Fundraising Manager – Individual Giving

This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your individual giving fundraising skills to this highly effective and growing heritage charity. The Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust is a separate entity to the SVR Holdings Company who operate and run this much-loved attraction.  The Trust’s focus is to help secure the future of the Severn Valley Railway through donations, grants, and sponsorship.  The position of Fundraising Manager for individuals is key to our future success, understanding our donor base and creating a clear donor stewardship programme for the 15,000 donors we have.

In addition, you will create engaging fundraising asks, strong engagement processes and effective recruitment campaigns.  You will have the support of a Donor Care Officer to help deliver your plans.

You will be able to demonstrate your experience in creating and delivering effective donor stewardship plans to include single, legacy and in-memorial giving.  Access ThankQ database and Tessitura experience is desired.

We are seeking a resourceful, proactive team player who demonstrates initiative and takes ownership and responsibility for completing and finishing tasks, including setting and achieving targets.  You will naturally identify opportunities and maximise these for the benefit of the Railway.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust, taking the reins of individual giving fundraising.  This is your chance to join a passionate local charity that is committed to safeguarding the Severn Valley Railway. 

Overview

Post: Fundraising Manager, Individual Giving

Reporting to: Executive Director

Employer: Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust

Salary:  £30,000 to £35.000 FTE

Primary location: Number One, Comberton Place, Kidderminster

Hours: Part-time, 4 days per week (30 hours)

Holiday: 31 days (inclusive of Public holidays) FTE

Summary of Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your proven fundraising experience in individual giving to this driven and passionate heritage charity.  This position is a hands-on role and comes with line management of a part-time Donor Engagement Officer and 3 volunteers.  We envisage this area of the business growing as the successes of your initiatives are realised.  We have been extremely successful in our individual giving thus far, but it is time for a new experienced fundraiser to take it to the next level, focusing on both retention, uplift, and acquisition, whilst building a stronger fundraising volunteer base to assist you in delivering your plans. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Strategy & Development

• To increase income generated from individual giving fundraising activities.
• To create and execute a donor retention, uplift, and acquisition strategy.

·To lead on developing our CRM system, working with the Executive Director and Finance Manager to review the Trust’s CRM database and implement an Organisation wide CRM system.

• To manage the individual giving budget in line with objectives and KPIs, reporting to the Executive Director on income and expenditure and highlighting variances in a timely manner.
• To test, implement, monitor, and evaluate existing and new fundraising asks and channels to increase two-way engagement with donors.
• To develop and manage high quality supporter care including responsive and prompt thanking and updating our donors on the impact of their support.
• To develop a volunteer-base of fundraisers.

Direct Marketing

• To manage and deliver integrated online and offline campaigns.
• To manage the design, print and production of direct marketing activity, negotiating bought in services and ensuring invoices are in accordance with quotes.

Administration and Reporting

• To manage the Individual Giving budget and provide monthly updates to the Executive Director.
  • To keep accurate and up to date records of all activities, using ThankQ CRM database, extracting reports for the team as required, and maintaining high standards in customer care and record keeping.

Managing Relationships

• To provide management and guidance to the Donor Care Officer to ensure that KPIs and objectives are achieved, and a clear personal development plan is in place.
• To build strong internal working relationships with colleagues.
• Organise face to face thank you events for our supporters.
• To work with the SVR Holdings Marketing and Communications team to gain support and cross selling opportunities within the different SVR audiences.

Other

·Proactively ensure all materials produced are accurate and compliant with relevant GDPR protection and Gift Aid legislation.

·To undertake all activities in line with best practice standards and processes as set out by the Fundraising Code of Practice and industry regulatory bodies.

·To keep abreast of developments in individual giving and ensure charity compliance.

·To contribute to the Fundraising Team’s strategic planning and budget process.

·To carry out any other tasks as reasonably requested.

·To actively implement the principles of Equality and Diversity.

Person Specification

Educated to degree level and / or an accredited fundraising qualification such as Certificate or Diploma in Fundraising.

Experience

• Creating and implementing successful individual giving donor stewardship plans.
• Implementing donor segmentation, targeting, and positioning strategy.
• Proficient with fundraising CRM systems ideally ThankQ and Tessitura.  To include building, analysing, and reporting.
• Creating, writing, and delivering strong fundraising appeals across all platforms.
• Writing compelling cases studies.
• Legacy and in-memoriam fundraising.
• Managing income and expenditure budgets.
• Presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Managing and motivating staff.

