This is an exciting opportunity to help Craigavon Food Bank become more financially sustainable as we continue to provide emergency food and wrap around support to our local community.
Through this new organisational role, you will proactively create and grow fundraising income opportunities with individuals, local businesses, community groups and grant giving trusts and foundations. You will be at the heart of our local community, bringing our cause to life and building lasting donor relationships.
Through your fundraising expertise, you will have a proven track record of building relationships with individuals, community groups, trusts and foundations and other donors to achieve and exceed annual income targets and key performance indicators. You will have the capacity to create and craft compelling proposals and appeals that successfully engage and attract donations from new and existing supporters.
This role will include the following elements:
- Private/personal Donations – Increase regular gift-aided giving.
- Church Engagement – Increase regular support from churches.
- Business Engagement – Regular and one-off support from businesses with options around engagement Fundraising & Strategic Engagement Officer (1) strategy to help businesses achieve their corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals.
- Grant & Trusts funding applications
- Develop relationships with multi-year funders
- Set up a spreadsheet to track and collect data to meet reporting requirements
Key responsibilities:
- Develop a Fundraising Strategy, identifying and contributing specifically to sustainable and ambitious growth in line with the charity’s financial ambitions and strategic objectives.
- Conduct effective annual planning and budgeting in close collaboration with colleagues from across the organisation, setting, measuring, and reporting against an agreed budget, KPIs and objectives.
- Through the design and delivery of excellent, engaging and regular stewardship communications and powerful fundraising appeals, grow our income and pool of individual supporters making one off or monthly donations. Explore and implement ways of promoting Craigavon Area Foodbank across the community to successfully attract an ever-greater number of individual donors.
- Engage with local community groups, associations, events, schools and businesses to grow Craigavon Area Foodbank community fundraising reach and income. Increase cash and gift-in-kind income.
- Through excellent, comprehensive and considered research, identify and prioritise a pool of potential Trusts and Foundations funders for Craigavon Area Foodbank and, work with colleagues to develop authentic, compelling, creative and winning funding bids that can successfully engage new and existing Trusts and Foundations funders.
- Develop, monitor and manage a fundraising portfolio. Establish a fundraising pipeline that can be tracked and that will enable informed projections regarding future income.
- Forge strong relationships with colleagues across the wider Trussell network, sharing best practice and learning from other charities across the network. You will proactively take advantage of any fundraising training and skills development opportunities and engage with any joint fundraising opportunities.
Skills
- Experience of corporate partner fundraising and a proven track record of securing funding from Trusts, Foundations and others.
- Experience of individual giving and community fundraising
- Experience of setting, managing and reporting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and relationship management skills, you will inspire and motivate existing and prospective supporters, providing excellent stewardship and crafting compelling and winning funding proposals and appeals.
- Experience of working with, supporting and overseeing external consultants.
- Organised, proactive, and a self-starter who can self-motivate.
- Able to demonstrate empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially-excluded backgrounds.
Other
- To observe strictly the policy and principle of confidentiality.
- To create and maintain good working relations with staff, volunteers, board of trustees, Trussell Trust and stakeholders.
- To take part and access relevant ongoing training.
- To carry out any other reasonable duties required by the Project Manager.
This job description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and may include any other duties and responsibilities as may be determined in consultation with the jobholder. It is not intended to be rigid or inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works.
Personnel Specification
Post: Fundraising Officer
Location: Craigavon Area Foodbank, Carn Business Park
Desirable QUALIFICATIONS AND/OR EXPERIENCE
- Two years experience in a Fundraising role
- A proven track record of strategic fundraising.
- Experience of developing strategies to build new relationships and increasing income.
- A minimum of a third level qualification
- Understanding of the rules, regulations and best practices across fundraising.
- Demonstrate a commitment to the values of Trussell and Craigavon Area Foodbank.
- Excellent communicator, passionate about our work and able to represent at the highest levels.
- Good project management skills, able to balance a range of priorities.
- Excellent understanding of fundraising or sales and marketing strategies to drive income/revenue.
- Creative and innovative solutions and digital marketing.
- Knowledge of Craigavon Area Foodbank and Trussell’s vision, aims and objectives.
- Excellent communication skills verbal and written.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Passionate about tackling poverty.
- Ability to work independently and unsupervised.
Special Circumstances
- Current full driving license and access to a car OR can demonstrate mobility to carry out the functions of the job.
- Can work flexible hours.