Corporate fundraising assistant jobs in cambridge
In this role, you will be the face of our friendly and passionate Supporter Engagement Team. You will have the opportunity to support in creating and launching exciting new fundraising products, attend a wide variety of events and add your voice by reviewing current processes which will benefit our fundraisers.
You will work closely with our network of 12 home-based Regional Fundraising Officers (RFOs) as well as our Sporting Events and Corporate Teams. You will be the first point of contact for the majority of our supporters and will offer first-class stewardship to ensure our fundraisers feel well-supported before, during and after their amazing adventures.
You will provide crucial administrative support to the RFOs and all teams in Supporter Led Fundraising (Sporting Events, Corporate, and Marketing and Engagement). Support will include adding accurate details to our database, coding gifts tracking and monitoring income, responsibility for online donation platforms and virtual fundraising as well as general administrative duties in the office.
This role will be known internally as Fundraising Executive*
Main duties and responsibilities of the role:
· Be the positive, passionate face and first point of contact for the Supporter Led Fundraising (SLF) team.
· Build first-class and long-term relationships through telephone calls and emails with our supporters to ensure they have the best fundraising experience at Alzheimer’s Research UK.
· Provide central stewardship support to a remote-based team of Regional Fundraising Officers (RFOs) to ensure effective delivery of the SLF strategy and budget.
· Provide administrative support for the whole of the SLF team, primarily to the home-based RFOs.
· Support the Sporting Events Team with recruitment and stewardship of events.
· Work with our Corporate Teams to effectively steward our partner companies.
· Ensure consistent cross-working to identify potential opportunities in current and prospective supporters for long lasting relationships across all teams.
· As one of the key fundraising contacts, keep the managers and team up to date with supporter feedback.
· Provide central communications within the organisation on behalf of the team, updating them on upcoming events and projects.
· Attend a variety of events to engage with and cheer on supporters including golf days, regional events and sporting events.
Administrative Support
· Process material requests from fundraising supporters, offering appropriate support while considering charity cost.
· Provide support on fundraising email inboxes e.g. skydive inbox and Walk For a Cure
· Provide further support to the RFOs where necessary including mass printing, franking, booking couriers and personalising thank you letters and certificates.
· Provide additional support on Ad Hoc campaigns such as Facebook challenges.
· Ensure clear, consistent and up to date fundraising data management including adding new constituents to the fundraising database, accurately recording and maintaining supporter details, monitoring and tracking supporter income and making sure supporters are appropriately thanked in a timely manner.
· Support with social media and website updates including virtual fundraising challenges.
· Provide data support to the Senior Officer.
· Ensure all communications are in line with GDPR policies.
· Become the Central coordinator for SLF-wide activities and procedures, e.g. skydives, contactless machines and invoice processing.
Spotting Potential
· As the central point of contact for the SLF team, you will effectively and consistently spot opportunities to build networks among our fundraising community and flag these to the relevant members of the team.
· Identify and research potential community group and business partnerships for SLF teams.
· Use data reports to spot fundraising trends and identify opportunities.
· Help spot opportunities and contact supporters as part of our re-engagement process to encourage repeat fundraising.
· Effectively communicate ARUK’s legacy messages to supporters via telephone and in writing.
Collaboration
· Build strong relationships with teams across the organisation in order to work collaboratively, allowing you to offer the best stewardship journey to our supporters.
· Work with our Supporters and Families Team by sharing fundraiser stories to maximise potential publicity.
· Work closely with teams such as Science Communications, Digital and Design to help create appropriate stewardship journey assets for the whole of SLF.
· Liaise with our Supporter Care team to ensure processes are in-line across the organisation.
· Become involved in a Community Fundraising Project Group, adding creative insight and performing administrative and relationship-building duties based on one of our key fundraising areas.
What we are looking for:
· Good knowledge of Word, Excel, and Outlook.
· Experience of working in a customer service role.
· Confident working with computers.
· Enthusiastic and polite telephone manner.
· Confidence in making telephone calls to new and warm individuals.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
· Good organisational skills.
· Able to juggle multiple demands on your time and prioritise appropriately.
· A passion for wanting to deliver the best, first-class stewardship journey for our incredible supporters.
· Warm, friendly and personable.
· A professional and hard-working team player with a positive and collaborative work ethic.
· A willingness to learn and adapt to processes.
· To be agile, flexible and understanding that work priorities may change at short notice due to the nature of fundraising.
· Flexibility to work occasional unsociable hours when the role requires.
· Willingness to travel independently when required.
Additional Information:
Ways of working: As part of our Agile ways of working you will be required to work approximately 2 days a week from the office, which is subject to the requirements of the role and the business needs. Flexibility on where you work can be split between working from home and our office.
