Fundraising Officer

Job Title: Fundraising Officer

Responsible To: Fundraising Manager

Working Hours: 37.5

Duration: Permanent Full Time

Salary: £25,016

Location: Onsite

Overview

Mustard Tree is a Greater Manchester charity that creates opportunities for people and communities to help themselves through practical support, life skills and connections into work.

We focus on tackling the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality, and homelessness, seeing over 10,000 visits every month.

As the charity develops to meet growing need, there is an exciting opportunity to join our Fundraising Team.

We are looking for a driven, passionate, and organised individual to enable Mustard Tree's mission through helping the Fundraising Team grow our awareness, partnerships, and income.

Role Purpose

This role is responsible for the smooth running of Mustard Tree's Corporate Partnership income stream, growing and stewarding a cohort of donors, partners, and organisations, supporting with planning and development, events, and presentations.

It will involve building personable relationships with businesses, donor interaction, inbox management, and planning.

This role would suit a energetic, confident individual who has experience in sales, public speaking, stewardship, stakeholder management and has a desire to grow and develop within the charity.

What you'll be doing:

Partnership, Development, and Donor Stewardship

• Active relationship management and stewardship for our current Corporate Partners.
• Qualifying & contacting potential partners; hyperlocal, local, GM-wide, and national businesses.
• Overseeing day-to-day corporate incomings; logging, thanking donors and informing staff.
• Travelling externally for meetings, networking events and presentations and hosting tours & chats.
• Working with the Volunteer Manager to book & host corporate partnership volunteering days.
• Overseeing sign-ups to Mustard Tree's 'mass participation events', I.E Tough Mudder, the Great Manchester Run and working with Fundraising Administrator to steward those donors.

Administration

• Managing personal inbox and calendar effectively.
• Accounting for and assigning cash, activity, and outcomes to specific partners, chasing expected income if/when required.
• Working with Fundraising Administration to enter data, pull information, manage individual and corporate profiles on our CRM System.
• Building briefs and 'decks' of corporate partners, including commitments, funds raised, activities, events participation, volunteering.
• Proactively updating, reaching out to and engaging with existing partners to develop the relationship, I.E with newsletters.

Social Media & Communication

• Working with the Fundraising & Communications teams to plan social media briefings, content, calendars, and events.
• Supporting the day-to-day management of Corporate & Community interactions and engagement across social media.
• Supporting the establishment and running of additional internal communications, I.E Teams.

General Responsibilities

• Taking responsibility for personal and professional development.
• Being articulate and confident, able to work effectively in challenging situations.
• Joining the Fundraising Team at events if and when required.
• Performing other tasks and duties relevant to the role as required by the organisation, including potentially providing relevant cover, support, and response.
• Writing bids and supporting Trust & Grant applications.

Specification:

Culture & Values

Willing to develop a strong understanding of the causes and consequences of homelessness, poverty, inequality, and social exclusion. - Essential

Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships. - Essential

Flexible, kind, positive and enthusiastic approach, demonstrates our values. - Essential

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to draft polite, informative responses.- Essential

Ability to work to a brief, both independently and as part of a team.- Essential

Strong organisational and time management skills, working to deadlines, reporting outcomes, and stewarding new prospects. - Essential

A good understanding of how to use social media.- Desirable

Public Speaking & presentation experience. - Desirable

Experience

1-year minimum experience in marketing, communication, and/or sales.- Essential

Experience of using Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.- Essential

Experience within the charity sector.- Desirable

Experience of using databases and CRM systems.- Desirable

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are only able to shortlist those who meet the above criteria – thank you for your understanding.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £25,016.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Discounted or free food
• Sick pay

Experience:

• Marketing, communication, and/or sales: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person