Job Title:Community Engagement Officer / Trust Fundraiser

Job Description

Hours:37.5 Hours

Salary:£21,000

Reporting to:Head of Fundraising & Lottery

Job Summary

To work with the Income Generation Team to develop and implement a programme of Trust fundraising activities to maximise income. To work closely with hospice clinical team to maximize income generation capacity. To develop links with the local trusts whilst raising the profile of The Mary Stevens Hospice and identifying fundraising opportunities.

The post requires the incumbent to work under his/her own initiative, prioritising and planning. The post may involve evening and weekend work.

Key Task / Duties and Responsibilities:

To identify, research, develop and apply for grants from various trusts in line with current hospice needs.
Devise and maintain a strategy for maximizing Trust income whilst establishing and maintaining donor stewardship, ensuring the donor journey is appropriate to the Organisation/Trust.
To create, write, manage, develop and deliver persuasive and successful funding applications.
To ensure all bid applications are in line with hospice needs and appropriate to grant making guidelines.
To maintain a good working knowledge of Donorflex operations.
To establish and develop new supporter networks.

Skills and Experience:

Experience of excellence in personal customer service essential – for example from previous employment with a charity, retail or professional services organisation.
Strong I.T. skills essential – including MS Word, use of Excel for sifting/reporting data and any experience with PowerPoint would be advantageous
Flexible, reliable and a ‘can do’ attitude to be able to support colleagues and the community with occasional evening or weekend events.
An understanding of the services of the Hospice and knowledge of the local community that Mary Stevens serves is desirable.
Personal involvement in successful fundraising events would be beneficial.
Knowledge of some of the legal and compliance elements involved with fundraising would be advantageous but not essential as appropriate training will be available.

General:

To work as a positive team member at all times.
To undertake appropriate personal development whilst maintaining and developing skills/ knowledge as determined by an annual review; subject to the availability of resources.
To work as part of the Income Generation Team, cooperating with and assisting each other when necessary.

Other:

Actively support Hospice Income Generation events.
To Contribute to and deliver against annual budgets and plans.
To monitor own role and function within the Hospice and to monitor own objectives set.
To undertake and comply with training.
To comply with all Mary Stevens Hospice Policies and Procedures.
Any other duties and responsibilities commensurate to role and experience.

The job description is not exhaustive and the nature of the Hospice requires that you are flexible in your approach to work and you may be required to undertake such reasonable additional duties as is required from time to time.