At Young People and Children First, we believe every child leaving care, or who is homeless, can have a safe place to live and receive guidance and support to bridge the critical gap between Foster Care and independent living. We want every young person to develop the life skills, coping strategies and confidence they need to achieve their full potential.

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Fundraiser to plan, lead and implement all fundraising activities and events for our growing charity.  This is a new role and an exciting opportunity to join a passionate and diverse team.  Key responsibilities include:

• Plan and lead on income generation activity for all income streams
• Create a pipeline of support through planned community engagement and events
• Relationship management of existing supporters
• Excellent stewardship and donor care of all supporters
• Contribute to budgeting and forecasting process.

The position of Senior Fundraiser is a leading role in the charity.  You will be responsible for the delivery of successful fundraising activities, trust and grant bids, to help generate and grow income.  You will build on current opportunities and extend the charity’s reach to develop new partnerships and alliances, which will enable YPACF to increase the impact of its work.

This role is for 20 hours and YPACF can be flexible on how this is worked across the working week.  This position is office based, but a mix of remote and office working is currently in place for YPACF staff.

TPP Recruitment are delighted to be supporting one of the most well know Children's charities in their search for a Senior Fundraiser to work within the Supporter Development team. Working as part of one of the most successful Individual Giving teams in the market, you will be responsible for re-establishing their face to face campaign activity.

Job title: Senior Fundraiser - Direct Fundraising
Charity cause: Children
Location: London head off, home working included
Salary: £32,800 to £36,600

Working as the Senior Fundraiser within this successful Direct Marketing team you will be responsible for reactivating their face to face programme that has been on hold due to Covid restrictions. You will work along side the Associate Head of Direct Fundraising in the delivery of their face to face recruitment campaigns, ensuring activities are in line with their annual business plans. You will focus on the continued progress and development of this programme, maximising recruitment opportunities and income. An important part of this role is the training and development of professional fundraisers which you will work along side external agencies to deliver.

They are looking for candidates who have a working knowledge of face to face fundraising, either from a charity or agency setting. You will have experience of working with external agencies, building a strong working relationship to ensure campaigns are delivered on time and to the highest quality. Having an ability to present training, fundraising ideas and pitches to a range of audiences is key.

This is a great role for anyone who has been working in Individual Giving for a number of years and would like to work for one of the leading teams in the industry. If you want to hear more about this role then please do get in touch.

Dougie Mac is looking for a Senior Business & Community Fundraiser to join its busy fundraising team. Having recently amalgamated The Donna Louise Trust into our existing adult hospice, fundraising will be increasingly important to the success of our portfolio of care which now includes providing care services across two sites and within the community to children, young adults and adults.

Joining at this hugely exciting time, you will manage business and community based fundraising relationships and activities within a specified geographical catchment area.  With the aim to nurture existing relationships and develop new support this role will bolster income objectives and income growth.  You will also be responsible for leading on a number of fundraising events, providing an excellent supporter journey and working hard to maintain longevity and retention of donors.  You will be part of a small team who all share the same vision that aligns with the objectives for income achievement.

Main duties of the job

The right candidate will possess excellent communication and organisational skills, a motivation for achieving pre-determined targets with the ability to understand the needs of our supporters and adapting asks and supporter care journeys accordingly. We are looking for somebody with a proactive, can do attitude with passion and enthusiasm to drive our fundraising opportunities forward.

If you have the desire to succeed and transferable skills to become a Dougie Mac Fundraiser then we would love to hear from you.

About us

Dougie Mac is an open-culture organisation, underpinned by clear strategic aims, vision and values. The Hospices many different services provide patients, their families and carers, with physical, emotional, social, psychological and spiritual support ensuring that all are supported as they face death, dying and loss.

You’ll be part of a dedicated team who are committed to building solid donor relationships to deliver the income required to support the running costs of our excellent care services. You’ll be supported in your role to develop your skills and those of the people you work with. Staff at Dougie Mac are well-motivated, with professional development pathways, and given opportunities to be reflective in their roles through supervision, reflective practice and supportive line management.

The Hospice offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including a contributory pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, funded study, free parking, Paycare and much more.

As a key member of the fundraising team, the Senior Fundraiser for regional fundraising will take an active lead of all regional and community fundraising activity. 

The role will proactively engage with the local communities the hospices serve to maximise income generation by providing excellent stewardship to new and existing supporters and developing plans to gain new supporters whilst raising the profile of the charity.  They will be responsible for maintaining and developing new relationships with volunteer fundraisers, schools, community organisations and committees and small businesses.

