As Alive and Kicking's Fundraising Manager, you will drive the charity's innovative new growth strategy as we widen our reach and strengthen our social impact.

The Role

In 2020, AK launched our exciting new three year rolling strategy that aims to strengthen impact across our three main mission areas: Make.Play.Live. Having operated since 2004, the organisation has built a strong reputation for sustainability and innovation, having grown thanks to a combination of our fantastic supporters and the production and sale of AK sports balls.

The Fundraising Manager will focus on income generation by executing and then building on the new fundraising strategy. This will focus on growing revenue from AK’s innovative regular giving programme, building relationships with corporates, trusts and foundations, and driving AK’s bespoke fundraising events programme.

In doing so, the successful candidate will help AK to create more ethical jobs for adults from communities facing disadvantage and give more young people access to sport and vital health education.

Principal Duties (More details can be found in the attached job pack)

• Manage, develop and grow AK’s new regular giving programme, ensuring a high level of donor retention while creating campaigns and partnerships that grow membership.
• Set up and manage the delivery of AK’s fundraising events programme, driving participation across a range of initiatives.
• Manage and develop relationships with all Major Donors, Trusts, Foundations and Corporates to maximise income via a diverse range of income streams.
• Manage preparation and submission of grant and project proposals and look after all reporting requirements stipulated under partnership agreements.
• Support and upskill country operations in their development and submission of proposals to local funders.

Person Specification (More details can be found in the attached job pack)

Essential Experience

• Experience raising money through a successful regular giving programme.
• Experience raising money through a calendar of fundraising events.
• Experience in creating, building and maintaining strong relationships.
• Experience in raising funds from multiple income streams i.e. corporates, trusts and foundations, events and/or major donors.
• Experience in creating, managing and reporting against budgets.

Desirable Experience

• Experience writing bids and proposals for funding.
• Experience in executing and developing a fundraising strategy.

Essential Skills and Values

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to create compelling bids and proposals that clearly illustrate the impact of AK’s work.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to build networks and represent the organisation at a senior level.
• An innovative thinker who can bring creative ideas to life.
• Self-starter, highly driven and motivated with a proactive approach to work.
• Enthusiasm for not only organising, but also taking part in fundraising and challenge events.

How to Apply

Please read the attached job pack and send your CV and a covering letter (no more than two pages long, addressing how you meet each point on the Person Specification) to the email address in the job pack or directly through ChairtyJob by 5.00pm Monday 26th April 2021.

Interviews are planned for the week beginning April 26th and will take place online.
 

Alive and Kicking Overview

Alive and Kicking (AK) exist to create a happier, healthier and more accessible society. We empower and impact the lives and livelihoods of people facing disadvantage by producing and championing a sports ball like no other - creating access to jobs, play and vital health education.

Make. Through the production of high quality AK sports balls, we create ethical employment for adults from vulnerable job groups.

Play. Through our partnerships we use AK sports balls to give young people facing disadvantage regular access to sport, play and exercise.

Live. Through our innovative award winning health education programmes, delivered directly through sport, we use AK sports balls to give young people facing disadvantage access to vital health education.

Following our recent expansion, we are keen to attract an experienced and driven Head of Fundraising with a great track record and background in both grants/statutory and community engagement.

You will direct and manage a small team of 2 PT grants officers and 2 PT and 1 FT Community Engagement Officers.  

Your time will be broadly split 40-60 across Grants and Community and you will have specific personal responsibility for Community Engagement in Hertfordshire and N London, with others of your team covering other areas. You will also be working to leveraging grant and statutory funding yourself as well as further developing team performance. We will be wanting to play to your strengths, expertise and contacts. During 2021, we will be working to add further to your community team in new areas. 

The Community work will be across corporates, challenges, events, donor acquisition, promotion of our collection box and lottery programme etc. Developing local support groups in each area will be a key part of delivery.

Working directly to the CEO, you will have great work ethic and an excellent track record of effective income generation and supporter acquisition across both grants and community streams.

You are organised, strategic, personable, outgoing and good at developing relationships and partnerships as well as leading your growing high quality team. You will be well supported by an excellent team, with personal support from the CEO.

You will be excited by the opportunities in this role and growing charity and determined to achieve excellent results to provide even more and better services.

