Are you looking for a role where your talents as a fundraising professional can benefit tens of thousands of families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people?

Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people – providing over 88,000 grants and services worth over £33 million last year.

As Fundraising Coordinator, you will provide a high level of supporter care to donors, coordinating fundraising activities, covering organisation of smaller events, trust fundraising and implementing individual giving plans. You will work across the fundraising team to support and work on the development of existing and future income generation.

Acting as the primary contact for all individual donors and digital fundraisers, you will coordinate the stewardship of regular and one off donors, building lasting relationships and the delivery of individual giving plans to recruit new donors and grow income. You will work to expand current fundraising activity and create new opportunities for Family Fund, by promoting the organisation with creativity and credibility to potential supporters.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Working with the communications team to create social media and online content, specifically taking responsibility of the fundraising pages on the website, regularly checking content to keep up to date.
• Market and steward participants for smaller third party fundraising events
• Recording supporter communications in the database (Salesforce) and generating personalised thanking for donors in a timely manner.

The successful candidate will be motivated and driven in order to identify appropriate fundraising opportunities, organise and deliver fundraising events and engage with those who wish to support our work. You will have experience of fundraising in paid or voluntary capacity, be a resourceful self-starter with excellent administration, organisation and time management skills – planning, prioritising and managing workload with the ability to meet deadlines.

This post is based in York with travel across the UK.

If this describes you and your career aspirations, please click the APPLY button to submit a persuasive covering letter and CV.

For more information on the role, please visit the Family Fund website.

Closing date for applications is 8th November 2019.

Family Fund is positive about disabled people and so all disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the minimum requirements for the role will be asked to attend interview.

*Exciting opportunity* The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity are looking for a Community Fundraising Assistant to join our team. 

The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity has a three-year strategy that aims to significantly grow our income. Along with funding an existing world-class programme of research, treatment and care, we have also launched our largest ever capital appeal to build the Oak Cancer Centre that will provide radical new solutions for the research and treatment of cancer.
This role will focus on supporting community fundraising activity and being the first point of contact for supporter enquiries. Dealing directly with supporters, the role requires an effective communicator and proactive individual who is passionate about fundraising.

Starting Salary: £38,623 - £39,945 p.a.

Job Profile

This key post, situated in CAFOD’s Supporter Fundraising section, will play a leading role in developing strategies and the programme of activities to increase online income. The fundraising programme currently raises c.£30 million a year and is critical to ensuring CAFOD can fulfil its long-term commitments to overseas partners. 

Working closely with the Head of Supporter Fundraising, the Digital Fundraising Manager helps to set and deliver annual plans with a focus on designing online initiatives that cultivate good relationships with the Catholic community. The post-holder will manage a Digital Fundraising Support Officer and will play a key role in the Digital Communications team. 

You will be an expert in both fundraising and digital communications, with the ability to keep up-to-date with developments in the sector. As our in-house specialist in digital fundraising you will train colleagues and give ongoing advice on best practice; you will identify new income streams and be an ambassador for your area – championing the opportunities for digital fundraising and using your influencing and negotiating skills to ensure those opportunities are prioritised and supported. 

You will set ambitious targets for maximising online income. To meet those targets, you will use your analytical skills to evaluate our audiences, opportunities and communications, in order to develop a Digital Fundraising strategy. This will provide innovative solutions to increase CAFOD’s visibility, engagement levels and income online. You will produce frequent evaluations and reports to monitor the effectiveness of our strategies and activities. 

Naturally creative and curious, you’ll always be looking for new and exciting ways to engage and delight current audiences, recruit new donors and optimise supporter journeys. 

Comfortable with responsibility and with excellent technical skills and project management experience, you will lead on fundraising projects across digital channels - helping colleagues and developing your own projects to inspire supporters in the UK to help people living in poverty around the world. 

You will use your communication and team-building skills to maintain and develop relationships across the organisation, in order to achieve targets and see projects succeed....

