Community and Events Fundraiser
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£32,000 Per year
Outside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Summary: The Community and Events Fundraiser at My Name 5 Doddie Foundation plays a vital role in transforming local energy and events into impactful fundraising initiatives to combat motor neuron disease. This position involves building relationships with supporters, managing mass participation events, and collaborating with the fundraising team to enhance community engagement. The ideal candidate will possess experience in fundraising and event management, along with strong communication and organizational skills. This role is essential for fostering a supportive community and driving fundraising success for the foundation's mission.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and oversee the third-party mass participation programme.
- Own stewardship plans for participants in events.
- Build and maintain strong fundraising relationships.
- Assist participants in achieving their fundraising targets.
- Help deliver and develop the events programme.
- Provide outstanding supporter care for fundraising event enquiries.
- Build networks and relationships with supporters.
- Ensure stewardship processes are followed throughout the supporter journey.
- Attend events to represent the foundation.
- Deliver various event projects across the UK.
- Manage mass participation registration platforms.
- Organise and deliver presence at non-mass participation events.
- Create marketing plans for events.
- Work with the Fundraising Administrator on fundraising packs.
- Maintain the supporter database and fundraising calendar.
- Create detailed event plans and conduct risk assessments.
- Set up and de-rig event equipment.
- Coordinate social media activity and PR stories.
- Seek new third-party event opportunities.
- Maintain relationships with third-party suppliers.
- Update the CRM system for supporter experience.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 1 year experience in fundraising and/or event delivery.
- Experience using fundraising platforms (e.g., JustGiving, Enthuse).
- Driver’s licence and access to a car.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in Office 365 (Excel and Word).
- Experience using customer/donor databases.
- Experience in a customer service role.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience working in a busy, diverse team.
- Effective relationship-building skills.
- Natural problem solver with prioritization skills.
- Ability to use own initiative and manage time effectively.
- Comfortable working with minimal supervision.
- Professional and hard-working team member.
- Desire to learn and develop a career in fundraising.
Salary: £32,000 yearly
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Community and Events Fundraiser - Events Fundraiser
My Name 5 Doddie Foundation
At My Name 5 Doddie Foundation, we want to change the world. We believe motor neuron disease is not incurable. It s just underfunded.
Building a community is at the heart of everything we do. Every conversation and every person has the potential to be a part of that community and bring us closer to a world free of MND
As our Events Fundraiser you will be crucial to achieving this. We re looking for a passionate fundraiser who can turn local energy, events, and ideas into real impact.
You will be a crucial part of a dynamic team, working closely with our Senior Planning and Supporter Income Manager within the fundraising team. You will be a first point of contact for mass participation fundraising enquiries, build meaningful and lasting relationships and actively seek fundraising opportunities.
Our ideal candidate will have experience in relationship building with some fundraising, volunteering or events experience. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills, the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be dedicated to improving people s lives.
Job Description
The post holder will be the first point of contact and lead for third party mass participation activities and work within the fundraising team on other events as needed to assist in the delivery of our events programme. The broad responsibilities will be:
- Plan and oversee our growing third-party mass participation programme, alongside the Senior Manager
- Own the stewardship plans for everyone joining Team Doddie in one of these events, to make sure they love every minute of their challenge
- Build and maintaining strong fundraising relationships
- Work with our mass participation participants to help them achieve their fundraising targets.
- Help with the delivery and development of an exciting and busy events programme.
Key Responsibilities
Supporter-facing
- Providing outstanding supporter care as the key contact for fundraising event enquiries at the Foundation.
- Building strong networks and relationships with supporters to increase long term repeat support.
- Ensuring Foundation stewardship processes are followed throughout the supporter journey.
- Attending events to represent My Name 5 Doddie Foundation when appropriate.
- Deliver various event projects across the UK including but not limited to our presence at Great North Run, Edinburgh Marathon, Leeds Marathon and Loch Ness Marathon.
Operational
- Manage and maintain all mass participation registration platforms.
- Working with the Senior Planning and Supporter Income Manager to organise and deliver our presence at various non-mass participation events eg Melrose 7s
- Help with the creation of marketing plans for our events programme.
- Work with the Fundraising Administrator to create and send fundraising packs in a timely manner.
- Maintaining the Foundation s supporter database and keeping their details up to date.
- Maintaining the fundraising calendar of activities and tasks.
- Create detailed event plans and conduct risk assessments.
- Set up and de-rig event equipment.
Supporter and Internal Comms
- Work with Communications team to co-ordinate regular social media activity and PR stories.
- Actively seek new third-party event opportunities for the Foundation.
- Work with our third-party suppliers and maintain good relationships with them.
- Ensure the CRM system is updated to maximise learning and supporter experience.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Minimum 1 years experience in fundraising and/or event delivery.
- Experience using fundraising platforms eg JustGiving, Enthuse, Give As You Live.
- Driver s licence and access to a car.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in use of Office 365 including Excel and Word.
- Experience using customer/donor databases.
- Experience in a customer service role.
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills.
- Experience working in a busy, diverse team.
- Effective at building relationships with people
- Natural problem solver with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks.
- Ability to use own initiative.
- Ability to manage time effectively.
- Comfortable to work with minimal supervision, but as part of a team.
- Professional and hard-working team member with a positive and collaborative work ethic.
- Desire to learn and develop a career in fundraising.
Salary £27k-£32k
Duration Full-time 2 years fixed term
Annual Leave 25 days (plus 8 days bank holiday)
Working Hours 37.5 hours per week. Some weekend work will be required.
Location Flexible. Hybrid if near to Edinburgh, but home-based also considered
About My Name 5 Doddie Foundation
Our vision is a world free of MND. We will leave no stone unturned in the relentless pursuit of this goal as we fund, guide and enable the smartest, most efficient MND research to catalyse a cure for motor neuron disease.
Since we were founded in 2017, we have committed over £23.5 million to world class MND research, funding dozens of research projects across our four funding programmes. This is only possibly through the generosity and determination of our supporters.