ROLE: HHA Community Fundraising & Communications Manager

HOURS: Full Time 

SALARY: £25k-£30k (depending on experience)

LOCATION: Office and home based (remote working) is acceptable within this role. HHAs office is based at: 25 Coney Hill Road, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 9BU

Hope Health Action (HHA) is a Christian NGO passionate about providing life-saving health and disability care to the world’s most vulnerable without discrimination. We work tirelessly to provide health, disability and emergency relief in Haiti, Uganda and South Sudan; empowering local partners to provide dignified and accessible care to the most vulnerable. 

HHA started in 2007 when we co-founded a hospital in Haiti that has since become one of the leading health facilities in northern Haiti, home to a maternity and neonatal unit which cares for thousands of mothers and babies every year and one of Haiti’s leading spinal cord injury rehabilitation centres. In recent years we’ve also launched in East Africa providing emergency relief to the South Sudan refugee crisis, providing life-saving aid through emergency food rations, maternal health care and disability projects. We will soon open a major new disability centre in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda. We have exciting plans to scale up our work in the coming years and are looking for an ambitious Community Fundraising & Communications Manager to join the team and help us reach these goals.

The role

We are looking for a dynamic, creative and enthusiastic Community Fundraising and Communications Manager to work alongside our Fundraising and Partnerships Manager (FPM) to help develop and manage our fundraising strategy in the coming years, paying particular attention to building our supporter base, developing new partnerships and increasing income.  We are looking for a self-motivated and ambitious individual with a genuine passion for international development. 

You will have a unique and exciting opportunity to help HHA grow and make a real and tangible impact to our beneficiaries. This includes helping to raise important funds to support the development of our partner hospital in Haiti, alongside a growing range of health, disability and emergency programmes in South Sudan and Uganda.  As a small charity, you will have direct links to our field operations, including the opportunity to regularly visit our overseas programmes and have on-going opportunities for cross-departmental learning. We are a small but passionate, friendly and close-knit team where staff are encouraged to execute creative and new ideas, working together to support each other’s efforts.

This is a busy role that will cover a diverse range of our fundraising activities and require someone with the competence and experience to manage multiple aspects of our strategy. It would be desirable for someone to have previous experience working within a small organisation/charity to understand the dynamics between providing strategic development and handling the day-to-day operations. 

The person

HHA is looking for someone with the vision and energy to develop a clear 3 year fundraising & partnership development strategy with our FPM that will build upon existing strengths of HHA and develop new, innovative ideas in a professional and effective manner. This will require someone with adaptability, creativity and strong relationship building skills, working with our Finance Manager, Country Directors, CEO and Board of Trustees to design, implement and effectively monitor a strategy. You need to be comfortable working to clear annual plans, executing these against agreed financial targets set with the CEO and reporting back.

Comms:

We’re looking for someone to bring new, creative ideas around our communications and marketing, taking the lead with our programme team in identifying strong stories, engaging news/content for our digital and print communication, including our website, emails, newsletters and social media channels, our twice annual newsletter and materials to support campaigns and events. In order for HHA to grow and fulfil our ambitious vision, inspiring and creating a strategy to engage new supporters will be a central objective for this role. 

Community Fundraising:

You’ll work with our FPM on planning and managing a range of annual events in the HHA calendar, from challenge events to galas, from concept to delivery with budget management in between. You’ll also get involved in building and empowering a volunteer team who can help implement the fundraising strategy and help oversee the diversity of activities like our schools and church fundraising activities. With support from our FPM, CEO and design agency, you’ll manage a range of dedicated campaigns and appeals with the support of our in-country team members to deliver growth across HHA’s income streams. Alongside this, you’ll manage HHA’s other fundraising platforms including GlobalGiving, JustGiving and CAF, engaging and maximising impact of HHA’s fundraisers. 

If this sounds like you, we’d love you to join our friendly and creative fundraising team to help us to raise the funds needed to continue our life-saving work to those most in need across Haiti and East Africa.

Closing date for applications is Monday 15th November 2021

We will be hosting interviews in the coming weeks as suitable applicants apply. 

This is an exciting time to join Muscular Dystrophy Support Centre (MDSC)! We are a small but growing charity with a dynamic, supportive and committed team and a flexible working environment. The role of Administration Officer will have a big impact in supporting our charity’s growth and sustainability and presents a unique opportunity to work in a small, close-knit team and see the difference your work makes to the wellbeing of our service users.