Home-Start London Partnerships & Fundraising Manager

Home-Start trains and supports volunteers to work alongside parents in their own home giving compassionate and confidential support, tailored to each family. 

Home-Start London is a consortium of 13 local Home-Starts operating across 24 London boroughs.

We are currently recruiting for a Partnerships & Fundraising Manager to join our small team. Working alongside the Home-Start London Director, you will develop a partnership plan that aims to establish new relationships and generate income to benefit the London Home-Start network. In doing so, you will maximise the value of these new partnerships and meet agreed targets.

As our ideal candidate, you will be able to work independently and bring enthusiasm and a clear vision to your work.  Experience of Fundraising, sales or account management in a charity or commercial sector is essential. You will need to be flexible and able to work with different audiences as required.

Please send a CV and covering letter outlining how your experience and how you meet the person specification. Interviews will be conducted via Zoom.

Home-Start is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff working with children and vulnerable adults to share this commitment. The offer of employment is subject to satisfactory references.

Place of work: Working from home with travel across London for meetings

Probation period: 3 months

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days per annum + bank holidays

Responsible to:  Director, Home-Start London  

This post is funded until 31/03/22, extension is subject to the availability of funding.

Job Description

Main responsibilities:

Researching potential partners to benefit the work of Home-Start in London

• Work with the Director to develop a strategic programme of building strong, long-term relationships with potential partners/funders. Partners are likely to include:
  • Corporates
  • Foundations / Trusts
  • Housing associations
  • Delivery partners (statutory and non-statutory, directly or indirectly related to family support, health & wellbeing).
• Understand key issues affecting Home-Start London members’ operations and how partnership opportunities would be beneficial. 
• Identify and research opportunities to build new partnership links to secure new partners at a range of levels and collate findings into a partnership plan.

Establishing and maintaining relationships with partners

• Meet with potential partners to present the overall work of Home-Start in London and the benefits of partnership working.
• Managing contact and developing leads with partners.

Fundraising  through applications/ bids to statutory and non-statutory sources

• Research and identify potential funding opportunities that sustain the work of Home-Start in London.
• Work with the Director, to develop tailored partnership proposals for partners, including service delivery, volunteer engagement opportunities and funding requests.
• Work with the Director to ensure that bids are adequately costed and risk assessed.

Promoting the work of Home-Start London

• Liaising with the Marketing & Communications Freelancer to ensure key messaging relating to partnership development and fundraising campaigns is embedded in the monthly Communications Plan.

Networking and representing Home-Start London via relevant groups/networks

• Identifying relevant pan-London and sub-regional networks to attend.
• Representing Home-Start London on London networks/forums, raising awareness of the issues experienced by Home-Start families (from across the Capital).

Administration tasks relevant to the role

• Developing individual partnership agreements and ensuring they are appropriately stewarded.

• Identify and facilitate volunteering opportunities to increase engagement with existing and new corporate partners.
• Maintain accurate paper and electronic records relating to/for all partners.
• Keep partners updated on Home-Start London’s work, both through in-person meetings, regular updates and timely reports.
• Update progress reports to feed into Home-Start London board reports.

The post holder may be required to undertake any other duties that fall within the nature of the role and responsibilities of the post as detailed above.   Any substantial or major changes will be negotiated.

Person Specification

Knowledge, skills, ability and experience

• Experience of partnership working. (Essential)
• Experience of Fundraising, sales or account management in a charity or commercial sector. (Essential)
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to build a strong rapport with a range of different stakeholders. (Essential)
• Confident communicator - both in writing and verbally. (Essential).
• Research skills, ability to analyse information, have an eye for detail and present information  logically and cohesively. (Essential)
• Ability to interpret data, analyse numbers and present numerical information accurately. (Essential).
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail to produce work of a high standard. (Essential)
• Understanding of the key issues affecting young families, particularly those with multiple and complex needs living in deprived areas. (Desirable)
• Knowledge of health and wellbeing services, including perinatal infant mental health. (Desirable)
• Understanding of the role of social media to support partnership working and fundraising. (Desirable).

Please send a CV and covering letter outlining how your experience and how you meet the person specification. Interviews will be conducted via Zoom. 

Job title: Fundraising Manager

Responsible to: Director of Business Development

Salary: £30,000 - 33,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales / 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 and we would be open to those interested in applying as a jobshare. 

