and their mothers. We are also committed to developing further awareness-raising workshops and training for professionals, building on our research and policy expertise to improve systems nationally. As demand for our service grows, we are ambitious to double the number of women we support each year, achieved in large part through the success of our fundraising team in increasing our income.
About the role
As our Temporary Finance Manager, you will be managing a finance assistant and will be part of our organisation’s Senior Leadership Team, helping to collaboratively shape and steer the charity as we work towards our 2022 - 2027 strategy. The Finance Manager is at the heart of Woman’s Trust; you will play an essential role and have oversight of not just the finance team – you will have direct exposure to CEO/Board Members and decision-making for the future of the organisation.
We are looking for a highly motived Temporary Finance Manager with demonstrable experience working in a similar senior level role. You’ll be a fully or part qualified accountant e.g. CIMA/ACA/ACCA/Cipfa, with a thorough understanding of charity accounting.
Hours: Up to 28 hours per week.
Contract: Fixed term from 1st June 2025 to 14th December 2025.
In return, we can offer:
- 25 days' holiday + 3 days at Christmas + Public holidays (pro rata for part-time working)
- Hybrid & flexible working - office based with minimum of 50% of working hours in Woman’s Trust London office, we also support mutually agreed flexible working arrangements
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mandatory job-related training
- Individual staff professional development budget
- A caring, committed and highly collaborative environment
- Several social events/lunches per year
- Friendly, all women team
To find out more and apply with your CV, please visit our website via the apply button.
Interviews will hold on a rolling basis.
Please note, this post is open to female applicants only – Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1 applies.
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We're looking for a talented and versatile communications officer to help grow our communications and supporter base and increase our impact for the children with complex disabilities and their families who we support.
This is an exciting time for our charity as we are developing ambitious growth plans and we want to increase our social media and digital presence to engage with a wider audience.
You will be expected to lead on our social media strategy, planning, producing and delivering content for all our audiences, and engaging with social media connections to grow our community. You will also be responsible for increasing engagement via our website, e-news and direct digital and offline communications.
We're looking for a natural storyteller with attention to detail, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to turn their hand to a wide range of tasks, striving for excellence while building relationships and working collaboratively with staff from across our small charity.
Key responsibilities include:
- Create a social media strategy that builds our community and engagement across our current active platforms of Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, and considers the use of other platforms
- Develop and maintain our website to provide and easy and rewarding experience that seamlessly transitions users to the next stage of their journey
- Develop and manage our communications calendar to ensure coordinated planning and communications activity
- Build and manage our range of audience groups, including monthly e-news, email marketing, hardcopy reports and newsletters, and assist with donor stewardship communication
- Support our engagement with external media organisations, using all opportunities to gain positive media coverage
- Support the development of data and reporting processes to help build an insight-led understanding of our audience groups and to inform our marketing and engagement plans
- Assist with the production of our digital assets and communications using digital design software where appropriate
The successful candidate will have strong social media knowledge and experience, as well as experience of building reach and engagement across digitial, printed or in-person communications. They need to be a collaborative team player, willing to learn from and work with staff from across the organisation, and the ability to multitask and juggle different projects and deadlines simultaneously. They will also have a passion for our cause - helping the families of children with complex disabilities get the support they need with the aim of preventing them from going into crisis.
We help to keep families together by providing home from home care for children with complex disabilities and a meaningful break for the families.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you ready to lead a project that makes a difference?
Join the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) as our E-learning Project Manager for the Radiology Integrated Training Initiative (R-ITI) — and help shape the future of radiology education across the UK and beyond.
We’re redeveloping one of the most respected radiology e-learning programmes in the world — R-ITI — and we need a driven, strategic and organised Project Manager to bring it to life.
In this 18-month fixed-term role, you’ll oversee the full lifecycle of over 300 digital learning modules. You’ll collaborate with the Learning Development Manager, the Learning Technologist and the e-learning faculty comprising Subject Matter Experts (SMEs – who are doctors) while undertaking the project to relaunch these essential resources on our new Learning Management System (LMS).
You’ll not only be supporting radiologists in their professional development but you’ll also play a key role is helping ensure the offering is financially sustainable, enabling us to reinvest in growing our influence and impact globally.
What you’ll do
- Oversee the entire life cycle of selected R-ITI modules marked for redevelopment, from establishing SME groups to review and update content, to working with learning technology colleagues to produce and publish them on time and within budget on RCR’s LMS.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define project goals and objectives and provide support to the working groups whilst they redevelop the modules.
- Develop detailed project plans including timelines, milestones, deliverables, and resource allocation.
