Fundraising Assistant (Community Fundraising)

Fundraising Assistant (Community Fundraising) 

Looking to start or progress your charity fundraising career? This is a great opportunity for an organised administrator to join an amazing team raising vital funds to support our work. 

If you are looking for an inspirational challenge, join our amazing assistance dog charity and contribute to our life changing work. 

Canine Partners help adults who have a physical disability or condition that affects their daily life and limits their independence by training our assistance dogs to support them. With almost 400 disabled people now living with a fully trained canine partner in the UK our reach continues to increase. 

To help us create these amazing partnerships, we need amazing people. We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Fundraising Assistant to join our Fundraising, Marketing & Communications department based at our centre in Osgathorpe, Leicestershire. 

Position: Community Fundraising Assistant 
Location: Midlands Training Centre, Osgathorpe, Leicestershire 
Job Type: Part time, Permanent 
Hours: 22.5 hours per week 
Salary: £16,278 to £19,150 (full time equivalent) depending on experience 

Closing date for applications: 28 August 2018 
1st Interview Date: 13 September 2018 

About the role: 

We are looking for a highly motivated, organised and enthusiastic administrator to assist the Community Fundraiser. In this role, you’ll be helping to change lives by providing administrative support, maintaining records and information in order to support our fantastic volunteers, community fundraising groups and maximising income and awareness of our work. The role includes coordinating our merchandise and stock, banking, supporting community events and overseeing the work of our office volunteers. 

About you: 

Our perfect candidate will have proven administrative experience, ICT skills and the ability to keep accurate records. You will be confident communicating with volunteers, staff, our partners, and visitors alike. You must be self-organised and customer focussed with great attention to detail and the ability to work methodically and accurately under pressure. Using your communications skills, you will be able to provide an all-important positive and professional impression of Canine Partners at all times. Ideally you will also have experience of working in the charity sector or working with volunteers. 

This is a busy and demanding role often with conflicting deadlines so the ability to prioritise your workloads and have an organised, methodical approach is essential. You will need to be a team player, be pro-active, flexible, resilient and highly committed. 

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. 

You may have experience of the following: Community Fundraiser, Fundraising, Charity, Not for Profit, Third Sector, Volunteer Management, Business Development, Legacy, Fundraiser, Volunteer Manager, Charities, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Officer, Events Officer, Events Assistant, Charity Worker, Communications Officer, Charity Fundraiser, Charity Fundraising Officer. 

This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWeb Recruitment, the UK’s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWeb Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.