Development Manager – Northern Ireland

Development Manager – Northern Ireland

Location: Remote, UK. Some travel required within the region.

Salary: £32,136 pa

Hours: 35 per week

Contract type: Permanent

Application deadline: 3rd April 26

Interview Dates: w/c 13th April 26

About RNID

RNID has been helping people with hearing loss for more than 100 years, and we’ve changed the lives of millions. We support organisations to become more confident working with people who are deaf and have hearing loss or tinnitus. Our online hearing check has now been taken by over 100,000 people and we campaign to challenge the discrimination faced by our communities in society.

We are externally focused, curious, evidence-based, deliberate, agile, and future orientated.  Our values are at the heart of what we do. 

We strive to be and continue to be connected to our communities, insightful and confident in what we do and who we are, curious in everything we do and passionate about our purpose. 

Join our team

Community Volunteering

RNID is a digital first, remote-working charity, providing information and support through our fully accessible contact center and our ever-improving website. We recruit and deploy Community Volunteers across the UK to be ambassadors for RNID and bring a face-to-face approach to communities.

RNID Near You

RNID Near You is our national community-based service. People can get support in their local community from trained volunteers who can offer:

• A hearing check and information on how to book a full hearing test.
• basic hearing aid repairs, cleaning, and advice on using hearing aids.
• information on hearing aids, hearing loss, tinnitus, and related issues.
• emotional and practical peer support from people with lived experience.

The Development Manager will focus and lead on:

• Identifying opportunities to grow our reach through the rollout of RNID Near You services.
• Recruiting, supporting, and retaining volunteers across the region.
• Representing RNID in your locality through active engagement with communities and local partnerships.

You will be responsible for:

• Recruiting and managing Community Volunteers to represent RNID in your region.
• Networking and prospecting to help open doors to opportunities in order to grow our services.
• Recruiting volunteers for the RNID Near You service.

You will:

• Identify local opportunities for development, improve the scope of our work and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders.
• Develop partnerships with the aim of business development.
• Collaborate and input on service development.
• Support the Head of Operations in the implementation of the strategy of growth.
• Work closely with the Head of Operations in producing reports and presenting at key meetings when required.
• Work flexibly across a digital organization without limits to geography.

You:

Have experience of recruiting and working with volunteers. You have a thorough understanding of community engagement and how it fits to benefit the organisation. You keep up to date with funding opportunities and developments within National Health commissioning. You are able to develop and maintain professional relationships with stakeholders. You have a solution focused attitude to our challenges, and you select the appropriate methods to advance our strategy. You are responsible and take initiative for your own personal development. 

Qualifications 

• Essential formal qualifications and accreditations

What we can offer you  

• Your benefits include:
• 28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays
• Plus 2 wellbeing days for extra flexibility
• Sickness benefit entitlement from day 1
• Fully remote working with no core hours
• £26 remote working allowance every month
• In person whole staff conferences throughout the year
• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
• Employee assistance programme that provides counselling sessions 
• Additional benefits for maternity, paternity and adoption
• Hospital Saturday Fund health benefit
• Access to an event ticketing platform

Our commitment to diversity 

We are committed to supporting our staff including making reasonable adjustments.  If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform us so we can discuss the options with you. 

Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It has replaced the previous Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme that you may have heard of.

RNID is proud to be a member of Disability Confident and as a Disability Confident Leader we recognise the value disabled people bring to RNID. We offer interviews to any candidate that tells us they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role.