The Administration Officer will take a lead in ensuring that the Charity’s operations, monitoring and reporting requirements are fulfilled, supporting the Chief Executive and Senior Management Team. They will also play a vital role in ensuring we are able to maximise the efficiency of our operations by exploring opportunities for improved systems and processes, better integration within our team and effective progress monitoring and reporting against our therapy activities (outputs).

We are seeking someone with proven administration experience who is highly proficient in MS Office and has strong organisational and problem-solving skills. A charitable mindset and strong communication skills (both verbal and written) are also important.

Context

Muscular Dystrophy Support Centre (MDSC) is committed to transforming access to physical therapies for people with muscular dystrophy (MD) in the Midlands. From our headquarters in Coventry, and with satellite clinics in Birmingham, Leicester and most recently, the Black Country we support 400+ people with MD, primarily by providing specialist physical therapy on a long-term basis.  We are the only organisation in the Midlands region to do so, and one of only two in the UK. 

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, we secured a five-year grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to build a platform for expansion to meet significant demand throughout the Midlands and beyond.  Funding has enabled us to recruit additional staff, and build a strengthened organisational structure and finances, and the Administration Officer will play an important role in facilitating our progress. By 2025 we plan to be supporting over 1,100 people with MD and provide therapy at further satellite clinics in Worcestershire and Northants.

Our Board of Trustees all either have muscular dystrophy or have a family member with MD and are closely connected with the team to support the work of the Charity and service users.  Our team work together collaboratively in a people-centred approach to provide meaningful support to our service users and each another.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further information. For an informal discussion about this role please contact Sarah Ann Moore, Chief Executive.

How to apply

Applicants are requested to upload a CV and covering letter detailing how your experience fits the person specification. The closing date for applications is 4 November 2021. We plan to be holding initial interviews on 11 November 2021. Further information is available on our website.

Other information

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community and actively promote equal opportunities. Please note this position requires full references and a DBS check which will be carried out prior to employment.

In the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application process early.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join our Doncaster team in what is a new role, to help us build our income to support and sustain the vital work we do across all our services. In addition to this role, we will also be seeking a full time Trusts, Foundations & Lottery Fundraiser. Both posts will be supported and managed by the Fundraising Lead, in what will be a totally new team.

It is a broad and varied job where you can really make your mark. The role will suit a self-motivated, creative and enthusiastic individual who is well organised, a great communicator and passionate about supporting young people with a disability. And this really is a wonderful charity within which to work!

As Corporate & Community Fundraiser, you can expect to create and deliver exciting and purposeful fundraising initiatives at a local and regional level in support of our income expectations.  This being a new role, there is real opportunity to innovate as we engage with both the Community and Corporate sector from a standing start. That said, we are well known within Doncaster having had a presence for over 190 years, and you will certainly benefit from the knowledge of our wider team.

We’ve two very innovative capital projects currently in design phase, so you’ll soon have a creative and impactful fundraising proposition within your portfolio. In this respect you will need a can-do attitude and the willingness to roll up your sleeves and jump right in. 

If you like what you’ve read and feel that being part of a new and exciting team is for you, then we ask if you can demonstrate the following;

• At least two year’s experience of Corporate and Community fundraising, sales or similar, with evidence of success in developing new relationships and meeting or exceeding income and/or sales targets.
• An empathy to our cause.
• Team working towards shared goals, income and objectives.
• Donor or client acquisition through purposeful relationship building and marketing.
• Developing a robust and creative Case for Support, or similar.
• Donor or client stewardship creating multiple opportunities for future giving or product purchase.
• Persuasive yet intuitive presentation skills.
• Excellent ICT skills and proficiency in Microsoft outlook, word, excel and PowerPoint.

Head of Communications and Development

NCW is a dynamic literature house for contemporary writing. Our home is a Grade One-listed medieval building consisting of a 120-seat venue for live events, workshop spaces, a two-bedroom cottage for writers and translators and modern open plan offices. Dragon Hall is located on the historic King St on the banks of the Wensum River in the heart of Norwich, England’s first UNESCO City of Literature.

NCW launched in summer 2018 but dates back to the early 2000s. Growing from just three staff in 2006, then under the name Writers’ Centre Norwich (WCN), the organisation has grown consistently under the leadership of CEO Chris Gribble. We are a friendly, hard-working team, passionate about working with a whole range of people and communities, supporting people to own and share their own stories.

