Job Description - Part-time Senior Fundraiser (Trusts) and Communications Officer

Tom’s Trust provides psychological support for children with brain tumours and their families, currently in the East of England and in the North East. We are a small, dynamic, charity, with a vision that all families will in the future have this support and a new strategy to make this happen.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a motivate, skilled, supportive individual to join our dynamic fundraising team.

Role: Senior Fundraising and Communications Officer
Based: Cambridge (Whittlesford) but with some homeworking if wished
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week, with flexibility

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years fundraising experience, specifically with success in applying for grants and trusts; good communication skills both in writing and in person, ideally including writing for websites and other digital work
• Drivers Licence and use of car
• Good IT skills essential
• Some experience of marketing useful
• Salary: £15,000 - £20,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

As Senior Fundraiser and Communications Officer, you will be responsible for continuing to develop our Case for Support and for putting together large applications for grants and trusts, including creating project budgets. You will have experience with Wordpress and maintaining website content, with skilled and inspiring writing, and good technical skills creating images for social media, websites and newsletters.

You will be confident using Microsoft programmes, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Donorfy or a similar database would be a bonus.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience of developing and implementing fundraising strategies and ability to create motivating and inspiring proposals to trusts and foundations. You will be a confident speaker for presentations and talks and have an experience in building trust and relationships with supporters.

Closing date: 12 January 2021.To Apply and for More Information, please email your CV. Interviews in January with the aim to start asap. No agencies please.

SOS Children's Villages UK works to ensure that every child has a safe home to grow up in where they can feel safe, loved and supported. We simply couldn't do this without our incredible supporters, and that's why we need you to help us nurture, recruit and retain new individual donors.

Reporting to the Director of Individual Giving, the purpose of the role is to acquire cash and
committed individual donors to grow the SOS UK supporter base.

This is a critical role to ensure the success of our fundraising activity. You will co-ordinate our face-
to-face, media buying, creative, and telephone agencies. You will be primarily focused on recruiting new donors and retaining them until they fall into a regular stewardship cycle managed by the Supporter Care team. Further, you will co-ordinate the production of acquisition and welcome fundraising materials, across online and offline channels.

Operations Director – Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to really make a difference? Green Light Trust, one of Suffolk’s leading and fastest-growing charities are looking for an Operations Director to work with our CEO and the senior leadership team to support our exciting growth plans and the continual improvement of all our programmes and activities.  

At Green Light Trust we believe in using the power of nature to build health, hope and happiness, successfully supporting thousands of people each year from diverse and challenged backgrounds having built an excellent reputation. We have an ambitious medium-term plan for continued growth to support more participants across a wider geographic area and the successful Operations Director will have a pivotal role in executing these plans.

As our Operations Director, you will have a background of working at a senior level and we are keen to hear from candidates for all sectors. You will be responsible for all operational elements, including the operational programme delivery budget for the charity. Ensuring we maintain the high quality of our work, safely and effectively. Leading, supporting, and mentoring a team of talented and committed operational managers you will be able to directly see the impact the trust has on the lives of the people we support.

On offer is a salary of circa £40,000 - £50,000 (depending on experience) and this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced operations candidate to help us achieve our plans and build on the successful relationships we currently hold.

Here at Green Light Trust, we are embarking on the next exciting phase of our growth and if you would like to play a major part in contributing to the future development of the charity, we would love to hear from you.  Please apply by forwarding an up-to-date CV as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you.

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We are looking for 2 confident, reliable people to support hospital staff and other health or social care professionals to provide wrap around, holistic support that will enable clients to be discharged from hospital feeling supported and empowered. One postholder will work from Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge and the other from Peterborough City and Hinchingbrooke hospitals. You will be able to identify what needs to be put into place to avoid a readmission or future admission to hospital, within the context of promoting wellbeing, happiness, independence, and confidence.

Application by CV and covering letter in which you address all the points in the person specification,  if these points are not covered your application may not be considered.  Your application should specify which location you would prefer.  Applications should be  received by midday on  monday 8th February,  interviews will be online and held after this date.

These posts are full time (37h/week) for an initial 6 month contract with a possibility of this being extended.