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Climate Campaigner: Fossil Fuels
The Climate Campaigner will be an essential member of EIA’s Climate Campaign team, focusing primarily on advancing a managed, equitable phase-out of fossil fuels. This role centres on supporting the expansion of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA), working to enhance its structure, broaden its membership, and identify effective pathways for developing a global governance framework on fossil fuels.
The Climate Campaigner will oversee the daily operations of key aspects of the fossil fuel campaign, ensuring the campaign strategy is delivered effectively and within established timelines. The role involves close collaboration and coordination, both within EIA and with external partners in the EU and globally.
About you:
Essential:
- undergraduate degree or equivalent in a relevant field along with an understanding of climate change science and the role of fossil fuels
- Experience in advocacy and campaigning on global environmental policy is essential along with experience in conducting detailed targeted research projects and tasks
- An understanding of UNFCCC/UN General Assembly and UNEA processes and experience in engaging and influencing diverse stakeholders, including policymakers, industry groups and the media is essential.
- Strong communication skills
- Professionalism and ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to digest and integrate technical, scientific, policy and legal information as well as to relate it simply and persuasively to non-expert audiences
- Fluency in English, with knowledge of additional languages an advantage
- Ability to travel at short notice
Desirable:
- Working knowledge of the fossil fuel industry and related issues (e.g. renewables, subsidies, carbon capture & storage etc.)
- Familiarity with the fossil fuel phase-out campaigning environment
- Self-starter with initiative
- Flexible and responsive to ever-changing dynamics and demands
- Experience analysing complex social, political, economic and environmental parameters in ways that inform EIA’s work and communications
- Experience working with different cultures and languages
What we offer:
Location: Hybrid Working – offices in London Islington 2 days per week (3 or 4 days a week during induction and probation period) and home working. Some travel may be required as part of the role.
Hours: 40 hours per week, including a paid hour for lunch
Salary: £37,000 - £40,000 depending on experience
Contract Type: Fixed term contract - 12 months, with the possibility of renewal subject to funding availability.
Holiday: Annual leave package of 25 days annual leave (+ days off between Xmas and New Year) + Bank Holidays + day off on your birthday, with an additional day per year up to a max of 29 days.
Benefits: 4-8% pension contribution, Mental health and wellbeing support programme
Please refer to the job pack for further details for closing dates and how to apply for this exciting opportunity.
If you are short-listed for an interview we will reimburse the cost of your London travel at standard class public transport rates on the production of receipts.
By applying for this role, you are stating that you are eligible to work in the UK. EIA UK is unable to apply for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
EIA UK is committed to being a fair and inclusive employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and appoint on merit.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is a UK-based charity who investigates and campaigns against environmental crime and abuse.
Our undercover investigations expose transnational wildlife and forest crimes. We work to safeguard global marine ecosystems by addressing the threats posed by plastic pollution, bycatch and commercial exploitation of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Finally, our climate campaign aims to keep global warming below 1.5°C and meet the climate challenge through rapid, sustained reductions of emissions of all the major greenhouse gases, including methane, nitrous oxide and refrigiren greenhouse gases.
EIA campaigns for changes to law and policy, both in domestic and international contexts, backed up by effective enforcement and progressive measures from the private sector. EIA focus on the decision-makers with the power to deliver change, but uses a variety of approaches, tools and methods to influence them. These approaches can include investigations, direct advocacy, community-based work and awareness-raising to galvanise broad public support. Much of EIA’s work involves strong multi-stakeholder partnerships working especially in countries most threatened by environmental crime and degradation.
Benefits: 25 days holiday plus bank holiday and days off between Xmas and New Year (pro rata) and an additional day off per year up to a max of 29 days, mental health and wellbeing support programme, flexible and hybrid working arrangements, enhanced pension contributions, free financial guidance
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Face to Face Membership Area Manager - Northern Ireland
Reference: DEC20243075
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week
Location: Flexible within Northern Ireland
Salary: £29,200.00 - £31,347.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance and Annual Leave
Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact and leading a team to achieve outstanding results for a cause that truly matters? If so, we want you to join the RSPB in our mission to conserve birds and nature.
