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Job title: Digital Marketing and Fundraising Officer
Responsible to: Fundraising Manager
Salary: £22,000 - £25,000 per annum
Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working
Hours: Full-time
As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Employer pension contributions of 3%
We are recruiting this role alongside a fundraising manager. Please see the recruitment pack for both roles below.
Please note that applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered for the role.
Introduction
Digital marketing and fundraising are crucial parts of Valleys Kids Sustainability Strategy. The Digital Fundraising Officer will be an important member of the Fundraising team, who will create and implement a range of digital platforms to support the organisation in attracting new supporters, raising our profile and generating new income streams.
You’ll work closely with the Fundraising Manager and Business and Finance Director, liaising with our Community & Family Hub Teams to help maximise digital marketing campaigns. This will include maintaining website, creating digital marketing campaigns, setting up and managing local lottery, email marketing, press & media liaison and identifying and testing new digital opportunities.
This is an unexplored area within Valleys Kids, which provides an exciting opportunity for someone with the drive, skills and experience to shape this important strand of fundraising, future proofing our work supporting highly disadvantaged communities.
Duties and responsibilities
·Develop a strategic and integrated digital marketing fundraising programme, including website, email and diverse digital marketing channels with a focus on recruitment and retention of supporters.
·Work with Valleys Kids’ teams to create, plan, and implement a portfolio of digital fundraising projects and campaigns.
·Set-up, develop and maintain a dedicated Valleys Kids Charity Lottery
·Use analytics and testing strategies to help optimise the fundraising sections of the Valleys Kids’ website for conversions and SEO as well as a positive supporter experience.
·Assist in the development of a clear and strong supporter experience through all digital fundraising platforms, including sign up journeys, email campaigns and social media advertising.
·Create engaging and participative social media posts and experiences, increasing awareness of our work and reaching income generation targets, ensuring consistency in brand and messaging.
·Support day-to-day activity across all social media platforms, using initiative to respond to comments and private messages
·Contribute to and create content plans and support effective delivery by liaising with colleagues in the rest of the organisation.
·Undertake campaign evaluations, providing reports on digital fundraising performance, learnings, and recommendations to improve future performance.
·Work with colleagues to develop insights and understanding of the motivations, interests and performance of our supporters and their digital channel habits.
·Communicate with press and media to raise awareness of our work and increase profile of Valleys Kids
·Work with colleagues to ensure that all digital fundraising at Valleys Kids adheres to the Code of Fundraising Practice and our Privacy Policy and clearly reflects our aims, vision and values.
·Undertake any other duties as required by the Fundraising Manager, Director of Business and Finance and CEO.
Person Specification:
Skills and Attributes:
It is essential for you to have the following skills and attributes:
·Excellent writing and language skills
·A creative approach to content and engagement online
·Skills in content creation, copywriting and social media design skills
·Relationship building - ability to engage proactively with supporters, monitor and address issues arising
·Highly organised approach to work and planning.
·Resourceful and able to work on own initiative
·Ability to work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals and resolve problems.
·Demonstrate communication and customer service skills in a digital environment.
·Ability to work outside of normal office hours to monitor social media activity. We work on a time off in lieu basis.
Knowledge
It is essential for you to have the following level of knowledge:
•Knowledge of social media tools, including scheduling, posting, reporting and analytics,
•Knowledge of image editing & Google Analytics.
Desirable
•Ability to communicate in Welsh
•Adobe Photoshop Skills
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Closing Date: 8 August 2021
Mind reserve the right to close the vacancy to applications earlier, should we receive a high volume of strong candidates – therefore we encourage an early application.
This position will initially, in line with current and potentially future guidance, be based from home. Post lockdown this role will retain some flexibility but post holders will be expected to be in the office a minimum of two days thereafter (or more, depending on the arrangements of your team).
We value the power of diversity. We embrace the different perspectives that each of us bring. Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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Please refer to the Job Description while completing your application as candidates will be shortlisted based on how closely they match the criteria.
Position: Business Intelligence Partner
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent
Location: Flexible (currently home-based up to August 2021)
Salary: £46,364 - £50,909 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band G, Level 3
Department: Strategy and Business Intelligence
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Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.
About this job
Reporting to our Head of Strategy and Business Intelligence, you’ll provide valuable and important insight to broaden and deepen our understanding of our community and help improve the MS Society’s data and insight maturity.
