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Job Title: Community Fundraiser
Responsible To: Events & Challenge Events Manager
Salary; c£28,000 - £30,000 per annum (dependant on experience)
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time
About The Felix Project
The Felix Project is London's biggest food redistribution charity and the largest end-to-end food redistribution charity in Europe.
Our vision is a London where no one goes hungry and good food is never wasted.
We rescue surplus food from businesses, supermarkets, restaurants and farms. This food is nutritious, in-date, and safe and includes a high proportion of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and fish. If we did not rescue this food, it would be at risk of going to waste. Instead, we deliver it free of charge to London charities, schools, food banks, COVID food hubs and other organisations serving people in need. Our food is a vital lifeline for children and families, people on low incomes, people who have lost their jobs, the homeless, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, the elderly and keyworkers.
We are a very ambitious and dynamic young charity, and we haven’t stopped growing since we were founded in 2016 in memory of Felix Byam Shaw, by his father, entrepreneur Justin Byam Shaw. We recently ran a very high-profile media campaign with the Evening Standard and Independent, raising £10million to feed London. We have celebrity endorsement from Reece James, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jack Whitehall, Stephen Fry, James May and many others.
Last year we delivered enough food for 21.1 million meals to help people in need. We have continuing major growth plans for the next 4 years, with a target of delivering enough food for 100 million meals by 2024. Because nearly all the food we receive is donated by the food industry and volunteers, every £1 of expenditure redistributes £10 worth of food.
Role Overview
The Community Fundraiser will create, develop and deliver a fundraising plan to grow existing and new support for The Felix Project. This role will take the lead on generating new income opportunities and retaining and engaging our supporter base. This role will suit a driven, experienced fundraiser who is motivated to work in a dynamic young charity helping the most vulnerable people in London with a beautifully simple model that provides good food for good causes.
Responsibilities
- Strategy
- Implement The Felix Project’s 3-year strategy to time and budget, meeting specific financial and organisational objectives, targets and KPIs
- Securing Community and Challenge Event Income
- Deliver the plan to secure new opportunities across community and challenge events
- Be proactive in seeking new fundraising opportunities across London from schools, universities, volunteer groups, supermarkets, small businesses, and individual supporters
- Work with challenge event providers to broaden our challenge events portfolio
- Work with our Volunteer Team to develop support from our volunteer community
- Supporter Management
- Develop first class stewardship programs across our community fundraising and challenge events portfolio. Ensuring that supporters receive motivating, timely and relevant updates about the work of The Felix Project
- Inspire, motivate and drive supporters to reach and exceed fundraising targets
- Ensure that supporter expectations are met and exceeded, whilst managing expectations
- Respond effectively and promptly to enquiries and requests received directly from new and existing supporters
- Attend select community events acting as a charity ambassador, or arrange appropriate volunteers, to give talks and accept cheques. Must be able to work occasional evenings and weekends
- Administration
- Effectively create and maintain up-to-date supporter records
- Provide analysis and regular income reports
- Evaluate and create written agreements for partners, as necessary
- Provide first class supporter engagement through telephone calls, meetings, letters and ensure that all supporters are thanked and acknowledged in a timely manner
- General
- Keep up to date with all the major issues related to food surplus and food poverty
- Keep up to date with the Code of Fundraising Practice
- Assisting with other fundraising initiatives as required
- Represent The Felix Project at external events
- Contribute to team meetings, taking a one team approach
Measures of Success
- Growth in community and challenge events income
- Increased number of new supporters
- Number of new fundraising streams
- Retention of and increased support from existing supporters
- Positive stakeholder feedback
Person Specification
The Felix Project recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds.
We particularly welcome applications from those of a black and minority ethnic (BAME) background, as BAME people are currently under-represented within The Felix Project.
