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Job applications are invited for any of the vacancies listed here. From time to time we also have positions for interns and volunteers. Our offices are near Kentish Town tube station in London.
The Family and Parenting Institute is the UK's leading centre of expertise in families and parenting. We carry out research, listen to what parents want and deliver messages from research to people working with families. We advocate policy changes to help parents address challenges successfully as they raise children.
We offer generous holidays and a contributory pension scheme. We are committed to equal opportunities and operate a no smoking policy.

To apply for any of our jobs please fill in our

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Current vacancies

Fundraising Officer (fixed term contract - maternity cover)
Full-time, £25 - 27,000 pa,

This is an exciting opportunity to join our small, friendly Fundraising Department. We are growing in size as our work develops into new areas.

You will be an all round fundraiser, a persuasive advocate for families and have an eye for detail, enabling all sections of the organisation, Research, Policy, Communications and Business Development to secure new support from trusts, foundations, companies, individuals and other fundraising initiatives. You will have some relevant experience and lots of enthusiasm.
Versatile and thoughtful, you will be able to help with the many demands that arise in the life of a busy organisation. This role is all about communication, so your skills and abilities will be of the highest level.
You will be confident and inspire confidence.
You will have excellent planning skills, lots of initiative, diplomacy and determination.
You will need good IT and administrative skills.
In return we will invest in your career by offering you ongoing support and training, a real chance to project manage areas of work and to see how research, policy and practice come together to make a difference for families.

If you are interested in applying, please request an information pack from Matt Evans, Family and Parenting Institute, 430 Highgate Studios, 53-79 Highgate Road, London NW5 1TL, e-mail: info@familyandparenting.org (please no telephone calls).

Closing date: 12.00pm Monday 31 March 2008
Interviews: Monday 7 April 2008

A full information pack can also be obtained by downloading the following documents:

Covering Letter 
Job Description & Personal Specification 

National Academy for Parenting Practitioners

Change the world step one

If we want to change the world then how our children grow up is a massively important place to make a start. The role of parents is critical to that, and our changing society and its changing demands on parents removes old certainties, leaving many with a real appetite for expert support from those they trust. There is a wide range of professional practitioners who work with parents who can support them in their parenting role, and getting thebest from that practitioner talent is essential.

The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners has been established, through a dynamic partnership between the Family and Parenting Institute, King's College London and Parenting UK, to ensure that high quality research about what is proven to work is communicated and augmented by new work. Turning all that research into action on the ground is fundamental to our role, and we exist to ensure that the work of parenting practitioners is supported through specialist training, through their own professional bodies' training and their individual professional development.

Principal Trainer
£300 per day

On behalf of the National Academy for Parenting Practitioner, Parenting UK is seeking to recruit a number of Principal trainers with extensive experience of parenting support. Candidates should have a broad based knowledge of curriculum relevant to work with parents, including knowledge of evidence based programmes. This is an exciting opportunity for skilled and experienced trainers to join an existing cohort of Academy trainers. Principal Trainers will work with co-trainers and will be self-motivated, skilled and able to commit to delivering the 27 day training course for trainers of practitioners.

Please click here for application details.