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Senior Legacy and In Memory Manager

Employer
WWF
Location
Woking, Surrey
Salary
£37,679 - £43,000pa
Closing date
23 Aug 2021

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Senior Legacy and In Memory Manager

£37,679 - £43,000pa

Part time, 21hrs per week

Woking, Surrey

This is an incredible opportunity to produce work that will make a difference. Work that will save our planet. At the WWF we are stepping up to the fight for our world. Recognised as innovators in fundraising, continuous innovation and improvement is integral to our approach and we now are looking for you with your expertise in legacy marketing and stewardship to join us an ensure legacy giving continues to be a vital and growing income stream.

The public are our lifeblood and as Senior Legacy and In Memory Manager you will be, alongside your job share, responsible for the ongoing development and delivery of our Legacy Engagement strategy. In particular, you will focus on Stewarding pledgers and enquirers to grow the pledge to gift ratio. Leading a small team, we will look to you to build long lasting relationships that  retain legacy pledgers by developing and implementing legacy stewardship activities. You will also collaborate with colleagues to identify opportunities to grow our offering and develop new legacy fundraising initiatives. You will contribute to the development of our supporter experience to grow engagement and lifetime value. Important, will be the ability to ensure all activities and campaigns comply with Codes and legislation as well as brand strategy and guidelines.

For this exciting role, you must have significant experience in legacy marketing or stewardship within a fundraising department. This will have given you a good understanding of wills and the will writing process as well as the ability to deal with sensitive subject matter.

Comfortable monitoring budgets, targets and KPI’s, you will have strong project management skills and the ability to oversee and allocate resources effectively. You will also be experienced in digital media and the use of digital channels for marketing communications. An excellent communicator, you will be good at building relationships and passionate about the fight to save our natural world too. Important will be the ability to support, coach and develop team members.

Knowledge of print and print production would be a help.

If you have the skills to attract, engage and inspire members of the public to join us and financially support our work, we would love to hear from you. Please click on the link and apply via our website by submitting a copy of your up-to-date CV and the Supporting Statement to highlight what makes you a good fit for us.

Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you.  Here at WWF, we are committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose.  We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.

Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We are looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.

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Best known as the world’s leading conservation body, we’ve seen first-hand how wildlife, the environment and human activity are all interlinked.

That’s why our passion for safeguarding the natural world has to be backed up by other environmental action – tackling the global threat of climate change (through our big global campaigns like Earth Hour) and helping people to change the way they live to ease pressure on natural resources.

WWF is at the heart of global activities in all these areas. We have teams of highly skilled professionals working with governments, businesses and communities here in the UK and around the world.

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Panda House
Weyside Park, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1XR
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