Skills and abilities

• Outstanding verbal and written skills. Able to engage audiences using a range of communication tools.
• Exceptional analytical skills to be able to evaluate our donor base and create effective tiered donor stewardship plans.
• Significant direct marketing skills: devising and delivering social media and print campaigns.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and to secure resources and support from colleagues in different business areas.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills; confident and personable with the ability to manage and build strong relationships with key individual donors.
• Exceptional organisation and time management skills. Able to plan / prioritise own work and meet agreed deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and methodical approach to tasks.
• Competent use of MS Outlook, Excel and Word.
• Strong numerical / budgeting skills.

Attitude and Personal Qualities

• Motivated, task-orientated, and professional.
• Flexible, able and willing to respond to changing priorities.
• Strong team player with collaborative working style, who enjoys individual and team working.
• Willing to participate in all activities relevant to the role.
• Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends.
• Commitment to GDPR and Fundraising Code of Practice.
• Commitment to the principles of Equality and Diversity.
• An interest in heritage railways.

As a volunteering organisation, we ask staff to volunteer 5 days per year to support our operational staff in the busy season.

SVR Family

The SVR Family consists of the three separate companies

1. Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) Plc (Company number 01046274) is a not-for-profit company limited by shares.  No dividend is paid to shareholders with all profit used to support the running of the Railway. It owns the infrastructure and assets of the SVR, employs the paid staff, and is responsible for the governance, operation, finance, planning, customer service and management of the SVR.

2. Severn Valley Railway Company Limited, (Company number 00906842), a company limited by guarantee, supported by a paid membership of 12,500 members and provides volunteer staff who assist in the operation of the Railway from a working volunteer membership pool of 1,700.

Both organisations are led by Helen Smith, Director and General Manager.

3. Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Limited, a company limited by guarantee (Company Reg, No.04341280) Registered with the Charity Commission (Reg.No.1092723).

The focus of the SVR Charitable Trust is to generate funds:

• To enhance, maintain and restore SVR rolling stock and infrastructure.
• To provide educational and interpretive displays for the SVR
• To provide educational and heritage skill training used in the restoration, repair, and operation of the SVR.

The Charitable Trust is led by Shelagh Paterson, Executive Director.

Our Staff

Volunteering

The Severn Valley Railway is run by a team of 150 full-time equivalent paid staff and 1,700 volunteers.  As part our commitment and recognition to our volunteers, we request that all paid staff give five volunteer days to the Railway every year, this may involve supporting key events, to include Santa Specials, Halloween, and Gala’s.

Our Objective

SVR is recognised as an outstanding visitor attraction, with great days out and inspiring events, all with consistently high standards of customer service. SVR provides an authentic heritage railway experience where you can let your senses take you on a journey through history, with learning opportunities in abundance.

The organisations to support this are professionally led, values-based, and commercially strong. While it may be old on the outside, on the inside, SVR uses 21st century technology to run its activities effectively. It is able to recruit, train and retain the Staff and Volunteers it needs, and brings in the wide range of Financial and other support required to develop further. SVR is known for having good and enduring relationships with its stakeholders, from the diverse local communities in which it sits, to the Loco and Rolling stock owners, the Regulators and Industry partners.  On a day-to-day basis the 3 key areas of Management focus for SVR are Safety, People and Heritage. In addition, SVR has an industry-leading approach to the issue of Sustainability.

Harris Hill is currently working with Coventry Cyrenians in their search for an interim Fundraising Manager for 6 months.

Ideally, the successful candidate would be able to travel to the office at least 1-2dpw.

The Coventry Cyrenians are a housing charity who provide supported, temporary, Independent and family accommodation to those who most need it. They have recently had someone leave, so this role is interim cover with potential to go permanent.
Much of their income comes from the housing schemes themselves so are financially stable. However, their fundraising income sit at around 100k and seek to increase this to between 150-250k. This need not be cash money as they would very much welcome corporate volunteers or non monetary donations for the community side of their work.

Whilst they would like someone with a broad spectrum of fundraising experience such as corporate, Trust, Major Donor and Events, the current emphasis would be corporate with additional marketing experience.

They understand that having someone this broad would be difficult, so if you are available and tick any of the boxes, the Cyrenians would like to hear form you.

Relationship Fundraising Manager

Come and lead our team of thoughtful and friendly Relationship Fundraisers who are dedicated to creating amazing and memorable supporter experiences.

Position: Relationship Manager – Supporter-led, In Mem & Regional Corporate (High Potential)

Location: Homebased, covering south of England

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: Salary circa £37,000 per annum (inner London weighting £3,299 per annum or outer London weighting £1,755 per annum may be applied in accordance to where you live)

Contract: Permanent

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 21 November 2021

Interview Date: 30 November 2021

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.

The Role

The main purpose of this role is to provide the strategic leadership required to ensure your team delivers excellent customer service and income. This team stewards a core group of our regional fundraising supporters who have been identified as having high potential.