As a Face-to-Face Fundraising Area Manager, you will lead the fundraising team in the Northern Ireland. This is a hands-on role where you’ll work closely with your team to meet and exceed fundraising targets; leading, coaching and inspiring fundraisers to succeed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership & Coaching: You'll be at the heart of recruitment, training, and developing Fundraisers, helping them meet and exceed their targets. You'll also fundraise alongside them, setting the example of a passionate and results-driven team leader.
- Monitoring & Performance: Track key performance metrics such as membership volume, donation amount (AAC), Gift Aid, direct debits and attrition rates to ensure your team’s fundraising efforts are always at their best. Conduct regular performance reviews, offer coaching, and help your team grow their fundraising skills.
- Logistics & Management: Oversee the day-to-day operations of your team, ensure compliance with fundraising regulations, and uphold RSPB’ values of ethical fundraising.
- Travel: you will be expected to travel to different locations across Northern Ireland and on occasion more widely across the UK in order to support your team. As a result, a full driving licence that is valid in the UK is a requirement for this position.
- Weekend work: You’ll be expected to work weekends to support the fundraisers on busy shifts to maximise membership opportunity.
Essential skills, knowledge and experience:
- A proven track record in face-to-face fundraising and team management, with leadership experience to recruit, motivate and guide your team to success.
- A self-motivated and a determined leader able to embed and lead a positive team culture of successful fundraisers.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, a strong understanding of ethical fundraising, good planning and organisational skills and the ability to think strategically.
- Confident in receiving and giving feedback regularly.
- Experience using leadership models such as root cause analysis, setting SMART work objectives, and implementing Situational Leadership to build capabilities.
- Familiarity with the RSPB cause, Code of Fundraising Practice and the ability to meet targets, deadlines and support fundraisers effectively.
- Experience working with flexibility and being able to react quickly to change, and to support others through change.
Benefits:
- The RSPB is a flexible employer with flexible hours available to suit your individual circumstances.
- Work vehicle: a company van will be provided to cover all work travel and associated expenses.
- Leave: 26 days holiday plus bank holidays. As a staff member you are entitled to one extra day of paid leave each year to spend volunteering. This can be for any charity or voluntary organisation not only the RSPB.
- Cycle to work Scheme and green loans.
- 24 hours assistance programme for employees and volunteers, it’s free for you and your close family/dependants. You can use it whenever you need support or advice around: financial wellbeing, mental health and wellbeing, physical health, and wellbeing.
- Discount offers include 20% off many retail items in our RSPB shops and online shop, and savings on holiday bookings.
- Pension scheme - the RSPB will match contributions of up to 7%
Why Work with us at the RSPB?
- Make a Real Difference: we're driven by our mission promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment. Your fundraising efforts will directly contribute to protect our fragile wildlife across the UK.
- Join a Supportive Team: As a member of our enthusiastic and innovative team, you'll work in a culture that emphasizes collaboration, sustainability, and driving meaningful change.
- Growth & Development: We are dedicated to fostering your professional growth. At RSPB, our Learning and Organisational Development team creates tailored content to support the development of managers throughout their careers, offering training and guidance to help you enhance your skills and progress in your role
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: We recognize the value of flexibility and are open to discussing working hours that accommodate your personal needs, while ensuring we meet the operational requirements.
The nature crisis is a challenge no single person can tackle alone. But as a team there’s hope. Are you ready to take on this exciting challenge? Apply now and help us save, protect, and fight for nature!
Closing Date: 23:59, Fri, 17th Jan 2025
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from w/c 27 January 2025
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
No agencies please.
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We're looking for a Community Fundraising Manager - it's a great opportunity to develop a plan and deliver a diverse portfolio of fundraising activities to engage people with our work and contribute to our income.
You will manage a team to help develop innovative fundraising products, grow our supporter base and provide exceptional supporter stewardship.
Income generation
- Responsible for supporting the development of a 3-year community fundraising income strategy to grow income from a modest base of £125k per year to circa £275k per year.