To read more and apply please visit CAFOS's website to begin completing the online application process

Closing date: 03 November 2019 at 11.30pm

Has your experience of digital marketing across all channels been gained in a customer engagement/commercial environment? Then join Shelter as a Digital Fundraising Executive and you could soon be supporting the delivery and management of a range of interconnected giving products, including digital out of home media, contactless payment technology, VR/AR, peer to peer networks - and lots more besides.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

About the role
Our digital fundraising team’s aim is to equip the fundraising directorate with everything they need to support their plans through digital means and allow us to significantly and sustainably grow the income that supports our vision and operations. ​​This particular role will see you help the Digital Fundraising Manager deliver and manage the team’s digital interconnectivity work streams and new projects incubator. Your primary focus will be on organising and supporting a network of new digital fundraising activities, including interconnected fundraising products and third party relationships. We’ll also rely on you to source and deliver new ideas and activities and manage their integration into our Income Generation Division. That will involve providing support to digital fundraising team and other stakeholders across the division, including reporting on KPIs for new products across several teams. In short, get ready for plenty of variety.

About you
Used to playing your part in high profile and innovative digital campaigns, you’ll also need experience of working on fundraising-led partnerships content development or in a similar commercial capacity. Proactive, results-driven and commercially aware, you have lots of creativity and are not afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas when appropriate. What’s more, you have what it takes to focus on and understand the needs of internal and external customers, clients and other stakeholders and strive to deliver a prompt, effective and personalised service each and every time.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to join our digital fundraising team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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Introduction:

The Professional Fundraiser is a leading and national fundraising agency working with large charity clients including The Royal British Legion, Cancer Research UK and Cats Protection, providing face-to-face fundraising services across the UK including Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

This is an exciting new role, aimed to enhance the donor experience across all our charities, and to continuously evolve our face-to-face fundraising offering.

With previous experience in the charity sector, specifically in a strategic and income generation led role, you will be an expert innovator, with a proven track record of taking new products and concepts to the marketplace, from creation to pain-less delivery. You will have a strategic understanding of and practical experience of applying different innovation methodologies and techniques. You’ll use this to provide idea’s and vision for fundraising innovation at The Professional Fundraiser.

Humorous, understanding and driven, you’ll have strong commercial acumen and the ability to transform ideas, new concepts and eye-catching creations into viable income-generating plans. You will be able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, both in person and in writing; and have a strong influencing and negotiating skill set.

Key role responsibilities:

· To provide new concepts, for example: experiential, instant debit and contactless payments, for all our charity clients to create additional revenue streams and to enhance the face-to-face donor experience;

· Actively liaise with charity clients to identify fundraising objectives, working in partnership to create innovative fundraising concepts for the face-to-face environment;

· Lead on the delivery of successful and innovative campaigns for our Charity client’s;

· Lead the transformation of our donor experience and engagement strategy;

· Hold accountability for all marketing and charity brand materials;

· Effectively manage budgets, and measure ROI for implemented concepts;

· Deliver both ‘TPF’ and Client value’s through new innovation.

Essential skills and experience:

· Have a strong background in innovation within the Charity or Fundraising sector;

· Ability to motivate and lead on multiple new concept projects;

· Experience in managing stakeholders within a complex business model;

· Knowledge of face-to-face fundraising and sector trends;

· Excitement to be instrumental in developing our fundraising offering for multiple charity clients.

This is the single most exciting time to join Age UK, the charity helping older people who need us the most. We've launched a new charity strategy with a bolder approach to fundraising and more investment in this area than ever before.

That's why we've created this new Strategic Fundraising Manager role - to focus solely on developing restricted funding propositions to help grow income from high value funders including corporate partners, charitable trusts and national government bodies

You might have heard of some of high value fundraising successes - our current #DonateYourWords campaign with Cadbury, and award-winning programmes such Call in Time telephone befriending and our Lottery-funded One Digital programme that's helped over 20,000 older people get online.

