Youth Engagement Support Jobs in Bristol

Shine provides specialist support from before birth and throughout the life of anyone living with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus, as well as to parents, families, carers and professional care staff.  Working throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Shine is a community of over 14,300 members.  Together we share achievements, challenges, and information about life with spina bifida, hydrocephalus and related issues.  Shine enables people to get the best out of life. 

We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, ambitious Regional Fundraiser to join our team.

In this role you will:

• Recruit, build and maintain supporter relationships with individuals, community groups, organisations and businesses across the country
• Be proactive within your assigned area to identify opportunities for fundraising and raise awareness of the charity
• Manage supporters effectively using Salesforce (CRM Database) to understand supporter motivations to provide excellent stewardship
• Meet agreed financial targets, provide monthly financial progress reports and put mitigation plans in place for any shortfall
• Promote Shine activities and campaigns to raise awareness and drive income

Who we’re looking for:

We’re a successful, motivated fundraising team looking for someone to join us with:

• Knowledge and experience of working across community, corporate, event and individual income streams, with a proven history of achieving financial targets
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to motivate and inspire supporters and build long-term relationships
• Excellent oral communication skills with a high degree of diplomacy, empathy and confidence
• Ability to be a team player who can work on their own initiative to plan and manage their workload
• Ability to effectively manage multiple and competing priorities to meet deadlines
• Excellent organisational skills with firm understanding of KPIs, targets, budgeting, and risk mitigation 
• Full clean driving licence and the ability to work weekends and evenings as required
• Good working knowledge of MS Office and Salesforce CRM database (preferred)

In return, Shine will offer you:

• A competitive salary
• Full time or part time, working pattern to be agreed with the right candidate between 21 to 35 hours
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays + additional discretionary leave between Christmas and New Year (pro-rata for part-time hours)
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Additional annual leave due to length of service
• 3% pension contribution
• Life Assurance cover
• Broadband allowance
• Support to learn and develop

If you would like the opportunity to join this fast paced, expanding organisation that prides itself on making a difference to the lives of individuals with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, then we would love to hear from you!

Shine is a Disability Confident employer and will offer guaranteed interviews if a disabled applicant meets the minimum criteria for the job. For more information about Shine, please visit our website.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Jo Marriott, our Head of Fundraising.

To apply, please submit your CV and supporting statement, which should outline your interest and explain how you meet the role criteria.

*Please note applications without a supporting statement will not be accepted*

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Job Title: Quality and Safeguarding Officer
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £28,100
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week). Flexible working options available
Reporting To: Quality Improvement Specialist
Manages: N/a
Location: Remote with occasional travel to the Leicester head office and other locations, where required.

About Home-Start UK

Home-Start is a federated charity consisting of a central national office – Home-Start UK - and 177 geographically dispersed local Home-Start organisations, all working together under the same identity.

We recognise that being a parent has never been easy. Every Home-Start volunteer is trained to work alongside parents to overcome the challenges they are facing. We work with parents to build on their strengths and give them the support that they tell us they need. We offer no judgement – just compassionate, confidential help and expert support. This peer-to-peer support is key to the difference Home-Start makes and often our volunteers have lived experience of the challenges their families are facing themselves.

About The Role

Home-Start UK is looking for a Quality and Safeguarding Officer to support our quality assurance (QA) programme and help ensure high standards of safeguarding practice across our network of Home-Start charities.

As part of our Quality team, you will play a key role in coordinating QA reviews, supporting our QA self-assessment programme, and overseeing policy reviews. You will also help facilitate our Quality Reference Group (QRG), Safeguarding Forum, and Trustee Safeguarding Training.

In this role, you will provide safeguarding support by responding to queries, liaising with Home-Start charities, escalating concerns to a designated safeguarding lead, and promoting best safeguarding practices across the network.

If this sounds like your type of challenge, we’d love to receive your application.

Closing date for applications is Friday 7th March, 5pm.
Interviews will take place virtually on the 18th and 19th March 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.

Please note: a basic DBS check will be required for this role. This will only be requested if you are successfully appointed to the role.

Home-Start UK is committed to Equality of Opportunity and Diversity. We wish to encourage applications from all parts of the community irrespective of gender, race, colour, age, sexual orientation or disability.

Candidates will also be sent the interview questions ahead of their interview so that they may fully prepare. Appointments will be based on merit, following an open and clear selection process.