This role focuses on delivering income from our key strategic areas; Supporter Led, In Memory & Regional Corporate fundraising.

This is an exciting remotely based role which allows us to focus on providing great support to a core groups of supporters.

Your team will deliver vital income to combat the impact of Covid-19, keep our services going, build for the future and ensure that our supporters have a wonderful experience of Stroke Association.

About You

This role might be for you if you are good at:

Pro-actively seeking out new ways to provide excellent supporter stewardship

Thinking about the bigger picture and how you can develop long-lasting and meaningful relationships with supporters

Seeking out and developing potential partnerships that meet both our needs, and those of our supporters

Maintaining focus and energy even with longer term relationships

Thinking differently and creatively about how we can work with others, provide excellent stewardship and amazing donor love

Inspiring, motivating and leading a team of people

We are also looking for someone who;

Wants to provide amazing customer experiences that result in loyalty and repeat support

Has a drive for high standards; both having them, and expecting them from others

Is curious and has confidence to ask ‘why?’

Wants to take a problem and own it

Loves communication – especially using the telephone and face to face, as well as strong written skills

Has a willingness to flex to the needs of the wider team as we embrace the post pandemic landscape

Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.

This is an exciting time to join the Stroke Association.  If you think you have the skills and aptitude for the role, we would love to hear from you.

To fulfil the role, you must have the right to work in the U.K. Use of a car and full driving license with business insurance is required for this role.

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.

We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.

We’re working to improve the diversity of our team.  Because we know that individuality leads to a richer experience for our people and better support for those affected by stroke.

We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities. 

Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

You may also have experience in areas such as Challenge Fundraising, Challenge Fundraiser, Events, Events Fundraiser, Events Fundraising Officer, Event Fundraising Assistant, Relationship Fundraiser, Relationship Fundraising, Regional Fundraiser, Regional Fundraising, Supporter Lead Fundraiser, Supporter Lead Fundraising, In Memory Fundraiser, In Memory Fundraising Manager, Corporate Fundraiser, Corporate Fundraising, High Value Fundraiser, Individual Giving Fundraiser, Individual Giving Fundraising Manager, Events Fundraiser, Events Fundraising, Supporter, Major Donor, Major Gifts, Income Generation, High Worth, Fundraising, Fundraiser, Fundraising Officer, Senior Fundraiser, Fundraising Manager, Fundraising Assistant, Major Donor Fundraising Officer, Major Gifts Fundraising Officer, Charity, Stroke, Not for Profit, Care.

A great opportunity has arisen for a Fundraising Manager- Individual Giving for a fantastic heritage charity in order to increase income generated from individual giving fundraising activities.

Contract type: permanent, 4 days a week (30 hrs a week)
Salary: 30,000 to 35.000 FTE

Please Apply ASAP!

Key responsibilities:
To create and execute a donor retention, uplift, and acquisition strategy.
To lead on developing our CRM system, working with the Executive Director and Finance Manager to review the Trust s CRM database and implement an Organisation wide CRM system.
To manage the individual giving budget in line with objectives and KPIs, reporting to the Executive Director on income and expenditure and highlighting variances in a timely manner.
To test, implement, monitor, and evaluate existing and new fundraising asks and channels to increase two-way engagement with donors.
To develop and manage high quality supporter care including responsive and prompt thanking and updating our donors on the impact of their support.
To develop a volunteer-base of fundraisers.
To manage and deliver integrated online and offline campaigns.
To manage the design, print and production of direct marketing activity, negotiating bought in services and ensuring invoices are in accordance with quotes.
To manage the Individual Giving budget and provide monthly updates to the Executive Director.

Person specification:
Creating and implementing successful individual giving donor stewardship plans.
Implementing donor segmentation, targeting, and positioning strategy.
Proficient with fundraising CRM systems ideally ThankQ and Tessitura. To include building, analysing, and reporting.
Creating, writing, and delivering strong fundraising appeals across all platforms.
Writing compelling cases studies.
Legacy and in-memoriam fundraising.
Managing income and expenditure budgets.
Presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
Managing and motivating staff.
Outstanding verbal and written skills. Able to engage audiences using a range of communication tools.

Youth for Christ are looking for an ambitious go-getter who is excited at the prospect of working as our Grants and Fundraising Manager.

The ideal candidate will be entrusted with addressing the funding strategy for existing and new ministry projects of Youth for Christ National. You will source, manage and execute the funding bids processes, working collaboratively with Youth for Christ National departments in seeing young people’s lives changed by Jesus across Britain.