This is a new role, combining our communications and development functions to best communicate our vision and activities to our audiences and stakeholders. You would be responsible for developing, leading, implementing and evaluating the organisation’s communications and development strategies as part of the organisation’s overall business plan. The role works across the organisation to drive innovation and creativity in order to increase reach, value, revenue and reputation. The Head of Communications and Development works closely with the Senior Management Team with the CEO, Executive Director, Head of Programmes and Head of Commercial and Operations) and manages a small Communications and Development Team.

Thames Chase Community Forest was established in 1990 and connects 40 square miles of urban and rural landscape on the edge of east London and south-west Essex. It is one of twelve national Community Forests, known collectively as England’s Community Forests.

Thames Chase remains at the forefront of landscape regeneration and its base, at the heart of the Forest, is known as the Thames Chase Forest Centre. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to join a great team, managing and promoting this vital resource.

You will lead the development, integration, and delivery of all public-facing elements of Thames Chase, with the aim of creating an exemplar of the Thames Chase Plan that maximises engagement and support for the Community Forest.

Scope of the role

The role is based at the Thames Chase Forest Centre, home of Thames Chase Community Forest. The Forest Centre is located within the historical Broadfields Farm complex, with the addition of an architecturally acclaimed Visitors’ Centre, built from sustainable resources.

Thames Chase Trust welcomes around 120,000 visitors per year to the Forest Centre complex, which includes the surrounding Broadfields Farm Community Woodland (owned and managed by Forestry England). The Visitors’ Centre is the information hub for the entire Community Forest and includes a shop, café, and public toilets.

The complex also includes a 17th century barn, original stable block, refurbished Education Room, and farm cottages.The latter has been converted into office space principally for Thames Chase staff and the Forestry England Thames Beat team.

You will bring this spectacular place closer to the hearts of visitors, our local communities and our many partners and you will lead on facilities, catering, retail, visitor experience, membership, and volunteer teams.

You will support the Thames Chase Community Forest Director in leading staff and volunteers in developing and growing the income from all aspects of the Forest Centre, to support the work and aims of the Community Forest and provide a quality visitor experience.

You will show initiative in developing the visitor experience through events, guiding, informing, and reinforcing the Thames Chase Plan, brand and values. You will need a proven track record of working with and promoting the natural and cultural heritage of landscapes.

You will be familiar with the use of professional and social media and will need to be an exceptional communicator and an inspiring manager for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable team of staff and volunteers. You will know just how to get the very best out of everyone and to support and motivate the team. There are set targets for income, and you will be responsible for ensuring that your team meets these and the associated KPI’s.

As a member of the Thames Chase Community Forest team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the Thames Chase Community Forest Director to influence the development of the Forest, in accordance with the Thames Chase Plan.

Please note: This role requires weekend and bank holiday working.

How to apply

Applications will comprise a covering letter and comprehensive CV and indicate experience against the detailed criteria outlined in the role. 

Closing date and interviews

23:59 Sunday 24th October 2021. It is likely that interviews will take place during week commencing 1st November 2021.

If you have any queries or would like to discuss this role, please contact: Mary Wright at Thames Chase Forest Centre.

Job title: Fundraising Officer

Directorate: National Memorial Arboretum

Contract: Permanent.  Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary:  £23,800 to £26,000 gross per annum

About the National Memorial Arboretum

The Arboretum is the UK’s year-round centre of Remembrance and part of the Royal British Legion.  We are the Nation’s centre of Remembrance, freely open to all. Our 150-acre landscape is home to over 25,000 trees, punctuated by 400 memorials that recognise the service and sacrifice made by the Armed Forces, emergency services and civilian organisations to our country. 

The Arboretum in one of the UK’s leading visitor attractions and we welcome over 300,000 people through our doors each year.  They come to explore our site, learn more about the fascinating stories behind our memorials, spend time in our woodlands, and to attend some of the 250+ events that take place each year.

The Arboretum is an award-winning destination, including the 2018 Visit England Awards for Excellence: Large Visitor Attraction of the Year (Gold) 

Our Values and Behaviours

Does the following describe you?

