Senior Fundraising Strategist - London, United Kingdom - Comic Relief

Comic Relief

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Comic Relief:

Employment Type Full time
Location Hybrid
London, City of, UK 2 days a week in our London Office
Salary £43,783 £47,284 (GBP)
Team Fundraising
Seniority Midlevel
Closing: 11:59pm, 20th May 2024 BST

Perks and benefits:

Flexible working hours
Work from home option
Life Insurance
Wellness programs
Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Paid emergency leave
Sabbatical Opportunities
Professional development
Mentoring/coaching
Paid volunteer days
Payroll giving
Salary sacrifice
Team social events
Extracurricular clubs
Cycle to work scheme
Free fruit

Job Description:

This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home three days a week._

PURPOSE OF JOB:

As Senior Fundraising Strategist you'll play an integral role in defining the fundraising strategies for cross organisational campaigns and targeted fundraising and engagement activities.

Working as a senior fundraising strategist within our Campaign Strategy & Planning team, you'll direct cross-disciplinary project teams from across all levels of the business to deliver target beating initiatives from Red Nose Day to new product development initiatives that drive new revenue streams.

You'll help establish data and insight led planning processes, ensuring strategies are well informed and robust.

You'll ensure test and learn is embedded in any project and that rigorous analysis is built into measurement and evaluation processes.

_ Interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 27th and Friday 31st of May. _

Key responsibilities:

Work with the Head of Campaign Strategy & Planning and key colleagues across the Fundraising team, to support the development of annual fundraising and engagement plans, establishing planning; monitoring and evaluation processes for agreed activities, specifically but not limited to organisational campaigns and new income driving initiatives.
Directly lead agreed crossorganisational multidisciplinary project teams to robustly plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate agreed campaigns and projects.
Support the Head of Campaign Strategy & Planning to roll out an agreed fundraising planning process, ensuring campaigns and project strategies are developed using internal and external knowledge, data and insight; are planned in good time to deliver maximum impact and are responsive to audience and market requirements and trends.
Support Head of Campaign Strategy and Planning to embed new ways of working within team and across Comic Relief, working with the core campaign planning team, the wider fundraising team and colleagues particularly in Production and Funding to continually improve processes
Inspire and facilitate creative and innovative thinking and action, working with colleagues, including our Fundraising Innovation Lead, to ensure our fundraising campaigns and projects represent our disruptor brand and speak to new external innovations appropriate to target audience segments
Devise and / or make use of a suite of data and insight tracking and reporting tools that are leveraged to drive optimisation and efficiency as well as informing new approaches to maximise supporter acquisition, development and retention and associated income opportunities
Work closely with audience teams and activity owners to measure performance and to assess and communicate the results of campaigns and projects including retrospectives to aid continuous improvement.
Working with the Creative Fundraising Strategy Lead, support the roll out of training and ongoing development of best practice planning and strategic development approaches.
Deliver adhoc planning and strategy projects as required

Person Specification:

Essential Criteria

A working understanding of fundraising, having recently devised and implemented successful fundraising strategies and initiatives
Experience of analysing data and insights to inform decision making; with proven abilities in financial modelling and interpretation of data and insight into actionable plans and initiatives
Knowledge of segmentation and audience targeting strategies, including experience of using audience listening and audience targeting tools and services to define an audience first approach to planning initiatives
Experience of planning; monitoring and evaluating major campaigns or projects, incl financial modelling, objective and KPI setting and preparing relevant documentation that underpins the delivery of activities
Experience of working as part of project teams, taking the lead where appropriate
Knowledge of fundraising and project management methodologies and experience of working with different approaches to project planning and delivery
Experience of monitoring and evaluation of programme performance, including objective setting, developing toolkits, reporting and driving the learning process with stakeho