Community Engagement and Fundraising Officer

Contract term: 15 months with the possibility of extending to 36 months if successful.

The Aidis Trust has a long history helping disabled people become more independent through using technology. Outcomes of our services include helping people talk, produce school work, control devices around the home and enabling them play video games.

It is an exciting time for our charity as we rebrand and move into new premises, designed to take advantage of our activity-based service offerings that help disabled people take advantage of technology. The role will involve connecting with both new and existing audiences to help boost awareness and uptake of our free services, as well as complementing our Trust Fundraiser with raising funds from alternative funding streams such as corporate and event fundraising.

Job Description:

Develop and implement a strategy for engaging with new and existing audiences that would:

• Benefit from Aidis’ services and tailor our support based on their needs
• Fund Aidis’ services and contribute to our financial sustainability
• Develop a strategy to ensure renewal of agreed annual grants

Including:

• Sourcing and delivering new funding streams – from corporate and public sources
• Devising and implementing an engagement and communications plan to promote and demonstrate the charity’s work, services and impact to service users and funders
• Coordinate and produce communications collateral to support the delivery of the strategy, including writing impact reports and case studies, marketing literature, social media, website, multimedia content and event materials

A successful outcome for this post would demonstrate a marked increase in both service uptake and income.

The Aidis Trust is a small, yet highly experienced charity that is based in South Manchester with a national reach. We have a long history of using a range of mainstream and cutting edge technology to help disabled people take a more active and independent place in society.

Reporting directly to the CEO of the trust, the post will be instrumental in communicating the benefits that our services offer disabled people, in order to gain and retain support from funders, both new and existing.

The role requires a self-motivated person with the ability to organise their own workload effectively.

Essential skills and experience

We are looking for an excellent relationship builder with experience of organising business and third party fundraising events to generate income, as well as being able to demonstrate an organisation’s impact to a variety of audiences to generate interest and uptake in its services.

A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a talent for creating successful and engaging fundraising initiatives and events. You must also be able to demonstrate your ability to grow income within new fundraising channels.

You will also have outstanding communication and presentation skills with the ability to motivate both yourself and others. You will also be able to recruit, organise and support community volunteers if needed, to deliver organisational objectives.

There will be some occasional evening and weekend working and some overnight stays and you will be able to plan your time effectively. The successful applicant will need access to a car and a valid full driving license.

Essential skills

• Experience in developing a fundraising campaign
• Must have experience in corporate fundraising and supporter engagement with a good understanding of the donor journey
• Experience in producing marketing and communications materials on brand, with excellent writing skills for a variety of media, both printed and electronic
• Excellent inter-personal communication skills
• Ability to work within a small team
• Experience of CRM database management

Desirable skills

• Knowledge of assistive technologies
• Experience of disability issues
• Educated to degree level
• Experience of the 3rd sector

Successful applicants will be able to provide relevant references.

Please send a current CV and covering letter

​Closing date for applications is the 26th of January 2018