- Be responsible for overall quality control of newly developed content by working collaboratively with SMEs and learning technology colleagues to create accurate, engaging and effective e-learning content for our members.
- Lead cross-functional teams consisting of SMEs, internal or externally sourced e-learning developers, designers, and quality assurance testers.
- Be the main point of contact for stakeholders, providing necessary support, troubleshooting queries and ensuring strategically sound decisions are made.
- Manage project budgets and promptly report any potential spending variances to the Learning Development Manager.
What you’ll need
- Excellent project management skills with evidence of delivering complex projects to the highest of standards, on time and on budget
- Experience of working with busy stakeholders, especially those who work on a voluntary basis
- Experience of developing e-learning content and working with digital learning platforms
- Experience of collaborating with doctors or other medical professionals would be advantageous
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills to help negotiate, solve problems, and share knowledge with all stakeholders where needed
Why join us:
- Make a difference to the lives of Doctors and the specialities they work in every day!
- Hybrid working (up to 60% working week can be done remotely)
- Modern working environment
- Equipment provided to work from home
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Excellent pension scheme
- Interest free season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
Summary
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Grade: Associate
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Role: Global Associate, Impact
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Location: This role is open to candidates in Europe (France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, United Kingdom) and North America (Canada, Mexico, United States of America). Please note we currently do not have the infrastructure to support visa/right-to-work sponsorship and you must be living and authorised to work in one of the countries mentioned here.
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Reports to: Global Senior Manager, Knowledge Learning and Impact
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Employment Type: Permanent/Indefinite, Full time
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Hours per week: 35-40 hours/week (depending on local labour laws)
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Compensation: Salary will be benchmarked to the country of residence. Please see our current salary bands here.Salaries at CPI are non-negotiable in line with our pay-equity policies.
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Closing Date: 28th April 2025, 23:59/11:59PM CEST (Central European Summer Time)
About the Centre for Public Impact (CPI):
At the Centre for Public Impact, we believe in the transformative potential of government to improve lives and create better outcomes for all. Yet, we recognize that many of today’s government systems, structures, and processes are not yet designed to address the complex challenges of our time. That’s why we are committed to reimagining government- working towards systems that truly serve everyone, equitably, and effectively.
As a not-for-profit organization founded by the Boston Consulting Group, we act as a learning partner for governments, public servants, and a diverse network of change makers. Though we are a small organization, our global footprint is expansive. We have dedicated and innovative teams in Asia,Australia/ Aotearoa New Zealand,Europe and North America. We are all aligned by our Global Hub operational team who provide people & culture, operational, finance, communications, and impact partnership across the regions.
The Global Knowledge, Learning, and Impact (KLI) function, embedded within the Communications and Impact team, focuses on generating, sharing, and applying knowledge and insights to understand and maximize the organization's effectiveness and impact. Taking a macro perspective of programs implemented with CPI, the team leads and/or supports monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning initiatives, ensuring data informs communication strategies and program development for greater social change.
Our Values:
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Curiosity - We champion exploration and creativity.
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Courage - We are authentic and brave in our decisions and actions.
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Collaboration - We share power and work together.
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Empathy - We embrace others’ perspectives and experiences.
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Equity - We disrupt systemic barriers to shift power.
Position Overview:
As the Global Impact Associate, you play a crucial role in contributing to the organization's overall effectiveness. Your multifaceted role involves maintaining the retrospective knowledge repository, managing data collection instruments, leading story collection efforts, deriving thematic insights, and supporting strategic KLI activities. You are instrumental in operationalizing impact practices, preparing reports, facilitating organizational learning, and conducting research on prioritized themes.
Key Responsibilities:
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Developing data collection tools and systems and liaising with the respective program teams to manage and upkeep them.
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Conducting data analysis, including (1) qualitative interviews with current and previous programmatic staff, partners, and participants, (2) quantitative data from surveys (3) literature reviews on thought pieces across the broader ecosystem.
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Drafting reports, visuals, and presentations to communicate trends and insights from our programmatic body of work framed for internal and external audiences.
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Managing and updating organisational knowledge repository systems by coordinating with teams across the organization.
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Working in conjunction with the Senior Manager to develop strategic pieces, including annual reports, learning circles, communities of practice, etc.
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Regularly engaging in feedback practices with managers and peers in an effort to upskill and grow within the portfolio
Skills & Qualifications:
We are looking for someone who has:
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1-3 years of professional experience in a relevant area, with some understanding of how impact is evaluated in development work (e.g., reporting to funders, managing data, and using systems approaches).
