Fundraising and Communications Manager
Salary: £38,000 + pension
Hours: 37.5 hours
Leave: 25 days per annum
Place of work: Overstream House and home working

Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 9th August 2020
First interview and presentation date: 13th August 2020
Second interviews: Week beginning 24th August 2020

Wintercomfort is a dynamic and innovative charity working with the homeless and vulnerably housed in Cambridge. It’s an exciting time to join our organisation as we develop new services to support more individuals out of homelessness.  Over the past 5 years we have worked hard to build a number of successful and robust fundraising channels, as a result we are in a strong financial position. 

We are now seeking a Fundraising and Communications Manager to build on this success. Working within a small team we are looking for someone who can further develop our corporate giving, engage major donors and increase our online fundraising income. 

The successful candidate will have at least 5 years fundraising experience possessing a self-starting approach. They will have a proven track record of securing successful corporate partnerships, possess excellent stewarding skills, with have a strong background in digital fundraising and traditional media relationships. 

To Apply and For More Information:

Please click the apply button and attach your latest CV and a covering letter outlining your interest in the role, along with your key achievements, skill and expertise. Your application will be sent automatically to us. 

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No agencies please.

Supporter Engagement Manager
Location: Flexible – Cambridge, Norwich or Ipswich
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum, pro-rata.
Full or Part-time

Are you looking to join an ambitious and skilled fundraising team, take on a new challenge in a well-established organisation with an excellent brand and make a difference to the lives of life-threatened children and young people, and their families?

We are recruiting for a new Supporter Engagement Manager role, who will have a primary focus to develop and lead a new team to support our strategy to put donors at the heart of everything we do, inspiring and motivating more people to connect and contribute to the work of EACH.

You will have a thorough understanding of direct and digital marketing, donor development and supporter care, via channels inclusive of online and offline newsletters, email, and Facebook, significant experience of managing and producing fundraising and marketing campaigns, experience of managing income and expenditure budgets and of reviewing and developing strategic plans. You will be comfortable leading change and encouraging new ways of working.

The post holder will make an active contribution to the overall Fundraising department, providing support and advice on donor development, supporter acquisition, retention as well as lead and embed a culture of compliance and risk management across the Fundraising department, ensuring colleagues consider compliance as an integral part of the process when designing and delivering fundraising communications and activities.

The work base of this role can be flexible, to work from our Cambridge, Norwich or Ipswich sites. 

Closing date: Tuesday 8th September

To Apply and for More Information:
If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website.

This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

EACH is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications for all sections of the community. EACH reserves the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

No agencies please.

Exciting opportunity to work for a growing charity as a part-time fundraiser

Tom’s Trust provides psychological support for children with brain tumours and their families in the East of England and in the North East.  Our vocation is to provide psychological support to all children in the UK diagnosed with a brain tumour and to support their families too.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a supportive, approachable, and personable individual to join our dynamic fundraising team.

Community Fundraiser
Based: Cambridge
Hours: Part-time

Requirements

Minimum of 2 years fundraising experience

Drivers Licence

Good IT skills essential

Events management experience

Some experience of marketing useful but not essential

Some experience of Corporate Fundraising useful

Salary: £15,000 - £20,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

As a Community Fundraiser, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of a range of fundraising activities, providing fundraising guidance and support for volunteer fundraisers, and develop new fundraising opportunities and networks, ensuring the highest level of supporter care.  You will be open to new ideas and work easily within a small, dynamic team as well as have a flexible working attitude.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience of developing and implementing fundraising strategies and an ability to create motivating and inspiring proposals to volunteer fundraisers. You will be a confident , community minded person and have an experience in building trust and relationships with our supporters

Full driving license and use of own car will be required.

Closing date: 31st August

Interviews: Monday 7th September 2020

Role

We are seeking an experienced, passionate, proactive and committed Operations Manager to lead on the financial and day to day management of the Brazelton Centre UK, and to help us achieve our mission to ‘give newborn babies a voice by supporting parents in understanding their unique communication’.The post-holder will be an advocate and ambassador for the Brazelton Centre UK nationally and internationally.

Terms

The Brazelton is committed to equal opportunities and can offer flexible working.

This is a part-time role (3 days per week / 7.5 hours per day or flexibly over 4 or 5 days), based on 60% pro-rata of an annual FTE salary of £33,000-£38,000 pa, depending on experience.

About us

The Brazelton Centre UK aims to support the transition and adjustment to parenthood, focusing on the development and mental health needs of both babies and parents. Holding the baby in mind, our charity, which is research and practice based, enables health professionals to facilitate relationship building between parents and their newborn babies at a time that is experienced as a major life event. The philosophy of the organisation is one of enabling effective service development, appropriate clinical intervention and sharing of expertise.

