Fundraising Officer - Oxford, United Kingdom - Aspire Oxford

Aspire Oxford

Verified Company

Oxford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Aspire
Aspire is a multi-award-winning employment charity and social enterprise, established in 2001.

Practicing our values of being "Ambitious, Supportive, Participatory, Inspiring, Reliable and Enterprising", Aspire supports people across Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley area, who have faced significant challenges in their lives such as homelessness, offending histories or substance misuse to find sustainable employment and housing, to break the complex cycles of re-offending, poverty and homelessness.

Aspire provides 121 employability support alongside work experience on their own social enterprise businesses.

Aspire is a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation, enjoying rapid growth and tackling some of the most complex social issues that our communities are facing.

Last year, Aspire supported over 2,000 local people experiencing disadvantage to move closer to employment and housing and achieve remarkable, lasting change.

Overall Purpose of Role

You will have a significant impact on developing our community-based fundraising activities, creating and accessing exciting and meaningful opportunities to engage individuals, schools and organisations through both face-to-face and virtual means, prioritising donor retention, community building, and ensuring fundraisers are cultivated, stewarded and thanked.

Key tasks and Responsibilities

Key tasks and accountabilities are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work expected of the post holder.

This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that may fall to the post holder and employees will be expected to carry out such other reasonable duties which may be required from time to time.

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Fundraising_

Maintain and develop individual giving relationships with existing supporters through targeted communication and stewardship includingusing direct mail and ecommunications through Salesforce, Aspire's database.
Establish and lead on the development and delivery of our community fundraising and events (virtual and facetoface events, challenges etc) programmes
Inspire new supporters to raise money for Aspire, by nurturing and building relationships with community organisations, local businesses, schools and individual fundraisers, and actively pursue opportunities to grow this area of fundraising.
Recruit and steward event participants, working with colleagues to maximise opportunities across the organisation.

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Strategic Direction_

Work in conjunction with the Senior Fundraiser to have a good overall understanding of all revenue streams.
Contribute to the development of a strategic plan to guide fundraising activities.

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Communications_

Work with the Communications Officer to raise the profile of the charity with regards to fundraising opportunities and successes across our community.

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Administration_

Maintain the fundraising database, Salesforce with all communityrelated leads and fundraisers, as well as activities related to individual giving.
Write and design materials for fundraising aimed at the community and our individual donors.
Contribute updates on fundraising for quarterly Newsletters.
Write appeals and direct mail in collaboration with other members of the team.
Work with the Communications Officer to maintain the website up to date with regards to fundraising activities and opportunities, and ensure these are accurately reflected in our database
Undertake other activities and maintain other fundraising documents as agreed with Senior Fundraiser
Stay abreast of fundraising good practice and legislation, ensuring compliance with the Charities Act and the Institute of Fundraising and FRSB codes of practice.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Demonstrable experience of community fundraising or the ability to clearly show transferable skills.
Experience of individual giving from oneoff donations through to digital fundraising
Experience of working to targets and deadlines
A passion for supporter stewardship and proven experience of driving supporter relationships and community fundraising engagement.
Excellent writing and numeracy skills.
Excellent standard of IT including Microsoft Office and databases experience with Salesforce system is desirable
Confident, friendly person with excellent communication skills.
Adaptable team player.
The ability to act in line with our values: Ambitious, Supportive, Participatory, Inspiring, Reliable, Enterprising, including by adopting a positive and customer service based approach to operational work.
Able to value the diversity of everyone you work with, to be respectful of others and open to differing views and approaches.
Flexibility to occasionally work evenings and weekends (time off in lieu will be given).