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Qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills, especially in translating observations into resonant stories and actionable insights
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Ability to cultivate strong relationships with diverse stakeholders and seek timely feedback from their manager
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Strong project management skills with an ability to anticipate challenges, plan ahead and independently prioritise tasks
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Commitment to learning about and advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging within the impact work and broader engagements at CPI
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Communications Manager
Salary: Up to £37,000 (rising to £41,000 after successful completion of probation period)
Location: Home-based with some travel to London and visit communities in Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, and Worcestershire.
Permanent, 37.5hrs/ week
Closing date for applications: 27th April 2025
First Interviews (Teams): 6 th May 2025
Stakeholder Interviews (Teams): 12th May 2025
Second Interviews (Teams): 15th May 2025 Interview
It’s an exciting time at Camphill Village Trust and we’re looking for a Communications Manager to join our growing team!
As the Communications Manager, you will create and implement a series of campaigns throughout the year to clarify our charity’s impact and amplify our mission. We're looking for those that can use compelling storytelling to lead impactful campaigns and influence our target audiences.
As a senior member of the team, you will take a lead on coaching and mentoring others and you will support in shaping and delivering our communications strategy, ensuring our messaging is clear, consistent, and aligned with our vision.
You'll work closely with colleagues across the charity to develop and deliver campaigns that increase the awareness of our brand, the impact of our work and the change we believe is needed.
What you’ll bring to the role:
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Experience as a communications manager or in a similar role
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Experience of developing and implementing strategic communications plans
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Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a talent for storytelling and producing a range of written materials including press releases, media statements, fundraising copy etc
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Proficiency in digital communications, including managing websites, social media platforms, and analytics tools
It would be advantageous to come from the charity, non-profit, or social impact sector, however this is not essential. Please state in your supporting statement how your values align to ours and why you wish to work in this sector.
Location & Travel
Home-based with travel to visit Communities in Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, and Worcestershire. You will also be expected to visit London every few months. Occasional overnight stays will be required. Ideally you will be located within travel corridors of Midlands to London or Manchester to York.
Excited?
Read our pack, look at our strategy and know that you would be joining an amazing Trust, a brilliant team and that you would have the ability to make a real difference.
Your application should include your CV and a supporting statement of no less than one page detailing why you would like to work for the Trust and how your skills and experience meet the job description and person specification (see attached Job pack).
Job Title: Deputy Service Manager
Location: Lambeth, London
Salary: £37,635 per annum
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
We want kind and empathic people to work at Refuge, who believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion, are experts in their area of knowledge, want to make a positive difference and improve the lives of the women and children we support.
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Deputy Service Manager to support women and children who are impacted by domestic abuse and other forms of violence against women and girls.
In this role you will provide line management and support to staff who work with and help women and their children who experienced domestic abuse and are staying living in our refuges. Our Lambeth refuges are culturally specific services for women and children of African and Caribbean heritage. This will include providing supervision on complex casework issues such as child protection, overseeing operational emergencies and ensuring high standards of casework.
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.
As part of this role, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call rota.
Closing Date: 09:00am 6 May 2025
Interview Date: 14 and 15 May 2025
Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services, and we are proud to be a leader in our field and an employer of choice, with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development.
Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Samaritans’ award-winning Media and Communications teams work with the media and stakeholders to responsibly raise awareness of suicide prevention and reach those who are struggling to cope.
In this exciting role and working with our award-winning rail programme, the Media and Communications Manager will take the lead in developing, delivering and managing Samaritans’ communications and media activity relating to rail suicide prevention in order to raise awareness, engage supporters & stakeholders and positively influence the wider media’s reporting of suicides.
• £40,000-£42,000 per annum
• 12 month fixed term contract
• Full time (35 hours per week) with flexible working
• Hybrid working: Linked to our Ewell (Surrey) office. There is an option to occasionally work from an office space in London Bridge.
• In-person working: Meeting in person and working collaboratively are things we value. Staff are expected to work in person around 2 days per month.
• We are passionate about flexible working, talk to us about your preferences.
The Role
This post will operate at a national level alongside similar posts in the rail industry. It will seek to develop ties with all train operator and Network Rail communications team and will play a key role in delivering Samaritans messages at a national level.
This position will work across both the Network Rail Partnership team and the External Affairs team in order to provide dedicated focus, resource and specialist expertise – providing a conduit for these skills and colleagues in the rail sector.
Skills and experience you’ll need
In this role, you’ll need experience of working in a press office, PR agency, or similar role within a wider communications team or media outlet, having developed excellent communication and written skills, along with a good working knowledge of UK media landscape, a strong news sense and experience selling-in.
