Introduction:

The Professional Fundraiser is a leading and national fundraising agency working with large charity clients including The Royal British Legion, Cancer Research UK and Cats Protection, providing face-to-face fundraising services across the UK including Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

This is an exciting new role, aimed to enhance the donor experience across all our charities, and to continuously evolve our face-to-face fundraising offering.

With previous experience in the charity sector, specifically in a strategic and income generation led role, you will be an expert innovator, with a proven track record of taking new products and concepts to the marketplace, from creation to pain-less delivery. You will have a strategic understanding of and practical experience of applying different innovation methodologies and techniques. You’ll use this to provide idea’s and vision for fundraising innovation at The Professional Fundraiser.

Humorous, understanding and driven, you’ll have strong commercial acumen and the ability to transform ideas, new concepts and eye-catching creations into viable income-generating plans. You will be able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, both in person and in writing; and have a strong influencing and negotiating skill set.

Key role responsibilities:

· To provide new concepts, for example: experiential, instant debit and contactless payments, for all our charity clients to create additional revenue streams and to enhance the face-to-face donor experience;

· Actively liaise with charity clients to identify fundraising objectives, working in partnership to create innovative fundraising concepts for the face-to-face environment;

· Lead on the delivery of successful and innovative campaigns for our Charity client’s;

· Lead the transformation of our donor experience and engagement strategy;

· Hold accountability for all marketing and charity brand materials;

· Effectively manage budgets, and measure ROI for implemented concepts;

· Deliver both ‘TPF’ and Client value’s through new innovation.

Essential skills and experience:

· Have a strong background in innovation within the Charity or Fundraising sector;

· Ability to motivate and lead on multiple new concept projects;

· Experience in managing stakeholders within a complex business model;

· Knowledge of face-to-face fundraising and sector trends;

· Excitement to be instrumental in developing our fundraising offering for multiple charity clients.

Designability is an independent charity that transforms the lives of disabled people and those with long-term health conditions through the design of assistive technology. We research, develop and create helpful products which meet unmet needs in society. All of our work is funded by donations, research grants and product royalties. Every penny we receive is spent on bringing new designs to life.

We're seeking an enthusiastic Fundraising Officer to join our small fundraising team as we look to expand our existing income generation streams. You'll be responsible for developing and delivering a calendar of fundraising events and community initiatives and working directly with fundraising volunteers, as well as supporting individuals, groups and businesses with their own fundraising.

Previous fundraising experience is not essential and transferable skills will be considered, this position would suit anyone who has worked in a sales or public facing role previously. You will need to have great interpersonal skills, be confident when meeting new people, and have a desire to find new opportunities to promote the work of Designability and our case for support. There is plenty of scope within this role to put forward and develop your own fundraising ideas and a good level of creativity would be a benefit.

Want to use your skills in events and marketing to play a vital role in fundraising from the UK public to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

Join WaterAid as Events Fundraising Officer (products and marketing) to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. On top of that you'll be joining a 2018 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

The WaterAid Community, Events and Education team has a key role in engaging and fundraising from our supporters through a range of events and fundraising projects.

As our enthusiastic and experienced Events Fundraising Officer you will develop and deliver innovative events products and market them effectively to ensure effective fundraising results.

This role is a year fixed term contract (with potential to be made permanent) to deliver some new exciting fundraising event products.

In this role, you will project manage the development and delivery of fundraising events products as well as marketing these effectively to our audiences.

To be successful, you'll need to have:
* Proven experience of delivering fundraising products or fundraising events
* Experience delivering marketing campaigns
* Ability to manage and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Please click 'Apply' for a full job pack.

To apply for this role, please submit your Cover Letter and CV in either word document or PDF format.

Applications will close one minute before midnight on 13th October. Availability for interview is required for first interview 22nd October and second interview on the 29th October.

WaterAid's benefits include

• 36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
• We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Flexible working conditions, including the opportunity for part-time work and home working up to 2 days a week
• Season Ticket Loan
• Free annual eye tests
• Pay as You Earn training scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave.
• Sabbaticals
• Volunteer Day

WaterAid is currently located at Durham Street, Vauxhall. However, we will be leaving our current location in the summer of 2020. The new location is to be confirmed but will be within zone 1-2 in London. The recruiting line manager will discuss this with you at the interview stage.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Salary: £27,800 with excellent benefits

WaterAid is fully committed to protecting those with whom it comes into contact in WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct. We will conduct the most appropriate preemployment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained.

