Individual Giving Executive

Are you looking to develop your career in fundraising or direct marketing? This could be an excellent opportunity to join a fantastic charity. Harris Hill are delighted to be recruiting for an Individual Giving Executive in order to join a collaborative Individual Giving team and support the delivery of engaging, insight led fundraising campaigns that recruit, retain and develop supporters.

The role offers a varied opportunity to gain experience across multiple Individual Giving programmes, including cause led fundraising, gaming, in memory giving and legacy. You will work across a range of online and offline channels, including direct mail, paid and organic social media, email, SMS, private sites and telemarketing.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Creating, planning, delivering and evaluating multi-channel fundraising campaigns designed to achieve income and supporter engagement targets.
• Supporting acquisition activity through digital marketing, paid social advertising and private sites.
• Delivering supporter development and retention activity through direct mail, email, SMS and telemarketing.
• Reviewing and improving supporter journeys and stewardship activity to increase supporter engagement and lifetime value.
• Managing campaigns effectively, ensuring activity is delivered to agreed timelines, budgets, audience requirements and brand guidelines.
• Working collaboratively with internal teams including Marketing and Communications, Supporter Care, Data, Research and Finance.
• Managing relationships with external agencies and suppliers to ensure successful campaign delivery.
• Monitoring campaign performance and KPIs, providing clear updates, analysis and recommendations to improve future activity.
• Accurately recording, processing and reconciling expenditure to ensure effective budget management and value for money.
• Ensuring campaigns comply with relevant fundraising, marketing and data protection requirements, including the Code of Fundraising Practice, GDPR, ASA guidance and relevant Gambling Commission requirements.
• Supporting colleagues across the Individual Giving team with campaign delivery, proofreading, ideation and other project work.

You will ideally have:

• Experience of planning, project managing or supporting the delivery of marketing or fundraising activity and evaluating results.
• An understanding of direct marketing approaches used to recruit, retain and develop supporters.
• Excellent copywriting skills, with the ability to create engaging and emotive content for different audiences and channels.
• Experience managing relationships with suppliers or external agencies.
• An understanding of supporter databases and audience segmentation.
• Knowledge of data protection and marketing compliance requirements.
• An understanding of testing, validation and using campaign results to inform future activity.
• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, particularly when reporting on campaign results.
• Good IT skills, including Excel, Word and Outlook.
• The ability to work independently, use initiative and identify opportunities to improve ways of working.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary: £30,000 - £34,000 per annum
• Contract type: Permanent, full time
• Location: London, hybrid working, 3 days a week in the office.
• Deadline: 9th September at 8am

Recruitment process: Cv and Supporting Statement to

If this sounds like you, then please do get in touch ASAP!

As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp , Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.