Job Description
Fundraiser
Expiry date: 23:59, Wed, 3rd Sep 2025
Location: Home-based
Salary: £32,000.00 - £37,000.00 Per Annum
The role
Our client is looking for a Fundraiser to manage a six figure plus portfolio of funders, delivering outstanding stewardship to maintain and grow relationships. You'll collaborate across the organisation to understand business objectives and priorities and, combining that with your knowledge of the sector, you will identify key opportunities for funding.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to understand priority projects, business aims, and key objectives.
- Implement their fundraising campaign's action plan.
- Use your research skills to perform due diligence ensuring projects are an ideal match for funders, and that potential partners are compatible with the aims and values of the organisation.
- Prepare complex & multi-year funding bids, write engaging applications or prepare impact reports for funders, utilising your outstanding storytelling skills to secure new or repeat funding for their cause.
- Use your keen interpersonal skills to develop mutually beneficial relationships, yielding five and six figure donations, with new and existing partners to enable the organisation to deliver against strategic plans.
What you'll need
- Demonstrable experience in developing funder relationships from prospecting to partnership.
- Strong research skills & demonstrable ability to perform due diligence to ensure projects meet funding criteria and that partners are aligned with the organisation's values.
- A commitment to excellent funder stewardship and impeccable interpersonal relationship building skills to develop warm and cold relationships.
- Excellent writing skills with a creative storytelling ability, clearly demonstrating the case for support and bringing funders on a journey, resulting in successful funding bids that deliver five and six figure and multi-year donations, to meet agreed targets.
- Strong experience in managing a six figure plus portfolio of funders.
- Strong digital skills and a sound understanding of agile values & principles.
- A criminal record check / DBS disclosure (if offered the position).
What you'll get
- Home-based working with flexible hours.
- 25 days' holiday - plus an additional 3 days at Christmas (and bank holidays).
- Pension (5.5% employer contribution).
- Healthcare Cashplan.
- Annual performance-based salary increase.
- Employee Assistance & Wellbeing Programmes.
The Organisation
Our client gives expert support on hearing impairments in young people, raises awareness and campaigns for their rights, so they have the same opportunities as everyone else.
Disability Confidence
Our client is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to offering interviews to candidates who request to be considered under the disability confident scheme and meet the minimum requirements of the person specification.
Other organisations may call this role Fundraising Officer, Trusts and Foundations Fundraising Officer, Grants and Trusts Officer, Trusts and Grants Fundraiser, Fundraising Executive, Grants Fundraising Officer, or Philanthropy Officer.
This job is being posted by Webrecruit on behalf of National Deaf Children's Society. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
