Legacy Fundraising Coordinator

Location: The Cedars

Status: Permanent

Salary: £16,055 - £20,615

Closing Date: October 21, 2019 5:00 pm

We are looking for a dynamic coordinator to help us grow our vital income from legacies through efficient administration and effective marketing of gifts in wills that have been left to Compton Care. You will be joining a busy and expanding fundraising team and will be helping to deliver a new income generation strategy with a focus on great supporter experience.

Role requirements:

• Manage and administrate a legacy caseload – dealing with enquiries, correspondence, updating the CRM database and ensuring all matters are dealt with in a compliant and legal manner.
• Act as first point of contact for all Legacy Giving enquiries, notifications and pledges.
• Deliver a gold standard supporter experience and a clear communication plan for each pledge or gift in will.
• To effectively market legacies in order to secure pledges from supporters and meet legacy income targets.
• To collaborate with other fundraising team members to deliver and grow key legacy fundraising initiatives such as Make a Will Month.
• Seek to engage with industry professionals such as solicitors, estate and wealth management services etc in order to market Compton Care’s need for legacies.

Qualifications/Skills/Experience:

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs (including Maths and English) or equivalent.
• Experience of Legacy administration
• Knowledge of fundraising databases or commercial equivalent
• IT literate with good experience of MS Office and database systems as appropriate for the role
• Experience of promoting fundraising campaigns, events or products.

You as the new Retail Community Fundraiser will play a pivotal role in the growth of income generation and support for the charity.

With a current portfolio of 11 shops and plans for expansion, the successful candidate will be responsible to drive community engagement, the need to raise awareness and funds is vital within community groups, businesses and friends of life groups. The successful candidate will also need to successfully recruitment volunteers to support this work in the areas surrounding our shops.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who loves connecting and building authentic relationships with people from all walks of life with varied interests and passions, can identify unique opportunities to engaging new areas and people, making Life their charity of choice and can do so by adapting strong communication skills.

You will need to be confident in speaking to groups, securing opportunities, recruiting and managing volunteers and attending events. You will be passionate to grow on our supporter base and develop income streams so we can save more lives.

We are looking for a highly motivated, tenacious and donor focused individual, who will enjoy the challenge of optimising relationships whilst taking the charity to new audiences. Previous fundraising, sales or marketing experience is desirable, along with strong existing connections.

Scope & Purpose:

The post holder is responsible for securing income and managing relationships with community groups, local businesses and volunteers. Building upon a supporter base you will develop income and awareness nationally through a variety of fundraising activities and events.

This West Midlands based children's hospice provides vital care and support to children suffering from life limiting and life threatening illnesses, and their families. With three purpose built hospices, the environment provides a home-from-home environment, as well as facilities including a hydrotherapy pool; multisensory rooms etc. and is a hugely supportive environment for families going through an extremely difficult time. With huge support in the local area, the hospice has a wonderful reputation.
Currently recruiting for an Area Fundraiser to be home based and cover the Birmingham region; this is a great opportunity for someone with previous existing fundraising experience and expertise to join an organisation with huge fundraising potential and a warm, caring environment.
Key responsibilities within the role will include:
* To raise unrestricted funds for the charity by proactively meeting potential and existing supporters
* To proactively ask individuals, organisations, and groups of people for funds to support the work of the organisation
* To generate income from best corporate fundraising practice including COTY, sponsorship, employee fundraising, volunteering, CRM, and payroll giving, against agreed targets
* Working closely with the Events team to promote individual and team participation, or sponsorship of, mass participation and other fundraising events
* Recruit event participants to the charity's own events and challenge events
* Actively promote opportunities in your area for supporters to engage in third party challenge events including overseas treks, parachute jumps, running events, and bike rides
* Prioritise activity to achieve annual budgets and targets
* Create and execute annual Area Plans to deliver against financial targets through a calendar of fundraising events
* Build and develop a robust pipeline across all community stakeholders
* Research and identify local businesses, establish strong business networks
The successful applicant will have the following skills and experience:
* Proven success in a sales or fundraising role with a focus on customer acquisition, retention, management and development
* Track record of managing and developing relationships with individual donors or customers
* Proven track record of identifying, pitching and securing new support
* Experience of developing, delivering, and monitoring an annual fundraising, sales, or marketing plan
* Good understanding of fundraising principles and practices
* High level of communication skills, including the ability to present and speak publically
* Influencing and networking skills
* Self-motivated in order to achieve objectives; ability to prioritise own workload, and meet deadlines
If you'd like to be considered for this role please send your CV to [email protected] or call on 020 7939 7448 to have an initial chat about the position.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), race, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Divisional Fundraising Officer