Roles that are classed as part of the Agile ways of working are not able to claim any costs for Mileage/Travel on Public Transport, Accommodation and/or Meals. This includes when attending the office for various meetings/events.
Our Office: Our office is at 3 Riverside, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, CB21 6AD.
Salary: Circa £23,000 per annum, plus benefits
Please download the Vacancy Pack on our website for more information.
The closing date for applications is the 13th July 2025, with interviews being arrange once shortlisting has been completed. Please indicate in your covering letter if you are unable to attend an interview on a certain date. We would encourage you to submit your application at the earliest opportunity, as on occasion we may have to bring forward the interview date and/or the closing date based on the needs of the business. Although a possibility, this will only happen in exceptional circumstances. Please indicate in your covering letter if you are unable to attend an interview on a certain date.
We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented. Any offer of employment is however subject to you having the right to work in the UK.
As part of our commitment to being an inclusive employer and ensuring fairness and consistency in our selection process, we will handle your CV and application with the utmost confidentiality. While we strive to anonymise your CV where possible, there are certain sections, such as the application question, that cannot be fully anonymised. We kindly ask that you remove any personal information, including your name, when answering the application question. The hiring panel will not have access to your personal details, such as your name and address, until you are invited for an interview. Should you require any adjustments at either the application or interview stage, please contact us via our website.
How to apply: Please create an online account using our Online Recruitment Platform which can be accessed through our Job Vacancies page. You will be able to attach your CV to your application and track the status of your application.
About Alzheimer’s Research UK: Alzheimer's Research UK is the UK's leading dementia research charity. Our mission is to accelerate progress towards a cure. Today 1 in 2 people will be impacted by dementia, either through caring for a loved one, developing it themselves or tragically both. But there is hope.
There has never been a more important and exciting time in dementia research. With promising new drugs in clinical trials that slow the progression of the diseases that cause it, and revolutionary new ways to diagnose them on the horizon, we are now at a tipping point. Working with the smartest minds globally and across the UK, with industry and academia, Alzheimer’s Research UK is uniquely placed to invest in the very best research identifying barriers to a cure and knocking them down so that there are more and better treatments for everyone with dementia. For the first time in history, we can see a future where people with dementia can get a swift and accurate diagnosis, and effective treatments that could slow or even stop their disease. We stand for everyone affected by dementia. We stand for a cure.
In 2024, we were incredibly proud to be awarded a 3-star accreditation by Best Companies which recognises ‘World Class’ levels of workplace engagement. This is the second consecutive time; we have been awarded a Best Companies 3-star accreditation.
We were also listed in the prestigious Best Companies lists:
· 18th in the 100 Best Large Companies to Work For in the UK.
· 10th in the 50 Best Companies to Work For in the East of England.
· 2nd in the 30 Best Companies to Work For in the Charity Sector.
ARUK really does look after its people, where you will be able to add value and make a difference.
To view further details about working for us and the benefits we offer, please visit Alzheimer’s Research UK
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Fundraising Manager
Location: Based at Wandlebury Country Park, Cambridge CB22 3AE
Salary: £35,000 - 40,000 FTE dependent on experience.
Closing Date: 21 July 2025
Hours: Part-time 18-26 hours per week
Permanent position
About Cambridge Past, Present & Future
Cambridge Past, Present & Future is a local charity that protects the beauty of Cambridge and its environment.
We care for the green setting of Cambridge and its most valuable landscapes, and we are working to enhance and connect them for nature and people.
We inspire people of all ages to get outdoors and help them to enjoy, learn about and get involved with their local environment, heritage and culture.
We help to protect, celebrate and improve the important built heritage of the Cambridge area.
We own and care for Wandlebury Country Park, Coton Countryside Reserve, Bourn Windmill, Hinxton Watermill, and Cambridge Leper Chapel; we also manage Grantchester Meadows. We deliver a busy schools and public events programme. We were founded in 1928 to preserve the beauty of the historic city of Cambridge and its countryside setting and we work hard to influence the planning and development of the greater Cambridge area.
We are a team of 17 staff (7 full- and 10 part-time/seasonal) supported by over 100 volunteers and assisted by field teachers, advisors, and service providers.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting time to join our charity: Cambridge is changing rapidly, and we are working hard to tackle issues such as the loss of nature, climate change and access to green space. We have inspiring new projects to expand habitats and green spaces on the Gog Magog Hills, to create a new wetland at our Coton Reserve, to plant trees and woodlands and to save one of Cambridge’s oldest buildings. Right now, the work of our charity is needed more than ever before, and we need the financial resources to be able to step up and make even more of a difference.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced fundraiser to help us increase our income from mid-level and major donors, trusts and foundations, and legacies.