Home-Start UK, a charitable company limited by guarantee. Company No. 5382181. Charity No. in England and Wales 1108837 and in Scotland SCO39172.

No agencies please.

Since 2004 the MS Therapy Centre (NW) (MSTC) has been supporting those with Multiple Sclerosis to lead more positive, enriched lives by providing complimentary therapies, Oxygen treatment, support and wellbeing services.  It remains MS centric but also extends its reach to those with other neurological conditions, cancers and other specific conditions.

This is an exciting time to join our charity as we develop our new Centre based in Eccles alongside working on a strategy of cautious and sustained growth. We are looking for a dynamic and enterprising fundraiser to develop our work with trusts and foundations.  They must be as passionate as we are about helping our members attain all that they can and wish to achieve.

You will need to be a team player with excellent communication and people skills.  We require someone to be pro-active, resilient and good-humoured with excellent organisational and time management ability.  Whilst working remotely you must be able to commute to the Centre on a regular basis.  If you have a suitable background from working or volunteering in this area of fundraising then this could be an exciting opportunity for you.

To apply for this position please download the Job Description, Person Specification and Application form.

This is an exciting opportunity to manage the growth and expansion of a successful, global trauma-informed training programme.

Salary: £40,000

Hours: 37.5 hours a week

Location: Remote working, with a requirement to travel nationally to in-person contracts and company away-days (travel is expensed).

Postholder Reports to: Global Digital Programmes Director, Hope After Harm

Please note that interviews will be held on the 12th and 13th March. 

Hope After Harm is an established, registered charity aimed at empowering adults and young people recover from harm and trauma. We want to see a society where everyone feels safe and can thrive, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Through support, advocacy and education we enable people to rebuild their lives and reclaim their future. And we inspire others to do the same, creating safer, more inclusive communities. We have a proven track record of service delivery across Thames Valley and beyond, with our digital and training programmes supporting professionals and survivors globally.

The successful Training Manager will head our “Rise for Change” training programme and have the exciting opportunity to continue to grow the programme’s success to date, expanding our offerings and reach to be fully integrated across the charities service provisions.

Rise for Change is training that is uniquely created by subject matter experts and directly addresses the need for intersectional and trauma informed domestic abuse training for professionals in all sectors. Our aim is to empower participants, no matter their professional role, to be able to respond safely and appropriately to domestic abuse both within the workplace and in the wider scope of their lives. You will be leading a linked programme of activity with our global Bright Sky programme which forms part of our wider Digital Programmes team. As the only global resource of its kind, Bright Sky is leading the way in technological responses to domestic abuse.

Role

*Before applying: Please note that to be considered for this role the post holder to be able to demonstrate that they carry in-depth knowledge/ job experience related to domestic abuse*

 Lead the development, quality and delivery of Hope After Harm’s training programme in line with the charity’s values, strategic direction, placing victim-survivors and those with lived experienced at the heart of what you do.

 Deliver training and consultancy to professionals, organisations and businesses from our set package of training, or by curating and delivering bespoke packages to meet their needs.

 Upkeep current training packages, whilst scoping and developing new packages in line with sector need and organisational strategy.

 Ensure growth and sustainability of the programme through income generation, attracting new clients and driving repeat custom, directly managing client relationships.

 Ensure the longevity of established relationships with key partners and stakeholders through regular meetings, problem-solving and support.

 Uphold programme quality through metrics and appropriate reporting on outcomes, using feedback to refine and improve training offers

 With support of the Director, leverage technology to enhance training accessibility, including e-learning platforms and virtual training tools.

 With support of the Director, recruit, train and oversee a pool of sessional trainers, ensuring quality of their delivery in line with programme standards

 Maintain our CPD accreditation on current and new training packages.

 Respect and uphold the value and necessity of intersectionality within domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention and safeguarding, across all areas of work.

 Maintain accurate recording and reporting of training/project delivery, including a training delivery calendar, CRM and all administrative processes and wrap around support.

 Collaborate effectively with teams from across Hope After Harm to ensure that our training approach and packages are underpinned by the expertise and input available from across the charity.

Person Specification

Essential

 A thorough understanding of domestic abuse and gender-based violence through a trauma informed and intersectional lens, including the impact and mitigation of vicarious trauma.

