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This is a key role within Friends of the Earth Scotland, working closely with the Head of Development and Communications, Communications Manager and Officer, Head of Campaigns, Campaigners and Director.
You will contribute to the Fundraising and Communications Team’s work to deliver a fundraising programme that generates an annual income of £1 million to power Friends of the Earth Scotland’s campaigns to protect people and planet. You will be responsible for designing and delivering plans to raise income from individual and community giving and increase the membership of FoE Scotland, particularly through digital engagement, events and other proactive fundraising activities.
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Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser
Would you like to improve the health and wellbeing of children and adults through the healing power of live music?
We have an amazing opportunity for a passionate and creative Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser to win partnerships by writing exceptional proposals and developing relationships with funders.
Position: Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser Scotland
Location: Edinburgh office when return or home based in UK
Hours: Part time (30 hours per week)
Salary: £20-£25,000 pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: Excellent benefits package including 35 days per year (inclusive of bank holidays), Employer Pension contribution of 5%, Death in Service benefits, access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity for flexible working.
Closing Date: 24 June 2021 5pm
Interviews: Week commencing 12th July
The Role
The Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser will win partnerships by writing exceptional proposals and developing relationships with funders. You will act as the relationship holder for a portfolio of trusts and foundations both current and prospective.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Support the delivery of the work of the organisation primarily by securing income from trusts and foundations
- Ensure all proposals align with the organisation’s vision, mission, strategic aims and values
- Cultivate and sustain strong relationships with funders
- Research and plan a programme of approaches
- Submit bids as per priorities identified by the music delivery team
- Identify, research and create compelling proposals with budgets
- Produce reports as agreed with the Trusts and Foundations Fundraising Manager
- Undertake fundraising administration duties
About You
As Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser, you will be passionate and proactive with knowledge of raising money from trusts and foundations. You will use your energy to identify new prospects and create engaging proposals.
Fundraising knowledge to cover:
- The process and key success factors for raising money from trusts and foundations
- How to identify new prospects
- Proposal and report writing
You will have:
- Experience of raising funds from trusts, foundations or statutory sources
- Proven experience of a high standard of bid writing
- Experience of building relationships with trusts and foundations partners
When applying for this role you will be asked to submit a CV and Covering letter of no more than two sides of A4.
About the Organisation
The charity improves the health and wellbeing of children and adults through the healing power of live music. Every year, professional musicians share live music with over 100,000 people from across the UK, who may not otherwise get to experience it. This includes those living with dementia, mental health problems, or who are seriously ill.
The charity is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes enquiries from everyone and values diversity in the workforce and is committed to safeguarding. This role will require a basic DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) or equivalent check
You may also have experience in areas such as Trusts Fundraiser, Foundations Fundraiser, Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser, Fundraising, Partnerships Manager, Fundraising Partnerships, Income Generation, Income Generation, Fundraiser, Engagement, Trusts, Foundations, Supporter Engagement, Marketing, Communications, Music, Arts, Bids, Trusts Officer, Foundations Officer, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising and Communications, Trusts Executive, Trusts and Grants, Senior Trusts, Senior Trusts and Foundations.
The post holder will develop and deliver a community fundraising strategy for supporting regional fundraising across their allocated area, in line with the organisation's strategy. The charity's ambition is to grow and develop their regional fundraising team and the postholder will play an intrinsic role in this with the ability to develop, manage and grow a team in their region.
You will have a passion for community fundraising and relationship management as they proactively engage with existing, new and lapsed supporters providing excellent stewardship throughout.
To apply for this role you will need:
* At least three years' experience in a fundraising role, planning activity and raising income to meet targets
* Successful and demonstrable experience of recruiting fundraisers and developing relationships for long-term benefit
* Experience of community and event fundraising, nationally, regionally and locally.
* Ideally creating or supporting building up a community fundraising strategy at a local level as well as creating stewardship plans too.
* Experience of using Raiser's Edge or similar CRM system
If you would like to learn more about this role or would like to receive a full job description then please do get in touch with Hannah at Harris Hill on [email protected] or call her on 02078207331.
Only suitable candidates will be contacted.
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Children 1st work to give every child in Scotland a safe and secure childhood. We achieve this by providing direct services to vulnerable children and their families across Scotland.
“A child without a childhood is like a rainbow without colour”
John McGurk, Children 1st Supporter
Join our team and put the colour back into the childhood of children in Scotland.
To do this, we need to raise as much funds as possible. It’s an exciting time for fundraising at Children 1st and full of opportunities for the right person.In 2019 we launched our new fundraising strategy which is designed to inspire people in Scotland to put children first. Since then, despite the pandemic, we’ve successfully grown our income.
This post will play a key part within the Public Fundraising Team. Inspiring new and existing donors will be at the heart of what this role will do and allow the team to do. By supporting the Community, Individual Giving and Legacy fundraisers, you will be central to the success we can achieve. You will also have the opportunity to lead on your own fundraising activity.
Being able to develop excellent working relationships with supporters and colleagues across the organisation to assist with meeting fundraising objectives.
In return you will be offered a competitive salary, 40 days annual leave inclusive of 9 days public holidays, a contributory pension scheme and generous maternity/adoption and paternity leave benefits.