Hft is one of the largest and longest-established charities supporting people with learning disabilities. We work with people with learning disabilities to enable them to live the best lives possible. It's about giving people with learning disabilities the chance to have the kind of lives we might want for ourselves, or for our loved ones. This is what we do and this is why we need you to join our Fundraising Team.

Position: Divisional Fundraising & Supporter Care Officer
Location: Central Support, home based with travel in the Central division, ideally in or around north Birmingham
Job type: Part Time, Permanent
Hours: 21 hours per week
Salary: £19,469 pro rata
Benefits: Hft Plus benefits package (discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out), 20 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) increasing to 25 days after first year, contributory pension scheme and life assurance, an Employee Assistance Programme, annual staff award schemes, access to award winning training and development

Closing date: Friday 25 October 2019

About the role:

There has never been a more exciting time to join us. With the implementation of a new fundraising plan, we are ambitious to grow to help even more people with learning disabilities.

We are looking for a passionate and professional individual to join our team to help us engage with new and existing supporters. As the Fundraising and Supporter Care Officer in Central England, you will help maximise income and awareness for Hft by supporting the Divisional Fundraising Manager in developing regional fundraising activity.

You will assist the Divisional Fundraising Manager to achieve ambitious targets by proactively supporting individuals and organisations in their fundraising activities for Hft. No two days will be the same as you’ll be working with services, individuals, groups and corporates, supporting them with their fundraising ambitions.

About you:

We have big ambitions at Hft. However, these can only be achieved with the right people with the right skills and attitude.

The successful candidate may have a proven track record in fundraising or a supporter care administrative role and have ideally worked in the charity sector. But equally you could be looking for your first job in a charity; or someone outside of the sector looking to gain some amazing experience in a brilliant fundraising team. You will be self-motivated and task focused with excellent time management skills.

You will need to:

- Have a full UK driving licence and access to a car.
- Have a sufficient Broadband connection.
- Live in the region stated. Candidates who live outside should highlight an intention to relocate to the area in their covering letter for their application to be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Strictly no agencies please.

You may have experience of the following: Divisional Fundraising Officer, Supporter Care Officer, Supporter Administrator, Customer Services Assistant, Customer Services Administrator, Fundraising Administrator, Supporter Engagement, Customer Service, Accounts Assistant, Administration, Third Sector, Customer Support, NFP, Not for Profit, etc

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This year Myton needs to raise £9.2 million in voluntary income, and key to this is our events fundraising calendar. We have an exciting opportunity for an events professional to join the Community and Events Fundraising Team.

Working as part of the fundraising team, the Events Coordinator will assist with the organisation of all our Myton fundraising events and lead on several of our core events.  Our Events portfolio currently includes; Coventry Cathedral Abseil, Glow for Myton, Walk for Myton, The Summer Fete, Cycle Challenge, Santa Dash and Light Up a Life.

Reporting to the Assistant Events Fundraising Manager, day to day work will vary from organising and managing logistics for Myton events working with budgets to ensure that income is maximised and supporting event participants to help ensure they have a positive experience and sponsorship is maximised.

The post holder will ideally be experienced in events fundraising, liaising with external suppliers, providing excellent customer service and be well organised. If you would like to make a difference and be part of a successful fundraising

Myton Hospice believes that everyone in Coventry and Warwickshire has the right to live well and have a good natural death with their loved ones and family supported within a professional and sensitive environment where care is our upmost priority. We are working hard to achieve this through our own delivery of outstanding palliative care and through influencing and educating other providers.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial fundraiser, passionate about tackling educational disadvantage, to work with our CEO and wider team in dramatically scaling up our fundraising programme.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

• A strong commitment to education, the non-profit sector and raising the aspirations, achievements and life chances of all children
• The drive, adaptability and initiative to move conversations forward and close them, with a proven track record of turning ideas into actions and outcomes.
• Experience writing proposals and applying for grants to secure donations of at least five figures – ideally from a range of sources, including individual philanthropists, grant-making organisations or companies.
• Exceptionally strong communicator: able to listen and build rapport. You are able to generate trust in you and in our work, and persuade people to give support.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills: experience successfully planning and managing multiple, varied projects and relationships.
• Ability to think critically and creatively to solve problems.
• You take ownership of your work and you enjoy working collaboratively and contributing to a supportive team.

