Community Fundraiser
Closing date: 26 May 2026
We are recruiting for a Community Fundraiser who shares vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are an ambitious hospitals' charity that raises £1-2m a year for the four hospitals within the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust: Hertford County Hospital, Lister Hospital, New QEII Hospital and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Northwood.
We are proud to raise funds to enhance the care our patients receive and also to provide wellbeing initiatives to support our wonderful clinical colleagues. Working for the NHS offers a fantastic benefits package including a generous pension, agenda for change pay progression, 27 days leave plus bank holidays and flexible working.
Ideally you will have a background demonstrating proven success within fundraising, building relationships, volunteer management and events. You will be looking for between 30 - 37.5 hours a week, and have the ability to work flexibly including some evenings and weekends.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
* Meet or exceed a personal annual fundraising target (c. £200k) and to be a proactive and positive member of the wider team in order that the Charity reaches or exceeds its annual income target.
* To support the Community Fundraising Manager in growing our donor led community fundraising income, with a focus on supporting individual and group third party fundraisers and events, building relationships and an income pipeline from grateful patients, NHS staff/volunteers, groups, schools/academic institutions and businesses.
* To build and develop fundraising relationships in the community, representing the Hospitals Charity at networking events, public events and forums.
* To support the Community Fundraising Manager to deliver an annual community fundraiser and volunteer recruitment plan. To help recruit and work effectively with office based and community volunteers.
* To provide excellent stewardship to in memory fundraisers and support in growing the amount of funeral collections tribute pages set up for the charity.
* To promote challenge events and effectively recruit and steward participants to maximise fundraising.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
* Degree or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
* Significant proven experience leading on and managing multiple projects simultaneously
* Experience of setting up and or managing fundraising activities
* Experience setting up and managing events or challenge events
* Experience dealing with a range of donors or clients
* Proven track record of delivering strong supporter journeys resulting in repeat giving and increased lifetime value
* Experience of delivering fundraising activities with a calculated and strong ROI
* Experience of generating compelling cases for support
* Experience of meeting fundraising targets
* Demonstrable experience managing an income and expenditure budget
* Experience of working with internal and external suppliers and stakeholders
* Experience of managing website and social media content
* Experience of working across teams to maximise donor engagement
Knowledge
* Writing timelines and event plans
* Writing event sponsorship packages
Skills
* Ability to work independently and manage own workload
* Organised and able to successfully deliver a number of projects and events simultaneously
* Strong communication skills, both written and oral, in person, online and by telephone
* Strong analytic skills including both words and numbers
* Strong persuasive and negotiation skills
* Ability to problem solve
* Ability to disseminate complex information into an accessible, compelling format
Other Requirements
* Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
* Role model our Trust values every day
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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