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We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly organised Programmes & Fundraising Assistant to join our small, dynamic team - to support our mission of making a positive impact for primary school children in rural sub-Saharan Africa. In this versatile role, you will work closely with the Executive Director to manage key tasks, oversee project activities in Africa, assist with organising major fundraising events, such as our annual golf day and gala ball, and develop and maintain strong donor relations to secure funding. You will assist with researching and submitting funding proposals, managing project budgets and overseeing social media updates. Training and guidance in all aspects of the role will be given and there is huge scope for career progression.

If you are a proactive problem-solver with excellent communication skills, a passion for International Development, and willing to take on a variety of responsibilities, we encourage you to apply. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a flexible environment and is committed to the success of charitable projects.

Essential Criteria:

• Computer literate, with exceptional organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A flexible, "can-do" attitude, ready to engage in all aspects of running the charity.
• A passion for diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities.
• Full driving license and access to a vehicle (our current office is not accessible by public transport, although we are planning to relocate to a more accessible office soon).  Occasional WFH will be permitted, subject to agreement with the Executive Director.
• Must be a UK resident.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of project management and/or fundraising.
• Previous administrative work experience.

Remuneration:  Starting salary dependant on experience (£23-25k).

Closing Date: 8th November 2024

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, so we encourage you to apply soon. Please note, we may close applications early if a suitable candidate is found. African Revival is an equal opportunities employer.

An excellent opportunity for a permanent Membership Development Manager to make a major contribution to the success of the leading professional body for librarians and information professionals.

Full Time 35 hours per week | Permanent | Hybrid | Closing Date 12th November 2024
Salary: £38,932

Job Reference: MDM01 (Please quote this on any correspondence)

The Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) is a London-based charity with a friendly, hardworking team supporting our members in the UK and internationally.  We are the only independent voice for the UK’s information profession. We are guided by our Royal Charter to develop and improve library and information services.

The Membership Development Manager is responsible for driving the growth of our membership base, delivering sales of our products and services and overseeing comprehensive membership recruitment, retention and engagement strategies. Working closely with the Director of Business Development, you will play a pivotal role in achieving our membership and sales goals, contributing to CILIPs overall success and sustainability.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in membership services, community engagement, account management, or a related field, with a proven track record of driving growth within a membership organisation. Experience working to targets and achieving business or performance objectives is essential. The successful candidate will have demonstrated their ability to support and foster a cross-organisation sales mindset and culture, leveraging digital technologies to drive cross-platform sales.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Develop and Implement Membership Strategies:  Create and execute strategies for membership recruitment, retention, and engagement to drive growth.
• Maintain Membership Records:  Ensure accurate and up-to-date membership records, maintaining data integrity in the CRM database.
• Manage Communication Channels:  Oversee effective communication channels with members and manage social media profiles to support CILIP campaigns.
• Create and Execute Outreach Campaigns:  Collaborate with colleagues to design and implement outreach campaigns to attract new members and represent CILIP at industry events.
• Develop and Improve Sales Pipeline:  Develop, oversee, and improve a sales pipeline for all CILIP products and services, managing lead generation to the buying decision.
• Reporting and Evaluation:  Prepare regular reports on membership trends and engagement activities, and evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives, providing recommendations for improvement based on data analysis.

About CILIP

The Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) is the UK’s library and information association. We promote education, literacy and prosperity for all by raising standards in libraries, information and knowledge management. We work to improve services, develop our members’ expertise and champion the sector. We are the only independent voice for the UK’s information profession. We are guided by our Royal Charter to develop and improve library and information services.

This is a fabulous opportunity to join a modern charity and professional body. CILIP is at an exciting phase in its growth with significant investments in member offerings and digital transformation plans.