Working with stakeholders across the rail industry, you’ll have experience of influencing, negotiating and, ideally, partnership working. Warm, personable and friendly, you’ll have strong interpersonal skills and be able to build and maintain relationships with many different groups of people.
Highly organised and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines, you’ll be a self-starter with experience of successful project management. You’ll need compassion and resilience to work with exposure to incidents and stories that may be upsetting.
Why join Samaritans
Samaritans is one of the UK and Ireland’s best known and respected charities - our vision is that fewer people die by suicide. As the impact of the pandemic continues to be felt across our society, Samaritans is needed more than ever. If you want to make a real difference to people’s lives – this is the role for you.
Working at Samaritans
For further information about Samaritans, including our charity structure, values, employee benefits, and application process, please read our recruitment brochure on our careers website.
Being Inclusive
We recognise the enormous benefits and the social justice imperatives of ensuring diversity at every level of our organisation. Samaritans is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person they are. To ensure Samaritans is representative of those we support and who support us, we particularly welcome applications from Disabled, BAME and LGBTQ+ candidates, as these people are under-represented at Samaritans.
Application
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please upload your CV and a cover letter (2 page max), outlining your motivations for applying and your transferable skills and experience. Applications close at 9 am on 6 May, with first stage video interviews soon after.
Whilst we appreciate that the use of generative AI functions like ChatGPT is quickly becoming part of working life for many people, through our recruitment process we want to see your own unique ideas and writing skills. We want your application to stand out from the rest and showcase your own strengths. Therefore, we kindly ask that you don’t rely on AI tools for your application answers, cover letter or to generate interview answers.
Apply today and make a real difference to people’s lives.
Community Enabler and Partnerships Manager
Are you proactive and passionate about communities and about creating positive, lasting change that builds on the skills and assets of all?
We are looking for a Community Enabler and Partnerships Manager to work in the hearts of communities to develop and grow local networks to get people engaged in their communities and support pathways to volunteering.
Position: Community Enabler and Partnerships Manager
Salary: £27,000 - £35,000 FTE
Location: Wales (remote working with national travel)
Hours: Full-time
Contract: Fixed Term March 2026
Closing Date: 5th May 2025
Interviews: 13th & 15th May
About the Role
You will use community development skills and knowledge to deliver training and support services and local organisations to enable effective delivery of Time Credits. Working alongside the central support function you will design and run local events and trips to ensure that Time Credits flows, providing opportunities for people to earn and encouragement for them to use Time Credits. You will manage relationships with key local stakeholders to ensure your projects meet contractual targets, enabling the network to flourish.
Key responsibilities include:
- Management contracts, staff and resources
- Oversight of networks delivery and performance
- Stakeholder relationship management and reporting
- Development and implementation of local strategic plans
- Profile raising and sustainability
- Innovation, learning and development across the organisation
About You
You are able to communicate effectively about the work of the organisation, build relationships quickly and work collaboratively with a range of team members to achieve a goal. You are target driven, with the ability to stay on top of a varied and demanding workload.
With a passion for heritage preservation and community development, you will be IT literate including Microsoft Office tools with great communications skills including presentations and report writing .
You will have experience of:
- Community development
- Stakeholder engagement and contract management.
- Leading, managing and inspiring teams to deliver
- Managing multiple projects
- Stakeholder management
- Budget management
- Working with communities, public and voluntary sectors
- Partnership working
- Facilitating workshops and training
- Designing and implementing new initiatives
- Influencing others
About the Organisation
A national charity that believes everyone's time is valuable. The innovative digital Time Credit system rewards volunteers for the time they give to their communities. These credits can be exchanged for activities and services, helping to build more inclusive and connected communities.
They’ve already engaged over 15,000 volunteers and 1,500 organisations, and issued more than 1.25 million Time Credits across the UK. With the first national Time Credit network in the world, this work is recognised by parliamentarians, local authorities and community partners.
Join today and help drive meaningful social impact across Wales!
Other roles you may have experience of could include Community Enabler, Community Partnership Manager, Partnerships Manager, Community Engagement Manager, Community Development Manager, Programme Lead, Partnerships Officer, Volunteering Manager, Engagement Officer, Regional Manager, Community Investment Manager, Social Impact Coordinator etc.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Smart Works is looking for a Head of Data & Impact to play a pivotal part in ensuring that Smart Works is a data-driven organisation, where insight and analysis underpin strategic decision-making and service delivery.
