If you’re here looking for an exciting support position with a progressive social enterprise, you’re in the right place…

ABOUT US

Our vision at Noisy Cricket is to proliferate reciprocally nurturing systems. This means shifting away from unjust & oppressive systems and modelling equitable, inclusive & sustainable ways of being. 

We do this through our mission of bringing together diverse groups – including people from traditionally marginalised & disadvantaged communities plus individuals from cross-sector organisations – to co-create transformative and innovative social possibilities. 

In the coming three years, we’re working to advance our systemic approach, leveraging our expertise in both community engagement and organisational transformation. We’re also looking to scale up our social enterprise, continuing our agency work with clients across funders, charities, government and academia. 

However, it’s our venture activity around homeless employment and responsible technology that holds the greatest promise for both social impact and commercial sustainability.

Therefore, accessing funding and sponsorship to underpin the discovery and alpha phases of HI Future and the Responsible Tech Collective will be key to our growth. Fancy playing your part in pioneering human approaches to employment and bringing home the humanity to tech? 

ABOUT YOU

Your Brief

To enable Noisy Cricket to progress its work, we require both bid writing and partnership-building support to:

• Provide a steady source of grant funding or partnership funding activity to;
• Enable the initiation or continuation of HI Future and Responsible Tech Collective venture activity OR underpin the costs of further developing Noisy Cricket’s community engagement expertise or exploration of transformation journeys.
• Bring funding opportunities, bid writing expertise, funder and corporate networks plus partnership-building experience to;
• Free up Noisy Cricket’s capacity for strategy, design, facilitation and campaign plus continue to develop insights around funding systems changing projects and ventures

OUR NEEDS

Your Roles & Responsibilities

For both the bid writer and the partnership builder, the role requires:

• Systems change and co-creation understanding
• Responsible technology (Responsible Tech Collective) and poverty & homelessness (HI Future) insights 
• A successful track record in medium to large bid writing across innovation, academic and grant funders or a portfolio of sustained partnerships built across business, government and philanthropic organisations
• Narrative building and networking experience

Both the bid writer and partnership builder will be required to work alongside each other plus Noisy Cricket’s strategic and commercial director on the following:

Bid Writer Responsibilities	Partnership Builder Responsibilities
Monthly Funding Opportunities Opportunity Sourcing plus List Development & Refinement (e.g. List)m Opportunity Prioritisation (e.g. Assessment Matrix) and Fund & Partnership Planning
Ongoing Narrative Shaping Narrative Tools & Resources Creation (e.g. Planning Framework), Funding Library Creation (e.g. Responsible Tech Collective) and Narrative Development & Refinement
Ad Hoc Bid Writing & Submission Bid Writing, Bid Editing and Bid Submission	Proposal Writing & Pitching Proposal Writing, Proposal Presentations and Bid Editing Support

At the outset, we’ll clarify our shared purpose, roles and goals, plus any hopes and fears we have as a team, and preferred ways of working. We anticipate there’ll be at least one monthly meeting, with regular asynchronous communication as we build shared resources and narratives to improve our performance over time. 

We’re looking to bring in a minimum of £250,000 in funding and partnerships annually, to underpin the costs of strategy, design, facilitation and campaigning plus development and hosting costs for technology.

OUR OFFER

Your Remuneration

Starting with a six-month contract to determine alignment around collectively agreed outcomes and outputs, with the potential to continue the relationship and build expertise and momentum over time. 

As a result, we’re offering the following: 

• Bid Writer | £12,000 @ Approx 4 Days Monthly / Minimum 4 x Bids Total (Oct 23 – Mar 24)
• Partnership Builder | £9,000 @ Approx 1.5 Days Monthly / Minimum 4 x Relationships Total (Oct 23 – Mar 24)

We’re open-minded about the nature of the relationship, so this can be a straightforward contract, a retainer relationship or if you have something else in mind, we’d love to hear it. It’s unlikely we’d employ someone in a permanent position until we’ve better evaluated the impact of the role on Noisy Cricket’s work.

Our Ways of Working

We work collaboratively at Noisy Cricket – hierarchies aren’t conducive to co-creation – and flexible working is the norm. so you’ll be free to self-organise your work alongside the Noisy Cricket team. We reflect on performance and growth as a team too, so reviews and retros will become a regular part of your life. 

We also have long grass Fridays, where we go offline for the day and work on personal learning and professional development plus Noisy Cricket projects. That means working days are Monday to Thursday only.

At Noisy Cricket, we’re all about active listening, courageously caring and being ambitiously hopeful, so if you’re curious and self-reflective, willing to challenge the status quo and dream big, you’ll be right at home. 

Given our work to bring together diverse groups of people, making sure we’re inclusive and keeping vulnerable adults safe is essential, so both safeguarding and diversity are core to our policies and procedures. 

Our work in these areas is an open conversation and constantly evolving, however, so we’re keen for people who are willing to continuously learn, grow and play a part in how we shape our practices, processes and policies, both internally and externally to the organisation.

YOUR APPLICATION

Stage 1: Expressions of Interest

Simply let us know that you’re keen to play a part in Noisy Cricket’s future and why by filling in this expression of interest form here by Friday 8th September.

Stage 2: Pitch & Experience

We’d love you to send across your CV, portfolio or comprehensive LinkedIn profile so we can get an idea of your background, plus a case study or proposed approach to how you would approach bid writing or partnership building, and what success might look like. 

CV gaps, alternative work experiences or careers changes aren’t an issue here. We just want to get a feel of where you’re coming from. The case study or proposed approach can come from anywhere – personal or professional experiences – and simply needs to demonstrate why you’re a great fit for the position by Friday 22nd September.

Stage 3: Informal Conversation

This will be a simple chat to explore a little bit more about who you are, your values and what motivates you by Friday 29th September.