You will have experience of identifying, approaching and securing new supporters. We are looking for a proactive fundraiser who is a strategic thinker, confident communicator and has excellent relationship management skills. With demonstrable experience for achieving targets and growth, you will have enthusiasm and drive with a flair for motivating others. You will be committed to the work of The Felix Project and will have excellent organisational skills.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience of community and challenge events fundraising
- Firm grasp of fundraising principles and practice
- Proven ability to develop good working relationships with people of all levels
- Excellent communication and personal skills
- Strong writing skills and experience of writing persuasive proposals
- Confident in public speaking and delivering presentations to a wide variety of stakeholders
- Excellent track record of donor care
- Experience of working with a CRM database
- Well organised with a record of providing regular reports and analysis
Desirable Experience
- Passionate about food-waste / environment
Competencies and Behaviours
- Motivated and enthusiastic about our work
- Brilliant communicator and influencer
- Results focused with a problem-solving approach to challenges
- Recognise and value the contribution of volunteers
- Digital/IT savvy
- Competent in MS Excel/Word/Powerpoint
- Organised with a methodical approach
What you’ll get in return
You will be working in an upbeat, innovative charity with strong vision, ambition and a fantastic culture and leadership team. This role is located at our Park Royal (W3 0RU) depot, but you will also be working in our other depot locations and occasionally remotely.
Salary; c£28,000 - £30,000 per annum (dependant on experience), 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, occasionally the role will be required to work weekends.
Application procedure
Please send your CV with a covering letter demonstrating your suitability via this website.
Recruitment timeline
Applications close: 12 November
First interviews: 18 / 19 November
Second interviews: 25 / 26 November
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The Trusts Officer job
A fantastic opportunity to join us – and make a real difference to families with a seriously ill child in hospital – at an exciting time as 2022 will be our 40th Anniversary year. You will gain solid experience in trust fundraising and relationship management.
Reporting to the Trusts and Foundations Manager, you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced role with a key focus on developing relationships with trust funders and providing excellent stewardship to these funders.
Duties will include: writing applications and impact reports to small-to-medium-sized trusts to raise funds for our vital work supporting families who have a seriously ill child in hospital; researching trusts to identify potential fundraising opportunities; working closely with Operations and Communications teams, as well as other Fundraising colleagues, and maintaining communications with a portfolio of trusts. You will build on relationships with a number of existing Trusts and Foundations, as well as identifying new opportunities, to develop the pipeline of funders and prospects. The role will provide the opportunity to fundraise for both existing running costs and potential capital and refurbishment projects.
The Candidate
You have already gained some experience in working in a fundraising department and understand the importance of building relationships and working across fundraising teams.
You have research experience in the charity sector and a passion for our cause. Your strengths are your communications skills. You have the ability to write high-quality materials and/or applications, can be persuasive but recognise when sensitivity is required and have excellent verbal skills both face-to-face and on the telephone. Organisational skills and IT skills are a given.
Please apply by sending your CV with cover letter setting out how you meet the person specification to our recruitment inbox.
Closing Date: 15th November 2021
Applications are considered on receipt so you are advised to apply as early as possible. All shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date. We reserve the right to close the advert early.
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Job Description
Job Title: Social Media Manager
Reporting To: Marketing Manager
Salary: 28 - 30k
Contract type: 3-month contract (start ASAP to early Jan) possibility to be extended/become perm
About The Felix Project
The Felix Project is London's biggest food redistribution charity and the largest end-to-end food redistribution charity in Europe.
Our vision is a London where no one goes hungry and good food is never wasted.
We rescue surplus food from businesses, supermarkets, restaurants and farms. This food is nutritious, in-date, and safe and includes a high proportion of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and fish. If we did not rescue this food, it would be at risk of going to waste. Instead, we deliver it free of charge to London charities, schools, food banks, COVID food hubs and other organisations serving people in need. Our food is a vital lifeline for children and families, people on low incomes, people who have lost their jobs, the homeless, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, the elderly and keyworkers.
We are a very ambitious and dynamic young charity and we haven’t stopped growing since we were founded in 2016 in memory of Felix Byam Shaw, by his father, entrepreneur Justin Byam Shaw. We recently ran a very high-profile media campaign with the Evening Standard and Independent, raising £10million to feed London. We have celebrity endorsement from Reece James, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jack Whitehall, Stephen Fry, James May and many others.
