Senior Fundraising Officer

Hybrid Working with 1-2 days per week at St Giles Head Office (Camberwell - SE5 8JB)

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Are you a proactive, highly motivated and passionate individual with at least one year’s experience in a charity fundraising role and an expert knowledge of the fundraising landscape? Would you thrive as part of a growing charity where you can use your skills and experience in fundraising to help support even more people to turn their pasts into better futures?

If so, join St Giles Trust as a Senior Fundraising Officer where, as an integral part of the Fundraising and Communications team, you will play a key role in contributing to the development and success of our new Fundraising strategy.

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

We have launched an ambitious new income generation strategy for 2023-2026 focused on 1) diversifying our income generation model and 2) increasing growth of voluntary income by 15% through restricted and unrestricted funding streams. This key role is essential to us realising this ambition with a focus on raising unrestricted income from a variety of income sources such as Trusts & Foundations, Fundraising Appeals, Challenge Events, Fundraising Events and Individual Giving.

About this exciting opportunity

Our successful candidate will develop and design high-quality applications, presentations, and pitches to secure multi-year unrestricted gifts from key supporters including Trusts, Foundations & Major Donors that support St Giles’ values & ethos. You will provide excellent stewardship to existing donors, including writing reports, arranging, planning and hosting visits for key stakeholders, and providing support to the Head of Voluntary Fundraising & Executive Director of Fundraising with reports, due diligence procedures and applications.

We will rely on you to work collaboratively to identify, plan and deliver local and national fundraising appeals, provide excellent stewardship to individual donors through the creation and implementation of quality donor journeys, and maintain promote, and diversify a small portfolio of challenge events our supporters can take part in. Providing line management, supervision and coaching to a Fundraising Assistant is also a key element of this role, as are contributing to refining processes and record-keeping to ensure that we are utilising database and systems to their maximum potential and contributing to the implementation of the income generation strategy.

What we are looking for

• Proven record of winning and/or managing a portfolio of grants, or relevant experience/transferable skills.
• Experience working with a CRM or fundraising database, preferably ETapestry.
• Experience of building supporter journeys for various audiences.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively to develop innovative ideas to help us stand out to our existing and new donors.
• Advanced IT skills – Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint (essential) Canva.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to write compelling and informative copy for reports, applications and external communications.

Please note this role requires a Standard DBS Check.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

To apply please visit our website via the apply button. 

Applications are being reviewed on a weekly rolling basis so please apply at your earliest convenience. We will review applications on a Friday and notify any shortlisted candidates of being invited to interview on the Monday of the following week. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application by Thursday at 23:59 for it to be considered in the following week.