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Community Fundraising Associate

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
£26,000 - 33,000 per annum
Closing date
6 Nov 2019

Job Details

Community Fundraising Associate

6 Months Fixed Term Contract

£26,000 - 33,000pa

London

The Community Fundraising Associate will work closely with the Community Fundraising Manager, and manage the Fundraising Assistant, to help maximise fundraising for the Red Nose Day 2019 campaign.

Key Accountabilities / Objectives

  • Deliver stewardship programme for high value fundraisers to ensure they have the best possible experience in order to maximise fundraising potential.
  • Create and deliver thanking strategy for community fundraising audience.
  • Work with the Community Fundraising Manager on key additional community fundraising projects and initiatives where needed, including project management and delivering aspects of wider projects.
  • Lead on the sourcing, managing and sharing of stand out fundraising case studies for use across the campaign.
  • Be an expert in competitor analysis, fundraising regulation and best practice for the wider team and organisation.
  • Attend events and visit fundraising events on behalf of Comic Relief and act as representative of charity.
  • Analyse data to help identify top fundraisers, high potential fundraisers and fundraising case studies for additional stewardship, support and recognition across community and workplace audiences.
  • Line manage the Fundraising Assistant in the Schools and Community Fundraising Team.

Essential Education and Skills

  • Experience of working in a fundraising department within a charity setting
  • Experience with high value fundraising stewardship with proven results
  • Experience of cross-team working and senior stakeholder engagement
  • Experience of working with data and data compliance to drive insight and results
  • Project management skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills and effective communications, written and oral
  • Analytical and inquisitive orientation

To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 6th Nov 2019 GMT (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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