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We are looking to recruit a Services Development Manager, to develop, scope, and manage high-quality income-generating services that meet the needs of clients and the community. This includes overseeing current and developing services such as foot health, at-home support, counselling, dementia care, and later life planning.

Key Responsibilities:

Service Development:

· Conduct market research to identify potential income-generating services.

· Develop business plans and operationalise new services.

· Collaborate with stakeholders in Herefordshire, Worcester, and Malvern Hills to identify service gaps and establish best practice delivery models.

· Partner with the marketing team to create strategies for promoting new services.

Service Delivery:

· Work alongside the management team to execute the organisation’s strategic plan and deliver services aligned with core objectives.

· Implement detailed planning, monitoring, evaluation tools, and KPIs for each service or project.

· Manage financial aspects, including budgeting and monitoring of income and expenditure, in collaboration with the Finance Manager.

· Lead and develop a team of staff and volunteers to provide high-quality, person-centered services.

· Oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring adherence to operating procedures.

Team Management:

 As a member of the senior management team, you will lead and develop a team of staff and volunteers to deliver a portfolio of high-quality, person-centred services. Your role will involve:

· Conducting team meetings, supervisions, and managing performance issues in partnership with the HR Manager.

· Fostering relationships with key stakeholders, including funders, commissioners, and local partners.

· Developing referral pathways and enhancing the organisation’s profile.

Contract and Grant Management:

· Oversee contracts and grants, ensuring compliance and timely reporting.

· Identify risks to service delivery and take corrective actions.

· Work with the SMT and CEO to develop tenders and bids for funding

General Duties:

· Adhere to all organisational policies and procedures.

· Participate in training relevant to the role.

· Represent the organisation internally and externally.

· Collaborate with colleagues to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.

· Work with the Finance Manager to manage service budgets effectively.

· Demonstrate a commitment to the organisation’s ethos and mission.

· Make informed decisions to address challenges and implement changes.

· Act as an ambassador for the organisation at all times.

· Perform any other duties as requested by the organisation.

Person Specification

The following criteria will be assessed from information provided on your application and during the assessment process

• High standard of education to level 4 or above, or demonstrable ability to work at this level
• Educated to degree level
• A full driving license and willingness and ability to drive for work purposes

Experience

• Significant experience of designing and developing profitable income generating services
• Significant management experience including line management of a team
• Experience of creating a team
• Experience of monitoring income and expenditure and re-designing as needed
• Experience of managing multiple services with competing priorities
• Experience of working as part of a management team
• Experience of negotiating contracts and other funding streams
• Experience of developing services and projects and writing service plans
• Experience of implementation of relevant policies and procedures
• Experience of performance management and reporting
• Experience of report writing and presentation

Skills

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and motivate staff
• Presentation skills
• Exceptional organisational skills
• Ability to manage change and to manage changing priorities and services
• Creative thinking and meeting of client need
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Ability to manage difficult situations
• Ability to analyse and present data

Knowledge

• An understanding of the current and emerging needs of older people
• Good knowledge of Herefordshire and Worcestershire’s geography
• Knowledge of the health and social care landscape

Location: London or Edinburgh,  UK - also possibility for remote-working from anywhere in the UK
Position Status Full-time, Permanent
Salary: hiring range: £63,840 - £79,800 placement in range informed by professional experience 

Closing date: Please submit application and cover letter before July 8th 

Candidates must have the independent right to work in the UK at the time of appointment

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps supports communities – and the most marginalised within them – to emerge from crisis in the face of conflict and climate change, and build towards a more inclusive, resilient future. 

Mercy Corps works on the front lines of crises as a multi-mandate organisation that provides access to humanitarian aid, development, and peace assistance in places affected by conflict and climate change. 

Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. Beyond delivering aid to meet urgent needs, we develop long-term solutions to make lasting change possible, making it easier for affected communities to access resources, services, and opportunities that support them to cope, adapt, and ultimately thrive. 

In more than 40+ countries around the world, over 5,400+ team members work side by side with people living through poverty, disaster, violent conflict, and the acute impacts of climate change. We’re committed to creating global change through local impact — 84% of our team members are from the countries where they work. 

As conflict and the climate crisis further deepen challenges across the globe, Mercy Corps is steadfast in our commitment to sparking new possibilities alongside our partners, communities we serve, and dedicated supporters Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

The Department

The People Team ensures that Mercy Corps has the people who will enable it to be a world-class, cutting edge, humanitarian, and development organization, creating transformational change in the world. We do this through the recruitment, retention, and development of the best global talent. Our aim is to drive strategic thinking and planning at all levels of the organization; create a robust body of research to guide us internally and externally and steward the organizational culture. To achieve this, we align conversations on learning; keep the organization focused on what has the greatest impact; leverage our comparative advantages in the crowded and competitive international relief and development landscape; and assure we are constantly learning from our work and the external environment.

The Position

The Director, People Team works closely with Executive Director and the European Senior Leadership Team (ESLT) to lead the European People Team. They are also a member of the People Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and will have a dual reporting line to the VP, People Team.  The Director will define, drive, develop, and implement People team strategies and culture change  that align with MCE strategy and global People Team priorities in support of Mercy Corps’ transformative Pathways to Possibility (P2P) strategy. The post-holder's responsibilities extend to all Mercy Corps’ offices in Europe and include ensuring full legal and regulatory compliance across all jurisdictions and working effectively with other stakeholders to ensure a positive employee experience and an organizational culture where talented people want to come to work and can thrive.

Essential Responsibilities

•Advocates for and represents all areas of Mercy Corps’ People strategy. Actively participate as a strategic leader and member of the Mercy Corps Europe (MCE) senior leadership team and People Team SLT.

•Works with the Executive Director to guide the overall vision and approach of the People Team in MCE, delivering clear actionable plans aligned with needs and the context for MCE, and gain support/ownership for that agenda with key stakeholders.