At its core, this position is responsible for overseeing the how the charity measures impact. The successful candidate will lead on management of the charity’s central database—used across all centres—to manage client, volunteer and referrer information. This includes coordinating system updates, working with external contractors, and maintaining data integrity and functionality across the board.
For full details, please see the Job Pack attached. The closing date is midnight on Sunday 27th April, with first round interviews taking place virtually on Friday 2nd May, and second round interviews taking place in London on Thursday 8th May.
To apply, please submit your CV and answer the following questions via our recruitment portal:
- Why do you want to work for Smart Works? (Max 200 words)
- What experience do you have of delivering transformational change to digital processes or data systems? How have you ensured efficient and effective outcomes? (Max 350 words)
- Why do you think you are well suited to the role of Head of Data & Impact? (Max 350 words)
- Is there anything else you would like to share at this stage? (Max 150 words).
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Imagine being told that you, or someone you love, is losing their sight. In that moment, two profound questions demand urgent answers:
• Can this be stopped?
• How will I live my life?
Currently, research into preventing and treating sight loss is chronically underfunded, receiving a mere 1.2% of publicly funded health research grants: people who are blind or vision impaired are three times more likely to experience loneliness and isolation than the general population.
Fight for Sight is uniquely placed to answer both questions with a resounding ‘yes’. We fund the brilliant minds and bright ideas putting change in sight for everyone impacted by vision loss. Our researchers are making breakthroughs and discoveries that will help us better understand, diagnose prevent and treat vision loss.
We won’t stop until we: Save Sight. Change Lives.
We are now looking for experienced, committed, and creative individuals to join our dynamic team to help realise a new five-year growth strategy.
You’ll be part of something impactful, we’d love to hear from you.
Marketing Manager
A unique opportunity has arisen to join our busy communications team for a 12-month maternity cover. You’ll play a critical role in uncovering stories of social change, bringing them to life and amplifying these stories with a view to raising brand awareness, demonstrating impact and supporting fundraising activities.
Responsible to
Head of Communications and External Affairs
Direct reports
None
Working hours and contract
28h per week
Salary
£38k-42k depending on experience
Location
We operate a flexible working policy with a recommended two-days per week in our East London Head Office.
How to Apply
Please submit your CV and an up to two page supporting statement which evidences the specification below.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 30, April 2025 at 9am
Early applications are encouraged. We will be interviewing on a rolling basis; therefore, we reserve the right to close the vacancy as soon as we have found the right candidate.
Role Responsibilities
• Work with colleagues to develop tailored communications and marketing plans for key projects, agreeing and monitoring against KPIs,
• Advise and support colleagues on communications planning, audiences, channels, and key messages,
• Manage and maintain the communications activity planner ensuring that cross-departmental needs are identified and prioritised,
• Produce engaging communications – writing, editing and proof-reading – ensuring consistency and compliance with brand, values, key messages and style guides,
• Act as a 'brand guardian' ensuring consistency across all internal and external communications,
• Contribute to the successful marketing and delivery of engagement events for funders and partners.
Inter-departmental working
• Working with social change (impact) colleagues, identify leading impact stories and case studies, which we can tell across print,online and in multimedia formats.
• Work with fundraising colleagues to identify which stories of impact best support income generation from IG up to major donors and High Net Worth Individuals.
• Create and nurture positive relationships with the people and organisations whose stories we tell, ensuring they understand the central role they play in building coalitions of support for our work.
• Build an engagement plan for organisations receiving social change funding and set clear expectations around reporting and sharing evidence of impact. This could include regular briefings/meet-ups and a regular e-newsletter.
• Conduct regular on-site visits with funded projects capturing content.
• Develop, with support from an external consultant, a press strategy, which encompasses a strategy for reactive and proactive press, including promoting internal speakers.
• Support the programme manager with sharing information around social change funding rounds internally (internal comms)
• Build a reliable press list, including developing relationships with key journalists from relevant publications.
• With an external consultant, develop strategies to increase engagement with vision loss champions and other high profile supporters, directly relationship managing when appropriate.
Digital
• Run quarterly webinars framed around our work in social change, which can act as a showcase for impact and that feed the funnel of people interested in social change funding or funding social change.
• Ensure all funding rounds are accurately reflected on our website in good time for funding rounds going live.
• Build web pages crafted to appeal to individuals with an interest in funding social change research.
• Develop and deliver a corporate website portal that highlights the impact of our work and opportunities for how people can become involved.
• Search optimise content so that it appeals to those who are:
- Seeking social change funding
- Seeking to fund impactful social change programmes
- Seeking to replicate what works (blueprints for change)
- Develop digital and social media strategy, alongside Digital Content Manager.
