Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing
- Employer
- Sightsavers
- Location
- Spencer Row, Dublin 1
- Salary
- €66,000 per annum
- Closing date
- 13 Oct 2019
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- Function
- Fundraising, Marketing, Campaigning, International Development, Digital
- Sector
- Disability, Health & Medical, International, Poverty Relief
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Our vision is of a world where no one is needlessly blind and where people who are blind and those with other disabilities enjoy the same rights as people without disabilities. Each year, we improve the lives of millions of people in the poorest parts of the world. Sightsavers is growing rapidly and offers a great place to work.
Title: Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing
Location: Spencer Row, Dublin 1
Salary: €66,000
Contract: Permanent, full time.
Sightsavers Ireland is a key contributor to the global programme of Sightsavers, with a long and highly successful history of fundraising, annually raising over €6,000,000 through a combination of Individual Giving, Major Giving and Institutional grant support.
This is an incredibly exciting time to be joining Sightsavers Ireland and as Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing responsible for the full Fundraising and Marketing program, you will be maximising income, supporter recruitment and retention through all direct marketing channels. By utilising your exceptional direct marketing skills and broad knowledge of the field you will develop and implement innovative direct marketing strategies, injecting an already successful fundraising department with your creativity and expertise.
Your exceptional commercial understanding, budgeting and planning skills will allow you to identify activities and opportunities to invest in the long-term growth and continued success of the Fundraising team. Demonstrating your leadership skills, you will engage a high performing team to drive this strategy forward with energy and credibility.
The Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing is a highly involved and diverse role. Please read the complete job description for further details.
This position closes on 13 October 2019
Interviews are expected to be on 30 of October 2019 at the Sightsavers office in Dublin.
Company
Sightsavers Head Office
35 Perrymount Road,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex RH16 3BW
Postal Address
Bumpers Way,
Bumpers Farm,
Chippenham SN14 6NG
Sightsavers is an international charity that works in more than 30 countries around the world to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently. Sightsavers is headquartered in the UK and has over 400 employees. It also has branches in Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, India, the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
Sightsavers works with partners in order to provide a comprehensive range of eye care services. In 2013, Sightsavers' projects provided eye health examinations for nearly 14 million people, performed 300,000 eye operations, and treated over 100 million people for neglected tropical diseases.
People are also referred for treatment to prevent blindness or restore sight. Through community volunteers in developing countries, Sightsavers distributes medication to prevent blinding diseases. The charity also trains eye care workers and surgeons and funds operations.
Of the 30 countries Sightsavers works in, 23 are in Africa. These include Mozambique, Mali, Liberia and Kenya. Sightsavers is also present in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean.
In addition to its medical work, Sightsavers works with partners in order to train specialist teaching staff and supply glasses, Braille kits and other learning tools. The charity aims to educate communities and reduce stigma around visual impairment and blindness. Through its work, people with visual impairments and other disabilities are supported to live independently, get an education and earn an income.
Sightsavers is also a campaigning organisation, working with national governments to tackle the root causes of avoidable blindness, such as lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities. The charity’s ‘Put us in the Picture’ campaign calls on the international community to make global development inclusive of the world’s 800m people with disabilities. The campaign’s vision is for all people to have equal access to employment, education, healthcare and participation in society.
Backing up Sightsavers’ work around the world is a strong research capability. Research and policy work revolves around three priorities – health, education and social inclusion. Gathering and disseminating sound research evidence helps to ensure the charity’s programmes meet the needs of the people they are designed to serve. Research evidence is also a strong tool when advocating for policy changes with governments.
Sightsavers has many partners that assist with its aim of eliminating avoidable blindness and may also provide funding. Partners include the UK government’s Department for International Development, the European Union and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Read our latest article on Third Sector: Sightsavers: Work for an award-winning charity tackling blindness worldwide
- Website
- http://jobs.sightsavers.org/
- Telephone
- 01444 446600
- Location
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35 Perrymount Road,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex
RH16 3BW
GB
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