Fundraising Officer – Future Frontiers

Future Frontiers is an award-winning education charity. Their aim is to transform pupils’ engagement with learning and ensure more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds progress to sustained destinations in education, employment or training. By partnering with secondary schools and forward-thinking businesses, they provide young people aged 13-17 with a programme of face-to-face career coaching and opportunities to connect with relevant professional role models.

As part of our commitment to the sector, we at Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are proud to be supporting Future Frontiers through advertising this exciting role within the fundraising team.

They are looking for a Fundraising Officer to join their ambitious team to support in various fundraising functions. As part of your role you will be:

· Researching Trust and Foundations

· Writing high quality and detailed bids to Trust and Foundations

· Manage, maintain and develop a portfolio of supporters

In order to be successful in this role, you will have:

· Exceptional written and oral communication skills

· Good research prospecting skills

· Excellent organisational skills and the demonstrating a willingness to learn

Salary: £26,000 - £30,000

Deadline Date: 26th July 2020

Location: London Offices

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

Reports to: Senior Engagement Manager

Looking for a 3 day a week Part-Time Bid Writer - London based but home working (Min 1 day in the office)

Your new company
A renowned military charity base in London and Devon. They are looking to onboard someone into their development team that is based out of Central London

Your new role
The role is part time and you will be working three days a week. Currently the role is exclusively home working but post-pandemic you will be expected to go into the office minimum one day a week. You role is to help write bids for trust and foundation proposals to successfully secure funding. You will work with the development team to building and develop existing relationships with Trusts and Foundation as well as donor relations to be able to pitch for funding. There is some aspect of business development as the successful candidate will join The Development Team, formed approx. 12 months ago, which is responsible for Trusts, Foundations and Statutory, Corporate partners and Major Donors. Focusing principally on Trusts, Foundations and Statutory

What you'll need to succeed
The candidate will ideally be a hybrid of both private sector and third sector experience (the latter is required, the former would be nice to have as well) with existing relationships in the trusts and foundation space. They need to have excellent written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to write applications that stand out from the market. To be successful the experienced bid writer will need to be highly organised and motivated, a self-starter with an ability to assimilate and process information quickly and someone who is happy to do a certain level of business development and independent research, to generate concept notes and applications that match and sustain the funding needs of the charity and its delivery programme. The candidate will also be responsible for the stewardship of relevant organisations, ensuring that reporting timelines and processes are maintained and adhered to.

What you'll get in return
A competitive salary, flexible working and the opportunity to make lasting impact within an organisation.

What you need to do now
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Are you aware of the Code of Fundraising  Practice?  

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with The Fundraising Regulator for the recruitment of a Policy and Standards Officer on a full time, permanent basis.  

The mission of the Fundraising Regulator is to carry out our independent and non-statutory regulatory role in a way that protects the public, donors and potential donors, not least those who may be vulnerable, from unacceptable fundraising practices.  We sustain and enhance public confidence in the charitable sector, support the sector to understand and carry out its responsibilities in engaging with the public and help to create a positive donor experience, ensuring consistent fundraising standards across the UK.    

Reporting to the Policy Manager, we are looking for a Policy and Standards Officer to communicate standards to the sector, facilitate policy change and support the development of the Code of Fundraising Practice. They will play a critical role in supporting fundraisers to understand and apply the fundraising standards, alongside developing evidence based policy that maintains trust and confidence in fundraising. To do so they will deal with enquiries about standards from fundraisers, report on enquiries, consult with the sector and work closely across the Fundraising Regulator to enhance and communicate the standards. They will have a varied workload and, as the subject matter expert, will need to balance competing priorities in response to the needs of the organisation and play a key part in numerous concurrent projects.  

To be considered for this role, you will have a working knowledge of the Code of Fundraising Practice, excellent verbal and written communication skills and have either direct policy experience or demonstrable transferable skills in policy and standards. You will have significant experience of managing multiple projects and working within a fast-paced team whilst having strong ethical standards and an appreciation of the Fundraising Regulator's legal framework. The right candidate is a critical thinker who can exercise judgement in complex situations. Whilst not essential, a working knowledge of charities and fundraising law is desirable.    