Key Actions and Tasks

1. To develop, implement and manage regional (community) fundraising the associated income and expenditure budgets, ensuring that all budget targets are achieved
2. To evaluate regional fundraising plans on a regular basis and make changes when necessary
3. To cultivate relationships with existing individuals, fundraising committees, businesses, schools and community groups by executing exemplary, personalised stewardships in order to maximise fundraising income, and to ensure their life long support.
4. To research and identify prospective new regional fundraising opportunities and activities and to produce funding proposals for donors and prospects, ensuring that the potential of these sources is fully maximised
5. To secure charity of year adoptions for organisations, including community groups, golf clubs, schools and smaller companies.
6. To undertake talks to community groups to maintain relationships, nurture new contacts and elicit donations.
7. To work closely with the Supporter Services Team and to uplift support under £1,000.
8. To actively promote and recruit participants to the Event Programme as per event target (to be outlined) for each activity.
9. To input into the development of the Ambassador programme, working with members of the Volunteer Support Team.
10. To work in conjunction with the Marketing Team to ensure strategic marketing and communication plans are created to promote community fundraising activity effectively
11. To support the recruit and manage volunteers utilising skills and resources available, working with other Trust personnel as appropriate.
12. To develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of the region, the companies, community and events including the smaller parishes that are in the region.
13. To produce monthly activity plans and reports.
14. To monitor income against agreed targets, escalating issues as necessary and agreeing remedial actions
15. To carry out any other duties as required by the Fundraising Management Team

Skills and experience

• Proven success in a fundraising role with a minimum of 2 years fundraising experience.  
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills to deliver fundraising pitches, ideas and project updates to a range of audiences in a clear, inspiring and confident way
• Excellent written skills with a proven ability to prepare and deliver compelling presentations and engage a wide range of audiences in large group and face to face individual settings
• Well-developed ability to build, manage and develop relationships with both individual and company supporters
• Self-starter, who is creative and pro-active.
• Excellent time management skills
• A demonstrable structured and proactive approach to work
• Ability to organise and plan own work, identifying conflicting demands and establishing clear priorities in order to meet agreed objectives
• Willingness to be administratively self-sufficient.
• Sound understanding of budgeting techniques.

Be the first dedicated high-value fundraiser at this lovely health charity.

The role will focus on trusts, corporate and major donor fundraising. These areas are at various stages in development and all show great promise, hence expanding the team to focus on them.

The Senior Philanthropy Fundraiser will join the Fundraising and Comms team of 6, and will bring in £220k funding for the charity each year.

Key responsibilities

• Trusts: this income stream has done really well in 2020 and they have got a great pipeline. This will bring in £120k/yr.
• Corporate: aim to bring in £75k/yr through sponsorship of events and awareness months the charity runs. Maintain relationships with pharma companies.
• Major donor: this is more ad-hoc at the moment and will be a growth area for the charity. You will work with the Head of Fundraising on developing existing prospects and putting together stewardship plans for the programme.

Candidate criteria

• Someone who has experience in at least one of the above areas, and keen to gain experience in the others.
• Strong relationship manager.
• Experience of making the ask and putting pitches in.
• Someone keen to build their career in the sector, who will work hard and be proactive on behalf of the charity.

OB TITLE: Senior Fundraiser, Supporter Development 

DIRECTORATE: Income Generation

DEPARTMENT: Individual Giving

SALARY: £29,500-£33,245 (plus Inner London Weighting)

TERM: 12 months fixed term maternity cover.

DATE: April 2021

Context and background

The NSPCC is looking for an experienced, and enthusiastic senior fundraiser to join their team for 12 months to cover maternity leave. Reporting to the Fundraising Manager responsible for welcome and loyalty, as well as other programmes, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing supporter engagement strategies and ways of working that compliment and optimise audience fundraising strategies, brand and acquisition spend and press and media coverage.

The Supporter Development team focusses on engaging existing supporters to build loyalty and maximise long term income for the NSPCC. Covid-19 has given us an opportunity to change the way in which we engage with our supporters, enabling us to communications regularly with relevant and engaging content, we are looking for someone who can help us build on this and instill a new way of planning and generating this content. The ideal candidate will be confident in developing loyalty and engagement strategies as well as developing engaging online and offline content. They will also be confident in monitoring and evaluating campaign and strategy effectiveness across different audiences.

