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Check NowWe have an exciting opportunity for two experienced Regional Fundraising Manager’s to join our Community Fundraising and Events team. The two role’s cover the East Region which includes from East Anglia down to East Sussex and also includes parts of London, the ideal candidate will be based within the region. You will join us working 35 hours per week and in return you will receive a competitive salary of up to £33,884.72 per annum plus excellent benefits, both of these roles are currently fixed term for a period 12 months.
Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity with a nationwide network of adoption and homing centres, volunteer-run branches and charity shops. During 2021, we helped 137,000 cats and kittens. That's the equivalent of around 375 cats a day!
The Community Fundraising and Events department sits within the Marketing and Income Generation Directorate. Community Fundraising is delivered by our National team who support our network of local branches, centres and volunteers to raise funds within their communities. We are a busy department with lots of exciting things in the pipeline and the Regional Fundraising Manager is an integral part of this growth.
Responsibilities of our Regional Fundraising Manager:
As Regional Fundraising Manager you will have full responsibility for developing and increasing Cats Protection community fundraising in your defined region. You will research, identify and promote new and existing fundraising activities and third-party fundraisers with support from the Income Generation department
What we’re looking for in our Regional Fundraising Manager:
- Significant fundraising experience
- Experience of managing multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities in an efficient and effective way
- Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively
- Flexible to attend evening and weekend meeting and undertake extensive travel throughout your region
What we can offer you:
- salary of up to £33,884.72 per annum plus excellent benefits
- generous annual leave entitlement
- contribution pension scheme
- life assurance scheme
- range of health benefits
- Employee Assistance Programme
- and more
Join us as our Regional Fundraising Manager and know you are helping to make a real difference to cats and kittens across the UK!
Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications or CVs that are emailed to us directly. Please note any applications received after the closing date may not be responded to.
Closing date: 12th July 2022
Virtual interview date: 18th July 2022
Please note, should we receive a large amount of applications for this vacancy, we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised closing date.
Cats Protection is committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk and protecting anyone that comes into contact with us from harm. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
You may be subject to a criminal record check if required for the role.
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Relationship Fundraising Manager – North Scotland
Permanent and full time (34.5 hours per week), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location - Home-based in North Scotland
Salary Range - £29,000 to £33,000 + car allowance + benefits
Do you have a track record of building lasting relationships? Are you engaging and passionate about delivering results? Do you have skills to drive income now and increase lifetime values? If you’re keen to use your experience and skills to inspire more people to give to Macmillan and would like to join in our ambition to be the sector leading relationship fundraising team, read on.
About the role
As a member of the relationship fundraising area team covering North and East Scotland, you will be expected to deliver personalised stewardship across Macmillan’s fundraising portfolio, working together, to deliver against financial and non-financial key performance indicators in what can be a fast-paced environment. You will understand your supporters’ motivations and help them get involved with, and support Macmillan in the way that appeals to them. All while ensuring you offer appropriate levels of communication; fundraising guidance; suitably recognise their contribution; and demonstrate the impact of their support for people affected by cancer.
About you
We are looking for someone with excellent account management experience who is skilled in building rapport and developing relationships with a variety of different individuals, organisations, and groups simultaneously. You will place our supporters at the heart of everything you do by cultivating and stewarding relationships to deliver a first-class experience.
You will also have robust planning and organisational skills and be able to multi-task to achieve deadlines. Success in this role demands a proactive, hands on approach to deliver shared targets for the area and territory, as well as individual targets for your personal portfolio of supporters, which will include our loyal Macmillan volunteer fundraising groups spread across the whole area. Key performance indicators will include conversion rates, retention results, and average values.
In addition, you will have strong written and oral communication and influencing skills to enable you to engage, inspire and deliver key messages. Plus, experience of working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders.
This role is home-based with mobile working. Your home-base should be in the north of mainland Scotland to enable you to easily meet some supporters face to face periodically. There will be a requirement for regular travel in Scotland, and perhaps other parts of the UK on occasion. You must have a full UK driving licence at the time of application and, as a car allowance is provided with the role, you should also have access to your own vehicle.
Further details
There will also be a requirement for flexible and some unsocial and out of hours working to support occasional evening and weekend activity and you will be compensated for this with time off in lieu.
We commit to actively developing you and our benefits include private medical insurance, life insurance, pension, generous leave, and interest free loans for season tickets and gym membership.
About us
We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support.
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to be their best self at work.
We welcome applications from everyone who meets the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another ethnic minority background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.
