Fundraising Officer (NHS AfC: Band 5) - Coroporate - East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is looking for a proactive Fundraising Lead to oversee and enhance charitable income efforts. You will develop fundraising strategies, engage with staff and donors, and manage events to support the Trust. This is a pivotal role that combines community engagement with innovative fundraising practices, contributing to vital healthcare services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a fundraising role, including effective planning and execution of fundraising activities.
• Strong understanding of charity legislation and GDPR regulations.
• Ability to develop online fundraising campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the Fundraising Strategy aimed at increasing charitable income.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and the community to support fundraising activities.
• Capture and manage content for social media and fundraising events.

Skills

Communication

Organisational Skills

Relationship Building

Creative Thinking

Education

Educated to degree level or equivalent experience

Tools

JustGiving

Eventbrite

Job description

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At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

Job overview

This is a key post in helping to ensure that we meet ambitious fundraising targets for our hospital Trust, developing our existing fundraising activity and creating new opportunities to raise income to enhance patient and staff experience.

The post holder must have experience in a fundraising role, including planning and delivering fundraisers to achieve targets and the motivation to research/implement new and existing activity that encourage donors to support ELHT&Me.

The post holder will work closely with teams across the charity and our Trust to ensure that our activities encourage and attract growing support.

The ideal candidate will bring not only the gravitas and innovation to deliver exceptional results but also the creativity and ambition to see the charity's support increase across East Lancashire.

Main duties of the job

In collaboration with the Fundraising Team, develop and deliver the Fundraising Strategy to raise awareness, engage support, drive fundraising and increase charitable income.

Be responsible for increasing our key stakeholders, as well as expanding our charitable engagement activities in the areas of events and fundraising. Build and deliver branded campaigns mixing traditional and online, ensuring key messages are consistently delivered.

Responsible for growing relationships with organisations, identifying and exploiting positive opportunities to ensure ELHT&Me is selected as their chosen charity.

Act as the Charity’s representative with donors and supporters, delivering talks and information to engage, inform and develop support.

Responsible for capturing relevant content at events and fundraising activities for the charity’s social media activity. This may also include live reporting at events.

Deliver profit and loss planning documents for fundraising activities to ensure planned and managed working. This includes volunteer planning and maximising opportunities with sourcing any required tombola, raffle and fundraising items.

Ensure online and offline fundraising campaigns are integrated and digital channels are used effectively for retention and development of supporters.

Working for our organisation

The approximately 10,000 members of staff that makeup ELHT are at the heart of our trust, and look after us throughout all of our lives. ELHT&Me supports the patient journey in many different ways and being part of that small team is hugely rewarding.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Nurture relationships with hospital staff to encourage creation of and participation in fundraising activities and events and lifting the profile of the charity internally

To build relationships internally, especially with senior clinicians and with external prospects for cultivation that will also strengthen the wider (charity) community

To build relationships with nursing staff and management, to encourage a clear and sensitive understanding of the importance of In Memory, tribute funds and legacies

Support fundraising volunteers, ensuring that their activities comply with best fundraising practice and legal frameworks, whilst building a micro-volunteering bank to support fundraising activities.

Develop and train key volunteers capable of taking a more active role in assisting in event management or other fundraising or administrative activities

Support team to recruit fundraising Ambassadors within our Care Organisations and across the communities of East Lancashire.

Administrative Duties

Effectively deal with internal and external enquiries, either in person, on the telephone or via email using initiative to redirect queries as appropriate.

Be responsible for the development and maintenance of a Charity events calendar.

Be aware and ensure compliance of relevant charity legislation, policies and procedures, Fundraising Regulator’s Codes of Practice and the latest GDPR regulations.

To ensure that a positive image of the hospital and the Charity is projected at all times

To hold a flexible approach to working hours (the role will require the post holder to work evenings and weekends as necessary).

To hold a flexible approach to work when asked to take on other fundraising or admin duties when the team needs to cover holidays, or at times of workload pressure.

To adopt a supportive and collegiate approach when working with the fundraising team and other colleagues within the hospital

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or significant equivalent experience within a professional fundraising role.

Experience

• Experience of effective fundraising including pro-active events and campaigns and reactive reputation management
• Experience of planning and executing targeted fundraising
• Experience in developing online fundraising activities that both promote the charity and generate the income needed to meet the charity’s annual income target
• Experience in creating new fundraising events
• Ability to deliver clear and promotive verbal communication
• Experience of managing online campaigns
• Experience of working with clubs and groups to deliver fundraising or awareness activity
• Strong understanding of database systems
• Experience of working in the professional charity sector in the fundraising environment
• Experience of working with donors and fundraisers to generate income
• Dealing with challenging situations where tact and sensitivity is required
• Worked within a professional charity/fundraising environment

Knowledge and skills

• Experience in project documentation
• Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to remain efficient under pressure.
• Skills in developing and executing an events calendar
• Knowledge of fundraising/charity legislation and GDPR regulations
• Demonstrative skills in online platforms JustGiving / Eventbrite and In Memory Giving
• Advanced keyboard skills for the creation of platform appeals and fundraisers
• Ability to travel throughout the East Lancashire area to meet the needs of the post.
• Knowledge of healthcare sector
• Creative skills for designing publications and presentations and working knowledge of design packages

Personal Attributes

• Team player able to engage with others in own team and colleagues in the organisation
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Creative thinking and positive attitude
• Strong interpersonal stills and relationship building

Other

• A team player with a flexible approach. Available to work out of hours if required
• Access to a vehicle/transport for work purposes

Dear Potential Applicant,

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
• Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.

Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)

If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.

The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.

The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.

This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post

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The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.

We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background.

We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible. By telephone [phone] or email [e-mail] write to Employment Services, Parkview Offices, Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HH

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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