Door to door charity fundraiser jobs

Do you believe everyone should have a place to call home and the chance to lead a fulfilling life?​

HARP is Southend-on-Sea’s leading homelessness charity. On average we help around 1,000 local people every year to overcome or avoid homelessness. In addition to providing essential short-term emergency shelter, food, clothing and washing facilities, we work to identify the root causes of homelessness, creating tailored support for each person’s circumstances. We achieve success by providing structure, purpose and training opportunities, and by providing longer-term supported housing, empowering people to take steps to leave homelessness behind and ultimately live independently in the community.​

We are recruiting a Head of Charity Shops to lead our Charity Shops team in delivering vital income to support our homelessness services in Southend. You will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of four charity shops in the Southend area, with direct Line Management of three staff, and an overall team of 15 paid staff and numerous volunteers. You will have the enthusiasm, energy and 'can do' approach that will ensure you meet and exceed sales and profit targets for the shops. Line Managing one Charity Shop Team Member (online sales), and two Charity Shop Managers, you will foster an excellent team spirit to ensure our network of shops thrives.  ​

 The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in leading a team in a fast-paced retail or customer service environment, and experience in successfully growing a small business or a department within a larger business.

• Experience in line-managing staff members, including conducting regular team meetings, one-to-one supervision and performance reviews.

• A positive, friendly, enthusiastic attitude, with excellent customer service and communication skills, and the confidence to chair team meetings, address issues and bring about change to improve the Shops.

Closing date: Tuesday 26th July (noon)

Shortlisting: Thursday 4th August 2022

Interview date: Thursday 11th August 2022

HARP will provide you with support and training to carry out your role effectively, and to develop your career. Our benefits package includes 25 days’ annual leave, plus Bank Holidays, a contributory pension scheme through The People’s Pension and a Death in Service Benefit. HARP will make a contribution to the pension and you will be required to make a contribution.

About us

Glass Door is committed to supporting people get—and stay—off the street. We do this by coordinating London’s largest emergency winter shelter network and by providing a year-round advice service to help people move beyond homelessness. Since 1999, thousands of people have found safe shelter and the support needed to leave homelessness behind, thanks to the dedication of thousands of volunteers and partnerships formed with churches and drop-in centre.

The role

We are seeking an exceptional individual with an open, collaborative style and a proactive and enthusiastic approach to join our Fundraising & Communications Team. As the Income Processing Assistant, you will provide administrative support for the processing of all income donations, ensuring these are processed efficiently and effectively onto our database and that all donors receive an acknowledgment in an appropriate and timely manner.

This is a varied role, and you will work closely with the Fundraising team and other key staff within Glass Door to ensure that the donations are coded accurately in line with the charity guidelines and that all the records are clear and up to date.

About you

A team player and confident self- starter, you will have some experience of working within a dynamic team in a busy office environment.

You will demonstrate excellent organisational skills with a strong attention to detail and accuracy, with experience of record-keeping and data inputting skills. 

Proactive, with a flexible approach, you will be able to work independently and also be a supportive team member.You will be numerate with excellent verbal and written communication skills and possess the ability to communicate appropriately with various audiences with diplomacy and tact.

Previous experience of income processing and administration with an understanding of Gift Aid and/or experience of working with CRM databases such as Donorflex, Raisers Edge, or Salesforce is desirable.

You will possess an empathetic attitude to homeless and vulnerably housed people and some experience of working with homeless people or similar disadvantaged client groups and an understanding of their needs would be advantageous.

We are a friendly and collaborative team who love making a positive impact. Fostering a diverse and inclusive place to work is pivotal to our success and we are committed to having team members that represent all communities. We welcome applications from people from all identities and backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from people with lived experiences of homelessness.

If you believe in our ethos and want to make a difference, please send your CV and a short statement (no more than 2 sides of A4), outlining your motivation for this role and your experience and skills, by 1 July 2022. CVs without a cover letter will not be accepted.

For full information on the role, please download the job pack below.

We regret that Glassdoor can only consider applications from applicants with the right to work in the UK.

Role: Trusts & Major Donors Consultant

Reports to: CEO & Founder

Location: Remote working

Days: 8 days / month  

Payment: £250 / day

About Abram Wilson

Inspired by the critically acclaimed and award-winning musician Abram Wilson, we are here to champion underrepresented and unrecognised talent. We provide visibility, access and opportunity within an industry which is often closed to all but the most privileged. 

We meet young people exactly where they’re at – whether that’s at school, in the community or online – and encourage them to find their unique musical identity.

And we offer practical support to emerging musicians and music professionals by sharing valuable connections and opportunities.

We’ve worked with +200 performing artists, providing strategic support to 45 and delivered 72 gigs to nearly 10,000 audience members.

