JOB PROFILE

Job Title: / Regional Community Fundraiser
Place of Work: / Home or office based
Salary Band: / Grade 4
Reports to: / Community Fundraising Manager
Line management responsibility: / None
Budget Responsibility: / Income in excess of £150,000
Child Protection Level: / 1

Job Purpose

  • Raise as much money and awareness as possible for Save the Children’s work.
  • Recruit and nurture Volunteer Leadership in the allocated geographical area.
  • Enable volunteers to flourish and grow their contribution to Save the Children.
  • Embody trust, empowerment, accountability, community and cost effectiveness in ways of working.

Job context and dimensions

Our ambition is:

Save the Children is one team, passionately seeking dramatic change for children. Volunteers are at the heart of achieving this change, supported by staff who are skilled relationship builders, oozing enthusiasm and commitment. The relationship between staff and volunteers is built on trust, honesty and transparency. By working as one team, combining skills and experience, volunteers and staff are generating millions more in income and growing rapidly to reach all communities across Britain.

Alongside volunteers, Community Fundraisers are at the forefront of achieving this challenging ambition. You will be held accountable for income and expenditure targets as well as providing the leadership and local support to grow voluntary activity in the community.

You will recruit, lead and manage a large team of volunteers across a wide geographic area. By role modelling and, through outstanding skills in inspiration, motivation, negotiation and leadership, you will drive through very significant attitudinal and cultural change, establishing a flourishing, volunteer led, fundraising environment.

The role involves working 35 hours a week on a flexible basis, with a willingness to work weekends and evenings as necessary.

This is the pivotal role to enable our vision for volunteering to happen

Key accountabilities

  • Hit income targets, manage expenditure, and continually grow net contribution.
  • Support and articulate Save the Children’s cause, and the Community Giving purpose
  • Drive fundamental cultural change.
  • Identify and implement the most effective way to recruit volunteers in your area.
  • Provide appropriate support and resources to enable volunteers to raise money for Save the Children.
  • Develop, maintain, lead and inspire a diverse team of volunteers through individual coaching or appropriate meetings such as Volunteer Days.
  • Establish a network of volunteer leaders who work through trust, empowerment, accountability, community, and keeping cost to a minimum.
  • Ensure that whenever and wherever possible, activity is volunteer-led, or is in partnership with them.
  • Build horizontal communications between volunteers to build skills and encourage shared good practise with the aim of increasing support and income.
  • Ensure all activity is safe and within our ethos and guidelines.
  • Complete necessary financial and narrative reports and maintain accurate records of the key volunteers in the region.

Key working contacts

Volunteers and volunteer leaders.

Regional Retail Managers, staff and volunteers.

Community Support Team

Other fundraising and support teams across the organisation.

Stakeholders, partners and the public.

Person Specification

  • An absolute commitment to the vision for volunteering and the ability to inspire a range of people to own it across significant distances.
  • Extraordinary and demonstrable ability to recruit, motivate and support volunteer leaders.
  • Demonstrable ability in fundamental cultural change in a fundraising or similar environment.
  • Exceptional people skills and a natural communicator, able to inspire support and action from a diverse range of supporters.
  • Oozing enthusiasm and commitment.
  • Entrepreneurial and driven by results.
  • A team player who can also work independently and be self-sufficient.
  • Ability to recognise and prioritise to select the opportunities with the greatest potential.
  • Exceptional organisational and time management skills.
  • Possession of a full driving licence
  • The role will require occasional travel across the UK and some overnight stays.
  • Good IT literacy

Desirable

  • Understanding of current legislation as it relates to fundraising and working with volunteers (e.g. Charity Law, Health & Safety legislation).
  • For post holder in Wales, Welsh speaker an advantage.

Note: This role is NOT about technical expertise, nor about the postholder personally raising funds.