Role Description In this role of Head of Mass Fundraising, you will be strategically responsible for setting and managing Action for Children’s mass-fundraising portfolio through the leadership of an ambitious, insight-led Mass Fundraising Team. You will drive significant and sustainable income growth from the public, including across: - Individual Giving - Legacy Giving - Consumer PR - Celebrity Partnerships - Integrated Campaigns and Products How you'll help to create brighter futures: - Lead and manage a high-performing team working across multiple disciplines. - Develop and spearhead a multi-faceted mass-fundraising strategy, containing outstanding products and campaign moments that deliver significant sustainable income growth. - Drive the delivery of significant income growth from individuals via Cash Appeals, Regular Giving, Campaigns and Legacy fundraising. - Lead eye-catching, fundraising-focused Consumer PR and Celebrity activity as a key income-growth lever. - Provide clear prioritisation, strategic direction and performance-focused leadership across the mass fundraising portfolio by setting stretch income targets, performance metrics, priorities and KPIs. - Champion charity-wide collaboration, and influencing at senior level, to ensure mass fundraising is embedded across the organisation. - Contribute to wider commercial planning and governance, preparing high-quality business cases, strategic plans, and performance reports for senior stakeholders. Qualifications - Proven experience of leading large-scale mass fundraising programmes in a complex organisation. - Established history of delivering significant income from the public through large-scale, integrated fundraising campaigns. - Demonstrable experience of setting strategic direction and leading teams through audience-led delivery. - Considerable experience leading and developing high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams. - Strong commercial and financial acumen. - Excellent creative nous and vision. - Experience of working cross-organisationally, using persuasive communication, judgement and influencing skills. Benefits - 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service, and the option to buy or sell leave. - Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities. - Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages. - Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover. - Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with discounts across 15,000 national retailers. Diversity, equality, and inclusion At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates, as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children. Closing Date Thursday 11th June 2026 at 23.59pm Contact Email us at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13167. Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

• Build and lead a team of ~4 engineers in Austin • Manage the overseas security, devops, and production support teams • Be ready to dig into the codebase, unblock engineers, and ship code yourself • Own architecture decisions across Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, and open source CRM • Drive high-volume ACH processing reliability, virtual account ledgering, reconciliation integrity, and NACHA/SOC 2 compliance • Build CI/CD pipelines and self-serve deployment workflows • Establish TDD, peer review, and modern engineering standards from day one • Lead by example with AI coding tools • Represent engineering in customer and sales conversations • Earn the trust of senior engineers by reading, challenging, and reviewing production code credibly • Operate with seriousness about reliability

Role Description The Manager of Partnership Development leads and supports efforts of scaling and expansion of OnRamps through effective partnership and engagement with K12, higher education, and agency outreach and implementation of development strategy in close collaboration with the Director and Executive Director. - Develops, manages, and evaluates identified strategies and practices as the primary client relationship manager for potential, new, and existing partnerships. - Increases and supports the implementation and success of OnRamps through regional partnership management. - Manages and evaluates targets and strategy for accomplishing acquisition, retention, growth, and outcome targets for partnerships. - Maintains documentation of targets, activities, and outcomes, and provides regular reports of progress. - Creates forms, tools, and guidelines to capture required documentation and streamline communication. - Represents the organization at professional meetings and conferences. - Applies market trends to identify opportunities to incorporate trends and shape strategies. - Mentors, coaches, and trains assigned staff to calibrate on departmental expectations. - Analyzes data, evaluates, and documents outcomes through recurrent issue tracking and reporting. - Utilizes data to make recommendations and applies continuous improvement principles. - Documents and monitors caseload and effective communications with new and existing partners using identified Client Relationship Management (CRM) systems. - Leads and engages in communication to support partner growth, success, and sustainability. Qualifications - Master’s degree in education, higher education, policy, or closely related field. - Seven or more years of leadership experience in K12 or higher education environments. - Experience in scaled partnership development and outreach in K12 or higher education environments. - Demonstrated success in leadership of a team. - Experience in Texas districts. - Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate. Preferred Qualifications - Doctoral degree in education, higher education, or closely related field. - Ten or more years of leadership experience in K12 and higher education environments. - Demonstrated success in leadership of a team. - 7+ years experience in teaching and leadership roles within a Texas school district or institution of higher education. Salary $80,000 + depending on qualifications Working Conditions - Eligible for fully remote work in Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, or San Antonio metro area. - May work around standard office conditions. - Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation. - Shared desk environment. - Hybrid work environment. - Climbing of stairs. - Use of manual dexterity. Required Materials - Resume/CV - 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor. - Letter of interest. Employment Eligibility Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval. Retirement Plan Eligibility The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) instead of TRS, subject to the position being 40 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. Background Checks A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position. Equal Opportunity Employer The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. Pay Transparency The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Employment Eligibility Verification If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. E-Verify The University of Texas at Austin uses E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. Compliance Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act).