Why work for CILIP

• Hybrid working
• 26 days' annual leave plus public holidays (pro rata’d for part time employees)
• The option to buy up to 3 days' additional annual leave
• Generous pension scheme (Employer contribution of 10%, employee contribution of 5%) including death in service benefit
• Access to CILIP’s Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous enhanced leave benefits, including occupational sick pay, maternity leave, paternity leave and carers leave
• Annual flu vaccination voucher
• Perkbox employee discounts and wellbeing hub
• Contribution to eye tests

CILIP is an equal opportunities employer and committed to championing diversity, inclusion, and representation. We particularly welcome applications from people from under-represented groups.  If you need any reasonable adjustments for any part of the recruitment process, please do let us know.

Registered Charity No 313014

We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent Delivery Manager working from our Newcastle centre. If you have excellent communication skills, a positive attitude, and are a dedicated team player with a youth-led approach this could be perfect for you!

As a member of our Leadership Team, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of our Young People programmes across Newcastle. As part of the management team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing a delivery plan and targets for the Newcastle area.  You will lead and inspire your team to deliver effective services, ensuring that every young person engaged progresses along an appropriate pathway of learning, and development. You will demonstrate best practices in services that engage young people, creating a safe and supportive environment that maximizes value for young people and our training and employer partnerships.

This role is perfect for you if you have experience leading services for young people and have a deep passion for making a positive difference. You will have the opportunity to develop our current offer and lead a small dedicated team, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone's potential can flourish.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the delivery of our Young People Programmes, ensuring their successful implementation.
• Lead and motivate your team to provide effective services and support for young people.
• Developed Planning and Organisational Skills with proven commercial acumen
• Contribute to the development of our strategy to empower more young people in Newcastle with sustainable outcome opportunities.

As part of our commitment to strengthening our international development work and emergency response, we are looking for a Support Co-ordinator in our International Programmes & Partnerships department. This is a role that requires a wide variety of skills, especially inter-personal communications, and attention to detail and accuracy.

Role: International Programmes Support Co-ordinator

Responsible to: Director of International Programmes and Partnerships

Status: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £24k-£28k (dependent on experience)

Location: Birmingham

Deadline for Applications: 6pm Friday 29 November 2024

Islamic Help is a UK-based international relief and development organisation that has developed rapidly since being established in 2003. Our programmes aim to help and empower disadvantaged communities in the UK and abroad; some of the key areas we work in are emergency response, WASH, education, livelihood and environment conservation.

The Role

We are looking for a dynamic, organised and responsive International Programmes Support Co-ordinator. Someone who isn’t afraid of hard work, who shares our values and who wants to be part of something extraordinary. This exciting post will support the emergency response, administration, and co-ordination for our international department and its programmes across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

The post holder will work closely with our internal and external stakeholders, especially in terms of emergency response, donor feedback, grant management and relationship building, so we’re looking for a team player, someone very organised and with super people skills. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Director of International Programmes on the management of the department including development of departmental calendar, co-ordinating the weekly meetings with agendas and record keeping, oversight and development of departmental workplan
• Ensure that office grants are processed in a timely and effective manner in accordance with our policies, procedures and standards
• Prepare, review and renew MoUs and funding agreements with a range of our offices and partners
• Co-ordination of the due diligence process
• Maintenance of records and files in line with IH document management and IT policies
• Provide support to approved projects and ensure there is continuous oversight and support throughout the project management cycle including financial and periodic reporting
• Communicate with offices and partners as and when necessary and communicate progress or queries to colleagues
• Support Regional Programme co-ordinators in preparing payments for approved grants
• Support the programmes team in the analysis of budgets and reports to determine impact, achievements and outputs
• Prepare feedback reports for donors and other stakeholders within appropriate timeframes
• Provide marketing colleagues with appropriate beneficiary data and case study material etc.
• Verify budgets, invoices and financial liquidation reports to ensure that money is being spent according to the approved operational budget, plan and conduct appropriate desk reviews
• Review budgets and communicate any changes where needed
• Ensure the prioritisation of the most vulnerable within the communities Islamic Help serves by adopting a pro-active, holistic approach to safeguarding
• Contribute to department workplans, help set budgets and manage programme funds
• Support the Director of International Programmes on Emergency Response including –development of Emergency Response process, first response, setting up Emergency Panel, development of surge capacity and the development of proposals and reporting
• To participate and actively engage, under the supervision of the Director of International Programmes, as part of Islamic Help’s first response to an emergency, including but not limited to travelling to emergency response locations, planning and implementing emergency response projects and liaising with partners and others to ensure successful implementation
• Support Donor Reporting Manager on Mosque and WASH project feedback including oversight on all WASH and Mosque projects, monitoring their progress and ensuring donors receive feedback in a timely and professional manner
• Support the partnerships department with partner care – accompanying partners on field visits wherever needed to ensure the smooth co-ordination of operations and projects
• Any other duties commensurate with the accountabilities of the post.