WaterAid is an equal opportunities, disability-confident employer and committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us.

Department:  Fundraising and Marketing

Location:  Hilversum, The Netherlands (25 minutes from Amsterdam and Utrecht)

Status: Full time - one-year term with extension

Salary:  €60,000 – €65,000 dependent on experience

About Make-A-Wish® International

Make-A-Wish® creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We seek to bring every eligible child's wish to life because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey. Research shows children who have wishes granted can build the physical and emotional strength they need to fight their illness. Make-A-Wish is the world’s leading children’s wish-granting organization, serving children in more than 50 countries worldwide. Together, generous donors, supporters, staff and more than 45,000 volunteers grant a wish every 17 minutes, on average, somewhere in the world. Since 1980, Make-A-Wish has granted nearly 480,000 wishes to children; more than 30,000 in 2018 alone.

Position Summary

As Head of Digital Fundraising and Marketing you will be responsible for all Digital Fundraising activities working closely with the wider Make-A-Wish International team, the Digital leads at Make-A-Wish America, and within our wider global Affiliate network.  You will also be responsible to lead the work related to our broader brand, audience and messaging work in collaboration with champion affiliates within the network and the Brand Advancement team at Make-A-Wish America.

If you decide to take on the challenge, your focus will include:

• Take the lead responsibility on the strategic development of insights on the Make- A-Wish brand outside of the US, to support audience, channel and message selection on a local level.
• Supervise the adaptation or creation of creative assets to support brand representation at local level.
• Take the lead responsibility on the strategic operation and execution of the digital acquisition strategy for Make-A-Wish International.
• Define, objectives and KPI measures and plans on how to achieve them monthly, quarterly and yearly.
• Provide accurate and insightful digital income analysis including Salesforce, reports and dashboard creation, web analytics and/or other platforms that we might use in the future.
• Take a key role in the budgeting and reforecasting process for the digital fundraising programme. Make investment cases for new activity and growth to support decision making across the programme and fundraising. Proactively manage budgets, monitor and report on digital fundraising campaigns to ensure digital fundraising delivers on target.
• Day-to-day management and optimization of digital platforms and channels that drive income and lead generation, with special focus on brand and peer-to-peer website, social channels, email.
• Development and execution of new campaigns and propositions that maximize our income potential.
• Develop, implement and manage:

• a day to day and yearly content calendar to maximize brand awareness and engagement across our social media channels.
•  yearly email calendar to maximize monetization of our database and increase loyalty and LTV of our supporters.

• Analysis audiences and donor insights and share with Head of Fundraising to feed into strategy work and Donor Journey products.

• Lead on the Digital Fundraising Affiliate Working Group with Make-A-Wish Foundation America and affiliates to streamline messaging and join up on global campaigns. For example,) 40th anniversary 2020 and World Wish Day.
• Manage relationships with digital marketing suppliers.
• Support in the management and development of platforms and products oriented to acquire and monetize corporate business relationships.
• While you yourself report into the Vice President of Fundraising, your Line Management duties will include:
  • 1x Donor Care Manager
  • 1x Streaming and Brand

Strategic Projects

•  Digital Fundraising Affiliate Working Group
• Own Digital Fundraising section of the Global Fundraising Strategy

Make-A-Wish International

On 1 July 2019, the operational office of Make-A-Wish International moved to the Mediapark in Hilversum approximately 25 minutes from central Amsterdam and Utrecht.

As an umbrella organizational unit, we're responsible for supporting all Make-A-Wish organizations outside the U.S.

From our office in the Netherlands, you work with up to 15 colleagues, as well as international colleagues based in other countries. Our working language is English, and meetings often take place digitally.

Your Qualities

If you want to work at Make-A-Wish International, it's essential that you are socially committed. It's not hard to motivate yourself in this job, once you think about the thousands of children our organization helps. You're also a self-starter with good communication skills and a high level of accuracy in execution.

