The Wise Group is a leading social enterprise helping to lift people out of poverty across the UK. In 2020 the Wise Group supported over 40,000 people through various services and programmes across three key areas – employability, energy advice & advocacy and community justice. The Wise Group builds better lives, better communities, and stronger businesses in partnership with a diverse range of organisations across the UK.

The fallout from covid has impacted us all and The Wise Group have been working tirelessly to support those in need throughout 2020 and 2021, providing tailored services and embracing new organisational values. They want to attract exceptional people that want to join their winning team. The group have achieved so much in the last 12 months that they are on a high. Revenue has increased by 50% in this period to accommodate the delivery of key contracts and services. The Group expects this growth to continue as their services are in high demand UK wide.

The Wise Group now has an ever-growing pool of opportunity and they are looking to recruit a new Bid Lead. This post will own and manage all aspects of bidding to grow the enterprise income through competitive tenders, grant awards and other sources. The Bid Lead will project manage and continue to develop and improve the bid process whilst producing high quality, engaging proposals.

We are seeking enthusiastic candidates with a strong track record in bid management who can work with a range of stakeholders and lead teams. The role is open to bid experts from any background, if relevance and capability are highlighted within your application.

Forgan Arts Centre is seeking to recruit an exceptional candidate to the new role of Centre Director. We are looking for an individual with relevant and proven experience in managing an Arts Centre or similar. This role requires a candidate with the drive to deliver the ambitious Forgan Arts Centre business plans to relocate in to larger premises, expand our arts and crafts classes and activities and develop new income streams required to ensure a sustainable future for the centre while delivering maximum benefit to the community.

Can you help us to support more children and young people in Scotland with their mental health and emotional wellbeing?

Are you a successful Business Development Professional skilled at income generation, tenders and bid management, stakeholder engagement, relationship management and communication?

As the Business Development Manager for Scotland, you will play a key role in growing our services in Scotland to support children and young people to access vital mental health support when they need it

Your role will include the identification and delivery of new business opportunities in line with the organisational and Scotland business development working with a range of stakeholders, including schools, local and national Government, education and healthcare agencies.

You will work closely with the service delivery team to maximise opportunities and to ensure that robust processes are in place to ensure onboarding and contractual requirements are met.

You will bring enthusiasm and leadership skills to the team during this exciting period of growth for the organisation.

What will I be responsible for in my new role?

You will:

• identify opportunities through scanning, pipeline development and timely evaluation for business development opportunities in line with the organisational and Scotland business plan
• lead and advise on business development strategies and tactics
• identify and respond to tender opportunities ensuring that any tender responses or business development proposals are of the quality to be successful develop extensive and effective networks and relationships with potential commissioners including schools, Local Authorities, education and health bodies
• ensure all deadlines are met throughout the role and other activities as required in relation to contract management

Diversity and Inclusion

Place2Be is committed to equal opportunities and anti-discrimination practices and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are particularly interested in attracting applications from applicants from diverse groups.

About You

The successful candidate will have:

• experience in a wide range of income generation activity including proposals, bids, tenders and funding applications
• project management and managing and developing stakeholder relationships
• strong written and verbal skills including effective tender writing and bid writing
• the ability to coordinate multiple bid/projects with strong time management and prioritisation skills
• strong knowledge of formal tendering processes and commercial awareness
• experience of information analysis, essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Robust Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
• Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
• Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay

If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.

INSP (International Network of Street Papers) works to alleviate poverty and build a global movement for social change, leading and supporting a network of street paper organisations in 35 countries worldwide.

The Relationship & Fundraising Manager will lead on building relationships, developing and delivering INSP’s fundraising strategy. It is a strategic and operational role, which will be critical to the sustainability and financial health of our organisation.

We are looking for a candidate with drive and creativity who is willing to work with a level of autonomy, and also able to work closely with our passionate and creative staff and board team. The candidate will lead on building a fundraising culture for INSP and will be prepared to work with us to build the systems to manage this.

This is a unique and challenging role in a dynamic organisation. The right candidate will be able to manage multiple moving parts and think strategically across different relationships, opportunities and networks. We are looking for a strategic and energetic individual who shares our commitment and vision to develop the potential from existing relationships, as well as having the ability and experience to harness and maximise the huge potential from our international community.

As an employer committed to diversity and flexible working, we will consider a range of options for the successful candidate, including part time, flexi-time, job sharing, compressed hours and remote working.

Main duties:

Relationship management:

• Identify, develop and maintain relationships with all existing and potential individual donors, including major donors.
• Devise and implement ways to connect and engage companies, individuals and trusts & foundations in the difference they’re making/could make.
• Secure meetings, face to face and virtual engagement with potential corporate partners, individual donors and trusts & foundations.
• Strategically plan events to encourage conversations with potential supporters and organise events so attendees get the best experience and impression of INSP.
• Support the Chief Executive, and other staff and trustees with relationship fundraising approaches, conversations and asks.

Planning and prospecting:

• Create an annual fundraising delivery plan with clear milestones and targets.
• Work with the Chief Executive and other staff to develop and execute INSP’s fundraising strategy and build a robust fundraising culture.
• Develop specific strategies for donor relations and cultivation, corporate sponsorships, events and communications.
• Research connections, network and identify opportunities to form new relationships with major donors, foundations and trusts and companies.
• Implement prospecting processes.

General:

• Develop an understanding of the key aspects of INSP’s work and be able to articulate the vision and impact of the organisation in a clear, passionate and confident way.
• Work with team to ensure that INSP’s external communications and online presence is optimised to encourage donor engagement.
• Act as an ambassador of INSP at public engagements and supporter events, and where necessary, deliver speeches or presentations to a wide range of audiences.

Administrative:

• Use and develop the Salesforce CRM to record, plan and analyse all major donor activity and contacts.
• Provide verbal and written reports as required and update plans where necessary.
• Adhere to the Scottish Fundraising Code of Practice and ensure that all team members are up to date with current practice.
• Ensure all data is processed within the framework of the Data Protection Act (1998) and GDPR.