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Role Fundraising Officer
Reporting to: Fundraising Manager
Location: Midlands; Leicester, Nottingham or Birmingham and Hybrid flexible working in place
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £25,000 per annum
About FareShare Midlands
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, fighting food poverty and hunger by tackling waste. We source good quality food that is surplus to requirements from retailers and manufacturers. We rely on an army of volunteers to help redistribute this food to 550 frontline charities such as school breakfast clubs, community centres and organisations supporting those who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated and recovering from addiction. These organisations provide meals and food parcels to more than 35,000 vulnerable people every week.
The Role
FareShare Midlands is looking to recruit a talented and experienced individual to help deliver our fundraising strategy. This is an exciting time to join FareShare Midlands as we develop and expand our operations across the East and West Midlands and look to grow our fantastic portfolio of trust, grant and foundations supporters, as well as corporate partners and community supporters.
We are looking for someone ambitious who wants to take a lead on the creation, submission and management of a portfolio of trust and grant applications in order to achieve financial targets in line with our growth plans. If you have demonstrable experience in securing income from trusts, foundations and grants, as well as relationship building and stewardship of donors, this role is for you.
Main responsibilities
Income Generation
- Deliver the fundraising plan for trusts and grants in order to achieve the income target and year on year growth
- Research and maintain a varied portfolio of trust and grant funders in order to diversify income
- Develop persuasive fundraising proposals and reports to increase donations from new and existing supporters
- Maintain records and analysis of new business secured utilising the Donorfy CRM
- Attend networking events as required to meet new potential donors
- Manage own workload to deliver set of objectives and KPIs
Account Management and Donor Care
- Manage a portfolio of trust, foundation and grant supporters to cultivate strong, long-lasting partnerships
- Inspire and motivate funders through creating a portfolio of materials that demonstrate impact
- Manage income and expenditure of project budgets communicating with both internal and external stakeholders
- Manage and steward funders in accordance with the Fundraising Code of Practice and ensure high standards of supporter care are maintained at all times
- Ensure funder interaction points (telephone, post, email) adhere to the highest standards
- Provide support to the Fundraising Team in other areas of fundraising activity including individual giving and events when required.
Administration
- Keep account plans up to date and internal stakeholders informed of key partnerships
- Maintain accurate financial records and budgets for all partners
- Keep application and reporting pipeline up-to-date and accurate
Communication
- Work with the development and marketing team to create impactful materials
- Develop communication plans to keep supporters regularly informed of our impact
- Be prepared to act as spokesperson and ambassador for FareShare Midlands
This list of tasks and responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required by the Fundraising Manager and Head of Development.
Person specification
- Essential Experience
- Demonstrable experience of delivering against an income targets
- Significant experience of securing gifts from trusts, grants and foundations
- Experience in writing compelling funding applications and impact reporting
- Experience in prospecting for new business and stewarding funders face to face
- Experience of customer care in a charity or sales environment
- Experience in keeping good administrative records
- Experience of presenting to a range of audiences
Skills, knowledge and abilities
- Detailed knowledge of trust, grant and foundation fundraising, particularly around restricted funding
- Ability to manage and steward funders in line with the Fundraising Code of Practice.
- Knowledge of third sector fundraising streams and the complex charity fundraising climate
- Skilled at managing donor relationships
- Excellent communication skills, persuading skills and writing skills
- Excellent numeracy skills and use of Excel
- Good relationship building skills, both inside and outside an organisation
- Ability to work to meet objectives and deadlines
- Ability and experience of working well in a team
- Understanding of all fundraising income streams
Values and behaviours
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- An appreciation of FareShare Midlands’ mission and strategy
- Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team
- Proven ability to develop and maintain good working relations, with both internal and external audiences
How to Apply:
If you would like to apply for this role, please create a supporting statement to demonstrate your suitability and to explain your interest in both the job and FareShare Midlands along with your CV
We particularly welcome applications from those of a black and minority ethnic (BAME) background, as BAME people are currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 11.59pm, Sunday 26 September 2021
Interviews will take place Wednesday 6 October 2021
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Transport Officer
Location: Midlands - Birmingham, Nottingham or Leicester
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5hours/week
Salary: £23,000 per year
Reporting to: Supply Chain Manager
About FareShare Midlands
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, fighting food poverty and hunger by tackling waste. We source good quality food that is surplus to requirements from retailers and manufacturers. We rely on an army of volunteers to help redistribute this food to 550 frontline charities such as school breakfast clubs, community centres and organisations supporting those who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated and recovering from addiction. These organisations provide meals and food parcels to more than 35,000 vulnerable people every week.
