Fundraising Lead

The role is to support the Head of Fundraising Volunteering and Communications to achieve the overarching fundraising strategy, maximising opportunities for income generation as well as strategic aims for SIFA Fireside.

As part of a small team, the post holder will be responsible for managing all supporter and donation information on the fundraising database, regularly importing payment data from a range of sources and leading on the monthly reconciliation process. The post holder will also provide data selections and reports for SIFA Fireside’s supporter mailings and campaigns. When required, they will co-ordinate and support campaigns 

Key tasks:

1.     Planning and delivering fundraising projects and campaigns, awareness events and legacy campaigns.

2.     Building and maintaining excellent relationships with donors including regular Open Weeks.

3.     Working with the Communications Assistant to produce assets and distribute social media content related to fundraising.

4.     Supporting with managing fundraising volunteers to include Corporate Volunteer Teams and conversion to individual givers.

5.     Maintaining fundraising webpages and maintaining external donation platform accounts.

6.     Managing and updating fundraising resources and literature including digital, print, t-shirts, and collection tins.

7.     Overseeing the recording of all payment and donor data in our CRM database Beacon, including importing donations from a range of platforms.

8.     Overseeing the processing of Gift in Kind donations, running associated campaigns and scheduling callouts for needed items.

9.     Managing the storing of Gift Aid declarations, talking to donors knowledgeably about tax effective giving and submitting monthly Gift Aid submissions to HMRC via Beacon.

10. Producing and monitoring fundraising KPIs.

  11. Acknowledging all donations, new and cancelled regular donors and external fundraisers and providing stewardship with external fundraising events and collections.

12. Monitoring the fundraising inbox and distributing supporter communications via email and MailChimp, while managing supporter contact consent and updating SIFA Fireside’s mailing list.  

13. Ensuring work is carried out in accordance with the fundraising regulator and GDPR and always working within charity legislation and best practice.

14. Providing support to the Head of Fundraising and Communications with ad hoc requests for data on finances, donors, and charity services.

15. Undertaking any other reasonable duties that may be required to support the admin team.

*This is not an exhaustive description of the job. Aspects will change over time and the job holder is expected to contribute to its development and progression.

Working conditions:

The Fundraising Officer post will be based at 48-52 Allcock Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B9 4DY, however there can be some flexibility dependent on the weekly schedule and agreement with your line manager.