Visitor Fundraiser

**Visitor Fundraiser**

**£18,645 pro rata (pay award pending April)**

**Various roles available**:
**35 hours per week (actual salary £17,637) or 20 hours a week (actual salary £10,078)**

**Permanent**

**About Us**

Sheffield Museums Trust is the independent charity that runs six of the city’s leading museums and heritage sites; Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Graves Gallery, Kelham Island Museum, Millennium Gallery, Shepherd Wheel and Weston Park Museum.

We believe that the museums and collections we care for belong to everyone and we know that connecting with them can make people’s lives better. Our vision is to develop ambitious, resilient, collaborative museums that represent, celebrate and inspire the people of Sheffield.

We want to make the city’s museums welcoming, outward-looking and connected to the communities around them. We know that people encounter many barriers that make connecting with their museums and collections difficult. We are committed to working collaboratively to make long-lasting changes so more people can use the museums to learn and reflect, and to find joy and inspiration.

Sheffield Museums is committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation and embedding equity, diversity and inclusion across all aspects of the organisation from the collections and programming to policies, procedures and workforce development.

As a valued member of the team, you’ll get 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata if part time), life insurance and wellbeing support through our employee assistance programme. We also promote a flexible working culture.

**About the Role**

As a Visitor Fundraiser you will be working across our museum sites to deliver an excellent visitor experience by providing a warm and engaging welcome to our diverse audiences. Working as part of a team, you will engage with visitors to build their understanding of our museums and charitable status, proactively ask visitors for voluntary donations and gift aid to achieve set targets, and up-sell our programme, events and commercial offer.

**About You**
- Experience working in a customer facing environment
- Experience of effectively working as part of a team
- Experience of selling or promoting products and services
- Excellent communication skills, able to convey a clear message with a diverse range of audiences
- Confidence and ability to start, develop and maintain conversations with visitors, leading to a professional and friendly donations ask
- The ability to persuade, ‘close’ and secure donations
- Able to absorb information about our museums and communicate this in a positive and engaging way
- Good ITC skills
- Willingness to work across our sites as required
- Ability to work flexibly over a 6-day rota

**Application Details**

The closing date for this post is Wednesday 22 March 2023 at 5pm.

Interviews for this role will be held the week commencing 3 April 2023.

To arrange an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jim Lowe, Head of Operations, at.