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Due to the breadth of services we offer, including online charitable giving accounts, payroll, loans and deposits, account examination, educational resources and digital marketing campaigns, our IT systems are complex and diverse. The current team of 5 each contribute in-depth knowledge and enthusiasm to the diverse daily challenges. We are now recruiting for a Senior Systems Engineer, based at our offices in the City. This is an opportunity to work amongst a small but growing team, gaining exposure to a variety of systems and play a significant part in driving forward our mission. Reporting to the IT Manager, you will be working in a fast paced and busy environment, providing a wide range of IT support ensuring the high availability and continued advancement of systems for Stewardship customers and staff. Stewardship’s IT environment reflects this breadth and complexity of the services it provides. Using the latest technologies, the Stewardship IT team strive to provide secure, fast and reliable services to both internal and external customers. Working with others from across the business, we are determined to deliver innovative solutions to deliver our mission of transforming generosity. At a time of big vision and rapid growth, IT continues to play an essential role in the future of Stewardship and we have identified a number of new and exciting projects along the journey to delivering our strategy. Your role will consist of project work, being a key project team member, or lead, for new and infrastructure upgrade projects. You will also provide 2nd line support for escalated end user support issues. You will also have responsibility for maintaining existing systems and infrastructure.

We are looking for an inspirational leader, ready to take our fundraising and marketing to the next level across the UK & Ireland. You will have an excellent track record in setting and meeting ambitious income targets, demonstrable experience of leading a marketing function and a passion for changing the lives of children through the power of rugby. Hours of work:  Full Time. Monday to Friday - 9am to 5pm. Some out of hours working required. Reporting to:  CEO About us:    Wooden Spoon is the children’s charity of rugby, funding life-changing projects to support children and young people with disabilities or living in disadvantage. Our rugby heritage gives us our core values and the sport provides us with a purpose in making a positive difference changing children’s lives. Since our founding in 1983 we have distributed in excess of £27 million to more than 1,000 projects reaching over 1 million children and young people. Role purpose:  The Director of Fundraising and Marketing is a key member of the charity’s leadership team with responsibility for developing and delivering our fundraising strategy and activities. The post holder will also lead the marketing for the charity, particularly focusing on brand, media and digital and our fundraising communications. Key responsibilities: Leadership Develop and deliver our fundraising and marketing strategy and tactical plans. Provide strategic leadership and inspiring management to the fundraising and marketing team, ensuring all team members are supported and motivated in their work. Play an active role in the organisational strategic planning process and be responsible for marketing and fundraising plans and budgets, in conjunction with the other members of the leadership team. When required, attend and participate in trustee meetings, providing updates and feedback on fundraising and marketing activity. Fundraising Lead on our community fundraising working with our 40 regional volunteer groups to drive events, membership and partnership income across local communities in the UK and Ireland. Drive, take responsibility for and provide guidance on our individual giving, national events, corporate fundraising and national campaigns. Ensure an excellent supporter care programme. Keeping up to date on key trends, best practice and fundraising law. Marketing Deliver the marketing and communications strategy to build brand awareness, promote our core work, run campaigns, fundraising initiatives and demonstrate the charity’s impact. Lead on media relations and PR strategy and delivery. Lead on all digital communications, internal communications and corporate collateral. Oversee project management, planning, budgeting, execution and evaluation of marketing events, campaigns and activities. Management of key partners, allocated ambassadors and contractors. Person specification Experience of leading a small team, planning and implementing operational plans. Excellent track record in setting and meeting ambitious income targets. Relevant professional qualification and evidence of supporting the professional development of others. Extensive experience at a senior level in fundraising, particularly in community fundraising, individual giving and events and corporate marketing. Experience of leading marketing and communications activity. Experience of driving a digital strategy and embedding digital practice within an organisation. If you would like to apply for this position, please click the apply button and attach your covering letter, CV and current salary, it will be sent automatically to us.

Dementia UK has grown rapidly recently, with income doubling over the last three years, and the charity able to significantly expand its services and the number of people it supports. The Marketing & Communications team has played a key part in this growth, and will be equally important in future years. With Dementia UK soon to enter a new five-year strategy, we’re looking for a Head of Marketing and Communications to help deliver the strategy, and shape our future brand, content, creative services, digital and media activity. It’s a really important role. More and more families are being affected by dementia, and the need for our services has never been greater. The Head of Marketing & Communications will help create and foster a sustained climate of positive, informed awareness of Dementia UK and our dementia specialist Admiral Nurses, in order to deliver effective fundraising, influencing and service delivery. We’re therefore looking for someone with substantial experience to lead the team and our activity; and in return we can offer support from across the organisation to help make the role a success. For more information please download the job description.  To apply, please complete the candidate questions and send these alongside your CV and cover letter.

