Individual Giving Officer

Position: Individual Giving Officer
Location: WC1N, Central London
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £Competitive

Our client are seeking an ambitious Individual Giving Officer with prior direct marketing experience where you will be part of a successful team seeking to optimise and create new ways to recruit committed regular givers.

About the Team

You will be part of a team which has generated over £100M from individual giving in the past 5 years.

You’ll work closely with colleagues across the organisation including Brand, Comms, Digital and Grants bringing alive their campaigns, inspiring support through compelling storytelling.

The Data Marketing team will support your thirst for insight, helping to optimise performance and net contribution.

They have incredible support from their Governance and Legal teams to make sure that what you do is compliant. It is critical they deliver the highest standards of great governance to meet public expectation.

About you

You will be a direct marketer with Individual Giving experience. You will work across digital, telephone fundraising, door to door and private site campaigns.

You’ll be confident with film production for use through social media and for training, and used to producing fundraising toolkits including scripts, leave-behinds and give-aways.

You will have an eye for detail, love unpicking what makes for a successful campaign (evaluating results, messaging, audience targeting, proposition and how to deliver the best UX) to generate satisfied and loyal supporters.

You’ll be inquisitive, challenging the status quo; hungry to support new initiatives into product testing.

Ideally you will have:

- At least one years' Individual Giving charity marketing experience, or transferable direct marketing commercial skills
- Digitally competent understanding how to set-up and monitor campaign performance
- Used to working with external agencies, managing timelines and tracking budgets
- Confident in excel, reporting on results
- Experience of CRM (ideally Sales Force)
- Understand data management and the impact is has on delivering an exceptional supporter experience.

About the Charity

Every day brings new challenges. Every day, over 600 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children – and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Without donations, our clients Charity can’t help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities. Their staff help to raise these vital funds for the hospital. A better future for seriously ill children starts with you.

Recently awarded with a ‘Best Companies 2-star accreditation' and placed number 17 on the 2019 Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit Companies list - they offer a range of attractive benefits including; a flexible approach to working, 30 days holiday, life assurance, enhanced employer pension contributions, and a discounted season ticket loan. Please refer to the full job description below for more information.

How to Apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete. You are encouraged to include a cover letter with your application, and should refer to the ‘Application and Interview FAQs’ on the career section of their website before you apply.

Closing date: 9am on 23rd October 2019.

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and they reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.

Due to the large number of applications our client receive, they are unfortunately only able to inform shortlisted candidates of the outcome of their application. If you do not hear from them within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. If your application is not successful, they hope that you will not be discouraged and will still apply for other suitable vacancies in the future.

You may have experience of the following: Fundraising, Charity, Not for Profit, Third Sector, Volunteer Management, Business Development, Legacy, Donor Development, Individual Giving, Marketing, Marketing Officer, Fundraiser, Volunteer Manager, Charities etc.

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