- Advertised from 6th May 2024
- 11 Month Fixed Term Contract
- Job Identification 216
Role
The Postcode Lottery raises funds for good causes. Together with our partners and everyone who participates in the lottery, our staff members all work towards creating a better, greener and more socially inclusive world. Would it make you proud to contribute towards this amazing mission as a Long-term Partnerships Officer? Join our international team at the Postcode Lottery Group in the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, the UK and Sweden!
Reporting to the Long-term Partnerships Manager and working with the Postcode Trust Advisors, you will support with Long-term Partnerships Team through working with charity partners. Your role as Officer will involve research and due diligence on new prospective charity partners, managing the administration of the trusts and directly manage some relationships with supported charities, ensuring that we share and communicate their work with colleagues and players. We are a true partner to our charities and our relationship is far more than just funding.
As a part of the Charities Team, you must be able support your direct colleagues as well as ensure that the wider team and players are passionate about what we do and why we do it.
This is an exciting time in the charities team. The right candidate will have experience in funding, fundraising or account/relationship management and be able to manage complex projects and processes, have a clear understanding of the charity sector and be able to learn quickly and be able to adapt to the demands of this role.
Morag Fodor “It is such a privilege to work in the charities team, you get to see how all the money raised by players helps our incredible charity partners. This role is so varied no two days are the same from supporting team events and trips to sector research, governance and getting out and about. It is a role where you will learn something new every day.”
Your tasks:
• Account management for up to 10 charity partner relationships (working closely with the relevant Trust Advisor), managing accounts of value up to £500,000. Supporting charity partners with their annual application to the Trust, assess applications, undertake due diligence checks, and summarise application/impact for Advisor/Manager and Trustees on an annual basis. When additional funds are available you will support with writing first stage charity research briefs, exploring sector trends, themes for funding opportunities.
• Co-ordinate, plan and execute a high number of fun, learning and engaging opportunities ensuring all travel/accommodation and subsistence is kept within budget i.e. Charity Reward Trips, Charity Volunteering opportunities with supported charities and fun internal talks and events. Along with helping to organise and contribute to the delivery of the Charity Gathering, Gala and other sector events as and when necessary.
• Manage all administration for at least 6 Trusts which includes: scheduling and arranging Trust Board meetings, preparation and provision of meeting papers, taking minutes, arrange group travel/accommodation, booking/set up meeting rooms (inc. refreshments are required). Maintain at least 6 Trust websites, ensuring they remain accurate and up to date and independently manage at least 6 Trust inboxes, checking on a daily basis and responding to a variety of enquiries and requests
• Salesforce super-user for the team including; user testing of forms, creating/amending dashboards, building/running reports, day-to-day accuracy and usability of the database, maintaining list views, updating records; support for users such as charities with basic user queries, e.g. password resets. Provide up to date and relevant content of supported charities for all areas of the business for event content, e.g., Parliamentary events and business publications, e.g., annual report and parliamentary app. Handling and processing of over 100 high value funding contracts (funding agreements) each quarter, dealing with queries and ensuring they are returned by deadline working closely with Advisors, Manager and Finance Team.
Your qualities:
• Ability to independently research, summarise and report on a variety of topics
• Experience in charity account/relationship management within the voluntary/funding sector, with experience of assessing applications for funding from charities and undertaking due diligence checks
• Experience in analysis and understanding of financial reporting including P&Ls, management information and company structures
• Experience of working with Salesforce (or CRM systems) in relation to grant/relationship management and running reports
• The ability to manage workload, juggle priorities and competing deadlines
• Excellent knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong verbal and written ability with strong presentation and communication skills
Benefits of working with us:
• You will receive a competitive salary, join an excellent pension scheme and benefit from private medical care.
• We have a strong culture of learning and development. Our Lottery Academy offers an extensive range of training programmes and courses. There are also many career opportunities in the UK and abroad.
• We enjoy working with one another. We regularly arrange social activities and organise our Christmas breakfast at the end of the year, a date that everyone looks forward to, where we look back proudly at what we’ve achieved together.
• Your wellbeing is important to us. That’s why we offer a variety of options including an inhouse gym, with an optional weekly massage, and access to mental health support services.
• You’re regularly involved in the work carried out by the charities thanks to the funds we raise for them. This includes volunteering, project visits, presentations in our seminar space, and an invite to the annual Gala event attended by the organisations we support.
Your future department:
Charities are at the heart of the organisation and this position is crucial in helping to deliver the wide-ranging, exciting and incredible work funded by our players.