• A desire to provide great customer service
• Enjoy and thrive in working in teams and with others
• Passionate about supporting the ongoing development of the Arboretum
• Come to work each day to be the best you can and to learn and develop
• An encourager, eager to share your knowledge and experience to help others

If so then we would like you hear from you ….

The Role

We are looking for an experienced fundraiser to join the Arboretum team, where you will help to raise awareness of our charitable status and generate income through fundraising activities.  You will manage the Arboretum Friends scheme to maximise income, incentivise visitors and grow supporter engagement and insights.  In partnership with the Visitor Services team, you will create and implement an onsite fundraising strategy to encourage visitor giving, and create a compelling dialogue to motivate visitor support.  You will build mutually-beneficial relationships with colleagues in the Royal British Legion fundraising team to identify opportunities for shared resource/expertise, partnership working and collaboration on fundraising projects.

As the first point of contact for supporters/donors visiting the Arboretum, excellent communication and customer service skills are key. You will be responsible for ensuring that the Arboretum’s electronic database is fit for purpose, and that all activities conform to the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Practice and other relevant regulations.

You will have a strong understanding and experience of fundraising practices, and be passionate about developing engaging customer journey’s for visitors, corporate partners and stakeholders to deepen relationships and increase fundraising income in this area against agreed targets.

This role may occasionally be required to work outside of core office hours in order to play an active role in supporting the team at profile raising events.

As an inclusive employer, we welcome conversations on flexible working and any reasonable adjustments that may be required. 

Diversity Statement 

We believe that the compassion, understanding and service we show each, and every individual customer should be reflected in the way we all support, respect and include every individual who works with us. 

It’s because of this that we have strived hard to create a One Legion culture that we can all feel part of and succeed in. It’s why we make sure that you have the opportunities you need to learn and develop. It’s why we’re invested in making RBL a truly inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves. It’s why you’re welcome, whoever you might be. 

It’s why we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. 

How to Apply 

Please apply by clicking ‘Apply online’.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Closing date for this role is: Sunday 31st October 2021

 We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.

ABOUT LAUNCHPAD

Based in central Reading, Launchpad provides vital information and support for vulnerable individuals, couples and families in Reading who do not have a stable place to live or are at risk of losing their homes.  We have been in Reading for over 40 years and have just opened a new Work and Life Skills Centre to enhance life opportunities for clients.  It is an exciting time for us!

Our services work in three ways:
 

Preventing homelessness

Launchpad works to prevent homelessness with a drop-in centre for anyone who needs crucial housing or homelessness-related information and guidance, and our floating support team helps people in the community address more serious housing-related challenges before they get worse.

Providing homes

We aim to break the cycle of homelessness by providing temporary homes with bespoke support for up to 100 people in Reading for periods of six to twelve months.

Rebuilding lives

Launchpad rebuilds lives to give clients the very best chance of success with a range of therapeutic activities, and support with education, training and employment.

THIS ROLE

The Fundraising Manager is responsible for the operational planning and implementation of all fundraising in line with strategic goals for the year, and delivering a range of fundraising events and projects within the charity’s developing fundraising programme – including supporter acquisition, supported stewardship communications, financial appeals and regular giving.

ABOUT YOU

Our ideal candidate is an experienced Fundraising Manager with a passion for helping the vulnerable, looking to work with a small team where you can make a real difference.

With excellent relationship building skills and significant experience of leading events and activities which drive individual donations, and corporate and community fundraising, you are looking for a new challenge and the chance to build a portfolio of innovative fundraising events and projects.

Professional, approachable, confident and empathetic, you love people and are great at motivating, developing, and managing effective performance to achieve successful outcomes - and meet ambitious fundraising targets

An adept project manager, you put the supporter at the heart of everything you do with experience of cultivating, developing and stewarding supporters to deliver a first-class experience.

You are ambitious in your approach, proactively managing stakeholders through excellent communication and planning skills.  You know your way around a fundraising CRM system, are competent with Microsoft packages and have experience of working with volunteers and managing a small team.

This is a superb opportunity for someone with drive, focus and a desire to work with our fantastic charity to help us to prevent homelessness in Reading.  You’ll discover a passionate, supportive environment where the entire team are working toward the same goals and are dedicated to making positive change, and a lasting impact on people’s lives.

Please note the role is office based at our premises in Reading.  There is flexibility for some working at home when necessary. As a key service for vulnerable people in Reading, our service has been open throughout the pandemic.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. 

