Senior Fundraising Officer
- Full time
- Circa £25,000
- Home-based, with infrequent travel across England and Scotland
- Closing 7th March 2021
- Advertised from 23rd February 2021
- Salary depending on experience. 37.5 hours per week (usually Mon-Friday).
Role
Following a restructure, we are seeking a Senior Fundraising Officer to develop and lead on a range of activities including third-party, community and virtual events, and corporate fundraising. This is an exciting opportunity to join a values-led team and utilise your broad experience and enthusiasm for what we do, to make this role your own.
We are looking for an independent, adaptable, confident, and proactive individual who is people-focused and who possesses exceptional organisational skills. Above all you will be happy to share your ideas with the senior team and support the organisation to try new ways of fundraising, whilst providing a sound business case for doing so.
Reporting to: Head of Finance.
Key responsibilities:
- Cultivate strong relationships with corporate, third party, and individual donors
- Lead and manage fundraising events
- Nurture and recognise DSUK’s individual givers
- Research potential corporate partners
- Recording and reporting of fundraising activities with Head of Finance
Personal qualities:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- Flexible and proactive with a ‘can-do’ attitude
- Passionate about equality and opportunity for all and committed to changing attitudes towards disability.
- Accountable attitude and happy to work as part of a remote team
Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) is the UK’s leading snowsport charity. We have been teaching disabled people to ski and snowboard for over forty years and although like all charities we anticipate a challenging year ahead, we also have exciting plans.
At DSUK, we believe that teaching disabled people to master the slopes can transform the way they experience their disability. For our customers, it’s about enjoying achievement and independence. From picking their line to controlling their speed, they can experience something that’s often missing from their everyday lives – freedom.
Application notes
Closing date. Sunday 7th March at 9pm
Interviews: Thursday 11th and Friday 12th March (via Zoom)
To apply, please send an up-to-date CV, along with a cover letter that clearly provides an example for how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria set out in the Person Specification. Please send to Catherine Rose, Head of Finance and HR via catherine.rose@disabilitysnowsport.org.uk
Disability Snowsport UK is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex/gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status or age.
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Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) is a charity and membership organisation which offers unique opportunities for children and adults with disabilities to access snowsports.
DSUK believe that taking part in adaptive snowsport has the power to transform a person’s relationship with not just their disability, but with all aspects of their lives. We believe that all people have the right to access the unique physical, mental, and social benefits of snowsport, regardless of disability, injury, or experience.
With a team of around 400 staff and volunteers, we operate ski schools at various locations throughout the UK as well as delivering opportunities to ski and snowboard in a mountain environment worldwide. We also provide a platform for disabled skiers to meet and participate in snowsports through our local groups.
With over 40 years’ experience in teaching adaptive snowsports in the UK, DSUK has been successful in raising prominence of the sport through working with the British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI) to introduce the Adaptive Snowsport Instructor qualification pathway and through getting our Para-athletes onto the world stage.
We are seeking a strategic, dynamic and effective leader to be our new Chief Executive. To help take stock and lead the charity on the next stage of growth, expanding reach and increasing revenue through developing a range of new products and member services. You will be tasked with further developing thinking around the nature and shape of the Charity post-pandemic and delivering a strategy for Disability Snowsport UK which is forward looking and ambitious. As such, you will be a confident communicator with experience of building effective partnerships with external stakeholders.
The successful candidate will have substantial experience working in a senior level role with budgetary accountability and interaction with a Board. You will have a proven track record of strategic leadership and managing change. Strong operational management and risk management experience will be essential. You will have the ability to empower and build the capability of a diverse and geographically spread workforce. Above all, you will be passionate about the impact the charity can have and the ability to inspire others to change attitudes towards disability. Previous charity experience is not essential but some knowledge of, or experience in, the area of disability or disabled sports is highly desirable.
Equal Futures promotes social inclusion for people with a Learning Disability or Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Scotland. We were established in 2002 by a group of parents who have a family member with disabilities, with the aim of helping families plan for the future to ensure that their relative can live their best life.
Since then, Equal Futures has been on a journey to support individuals and their families through our Circles of Support model and more informally through volunteer befriending and social opportunities. We currently support 24 individuals and families across 10 Local Authorities and have big ambitions to reach more people who would benefit from our unique support model.
We take pride in being a member organisation to ensure that people with learning disabilities or ASD are at the heart of everything we do and have a say in how we function. We operate as a registered Scottish charity within the Thera Group of companies.
Our Vision
Everyone has friendships which are based on kindness, compassion and respect.
Our Mission
To work alongside people with learning disabilities or autism to reduce loneliness and social isolation
Our Values
• We are committed to positive relationships.
• Making a sustainable difference.
