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We’re your local mental health charity and here to support anyone with a mental health problem.

Weekly Activities

We offer a number of different activities for local residents to take part in.

Training

We offer a varied and dynamic range of training opportunities for organisations and businesses.

Current Vacancies

Do you want to be a part of an organisation that supports people with mental health issues?

Would you like to be a part of a dynamic team striving to break down barriers for those that need help and support, and want to be part of our mission to provide prevention, recovery, and support services in Hertfordshire to empower people to take control of their mental health?

If the answer to all of these is yes, we want to hear from you.

For all vacancies please send CV or email to: [email protected]

Business Administrator Vacancy

Position: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Folkestone

Salary: From £27k per annum

Overview: Would you like to be a part of a dynamic team striving to break down barriers for those that need help and support, and want to be part of our mission to provide prevention, recovery, and support services in South Kent to empower people to take control of their mental health?

If your answer to these questions is yes, we would like to hear from you.

The Business Administrator is a key member of our team, playing a crucial role in the smooth running of our office and the organisation more generally. You must be experienced, confident, enthusiastic, organised, and proactive, and must also be willing to get involved in every aspect of our charity’s work when necessary. Excellent communication and IT skills are also a must, as is an ability to build and maintain long-term collaborative relationships. The role is therefore varied, and you will be integral given the range of duties involved from front-desk support to supporting the office infrastructure and team more generally.

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Grants and Fundraising Lead Vacancy

Position: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Folkestone and surrounding area

Salary: From £35k per annum

Overview: Lead the development and successful rollout of South Kent Mind’s Fundraising and Engagement strategy, annual plans, generation income and key project work which aim to deliver significant net income growth and increase awareness by maximising local support.

This is a new post within the charity created in response to emerging demands and the implementation of South Kent Mind’s Strategy. We are seeking to appoint an experienced individual to deliver grant bid writing and also to take the lead on the development and implementation of fundraising initiatives to maximise and increase income. The successful post-holder will join and be an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team.

Managing a full-time Marketing and Fundraising Officer this post will support South Kent Mind’s trust and grant fundraising activity as an essential income stream for the charity, including managing and monitoring the bidding process to maximise the success rate of applications. The postholder will also monitor and undertake all reporting on funding to others both within and outside the organisation.

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Marketing and Fundraising Officer Vacancy

Position: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Folkestone and surrounding area

Salary: From £27k per annum

Overview: We are looking for an enthusiastic experienced fundraiser with strong digital and offline marketing skills to help us grow our fundraising income, and to promote our new and existing services.

South Kent Mind is a mental health charity, and our vision is for everyone in South Kent to have good mental wellbeing and to live their best life.

As a charity, we rely on fundraised income to run our range of mental wellbeing services, which provide support to people with mental health problems across South Kent. Whilst we already help many people each year through these, and other services, we want to do more to help more people.

In order to achieve this, we wish to increase our fundraising income through growing our existing fundraising steams, developing new fundraising events and programmes creating an annual flagship fundraising event, and seeking corporate funding support from local businesses. We also want to improve and grow our existing digital presence, to ensure more people know about our services, understand the value of the work we do, and therefore may go on to fundraise or volunteer for us.

We are offering with this post a 15 month Level 3 Fundraising Apprenticeship with the University of Kent. The postholder will be accountable to the Grants and Fundraising Lead.

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Volunteer Vacancies

We are always looking for volunteers who are crucial in supporting us to deliver our services every week.

Ambassadors

Days/times: Various

Location: Various throughout South Kent

Overview: South Kent Mind is looking for a group of keen volunteers to cover stands at events, to fundraise for us at events and in supermarkets and to generally help out with getting our name out into as much of the South Kent community as possible.

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Equality, diversity and inclusion at South Kent Mind

We are committed to promoting equal rights and opportunities, proactively tackling discrimination or disadvantage in all forms and creating an open and inclusive culture for our service users, staff, volunteers and trustees.

South Kent Mind 24-26 Dover Road, Folkestone, CT20 1JQ

Phone 01303 250090

Email [email protected]

Registered Charity no. 1089472

Company no. 04276323

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