Policy, campaigns and research (social impact)
• With Head of Communications launch a policy and public affairs arm for the new organisation.
• Contribute to the successful delivery of major integrated campaigns including awareness, fundraising or policy centred projects, ensuring alignment and amplification with all other activities.
• Contribute to the legacy strategy of campaigns, such as The Unseen and See My Skills.
• Represent Fight for Sight in cross-organisational working groups in this area.
Ad hoc role / support within the team
• Ensure that all systems and processes are fully GDPR compliant including regular reviews.
• Ensure increased levels of engagement with Fight for Sight’s social media channels, reporting on performance.
• Ensure that all content on the Fight for Sight website is up to date, fit-for-purpose and engaging, working with colleagues to monitor performance, proposing and testing improvements.
• Ensure that all communications reflect the experience of blind and vision impaired people and, wherever possible, co-produce activities and plans.
• Keep up to date on sector developments, sharing findings with colleagues.
• Support the selection of appropriate consultants and freelancers to support on areas of focus, including copywriting, design, digital platforms.
Person specification
Desirable skills, knowledge & experience
• Degree or equivalent (Communications, Marketing or related subject is desirable),
• A strong communicator, you’ll be able to forge relationships across departments and collect stories from colleagues, including fundraising, retail, volunteers and people with lived experience,
• We’re looking for someone who has empathetic and sensitive, you're skilled at treating people’s stories with care and attention, developing authentic narratives and communicating them for maximum impact,
• An expert interviewer who can draw out the details of people’s stories, you’ll spot what makes a strong story for our charity,
• With strong interpersonal skills, you’ll positively manage relationships with people who volunteer to share their stories, as well as internal colleagues and freelance writers, photographers, etc.
• Working with internal stakeholders to place diverse projects across fundraising, marketing, communications, retail and social change and medical research, you’ll place the stories so that they have the biggest impact for the charity while ensuring individuals aren’t overloaded with requests,
• Strong commissioning skills to manage a pool of external writers, photographers and videographers,
• Strong writing and editing skills to turn stories into engaging copy across a multi-channel environment,
• Demonstrable experience of PR and Press activity,
• Experience of working with key marketing platforms including Hootsuite and Canva, and e-newsletter platforms,
• Working knowledge of website editing platforms or content management systems.
Desirable
• Experience of working in the charity sector or within a medical research charity,
• An understanding of and commitment to the mission of ending avoidable sight loss and delivering positive social change for blind and vision impaired people,
• Experience at creating engaging, accessible content that really helps to support and inspire audiences and potential partners,
• A self-starter, proactive with a constructive and collaborative approach,
• The ability to make the complicated seem simple; you will enjoy sharing your skills, and developing others,
• Personable, with excellent listening skills and high emotional intelligence, with the ability to think creatively,
• An intelligent and proactive approach to problem-solving,
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail,
• Experience of creating accessible content.
Personal qualities
• Strong communication skills and presentation style.
• Flexibility and a practical, can-do attitude.
• Highly motivated and able to juggle a varied workload.
• Personable, with excellent listening skills.
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
• Growth mindset.
Flexibility
The role description is a general outline of duties and responsibilities and may be amended as we grow. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time.
Employee benefits
We value our staff and volunteers and want to make sure that they are supported in their work. Other benefits we also offer are:
• A great team and a supportive culture
• Employer pension contributions matching up to 10%, and death in service cover
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible/hybrid working options
• Apprenticeships scheme, study leave and financial support for training & development
• Cycle to work scheme, eye test vouchers, and a staff loan scheme, access to an Employee Assistance Program
• An active Social Committee and staff events
Application & Interview process
See above for How to Apply. Please note that we value the authenticity and individuality of our applicants and believe that your CV and cover letter should reflect your unique skills, experiences, and personality. Therefore, please refrain from using AI tools, including ChatGPT, to produce your application materials. Successfully shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview online via MS Teams
Accessibility
We believe in fostering an inclusive environment where all individuals, regardless of their abilities or circumstances, feel supported and valued. If you have any accessibility requirements or specific needs that you would like us to accommodate during the application process, please let us know. If you are unfamiliar with MS Teams and would like to familiarise yourself with the platform before the interview, we are more than happy to arrange a tech run-through to ensure your comfort and confidence.
Equal opportunities, diversity & inclusion
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Fight for Sight we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles that we have.
We have an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, including any adjustments required to support people from diverse community groups.
