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Fundraising Assistant
West Dean, West Sussex | 21 hours per week | Permanent
Are you an organised and proactive administrator looking for a rewarding role where your work helps support arts, heritage, education, and creativity?
West Dean is seeking a Fundraising Assistant to join our friendly and collaborative fundraising team at our stunning Sussex campus in the South Downs National Park. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting donor engagement, fundraising activities, and student funding within one of the UK’s most distinctive cultural and educational organisations.
West Dean, operated by The Edward James Foundation Ltd, is internationally recognised for its work in arts, craft, design, and conservation. From our historic Sussex estate to our London-based KLC School of Design, we provide inspiring environments where creativity and heritage thrive.
About the Role
As Fundraising Assistant, you will provide essential administrative and operational support across a wide range of fundraising activities. You’ll help maintain accurate donor records, process donations, coordinate communications, support donor visits and events, and assist with reporting and prospect research.
Working closely with colleagues across fundraising, finance, marketing, and academic teams, you’ll help ensure excellent donor care while contributing to fundraising initiatives that directly support students, projects, and the future development of West Dean.
This is a varied and engaging role that would suit someone who enjoys organisation, relationship-building, and working with data and systems in a meaningful environment.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- Confident managing multiple priorities and deadlines
- Comfortable working with databases, spreadsheets, and administrative systems
- Professional, approachable, and an excellent communicator
- Able to build positive relationships with colleagues and supporters
- Interested in developing a career within fundraising or the charity sector
- Previous administrative experience is essential, while experience working with CRM systems, events, or customer-facing environments would be advantageous.
What We Offer
Salary: £15,000 per annum (£25,000 FTE)
21 hours per week worked across a minimum of 3 days
- Generous contributory pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free entry to West Dean Gardens
- Free use of swimming pool, tennis courts, and library
- Staff discounts and subsidised short courses
- Subsidised bed and breakfast rates on campus
- A unique and inspiring place to work surrounded by creativity, heritage, and beautiful landscapes
If you’re looking to join an organisation where your work truly makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now via the West Dean Careers website.
Registered Charity
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Inspiring creativity & potential through arts, craft, design, conservation, horticulture and heritage in a sustainable, wellbeing-focused environment.
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Assistant Coastal Birds Project Monitoring Officer
Curdridge, Hampshire
£24,479 - £26,031 per annum
Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is shaping a wilder future for our counties – protecting special places, restoring habitats and inspiring people to act for nature. As part of the UK’s fastest-growing movement for nature’s recovery, we lead with passion, integrity and bold thinking. Join a team where your work has purpose, your ideas matter, and you can help create lasting change for wildlife and people.
We are seeking an Assistant Coastal Birds Project Monitoring Officer to join our cause.
You will be responsible for delivering a key element of the Bird Aware Solent programme of which the Trust is a partner.
Bird Aware Solent aims to raise awareness of overwintering coastal birds within the three Solent Special Protection Areas (SPAs) and reduce disturbance to coastal birds through influencing the behaviour of visitors, and through projects that aim to mitigate for increased visitor and recreational pressures in the Solent.
You will assist on the design and implementation of pre and post mitigation monitoring for the projects, by surveying and assessing the impacts on coastal birds and visitor behaviour.
About you:
Monitoring and research work is essential to ensuring conservation decision-making is based on sound evidence. This role therefore requires experience in coastal bird ecology, ecological survey techniques and data analysis.
You’ll be an enthusiastic team player with an interest in coastal bird ecology. This role would suit a candidate who is interested in applying their affinity for data analysis to the benefit of birds and people through strategic mitigation solutions.
Wild About Inclusion!
As an inclusive employer we recognise that our workforce needs to better reflect the communities in which we live and work. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector, including people from black, Asian, minority Ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a Movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
Disability Confident. We are proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer. The scheme is helping us recruit and retain great people to meet our workforce needs. As a member of the scheme, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.
To be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme you must:
- Identify as being disabled which under the Equality Act 2010 means a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial*, long term** adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities; or a long-term health condition; and;
(*Substantial is more than minor or trivial **Long-term means 12 months or more)
- Set out how you meet all the minimum qualifying criteria set out in the person specification for the post at the application and testing stages. This is a requirement for all candidates, not just those applying under the scheme.
Benefits. We offer a wide range of benefits including a competitive salary, generous annual leave allowance, a contributory pension scheme, life assurance, learning and development support, 24-hour access to our employee assistance programme, discounted staff travel with our corporate partners Wightlink (subject to T&Cs), free parking at our sites and more.
Closing date: 31 May 2026
