Head of Charity

Job title: Manager

Hours: 35 hours per week (excluding breaks)

Job type: Permanent

Location: Bedford

Reporting to: The Directors of The Hairdressers’ Charity

Liaising with: The Charity’s elected Chairman & President

Direct reports: 1 Beneficiaries Executive (currently 28 hours per week (excluding breaks)

The Hairdressing Charity

The Hairdressing Charity was originally established as HABB (the Hair & Beauty Benevolent Fund) in 1853.  We have recently changed from being a ‘friendly society’ to become a registered charity. We offer financial support to individuals who work, or who have worked in the hair and beauty industry, and their families.  The charity is supported by volunteers who work in the hairdressing industry and who sit on the charity’s Fundraising Committee and the Management Committee.

Main responsibilities

Your role is to work with the volunteers, helping them to increase income each year to help hairdressers in need, to raise awareness of the charity within the industry and to ensure that payments are made to beneficiaries. You will be responsible for designing and developing plans for marketing, fundraising, events, social media and liaising with volunteers, encouraging and engaging their support.  You will also have responsibility for managing the office, systems and processes, with external support where needed.

Your roles and responsibilities may change from time to time to suit the charity business needs and are listed below but are not restricted to:

• Coordinating & transacting the business of the Charity as agreed by the management committee at their monthly meetings

• Preparing an annual budget for the Charity, including budgets for events and other fundraising activities

• Gathering ideas from the fundraising committee and planning an annual programme of events and other fundraising activities

• Organising events, including venue, speakers, bookings and payments

• Creating and developing inspiring, innovative campaigns to attract hair professionals and hair industry support and engage with the charity’s existing sponsors and supporters

• Sourcing and ordering promotional materials, adverts, exhibition stands as needed

• Liaising with the external accounts manager to maintain quarterly management accounts, ensure the necessary financial returns are made and to manage payroll and pension contributions.

• Attending events and exhibitions to represent the charity

• Arranging monthly committee meetings (11 per year excluding August) and the Annual General Meeting, including producing agendas, taking minutes and circulating information to committee members

• Line-managing the Beneficiaries Executive who is the first point of contact for beneficiaries

• Sourcing and setting up a new CRM system and populating with data extracted from manual records

• Managing the office, facilities, equipment and finances.As the charity was recently established, you will need to spend time setting up systems and processes to enable the smooth running of the charity as a professionally-run business and to comply with charity regulations.

Qualifications, skills and experience

• Fundraising experience

• Experience of organising events and fundraising activities

• Management experience, including businesses processes

• Familiarity with marketing and social media

• Familiarity with the hairdressing industry (desirable)

• IT literate

• Able to work on own initiative

• Strong relationship-building skills, liaising with volunteers and charity supporters.

How to apply

Send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you think you'd be great for this job before Friday 17 March 2017. 

Interviews

Interviews will be held in London on Thursday 23 March.