So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan People Services Team for advice and recruitment adjustments. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example, she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs).
Recruitment process
Applications close at midnight on Monday 18 July 2022. First stage interviews are planned for Thursday 28 July (virtual over Microsoft Teams). For those successful at the first stage, there will also be a second interview on Thursday 4 August (also virtual).
In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.
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Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies.
We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, reflecting the diverse range of people we support.
We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be, please contact the Macmillan People Services Team.
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Care for Wild UK is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to lead further growth of our UK-based fundraising activities.
This is a really exciting time for Care for Wild UK, having registered as a charity at the start of 2020, and following successful income growth over the past couple of years, we are now looking for someone to build on this and lead in developing and establishing a long-term fundraising portfolio.
We have been supporting the world’s largest Rhino sanctuary, based in South Africa, to rescue, rehabilitate and rewild orphaned White and Black Rhinos. As they look to further expand their operations and closer integrate with the local community, Care for Wild UK also plans to increase income through diversifying income streams. The successful candidate will work closely with Trustees and partners in South Africa to drive existing and new fundraising activities.
We are looking for a conservation-motivated, experienced professional with a track record of building fundraising portfolios and excellent stakeholder management. We offer 16-24 hours a week flexible working, and as we currently don’t have an office, we are looking for someone who can work remotely. This role is initially 9-12 months, but we will look to expand this, and potentially make it permanent, if it is successful. This is an amazing opportunity to be instrumental in establishing mass fundraising operations in the UK.
If this sounds like an exciting opportunity that you could lead forward for us then we would love to hear from you.
Are you passionate about fundraising and excited to take on a new challenge?
Would you like to be part of a passionate and successful team for a highly worthwhile cause?
Are you motivated by delivering great results?
Do you create effective and meaningful professional relationships?
Our Inspiration Fund creates life-changing experiences for the young people in our schools and helps to fund our award-winning Enrichment programme. The programme helps our students to develop their passions and discover their talents through access to the very best in sports, music, culture and outward-bound activities. We are proud to say that ours is the only programme of its kind in the state sector and gives our students access to the kinds of life-changing experiences normally only available at independent fee-paying schools. The Inspiration Fund relies on charitable donations and fundraising activities.
We are looking for a great fundraiser who is an organised self-starter with persuasive writing skills. You will have experience of developing bids to strategic funders and a track record writing successful applications to trusts and foundations. You will share our passion of broadening horizons for young people and will articulate this when communicating with and engaging others to share in our vision. You will have relevant experience and be very hands on. We are very welcoming of diverse candidates from all backgrounds.
This role is full-time, permanent, will predominantly be based at Head Office, Loughborough or at an academy within our network. However, there is flexibility for hybrid working depending on requirements/preference. We are happy to discuss any preferences before or during the application process.
Please direct informal enquiries to Maria Maltby at DRET Head Office.
Salary & Benefits
- £35,000-£40,000pa FTE
- Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
- 30 days annual leave plus statutory holidays
- Regional networks of Trust colleagues and access to key leaders in Education
- Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
- Rewards and Recognition Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
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Early applications are advised. We receive high numbers of applications for our roles and therefore have to close the vacancy prior to the closing date in order to review candidates' details against our job criteria before shortlisting or re-opening the vacancy.
An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
The David Ross Education Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.
It is our objective to ensure that job applicants and staff are treated solely on the basis of their merits, abilities and potential. We do not discriminate against any applicants on the basis of any protected characteristics.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Charity People are thrilled to be working with the British Heart Foundation to recruit a Fundraising Manager to join their busy and successful team in Cheshire.
Fundraising Manager
Location: Field based role covering Cheshire
Contract: 12-Month FTC (maternity)
Salary: £32,050 - £33,050 including car allowance (basic salary £27,500 - £28,500) + benefits
Flexible working, life and family-friendly
This is a really exciting opportunity for someone to join a super successful fundraising team. As this role is maternity cover you will be doing a real mix of community and corporate fundraising. The COTY relationships are up and running so this will be a great opportunity to account manage and steward some regional corporates! This is a diverse role where no two days are the same. You'll focus on achieving ambitious income targets through identifying, securing and managing community fundraising partnerships. You'll also lead on the recruitment, management and support of fundraising group networks, supporters, and volunteer fundraisers within the community to maximise income in Cheshire.
This is such a fantastic opportunity for someone who is tenacious and driven, with a proven track record of fundraising at a community level and delivering significant income. You'll be a relationship builder at heart, someone who thrives on forging new relationships through meaningful and authentic connections, whether that be from fundraising groups, committees or new volunteer groups in your area.
