Digital Fundraising Executive

Overview:
**Salary**: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum

**Location**: UK remote - with monthly travel to Haywards Heath, West Sussex

**Contract**: Permanent

**Hours**: This is a full-time or part-time role with some flexibility around hours worked.

**About the role**

As Digital Fundraising Executive, you will manage specific digital campaigns to drive supporter acquisition, engagement, retention and income. You will play an important role in ensuring we provide the best possible experiences for supporters online, and that the online content and journeys are as good as they can be.

**Contract**

This role is available full-time (35 hours per week, Monday - Friday) with some flexibility around hours worked, or part-time (at least 28 hours per week). You will work remotely or a hybrid of remote and working in our collaborative, modern office space in Haywards Heath, which is open Tuesday - Thursday and is a short train journey from Brighton, or a 45-minute train journey from London. You will be expected to attend the office for monthly team meetings and there may be a small amount of other ad-hoc travel within the UK.

**Responsibilities**:
Managing specific digital fundraising projects, working with internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure requirements are met, projects are delivered on time and on budget, and targets are achieved.
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Project Management**: Oversee digital fundraising projects, ensuring they meet requirements, stay within budget, and hit targets.
- ** Digital Integration**: Enhance offline campaigns with digital content and messaging in collaboration with fundraising teams.
- ** Supporter Onboarding**: Create welcoming experiences for new sign-ups to foster loyalty.
- ** Strategic Development**: Work with the Digital Manager to grow international fundraising through various digital channels.
- ** Performance Monitoring**: Keep track of fundraising activities, update plans, and implement optimisations as needed.
- ** Testing and Optimization**: Assist in A/B and multivariate testing to improve digital fundraising efforts.
- ** Global Efficiency**: Ensure campaign activities are efficient and optimised internationally.
- ** Collaborative Projects**: Support the Digital Managers and Head of Digital Fundraising with additional projects.

The principal responsibilities are not meant to be an exhaustive list of tasks. The need for flexibility is required and the job holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Skills and Experience:
**Required Skills**:
**Essential**:

- Proven experience in managing digital fundraising projects with timely delivery, adherence to briefs and budgets, and effective results reporting.
- Excellent writing skills with a background in fundraising copywriting.
- Competence in data analysis, reporting setup, and tracking progress against KPIs.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Project management skills involving coordination with multiple teams and external agencies to achieve organisational goals.

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**Desirable**:

- Experience in international fundraising.
- Understanding of various individual-giving fundraising disciplines, such as mailings, inserts, and TV advertising.
- Experience in orchestrating virtual mass participation events.
- Strong editing and proofreading abilities.
- Research skills to identify new digital and fundraising opportunities.

**Benefits**

Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.

Next Steps:
We anticipate that remote interviews will take place mid-May 2024 and the evaluation process is likely to include a 2-satge interview and a written task.

**Closing date: 5 May 2024