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. As we are currently experiencing high volumes of interest in vacancies, it may not be possible to answer any individual queries on positions prior to an application.

About us

British Exploring Society is a world class youth development charity with a unique heritage, founded on the belief that challenging experiences can define lives, empowering and equipping young people with the courage, integrity, skills, resilience and motivation to make the most of their future.

Who we are looking for 

This role provides an excellent opportunity for an energetic, ambitious and flexible individual seeking to develop their fundraising skills, who wants the chance to make this post their own. You will be supporting a critical area of the charity by enabling our major donor administration, communications and development. You will also support our wider fundraising strategy.

You are a proactive and driven individual with excellent organisational abilities and attention to detail; you have accurate and engaging communication skills (written and verbal) and will be able to use your creativity to enhance our results and help us achieve our fundraising targets.

Alongside your professional skills, you will need to demonstrate empathy with the work of the charity and a commitment to its purpose and values. At British Exploring Society we travel economy and stay in hostels – but we work with a wide range of stakeholders who require high levels of polish, care and perfect discretion.

Key Accountabilities/ Duties

• Maintain and nurture relationships with current and prospective donors
• Steward supporters more broadly, including sending out high quality communication materials and information
• Deliver our major donor programme
• Plan and execute a small direct mailing programme, working alongside the Membership officer
• Prepare briefings and other information for external meetings and fundraising events
• Provide planning and delivery administration for dinners, philanthropy breakfasts, private receptions
• Undertake research to identify potential new donors within our stakeholder network
• Support delivery of fundraising reporting data as required
• Prepare reports for the Head of Fundraising sand CEO on progress towards agreed fundraising objectives as required
• Ensure that all activities undertaken meet Charity Commission requirements and are compliant with with relevant legislation
• Maintain excellent record keeping , updating our new CRM system with donation and supporter information
• Communicate with supporters and funders in a timely fashion
• Respond to ad hoc supporter queries

The post holder will also

• Contribute to achieving the objectives of British Exploring Society
• Represent the charity at external events in a professional manner
• Adhere to the charity’s policies, procedures and working
• Ensure all records are held in compliance with the Data Protection Act, GDPR, the Institute of Fundraising and British Exploring Society’s policies
• Have effective IT skills across a wide range of common applications including Excel, Google and Word
• Following a full induction, participate in the team rota as a Duty Officer during periods when the Society is running 24 hour support service for our expeditions;
• Undertake additional ad-hoc tasks as required

What happens next?

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 explaining your suitability for the role. Due to remote working conditions, there is currently a delay in receiving postal applications so would request that all applications are submitted digitally.
 
In your application please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements, or if you need us to make any adjustments to the interview process.

Interviews will take place using Zoom web conferencing in week commencing 20th July.
 
We regret that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Description

We are looking for an experienced specialist to join our team to protect, nurture and grow relationships with key supporters and stakeholders. This new post is pivotal to our planned growth to enable us to help more children and young people who need our support to tackle significant challenges in their lives.

You will already know how to give our major donors an excellent experience of their support for the charity – and be able to provide them with appropriate ways to give, to get involved and learn how their support is making a difference.

You will also have experience of finding, engaging and involving new prospective supporters and be able to plan events and other ways to showcase the great work this charity does and how donors can help us do more of it.

Responsibilities

• Effective communication with existing and prospective major donors and linked stakeholders
• Development of new relationships to achieve growth - building for the future whilst also meeting the current year's income targets
• Producing clear, concise, compelling proposals and reports
• Information and insight management - ensuring our systems are kept up to date with an accurate picture of opportunities and communications.