•Build a strong, people-focused team in Europe characterized by high-level of trust, engagement, innovation and creativity who are aligned to the vision and have the skills and motivation to deliver it.

•Strategically develops and manages cross-departmental and cross-functional relationships and activities to ensure that the people function is well integrated into wider agency objectives.

•Design, develop and lead the People function for Mercy Corps in Europe, supporting the Executive Director in Europe to deliver on the European Strategic Plan.

•Oversee the expansion of MCE into new countries in Europe and ensure full HR compliance in all European legal jurisdictions in which Mercy Corps operates. 

•Set and track annual KPIs as part of the three-year strategic plan for Mercy Corps in Europe, providing this data monthly and quarterly to the Executive Director in Europe and supporting with reporting to the Board as required. 

•Lead the compensation benchmarking across all European markets and benchmark individual roles within the pay bands, ensuring there are clear guidelines for all staff on how to position staff within bands, support career development and ensure staff are trained to manage staff according to the Mercy Corps progression approach.

•Ensure our benefits align with vision to ensure we remain an employer of choice able to attract, develop, and retain talent.

•Support Senior Leadership Team in Europe to promote team member wellbeing and build the culture which will support us to deliver on the Mercy Corps strategy.

•Serve as a trusted and credible advisor to managers and team members on a wide range of HR-related topics, including performance management, team member development, All Voices survey and leadership development

•Leverage and supports ongoing communication campaigns to strengthen the People team brand throughout appropriate digital, social media and in-person avenues within the agency. Apply lessons learned and best practices to achieve this objective at the country and regional level.

•Partner with the Employee Relations Team to ensure strategic decision-making and compliance in all performance and conduct related issues.

•Leads and assists in the development and planning of organizational change/transformation, leading identification/framing of problems, creation of trusting relationships, and action plan fulfillment.

•Works with the People team leadership team to develop and implement organization-wide HR policies and programs and ensure that they are consistently applied across the region.

•Adopts a data and evidence-based approach to identify trends and areas for improvement and providing recommendations to senior leadership on how to address any issues or concerns.

•Actively promoting the organization's diversity and inclusion initiatives and working with the European Senior Leadership Team (ESLT) and the People team functions to develop programs and initiatives that support a diverse and inclusive workplace.

•In addition to these specific responsibilities, the Director, People Team must possess strong leadership skills, excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, and a deep understanding of HR best practices and regulations. They must also be able to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and be able to adapt to changing business needs and priorities.

Supervisory Responsibility

Human Resources Business Partners Mercy Corps Europe

Accountability

Reports Directly To: Executive Director MCE, and the VP, People Team

Works Directly With: ESLT, Total Rewards, Talent Management, Leadership and Learning, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, People Operations, People Systems, Corporate Finance; Ethics, Legal and other teams as needed.

 

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills

•10 years of Human Resources experience in global roles with a bachelor’s degree in HR or related field.

•CIPD (or equivalent) qualified to Level 7 is highly desirable.

•A minimum of 7 years international HR experience.

•Understanding of the HR legal requirements in UK and mainland European countries, especially Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, and France. Knowledge of Germany an advantage.

•Exposure to INGO or similar international organisation is highly preferable.

•Experience leading a diverse team across geographies for at least five years.

•Demonstrated capacity to utilize analytics and technology to improve efficiency.

•Demonstrated capacity to incorporate best in class assessment approaches in global organization.

•Demonstrated experience and ability to create, implement, maintain, and improve HR processes.

•Experience of improving team member wellbeing, through support initiatives and working practices that gets the best from all team members and increases engagement and trust.

•Experience of working as part of a global organization with specific responsibilities for a region and working within a matrix management structure and reporting to more than one manager.

•Experience of overseeing benchmarking, establishing salary/job bands, and managing movement of staff within the bands across multiple legal jurisdictions

•Demonstrated understanding of working in Europe, and significant experience with the challenges of operating and managing HR functions in the region.

•Demonstrated passion for staffing in international relief and development environments.

•Ability to communicate and problem-solve effectively across diverse cultures with sensitivity.

•Experience facilitating senior level conversations.

•Fluency in written and spoken French and another European language is desirable.

Success Factors

The successful team member will be an avid learner, self-directed, innovative and action orientated. Furthermore, they must have the ability to work independently, employ effective time management skills, handle frequent interruptions, and shift priorities, exhibit effective customer service skills, and work effectively with a wide variety of individuals including team members based overseas. They will have the ability to work onsite and collaborate with team members, deliver compelling designs within the guidelines of specific project objectives, and interact professionally and productively with all Mercy Corps staff. Additionally, the individual will thrive in a fast-paced environment prone to rapid change and be willing to increase his/her responsibility level in the assigned areas. The most successful Mercy Corps team members have a positive approach, a strong commitment to teamwork and personal accountability and the ability to be flexible and ensure that effective communication is a priority in all situations.

Living / Environmental Conditions

This position is based in London or Edinburgh or remote home-working location in the UK and will be required to travel to Mercy Corps in Europe’s offices across the UK and the European continent to oversee team members and represent the organization’s European Senior Leadership Team. It requires up to 20% travel in support of Mercy Corps programs. This position may be asked to travel on occasion with little notice.

Mercy Corps Team members represent the organization both during and outside of work hours when deployed in a field posting or on a visit to a field posting. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect.

 

Ongoing Learning

In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.

We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening, and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that do

es not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact.

We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination based on race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the Inter organization Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect.

local laws and customs, and to adhere to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct eLearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.

As a safeguarding measure, Mercy Corps screens all potential US-Based employees. This is done following the conclusion of recruitment and prior to assuming full employment.

Our screening process is designed to be transparent and completed in partnership with new Team Members. You will have the opportunity to disclose any prior convictions at the conclusion of the recruitment process before the check is initiated. We ask that you do not disclose any prior convictions in your application materials or during the recruitment process.