- Implement the operational plan for community fundraising income.
- Plan, develop and deliver new community fundraising products, campaigns and events that will resonate with stakeholders including members, donors and volunteers to fundraise.
- Work collaboratively with Comms, Marketing & Digital teams to develop and drive forward promotion of community fundraising to reach existing and new audiences, including developing content for social channels, e-comms, webpages and fundraising packs.
- Establish a network of community fundraisers, building relationships with community fundraising ‘champions’, and providing excellent supporter care and timely communication.
- Evaluate community fundraising projects regularly and make changes when necessary.
Leadership, management and collaboration
- Lead the community fundraising programme in line with Marine Conservation Society values and organisational culture.
- Contribute to fundraising cross-team planning and strategy development.
- Line management of 2 part-time Community Fundraising support roles with responsibility for operational delivery of their fundraising plans and performance management including, 1-2-1 meetings, appraisals, day-day performance management against KPI’s, motivation and objective setting.
- Build collaborative relationships with peers across the charity.
Governance & reporting
- Manage the overall budget for community fundraising, including monitoring of income and expenditure against budget.
- Setting, measuring, and reporting against agreed KPIs
- Ensure the Community Fundraising team are accurately recording the receipt of donations and gifts received from supporters.
- Ensure accurate financial and CRM supporter records are maintained and accessible.
- Ensure all relationships comply with relevant charity law, GDPR requirements and the charity’s Ethical Fundraising Policy.
- Work with our Data Manager, Head of Marketing, and the Fundraising team to ensure the CRM database holds key, relevant profile information on supporters.
- Attend department and organisational meetings reporting on team related matters as required and cascading organisational priorities as appropriate.
Knowledge and experience (what you’ll know)
Essential
- A track record in community fundraising or similar, with the ability to demonstrate success in meeting financial targets and income growth.
- Can demonstrate your experience of supporting the development of 3-5 year strategic plans
- Experience of developing and leading on annual operating plans in line with strategic goals.
- Can show your line management experience, including knowledge of successfully developing and motivating a team.
- Can successfully set and manage multi-year budgets.
- Good knowledge of and experience of working with CRM databases including the collection and storage of data in line with GDPR.
- Sound knowledge of current fundraising trends and knowledge of fundraising policies, procedures and legalities.
Desirable
- Experience of establishing and growing new community fundraising products.
- Project management experience, able to plan and deliver within set timescales.
Skills & abilities (how you’ll do it)
Essential
- Able to take responsibility for delivering against objectives and monitor and evaluate operational and financial plans.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including relationship building, influencing and negotiating with a wide diverse audience
- Able to work as a leader and motivate others.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including attention to detail.
- Strong planning skills and the ability to manage a varied and busy workload while meeting tight deadlines.
- Self-motivated and able to demonstrate creativity, initiative and work proactively
- Ability and confidence to represent the organisation with potential and existing donors.
Desirable
- Strong IT skills, including MS 365 tools (Teams, SharePoint, One Drive etc.) Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc.
Personal Qualities (what you’ll bring)
A personal style in line with our values and our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion:
We are brave We have integrity
We are a community We are credible
We are positive We are solutions focused
- An innovative and creative thinker who is quick to generate solutions and ideas.
- Comfortable with change, with a flexible and adaptable approach to work, with good prioritization skills.
- Approaches problems with a creative and enabling mindset to seek solutions.
- Responds positively to challenges – managing your personal responses when things get busy
- Comfortable and capable when working independently and on own initiative.
- Motivated and focused in both the home working and busier working environments.
- A good team player who builds open and supportive relationships.
- A positive, optimistic, and ambitious vision for the future of Community Fundraising.
- Collaborative and team-oriented approach, with the ability to work effectively with colleagues across different functions and levels.
- Proactive and results-driven mindset, with a focus on achieving measurable outcomes.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
We tackle the ocean emergency by working with communities, businesses and governments.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Trusts and Foundations Fundraising Officer will work alongside the Head of Income, Partnerships and Communications to help deliver Rising Sun’s fundraising targets during this exciting period of growth for the charity.