Experience

• At least two years successful experience in major donor fundraising
• Experience of stewarding and cultivating relationships with senior stakeholders, internal and external, in a charity context
• Experience of writing high quality, successful donor proposals and presentations
• Demonstrable experience of recruiting new major donors

Skills

• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills and emotional intelligence
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent time management: able to prioritise a varied workload, and work independently with minimum supervision to achieve objectives
• Articulate, confident, sensitive and diplomatic
• The ability to understand and convey complex financial information, communicating to donors and prospects
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft 365 software and good working knowledge of a fundraising CRM
• Highly motivated and objective orientated
• Proactive, positive and collaborative approach
• Ability to deal with confidential matters discretely
• Ability and willingness to travel and occasionally to work at evenings or weekends
• A strong belief in the importance of preventative work with children, coupled with an understanding of the need for philanthropic support to achieve it

Qualifications

• Educated to 'A' Level or equivalent (essential)
• Institute of Fundraising Certificate/ Diploma (desirable)

Job Benefits

• Flexible working, including home working
• Pension scheme

How to apply

To apply, please download the full job description/person specification and application form from our website.

We are working with an international justice organisation to recruiting for a Development Manager, this organisation has been really successful with fundraising throughout the COVID-19 crisis and are investing in the long-term growth of their fundraising. The role will focus heavily on trusts, foundations and statutory funders, managing existing relationships and securing new funders. Alongside this there will also be some work with corporates, as the organisations looks at diversifying their funding sources.

The other really exciting part of this role is the opportunity to build and working with a development board, who will be actively involved in supporting fundraising.

You will have:

· Strong experience in trust and statutory fundraising, ideally with experience of securing high-value, multi-year funding

· Demonstrable experience of working creatively and with an entrepreneurial flair

• Gravitas and confidence, you will be working with senior stakeholders, internally and externally and will need to influence this individuals

Closing date: ASAP

Salary: £33,000 - £35,000

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please call me on 020 30 062787or email [email protected].

Ashby Jenkins Recruitment are a specialist charity recruitment agency, we are experts in charity recruitment and excel at matching fundraisers to charity jobs. We take a relationship-led approach to recruitment, working ethically and supporting people to find their perfect fundraising jobs.

We are passionate about improving equality across the sector, you can read more about our commitment to diversity here.

Bright Future Charity is an Organisation that provides Volunteer Befrienders and Care Attendants to Alleviate Loneliness and Care Cover for Principal Carers in Local Communities in the London & Greater London areas, especially the London Borough of Ealing and Brent. 

The Organisation is  looking for experienced Fundraising Administrators,  Freelance or Office based,  Part Time (1 or 2 days a week).

Experience of Online Researching and Writing Grant Application for Funding would be advantageous, but not essential as training will be provided. 

Your main responsibilities will be as follows: 

• To identify and gather information regarding potential Donors

• To build databases of Donors and Sponsors 

• To complete and send out Grants applications

• Plus other duties as required by the Organisation

Key skills and competencies:

• Very good command of English both spoken and written

• Very good report writing skills

• Very good IT and telephone manner

• Experience of writing Grant Applications for Charitable Organisations would be an advantage

• Ability to work to deadlines teamed

Please send us your CV, covering letter to the email address provided

Harris Hill is delighted to be assisting the fantastic charity, Group B Strep Support, in the search for a new Major Gifts Manager at their office in Haywards Heath, West Sussex on a full or part time basis.

Group B Strep Support is a National charity that works across the UK, striving to prevent life-threatening group B Strep infections in newborn babies. They aim to inform every expectant parent of the dangers posed by group B Strep infection. If a pregnant woman is tested for group B Strep, she can be offered antibiotics in labour to minimise the risk to her baby - preventing illnesses such as sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia.