Forward Action is looking for a Digital Strategy Manager to join our innovative and fast-moving team. In this role, you'll lead a small project team to deliver digital campaigns for our progressive partner organisations. You’ll set project strategies to hit measurable fundraising, engagement and advocacy goals and then manage strategists to deliver them to an excellent standard. Optimisation is key to our work, so you’ll ensure testing is baked into every project to challenge assumptions, answer strategic questions, and test innovations that improve our results. If you’re passionate about making the world a better place, are experienced in digital advocacy or fundraising, and are well organised with good attention to detail and an analytical mind, this job is for you. This is a permanent role, with the freedom to work both in our London office and remotely anywhere in the UK. You can work either four or five days per week. Applications close on Sunday 8 March. Who we are Forward Action is a digital mobilisation agency for progressive causes. We help our partner organisations reach new supporters, then mobilise them to become activists and donors. We have been in the engine room of some of the most successful election and charity digital campaigns of the last few years, helping our partners add millions of new supporters to their email lists, raise more money online (from more donors) and create campaigns that have led to real-world change. Our values are critical to us: we will only work with causes that make the world a better place. You will get to work with some of the most inspiring and impactful organisations in the sector - such as Greenpeace, Cancer Research UK, and Amnesty International - and spend your days helping win progress on everything from climate change to homelessness. You will be working at the cutting edge of digital mobilisation. We trust in data rather than our gut instincts, so we are constantly testing and iterating in our work in order to challenge assumptions and drive better results. We are an agile, fast-moving team, and you will have the opportunity to rapidly develop and expand your skills and experience.  One of our fundamental values is that all our work should drive real-world, measurable results. But we also believe that the greatest progressive impact we can have is to give our partner organisations the skills, knowledge and culture they need to do what we do themselves. We want to spread our skills and way of working across the progressive sector, not make our partners dependent on us. You will play a key role in this in your job. What you’ll do as part of our team Lead strategic work on your projects Draft strategy for the projects you work on, planning data-driven digital mobilisation campaigns to ensure we hit the project’s fundraising, engagement and/or advocacy goals Own and oversee projects Oversee one or more Digital Strategists to ensure projects are managed excellently from conception through to build, coordinating work from our creative and web development teams and liaising with our partner organisations via email, Trello and video calls Run project planning workshops with clients and lead project review meetings Deliver training sessions to help upskill our partner organisations Drive innovation in our work Plan and run “minimum viable product” tests of new digital mobilisation models Plan and oversee A/B testing programmes, analyse the results of tests and tactics, and provide strategic recommendations to clients based off them Take part in brainstorms to generate ideas for tactics that help our clients hit their goals Help bring in new partner organisations Draft proposals for new projects and attend meetings with prospective clients Work alongside our client partnerships team to build and maintain strong relationships with the partner organisations you work with Line manage one or more Digital Strategists Benefits and working culture Pro Rata Salary:   £46,098 if you live inside London, £41,159 (plus £3,000 travel expense allowance) if you live outside London. We have a generous pay increase system, so every year your salary will increase in line with inflation, and if you hit your professional development goals you will also move up a pay grade. If you move up a pay grade your pay will increase by £1,470 - £1,646 pro rata depending on whether you live outside London or in London. Contract Term:   This is a permanent contract. The role can be either full time or four days a week. Location:   In our Hoxton office, with the option to work remotely. Ensuring our team is open to people who live outside London and enabling staff to work flexibly are important values to us, so you’ll have the freedom to work from home regularly. Most of our meetings are held via video conferencing, but you will need to attend meetings with clients in London fairly regularly - once every week-or-two on average. Holiday:   25 days/year (pro rata), plus bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year. Extra holiday for travelling sustainably:   We’re a member of the Climate Perks scheme, so you’ll have an extra two days of holiday a year if you use them to travel by land or sea instead of taking a flight. Maternity and Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave:   For a small organisation,   we’re proud to have a generous and progressive parental leave policy. Maternity leave is 12 weeks at full pay, 14 weeks at 50% pay. Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave is 6 weeks at full pay. Working culture and hours:   Our team is open, inclusive, friendly, respectful and kind. We work eight hour days (with a 30 minute lunch break), with core hours of 9:30am-4:30pm. We put a lot of importance on ensuring everyone finishes on time: while there are some times when you’ll need to stay a little later to finish work, people in the team rarely work more than 30-45 minutes late. No one works weekends or on their holidays, ever.  Abilities and experience you’ll need to have Four or more years’ experience working in digital campaigning, digital fundraising or digital direct marketing Excellent written and verbal communication skills Being comfortable working in a fast-paced environment Excellent organisation and attention-to-detail Experience of managing projects Experience planning digital strategy to hit measurable goals Comfortable analysing simple datasets (e.g. email or Facebook ads results) Dedication to helping build a fairer, more progressive society Fluency in spoken and written English We’re also looking for a quick learner. We don’t expect you to know or have done everything when you start - instead, we’ll be looking for you to pick up new skills and knowledge quickly, then run with them. Abilities and experience that are nice to have We know it’s not possible for any applicants to have all these skills - it’s likely you’ll be able to bring 3-4 of the following to our team: Line management experience Experience working in the charity sector Experience planning supporter email journeys A solid understanding of online user experience (e.g. how to lay out a web page to improve conversion rates) Enthusiasm for thinking creatively and coming up with new ideas Drafting and building emails, especially for fundraising Reviewing or editing content Drafting and setting up Facebook adverts Knowledge of how to plan a fair A/B experiment, then analyse it Basic HTML skills Experience working at an agency How to apply To apply for this job, please click "Apply" and complete the form on our website. To ensure our hiring process is as fair as possible, we run an anonymised application procedure.  So please remove your name and contact information from your CV before uploading it , and only enter these details in the online form.  To apply, you will need to include: your CV  (with name and contact details removed) up to 250 words  explaining how you’re suited to the role and why you want this job Applications close end of day Sunday 8 March. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a written online task from home - this can be any time that works for you between  Friday 13 and Monday 16 March . Selected candidates will then be invited to attend an interview (either in person in London or via a video call) on  Tuesday 24 March.  

Would you like to be part of one of the most exciting, innovative and high performing marketing teams in the sector?   This is an amazing opportunity to apply your marketing skills to a nationwide, sector leading product portfolio. Your role will be hugely varied, you will have excellent evaluation skills to inform your product strategies from concept development to media planning and campaign analysis. You will be responsible for substantial budgets with a seven-figure expenditure budget and multi million annual income target, managing these in year monitoring, forecasting and reporting against product income and expenditure lines. You will develop product marketing plans in accordance with strategy and budgets, with input from relevant departments, developing, monitoring and continually evolving your in year product strategies to deliver to department plans. You will continually develop your product portfolio applying insight to multi media campaigns. You will be an experienced marketer across both on and offline channels, confident in building excellent relationships both internally and externally to manage creative, media and production agencies, as well as complex cross organisational relationships. You will lead a team and will have exceptional delegation and team management experience to inspire, manage and drive fantastic performance across your team. You will be accountable for maintaining a working knowledge of all relevant regulation and law and ensure it is applied appropriately across your team. If you are you looking for your next step in your marketing career this could be it, if you are a skilled negotiator, collaborator and someone who works well under pressure we would love to hear from you. This role is diverse and a great opportunity to build sector leading supporter experiences with a brilliant team around you. We are a highly driven and collaborative marketing team who are constantly testing and applying insight to deliver innovative campaigns and we look forward to welcoming you. Macmillan commit to actively developing you within the role and offer benefits including health insurance, life assurance, pension, generous leave, and interest free loans for season ticket and gym membership. ***  Easy Apply  *** Our application process for this role is simple and quick.  Fill in your personal details, attach your CV, provide any additional information (optional), and submit! ------------------------------------ Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths so we seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, reflecting the diverse nature of our society. We will support you throughout the recruitment process with any reasonable adjustments required in accordance with the Equality Act. Please contact the Recruitment Team if you require support.

