Charity Fundraiser

Children's Hospice South West; Newcastle-under-Lyme; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage paid

Pension scheme

20 days holiday pro rata + birthday

Job summary

The Fundraising Partnership is seeking fundraisers to represent Macmillan Cancer Support across the UK. You will have genuine conversations with the public to encourage donations, either via lotteries or regular monthly giving, in stores or door-to-door.

The role offers full or part-time options (18–30 hours per week), with a guaranteed hourly rate and a potential £60,000 OTE. Comprehensive training, mileage paid, flexible hours and ongoing support are provided.

Qualifications

• Interpersonal and communication skills are essential.
• Ability to listen and engage with the public effectively.
• Self-motivation and reliability are important for fundraising.

Responsibilities

• Engage with the general public to seek donations for Macmillan Cancer Support.
• Represent Macmillan in stores and/or door-to-door settings with a professional approach.
• Explain donation options and encourage regular giving.
• Maintain ethical fundraising standards and provide a positive donor experience.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Listening

Communication

Motivated

Reliability

Job description

What is the job?

• Full or part-time roles available, 18 to 30 hours per week
• £30,000 to £60,000 OTE, with a guaranteed hourly rate of £12.71
• Mileage paid
• Flexible working hours
• Private site and door-to-door roles available
• Full training and ongoing support provided
• 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 Macmillan Cancer Support. Your job will be to have wonderful, genuine and passionate conversations with the general public to support Macmillan, either by playing their lottery or setting up a regular monthly donation.

Depending on your experience and where you live in the UK, this can be within major retail stores or by talking to local people at their homes, knocking door-to-door and asking them to become a regular supporter. If you decide you like the sound of this role, we'll discuss the options available to you in your area when you contact us.

If we have private site availability, you will be pleased to know that, due to our partnerships with outstanding companies that source bookings, you can expect to work in major supermarkets and other premium venues, including shows and events.

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 simply great conversationalists who, in day-to-day life, end up talking with people when walking the dog or standing in a queue.

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

Who are The Fundraising Partnership?

We are an ethical employer, 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 quality, long-term donors. When the charity benefits, 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 to 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 trust them to work to high standards. All types of people from all sorts of backgrounds can be successful at this job.

It is a salaried role, enhanced by 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.

We work on behalf of a great cause

Macmillan Cancer Support is the leading charity dedicated to supporting people affected by cancer. They do whatever it takes to help more people with cancer get the best care, whoever and wherever they are.

Macmillan Cancer Support provides practical, emotional and financial help, from expert nurses on their Support Line to guidance on treatment, work and money worries. Macmillan also works to improve cancer care by providing support nationally, partnering with the NHS and campaigning for better services.

Funds raised provide a range of support services and trusted information to improve the lives of people living with cancer.

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 five 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 who 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 Derian House Children's Hospice.

There are many other benefits to this role

This role can offer you genuine work-life balance.

• Three, four and five-day roles available, 18 to 30 hours per week
• When successful in the role, you can be flexible with the hours you work
• Compress your hours over two 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, with support when you need it

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.