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Salary: £33,000 - £35,000
Contract: Permanent, Full time
Reports to: Community, Events & Corporate Manager (CEC)
Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (At least 2 days in the office).
Benefits: 25 days annual leave (excluding public holidays) with an additional four days annual leave for the Christmas period, defined contribution pension scheme, free wellbeing services, a health cash plan, monthly contribution to sports or fitness centre and a flexible working hours policy.
Closing date: 9th December 2022
Isabel Hospice is a registered charity which provides free palliative care and support for patients and their families across Eastern Hertfordshire. Isabel Hospice strive to deliver outstanding services to inpatients and their families through their dedicated staff and passionate volunteers.
Key Responsibilities
- To represent the charity to corporate audiences and at corporate events, delivering pitches and presentations.
- To continually researching new business opportunities for specific target markets, making cold approaches and writing proposals to secure support.
- To devise and present innovative fundraising ideas that are of mutual benefit to corporate partners.
- To develop new corporate partnerships through relationship building.
- To be responsible for the account management of all corporate partnerships and provide the highest level of relationship management.
- To proactively prospect all Charity of Year opportunities, Pro Bono work and staff fundraising opportunities.
- To attend networking events to develop relationships with a view to securing new business.
- To ensure opportunities for corporate sponsorship, corporate membership schemes, payroll giving, employee fundraising and all other forms of corporate fundraising are promoted correctly, by using all possible resources.
- To work with operational colleagues to ensure the effective delivery of employee volunteering opportunities.
- To work with operational colleagues, in particular community and events, to ensure co-ordinated approaches with supporters.
- To develop and present relevant sponsorship packages for potential corporate sponsors which are within mission and strategy and have clearly identified delivery capacity and agreed budgets.
- To acknowledge corporate donations and to work with the Communications Team to generate positive press coverage.
Skills and Knowledge
- Experience of managing and working with fundraising databases
- Good analytical skills, attention to detail and problem solving
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to establish positive relationships at all levels
- IT literate including MS Office
- An enthusiasm for creative fundraising
- Experience of working in corporate fundraising or experience of working in account management, new business or CSR in a corporate setting
- A clear understanding of corporate fundraising across both account management and new business
- Experience of successfully fundraising towards financial targets
- Evidence of successfully building and sustaining stakeholder relationships
This is a great opportunity for a strong Administrator to utilise their customer service experience and be an integral part of the Supporter care team.
To find out more and to apply for the role, please contact Stuart Milliner at Hunter Merrifield, Stuart.Milliner@hunter-merrifield.com