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About the role
As the Fundraising Officer you’ll be essential to our fundraising efforts, which directly fund the vital services we provide. With the support of our Fundraising Manager you will be leading on our Community Fundraising and event activity across the county as we grow our supporter-led work. You will be at the heart of building relationships with our wonderful fundraising supporters and ensuring that they are engaged and equipped to make a real impact. You will work regularly with our volunteers to ensure that we can offer them a first-class experience at Linc. You will feel fully supported by the Fundraising Manager and wider team, but the role can be yours to shape, we welcome your skills, experience and ideas. You’ll play a vital role in every aspect of the charity.
Role Responsibilities
- Organise and manage Community Fundraising activities and events.
- Provide excellent supporter care by offering resources, ideas and recognition to help maximise income.
- Build strong relationships within the local community so supporters feel confident to lead their own fundraising initiatives, whilst creating a sustainable and long lasting with the charity.
- Liaise with and update the Fundraising Manager regularly to review targets, support needed and new fundraising initiatives.
- Host and deliver Linc talks for local groups and organisations to help increase presence for the charity.
- Manage and update databases and CRM to ensure donor details and income are in line with Data Protection.
- Responsible for gathering content for their area of fundraising for social media and our website.
- Develop our Community Fundraising programme alongside the team and effectively communicate this to our supporter database and potential stakeholders.
- Engage with our two Linc Charity Shops to ensure fundraising initiatives are shared within the community.
- Support the Fundraising Team with general administration tasks such as responding to fundraising queries in the charity inbox and feeding into digital marketing campaigns.
- Support our volunteers to deliver on community events and to ensure that they feel appreciated and valued.
- Working closely with the Volunteering Officer to maximise opportunities for volunteer engagement in fundraising.
- Ensure that all community fundraising income is correctly identified and accurately allocated through our pipeline and CRM.
Person Specification
- Enthusiastic and authentic personality with the desire to learn
- Great at building relationships and communicating with people at all levels. Able to bring new and exciting ideas to the table to help increase fundraising income
- Confident with working within a team but also independently within the community and hosting events
- Confident public speaker to deliver talks to groups, organisations and businesses of various audience sizes
- Experience of managing relationships with individuals such as supporters, donors, volunteers and patients
- Experience of providing excellent customer care
- A passion for social media and promoting the work of the charity through various platforms
- Ability to make decisions and use own initiative to lead on areas of their work
- The capability to work under pressure, balance a varied workload and meet deadlines
- Ability to motivate others and work as part of a team
- Sensitivity to the needs of blood cancer patients and their families, volunteers and donors
- Proficient in the use of Excel, Outlook and Word with associated IT Skills including the use of spreadsheets and databases
- Full driving licence and access to car during working hours
- Committed to equality of opportunity
- Experience of working within the charity sector although this is not essential if you are the right candidate!
- Experience of working with volunteers
Terms of Employment
Reporting to: Fundraising Manager
Location: Primarily based at our HQ in Patch, The Forum, Gloucester. This role will require you to occasionally travel to our Linc offices at both Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucester Royal Hospital. As the role is county wide there will be travel included regularly. Travel expenses will be covered.
Hours: 30 hours per week. Hours and days can be flexible to suit you but must include Fridays
Annual leave: 35 days annual leave pro rata (including bank/public holidays)
Any other benefits:
- Bright Exchange – staff discount across thousands of products and services
- An employee assistance programme
- Brand new offices to work from which focus on community and innovation
Head Office
The Patch Head Office
Patch
5-7 Cathedral Walk
The Forum
Gloucester GL1 1DG
Linc Charity Office
Edward Jenner Unit
Gloucester Royal Hospital
Great Western Road
Gloucester GL1 3NN
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