You must have the ability to develop and implement successful fundraising initiatives and processes, a proven track record of meeting and exceeding income and development targets. You must have strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at once and the ability to think and plan strategically. The Grants and Fundraising Manager will work alongside of the Head of Income Development.

Our cultural activities will vary in this season due to COVID-19, however we have been working on implementing socially distanced activities, whether face to face, over different forms of technology etc. This will consistently adapt and change as we respond to the changes put into place by the government.

Our culture still stands, we are people who are Courageous, Helpful, Relational, Innovative, Spiritual and Together.

Closing Date: 31st October 2021
Salary: £28, 000
Full time: 5 days per week
Location: Head Office 
Holiday + perks: 20 days + 3 concessionary days + 8% pension

The position is dependent on two suitable references, an DBS check and attendance at regular safeguarding training.

Candidates applying for this role will be expected to comply with safer recruitment initiatives, including a self disclosure of any criminal history.

We recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to being an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates, as these are currently under-represented at Youth for Christ.

Location: Please note that the role is office based in Warwickshire. Flexible working will be considered for the right candidate.

Based in Warwickshire and working across the UK this post will play a key role developing and delivering a new strategy in this area.  The post holder will be responsible for engaging, managing and developing relationships with national events and community fundraising supporters – providing outstanding stewardship and maximising sustainable long-term income nationally and regionally.

You will be committed and dynamic in your approach, working with external and internal stakeholders developing trusting relationships, helping to grow the charities portfolio in national events and community fundraising. As a key member of the Fundraising Team, you will be responsible for researching and developing a portfolio of national events and community fundraising initiatives - building a pipeline of potential sources of income, identifying new opportunities and growing our partnership base. You will be a natural communicator who has the ability to persuade, influence and inspire, with the confidence to build relationships at a senior level, across various departments and the federation.

Community Campaigns & Digital Fundraising Manager

Income Generation & Marketing Department

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

HCP Pay Band  E £30,868

Are you an experienced community fundraiser with the skills and experience to deliver large-scale community campaigns? Do you have an interest in developing digital fundraising platforms to help generate new voluntary income for the charity?  Are you a team player, who is self-motivated and resilient and enjoys building long lasting relationships with charity supporters?

If so, then we have a fantastic opportunity for you to join the fundraising team at John Taylor and Birmingham St Mary’s Hospices, who are working in partnership to deliver end of life and palliative care across Birmingham and Sandwell.

The Community Campaigns and Digital Fundraising Manager will develop and deliver a programme of mass participation community campaigns that will help to put the John Taylor and Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice brands on the map in Birmingham and Sandwell.  The post holder will be responsible for growing existing campaigns, including the ever growing Treecycling and raffles, as well as identifying and presenting new opportunities for mass participation campaigns.

In addition, this role will also be responsible for innovating and generating new income from digital fundraising, ensuring all new opportunities are maximised and that a gold standard supporter journey is in place for supporters who chose to fundraising for us online.

Reporting directly to the Senior Community & Corporate Fundraising Manager, this role will be pivotal in the creation, implementation and evaluation of the charity’s community fundraising strategy.

The ideal candidate will have experience of managing a portfolio of large-scale community campaigns, with proven success in achieving participant and income targets.  You should also have knowledge and experience of working with a range of suppliers and volunteers and have a proven ability to build relationships at all levels.  Experience of using CRMs systems is also advantageous.

Job title: Fundraising Officer

Directorate: National Memorial Arboretum

Contract: Permanent.  Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary:  £23,800 to £26,000 gross per annum

About the National Memorial Arboretum

The Arboretum is the UK’s year-round centre of Remembrance and part of the Royal British Legion.  We are the Nation’s centre of Remembrance, freely open to all. Our 150-acre landscape is home to over 25,000 trees, punctuated by 400 memorials that recognise the service and sacrifice made by the Armed Forces, emergency services and civilian organisations to our country. 

The Arboretum in one of the UK’s leading visitor attractions and we welcome over 300,000 people through our doors each year.  They come to explore our site, learn more about the fascinating stories behind our memorials, spend time in our woodlands, and to attend some of the 250+ events that take place each year.

The Arboretum is an award-winning destination, including the 2018 Visit England Awards for Excellence: Large Visitor Attraction of the Year (Gold) 

Our Values and Behaviours

Does the following describe you?

• A desire to provide great customer service
• Enjoy and thrive in working in teams and with others
• Passionate about supporting the ongoing development of the Arboretum
• Come to work each day to be the best you can and to learn and develop
• An encourager, eager to share your knowledge and experience to help others

If so then we would like you hear from you ….