The main focus of the role is finding, attracting and stewarding new funders to help deliver Rising Sun’s life changing services. You will write compelling funding proposals that demonstrate the impact of our services and how we meet funders’ requirements. You will build strong relationships with grant officers from various foundations, providing regular updates and communicating challenges, solutions and successes as appropriate to develop our reputation as an effective, reliable and trustworthy organisation. Alongside this you will be nurturing our existing portfolio of funders to help prioritise multi-year funding.
Working with you in the Fundraising Team will be the Head of Income, Partnerships and Communications, Trusts and Foundations Officer, Community Fundraising Officer and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Team. As part of the team you will help to develop fundraising materials such as case studies, impact reports and cases for support.
We are looking for a proactive and organised individual who loves building and nurturing relationships and has a passion for fundraising. In addition, you will have excellent writing skills and experience of generating income from trusts and foundations to grow our income from this stream. As part of our committed team of approximately 50 staff, you will be contributing to the invaluable work of the Rising Sun and making a lasting difference to the lives of those who have experienced domestic abuse.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and manage part of Rising Sun’s portfolio of income and fundraising activities related to trusts and foundations.
- Keep the trusts and foundations stream of the funding pipeline healthy and up to date, carrying out research into new opportunities and meeting application deadlines.
- Write compelling funding applications that answer funders’ questions and effectively communicate the mission, services and impact of Rising Sun.
- Develop appropriate fundraising tools, such as cases for support and impact reports.
- Support the Head of Income, Partnerships and Communications to write bids for commissioned services and government funding opportunities.
- Liaise internally across the organisation to become familiar with our services and stay up to date with current trends to feed into funding applications and develop project proposals.
- Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders, including survivors and grant officers.
- Be responsible for the management of successful trusts and foundations grant agreements and reporting requirements, working with the wider team to gather information and data as required.
- Work with survivors and team members to develop case studies, presentations and fundraising materials as required to support income generating activities.
- Represent Rising Sun at fundraising events and pitches as required.
- Comply with current Institute of Fundraising Code of Fundraising Practice guidelines and Data Protection legislation and ensure that fundraising is carried out on an ethical basis.
- Effectively prioritise, plan and organise own workload, working effectively with the Head of Income and Partnerships.
- Take responsibility for personal development by making the most of your induction, line management and training, and attending team meetings.
- Carry out any other duties that support the growth of the organisation as deemed appropriate.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, knowledge, skills and attitudes. (D = Desirable)
Skills and Attitude
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to influence and negotiate
- Report writing skills
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders by phone, by email and in person
- Excellent team working skills
- Presentation / pitching skills (D)
- Excellent planning and organisation skills
- Ability to motivate yourself and work independently on your own initiative
- Solution focused and creative in approaching new challenges
- Competent using Microsoft office programmes, in particular MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Passionate about the vision and mission of Rising Sun
- Committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and maintaining confidentiality
Knowledge and Experience
- Success in raising income through trusts and foundations (D)
- Experience carrying out research into potential funders
- Experience establishing and developing partnerships
- Experience of managing a diverse workload, prioritising and meeting deadlines while working under pressure
- Experience of completing reports for funders (D)
- Knowledge of the grant applications process (D)
- Basic awareness of issues and opportunities within the sector, current trends, influences and funder priorities
- Awareness and understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse and its impact on the lives of survivors and families (D)
- A relevant fundraising qualification e.g. Institute of Fundraising (D)
Other requirements
- Able to drive and have access to a reliable car (D) (post holder will be required to attend meetings and events across our areas of work from time to time)
- Able to attend occasional evening and weekend events with notice to further the aims of the organisation and fundraising team (time off in lieu will be given)
- Eligible to live and work in the UK
How to apply
Please download the Job Information Pack on our website for the full job description, person specification and application form, and return the application by the end of Monday 13th January 2025.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Our vision is a world in which all women and children live free from actual or threatened domestic abuse and all forms of violence.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.