Prospect Research Officer - Fixed Term

We are looking for a motivated and inquisitive Prospect Research Officer, on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract, to join our busy Fundraising Operations team, supporting our ambitious growth targets by ensuring our fundraisers have all they need to attract and grow donations. Specifically, your role will be to seek out, analyse and report on information from a range of sources, identifying prospective individual donors, companies and grant-making trusts.

Main tasks of the role:

• Take a proactive and creative approach to identifying new prospects from our database, networks and other sources.
• Undertake detailed research into prospects in order to establish philanthropic capacity.
• Develop full and accurate prospect/donor research profiles and effectively communicate those to colleagues across the department.
• Assist teams in managing and prioritising portfolios to the best of their ability.
• Proactively build partnerships across the charity, including working closely with fundraising teams and collaborating with the Data Services team to improve data integrity.
• Ensure useful, accurate and clear record keeping of prospects on the fundraising database to allow us to identify connections and build our networks.
• Keep up to date with data protection law and confidentiality.
• Undertake detailed and thorough Due Diligence profiles as required.
• Assist with training other teams in basic research, prospect management and database use.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience of research, ideally within prospect research, however candidates with experience in other transferable research environments will be considered.
• Experience of working with databases (preferably a fundraising database).
• Understanding of data protection and confidentiality.
• Creativity, innovation and resourcefulness to identify opportunities.
• Ability to work proactively and independently on your own initiative.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build and manage relationships both internally and externally.

Supporting the Prospect Research Manager, this is an opportunity for the right candidate to be part of a dedicated and passionate team within the UK’s leading dementia research charity. We’re excited to have you on board!

Location: This role is office based at Granta Park, Nr Cambridge.

Salary: Circa £30,000 per annum, plus benefits

This is a fixed-term position for 12 months or on the return of the substantive post holder which ever is earlier. 

Closing date for applications is 8th July 2018, with interviews being held on the 18th July 2018. Please advise us in your cover letter if you are unable to interview on this date.

To apply, please visit our website for full details.