Job Title: Community Fundraiser

Salary: Depending on experience

Normal hours of work (FTE): Minimum 35 hours plus other requirements as driven by the organisations needs

Responsible for: Ensuring personal fundraising target is met within budget and to time

Delivering fundraising activities in collaboration with colleagues

Reporting to: Chief Executive

Communication & collaboration with:

All Cancer Support Scotland stakeholders, especially donors and service delivery colleagues

All fundraising employees

Trustee Fundraising Sub-Group

External Agencies

Community Groups

Statutory Authorities

Groups & Associations

Individuals

Volunteers & Interns

  1. Your Role

Our Vision “To effectively support as many patients, their carers and families as possible across Scotland” can only be achieved if we have sufficient funds in place and the strategies to make the organisation more sustainable. We have experienced 30% growth in the number of clients we are supporting in the last year and have ambitious service expansion plans to help support the wave of people wanting to use our unique 1-2-1 cancer support services. We expect our client growth to continue for the foreseeable future. To allow us to expand our services our income will need to grow to over £500k by 2017/18.

Your responsibility is therefore to continuously seek out all available income sources especially from the Individual/Events & Community sectors. (IEC)

This will see you organising and delivering a portfolio of new and existing events activities as well as increasing individual giving and delivering income from community activities.

You will use new and existing networks within the organisation to forge new relationships and re-engage with previous supporters, stakeholders and donors.

To achieve this, you will need to ensure you have excellent knowledge of our services and understand how we are funded ensuring your fundraising practices are current and adhere to best practice.

Your role is essentially to create and drive income generation from the IEC sectors, to ensure the income platform is sustainable and remain motivated and focussed on income generation. You will work closely with everyone in the team to ensure all are well informed.

Equally, you will need to efficiently procure, develop and manage any resources required to assist us successfully achieve our charitable fundraising objectives.

Your role will be pivotal in raising the funds needed for core costs and as such you should have experience in community, event organisation and individual fundraising.

You will be an ambassador for the charity helping raise our ‘brand’ and increase income generation.

Our philosophy of holistic, longer term, support for staff means we are a values driven charity, as well as our moral responsibility, we want to ensure our staff’s journey with us doesn’t end until we have delivered desirable positive outcomes for people affected by cancer.

To be successful requires you to be committed, innovative, target driven, able to work within a budget and able to influence the IEC sectors.

Our Values

  • Tak Tent-Take care • Fair & Equitable • Holistic
  • Confidential • People focussed • Collaborative
  • Understanding • Respectful • Transparency
  • Supportive & Helpful • Accessible • Competent
  • Trustworthy • Inclusive

 

  1. Main Duties and responsibilities of IEC

Develop & drive Individual Giving Programme

  • Take responsibility for managing our current group of individual givers and increase this in line with our projections.
  • Develop strategies to fully maximise income from these sources, including Gifts in Kind.
  • Develop and build relationships with supporters to encourage long term commitment and giving.
  • Responsible for direct mail, our weekly lottery and new membership scheme.
  • Prepare reports, budgets and projections for these activities.
  • Individual Giving Fundraising target focused.

Develop & drive the Event Fundraising programme

  • Take responsibility for the organisation and management of our event portfolio and increase attendance in line with our projections.
  • Recruit, retain and support participants taking part in sporting and challenge type events.
  • Supporting 3rd party events, attending when required.

Develop & drive Community activities

  • Raise awareness in the community of the work and services we undertake.
  • Raise income from community activity in line with our projections.

Other

  • To actively use e-tapestry database to store and record donors details and activities
  • Maintain, update and write engaging copy for the newsletter, website & social media
  • Write and produce material to support your work as needed and adhering to our Branding Guidelines

 

  1. Your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) & Standards
  • To meet personal income targets
  • Build lasting relationships with donors and stakeholders
  • Improve the fundraising net return ratios & donor retention levels
  • Drive down fundraising costs

 

  1. Behaviours

To deliver our Vision, uphold our Values, and provide the best service we can, you will need to be an outstanding experienced fundraiser, a highly effective communicator

  • You must take absolute responsibility for yourself and Cancer Support Scotland as a whole through unwavering dedication and ownership of everything we are, and everything we do
  • Ensure you remain current, informed and well connected
  • Actively seek to positively influence, contribute to and continuously improve everything & everyone you work with
  • Innovate and surpass income generation target, business & people aspirations and outcomes
  • Form respectful, co-operative & valued relationships with your colleagues, donors & stakeholders
  • Ensure communications across the organisation are transparent, clear, and informative
  • Produce written and verbal reports as required
  • Ensure that all data you touch is fit for purpose, adds value to your role, is accurate, and ultimately assists you and others achieve fundraising objectives
  • Always act with professionalism, integrity and in the best interests of Cancer Support Scotland, our people, our volunteers, and other stakeholder
  • Seek to continually improve your ability to deliver positives and make progress
  • Be pro-active, energetic, enthusiastic and committed
  • Ensure we operate effectively, fairly, legally, efficiently & at low `risk`
  • Be an ambassador for Cancer Support Scotland by maintaining our values, standards and delivering for the good of everyone to your best ability at all times

 

  1. Internal/External bodies

This role will require you to effectively engage and foster positive relationships with external agencies, that will include, but needn’t be restricted to –

  • All donors
  • Service users
  • Fundraising & Service Team
  • Volunteers & Interns
  • The Board of Trustees
  • Community organisation
  • External Event Organisers
  • 3rd Party Participants
  • Business networks
  • Consultants and/or other organisations

While interaction with these bodies may take a number of forms, the core result will always to be to co-operatively, fairly and reasonably maximise outcomes for Cancer Support Scotland.

  1. Your Development

Your ongoing professional development is critical to the continuing success in your role. Appropriate support will be identified via continuous self-assessment and learning needs identification/ implementation.

The `Catch-all`

This Job Outline is not designed to be an ultimate descriptor of everything you have to do to ensure success – at the end of the day you`re a fundraiser and need to be flexible in your approach & thinking, innovating and developing all areas within your remit to positively impact on our fundraising and our people. Ultimately you are responsible for every aspect of your role, and as a result, you’re relied upon to use your expertise, skills, knowledge, experience, judgement, etc to be continually striving for excellence in everything you do, and with everyone you deal with. As part of the team, we will ensure you get the best support we can deliver to allow you to fulfill that. This may mean you need to work out with normal working hours from time to time, when the occasions demand.

Driving Licence is essential to fulfill this role.

 

To apply for this position please send your CV and a covering letter to [email protected] or

Cancer Support Scotland Centre, 75 Shelley Road, Gartnavel Campus, Glasgow G12 0ZE

Closing date for this position is Friday 15 April 2016 at 3pm.