Please visit our website where you will find more information, including details on how to apply.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 22 October 2021.  Interviews will be held on 1st November 2021.

Whilst appointments will always be made on the merits of the application and performance in the selection process, Launchpad is committed to achieving greater diversity, inclusion and equity in our workforce – and actively encourages and welcomes applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, beliefs or disability.

Location: Saunderton, Buckinghamshire

Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm, Monday to Friday

National charity, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, which trains dogs to transform the lives of deaf people, is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic fundraising assistant to join the Major Giving team.

We are looking for a person who can support the development and implementation of the major giving fundraising strategy.  You will also need to have a keen eye for detail and have good time-management skills. Being a team player is key to the role and you will need to be at ease communicating with a wide variety of people including volunteers, donors, and supporters.

The ideal candidate will have excellent organisational skills and be able to work to tight deadlines.  Experience or knowledge of working with trusts and foundations would be advantageous.

Our charity is fun, friendly, and caring with a mission to train dogs to change the lives of deaf people.  We are based in beautiful surroundings at the Charity’s training centre in the Chiltern Hills, near Saunderton in Buckinghamshire.

If you are interested in working with us in this varied and immensely rewarding job, please visit our website via the Apply button for further information and an application form, and to discover what you can gain in return.

Closing date: 29th October 2021

Interviews will be held from 8th November 2021.

Registered charity in England and Wales (293358) and in Scotland (SC040486)

Location: Home based with requirement to attend Birmingham centre office

We’re the charity helping millions of people feel happier and healthier by spending more time on and along our canals and rivers. Our rich and tranquil spaces provide places to pause, relax and escape. But without extraordinary people, and the funding to make it happen, all of this would be lost. That’s where you come in.

The next 3 years will see an ambitious plan to accelerate growth in charitable income, building new communities of supporters from the ground up.  We are looking for people passionate about relationship management and stewarding supporters to give a great experience whilst raising money for the Trust.  We exist as a fundraising team so that we can do more for communities up and down the country using the power and benefits our waterways have to offer for Wellbeing, Nature, Employability & Urban Regeneration. If you are inspired to change lives young and old then we would love to hear from you.  Join us, and make life better by water for everyone. Every day.

Knowledge, Skills/Qualifications & Experience

Job Purpose:

Digital is at the heart of our charity fundraising strategy and with ongoing investment in digital development and marketing activity, it's an exciting time to join our fundraising team.

In this role you will be responsible for the day-to-day planning, development and management of digital fundraising campaigns and activity (such as email, SMS, social and display) ensuring that fundraising income is maximised through digital channels.

This will require building a strong working relationship with the Trust Marketing team and specifically the Digital marketing colleagues to support the work of converting passive supporters and warm leads to active donors of the Trust.

A key part of your work will be supporting the fundraising acquisition team on both their social media activity (creating and editing ads and videos) and online content (fundraising and events pages), with the ultimate aim of developing and pushing out engaging and relevant digital content with which to recruit & steward supporters.

You will also be working closely with the Supporter Journey Manager, supporting the development of appropriate digital fundraising platforms, including the management of key fundraising programmes through a cycle of continual testing and improvement of content and user journeys.

This role sits within the Fundraising team reporting to the Fundraising Development Manager and working closely with the Supporter Journey Manager to ensure we provide a first-class level of stewardship and acquisition to all supporters who interact with us online.

Key Accountabilities:

Support the Fundraising Development Manager (and work with the digital marketing team) on the development and delivery of digital offerings to recruit new financial supporters, including e-appeals & newsletters, value exchange activity, social media, marketing content & digital stewardship plans.

Responsible for delivering against agreed recruitment and income targets annually and management of expenditure lines as agreed by the Fundraising Development Manager.

Work with the digital marketing team and supporter care team to develop and deliver engaging digital marketing content for income generation including adverts in existing newsletters, social media lead marketing & stewardship communications.

Work with Supporter Journey Manager to acquire and develop appropriate digital fundraising platforms, including management of key fundraising programmes and e-mail journeys within the Marketo system.

Lead on the operational delivery of the marketing and stewardship of any supporters who are donating via agreed digital platforms (ie GivePanel, MakeitDonate, AmazonSmile, Online In-Memory platform, etc) ensuring all work aligns and is developed considering every step of the funnel.