We're looking for someone who can develop more innovative restricted funding propositions that reflect the needs of older people, the ambitions of Age UK and have the power to capture funders' imaginations.

As a Strategic Fundraising Manager you'll work closely with Charity Directors, colleagues in Services teams, Research and Influencing to understand their plans and ambitions. Your unique contribution will be to translate these into fundable programmes and propositions for Age UK's Partnerships and Philanthropy team to secure new income and partnerships.

As well as developing new concepts and budgets and producing well-written, high quality proposition overviews, you'll manage our proposition matching process and refresh our current suite of restricted funding propositions.

About you

* You will have experience developing high-value funding propositions in a like-for-like role, as corporate, trusts or statutory fundraiser or as a service-delivery manager.
* Your grasp of high value fundraising landscapes will be first class: you'll have a deep understanding of what high value funders are seeking from charitable programmes.
* Great communication and influencing skills will be essential to your success, ensuring you gain buy-in from colleagues across the charity, including Directors.
* You will need excellent copywriting skills and the ability to convert dense internal information into fundraising-friendly content for high value audiences.
* You'll be a good project manager with a natural ability to create processes that empower agile decision-making rather than slow things down.

What we offer in return

We welcome applications from candidates seeking full-time, part-time or condensed hours, and can accommodate some home working.

We can offer an excellent salary of up to £45,000 and great benefits including 26 days annual leave + bank holidays, excellent pension (we pay in up to 9%), Life Assurance, Healthcare Cashback Plan, Season Ticket Loan, Cycle to work scheme, flexible working and much more.

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here https://www.ageuk.org.uk/about-us/jobs/employee-benefits/

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

The role seeks to develop JRS UK’s individual giving portfolio UK, both through regular giving and one-off donations. This will involve acquiring new donors and working with the wider Communications and Outreach Team to develop an engaging donor journey, which encourages long-term support of JRS. The Fundraising and Development Officer will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of individual giving activity across a range of channels and for recruiting, stewarding and retaining supporters of JRS UK.  

The Fundraising and Development Officer will need prior experience of creating and delivering successful campaigns to grow income, utilising both traditional and digital techniques. Excellent communication skills and the ability to speak and communicate confidently to supporters is essential.  

This role comes at an exciting time in JRS UK’s history as the organisation looks to increase awareness of its work, with ambitious plans to grow voluntary income. The Fundraising and Development Officer will play a pivotal role in ensuring JRS UK diversifies and stabilises its income streams, ensuring the organisation can continue to accompany and support refugees and those who are forcibly displaced.

JRS UK aims to pay close attention to the experience of refugees it accompanies and all its external communications give priority to their voices, taking care to portray refugees as people with dignity, gifts, joys, hopes and sorrows. JRS UK fundraising activity fits within these broader ethical communications guidelines.

Head of Fundraising & Communications
Worthing, West Sussex (office/field-based, covering Worthing and the surrounding areas)

About Us

Established in 1991, Turning Tides is a community-led charity dedicated to ending homelessness. We empower homeless or insecurely housed individuals to achieve sustainable independent living.

We have gone from supporting a handful of people in the coastal town of Worthing to providing a range of services to over 1,700 people in Worthing, Adur, Littlehampton, Horsham and Mid Sussex. We have over 5,000 supporters, 300 volunteers and 100 staff members to date.

We believe that everyone has the right to a home, regardless of the difficulties and issues they may face in their lives. We believe in showing people who need our help that they are not alone, that the wider community is there to support them and offer hope for a better future.

We’re currently looking for a Head of Fundraising & Communications to help us achieve our goals by implementing our Fundraising, Communications and Supporter Engagement strategy.

The Benefits

- FTE salary of £43,000 per annum
- Stakeholder pension scheme
- Flexible working arrangements (part time working optional)
- Play an important role within a community-led organisation
- 25 days’ holiday, increasing with service

If you are a high calibre fundraising professional who can inspire people to take action, this is a superb opportunity to tackle homelessness and empower local people to get back on their feet.