The job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time. You may, from time to time, be required to work evenings, Saturdays or Sundays.

About you

For us, it’s not just what we do, it’s how we do it. Our values are important to us and we’re looking for people who will live and breathe them. 

Required

• Experience of writing formal reports to a high standard, and an eye to detail and accuracy
• Aware of best practices for humanitarian relief and development agencies, and current International standards
• Excellent knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise a complicated workload
• Team player and positive attitude when working with others 
• Adaptable and flexible in working style 
• Problem solver

Desirable

• Experience of either emergency/field work or grant management within a similar organisation (emergency, recovery or developmental)
• Experience working at an INGO HQ

Additional information 

Safeguarding: We are an organisation that takes safeguarding very seriously. All staff will be expected to adhere to our policies, processes, and approach.

Chief Executive 

Design in Mental Health Network

£65,000 - £70,000

Remote, with access to London and UK travel

Full-time, permanent

Design in Mental Health Network is a registered charity, which aims to improve mental health outcomes by promoting knowledge exchange, co-production involving the voice of people with Lived Experience and challenging the status quo of mental health design.

We are a network of experts whose perspectives, thoughts, insights, opinions are grounded in research, professional qualification and/or lived experience.  The collective includes a wide range of stakeholders involved in planning for, designing, building, managing and using spaces that impact on our mental health.

We believe the better the design brief is in determining and matching the evidenced needs of all users, the better the goal of improving the actual design of settings to support better mental health care and patient outcomes will be. 

Good design facilitates human connection (therapeutic/supportive relationships) and to this end we advocate to engage and influence people with decision making capabilities and/or budget control, to understand how to use existing resources more effectively in leading to better mental health outcomes.

We want to actively challenge the status quo, using research and our design skills to reimagine radical new ways of approaching mental health care that improve the outcomes for patients and make these spaces better places to work for the staff on the front line.  We’ll always do this from the view of what is best for the person receiving care, using the built environment as a platform for lasting stabilisation or recovery from mental ill health.

Looking forward to this exciting time we are seeking a CEO with the skills and experience to develop, implement and drive a plan to see our ambitious vision come to fruition. 

There is now a growing appetite globally for what we do, with a group of interested people forming in the US and Canada as they invest significant sums in new buildings.

How to apply

Application is by way of CV and a Supporting Statement, which should clearly set out your motivations for the role and how your experience to date meets the requirements.

Please click the apply button for further information.

Closing date: Sunday 10th November

First interviews: Week beginning 25th November (conducted remotely by NFP)

Final interviews: Monday 9th December (conducted in-person, location tbc)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Chief Operating Officer to join a fantastic conservation and education charity, based in Hemel Hempstead.

Location: Predominately office-based in Hemel Hempstead, with occasional home-working

Salary: £50,000

As Chief Operating Officer, you will manage and develop the diverse business operations of the Trust.

Key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing the delivery of the ten-year plan, most significantly, a multi-year project to re-establish a new visitor centre.
• Managing a team of staff, volunteers and contractors, ensuring HR compliance, CPD and operational resilience.
• Building relationships with related charities, industry partners, trade associations, the Local Authority and other stakeholders.
• Ensuring the websites and other digital offerings provide the most effective and modern service for users.
• Identifying and implementing opportunities to improve the charity’s financial position through increased income generation.
• In close liaison with the Treasurer and Chair of Trustees, work to ensure the best possible operating position for the Trust with regard to income, costs and investment, including budgeting and forecasting.

