Single Gifts Campaign Executive (Marketing Executive)

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association; Reading; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Real Living Wage Employer

Flex pot

Buy/sell annual leave

Discounts and cash-back scheme

Excellent pension scheme

Job summary

Guide Dogs is seeking a proactive Single Gifts Campaign Executive to support acquisition and supporter development, ensuring campaigns run on time and within budget. The role focuses on administration, stakeholder management and continuous improvement through reporting and analysis.

You will work 35 hours weekly, 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, with at least one in-office day per week and a team day every Thursday. A busy, collaborative environment awaits with opportunities to impact lives.

Qualifications

• GCSE English and Maths (C or above) required.
• Experience delivering campaigns with deadlines and budgets.
• Experience coordinating with multiple teams or suppliers.
• Knowledge of administrative systems.
• Understanding of direct marketing principles.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

• Assist the delivery of campaigns and loyalty activity, delivering on time, to budget and maximising response and value.
• Manage the delivery of loyalty communications, on time and on budget, with improvements to the scheme and processes.
• Maintain up-to-date and accurate files for all campaigns to enable historic tracking and inform future activity.
• Undertake post-campaign analysis, producing wrap-up reports and recommendations for improvements.
• Work with suppliers to ensure quality work within schedule and cost.
• Collaborate with Online and External Lottery Manager to keep content updated on Cash and Raffle sites.
• Coordinate with other Guide Dogs teams to deliver Single Gifts activity and promote the team.
• Handle general queries from internal departments, supporters and the public on the Cash and Raffle scheme.

Skills

Direct marketing

Stakeholder mgmt

Admin systems

Microsoft Office

Education

GCSE English & Maths (C+)

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Guide Dogs - Be Part of Something Life-changing

Come and join us as a self-motivated and purpose-driven Single Gifts Marketing Campaign Executive known as a Single Gifts Campaign Executive and be part of something life-changing - helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.

As a Single Gifts Campaign Executive at Guide Dogs, you'll support the delivery of Single Gifts campaigns across acquisition and supporter development, ensuring activity is delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard. You'll play a key role in managing processes, working with internal and external stakeholders, and supporting continuous improvement through reporting and analysis. The Single Gifts Campaign Executive will be an expert in administration, organisation, stakeholder management, and balancing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Our Single Gifts Campaign Executives play a huge part in ensuring everything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.

For this role you'll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday. We are looking for you to attend the office at least 1 day per week including each Thursday for a team day.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the delivery of campaigns and loyalty activity, delivering on time, to budget and maximising response and value. Circulate artwork and content for approval and put together feedback for subsequent rounds. Raise purchase orders and manage invoices.
• Manage the delivery of the loyalty communications, to time and on budget, making and implementing recommendations for improving the scheme and processes.
• Maintain up to date and accurate files for all campaigns to enable historic tracking of the performance of each campaign to inform for future activity.
• Undertake post campaign analysis, producing wrap up reports and making recommendations for campaign improvement.
• Work with suppliers to ensure quality work is delivered, within the defined schedule and at a competitive cost.
• Work with the Online team and External Lottery Manager to ensure regularly updated content on the Cash and Raffle sites.
• Work with other Guide Dogs teams to ensure the smooth delivery of Single Gifts activity, and to promote the team positively within the organisation.
• Manage general queries from internal departments, supporters and members of the public on the Cash and Raffle scheme.

You

You’ll have a proactive and organised approach to managing processes, administration, and stakeholder relationships. You’ll enjoy working in a busy and collaborative environment, with a dedicated focus on delivering high-quality work and balancing multiple priorities, whilst being committed to supporting colleagues, engaging supporters, and achieving the best possible outcomes. You’ll act with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and Competencies

• Educated to GCSE Grade C or above in English and Maths or equivalent (QCF level 2 / SQCF level 5).
• Proven experience of working in a busy environment with a successful track record of delivering against competing priorities.
• Experience of effectively working with a number of different teams and/or suppliers.
• An understanding of administrative systems.
• Demonstrable understanding of direct marketing principles and techniques.
• Competent in Microsoft Office including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

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.

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.

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.