Yorkshire Children’s Charity is needs-led charity and exists for the sole purpose of helping children who are at a disadvantage in life; be that due to disability, ill health, or financial circumstance. We understand that sometimes everyone needs a helping hand, and we want to be the charity that those in need turn to.

Yorkshire Children’s Charity is seeking a Trusts and Foundations Manager to work with the CEO to develop and grow a fundraising strategy. You will be responsible for all Trusts and Foundations income generation and you will be expected to deliver high-value fundraising proposals.

Core Functions Trusts and Foundations to Include:

· Maintaining and growing the database of trusts and foundations with potential to support Yorkshire Children’s Charities, prospecting funders for new and growing programmes. You will have access to FundsOnline to support prospecting.

· Work with our Board of Trustees to map connections with Trusts & Foundations and establish a plan of introductions/stewardship to be managed by Trustees

· Proactively seek out trusts and foundations who support capital projects.

· Work with the CEO to develop a funding strategy for the Great Yorkshire Build.

· Work closely with the CEO to develop corporate partnerships.

· Manage Trust income in line with donor requirements.

· Identify and build relationships with trusts and foundations through proactive stewardship to secure new donors and retain existing donors.

· Deliver high quality and engaging content, including but not limited to:

o Funding proposals/applications/Case for Support/’One-pager’ pitches

o Impact reports

o Charity award applications

o Corporate fundraising applications

o Speeches and appeals

o Annual report

o Case study/content bank

· Work closely with the Programmes Team to continue developing the impact measurement framework, collecting, analysing and effectively reporting on charitable output and impact.

· Working closely with the Programmes Team to support the development of new programmes from a funding perspective e.g., our new Forest School Programme in development.

· Ensure we report to trusts/foundations and donors on our charitable output.

· Contribute to the charities newsletters, e-campaigns and external communications to ensure supporters know how their donations are being spent.

· Work closely with the CEO to build and develop the charities subscription offering and maintain existing members.

Office Location: Chapel Allerton, North Leeds

Volunteering Development Manager 

(Northern Ireland) 

£32,145 per annum (pro rata for part time hours) 

(Ref: SUS4288) 

Part Time 22.5 hours per week – happy to talk flexible working 

Base: Home based within reasonable travelling distance from Belfast 

About the role 

This is an exciting opportunity to join Sustrans as part of the UK-wide Volunteering Team, as the lead representative for Northern Ireland.  

As the Volunteering Development Manager, you will support the development of key volunteering initiatives and projects both across the UK and Northen Ireland. You will play a key role in supporting colleagues in Northern Ireland to identify opportunities to embed volunteering across their work.

Contributing to Sustrans 5-year volunteering strategy aims, you will work closely with the Head of Volunteering to shape and implement this within Northern Ireland. 

You will build and manage internal and external relationships with key people such as partner organisations and the UK-wide volunteering development network. 

This role will require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake projects on behalf of Sustrans. 

About you 

You should have substantial experience of volunteer engagement and development across all stages of the volunteer journey. You will be experienced in project coordination and implementation. You should also be successful in partnership working with voluntary groups and the private sector. Equity, diversity and inclusion should be evident with impact across your experience.

You will be skilled in training and facilitation delivery. 

We ask you demonstrate your knowledge of Volunteer digital systems. 

Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone - reducing inequality, valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups.

What we offer 

In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment.

Wellbeing 

28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working 

Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff) 

Staff volunteer days 

24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service 

We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes 

Financial 

Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans 

Bike, computer and season ticket loans 

Discount benefits 

London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32 local authority districts plus the City of London) 

Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary 

Family Friendly 

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay 

Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday) 

Additional information 

Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 23:59, 14 July 2024.   

Interviews will take place via MS Teams during the week commencing 22 July 2024 

About Sustrans 

At Sustrans you'll be part of a movement to make it easier for people to walk and cycle.  

We're all here to change things! You’ll be part of an incredible community of talented, passionate, creative, problem solvers all working together to change things for the better. We act locally and think big - we have a vision of a society where the way we travel creates healthier places and happier lives for everyone. 

You'll be questioning the status quo and daring to imagine a different world. You'll work on exciting, impactful projects that will stretch and empower you and you'll be rewarded by seeing the difference you make to people, communities and the planet.  

 We believe including everyone is central to who we are and what we want to achieve, we welcome difference and pride ourselves on creating a culture where you can be yourself and where your wellness is supported.  

You'll be guaranteed to make friends for life and work with a team that is incredibly flexible, supportive, ethical and fun.   

Role Purpose

You will work alongside the Strategic Projects Manager to provide flexible and high-quality project management and administrative support to the Senior Management Team, working across THET’s programmatic, operations, policy, and advocacy work.

THET is experiencing an exciting time of growth, and you, alongside the Strategic Projects Manager, will play a critical role in supporting this growth to be managed well, and in ways that allow colleagues to maintain a focus on existing projects and programmes.

The Strategic Projects unit focuses on new and emerging areas of work which require close collaboration with staff across the organisation, and to use creative thinking, sound project management and administrative skills. Recently completed work ranges from providing interim programme and events management support to THET’s Experts In Our Midst programme, to project management and coordination support to the UK-Africa Health Summit. Work is now starting on initiatives to tackle the organisational change we see at THET, such as strengthening recruitment and induction processes, and improving our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion approach.

To be successful in this role, you will be a fast learner, get things done and excel in working across teams as well as managing a varied portfolio of work. You will be a strategic thinker with an ability to manage complex problems in situations with significant uncertainty.

Here are the top four things we think you can be excited about:

· Being at the heart of the global health partnership community, supporting UK NHS and other health workers to volunteer internationally.

· A varied portfolio of work, working with different teams and across several areas of the organisation.

· The chance to work across many aspects of a growing global health charity, including: organisation management and growth, project management, project development and initiation, and events management.

· Joining a friendly Programmes Team with a hybrid working pattern and plenty of learning and development opportunities.

Main Responsibilities

1. To provide high-quality project management support for new and emerging areas of work, responding flexibility to opportunities and needs as agreed with the Senior Management Team and Strategic Projects Manager.

2. To broker cross-organisational collaboration with the wider staff team to deliver on these projects and manage the effective handover of responsibility to those teams at appropriate moments.

3. To flex across projects and programmes during pinch points to provide extra capacity to team members where necessary.

4. To provide sound administrative support to the Senior Management Team and Strategic Projects Manager, undertaking research, planning and on occasion, logistical support as needed.

5. To liaise with a range of senior external stakeholders in the UK and overseas in the delivery of strategic projects.

6. To provide coordination support to key events in THET’s events cycle, when additional capacity is required.

Possible initiatives coming up over the next six months include:

· Developing and delivering defined Organisational growth initiatives;

· Supporting THET’s Mid-Term Strategy review;

· Developing organisational or project Standard Operating Procedures;

· Supporting SMT on the delivery of organisation-wide moments (such as the Staff Away Day, Country Director Annual Meetings)

· Supporting the planning and delivery of the THET conference and UK-Africa Health Summit;

How to Apply:

Candidates can apply by submitting a C.V and cover letter (maximum two-pages) stating their interest in this position and fit with the person specification. 

This letter should be submitted with a CV to THET by midnight Sunday 7th July, with ‘Strategic Projects Coordinator’ in the subject line. Applicants must be available for interview and assessment w/c 15th July.

Please see Job Pack for full instructions.

Events Manager

Location: Home-based
Contract Type: Permanent/ Full time
Salary: £39,867 - £44,297
Hours: 37.5 hours
Benefits: 27 days holiday + bank holidays (pro rata for part time roles), perk scheme access, life assurance, paid compassionate leave, enhanced sick pay, Cycling UK membership plus many more staff benefits.

There’s never been a better time to join the team! Our client have launched an ambitious new strategy – and they want you to be part of it. There are loads of reasons to love cycling, even if you’re not someone who cycles. From cutting pollution, to making us healthier and happier, cycling can help us all thrive.

They want everyone to enjoy the benefits cycling offers to people and the planet. They’ll be sharing more information on their strategy soon but, it will focus on encouraging more short journeys by bike; promoting cycling as a popular, enjoyable, and safe activity for everyone; and striving to make every cycling experience a great one. Go with them on their journey and help them have more impact than ever before!

Tell them why you are the person to drive impact in this capacity. Explore the attached job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening. Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to the person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.

They are an inclusive organisation and would particularly welcome applications from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds. They strongly believe that diversity strengthens their work. If you are already passionate about cycling, that’s great, many of them are too! But if you are simply really excellent at what you do, no matter what your background, that is what matters most.

You may have experience in the following: Coordinator, Event Planner, Events Director, Race Organizer, Event Specialist, Event Supervisor, Event Operations Manager, Event Producer, Event Project Manager, Event Marketing Manager, Event Logistics Manager, Event Program Manager, Event Administrator, Event Coordinator, and Cycling Event Executive.

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Communications Officer to join the New Era team in Staffordshire, working 22.5hrs per week.

The Digital Communications Officer will work alongside our Education, Training and Awareness team to create and publish content on our online platforms to raise awareness of our domestic abuse services for victims and perpetrators and awareness of the impact of domestic abuse on those it affects.

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

About the role:

This role is based in Stafford, but may need to travel on occasion. We will consider hybrid working after completion of satisfactory probation period.

As a Digital Communications Officer you will be:

• managing our social media platforms
• ensuring our website is up to date and reviewing analytics
• assisting with the delivery of the local Communications Strategy

You will need:

• digital media skills
• a good understanding of domestic abuse
• excellent written communication skills

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.

The NSPCC’s vision is that together, we can stop child abuse and neglect. Through the collective power of our staff, volunteers, supporters, partners, and over 100 years of experience we will move closer to achieving that vision.

We launched our ten-year strategy in 2021, which is centred around three impact goals. This is the difference we want to make by 2031:

1. Everyone plays their part to prevent child abuse: we’ll work together to make it easier for everyone to play their part and create a social safety net that prevents child abuse and neglect.

2. Every child is safe online: together, we’ll transform the online world, so it’s safe for every child to go online.

3. Children feel safe, listened to, and supported: more children will be able to speak out, so they feel safe, listened to, and understood – and abuse doesn’t shape their future.

The Policy and Public Affairs (PAPA) team is part of the Strategy and Knowledge Directorate at the NSPCC. The Directorate exists to help shape the world around us – and what the NSPCC does – so that it reflects what we have learned and can help keep children safe from abuse. The PAPA team develops and holds the NSPCC’s positions on key public policy issues and harnesses these to influence policy makers and external stakeholders across the UK. The PAPA team’s strategic focus is divided into five ‘workstreams’: child protection and children’s social care; early years; child sexual abuse; online safety; supporting young victims and witnesses.

We are now seeking a Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer to play a leading role in the online safety workstream to ensure legislative and policy frameworks in England and the UK are fit for purpose in preventing online abuse and harm to children.

You will join the team at a crucial moment for children in the UK and help us make the case for strong and ambitious regulation and legislation to ensure every child is safe online.

The Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer will lead the development of new policy positions and delivery of public affairs strategies to achieve regulatory, policy and legal change which tackles abuse and harm to children online. This will involve evidence-based policy development, being responsible for thematic policy areas, and playing a key role in forming and delivering public affairs and influencing strategies.

You’ll be able to demonstrate that you can hit the ground running and deliver high impact policy outputs and public affairs initiatives to ensure the NSPCC delivers real change in the best interests of children and continues to be seen as a credible and authoritative voice on online harms.

As an effective communicator you’ll have excellent written and oral advocacy skills, with a proven record of building in-depth knowledge of complex subject matter and developing a wide range of relationships to successfully influence policy decision making. Most of all, you will be passionate about preventing abuse and have a good understanding of challenges facing children and families in England.