Your background includes:

• Substantial digital fundraising or digital marketing experience, including planning, evaluating and delivering successful campaigns that drive response.
• Line management experience.
• Proven track record of generating income.
• Proven ability to think and act strategically, planning and evaluating activities.
• Ability to translate concepts into effective action plans.
• Experience of delivering multi-media campaigns.
• Proficiency in Salesforce as CRM, other data management tools a plus.
• Proficiency in web management and analytics, including CMSs like Drupal or WordPress, analytics like GA, hotjar, Optimisely.
• Proficient level (spoken and written) English.

What We Offer

At Make-A-Wish, you work from the heart to make a fantastic initiative possible: giving children facing a critical condition a unique experience that will transform their lives forever. A 38-hour working week is preferable. As soon as you join us as our new Digital Fundraising Manager, you can expect (on a full-time basis):

• a competitive salary of between €60,000 - €65,000 depending on your knowledge and experience;
• Startup mentality with flexible working;
• For candidates relocating advantageous government tax breaks
• a pension plan with Zwitserleven;
• at least 25 days of paid leave annually;
• a contribution towards your health insurance policy.

Relocation:

• Flight for candidate to Netherlands;
• Small contribution to the relocation of personal values;
• Support in accessing the tax exemption with the Dutch government. 

A fantastic opportunity for a senior individual giving professional to work on a high profile and prestigious individual giving programme.

Reporting directly to the Director of Fundraising, this role is integral to the charity. They are looking for a passionate Head of Individual Giving to drive even more success.

Job specification

• Lead and develop the individual giving programme, which makes up a significant amount of income for the charity
• Ensure individual giving income continues to grow
• Develop new products and campaigns with a focus on digital
• Manage and develop a team of 10 with two direct reports. You will be able to create a new team structure

Person specification

• An experienced Head of Individual Giving, keen to play a central role in a growing and large charity
• A clear strategic thinker, passionate about effective and ambitious individual giving
• An ambitious, challenging but diplomatic leader, able to work well with a range of people

Flexible working available for this role.

To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Janice Hardy at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.

Saving nature is going to take leadership, collaboration, innovation, negotiation, and an ability to unite people to a common cause. Are these skills that you can bring to the role of Head of Digital Products?

Head of Digital Products
Reference number: tTHbV-10
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
Salary starting at: £39,970 to £46,632 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent

Your role in saving nature:
The RSPB's digital estate is vital to our mission to give nature a home - from rallying people together to speak up for nature, to inspiring a love of wildlife, to raising the income that pays for our conservation work in the UK and around the world.

As the RSPB's Head of Digital Products, you'll lead a team of the RSPB's best and brightest digital strategists - the folks who develop our website, email campaigns, digital marketing, social media and intranet. You'll be hungry to find new ways to use digital platforms to meet the RSPB's goals.

There'll be fundraising targets to hit. There'll be budgets to stay within. There'll be integrated marketing campaigns to deliver across multiple platforms. There'll be relationships to build and fascinating challenges to rise to.

As a skilled communicator, negotiator and influencer, you'll be proactive in seeking out opportunities to develop yourself and your team. You'll talk persuasively with everyone from internal colleagues to politicians, journalists and people from other organisations.

Above all else, you'll be an advocate for saving nature. Nature's in big trouble - the climate crisis and loss of habitat are pushing some of our best loved species towards extinction. We won't let nature fall silent. This role is your chance to make real change possible. What do you say?

Where you'll be working:
You'll be working at the RSPB Headquarters in Sandy, Bedfordshire - imagine a campus of more than 500 passionate, fascinating people, set in the middle of a nature reserve. There's a forest to explore, and a heath. Plus, the staff restaurant serves amazing fish and chips every Friday.

The RSPB is a team of more than 1,000 staff and 8,000 volunteers, all working to give nature a home, in the UK and around the world, from the heathlands of Dorset to the rainforests of Sierra Leone. You'll join a group of passionate research scientists, marketers, policy advisors, creatives, ecologists, communicators and educators. Are you with us?

Closing date: 21 October 2019 
We are actively recruiting and may draw the role to close when suitable applications are received. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply Now button to be directed to our website. There you can download the Role Profile and Application Details.

This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You will be asked to declare unspent convictions and cautions at offer of employment stage.

When you make your application please ensure that you include reference number tTHbV-10 on any correspondence.

No agencies please.

Are you passionate about dogs and cats? Our people and animals make Battersea a great place to work. Your expertise will help increase our impact for dogs and cats everywhere.

