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

Are you passionate about ocean conservation and sustainable seafood practices? We are looking for an engaging, dedicated and effective Public Affairs Manager to make a real difference in protecting marine life while ensuring the livelihoods of coastal communities.

About Open Seas

The Open Seas Trust is a Scottish charity working on issues of marine conservation and sustainability. We believe in the power of advocacy to drive positive change and protect our oceans for future generations. In our 8 years of operation we have established a strong position as a credible and trusted voice for our oceans and have been involved in several key pieces of political change. We are a small and collaborative team driven and focused on effective strategies for delivering change in our seas.

The Role

As Public Affairs Manager, you'll be at the helm of our policy initiatives, working to shape regulations and drive change in marine conservation and fisheries management. From engaging with politicians to developing advocacy campaigns and strategies, your work will be instrumental in advancing our mission to protect our oceans.

Why Join Us?

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly impact marine ecosystems and communities that depend on them.
• Professional growth: Gain valuable experience in a dynamic and mission-driven organisation.
• Collaborative culture: Join a passionate & talented team who share your dedication to making a difference.

The location for this appointment is flexible within Scotland, but with the expectation that a significant amount of time will be spent engaging with politicians in the Scottish Parliament.

Most staff currently work from their homes, but there is also the potential to arrange office space if necessary, and there are regular team days in a hot desking venue in Edinburgh.

Benefits

The role will be paid £36,114 - £40,969.50 per annum

Open Seas offers a matched pension contribution of up to 6%.

The role will be entitled to 25 days paid holiday plus Scottish public holidays.

If you're ready to use your skills and passion to drive positive change for our seas, we want to hear from you! Join us in protecting our oceans and building a more sustainable future for all.

The Post

This is an excellent and rare opportunity for an experienced manager and qualified worker to join The Lilias Grahm Trust. The post involves supporting practitioners and families whilst developing parenting capacity assessment and the delivery of service. The post holder will contribute to the unique culture and ethos of LGT.

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will:

• Work proactively to achieving positive, engaging, relationships with families, all other services, and stakeholders.
• Lead their team and delegate effectively.
• Motivate families, individuals, and the team with excellent communication, listening and interpersonal skills.
• Undertake high quality written assessments whilst demonstrating critical thinking and warmth in their assessments.
• Continually work to develop the team and service delivery to ultimately benefit the families we serve.
• Contribute and participate in the development, and delivery of the day to day running of the service to promote of the welfare of staff and families.
• Monitor the efficiency and quality of policies, procedures, and current documents, actively promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide supervision, coaching, mentoring, training and induction to staff and volunteers.
• Be committed and willing to meet the needs of the service, working 9am-5pm, five days a week and additional shift, evening and weekends as required.
• Participate in the on-call system which includes public holidays, evenings, and weekends.

Essential skills and Experience Required

The successful applicant will:

• Hold a degree in Social Work or another relevant degree eg psychology as a minimum qualification with ongoing personal development for continued practice.
• Be trauma informed with a working knowledge of the significant impact that poverty and systems have on children and families.
• Have a keen interest in attachment theory, child development and understanding of an approach of therapeutic parenting.
• Have a current working knowledge of child development, and attachment and trauma informed theory which will underpin practice.
• Be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council and adhere to standards in line with their requirements.
• Have the creativity, compassion, and skill base to deliver robust and focused parenting capacity assessments.
• Have a keen interest in the delivery of The Promise Scotland and the supports required to scaffold families in the community.
• Have Line Management experience (essential) of multi-disciplinary agencies, in children and families.
• Be proficient in the use of Microsoft office programmes, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Hold a full driving licence and have use of their own vehicle (mileage paid).
• Provide two references and join the PVG Scheme.

Who are we?

The LGT is a registered Scottish Charity which offers independent parenting capacity assessments within a rural residential setting near the village of Thornhill, 10 miles from Stirling town centre. We provided residential placements to parents and their child/children in cases where a Local Authority has concerns about the parent’s ability to meet the children’s needs. By working with the families, we are able to provide evidence -based information about whether the child can remain safely within the family, and if so, what support is required. The LGT’s practice is based on Kate Cairns ‘Five to Thrive working model’ and, via a 12-week parenting capacity assessment we assess, support, and develop parent’s confidence, skills, and insight to promote healthy attachments. The LGT staff team work closely in partnership with independent consultants in Social Work, Psychiatry, Counselling, Health, Play, Music, and Art Therapy to provide a holistic and organic assessment.

