Donor Relations Officer (6 months contract)

A great opportunity has arisen for a Donor Relations Officer for a not for profit organisation in order develop close working relationships with major donor fundraisers and academics to produce creative and inspiring stewardship reports to nurture and grow our donor base. This will be temporary 6 months FTC based in central London.

Key Responsibilities will include:

Understand the stewardship needs of the major gift fundraising teams and develop appropriate solutions with the teams. Think creatively about how to present impact, implementing new ideas and identifying opportunities in order to increase donor loyalty and giving.
Work with major gift colleagues to identify prospects going out of stewardship and back into cultivation.
Stay abreast of legislation, trends in philanthropy, industry standards and best practice and integrate learning into stewardship work.
Help foster the cultivation of new gifts, brainstorming with colleagues to come up with innovative stewardship solutions which inspire current and future donors.
Propose and deliver non-traditional stewardship updates, including video, infographics etc in order to meet the needs of donors
Work with the Project Manager in order to agree and fulfil delivery of all elements of the stewardship programme on time and to a high standard


In order to apply you should have the following skills and experience:

Journalistic, communications or marketing qualification
Journalistic: eye for a good story, curious mind
Creative writing skills skilled storyteller, ability to make a story compelling, contagious and able to inspire action
Strong editorial, copy writing and proof reading skills
Setting KPIs, monitoring progress against targets, applying knowledge to improve performance of communications
Building relationships across organisational boundaries, demonstrating tact and negotiating sensitively, building networks of content providers
Translation of audience insight and profiling into key messaging and engaging content
Writing in a fundraising/marketing context (eg: calls to action, case for support)
Writing for digital communications: emails, blogs, social media
Experience of working with agencies