Major Gifts Stewardship Coordinator

**MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES UK**

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Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides life-saving emergency relief and longer-term medical care to some of the most vulnerable and excluded communities around the world. As an independent medical humanitarian organisation, we deliver care based only on need, regardless of ethnic origin, gender, religion or political affiliation.

MSF relies on donations from private individuals and organisations for the majority of its income. This private funding gives MSF the freedom to respond where needs are greatest and to speak out publicly, free from any political interference.

MSF has around 40,000 local and international staff working in over 70 countries, in some of the most challenging places in the world. Our medical humanitarian projects are supported by teams in 32 countries, including the UK, spread across Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia.

At MSF UK/IE, we support MSF's operations by building relationships with our supporters, increasing awareness of our work, raising funds, providing specialist medical expertise, catalysing change on medical humanitarian issues, and recruiting field staff. MSF UK/IE personnel are dynamic, hard-working, enthusiastic and committed to MSF's values and aims. In addition MSF continues to build upon its presence in Ireland to become a widely recognised, accepted and respected humanitarian organisation among Irish audiences, and within the Irish humanitarian and political sector.

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**Position**:
**Hours**: 40 hours per week

**Duration**: 9 months FTC

**Salary**: £33,077.68 per annum (£29,577.68 p.a. non-London weighting)

**FUNDRAISING DEPARTMENT**

The Fundraising Department raises private income for MSF field operations globally, and to cover MSF’s administration costs in the UK. The Fundraising Department contains the Major Gifts and Community and Events team, Campaigns, Database and Supporter Care teams and in 2021 a team of around 35 people delivered income of £65.5 million.

Our goal is to build loyalty by bringing supporters closer to the people that MSF assists, and the medical action that private donations make possible. MSF UK prides itself on the accessibility of the Fundraising Department to our supporters and the provision of excellent supporter care; this is central to the philosophy of our fundraising.

**MAJOR GIFTS TEAM**

We have a strong, established Major Gifts Team with an exceptional team dynamic, which is highly respected both at MSF UK and across our international offices. Our team values underpin how we work together as a team and it’s important that we hold ourselves, and one another, accountable to these: respect, integrity, humanity, accountability, and empowerment, with collaboration at the centre.

MSF has internationally identified Major Gifts as key to the strategic and cost-effective growth in income for the MSF Movement. The UK contribution to this expansion is delivered by the Major Gifts Team through the development, management and implementation of strategies to identify, cultivate, solicit and steward major donors. This Major Gifts Stewardship Coordinator (sabbatical cover) role is key within the team, and central to ensuring our fundraising success from corporate partners.

MSF UK has a committed group of major donors made up of individuals, corporates, and trusts & foundations. We currently define a major donor as any individual donating £10,000 and above or any organisation (company or trust) donating £5,000 and above. In 2021 the Major Gifts Team, at the time comprised of nine people, raised over £12 million from more than 400 major donors.

**JOB PURPOSE**

To be an integral part of the Major Gifts team, managing relationships with individuals, trusts and foundations, and corporate supporters. You will be responsible for a portfolio of major donors, ensuring their continued support of MSF.

**Please download the job description and person specification below for full details of the role.**:
**Requirements**:
**Essential knowledge, skills and expertise**:

- Excellent and engaging written and oral communication skills
- Accuracy and excellent attention to detail
- Ability to analyse complex information and compile into concise, powerful and persuasive proposals and updates
- Excellent interpersonal, diplomatic, persuasion and negotiating skills
- Exceptional organisational skills with experience of managing multiple tasks and prioritising effectively
- Ability to work independently to general guidelines, with capability to use initiative and seize opportunities
- Computer literate and confidence in using all Microsoft Office programmes and databases
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally including to MSF field projects
- Level of analytical, written, and technical skills to degree level or equivalent
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Demonstrated commitment to the aims and values of MSF