Job purpose

The Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer will be responsible for undertaking public affairs and policy work to achieve the NSPCC’s strategic goals, using their skills and experience to strengthen the NSPCC’s impact on public policy, and in doing so make a significant contribution to keeping children safe online.

Key relationships - Internal

· Reports to Policy and Regulatory Manager

· Colleagues in the Policy and Public Affairs team

· Colleagues in the Strategy and Knowledge directorate

· Colleagues in the Media and Campaigns teams

· Colleagues in the Child Safety Online Solutions team, including working with the Online Safety Youth Taskforce

Key relationships - External

· MPs, Peers, and their advisors

· Parliamentary audiences, e.g., Select Committees, clerks, and APPGs

· Key civil servants in central government departments (such as the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology and the Home Office)

· Regulators (particularly Ofcom)

· Technology companies, including social media and gaming companies

· Other charities and organisations focused on children's safety online

Main duties and responsibilities

· Develop and implement high impact public affairs and parliamentary strategies to support the delivery of our objectives to keep children safe online.

· Scope and deliver high quality, evidence-based policy outputs including briefings, position statements, and responses to consultations, developing innovative solutions to complex problems.

· Maintain a network of key contacts across parliament, the civil service, industry and civil society, using this network to amplify the NSPCC’s voice and maximise impact.

· Develop and maintain a high level of expertise on key policy areas, with lead responsibility for specified thematic areas.

· Analyse a wide range of primary and secondary sources of evidence (such as policy documents, academic literature and survey data) to develop innovative and evidence-based policy solutions to complex problems.

· Proactively identify threats and opportunities to our work programme, enabling the NSPCC to predict and react to changes in the external environment.

· Lead the delivery of NSPCC public affairs events, such as parliamentary receptions and roundtables (working with colleagues from across the organisation).

· Prepare high-quality briefings, summaries, and papers for internal and external audiences.

· Use strong project management skills to plan the delivery of policy development and aligned public affairs work, planning both your and colleagues’ time effectively.

· Represent the NSPCC on relevant internal and external advisory groups, meetings, and stakeholder events.

· Act as media spokesperson for the NSPCC on relevant subject areas, including live and pre-recorded broadcasts and interviews as well as background discussions with journalists on issues relating to policy expertise.

 

• Responsibilities for all Staff within the Strategy and Knowledge Directorate

There is a set of responsibilities for all staff within each directorate.

· A commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.

· To maintain an overview of child protection policy and practice

· To maintain an awareness of own and other’s health and safety and comply with NSPCC’s Health and Safety procedures

· An active commitment to promoting ED&I, safeguarding and trauma informed practice

· An agile approach to work

· To maintain and develop competence in the use of IT systems

Person specification

1. Strong public affairs and influencing skills, including excellent knowledge of parliamentary processes, sound political judgement, and proven ability to influence and build support amongst a variety of stakeholders – including Parliamentarians, civil servants, and regulators.

2. Excellent policy development skills, with demonstrable experience forming credible, evidence-based positions and producing policy outputs on complex and highly nuanced subject matter.

3. Excellent communication skills including the ability to write clearly, concisely, and persuasively in a variety of formats for a range of audiences and very good oral presentation skills.

4. Strong analytical skills with proven ability to collate data from various sources, analyse findings and present them clearly and accurately to make a clear and compelling case for policy and legislative change.

5. Strong interpersonal skills to build and influence external networks and deal effectively and persuasively with internal and external stakeholders.

6. Confidence in working as part of a team, with experience of working collaboratively with colleagues to help ensure the successful delivery of projects.

7. Ability to work on own initiative with strong organisational and project management skills and demonstrable experience of delivering on competing priorities within a time-pressured environment. 

8. Knowledge of online safety policy or issues affecting vulnerable groups is desirable.

Safer Recruitment

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk.

Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

The recruitment and selection of our people will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance.

Our principles:

· Always seek to recruit the best candidate for the role based on merit including their skills, experience, motivation and competencies. Our robust recruitment and selection process should ensure the identification of the person best suited to the role and the organisation.

· Committed to diversity and equality of opportunity and will interview all applicants (internal and external) who self-declare at application as having a disability and who meet the minimum requirements in the person specification of the vacancy they are applying for.

· We will make reasonable adjustments at all stages of the recruitment process in order to enable successful candidates who declare disabilities to start working or volunteering their time with us.

· Any current member of staff or volunteer who wishes to apply for vacancies and is suitably qualified will be considered and addressed fairly and objectively based on their merit.

· As an organisation committed to safeguarding, we will ensure all under 18’s joining the organisation will have ongoing risk assessments to ensure their role and activities are safe and appropriate.

· All documentation relating to candidates will be treated confidentially in accordance with the GDPR legislation.

A charitable organisation is currently recruiting a Head of Finance on an interim basis for approximately 6 months. 

As the Head of Finance you have overall responsibility for the consolidated financial reporting and will support the Business Director to set the financial strategy and ensuring the Trustees are appropriately informed of the financial position of the Charity.

You will be responsible for the preparation and consolidation of annual budgets, management accounts and statutory accounts for presentation to the Trust and its Audit and Finance Committees.  You will also provide advice on VAT, tax, trading companies and submit the quarterly VAT returns.

The Finance team acts very much as a partnering function for the wider organisation and you will maintain strong working relationships with external stakeholders.

If you are a qualified Accountant looking to take a step up and manage a small team this could be a great opportunity got you.

Are you an experienced marketing professional that is passionate about using your creative communication skills to make a difference? 

This is an extremely exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the further development of Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice Service.

We are an award-winning local charity that provides specialist care and support to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, and their families across Berkshire and into surrounding counties.

We are looking for a motivated, dynamic and experienced Marketing and Communications Manager to join our team and who will help us build on our charity’s established reputation. You will lead on the delivery of a marketing and communications strategy that will engage and champion our brand to all our key audiences, internally and externally, in a consistent manner via a number of mediums and platforms.

You will bring creativity, energy, and passion to this role, with responsibility for delivering high-quality marketing assets that will bring our vital work to life in an inspiring way to help grow awareness and increase vital income.

The successful candidate will need to have experience across various areas including digital and offline marketing, website management, social media, PR and brand management, report writing and developing case studies.

You will also be responsible for the future development of the Marketing and Communications function to support a growing organisation

The role is based at our state-of-the-art children’s hospice just outside Maidenhead.

Make a big impact with a dynamic small charity transforming lives in Africa. Join us to help ensure we reach everyone with water, sanitation & hygiene, leaving no one behind.

Since 2004, Village Water has been dedicated to transforming lives in Africa by providing vital support in hygiene promotion, sanitation facilities, and safe water (WASH) in rural communities of Zambia and Mozambique.

Working hand-in-hand with local partners, we strive to reach the most marginalised populations in rural villages, schools, and health centres, creating positive impacts on their health and empowering them with opportunities.

As a small yet dynamic team, we pride ourselves on our personal touch and can-do approach. We need an ambitious and tenacious Head of Fundraising, responsible for overseeing and growing the fundraising department, developing and delivering an ambitious fundraising strategy.

Key information:

Location: Remote working. (UK only) Must be able to attend a minimum of 5 mandatory meetings per year (includes overnight stay for 2-day meetings) at our office in Shrewsbury and occasional meetings elsewhere.

Contract: Permanent. Full time 37.5 hours a week. 

Salary: Between £39,000 – £44,000 a year depending on experience,

Benefits and entitlements: Matched pension contributions - 7% of salary after 3 months’, 5 weeks' annual leave plus bank holidays and discretionary Christmas shut down.

Reporting to: CEO, Village Water.

Job Purpose

As the Head of Fundraising, your primary responsibility is to lead the strategic direction and execution of Village Water’s fundraising efforts, with a focus on diversifying income streams and maximising revenue generation. You will oversee all fundraising activities, particularly in Trusts and Foundations (both UK and International), corporate partnerships, High Value Donors, and statutory bodies. Your role involves crafting compelling funding applications and reports, creating an ambitious fundraising strategy, applying for and securing large multi-year grants from new and existing donors, ensuring exemplary donor stewardship, and fostering collaboration across teams to achieve fundraising goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine a comprehensive fundraising strategy, with a specific emphasis on Trusts and Foundations & corporate fundraising, to ensure a steady pipeline of funding opportunities. Coordinate with team members to meet fundraising targets effectively and manage donation pipelines working with CEO and Finance manager to ensure the pipeline matches the cashflow.

• Directly oversee and support your team members, conduct performance evaluations, and provide coaching to ensure both individual and team objectives are achieved. (currently the team is 3)

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with existing and potential donors, including Trusts, Foundations, Corporates and Statutory bodies, through proactive engagement and personalized stewardship.

• Collaborate closely with colleagues to develop persuasive proposals and impactful reports that effectively communicate Village Water’s mission and achievements.

• Plan and implement annual fundraising campaigns.

• Work closely with monitoring and finance teams to accurately assess impact and budgetary needs, ensuring timely and accurate reporting to donors.

• Maintain accurate donor records and ensure compliance with data protection regulations within Village Water’s database.

General

• Foster a collaborative work environment by engaging with staff, volunteers, suppliers, and local partners.

• Actively participate in networking events to expand Village Water’s connections and fundraising opportunities.

• Provide regular updates at team meetings and Trustee meetings as required.

• Offer support for other fundraising activities as needed, promoting a culture of teamwork and shared success.

• Uphold the organisation’s safeguarding policies by undergoing necessary training and fulfilling safeguarding responsibilities.

Skills and Experience

• Ability to inspire, motivate, and guide team members toward achieving fundraising goals. Provide clear direction, set expectations, and foster a positive and collaborative team environment.

• Support the professional growth and development of team members through coaching, training, and mentoring. Provide opportunities for skill-building and advancement within the fundraising field.

• Proven track record in securing funds from Trusts and Foundations, Corporates and Statutory, including large awards.

• Experience in securing multi-year grant support, including both restricted and unrestricted funding.

• Familiarity with complex application and reporting processes.

• Strong donor stewardship skills, with the ability to cultivate and maintain successful relationships.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of crafting compelling cases for support and presenting Village Water’s work effectively.

• Proficiency in financial management and budget analysis.

• Familiarity with relevant software and databases, including Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce or similar.

Equality and Diversity

Village Water is dedicated to promoting a workplace that embraces inclusivity, values diversity, and honours the unique contributions of its employees and partners. It ensures equal treatment for all individuals and encourages everyone to reach their full potential.

Village Water is an advocate for disability inclusion, so if you require alternative application methods, please get in touch with us for further assistance.

Fundraising Manager

● 21 Hours per week (ideally spread over 3-4 days)

● £35,000 p.a. pro rata (£21,000)

● Working from home, but with some travel to Central London

● Permanent contract

 

About LMK

Good relationships shape our health and happiness, yet we are taught so little about them. LMK (Let Me Know) is on a mission to change that. We are a young and thriving charity providing education about healthy and unhealthy behaviours so that young people have the knowledge and skills to avoid abuse and thrive in their relationships. We work in schools, community organisations and workplaces across London.

LMK is growing at pace and we are ambitious in our plans for the future. We’ve already engaged 15,000 young people and professionals in our workshops in our first 4 years and we want to reach 10,000 young people per year by 2025-26.

Our work is primarily funded through grants received from charitable trusts and foundations, but we have exciting plans to diversify income to include major donors, corporate supporters, statutory awards and challenge events. This post will focus on supporting major donors, corporates and trusts and foundations.

