The Director of Strategic Programmes is a new, pivotal senior role in the OCF and holds responsibility to identify, develop, manage and assess the impact of a portfolio of OCF-led strategic community programmes. The role holder will convene a diverse partnership of relevant stakeholders from across Oxfordshire to develop collaborative solutions, propose detailed project plans for delivery of services. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, the role is instrumental to enable OCF to achieve its strategic objectives and move to the next stage of its development.  Find out more and apply

Our work would not be possible without the support of our wonderful, dedicated volunteers. We are currently recruiting for a Finance Trustee. Please see the information and job description below.

OCF is now looking for a trustee who, in addition to being a member of the Board, would also sit on the Finance, Investment & Risk Management Committee (FinComm). The Board of Trustees meets six times each year and the FinComm typically meets monthly. The candidate should have a rounded background in finance, whether in practice or in the financial sector, either in investment banking or fund management, or more broadly from roles within business. Ideally, he/she will be familiar with the overall scope and capabilities of the Sage accounting package and Excel workbooks. The candidate would work closely with the Chair of FinComm in overseeing the full range of responsibilities delegated to that committee. Download full job description

Volunteers also help us in the following capacities:

• Grants panellists
  Our grants are awarded by panels of independent, experienced volunteers. We are currently looking for people specialised in housing and homelessness, children and families or loneliness and isolation to join our panels.
• Grant assessors
  Our independent assessors measure grant applications according to standard criteria, and where necessary will visit a project before a grant is awarded, feeding information to our grants panels. We are currently looking for more assessors to help us with this work.
• Project managers
  Our Step Change Fund needs project managers to mentor gifted charity leaders through significant infrastructure projects that will strengthen the community sector. We are looking for senior businesspeople with experience of managing strategic change to take on these voluntary roles.
• Special projects
  We regularly carry out projects such as sector research, or evaluation of our own processes and impact. Volunteers are often instrumental in helping us carry out these projects. For example, each year we work with a team of volunteers from Oxford University’s Student Consultancy, who have helped us publish several research projects.
• Sub-committee members
  Our sub-committees include finance, community impact, and philanthropy and marketing panels, as well as a committee for our Reciprocate responsible business group. We would be interested to hear from people with these specialisms.

If you think you may have something to contribute, please do contact us.