Life and family-friendly culture with flexible working. You will be joining a brave and ambitious team, every one of them as passionate as you are about making an impact on funding life-saving science.
Generous benefits include 30 days holiday plus public/bank holidays, private medical insurance, dental health cover and contribution towards your gym membership, learning & development training, Pension - 8% employee and 10% employer contributions.
To apply: Please get in touch with a copy of your CV or profile in the first instance to Ellen Drummond at Charity People.
Closing date: ASAP
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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Charity People are excited to be working with a fantastic National Charity to recruit a Fundraising Manager to join their Community & Corporate Fundraising team.
Fundraising Manager
Location - London (Homebased) in the patch (ideally within striking distance of London),
Permanent
Full time - 35 hours per week
Salary - £33,050 - £34,550 including car allowance (basic salary £28,500 - £30,000) + benefits
Benefits
- 30 days holiday plus public/bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Dental health cover and contribution towards your gym membership
- Learning & development training
- Pension - 8% employee and 10% employer contributions.
About the role
No two days are the same in this thrilling role. This role will focus on motivating, inspiring and influencing a range of support from a growing portfolio of individuals, community groups, fundraising groups, and corporate partnerships. You'll also recruit, manage and support volunteer fundraisers within the community and inspire them to reach their potential.
All about you
- Track record in fundraising at a community level or track record in sales account management
- Demonstratable experience of building and delivering successful partnerships and relationships with companies and groups
- Experience of successfully recruiting and managing volunteers and fundraisers or transferable skills
- Experience or working with fundraising committees and/or groups or transferable skills
- Demonstratable experience of PR, Communication and/or marketing activity
- Ability to motivate people
- Excellent communication, networking and a relationship builder at heart
Location: Life and family-friendly culture with flexible working. You will be joining a brave and ambitious team, every one of them as passionate as you are about making an impact on funding life-saving science.
Closing date: Please get in touch asap with your up to date CV and I will send you the JD, and we can also arrange a chat. All applications MUST be made via charity people. Applications will be shortlisted on a rolling basis so please submit asap.
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Prospectus is excited to be working with Sand Dams Worldwide to help them recruit for a Trust Fundraising Manager to join the team. Sand Dams Worldwide aims to support the world's poorest people by helping them to transform their own lives through soil and water conservation in drylands. The Trust Fundraising Manager will source new trust funding while maintaining and maximising funds from existing grant-makers.
The role is offered as a full-time permanent position to be initially home based with a salary of £32,000 to £35,000 based on experience.
The chosen candidate for this position will grow the annual trusts and foundations portfolio by developing and managing the existing pipeline and submitting bids for grants at a four and five figure level, while assisting with six figure bids. You will aim to maximise income by identifying and researching new opportunities for funding through awards and grants. As well as this, you will be tasked with maintaining clear and detailed records of all trust fundraising communications.
Sand Dams Worldwide is looking for a candidate with a proven track record of working autonomously to secure five figure bids from trusts and foundations. You will have strong communication skills with experience of building and maintaining relationships with prospective grant makers. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about improving and developing the lives of some of the world's poorest people.
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process then please contact Adam Allnutt at Prospectus.
If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.
In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.
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We're looking for someone to help consolidate our achievements and contribute to the long-term sustainability and success of the charity. Our new Fundraising Manager will bring a wealth of fundraising experience gained through working with corporate, trusts, or major donors and be a key part of our strategy for growth going forward.
We are looking for someone to work at least 21 hours a week. The full-time role is 35 hours / week. The post is fully home-based and provides a career opportunity with a dedicated small, but growing, team. In addition to a generous 36 days annual leave (pro rata) , we offer a commitment to continuous professional growth and development through the provision of an annual training budget that is offered to all staff.
About The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation
The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation was set up in March 2020 by a group of NHS staff in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We exist to support the welfare and wellbeing of those fighting to keep us healthy and safe during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.
The charity currently consists of six staff and is a 100% remote and flexible working organisation. In 18 months we have raised £1.3m in funds and over £3m including gifts-in-kind.
We currently offer the following services to healthcare workers:
·Bereaved healthcare worker family support and scholarships
·Professional counselling
·Retail discount collation and aggregation
·Hospital staff room refurbishments
·Childcare grants
and are expanding the services we can offer healthcare workers, in response to their feedback.
