Fundraising & Administration Assistant

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an organised fundraising administrator to support across the charity team, including Baby Beat Shop duties and donor stewardship. You will log donations, assist with financial tasks, and help grow income through donor engagement.

The role requires GCSEs and a driving licence, with experience in donor systems and Office software. The post is based at Preston with opportunities to contribute to diverse fundraising initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience of working to and achieving financial targets.
• Knowledge of GDPR in relation to fundraising.
• Experience of dealing with sensitive issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide general fundraising support across all areas as needed.
• Support the charity team to grow income through stewardship and relationship support.
• Admin support for Hospital charity team including logging donations and generating acknowledgement letters via the donor database; assist with general finance tasks and banking of monies.
• Contribute to donor recruitment, donor retention, and fundraising programmes and events.
• Baby Beat Shop administration including processing income/expenditure, stock ordering, pricing, stock control and annual stock takes; produce monthly retail reports for accounting/audit requirements.
• Supervise shop volunteers and coordinate shop rota to maximise opening hours.

Skills

Financial target achievement

Donor management system knowledge

Dealing with sensitive issues

Education

GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications or equivalent work experience

Full UK Driving Licence

AS and A level or equivalent experience

Membership of Chartered Institute of Fundraising

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for complete details. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing general fundraising support across all areas as needed
• Support the charity team to grow income through excellent
  stewardship and relationship support. This will include
  supporting wider fundraising activities and leading on lower value
  fundraising initiatives
• Provide administrative support for whole Hospital charity team
  (including Baby Beat), including but not limited to:
  To log donations and generate acknowledgement letters via the
  donor database
  To assist with general finance tasks and the counting and banking
  of monies in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions Administration and processing of various digital donation and event
  entry platforms such as Just Giving, Enthuse and Trybooking
• Contributing to donor recruitment, donor retention, and the development of fundraising programmes and events.
• Baby Beat Shop administration including but not limited to the
  processing of shop income and expenditure, ordering of all stock,
  stock pricing, stock control and annual stock takes to ensure
  maximum profitability. Responsible for producing monthly retail reports as required to support financial accounting and audit requirements
• Supervision of shop volunteers ensuring that the shop rota is
  coordinated to maximise opening hours

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working to and achieving financial targets
• Working knowledge of a donor management system or equivalent
• Computer literate - Microsoft Office packages
• Experience of dealing with sensitive issues

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of GDPR in relation to fundraising
• Previous experience working within a charity, fundraising or related role (e.g. marketing / sales)

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications or equivalent work experience
• Full UK Driving License

Desirable criteria

• Educated to AS and A level or equivalent experience
• Membership of Chartered Institute of Fundraising

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.

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