Community Fundraiser

Closed: 31 August 2017
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  • Salary £27,782.00 per annum (actual)
  • Location South East (On-site)
  • Job Type Permanent
  • Sectors Mental Health
  • Job Reference : 00315833

Community Fundraiser 

Join our team, take on dementia 

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia charity. We provide information and support, improve care, fund research, and create lasting change for people affected by dementia. 

Position: Community Fundraiser 
Location: Flexible (various offices and occasional opportunities for work at home) Role covers: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire 
Contract type: Permanent 
Hours: 35 per week 
Salary: £27,782.00 per annum (actual) 

Closing date: 1 September 2017 
Interview date: TBC w/c 4 September or w/c 11 September 2017 

About the role: 

We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join the South fundraising team at Alzheimer’s Society. The environment is fast-paced, creative and inspiring and combines the requirement for you to be out and about in the community, working with our wonderful fundraising supporters, as well as spending time in our local offices in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire, performing a range of admin and database led tasks and attending team meetings. You will be joining a team of seven other community fundraisers covering and raising funds in their own Southern areas as well as working with the corporate, legacy and memory walk fundraisers for South England. 

If you have a passion and skill for supporting volunteer fundraisers, this is an exciting opportunity for you to build on your volunteer management experience, and truly make your mark in this rapidly expanding charity. 

About you: 

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic person who has excellent experience of working with donors and volunteers. We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running and has ideally worked within a similar role or can demonstrate the relevant skills and experience required in the job description. 

You will need to be an excellent communicator and confident in contacting supporters over the phone as well as giving presentations to various groups, associations and local businesses. You will need to demonstrate your ability to be a real team player, as well as having the ability to work well on your own initiative. 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 have experience of recruiting, managing and working with volunteers to deliver organisational objectives as well as a proven track record in achieving financial and non-financial targets and good working knowledge of budgets is also essential. 

The successful candidate will benefit from working in a dynamic and well-supported team where you will have a direct impact on the lives of people affected by dementia. 

If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you! 

Alzheimer’s Society is committed to equal opportunities. 

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 etc. 

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.