The Role

We are looking for an experienced fundraiser to join the Arboretum team, where you will help to raise awareness of our charitable status and generate income through fundraising activities.  You will manage the Arboretum Friends scheme to maximise income, incentivise visitors and grow supporter engagement and insights.  In partnership with the Visitor Services team, you will create and implement an onsite fundraising strategy to encourage visitor giving, and create a compelling dialogue to motivate visitor support.  You will build mutually-beneficial relationships with colleagues in the Royal British Legion fundraising team to identify opportunities for shared resource/expertise, partnership working and collaboration on fundraising projects.

As the first point of contact for supporters/donors visiting the Arboretum, excellent communication and customer service skills are key. You will be responsible for ensuring that the Arboretum’s electronic database is fit for purpose, and that all activities conform to the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Practice and other relevant regulations.

You will have a strong understanding and experience of fundraising practices, and be passionate about developing engaging customer journey’s for visitors, corporate partners and stakeholders to deepen relationships and increase fundraising income in this area against agreed targets.

This role may occasionally be required to work outside of core office hours in order to play an active role in supporting the team at profile raising events.

As an inclusive employer, we welcome conversations on flexible working and any reasonable adjustments that may be required. 

Diversity Statement 

We believe that the compassion, understanding and service we show each, and every individual customer should be reflected in the way we all support, respect and include every individual who works with us. 

It’s because of this that we have strived hard to create a One Legion culture that we can all feel part of and succeed in. It’s why we make sure that you have the opportunities you need to learn and develop. It’s why we’re invested in making RBL a truly inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves. It’s why you’re welcome, whoever you might be. 

It’s why we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. 

How to Apply 

Please apply by clicking ‘Apply online’.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Closing date for this role is: Sunday 31st October 2021

 We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.

Location: Home based with requirement to attend Birmingham centre office

We’re the charity helping millions of people feel happier and healthier by spending more time on and along our canals and rivers. Our rich and tranquil spaces provide places to pause, relax and escape. But without extraordinary people, and the funding to make it happen, all of this would be lost. That’s where you come in.

The next 3 years will see an ambitious plan to accelerate growth in charitable income, building new communities of supporters from the ground up.  We are looking for people passionate about relationship management and stewarding supporters to give a great experience whilst raising money for the Trust.  We exist as a fundraising team so that we can do more for communities up and down the country using the power and benefits our waterways have to offer for Wellbeing, Nature, Employability & Urban Regeneration. If you are inspired to change lives young and old then we would love to hear from you.  Join us, and make life better by water for everyone. Every day.

Knowledge, Skills/Qualifications & Experience

Job Purpose:

Digital is at the heart of our charity fundraising strategy and with ongoing investment in digital development and marketing activity, it's an exciting time to join our fundraising team.

In this role you will be responsible for the day-to-day planning, development and management of digital fundraising campaigns and activity (such as email, SMS, social and display) ensuring that fundraising income is maximised through digital channels.

This will require building a strong working relationship with the Trust Marketing team and specifically the Digital marketing colleagues to support the work of converting passive supporters and warm leads to active donors of the Trust.

A key part of your work will be supporting the fundraising acquisition team on both their social media activity (creating and editing ads and videos) and online content (fundraising and events pages), with the ultimate aim of developing and pushing out engaging and relevant digital content with which to recruit & steward supporters.

You will also be working closely with the Supporter Journey Manager, supporting the development of appropriate digital fundraising platforms, including the management of key fundraising programmes through a cycle of continual testing and improvement of content and user journeys.

This role sits within the Fundraising team reporting to the Fundraising Development Manager and working closely with the Supporter Journey Manager to ensure we provide a first-class level of stewardship and acquisition to all supporters who interact with us online.

Key Accountabilities:

Support the Fundraising Development Manager (and work with the digital marketing team) on the development and delivery of digital offerings to recruit new financial supporters, including e-appeals & newsletters, value exchange activity, social media, marketing content & digital stewardship plans.

Responsible for delivering against agreed recruitment and income targets annually and management of expenditure lines as agreed by the Fundraising Development Manager.

Work with the digital marketing team and supporter care team to develop and deliver engaging digital marketing content for income generation including adverts in existing newsletters, social media lead marketing & stewardship communications.

Work with Supporter Journey Manager to acquire and develop appropriate digital fundraising platforms, including management of key fundraising programmes and e-mail journeys within the Marketo system.

Lead on the operational delivery of the marketing and stewardship of any supporters who are donating via agreed digital platforms (ie GivePanel, MakeitDonate, AmazonSmile, Online In-Memory platform, etc) ensuring all work aligns and is developed considering every step of the funnel.

Work with the wider fundraising team to integrate digital journeys considering all channels. Optimise and test landing pages for the acquisition and work to develop journeys further with relevant stakeholders with a focus on audience acquisition and analysis of digital channels for fundraising purposes.