In 2023, our players support for charities was over £208 million and this is anticipated to increase in the years ahead. With this growth comes greater responsibility. We are committed to ensuring that our players remain connected with the causes they help support. As a funder, we also remain faithful to our funding principles and ensure that we are an enlightened partner in our efforts to make the world a better place for planet and people.
Your future employer:
The Postcode Lottery Group is an international organisation with a social purpose. We set up and run lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener, healthier world.
Our players win prizes together with their neighbours and raise money for charity together – it’s a win-win!
Postcode Lottery players have now raised over €12 billion for thousands of charities since 1989. We’re the 3rd largest private charity donor in the world.
Every day, more than 1,500 team members in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway are helping to raise €2.3 million for charity partners.
People are at the heart of what we do. Whether it’s our team, our players or the thousands of good causes supported, our aim is to play our part in creating a fairer, more equal world. We are open to ideas and are committed to creating a culture that is inclusive, representative and celebrates diversity in everyone. But we are not perfect. We will always strive to do better – that’s just who we are.
Join us!
If you’re interested, you can apply now. If you’d like more information, we’d would be happy to help you. Just contact us at jobs@postcodelottery.co.uk
Application notes
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Apply Before 05/17/2024, 05:00 PM
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Finn’s Place (SCO45350) is a very successful ‘Wellbeing’ center based in Langside Parish Church which has been in existence for 10 years. It welcomes attendees from across Glasgow and the West of Scotland to its varied activities. All feel welcomed and refreshed by their attendance and report improved wellbeing. We are looking for our next Director to take Finn’s Place onto the next successful 10 years.
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This post is full-time (Flexible hours), with a salary range of £27,188 to £31,875, annually, depending on previous experience, and for a fixed term of 2 years in the first instance.
Finn’s Place needs an individual who shares our vision of a Wellbeing Centre which is a safe, warm space where all are welcome, and all will be heard and accepted. We adhere to the ‘Five Ways of Wellbeing’, connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give back.
We are looking for an innovative, engaging, warm, sociable, and welcoming person with excellent written and verbal communications skills who has a passion for wellbeing and community engagement. Experience of project management, staff recruitment and supervision, budget management, securing funding are essential.
Home-Start Edinburgh, Home Link Family Support, NHS Lothian’s Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS), Citizens Advice , Circle, Stepping Stones North Edinburgh, and City of Edinburgh Council’s Early Years Education are delighted to recruit staff for a new transformational partnership approach that will test bespoke holistic whole family supports throughout the early years. The project, ‘The Family Hub’, will ensure that appropriate, universal, and enhanced support is available at the earliest stage possible for all families with a child not yet in an ELC or school setting. This will be achieved by developing a cohesive pathway and menu of supports alongside families.
The project aims to:
- Improve family wellbeing
- Reduce inequalities in family wellbeing
- Long-term reduction in families requiring crisis intervention
- Long-term reduction in the number of children living away from their families
- Increase the number of families taking up wider support.
Home-Start Edinburgh is recruiting a Senior Co-ordinator, Evaluation & Impact, to support this project as well as the activities of Home-Start Edinburgh. The right person will be someone with a background working alongside families, and an understanding of how to gather evidence to illustrate the impact our service makes. With skills in quality assuring services and data, and supporting improvement activities, you will help drive forward support to families in Edinburgh.
Policy and Public Relations Officer
- Full time
- £35,727
- Hybrid: Edinburgh (minimum 2 days per week in the office)
- Closing 28th July 2024
The Royal College of General Practitioners is the largest membership organisation solely for GPs in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1952, it has over 55,000 members, including 5000 in Scotland, who are committed to improving patient care, developing their own skills and promoting general practice as a discipline. General practice is the largest branch of the medical profession. It provides some 1 million consultations for patients in the UK every working day and deals with 86% of the health problems experienced by the UK population.
We are currently recruiting a Policy and Public Relations Officer to support our communications, policy and public affairs activity in Scotland, and we are looking for someone who has demonstrable experience in a communications, policy or public affairs role.
You will work closely with the Policy & Public Affairs Manager to ensure that the priorities of RCGP and issues impacting general practice are recognised by policy makers, the press and the public. You will support RCGP work to influencing decision making at the highest level which will have a direct impact on general practice and its patients by drafting RCGP policy consultation responses, representing RCGP policy at high-level external stakeholder meetings and providing comprehensive briefings to our GP representatives ahead of these meetings.