The successful candidate will have at least 5 years’ senior experience managing industrial and/or commercial operations, ideally within a related industry or a third-sector environment such as a charity or not-for-profit. Expertise in recognising and implementing business improvements and changes is key, as is the ability to lead a commercially focused, marketing-oriented function.

You must be confident, resilient and energetic, with proven ability to lead and engage staff and volunteers, helping them achieve their objectives. Demonstrable strength in strategic planning and driving business growth is crucial, alongside a solid understanding of key UK business practices including compliance, risk management, HR, finance, and IT.

CVs are being reviewed on a rolling basis, so if this sounds like you, then please do get in touch for more information ASAP!

Please note, only successful candidates will be contacted with further information.

As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.

About the Role

We are seeking a Programmes Delivery Officer within our Global Relationships Team, whose role will be to support our vision to equip the Methodist Church in Britain to be a growing, evangelistic, inclusive, justice-seeking Church for the 21st century.

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Global Relationships, the successful candidate will be a collaborative and professional member of the Global Relationships (GR) team within the Mission Team as it fulfils its strategy in response to Our Calling and a Methodist Way of Life.

In this post, you will focus on the following priorities:

• develop and implement our People to People programmes, including long-term Mission Partnering, Encounter Worldwide, Encounter Together, Global Mission Fellows, the incoming Evangelists Programme, Church Twinning and more.
• help facilitate and strengthen ongoing relationships between Partner Churches and the Methodist Church in Britain, and provide Methodist people with unique opportunities to learn and engage in mission in a variety of global contexts.
• promote the work of global relationships with children and young people at 3Generate, their annual gathering.

About You

Key Requirements

• Graduate qualification in mission, development studies, project management or equivalent, together with relevant experience.
• Excellent understanding of the global mission context in the 21st Century.
• Proven ability to work cross culturally and to relate to persons within different globally based organisations.
• Highly organised and able to track multiple areas of work.
• Availability for occasional on call and out of hours work.

It is a requirement that applicants have the right to work in the UK.

Our Culture, Values and Benefits

Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.

We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.

The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups.  We also welcome applications from people living with disabilities.

For an informal discussion with a member of the team please see our website for GR Admin contact details. 

If you have questions about the vacancy or require reasonable adjustments to be made at any stage of the recruitment process, please see our website for HR contact details. 

Closing Date: 4 November 2024

Interviews: 21 November 2024

Creating environments where businesses and communities thrive.

We are looking to recruit well organised, creative team players for the role of Business Engagement and Project Support Officers.

More and more businesses around the country are benefiting from the advantages of working together to tackle issues and create new opportunities in their local business communities.

At Groundwork we work with business communities and Business Improvement District (BIDs) to change places and change lives. Our projects provide a great way for businesses to band together and deliver additional services or improvements to their areas, creating safe, clean and vibrant locations in which business can thrive.

Be Part Of Our Dynamic Team

Groundwork’s Business Team is widely recognised as one of the country’s leading experts for developing and managing successful town centre management projects and Business Improvement Districts. As Business Engagement and Project Support Officer, you will have an integral role within of our Business Team. You will take a lead on business engagement and marketing activities to businesses and consumers within projects. You will also be required to engage and communicate with a range of stakeholders, clients and suppliers.

If you are ready for a challenging new role and think you have the skills and experience we are looking for - we’d like to hear from you.

How To Apply
For the full job description and person specification and details on how to apply, apply via our website. 

Global Dialogue is an international philanthropy support organisation partnering with funders to advance rights, equity and diversity. Independent in status and global in reach, we provide funder networks, collaboratives and their partners with practical support and technical expertise to create lasting change.

