Charity Fundraiser in Oldham

A worthwhile job that gives work-life balance. Imagine a job where people from all kinds of backgrounds and ages, including those shifting careers aged 40-65, are successful. 80% of the staff work 3 or 4 days per week. You can potentially work your hours between 9am to 7pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 3pm on Saturdays. Most staff vary their working hours week to week to fit in around time with family, friends, pets, and medical appointments. You can even compress your hours over 2 weeks to get blocks of days off. You generally work within half an hour of your home, avoiding rush hour travel, and travel time is built into your contract with a travel allowance payment. The company shuts down over Christmas and New Year for at least a full week, allowing for a proper break. Training is comprehensive but done remotely by home study, followed up with excellent ongoing support and encouragement.

The role is working as a face-to-face charity fundraiser on behalf of Derian House Children's Hospice. Derian House helps seriously and terminally ill children live life to the fullest by creating wonderful experiences and bringing back a sense of normality to family life. By providing specialist nursing care and emotional support, we help families smile again when life couldn't get any tougher.

Your job will be to find more people to support us with a small regular donation so that we can make a big difference to local families. You do this by talking to local people at their homes, being friendly, explaining what Derian House does, and asking them to become a regular supporter via the Derian House Lottery programme. Derian House relies on donations for nearly 90% of its income. These services are only free to families because of fundraising. You can be a vital part of helping Derian House raise the money it needs to support local families.

A typical fundraiser will raise more than £400,000 for the charity every year that they work for. After 5 years of work, through professionalism, integrity, and hard work, you could raise more than £2 million for charities that deal with matters of life and death. Charity lotteries are vital to keeping these charities going.

People of all backgrounds and ages can be successful at this job. You may have worked in sales previously, whether in utilities, catalogues, credit cards, or for charities. Previous charitable fundraising experience isn't essential, as our approach is to find people inclined to support the charity and have a nice conversation to determine if this form of support is right for them. Our fundraisers come from various backgrounds, including financial services, teaching, management, retail, and many more. Most of our best people are great conversationalists who engage with others in day-to-day life.

We invite all applicants to come and watch one of our team doing the job in practice before making a decision to apply. It could be just the role you have been looking for, even if it hadn't been on your radar previously.

You need to be reasonably mobile, physically fit, and active. We can train you in all other parts of the job easily. You should be ethical and take pride in doing a job the right way. Interpersonal skills, good listening, and effective communication are important, but you don't need to be persuasive or great at making speeches, as this isn't a typical sales job. Most importantly, you need real integrity and self-motivation. We employ good people, treat them well, and trust them to work to high standards. We have an outstanding team of fundraisers who deliver the best quality results in our industry.

This is a salaried role enhanced by commission, with full-time and part-time options available. Travel costs are included, and you will need to have a car, typically working within 30 minutes of your home. Full-time OTE is between £30-40k pa. We provide full training via a home study course and ongoing support and coaching in the field. We are an ethical employer committed to setting new standards and changing the face of face-to-face fundraising, proud to be an ISO 9001-accredited company.

Click here to find out more about what the job is like and arrange to talk with our Recruitment Specialist. You will then have the opportunity to meet one of our team members at work and see what the job is really like.