Please send a covering letter of no more than one side of A4 detailing how your experience matches our Job Description; you should also include a CV of no more than two sides of A4.
NB. Applicants for this post must be based full-time in the UK as, although the role is remote-working, they will be required to meet with the corporate partners regularly and be able to attend face-to-face team meetings.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This role is an exciting opportunity to manage fundraising across Scotland and Northern Ireland. You’ll be based in one of these nations and will support local fundraisers, with a particular focus on high-value relationships with individuals, local corporates, and community groups. Developing and implementing stewardship plans that engage supporters will be one of your strengths, and you’ll be someone who always looks for opportunities to build and deepen relationships.
You’ll also be a strategic thinker who can analyse existing activity and create long-term plans. Keeping accurate records will be key to reporting on results and forecasting income and expenditure.
Working closely with the Public Fundraising team, you’ll ensure that our fundraising products are promoted across both nations and that every supporter receives excellent supporter care. You’ll be a part of a team who are exceeding targets, and are motivated to make a difference to everyone affected by bowel cancer.
To apply submit your CV and answers to the following questions (no more than 250 words per question):
- What experience do you have of working as a regional lead?
- What skills and experience do you have that would help you to manage a national fundraising campaign?
- What are the most important things in creating a fundraising strategy and how have you demonstrated these?
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a Community and Events Product Manager to join a well established team of successful fundraisers for a well known healthcare charity which can be home based or hybrid working.
The Charity
A well known, well loved National charity with hospices all of over the country. They provide Front line support, night and day, in peoples homes across the UK, providing hands-on care and vital emotional support.
The Role
Product Managers work across a range of fundraising products, including challenge events, virtual/remote events, collections and year-round supporter-led fundraisers
The candidate will be responsible for delivering the strategies and plans for products including income and recruitment targets
The Product Manager is responsible for the product from planning stages to delivery and evaluation. hey will work multiple in-house teams, such as Creative and eCrm to ensure all aspects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
The Product Manager works to ensure all communications a supporter receives, ensures great stewardship, wow moments and really makes the supporter feel that their support and fundraising are making a difference.
The Candidate
Co-ordinating multiple varying projects and delivering to deadlines
Robust, confident can do attitude that thrives on challenges and calm under pressure
Strategic planning and implementation
Law and Health and Safety regulations regarding fundraising event / campaigns
Team working - within own team and across an organisation. Collaboration across teams to use multi-disciplinary talents to best effect
Effective promotional ideas that increase awareness and participation in fundraising event / campaigns
IMPORTANT NOTE
Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.
We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.
Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.
Experience of Product Development OR have a fundraising background in Community Fundraising, Challenge Events or Mass Participation, this role offers a unique opportunity to transfer and develop your skills in Product Management - Mass Participation. This is an excellent opportunity not to be missed!
You will join a National Charity, London Head Office, with remote offices in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Newcastle, or York. Offering Remote or Hybrid Working.
As the Fundraising Product Manager, working with the Senior Fundraising Product Manager, you will deliver fundraising products that provide exceptional supporter experience, increase participation and income.
Working with the Senior Fundraising Product Managers, you will:
- Manage selected products in the portfolio, ensuring they are delivered standard.
- Based on market and audience insight, you will maximise the fundraising potential of each product by planning activities to increase participation and income raised.
- Act as the main point of contact across the charity related to your products, providing advice, guidance, and support to other teams.
Our client is looking for you to have previously worked within a fundraising capacity, either product development, community fundraising, challenge events or campaigns marketing. Have excellent project management skills and proven ability to co-ordinated multiple projects with excellent analytical skills.
Salary depending on location; £23,440 - £26,044 + LW (£3,500 if applicable - £26,940 - £29,544).
Deadline is ASAP, please apply/contact us immediately if of interest.
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Experience of Product Development OR have a fundraising background in Community Fundraising, Challenge Events or Mass Participation, this role offers a unique opportunity to transfer and develop your skills in Product Management - Mass Participation. This is an excellent opportunity not to be missed!
You will join a National Charity, London Head Office, with remote offices in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Newcastle, or York. Offering Remote or Hybrid Working.
As the Fundraising Product Manager, working with the Senior Fundraising Product Manager, you will deliver fundraising products that provide exceptional supporter experience, increase participation and income.
Working with the Senior Fundraising Product Managers, you will:
- Manage selected products in the portfolio, ensuring they are delivered standard.
- Based on market and audience insight, you will maximise the fundraising potential of each product by planning activities to increase participation and income raised.