We currently host seven large networks and collaborations, serving more than one hundred independent funders, including Ariadne, the network of European funders for social change and human rights; the Funders Initiative for Civil Society (FICS); the International Education Funders Group (IEFG); Migration Exchange; Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace (PSJP) and Hamrah, an initiative to strengthen the resilience and increase the impact of a cohort of Afghan civil society organisations in exile. We’re proud to have incubated several influential, award-winning charities, including Each Other (formerly RightsInfo), IMIX and The Five Foundation.

Overview

The Operations and Systems Manager is a key role in the Operations Team and will focus on ensuring that our staff, all home-working and many based internationally, can engage positively with Global Dialogue’s operational systems and processes. The scope of the role covers IT and digital tools, digital security, data management, HR, insurance and travel, as well as the organisation’s equipment, and health and safety protocols.

Job Description

• Responsible for the maintenance and development of systems and processes that support Global Dialogue’s operations across a range of functions.
• Provide operational support to programme staff across the organisation as needs arise.
• Collaborate with Operations Team colleagues to improve cross-functional ways of working and play an active role in the development of projects that enhance Global Dialogue’s ‘offer’ to hosted programmes.

IT, Digital Security and Data Management

• Oversee Global Dialogue’s IT provision, managing the relationship with and acting as the main point of contact for our external IT support, as well as fielding programme requests and managing costs.
• Maintain an overview of Global Dialogue’s user accounts across SharePoint and other digital tools, ensuring pricing, licencing and permissions are effectively managed across all platforms.
• Maintain and develop Global Dialogue’s practice and policies in relation to GDPR, ensuring that they are applied across the organisation, and take ownership of the organisation’s SharePoint structure.
• Support the development of Global Dialogue’s digital security offer to hosted programmes, so that the organisation has the tools and infrastructure to respond effectively to associated risks/threats.
• Responsible for scoping and implementing digital solutions that effectively support business operations.
• Source and maintain an overview of Global Dialogue’s IT hardware, phones and other equipment, including managing logistics and the phasing out of old equipment.
• Help to keep Global Dialogue’s website updated, liaising with external web developers where needed.

People and Care

• Support internal processes and systems for starters, leavers and existing staff; maintain an overview of mandatory staff training, as well as ensuring compliance of health and safety in the context of remote working.
• Provide administrative support across contract management and compliance tasks, referring on and tracking progress where needed.

Travel, events and insurance

• Responsible for Global Dialogue’s insurance policies (office, events, travel), ensuring that they are up do date and reflect organisational needs, as well as dealing with insurance queries and processing claims.
• Oversees systems for managing international travel, ensuring that risk management protocols are followed, and advising on compliance as required.

Other

• Maintain an overview of the organisation’s memberships and subscriptions, ensuring renewals and payments are up to date.
• Help the team to monitor the dedicated info@ and operations@ inboxes, including logging, fielding, and actioning requests as appropriate, to ensure Global Dialogue responds effectively to the needs of hosted programmes

Foundation and Trust Administrator - Part-time (3 days working broadly office hours)

Location - Home based with occasional travel including to London, Birmingham and Stratford Upon Avon

The Rigby Foundation is the charity of the Rigby Family and their wholly owned family business, the Rigby Group PLC.  In 2023, the Trustees appointed an Executive Director, the Foundation’s first member of staff, to support them in setting their future strategy. The Foundation is now a place-based funder, with donations focussed on the West Midlands. 

Support is prioritised for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds aged between eleven years and twenty-five years, and on evidence-based charity programs that enable young people to succeed in education and have the chance of securing meaningful employment.

The Sir Peter Rigby Charitable Trust is Sir Peter’s newly established personal charity.  The strategy for the Trust is in development, with current support focussed on partnerships with two leading UK universities. 

The Executive Director oversees both The Rigby Foundation and The Sir Peter Rigby Charitable Trust, and is now looking to create a small dynamic team to include a Partnerships Manager and Administrator.  The Team will work closely together to ensure that Rigby Foundation funded programs enable the best possible outcomes for young people in the West Midlands, and that The Sir Peter Rigby Charitable Trust facilitates Sir Peter’s giving strategy once this is confirmed.

