Fundraising Officer (Business Development)
Little Wittenham, Oxfordshire (with hybrid working)
About Us
Earth Trust is an environmental learning charity with 40 years’ experience in caring for and inspiring others with green spaces. We believe that connection to nature can catalyse action to protect the environment, as well as provide vital mental and physical wellbeing benefits for people.
Together with our supporters, Earth Trust is the guardian of some extremely special and inspiring places full of nature and heritage. We care for 500 hectares of woodland, farmland, wildflower meadows and wetlands, which receive 200,000 visits a year.
We use these amazing places to engage and inspire people and to demonstrate nature-based solutions to climate, biodiversity and public health crises, that we hope others will take and use elsewhere. We work to champion access to green space for everyone, deepen engagement with nature, and share our learnings about managing land in a way that is gentle on the earth.
We are now looking for a Fundraising Officer to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 35 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £25,000 per annum
- 26 days’ holiday per year (increasing with length of service), plus an additional three days of leave over Christmas, and bank holidays
- Pension with 7.72% employer contribution
- Enhanced maternity and paternity / adoption pay paternity
- Flexible working arrangements
This is a brilliant opportunity for an individual giving professional from a fundraising or marketing background with supporter care experience to join our vital organisation.
You’ll become part of our growing community of changemakers, helping us to inspire and inform current and future generations about the importance of green spaces and raise funds to ensure we can continue this work for years to come.
So, if you want to play an integral role in helping us champion the natural world, so we can take action for people and our planet, then apply today!
The Role
As a Fundraising Officer, you will help to deliver and grow our Individual Giving programme.
Supporting the delivery of our varied Individual Giving fundraising activity, you will assist with multi-channel marketing, appeals, in memory bench and tree planting schemes, our green gifts scheme and legacy marketing.
You will also deliver excellent supporter care for our individual supporters, acting as their first point of contact, delivering thank you notes to donors and managing our individual giving products.
Additionally, you will:
- Facilitate the growth of our new membership scheme
- Build important relationships with our members
- Manage our team of Volunteer Earth Trust Ambassadors
- Lead the management of our CRM and fundraising data processes
About You
To be considered as a Fundraising Officer, you will need:
- Experience of Individual Giving fundraising or marketing
- Experience of supporter care in a similar situation e.g. charity, membership organisation, etc.
- Good project management, multitasking and decision-making skills
- Strong interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in IT
If you have the skills and experience we’re looking for, please don’t hesitate to apply. We may close the advert sooner than the closing date, subject to volume and quality of applications.
Other organisations may call this role Individual Giving Officer, Individual Giving Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Operations Officer, Community Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, or Development Officer.
Webrecruit and Earth Trust are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
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