Charity Fundraiser

Children's Hospice South West; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage paid

Pension scheme

20 days holiday (pro-rata) + birthday

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Demelza Children's Hospice is seeking fundraisers employed through The Fundraising Partnership to generate regular donations from the public by describing the charity's needs door-to-door. You will be based in local communities and talk to residents about giving monthly support.

You may work full-time or part-time (18–30hrs), enjoy flexible hours, and receive a guaranteed hourly rate with potential commission. Mileage is paid and training is provided.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have permanent access to a vehicle, drivers licence, appropriate insurance and MOT.
• You will be ethical and take pride in doing a job the right way.
• All types of people from all sorts of backgrounds can be successful at this job.

Responsibilities

• Talk to local people at their homes, knocking door-to-door to explain the charity's cause.
• Encourage supporters to become regular donors by signing up to a monthly Direct Debit.
• Represent Demelza Children's Hospice on behalf of The Fundraising Partnership in the community.

Job description

What is the job?

• Full or Part time roles available (18 - 30hrs)


• £30,000 - £60,000 OTE (guaranteed hourly rate of £12.71)


• Mileage paid


• Flexible working hours


• Private Sites and door-to-door roles available


• Full training and ongoing support given


• 20 days holiday (pro-rata) plus an extra day off on your birthday


• Pension scheme

Employed by The Fundraising Partnership, you would be a Fundraiser representing and generating donations on behalf of Demelza Children's Hospice. Your job will be to have wonderful, genuine passionate conversations with the general public to support the charity with a small regular donation.

By talking to local people at their homes knocking door-to-door, you'll express the needs of the charity and ask supporters to become a regular donor by signing up to a monthly Direct Debit donation.

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Who are we looking for?

You may have worked in sales previously, whether that is Avon, Energy Sales, Catalogue Sales, Direct Sales, Door-to-Door Sales, Field Sales, Broadband Sales or as a Brand Ambassador if this is the case, we would love to hear from you.

Or you might be brand new to this and simply looking for a job that gives back to your local community. Either way, our fundraisers come from all kinds of backgrounds including financial services, teaching, management, retail and many more. Most of our best people are just great conversationalists who in day-to-day life end up talking with people when walking the dog or in a queue.

Applicants must have permanent access to a vehicle, drivers licence, appropriate insurance and MOT.

Who are The Fundraising Partnership?

We are an ethical employer, who are committed to setting new standards and changing the face of face-to-face fundraising. We pride ourselves on putting the charity and their donors first and we realise that our company only succeeds when our fundraisers succeed. As such we respect, value and care for our employees. We only look to recruit recruiting quality, long term donors when the charity benefits and as a by-product, we benefit.

We are proud of the work we do.

We are proud of the values we have.

We are proud of our fundraisers.

Job requirements and details

You will be ethical and take pride in doing a job the right way. You need interpersonal skills, to be a good listener and be able to communicate effectively, however you don't need to be really persuasive or great at making speeches as this isn't a typical sales job.

Most of all you need to have real integrity and self-motivation. We employ good people, treat them well and we trust our people to work to high standards. All types of people from all sorts of backgrounds can be successful at this job.

It is an hourly paid role, enhanced by a commission with full-time and part-time options. You will need to have a car but will typically be working within 30 minutes of your home, and we'll pay you for your travel.

You need to be reasonably mobile and physically fit and active, but we can train you in all other parts of the job.

There are many other benefits to this role.

• This role can offer you genuine work life balance.


• 3 / 4 / 5 day roles available (18 - 30hrs)


• When established in the role you can be flexible with the hours you work


• Compress your hours over 2 weeks to get blocks of days off.


• Work close to home


• Comprehensive remote home study training, followed by ongoing support when in the role.


• Guaranteed hourly rate with bonus for exceeding targets


• 20 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday


• Time off over Christmas


• Mileage paid


• Autonomy to manage your own working day, yet support when you need it.

We think supporting a good work-life balance for our staff is business-critical. That is why we start our recruitment adverts talking about how our jobs can deliver that for you rather than boasting about how great we think we are as a company. Instead, we offer flexible local working and a culture that supports you maximising your life outside of work.

Demelza is an extraordinary charity

Demelza provides extraordinary care to children and young people with serious or life-limiting conditions, providing expert clinical care and helping to create extraordinary moments along the way.

They are there when and where they are needed most, offering support and services as unique as every family, across Kent, South East London and East Sussex.

How you can make a difference

A typical fundraiser will raise more than £400,000 for the charity every year that they work for. So you would be doing a job where after 5 years of work, through your professionalism, integrity, and hard work you could raise more than £2 million for charities that deal, quite literally, in matters of life and death.

If you would like to know what it is like working as a charity fundraiser that visits local people at their homes, here is a short snapshot of a day in the life of a face-to-face fundraiser, who in this example is working on behalf of another children's hospice.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=P19x_dBjUgU&t=0s

People of all backgrounds and ages can be successful at this

You may have worked in sales previously, whether that is Avon, utilities, catalogues, credit cards or for charities. Or you might have brand new to this and simply looking for a job that gives back to your local community. Either way, our fundraisers come from all kinds of backgrounds including financial services, teaching, management, retail and many more. Most of our best people are just great conversationalists who in day-to-day life end up talking with people when walking the dog or in a queue.

Why not come and see someone doing the job first?

We invite all applicants to come and watch one of our team doing the job in practice before having to make a decision to apply. Why not come and meet us and see what the job is really like? It could be just the role that you have been looking for, even if this had not been on your radar previously.