Specifically the person in this role will be responsible for:

• Work with fundraising managers to develop supporter engagement journeys to compliment and improve fundraising strategies
• Engage with Acquisition, Brand, Press and other marketing teams to identify themes and content to develop a narrative for supporters, whilst optimising on the charities marketing spend and resource
• Work with members of the Supporter Development team to develop content to support agreed journeys
• Work with Supporter Engagement team to maximise cross sell opportunities and data selections

Ideally we are looking for someone with experience in the following:

• Developing audience led engagement strategies and content
• Proven ability to build, manage and develop positive and fruitful relationships within an organisation and externally and achieve objectives through these relationships
• Ability to develop content strategy and generate engaging online content
• Direct marketing (preferably within fundraising,) to include direct experience of campaign managing a range of direct marketing activities including direct mail, email and telephone.
• Management of creative (external agencies and internal team)
• Monitoring and reporting of results and other financial data
• Success in delivering results as set out in a team or departmental plan.
• Working with data for fundraising purposes, experience should either be in using a database to select and segment data or experience of producing briefs to do so.
• Experience in using Windows-based software packages including word processing, spread sheets, email and the internet, in order to deliver tasks and projects.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Senior Fundraiser (Regional)
Office-based (Winchester) with flexibility to work from home 1 or 2 days - Permanent
Salary - £28,000
Closing date 14th May

Charity people are thrilled to be recruiting for an experienced Senior Fundraiser to join the fundraising team at Naomi House & Jacksplace, an incredible hospice that supports life-limited and life-threatened children and young adults allowing them to make the most of their precious time with their children.

The Senior Fundraising Officer oversees regional (community) fundraising whilst building strong relationships with fundraising committees, businesses, schools and community groups to maximise fundraising income and ensure lifelong support for local families from Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight.

Working with teams across the charity to form and maximise relationships with supporters, you must have highly developed written and verbal communications skills to deliver fundraising pitches, ideas and project updates to a range of audiences. You will also use your own initiative to seek out new opportunities and activities to produce funding proposals for donors and prospects as well as actively promoting and recruiting participants to events, and recruiting and managing volunteers.

We are particularly seeking someone who is organised, good at spotting an opportunity, has excellent networking skills and knows how to use the mission of the organisation to secure strong relationships. You will be joining a friendly and ambitious team who are extremely passionate about the cause in an office located in a beautiful rural location. Candidates must have access to a car due to the location of the office.

If you are a passionate, mission-led individual, who is creative and pro-active, and would fit in with a friendly and supportive team then get in touch for further information by reaching out with your up to date CV.

Please note that the closing date is Friday, May 14th. Due to the urgency of the role, the advert may close earlier. We therefore advise you to apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Julian House is a forward-thinking charity, committed to helping socially excluded people receive the help they need and deserve, to get back on their feet.

We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our successful fundraising team.  This role will be focussed on Bath and Wiltshire. Your primary focus will be managing and delivering a programme of fundraising events as well as creating and supporting new fundraising opportunities and initiatives within the community. Maximising relationship building amongst our wonderful supporters, awareness raising to create new support and income generation.

Despite the pandemic, our fundraising team has had great success running real, as well as virtual events and appeals. We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and agile community and events fundraiser who can hit the ground running at an exciting time for the organisation. Job Sharing will be considered.

Key tasks:

• Fully manage and implement a selection of JH’s existing portfolio of major fundraising events – to include full budget responsibility
• Achieve the agreed annual income targets
• Actively seek to develop and deliver new community events, in line with the fundraising strategy
• To organise event publicity, develop case studies and write press releases to create a good breadth of local media interest
• Establish strong local Funding Committees which will provide a valuable extra strand to the organisation’s advocacy and fundraising efforts
• Undertake an on-going programme of outside talks, ensure that the breadth and importance of the organisation’s work is effectively conveyed to key target audiences 
• Recruit, manage and oversee fundraising volunteers
• Build and maintain strong relationships with supporters to develop their support 
• Recruit participants for third party events - supporting and developing their fundraising potential eg city marathons or other local/national events.
• Work closely with community based events organised by third parties to promote Julian House
• Produce a good quality local newsletter for circulation to supporters and stakeholders
• Assist with other specific projects, as detailed by the Fundraising & Digital Marketing Manager
• Ensure that all relevant data is accurately included on the fundraising database

Julian House is a forward-thinking charity, committed to helping socially excluded people receive the help they need and deserve, to get back on their feet.

We have two exciting opportunities for the right candidates to join our successful fundraising team. This role will be focussed on Devon and Dorset. Your primary focus will be managing and delivering a programme of fundraising events as well as creating and supporting new fundraising opportunities and initiatives within the community. Maximising relationship building amongst our wonderful supporters, awareness raising to create new support and income generation.