Manage digital reporting elements with regards to the fundraising digital acquisition work, ensuring all fundraising digital activity is measurable with digital tracking and attribution methods in place to deliver performance reports for all our digital fundraising campaigns.

Proactively maintain excellent knowledge of digital fundraising practices and campaigns in the sector, including competitor analysis, to ensure you are able to strengthen the output of the team from experience and knowledge.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills: Practical / Technical Knowledge

• The skills, qualification and experience necessary for full and effective performance of the job.
• Good level of education with passes to GCSE level or equivalent, including English Language and Maths
• Experience of delivering digital acquisition campaigns using multiple channels
• Experience of working with content feedback loops and to brand guidelines
• Excellent working knowledge of social media, advertising and digital platforms (particularly digital fundraising platforms)
• Broad understanding on digital marketing techniques such as Display, Social, SEO and PPC
• Competence in Google Analytics, GTM AdWords and search marketing
• Excellent working knowledge of measuring, interpreting and evaluating performance data

Knowledge, Experience & Skills: Planning, Organising and integrating (managerial)

• The knowledge required for integrating and managing activities and functions.
• Excellent understanding of Fundraising regulation and statutory data compliance, particularly around Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
• Proven track record in running a successful digital fundraising/sales campaigns
• Experience of working with fundraising budgets and income across digital channels
• Experience with digital tracking and attribution methods
• Experience of building supporter journeys
• Experience of working within or alongside a fundraising team
• Experience working with Digital KPI’s (ROI, CPL, etc)

Knowledge, Experience & Skills: Communicating and Influencing skills

• The skills needed to communicate with and influence individuals and / or groups within and outside the organisation.
• You understand what motivates people to give and how digital can create a better experience for supporters
• Working in collaboration with others is second nature to you
• Effective analytical skills in relation to verbal, written and numerical data.
• An attention to detail to ensure accuracy, robustness and compliance of data used and store.
• Highly organised & understanding of effective process mapping.

Person Specification

• Motivation, Beliefs & Actions
• Commercially aware, able to spot opportunities and trends
• Self-motivated and ensure that your work is of the highest quality
• A creative thinker who can demonstrate a passion for innovation and apply it to working practices
• Ability to be open minded and respectful
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to seek and share knowledge
• Willing to adopt the Trust’s values as your own: caring, openness and transparency, supporting the local community, involving others, and striving for excellence

What We Offer

In addition to your salary of £28,000, the Canal & River Trust offers a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, great holiday entitlement (increasing with years of service) and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits.

We aim to represent the diverse communities we are part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do.  All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job. 

Job Title: Head of Fundraising

Charity: The Way Youth Zone

Location: Wolverhampton (hybrid working – 2 days home based)

Type: Full time

Deadline for applications: 15th November

Salary Range: £40,000 - £45,000

About the role:

Potential is everywhere. In every home on every street, from affluent suburbs to inner-city estates. The difference is that some young people get every opportunity to explore their potential. Others don’t. It’s about opportunity. 

At The Way, we believe that all young people in Wolverhampton should have the opportunity to discover their passion and their purpose. To find out what they’ve got and where it could take them. Our Youth Zone is a purpose-built space fizzing with energy and crammed with incredible facilities. It is staffed by skilled and dedicated youth workers who truly believe in young people in the city – helping them see what they could achieve, and giving them the skills, confidence and ambition to go for it. 

Year in, year out we deliver life-changing support that helps thousands of young people in Wolverhampton from a diverse range of backgrounds to thrive. It’s inspiring. It’s empowering. And it works.

MAIN PURPOSE

A truly exciting post, working alongside the Chief Executive and key members of the Trustee Board, to deliver circa £1.1 million of philanthropy for Wolverhampton Youth Zone, The Way. This is a senior leadership role, where you will steward and renew Patrons & Supporters who have made major gifts; drive new Patron (major donor) income; oversee the work of the Trusts and Grants Manager to generate large trust gifts for unrestricted income plus occasional targeted programmes; and manage the Fundraising Officer who drives corporate and community income. This role will lead on the strategic development and implementation of new, diverse income streams (notably a mid-level giving programme, and events & community fundraising). 

Key responsibilities 

• Driving a programme of high impact, donor-centric stewardship of existing donors (HNWIs and corporate partners), involving the Chief Executive and Trustee Board as appropriate, in order to maximise retention and, where possible, increase levels of support over time.

• Developing new, sustainable major donor relationships, both through cold prospecting and working closely with the Trustee Board, the Chief Executive and existing supporters, to identify other prospects within their networks.

• Overseeing the Trusts & Grants Manager (PT), to deliver high quality bids that support the universal offer to young people (core income).