With a key focus on modelling and visualisation, you’ll use data and insights to help drive impact and performance across our organisation and community. You’ll have excellent data analysis, data extraction and data manipulation skills.
Using Microsoft PowerBI, you’ll deliver and maintain our organisational business intelligence hub, and develop key business intelligence resources and reporting that maximise the value we derive from our data. You must have excellent knowledge of BI and analysis tools.
You’ll be a proactive, insight-led person, able to identify opportunities where the organisation and business areas can better use data and analytics for decision-making, innovation, and continuous-improvement.
You’ll have a track record of success in delivering high quality results to deadlines and substantial experience of improving outcomes through provision of analysis and insight, particularly in a marketing or service delivery context.
We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.
The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our Every MS Story strategy.
As part of this exciting transformation, we’ll be moving from our current National Centre based in Cricklewood, London to Finsbury Park, London later this year. We’re expecting to be moving into our new office from August 2021.
Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 10 August 2021
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We’re a Disability Confident Employer. We’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and/or from ethnic minority backgrounds, where we’re looking to build stronger and better representation among our staff.
No agencies please.
Job title: Fundraising Manager
Responsible to: Director of Business Development
Salary: £30,000 - £32,000 per annum
Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working
Hours: Full-time
As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Employer pension contributions of 3%
We are recruiting for this post alongside a Digital Marketing and Fundraising Officer. Please see the recruitment pack for both roles below.
*Please note, applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered for the role*
Introduction
Over the last 40 years we’ve built up an impressive track record of improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society through working closely with the local community. This is an exciting time to join us as we are undergoing a period of transition building a new senior management team.
We are looking for a dynamic, experienced, Fundraising Manager to build a diverse funding base and lead a new fundraising team securing our services into the future, for people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.
Key Responsibilities
Working closely with the Business Development Director you will lead the small fundraising team. You will lead on statutory fundraising and large bids and you will line manage a team member who will focus on individual giving and digital fundraising and a team member who will lead on trust and foundation fundraising.
Management & Leadership
• To lead, inspire and motivate fundraising staff and volunteers, providing them with clear direction and sound decision-making and enabling them to raise funds and contribute significantly to organisational development.
• Work with Business Development Director to review and implement fundraising strategy.
• Manage Digital & Marketing Officer post contributing to development of Communications Action Plan ensuring key targets are met. Manage the Trust and Foundations fundraiser.
• Assist with developing and scrutinising project plans in collaboration with Project Teams, to ensure they are accurate, deliverable and will achieve their objectives.
• Lead and directly manage a portfolio of key relationships.
Income generation
• Research potential grant making organisations and analyse their suitability to feed into the grant prospect pipeline to achieve identified targets
• Research and develop diverse income generation initiatives including a local Lottery, digital fundraising, individual giving, legacy & in memoriam gifts, major donors.
• Prepare and submit high quality funding applications and reports to grant making organisations.
• Scrutinise project budgets and financial information for applications and for grant reports.
•Support the account management of successful applications, liaising with the programme project manager and finance team and ensuring that funding and reporting criteria are fully met and specific challenges in relation to programme objectives transparently communicated.
• Develop and initiate innovative fundraising ideas
Monitoring & Evaluation
• Maintain and develop the database of contacts: individual donors, corporates, grant making bodies ensuring the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) are adhered to across all income generation activities and that all data collection is in accordance with these regulations.
• Review grant agreements
• Ensure all incoming grants are processed in line with internal procedures and best practice guidelines.
• Ensure prompt and appropriate acknowledgement of all grant income, ensuring all information relating to each grant is accurate, up to date and well organised.
• Maintain a timetable of deadlines to ensure grant making organisations receive reports and other correspondence as required.
• Ensure that all donor communications are handled appropriately, promptly and courteously and that complaints and criticisms are logged, investigated and resolved
Ensure collection of key data and evidence to enhance Valleys Kids case for support.
Compliance
To ensure that Valleys Kids fulfils all its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities adhering to Fundraising Code of Practise and GDPR legislation
Person Specification:
- At least 5 years experience of fundraising in the Charity/Social enterprise sector
- Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundation, trading income and individual giving.
- Experience of managing an effective team, with ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account.
- A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.
- Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities
- Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.
- A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships with a wide variety of funders
- An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well.
- Experience of budget and financial management
- An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully.
- Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation.
- Awareness of Welsh language, culture and the public services context in Wales or a willingness to learn.
- Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.