Senior Adviser – Charity Resilience Lead
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Job title: Senior Adviser – Charity Resilience Lead
Reference: AC122
Contract: Permanent, full time, 35 hours per week
Location: London based with hybrid working (min 2 days per week in the office)
Salary: Up to £64,000 per annum (depending on experience)
We’re looking for a talented Senior Adviser – Charity Resilience Lead to join our Impact Accelerator team at Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).
What you’ll do
At CAF, we are focused on supporting charities to build their resilience and as our Senior Adviser – Charity Resilience Lead you too will play an integral part in what we do.
As our Senior Adviser – Charity Resilience Lead you will:
- Lead CAF's strategic consultancy work with charities focused on capacity building and resilience, overseeing day-to-day management of client work including project and resource management as well as delivery.
- Responsible for designing and coordinating effective multi-year resilience programmes, continually evolving our resilience practice through evidence.
- Alongside two other Senior Advisers, responsible for driving growth and innovation in CAF’s advisory offering, ensuring it remains sustainable and relevant in an ever-changing world and aligned with client needs. You will set the strategy for our advisory offering, delivering on objectives and income targets.
- Line manage and upskill team of advisers as well as share your expertise with internal stakeholders.
- Act as a reference and ambassador/thought leader on charity resilience engaging with internal and external stakeholders and networks where relevant.
Who you’ll be
This role is for you if you have deep experience in the charity sector, fundraising consultancy, programme design and/or funder plus/technical assistance programmes or have relevant transferable skills and are keen to drive impact for charities. We are looking for:
- Leadership skills and ability to nurture talent
- Strong analytical skills and strategic vision.
- Ability to influence and negotiate with demanding clients, understanding the challenges faced by charity clients and comfortable engaging at board level.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Ability to facilitate workshops and guide strategic discussions.
- Expertise in capacity building/ funder plus programme design and delivery.
- Strong expertise and ability to provide strategic advice in one or numerous areas that can bolster charity resilience: strategy, fundraising/income diversification, governance, impact evaluation, operations.
What’s in it for you
At CAF you will receive:
- Permanent hybrid ways of working where roles allow
- Six weeks holiday plus bank holidays
- Private health insurance
- A wide range of development opportunities to support personal and professional growth
- Pension scheme with better-than-market employer contribution options
- Social impact benefit schemes
For all our employer benefits and to gain an insight into our culture and values, please visit cafonline.org/careers.
Who we are
At Charities Aid Foundation we accelerate social progress by providing essential connections between donors, charities and communities.
We safeguard and deliver vital donations, offer expert advisory services and financial products to donors and charities and provide tailored charity banking through our award-winning bank CAF Bank.
Our purpose is to enable a better landscape for giving and a fair and sustainable future for all.
Diversity and inclusion
We know that the more diverse and inclusive our organisation becomes, the more creative, effective and impactful we will be. Our aim is for our workforce to represent the society we serve, and we have embarked upon an ambitious pathway to achieve this.
We want to attract, retain and develop the best of talent at all levels, and provide a leading and great place to work, where every voice matters.
How to apply
The closing date for applications is Sunday 26 October 2025.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Please complete the form below, attach your CV and Cover letter, then click ‘Submit Application’ if applying via our website or send your CV to recruitment@cafonline.org quoting reference number AC122.
We welcome applications from everyone who feels they meet the criteria, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital, veteran or parental status.
Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee to interview disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please indicate on the application form if you would like to be considered as part of the Disability Confident Scheme.
To apply for this role you must be able to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK.
So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment team at recruitment@cafonline.org or 03000 123 566 to request assistance or reasonable adjustments.
Job Reference: AC122
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