Since 2015 we’ve reached over 10,000 YP in deprived areas with performances and 650 participants with +550-hours of participatory arts workshops in London and Birmingham in partnership with Hackney Empire, Church of Sound, Premises Studios, National Maritime Museum and THSH Birmingham.

Our purpose

We inspire, connect and open doors to the music industry so that young people from disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds have an equal chance to realise their creative potential.

Our vision

A music industry that genuinely reflects the best image of our society so any young person is able to see it as a place for them and can participate in, and collectively contribute to the next generation of talent. 

Our values

• We challenge inequality

Promoting inclusivity and equity in music.

• We pay it forward

Sharing our knowledge, skills, and networks with the next generation

• We work tirelessly

To encourage young people to find and use their creative voice

• We are champions

Of untapped, undiscovered and unrealised talent

What’s the role?

We’re looking for a Trusts & Major Donors Consultant to work with us on maintaining relationships with current donors and securing new major donors for Abram Wilson.

Am I someone you might be looking for? 

Are you self-motivated and passionate about securing income from trusts and foundations and major donors?

Do you have a can-do and confident attitude with strong experience in managing your own portfolio of trusts and foundations?

Do you have experience in securing new grants, increasing funders’ grants from previous years, securing multi-year grants and stewarding trust and foundations relationships?

Do you also have experience in managing your own portfolio of high-net-worth individuals including securing new major donors, increasing donors’ gifts and stewarding major donor relationships?

Are you proud of your written and verbal communication skills?

Do you have excellent attention to detail and can you anticipate problems before they arise?

Are you happy with the idea of working remotely, and as part of a small virtual team?

Can you work independently and prioritise a varied workload?

Are you organised, proactive and dedicated to putting in the work and building relationships with both our current and prospective funders and major donors?

If you can answer yes to the majority of these questions, then we’d love to hear from you!

Please note, that we are actively seeking candidates who are from minoritised backgrounds. 

That sounds like me! What exactly is the role though?

You’ll work with our founder to agree on targets before:

• Undertaking research and becoming the lead point of contact for increasing our income from trusts and donors through research and relationship building
• Creating a strategy for identifying, cultivating, securing, and stewarding new trusts and donors
• Creating pitches, proposals, and cases for support as part of your approach and adapting as needed
• Securing multi-year financial commitments from trusts and foundations
• Securing annual gifts of £1,000 or more from individuals
• Reporting back to funders and donors in a timely fashion
• Regularly liaising with our Impact and Programmes team to:
  • collate information for proposals and pitches
  • collate qualitative and quantitative data for reports
• Regularly liaising with our Marketing and Comms team on:
  • our communication plan with donors through socials, emails, letters, and reports demonstrating the impact of gifts
  • identifying individual donors who have the potential to connect us to trusts and foundations and increase their donations
• Pro-actively keeping our trust pipeline, an internal filing system for trusts and donors, and database updated
• Liaising with our Founder & CEO regularly on planned applications, projected income and any deadline changes

Sounds like a job for me! How do I apply? 

Please send a 1-2 page CV and cover letter of 1-2 pages OR a five-minute video explaining the following:

• Why you’re interested in the role
• Why do you think you’d be good at the role with examples of where you have excelled in the areas we’ve listed above
• What is it that attracts you to Abram Wilson the charity and the programmes we deliver 

When is the deadline?

Deadline to apply: 4th July 2022 at 10 am and we anticipate interviews will be a couple of weeks after that via Zoom. 

When are the interviews? 

We have blocked the 20th, 21st and 22nd of July for interviews. 

Can I find out more before I apply? 

You can book a call with our CEO & Founder to discuss the role and what we might expect from an application between 22nd June – 30th June. This will be subject to availability. 

If you’re successful with an interview, we will make sure you’re clear about what kind of questions we’ll be asking so you can prepare accordingly. 

Access requirements

Please let us know if our application process needs to be adapted for your access requirements. 

Any Ts & Cs I need to know about? 

● This is a self-employed post

● The fee is paid monthly in arrears upon receipt of an accurate invoice

● We work remotely so you’ll need a laptop, access to good wi-fi and Microsoft Office

● If you’re engaged to work with us, you must be able to provide the correct documents as proof of your right to work in the UK

● Having Public Liability Insurance is vital, can be acquired once position has been filled

Trust Fundraising Officer

Salary: £28,000 - £33,000 FTE Dependent on fundraising experience.

Hybrid Working – This role is 2/3 days in the office in Stanmore, North London, 2/3 days at home (if full time).

Working pattern: This role is offered up to full time, but you can do it part-time, term-time, school hours, flexible hours or something else –talk to us about what’s going to suit you. The only thing we can’t accommodate is working on the Jewish Sabbath (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown) or Jewish holidays.

