Community Fundraising Manager

Guide Dogs; Reading; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days leave

Real Living Wage

Flex pot

Buy/sell annual leave

Discounts & cashback

Pension matching 2%

Job summary

Guide Dogs in the UK is seeking a collaborative Community Fundraising Manager to drive regional fundraising, develop volunteer networks, and promote life-changing work with sight loss. The role is predominantly home-based with travel across designated regions, Monday to Friday 9-5 with flexibility as needed.

You will lead fundraising campaigns, recruit local speakers, and build a sustainable volunteer structure, working closely with supporters, service users and communities to grow income and

Qualifications

• Experience in community fundraising and volunteer management.
• Ability to develop volunteer networks and promotions.
• Strong communication and relationship management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop a sustainable volunteer management structure across the region.
• Recruit, support and encourage local speakers for campaigns and to motivate supporters.
• Lead and support deployment of fundraising initiatives.
• Business development.

Skills

Volunteer management

Stakeholder engagement

Fundraising campaigns

Job description

About The Role

This role is predominantly home-based, with some travel across Dundee, Fife, Perth & Kinross, Angus and Aberdeenshire, which may occasionally extend to other areas of Scotland. Travel requirements will vary from week to week and will be driven by business needs. The role is based on a Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm schedule; however, flexibility is required to work outside of these core hours when necessary.

Come and join us as a collaborative and resourceful Community Fundraising Manager and be part of something life‑changing, helping people with sight loss live the life they choose. The Community Fundraising Manager ensures effective delivery of the Community Fundraising strategy to grow and diversify Community Fundraising income and engagement within their designated region. The role is responsible for increasing the supporter and volunteer base using a diverse range of fundraising products and activities.

Key responsibilities

• Develop a sustainable volunteer management structure, supporting the management of fundraisers and fundraising activities across the region.
• Recruit, support and encourage a network of local speakers to promote our life changing work, our fundraising campaigns and to help motivate, inspire and thank our supporters.
• Play a key part and lead by example in developing and supporting the deployment of fundraising initiatives.
• Business Development.

About you:

You’ll bring a confident and collaborative approach to managing relationships with volunteers and peers, enjoying the opportunity to lead and support a diverse network of volunteers and develop successful fundraising groups. You’ll be an excellent communicator, with the ability to inspire and engage a wide range of supporters, volunteers, service users and community members to raise funds and awareness. You’ll also demonstrate strong, person‑centred relationship management skills, motivating and empowering volunteer fundraisers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits

We wouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our people. That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits that reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and contribution that they make.

• 26 days annual leave. After three years of continuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.

• Real Living Wage Employer

• Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits

• The option to buy and sell annual leave

• Discounts and cash-back scheme

• Excellent pension scheme (We will match your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)

• And lots more!

For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.

About Us

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Behind Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [e-mail].

Safer recruitment

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.