Committed to our causes, you will use your donor cultivation skills to strengthen existing relationships and use your research and networking skills to identify and cultivate new opportunities. Your excellent written and development skills will enable you to work with colleagues to turn their visions into compelling proposals for funders and our wider support base. Your knowledge of fundraising best practice will ensure that we deliver an excellent donor experience.
You will be an effective worker with an eye for detail who can use your experience to fulfil the administrative and reporting requirements of the funds you are helping to raise.
You will work alongside our Membership & Communications Manager and have some support from our Administrative Assistant. You will also be supported in your work by the CEO, trustees, volunteers, and external contractors.
You will be part of a friendly and committed management team where you can make a difference, and your work will have an impact.
Our office is in an 18th century building overlooking the beautiful Wandlebury estate. Wandlebury is located on top of the Gog Magog Hills just south of Cambridge.
Key responsibilities and deliverables:
- Achieving fundraising targets
- Fundraising from:
- mid-level and major donors
- trusts and foundations
- memorial fundraising and legacies
- businesses and corporates
- identify other opportunities
- Fundraising support services, budget management, reporting, policies and procedures
- Work closely with the Senior Management Team
- Recruit and manage fundraising staff and volunteers
Person Specification
- Graduate level/higher qualification; or a relevant qualification in fundraising
- Demonstrable evidence of successful fundraising from individual major donors, trusts/foundations, and grant funders
- Excellent written and personal communication skills, with evidence of producing effective fundraising content
- Good IT skills (spreadsheets, M365, database management) and experience of fundraising support systems
- Experience of the not-for-profit sector
- Knowledge of UK fundraising and data protection regulations
- Experience of administering grants and donations
- Experience of organising donor cultivation and solicitation events
Benefits
- 33 days FTE annual holiday entitlement pro-rated, includes allowance for Bank Holidays.
- Pension contribution of up to 5% of gross pay.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Cambridge Past, Present & Future, please do not hesitate to apply.
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Salary: £32,000 – £39,000
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Closing date: Rolling
Location: Hybrid / Home-based
Benefits: Flexible working options, with the option to be based remotely in the southern region, and compressed/part-time hours considered.
Are you a passionate fundraiser looking for an opportunity to step into a Senior Fundraising Officer role? We’re thrilled to be working with the amazing Lifelites, a charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children with life-limiting conditions as they look for a driven Senior Engagement and Fundraising Officer to join their team.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in developing and delivering high-quality supporter engagement strategies, with a particular focus on corporates, membership organisations (including Freemasonry), and special interest groups. You’ll lead on stewarding existing supporters, creating meaningful partnerships, and securing new opportunities for income generation and brand visibility across the southern half of England and Wales.
This role would be perfect for someone with a track record of securing support from individuals, corporates, or community groups, who’s ready to step up into a more strategic, outward-facing role.
To be successful in the role of Senior Engagement and Fundraising Officer, you will need:
- Proven experience in managing and developing successful fundraising or partnership relationships with individuals, community groups, or corporates.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking and presentation delivery.
- A track record of delivering stewardship programmes that encourage repeat giving and long-term engagement.
If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call and ask to speak to Jake.
Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we use our extensive sector knowledge and experience to match candidates to the most suitable roles. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically, supporting people to find their perfect role within the not-for-profit sector.
We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity on our website.
If enough applications are received, the charity reserve the right to end the application period sooner.
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The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS), is the only patient-led organisation in the UK specialising in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Due to its targeted focus on RA and JIA, NRAS provides truly expert and wide-ranging services to support, educate and campaign for people living with these complex autoimmune conditions, their families and the health professionals who treat them.
1. Main Purpose of Job
To drive referrals to and use of, NRAS services from NHS relationships across the UK.
Identify, build and maintain relationships with Rheumatology and other multidisciplinary teams to ensure relevant healthcare professionals are aware of the support that NRAS provides to people with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Adult Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.
To work with those healthcare professionals to maximise uptake of their referrals to our services.
Attend events around the UK and online to promote NRAS Services.
Support the I&SD Director and other senior team leaders to design, develop and implement new services and to reach new audiences for existing services.
2. Business development & Strategy
2.1. Identify, develop, and secure new opportunities for NRAS services within the NHS.
2.2. Create and implement business/service development strategies to expand the service user base, and service offering within NHS Rheumatology departments and connected healthcare teams.
2.3. Analyse market trends, identify emerging opportunities, and stay ahead of industry developments to recommend strategies for further growth of NRAS services.
3. Relationship development and management around the UK
3.1. Build and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with existing and potential referrers or influencers and healthcare providers often travelling to attend clinic/location meetings.
3.2. Act as the primary point of contact for key referring organisations, ensuring referrer satisfaction and identifying opportunities for additional services or project work.
3.3. Understand HCP needs, provide tailored solutions, and work closely with the project managers to ensure successful delivery.