The Centre, established in Cambridge in 1997, is a training organisation for health professionals and researchers who work with babies and parents.  We offer training courses in the Newborn Behavioural Observations System (NBO) and Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS). Brazelton Centre UK is one of four Centres in the world, teaching the NBO and NBAS, and the most active.  Brazelton UK works in partnership with other organisations on training, surveys and research, including third sector organisations, universities, NHS trusts and organisations providing support for the under-fives. Almost 6,000 practitioners have undertaken the UK training courses in the NBO or NBAS.

The Centre currently has a staff of 6, from different professional groups, in a range of roles, with 18 Trainers (including 2 Master Trainers, 6 Senior Trainers) UK-wide, able to teach specific courses as required.

The charity has a Board of Trustees.The Operational Manager will report directly to the Director and be ultimately accountable to the Board of Trustees.

This post may entail some travelling in the UK and abroad for meetings. 

Reporting to:  Chief Executive

Job Role: Develop a fundraising programme to include development of UKAHT’s membership.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be a well-rounded fundraiser with experience across a wide variety of fundraising sources that match the ambitions of the charity. A passion for heritage, environment and culture is essential - as is cultivating close and attentive relationships with supporters. We are looking for a collaborative worker who can roll-up their sleeves and enable the whole team to become fundraisers in their different capacities.

About You

• You are passionate about Antarctica, cultural heritage, public engagement and inspiring young people about the future of this fascinating continent.
• You feel confident representing the organisation to a variety of stakeholders, and creating bespoke cases for support for each audience.
• You are an experienced fundraiser, with a successful track record of helping charitable organisations to attract and grow income and funding from a wide range of public and private sources.
• You are entrepreneurial, ambitious but practical in your approach to fundraising and appreciate the balance of skills and requirements that this discipline requires.
• You are a proactive networker and collaborator. 
• You are a strong communicator - able to identify and build effective relationships across all stakeholder groups and at all levels of seniority.

Person Specification:

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE (essentials and desirables)

Proven experience of securing significant funding from a variety of sources, including high net worth individuals, corporates, trusts, and foundations, and through face to face negotiations

Track record of success fundraising and cultivation of donors for campaigns of £250,000+

Track record of designing and implementing development strategies, including revenue and capital fundraising activities

Experience of budget development and management, and an understanding of management accounts

Proven ability to manage and grow a list of active and significant donors

Knowledge of relevant charity and tax laws

Experience of fundraising for arts, environment or education causes

Extensive networks and existing relationships with public bodies, trust and foundations, businesses, and philanthropists

Experience of working with high net worth individuals and senior volunteer boards

SKILLS, ABILITIES AND ATTITUDES (essentials and desirables)

Ability to inspire and motivate colleagues to create an effective and efficient department focused on successful income generating initiatives

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of people

High attention to detail, particularly regarding written work, budget and event planning

Excellent influencing, negotiation, and diplomacy skills

Ability to think and operate strategically and provide flexible solutions

Able to deliver to demanding deadlines and with a hands-on approach

Good IT skills including databases

Ability to self-motivate, work as part of a small team, and support colleagues

Confident, resilient, and resourceful

A commitment to excellence and professionalism

Appreciation of and support for the aims and ethos of UKAHT

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Leading and managing fundraising activity across the organisation, ensuring that colleagues are alerted to relevant opportunities in their business areas and working with them to develop and curate effective relationships with funders, donors, partners and clients in a proactive and methodical manner.
• Leading in delivering new fundraising and projects, including time-bound campaigns and new creative initiatives to grow income sustainably and ensure that the organisation follows appropriate internal and external applications and reporting timeframes and processes.
• Supporting colleagues in drafting correspondence and documentation, such as reports, briefings, applications, presentations, or other communication items to support development activity.
• Designing and implementing systems to identify and assess relevant opportunities.
• Developing and managing effective policies and procedures in line with best practice in the sector.
• Ensuring income generation activity is produced, filed, and archived in a systematic and efficient way, for all research, contracts, reports, and other records relating to fundraising.
• Managing development budgets and other related resources.
• Deliver a successful income generation plan that enables the delivery of UKAHT’s strategic plans and has the support of the CEO and Chair of the Board of Trustees.
• Lead fundraising activities across cultivation events, stakeholder management, sponsorship, individual giving, legacies, and capital projects.
• Develop and maintain productive and positive relationships with Trustees and Ambassadors.
• Support the development of UKAHT’s business plan.
• Represent UKAHT at internal and external networking opportunities, developing existing and new donor relationships, and deputise for the CEO where necessary.