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you: 

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager 

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays 

• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate) 

• Competitive salary rates

• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers 

• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters. 

• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development 

How to apply 

To apply for any of our vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive at this stage we will not be able to contact unsuccessful applicants.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation. 

As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.  

We are looking for a Legacy Giving Executive to oversee the development of an integrated marketing plan to encourage more supporters to consider leaving a gift in their Will for One of the UKs most loved environmental charities.

The Charity

One of the UKs most loved environmental and well-being charities.

The Role
Assist in the development of a legacy marketing plan this may include work around direct mail campaigns, telemarketing, digital marketing and production/fulfilment of materials.
Assist in the development of in-memory products using insights and data to understand audience needs and working with the regional teams to develop affordable and quick-to-market products.
Support the Legacy and Supporter Care Manager including word processing, data entry, making and receiving telephone calls and filing.
Collate information such as legacy and in-mem campaign responses, enquiries, various supporter communications etc and ensure timely processing on the Trusts systems, maintaining accurate and reliable records, including recording of suppressions and data consents.
Follow up and resolve a variety of enquiries and requests relating to Legacy and in-mem work from central mailing activity/promotion, internal departments and Trust supporters and volunteers
Build up a good relationship with the finance team and ensure they understand our systems and processes and can create and pull reports that accurately reflect our forecasting and budgets.
Write a variety of reports to communicate and support the teams work, working to tight deadlines.

The Candidate
Knowledge of working within a legacy and supporter care environment.
Understanding of fundraising and legacy giving.
Experience in working for a charity or not-for-profit.
Exceptional supporter care experience.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 35 hours a week

Location: Birmingham

We are looking for a Partnership Manager in the Public Sector Team to raise £500k + per year working between public sector and corporate partnerships unlocking opportunities in Birmingham and surrounding area.

They will support and execute a successful strategy for The Prince’s Trust response to the devolution agenda in the West Midlands, including businesses in Birmingham with a focus on Built Environment, Social Value and Digital.

They will liaise closely with partnership and internal colleagues to ensure the proposition for employers and regional government continuously improves.  They will support the generation of new partnerships in excess of £500k in multi-year value.

About The Prince’s Trust

We are a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome!

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.  Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.  We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.  We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

The Prince’s Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of the children and young people we work with. Successful applicants to roles at The Prince’s Trust will be subject to criminal vetting checks, and where necessary for the role, a check at an enhanced level will be required.

To apply for this vacancy please go to our website and complete the online application.  To help you with the supporting statement section, you may want to download a copy of the Prince’s Trust Behavioural Framework.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we'd like a helping hand. We'll be in touch if we need you.

