Fundraising Lead Volunteer (Nottingham)

CPRE Rutland; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established charity organization is seeking a passionate Fundraising Lead Volunteer to drive income generation efforts. In this flexible home-based role, you will implement innovative fundraising strategies, support the design of new initiatives, and collaborate with a dedicated team to communicate the importance of fundraising for sustaining the charity's activities. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a positive impact on the countryside while enhancing your skills and gaining valuable experience. Join us in our mission to connect people with the countryside and contribute to meaningful change.

Benefits

Training and support

Networking opportunities

Reference for future work

Involvement in events and workshops

Qualifications

• Experience in fundraising strategy and delivery is ideal.
• Willingness to learn about fundraising best practices.

Responsibilities

• Implement high-level fundraising strategy and design new initiatives.
• Advise teams on effective fundraising tactics and techniques.

Skills

Fundraising best practices

Fundraising strategy and delivery

Good computer skills

Team collaboration

Interest in environmental issues

Tools

Microsoft applications

Job description

You will be someone that is happy to take a strategic oversight of fundraising activity as well as rolling up your sleeves and getting involved. The emphasis is likely to be on legacy marketing, major donor stewardship, digital fundraising, and event-based income generation.

Ideally you will have experience in strategic charity fundraising; however, our friendly team will also provide you with training and support to develop in your role.

This is a flexible home-based role with some attendance at meetings, including online meetings and events. We provide out-of-pocket travel expenses should this be required.

More about this role

Volunteer role

Fundraising Lead Volunteer

Volunteer manager

Volunteer Co-ordinator

Where you will be based

Community

Why we want you

We want to encourage everyone to connect with the countryside and value and enjoy it. As our Fundraising Lead Volunteer, you will be able to make a significant and direct contribution to income generation for our charity.

Communicating and increasing awareness with our members and the wider public will help us to raise more funds to achieve our aims.

In this role, you will lead on our fundraising efforts, developing plans and designing new activities for generating income and will liaise with our wider team to support them with this too.

In this role, you will be utilising your interest and experience in fundraising to undertake a range of the following tasks, in collaboration with others.

What you will be doing

• Implement our high-level fundraising strategy
• Support the design of new initiatives e.g. donor stewardship, corporate sponsorship
• Design and implement new ways of generating income alongside our various countryside activities and campaigns
• Advise our teams on tactics and techniques for effective fundraising and put new ideas into practice.
• Assist with and support effective communications to members, volunteers, and supporters around the importance of income generation to sustain the activity of CPRE long into the future
• Liaise with the fundraising and income generation team at National CPRE
• Reach out to colleagues in other Local CPREs across England to exchange ideas for mutual benefit

The skills you need

• Knowledge of fundraising best practices or willingness to learn
• Previous experience of fundraising strategy and delivery
• Comfortable carrying out tasks in close coordination with others and independently
• Good computer skills including Microsoft applications, and readily available access to a computer and the internet at home
• Be able to commit to volunteering regularly with occasional attendance at meetings, online and face to face
• An interest in environmental issues and countryside campaigning

What's in it for you

• Use your skills to help our charity and make a positive difference to the countryside
• Meet like-minded people and enjoy being part of a team
• Enhance your CV by developing new skills and gaining valuable experience
• We will support you in your role and provide you with relevant training
• We can give you a reference for your future work or volunteering
• Get involved with events and workshops on a local and national level, including online CPRE induction and training sessions and the annual CPRE conference
• Opportunities to attend online volunteer induction as well as attending events at CPRE’s national office in London or locally
• The opportunity to learn about various issues facing the countryside, should you wish to become more involved in our work