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Avenue Recruitment; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for a confident Fundraiser to identify funding opportunities across various sectors including Sports and Education. Candidates should have 1-2 years of fundraising experience or exhibit strong commitment and work ethic. The role involves maintaining contacts with potential donors and developing marketing materials to attract funding. Excellent communication skills and IT proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in fundraising or a demonstrated confident attitude.
• A strong work ethic and commitment to planning.

Responsibilities

• Identify funding opportunities with potential donors.
• Prepare marketing material to impress donors.
• Maintain a customer contact database of key donor contacts.
• Keep up-to-date logs of activities to maintain donor contact.

Skills

Excellent communication

Strong IT skills

Social media proficiency

Job description

Avenue are currently recruiting a Fundraiser. The purpose of the role is to identify funding opportunities whereby money can be generated. This will involve prospecting to Strategic Plan, targeting and penetrating the funding marketplace.

The Role

• To identify opportunities for funding applications across large-scale and small-scale potential donors.
• To ensure Community Trust have the correct management information to hand in the form of Marketing Material to initially impress donors.
• To identify small and large-scale opportunities across the full remit of our proposed Sports, Fitness, Mental Health and Education & Heritage.
• To develop a Customer Contact database including personal details on key contacts representing donor bodies.
• To develop a detailed ‘Activity Log’ ensuring we are in constant contact with donors in a targeted fashion.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will have previous experience, one to two years minimum of the ‘Process of Fundraising’ or display a first-class, confident attitude of achievement.

You will be a good listener, excellent communicator and be confident with IT and Social media.

It is important for successful candidates to be hungry for achievement manifested in work-ethic and planning commitment.