GBSS is looking for a Fundraiser with experience of securing four/ five-figure donations from Trusts & Foundations and/ or HNWIs, to join their team. You will have sole responsibility for setting up and running the Trusts & Foundations and HNWI fundraising stream for the charity.
You will need to enjoy researching funders and developing projects as much as you like stewarding funders and hitting income targets. In conjunction with this, you will have sole responsibility for creating, producing, and implementing a new Trusts & Foundations and HNWIs fundraising strategy for the coming year. Throughout, you will need continually to monitor financial performance, keep an eye out for any new marketing and fundraising opportunities, and report progress back to the Chief Executive.
To be considered for this role you will need to be well versed in building and managing relationships with Trust & Foundation supporters and/or with HNWIs. You will have significant experience of successful fundraising from donors, demonstrable excellent written communication and project management skills, and excellent attention to detail.

If you would like to receive a full job specification for this role or have a confidential conversation, please send your cv to [email protected] or call Natalie at Harris Hill on 0207 820 7336.

Closing Date - ASAP

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

We look forward to hearing from you.

UWS is looking for a Senior Associate with solid social media and communications experience and the capability to support the growing network of communications colleagues globally. Using your expertise and networks, you will raise our profile and preposition UWS as a credible thought leader in the education space. 

We are seeking someone with solid social media and communications experience and the capability to support the growing network of communications colleagues globally. 

The role sits in the Funding and Partnerships team but works across the organisation, leading the global communications network. The role will lead on all aspects of public facing work; communication, marketing and media. This includes fast paced strategic and reactive media and social media, developing and maintaining the website, external communications and managing our organisational brand and its consistency across various platforms. The post-holder will bring new ideas and strategic thinking to develop a proactive strategy. 

The role is varied and blends strategy with operational delivery. You should be a big thinker who can plan a communications strategy, but also be willing to do the daily tasks to implement the strategy, with no job being too big or too small. The ability to combine flawless execution, prioritise and work on a number of projects, together with a calm disposition is essential.

The successful candidate will be a clear and confident communicator, able to take complex issues and translate them for different audiences to develop impactful campaigns. We’re looking for someone with a natural flair for storytelling as you will oversee content creation and our bank of human impact stories. You’ll also play a key role in creating and delivering high quality, inspiring multi-channel content.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. For more information including a full job pack please visit our website.

Fundraising Communications Officer
Deptford, London (home based currently)

If you are a creative marketing or communications professional with a talent for storytelling, this is an amazing opportunity to develop your career with a charity that’s making a lasting social and environmental impact. 

About Us

We are FareShare, the UK’s largest charity fighting hunger and food waste. We are a charitable distribution network that takes excess, in-date and good to eat food and redistributes it to other charities that turn it into meals.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an even greater need for our work. During this time, we’ve trebled the amount of food distributed to support vulnerable people.  

Delivering impactful storytelling and communications is more crucial than ever to help us retain existing donors and attract new ones. As such, we’re looking for a Fundraising Communications Officer to join us on a full-time basis.

The Benefits

- Salary of up to £33,000 per annum
- Pension
- Travelcard loans (if required) 
- Cycle to work scheme 
- Employee assistance programme

This is a brilliant opportunity to join our dynamic Fundraising Team and tell compelling stories that inspire people to act and help us to feed families across the nation.

COVID-19 has made day-to-day life even harder for vulnerable people, but we are passionate about our cause and overcoming the challenges that lie ahead. Generating income and support for our mission is more important than ever. 

We are doers. We are a community. We change lives. If you think you could thrive as part of our forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

As a Fundraising Communications Officer, you’ll develop key messages, content and activity to enable us to acquire, renew, engage and retain supporters.

Specifically, you will:

- Create content and assets that convey the impact and breadth of our work 
- Develop tools and activities to communicate effectively with our donors 
- Liaise with the Marketing Team to develop tailored communication plans and content 
- Create engaging opportunities to promote income generation from new audiences and donor groups 

About You

To join us as a Fundraising Communications Officer, you’ll need: 

- Experience of working in communications and/or marketing within, or for, a fundraising context 
- Previous experience of designing and testing campaigns and messaging 
- A track record of writing for different audiences and using a range of digital, written and multimedia communications 
- Experience of working with internal and external stakeholders in a collaborative way 
- An understanding of storytelling that inspires action 
- Previous experience of using Salesforce or another CRM system 
- Proficiency in emailing systems such as ActiveCampaign or Mailchimp
- To be confident in the technical aspects of digital fundraising and donor acquisition 
- Knowledge of industry codes of practice 

Experience of working with WordPress or similar would be beneficial, as would experience of managing supporter events.

Other organisations may call this role Fundraising Officer, Communications Executive, Marketing Executive, Marketing Officer, Communications Officer, Fundraising Executive, or Marcoms Executive. 

The closing date for applications is the 17th July 2020. Interviews are scheduled to be held on the 23rd and 24th July 2020.

Webrecruit and FareShare UK are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re seeking a new challenge as a Fundraising Communications Officer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Are you someone with brilliant customer service skills? Do you have great attention to detail and organisational skills? Are you ready to join an exceptional team making a huge difference to our Bristol hospitals and community? This might be the role for you….

Over the past 12 months the Above & Beyond fundraising and marketing team has seen a large increase in support for the charity. We are expanding the team to maintain momentum and continue to deliver a fantastic service to our supporters.

Working closely with the Supporter Care Coordinator, you will play a key role supporting the team and helping to provide excellent stewardship and supporter care to donors. You will help administer our fundraising activities, ensuring our fundraising database is up-to-date and donations are processed via a range of payment methods. 

You’ll have an excellent telephone manner and solid administrative experience with a proven eye for detail. You will bring warmth and diplomacy to this incredibly special role.

You will be reporting to the Individual Giving and Legacy Manager but will have opportunities to work across the team and the fundraising and marketing portfolio. This role will offer you wonderful opportunities to develop your experience alongside warm and supportive colleagues.

Please note: at this time Above & Beyond staff are predominantly working from home to limit the numbers in the office at any one time. However, there is the expectation that the successful candidate will be based at the office, where there are COVID-19 safety precautions in place, for one day a week.

Hours per week: 37 | Temporary contract (3 months initially with the potential for extension)

Please send a CV and covering letter to apply.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Membership and Fundraising Officer to join the European Movement UK team to help build our community. 

About the European Movement: 

Founded by Winston Churchill in 1947, The European Movement is the UK’s largest pro-European membership organisation. In recent years we were a founding supporter of the People’s Vote campaign. 

The European Movement UK is a grassroots organisation with a network of over 126 groups, and it is also linked to a network of groups in the EU27 as part of European Movement International.

Following the election, we have reached an exciting turning point in our organisation. The European Movement UK’s role is more important than ever as we hold the government to account during the Brexit process. We will be campaigning for maintaining European rights, standards and values post-Brexit and campaigning against a no deal end to the transition period.

In the next phase of the European Movement UK we need to put our members front and centre. We need to create a membership offer with community at its heart. 

What we’re looking for: 

The European Movement is hiring a …. Officer, to manage our membership base, and to cultivate a European community.

You will be involved in a number of areas within our organisation, including: 

• Building and cultivating a community for our members, as well as our supporters and groups 

• Provide full administrative support for the membership function of European Movement UK 

• Handle membership enquiries on a daily basis

• Support the Head of Digital Campaigns with the creation and implementation of Membership Recruitment and Retention strategy. 

• Support the Events and Organisation Manager with community outreach campaigns. 

• Support the Head of Digital Campaigns with content creation for fundraising, membership recruitment and community building on all channels

• Be responsible for regularly updating records on our CRM database and extract reports as required, as well as ensuring our web pages on the CMS are up to date.

• Liaise with finance to ensure accurate payment records for members 

• Supporting the Head of Digital, Head of Communications and the Administrative Officer with maintaining the membership system, including membership benefits (packs, newsletters) and similar initiatives such as the EM1000 club

• Supporting the Head of Digital Campaigns with fundraising streams such as philanthropy and trust and foundations fundraising. 