Zoe's Place is an incredible organisation that provides respite and palliative care to children aged 0-5 with life limiting, or life threatening illnesses. With their team of specialise nurses who provide 24-7 care and support to the children in their care and their families, this is an organisation that provides vital support. Based across three sites, the organisation has a hospice in Coventry which is a safe, caring, and fun place - a home away from home.
Established in 2011, the organisation is approaching its tenth birthday, and the Coventry site has a small, talented fundraising in place. As Corporate Partnerships Officer, you will be responsible for developing and managing successful fundraising relationships with commercial organisations both big and small, ensuring that annual income targets are met.
Joining a welcoming, friendly and supportive team, this position is a mix of account management, including development, of existing partnerships; and generating new business opportunities to increase the organisation's base of corporate support.
This role will suit candidates either with a corporate fundraising background, or from a commercial background that includes new business development and account management. It's an excellent opportunity for someone currently working in the commercial sector who wishes to work for a cause they are passionate about, and raise income for an extremely rewarding cause.
Key duties within the role will include:
* Deliver a first class experience to the organisations corporate partners; providing excellent stewardship to ensure the best possible outcomes from the relationship
* To meet income targets through corporate fundraising activity
* To promote and raise awareness of the hospice in the commercial world, including delivering engaging fundraising presentations to potential supporters from the private sector
* Manage a small portfolio of fundraising partnerships, providing high quality account management; as well as spotting and acting on opportunities for partnership growth
* A strong focus on building additional partnerships in the lead up to, and during, the charity's 10th anniversary celebrations in 2021
* To develop and grow the partnership portfolio by researching potential new partners, attending networking events, spotting new leads and ensuring that opportunities are converted into long-term, sustainable partnerships
* Develop sponsorship packages and championing the commercial value of these packages to new and existing supporters, maximising event sponsorship
* Set up and maintain accurate reporting of income and activity for corporate partners
* To undertake the marketing and PR for corporate partnership fundraising events, alongside colleagues
The successful applicant will have the following skills and experience:
* Previous experience gained in a corporate partnerships position within the charity sector, or within a business development / account management or marketing role within the commercial sector
* Experience of account managing partnerships
* Significant experience of producing and presenting compelling pitches and proposals for a corporate audience across multiple sectors
* Substantial track record of meeting and exceeding targets
* Excellent influencing and negotiating skills
* Experience of successfully managing relationships with people at all levels
* Knowledge of the UK corporate sector, including corporate marketing strategies and CSR
* Good use of MS Office and databases
* Awareness of diversity and equality issues

If this is a role you'd be interested in learning more about, please do send your CV to [email protected], or call on 020 7939 7448 for an initial chat about the position. The deadline for applications is 28th October and interviews will be held on the 7th November.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), race, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

This is a full time post based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, supporting four hospital charities - Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity, Heartlands Hospital Charity, Good Hope Hospital Charity and Solihull Hospital Charity – which all work together with the administration carried out at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham offices.

The Grants Assistant will work closely with other members of the hospital charity, in particular the Senior Grants Assistant, to efficiently administer the grant making programmes at each of the four hospital charities.

Working as part of a team the post holder will have specific responsibility for accurate inputting of charitable orders, checking suitability of grant requests, correspondence with suppliers and procurement teams.

The post holder will also learn how the Charity proactively seeks feedback on its grant programme, and will be actively involved in sending out and obtaining grant review forms and passing on interesting case studies to the Charity’s communications team.

Grants and Trusts Fundraising Officer (Grant Makers & Corporate Giving)

Autism West Midlands are the leading charity in the West Midlands for people on the autism spectrum. We use our expertise to enrich the lives of autistic people and those who love and care for them. Our passionate, expert staff and volunteers work across all age groups and abilities, providing direct support.

A diagnosis of autism can leave a family with more questions than answers.  Many parents suddenly find themselves facing a scary and uncertain future. We are here to support the families through the tough times, to offer a helping hand along the way; a life-line or just a friendly ear to listen, understand and advise.

Salary: £22,500 Pro-rata

Hours: 22.5

Location: Head Office (Kings Norton)

The main purpose of the role is:

Many of the community services offered through Autism West Midlands are non-statutory funded. The post-holder will be responsible for identifying and maximising funding opportunities through voluntary funded sources such as charitable and corporate foundations and trusts, grant makers, and major donors. They will make applications to the above, as well as identifying and building relations with potential corporate supporters.

Responsibilities include:

• Research funding opportunities through voluntary funded sources including charitable and corporate trusts and foundations, corporate giving, grant makers, and government grants.
• Write persuasive applications to charitable trusts and corporate trusts as well as making charity of the year applications.
• Manage and develop key contacts at new and existing trust and foundations.
• Write, edit, proof read and following agreement by the relevant personnel, send funding proposals to foundations and trusts in line with the charity’s tone of voice, and branding style.
• Ensure bid applications are completed to the highest standard.

At Autism West Midlands we offer a competitive benefits package including:

• 33 days annual leave (pro rata)
• A fully paid for Healthcare Cash Back Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance
• Specialist Training
• Company Sick Pay
• Company pension scheme
• Regular supervisions and peer support
• Free onsite parking