Please submit your CV and an up to two page supporting statement which evidences the specification.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 30 April 2025 at 9am
Early applications are encouraged. We will be interviewing on a rolling basis; therefore, we reserve the right to close the vacancy as soon as we have found the right candidate.
Turn2us is a national charity tackling financial insecurity and its structural causes. We work with co-producers and partners to provide people in financial crisis with the means and agency to get back on their feet, build resilience, move forward with their lives and thrive.
Turn2us and its partners have secured £1.5 million from The National Lottery Community Fund to deliver an ambitious and innovative new programme that will support charities in England and Scotland to empower diverse and marginalised communities to respond to climate change and to get their voices heard in environmental policy and media debates.It will focus on Disabled people, those facing financial insecurity and people from ethnic minority communities. These voices are often the least heard from in national and local debates on our environment. This new work aims to change that.
As part of this programme, The National Lottery Community Fund have funded the creation of an Engagement Manager post at Turn2us to work with those facing financial insecurity. The Engagement Manager employed by Turn2us will deliver activity with smaller charities and grassroots organisations supporting those facing financial insecurity that:
- Increases awareness of the impact of environmental change and related policy on different communities
- Listens to people in these communities to find out what actions they want charities and local government to take
- Develops shared local environmental policy priorities and empowers these organisations to advocate directly to local and national policy makers
- Identifies actions that these organisations can take to support communities to respond to climate change, and helps organisations to implement them
- Identifies people with lived experience to receive hands on training in order to act as diverse champions to media and policy makers
They will work closely with Community Engagement Managers employed by Disability Rights UK, and Race Equality Foundation, focussed on reaching organisations supporting Disabled people and people from ethnic minority communities.
We offer flexible working patterns, both in terms of hours and remote working. Please note that all employees are required to work from the office a minimum of 4 days a month on a weekly basis.
Some roles may be required to be in the office more often than others and this will be agreed with the hiring manager upon starting at Turn2us.
Please note that all job offers are subject to 2 – 3 satisfactory references and a disclosure satisfactory to Turn2us from the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).
As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to equity, inclusion and diversity and the value people from different backgrounds bring to a team. If, like us, you believe everyone has the right to have enough to live on, and you are ambitious about eradicating financial insecurity, join us and build your career with a charity dedicated to ensuring dignity and equity for all.
Closing date: 06/05/2025, 23:59
Interview date: w/c 19/05/25
Prospectus are delighted to be supporting our client with their search for a new part time Portfolio Manager.
The organisation are an ambitious fast-growing social investment fund manager providing flexible finance to inspiring social sector organisations. Their investment approach puts social impact at the heart of everything they do. With more than £170m of capital loans since their establishment in 2014, they are committed to developing creative solutions that will enable organisations to grow and continue delivering scalable and sustainable solutions to social issues. They work with organisations who are tackling entrenched social issues such as poverty, homelessness, social isolation and unemployment.
The Portfolio Manager is responsible for developing and managing client lending relationships through relationship management, credit management, and business development. We are looking for an excellent communicator with a commitment to social impact investing and supporting social enterprises. You will have a proven capacity to review and understand lending legal documentation, from a commercial and pragmatic perspective. You will also demonstrate a high level of comfort with financial modelling and able to apply this to understand property valuations, yield analyses and other information.
This role is part time, working three days per week, and will ideally be based in the London office for 2 days per week. As is typical within the social investment sector, this role does not include a bonus.
To apply please submit your CV only in the first instance, preferably in Microsoft Word/PDF format. If you have any further questions or would like to know more about this opportunity, please contact Catherine Bunting from Prospectus.
As a specialist recruitment practice, Prospectus are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Prospectus invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.
Contract: 12 month fixed term contract
Closing date: 11:59pm, Sunday 4th May 2025.
Job Title: Campaign Manager - Better Business Act
Why this role?
In this role you would be responsible for driving forward the Better Business Act campaign, building relationships with stakeholders who could help us achieve this critical change and using learning from the campaign to contribute to the strategic design and development of B Lab UK’s policy and public affairs work.
In this role you will:
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Campaign Development & Management: Lead and execute the Better Business Act (BBA) campaign, set KPIs, track progress, and ensure alignment with B Lab UK’s policy strategy. Oversee BBA communications, manage relationships with spokespeople, and ensure Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) principles are embedded.
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Technical Specialist & Relationship Management: Advise senior stakeholders on the BBA, represent it at events, build support among business and policy groups, and manage an events program to advance advocacy.
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Team Management: Line manages the Campaign & Events Coordinator and Public Affairs Officer, providing coaching and ensuring alignment across teams for effective collaboration.
Please refer to the job description for full requirements for this role.