The Role
To co-ordinate, manage and oversee the efficient and economic operation of our transport network of vans and lorries to ensure we are optimising the cost of the fleet and reducing our environmental impact. The role holder will be part of the Supply Chain team and will work closely with the regional ops team, food suppliers and FSUK to ensure we have timely access to all available food and schedule internal transfers to ensure we deliver a high service level whilst keeping food wastage to its lowest possible level. They will also manage the maintenance and upkeep or our fleet of vehicles
Key Responsibilities:
- Operations
- Coordinate the Supply Chain vehicle schedule across the region on a daily basis, focused on collection and transfer of food available from suppliers and regional depots
- Maintain a close control over cost and efficiency of Supply Chain vehicle movements, taking direct responsibility for variances and improvement programmes
- Define & work to performance indicators that measure the financial and environmental impact of our transport operation
- Ensure that all relevant transport operations under the control of the SC team are carried out safely and within appropriate regulations
- Share best practice and improvement opportunities with the regional teams regarding route planning and van optimisation
- To liaise with the suppliers including FSUK regarding the removal of trays and pallets etc.
2. Communication & Leadership
- Develop accurate, timely and clear communication with operations colleagues within our region, ensuring they have the transport resource to achieve their objective of delivering a first class service to their Community Food Members
- Work closely with the food suppliers via the FSUK and FS midlands Supply Chain teams, building good working relationships with all relevant external partners
- Provide daily updates on transport schedules between depots and from suppliers, so all stakeholders have visibility of the plan
- Lead effectively a team of drivers, mostly volunteers, who will require clear direction to fulfil their daily tasks. Experience of working with Volunteers on a regular basis would be a distinct advantage in this role
- Develop a close working relationship and communication process with the vehicle suppliers to ensure maintenance and performance levels are met, and with FSUK and other suppliers to agree and execute their requirements for food collection and delivery. Target cost and efficiency savings.
- Undertake end of day reviews and planning for the next day’s activities, and provide reports against weekly & monthly performance indicators
3. Standards
- Ensure compliance with relevant Health & Safety, Food Hygiene and other standards applicable to the transportation of chilled, ambient and frozen food, carrying out risk assessments as required
- Work to the standards and processes agreed with the Food suppliers, vehicle suppliers and depot teams
- Uphold and develop high quality customer care towards & communication with our Food suppliers
- Design standard operating procedures to make continuous improvements to the way that we manage our vehicle fleet
- Show flexibility in leading or being involved in additional projects out of the relevant depot, undertaking any other reasonable duties to support the operations of the charity
4. Administration
- Ensure that relevant administrative & legislative matters are dealt with in a timely way, for instance license checks, vehicle maintenance and driver legislation
Person Specification
- To succeed in this role, you will need to be dedicated to the values & objectives of the Fareshare organisation You will need a motivation to collaborate with and develop others, with a demonstrable commitment to Equal Opportunities
- A flexible work approach, including a willingness to cover alternative tasks & shift rotas as required
Essential Experience
- Experience of working in a transport coordination role, preferably within the food industry
- Experience of working in a cross-functional environment which involves close communication and facilitation of working practises across internal departments & external stakeholders
Skills, knowledge & abilities
- Full working knowledge of vehicle and transport regulations
- Clear and proactive communication skills, both internal and with external stakeholders
- Excellent at problem solving and proactive planning
- Team working & good organisational skills including attention to detail, an ability to prioritise and meet deadlines working as one team
- All round good health and ability to do physically demanding work at times
Qualifications
- Fork Lift truck license and experience of van driving would be an advantage
- IT literacy, in particular of using Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word), and relevant technology that will benefit and enhance the scheduling of transport
- Sound numeracy skills
- Qualifications in Food Hygiene, Health & Safety as it applies to food distribution (or if not it is essential that you have the commitment to training in these areas)
How to Apply:
If you would like to apply for this role, please provide a supporting statement to demonstrate your suitability and to explain your interest in both the job and FareShare Midlands.
We particularly welcome applications from those of a black and minority ethnic (BAME) background, as BAME people are currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 24th September 2021 at 12 noon
Interviews will take place week commencing Monday 27th September 2021 or week commencing 4 October 2021
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.