FUNDRAISING AND ADVOCACY

• Be personally accountable for successful generation of major income to support programmes and the delivery of the ongoing strategy, agreeing fundraising targets with the Director and regularly reporting on progress.
• Set and achieve fundraising targets, showing year on year growth in activity and results.
• Manage and motivate directly or indirectly effective use of the Chair, Trustees, and Ambassadors for cultivating prospects and developing projects.
• Develop and maintain UKAHT’s relationships with funders, including major donors, trusts and foundations, corporate partners, and statutory bodies.
• Develop and maintain supporter schemes, including introduction of a legacy group.
• Have responsibility for development events, including private views and patrons’ programmes, ensuring high standards of donor care are maintained. 
• Keep appraised of latest developments in the sector. 
• Work closely with the Digital Engagement Manager to maximise case for support messaging, develop advocacy materials, undertake successful digital campaigns.
• Ensure accurate and appropriate accreditation of supporters, sponsors, and partners.

ADMINISTRATION

• Produce reports for and make presentations to the Board of Trustees, as necessary.
• Ensure supporters are reported to in an appropriate and timely fashion.
• Manage development budgets and prepare financial data.
• Support the maintenance of an accurate database.
• Carry out any other duties as deemed appropriate by the CEO.

TERMS:

UKAHT is committed to providing excellent terms and conditions of employment for all employees.

Location

Pre-COVID this role was based in the UKAHT office in Cambridge:

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.  However, as we adjust to a COVID world we envisage a flexible blend of homeworking with some office-based work.

Salary: £38,000-£40,000 pro rota + benefits

Working Hours: 3 or 4 days a week (working week 37.5 hours) with potential for full time in the future

Holidays: 25 days per year pro rota of paid leave plus the usual public holidays.

Expenses: All reasonable travel costs incurred as part of the role will be reimbursed as per UKAHT policy

Benefits: UKAHT operates a contributory pension scheme into which you will be enrolled.

Probationary period: The appointment will be subject to a six month probationary period

Notice period: Upon completion of the probationary period the period of notice will be two months by either party.

UKAHT is committed to equal opportunities and to learning how to increase the diversity of our people. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons and encourage applications from people currently underrepresented in the Polar regions, including women in senior leadership positions, members of black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, people with disabilities and LGBTQI+ people. We also welcome flexible working arrangements.

* Temporary working from home required due to Covid-19 pandemic *

We are delighted that you are interested in joining the team at Cambridge SU. We’re about to embark on our first year as a brand new union, and we’re looking for just the right candidate to join us in an ambitious year!

This role is one of two brand new roles at Cambridge SU! The successful candidate will work alongside our newly appointed Activities Manager; the two roles are essential in helping us achieve our ambitious goal of offering additional, and greater support for student groups at Cambridge University. This role in particular will be working alongside our seven campaigns that represent different groups in the student membership.

The role’s primary purpose is the be the lead staff member in supporting, training and developing the Cambridge SU campaigns; 

• BME Campaign
• Class Act Campaign
• Disabled Students’ Campaign
• Ethical Affairs Campaign
• International Students' Campaign
• LGBT+ Campaign
• Women’s Campaign

Campaign Support

There are seven campaigns that exist within Cambridge SU; they are communities within the SU’s student membership. Each group has its own committee, events and campaigns that they run. The Campaigns and Societies Coordinator should help SU Campaigns to be sustainable and effective in their representative roles. A key function of the role will be to support the political and community building work of the SU Campaigns, including projects, campaigns, events and welfare support. An important part of this role will be developing relationships with student campaigns. Alongside the Activities Manager, the role holder will develop and formalise internal processes and procedures for SU Campaign activities.

This role will also be instrumental in facilitating the campaigns transition to Cambridge SU, part of this will involve ensuring regular communication is maintained and implemented with systems the role holder will create and maintain. In addition to this, the role holder will help drive our aim of increased postgraduate representation across Cambridge SU, this will be documented in writtens reports about the impact of campaigns, produced by the Campaigns and Societies Coordinator. 

Supporting the campaigns also includes being the lead staff support for the three sabbatical officers linked to campaigns:

• BME Officer
• Disabled Students’ Officer
• Women’s Officer

We envisage 60-70% of the role-holders time being dedicated to the campaigns. The additional time to be spent on supporting societies alongside the Activities Manager

Societies

Alongside the Activities Manager, a new role introduced this academic year, the role holder will support the development and training of societies within Cambridge University. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in the development of new student groups to work alongside this exciting new role and help shape the support and development of student groups.

Alongside the job description, role-holders will be expected to deliver upon objectives defined in the organisation’s strategic plan and associated work plans. All Cambridge SU staff may be required where necessary to support projects and work throughout the union, such as the annual freshers’ fair.

**Please take some time to read the Job Information Pack, browse the Cambridge SU website and contact the SU if you'd like to discuss to role further via phonecall.**

Deadline to apply: Thursday 6th August, 5 pm
Interview date: Monday 17th August

We’re aware these are uncertain times for everyone, we want to assure all candidates that apply will be treated fairly, with our hiring practices changing as little as possible from how we operated before the Coronavirus epidemic. If you are invited to interview, tasks may be sent ahead of time and interviews will be conducted remotely.

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from those from Black, Asian and an ethnic minority backgrounds, as they are under-represented within Cambridge SU in some areas. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.