Fundraising Officer

Are you looking for a role where your talents as an experienced and ambitious fundraising professional can benefit tens of thousands of families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people?

Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people – providing over 89,000 grants and services worth over £36 million in 2015/16.

As Fundraising Officer, reporting into the Head of Fundraising, your key responsibility will be to help develop and deliver Family Fund’s fundraising work. As part of a new team you will be the primary contact for individual giving and fundraising, supporting the delivery and promotion of events, and seeking to grow, diversify and build the sustainability of our funding base.

In addition to expanding current fundraising activities to create new opportunities for Family Fund, other key responsibilities as Fundraising Officer include:

• Promoting the organisation with creativity and credibility
• Providing ideas and data-drive insight for new fundraising initiatives
• Inspiring new supporters to raise money, while maintaining and developing existing relationships.

Educated to degree level and with significant fundraising experience, you have excellent networking and collaboration skills, with the ability to develop and build supporter relationships. Your exceptional presentation skills compliment your proven ability to create and write compelling proposals. With outstanding communication skills, you’re creative and innovative, a great team player and able to engage with a wide range of stakeholders.

In addition to superb organisational, planning and prioritising skills, as Fundraising Officer you can offer:

• Ability to handle pressure and work to deadlines
• Open and participative working style
• Willingness to travel throughout the UK and work outside office hours when required

This post is based in York.

Closing date for applications is 31 March 2017.

For more information on the Fundraising Officer role and to have an informal discussion with Andrew Harper, please visit the Family Fund website for further information.

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