Despite the pandemic, our fundraising team has had great success running real, as well as virtual events and appeals. We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and agile community and events fundraiser who can hit the ground running at an exciting time for the organisation. Job Sharing will be considered.

Key tasks:

• Achieve the agreed annual income targets
• Fully manage and implement a selection of JH’s existing portfolio of major fundraising events – to include full budget responsibility
• Actively seek to develop and deliver new community events, in line with the fundraising strategy
• To organise event publicity, develop case studies and write press releases to create a good breadth of local media interest
• Establish strong local Funding Committees which will provide a valuable extra strand to the organisation’s advocacy and fundraising efforts
• Undertake an on-going programme of outside talks, ensure that the breadth and importance of the organisation’s work is effectively conveyed to key target audiences
• Recruit, manage and oversee fundraising volunteers
• Build and maintain strong relationships with supporters to develop their support
• Recruit participants for third party events - supporting and developing their fundraising potential eg city marathons or other local/national events.
• Work closely with community based events organised by third parties to promote Julian House
• Produce a good quality local newsletter for circulation to supporters and stakeholders
• Assist with other specific projects, as detailed by the Fundraising & Digital Marketing Manager
• Ensure that all relevant data is accurately included on the fundraising database

Please apply for these position through our website.

Wirral Churches’ Ark Project, known as Wirral Ark, has been providing support and guidance for individuals helping to secure permanent long-term accommodation since 1991. The Charity supports people who are homeless. These include isolated people with mental health or drug problems, current and ex-offenders, former rough sleepers, and people who are begging or street drinking. 

The charity has come a long way since its early days and have become experts at working with, and supportively housing, people with complex problems – for example, people with severe mental health problems, a lifelong alcohol addiction, particularly challenging behaviour, or a combination of these and other issues. With a new CEO, strategy and supportive board, the charity is looking forward to a phase of exciting growth. 

They are now looking to appoint a Trusts & Corporate Partnerships Fundraiser who will be responsible for growing income from charitable trusts and foundations and generating income from corporate partners.We are happy to hear from candidates who have experience in either Trust and Foundations or Corporate Fundraising – this is a perfect opportunity for someone to really utilise their past fundraising experience, while gaining experience within new fundraising areas.

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising and Development within a friendly and supportive team, we are looking for a self-starter and creative thinker who enjoys communicating with a wide array of people and who can run with ideas and implement them and really make this role their own! 

HOW TO APPLY 

Please contact BTA to request an information pack, full job description and person specification. 

You are advised to get in touch well in advance of the closing date to give us time to consider your application and pre-interview the strongest applicants. 

Closing Date: Midday, Sunday, 6th June

Interview Date: Monday, 14h June 2021

This search is being conducted exclusively for Wirral Ark by BTA (Bruce Tait Associates). Our leadership team have all worked in the voluntary sector and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments. 

For our tips on how to write a great covering letter, click here.

Additional information 

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Charity People are so thrilled to be working with a leading Project and Communications agency that focus their work with non-profits, who are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Account Manager to join their friendly and hard-working team. This role would be a 9-month maternity cover contract, with a possibility of extension.

Job Title: Senior Account Manager
Salary: £40,000
Location: London
Contract: 9 month maternity contract (possibility to entend)
Benefits: 3 days from home (from June 21st)
Closing Date: Thursday 20th May
Required: CV and Cover Letter

Reporting to the Founder and Principal, you will lead on the relationship management of all the agencies clients by developing and maintaining new and current client relationships, from inception to delivery. You will be the first point of contact for all clients, and act as the liaison between the organisation and the clients, whilst providing end-to-end project management. This will include project budgets, resources and providing regular status reports. Furthermore, you will be responsible for responding to new business enquiries and delivering presentations to secure new business opportunities. There are line-management responsibilities within this role, as you will be supporting the Account Executive.

The ideal person for this exciting role will be an experienced Account Manager, or similar, within the not-for-profit sector. You will have excellent customer service skills and are able to meet tight deadlines and work on various projects effectively at one time. Although not essential, it would be great if you have previous CRM Software experience, for example in Salesforce, and of Project Management Software, such as Trello.

This role is currently remote working; however longer-term you will be based in their London offices.

If you are interested in applying for this role, please send your CV and a Cover Letter to Stuart Milliner at Charity People.

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.

Fundraising Partnership Executive / Fundraiser 

Location: Wimbledon, London, with an element of working from home and occasional working from our other easy to access locations in South London

Salary: £31,827

Contract Type: Permanent 

Position Type: Full Time

37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) we will consider reduced hours or other flexible working arrangements

Closing date: Thursday 13 May 2021

Interview dates: 20th May 2021

Our client works in the London Boroughs of Bromley, Merton, Croydon, Lambeth, and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. They are the third largest provider of homelessness accommodation in London and work with people of all ages, providing housing, support and guidance to empower them towards independent living and to building a better life.