Skills and experience 

Essential 

• At least two years’ experience in a membership or fundraising role 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience working with a CRM (essential), experience using NationBuilder (desired) 

• Experience building and cultivating a community 

• Great interpersonal skills (comfortable building relationships with members) 

• Understanding of data protection laws, especially GDPR

• Experience of using a CMS (essential), experience using NationBuilder (desirable) 

• Highly organised and good administration skills 

• Sound IT skills 

• Basic design skills 

Desirable 

• Experience using Nationbuilder

• Previous experience of working in a membership organisation or trade/professional body

• Understanding of the European Union and the current Brexit debate 

• Ability to write compelling copy 

This is a great time to join this organisation as we grow our membership across Europe and beyond!

TO APPLY PLEASE SEND YOUR CV AND COVER LETTER 

The Atlantic Institute was established in 2016 with the support of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and in collaboration with the Rhodes Trust, Oxford (UK).

At the Atlantic Institute we are committed to building a lifelong community of courageous changemakers who together will accelerate the eradication of inequity and injustice resulting in fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. Our Fellows and Staff are accomplished leaders working in diverse settings and contexts, who together think, learn, incubate and implement strategies for greater impact. The diversity of our fellows is unprecedented and we are committed to the radical inclusion of these leaders as agents of change in communities most impacted by social, economic, racial and health inequities.  We provide them with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn and act to address the underlying systemic causes of inequity.

In the current global environment of a pandemic, the courageous work to eradicate inequities is more urgently needed than ever. To support, deepen and sustain our community’s impact at this critical juncture, we have therefore created several new permanent roles, including:

• Associate Executive Director (Community, Programming and Impact)
• Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead
• Program and Impact Lead (Innovation and Special Projects)
• Learning and Evaluation Lead
• Data Insight Analyst.

Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead

The Atlantic Institute expects technological advances to shift the frontier between the work tasks performed by staff at the Institute and those performed by new and emerging technologies. New technologies will also impact on the way that we build a global community and facilitate global convenings and we want to ensure that our community does not just become a passive recipient of new technologies but becomes a leading critic and conscience of society. 

We’re looking for an Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead who will research, evaluate, implement and test new and innovative ways of using emerging technologies for building the Atlantic global community.  This will include co-ordinating a global think-tank of experts in the AR, VR and AI fields and accelerating our work in developing a world-class media lab for exploring virtual engagement and collaboration.

Core competencies

Consistent with all roles at the Atlantic Institute, it is essential that you demonstrate a critical understanding of the diverse root causes of inequities and show a commitment (in thinking and in action) to fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. In addition, you will have the following skills, experience, and qualifications:

• Experience with AR and VR technologies and development
• Moderate to advance proficiency in at last one XR platform such as Unity
• Strong background in design, conceptualisation, storyboarding and adobe creative suite
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent in computer science with strong research and writing skills
• Excellent project management skills.

Terms of appointment

Subject to a satisfactory probationary period of 6 months, this is a permanent role.

The Rhodes Trust participates in the USS pension scheme, enrols staff for private health insurance on successful completion of probation and offers 25 days’ leave plus public holidays each year.

To find out more on the role and how to apply, please view the attached job description.

Please submit your application to us by 12:00 (BST) on Friday 24th July 2020.

Fundraising Manager – Individuals

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust, taking the reins of Individual Giving fundraising.  This is your chance to join a passionate local charity that is committed to safeguarding the Severn Valley Railway.  In 2012 the Charitable Trust was established to help future proof this much loved major tourist attraction, and eight years on we have raised over £5million. We are now embarking on our next chapter, to raise £10million, would you like to come on board?