The LGT has a committed and motivated staff team whose focus is to strengthen parent and child relationships to provide a better future for families. We are committed to providing high quality support designed around families’ abilities, needs and choices and we do this by providing high quality services that will build parent’s and children’s capacity to overcome stress and alienation arising from poverty and social exclusion.

Values

At the Lilias Graham Trust, we know that there is no prescription or rulebook for every situation. We have therefore developed a statement of values that will underpin and guide all our work. The successful candidate will have the key qualities and share these common values.

The role holder will maintain and develop a culture of:

• Compassion: We will treat every parent, child, family and colleague with kindness, compassion, and warmth.
• Respect: We will treat every parent, child, family, and colleague with respect for our shared humanity as well as for our individual uniqueness. Although we will make assessments, we will not jump to judgemental conclusions and will work in a transparent, honest, and equalising way. Human beings are fallible, and we can all make mistakes. This shared aspect of being human is something we understand.
• Hope: We will create the conditions within which hope can blossom, by believing in the potential of families and understanding how difficult things have been in the past.
• Trust: We will seek to earn the trust of the families we work with. Through transparency, honesty, and solidarity we will aspire to be trustworthy in everything we do, even when outcomes may not be what everyone would hope for.
• Care: All our work will be underpinned by taking time to build authentic, warm, and caring relationships with parents and children. Through proper listening and empathy, we will seek to understand families, their situations, and future hopes.

At LGT families are provided with an opportunity to achieve their potential. As a practice manger you will look for these glimmers of potential and guide the team through evidence-based practice.

Outline of Terms of Employment:

Salary: £38,500pa

Contract: Permanent

Leave entitlement: 20 Annual leave days & 10 Public Holidays

Hours of Duty: 40 hours per week

Pension: Workplace pension scheme

Shift work: Shift and weekend work may be required.

On Call: The post holder will participate in the on-call system,

An exciting opportunity to make your mark in this new post, helping to increase the sustainability of a dynamic organisation that has been a leading force in volunteer development in Edinburgh and Scotland since 1973.

Working to ambitious but realistic targets, you will maximise funds raised through regular and systematic approaches to trusts and other grant-makers. You will lead on the implementation of our strategy for future and ongoing fundraising.

An independent report commissioned by the board of trustees identified a range of opportunities for our organisation to increase its income from trusts and grant-making bodies. Can you help us take our next steps and build on our 50 years of dedication to volunteering?

About Volunteer Edinburgh

Through continual innovation, Volunteer Edinburgh has delivered services to people who wish to volunteer and the organisations that engage them. Our vision is for Edinburgh to be the premier city for volunteering in the UK - a city where the positive impact of volunteering is universally valued and respected, and where everyone, regardless of their background or situation, has the opportunity to contribute as active citizens and volunteers.

Volunteer Edinburgh is a Living Wage Employer and holds the Investing in Volunteers quality standard.

Working for us

Volunteer Edinburgh is committed to creating a positive, supportive culture where employees and volunteers can thrive. Working for Volunteer Edinburgh will offer you: a generous leave entitlement of 29 days plus eight public holidays, pro rata for part-time employees; 7% employer pension contribution; opportunities to learn within the organisation and outside it; an established support and supervision framework and an employer-supported volunteering policy that provides paid time off to volunteer. In addition, salaries are contractually linked to local government pay.

This role is part-time and at a proposed 21 hours per week. Flexible and hybrid working is available and working hours can be negotiated.

Who we’re looking for

The fundraising manager will have excellent written and oral communication skills, be an accomplished relationship-builder and have a proven track record of income generation from trusts and grant-giving bodies.

Location

The main place of work is Volunteer Edinburgh’s office at 222 Leith Walk, EH6 5EQ. Remote, flexible and hybrid working options are all available for this role.