- Act as the main point of contact across the charity related to your products, providing advice, guidance, and support to other teams.
Our client is looking for you to have previously worked within a fundraising capacity, either product development, community fundraising, challenge events or campaigns marketing. Have excellent project management skills and proven ability to co-ordinated multiple projects with excellent analytical skills.
Salary depending on location; £23,440 - £26,044 + LW (£3,500 if applicable - £26,940 - £29,544).
Deadline is ASAP, please apply/contact us immediately if of interest.
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Fundraising and Partnerships Manager
Job Type: Full-time (but we also welcome candidates seeking 4 days/week)
Location: Remote, with occasional travel to London for team meetings, and to funder locations
Closing Date for Applications: Monday 4th July 10:00
Planned Interview Dates: short video calls with a longlist of candidates will be w/c 11th July, followed by a first interview w/c 18th July and second interview w/c 25th July. All interviews will be by video call.
Who we are
Apps for Good exists to ensure ALL young people have the tech innovation skills to thrive in an ever-changing world.
We have over a decade of experience providing free tech innovation courses to almost 240,000 UK young people. Our courses give students the skills and determination to shape their future through technology, while giving teachers the support and confidence to deliver high quality computing content and resources.
More than half of the schools we work with are in challenging circumstances and we’re committed to offering an opportunity for all. We’re proud to partner with leading brands such as Lego, Spotify, and Google to keep our course content 100% free to schools. Students benefit from industry expertise from over 300 industry volunteers.
We’re now embarking on an exciting new chapter. Young people, especially those with experience of disadvantage, are not learning the skills they need to create innovative solutions to climate change. We have created a new programme, Innovate for Climate Change, building on our existing methodology, experience and networks, so that young people can thrive in a transformed post-carbon economy.
The team
We are a small, close-knit, ambitious and energetic team who all believe strongly in our mission and values. We’re currently working very effectively remotely and will continue to be a distributed team with regular days together in London.
The role
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about social impact and building long-term partnerships. You’ll build relationships with new corporate and foundation prospects, prepare and pitch proposals, and negotiate mutually valuable projects.
You’ll support, nurture and grow our fantastic network of funders and partners, including LEGO, Spotify, Google, Siemens and BNY Mellon. We need a brilliant relationship manager who can work with a diverse range of new and existing key contacts and volunteers.
Our partnerships enhance young people’s learning experience, support our strategy and give us the funding we need to remain free and accessible to as many young people as possible. We believe that this collaboration is essential to bridge education and industry.
As part of a small team, you’ll get to work hands-on to drive our fundraising, contributing your ideas and insights directly to our strategy. You’ll work on exciting projects and big partnerships, while being part of our new climate programme from the ground up. This is a great opportunity to step up in your fundraising career with plenty of opportunities to develop and learn.
Specific Responsibilities:
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Account management: work with the Head of Fundraising and Partnerships to develop high quality relationships with our existing partners, providing written and verbal updates on project impact, pitching for new funding opportunities, supporting partners to recruit, engage and coordinate volunteers to work with our students
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Partnership development: work with the Head of Fundraising and Partnerships to maintain a weekly pipeline of active prospects and explore new funding routes or income sources, reach out to prospective corporate and trust funders, build relationships with decision makers, prepare proposals, pitch funding opportunities, negotiate project details and secure funds
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Volunteer community development: work with the wider team to recruit volunteers from corporate partners, engage volunteers with inspirational stories, coordinate volunteering programmes - ensuring they create impact and meet student and teacher needs
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Project management: work with the wider team to implement funded projects and products
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Strategy development: support the development of our ongoing fundraising and partnerships strategy
Requirements
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Enthusiasm for Apps for Good’s mission
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At least two years’ experience in one or more of the following areas; fundraising, partnership management, business development or account management
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Excellent written and oral communication skills
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Confident networking and engaging with stakeholders at all levels
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Enjoy delivering high quality presentations and pitches to external organisations
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Great interpersonal and teamwork skills, with the ability to work across the team and deliver on shared projects
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Experience managing projects independently, with strong attention to detail and process, and ability to solve problems
How to apply
Please submit a CV and around 500 words describing why you’d like to join the team and how you meet the role requirements.
Benefits
This is a permanent role, working remotely with regular travel to meet clients and prospects, when safe to do so. It’s full time but could be four days per week and we’ll consider other working patterns. We’ll aim to meet in London as a team every quarter. We offer flexible working, health care insurance, 24 days holiday and extra days off over Christmas, plus you get your birthday off.
