Compensation and Working Hours
Full Time Salary: £29,991.00 per annum (part time salary pro rata for 22.5 hour contract: £17,994.60). Hours: 22.5 - 37.5 hours per week, including some early morning, evening and weekend work. Location: The Gateway, 8 - 10 Durrington Lane, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 2QG, with occasional visits to West Sussex Mind's offices in Littlehampton and Southwick. Holiday Entitlement: 25 days per year rising to 27 days after 2 years (pro‑rata for part‑time hours).
Overview
West Sussex Mind is seeking a proactive and creative fundraiser to develop and deliver our approach to maintain and grow fundraising income through all streams of fundraising, supporting our mission of promoting good mental health in West Sussex. This role is pivotal in helping us achieve our strategic ambitions in the years ahead.
Responsibilities
* Identify and engage potential corporate partners by planning and creating compelling proposals, presentations, and reports to secure support.
* Seek networking opportunities, attending as a representative to promote our work and offer.
* Maintain and develop existing business relationships, providing excellent stewardship.
* Secure and develop new corporate partnership opportunities, focusing on corporate donations, sponsorship opportunities, employee fundraising, charity of the year partnerships, payroll giving, and gifts in kind.
* Develop initiatives with partners to leverage their resources in support of West Sussex Mind's vision.
* Plan and lead events and activities that engage corporate partners with our strategy.
* Track partnership performance against targets, maintaining records in the CRM system.
Key Requirements
You could be an experienced charity fundraiser or an individual with strong transferable skills looking to build your experience in this area.
You must have excellent skills working with a wide range of people and organisations, be creative and proactive in creating and taking community fundraising opportunities, and experience recruiting volunteers would be very helpful.
As a small organisation with a small fundraising and communications team, you need to be happy and able to both initiate and lead projects and also support day‑to‑day fundraising work and activities.
This post is subject to a Basic DBS check.
Equality and Diversity Statement
West Sussex Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.
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