JRS UK is seeking to recruit a dynamic experienced Fundraising Officer on a full-time basis to support our work to accompany, serve, and advocate for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
The role seeks to develop JRS UK’s individual giving portfolio UK, both through regular giving and one-off donations. This will involve acquiring new donors and working with the wider Communications and Outreach Team to develop an engaging donor journey, which encourages long-term support of JRS. The Fundraising Officer will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of individual giving activity across a range of channels and for recruiting, stewarding and retaining supporters of JRS UK.
The Fundraising Officer will need prior experience of creating and delivering successful campaigns to grow income, utilising both traditional and digital techniques. Excellent communication skills and the ability to speak and communicate confidently to supporters is essential.
The Fundraising Officer will play a pivotal role in ensuring JRS UK diversifies and stabilises its income streams, ensuring the organisation can continue to accompany and support refugees and those who are forcibly displaced.
JRS UK aims to pay close attention to the experience of refugees it accompanies and all its external communications give priority to their voices, taking care to portray refugees as people with dignity, gifts, joys, hopes and sorrows. JRS UK fundraising activity fits within these broader ethical communications guidelines.
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation, at work in over 50 countries with a mission to accompany, serve and... Read more
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The Chapter of Ripon Cathedral is seeking to appoint a Director of Development in a newly created post as a key member of the cathedral’s team. We have a clear and ambitious vision for the cathedral’s sustainable future and have made significant inroads in the past few years into achieving that vision.
To build on all this and to accelerate progress, we have created the post of Director of Development. S/he will form, motivate, and manage a new team by merging our existing fundraising, marketing, and communications functions, applying sound methodology and entrepreneurship to each of their activities. They will build on existing successes and accelerate the growth of income across a range of activities in a sustainable manner. The successful applicant will believe in and bring new energy to our ambition and be able to communicate that compellingly to existing and prospect audiences and donors.