Fundraising Executive

Job Title: Fundraising Executive

Location: Bristol or Home-based

Salary: £28,000 per annum

Job type: Fixed Term Contract, 12 Months (Maternity Cover)

About us:

Together for Short Lives is the UK charity to make sure the 99,000 seriously ill children and their families can make the most of every moment they have together – whether that’s for years, months or only hours.

About the role:

The Fundraising Executive will join an experienced Corporate Partnerships team with an ambitious growth strategy. They will be responsible for maintaining relationships with our mid-level supporters including small to medium-sized companies and community groups. They will have the ability to identify and seize opportunities to bring in new supporters to Together for Short Lives and provide impeccable stewardship to increase supporters’ lifetime value.

• Provide exceptional relationship management to a diverse mix of corporate supporters and community groups
• Develop and deliver a calendar of engaging fundraising and challenge events for corporate partners

Key duties and responsibilities:

To achieve these objectives the post holder will be expected to:

• To work with companies, community groups and other supporters, adopting a proactive and forward-thinking approach to identify new opportunities to grow their support through a diverse fundraising mix – including employee fundraising, events, cause related marketing and payroll giving.
• To ensure a strong pipeline of activity, events, and partnerships for future growth, with the support of the Corporate Partnerships Manager, which meets agreed on KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).
• To support ongoing fundraising, managing donor communication, ensuring donors are stewarded and thanked within service level agreements, and fundraisers fully supported throughout their event participation.
• Provide monthly commentary on income and expenditure for accounts and other areas as required.
• Support the Corporate Partnerships Manager to create and deliver a calendar of corporate-partner focused challenge events each year, promoting campaigns to corporate partners and building broad engagement with them.
• Manage purchased places in challenge events such as London Marathon
• Support the Corporate Partnerships Manager to design, and organise the delivery of, materials for bespoke corporate and challenge fundraising events and campaigns.
• Attend meetings with corporate partners and make presentations to staff at all levels.
• Work collaboratively with children’s hospices across the UK (United Kingdom) to deliver the full potential of national corporate partnerships

About you:

Qualifications:

• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office

Experience:

• Experience in a supporter facing fundraising role
• A proven track record of or ability to secure new business from existing corporate or community audiences
• Experience of providing excellent account management to clients or customers
• Experience of developing and delivering creative fundraising ideas and events for a range of different audiences
• Project Management experience (Desirable)

Abilities:

• The ability to communicate and motivate supporters and key audiences face-to-face as well as by post, telephone and by any other appropriate methods
• Confident in liaising with all stakeholders
• A passion for working towards ambitious fundraising targets, and for the difference that corporate partnerships can make to our work
• The ability to work collaboratively with other teams across the organisation
• The ability to take control of workload and be a self-starter, and to work as a member of a team
• The ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines

Skills:

• Excellent IT skills and ability to use Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
• To be familiar with ThankQ or other fundraising databases (Desirable)

Knowledge & Understanding:

• To possess, or to have the motivation to develop, a thorough knowledge of the work of Together for Short Lives and the children’s palliative care sector
• Knowledge of the Charities Act and Institute of Fundraising guidelines, ensuring all fundraising activities are fully compliant

Other:

• Willingness to travel, including overnight stays
• Driving licence (Desirable)

Benefits:

• 5 weeks holiday – plus bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension Contribution Scheme
• Group life Assurance
• Option to buy additional leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Lifestyle Benefits – Cinema, Dining, Online shopping, Discounts etc.
• Flexible working
• Volunteering days

Please click on the APPLY button to submit your CV. If shortlisted, you will receive an application form to complete.

We are always looking for talented people and welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief and sexual orientation.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Fundraiser, Fundraising Officer, Charity Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Executive, Charitable Officer, Corporate Sales Manager, Corporate Business Development Manager, Fundraising Team Leader, Fundraising Agent, Face to face Sales, Door to Door, Sales Assistant may also be considered for this role.