Work with the wider fundraising team to integrate digital journeys considering all channels. Optimise and test landing pages for the acquisition and work to develop journeys further with relevant stakeholders with a focus on audience acquisition and analysis of digital channels for fundraising purposes.

Manage digital reporting elements with regards to the fundraising digital acquisition work, ensuring all fundraising digital activity is measurable with digital tracking and attribution methods in place to deliver performance reports for all our digital fundraising campaigns.

Proactively maintain excellent knowledge of digital fundraising practices and campaigns in the sector, including competitor analysis, to ensure you are able to strengthen the output of the team from experience and knowledge.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills: Practical / Technical Knowledge

• The skills, qualification and experience necessary for full and effective performance of the job.
• Good level of education with passes to GCSE level or equivalent, including English Language and Maths
• Experience of delivering digital acquisition campaigns using multiple channels
• Experience of working with content feedback loops and to brand guidelines
• Excellent working knowledge of social media, advertising and digital platforms (particularly digital fundraising platforms)
• Broad understanding on digital marketing techniques such as Display, Social, SEO and PPC
• Competence in Google Analytics, GTM AdWords and search marketing
• Excellent working knowledge of measuring, interpreting and evaluating performance data

Knowledge, Experience & Skills: Planning, Organising and integrating (managerial)

• The knowledge required for integrating and managing activities and functions.
• Excellent understanding of Fundraising regulation and statutory data compliance, particularly around Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
• Proven track record in running a successful digital fundraising/sales campaigns
• Experience of working with fundraising budgets and income across digital channels
• Experience with digital tracking and attribution methods
• Experience of building supporter journeys
• Experience of working within or alongside a fundraising team
• Experience working with Digital KPI’s (ROI, CPL, etc)

Knowledge, Experience & Skills: Communicating and Influencing skills

• The skills needed to communicate with and influence individuals and / or groups within and outside the organisation.
• You understand what motivates people to give and how digital can create a better experience for supporters
• Working in collaboration with others is second nature to you
• Effective analytical skills in relation to verbal, written and numerical data.
• An attention to detail to ensure accuracy, robustness and compliance of data used and store.
• Highly organised & understanding of effective process mapping.

Person Specification

• Motivation, Beliefs & Actions
• Commercially aware, able to spot opportunities and trends
• Self-motivated and ensure that your work is of the highest quality
• A creative thinker who can demonstrate a passion for innovation and apply it to working practices
• Ability to be open minded and respectful
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to seek and share knowledge
• Willing to adopt the Trust’s values as your own: caring, openness and transparency, supporting the local community, involving others, and striving for excellence

What We Offer

In addition to your salary of £28,000, the Canal & River Trust offers a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, great holiday entitlement (increasing with years of service) and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits.

We aim to represent the diverse communities we are part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do.  All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job. 

ASSISTANT MANAGER – SAFFRON WALDEN
PART TIME – 22.5 HOURS PER WEEK

*Please note, the above will include occasional weekend work*

Do you have outstanding retail experience and are looking for an exciting, new opportunity to work for a compassionate and caring charity?

About the role

An exciting position has arisen within our busy Saffron Walden Charity Shop for an Assistant Manager to join the team on a part-time basis. The Assistant Manager will work closely with the Retail Manager to support with the day to day management and running of the store.

You will be an organised, creative individual with experience of reconciliation of cash takings and stock control. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality customer care is demonstrated by staff and volunteers at all times. You will work alongside colleagues and volunteers to help achieve income targets and maximise all opportunities to generate shop income. This is a great opportunity for someone who has retail experience (paid or voluntary) to join our fundraising team to help raise vital funds for St Elizabeth’s.

St Elizabeth’s

St Elizabeth’s is situated in 60 acres of Hertfordshire countryside between Harlow and Bishop’s Stortford. We support people with Epilepsy and other complex needs in our Children’s Homes, School, College, Residential Homes with Nursing and Day Centre.

We operate a chain of 9 charity shops in and around Hertfordshire and Essex, to support us to make this incredible work possible.

Our Benefits

In addition to excellent staff training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment:

- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Fully paid for DBS
- Life assurance
- Opportunity to pursue recognised qualifications of your own
- High street retail/leisure discounts
- Discounted gym membership
- Recommend a friend payment of £500
- On-site accommodation available for £200 per month
- Confidential employee assistance programme
- Contributory pension scheme

How can you find out more?