Role Description We’re looking for a Director, Software Development to lead Engineering for Lightspeed Payments, a key department within Financial Services that has grown 3x in the past couple of years. You will also be a key leader in the Payments group working with cross-functional leaders & their teams; ensuring alignment of goals across the organization. You will be leading & working closely with a group of talented Engineering Managers, Software Developers; provide clear direction around where the organization must be heading & ensure the teams are delivering quality outcomes. In addition, you will make sure we are growing a diverse, happy and high-performing organization. For this role, you can be located in Canada/USA, and able to work within EST/EDT hours. We offer a choice of fully remote, partially remote or fully office-based work environments (in cities with local offices). What you’ll be doing: - Strategic Execution & Delivery - Navigate ambiguity, bring structure to complex challenges, and drive alignment across teams. - Work cross-functionally to bring clarity to priorities and define what needs to be done to drive success. - Operate closely with the team, wearing multiple hats to ensure critical projects are executed successfully. - Own the delivery, collaborating closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to achieve meaningful outcomes. - People Leadership & Team Development - Act as a people leader, mentoring and developing engineers into future leaders. - Hire and grow a high-performing team, ensuring strong technical and leadership talent. - Set high standards and elevate the team through coaching, feedback, and hands-on support. - Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence within and beyond the team. - Extend expertise and influence beyond Payments into the broader Financial Services organization & the Services vertical. - Communication & Influence - Ensure clear and concise messaging across stakeholders, particularly around the goals, objectives and priorities. - Work cross-functionally with business teams to align on technical and product strategy. - Influence and drive decision-making across teams, advocating for best practices in engineering and business execution. - Technical Leadership & Architecture - Architect and scale business systems with a strong understanding of various paradigms, including event-driven systems. - Evaluate and guide technical architecture decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency. - Developing a deep understanding of existing systems, guide the teams to continuously evolve their systems/architecture/patterns. - Drive continuous delivery of value, ensuring high availability and operational excellence. - Develop quick prototypes to validate ideas or assist with technical spikes. Qualifications - Deep knowledge and understanding of software engineering principles, technologies and best practices. - Strong software development background with a history of being an engineer & expertise in multiple mainstream technology stacks (Node, JVM, .NET, etc). - Expertise in software architecture & design of scalable, maintainable & resilient systems that run on the cloud across regions. - Expertise in modern software delivery practices (continuous delivery, lean practices, etc). - Operational Excellence Mindset: Experience running & managing operations of business critical systems on the cloud. - People management: experience in hiring, performance management, and growth. - Experience leading other leaders in a software engineering organization. - Experience working with cross-functional leaders as one unit & setting organizational goals and objectives. - Experience owning technology/product for a clear line of business or a complete product. - Experience working in product engineering and/or SaaS software delivery is a plus. - The hunger to learn across the core areas of your domain, to synthesize insights from your learnings and to leverage those insights in your team. - Highly collaborative and effective team member. Benefits - Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture. - Join a fast-paced, high-growth company. - Work on systems that handle billions of dollars in transactions for our merchants globally. - Surround yourself with strong talent and enjoy continuous professional growth. - Develop in a modern and proven technology stack. - Great benefits and perks, including equity and flexible/hybrid remote work options, in a diverse and inclusive environment. - Development of very high traffic products, used at the global scale. - Opportunities to learn and expand your skill set. - Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family. - Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners). - Flexible paid time off policy. - Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year. - Paid leave and assistance for new parents. - Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services. - Volunteer day.