Overview

Post: Fundraising Manager, Individual Giving

Reporting to: Director of Development

Employer: Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust

Salary:  £30,000 to £35.000

Primary location: Number One, Comberton Place, Kidderminster

Hours: Part-time (30 hours)

Holiday: 31 days (inclusive of Public holidays)

Summary of Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your proven fundraising experience in individual giving to this driven and passionate heritage charity. The Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust is a separate entity to the SVR Holdings Company who operate and run this much loved attraction.  The Trust’s focus is to help secure the future of the Severn Valley Railway through donations, grants and sponsorship.  This position is a hands on role and initially comes with line management of a part-time Fundraising Co-ordinator and 3 volunteers.  We envisage this area of the business growing as the successes of your initiatives are realised.  We have been extremely successful in our individual giving thus far, but it is time for a new experienced fundraiser to take it to the next level, focusing on both acquisition and retention, and building a stronger fundraising volunteer base to assist you in delivering your plans.  Your remit will involve a mix of fundraising techniques, including 1-2-1 fundraising to our high value donors.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Strategy and Planning

• To increase income generated from individual giving fundraising activities.
• To create and execute a donor acquisition and retention strategy.
• To manage the individual giving budget in line with objectives and KPIs, reporting to the Director on income and expenditure and highlighting variances in a timely manner.
• To test, monitor, evaluate and implement existing and new channels and key messages that allow two-way engagement with donors.
• To develop long term sustainable income through identifying the audiences, channels and messages that will maximise effectiveness and efficiency.
• To develop high quality supporter care including responsive and prompt donor care and stewardship and to support the Fundraising Co-ordinator to implement these.
• To develop a volunteer-led model of fundraising.

Direct Marketing

• To manage and deliver integrated online and offline campaigns.
• To manage the design, print and production of direct marketing activity, negotiating bought in services and ensuring invoices are in accordance with quotes.

Administration and Reporting

• To manage the Individual Giving budget and provide monthly updates to the Director.
  • To keep accurate and up to date records of all activities, using ThanksQ CRM database, extracting reports for the team as required, and maintaining high standards in customer care and record keeping.

Managing Relationships

• To provide management and guidance to the Fundraising Co-ordinator to ensure that KPIs and objectives are achieved and a clear personal development plan is in place.
• To build strong internal working relationships with colleagues and externally with supporters.
• To work with the SVR Holdings Marketing and Communications team to gain support and cross selling opportunities within the different SVR audiences.

Development

·To work with the Director to review the Trust’s CRM database and consider an Organisation wide CRM system.

Other

·Proactively ensure all materials produced are accurate and compliant with relevant GDPR protection and Gift Aid legislation.

·To undertake all activities in line with best practice standards and processes as set out by the Fundraising Code of Practice and industry regulatory bodies.

·To keep abreast of all developments in Individual Giving and ensure charity compliance.

·To contribute to the Fundraising Team’s strategic planning and budget process.

·To carry out any other tasks as reasonably requested.

·To actively implement the principles of Equality and Diversity.

Person Specification

Educated to degree level and / or an accredited fundraising qualification such as Certificate or Diploma in Fundraising.

Experience

• Developing and implementing an Individual Giving strategy.
• Managing and developing team members.
• Increasing income through donor acquisition and retention.
• Using a fundraising database to record data and extract intelligence accurately.
• Implementing donor segmentation, targeting and positioning strategy.
• Knowledge of a range of fundraising products, recruitment channels and engagement channels.
• Managing income and expenditure budgets.
• Presenting to internal and external stakeholders.

Skills and abilities

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to engage audiences using a range of communication tools.
• Strong direct marketing skills; skilled at devising and delivering social media and print campaigns.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and to secure resources and support from colleagues in different business areas.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills; confident and personable with the ability to manage and build strong relationships with key individual donors and organisations.
• Strong organisation and time management skills. Able to plan / prioritise own work and meet agreed deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and methodical approach to tasks.
• Competent use of MS Outlook, Excel, Word and the Internet.
• Strong numerical / budgeting skills.
• Strong data processing skills.
• Experience of social media campaign management.

Attitude and Personal Qualities

• Motivated, reliable and professional.
• Flexible, able and willing to respond to changing priorities.
• Strong team player with collaborative working style, who enjoys individual and team working.
• Willing to participate in all activities relevant to the role.
• Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends.
• Commitment to GDPR and Fundraising Code of Practice.
• Commitment to the principles of Equality and Diversity.