To apply, please submit an up to date CV on our website. All applications should be made via our website.

All offers are conditional and subject to receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check. Salary is dependent on the role, qualifications and experience.

Applications are reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis; therefore, we recommend that you apply sooner rather than later. We reserve the right to close this advert if we receive sufficient applications ahead of the deadline.

St Elizabeth’s Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. The successful applicant(s) will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service. St Elizabeth’s is proud to be recognised as an Investor in People and to hold Disability Confident status. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from across the community.

Why Work For Us

St Elizabeth's is a national charity supporting children and adults of all ages with epilepsy and other complex medical conditions. Over the past 118 years, we have grown and developed to comprise a non-maintained special school for both boarders and day students, a specialist further education college, domiciliary care for college learners, residential care with nursing for adults and a day opportunities programme. The people we care for are at the heart of everything we do. Be part of committed and caring team that really does make a difference to the day-to-day lives of the individuals we support.

Registered Charity 1176777 Equal opportunities employer

Ref: 103 832

Job Title: Fundraising Officer

Salary: circa £28,000 per annum

Hours: Full-time – 37.5 hours per week   (Flexible and part time working offered by agreement.)

Are you excellent at building meaningful relationships and have a strong sense of Empathy? Do you have a proven ability in delivering great donor (customer) care?  If so, a new exciting opportunity has presented itself and we want to speak to you. 

Leeds Hospitals Charity

Leeds Hospitals Charity is proud to support Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The Trust comprises seven hospitals and a dental institute, including Leeds General Infirmary, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds Children’s Hospital and Leeds Cancer Centre. At Leeds Hospitals Charity, we work with NHS staff to improve the experience of patients and families. We are passionate about healthcare and about making our hospitals amazing.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Individual Giving, the Fundraising Officer will work closely with the Fundraising team, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust staff and volunteers to develop our In Memory offering. They will champion In Memory Giving both internally to Hospital teams and volunteers and externally to the community and local businesses. Responsible for the delivery of a new and sizeable income stream, this role will identify, develop and implement plans to maximise income and ensure a regular flow of income to achieve annual targets.

The Person

We are looking for someone who:

• Has proven experience of fundraising.  
• Has developed new, audience-led products and propositions, and monitored their ongoing effectiveness.
• Has experience of fundraising and stewardship with a passion for supporting in memory donors.
• Can deliver clearly defined KPIs.
• Can manage and support relationships with donors who are supporting the charity in memory of loved ones.
• Will develop the relationship with supporters by offering suitable products and opportunities to remember loved ones ranging from free online life tributes, tribute funds, regular donations, specialist in memory events and individual fundraising.
• Will proactively develop relationships with external business providers such as funeral directors to ensure that all in memory collections are facilitated in an ethical and appropriate manner.
• Will ensure donor records are maintained with accurate information.
• Can produce reports for the Director of Fundraising and Head of Individual Giving on campaign performance and monitor against past performance and planned expectations. Undertaking data analysis where appropriate.

You will:

• Be highly organised, detail focused and sensitive when leading on our In Memory Giving programme.
• Be an innovator and be able to creatively market this important aspect of fundraising.
• Have excellent communication skills with the ability to empathise and build relationships.
• Be able to exercise a high degree of tact and discretion with confidential information.
• Have excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Be able to use initiative to solve problems and progress projects without direct supervision.
• Have high levels of empathy.

Charity Benefits Include:

Employee Assistance Programmes

AIG Life Group Protection

Cyclescheme

Car Lease Scheme

One year free gym membership

Buy Additional Holidays

NHS Discounts

Pension

If you are disabled and have the essential skills and experience to do the job, we will invite you to an interview. Please advise on your covering letter if you consider yourself to have a disability.

To apply for this position, please send a copy of your up-to-date CV with a covering letter.

Closing date for application is Friday 22 October 2021

Interviews will be held on Friday 5 November 2021.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to provide feedback at the shortlisting stage. If you have not heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

WaveLength is proud to be the UK’s leading charity focusing on loneliness and social isolation, working across the UK in local communities to reduce loneliness for people living in poverty by providing technology such as radios, televisions and tablets.

Research estimates that over 9 million in the UK are lonely at any given time. We help reduce the experience of loneliness by connecting people via technology to their families, support networks and communities. We calculate we work with over 25,000 beneficiaries a year.