About Norwood

Norwood is the largest Jewish charity in the UK supporting vulnerable children and their families, children with special educational needs and people with learning disabilities and autism. We were founded in 1795.

The projects you’ll most likely be fundraising for are:

Adult residential care for people with learning disabilities – we have 17 homes around London, as well as a residential village, Ravenswood in Berkshire, where we have another 19. Because the basics are funded by the local authority, we mostly fundraise for capital development for these, ranging from a new, accessible bathroom, to a whole new building.

Children and family services for children with learning disabilities: support groups for parents of children with special needs, speech therapy, occupational therapy, educational psychology, specialist teaching. Short-breaks, including overnight, Sunday clubs and holiday camps for children with learning challenges and disabilities. Social work, and family support teams.

What you will do as the Trust Fundraising Officer at Norwood

Trusts research – working alongside the Prospect Research Volunteer to identify opportunities. We have been around a long time, so a lot of this is working through the trusts on our database, as well as regular projects for example to look at the funders of similar charities, work through an online trusts database, and keep up to date with email alerts.

Trust applications – you will gather project information, curate it, and write it up into informative, engaging, beautiful applications, giving trusts the opportunity to fund our work. Your work will focus on bids of up to £5,000.

Trust relationships – you will build relationships through face-to-face meetings, service visits, calls, emails, letters, thanking etc. We’re a much-loved community organisation, and you’ll be the face of it for the trusts that you manage.

Reporting – you’ll gather the information, photos and stories to compile reports that give funders real insight into what they’ve achieved.

Organisational knowledge – develop and maintain your knowledge of Norwood services and build relationships with service managers, the ‘boots on the ground’, who you’ll need to give you up-to-date information.

Support the rest of the team – to gain experience, you’ll support other members of the team in their work, whether that’s gathering information for an application, proof-reading a report, or helping with a service visit. In particular, you’ll support on bids over £5,000 to prepare you for either promotion or your next role.

Building and maintaining team processes – we all help with this, whether it’s improving our Raiser’s Edge dashboard, taking minutes at the team meeting, or creating a new template to help project staff with case study gathering. This project work adds variety, and we’re always open to new ideas.

The skills and experience you’ll need, might be useful, and what you don’t need

Essential

Strong writing skills

Strong research skills

Proficiency in using Word, Excel, Outlook and video calling, e.g. scheduling a meeting, holding a Zoom/Teams meeting

Record keeping – if it’s not on the database, it didn’t happen!

Using new computer software, thinking about what data you can put into it, and get out of it to make your work efficient

How to prioritise your tasks and manage your time

Experience working in an office environment

Experience working with a team, e.g. sharing out work, delegating, supporting

Desirable

Verbal communication skills, e.g. for donor meetings and calls

Experience using a database e.g. Raisers Edge or Salesforce (we use Raisers Edge)

Experience in a charity environment

What you don’t need

A university degree

Fundraising experience – we’d love it if you do, but if you’re willing to learn, we can teach you

To be Jewish – only one member of the team is

A car

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure. Norwood is a disability confident employer. This means we are committed to employing people with disabilities.

For more information, and to apply, please read the attached Job Pack.

Timings – please apply by 9am Thursday 23 June 2022.

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Volunteering & Services Administrator
30 hours per week
Working pattern to be agreed with the appointed candidate
Core hours between 8 am and 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday
£19,305 - £19,650 per annum, pro-rata
Actual annual salary £15,444 – £15,720
Permanent

Age UK South Gloucestershire is looking to recruit a positive, organised and IT-literate individual to provide administrative support to our Volunteering & Services Teams.

As Volunteering & Services Administrator, you would undertake a varied range of administration duties, primarily focused on our services which look to reduce loneliness and isolation experienced by older people; Befriending and Reconnect. Working within our small committed staff team and supporting our team of over 170 wonderful volunteers this would be a busy and rewarding role. The ideal candidate will have a confident, professional and polite communication style both over the phone, in person and in writing.

If this sounds like you and you are looking to join a friendly and supportive team, we would like to hear from you.

At Age UK South Gloucestershire, we offer a generous benefits package, are open to flexible working, and the charity is committed to equalities, diversity and inclusion and therefore encourages applications from all sectors of the community. Applications are welcomed from both experienced individuals and those looking to move into an administration role as full training can be provided.

If that person could be you, download an application pack from our website. Applications must be made using the form on our website, and completed application forms should be returned to us directly. Applications will not be accepted when submitted via agencies or other recruitment platforms.

Closing date: 8 am, Monday 11th July 2022
Interviews: Within three weeks of the closing date