We have:

✔ A clear plan of who we want to target for our workshops over the next 3 years, and a fundraising plan to support it

✔ An engaged leadership team and Board of Trustees

✔ Evidenced outcomes, rich data/statistics and compelling case studies

✔ Diversity and strong social purpose

✔ A new organisational strategy that sets our vision from 2024-2027

✔ A new CRM system that has been built to support our ambitions

 

 

Job Purpose

This is a new role, joining a small and growing Fundraising Team, with responsibility for proactively leading the cultivation and stewardship of potential and existing major donors, grant-making trusts, and corporate supporters, with a particular focus on driving significant income growth.

You will build and maintain lasting relationships with LMKs valued funders, thinking strategically and working closely with programme delivery colleagues to develop fundraising cases of support and impact reporting.

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising & Development, the successful candidate will join LMK’s core staff team, and will have a real input into our plans and strategies for the future by working with LMK staff, LMK Leaders (youth workers who deliver our workshops to young people), members of our Youth Advisory Board and trustees to develop and implement our long-term strategy.

Key responsibilities:

● Develop and deliver a structured and dynamic plan to engage high-value donors, trusts and corporate supporters.

● Understand supporter motivations, identifying opportunities across the Charity that inspire and engage, enabling supporters to achieve their fundraising goals.

● Work closely with colleagues to develop inspiring fundraising cases for support and impact reporting.

● Undertake prospect research, identifying prospective new funders for LMK

● Meet with and present to potential and existing funders with passion, enthusiasm and professionalism. 

● Manage funder relationships, ensuring that they are kept informed of progress, key milestones and future opportunities to support the charity, and that they are thanked and thoughtfully stewarded, in order to maximise retention, and increase levels of support over time. 

● Influence and shape project development and impact measurement by ensuring major funder needs are taken into account

● Work with colleagues to monitor the progress of grant-funded projects, ensuring that obligations are fulfilled within the terms of the grant wherever possible and informing funders in a timely fashion of any significant deviations from projections. 

● Proactively seek out feedback from funders where appropriate, share insights with the team and use this to inform LMK practice.

● Ensure all activities are legally compliant, in keeping with our values and adherent to due diligence and our Acceptance or Refusal of Donations Policy.

● Ensure that information relating to funders is appropriately recorded in CRM systems, accurate and adheres to data protection guidelines.

● Provide regular reports and information to the Head of Fundraising & Development on your progress against plan, targets and income generated.

● Comply with our policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, confidentiality, complaints and data protection.

Person specification

● A proven ability to work proactively to identify new contacts and opportunities for funding through extensive research

● Experience of providing excellent relationship management and stewardship resulting in increased levels of financial support from partners

● Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing

● Thorough understanding of legal and charity regulations in relation to fundraising

● Skilled in identifying and developing creative, high-quality cases for support, funding proposals and impact reporting in collaboration with others

● Strong MS Office/Google knowledge, numerate, comfortable with data

● Highly organised to manage a diverse workload with excellent time management and ability to pay attention to detail.

● A knowledge of the Violence Against Women and Girls sector, Education sector or working with young people would be preferable, although not essential.

Safeguarding

This role is subject to a Basic DBS check

In return for your dedication, we will offer you

 

✔ The opportunity to help prevent relationship abuse and domestic violence in young people

✔ A competitive salary

✔ Working from home

✔ A genuinely flexible working environment

✔ Pension of 6%

✔ 32 Days of annual leave, (including bank holidays)

✔ Employee Assistance Programme

✔ Wellbeing perks

✔ A diverse, bold and collaborative culture with two social meet-ups annually in London

Please note: This 'hybrib' role is remote with some travel to London (up to 2-3 times per month). 

 

OPPORTUNITY to work with one of the UK’s leading Impact Investing Platforms

Energise Africa – Commercial Director

Hours – Full time (or 4 days a week will be considered)

Location: Oxford (with some international travel)

Salary:  £60k

Term: Permanent

Start date: ASAP

Overview

Energise Africa is at an exciting and pivotal time in its development. We are currently recruiting a Commercial Director to drive the business as it looks to scale. Energise Africa has been founded and incubated by two of the leading direct impact investing platforms in Europe, Ethex in the UK and Lendahand in the Netherlands and backed by incredible supporters such as UKAid and P4G. Since 2017, during this seed stage, Energise Africa has raised over £35m from UK retail investors to accelerate energy access in Sub–Saharan Africa and has won numerous awards including the UN Climate Action award for climate friendly investments.

As we get ready to take on new investment, and expand into new geographies and sectors, it is time for the organisation to build a new dedicated team.

Commercial Director

To take our business to the next level we need a dedicated Commercial Director to help accelerate our growth.

There are four key strands to the role:

Strategy and New Business

· Work alongside the CEO to develop the growth strategy for Energise Africa

· Managing existing and develop new origination partnerships to bring new issuers to the platform

· Lead the EA origination efforts and structure proposed transactions

· Work alongside our operations team to ensure efficient processes are developed and implemented to ensure smooth onboarding of new investees

· Work alongside our marketing team to ensure that origination partners and investees give us the information that they need to effectively promote investment opportunities

· Drafting and negotiation of agreements with origination partners and prospective investees

· Lead the due diligence process, present cases to the Investment Committee and onboard new investees

· Manage existing and explore new co-financing partnerships

Investee Management

· Demonstrate excellent relationship management with our origination partners and investees.

· Monitor and manage the investment portfolio along with our origination partners.

· Manage workout situations and restructuring of clients in arrears with support from the legal team and origination partners.

Leadership

· As a key member of the Energise Africa Senior Management Team, help to build the investment strategy for Energise Africa and to deliver against agreed objectives.

Product Development

· Cooperate in product development which may involve different currency solutions, guarantees and de-risking projects as well as looking at innovative financing structures.

· Support the development of new tools and technology to make the investment process more efficient.