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the desperate issue of loneliness for millions
of people and raised awareness of the need for support across a wide range of donors. We want to capture the momentum of this increased awareness to build on our fundraising capability.

With strong fundraising foundations in place, we recently completed a review of our opportunities and resources and have a new focus on refreshing our existing donor base whilst diversifying our income streams. As part of this diversification, we are ambitious to recruit an experienced Digital Lead to develop our digital fundraising and communications activity.

We have a good understanding of our impact and have research that proves what we do works to alleviate loneliness, however we want to be better at weaving this knowledge, insight and personal evidence from the individuals we help into our storytelling, to build stronger and far-reaching supporter engagement through digital and traditional channels.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven, ambitious and experienced fundraiser to help us further build and drive our fundraising function forward. Working closely with the CEO, you will help set the digital fundraising and communications strategy, being directly responsible for raising related income and, as we grow and develop, you will also have the opportunity to build, support and lead a dedicated team alongside you. There is excellent scope for professional development within the role; to work autonomously and really own the outcome of your efforts whilst also being part of a supportive, collaborative and dedicated organisation.

For further details about the opportunity and WaveLength’s mission and vision, please download the full appointment brief below and or on our website.

Charity: Beyond Carnism
Role: Fundraising and Development Manager (Trusts & Major Donor)

Salary: up to £40k / $54k / €47k
Contract: Full-time, or part-time (lots of flexibility, to secure the perfect person)
Location: Remote, anywhere globally

Deadline: Sunday 24th October 2021

The Charity

In line with UN sustainable development goals, the world needs to reduce its meat and dairy consumption by 50% by 2040, if we want the planet to remain inhabitable. Huge amounts of resource and effort are already going into the development of plant-based proteins, reshaping global food systems and rethinking modern farming techniques.

But an important and often overlooked piece of the puzzle is taking the global population on that journey. We need to win hearts and minds, convince people of the need for change, if we’re going to affect substantial change in the time available.

In steps Dr Melanie Joy, internationally respected psychologist and award-winning author, with her theory of Carnism. I would definitely recommend reading their website for a full explanation of it, but in basic terms it is about helping people see that their dietary choices are a result of a belief system and not objective fact. It isn’t true that eating animal products is normality, with vegetarianism and veganism being aberrations, both are conscious choices.

It isn’t logically coherent that we can justify the eating of some animals and not others, or that which animals are and are not acceptable to eat varies so wildly around the world. Until people are fully aware of the choices they’re making, they can’t truly exercise their free will in these choices.

For an engaging introduction to their theory, I would recommend taking a look at this mesmerising video: https://youtu.be/XumGZk_LPX8

This isn’t about brow-beating meat eaters, but about getting us all on the same page in finding pragmatic solutions to some of the most serious problems being faced by our species.

The Role

After a number of years of incremental growth, the charity has substantially grown from $400k - $600k over the past 2 years – fuelled by the release of a number of best-selling books, increased campaigning and exposure, and an explosion in donor interest.

This role will be focused on continuing to build fruitful relationships with their existing donor base and building from that platform to secure sustainable growth into the future. Their donor profile is predominantly HNWI, with some foundation and mid-level giving as well. The lion’s share of future growth is likely to come from their major donor programme, but they are looking for someone who can think creatively about the funding mix and who will be given the autonomy to explore different opportunities.

What we’re looking for

• A passion for animal welfare and climate change.
• Experience in growing a major donor portfolio.
• Experience of managing a varied funding mix.
• A first-class communicator, with a passion for writing and an eye for detail.

If you’re finding your interest sufficiently piqued, please do fire over a current CV and let’s find some time to discuss the role in a little more detail.

I’ll end this advert by saying that I personally think the team over at Beyond Carnism are incredible. They are such a delight to work with and their culture is so inclusive, friendly and supportive that I know you would love them if you met them.

Age UK Lewisham and Southwark - a dynamic and innovative values-led local charity that provides a wide range of services and support to older people in South London – is looking for an exceptional individual to help us generate new sources of income from business supporters and local communities – as well as supporting our leadership team to submit strong grant and contract applications.

The postholder will work closely with the CEO and the whole team to develop new ways of engaging with local businesses and communities to increase our impact and further develop our work with older people. We are looking for candidates with strong influencing skills and the passion to help us improve our work in support of older people who may face challenges in seeking to love later life.

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.