Homebased/Derby

2 Year Fixed Term Contract- Full Time - 37 hrs p.w

Shift Details: Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm (Flexibility to work out of core hours is necessary for the role)

Do you have a passion for community fundraising, an understanding of the vital role worshipers in faith communities play in supporting charities and a desire to bring your reviewing and implementing skills to deliver the best possible results?  With your natural style of planning and delivering your own workload and a passion for supporting people in later life, this is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role as Faith Relationships Fundraiser, where you will help to develop community fundraising at a large national charity.

You will provide valuable support, excellent customer service and fundraising guidance to MHA's faith audience in particular Methodist Churches in areas of the county with no Regional Fundraiser. You will build key relationship with our volunteer MHA Reps within the Methodist Church and where possible looking to expand the scheme more widely.

This role will also have responsibility for reviewing, managing and evolving the scheme as well as supporting the development of our principal community fundraising activity MHA Sunday. Internally you'll build strong relationships with Regional Fundraisers and our Chaplaincy team to support and enable them to raise funds for MHA's vital work through a faith audience.

This role is a 2 year fixed term contract to allow you to hand over relationships to Regional Fundraisers as they become appointed as part of our community fundraising strategy. This role can be either home based or Derby Head Office based working extensively across England, Wales and Scotland. Extensive travel across the countries will be needed and you must be willing to have regular overnight stays. A full driving licence and access to a car are a must.

Inspired by our Methodist Roots, MHA cares for older people, you should be passionate about reducing loneliness and isolation and determined to make a difference for the 17,000 individuals we support across the country.

MHA is an inclusive and diverse employer and welcomes candidates to apply from all backgrounds, faiths and abilities.

In return for your commitment MHA offer 28 days holiday (inc bank holidays) Pension, Life Assurance and a Discount and Voucher scheme.

Closing date: Sunday 3rd November 2019

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.

Here at Eden Brown I'm delighted to be working with an inspirational national health charity, assisting them in their search for a Community Fundraiser in Derby. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well established team working in a capacity that makes a real difference to the success of this much loved organisation. This role sits within a hugely successful, ambitious and collaborative community fundraising team and provides the opportunity to grow income in a well established area.

As Community Fundraiser you will support and motivate an existing network of local fundraising groups but also have the scope to identify new volunteer groups within the community. You will be required to provide excellent stewardship and on-going support and motivation to the network of supporters. The role also offers the opportunity to work not just within the community and with volunteers, but also with local corporate organisations.

To be considered for this role you must be an enthusiastic and highly motivated fundraiser looking to inspire those around you to raise income for this wonderful cause. You should be organised and self-driven and have an aptitude for maintaining strong relationships and be known for your ability to effectively steward supporters. Experience working toward targets is essential, as is a knowledge of fundraising and volunteer management. If you are looking to make the move into the sector and believe you possess what is required to make a success of this role then do also get in touch.

The role is based in Derby covering the local region, but also offers the flexibility to work from home a day a week if required.

This really is a wonderful opportunity to join a fantastic team raising income for an inspirational cause that touches the lives of many. Please note the deadline for the role is Friday 11th October with interview scheduled for 30th. To find out more please apply directly, or contact Charlie, on 0161 2331600 / [email protected]

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Position title:

Manager to CEO

Reports to:

CEO

Location:

Muslim Hands, 148 — 164 Gregory Boulevard, Gregory House, Nottingham, NG7 5JE

Hours of work:

Full-time, 35 hours per week

Salary guideline:

£28,000 – £32,000 (depending on experience)

Terms of Employment:

12-Months' Fixed-Term Contract (with a 6-Month Probationary Period, Extendable)

Application Process & Closing Date:

Send an up to date CV and supporting Covering Letter by Email by no later than 30th September 2019

Approx. Interview & Role Commencement Date(s):

Interviews: W/C 7th October 2019

Start: ASAP thereafter

NB: -

• Strong Applicants may be contacted sooner, ahead of the closing date, to hold skype Interview with Muslim Hands; therefore, please include your Skype is in your application.
• Muslim Hands reserves the right to end the application procedure early should the right candidate be found.

Background:

Muslim Hands is a UK-based international relief organisation working in over 40 countries worldwide.

Main Responsibilities:

The Manager to the CEO will be based at Muslim Hands headquarters Nottingham, the purpose of the role is to provide full administrative and secretarial support at a management level to the CEO. The Manager will be there to ensure daily time management, scheduling of meetings and correspondence, travelling with the CEO and providing administrative support such as documenting, reporting and disbursement control. Furthermore, the employee will handle sensitive and complex issues in a professional and objective manner. Take the initiative when appropriate, especially in the CEO's absence. The Manager will be expected to travel between the Muslim Hands partner offices frequently.

As a Manager to the CEO you will be responsible for:

• Providing administrative management of effective communication with supporting offices.
• Produce monthly reports of CEO's monitoring activities and assist in developing future KPIs for the CEO
• Process correspondence, ensuring that incoming correspondence is dealt with by the CEO or on behalf of the CEO, or other staff as appropriate.
• Booking and arranging travel including flight booking, accommodations and visa according to the organisation's travel policy.
• Manage arrangements for Trustees' and Sub-Committee meetings, including production/distribution of agenda and papers.
• Co-ordinate ad-hoc meetings and conference calls including meeting preparations for the CEO when required - often at short notice.
• Manage the CEO's office in developing, implementing and monitoring the organisational strategy.
• Manage the process of following up agreed action on matters which fail within the director's responsibility - chasing responses, triggering follow-up action.
• Typing, compiling and preparing reports, presentations and correspondence
• Acting as the first point of contact: when dealing with correspondence and phone calls
• Managing the diary and organising meetings and appointments for the CEO
• Liaise with stakeholders, national and international staff confidently either face to face, video conferencing or via the telephone as and when necessary and required.
• Demonstrate and promote adherence to all Muslim Hands Policies, which encourage and support other members within the overseas fundraising offices.
• Maintain absolute confidentiality with regard to the organisation's information and procedures
• Any other duties that may reasonably be required by the CEO.

Person specification:

Essential for the postholder to:

• Demonstrate eligibility to work in the UK Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Demonstrate Personal / Professional experience that of overseas travel and out of office hours working
• Demonstrate working knowledge/experience of electronic diary management.
• Fluent in English and Urdu
• Demonstrate working knowledge, experience of Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, at all levels both internally and externally.
• Demonstrate working knowledge / experience of organisational skills and the ability to plan own work
• Demonstrate working knowledge / experience of being responsible for paying attention to detail, with the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy
• A flexible, pro-active approach to work, including the ability to prioritise and re-prioritise
• Ability to deal with sensitive information with discretion and to maintain confidentiality.
• Demonstrate working knowledge / experience of Excellent IT skills, including presentation software packages, preferably Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Desirable for the postholder to:

• Demonstrate ability to work on own initiative
• Possess direct experience undertaking similar duties as described above
• Possess satisfactory experience within an international NGO/Charity Organisation
• Fluent in Arabic in addition to the language requirements above
• Possess ability to effectively communicate in additional languages.

Please register your interest and apply by sending in your current CV and a suitable covering letter.

Deadline for applications is 30th September 2019 however we reserve the right to end the application procedure early should the right candidate be found.

NB: Unfortunately, we will only be able to contact successful candidates so if you have not heard from us by the closure date unfortunately your application will have been unsuccessful.