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Fundraising Officer – Operations and Stewardship [FTC]
Description✓Fundraising Officer – Operations and Stewardship [FTC]
✓Hyde Park, London [with travel to all parks and hybrid working options]
✓About Us
✓The Royal Parks [TRP] is a charity created in March 2017
✓We manage over 5,000 acres of diverse parkland, rare habitats and historic buildings and monuments in eight Royal Parks across London
✓These are: Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, St James’s Park, The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill, Greenwich Park, Richmond Park and Bushy Park.
✓We also manage other important public spaces including Brompton Cemetery and Victoria Tower Gardens
✓Our eight Royal Parks and other public spaces are among the most visited attractions in the UK with 77 million visits every year.
✓We are now looking for a Fundraising Officer to join our team on a full-time basis for a 12 month fixed term contract, working 36 hours per week
✓We will also consider a part-time position, working 28.8 hours per week.
✓The Benefits
✓- Salary of £30,701 - £31,700 per annum, depending on experience
✓- 26 days' annual leave plus public holidays, increasing to 29 days after 3 years’ service
✓- Pension scheme [3% employee contribution; up to 10% employer contribution]
✓- Hybrid/agile working options
✓- Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan
✓- Employee assistance programme and access to mental health first aiders
✓- Learning and development opportunities
✓- Cycle to work scheme
✓- Offices in a beautiful location
✓If you’re an empathetic individual with fundraising experience and fantastic administrative skills, this is an excellent opportunity to join our prestigious organisation.
✓Supporting our fundraising initiatives, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring we can continue to protect the parks and safeguard their future for the millions of visitors who rely on them for access to green spaces and wellbeing each year.
✓Not only will you help us to preserve the wildlife, plants and heritage that call the parks home, but you’ll be rewarded with an exceptional array of benefits that include flexible working options, career development schemes and wellbeing initiatives!
✓The Role
✓As a Fundraising Officer, you will provide operational support for our Commemorative Giving, Gifts in Wills, Major Giving and Challenge Events programmes, especially our bench dedication scheme.
✓As the main point of contact for enquiries from current and potential bench donors, you’ll co-ordinate the digitisation of bench and tree dedication files and liaise with contractors and suppliers to organise replacements or repairs of memorial benches.
✓You’ll help the Challenge Events Officer to steward our Challenge Event’s participants and support the Legacy and Major Giving Manager with the administration and development of our Legacy and Major Giving pipelines.
✓Additionally, you will:
✓- Prepare communications for bench dedicators and In Memory donors
✓- Develop an accurate digital map of The Royal Parks’ dedicated benches
✓- Raise purchase orders and process invoices for benches and plaques
✓About You
✓To be considered as a Fundraising Officer, you will need:
✓- Fundraising experience, ideally in a small to medium-sized charity
✓- Experience of, or that would be transferable to, handling sensitive conversations with people who have been bereaved with empathy and tact
✓- Excellent administrative skills with the ability to accurately maintain large quantities of data
✓- Excellent writing skills
✓- Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
✓The closing date for this role is the 14th May 2023.
✓Other organisations may call this role Trusts and Grants Fundraising Officer, Trust Officer, Fundraising Operations Officer, Events and Community Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, or Development Officer.
✓The Royal Parks is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunities employer
✓We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds
✓We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
✓We want to put everyone in the best possible position to succeed
✓If you think that you may need more support to complete our application process, please do get in touch.
✓So, if you are interested in this unique opportunity as a Fundraising Officer, please apply via the button shown
✓Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.
✓This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit
✓The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency Show more →
✓Hyde Park, London [with travel to all parks and hybrid working options]
✓About Us
✓The Royal Parks [TRP] is a charity created in March 2017
✓We manage over 5,000 acres of diverse parkland, rare habitats and historic buildings and monuments in eight Royal Parks across London
✓These are: Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, St James’s Park, The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill, Greenwich Park, Richmond Park and Bushy Park.
✓We also manage other important public spaces including Brompton Cemetery and Victoria Tower Gardens
✓Our eight Royal Parks and other public spaces are among the most visited attractions in the UK with 77 million visits every year.
✓We are now looking for a Fundraising Officer to join our team on a full-time basis for a 12 month fixed term contract, working 36 hours per week
✓We will also consider a part-time position, working 28.8 hours per week.
✓The Benefits
✓- Salary of £30,701 - £31,700 per annum, depending on experience
✓- 26 days' annual leave plus public holidays, increasing to 29 days after 3 years’ service
✓- Pension scheme [3% employee contribution; up to 10% employer contribution]
✓- Hybrid/agile working options
✓- Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan
✓- Employee assistance programme and access to mental health first aiders
✓- Learning and development opportunities
✓- Cycle to work scheme
✓- Offices in a beautiful location
✓If you’re an empathetic individual with fundraising experience and fantastic administrative skills, this is an excellent opportunity to join our prestigious organisation.
✓Supporting our fundraising initiatives, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring we can continue to protect the parks and safeguard their future for the millions of visitors who rely on them for access to green spaces and wellbeing each year.
✓Not only will you help us to preserve the wildlife, plants and heritage that call the parks home, but you’ll be rewarded with an exceptional array of benefits that include flexible working options, career development schemes and wellbeing initiatives!
✓The Role
✓As a Fundraising Officer, you will provide operational support for our Commemorative Giving, Gifts in Wills, Major Giving and Challenge Events programmes, especially our bench dedication scheme.
✓As the main point of contact for enquiries from current and potential bench donors, you’ll co-ordinate the digitisation of bench and tree dedication files and liaise with contractors and suppliers to organise replacements or repairs of memorial benches.
✓You’ll help the Challenge Events Officer to steward our Challenge Event’s participants and support the Legacy and Major Giving Manager with the administration and development of our Legacy and Major Giving pipelines.
✓Additionally, you will:
✓- Prepare communications for bench dedicators and In Memory donors
✓- Develop an accurate digital map of The Royal Parks’ dedicated benches
✓- Raise purchase orders and process invoices for benches and plaques
✓About You
✓To be considered as a Fundraising Officer, you will need:
✓- Fundraising experience, ideally in a small to medium-sized charity
✓- Experience of, or that would be transferable to, handling sensitive conversations with people who have been bereaved with empathy and tact
✓- Excellent administrative skills with the ability to accurately maintain large quantities of data
✓- Excellent writing skills
✓- Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
✓The closing date for this role is the 14th May 2023.
✓Other organisations may call this role Trusts and Grants Fundraising Officer, Trust Officer, Fundraising Operations Officer, Events and Community Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, or Development Officer.
✓The Royal Parks is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunities employer
✓We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds
✓We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
✓We want to put everyone in the best possible position to succeed
✓If you think that you may need more support to complete our application process, please do get in touch.
✓So, if you are interested in this unique opportunity as a Fundraising Officer, please apply via the button shown
✓Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.
✓This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit
✓The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency Show more →