We are committed to developing our team and supporting their career aspirations. We are incredibly proud that colleagues have gone on to work for organisations such as Pearson, the Government Digital Service, Tech UK, University of Salford and Times Higher Education.
We have a long history of flexible and remote working across our team and believe everyone should have a good work/life balance while contributing to work they care about. Learn more about working at Apps for Good from current and former team members here.
We embrace a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge within Apps for Good. Joining a small collaborative team means you’ll contribute to a variety of projects and everyone across the team has their voice heard and contributes to our strategy and operations.
Please contact Matt Guy if you have any questions about the role.
Please write around 500 words describing why you’d like to join the Apps for Good team and how you meet the role requirements.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the role
Throughout the global pandemic UnLtd have been able to maintain support for social entrepreneurs and the Business Development & Partnerships Team has played a significant role, securing over £50m from statutory funders, trusts and foundations including the National Lottery Community Fund, Comic Relief and DCMS.
The Business Development & Partnerships Team will continue to play an important role and will be accountable for generating a further £21m over the next three years.
We have already secured £9.7m of this leaving us with a remaining target of securing £11.3m over the next three years.
You will be accountable for developing and managing a pipeline of prospects with the goal of securing six and seven figure partnerships with trusts, foundations and statutory funders. You will work closely with the Head of Business Development & Partnerships and other internal stakeholders to co-manage partner relationships, ensuring UnLtd delivers, evidences, and communicates impact.
What we are looking for
We are looking for a dynamic Trusts fundraiser who has proven experience of securing high value partnerships/grants (from 5 figures) and managing and developing long term relationships.
The successful candidate must be a strong communicator, able to express ideas with clarity verbally and in writing to a range of audiences including but not limited to creating, writing and selling compelling cases for support.
Equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging are core to our culture, values and strategy – as are our aspirations in social justice and positively shaping our sector. Our new Trusts & Statutory Fundraising Manager will be passionate about developing partnerships which drive our inclusion ambitions, our impact and our long-term financial health.
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Islamic Relief Worldwide is an independent humanitarian and development organisation, serving humanity for over 38 years. With an active presence in over 40 countries across the globe, we strive to make the world a better and fairer place for those affected by poverty, conflicts and natural disasters.
Islamic Relief UK (IRUK) is currently recruiting for the position of ‘Community Fundraising Officer’ to join its Fundraising division based out its office in Leicester, UK. To support the Regional Community Fundraising Manager in fulfilling the organisational objectives of developing and optimising on community fundraising and volunteer initiatives.
The successful candidate must have or be:
- Experience in establishing and developing relationships with key stakeholders
- Experience in project coordination i.e. events and campaigns
- Experience of organising and supervising events
- Experience of recruiting, managing and developing volunteers
- Experience in motivating and managing volunteers
- Experience in professional fundraising
- Full UK Driving license
- Knowledge and understanding of the local region and community
- To prioritise and work well under the pressure of a busy environment
- To take a collaborate approach with a strong sense of teamwork and willingness to work with colleagues cross organisationally in support of wider objectives
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing as well as build relationships with people of all backgrounds, levels and settings
- Excellent presentation skills
- Strong motivation and empathy towards the aims and objectives of the organisation
- Proven ability to work on own initiative and to tight deadlines, prioritising a variety of important and urgent, but diverse tasks
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills, with high standards of computer literacy including MS office packages
- Numerical skills and the ability to work accurately under pressure and pay attention to detail
- Ability to prioritise and plan work, set and achieve deadlines, establish and maintain monitoring systems etc.
- Ability to represent Islamic Relief in a wide range of situations
- Good understanding of international development and humanitarian work
- Good understanding of the Fundraising sector, standards, practises and frameworks
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If you are talented, reliable, service-minded, resilient and a highly motivated professional looking for a meaningful career, with a strong commitment to IRW’s mission and values of sincerity, excellence, compassion, social justice and custodianship, please apply by completing our online application form.
For more information on the excellent company benefits we offer our employees, please visit our website.
PLEASE NOTE: Interviews are expected to take place on mid-late July 2022.
Pre-employment Checks:
Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:
- screening clearance
- proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK
- criminal records check
- receipt of satisfactory references
Please note, for UK-based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications that would require sponsorship.
Our values and commitment to safeguarding
IRW is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom IRW engages. IRW expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records checks. IRW also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Applicants should be sympathetic to the values of Islamic Relief:
(Sincerity, Excellence, Compassion, Social Justice and Custodianship)
Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer
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