Last year we delivered enough food for 21.1 million meals to help people in need. We have continuing major growth plans for the next 4 years, with a target of delivering enough food for 100 million meals by 2024. Because nearly all the food we receive is donated by the food industry and volunteers, every £1 of expenditure redistributes £10 worth of food.
Purpose of the Job
The Social Media Manager will manage all social media accounts for The Felix Project, including Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube - in the lead up to, and during, our busy Christmas period. This role follows a varied mix of in-person and remote working, at a flexible schedule, and includes some out-of-hours work. Time in Lieu is available.
You will be expected to visit all Felix Project London operations (Park Royal, Enfield, Liverpool St/Victoria, Bow, and Deptford) as well as various charity partners across London to generate engaging people-focused content for our social channels first-hand.
Remotely, you will brief internal stakeholders to support content production, as well as work with clients from Corporate Brands, Food Supply and Media on key campaigns. The Social Media Manager will lead outreach to celebrities, briefing them and planning celeb volunteer ‘takeovers’ to generate reach.
The ideal candidate will have experience running paid promotions as well as organic campaigns. The Social Manager will be expected to manage paid promotion over the Christmas period, as well as organic content and day-day social community management.
Duties and Accountabilities
- Manage social accounts day-day - plan & generate content, manage the social calendar, post & schedule, respond to comments & messages – visiting operations and events where needed
- Manage paid campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, to drive income over the Christmas period, working with Marketing Manager & colleagues in fundraising
- Plan and execute an organic Christmas campaign, in line with paid promotion, to support Christmas fundraising campaign
- Lead on celebrity & influencer activity, with support from the Marketing Manager
- Produce content for key external clients in corporate, food supply and media, working closely on any joint campaigns
- Report on social performance & learnings
- Develop social media guidelines and briefing processes to help manage the busy December period
- Shape our organic social content strategy, following a test and learn approach
- Run content workshops to generate ideas
- Embed yourself in the Felix community to find powerful stories and content
Person Specification
The Felix Project recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds.
We particularly welcome applications from those of a black and minority ethnic (BAME) background, as BAME people are currently under-represented within The Felix Project.
We are looking for someone who lives and breathes social and who understands the opportunity presented by The Felix Project’s brand and following to do great, career defining things in this area. You should have an instinct for what makes good content and an enthusiasm to experiment – whilst always learning from the data to refine your approach. We are looking for a candidate who can work autonomously, who can work at-pace, and who understands how to balance many competing requests and deadlines.
Essential skills/knowledge relevant to this role
- Social media management for a charity or business
- Facebook advertising
- Copywriting and design
- Briefing
- Ideation
- Social media reporting & content analysis
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
- Very good understanding of Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
- Working knowledge of YouTube
Desirable skills/knowledge relevant to this role
- Working with celebrities
- Sprout Social
- Canva or Adobe design
- TikTok experience
- Video
What you’ll get in return
You will be working in an upbeat, innovative charity with strong vision, ambition and a fantastic culture and leadership team. This role at our located across our four locations, and at home. The salary is c£28,000-£30,000 per annum (dependant on experience), 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
Contract Type: 3 months, with opportunity to extend
Hours: Flexible and out-of-hours working.
Core hours: 9:30 am – 6:00 pm, Monday – Friday.
Recruitment timeline
Applications close: Friday 29
Interviews: ASAP
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Job Title: Digital Executive
Reporting To: Marketing Manager
Salary: £27 – 28 k
Contract type: 3-month contract (start ASAP to early Jan) possibility to be extended/become perm
About The Felix Project
The Felix Project is London's biggest food redistribution charity and the largest end-to-end food redistribution charity in Europe.
Our vision is a London where no one goes hungry and good food is never wasted.
We rescue surplus food from businesses, supermarkets, restaurants and farms. This food is nutritious, in-date, and safe and includes a high proportion of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and fish. If we did not rescue this food, it would be at risk of going to waste. Instead, we deliver it free of charge to London charities, schools, food banks, COVID food hubs and other organisations serving people in need. Our food is a vital lifeline for children and families, people on low incomes, people who have lost their jobs, the homeless, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, the elderly and keyworkers.
