PR and Business Development Manager

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Lead media relations, generating press releases, features, and handling media inquiries.
• Develop and implement PR strategies to promote the organisation’s role.
• Collaborate with internal teams to deliver integrated communications campaigns.
• Oversee internal communications and support staff engagement.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and trade press to enhance media coverage.
• Identify potential media risks and develop strategies to manage them effectively.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a senior PR role, managing consumer and corporate PR campaigns.
• Strong media relations skills and experience creating content across print and digital platforms.
• Excellent knowledge of social media and managing online communities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Fundraising and Philanthropy Executive to join our client's fundraising team. In this new role, you will be responsible for securing funds from trusts, foundations, and individual donors. The successful candidate will have a passion for making a difference, strong writing skills, and experience in relationship management, grant applications, and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Trusts and Foundations Fundraising

• Research, identify, and engage with a portfolio of charitable trusts and foundations that align with the charity's goals.
• Prepare and submit compelling grant applications, funding proposals, and reports tailored to each funder’s requirements.
• Cultivate and manage relationships with trusts and foundations, ensuring timely updates, acknowledgments, and impact reports.
• Maintain an up-to-date calendar of deadlines for grant submissions and reporting, ensuring compliance with funder guidelines.

Philanthropy and Major Donor Engagement

• Build and nurture existing relationships with major donors, ensuring a personalized and strategic approach to donor stewardship.
• Work closely with senior leadership to identify and develop opportunities to secure gifts.

Research and Strategy

• Conduct ongoing research to identify new fundraising opportunities, including emerging trends in philanthropy.
• Develop strategies to enhance and grow the charity’s trusts and major donor portfolios.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of trust and philanthropy income streams, providing regular reports to senior management.

Collaboration and Cross-functional Work

• Ensure smooth internal processes for grant management, and written proposals. 
• Support the overall fundraising strategy by contributing to team meetings, sharing insights, and collaborating on multi-disciplinary projects.

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven track record of successful trust and foundation fundraising, with a strong understanding of the grant-making process.
• Experience in major donor fundraising, including relationship management, donor stewardship, and event organization.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling, clear, and concise proposals and reports.
• Strong research skills to identify new funding opportunities and develop targeted strategies for engagement.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building abilities, comfortable communicating with donors and trustees at all levels.
• Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines effectively.

Salary and Benefits

- Up to £31,000
- Hybrid working scheme 
- Holiday, sick pay, pension scheme, medical health insurance

Company and Role Overview

Main responsibilities 

• Help to promote the development concept of customer service centre as a customer relationship base, by providing warm, friendly, comprehensive, and outstanding responses.
• E-commerce Support – providing customer service to customers on our online stores.
• Managing all incoming contact, identifying, and assessing customer’s needs whilst maintaining exceptional level of customer satisfaction
• Providing support through social media channels, WhatsApp, and Live Chat
• Maintaining and improving upon existing KPIs and SLAs
• Providing technical support to customers to a range of products
• Helping with any other ad-hoc assistance as requested by the company.

Requirements 

• Minimum of two years of experience in customer service role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to liaise confidently with internal and external stakeholders.
• Be confident with complaint handling/management, maintaining calm and clear communication.
• Some experience of Zendesk CRM preferred / previous experience with other CRM also highly desirable.

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Assist managers in preparing job descriptions and person specifications informed by team analysis for recruitment purposes, including advertising vacancies and monitoring interest on LinkedIn, websites, and job boards, making suggestions for remedial action when necessary.
• Respond to all potential candidate enquiries, support with shortlisting and schedule interviews and tests.
• Take part in interview panels when required and arrange candidate feedback upon request.
• Undertake reference and document checks and prepare employment contracts, based on existing templates.

• Prepare induction packs (regularly review and update information packs on a regular basis) in collaboration with Heads of Department and arrange departmental/organisational inductions.
• Participate in international HR onboarding activities.

• Ensure all staff receive regular reviews during their probationary period, and annual feedback documentation is completed and filed.
• Prepare reports on performance for the Country Manager to review.

• Research and identify external training partners and book training courses and assist and coordinate internal training opportunities.
• Create a centralized hub for all training measurement reporting and recording.
• Monitor, track, and collect all documentation related to internal or external training that occurs, ensuring employee sign off.

• Support the HR Manager in the preparation of payroll for each month, including starters/leavers, contract variations, sick pay, maternity pay etc.
• Undertake administration relating to the workplace pension scheme, cycle to work, eyecare vouchers, flu jab, and season ticket loans.
• Administer requests for flexible working, maternity/paternity/adoption leave, time off for dependents, etc.
• Assist managers with employee relations issues such as absence management, grievance, disciplinary, and dismissal, in accordance with company policy and employment legislation.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date personnel files both in hard copy and electronically, ensuring compliance with Data Protection legislation.
• Prepare HR correspondence, such as changes to Terms and Conditions of employment, end of probation, termination, etc.
• Collect and report upon data relating to a number of topics, such as recruitment, diversity, staff absence, and turnover.
• Administer the exit process for leavers, including exit interviews and return of company property.
• Assist in reviewing and updating HR policies and procedures, ensuring these are effective for the business and reflect current legislation and best practice.
• Ensure all assigned onboarding and offboarding tasks within the HR system are up to date and prepare folders with HR Correspondence templates.

• Meet with HR Manager for the purpose of regular supervision and appraisal.

Requirements

• Educated to Degree level or relevant HR Certification or Experience.
• Proven experience of HR Generalist roles
• Good communication, listening and interpersonal skills, with the ability to write and communicate to applicants, supporters, stakeholders and colleagues at all levels (both written and verbal, in a friendly and professional manner).
• Excellent administration and organisational skills.
• Good IT skills including an understanding of Microsoft Office suite of programmes. such as Word, Excel, Outlook etc.

Company and role overview

Our client is currently searching for a Case Team Manager to come and join their busy team. The candidate will be expected to work as part of the team, supporting and assisting colleagues, peers, and your managers to achieve team priorities, objectives, targets, and goals. The role does require managing a team’s performance and quickly identify and effectively tackle, at the earliest stage.

Main responsibilities

• Maintain, manage, and motivate a team, ensuring work produced is to a high standard and use resources to the best of their ability.
• Ensure team’s compliance with current policies, process, guidance, and service standards that govern the work of the team.
• Ensure the early identification of solutions to obstacles, raising these with your Operational Manager when necessary.
• Assure and be accountable for the quality of casework, risk assessments and decisions in your team.
• Recruit new employees and provide effective induction programmes, ensuring that performance is effectively managed and recorded during their probation period.
• Be knowledgeable of developments of policies, guidance, and processes, regarding fitness.
• Work as part of the team, supporting and assisting colleagues, peers, and your managers to achieve team priorities, objectives, targets, and goals.
• Review and respond to challenges, queries and/or complaints about the decisions made and service provided by your team
• Support and deputise for the Operations Manager in the delivery of their work, when requested or required.
• Comply with the information security requirements for information accessed or processed in carrying out the duties of the role, ensuring they are in line with the companies’ policies.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level or relevant knowledge and experience
• Experience of managing people and resources or investigation responsibilities
• Experience of working within, and applying, a framework of legislation and defined policies and guidance.
• Experience of monitoring a team, objectives, and performance indicators.
• A high level of written English and verbal communication skills.
• Experience of responding to multiple stakeholders needs and complex circumstances
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a team and support and coach others.
• Strong analytical, critical examination and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of investigative methods and rules of evidence.