We are looking for a Senior Challenge Events Officer to independently manage and have overall responsibility for leading the strategic planning, development and delivery of a programme of third-party challenge events, to maximise fundraising income and retain long term support for Battersea.

About us

Battersea is here for every dog and cat and has been since 1860. We are a leading animal welfare charity and over the last 150 years we’ve grown from one home in London to three rescuing and rehoming centres across the South East. With c500 staff and 1000 volunteers, we have cared for over three million vulnerable animals We also campaign tirelessly to make things better for dogs and cats; sharing our expertise and educating the public and policymakers about responsible pet ownership. Join us and make a difference for every dog and cat.

Our Fundraising team

Battersea’s multiple award-winning Fundraising department raises around 60% of the Charity’s total income. Working with colleagues across the organisation, we provide members of the public and organisations with opportunities to engage with Battersea and to support our work. Through continued investment, net fundraising income has risen from just £100,000 in 2010 to £12m in 2017, and we aim to reach a net income of £18m by 2020 to make sure Battersea can be here for every cat and dog now and in the future.

Public Fundraising is responsible for generating income from new and existing supporters through direct marketing, challenge events and community fundraising activities. Within Public Fundraising sits the Challenge & Public Events team who manage places in third-party events such as London Marathon and London Landmarks, and Battersea’s award-winning Muddy Dog Challenge series.

What we can offer you

Our dedicated people mean that we can be here for every dog and cat. Whether you are sharing an office with our dogs or directly caring for our cats, our animals show their appreciation every day. There is no better reward than seeing the difference you make to the lives of our dogs and cats first-hand; although we also provide a wide range of employee benefits, including:

• 28 days of annual leave (plus 8 days paid public holidays) per year

• Generous pension contributions – up to 10% employer contribution

• Free healthcare cash plan, where you can claim for a range of treatment including dental (£120), optical (£120), physiotherapy, chiropody and acupuncture (£300) every year

• Annual interest-free season ticket loans

• Discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes

• Life insurance

So, if you are passionate about dogs, cats and about our work, then we’d like to hear from you.

For full details, including our job applicant privacy notice, please download our recruitment pack. You can apply by visiting our website. All applications must be submitted before the closing date advertised.

Individual Giving Officer
Location: London
Salary £31,500 per annum (plus benefits)

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic fundraiser, with Individual Giving experience to join a reputable charity at an exciting time. This is an exciting time to join a small organisation with a great heritage and lots of potential. The charity has ambitious plans to broaden their appeal to reach new audiences, grow income and diversify their fundraising portfolio.
As one of two Individual Giving Officers within a small, experienced team, you will help to develop and deliver a varied direct marketing programme to generate income from individual supporters. You will be responsible for project managing activities across diverse income streams, including cash, digital, regular giving, membership and raffle. In this role you will also have opportunity to work closely with other team members to help maximise the fundraising potential of our community and mass-participation events.
The ideal candidate will have the skills and experience to help the charity engage new supporters, as well as to steward and grow income from existing members, donors and e-activists. You should be an enthusiastic all-rounder someone with a real passion and aptitude for working with creative partners and colleagues to creating compelling and effective fundraising communications while also being confident in the more technical aspects of direct marketing: drafting data briefs, devising robust tests and analysing results.
The successful candidate will have previous experience in a charity fundraising environment and a proven track record in project managing direct marketing activities across a variety of income streams and channels, including digital and social media. In line with the charity's objectives, ideally your experience will include supporter acquisition as well as retention, with knowledge of new product/offer development and implementation of 'test and learn' programmes.

Closing date: Monday 21st October 2019 (Midday)

Interviews: Monday 28th/29th October 2019

To register you interest or to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, please contact Vicky Hayles on 0113 220 7540/ [email protected]

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Digital Product Manager

You will join us as a Senior Digital Product Manager and will be instrumental in driving transformational change across our digital environment.

Senior Digital Product Manager Responsibilities:

- Manage two other Digital Product Managers
- Be accountable for ensuring rigour and discipline are applied across the product development and management function.
- You will be a digital evangelist, operating at the cutting edge of digital innovation and practice.
-Have a keen eye on future trends ensuring that new and emerging digital opportunities are routinely reviewed.
- Help to build and retain the integrity of our digital platforms through strong planning and evaluation skills.
-Working closely with internal teams, partners and suppliers being instrumental in ensuring effective and highly collaborative relationships are forged.

