Fundraising Apprentice

Opportunity information

Salary £18000 per year
Duration 15 months
Advert closing date 19/04/2024

Description

The North West Air Ambulance Charity’s helicopters and critical care cars operate 365 days a year.

Their highly skilled doctors and critical care paramedics on board provide enhanced pre-hospital care and hospital transfers to patients across the entire Northwest region each year - an area covering 5,500 square miles and over 8 million people.

Since its launch in 1999, the North West Air Ambulance Charity has been called to over 31,000 missions across the region, an average of around seven times a day.

Just as the many critically ill and injured patients would not have survived without the service the charity provides; the North West Air Ambulance Charity would not be here without the support of its community of fundraisers and partners.

The charity is not part of the NHS and does not receive any government funding. They rely completely on public and corporate donations to carry on saving lives. The North West Air Ambulance Charity must raise over £12 million every year to continue its lifesaving service.

Job description.

As a Fundraising Apprentice, you will be planning, developing, creating and evaluating content for the business. Your job responsibilities would include (but not be limited to):

- Building and maintaining relationships to acquire new supporters and retain existing ones
- Providing an excellent service to our community and events supporters by ensuring all agreed information and engagement materials are supplied to maximise their fundraising. Responding to requests for further information from individual Supporters as required.
- Dealing with general fundraising enquiries and directing supporters to relevant colleagues in a timely fashion when required, both within the Community and Events team and the wider Fundraising team.
- Ensuring that all the relevant data is accurately recorded in the supporters’ database; gathering and analysing data for various purposes, including financial data, compiling & preparing reports as required by the team.
- Carrying out research as directed and assisting colleagues with the development and implementation of supporter engagement, fundraising events and campaigns as required.
- With the support of the Marketing team, ensuring fundraising materials and event templates are up-to-date and branding guidelines are adhered to. Maintaining stock levels of all fundraising collateral and materials
- Deliver an events portfolio, achieving agreed income targets and KPIs, identifying and procuring required resources in line with the agreed expenditure budget
- Securing funds and raising awareness of their charitable cause in line with agreed targets and KPIs
- Managing a portfolio of external stakeholders including supporters, volunteers, corporate partners and eventers
- Contributing towards the management of suppliers
- Maintaining a database of supporters
- Conducting research in order to gain valuable insight
- Developing and delivering fundraising plans as directed
- Putting together creative content to build a case for support
- Contributing towards the development of fundraising plans and evaluating their effectiveness
- Promoting fundraising propositions and using innovation to develop new ones
- Compliance with Fundraising and Data Protection regulations
- Addressing and solving problems within their role
- Sales activities identified in fundraising plans

You will be working in the office 3 days a week and 2 days from home.

Work Perks and Benefits.
- Access to a variety of experienced colleagues who are always happy to help, so you’ll have a great support network.
- Creative license to develop within the role and bring your own unique flair to it.
- Remote/ hybrid working opportunities.
- Opportunity to attend events/ travel etc.
- Cycle to work scheme/ childcare vouchers/ etc.

Personal Qualities
- A keen interest in the charity sector
- Looking for a rewarding career
- Well organised
- Motivated
- Friendly

Additional necessary skills
- Driving license

Skills required
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Creative

Entry requirements
- A-C (4-9) English and Maths at GCSE or equivalent
- A passion for the charity sector

Training to be provided

The Juice Academy is an industry-led apprenticeship programme. They are partnered with Jane Montague Consultancy to deliver the Fundraiser Level 3. Apprentices work on the job within a charity whilst receiving 20% off the job training. The training is delivered by current industry professionals. The Juice Academy training sessions are a hybrid of face-to-face learning (20%) within The Academy in Castlefield, and online delivery (80%) via Zoom. Apprentices will also receive the on the job training in the workplace. The final three months of the course will be the ‘assessment period’ during which apprentices go through an End P