Community Fundraiser

Polly Symondson Recruitment Ltd; Stonehouse; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days' leave plus bank holidays

Hybrid working

Job summary

Hope for Tomorrow invites applications for a Community Fundraiser to lead a varied portfolio of events and campaigns, engage with individual supporters and community groups, and recruit volunteers. The role is hybrid, requiring at least 2 days per week at head office in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.

You will manage campaigns like Cuppa for Cancer Care and Big Give, deliver talks to inspire involvement, and build lasting relationships with partners and supporters to maximise income.

Qualifications

• Experience in fundraising or a similar relationship-based role.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to build rapport and steward relationships.
• Creative and able to bring new ideas to increase fundraising income.
• Experience organising events or campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Organise and manage Community Fundraising activities and events, supporting third party events and organising a portfolio of Hope For Tomorrow events.
• Manage and develop our annual fundraising campaigns, Cuppa for Cancer Care and Big Give.
• Provide excellent supporter stewardship for individual supporters, community groups, fundraisers and partnerships, offering resources and recognition to maximise income.
• Build strong relationships with the Hope for Tomorrow community, empowering supporters to lead their own fundraising initiatives.

Skills

Fundraising experience

Relationship management

Event planning

Communication

Job description

We're recruiting a Community Fundraiser for Hope for Tomorrow, the UK's mobile cancer care charity.

Hybrid, with at least 2 days a week at head office in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire (GL10)

25 days' leave plus bank holidays

Every 75 seconds, someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer. Since launching the world's first mobile cancer care unit in 2007, Hope for Tomorrow has been bringing treatment closer to where patients live and work. Today it runs 14 units with nine NHS trusts, delivering more than 26,000 patient visits a year.

Community fundraising will be at the heart of the charity's next chapter, and this is a chance to shape it. You'll lead a varied portfolio of events and campaigns (including Cuppa for Cancer Care and Big Give), look after individual fundraisers, community groups and charity of the year partners, recruit and support volunteers, and give talks that inspire people to get involved.

Role responsibilities to include:

• Organise and manage Community Fundraising activities and events, supporting third party events and organising a portfolio of Hope For Tomorrow events.
• Manage and develop our annual fundraising campaigns, Cuppa for Cancer Care and Big Give.
• Provide excellent supporter stewardship, for individual supporters, community groups, fundraisers and community charity of the year partnerships, offering resources, ideas and recognition to help maximise income.
• Build strong relationships with the Hope for Tomorrow community empowering supporters to confidently lead their own fundraising initiatives

Person specification to include:

• Experience in fundraising, or a similar relationship-based role.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to build rapport quickly and steward long term relationships at all levels.
• Creative and able to bring new and exciting ideas to the table to help increase fundraising income.
• Experience of organising events or campaigns.

We'd love to hear from you if you have experience in fundraising or another relationship-based role, you enjoy organising events, and you're confident presenting and networking. You'll join a small, friendly team where your ideas will be heard from day one.

Initial online interviews with PSR: 21st October. Final interviews in person: 4th November.