Through the power of community, Turning Tides provides a place of safety, respect and trust. We work together to overcome adversity and ensure that the voices of homeless men and women are heard.

We have a number of services that are making a difference, including our community hubs, supported housing, outreach café and addition recovery support. We want to do more, and in this role, you will help us to gain the funding we need to end homelessness in the region.

The Role

As our Head of Fundraising & Communications, you will develop, inspire and lead a high-performing team and through excellent external and internal communications, ensure the charity delivers on its mission and ambitions.

This is a broad role covering strategy, fundraising, PR and communications and people development, giving you the opportunity to make a difference throughout our organisation.

You will set stretching targets with the aim to increase our net income from £115K to £370K over the next five years.

Reporting to our Chief Executive and Board of Trustees, you will:

- Develop a compelling fundraising vision and communications strategy
- Develop our digital brand, including our website and social media
- Ensure that monitoring, compliance, risk and ethical fundraising frameworks are in place

About You

To join us as our Head of Fundraising & Communications, you will need:

- Fundraising experience at a senior level
- Experience of creating and managing multiple budgets and forecasts
- A track record of leading and managing teams to achieve growth targets across multiple income streams in the fundraising charity sector
- Proficiency in media channels, such as online (including social media and websites), radio, television and print

A certificate or diploma in Fundraising from the Institute of Fundraising would be beneficial to your application.

Other organisations may call this role Head of Fundraising, Head of Communications, Head of Fundraising Strategy, Senior Fundraising Manager, Senior Charity Fundraising Manager, or Senior Supporter Engagement Manager.

The closing date for applications is the 17th November 2019. Interviews will be held on 29th November 2019.

Webrecruit and Turning Tides are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applications for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you could help us to achieve our vision as our Head of Fundraising & Communications, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency

The role

This role will support the Senior Digital Community Manager in ensuring the charity delivers the best online fundraising experience for our supporters.

As a charity that raises millions of pounds per year for our services and research, the role of digital fundraising is becoming increasingly important in the way we engage our different audiences. In October 2017, we launched on Facebook’s suite of tools for non-profits, and since then, thousands of supporters have raised money for us, mainly through birthday fundraisers in which they ask friends for donations to our charity in lieu of gifts.

You will be primarily responsible for implementing and tracking the performance of a range of pilot programmes to test engagement with fundraisers and donors on Facebook. Reporting to the Senior Digital Community Manager, you will engage directly with people through Facebook fundraiser pages in line with testing strategies and support the Digital team and wider colleagues with other digital fundraising opportunities across other platforms (JustGiving, Virgin Money Giving, etc.).  

About you

Collaborative and highly organised you will be able to multitask and manage a busy workload with a strong track record of achieving and exceeding agreed targets. You will have experience of monitoring, collating and reporting of quantitative and qualitative data to provide insight, ideally using Excel or other data manipulation software.

Experience of implementing Facebook marketing strategies for an established brand, preferably in the charity sector and having used social media to demonstrably increase levels of user engagement is desirable.

A knowledge or understanding of breast cancer, and experience engaging sensitively with people affected by breast cancer or other long term health issue, is also a plus.

About us

We’re excited to announce that in April 2019, Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Now united to create one charity for everyone affected by breast cancer. From research to care, our new charity has people affected by the disease at its heart – providing support for today and hope for the future. United, we can carry out even more world-class research, provide even more life-changing support and campaign even more effectively for better services and care.

By bringing together our passion, energy, expertise, funds and networks, we will make greater progress in more effective ways to make sure that, by 2050, everyone who develops breast cancer will live and receive the support they need to live well. 

For further information and to apply

Please download a copy of the job description and person specification. Please submit your application through our online application portal.

Closing date 9am on Monday 4 November 2019

Interview date Tuesday 12 November 2019

Are you ready for the challenge of transforming our membership experience and helping us reach our ambitious fundraising targets?