Prospectus is delighted to be working with the Rigby Foundation to recruit an Administrator to join this small and growing team.

The role:

This important role will be responsible for supporting administrative systems across both charities, working closely with the Executive Director on the following activities:
 

• Ensuring all requisite policies and procedures are in place for both charities
• Preparing Board papers and facilitating Trustee meetings
• Assisting with annual statutory reporting and audit processes
• Working with the ED to produce annual budgets
• Administering and processing all donation payments
• Responding to all internal and external requests for information
• Supporting staff matched fundraising
• Supporting Rigby Group staff involvement in Foundation and Trust activities
• Offering broader administrative support to the Executive Director.

The role requires substantial experience of governance, Trustee support, financial admin, managing diaries, meetings and travel as well as offering broader admin support wherever needed.

The person:

The successful candidate will have substantial experience of providing broad administrative support to an organisation ideally in the charity, grant-making or education sector. Helpful, organised and resourceful, this person will be able to juggle multiple tasks, to prioritise effectively and to plan ahead to meet deadlines.  A great communicator, this person will also be a real team player, proficient in all MS Office packages including Excel and Powerpoint with solid experience of having worked as a PA or similar type of role.

More broadly, this person will be enthusiastic and committed to the valuable work of  both charities.

For over two decades, Social Investment Business has provided finance and support to charities and social enterprises. We empower these organisations to do what they do best - serve the communities they operate within. 

To find out more about what we do, our values and our generous benefits please visit our website.

Our values are: People First, Curious, Bold, Collaborative, Accountable

About the Role

Reporting to our Marketing Manager this role plays an important part in supporting SIB’s strategy and focus.

We are looking for someone who:

• Can create compelling communications showcasing our programmes and funds

• Can provide expertise and oversight in the shaping and embedding of SIB’s external messaging

• Can produce accessible and well-written marketing materials for our programmes and funds

• Can update website communications and manage newsletters

• Can organise external events and coordinate team member attendance

• Can support formal and informal engagement with SIB’s customers and the internal team

• Is an enthusiastic self-starter with a commitment to open and transparent communication with a wide range of stakeholders

Key responsibilities

Marketing

1 Working with Marketing Manager to implement the Marketing Strategy, including contributing to campaigns, messages and stakeholder relations.

2. Supporting the implementation of marketing plans for specific funds, working with our delivery partners and sub-contractors, as appropriate, and helping with programme and fund roundtables and events.

3. Supporting the Director of Investments and the Marketing Manager in delivering new business strategies by providing market analysis and data, publicity plans, key messages, event planning, set up and coordination as necessary.

4. Supporting the Marketing Manager with marketing contacts in partner, investee and other stakeholder organisations, maintaining contacts and ensuring that SIB funds and programmes are represented across sector events and in peer publications.

5. Liaise with the Business Development Manager to contribute effectively to new tenders, including supplying accurate marketing and communications data and deliverable activities.

Communications

6. Working with the CEO, Deputy CEO and Marketing Manager to implement the Marketing Strategy, including developing and managing campaigns, messages and stakeholder relations.

7. Supporting the development of content and publications as required including newsletters, brochures and reports, case studies, blogs, articles, website content, e-newsletter content.

8. Working with the Marketing Manager and Policy and Communications Manager to liaise with external networks – national, third sector and key regional press contacts, other communications managers – to increase the reach of SIB’s work and to disseminate it widely.

9. To adopt our continuous improvement and learning ethos.

10. To support and embed equality, diversity and inclusion into day-to-day behaviours and activities within your role as well as contributing more widely across SIB’s commitment to E, D & I.

11. To support and contribute to the implementation and delivery of SIB’s strategy.

12. In agreement with manager to undertake other tasks and work on cross team projects that support the objectives of SIB as required.

