Corporate Account Co-ordinator
Reporting to:Corporate Development Manager
Tasks managed by:Corporate Account Manager (based at Credit Suisse UK)
Location:Deptford & Canary Wharf London
Hours: Full time (35 hours)
Fixed Term:12 months
Salary: £26,000 per annum
About FareShare
At FareShare, we fight food poverty by tackling food waste. We source food that is surplus to requirement – from retailers and manufacturers – and engage many volunteers to help us redistribute this to local charities and community groups. They then use this to provide meals to vulnerable people;individuals who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated or recovering from addiction.
FareShare operates 20 Regional Centres (depots) across the UK and supports over 1,700 local charities and community groups. Over the past year over 5,500 tonnes of food were redistributed by FareShare Regional Centres nation-wide, feeding 82,000 people daily.
Main purpose of this role
FareShare has recently been selected asthe 2015 charity of the year for Credit Suisse. This will provide us with a unique opportunity to work with a highly professional and committed city firm. They are highly ambitious with their fundraising and during 2014 have raisedsignificantly more than the original £300k target for their chosen charity. FareShare has employed a Corporate Account Manager who will work with the Citizenship team at Credit Suisse on a full-time basis to maximise this opportunity.
Critical to our fundraising success is the assistance that the Co-ordinator will provide to the Corporate Account Manager. This will also require working closely with other teams across FareShare including Fundraising, MarComms and Finance. The post will be overseen by the Corporate Development Manager, but tasks will be agreed on a daily and weekly basis by the Corporate Account Manager.
This opportunity comes at a critical time in FareShare’s growth and provides us with the chance to push ahead with our strategy to significantly increase our outputs both in London and across the UK. Put simply this will enable us to redistribute more surplus food and feed thousands of people currently going hungry.
Circumstances
This post will mainly be based at FareShare’s offices but there may be a frequent need to work at the offices of Credit Suisse in Canary Wharf. It will also require attendance at a wide range of fundraising events principally based in and around their London offices. This will include evenings and some weekends.
Job Description
The key focus of the role is:
- To support the Corporate Account Manager in their drive to maximise all fundraising opportunities working to exceed targets
- To provide administrative support for a diverse programme of work with a strong focus on events and employee engagement
- To support the work to monitor budgets on income and expenditure working effectively with the Finance Manager at FareShare
- To work effectively to help develop and deliver the strategies for securing gifts in kind and ambassador engagement
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Account management support
- To provide the required administrative support (both for events and volunteer activity) for
theCredit Suisse partnership, workingto exceed fundraising targets
- To contribute to the development of a range of exciting and innovative fundraising
initiatives that encourage involvement of Credit Suisse UK staff at all levels
- To support the Corporate Account Manager and work closely with Credit Suisse’s
Corporate Citizenship team to develop and implement an effective activity plan
- To help co-ordinate regular meetings and presentations within Credit Suisse that support
and maintain an excellent working relationship
- Communication
- To act as the first point of contact for Credit Suisse staff at the FareShare offices
- To support the Corporate Account Manager in raising awareness of the partnership across
Credit Suisse and build relationships with employees and teams that support their fundraising activity
- To support initiatives that enable Credit Suisse staff to learn more about the
work of FareShare and its impact on beneficiaries
- To work effectively with Corporate Account Manager, the Corporate Development Manager
and Director of Fundraising to monitor progress and development of the partnership
and to provide support to communicate the associated impacts and outcomes
- To contribute to the plans and materials that ensure effective promotion of fundraising
activities, including the development of the strategy to secure ambassador engagement
for events and PR
- Administration & process
- To develop the processes for securing raffle/auction prizes on an ongoing basis
- To contribute to reporting, newsletters, materials and regular communications, working with the Corporate Account Manager, Credit Suisse’s Corporate Citizenship Team and FareShare’s marketing and communications team
- To follow thanking procedures to ensure timely responses
- Finance
- To maintain accurate finance records and assist in producing monthly reports that can be shared with both FareShare and Credit Suisse, liaising with the Finance Manager at FareShare as necessary
- To work closely with the Corporate Account Manager to monitor the associated income and expenditure for the partnership
- Employee engagement
- To support the planning, organisation and monitoring of Credit Suisse volunteers at the Deptford Depot, the Credit Suisse offices and at other locations
- To host the volunteering days at the Deptford Depot and co-ordinate client visits
- To co-ordinate large scale volunteering as identified
- To assistthe Corporate Account Manager in engaging Credit Suisse with FareShare (charity) members, particularly where relationships currently exist.
- General
- To support the wider Fundraising Team as required
Person Specification
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Experience of account and/or event management preferably within a corporate fundraising environment
- Excellent communication skills, particularly in delivering face to face meetings and presentations
- Proven project management experience
- Ability to form good working relations, both internally and externally
- Able to work on own initiative and to meet deadlines under pressure
- Experience of working effectively within and across teams
- Computer literate - word processing, excel, and PowerPoint areessential
- Good general numeracy skills with excellent attention to detail
Desirable
- Experience of internal communications and PR (including celebrity engagement)
Values and behaviours
Essential
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- An understanding of, and passion for, the mission and values of FareShare
- Able to demonstrate respect for work colleagues and FareShare beneficiaries
- A positive and “can-do” attitude
Application Process
If you think that this is a role that you would like to apply for, then please forward the completed application form and equal opportunities form together with a concise covering letter, setting out how your experience meets the personal specifications for this role to :- quoting reference CAC/01.
Closing date for receipt of applications is noon 19 January 2015