 Be an experienced, highly skilled trainer with the ability to engage people through remote and in-person delivery.

 Experience in managing training programmes, and with an absolute commitment to quality and client satisfaction

 Ability to recruit, train and oversee a pool of sessional trainers.

 Excellent communication, negotiation and advisory skills, both written and verbal when interacting with a range of agencies and individuals.

 Motivate individuals and agencies to move through courses of action and decision-making processes

 Knowledge and experience of using CRM’s, such as Hubspot, to track client engagement.

 Track record of income generation - creating growth strategies for training programmes, in particular using social media and online sales platforms

 Ability to plan and prioritise work effectively and manage projects and multiple deadlines

 Skilled user of technology with high literacy of key presenting programmes, video platforms and databases.

 Ability to travel for stakeholder meetings and team/organisation away days and deliver training when required (most meetings and contracts are remote)

 Be comfortable operating a remote working environment with ability to network internally and externally

 Have the flexibility to undertake tasks beyond the job description

Desirable

 Bring an understanding and experience of CPD accreditation

 Hold a “Train the Trainer” qualification or be willing to obtain one during onboarding.

Please submit your CV and cover letter, of no more than 1.5 A4 pages, via the Apply button. Applications without a sufficient cover letter will not be considered.

For this role you will need:

 To be free from any criminal conviction which would conflict with the responsibilities of the post; you may be required to have a DBS Enhanced disclosure.

 To be able to deal with all information on a confidential basis and understand data protection requirements.

 To have Citizenship of the UK or have entitlement to work in the UK

Hope After Harm is committed to equality and diversity. While not a requirement for application, we do strongly encourage those of black and ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and the LGBTQIA+ community to apply for this role.

Hope After Harm is an equal opportunities employer; the aim of our policy is to ensure no job applicant, employee or worker is discriminated against either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, age or disability. We do not disbar applicants with criminal convictions and are mindful of the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974. 

Philanthropy Manager.

Salary: £43,500 per annum.

Location: Remote.

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.

Benefits:  

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays pro rata, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave. 
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities. 
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages. 
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover. 
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts. 

Why Action for Children?  

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives. 

A bit about the role 

Action for Children aims to deliver substantial growth from our high value audience over the next five years, with the Philanthropy & Trusts team playing a vital part of that ambition. Together with the Events and High Value and Corporate Operations teams, we will drive income from high-net-worth individuals and trusts and foundations, develop new and existing committed relationships, and offer exceptional supporter experiences.

It's an exciting time to join the philanthropy team at Action for Children, and we are looking for a collaborative, energised and forward-thinking individual to join our ambitious team of fundraising professionals. As we move into a new strategy period, focus will be placed on innovating new products and maximising opportunities to grow our audience.

Together we aim to deliver a high-quality philanthropy programme to our supporters whilst raising significant income to support vulnerable children across the UK.

As Philanthropy Manager, you will manage and drive forward activity to secure significant multi-year donations from major donors and family foundations, supporting organisational priority projects and services alongside unrestricted funding. You will be responsible for developing a pipeline to maximise income for key areas of growth and identifying and developing long lasting relationships.

You'll help to create brighter futures by:

• Working collaboratively to implement activities to deliver the Philanthropy team's financial aims and objectives, with a responsibility for delivering an annual individual income target, focussing on securing six-figure gifts from major donors and family foundations.
• Line managing staff, utilising Action for Children policies and procedures to drive performance.
• Developing and implementing individual solicitation and engagement plans for a portfolio of existing donors and new prospects.
• Collaborating with fundraising colleagues to track and report on donor prospecting activities.
• Managing the consistent delivery of relationship management techniques, effectively communicating, championing best practice.

Let's talk about you 

• Relevant experience of major donor fundraising with an excellent track record of initiating new relationships and securing five and ideally six figure gifts.
• Proven experience of developing, networking, and enhancing donor relationships.
• The ability to manage a complex pool of prospect and donors, devising clear donor solicitation plans with the aim of securing long term financial philanthropic support.
• Experience of leading, inspiring and line managing to achieve against specific financial goals.
• Experience developing effective working relationships across an organisation, including with senior staff and volunteers.

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements. 

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Want to know more about Action for Children?

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Closing Date: Wednesday 12th March 2025.

Interviews will be week commencing 17^th March 2025.

See below for further information about working with us: