Community Fundraising Officer – Hybrid, 14h/wk, 1-Year in Saffron Walden

Where: Uttlesford Foodbank - Saffron Walden Warehouse (hybrid working available)

When: 14 hours per week. Fixed term contract for 1 year.

Salary: £28,000 per annum pro rata (plus health cash plan and wellbeing services)

Uttlesford Foodbank is committed to ensuring no one in our community faces hunger. We provide between five and seven days of nutritionally balanced emergency food to local individuals and families in crisis, with referrals from trusted community organisations. As part of the Trussell network of food banks we work to address poverty and hunger across the UK. Our mission is grounded in compassion, support, and collaboration to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

This is an exciting opportunity to help Uttlesford Foodbank realise its vision of providing all households in Uttlesford facing financial crisis with a food parcel to support them for seven days, and ensure they are connected with other organisations to facilitate a return to self-sustainability.

In order to realise this ambition, we need to increase our annual fundraised income. Through this new organisational role, you’ll proactively create and grow fundraising income opportunities with individuals, community groups and grant giving trusts and foundations. You’ll be at the heart of our local community, bringing our cause to life and building lasting donor relationships.

Through your fundraising expertise, you will have a proven track record of building relationships with individuals, community groups, trusts and foundations and other donors to achieve and exceed annual income targets and KPI’s. You’ll have the capacity to create and craft compelling proposals and appeals that successfully engage and attract donations from new and existing supporters.

• Through the design and delivery of excellent, engaging and regular stewardship communications and powerful fundraising appeals, you will grow our income and pool of individual supporters making one off or monthly donations.
• You’ll also explore and implement ways of promoting Uttlesford Foodbank across the community to successfully attract an ever-greater number of individual donors.
• You’ll engage with local community groups, associations, events, schools and businesses in order to grow Uttlesford Foodbank’s community fundraising reach and income.
• Through excellent, comprehensive and considered research, you’ll identify and prioritise a pool of potential Trusts and Foundations funders for Uttlesford Foodbank and, working with colleagues, you’ll develop authentic, compelling, creative and winning funding bids that can successfully engage new and existing Trusts and Foundations funders.
• You’ll work closely with and support the Director of Uttlesford Foodbank in maintaining and evolving the existing relationship with neighbouring Trussell food banks across Essex and Cambridgeshire seeking and pursuing joint trusts funding opportunities.
• You’ll develop, monitor, and manage a fundraising portfolio with the goal of increasing annual income to strengthen our core services and enable future projects.
• You’ll establish a fundraising pipeline, including a range of KPI’s that can be tracked and that will enable you to make informed projections regarding future income.
• You’ll forge strong relationships with colleagues across the wider Trussell network, sharing best practice and learning from other charities across the network.
• You’ll proactively take advantage of any fundraising training and skills development opportunities and engage with any joint fundraising opportunities.

• You’ll ideally have experience of individual giving, community fundraising and Trusts and Foundations fundraising.
• With excellent written and verbal communication and relationship management skills, you will inspire and motivate existing and prospective supporters, providing excellent stewardship and crafting compelling and winning funding proposals and appeals.
• You’ll have experience of setting, managing and reporting against fundraising KPI’s.
• You’ll be tenacious and able to embrace, develop and shape a new role.
• You’ll be well organised, proactive, and a self-starter who is able to self-motivate.
• You’ll be able to demonstrate empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially-excluded backgrounds.