4. Proposition and presentation development
4.1. Lead the creation of compelling proposals, and presentations to drive new service user volumes.
4.2. Work with internal teams to gather technical and operational input to develop competitive, high-quality proposals.
4.3. Present to referrers and influencers articulating NRAS’ value proposition, differentiators, and capabilities.
5. Project Management Oversight
5.1. Support senior/project managers in the planning and execution of projects, ensuring alignment with referrer and influencer expectations.
5.2. Monitor the progress of key projects, providing necessary updates to clients and senior management on milestones, deliverables, and performance metrics.
5.3. Facilitate communication between referrers, internal teams, and external stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of projects.
6. Monitoring and Evaluation and “market” intelligence
6.1. Monitor the rheumatology service landscape, industry trends, new regulations and innovation.
6.2. Provide insights and recommendations to leadership regarding potential strategic partnerships, services or new audiences.
6.3. Prepare regular reports on performance, development activities, and client feedback.
7. Networking & industry representation
7.1. Attend/undertake promotional relevant conferences, seminars, and networking events to build NRAS’ visibility and attract new service users
7.2. Cultivate a professional network within Rheumatology and MDT arena, leveraging connections for potential opportunities.
7.3. Cross-Functional Collaboration:
7.3.1.Collaborate with senior management to align development goals with organisational strategy.
7.3.2. Work with other departments providing insight and content used to promote our services to Healthcare professionals
8. General responsibilities
Positively promote NRAS at all times.
Support Fundraising Team with applications for funding for the Information & Support team through charitable grants and other avenues.
Undertake other duties as appropriate when required.
Person specification:
Qualifications: A-level or qualified by experience
Experience:
- Demonstrable experience working in a similar environment such as charity/public sector or pharmaceutical etc. into NHS
- Health related services experience
- Proven track record of securing new business for service delivery
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
- Ability to initiate, analyse, monitor and evaluate outcomes
- Experience of delivering at a senior level.
- Experience in overseeing multiple projects with the ability to manage timelines, budgets, and expectations.
Knowledge and skills:
- Highly developed relationship development skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
- Proficient use of Microsoft Word; Excel; PowerPoint
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project execution.
- Understanding of the health environment
- Understanding of Rheumatoid Arthritis and its treatment
Personal Circumstances & Attributes
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Highly motivated and committed
- Positive outlook and approach
- Willingness to travel and work out of hours when required
- Full driving licence and car owner.
Reporting to: Innovation & Service Delivery Director
Salary: £39,000-£42,000 dependent on experience
Location: Hybrid or remote flexible working
Hours: 35 hours pw
Car driver and clean licence required.
Please send a covering letter with your application.
Please provide a covering letter to confirm how your experience to date would benefit our organisation and enable you to achieve success within this role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Form the Future is an award-winning social enterprise on a mission to improve life chances by connecting young people to the world of work. We work in the East of England and beyond, delivering impactful careers programmes in schools and colleges, and building powerful partnerships with employers, educators and local authorities.
We are now looking for an outstanding Chief Programme Officer to join our senior leadership team. This is a unique opportunity for a strategic, values-led leader to drive the next phase of our development, translating policy into practice, leading an exceptional team, and ensuring we deliver measurable change for young people.
About the Role
As Chief Programme Officer, you will lead the design and delivery of our programmes and services, ensuring they remain responsive to emerging needs and aligned with our mission. You will bring clarity, coherence and ambition to our delivery strategy, connecting the big picture to day-to-day actions.
We’re looking for someone who can unify and inspire a multidisciplinary team, while commanding credibility across the careers and skills ecosystem. You’ll be adept at working with a wide range of stakeholders, from schools and employers to local authorities, government agencies, and funders. You’ll have the confidence to represent us as an expert in what works in careers education, and the humility to keep learning.
What You’ll Bring
- A track record of senior leadership in a relevant field (e.g. education, skills, youth employment, social impact).
- The ability to turn government policy into practical, fundable, scalable interventions.
- A strategic mindset with experience in outcome-based planning (ideally including OKRs).
- Strong people leadership skills and a collaborative, empowering style.
- An understanding of the needs and motivations of all our client groups - students, educators, employers, and investors.
- Personal credibility and warmth, someone who brings both gravitas and kindness to their leadership.
Why Join Us?
This is a senior role in a respected, mission-driven organisation that is making a tangible difference in young people’s lives. You’ll work alongside a passionate, supportive team and have the autonomy to shape strategy, culture and impact. We offer flexible working, a collaborative culture, and a genuine commitment to learning and innovation.
How to Apply?
Please send the following:
- Your CV
- A cover letter (max 2 pages) explaining why you’re interested in this role and how your experience aligns with the person specification
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and identities. If you believe in the power of careers education to change lives, we want to hear from you.
