DATE:May 2016
POST:Community Fundraiser (Southwark, Westminster and Brentwood Dioceses)
CONTRACT:Permanent
HOURS:37.5 per week
SALARY: £24,400 pa plus pension & other benefits
HOLIDAY:25 days + bank and statutory holidays
RESPONSIBLE TO:Community Host Manager, Nightstop
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A standard DBS check is required as this position will involve directly working with vulnerable young people.
Fancy working for the fast developing, innovative youth homelessness charity who were responsible for auctioning off a spot in the iphone 6 queue, selling moving boxes to help homeless people, organising mass cathedral based sleepouts, and the world’s first live-action app ihobo? Then we’d love to meet you!
Depaul wants YOU to be part of our flexible, innovative, fun, all hands on deck fundraising team.
SUMMARY OF JOB
As our Community Fundraiser you will inspire new and existing church and school supporters across Southwark, Brentwood and Westminster dioceses to support the work of Depaul UK. You will have the responsibility to develop the support of churches and schools through giving and volunteering.
Based within our frontline services team and supported by the fundraising team, you will coordinate your approaches with our Nightstop staff and other church and schools-facing staff members. This will involve giving inspiring talks and assemblies, motivating new schools and churches to raise money for Depaul and spotting opportunities to recruit new volunteers.
The role will involve inspiring support from churches and schools. In particular:
- Giving inspiring talks that motivate churches and schools to support Depaul’s work
- Understanding the young people we work with and the services we deliver in depth in order to passionately communicate what we do to supporters
- Building strong relationships with gatekeepers and maintaining enthusiasm for Depaul with each group
- Monitoring progress within your area in terms of income and activity
- Recruiting participants to fundraising activities such as the Advent Sleepout
- Organising events such as the Advent Sleepout and coordinating cheering posts at events
- Supporting individual fundraisers participating in challenge events or running fundraising events in their community
- Managing volunteer speakers and ambassadors for Depaul
- Achieving an annual income target
Key Deliverables
- Inspire and winsupport (giving and volunteering) of churches and schools within the geographical area of the role. Activities include:
- Giving talks to assemblies, churches, home groups, classes and more
- Supporting churches and schools in their fundraising with tips and resources
- Recruiting volunteers to organise fundraising within their group
- Coordinating approaches to schools and churches with services staff
- Recruit new churches and new schools to support Depaul
- Where appropriate, recruit individuals within these groups, to give money as an individual (collaborating with the individual giving strategy) or to give time as a volunteer Nightstop host (collaborating with the services team) or Depaul ambassador
- Support challenge event participants in the run up to their event
- Deliver a select set of events, agreed within the strategy, within your geographical area, such as the Advent Sleepout, cheering posts and post-race receptions.
- Achieve an annual financial target as set in advance of the financial year
- Represent the fundraising team within the services team (within which you will sit)
- Any other duties commensurate with the role
What we are looking for from you – Person Specification
When completing your application form please address all the points set out below.
Winning support
- Great at building relationships with staff and supporters
- Effective in winning financial and other support from supporters
- A compelling communicator able to inspire action - passionate about telling the stories of Depaul’s young people and staff
- At least one year’s experience in a fundraising or similar role such as campaigning or sales
- Experience working within a target driven environment and achieving challenging targets
Planning and action
- Obsessive about your numbers and a methodical planner for success
- Proven experience working effectively with spreadsheets and data
- Ability to effectively reflect on own practices for ongoing learning and development
- A proactive worker, able to work independently as well as collaboratively – particularly in a matrix management environment
- Willingness to travel to different regions to fulfill the needs of the role
Understanding our work
- Respect for the values and ethos of Depaul and its founding partners
- Commitment to working in a manner, which promotes diversity and equality ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and dignity and no one, suffers from discrimination
- Some understanding of homelessness and/or young people would be an asset (training will be given)
Understanding the supporter groups we work with
- Understanding of the church and effective church-based fundraising
- Understanding of school needs and of effective school-based fundraising
What we will do to support you in this role
Will provide the following resources to assist in the successful achievement of the responsibilities outlined above:
- A full induction including an opportunity to shadow our Nightstop team, to visit our projects and the Community Fundraiser based in the North East as well as understand our service model, Endeavour, in depth
- A toolkit of resources and information to help you approach, inspire and support churches and schools within your area
- Continuous support and supervision from your line manager within the services team, as well as matrix-managed support from the fundraising team who will drive the community fundraising strategy
Vincentian Values
The Depaul Group began in the UK in 1989 at the initiative of the late Cardinal Basil Hume, as a response to the needs of the growing numbers of homeless people on the streets of London.
Depaul International and its subsidiary international charities owe their inspiration and values to the life and works of Vincent de Paul, a major social reformer in 17th century France. Known as the Saint of Charity, he revolutionized outreach to poor and disenfranchised people.
Vincentian values, which were at the core of Depaul’s foundation, continue to be at the heart of Depaul International. They include a commitment to reach out to the poorest of the poor, to focus on action rather than words, to do what we say we will do, and to be innovative in our approach.
It is upon these values that are service model, Endeavour, is based.
THE DISCLOSURE & BARRING SERVICE – DISCLOSURE
Depaul UK aims to promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. Depaul UK welcomes applications from diverse candidates. Criminal records will be taken into account for requirement purposes only when the conviction is relevant.
As Depaul UK meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013) by SI 2013 1198’. All applicants who are offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure & Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed. This will include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings, as well as convictions.
This job description is a statement of requirements at the time of writing and is not contractual. It should not be seen as precluding future changes after appointment to this role.
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