Permanent PAYE c.22.5 days per week
Flexible hours and hybrid working
From £16 per hour depending on experience
Could your creativity, relationship building and team management skills make a real difference to local children and young people?
Mentoring Plus is an award-winning community charity supporting children and young people across Bath & NE Somerset who are struggling with education, family difficulties or emotional wellbeing. Our vision is a world where all young people feel safe, feel heard and feel hopeful for their future.
Our charitably funded work provides trained volunteer mentors and skills-building group activities to help young people feel happier, stay safe, engage with education and reduce risk-taking behaviour.
Young people choose to engage with mentoring even when all other interventions fail. Since 1998 we’ve enabled our community volunteers to support over 2,000 children and young people to feel more confident, improve their wellbeing and pursue positive new interests and pathways.
We’ve held a local authority commission for early help volunteer mentoring since 2005. We’re building a professional mentoring practice to support higher-need young people, and in 2018 won a second commission to support students at risk of school exclusion, renewed in 2025. We also provide open-access youth clubs 2 nights per week.
Why we need your skills
Mentoring Plus currently raises about half its income through charitable sources, and with demand at an all-time high, we’re ambitious to deliver more support.
The charity has a strong record of winning funds from grants and trusts and community sources, and maintains comprehensive impact data, assets and information resources to share with funders.
We’re now looking for an energetic fundraising professional keen to help shape our future by taking our fundraising forward, planning and implementing effective events and campaigns supported by persuasive communications across all channels.
You’ll be at the heart of a small, friendly and committed team and working to maintain and build charitable income from all sources. This role needs your creativity, knowhow, planning skills, networking and team co-operation to really make a difference to young people in our region.
With support from the whole team and leadership group, you’ll apply your relevant skills, experience and management strengths to planning and implementing an agreed strategy across all funding sources, taking personal responsibility for fundraising from individuals and businesses.
You’ll help build and maintain relationships with key donors, representing our work and ensuring young people are heard. You’ll ensure we’re accountable for our impact with effective impact reporting and evaluation. You’ll help shape a multi-channel communications strategy in the best interests of our beneficiaries. And you’ll support the implementation of new and developing earned income streams in support of our work
We’re supported by a skilled Trustee board offering practical help, advice and scrutiny, and our working environment is fully committed to flexibility and personal development, including appropriate training and wellbeing support.
Our working environment is fully committed to flexibility and personal support, including regular reflective practice supervision. We aim to develop staff, giving them scope to build skills and influence decision-making.
You’ll need to be in our Bath office (which has free parking) regularly but can work from home in between. Your hours can be worked flexibly by agreement e.g. long / short days, different school holiday hours etc.
If you fit this bill and want to make a real difference to young people struggling with tough challenges, we’d love to hear from you. Please download this job description and person specification.
We operate Safer Recruitment guidelines for all staff so we’ll then need you to complete and return this application form (submission details are included in the form).
Application deadline: 10am Mon 22nd Sept 2025
Interviews planned in the week following
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process to determine how well you meet the criteria in the role profile. Please be sure to make this explicit and do not assume we can infer this information e.g. from a previous job title or similar. We cannot accept a CV or an application in another format.