You will also help to deliver our internal and external communications across Scotland, ensuring that our key messages reach the intended audiences to maximise impact. This will require you to develop and maintain links with media contacts across Scotland, draft key internal communications to our members and produce proactive and reactive media statements. You will take a lead role in maintaining our social media presence.
Our small, friendly team plays a key role in supporting general practice in Scotland. You’ll be helping communicate to stakeholders the views of the RCGP, and to do that effectively, knowledge and experience of the health agenda, patient issues and political context of Scotland would be highly advantageous.
You’ll have degree level education or have requisite experience, be an excellent team player and be able to work across a varied organisation and take a corporate viewpoint.
The successful candidate will share our corporate values. In return, the College offers excellent terms and conditions and great working environment. This role will be hybrid with two days a week in our office in Edinburgh city centre. We offer flexible working hours Monday to Friday.
Helpline Administrator
- Part time
- £23,342 – £28,373 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Hybrid blend of home working and office, based in Rose Street, Edinburgh or can be entirely home based from anywhere in Scotland. Please talk to us about your flexible working requirements!
- Closing 12th August 2024
Would you like to be part of a vital helpline service? Scottish Women’s Aid is expanding our helpline team to enhance our support services and meet a growing demand. We are recruiting to a new position of Helpline Administrator to provide administrative support to the team that delivers Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline.
Background
Scottish Women’s Aid manages Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline and is also Scotland’s leading organisation working to end domestic abuse and promoting effective policy and practice responses for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse. We are the umbrella organisation for 32 autonomous Women’s Aid groups delivering direct services to women, children and young people across Scotland.
What you’ll do
As a Helpline Administrator, you’ll provide varied administrative support to the Helpline Team, supporting the smooth operation of Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline. You will work closely with the Helpline Manager and Helpline Operations Coordinator, as well as the team of Helpline Call Handlers. Your tasks will include arranging meetings, taking minutes, updating records and documentation, and assisting with the helpline rota scheduling. You’ll also play a key role in tasks such as collecting and analysing data, creating reports, supporting staff training, and maintaining up-to-date information systems. Your work will contribute to effective communication internally and externally.
What we need
We’re looking for someone passionate about our work and committed to the values of Scottish Women’s Aid. We need someone with strong organisational skills, excellent communication abilities, and the capacity to manage a variety of administrative tasks effectively. You’ll be proficient in using Microsoft Office, maintaining digital records, and using online collaboration and communication tools. The ideal candidate will be capable of working independently, using their own initiative, problem-solving skills, and effective prioritisation. You’ll contribute to a supportive and inclusive team culture and participate effectively within a mostly remote team.
What we offer
There are many reasons to work for Scottish Women’s Aid. We have a great working culture and our mission and vision attracts a brilliant staff team. Your hard work is rewarded with a package of support and benefits including:
Flexible working
We offer flexible hybrid working options for the majority of our employees. Some posts are eligible for full-time homeworking. We also offer flexibility for staff and work/life balance through a number of flexible working options such as flexi time, condensed hours, job sharing.
Pay
SWA are a Living wage employer, our pay and grading system offers a competitive starting salary and yearly progression.
Annual Leave
We offer a full-time annual leave entitlement of 30 days (210 hours) per year plus 10 Public Holiday days (70 hours) per year. Leave is accrued at the rate of 3.33 days (23.3 hours) per month.
Pension
SWA believes it's important that we help you save for your retirement so access to Nest pension scheme is given to all eligible employees. SWA contributes 10% of gross contractual earnings on the provision that the employee contributes a minimum of 3% towards their pension contributions.
Learning and Development
SWA supports and develops staff to ensure they have the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities. There is an internal schedule of training on key skills and knowledge relevant to all staff. There is also scope to attend ad hoc training for employees who are working to develop specific skills.
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
SWA offers staff who meet the criteria for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) an enhanced maternity pay of 20 weeks on full pay and 20 weeks on half pay.
Wellbeing
As part of SWA’s commitment to staff wellbeing, staff are offered access to a confidential 24/7 health and Wellbeing service with AIG which provides confidential advice, counselling and legal support to all staff, and where applicable, immediate family members.
Bike 2 Work
An interest-free loan to purchase a bike, can be arranged up to the value of £1,000.
Edinburgh Leisure Gym Subsidies
Edinburgh based staff are able to access Edinburgh Leisure facilities for the reduced price of £1 per session.
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