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Fundraising Associate (Schools)

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£31,000 pa
Closing date
7 Aug 2019

Job Details

Fundraising Associate (Schools)
Team: Fundraising and Partnerships

£31,000 pa

London

The Fundraising Associate (Schools) is responsible for driving schools and nurseries fundraising for Red Nose Day, Sport Relief and other year-round activity, delivering against strategy to maximise income from these campaigns.

Key responsibilities

·         Drive school, nursery and under-16 fundraising activity, working with the Schools and Community Fundraising Lead, data and audience strategy teams to identify key fundraiser insights, using these to influence strategy and plans.

·         Develop approaches to maximise income and identify new opportunities for fundraising from events, challenges and other propositions

·         Collaborate with marketing and communication teams to identify marketing strategies to maximise school and nursery engagement, that lead to pack and merchandise sales.

·         Monitor and report on pack orders, merchandise sales and income, working closely with data teams to identify trends and insight, and to proactively suggest new forms of engagement.

·         Implement and oversee a stewardship plan for top fundraising schools, including recruitment and management of stewardship campaign assistants

·         Recruit and manage partnerships with school and nursery chains, and other educational organisations, writing pitches to secure partnerships and managing partners to maximise income generated.

·         Identify inspiring fundraising stories that can be used in marketing materials, fundraising materials and editorial. Collect and document these stories, collecting photos, fundraising totals and permissions, acting as the main point of contact for the establishments.

·         Brief and manage freelance educational consultants to develop engaging educational resources that support fundraising activity and improve understanding of Comic Relief’s goals and campaigns.

·         Work with educational consultants to keep up-to-date with developments in the education sector and share these learnings with the team and wider organisation.

·         Process and document invoices and expense claims relating to school fundraising work and provide reports of expenditure and forecasted spend as required.

Essential Education and Skills

·         Experience of delivering fundraising strategies and propositions for UK schools and nurseries

·         Experience of managing external relationships

·         Experience of matrix working

·         Key Competencies

·         Strong attention to detail – to produce work, which is consistently accurate and which fits the purpose for which it was intended.

·         Excellent communication skills – written and verbal

·         A proactive, positive and fun individual with a “can do” attitude.

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 7th Aug 2019 BST (Europe/London)

Company

Our mission, thanks to our comedy heritage and the fantastic relationship we enjoy with the BBC, is 'positive change through the power of entertainment'.

And our biggest tool, in trying to achieve these two goals, is the ability to inspire people across the whole country especially those who don’t normally do charity - to do charity.

As the world has changed and become more complex over the last two decades, so Comic Relief has had to adapt and change too but the fundamentals remain the same - a just world free from poverty. In trying to achieve that vision we make this promise to the people who make those efforts possible - our supporters:

"In order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessary costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.

Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity gets directly from the public, a pound goes to help transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice. If Sport Relief raises £20 million, Comic Relief will spend at least £20 million doing just that.

It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from all types of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals and government (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest"

AND IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MINUTES TO SPARE HERE'S THE MORE DETAILED ANSWER:

Comic Relief is obviously a charity - but it's also a business too.

The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.

That money comes in from a number of different sources. Traditional charitable fundraising obviously plays a vital role. The public contribute to Comic Relief's annual campaigns by raising money through sponsorship and by making donations online, by post, by telephone and through major banks and building societies. This support, from almost the very day Comic Relief was formed, has been both humbling and inspirational.

On the business side of things, Comic Relief works with key corporate partners to produce products and promotions that are profitable. The clearest example of this is the Red Nose that is the emblem of Red Nose Day.

Where possible these products tie-in with the charity's commitment to delivering benefits to poor farmers and producers. The Red Nose Day 2007 T-shirt for instance was made with fair trade cotton from Mali, Cameroon and Senegal and there will be a fair trade Maraba Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda, a country to which Comic Relief has had a clear commitment since the appalling genocide of 1994.

Another way Comic Relief raises funds is via the creativity made available to the charity. Comedians from time to time offer access to key brands like Little Britain for commercial exploitation. The charity also develops and owns key sub-brands like Robbie the Reindeer and Monkey, both of which deliver a revenue too.

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