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

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 consultant 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

•  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.

The Role

If you have a proven track record of at least three years in charity fundraising and a strong desire to bring hope and health to people fighting sickness and poverty, we’d love to hear from you. We need a person like you who will rise to the challenge to secure vital funds for our health projects in Malawi, Nepal and India. 

Our new Fundraising Manager will be a key player with responsibilities to grow and strengthen our community of support, develop regular giving and legacies, recruit new supporters, run appeals, manage events and speak in church and other supporter meetings.

We have an incredible community of dedicated supporters and we want to inspire more people to join this movement of change, improving lives where there is little hope for a better future and bringing holistic healthcare to those whose voice is not listened to.

With your help, we can make this a reality.

About Us

We believe Every Life Matters. As an experienced international healthcare charity, we’re committed to helping transform lives through compassionate, effective, and sustainable healthcare, and guided by our Christian faith. We work closely with trusted partners in Malawi, Nepal and India to tackle inequalities for people who are excluded and marginalised by sickness and poverty through developing palliative care, reducing the impact of disease and responding to healthcare emergencies.

Our ideal Fundraising Manager

• At least three years of Charity Fundraising experience.
• A people person, brilliant at nurturing strong supporter relationships
• A motivational and confident communicator, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proactive and hard-working, equally competent when working alone or as part of a team.
• Good organisational and project management skills
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office, Excel, Raisers Edge NXT
• Experienced in creating and running fundraising campaigns
• Strong social media skills
• Preferably educated to degree or similar standard

Christian Faith

EMMS International is a non-denominational Christian charity. The post-holder will be committed to our Christian beliefs and values. The role involves talking and praying in churches and with supporters about our work and our shared Christian beliefs.

Travel - You may be required to travel mainly within the UK and possibly overseas to our projects in Malawi, Nepal or India.

Right to work in the UK - All staff are required to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK

This is a brand new position - an exciting opportunity to make your mark on a small dynamic charity with ambitious goals.

This pivotal role will suit an experienced relational fundraiser who excels at inspiring people to catch a vision and contribute through their donations. Read about SEED’s vision, mission, and pilot community resilience model in our strategy in the attachments. As the prime driver of income generation for SEED, you will proactively secure multi-year relationships with individuals, small businesses, trusts and foundations. You will also oversee all SEED’s other fundraising and communications, including fundraising appeals like the Big Give Christmas Challenge, newsletter, social media and website.

Initially the only employee of SEED in the UK, you will report directly to a Trustee, oversee our small group of committed volunteers, and liaise closely with our delivery team in Zimbabwe. Before long, we’re sure your efforts will create the need and funding to grow the UK team. Working in a very small charity, you will enjoy a varied, interesting role with opportunities to get involved in wider organisational priorities and effect change with minimal bureaucracy.

You will work from home, even after lockdown ends (SEED doesn’t have an office), with occasional travel to meet donors or trustees. Trustees are in London / Cambridge, but video calls would be considered if the best candidate was located further away. 

We will consider 2-3 days a week, and we support flexible working, so this role could fit around other commitments.

To apply, please prepare a tailored and concise covering letter explaining what attracts you to The SEED Project in general and to this role in particular, how you fit the person specification, and why you are confident you can help us to grow our funding base.Please submit this along with your CV.

WR Fundraising Recruitment has a great opportunity for an experienced fundraiser to take on a role as Fundraising Manager with a regional charity; supporting families and children across Berkshire. There is a lot of scope for the right candidate to build on the current programme, particularly in the area of individual giving, so experience of this would be desirable alongside skills in Raiser’s Edge or similar.

This role will be a mix of working at home, in the office, and around the community. You’ll need to be confident wearing a range of 'different hats’ and dealing with a diverse group of stakeholders. You will be leading a team of 3 fundraisers around the region and providing support, insight, and leadership on all aspects of the organisation’s fundraising while being very hands on with individual giving management.

You will be a self-starter, happy to work independently, while also working to embed a positive fundraising culture within the organisation. This is a new role, so there is plenty of room to input in to the fundraising strategy, and to innovate around new forms of income development.

Fundraising Manager

Home based role with weekly working in Reading Office, Berkshire

Full Time, Permanent

£35,000 per annum

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Implement a new fundraising strategy in line with business objectives and with a focus on development of an individual giving programme
• Present on the charity’s work to a range of stakeholders and partners
• Research and create compelling fundraising proposals for a range of funders
• Lead a Community, Events and Corporate Fundraising team ensuring targets are developed and met
• Design a new individual giving offering, alongside the development of supporter journeys, including legacy giving
• Build new relationships with a wide range of partners, and effectively nurture existing relationships for sustainable growth
• Identify potential opportunities with local community groups, corporate partners, and trusts/foundations
• Demonstrate impact through quantitative and qualitative reporting

The ideal candidate for this role will:

• Be an enthusiastic fundraiser, passionate about delivering income for a community focused charity
• Have experience of delivering an individual giving programme and mapping the supporter journey
• Have experience in delivering an effective fundraising strategy
• Be a brilliant communicator, with exceptional written and spoken English
• Have line-management experience
• Be a driven self-starter, able to work independently and manage a varied and diverse project portfolio

To register your interest and for more information please send your CV in the first instance.

The team at WR Fundraising Recruitment are passionate about bringing together talented fundraising professionals with fantastic organisations. We’d love to hear from you if you are looking for a new fundraising opportunity.

Glaucoma UK is a small friendly charity that punches above its weight. Last year we took on a new name, rebranded, launched a new website and a new strategy. We’re ambitious in our aim to end preventable glaucoma blindness, so it’s an exciting time to join our team but we know it’s also a challenging time for fundraising!

We’re looking for a new Fundraising Manager with the creative energy and initiative to drive our next phase of fundraising development. The role spans legacy and individual giving, community and events fundraising, trusts, digital and corporates, so we’re looking for someone who is happy to roll up their sleeves and enjoy the autonomy and challenges of juggling a varied portfolio of activity.

You may be an experienced fundraiser or at the start of your fundraising career, if you think you can help us raise the funds we need to stop glaucoma blindness, we’d love to hear from you. We’ll provide training and development opportunities in a friendly and supportive staff team, flexible working, access to healthcare support and an Employee Assistance Programme.

Closing Date: 4pm Friday 16 April 2021

Interviews: Friday 23 April 2021

Pan Intercultural Arts is looking for a Fundraising Manager!

Job Title: Fundraising Manager

Rate of Pay: £31,200.00 FTE

This role has the possibility to be a full time position or a 4 day per week position (salary calculated pro rata) 

About Pan

Pan Intercultural Arts is a leading force in delivering arts for social change through workshop programmes with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, young refugees, survivors of trafficking and young people at risk of entering crime. Pan works mainly in London but also seeds projects in other towns and cities through its exPansion programme and has founded several Theatre for Development projects overseas.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Pan. The role would be working closely with Pan’s Artistic Director, Company Manager, Communications and Administration Officer and Pan’s project staff. This is a key role within the organisation, working closely with the Pan team to manage, develop and secure the funds to deliver our projects.

The Fundraising Manager is responsible for the fundraising strategy, securing new sources of funding and leading on funding applications, and managing the relationships with our existing funders including regular communications and grant reporting. In conjunction with the Artistic Director, Company Manager, Project Directors/Managers, the Fundraising Manager is responsible for securing funding for all projects and core costs for the organisation.

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion throughout our projects and our workplace. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We welcome your application regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, and sexual orientation. We aim to make the application process as accessible as possible.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from people of colour or people with lived experience of migration, who are currently underrepresented within our office team.

We are looking for a passionate fundraiser who is excited by the work we do. Even if you do not fit all the criteria but do have relevant fundraising experience that could make you a great candidate, we encourage you to apply. We welcome applications from people with a range of experiences and skills and we are happy to provide training in areas that are needed.

The deadline to apply is Thursday 22nd April, 12pm.

*We have extended our application period for this role, which now closes at 09:00 on Monday 26 April.*

Bishopsgate Institute is a home for ideas and debate, learning, and enquiry. We are a small, fiercely independent charity with our own extraordinary premises at the crossroads of the City, Spitalfields and the East End, where culture, heritage, and learning meet. Bishopsgate Institute was "erected for the benefit of the public" in 1894, with the motto "I never stop learning". Our purpose has not changed.