We are looking for a   Head of Information and Support Services   to lead on developing and delivering excellent support and information services which meet the needs of people affected by blood cancer. The successful candidate will have experience of developing and managing a diverse range of information and support services. You’ll have exceptional interpersonal skills and be emotionally resilient, hardworking and understand the value your role brings to the blood cancer community. This role will provide leadership to the team ensuring they are able to manage competing priorities and challenging deadlines. The postholder will be a strong advocate for patients, understand their needs and ensure that as an organisation our services continue to meet these needs. They will be able to identify and develop new opportunities, but also ensure we continue to meet the day to day demands of delivering our existing services. They will be required to develop relationships and a collaborative approach with other teams in the organisation, particularly our research and policy and fundraising teams. If this role sounds like the role you are looking for and you feel you have the knowledge, skills and experience we need, please apply with a covering letter setting out how you match the requirements of the job specification along with a current CV by: 9am on Thursday 5 March 2020 Please note applications will be reviewed on receipt and if a suitable candidate is appointed we may bring forward the closing date of this role at our discretion.

Central London • £40,000 - £45,000 (commensurate with experience)+ Benefits The Biochemical Society is one of the largest learned societies in the UK biosciences, dedicated to advancing the molecular biosciences that underpin and explain the essential processes of life. We are seeking a hands-on, experienced editor to take charge of editorial development, encompassing content strategy and workflows, for a subset of the Portland Press portfolio. The successful candidate will have a relentless commitment to author service and article turn-around times as a key part of the role will be copyflow management (including via an external vendor supporting peer review) to ensure KPIs are met. Strategy to diversify the inbound content is also paramount, while ensuring support for and engagement with the current authorship and audience. The post holder will work with Editorial Boards to develop and implement content strategies, and will manage relationships with scientific Editors in order to drive submissions from around the world. Reporting to the Publisher, this role needs to deliver at pace, and presents an opportunity to drive growth and be part of the Biochemical Society at a time when we, as a learned society publisher, are transitioning publishing models towards open access. Applicants would need to be qualified in the biosciences*, be skilled communicators and have relevant experience, ideally in STM publishing. The role involves some travel, including internationally. *Masters or PhD level is preferred, but degree qualification is a minimum requirement. Please send a CV and Cover Letter. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The Society takes the security of your data seriously. It has internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by our employees in the proper performance of their duties. Please note that due to limited resources it is not possible for the Society to acknowledge receipt of applications. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. “We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.”

If you have knowledge of digital marketing, with a particular focus on automated payment and mail systems, this is an excellent opportunity to join Shelter in a brand new Digital Systems Executive role. Join us and you could soon be supporting the delivery and management of a range of interconnected giving products, including digital out of home media, contactless payment technology, VR/AR, peer to peer networks - and lots more besides. A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change with individuals, in communities, across society and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve. About the role Join our digital fundraising team and you'll help to equip the wider Fundraising department with everything they need to support their plans through digital means, allowing us to significantly and sustainably grow the income that supports our vision and operations. This particular role will see you help the Digital Fundraising Manager deliver and manage the team's digital interconnectivity work streams and new projects incubator. Your primary focus will be on organising and supporting a network of new digital fundraising activities, including interconnected fundraising products and payment systems, as well as third party relationships. We'll also rely on you to source and deliver new ideas and activities and manage their integration into our Income Generation Division, reporting on KPIs for new products. About you As part of an award-winning team you will work on fundraising-led partnerships content development or in a similar commercial capacity. Proactive, results-driven and commercially aware, you have lots of creativity and are not afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas when appropriate. What's more, you have what it takes to focus on and understand the needs of internal and external customers, clients and other stakeholders and strive to deliver a prompt, effective and personalised service each and every time. Benefits We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme. Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own. To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to join our digital fundraising team and be the change you want to see in society. Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies. At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them. Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.  