We are a very ambitious and dynamic young charity and we haven’t stopped growing since we were founded in 2016 in memory of Felix Byam Shaw, by his father, entrepreneur Justin Byam Shaw. We recently ran a very high-profile media campaign with the Evening Standard and Independent, raising £10million to feed London. We have celebrity endorsement from Reece James, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jack Whitehall, Stephen Fry, James May and many others.
Last year we delivered enough food for 21.1 million meals to help people in need. We have continuing major growth plans for the next 4 years, with a target of delivering enough food for 100 million meals by 2024. Because nearly all the food we receive is donated by the food industry and volunteers, every £1 of expenditure redistributes £10 worth of food.
Purpose of the Job
The Digital Executive will manage email communications and website communications for The Felix Project, using Microsoft Dynamics for email and Craft CMS for the website.
The ideal candidate will have experience building digital marketing journeys, using a CMS, creating website content, writing for SEO, tracking data in Google Analytics and have some understanding of good user experience. They will be proficient at building and sending emails in Microsoft Dynamics, having full ownership of all fundraising and newsletter emails, as well as supporting teams in volunteering, community and food supply to email their audiences.
This role is remote working.
Duties and Accountabilities
- Use Microsoft Dynamics to create and send emails
- Plan & build results-driven email journeys for donors and newsletter subscribers in support of the Christmas fundraising campaign
- Support internal stakeholders to email their audiences through dynamics over Christmas
- Manage a Christmas email schedule for the whole organisation
- Write email copy for fundraising and newsletter subscribers
- Design graphics in Canva for email and website
- Manage content on the website, working with Craft CMS
- Plan and execute great website content, in support of the Christmas fundraising campaign
- Support teams to make great website content, providing sign off on all pages
- Manage user experience on the website, making sure content is accessible, clear and engaging
- Analyse email performance on Microsoft Dynamics
- Analyse website performance in Google Analytics
- Work with an agency to drive SEO traffic
Person Specification
The Felix Project recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds.
We particularly welcome applications from those of a black and minority ethnic (BAME) background, as BAME people are currently under-represented within The Felix Project.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about email marketing, user journeys and brilliant websites, and who wants to apply their skills to fight hunger and food waste in London.
Essential skills/knowledge relevant to this role
- Sending emails with Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Planning and executing consumer/or donor marketing email journeys
- Copywriting for email marketing
- Experience creating email newsletters
- Evaluating email performance & extracting learnings in Dynamics 365
- Managing websites, using a CMS
- Writing for web
- Reporting in Google Analytics
Desirable skills/knowledge relevant to this role
- Canva design to create simple assets
- Email fundraising experience
- Fundamentals of website accessibility & good UX
What you’ll get in return
You will be working in an upbeat, innovative charity with strong vision, ambition and a fantastic culture and leadership team. This role is mainly home based. The salary is c£27,000-£28,000 per annum (dependant on experience), 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
Contract Type: 3 months, with opportunity to extend and/or become permanent.
Hours: Flexible and out-of-hours working.
Core hours: 9:30 am – 6:00 pm, Monday – Friday.
Application procedure
Please use this website to apply with a CV and covering letter demonstrating your suitability for the role. We are looking for a candidate who can start immediately and will be interviewing as suitable applications come in.
Recruitment timeline
Applications close: Friday 29
Interviews: ASAP
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This is a fantastic opportunity to join The Avenues Youth Project as our Fundraising Manager with a focus on Trusts and Foundations.
The Avenues is an exceptional community youth centre. Located in North Westminster it serves one of the most deprived inner-city neighbourhoods in the UK. Through a stimulating range of programmes our team of qualified youth workers provide support, opportunity and hope to local children and young people aged 8 to 18.
The Avenues has established strong links across the youth sector in West London, and we are recognised by Westminster City Council as one of three key youth hubs in the borough. We constantly strive for the highest quality and hold London Youth’s Gold Award for Excellence.
