We are seeking a skilled and passionate fundraising and comms superstar to help us continue our vital work supporting asylum seekers and refugees in Bristol.
This role is a true one-off and has huge potential. Working with our team to raise funds in our community for some amazing projects and managing our already well-established comms output, the right person in this position can make a huge impact to ABC and will be supported to hit the ground running from the off.
As we head into this post-pandemic world, the experience of displaced people in the UK is more disjointed and worrying than ever. ABC's goal is to enable a better life for all of our community and ensure the most vulnerable receive not just the basic goods for living but as warm a welcome as possible.
Aid Box Community exists for the Relief of Poverty and Financial hardship of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom for the public benefit by providing free and essential living Items. Promoting the integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers through the signposting of partner services for practical help in Housing, Legal Advice and Medical Help.
Our vision is a world where every refugee and asylum seeker is given the opportunity to start a new life.
Our mission is to uphold the basic rights of refugees and asylum seekers by providing practical aid, support and direction and, by doing so, making their daily lives a little easier.
Our Values: Aid Box Community welcomes displaced people with open arms into the ABC family. Together, we will provide choice, love, hope, advocacy and a space where everyone belongs, and everyone is important.
Aid Box Community currently works with over 600 refugees and asylum seekers living in and around Bristol.
We run a free shop and connections service as well as an active women's group. We have ambitious plans for growth over the next three years and are looking for a brilliant communications and fundraising coordinator to complement our existing team.
Alongside your skill, experience and enthusiasm, you will join the CEO, our Founder / Director of Operations, our volunteer coordinator, our aid coordinator, bookkeeper and grants writer as well as an active trustee team and literally hundreds of volunteers in supporting some of Bristol's most vulnerable members of the community.
Job Description:
This role requires a strong background in charity events fundraising as well as individual giving,The Fundraising and communications coordinator will report to the CEO and work with our grant's fundraiser and bookkeeper. your specific role will include management of our local events, crowdfunding, individual giving and legacy campaigns as well as develop our database of supporters. With the support of volunteers, you will also be working closely with trustees to develop a communications strategy to support our ambitious plans for the years ahead, as well as day to day management of our social media platforms and quarterly newsletters.
Key Duties:
Fundraising
- Build on the development and delivery of an ABC events programme both online and in the community; direct and third party. (some evening / weekend work required)
- Develop and increase our supporter base via individual giving, crowdfunding and legacies.
- Monitor and analyse performance of website, using Google Analytics, and social media channels.
- Working to targets & ensuring Aid Box Community’s financial targets for fundraising is met
- Developing and maintaining our supporter's database.
- Assist in the preparation of fundraising reports to CEO & Trustees in time for Trustees meetings
Communications
- Contribute to the development of the ABC communication Strategy
- Managing the growth of Aid Box Community’s online presence through social media
- Managing and develop Aid Box Community’s website
- Creation of Quarterly update mailers for Aid Box supporters.
- Development and collation of key impact material to be used by Aid Box, including website content, case studies and other content for use on social media.
- Develop press contacts and seek media publicity.
- Ensuring all communication to donors is timely, professional and accurate
Experience, qualifications and requirements
You will have a strong track record of fundraising for charities, with experience of running events, regular giving, legacy and crowdfunding campaigns.
First class communications and IT skills are required for this role as is a strong working knowledge of maximising social media presence.
You will have experience of:
- working or volunteering with NGOs or charities essential.
- IT and word processing skills essential.
- Experience of organising events essential.
- Experience of marketing and communications essential.
- Excellent written and communication skills essential.
- Experience of working with websites desirable.
- Experience of working with volunteers essential.
At Aid Box Community, we don’t just accept difference, we celebrate it. We know that by having a diverse and welcoming team, we really can help share hope and love to people from all over the world. Aid Box Community is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
this role requires the undertaking of an enhance DBS.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Children's Mental Health Charity Seeks Fundraising Manager - either experienced or with transferrable skills
We are looking for:
Fundraising expertise – ideally you will have experience of developing and implementing fundraising strategies and securing a high level of funds from a range of sources including grant funders and corporates. However, we are open to candidates who can demonstrate that they have transferable skills from other backgrounds and can show that they can quickly adapt to different environments and sectors. We would be willing to offer external training in fundraising as part of the salary package to the right candidate, as well as inhouse support and training.
Communications – you will need to demonstrate examples of excellent written skills, good IT and social media skills and good administration generally.
Relationship development – good interpersonal skills and experience of working with diverse range of complex stakeholders and partnerships are key.
Project management – you will have great organisational skills and have experience of managing projects from inception to evaluation and working autonomously.
Strategic thinking – you will be comfortable thinking outside of the box and can co-create the fundraising strategy as well as contribute to the business planning process.
Flexibility – working in a small team with tight resources you will need to be comfortable helping out with getting things done but in return you will get flexible working arrangements and independence.
Positive and solution-focussed – you will be a problem solver, able to find practical and constructive solutions to challenges that arise in the course of your work.
The cause – you will be passionate about our vision to support the mental health of children, young people and families, committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in the voluntary sector, and be aware of the issues affecting small charities.
Please see the job pack for further information.
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Marketing Officer
(ref: SUS2999)
£24,691 per annum
37.5 hours per week – permanent contract - based in central Bristol
As part of the UK-wide marketing team this exciting role will support the development and delivery of innovative marketing campaigns and plans to promote walking and cycling and get more people involved in supporting our work.
You will use your excellent marketing and communications skills to build awareness of the Sustrans brand and drive support for our work and activities. A focus of this role will be to engage people in using and enjoying the National Cycle Network, a network of walking and cycling routes across the UK. Working across a broad range of channels, you will reach and engage target audiences with a focus on digital channels such as content, social and email alongside working with partners to extend our reach to new audiences.
You will have experience of working in a results-driven B2C marketing role as part of a marketing team and of creating audience-focused content, of planning delivering and reporting on multi-channel marketing campaigns, and building good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You will also have good writing, editing and proof reading skills, be well organised with a good working knowledge of digital marketing principles and best practice, a high level of IT and digital literacy and be committed to the promotion of the Sustrans cause.
Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am on Wednesday 7 October 2020. Interviews will take place via MS Teams or Zoom on Wednesday 21 October and Thursday 22 October 2020.
Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion. We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.
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