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Fundraiser

Employer
NFP People
Location
Burpham, Surrey
Salary
£25,875 for 30 hours per week, full-time equivalent salary is £31,051
Closing date
11 Nov 2024

Job Details

Fundraiser

We’re looking for an experienced Fundraising Lead to join an important charity that exists to help Surrey’s unpaid carers, aged 5-95 to help people feel more in control of their lives and less alone.

Position: Fundraising Lead

Location: Burpham, Surrey

Hours: Part-time, 30 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £25,875 for 30 hours per week, full-time equivalent salary is £31,051

Closing date: 11th November 2024

About the role:

The Fundraising Lead will be responsible for building and maintaining corporate partnerships that increase income and diversify funding. The post holder’s primary focus will be community organisations, businesses and other bodies.

You will support the organisation to deliver services and support for unpaid carers. You will be engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, and drive fundraising efforts, community engagement, gifts-in-kind, volunteer engagement and awareness raising.

Key areas of responsibility include:

 

  • Develop a partnership engagement strategy that raises the profile of the organisation.
  • Identify, cultivate, and maintain relationships with community and corporate partners that support fundraising, gifts-in-kind and volunteer engagement.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for community and corporate partners.
  • Explore and promote opportunities for sponsorship, donations and corporate giving.
  • Support fundraising events and activities undertaken by community and corporate partners, groups and individuals.
  • Support the finance manager in developing and writing bids and grant applications for projects.
  • Organise community outreach events, workshops, and information sessions to build relationships and encourage support.
  • Represent the charity at networking events, conferences, and community forums to develop partnerships and promote the organisation.

 

About you:

This new position, reporting to the Marketing Manager, requires a dynamic self-starter with excellent communication and networking skills, capable of developing relationships.

Key skills required for this role:

 

  • Experience working in community engagement, business development, or similar roles.
  • Experience in identifying, supporting and growing relationships with corporate partners and/or community groups
  • Experience organising events and engagement activities.
  • Knowledge of developing stakeholder engagement plans/strategies (preferably in the not-for-profit or charitable sectors).
  • Confident in delivering engaging presentations and activities to diverse groups of stakeholders.
  • An innovative approach to engaging partners and stakeholders with a willingness to try new initiatives.
  • An ability to work independently and manage own time, priorities and workload.

 

About the organisation:

The employer has a vision ‘that every unpaid carer in Surrey is heard, valued and supported.’ We are a committed, local charity determined to make a difference to young and adult carers across Surrey.

Our values are Focus, Inclusion, Respect and Excellence. By keeping to our values, we can provide an innovative, high quality and compassionate service to carers in every community in Surrey, making a real difference to their wellbeing.

We offer our staff a friendly, supportive, flexible workplace and are committed to welcoming applicants from a wide range of backgrounds as well as supporting staff who have their own caring responsibilities. To this end, we offer staff a week's paid carers leave. We also provide a generous holiday entitlement, starting at 28 days plus bank holidays, an employee assistance programme, a pension and opportunities for development and training.

You may also have experience in areas such as: Head of Corporate Fundraising, Corporate Partnerships, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Corporate Partnerships Officer, Corporate Partnerships Fundraising, Fundraising, Fundraising Manager, Fundraisers, Major Donor, Philanthropy, Income Generation Manager, Income Generation, Sales Executive, Sales

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

Company

We are Not-For-Profit People.

We recruit exclusively for organisations in the challenging Not-For-Profit sector. We’re fully behind the charities and bodies that aim to change the world – one project at a time. Whether you’re seeking exceptional leaders, committed staff or a combination of the two, you probably want to know exactly how we’re different and why it matters to you. We don’t do business as usual. We deliver a recruitment solution that replaces clunky, costly, contracted processes with a single, seamless solution.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01234 815658
Location
6 West Street
Olney
Buckinghamshire
MK46 5HR
GB

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