Community Engagement Officer
Location: Home based with travel throughout the South East
Contract Type: Permanent / Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: c. £30,000
Benefits: Generous annual leave allowance, salary exchange pension scheme, life assurance, occupational sick pay, dog friendly offices.
Closing date: 07-07-2024
Are you a talented fundraiser who is motivated by bringing communities together to help change lives? This could be the role for you!
Their mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.
To help them create amazing partnerships, they need amazing people. There is an exciting opportunity for a Community Engagement Officer to join their dedicated Fundraising team.
This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be a part of their essential work that transforms lives every day.
What you will do:
A vital role in their Fundraising team, you will be working with individuals, organisations, schools, and small businesses in the local areas across the southern region to raise income and awareness for the charity. You will recruit, manage, and inspire fundraising volunteers to support them to raise much-needed funds. You will be passionate about stewarding existing relationships and cultivating new ones, ensuring an outstanding donor experience. Taking a proactive approach will be key to showcasing their work and charitable goals.
What they are looking for:
• Proven experience of effectively managing relationships across a range of audiences. • Experience of planning and running events. • Ability to create and support the development of new campaigns, initiatives and strategic plans. • Ability to manage a varied workload with initiative to prioritise. • Excellent organisational and time management skills. • Excellent interpersonal and public speaking skills with the ability to engage and inspire. • Experience of creating, forecasting, and monitoring budgets to deliver against income and expenditure targets. • Ability to write reports and evaluations using data. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. • Experience in recording and maintaining information on a database. • Ideally, you will have experience in community fundraising or events management, with a successful track record in raising and securing income from a diverse range of funding streams. Experience of using Salesforce, supervising/managing people and up to date knowledge of fundraising regulations/legislation will be advantageous but not essential. • Most importantly, you will be passionate about the transformative impact that their assistance dogs provide to their beneficiaries.
They can offer you:
• Generous annual leave allowance. • Salary exchange ('smart') pension scheme. • Charity sick pay. • Life assurance scheme. • Wellbeing portal.
This role benefits from home-based working; regular travel throughout the southern region is essential to meet with their donors, beneficiaries, colleagues and other stakeholders. You must have a full UK driving licence and ability to travel in line with the requirements of the role (where applicable business travel will be claimable expenses). They will provide a laptop and mobile phone for use in the role.
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, they would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role.
Please be aware that they reserve the right to close this advert ahead of the closing date should they find a suitable candidate before this date. Please be assured that they contact all of their candidates on the outcome of their application, this may take longer if they receive high volumes of applications.
1st Interview: 12th July 2024, online. 2nd Interview: 19th July 2024, in person (location tbc).
They recognise the benefit of diverse experiences, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. They are a disability confident committed employer.
You may also have experience in the following: Engagement Support Specialist, Donor Relations Representative, Supporter Care Officer, Community Engagement Associate, Fundraising Support Executive, Donor Engagement Specialist, Supporter Liaison Officer, Client Experience Associate, Donor Interaction Coordinator, Fundraising Support Assistant, Community Outreach Officer, Supporter Relationship Coordinator, Engagement and Support Assistant, etc.
REF-214 698
Location: Home based with travel throughout the South East
Contract Type: Permanent / Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: c. £30,000
Benefits: Generous annual leave allowance, salary exchange pension scheme, life assurance, occupational sick pay, dog friendly offices.
Closing date: 07-07-2024
Are you a talented fundraiser who is motivated by bringing communities together to help change lives? This could be the role for you!
Their mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.
To help them create amazing partnerships, they need amazing people. There is an exciting opportunity for a Community Engagement Officer to join their dedicated Fundraising team.
This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be a part of their essential work that transforms lives every day.
What you will do:
A vital role in their Fundraising team, you will be working with individuals, organisations, schools, and small businesses in the local areas across the southern region to raise income and awareness for the charity. You will recruit, manage, and inspire fundraising volunteers to support them to raise much-needed funds. You will be passionate about stewarding existing relationships and cultivating new ones, ensuring an outstanding donor experience. Taking a proactive approach will be key to showcasing their work and charitable goals.
What they are looking for:
• Proven experience of effectively managing relationships across a range of audiences. • Experience of planning and running events. • Ability to create and support the development of new campaigns, initiatives and strategic plans. • Ability to manage a varied workload with initiative to prioritise. • Excellent organisational and time management skills. • Excellent interpersonal and public speaking skills with the ability to engage and inspire. • Experience of creating, forecasting, and monitoring budgets to deliver against income and expenditure targets. • Ability to write reports and evaluations using data. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. • Experience in recording and maintaining information on a database. • Ideally, you will have experience in community fundraising or events management, with a successful track record in raising and securing income from a diverse range of funding streams. Experience of using Salesforce, supervising/managing people and up to date knowledge of fundraising regulations/legislation will be advantageous but not essential. • Most importantly, you will be passionate about the transformative impact that their assistance dogs provide to their beneficiaries.
They can offer you:
• Generous annual leave allowance. • Salary exchange ('smart') pension scheme. • Charity sick pay. • Life assurance scheme. • Wellbeing portal.
This role benefits from home-based working; regular travel throughout the southern region is essential to meet with their donors, beneficiaries, colleagues and other stakeholders. You must have a full UK driving licence and ability to travel in line with the requirements of the role (where applicable business travel will be claimable expenses). They will provide a laptop and mobile phone for use in the role.
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, they would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role.
Please be aware that they reserve the right to close this advert ahead of the closing date should they find a suitable candidate before this date. Please be assured that they contact all of their candidates on the outcome of their application, this may take longer if they receive high volumes of applications.
1st Interview: 12th July 2024, online. 2nd Interview: 19th July 2024, in person (location tbc).
They recognise the benefit of diverse experiences, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. They are a disability confident committed employer.
You may also have experience in the following: Engagement Support Specialist, Donor Relations Representative, Supporter Care Officer, Community Engagement Associate, Fundraising Support Executive, Donor Engagement Specialist, Supporter Liaison Officer, Client Experience Associate, Donor Interaction Coordinator, Fundraising Support Assistant, Community Outreach Officer, Supporter Relationship Coordinator, Engagement and Support Assistant, etc.
REF-214 698