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As the High Value Fundraising Coordinator, you will play a crucial role in supporting our high value fundraising activities across the Philanthropy, Corporate, and Community teams. Your focus will primarily be on supporting the Philanthropy team, ensuring seamless administrative processes and enabling our fundraising efforts to thrive.
Key responsibilities include:
- Administrative Support: Provide essential administrative and office management assistance to the Philanthropy team. This includes tasks like booking travel, processing invoices, and leading monthly expense reconciliation.
- Director Support: Be the right hand to our Director of Philanthropy, managing their diary, organising meetings, and handling travel arrangements.
- Donor Records Management: Maintain accurate and up-to-date donor records on our CRM system, meticulously tracking attachments, meeting notes, and research information.
- Gift Administration: Take the lead on gift administration, managing the donation log, income batching, and monthly reconciliation. Be the primary point of contact for gift-related inquiries.
- Philanthropic Reporting and Fundraising Support: Collaborate with the fundraising team to ensure accurate reporting on philanthropic income. Promptly thank donors and assist with fundraising activities.
Working arrangements
This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London Office (NW1 7AW).
At the BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average.
The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
Please note that we are unlikely to be able to sponsor applicants in respect of this role due to the role not meeting the minimum salary criteria to be eligible for sponsorship.
About you
To excel in this role, you will need:
- Exceptional Communication Skills: The ability to convey ideas clearly and effectively.
- Experienced Administrator: A proven track record in providing senior-level support and coordinating activities within fast-paced teams.
- Financial Acumen: A solid understanding of budgets and financial processes, coupled with experience in finance systems.
- Proactive & Agile: Someone who can anticipate needs, adapt to changing circumstances, and implement efficiency measures.
- Team Player: Effective collaboration with others, resilience under pressure, and strong organisational skills.
- Tech-Savvy: Proficiency in CRM systems and strong computer skills particularly with MS Office.
What can we offer you?
Please find details of our excellent benefits package here.
About us
We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.
Interview process
The interview process will be two stages, with the first stage held virtually over Microsoft Teams.
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We are recruiting for a Fundraising Assistant who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients
We are an ambitious Hospital charity with an exciting opportunity to join us on our team as a Fundraising Assistant, initially on a three month contract with potential to extend.
We currently raise between £1-2m a year for East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust which has four sites local to Hertfordshire, including the Lister Hospital (Stevenage) and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (North London). We are proud to raise funds to enhance the care provided by our wonderful clinical colleagues and to contribute to a positive patient experience. We also support a number of wellbeing initiatives to support our staff. Working for the NHS offers a fantastic benefits package, including a generous pension, agenda for change pay progression, 27 days leave plus bank holidays and flexible working.
About you
Ideally you will already have experience in an administration or customer service role and looking to start a career in fundraising. You will be looking for 20-37.5 hours a week and can work flexibly including some evenings and weekends to support at fundraising events.
Main duties of the job
- Provide support to the department on a range of administrative tasks including, dealing with enquiries (postal, telephone, email, face to face), opening and sorting post.
- Work to build excellent relationships with donors to provide a high standard of customer care.
- Process one-off and regular donations ensuring procedures are followed and information is recorded correctly onto the database and thank you letters are sent.
- Work with cancer centre volunteers to support the team with administration tasks.
- To undertake specific fundraising projects and attend events as necessary or as required to support the department’s fundraising.
- To assist the fundraisers with administration of staff lottery, raffles and prize led promotion and fundraising as required.
- Support all fundraising activity and represent the charity at internal and external events.
- Manage ‘Gift in Kind’ donations and our ‘Gift in Kind’ Campaigns.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
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