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? As Scrum Master you will train, advise, coach and support multi-disciplinary teams in understanding and applying Agile mindsets, values and principles. We have various Scrum Master positions available across different teams.   As Scrum Master you will support one, or more, of our multi-disciplinary teams, coaching fellow team members and team leaders in agile ways of working and supporting them to achieve team objectives. You will facilitate a wide range of meetings, including core Scrum ceremonies and daily stand-ups, motivating and monitoring team activity to ensure these are well attended and consistent. Additionally, you will: Plan retrospectives effectively and encourage a feedback loop that results in direct actions and improvements, building a culture of iterative improvement in ways of working Train, coach and support multi-disciplinary team leaders to ensure they provide clarity, focus on value and prioritise and refine work items ready for the next sprint Work with multi-disciplinary teams to help them visualise and manage work in progress, helping them to understand, adopt and adapt an appropriate combination of Agile practices. To be successful you will be a self-motivated team player with a strong understanding of the fundamentals of agile work practices and methodologies. You will have the ability to deliver team training and operate effectively in a complex environment while managing stakeholders. In addition, you will have: An understanding of iterative development, incremental delivery, the value of metrics, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition Knowledge of other Agile approaches e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean The ability to adapt the assumptions of Agile methodologies to an organisation's conditions effectively The ability to use creative techniques to search for solutions to problems. At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure. If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity and a real commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world, and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you. Please note that we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and interviews may be scheduled before the closing date.  To apply please visit our website. Closing date: 23rd February 2020

Request for proposals (RFP) Opening date:    30 January 2020 Closing date:      26 Feb 2020 23:59 GMT Submission:        Proposals should be sent to Joshua@isealalliance.org by the closing date with the subject line “online community platform application”. Applicants should be prepared to start work in early March 2020.   Background ISEAL is the global membership organisation for ambitious, collaborative and transparent sustainability systems. We support and challenge our members to continually improve their impact for the benefit of people and planet. ISEAL’s headquarters are in London with a global membership base. Our members are voluntary standards and similar sustainability systems that meet our Codes of Good Practice and promote measurable change through open, rigorous and accessible systems. They include Fairtrade International, Rainforest Alliance, Forest Stewardship Council, Marine Stewardship Council, Better Cotton Initiative, Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials and many others. ISEAL online community platform ISEAL’s online community platform is a dynamic hub of resources, news, events, jobs and trends for professionals who work in the sustainability standards, accreditation and certification sectors. It contains hundreds of in-depth reports, articles, webinars, expert interviews, sustainability news and events, and technical resources. The platform is intended to be a one-stop-shop for users to learn about our sector’s latest news and trends and liaise with other like-minded experts working in credible standards. The platform serves two main customer groups with different access levels: (1) ISEAL members and (2) subscribers who have a more limited access to resources. ISEAL’s current community platform is built on Drupal 6; additionally, ISEAL uses Salesforce as its CRM system, which is currently not integrated. Platform development objectives In December 2019, on behalf of ISEAL, independent consultants conducted interviews with a representation of the platform users – including ISEAL staff, members and subscribers. Although most users expressed basic satisfaction with the website, they also fed back a number of key challenges. These have informed the following objectives for the new online community platform: Interactive and more engaging website / learning management platform Platform design to include an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, which allows different user groups (e.g., platform administrators, ISEAL staff, full members, subscribers) to complete tasks easily and quickly. More specifically the platform should: ensure information from various knowledge resources is complete, relevant to the user’s query, accessible and up to date include intuitive features that allow exposure to additional content that may be of interest visually clarify and improve the accessibility of the site’s resources (e.g., blog posts, reports, guidance documents and frameworks, archived webinars) have improved navigation and allow for personalised content provide opportunities for curated learning, peer-to-peer interaction and knowledge sharing (e.g., introduction of online forums and other community spaces, online course offerings, etc.).   Flexible, easily maintained solution The contractor should build the platform according to proven and accepted website development standards, whilst maintaining flexibility so the site can expand and new functionalities can be included over time at minimal cost. Solutions should be easy to maintain for ISEAL’s administrators and non-technical content creators, allowing ISEAL to streamline its business operations and increase productivity. Current systems used by ISEAL where greater integration with the community site is desirable include Salesforce and Mailchimp. In addition, the community platform should be able to reference resources currently hosted on its public site. ISEAL has been reviewing the information architecture of its public website, which is hosted on Drupal 8, focusing on an updated taxonomy for resource metadata. This taxonomy can serve as a model for resources referenced or stored on the community platform.   