They’re looking for a Partnerships Executive to join their team and work closely with the Fundraising Team Leader as an integral part of their small Fundraising and Communications Team. They need someone who can help them to deliver high quality partnership opportunities with external supporters to increase annual income for their Community Services.

They are a flexible, friendly, and supportive team who work hard to constantly improve the way they work. Their days and weeks are busy but there is a lot of support and a chance for you to develop your skills in the Fundraising profession in an organisation who put people first.

In this role you will:

Demonstrate your skills as a talented fundraiser. This role offers a great opportunity to deliver your own creative approach to utilising their assets to generate new income. You will be primarily responsible for securing new corporate and community partnerships as well as managing existing partnerships, to help deliver their Fundraising Strategy. In doing so, you’ll enable them to support more of London’s most vulnerable people.

You will need to be:

• Enthusiastic about growing new and current partnership opportunities through skilled account management and meaningful fundraising packages
• Confident, organised, and self-motivated
• Experienced in generating new income and building charitable partnerships that add value to their services
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, with Word and Excel to intermediate/advanced level
• Experienced in working with Fundraising CRM systems, data management and reporting
• Willing to go the extra mile in support of the homeless individuals they work with

The full Job Description & Person Specification for the role is also available. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you then they would love to hear from you!

Our clients benefits

Competitive salary, comprehensive training and development programme, 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. occupational sick pay, contributory group pension scheme free life assurance, Cycle to work scheme, Tech scheme, Health insurance perks (medicash). 

Our client are an equal opportunities employer. They are committed to Diversity and Inclusion, they have an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion steering group and have engagement across the business. They encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including people who have experienced homelessness to ensure their colleagues reflect the diversity of the people they support and society. They particularly invite applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic backgrounds as well as people with disabilities.

TPP Fundraising and Development team are delighted to be supporting one of the UK's leading disability charities as they look to recruit a Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser on a 12 month contract. Focusing primarily on the management of mail, email and telephone campaigns,

Job title: Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser
Charity cause: Disability
Salary: £31,000 to £33,000
Location: London
Contract Length: 12 months

Working as the Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser you will be part of a successful Public Fundraising team and be responsible for the management of a portfolio of IG campaign. You will take lead from inception through to evaluation and provide improved engagement and life-time value of existing supporters. You will implement a supporter journey and direct marketing campaigns to recruit new supporters as well as retain current ones. A key part of this role is to provide an audience lead experience, utilising insight to lead your campaign planning and delivery. You will also be a part of the development of fundraising products and propositions to engagement new and existing audiences.

The ideal candidate will have experience of delivering a range of fundraising campaigns across a variety of channel which will include direct mail, email and telephone. You will have experience and have worked towards a fundraising budget. Strong interpersonal skills with experience of managing external agencies. You will feel comfortable monitoring and reporting on results to senior members of the team. Finally, you will have experience of using supporter insight to influence the direction your campaigns take.

If you have read this advert with great interest, you possess the experience needed to succeed in this post and want to have a further conversation about this then please do not hesitate to apply within.

Who we are

Support Through Court (STC) is an independent charity which provides much needed practical and emotional support to people dealing with the court process without the benefit of legal representation. Most are frightened of and unfamiliar with the courts and may be facing serious issues that could affect their children and relationships, finances, or the roof over their head. The number of agencies available to support them is shrinking fast so demand for our services is rising month by month.  We are passionate about our vision that no one should face court alone.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a Trust Frundraser to work alongside our Senior Trust and Statutory Manager and Fundraising Assisatnt to generate income from small to medium charitable trusts and foundations working towards a departmental target of approximately £400k. The role will involive using the Trust pipeline to coordinate funding applications to both new and existing donors with the responsibility for submitting small and medium applications (up to £15,000). Please refer to the attached Job Description for further information on the role. 

This is an ideal post for someone with at least 12 months fundraising experience or someone with experience of conducting research and writing applications and reports. If this sounds like you, we look forward to receiving your application, further details on how to apply can be found on the Job Description. 

The deadline for application is  midnight Monday 24th May 2021. Interviews will be held via Zoom on Thursday 27th May 2021. If you are shortlisted for the post we will provide you with further information about the interview process by Tuesday 25th May 2021. If you do not hear from us by the interview date, then you should assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.