The Avenues has been changing lives for over 40 years; this is an opportunity to join and support a superb team of practitioners and staff united in the belief that every child has a right to essential opportunities, no matter their background.
The purpose of this role is:
- To forward plan funding streams to ensure a smooth and regular flow of income that meets The Avenues’ budget.
- To develop existing and new relationships with funders in order to maximise immediate and long-term income for the organisation and its various projects.
- To write compelling proposals and applications that secure significant income from trusts and foundations, co-ordinating input from across The Avenues team.
- To research and identify new prospects with a view to securing medium and large grants for The Avenues.
Deadline for applications is 26th November 2021 12pm.
Please send:
1. Your up-to-date C.V. (Word or PDF). This should include contact details of
two referees. Please also include any social media details that you are happy
for us to review. We will not take up references prior to interview.
2. A supporting statement that explains how your skills, experience and personal
qualities make you suitable for the role, using specific examples where
appropriate. Your supporting statement should be a maximum of 500 words.
Also, please confirm that you are entitled to work in the UK.
Please email your application with the subject “Fundraiser application: [your name]” to our Jobs Desk email stated in the Recruitment Pack.
The role
This is a really exciting time to join our team at Breast Cancer Now. Having recently launched our new Turning the Tide strategy, we’re more focused and determined than ever to make an impact for people affected by breast cancer.
We’re looking for a Press & PR Manager (maternity cover) to join our ambitious Press, PR & Celebrity Team and play a key role in cementing our place as the ‘go to’ organisation for breast cancer. Focusing on our Services & Influencing charitable work, the right person for the role will build the charity’s profile, championing our bold, challenging, patient-focused and expert voice. This includes securing targeted coverage for our policy and campaigns work to influence decision makers, getting important health messages out to healthcare professionals and the public, and ensuring anyone affected by breast cancer knows that we are here for them the whole way through via our life-changing support services. You’ll create and collaborate on powerful stories and will have innovative ideas about how to get cut-through in the media so our stories get heard in a competitive environment.
About you
You’ll be great at building trusted, influential relationships with colleagues across the charity up to senior management and CEO level, and with journalists, external contacts across the services and influencing arena, and advocates and ambassadors of Breast Cancer Now. You’ll work collaboratively and at pace, without compromising on quality of work, to keep our services and influencing work front and centre of our press and PR activity.
An impactful writer for a range of audiences and across different channels. You’ll have a detailed understanding and passion for policy and campaigns, public health and support services work, along with a creative approach and instinctive sense for what makes a good ‘news’ story, and use your experience and expertise to put Breast Cancer Now at the heart of the external news agenda around breast cancer through both proactive and reactive work.
You’ll be excited to join our ambitious, focused and supportive wider Fundraising, Communications and Engagement Directorate which has a focus and drive to reach and engage more people than ever before in our work and to develop our fundraising to continue to be a sustainable organisation for the future. You will play a key role as a manager within this Directorate. We have an open and supportive learning and development culture and are all taking a hybrid approach to working with a mix of working from home and from the office.
About us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the charity that’s steered by world-class research and powered by life-changing care. We’re here for anyone affected by breast cancer, the whole way through, providing support for today and hope for the future.
We’re that trusted friend that people affected by breast cancer turn to for caring support when they need it most. The expert authority on breast cancer research who is making breakthroughs and driving forward progress. And a vehicle for change, acting now to make sure anyone affected by breast cancer gets the best possible treatment and care.
We believe that we can change the future of breast cancer and make sure that, by 2050, everyone diagnosed with the disease lives, and is supported to live well. But we need to act now.
Although the role is based in our London office, we are following a blended approach between office and home working with a minimum or two days per week in the office for full-time staff members. Should you have any queries with regards to this please contact us in the first instance
Breast Cancer Now is an inclusive employer committed to developing a diverse workforce.
Closing date Thursday 28 October 2021 at 9am
Interview date Virtually via Microsoft teams Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 November 2021