• Overseeing the Fundraising Officer to deliver mid and high level corporate income and some community fundraising activity.

• Diversifying income generation activities to include events and community fundraising, at the appropriate stage, whilst not losing sight of major giving – the key driver of income generation.

• To produce high-quality, written proposals and make verbal presentations / face- to-face asks to a range of audiences.

• Be a role model for young people, present a positive ‘can-do’ attitude and take personal responsibility for their own actions

Person Specification to include:

• Experience in generating six-figure income from major donors (corporate and/or high net worth individuals) with an impressive track record in securing significant funds and meeting challenging financial targets, including both new business and account management.

• Experience of managing a pipeline of potential supporters / donors and aligning their interests with a charity’s needs, in order to maximise the gift level.

• Experience of supporting senior colleagues and/or Trustees to learn the art, craft and science of major donor fundraising.

• Understanding of issues effecting young people and disadvantaged communities.

• Proven experience in generating income from event & community fundraising.

• Proven experience in generating income from trusts, grants and statutory fundraising

The Way Youth Zone is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups. This post is subject to Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks. Having a criminal record will not necessarily disqualify you from acquiring the post.

The strength of the OnSide Network of Youth Zones is the diversity of its people: we place huge values on different people doing different things in different ways and we welcome applications from what might be considered non-traditional backgrounds. The one thing we all have in common is our desire to raise the aspirations of young people across the country.

We guarantee to offer an interview to those with a disability who meet the minimum criteria.

For a full job description and further information about applying for this role please contact us using by applying for this role.

COMMUNITY AND CORPORATE FUNDRAISING COORDINATOR

Income Generation & Marketing Department

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

HCP Pay Band H: £20,823

Location: Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice and John Taylor Hospice

About us

The Hospice Charity Partnership, formed from Birmingham St Mary’s and John Taylor Hospices, provides expert palliative and end of life care for people and their families living with life-limiting illnesses. We believe that all people in Birmingham should have access to the best specialist care and support - when, where and how they need it.

About the role

We are looking to appoint a Community and Corporate Fundraising Coordinator to support the Community and Corporate Fundraising team, to increase supporter engagement and maximise income generation across the region.

Reporting to the Senior Community and Corporate Fundraising Manager, you will be responsible for creating a strong cohort of support from local high street and small to medium sized companies through  charity of the year opportunities and collection tins within stores.

The successful candidate will be proficient in administration skills, data inputting and stock management for all fundraising resources. Working collaboratively within the community and corporate fundraising team, you will support key campaigns, such as Treecycling, and  help to achieve ambitious income targets, whilst at all times promoting and fulfilling a Gold Standard Supporter  Journey to all of our supporters.

If you would like to join a passionate and highly motivated fundraising team, we welcome your application.

Closing date:  Monday 15th November 2021, 5pm

Interview date: w/c 22nd November 2021

We’re the charity helping millions of people feel happier and healthier by spending more time on and along our canals and rivers. Our rich and tranquil spaces provide places to pause, relax and escape. But without extraordinary people, and the funding to make it happen, all of this would be lost. That’s where you come in.

The next 3 years will see an ambitious plan to accelerate growth in charitable income, building new communities of supporters from the ground up.  We are looking for people passionate about relationship management and stewarding supporters to give a great experience whilst raising money for the Trust.  We exist as a fundraising team so that we can do more for communities up and down the country using the power and benefits our waterways have to offer for Wellbeing, Nature, Employability & Urban Regeneration. If you are inspired to change lives young and old then we would love to hear from you.  Join us and make life better by water for everyone. Every day.

About the role and you

In this role you will be proactive in engaging local communities and maintaining relationships with supporters, volunteers, schools and other community groups in your region to maximise income, actively seeking new income generation opportunities.

You will be the external face of the Trust for these audiences, engaging with them and supporting them to arrange their fundraising activities, assisting with all enquires with the aim to develop long term, committed relationships through relationship building and bespoke stewardship.

Key Accountabilities.

Support the Community Fundraising Team Leader in setting the Community Fundraising Budgets and take responsibility for the delivery of the agreed income and expenditure budgets for your area in line with departmental yearly goals.

Identify, engage and develop long term, committed relationships with supporters in your region to grow income, ensuring they are exposed to and given the opportunity to support multiple income streams through effective cross selling of marketing, corporate and events initiatives.

Recruit and manage a network of fundraising volunteers, working with the Trust Volunteer Services, to promote contactless units in your region with the objective of raising both consistent sources of income and awareness of the Trust work in their area.

Support the launch of our Mass Participation events helping to deliver a seamlessly journey to keep participants engaged at all times - before, during and after the event.