13. To work within the organisation's values, principles, and processes to achieve operational excellence.

Core competencies

• Experience of creating impactful marketing materials and campaigns utilising multiple channels and platforms.
• Excellent oral communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience of event set up and coordination including booking venues, managing guest lists and arranging speakers.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to write accurate, engaging and crisp copy for a range of different channels.
• Technical knowledge of website management and working with a range of different CMS such as Drupal and Wordpress.
• Good organisational, planning, and project management skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
• Comprehensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite apps, including Acrobat Pro DC, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effect
• Commitment to equalities and customer care
• Good knowledge of the voluntary and community sector, local and central government and the statutory sector as a whole.
• Commitment to equality, diversity & inclusion

We're looking for an  experienced fundraising and/or bid professional to join our growing team as a Fundraising/Bid Manager (internally known as Development Manager).

You'll be responsible for securing and relationship-managing a portfolio of funders. You will lead on identifying suitable funders through to submitting proposals to secure long-term, high-value donors. This includes central government contracts, local authority bids, corporate partnerships, and grants from trusts and foundations.

This is an exciting time for the Development team. We are looking to diversify our income streams to support Ambition Institute’s mission in tackling educational disadvantage. We are ambitious about what we can achieve over the coming years and how the team can fund Ambition’s work.

Who are Ambition Institute?

A great teacher changes the future every day. Especially for children who have had a tough start in life, a teacher can be the critical factor in their success.

At  Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time.

That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life.
 

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive.
• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice.
• We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

We would like you to:

• Deliver successful strategies to secure funds, understanding funders’ specific requirements and ensuring those are met.
• Support the Associate Directors to develop, maintain and manage the pipeline, using research, analysis and planning skills. 
• Create high-quality bid responses and proposals that align with our mission.
• Work cross-organisationally to identify and assemble a team of subject matter experts to scope, define and capture the information required for funding proposals.

Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the Associate Director, Development.  In line with our current ways of working, you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 1 day a month, in addition to team days and this may be reviewed by Ambition. 
 

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

To succeed in this role you'll have a good understanding of funding/proposal preparation processes and proven experience in securing funding opportunities of £50,000+.

The successful candidate will demonstrate experience of successfully cultivating relationships with funders such as trusts, foundations, local authorities and corporates.

If you have team leadership skills and the ability to work flexibly in a fast-moving environment, whilst meeting deadlines effectively, we welcome an application from you.

What’s in it for you….?

• Competitive annual salary
• Professional development for all staff
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and 'winter shut down’ at the end of December/beginning of January
• Employer pension contribution of 11%
• Agile, hybrid working culture, so you can manage when and where you work
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work
• Blind recruitment process to ensure equality and fairness in our hiring
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service
• Shared parental leave package
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line
• Comfortable and collaborative workspaces in the city centres of Manchester, Birmingham and London
• Work-from-home technology package to support hybrid working
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

We don’t expect the person we hire to have all of the following, but this should give you a sense of what would enable you to thrive in this role and in our organisation:

You should apply for this role if:

• You care deeply about educational disadvantage and being part of an organisation that challenges inequality
• You have a good work ethic and strive to make a difference in the job you do
• You always give maximum effort to understand and meet the needs of our partners and participants
• You always have a great attitude so we “can do” for all our colleagues, partners and participants
• You are open to feedback and learning because we want to keep getting better
• You work with your initiative to bring new ideas and a fresh perspective
• You are well organised and can prioritise work that will have the greatest impact

You'll love working at Ambition if…

• You want a career with a person-centred organisation with a cause at its heart.
• You have a collaborative work ethos, bring warmth and good humour to work and constructive outlook to every situation
• You enjoy working in a fast-moving workplace, with a great support structure around you
• You would like to grow with an ambitious organisation as it progresses over time
• Want flexibility in how you work – splitting your time between one of our offices and remote working and managing your own working patterns to get the job done.

How to apply…

Applications will be considered for all office locations. 

All applications must be received by the closing date 23:59 on 8 November 2024. Please note when you click apply, you'll be taken to the Birmingham posting of the role. You can still apply via this posting as it won't determine your location if successful.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation.
 

As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.
 