Reports to: CEO Energise Africa

Key skills and experience:

· A passion for sustainable development/impact investing or similar.

· 5 years of experience in impact investing (debt or equity) or corporate lending in emerging markets and/or in renewable energy or climate finance sectors.

· Experience of helping to scale a start-up and/or entrepreneurship within a company.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

· Great negotiation skills - cooperative, empathetic and get the deals closed.

· Excellent communication skills and the ability to represent EA at the highest levels.

· Fluent in English and ideally French or Spanish, both written and spoken.

· Willing to  travel internationally (global emerging/frontier markets and European countries).

· Tech-savvy and proven experience with data-driven investment decisions.

· Bachelors or Masters degree.

Our Values

· We want to create a positive impact and make a difference in the world. 

· We love helping communities, social entrepreneurs and businesses in innovative ways.

· We aim to provide excellent customer service and treat all our investors fairly.

· We are a dynamic, professional and knowledgeable team with a friendly, can-do attitude.

· We are a small team that likes delivering big impact. 

What it means to be part of our team

• Work for us and see the tangible positive impact you are helping to create on the ground, such as household rural electrification in Africa and beyond.
• Share Option Scheme
• Ethical pension, with employer contribution.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• In addition to public holidays, you are entitled to 25 days each year increasing by 1 day annually from year 3 in recognition of long service (up to a maximum of 30 days).
• The Company closes for a period during Christmas, details of which will be given to you during the early part of each year. You do not have to book these days as holiday.
• Supportive of proposals for relevant training, agreed as part of personal development plans.
• Free access to mental health support services through our partner Able Futures.
• We organise informal ad hoc socials to get to know each other better and more structured team socials once a quarter.

Equal Opportunities

We hire great people from a variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values for making a positive impact in the world and making money do good, you will find a home at Ethex.

We believe in a fairer future for all, and we know that by working together we can do much, much more. We believe that everyone has the right to live and work without fear or prejudice regardless of race, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, social class, religion and belief.

Further information

Please indicate whether you are applying for the role on a full time or part time basis. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.  This opportunity will close once the roles have been filled, so please apply early to ensure you don’t miss out.

FareShare Southern Central

Job Description –Community Coordinator Assistant

Reporting to:  Regional Manager

Location: Totton   

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35hrs

Salary: £22,495-£23,170

We welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident Employer that welcome disabled applicants and provide reasonable adjustments.

About FareShare

FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to nearly 9,500 frontline charities and community groups.

The food we redistribute is nutritious and good to eat. It reaches charities across the UK, including school breakfast clubs, older people’s lunch clubs, homeless shelters, and community cafes. Every week we provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people.

 Every year, more than three million tonnes of food go to waste in the UK, enough for 7 billion meals. Meanwhile, the cost-of-living crisis is driving millions into food insecurity. FareShare has a plan to help tackle the cost-of-living crisis using England’s surplus food.

We are fortunate to benefit from the support of major retailers, the media, sports ambassadors and a groundswell of public engagement. As a result, there has never been a more exciting time to join an organisation at the heart of public consciousness.

FareShare’s Strategy & Vision

Vision: We have the vision of a UK where “No good food goes to waste”.

Mission: To use surplus, fit for consumption, food to feed those who are vulnerable in the UK by supporting front line charitable organisations that tackle the cause and not just the symptoms of food poverty.

Our Purpose: We are doers. We are a community. We change lives.

Our Values: Passion – for our cause and the challenge that lies ahead

Ambition – to go the extra mile and drive the change that must happen

Respect – for ourselves, each other, our volunteers, our partners and our beneficiaries

Collaboration – it’s only by working with others that we can be stronger

Focus – on providing the best service possible so that we deliver and achieve the most for our clients/customers.

The role

As a Community Coordinator Assistant for FareShare, your primary responsibility will be to manage and sustain the Community Food Membership (CFM) programme. Your goal will be to maximize relationships and add value to create the best experience for our charity partners. To excel in this role, you must be an exceptional communicator with an approachable nature, capable of securing, developing, and maintaining relationships with charities, and raising awareness of FareShare Southern Central across the region.

The Community Coordinator Assistant will require a full clean driving licence, have access to a vehicle and be competent and confident traveling independently as they will be traveling across our region. 

This role is vital in ensuring the success and sustainability of the FareShare Community Food Membership programme by fostering strong, supportive relationships with our charity partners and making a positive impact across the region.

Main areas of responsibility

The Community Coordinator Assistant will be responsible for the recruitment and retention of Community Food Members (CFMs) within the designated region. This role requires close collaboration with the Regional Manager, the Finance team, and Head Office. The Community Coordinator Assistant is expected to meet recruitment and retention targets, produce comprehensive reports, and ensure all requirements of funders are met.

• Organised, reliable and with a high attention to detail. 
• Some experience with customer relationships management systems.
• Strong IT and Microsoft Office skills: Outlook, Excel and Word are essential.
• Strong numeracy.
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task as required. 
• A strong team player with a good work ethic. 
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and in a fast-paced environment. 
• Understanding of GDPR principles.
• Curiosity and empathy with FareShare’s mission and strategy. 

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As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable in this role.

Essential Criteria

• Previous experience in community work
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle
• Have a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Eligible to work in the UK

Desirable Criteria

• Level 2/3 Food Safety training is desirable, but training will be provided.
• Have previous experience working with customer relationship management software.
• Be degree educated or have a strong career history doing similar roles in any sector.
• Have some experience of community.

Competencies and behaviours

• Develop and implement strategies to recruit new CFM’s
• Maintain relationships with existing CFMSs to ensure high retention rates
• Conduct outreach activities to promote the benefit of CFM membership
• Able to demonstrate being a Team player
• Eligible to work in the UK

Benefits

• Hybrid / Flexible working, with regular UK travel
• 28 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• Employers pension contribution
• Employee Assistance Program
• Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme
• Season ticket loan