Work with the Digital Fundraising officer, the Supporter Journey Manager and third-party platforms (ie Just Giving) to deliver high quality stewardship to maximise supporter engagement and repeat events.

Experience & Skills: Practical / Technical Knowledge

• 2 years minimum community fundraising experience
• 1 year minimum experience of managing and/or supervising Volunteers
• Proven experience of supporting, advising and retaining Supporters
• Proven experience of managing and delivering a fundraising income target

Planning, Organising and integrating (managerial) Knowledge

• The knowledge required for integrating and managing activities and functions.
• Excellent understanding of Fundraising regulation and statutory data compliance,
• Knowledge of Work Health and Safety laws and best practice around working with volunteers

Communicating and Influencing skills

• The skills needed to communicate with and influence individuals and / or groups within and outside the organisation.
• Excellent presentation skills to all ranges and sizes of audiences

Person Specification

• Impact focused and results driven
• Willing to adopt the Trust’s values as your own: caring, openness and transparency, supporting the local community, involving others, and striving for excellence

What We Offer

In addition to your salary of £28,000 the Canal & River Trust offers a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, great holiday entitlement (increasing with years of service) and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits.

We aim to represent the diverse communities we are part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do.  All candidates will be treated based on their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job. 

CORPORATE FUNDRAISER

Income Generation & Marketing Department

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

HCP Pay Band F: £27,532

Location: Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice and John Taylor Hospice

About us

The Hospice Charity Partnership, formed from Birmingham St Mary’s and John Taylor Hospices, provides expert palliative and end of life care for people and their families living with life-limiting illnesses. We believe that all people in Birmingham should have access to the best specialist care and support - when, where and how they need it.

About the role

Are you a creative and innovative fundraiser with expert knowledge of managing and cultivating strategic relationships with businesses? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our team as a Corporate Fundraiser!

This role will see you working as part of the Community and Corporate Fundraising team, creating, delivering and evaluating a series of fundraising activities and relationships across the local business community.

You will be a proactive, highly motivated fundraiser who will develop high impact relationships with companies across the region. You will create a large portfolio of support through a range of charity of the year partnerships and workplace fundraising, whilst always providing excellent account management.

With a comprehensive background in corporate fundraising, you will be responsible for developing a pipeline of support through effective networking, prospecting, digital engagement and gold standard stewardship.

You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Income Generation Department to achieve ambitious income targets to support the vital hospice services, which the charity provides to the local community.

If you would like to be part of a supportive and highly motivated fundraising team, we would love to accept your application.

Closing date: Monday 8th November

Interview date: w/c 15th November

Senior HR Manager

Job type: Permanent
Hours : 35 (plus 5 hours paid lunch breaks)
Salary: up to £55,000 per annum
Location: Flexible Midlands Home Location

We are a national social justice charity with more than 50 years' experience of changing lives, building stronger communities and reducing crime. With a staff of 800 working flexibly from home and some 50 locations, we help support, house, educate, advise and speak out for more than 38,000 disadvantaged young people and adults every year.

This is an exciting time to join as we renew and change to transform the way we work, enhancing inclusion, diversity and ensuring a greater voice for our service users.

We have demonstrated very high resilience during Covid and are now working through the long term demands for agile working across a wide range of professionals. HR is playing a key role in shaping and delivering people based change projects that underpin strategy, drive improvement, maximise engagement and ensure effective consultation with staff groups and trade union representatives.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of HR and OD, this role is ideal for someone who relishes the broad challenges of delivering really efficient and organised HR processes, developing policy and projects that bring about change.

Leading a small team and working alongside our HR and L&D Business Partners, you will lead and develop our HR operations and processes across the employee lifecycle including;

* Deliver and improve our core HR based systems and procedures (Payroll, TUPE support, recruitment
* Policy development (HR, workforce planning, reward and benefits etc.)
* Project management (volunteer engagement, gender pay/EDI etc...)
* HR reporting, exploiting our data and insights to create policy and drive change

The Person

We are looking for candidates with;

* Significant management experience of HR in large/diverse organisations
* Good knowledge of employment law (incl TUPE) and experienced in developing HR policy responses.
* Experience in delivering HR change projects
* Experience in leading and developing teams that achieve and add value
* Effective planning and organisational skills to work to deadlines, multi-task and adapt to changing priorities
* Excellent communication/interpersonal skills to build relationships inside and outside Nacro.

What we offer:

A competitive salary, flexibility to work from home base and the office and the chance to play a central role in shaping our way of working and our culture.

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Please send your CV to our retained consultant Bryan McPaul at [email protected] or contact him on 07968 755 480 for an informal discussion

Nacro is committed to promoting equality and diversity in all its activities