Senior Digital Product Manager Requirements:

-Have proven experience of leading a digital Product Management team / function
-Ideally, come from one of the following backgrounds: eCommerce, digital customer service, fundraising
-Extensive CRM integration and eCRM management expertise
-Proven success in identifying, measuring and evaluating performance metrics
-Have an excellent understanding of UX / User Experience, product roadmaps, KPO/KPI setting, performance evaluation, benefits analysis, customer research
-Extensive experience in product roadmap development.

About RNIB :

We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and we’re here for everyone affected by sight loss. Working for us means working for one of the UK’s biggest charities, supporting almost two million people living with sight loss in the UK.

RNIB is committed to being led by our customers (blind and partially sighted people), and one of the ways we do this is through active involvement and engagement in many of our work activities, including the recruitment of new members of staff.

Location: London, with travel to other RNIB location in the UK

Hours: 36 hours per week, Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £50,103 per annum

Benefits: 26 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), which increase with service. Excellent pension schemes

You may have experience of the following: Digital Project Manager, Technical Project Manager, IT Project Manager, Ecommerce Product Manager, Digital Product Manager, Ecommerce Manager, Project Manager, Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Customer Experience Manager, Charity, Third Sector, NFP, etc.

Ref: 89404

Unicef ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

But we could not do this without our supporters. Inspiring and engaging with the public is at the heart of Unicef UK’s strategy – we want more people to know, love and give to our work than ever before. Achieving this in such a complex and changing environment will be a huge challenge. That’s where you come in.

As Head of Supporter Acquisition, you will develop and implement ambitious plans to recruit new supporters. You will provide strategic direction and leadership for a multi-functional team, with strong digital, broadcast and face-to-face programmes. It is a rare opportunity to lead such a talented, sector-leading supporter acquisition team.

To succeed, you will have experience of developing and implementing successful marketing strategies, either in-house or agency side. As an experienced leader, you will be able to motivate and inspire team members, including coaching and developing them to deliver our ambitious plans. You will have excellent communication skills and a track record in successfully engaging senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.  And finally, you will have experience managing a large-scale marketing programme with expenditure of over £1million, so you will be comfortable managing complex financial, risk and compliance factors.

Digital Product Manager

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Digital Product Manager to take a high-ownership role across a multichannel, digital product.

All in all, you will support the drive to bring structure, consensus, rigour, discipline and quality to how the organisation plans and manages digital projects and products.

Based in London, the post will involve some travelling to other RNIB locations throughout the UK.

Digital Product Manager Responsibilities:

RNIB’s digital operations are undergoing a substantial review and realignment. As an essential component to delivering our organisational goals, there has never been a more exciting time to join the digital team and be at the heart of the organisations plans.

In this role the Digital Product Manager will have responsibility for the digital customer experience and will act as platform lead for key digital products. The role will ensure that the development of digital products adheres to best practice, are aligned to business goals and strategies and delivers both customer and business value.

Digital Product Manager Requirements:

- Ideally, come from one of the following backgrounds: eCommerce, digital customer service, fundraising
- Have CRM integration and eCRM management expertise
- Be at ease managing stakeholders and adding credibility to the Product division
- Own and manage the plan and delivery of product backlogs
- Manage the product lifecycle from discovery to delivery
- Be tenacious and resilient, adept at overcoming obstacles to find solutions
- Have an excellent understanding of UX / User Experience, product roadmaps and the digital development process
- Ideally have business analysis and project management experience
- Have experience of digital strategy.

About RNIB Royal National Institute of Blind People:

We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and we’re here for everyone affected by sight loss. Working for us means working for one of the UK’s biggest charities, supporting almost two million people living with sight loss in the UK.

RNIB is committed to being led by our customers (blind and partially sighted people), and one of the ways we do this is through active involvement and engagement in many of our work activities, including the recruitment of new members of staff.

Location: London, WC1H 9NE

Hours: Full Time, Permanent, 36 hours per week

Salary: £43,603 per annum (Including London Weighting)

Benefits: In exchange we offer a competitive salary, a stimulating and supportive working environment and a benefits package including: 26 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), which increase with service. Excellent pension schemes.