This is a permanent, full-time role of 35 hours per week. Based flexibly throughout Scotland, preferably in the central belt and will mainly work from home. The role will require frequent travel across Scotland.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The job of a Save the Children's UK Data Import and Integrity Executive is varied and fulfilling.
- Are you confident in using SQL and MS Access?
- Do you have a good understanding of and experience in relational databases?
- Do you have thorough attention to detail, ensuring complete accuracy, even when under pressure?
- Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?
If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
Job Purpose
As Data Import and Integrity Executive, you will play a key role in ensuring supporter's donation & personal data are processed with speed, accuracy & compliantly. You will be part of a dedicated team that ensures all the data that drives our Fundraising and Advocacy income streams is imported to schedule and with total accuracy. You will support the drive to improve data integrity within the CARENG database, helping to identify root causes of issues and supporting the development of robust solutions to improve this area.
This role will give you the opportunity to directly impact the fund services delivered to our children and with a personalised development plan, you will be supported to evolve in the career you want.
Key accountabilities:
- Managing the process of uploading data onto the CARENG database so that all supporter transactions, contact details, preferences and other data are continually updated and always accurate, meeting set targets to ensure visibility to the teams within Fundraising & Marketing of the performance/status of imports
- Supporting the development of robust processes that drive improvements in data integrity ensuring improved reliability of the data held on CARENG
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant laws, e.g. true and proper capture of Data Protection preferences, correct capture of Gift Aid Declarations
- Working with key suppliers and internal account managers to ensure they deliver the services promised, with the efficient and timely transfer of data to agreed protocols
- Supporting the development of the CARENG database to meet the continually evolving needs of the user, including the testing of any database upgrades
- Supporting the development of processes for new products including: sense-checking Import briefs, scoping out requirements and devising processes for the accurate and timely import of data to meet both fundraiser and supporter expectations
- Ensuring all business rules and processes, including user guides, are thoroughly documented and signed off by the business
- Supporting the work to identify improvements to processes that exploit opportunities for increased efficiencies and automation using Talend, our ETL automation software, helping to reduce the need for manual intervention as much as possible
- Working closely with colleagues in the wider Supporter Data and Operations Department to provide coherent, practical and valuable support to internal clients
- Running, as required, selections & extracts from the CARENG database following predefined processes
- Provide front end CARENG training for Fundraisers.
Essential Technical Skills:
- Good understanding of and experience in using relational databases
- Thorough attention to detail, ensuring complete accuracy, even when under pressure
- Experience and skill at managing, developing and communicating data protocols, file transfer arrangements and data integrity
- Excellent and proven communicator with the confidence to explain technical issues in a simple and engaging manner to a wide range of audiences, through a variety of means
- Strong problem solver, able to deliver innovative and effective solutions
- Resourceful at managing own time, especially balancing routine work with more complex projects to ensure everything is completed to schedule with total accuracy
- Strong numeric and verbal reasoning skills
- Experience using the CARENG database and Talend software (desirable)
- Expertise in managing large scale imports
- Confident in using SQL
- Confident in using MS Access.
Personal Skills:
- Strong and collaborative team player
- Proactive, resourceful and flexible with the ability to prioritise heavy workloads to meet tight deadlines.
Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.
What we do
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Position: Senior Volunteering Learning and Development Officer
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent
Location: Flexible (currently home-based up to August 2021)
Salary: £33,273 - £37,839 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band E, Level 2
Department: Volunteering
At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.
Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.
About this job
In this role, you’ll inspire our 3,000+ volunteers to do their best in their roles, and equip them with the skills and knowledge they need to make a difference in the lives of people affected by MS.
You’ll play a key role in reviewing our approach to Welcome and Induction, making sure volunteers get off to a great start and know they are valued for their contribution.
You’ll be responsible for developing eLearning resources which can be rolled out at scale, and for helping volunteers and volunteer managers to understand policies and procedures.
We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.
The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our new 5 year strategy.
As part of this exciting transformation, we’ll be moving from our current National Centre based in Cricklewood, London to Finsbury Park, London later this year. We’re expecting to be moving into our new office from August 2021.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 5 July
Interview date: Thursday 15 July
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We are committed to promoting equality and diversity.
As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, the HR team will anonymise your CV and supporting statement before forwarding to the shortlisting panel. We’re a Disability Confident Employer.
No agencies please.
As the Book Festival is embarking on an exciting new chapter in its story, help us take our fundraising efforts to a new level.
As our Sponsorship & Partnerships Officer you will be part of our creative and high-performing Development Team, and will be responsible for managing a portfolio of in-kind and cash sponsors and prospecting for new organisations to approach. You will be highly organised, great at communicating with sponsors, and will bring relevant corporate fundraising experience. We will give you the support and opportunity to develop your skills, liaising with sponsors to deliver the exciting range of sponsor benefits on offer.
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Rate of pay: £22,500 to £25,000 dependent on experience
Closing date for applications: 5pm, Thursday 24 June 2021
Interviews will be held over Zoom on Tuesday 6 July, Wednesday 7 July, and Thursday 8 July 2021.
Please read the job description carefully and complete the online application using the links on our website.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival Ltd has its registered office at 5 Charlotte Square, EH2 4DR and is a company limited by guarantee (no SC 79939) with charitable status (SCO10120)