• Social inclusion for everyone
Equal Futures has a well-established Board of Trustees with a range of skills and backgrounds. We are seeking to appoint three Trustees, one of whom we hope will become our new Chairperson.
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
We also welcome applications from people with experience in any of the following:
• Financial acumen
• Business growth and scale up
• Public profile development
• Fundraising
• Governance and Risk Management
• Legal Compliance
• Voluntary Sector Leadership
We also welcome applications from people with lived experience of learning disability or ASD, either personally or as a carer, who have an understanding of Scotland’s voluntary sector.
ATTRIBUTES
• Passionate about equality
• Established networks in the field of social care; social inclusion; statutory or voluntary sectors; or fundraising
• Comfortable communicating with a range of audiences
• Willingness and drive to work with others to make a lasting difference
• Able to commit appropriate time to bi-monthly Board meetings, including preparation and following up on agreed actions, of approximately 9 days per year for Trustees and 12 days per year for our Chairperson
• Developed awareness and interest in the needs & rights of families and individuals with learning disabilities or ASD
Delivery Manager
- Full time
- £35,700
- Covering Edinburgh, Fife, West Lothian, East Lothian & Midlothian
- Closing 12th March 2021
ENABLE Works are the leading Scottish organisation delivering high quality employability services for people who have learning disabilities.
Your role is to lead one of five ENABLE Works regional areas, delivering support services across Edinburgh and the Lothians, including leading our All In Edinburgh consortium across Edinburgh City.
You will lead on the (1) delivery of performance and quality standards, (2) meeting of compliance and contractual requirements and (3) developing new business opportunities to support people who have additional support needs into work.
You will lead a small team of Employability Team Leaders, supporting their development as leaders and ensuring your wider team of Employment Coordinators deliver high quality services. You will engage strategically with both local and national contract managers, ensuring contracts are delivered and relationships maintained. You will lead on developing new business, in partnership with the Assistant Director of Development, creating new opportunities for services, securing, and implementing them.
You will play a key role in how ENABLE Works influences policy and support for people who have learning disabilities in Scotland.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of Team Leaders to manage the quality and performance of a wider team
- Support the development of senior staff through effective mentoring
- Oversee and report on overall operations and staffing for the region
- Deliver an agreed performance and quality target annually
- Coordinate compliant information systems and reporting systems in line with contract standards.
- Manage regional income and expenditure in line with agreed budget
- Ensure contracts meets key aims and objectives
- Liaise with funders and partners regarding contract delivery, ensuring contracts are maintained
- Develop and maintain relationships with agreed organisations, negotiating new opportunities
- Lead on the development of grant applications and tenders for new services
- Deliver an agreed business development target annually
- Manage effective implementation and integration of new services into ENABLE Works
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About You
Knowledge and Understanding
- An awareness of employability and skills structures and systems in Scotland
- A commitment to workplace diversity and understanding of it’s benefits
Skills/abilities
- Self-management skills and the ability to meet duties effectively
- Successfully managing people and leading teams
- Resilience in reacting to and resolving challenges
- Supporting and mentoring developing leaders
- Ability to measure and communicate impact
- Ability to lead communications and relationships
- Ability to work collaboratively to deliver success
- Ability to lead business development and write tenders to a high standard
Experience
- Managing employability or skills development services
- Experience of managing contracts to qualitative, financial and service expectations
- Identifying problems and resolving issues
- Implementing change management
- Delivering high performance and quality to agreed standards
- Managing compliance to contractual and legal standards
- Excellent stakeholder management
- Experience of financial management
- Evidence of advocacy and influence in leadership
- Professional presentation skills and experience
- Experience of strategic development and innovation
- Driving license and own transport is essential
About Us
At ENABLE Scotland we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.
Starting a career with ENABLE Scotland is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.
ENABLE Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.
ENABLE Works are the leading Scottish organisation delivering high quality employability services for people who have learning disabilities across Inverness and the surrounding area.
Your job will support people who have learning disabilities to make progress towards and achieve employment. You will work closely with a group of people who have learning disabilities each year, profiling their skills and jointly planning activity that will enable them to achieve their work goals and become independent, active members of their community.
You will be responsible for developing positive relationships with the programme participants, their circles of support and professional support services.
You will work closely with local partners, including employers, funders and other stakeholders, developing professional relationships that will offer a diverse range of experiences and opportunities.
You will be given a work plan to achieve in order that programme participants are receiving a quality service and we are achieving the expectations of funders and stakeholders, and you will be required to meet challenging but achievable programme targets.
As an important member of the wider ENABLE Works team, you will be supporting departmental objectives through delivery of support but also through positive collaboration and innovation within your team to support our strategic, societal goals.
A full UK drivers licence and access to a car for work purposes is essential for this role.
BSL Qualified desirable.
This post is funded by European Social Fund and Highland Council.
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