Scope of work ISEAL intends the new online community platform to be more modern, including the pages, database of resources and associated tools. In addition, ISEAL intends to expand the platform’s functionality (including tools for community engagement and built-in analytics) and wishes to enhance the user experience and opportunities for knowledge exchange of its existing user member Working Groups and Communities of Practice. ISEAL is seeking a technology contractor to design and implement, as well as to provide strategic recommendations for ISEAL in-house maintenance of the platform’s technology components and for optimal, ongoing operation of the platform. Collaborative effort: The design of the online community platform will be developed through a cooperation between ISEAL and the technical contractor and will be facilitated by a project manager employed by the contractor. Initial design guidelines and client engagement approach: The contractor should employ a data-driven design process to gather comprehensive information for online community platform development. The techniques should include succinct summaries of the best practices of usability and user experience and the proposal should indicate or outline how and when they intend to engage with ISEAL. The technical contractor should review the user surveys and questionnaires conducted in December 2019 and conduct auxiliary interviews with ISEAL staff to validate the December 2019 survey and absorb and gather any additional information about the level of satisfaction, most frequent tasks and users’ potential goals. Accessibility validation - the technical contractor should analyse the site’s current accessibility and establish recommendations for the design (validating or expanding on any existing recommendations developed by the independent consultants in December 2019). Site analytics - the technical contractor should use historical site analytics and information useful to the platform’s development. Recommended navigation and layout should undergo early usability testing. Key findings report (ppt format) that can also communicate data-migration strategy or different options as well as Salesforce integration functionalities.   Strategy for in-house maintenance of the platform : This should include estimates of the amount of time that will be needed for ISEAL to maintain the site, taking into consideration that non-technical ISEAL staff must be able to update and use the site. It will also need to be easy to train new staff to use the site. Timeline ISEAL envisages an iterative project delivery approach with clearly marked milestones, with delivery of a pilot-ready platform by early June 2020 and the platform ready for public launch by early August. Applicants should outline the timeline and steps needed to deliver the platform’s key objectives and scope of work. Budget The project budget for the online community platform development services is £30,000 GBP. Based upon the responses to the RFP received and other considerations, ISEAL may modify the scope of work to best meet the RFP objectives and proposed budget allocation. Selection criteria and qualifications ISEAL will evaluate respondents based on the following criteria: Availability to start once the contract is signed, expected to be early March 2020, and evidence of ability to deliver on deadline Demonstrated knowledge and experience of developing, customising or otherwise implementing or working with online community platforms, creating / fostering community engagement and successful implementation of learning management systems Specific experience in e-learning integration and skilled user design Evidence of technical capability as shown by previous work Demonstrate successful, completed technology projects Strength of the respondent’s proposal (see below) Proposal is within budget.   Successful respondents will be able to demonstrate experience and expertise in the following areas:   Technical – Development of online communities; e-learning integration; developing searchable online document repositories; user profiles and enhanced communication functions; attractive web design creation of interactive mapping features; relative ease of use of other attractive, interactive visual representation of data and documents; integrating online platforms with those of third parties (e.g., ISEAL’s CRM system Salesforce—which hosts ISEAL’s compliance portal); approach to data and content migration; a simple and intuitive interface; and consideration of how best to reference our existing database of technical resources which is on our public site. ISEAL would like to see an emphasis on user-centred design. Working Practices - Creating compelling, imaginative yet highly practical user interfaces; identifying cost-effective and practical solutions within the limited budget of a small not-for-profit; flagging major decision points and offering practical, creative ideas and options when required; good communication skills, framing technical issues in everyday language; excellent quality assurance systems for testing solutions and fixes before they are moved onto the live site and accountability if fixes/solutions are flawed. Post meeting reports or notes should also be written in plain English. Although not required, ISEAL would favour a technology contractor with a history of working with non-profit and sustainability organisations. Remote Engagement and Collaboration - ISEAL’s offices are in London. International applicants are welcome to apply, but ISEAL is unable to provide any travel expenses to the contractor as part of this project. Applicants should include interviews with ISEAL staff, including remote engagement where face-to-face meetings are not possible, as part of their proposed methodology. Proposal requirements Please submit a proposal that includes: Approach or work plan - Proposals should include a draft methodology or work plan (how the contractor will conduct detailed requirements gathering and analysis, including, for example, user/audience segmentation analysis, story boarding, and other activities relevant to the design and launch of the platform; design, technical build and support approach for a more engaging, interactive front-end and an expandable back-end with appropriate integrations and data migration elements. Strategic recommendations for the platform’s launch and ISEAL in-house maintenance. The work plan should support on-time delivery with clear windows and deadlines for the contributions required from ISEAL staff. Proposed project budget - As stated, ISEAL’s estimated project budget is £30,000. Please provide an itemised budget (table / spreadsheet) with justification notes for costs associated with the scope of work and/or a description of your fee schedule. Bios and capability statement - Proposals should also include bios of staff committed to working on the project as well as a capability statement describing past performance of similar projects, with links to completed projects. If the prospective contractor is familiar with Salesforce, this should be highlighted. Proposals should include at least references of former clients who could be contacted and are encouraged to provide links to and/or screen shots of completed project websites that demonstrate their capabilities for attractive and functional design. As stated, ISEAL expects to start this project immediately after the contract has been signed, expected in early March 2020. Short listed candidates may be contacted for an interview as part of the selection process. ISEAL reserves the right not to accept any proposal submitted.