Senior Fundraising and Volunteer Executive - FTC

• Community Fundraising Strategy: Work closely with the Head of Fundraising to devise and deliver an effective community fundraising strategy that aligns with agreed targets. This includes supporting fundraising campaigns like Light Up a Life, collection tins, and mass participation challenge events.
• Campaign Support: Provide logistical and strategic support for hospice-led campaigns, ensuring smooth execution, effective engagement with the community, and maximization of fundraising efforts.
• Engagement with Schools, Faith, and Community Groups: Collaborate with the Head of Fundraising to develop strategies and fundraising products that encourage schools, faith groups, and community organisations to support the hospice, raising funds while enhancing awareness of the hospices services.
• In Memory Fundraising Support: Assist with the development and promotion of the In Memory giving programme, helping families and individuals honour loved ones through donations, tribute funds, and memorial events.
• Individual Giving Fundraising: Support the Individual Giving programme by assisting with donor communications, stewardship, and the development of materials to encourage regular giving, one-off donations, and sponsorship.
• Legacy Fundraising: Contribute to the growth of the hospices Legacy Fundraising programme by promoting the importance of leaving a gift in wills, supporting the management of legacy enquiries, and assisting with related communications.
• Donor Stewardship: Ensure that all donors are thanked promptly and appropriately, maintaining strong relationships and ensuring that supporters feel valued for their contributions.
• General Fundraising Support: Provide additional support to the wider Fundraising team, including assisting with charity shop activities, mass mail-outs, and any other fundraising related tasks as required.
• Weekend and Evening Work: Flexibility to work on some weekends and evenings to support key fundraising activities, events, and campaigns.

Essential

• Prior experience in a charity or equivalent event role in the corporate sector
• A proven ability to deliver against targets and operational plans on time and within budget.
• Experience in dealing with administration, co-ordinating systems and structures, including schedules, databases and frequent communications
• A proven ability to negotiate, manage and develop suppliers, participants and sponsors
• Demonstrate an understanding of the motivations and mechanics of Community fundraising.
• Experience in Community/ event fundraising
• Experience of working within the hospice or healthcare sector
• Experience of managing volunteers for a variety of roles