What we’re looking for
We believe someone who has a few of these is well suited to exceed in this role. We would love to hear from you if you:
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Substantial proven ability to manage stakeholder-led campaigns, projects or programmes to advance social change - including people, budget and a multi pronged programme of activities. .
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A deep understanding of the role stakeholder governance can play in creating a future that benefits all people & the planet. Technical expertise in the role of legislative change in creating that future is a huge plus.
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Proven ability to manage senior key stakeholder relationships, including managing high profile stakeholders, co-chairs and campaign spokespeople.
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Strategic understanding of how to build, activate and engage a coalition of supporters at scale towards campaign goals.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to write confidently and adapt style to varied audiences.
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Ability to proactively problem solve and scenario plan to mitigate risk.
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A keen collaborator who values the ability to work effectively with colleagues across internal and external stakeholders, in order to align work and achieve objectives.
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Committed to the principles of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK (we are not able to provide visa sponsorship).
What we give you
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Purpose driven work enabling B Lab UK’s mission of redefining the role of business as a force for good
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Hybrid and flexible working (around core working hours), we have a high trust environment and are advocates for right place working (min 1/2 days per week in office)
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Opportunity to request to work 4 days a week
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25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time staff)
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1 additional annual leave day (pro-rata for part-time staff) for each complete annual year of service, up to a maximum of 30 days
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Our office is closed between Christmas and New Year, no need to take an extra holiday!
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Private Medical and Dental cover
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£200 per annum tax free Annual Wellbeing allowance and Employee Assistance Programme
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2 paid volunteer days per year
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Enhanced Parental Leave and family friendly policies, including carers leave
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Learning and Development opportunities
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Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance
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Cycle to Work Scheme
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Income Protection policy
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Working in a flexible office workspace
B Lab is the non-profit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Health Collective is one of our central campaigns. It has emerged out of the urgent need to close the health gap for women from marginalised communities and is made up of and led by grassroots organisations, representing women’s voices from every marginalised community in our society.
The Health Collective Community Manager will be responsible for managing the development, expansion, and sustainability of the Health Collective.
This role will focus on managing and growing the existing community of members, organising and facilitating regular meetings, content creation for the Health Collective, coordinating the development of a unique identity for the group, and establishing an online community forum.
The role will also involve coordinating training sessions, events, and communication between the Collective and external stakeholders. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of a growing community that empowers women and promotes health equality.
The successful candidate will play a vital role in fostering a safe, inclusive, and engaging environment for women to connect, learn, and share their experiences around health and well-being, as well as influencing national and local policy to reduce health inequalities (for women from marginalised communities).
The ideal candidate will be skilled in community engagement, digital content creation, and communication, with a strong passion for women’s health and empowerment.
Please note, this role is funded through the National Lottery Community Fund.
Main Duties
Community Engagement & Growth
- Actively manage and grow the online and offline community, recruiting new members from all marginalised communities and fostering a sense of trust and connection.
- Design and manage regular communications with members, updating them about upcoming HC events/meetings, news/policy relevant to the inequalities agenda and funding/research opportunities.
- Set up and run a virtual community for members and monitor and moderate community interactions to ensure a positive and respectful environment.
- Develop and implement strategies to attract and retain members, promoting inclusivity and engagement.
Content Creation & Communication
- Create and share high-quality, educational, and influencing content across social media platforms and the website.
- Collaborate with experts, healthcare providers, and advocates to produce webinars, workshops, and other community-centred initiatives.
- Work with a designer and members to create the Health Collective's logo and identity.
Event Coordination
- Plan, organize, and manage virtual and in-person health collective meetings, liaising with members to determine the agenda and experts to find a diverse range of speakers.
- Collaborate with external partners to enhance event quality and reach.
Monitoring, evaluation & reporting
- Record and monitor the Collective’s activities (output) and their effectiveness (impact) through data collection, surveys, interviews and case studies.
- Report on project progress and update the Wellbeing of Women team regularly.
- Report on project progress to National Lottery at least twice a year with information about the Collective’s outputs and impact along with an expenditure budget for the period
- Work with an external consultant to assess the Collective’s impact annually.
Advocacy
- Work with the Head of Comms and Campaigns to build relationships with key stakeholders, influencers, and organisations aligned with the collective’s mission.
- Monitor news and political developments relevant to the Health Collective’s work.
Benefits
Attractive benefits package including employee discount scheme and cycle to work scheme.
Wellbeing of Women is an equal opportunities employer.
Led by women's voices, we save and change the lives of women, girls and babies through research, education and advocacy
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.