Do you share our passion for enabling millions more people to get on bikes?

Cycling UK is seeking an experienced Fundraising Manager to join our Income Generation Team. This team is both responsible for our 68,000 strong membership base and for the development and implementation of our first ever fundraising strategy.

You’ll have at least three years of experience across individual fundraising and/or marketing within the charity or membership sectors. This role will lead on acquisition and retention of our members, as well as our individual giving activity including legacies and raffles. You will use a wide range of marketing and communications skills, including digital expertise; be able to lead complex projects; and be an integral part of helping to shape our new strategy. 

We are looking for an experienced Fundraising Manager, with demonstrable experience in successfully managing corporate relationships (or campaigns) and an ability to work successfully across the income streams as a whole and be a key member of the team at this exciting time as we grow and further our impact.

ABOUT US

Breast Cancer UK's mission is to prevent breast cancer through scientific understanding, education, collaboration and policy change.

We are the only UK breast cancer charity focused entirely on the prevention of breast cancer by campaigning to reduce risk, using traditional and digital channels to extend reach. Today 1 in 7 women will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lives but at least 1 in 4 breast cancers is thought to be preventable.

• We fund scientific research that will help to understand and address the preventable risk factors for breast cancer
• We educate and raise awareness of the preventable risk factors for breast cancer and provide practical information to help people reduce their risk
• We campaign for policy changes that promote the prevention of breast cancer

Our research focuses on environmental and chemical causes of breast cancer but our education and advice includes all preventable risk factors.

THE ROLE

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced fundraising manager to join our small, but growing, and successful fundraising team. The fundraising manager will be responsible for developing our corporate partner strategy and building relationships with new and existing partners. Alongside this work, the role will contribute to researching and writing credible bids for trusts and foundations and supporting all other areas of income generation, including assisting in generating and supporting legacy pledgers when required as a key member of the fundraising team

KEY REQUIREMENTS

You will have:

•   Have an honours degree and three years experience in a fundraising role OR a minimum of 5 years of experience in a fundraising role
•   A proven ability to communicate effectively to broad cross-section of stakeholders in both verbal and written form

You will be able to demonstrate the following experience and attributes:

•   A minimum of 3 years of experience working solely or primarily with corporates and/or fundraising campaigns
•   Experience of writing successful bids as team or lead
•   Experience and understanding of other fundraising income streams
•   Be a strong team worker
•   Sound judgement and the ability to make effective decisions
•   Able to work independently with limited supervision

Benefits: 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays) Agreed flexible working; Personal development budget

Further details are provided within the Job Description and Person Specification.

Are you an experienced fundraiser, who is keen to implement and manage a fundraising strategy for a national charity's projects and developments? If so, we'd like to hear from you!

We're recruiting a Fundraising Manager to join our communications team at the Trust's national office in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. As Fundraising Manager, you will implement and manage a fundraising strategy which will be channeled across trusts and foundations, community fundraising, corporate support and events. You will assist build professional relationships with corporates, and provide individual support to the Trust's services to maximise fundraising.

The Disabilities Trust is a national charity, which provides NHS and local authority-funded support for adults with profound physical impairments, acquired brain injury and learning disabilities as well as children and adults with autism.

Suitable candidates will have knowledge of a broad range of fundraising techniques and understand the regulatory/legislative framework for fundraising. Educated to A level, ideally with a degree and/or recognised fundraising qualification e.g. IOF certificate, candidates will be target driven and have proven experience of effectively coordinating the fundraising functions of a charity/foundation.

We're offering a great benefits package for the right person:

• A competitive salary of £30,000 - £31,620 per year
• 30 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Group life assurance
• Access to nationwide staff discounts for shopping, entertainment, leisure through Perkbox
• Discounted gym membership
• Eye voucher scheme
• Long service and staff awards

For more information, please refer to the job description and person specification which can be accessed below. 

This position is subject to a Disclosure (DBS) check.

The Disabilities Trust is a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.