Grade: Manager

Hours: Full time (35 hours / week)[1]

Contract: Fixed term (1 year), with potential to extend

Salary: Circa £33k FTE

Based: London Office, once Covid restrictions are lifted

Bishopsgate Institute is seeking a Fundraising Manager to join our welcoming team, implementing a new fundraising strategy to support all aspects of our work. You’ll be working across trusts and foundations and individual giving, developing funding bids and cultivating relationships with donors and funders. As this is a new role, it’s an exciting opportunity to shape new ways of working and helping us to embed fundraising across the organisation. 

This role is initially a 1 year fixed term position, either working full time or we will consider this role on a basis of 0.8 FTE.

Successful applicants will demonstrate a keen understanding of Bishopsgate Institute’s unique offer, and a passion for the work we do here.

We only accept direct applications, and we do not accept CVs. Please no agencies.

Applications Deadline: 9am, 26 April 2021. 

First Interviews will be held:  06 May 2021.

Full details on the role and how to apply are available via our website

[1] We would consider this role on a part-time basis of 0.8 FTE (28 hours per week) for which the pro rata salary would be circa £27,200

Oversee £1.8m income from trusts and foundations in a charity whose work is incredibly relevant after the pandemic.

Due to an internal promotion, this bereavement support charity has a vacancy for a Trusts and Foundations Manager, who will be responsible for the £1.8m the charity secures through this income stream.

Job description

The role will:

• oversee a Trusts Fundraising Officer who secures lower level trusts and foundations
• develop strategy for mid- and high-value applications
• oversee trusts income from a network of regional hubs (c.£300k)
• develop and maintain key relationships with funders including Children in Need, the National Lottery, Garfield Western and other smaller private trusts

Person specification

We are looking for someone who:

• has demonstrable success in trusts and foundations fundraising
• is ready for a challenging, busy but highly exciting role
• is able to manage a fast-paced workload
• has excellent written skills
• has excellent relationship management skills
• is creative and able to package up services in a compelling way for funders

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To apply for this role, please click Apply with Charityjob to submit your CV to Emily Birch at QuarterFive Fundraising Recruitment. If your experience is a good fit, we will send you a job description and arrange a briefing call or meeting that will provide you with all the information required to formally apply. QuarterFive aims to proactively support your job search, so we may also consider your details for other job vacancies to enable us to find a position that is most suitable for you.

As Kingston Hospital’s charity partner, we are committed to working with colleagues across the NHS trust, as well as key stakeholders, to help deliver outstanding patient-centred care.

Since the charity was relaunched at the end of 2017, we have successfully developed the new Maxwell Thorne Haematology Day Unit; transformed the hospital’s elderly care wards to provide dementia friendly environments; and purchased cutting-edge medical equipment to enhance diagnosis and treatment for our ophthalmology, endoscopy and urology services.

We are now looking to recruit a motivated individual with strong presentation and communication skills, who has a successful track record in growing fundraising activity, preferably with some experience in community, corporate, legacy or in memory giving. Excellent organisational skills, an attention to detail and knowledge and experience of using social media is also vital.

To be successful in this post, you will also need to be hardworking, energetic and willing to get involved in all aspects of Kingston Hospital Charity’s activities. While the role is intended to be full time (37.5 hours per week) there is flexibility to consider part time (30 hours per week).

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

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

We’re recruiting for an exciting maternity fixed-term contract role in our highly-skilled Fundraising & Communications department. Supporting the Director of Fundraising & Communications, the role will work with colleagues to develop strategy, deliver effective operations and achieve department-wide objectives. The post also line manages one team member. CBM UK places emphasis on professional development and training for our employees.

CBM is the largest charity focussed on transforming the lives of people with or at risk of disability in the world’s poorest places, reaching over 30 million people globally each year. Working through local partners and based on Christian values, CBM UK raises £9m annually to tackle poverty, prevent blindness, improve health and support people with disabilities.

Key responsibilities

Working within our Fundraising & Communications department of 19 staff, the role ultimately helps to create extraordinary and wonderful moments in our 45,000 supporters’ lives, with responsibility for:

• Helping to further develop, monitor and evaluate fundraising & communications strategy
• Coordinating integrated campaigns, including two campaigns in Winter 2021 and Spring 2022
• Improving our supporters’ experiences with CBM.
• Coordinating CBM award applications and funding applications
• Managing 1 talented staff member.

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