You may have experience of the following: Digital Project Manager, Technical Project Manager, IT Project Manager, Ecommerce Product Manager, Digital Product Manager, Ecommerce Manager, Project Manager, Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Customer Experience Manager, Charity, Third Sector, NFP, etc.

Ref: 89661

About us

We are the international development agency for 41 sponsoring churches and keen to serve and work with other churches, too. We were established so that the sponsoring churches and others 'could respond to Christ's command to care for all in need'. Our values are rooted in our Christian belief and are based on our understanding of relational theology, which asserts that human beings are called to have a special relationship with God and in turn to have a particular relationship with one another.

About the role

This role delivers direct marketing and digital fundraising campaigns to recruit new individual supporters. This includes a focus on Christian Aid Week, our most significant moment in the year for generating new leads and donors. The role holder will contribute to the development of the right products, channels and messaging to attract new donors as the first step in building a long-term supporter relationship.

Key outcomes

-Deliver high quality direct marketing and digital campaigns to recruit supporters with a view to building a long-term relationship and delivering strong lifetime value.

-Plan multi-channel campaigns including channels such as direct mail; paid social; paid search, DRTV and telephone. Campaigns will include lead generation, cash donor and committed giver recruitment, during Christian Aid Week, Emergency Appeals and ongoing acquisition campaigns.

-Precise budgeting, based on past results and using clear and realistic assumptions, produced with guidance from the Individual Acquisition Manager.

-Define clear target audiences for all campaigns using accurate data and market analysis; working closely with the Performance, Development and Insight team.

-Maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues both at external suppliers and within Christian Aid. Work collaboratively with key stakeholders including the Digital team, Campaigns team, Regional teams and Creative/Multimedia; to ensure activity is co-ordinated across the organisation.

-Ensure campaigns are reviewed and analysed so that learning is captured and built into planning for future activity.

Ensure all communications are in line with Christian Aid's brand, values, identity and overarching organisational messaging.

Role Context

This role reports to Individual Acquisition Manager in the Individual Giving Team, part of the Fundraising and Supporter Engagement department. The team works to create, maintain and develop appeals, products and campaigns to recruit and retain supporters for Christian Aid. Within agreed strategies, the team recruits and nurtures supporters towards their optimum level of engagement, to achieve the organisation's goals.

The role works proactively and collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, providing insight and support into fundraising.

Role Requirements

Relationships

External: External agencies that support the Direct marketing campaigns. External designers and publishers to produce recruitment campaign resources

Internal: Works cross organisationally and in close liaison with colleagues within the team and in Media, Content and PR, Youth & Campaigns, Digital, Regions & Nations, Legacies and International

Decision making

Budgetary/savings responsibility: Support of planning and budgeting across individual donor recruitment campaigns

Fundraising campaigns: Makes decisions on assigned projects for direct marketing campaigns.

Analytical skills: Ability to have a good understanding and analysis of when and who will respond to direct marketing and digital fundraising asks. Regular analysis of metrics is required. Good creativity to support communications that evoke effective response.

Project management responsibility for campaigns, appeals and products assigned by Individual Acquisition Manager.

About you

Person Specification - applied skills/knowledge and expertise

Essential:

-Educated to a Bachelor degree level or work experience equivalent

-Experience of integrated marketing communications and campaigns, including a good understanding of digital fundraising

-Good analytical and planning skills

-Experience in working with data and insight teams, assessing behaviour and trends in the charity sector

-Proven experience of delivering supporter acquisition campaigns including a combination of direct marketing and digital channels

-Good understanding of balanced needs to build relationships with supporters and achieve specific response targets.

-Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

-Experience of being in empathy with customers'/supporters' needs and expectations around multi-channel, multi-message communications.

-Strong time management / organisational skills.

-Experience of selecting, briefing and managing external suppliers/consultants.

-Experience of mobile marketing / digital channels and campaigning.

-Willingness to test new product / channel ideas, capture learning and roll-out following a successful pilot

Desirable:

-Experience of working in International Aid & Development or a Faith-based charity

-Marketing or digital marketing qualification

-Good understanding of data analysis and journey development.

-Ability in writing effective marketing copy

-A background in managing project delivery teams

Digital/IT competencies required

Word, Excel, Powerpoint: Intermediate

Internet based collaboration tools and video calling: Basic

Social Media: Basic

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Carers in Bedfordshire's next CEO will be a trusted leader with a track record of effective partnership building and an eye for innovation. S/he will also be shrewd with finances and have a knack for spotting – and delivering - a good income opportunity. 