Employment & HR Paralegal

We are delighted to share this new and exciting opportunity for an Employment & HR Paralegal to join a dynamic organisation.

Position: Employment & HR Paralegal

Location: Holyoake House, Manchester/Hybrid

Salary: £33,570 per annum
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: Midnight, Tuesday 19th November 2024

Interviews: Week commencing 2nd December 2024, in Manchester

Benefits: Flexible working options, pension scheme, discounted travel to work schemes, employee wellbeing assistance programme including free eye tests, personal and professional growth and development, including coaching and trade union.

We reserve the right to close the role early should a suitable candidate be found before this date. Applicants are required to submit a current CV and cover letter.

About the role:

• With guidance from Senior Employment Lawyer, you will provide support to the HR Advice Team in managing ACAS and Tribunal cases. This includes but is not limited to:

• Managing ACAS early conciliation processes, including securing knowledge of the matter under conciliation, understanding potential claimant expectations, and coordinating with members to provide informed advice on merits and liability, leading to constructive settlement of claims.
• Engaging with ACAS over settlements and drafting COT3 settlement documentation.
• Reviewing new Tribunal claims, identifying legal issues and the necessary steps for an effective defence.
• Liaising with members to gather and verify documentary and verbal evidence, ensuring accurate and comprehensive responses to Tribunal claims.
• Drafting formal responses to Tribunal claims, preparing case management documents for Tribunal preliminary hearings, including agenda forms and draft lists of issues.
• Assisting with advocacy at Tribunal preliminary hearings and preparing document bundles in compliance with case management orders.
• Taking comprehensive witness statements, ensuring they cover all relevant issues and securing timely approval from witnesses for exchange in accordance with Tribunal orders.
• Rigorously monitoring and meeting all Tribunal time limits and orders, and coordinating with witnesses, members, and HR Advice Team members to confirm their availability for hearings.

• Support the team with paid consultancy work, such as conducting investigations into misconduct, interviewing witnesses, collating evidence, and drafting reports. 
• Collaborate with the HR Manager to prepare and disseminate HR and employment law updates to members, ensuring they are informed of new developments. 
• Coordinate with our third-party provider the delivery of Health and Safety services to members, including managing updates, arranging seminars and working with the marketing team to promote services.
• Administer various HR-related forums (CEA Directors, HR Operations, Reward, Wellbeing, DEI, Talent, Health and Safety), including scheduling, agenda setting, maintaining member lists, and fostering member engagement.
• Manage the onboarding process for new HR and H&S package subscribers and administer consultancy business terms of engagement. 
• Maintain user licenses for Brightmine and WTW reward databases, manage case records on Salesforce and organise the Shared Drive to provide a centralised source of documentation. 

About you:

To be successful in this role, you will be enthusiastic about the organisation and its mission, and you will have experience of working at a place-based level, such as within local government, local infrastructure or the community/VCSE sector.

• Educational background in Human Resources, Law, or a related field 

• Experience with case management and administrative support in a legal or HR environment. 

• Strong understanding of employment law, tribunal procedures and HR practices. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proficiency in drafting legal and HR documents. 

• Good organisational and administrative skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

• Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the capacity to build positive relationships with members and colleagues. 

About the organisation:

As the voice of the UK’s co-operative movement, we empower and support co-operative enterprises with specialised knowledge and expertise, to grow the co-operative economy and create a fairer society. From football clubs and farms to convenience stores and pubs, there are more than 7,000 co-operatives in the UK, each owned and controlled by their members and based on shared principles and values. By promoting shared wealth through member ownership, we are committed to enabling anyone in the UK to form, or join, thriving and sustainable co-ops.

As an organisation we are led by our unwavering values of solidarity, self-responsibility, equity, and honesty, therefore if you share these core values, we would be delighted to receive your application.

Other roles you may have experience in could include HR Paralegal, Paralegal Lawyer, Lending Paralegal, Assistant Paralegal, Junior Paralegal, Senior Paralegal, Interim Paralegal, Charity Paralegal, Solicitor, Company Paralegal, Legal.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

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