Fundraising Officer (Business Development)
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Fundraising Officer (Business Development)
Oxfordshire (with hybrid working)
About the Organisation
Our client is an environmental learning charity. They believe that connection to nature can catalyse action to protect the environment, as well as provide vital mental and physical wellbeing benefits for people.
Together with their supporters, they are the guardians of some extremely special and inspiring places full of nature and heritage.
They use these amazing places to engage and inspire people and to demonstrate nature-based solutions to climate, biodiversity and public health crises, that they hope others will take and use elsewhere. They work to champion access to green space for everyone, deepen engagement with nature, and share their learnings about managing land in a way that is gentle on the planet.
They are now looking for a Fundraising Officer to join them on a full-time, permanent basis, working 35 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £25,000 per annum
- 26 days’ holiday per year (increasing with length of service), plus an additional three days of leave over Christmas, and bank holidays
- Pension with 7.72% employer contribution
- Enhanced maternity and paternity / adoption pay paternity
- Flexible working arrangements
This is a brilliant opportunity for an individual giving professional from a fundraising or marketing background with supporter care experience to join our client’s vital organisation.
You’ll become part of their growing community of changemakers, helping them to inspire and inform current and future generations about the importance of green spaces and raise funds to ensure they can continue this work for years to come.
So, if you want to play an integral role in helping them champion the natural world, so they can take action for people and the planet, then apply today!
The Role
As a Fundraising Officer, you will help to deliver and grow our client’s Individual Giving programme.
Supporting the delivery of their varied Individual Giving fundraising activity, you will assist with multi-channel marketing, appeals, in memory bench and tree planting schemes and legacy marketing.
You will also deliver excellent supporter care for individual supporters, acting as their first point of contact, delivering thank you notes to donors and managing individual giving products.
Additionally, you will:
- Facilitate the growth of our client’s new membership scheme
- Build important relationships with members
- Manage their team of volunteer ambassadors
- Lead the management of the CRM and fundraising data processes
About You
To be considered as a Fundraising Officer, you will need:
- Experience of Individual Giving fundraising or marketing
- Experience of supporter care in a similar situation e.g. charity, membership organisation, etc.
- Good project management, multitasking and decision-making skills
- Strong interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in IT
If you have the skills and experience our client is looking for, please don’t hesitate to apply. They may close the advert sooner than the closing date, subject to volume and quality of applications.
Other organisations may call this role Individual Giving Officer, Individual Giving Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Operations Officer, Community Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, or Development Officer.
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