If this describes you, and you also have a big heart for family carers, an open mind and a sense of humour, we’d like to hear from you.

As our next CEO, you will have a key role leading our experienced, committed team of 44 staff and 100 volunteers. You’ll uphold our culture of open communication and collective problem solving. You will be a champion for the quality of our service, ensuring we continue to meet the needs of the 8,500 unpaid family carers of all ages who depend on us for support, and identify more carers to receive our services.

You will liaise with our funders and partners – and develop relationships with new ones - and spearhead our initiatives to build our income streams, including contract funding, fees, trust and grant applications and community fundraising.

For the successful candidate we offer the opportunity to help shape an even better future for this highly regarded, effective local charity, operating in a friendly, supportive working environment. As an employer, we know that family and life outside work is important and we are as flexible as we can to support all aspects of our staff’s wellbeing.

If this appeals to you and you have informal enquiries about the role, please contact Helen Satterthwaite, outgoing CEO.

Further details on the role, the charity and the recruitment process are captured in the Application Pack, downloadable from this page.

Application is through Carers in Bedfordshire's online application form, accessible via our website. Please attach your CV. On submission, you will be asked to complete an equal opportunities form.

The closing date/time is 10am on Tuesday 15th, 2019. A half-day selection process is scheduled for Tuesday, 29th October.

Individual Giving Officer

Position: Individual Giving Officer
Location: WC1N, Central London
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £Competitive

Our client are seeking an ambitious Individual Giving Officer with prior direct marketing experience where you will be part of a successful team seeking to optimise and create new ways to recruit committed regular givers.

About the Team

You will be part of a team which has generated over £100M from individual giving in the past 5 years.

You’ll work closely with colleagues across the organisation including Brand, Comms, Digital and Grants bringing alive their campaigns, inspiring support through compelling storytelling.

The Data Marketing team will support your thirst for insight, helping to optimise performance and net contribution.

They have incredible support from their Governance and Legal teams to make sure that what you do is compliant. It is critical they deliver the highest standards of great governance to meet public expectation.

About you

You will be a direct marketer with Individual Giving experience. You will work across digital, telephone fundraising, door to door and private site campaigns.

You’ll be confident with film production for use through social media and for training, and used to producing fundraising toolkits including scripts, leave-behinds and give-aways.

You will have an eye for detail, love unpicking what makes for a successful campaign (evaluating results, messaging, audience targeting, proposition and how to deliver the best UX) to generate satisfied and loyal supporters.

You’ll be inquisitive, challenging the status quo; hungry to support new initiatives into product testing.

Ideally you will have:

- At least one years' Individual Giving charity marketing experience, or transferable direct marketing commercial skills
- Digitally competent understanding how to set-up and monitor campaign performance
- Used to working with external agencies, managing timelines and tracking budgets
- Confident in excel, reporting on results
- Experience of CRM (ideally Sales Force)
- Understand data management and the impact is has on delivering an exceptional supporter experience.

About the Charity

Every day brings new challenges. Every day, over 600 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children – and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Without donations, our clients Charity can’t help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities. Their staff help to raise these vital funds for the hospital. A better future for seriously ill children starts with you.

Recently awarded with a ‘Best Companies 2-star accreditation' and placed number 17 on the 2019 Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit Companies list - they offer a range of attractive benefits including; a flexible approach to working, 30 days holiday, life assurance, enhanced employer pension contributions, and a discounted season ticket loan. Please refer to the full job description below for more information.

How to Apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete. You are encouraged to include a cover letter with your application, and should refer to the ‘Application and Interview FAQs’ on the career section of their website before you apply.

Closing date: 9am on 23rd October 2019.

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and they reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.

Due to the large number of applications our client receive, they are unfortunately only able to inform shortlisted candidates of the outcome of their application. If you do not hear from them within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. If your application is not successful, they hope that you will not be discouraged and will still apply for other suitable vacancies in the future.

You may have experience of the following: Fundraising, Charity, Not for Profit, Third Sector, Volunteer Management, Business Development, Legacy, Donor Development, Individual Giving, Marketing, Marketing Officer, Fundraiser, Volunteer Manager, Charities etc.

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